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The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System; Signed by Economists Robert J. Shiller, John Campbell, Kenneth R. French and Frederic S. Mishkin
FRENCH, Kenneth R.; Martin N. Baily; John Y. Campbell; Robert Shiller.
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
First edition of this "excellent primer on the workings and failures of today's sophisticated financial system" (Alan Greenspan). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Robert J. Shiller, John Campbell, Kenneth R. French and Frederic S. Mishkin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 114879
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Rare photograph signed by THE PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY, PAUL TIBBETS
TIBBETS, Paul W.
Paul Tibbets Signed Photograph.
Rare black and white photograph of the pilot of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets. Signed and dated by Tibbets, "Paul Tibbets, Pilot 6 AUG 1945." The entire piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115764
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"The children had discovered that their lives would be unendurable without pistol-practice": The January 1891 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; containing the First appearance of Rudyard Kipling's The Light that Failed
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: The Light That Failed.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891.
The January 1891 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine containing the first appearance of Kipling's early novel, The Light That Failed. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 121480
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"It's Christmas! Sweet Christmas! The Happy day of Home": First edition of Joan Walsh Anglund's A Christmas Book; warmly inscribed by her
ANGLUND, Joan Walsh.
A Christmas Book.
New York: Random House, 1983.
First edition of the revered children's book author's charming children's tale. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sarah, Merry Christmas 1983 - Joan Walsh Anglund." In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 123670
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Rare early separate edition of Rudyard Kipling's Soldiers Three
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Soldiers Three.
New York: The Minerva Publishing Company, 1892.
Rare early separate edition of Kipling's second collection of short stories. Octavo, original wrappers. The Marco-Botsaris Series No. 10. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126908
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First Edition of Greeley's The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America
GREELEY, Horace.
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America.
Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1865.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 131811
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First edition of George Cornewall Lewis' An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion; from the library of famed American journalist William Safire
LEWIS, George Cornewall.
An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion.
London: John W. Parker, 1849.
First edition of Cornewall Lewis' classic work of political philosophy. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of American journalist William Safire, although not marked. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 134128
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First Edition of Daniel Ellsberg's Papers on the War; Signed by Him
ELLSBERG, Daniel.
Papers on the War.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
First edition of the signal work that further established Ellsberg "as one of our most refined analysts of that awful war." Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "9 April 1973 To Julie, For peace! Dan Ellsberg." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara Shapokas.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 112364
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Jeremy Siegel's Stocks For The Long Run; Signed by Him
SIEGEL, Jeremy J.
Stocks For The Long Run.
Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994.
First edition, early printing of this stock investing classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Good luck with stocks! Jeremy J. Siegel." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138399
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First edition of H. Alan Day's The Horse Lover; inscribed by him and signed by his sister Sandra Day O'Connor who contributed the introduction
DAY, H. Allan. With Lynn Wiese Sneyd. Foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor.
The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs.
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
First edition of Day's personal history of Mustang Meadows Ranch. Inscribed by H. Alan Day on the title page, "To Jane Best Wishes Alan Day" and signed by his sister Sandra Day O'Connor who contributed the introduction and with whom he previously coauthored Lazy B.: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Joel Sartore. Rare signed by Sandra Day O'Connor.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 121061
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First Edition of The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.
First edition of Kuhn's classic treatise. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Foreword by James Bryant Conant.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126596
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Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society; Inscribed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978.
First edition, early printing of this work "which makes businessmen think thoughts they have never thought before" (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 81084
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"WHAT YOU KNOW CANNOT REALLY HURT YOU": The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable; Signed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
TALEB, Nassim Nicholas .
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
New York: Random House, 2007.
First edition, early printing of this work concentrating on outlier events. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Thomas Beck Stvan. Jacket art by Photodisk/ Getty Images.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142962
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Finely bound example of Alain-René Lesage's famous 18th century novel History of Gil Blas De Santillane
LESAGE, Alain-René.
Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune, n.d.
Finely bound example of Lesage's famed picaresque novel. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings by the best artists of Paris. In fine condition. A beautiful set.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145006
