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First edition of Octavia E. Butler's Wild Seed; Signed by her
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Wild Seed.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.
First edition of the fourth book in the Patternist series. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by John Cayea. Jacket Typography by Dennis McClellan. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 127822
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From the library of Stephen Hawking, with his name on the front free end page
KRAMER, D; H. Stephani.
Exact Solutions of Einstein’s Field Equations
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
First edition of this work on Einstein. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 119458
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Signed Limited Edition of Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man; one of only 400 copies signed by him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
A Single Man.
London: The Land Press, 1980.
Signed limited edition of Isherwood's highly-regarded work, adapted into the film of the same name directed by fashion designer Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, marbled endpapers. One of 400 copies signed by the author on the colophon. In fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 124605
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First Edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Oak and the Calf
SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr I; Translated by Harry Willetts.
The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980.
First edition of the memoir of one of the great novelists of our time. Octavo, original orange cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Irving Bogen. Author photograph by Eric Bachmann.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145197
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Collection of six first editions of the works of James Merrill; each volume inscribed by him to American playwright Michael Feingold
MERRILL, James.
James Merrill First Edition Collection: Scripts for the Pageant, From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976, The Changing Light at Sandover, Late Settings: Poems, Recitative: Prose, and A Different Person: A Memoir
Various Publishers, 1980-1986.
Collection of six first editions of the works of James Merrill; from the library of American playwright Michael Feingold. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth and wrappers, the collection includes: Stated first edition of 'Scripts for the Pageant' [New York: Atheneum, 1980]; Stated first edition of 'From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976' [New York: Atheneum, 1982]; Stated first edition of 'The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant, and a new coda, The Higher Keys' [New York: Atheneum. 1982]; Stated first edition of 'Late Settings: Poems' [New York:…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145436
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"Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt": First Edition of Waiting For the Barbarians; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1980.
First British edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146894
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"Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt": First Edition of Waiting For the Barbarians; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
Waiting for the Barbarians.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1980.
First British edition, preceding the South African first of this modern classic by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual sunning to the spine with a small closed tear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 4295
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First Edition of Political Power in Ecuador; Inscribed President Osvaldo Hurtado to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
HURTADO, Osvaldo [Henry A. Kissinger].
Political Power in Ecuador.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1980.
First edition of this political history of Ecuador. Association copy, inscribed by the author to former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Henry Kissinger, "A Henry Kissinger, con admiracion, Osvaldo Hurtado 9.4.83." Osvaldo Hurtado, was the President of Ecuador from 1981-1984 and inscribed this book to Kissinger while in office to the chief architect of the United States foreign policy in the 1970s. In fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 5742
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First Edition of Woody Allen’s Third Collection of Stories, Signed by Him
ALLEN, Woody.
Side Effects.
New York: Random House, 1980.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Woody Allen on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 3515
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"Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return": First French Edition of J.M.G. Le Clezio's Desert; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Desert.
Paris: Gallimard, 1980.
First French edition of what many consider the author's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. In very good condition with some shelf wear and toning to the extremities.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5402
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"What use, after all is Man, if not to teach God His lessons?"; First Edition of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus; Lengthily Signed by Him
SHAFFER, Peter.
Amadeus.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1980.
First edition of the playwright's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "What use, after all is man, if not to teach God His lessons?" Peter Shaffer." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Front cover photograph by Nobby Clark.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 128746
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“What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him": First edition of Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity; signed by him and Academy Award-winning Actor Matt Damon
LUDLUM, Robert [Matt Damon].
The Bourne Identity.
New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1980.
First edition of the first novel in the Bourne Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by author, "with best wishes, Robert Ludlum" and by Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon on the front free endpaper. Damon played Jason Bourne in several of the Bourne films. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Rob Sauber. Jacket photograph by Michelle Ryder. Uncommon signed by both Ludlum and the Academy Award-winning actor.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140043
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First edition of Pete Hamill's The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook; signed by him
HAMILL, Pete.
The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook.
New York: Random House, 1980.
First edition of the author's classic collection of sketches encapsulating the essence of New York. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Susan Stillman. Signed by Pete Hamill on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket illustration by Susan Stillman. Author photograph by Brian Hamill.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124308
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First Spanish Edition of Cosmos; Warmly Inscribed by Carl Sagan to His Secretary
SAGAN, Carl.
Cosmos.
Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1980.
First Spanish edition of one of the best-selling science books ever published. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Por Cara Shirley Con amore y admiracion Carl." The recipient was Shirley Arden, who was the executive secretary to Sagan and close friends of Sagan. She was fluent in Spanish and had worked as a bilingual secretary at the United Nations on the Atoms for Peace conference in the 1950s. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 54017
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Casebook of the Black Widowers; signed by him
ASIMOV, Isaac.
Casebook of the Black Widowers.
Garden City, NY: Published For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.
First edition of the third book in Asimov's Black Widowers series with the publisher's "With Compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc." stamp to the pastedown. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142881
