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"Who exerted an important influence at a crucial puncture in the author's life With warm regards and admiration": First Edition of Michael Beschloss' Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance; Lengthily Inscribed by the author to Educators Ted and Nancy Glazer
BESCHLOSS, Michael R.
Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980.
First edition of the historian's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ted and Nancy Sizer- who exerted an important influence at a crucial puncture in the author's life With warm regards and admiration. Michael Beschloss April 2, 1980." The recipient Theodore Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder (and eventually President Emeritus) of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools. Beginning in the late 1970s, he had worked with…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 111411
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“A man's alter ego is nothing more than his favorite image of himself”: First Edition of Catch Me If You Can; Signed by Frank Abagnale and Steven Spielberg
ABAGNALE, Frank W. [Steven Spielberg].
Catch Me If You Can.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980.
First edition of the bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, basis for the Steven Spielberg film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly inscribed by Frank W. Abagnale on the front free endpaper and Steven Spielberg on the front pastedown. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. With Abagnale's business card laid in. Rare.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 145775
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First Edition of In China; Inscribed by Eve Arnold to Henry Kissinger
ARNOLD, Eve [Henry A. Kissinger].
In China.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
First edition of this monograph on China. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Henry Kissinger, "For Henry Kissinger in whose giant footsteps I followed in China, and it was a tough act to follow! All good wishes, Eve Arnold." Arnold is referring to the slow opening throughout the 1970s of Communist China to Westerners, an opening famously managed on the United States end by protean Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, in collaboration with Presidents Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford. Kissinger would later write his classic work On China, detailing…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5313
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"The sun will come out tomorrow": First edition of Thomas Meehan's Annie: An Old-Fashioned Story; signed by him and three 1997 U.S. touring cast members
MEEHAN, Thomas. Illustrated by Julia Noonan.
Annie: An Old-Fashioned Story.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1980.
First edition of the Tony Award-winning storyline of the popular Broadway musical. Octavo, original half cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated by Julian Noonan. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Thanks, Thomas Meehan", "Love, Mary K. Lombardi (Annie)", "Norwood Smith 'Daddy Warbucks'", and "Ruth Kobart Miss Hannigan." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 125981
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First Edition of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980.
First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition. Cover photograph by Bob Chase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128109
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First Edition of Lynne Reid Banks' The Indian In The Cupboard; Signed by her and illustrator Brock Cole
BANKS, Lynne Reid; Illustrated by Brock Cole.
The Indian In The Cupboard.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1980.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Brock Cole. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Andrew - Best wishes, Lynne Reid Banks Dorset, UK Sept. 2008." Additionally signed by the illustrator Brock Cole on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Robert Sabin. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by both Banks and Cole.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 121662
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"When Wanda packed her bag and left, I stood in my garden and knew my chances were ruined": First edition of Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems; inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dillard
ZIMMER, Paul [Annie Dillard].
With Wanda: Town and Country Poems.
Washington, D.C. & San Francisco: Dryad Press, 1980.
First edition of American poet Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed to poet Annie Dillard on the title page, "August 1980 For Annie and Gary, With admiration and affection. Paul." With Annie Dillard's bookplate to the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Susan Foster. Book design by Merrill Leffler. A nice association.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88097
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First Edition of Howard Greenfeld's Puccini; lengthily inscribed by him
GREENFELD, Howard. [Puccini].
Puccini.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.
First edition of Greenfeld's authoritative biography of the great composer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To James Canner, With gratitude, admiration, and friendship. Howard Greenfeld Jan 23, 1981." In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115708
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First Edition of Athol Fugard's Tsotsi; Signed by Him
FUGARD, Athol.
Tsotsi.
Johannesburg: Donker, 1980.
First South African Edition and true first. Octavo, original cloth Signed and dated by Athol Fugard in 1983. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light rubbing and wear.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 506
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First Edition of B.F. Skinner's Notebooks; Inscribed to Harvard colleague Arthur K. Solomon and his wife
SKINNER, B.F.
Notebooks.
Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980.
First edition of this work by the famed psychologist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Marnie and Arthur Fondly Fred." The recipients were Harvard University colleague Arthur K. Solomon and his wife Marnie, who were close friends of Skinner. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hal Siegel. Edited and with an introduction by Robert Epstein.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131399
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First Edition of In Our Time; Inscribed by Tom Wolfe
WOLFE, Tom.
In Our Time.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1980.
First edition of this unique collection of collection Wolfe's drawings from his two decades as a graphic artist; a visual commentary on the changing mores and social landscape of the 1980s. Quarto, original half cloth. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Al Rusch peerless tennis star Tom Wolfe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Wolfe. Jacket design by Sheila Wolfe.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 144713
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First edition of Rosemary Jones Tung's A Portrait of Lost Tibet; from the library of Peter Matthiessen
TUNG, Rosemary Jones. [Peter Matthiessen].
A Portrait of Lost Tibet.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
First edition of the author's photographic evocation of Tibet. Quarto, original boards, ornamental art by Zlatko Paunov. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea”…
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 140207
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“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny": Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose; Signed by the Nobel Prize-winning Economist
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.
First edition, early printing of Friedmans' persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mary Strong, Milton Friedman." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 133804
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute
QUENNELL, Peter.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
First edition of this tribute to Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Edited by Peter Quennell. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 36337
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"The smaller the unit of government and the more restricted the functions assigned government, the less likely it is that its actions will reflect special interests rather than the general interest": First Edition of Free to Choose; Inscribed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.
First edition of Friedmans' persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the authors in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Gordon St. Angelo, a fellow fighter in the good cause Milton Friedman." Additionally signed and dated in the year of publication by Rose Friedman. The recipient, Gordon St. Angelo helped create a foundation with Milton and Rose Friedman to promote and help establish educational choice in America. He served as President & CEO of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation for…
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 4174
