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First Edition of Michael Herr's Walter Winchell; Inscribed by Him and signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
HERR, Michael.
Walter Winchell.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93." Additionally signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120899
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"Hic Calix! Look that up in Latin, 'Here's the chalice,' and be sure there's wine in it": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's Vanity of Duluoz
KEROUAC, Jack.
Vanity of Duluoz.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968.
First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132201
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First Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide and the Minor Poems
CHAUCER, Geoffrey.
Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide and the Minor Poems.
London : William Pickering, 1846.
First edition of this exemplary collection of poems. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full contemporary tan calf with blue and black morocco labels stamped in gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In near fine condition, bookplate of Lady Davy, wife of British chemist and inventor Sir Humphry Davy, to the front pastedown of each volume.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146339
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"Keep the gimlet with you": Rare 1933 Special Carling Hotel edition of The Gimlet
The Gimlet: Miami, Palm Beach, Havana.
Miami: John Ashe Scott, Publisher, 1933.
Special Carling Hotel edition of The Gimlet, "published in the interest of the many visitors to Cuba and Florida and other fascinating resorts of the South." Slim octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with numerous vintage advertisements. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 134108
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"The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up": First Edition of The Education of a Tennis Player; Signed by Rod Laver and Bud Collins
LAVER, Rod with Bud Collins.
The Education of a Tennis Player.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
First edition of the tennis legend's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, profusely illustrated with photographs, many illustrating instructional techniques. Signed by both Rod Laver and co-author on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket showing only light wear. Jacket design by Bob Eichinger.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140055
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First Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket and Glassine
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
First edition of Lindbergh's definitive autobiography. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket and glassine.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 112449
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Rare first edition of Walter Browning or The Slave's Protector
Walter Browning; or, The Slave’s Protector. Founded on Fact.
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Store, 1856.
First edition of this anti-slavery tract. 12mo, original publisher's cloth, yellow endpapers, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142106
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First Edition of Don Winslow's acclaimed The Power of the Dog; Signed by Him
WINSLOW, Don.
The Power of the Dog.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 2005.
First edition of the first novel in Winslow's acclaimed The Power of the Dog trilogy. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Don Winslow in the year of publication on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124988
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First Editions of The Political Economy of Hunger
DREZE, Jean and Amartya Sen.
The Political Economy of Hunger.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards, 3 volumes. Each volume is near fine in near fine dust jackets. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144378
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Advanced reader's edition of Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red; Signed by him and Twice by Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
My Name Is Red.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Advanced reader's edition of this "fabulously rich novel, highly compelling" (The Independent). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Orhan Pamuk and twice by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd (once on the front panel and again on the rear panel. In near fine condition. Design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Erda M Göknar. The jacket was later changed to a different design.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126789
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Limited Edition of Tristram; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Tristram.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
Signed limited edition of this popular Pulitzer prize-winning Arthurian narrative poem. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, top edge gilt. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the limitation page, this one is number 167. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. From the library of Frank Irving Fletcher, a prominent freelance copywriter of advertising who famously wrote in his autobiography 'Lucid Interval,' “The aim of modern advertising is not to make people think, but to save them the trouble and effort of thinking."
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145430
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"And so I am a revolutionary, and a most reluctant one": First Edition of The Reluctant Revolutionary; Signed by Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward.
The Reluctant Revolutionary.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1960.
First edition of Teller's classic work on the role of the scientist in the nuclear age. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edward Teller on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146105
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"And so I am a revolutionary, and a most reluctant one": First Edition of The Reluctant Revolutionary; inscribed by Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward.
The Reluctant Revolutionary.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1960.
First edition of Teller's classic work on the role of the scientist in the nuclear age. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author Edward Teller on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146178
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing will appear to man as it is, infinite": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception
HUXLEY, Aldous.
The Doors of Perception.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1954.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper Jacket design by John Woodcock. A very nice example.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146401
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Rare First Edition of This early Maurice Sendak Work Happy Hanukah Everybody; With a Signed Bookplate Laid in
SENDAK, Maurice; Text by Chanover.
Happy Hanukah Everybody.
New York: United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, 1955.
First edition of this early Sendak title. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. With a signed bookplate laid in. In near fine condition. A sharp example.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140548
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First edition of Isaac Asimov's Casebook of the Black Widowers; Inscribed 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. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ken Isaac Asimov 16 Sep 84." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 143074