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"What I can't see isn't likely to hurt me": First Edition of the author’s Newbery Honor Novel The Great Gilly Hopkins; Signed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
The Great Gilly Hopkins.
New York: Thomas Crowell, 1978.
First edition of this realistic children's novel, which was ranked number 63 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Katherine Paterson on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 4088
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First edition of James Dugan's The Great Mutiny
DUGAN, James.
The Great Mutiny.
New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1965.
First edition of the author's account of one of the few successful military mutinies in recorded history. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 119226
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The Great Operas; from the library of American journalist William Safire
VERDI, Giuseppe [Introduction]. Edited by James W. Buel.
The Great Operas: The Romantic Legends upon which the Masters of Song have Founded Their Famous Lyrical Compositions.
London, Paris, Berlin, and Philadelphia: The Societe Universelle Lyrique, 1899.
The Educational edition of this collection of the great operas. Elephant folio, 10 volumes bound into five in full pebbled leatherette for Oliver C. Safir with gilt titles to the spine and front panel and his gilt ownership name to the front panel of each volume, profusely illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text mezzo and sepia tinted illustrations. From the library of Oliver Craus Safir, and later his son, American journalist William Safire. William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968.…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134504
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"If you promise to hold your comments on my conduct at the "79" MC Ball, I'll refrain from making similar derogatory comments re your drinking habits and general conduct": First Edition of Pat Conroy's Classic The Great Santini; Signed by both Pat and Donald Conroy
CONROY, Pat.
The Great Santini.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Pat Conroy and his father Donald Conroy on the title and half-title pages respectively. Lengthily inscribed by Donald Conroy on the half-title page, "1/5/80 To Jimmy Barousse: If you promise to hold your comments on my conduct at the "79" MC Ball, I'll refrain from making similar derogatory comments re your drinking habits and general conduct. Seriously My Best Don Conroy Col USMC (Ret)." Marine Colonel Donald Conroy was a Marine Corps fighter pilot, and the basis for the protagonist in this novel. Near fine…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146097
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"Please count the silver when brother Mike comes over for Christmas dinner": First Edition of Pat Conroy's Classic The Great Santini; Signed by both Pat and Donald Conroy
CONROY, Pat.
The Great Santini.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page, "To Virginia Norwood, Merry Christmas to Betty B's sister and Jean's aunt (Conroy has crossed this out) Please count the silver when brother Mike comes over for Christmas dinner Pat Conroy Dec. 25, 1979." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 117671
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The Great Seal of Queen Victoria with a magnificent elaborately decorated royal patent
VICTORIA, Queen of England.
The Great Seal of Queen Victoria with Royal Patent.
Rare wax Great Seal of Queen Victoria presented with a large, elaborately illustrated patent granted to William Edward Newton. Housed in a custom metal case, the patent measures 7 inches in diameter and depicts Queen Victoria on the Royal Throne flanked by two ladies in waiting. The seal is affixed to the patent with a red braided twine. Partially printed on vellum, the patent is dated 1858 and grants William Edward Newton the rights to his invention which made "improvements in the hanging and arranging of cylindrical, conical, or spiral steel railroad springs for Railway carriages" with elaborate engraved royal…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 108053
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First Edition of The Great Society: Lessons for the Future; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
GINZBERG, Eli and Robert M. Solow.
The Great Society: Lessons for the Future.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding The Great Society. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 43098
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Rare first edition of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation; in the scarce original dust jacket
POLANYI, Karl.
The Great Transformation.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944.
First edition, first printing of Polanyi’s landmark work, widely considered one of the twentieth century’s most incisive and prophetic works of scholarship. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition with some chips to the extremities. Scarce and exceedingly so in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 124390
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Col. I Winslow Ayer's The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War
AYER, I. Winslow.
The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War. Most Dangerous, Perfidious, Extensive and Startling Plot Ever Devised! Imminent Hidden Perils of the Republic. Astounding Developments Never Before Published.
Chicago: U.S. Publishing Co, n.d..
Early printing of Ayer's Civil War account. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132537
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From the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First edition of Jay Winik's The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World; inscribed by him to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
WINIK, Jay. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.
New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
First edition of Winik's "cinematic reconstruction of the birth of the modern world" (Robert Dallek). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Chevy Chase, MD Dec. 2007 To Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Marty Ginsburg Who in our own day continues the rich legacies of our Founders! With best wishes and much admiration Jay Winik." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 146983
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Rare "SHOULDER STRAP" SET OF CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS, INCLUDING THOSE OF GENERALS GRANT, SHERMAN, SHERIDAN AND MCCLELLAN, EACH ISSUED BY MARK TWAIN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY
GRANT, Ulysses S; James G. Blaine; P.H. Sheridan; George B. McClellan; Elizabeth B. Custer.
The Great War Library “Shoulder Strap” Set of Civil War Memoirs Including: Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, McClellan’s Own Story, and Tenting on the Plains: or Gen. Custer in Kansas and Texas.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1891.
Rare Shoulder Strap set of five Civil War histories printed by Twain's publishing house in its short-lived but impressive decade of operation. Octavo, eight volumes bound in full tan sheep skin with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, red and black spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits to each volume, illustrated with steel engravings, maps, and woodcuts. The set features: a first edition of Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (Two volumes, 1885-1886); a first edition of McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union, the Soldiers Who Fought…
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 147086
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RAEMAEKERS, Louis.
The Great War: A Neutral’s Indictment.
London: The Fine Art Society, Ltd.:, 1916.
First edition. Folio, original cloth backed marbled boards. Leather spine labels, top edge gilt. 100 tipped in plates. Limited to 1,050 copies, of which 1,000 were for sale. Signed by the author, Louis Raemaekers. In near fine condition with some light rubbing.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 2650
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"Mix it up, Jack honey, pace him, pace him out!": First edition of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope; inscribed by him
SACKLER, Howard. [Jack Johnson].
The Great White Hope: A Play.
New York: The Dial Press, Inc, 1968.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play based on the career of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, basis for the 1970 film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Iris - with great affection & continual gratitude - Howard." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Hatfield. Author photograph by Michael Wallis. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 140735
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"Managing yourself is just as important as managing the course": First Edition of The Greatest Game of All; inscribed by Legendary Golfer Jack Nicklaus
NICKLAUS, Jack with Herbert Warren Wind.
The Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
First edition of the golfer's autobiography, which includes six full chapters on instruction. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Good Golfing Jack Nicklaus." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles. Foreword by Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 142473
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First edition of Of Mandino's The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II; warmly inscribed by Og Mandino
MANDINO, Og.
The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II.
New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
First edition of the sequel to the author's classic guide to success. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Kay Love! Og Mandino." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus One.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 131605
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"True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse”: Og Mandino's The Greatest Salesman In The World; Signed by Him
MANDINO, Og.
The Greatest Salesman In The World.
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc, 1973.
Early printing Mandino's classic work on salesmanship and success. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Og Mandino on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142029