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First Edition of Value Investing: A Balanced Approach; signed by Martin J. Whitman
WHITMAN, Martin J.
Value Investing: A Balanced Approach.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes Martin J. Whitman." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144681
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First Edition of The Conservationist; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
The Conservationist.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.
First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 84277
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First Edition of Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes; Inscribed by Alice Waters and Ann Arnold with a sketch
WATERS, Alice with Bob Carrau and Patricia Curtan.
Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child’s Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this children's book by the creator of Chez Panisse. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Lindsay, Alice Waters." Additionally inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page with a drawing of herself holding flowers and pointing at the inscription, "With greetings from the illustrator Ann Arnold." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145492
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First Edition of Greek Lessons; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Han Kang
KANG, Han.
Greek Lessons.
London: Hogarth, 2023.
First edition of this "dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the “visionary” (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Han Kang on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anna Kochman. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147140
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"The book that launched the Beat Generation": First Edition of John Clellon Holmes' Go
HOLMES, John Clellon.
Go.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
First edition of the novel that launched the Beat Generation's literary legacy and describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady and "one of the best novels about the Beat Generation...brilliant and important" (Los Angeles Free Press). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Helen Borten.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138914
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Uncorrected Proof of The Soul of a New Machine; Inscribed by Tracy Kidder
KIDDER, Tracy.
The Soul of a New Machine.
Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of Kidder's second book. Octavo, original wrappers. Inscribed by Tracy Kidder on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122
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First edition of Dominick Dunne's People Like Us; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and her husband Ken Burrows
DUNNE, Dominick [Erica Jong].
People Like Us.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1988.
First edition of Dunne's richly textured novel of New York society in the eighties. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Erica & Ken Best regards, Dominic Dunne." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142904
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's A Search For The King; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
VIDAL, Gore.
A Search For The King.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Marie from Gore- all best wishes 1950." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126014
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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72865
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"May you enjoy this book's manliness to the max, to the maximum": First Edition of Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full; Lengthily Inscribed by Him to Maxim Founder Felix Dennis
WOLFE, Tom.
A Man In Full.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition, early printing of this "masterpiece" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, including a large green exclamation mark hand drawn to Felix Dennis "To Felix Dennis, may you enjoy this book's manliness to the max, to the maximum - Tom Wolfe." The recipient, Felix Dennis was the owner of iconic men's magazine 'Maxim' which made him a media tycoon. He was also a distinguished poet philanthropist, book collector and lover of trees (the Forest of Dennis). Loosely inserted a short note from Maxim's editor, Clare McHugh.…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146476
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First Edition of Five Chiefs; A Supreme Court Memoir; Signed by Justice John Paul Stevens
STEVENS, John Paul .
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2011.
First edition of this memoir from Justice John Paul Stevens. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by John Paul Stevens on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison J. Warner. Uncommon signed in the actual book, as most examples are signed bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139184
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"WORLD REVOLUTION OR WORLD DESTRUCTION": H.G. Wells The Fate of Homo Sapiens in the rare original dust jacket
WELLS, H.G.
The Fate of Homo Sapiens.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1939.
Early printing of this work by the author of Invisible Man. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 118627
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first edition of Ken Tate's New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses Volume One; with a rare portrait signed by him tipped in
TATE, Ken with Oscar Riera Ojeda.
New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses. Volume One.
Mulgrave: Images Publishing, 2003.
First and only edition of the first volume in Tate's monograph series. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. With a rare portrait of Tate signed by him tipped in to the pastedown of the accompanying custom clamshell box. Unopened in the original shrink wrap.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 127014
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"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" GEORGE ORWELL’S MASTERPIECE ANIMAL FARM
ORWELL, George.
Animal Farm.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
Early printing of Orwell’s timeless allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the extremities, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket art by Art Brenner.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146283
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Rare Autograph Letter Signed by the Author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campell
CAMPELL, Joseph.
Joseph Campbell Autograph Letter Signed.
New York: N.p., December 26, 1977.
Rare autograph letter signed by American writer and author of 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces.' Octavo, two pages on 136 Waverly Place stationary, the letter reads in full, "Dec. 26, 1977 Dear Dr. Selby Thank you very much indeed for your kind and very interesting letter of a month ago. I am enclosing herewith the photo for which you asked [not present] -- a bit out of date, but since the date is of some of the books, the later volumes of 'The Masks of God,' it is not altogether inappropriate. Your suggestions for a book developing my 'Myth…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146688
