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"Quick, one last kiss, Genevieve. It's my last fight, an' I'll fight as never before with you lookin at me": First edition of Jack London's The Game
LONDON, Jack.
The Game.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905.
First Edition, second issue of London's tragic boxing tale with the magazine rubberstamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. In good condition with a child's drawings to a few pages. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 128146
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First Edition of George Gilder's Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World; signed by Him
GILDER, George.
Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World.
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2013.
First edition of Gilder's work, which introduces an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by George Gilder on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by J. Henry Pereira.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135625
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First edition of William Morris's Old French Romances Done Into English
MORRIS, William. Introduction by Joseph Jacobs.
Old French Romances Done into English.
New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1896.
First American edition of Morris's fine translation of the great French Romances. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 139275
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Rossiter Johnson's The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession 1861-1865
JOHNSON, Rossiter.
The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession. 1861-1865.
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894.
Second edition of Johnson's authoritative work on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132319
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First Edition of Hayek's John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage
HAYEK, Friedrich August [F.A.].
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144349
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"To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain": First Nonesuch Press Edition of the Anacreon
COWLEY, Abraham.
Anacreon, done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683.
Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923.
First Nonesuch Press limited edition of the Odes of Anacreon. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum over gold paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with four full-page tissue-guarded copperplate engravings of Cupid, Bathyllus, Europa, & Venus, headpieces, and tailpieces by Stephen Gooden. One of only 725 copies produced, this is number 680. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 100305
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First Edition of Jonathan Schorr's Hard Lessons with Autographed Letter; FROM THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN JOURNALIST WILLIAM SAFIRE
SCHORR, Jonathan [William Safire].
Hard Lessons: The Promise of an Inner City Charter School.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
First edition of this journalistic analysis of charter school life from the library of American journalist William Safire. Octavo, original half cloth. Autographed letter to American journalist William Safire laid in. As thanks for his thoughtful announcement in the word column, the note reads in part, "I am touched by the effort and generosity that went into the plug you gave my book. I hope you know what an enormous difference it makes in the trajectory of the book's life. I'll not soon forget this kindness." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Jonathan Schorr. Jacket…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145238
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First Corgi Yearling Edition of Spring-Heeled Jack; inscribed by Philip Pullman
PULLMAN, Philip. Illustrated by David Mostyn.
Spring-Heeled Jack: A Story of Bravery and Evil.
London: Corgi Yearling Books, 1998.
First Corgi Yearling edition of Pullman's fantastic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Best wishes Eileen - Philip Pullman." In fine condition. Cover illustration by Peter Bailey. Inside Illustrations by David Mostyn.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 89122
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First Edition of The Givenness of Things: Essays; Signed by Pulitzer-Prize winning Author Marilynne Robinson
ROBINSON, Marilynne.
The Givenness of Things: Essays.
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2015.
First edition of this collection of essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Strick and Williams.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 12057
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First Edition of Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates' The Acting President; Signed by Nancy Reagan
SCHIEFFER, Bob and Gary Paul Gates [Ronald and Nancy Reagan].
The Acting President.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1989.
First edition of this intimate history of the Reagan administrations. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Nancy Reagan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Accompanied by a schedule of events from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in November of 1997; the event 'November 25, 1997 - Mrs. Reagan Booksigning' is circled.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147176
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First edition in English of Ragnar Frisch's Theory of Production
FRISCH, Ragnar.
Theory of Production.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1965.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian economist's work on production theory. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 127011
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he Libraire d'Amateurs edition of Voltaire's L'Ingénu
VOLTAIRE. [AROUET, François-Marie].
L’Ingénu: Histoire Veritable Tiree Des Manuscrits Du Pere Quesnel 1767.
Paris: Librairie d'Amateurs, n.d.
The Libraire d'Amateurs edition of Voltaire's satirical novella. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon bound in, top edge gilt, with 46 monochrome plates by Umberto Brunelleschi. In fine condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 137212
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs From Books
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs From Books.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling's children's stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121421
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First Edition of Carveth Wells' Six Years in the Malay Jungle
WELLS, Carveth.
Six Years in the Malay Jungle.
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1925.
First edition of Wells' work on the Malay jungle. Octavo, original orange cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket,
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1921
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"MEN IN PAJAMAS SITTING ABAFT THE FUNNEL AND SWAPPING LIES OF THE PURPLE SEAS": FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S ABAFT THE FUNNEL
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.
First edition, first issue of of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122911
