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“Hope springs forever": Rare Limited First Edition of J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard; Signed by Her
ROWLING, J.K.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Translated from the Original Runes by Hermione Granger. With Commentary by Professor Albus Dumbledore.
London: The Children's High Level Group, 2008.
First edition, limited issue of this wizarding classic. Signed by J.K. Rowling on the half-title page, with the authentication hologram. Octavo, original brown morocco-patterned boards with silver metal cornerpieces and central ornament accented with faux blue gems, silver metal clasp, marbled endpapers, green silk bookmark, illustrated. Housed in the embroidered velvet bag within the publisher's calf case with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and with the original pull-off slipcase which reads 'This Side Up'. This specially bound edition includes a portfolio of ten additional prints by Rowling that were not issued with the trade or the manuscript editions. Rare…
Price: $11,000.00 Item Number: 104144
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Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and Welded; Signed by Him
O'NEILL, Eugene.
All God’s Chillun Got Wings Desire under the Elms and Welded.
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1927.
First edition, second printing of this collection of two of O'Neill's expressionist plays, including one of his most controversial. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Eugene O'Neill on the front free endpaper. With the publishers Now & Then advertisement postcard laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 108639
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First edition of The Self and its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism; inscribed by Karl Popper to Lionel Charles Robbins
POPPER, Karl and John C. Eccles.
The Self and its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism.
Berlin, New York, London: Springer-Verlag, 1977.
First edition of Popper and Eccles' groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by Karl Popper in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Lionel, with love from Karl 3rd November 1977." The recipient, British economist Lionel Charles Robbins, was a prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics. He and Popper were colleagues for over twenty years and formed a strong inter-departmental alliance, fortified by their mutual friendship with Friedrich von Hayek. In a letter to Hayek on 20th October 1964, Popper wrote, "I should also mention that, through your…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 101425
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Finely Bound Set of the Novels of Victor Hugo
HUGO, Victor.
The Novels of Victor Hugo.
Boston : Dana Estes, n.d.
The Illustrated Cabinet edition of the novels of Victor Hugo. Octavo, 12 volumes. Bound in three quarters navy blue morocco over blue cloth, elaborate gilt decorated spines with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, with illustrated plates, frontispieces. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 105448
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“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light": First Edition of Dylan Thomas' In Country Sleep; Signed by Him
THOMAS, Dylan .
In Country Sleep.
New York: New Directions, 1952.
First edition of this collection of poems, including the first book appearance of "Do not go gentle into that good night." Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Dylan Thomas 1952." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed as Thomas passed away one year after the publication.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 106778
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"The facts are always less than what really happened": First Edition of July’s People; Signed by Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
July’s People.
New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
First American edition of one of the author's most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studios.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 110161
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"In no time at all she was princess of the land. And she and her husband, the charming Prince, rode to their palace in a golden coach to live happily ever after!": First Edition of Walt Disney's Cinderella; Signed by Him
DISNEY, Walt.
Walt Disney’s Cinderella.
Stuttgart: Bluchert-Verlag, 1951.
First German edition of the classic retelling of one of the most celebrated Disney films. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Walt Disney on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Laid in is a business card of the publisher with a note referencing this was signed in 1953. Rare and desirable signed by Walt Disney.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 106556
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“A MASTERPIECE RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE”: RARE FIRST EDITION OF CHANDLER’S THE BIG SLEEP
CHANDLER, Raymond.
The Big Sleep.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.
First edition of Chandler’s first and most famous novel, with the rarely found original dust jacket. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Bruccoli A1.1.a. A very sharp example.
Price: $7,000.00 Item Number: 105836
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"The Basis for the Standard Finance Model" First Edition of Gerard Debreu's Theory of Value
DEBREU, Gerard.
Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959.
First edition of the groundbreaking work by Debreu, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics, viewed as "one of the few classics of our period" by the prestigious American Economic Review for his revolutionary insights into the economics of "'general equilibrium"—demonstrating a "freely competitive economy can, in theory, reach a state in which supply balances demand in every market… an entire economy could, at least theoretically if not necessarily in fact, be in equilibrium" (Time). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First editions are scarce, especially in this condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 102758
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"I never promise lies and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie, and a bore too": First Edition of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; Lengthily Signed by the Author
GREEN, Hannah [Joanne Greenberg].
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
First edition of the author's semi-autobiographical modern classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author as Joanne Greenberg and her pseudonym "Hannah Green", as follows, "I never promise lies and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie, and a bore too." "Hannah Green" Joanne Greenberg." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. An exceptional inscription.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 106831
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First Edition of John Kotter's Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It; Signed by Him
KOTTER, John P.
Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It.
New York: Amacom, 1979.
First edition of this early work by Kotter. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106742
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First Edition of Ludwig von Mises' The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth: An Exposition of the Ideas of Classical Liberalism; Signed by Him
VON MISES, Ludwig.
The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth: An Exposition of the Ideas of Classical Liberalism.
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1962.
First edition of this classic work by von Mises. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Ludwig Mises March 2nd 1970." Near fine in very good dust jacket. Translated by Ralph Raico. Edited by Arthur Goddard.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 106574
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“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it": First Edition Of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in The Rare Original Publisher’s Morocco
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First edition, first issue of Twain's masterpiece, one of approximately 500 copies bound in publisher's three-quarters morocco binding. Octavo, original three-quarters brown morocco and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. Lithographic frontispiece and with 174 illustrations by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt. Copies of Huckleberry Finn in the original publisher's leather bindings are quite rare: "The relative rarity of the cloth and leather bindings is clear. Less than two weeks before publication, [the publisher] Webster announced that he was binding 20,000 copies in cloth, another 2,500 in sheep, and 500 copies…
Price: $11,500.00 Item Number: 105655
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First Edition of Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Christopher Pissarides
MORTENSEN, Dale T. and Christopher A. Pissarides.
Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economists. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Christopher Pissarides on the front free endpaper, "To John Rogers with best wishes C Pissarides." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F. Zimmermann.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 110971
