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First Edition of "this gripping masterly work" First Edition of I Married A Communist; Signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
I Married A Communist.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132747
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Paul Johnson's A History of Christianity; Warmly Inscribed by Him
JOHNSON, Paul.
A History of Christianity.
New York: Atheneum, 1979.
First paperback edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Christian with love from the author Paul Johnson August '94." In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132639
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First Edition of Edwin Lefevre's Sampson Rock of Wall Street
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Sampson Rock of Wall Street.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1907.
First edition of the author's first full-length novel and third literary work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144149
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First edition of Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street; Inscribed by Him
ZWEIG, Martin E.
Winning on Wall Street.
New York: Warner Books, 1986.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "James Best of Luck Marty 4/25/86." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Jacket photograph by Bob Wolfson. Written with the editorial assistance of Morrie Goldfischer.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100037
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First edition of The Magic of Kindness; Or, The Wondrous Story of the Good Huan; finely bound
BROTHERS MAYHEW,.
The Magic of Kindness; Or, The Wondrous Story of the Good Huan.
London: Darton and Co, c. 1849.
First edition of this classic tale with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by George Cruikshank and Kenny Meadows, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 115662
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First Edition of Philip Roth's The Humbling; Signed by Him and Legendary Artist Milton Glaser
ROTH, Philip.
The Humbling.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of Roth's 30th book, concerning "an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a 'counterplot of unusual erotic desire'." Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page and signed by legendary artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138184
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Hannah Zeller's Wild Flowers of The Holy Land; illustrated with fifty-four beautiful color plates
ZELLER, Mrs. Hannah. Preface by H. B. Tristram. Introduction by Edward Atkinson.
Wild Flowers of The Holy Land.
London: James Nisbet and Co, 1883.
Third edition of this classic work on the field flowers of Palestine. Quarto, original publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, illustrated with fifty-four tissue-guarded plates by Hannah Zeller of Nazareth printed in color comprising detailed botanical illustrations of the flora of the Holy Land including the Palestine Bramble, Thistle, Egyptian Thrift, Apple of Sodom, Pink Anemone, Oleander, Wild Flax, Persian Cyclamen, Pomegranate, Hollyhock, Blue Lupin, and Indian Sage. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. A very bright example, rare in this condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146422
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Paule Marshall's Triangular Road; Signed by Her
MARSHALL, Paule.
Triangular Road: A Memoir.
New York: Basic Civitas Book, 2008.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the famed author's insightful memoir. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Paule Marshall on the the title page. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 129301
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"The Breath of an old-fashioned nosegay": First edition of the Crum Elbow Folks; lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt
BARNES, P.R. Foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt.
Crum Elbow Folks.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938.
First edition of Barnes' classic tale of the small Quaker settlement of Crum Elbow with a foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sept. 1938 For W. French Cyrus Paris - from Sara D. Roosevelt - This is a story of the 'Friends' who lived until lately in 'Crum Elbow' about a mile East from Hyde Park." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100315
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Margaret Dilke's Women's Suffrage
DILKE, Margaret.
Women’s Suffrage.
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., n.d..
Stereotyped edition of English suffragette Margaret Dilke's treatise on women's suffrage. Octavo, bound in full cloth, original wrappers bound in. In good condition. Stamps.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135204
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"To reduce hatred and other emotions, you must develop their opposites - compassion and kindness": First Edition of His Holiness The Dalai Lama's The Wisdom of Forgiveness; Inscribed by Victor Chan
VICTOR CHAN, and His Holiness The Dalai Lama.
The Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Conversations and Journeys.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2004.
First edition of this intimate record of conversation between the Dalai Lama and his dear friend, Victor Chan. Octavo, original yellow half-cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "Lori, Here's to the spectacular success of the XIV Dalai Lama Scholar's program. With warmest wishes, Victor ... 2008." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Nellys Li. Jacket photograph by Victor Chan. Authors photograph by Susanne Martin.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145187
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First Edition of Amarya Sen's The Argumentative Indian; Inscribed by Him
SEN, Amartya.
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
First edition of this collection of writings on Indian culture compiled by Amartya Sen; the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Cris, Best wishes Amartya Sen." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anna Bauer. Jacket art by Kailash Raj. Author photograph by Jon Chase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137438
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First Edition of Richard S. West Jr.'s The Second Admiral; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
WEST JR, Richard S. [William T. Sherman].
The Second Admiral: A Life of David Dixon Porter 1813-1891.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1937.
First edition of this biography of one of the most distinguished admirals in the history of the U. S. Navy; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Admiral David Nixon Porter, illustrated with photographs, maps, and engravings. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownership signature. In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145739