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First Edition of Herbert Warren Wind's On the Tour with Harry Sprague; Inscribed by Him To Gene Sarazen
WIND, Herbert Warren. [Gene Sarazen].
On the Tour with Harry Sprague.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
First edition of this work by America’s greatest golf writer cracks wise in this humorous peek inside the life and mind of an up-and-coming young pro. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings. Association copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to Gene Sarazen, "For Gene Thanking you for my most recent pleasure at the Centenary British Open With all good wishes Herb Wind." The recipient Gene Sarazen was a professional golfer and the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players (along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods) to win each of the four majors…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 104292
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"The secret of good summer food is the freshness of ingredients": Elizabeth David's Summer Cooking; Signed by Her
DAVID, Elizabeth.
Summer Cooking.
London: Dorling Kindersley, 1985.
First edition of the re-issue of this classic work. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Elizabeth David on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Line drawings by Adrian Daintrey. Photograph of Elizabeth David by Cecil Beaton.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 105488
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"Wishing you safe travels on your journey through the woods": First Edition of Into the Woods; Lengthily Inscribed by Hudson Talbott
SONDHEIM, Stephen; James Lapine; Illustrated by Hudson Talbott.
Into The Woods.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1989.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the Broadway musical and later film. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Josh Kaiser, with very best wishes for you and your future- Hudson Talbott 2/3/90." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 131386
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“This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels" (Cyril Connolly): First Edition of Down There On a Visit; Inscribed by Him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Vincente Urbistondo, with my best wishes Christopher Isherwood Oct 22 1967." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 110673
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"A girl's fair face and charm of manner lured me from hanging around under the Irish tri-colour and the red banner of Labour": First Edition of Windfalls; Inscribed by Sean O'Casey to his Friend Dr. Joe Cummins
O'CASEY, Sean.
Windfalls: Stories, Poems, and Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1934.
First edition of this work by the Irish dramatist and memoirist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. J.D. Cummins, (Joe) from his old ___ Sean O'Casey With undiminished affection London Jan. 1935." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 105844
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"I hope you will never live to see such a crisis as brought this book into Being": Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country; lengthily inscribed by him
HALE, Edward Everett.
The Man Without a Country.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1898.
Early printing of Hale's classic short story. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, stamped bald eagle vignette to the front panel, illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the free endpaper, "My Dear Julius I hope you will never live to see such a crisis as brought this book into Being Edward E. Hale." In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 112426
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"I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog": First Edition of Saul Bellow's Herzog; Inscribed by Him to Sally Soames
BELLOW, Saul.
Herzog.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1965.
First British edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels, which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally S. from S. Bellow Best wishes Oct 10 '91 Chicago, Ill." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 118261
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"If I've inspired you, now you've inspired me": First Edition of John Rothchild's A Fool and His Money; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
ROTHCHILD, John.
A Fool and His Money: The Odyssey of an Average Investor.
New York: Viking, 1988.
First edition of "the funniest book about investing ever written" (New York Post). Octavo, original half coth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Dear John, If I've inspired you, now you've inspired me. Best wishes, John Rothchild." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Rafal Olbinski.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 102598
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“This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels" (Cyril Connolly): First Edition of Down There On a Visit; Inscribed by Him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Monroe Wheeler ex dono Christopher Isherwood." The recipient Monroe Wheeler was an American publisher and museum coordinator and a close friend of Isherwood's. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 104119
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First Edition of John Bogle's Character Counts: The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group; Inscribed by Him
BOGLE, John.
Character Counts : The Creation and Building of the Vanguard Group.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
First edition of the story of how Vanguard was born, why it has flourished, and what leadership principles and management practices fostered its development. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Jay Goulart, With best wishes to one of Sandys heroes! John C. Bogle April 6, 2002." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Stvan.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 106342
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"The farmer woke up from his dream, looked out of his window and saw snow. It was not dream snow. It was real snow": First Edition of Eric Carle's Dream Snow; Signed by Him
CARLE, Eric.
Dream Snow.
New York: Philomel Books, 2000.
First edition of this Christmas classic by the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Signed by Eric Carle on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 103548
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First Edition of I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust; Inscribed by Livia Bitton-Jackson
BITTON-JACKSON, Livia.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
First edition of this powerful memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, "April 1998 For with all good wishes, Livia Bitton-Jackson." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Zakris.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 105841
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First Edition of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins; Signed by both Eric Kimmel and Illustrator Trina Schart Hyman
KIMMEL, Erica; Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.
New York: Holiday House, 1989.
First edition of this Caldecott Honor-winning classic. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Ann, Eric A. Kimmel." Additionally signed below by the illustrator "Trina Schart Hyman 1990." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 103993
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First Edition of John Kotter's Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management; Inscribed by Him
KOTTER, John P.
A Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management.
New York: The Free Press, 1990.
First edition of this insightful book on leadership. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard Miller With Best Regards, John Kotter 7/91." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by W. Scot Carouge.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 106426
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First Edition of Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice; Lengthily Inscribed by Victor Fuchs
FUCHS, Victor R.
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of "by far, the best book on the subject of medicine as it relates to economics" (Minneapolis Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "10/7/85 To Catie and Pod, with appreciation for a lovely evening. All good wishes, Vic." Also laid in is an autographed letter signed to the same recipient Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 107631
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"Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ourselves to look for it": First Edition of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers; Lengthily inscribed by Yiyun Li
LI, Yiyun.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of Li's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ourselves to look for it. For Adrienne with warmest regards, Yiyun Li." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison Saltzman.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 102837
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First Edition of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Cross Creek Cookery; Signed by Her
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
Cross Creek Cookery.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.
First edition of Rawlings’ heartwarming cookbook. Octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Boldly signed by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the front free endpaper. In good condition. Illustrations by Robert Camp.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138178
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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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First Edition of Indignation; Signed by Philip Roth and by Milton Glaser
ROTH, Philip.
Indignation.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
First edition of Roth's twenty-ninth book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page and by legendary designer Milton Glaser on the front panel of the dust jacket. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 102836
