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Signed by Frank Genry
FORSTER, Kurt W. (Frank O. Gehry).
Frank O. Gehry.
Germany: Cantz, 1999.
First edition of this compilation of Gehry's works. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Gehry on the dedication page. In fine condition. Edited by Cristina Bechtler in collaboration with Kunsthasus Bregenz. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 80019
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First Edition of The Promise of Space; Signed by Arthur C. Clarke
CLARKE, Arthur C.
The Promise of Space.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
First edition of this portrait of the past and future from the author of the show-stoppingly popular '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Octavo, original black cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams, and charts. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some closed tears to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145352
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First Edition of My Life; Warmly Inscribed by Ervin Magic Johnson
JOHNSON, Ervin Magic.
My Life.
New York: Random House, 1992.
First edition of the basketball legend's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Larry Sr. Take it easy and stay cool from your main man Ervin Magic Johnson #32." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written with William Novak.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145660
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“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis": First Edition of Too Big To Fail; Inscribed by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Gary Parr
SORKIN, Andrew Ross.
Too Big To Fail.
New York: The Viking Press, 2009.
First edition of Ross Sorkin's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ilya Andrew Ross Sorkin" and signed by Gary Parr. Gary Parr was Deputy Chairman and on the board of directors of Lazard, LLC. Prior to that, he was with Morgan Stanley as Vice Chairman, Head of Global Financial Institutions and Co-Head of the Global M&A Group. Label to the copyright page, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heads of State.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 102768
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“War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war": First Edition of William Faulkner's A Fable
FAULKNER, William.
A Fable.
New York: Random House, 1954.
First edition of the first novel to win both Pulitzer and National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 70016
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First Edition of Caroline Paine's Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip
PAINE, Caroline.
Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1859.
First edition of this quality piece of travel writing. Octavo, bound in full modern cloth, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of The Sheik. In very good condition with toning to the text block, stamps to the front flyleaf and dedication page.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 146069
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Bret Harte and Mark Twain's Sketches of the Sixties: Being Forgotten Material Now Collected for the First time from The Californian 1864-67; from the collection of American journalist William Safire
HARTE, Bret and Mark Twain. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Sketches of the Sixties: Being Forgotten Material Now Collected for the First time from The Californian 1864-67.
San Francisco: John Howell, 1927.
Second edition of the compiled uncollected materials of Twain and Harte from The Californian. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise gilt bands, pictorial endpapers, gilt topstain, frontispiece of page one of the first number of The Californian, illustrated. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 127607
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First Edition of Thomas C. Schelling's Strategies of Commitment; Inscribed by Him
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Thomas C. Schelling on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 77549
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“DEMOCRACY IS ESSENTIALLY A MEANS, A UTILITARIAN DEVICE FOR SAFEGUARDING INTERNAL PEACE AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM”: THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Road to Serfdom.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1944.
Seventh printing of the first edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by John Chamberlain. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 146177
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First Edition of Growth/Productivity/Unemployment: Essays to Celebrate Bob Solow's Birthday; Signed by both Robert Solow and Peter Diamond
SOLOW, Robert. Edited by Peter Diamond.
Growth/ Productivity/ Unemployment: Essays to Celebrate Bob Solow’s Birthday.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of this collection of essays compiled to celebrate the Nobel Prize-winning economist's birthday; signed by two Nobel Peace-prize winning economists. Signed by Robert Solow below his frontispiece portrait and editor Peter Diamond on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 90367
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“Hit ‘em first, and hit ‘em hard": First Edition of Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake LA Motta; Inscribed by Him
LA MOTTA, Jake; Chris Anderson and Sharon McGehee.
Raging Bull II: Continuing the Story of Jake La Motta.
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1986.
First edition of the sequel to Raging Bull. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harvey Jake La Motta Raging Bull." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Tim Gaydos.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 134250
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"In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams": Bernard Malamud's National Book Award-Winning Novel; Signed by Him
MALAMUD, Bernard.
The Fixer.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
First edition, early printing of the author's fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Bernard Malamud on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 140811
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Finely bound example of Christopher Wordsworth's Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There
WORSDWORTH, Christopher.
Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There.
London: John Murray, 1837.
Finely bound edition of Wordsworth's work on Athens and Attica. Octavo, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Armorial bookplate and period gift inscription.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 138672