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First Edition of Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes; Inscribed by Alice Waters and Ann Arnold with a sketch
WATERS, Alice with Bob Carrau and Patricia Curtan.
Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child’s Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this children's book by the creator of Chez Panisse. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Lindsay, Alice Waters." Additionally inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page with a drawing of herself holding flowers and pointing at the inscription, "With greetings from the illustrator Ann Arnold." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145492
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"Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow": Rare first Bosschere edition of the poems of Oscar Wilde
WILDE, Oscar.
The Poems Oscar Wilde.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.
First Bosschere edition of the poems of Oscar Wilde. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt with other untrimmed, illustrated with 8 color plates and 8 black and white plates. One of 2,000 numbered copies, this is number 1647. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a large loss to the front panel.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139758
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"What gets measured gets improved": First Edition of Post-Capitalist Society; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Post-Capitalist Society.
New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
First edition of one of the final works by “the world’s greatest management thinker… deserves to be measured alongside people such as Keynes or Schumpeter” (Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142025
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Treetops: A Family Memoir; inscribed by Susan Cheever to Erica Jong
CHEEVER, Susan [Erica Jong].
Treetops: A Family Memoir.
New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
First edition of the sequel to the author's prize-winning memoir, Home Before Dark. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Miami Fla. March 1991 For Erica and Ken with love Susan." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142353
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"To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one": Signed limited edition of colson whitehead's The Nickel Boys
WHITEHEAD, Colson.
The Nickel Boys.
New York: Doubleday, 2019.
Signed limited first edition from the Powell's series. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colson Whitehead on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase with the original booklet laid in. Jacket design by Oliver Munday.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144172
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First Edition of The World Cup Murder; Signed by Pele and Herbert Resnicow
PELE,.
The World Cup Murder.
New York: Wynwood Press, 1988.
First edition of this fictional work by one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both authors on the half-title page, "All the best Pele" and "Herbert Resnicow." Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket cover illustration by Edward C. Carenza. Written with Herbert Resnicow.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144205
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First Edition of Corporate Culture and Performance; Signed by John Kotter
KOTTER, John P. and James L. Heskett.
Corporate Culture and Performance.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by REM Studio. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145992
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First edition of On Directing Film; Warmly inscribed by David Mamet in the year of publication
MAMET, David.
On Directing Film.
New York: Viking, 1991.
First edition of Mamet's insightful guide to directing. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "For Glenn - Thank you for your support of my work. I appreciate it very much. David Mamet 27 F. 91 Book Soup." The recipient, Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975, an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art, music, film, photography, design and fiction. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design Neil Stuart. Back jacket photograph by Mike Hausman.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119879
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First Edition of Ellen Raskin's Figgs and Phantoms; Warmly Inscribed by Her
RASKIN, Ellen.
Figgs and Phantoms.
New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of the author's Newbery Honor book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Norine - My best booster & good friend, Thanks for everything - Ellen Raskin." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some small closed tears to the rear panel.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96261
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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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Rare first edition of Vernon Grant's Mr. Mixie Dough
GRANT, Vernon.
Mr. Mixie Dough.
Racine, Washington: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934.
First edition of Grant's children's classic. Quarto, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 16 full-page illustrations. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136341
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Giovanni Boccaccio's Novelle Ventotto
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.
Novelle Ventotto.
Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1769.
Eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's twenty-eighth novella from his 'Decameron.' Octavo, original full vellum, engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio. In very good condition with light toning to the front and rear panel, rubbing to the spine.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146403
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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 Byzantium; Inscribed by John Julius Norwich on date of Publication
NORWICH, John Julius.
Byzantium: The Apogee.
London: Viking Press, 1991.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "Dear Derek with all love from John Julius Publication Day, 14.x.91." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 4421
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First Edition I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941; Signed by Both Frederick Lewis Allen and Agnes Rogers
LEWIS ALLEN, Frederick; Agnes Rogers.
I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941.
New York: : Harper & Brother Publishers, 1947.
First edition of this illustrated work of the American people in the early twentieth century. Quarto, original illustrated cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors, "For Dick Lounsbury with the best wishes of the assemblers: Agnes Rogers" and also signed by Frederick Lewis Allen. In very good condition with The Knickerbocker Club stamp in a good dust jacket with wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45091
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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