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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72865
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Rare Collection of Album von Berlin Postcards; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
[WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
Album von Berlin.
Jewish Welfare Board, .
Rare collection of color postcards featuring destinations in Berlin, Germany; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sextodecimo, seven heliotint pages in a folding album, original envelope wrappers, illustrated. Fine in good wrappers with some rubbing and closed tears, a few losses to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145990
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First edition of Colonel Henry Doveton Hutchinson's The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart; from the library of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
HUTCHINSON, Henry Doveton [Felix Frankfuter].
The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart. Based (By Permission) on Letters Contributed to ‘The Times’.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
First edition of Hutchinson's important eye-witness account of the Tirah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt decorative vignette of an Afridi tribesman to the front panel, illustrated with 7 maps and plans, half-tone tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of General Lockhart. In near fine condition. From the library of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter with his bookplate to the pastedown. Austrian-American lawyer and jurist Felix Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119903
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First Edition of Donna Tartt's The Little Friend; Inscribed by Her and Signed Three Times by Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd
TARTT, Donna.
The Little Friend.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
First edition of this work "destined to become a special kind of classic” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Merry Christmas Mark! from Donna." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the title page, front panel and on the rear flap of the jacket. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140777
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Burnaby's On Horseback Through Asia Minor
BURNABY, Frederick Gustavus.
On Horseback Through Asia Minor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877.
Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in original publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, spine vignettes in black, illustrated with 3 folding maps and a mounted photographic portrait frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 105843
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair
GREENE, Graham.
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951.
First edition of the Graham Greene novel William Faulkner called, "one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146288
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay; finely bound in full polished tree calf
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878.
Finely bound new edition of the historical essays of Macaulay. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, inner dentelles stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138519
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“WHY THE BUSINESS MAN SHOULD PLAY GOLF”: FIRST EDITION OF TRAVERS’ GOLF BOOK
TRAVERS, Jerome D.
Travers’ Golf Book.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1913.
First edition of this four-time U.S. amateur champion’s first book. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, photographic cover portrait to the front panel, with forty eight stop-action illustrations. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 115871
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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 the author's National Book Award-Winning Work The Path Between the Seas; Warmly Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
First edition of the author's National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with two detailed maps and 80 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Dana Friedman with my regards David McCullough October 13, 1977 Pittsburgh." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel. Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor. Photograph by Rosalee McCullough.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 136609
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First Edition of William Goldman's Soldier in the Rain; Signed by Him
GOLDMAN, William.
Soldier in the Rain.
New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1960.
First edition of this novel which concerns the friendship between an Army Master Sergeant and a young country bumpkin buck sergeant. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Goldman on the title page. Near fine in avery good dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 78036
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Ida M. Tarbell's He Knew Lincoln; signed by her and in the rare original dust jacket
TARBELL, Ida M.
He Knew Lincoln.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
First Doubleday printing of Tarbell's collected Billy Brown stories, first published by McClure in 1907. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 132584
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First Edition of Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court; Inscribed by Edward Lazarus
LAZARUS, Edward.
Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court.
New York: Times Books, 1998.
First edition of this groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Alan, With best wishes, Edward Lazarus." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heidi North.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144222
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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
