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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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"Emotion is contagious": The Tipping Point; inscribed by Malcolm Gladwell
GLADWELL, Malcolm.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.
First edition, early printing of Gladwell's debut work which seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Susan, enjoy! Malcolm Gladwell." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 137489
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First Edition of Lloyd George: A Diary; Inscribed by Frances Stevenson
STEVENSON, Frances; Edited by A. J. P. Taylor [David Lloyd George].
Lloyd George: A Diary
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1971.
First edition of the collection of Frances Stevenson's diaries. Octavo, original navy blue cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half title page, "For dear Bob and Wanda with love and every good wish for the future from Frances Lloyd-George - August 1971." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 145161
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Rare postcard signed by great spy novelist John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John. [David Cornwell].
John le Carre Signed Postcard.
Wien: Boomerang Cards, .
Austrian postcard signed by great spy novelist John le Carre. Featuring a black and white photograph of Le Carre, the postcard measures 5.75 by 4 inches. In near fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 131490
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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 Peter M'Naughton's The Poems of Ossian: Literally Translated from the Gaelic in the Original Measure of Verse
M'NAUGHTON, Peter [Ossian].
The Poems of Ossian: Literally Translated from the Gaelic in the Original Measure of Verse.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887.
First edition of Peter M'Naughton's translation of the poems of Ossian. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Uncommon.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 116541
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Elizabeth Cole; inscribed by her to Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan.
Elizabeth Cole.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.
First edition of Cheever's savage portrait of the New York art world. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "New York City May 4, 1990 To Ken Whose friendship and council have been my mainstay for all these years Susan Cheever." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 142886
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First Edition of John Galsworthy's Swan Song; With an autographed Letter Signed Laid in
GALSWORTHY, John.
Swan Song.
London: William Heinemann, 1928.
First edition of this work in the Forsyte Chronicles. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Galsworthy on a laid in letter dated 1920. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 120398
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First Edition of A Child's Calendar; Signed by Illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert
UPDIKE, John.
A Child’s Calendar.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
First edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 5035
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First Edition of Oswald Chambers' God's Workmanship; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
CHAMBERS, Oswald.
God’s Workmanship.
Wheaton, Ill: Van Kampen Press, 1953.
First edition of this collection of essays by the author of My Utmost For His Highest. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 75634
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First Edition of All the Names; Signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
All the Names.
New York: Harcourt, 2000.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Doris Jose Saramago 29 October 2008.". Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine Guerguerian. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 140688
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"It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud": First Edition of Curzio Malaparte's The Skin
MALAPARTE, Curzio.
The Skin.
London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1952.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian, La Pelle, by David Moore. Very good in the rare original dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 116391
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FARRINGTON, S. Kip.
Fishing the Atlantic: Offshore and On.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1949.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Dr. Bledsoe, a great afternoon, ___ ___ and shot, who knows the game offshore and on. America's With best wishes, S. Kip Farrington Dec 8th 49 From Tony Holman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 123827
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“A CONSENSUS MEANS THAT EVERYONE AGREES TO SAY COLLECTIVELY WHAT NO ONE BELIEVES INDIVIDUALLY”: First Edition of The New Diplomacy; Inscribed by Abba Eban to Alan Dershowitz
EBAN, Abba [Alan Dershowitz].
The New Diplomacy: International Affairs in The Modern Age.
New York: Random House, 1983.
First edition of this work by Eban, inscribed by him to famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Alan Dershowitz in friendship Abba Eban." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. From the library of Alan Dershowitz.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 53046
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A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush; Signed by Eric Newby
NEWBY, Eric.
A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush.
London: Picador, 1997.
First Picador edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Eric Newby on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Jane Poulton. Foreword by Evelyn Waugh.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 130563
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"There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets": First edition of Raymond Briggs' Gentleman Jim; Signed and dated by him
BRIGGS, Raymond.
Gentleman Jim.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980.
First edition of Briggs' somber look into the daily struggles of the working class. Folio, original illustrated boards. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Raymond Briggs 21 April 1981." In near fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 92540