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"Yes, the pros are puzzled - except Kell Greene": First Edition of The Golf Swing of Bobby Jones: An Analysis of His Drive; from the library of Albert W. Tillinghast
GREENE, Kell [Bobby Jones].
The Golf Swing of Bobby Jones: An Analysis of His Drive.
Chicago: Dixon Press, 1931.
First edition of this photographic analysis of the golf swing of Bobby Jones. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 43 photographs of Jones' golf swing. From the library of golf architect A.W. Tillinghast with his handwritten library index card laid in. A.W. Tillinghast was one of the most prolific architects in the history of golf; he worked on more than 265 different courses and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which shows chips to the spine and front panel. A unique association.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95904
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's Landmark Work Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Roy La Grone.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 100299
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Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; in the original boards
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire.
London: James Cawthorn, 1810.
Early edition of Byron's satiric response to the negative review of his first book, Hours of Idleness, in the Edinburgh Review. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 119205
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Signed Edition of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore; Signed three times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Kafka on the Shore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of Murakami's award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed three times by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear jacket flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 122969
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From the Library of John Updike; Inscribed by the author to Him
ARTHUR, Anthony (John Updike).
Literary Feuds.
New York: St. Martins Press, 2002.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, "For John Updike, with admiration- Anthony Arthur." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Updike is featured in this volume of feuds.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5767
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First Edition of A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
HAHN, Frank and Robert Solow.
A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 45079
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First Edition of Beyond the Melting Pot; Inscribed by Nathan Glazer
GLAZER, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963.
First edition of this classic work, "perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Inscribed and dated by Nathan Glazer on the title page. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some edge wear and chips.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 49014
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First Edition of Chinua Achebe's Home and Exile; Inscribed by Him
ACHEBE, Chinua.
Home and Exile.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stephen Chinua Achebe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 131982
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"NOTHING IN THE WORLD IS SINGLE; ALL THINGS BY A LAW DIVINE IN ONE ANOTHER'S BEING MINGLE:— WHY NOT I WITH THINE?": The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; finely bound
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
London: Edward Moxon, 1854.
Finely bound example of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Royal octavo, bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplate.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 141208
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First edition of Charles Dalton's The Waterloo Roll Call; finely bound
DALTON, Charles.
The Waterloo Roll Call.
London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1890.
First edition of Dalton's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon's last. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Bookplate. Ownership name. Rare.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 137101
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"Who exerted an important influence at a crucial puncture in the author's life With warm regards and admiration": First Edition of Michael Beschloss' Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance; Lengthily Inscribed by the author to Educators Ted and Nancy Glazer
BESCHLOSS, Michael R.
Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980.
First edition of the historian's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ted and Nancy Sizer- who exerted an important influence at a crucial puncture in the author's life With warm regards and admiration. Michael Beschloss April 2, 1980." The recipient Theodore Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder (and eventually President Emeritus) of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools. Beginning in the late 1970s, he had worked with…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 111411
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First Edition of How Google Works; Signed by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
SCHMIDT, Eric and Jonathan Rosenberg.
How Google Works.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
First edition of this "informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman's perspective" (Kirkus). Octavo, original boards. Signed by both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jonathan Jarvis. Written with Alan Eagle. Foreword by Larry Page.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 117377
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First Edition of The Coming of the Space Age; Signed by Arthur C. Clarke
CLARKE, Arthur C.
The Coming of the Space Age: Famous Accounts of Man’s Probing of the Universe.
New York: Meredith Press, 1967.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur C. Clarke on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 145398
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Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper
RAFFALD, Elizabeth.
The Experienced English Housekeeper, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written Purely From Practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author Lately Served as Housekeeper: Consisting of Near Nine Hundred Original Receipts, Most of Which Never Appeared in Print.
London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1782.
Early edition of this instruction guide to housekeeping, with nearly nine hundred recipes. Octavo, bound in three quarter reverse calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Raffald, illustrated with three folding plates with setting plans for a grand table and a diagram of the newly invented fire stove, "wherein any common fuel may be burnt instead of charcoal." In very good condition, some toning throughout, and contemporary manuscript notations to the front free endpaper and title page.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146407
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“Start with the end in mind": First Edition of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
COVEY, Stephen R.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
First edition of this best-selling work, which has went on to sell more than 25 million copies. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Barry Littmann.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133401
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DUBOIS, Marcel; Guy.
Album Géographique. Tome I : Aspects Généraux de la Nature. Album Historique Tome II : Les Régions Tropicales. Tome III : Les Colonies Françaises. Tome IV : La France. Tome V: Aspects Generaux De La Nature.
Paris, Armand Colin & Cie, 1896-1906..
First edition. Folio, 5 volumes. Three quarters leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 2549