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First Edition of Operation Shylock; Signed by Philip Roth
ROTH, Philip.
Operation Shylock: A Confession.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of Roth's 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 158
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First edition of Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place; inscribed by her
NAYLOR, Gloria.
The Women of Brewster Place.
New York: The Viking Press, 1982.
First edition of Naylor's National Book Award-winning debut novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jeanne Gloria Naylor." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and drawing by George Sanders a.k.a. Sando. With an original African-Caribbean Bookstore flyer advertising the book signing event during which this copy was inscribed on Thursday, March 7, 1985 laid in.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 125318
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Finely Bound example of Torquato Tasso epic poem La Gerusalemme Liberata
TASSO, Torqato.
La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso. [Jerusalem Delivered].
Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1824.
Finely bound example of Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme Liberata, or Jerusalem Delivered. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 111064
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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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First Edition of John Updike's First Novel The Poorhouse Fair; Signed by Him
UPDIKE, John.
The Poorhouse Fair.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
First edition of Updike's first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear to the spine and some chips to the rear panel. Jacket design by Harry Ford.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 3493
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“DOES IT NOT APPEAR TO YOU VERSATILITY IS THE TRUE AND RARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THAT RARE THING CALLED GENIUS”: MITFORD’S OUR VILLAGE
MITFORD, Mary Russell; illustrations by C. Brock.
Our Village.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1904.
Octavo, Three quarters green leather over marbled boards. Gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 3008
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore; Signed Three Times by Dust Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Killing Commendatore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
First edition of this “expansive and intricate novel" (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the title page and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 125849
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Signed limited first edition of Carl Sandburg's Good Morning America; one of 811 copies signed by him and from the library of American journalist William Safire
SANDBURG, Carl. [William Safire].
Good Morning America.
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
Signed limited first edition of Sandburg's classic poem, originally delivered at Harvard as a Phi Beta Kappa poem. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon bound in. One of 811 copies signed by the author, this is number 238. From the library of American journalist William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown and gilt initials to the front panel. William Safire was an important American author,…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 127368
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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory”: P.B. Socci sketch of Academy Award-winning actress Ingrid Bergman; Signed by Ingrid Bergman
SOCCI, P.B. (Ingrid Bergman).
Ingrid Bergman Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of Academy Award-winning actress Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc. Signed by Ingrid Bergman. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 89643
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First Edition of For All Who Love the Game: Lessons and Teachings for Women; Warmly Inscribed by Bud Shrake
PENICK, Harvey with Bud Shrake.
For All Who Love the Game: Lessons and Teachings for Women.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the co-author on the half-title page, "To Pat Cole- A lifetime of fairways and greens Best Bud Shrake." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Perr.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 132335
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"The wife who wants her husband to succeed must develop more of the hardy spirit of our pioneers": First edition of Dorothy Carnegie's How To Help Your Husband Get Ahead in His Social and Business Life; signed by her
CARNEGIE, Dorothy.
How To Help Your Husband Get Ahead in His Social and Business Life.
New York: Greystone Press, 1953.
First edition of Dorothy Carnegie's essential 1953 guide for the housewife, offering practical advice to help the husband succeed in the style of her husband, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Dorothy Carnegie on the front free endpaper. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 96136
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Classic Work The Mystery of Banking
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Mystery of Banking.
New York: Richardson and Snyder, 1983.
First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 139900
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First Edition of Economist Joseph A. Schumpeter's Imperialism and Social Classes
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Imperialism and Social Classes.
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Inc, 1951.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Economist Robert K. Arnold's copy with his signature to the front free endpaper. Translated by Heinz Norden. Edited with an introduction by Paul M Sweezy. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5508
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First Edition of Wrinkles in Time; Lengthily Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist George Smoot
SMOOT, George and Keay Davidson.
Wrinkles in Time.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.
First edition of the story of "the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time" (Stephen Hawking). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with 8 pages of color photographs and 50 line drawings. Inscribed by Smoot on the half-title page, "For John There is something about looking at the night sky that makes a person wonder Best Wishes George Smoot." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 62011
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"If my bed grew wings I would fly to a thick forest where there was an old broken-down castle that no one knew about, hidden in trees": First edition of Michael Rosen's Under the Bed: The Bedtime Book; Inscribed by him
ROSEN, Michael.
Under the Bed: The Bedtime Book.
London: Walker Books, 1986.
First edition of Michael Rosen's charming book of bedtime stories, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Michael Rosen on the dedication page, "Michael Rosen was here 23 Aug 89." In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 88122
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"Here we see the men who shaped the American experience and were shaped by it": First edition of Daniel J. Boorstin's The Americans: The National Experience; lengthily inscribed by him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Americans: The National Experience.
New York: Random House, 1965.
First edition of Boorstin's Francis Parkman Prize-winning book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Frank Rufords with the admiration and warm regards of Daniel J. Boorstin April 9, 1966." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Karl.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95372