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Rare first separate edition of Algernon Charles Swinburne's Auguste Vacquerie
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.
Auguste Vacquerie.
Paris: Librarie Nouvelle, 1875.
First separate edition of this rare Swinburne title. Octavo, original wrappers. Wise 87. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141049
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DR. SEUSS'S THIDWICK THE BIG-HEARTED MOOSE
DR. SEUSS. [THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL],.
Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose.
New York: Random House, 1948.
First edition, early printing of one of the more elusive Seuss titles. Quarto, original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by the author. Very good in a good second state price-clipped just jacket with tape repairs to the front panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 135088
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Rare Photograph From It's A Wonderful Life; Signed by James Stewart
STEWART, James [Jimmy].
James Stewart Signed Photograph.
c. 1946.
Rare photograph of a scene from the classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life, starring James Stewart as George Bailey. Octavo, one page, glossy sepia photograph of a scene from It's a Wonderful Life, boldly signed by James Stewart in blue felt tip. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146560
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First edition of David R. Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
REUBEN, David R.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969.
First edition of David Reuben's wildly popular sex manual, one of the first sex manuals to enter mainstream culture. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117058
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Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré" edition of Dumas' Les Quarante-Cinq
DUMAS, Alexandre.
Les Quarante-Cinq. [The Forty-Five Guardsmen].
Paris: A. Le Vasseur et Cie, Editeurs, nd.
Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré" edition of third and final work in Dumas' Valois trilogy. Quarto, original wrappers, frontispiece, illustrations by d'Alphonse de Neuville. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117946
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First Edition of White Writing; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa.
South Africa: Radix, 1988.
First South African edition, which precedes the American edition. Octavo, illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 217
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First Edition of Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave; Signed by Him
TOFFLER, Alvin.
The Third Wave.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
First edition of the sequel to the author's Future Shock. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alvin Toffler on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Joe Caroff.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138916
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“For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity”: First Edition of Philip Roth's Comic Novel The Breast; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
The Breast.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972.
First edition of Roth's first book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 5724
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First Edition of THE GOD PARTICLE; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Leon Lederman
LEDERMAN, Leon with Dick Teresi.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Leon Lederman on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141416
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First editions of The World's Worst Children and The World's Worst Children Two; both volumes signed by David Walliams
WALLIAMS, David.
The World’s Worst Children [with] The World’s Worst Children Two.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2016.
First editions of the best-selling author's collection of deliciously mischievous tales of simply the worst children. Octavo, two volumes, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with color illustrations by Tony Ross. Both volumes signed by the author opposite the copyright page. Both volumes are fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tony Ross.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145215
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First edition of Richard Ford's A Piece of My Heart; signed by him
FORD, Richard.
A Piece of My Heart.
London: Collins Harvill, 1987.
First English edition of Ford's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Richard Ford July 2. 1987 London." From the collection of British photojournalist Sally Soames. Soames worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 124920
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First Edition of John Updike's Brazil; inscribed by him to Erica Jong
UPDIKE, John.
Brazil.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
First edition of Updike's sixteenth novel, a retelling of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Erica Jong a romp in the Mato Grosso warm regards, John U." The recipient, 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 American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142734
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First Edition of John Irving's The Water-Method Man
IRVING, John.
The Water-Method Man.
New York: Random House, 1972.
First edition of Irving's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Hal Seigal. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145987
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“I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three": First Edition of Grant; Inscribed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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First Edition of the Authors Classic Work on Benjamin Franklin; Signed by Carl Van Doren
VAN DOREN, Carl.
Benjamin Franklin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117881
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"There is a gulf already opening between those who have joined and those who have not": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The New Army in Training
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The New Army in Training.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.
First collected edition, first issue of this anthology which first appeared in 6 separate pamphlets in America of which only a few of each were printed. 16mo, original wrappers. With The Service Kipling on the rear panel. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 121084