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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, Gabriel García .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez's masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 126805
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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: 146163
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"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone": First Edition of Ravelstein; with a Viking press compliments card signed by Saul Bellow tipped in
BELLOW, Saul.
Ravelstein.
New York: The Viking Press, 2000.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's final novel. Octavo, original half cloth. With a Viking Press 'compliments of the author' card signed by Bellow tipped in. From the library of William Safire. Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of “libertarian conservatives” and authored several political columns, most…
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 127950
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First Edition of The Bush Family Cookbook; Signed by George and Barbara Bush and Ariel De Guzman
BUSH, George and Barbara Bush; Ariel De Guzman.
The Bush Family Cookbook: Favorite Recipes and Stories from One of America’s Great Families.
New York: Lisa Drew Books, 2005.
First edition of this collection of recipes from the Bush family. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by George and Barbara Bush, as well as the author on the half-title page. Ariel De Guzman has written in his hand, "8/06 To Jamie & Russ From the Buh's kitchen to yours - .. enjoy!" Forewords by George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush and Jeb Bush. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 147215
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“BY NOON WE HAD TO CONFESS THAT WE WERE LOST”: First Edition of Charles Houston and Robert Bates' K2: The Savage Mountain; Signed by Each Author
HOUSTON, Charles S. & Robert Bates.
K2: The Savage Mountain.
London: Collins, 1955.
First edition of Charles Houston and Robert Bates' K2: The Savage Mountain. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Charles Houston and Robert H. Bates on the title page. Also laid in is a short letter written and signed in Houston's hand. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 645
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First Edition of Joseph McElroy's Hind's Kidnap
MCELROY, Joseph.
Hind’s Kidnap.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this "distinguished work of the imagination" (J. G. Farrell). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Spanfeller. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 140026
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First Edition of Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics; Inscribed by Jane Jacobs in the Year of Publication
JACOBS, Jane.
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics.
New York: Random House, 1993.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "I hope you enjoy this, Barbara Fryrear, Sincerely, Jane Jacobs Dallas May 1993." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book design by Carole Lowenstein.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 145777
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First Edition and Advance Review Copy of Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart; in the rare original dust jacket
WELTY, Eudora.
The Ponder Heart.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954.
First edition and advance review copy of Welty's third novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Joe Krush. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With the publisher's advance copy slip dated January 7th 1954 laid in. Jacket photograph of Welty by Kay Bell.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 90417
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First Edition of Philip Roth's When She Was Good; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
When She Was Good.
New York: Random House, 1967.
First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page in a contemporary signature. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 112689
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"The sun coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds": First Edition of Far Tortuga; Signed by Peter Matthiessen
MATTHIESSEN, Peter.
Far Tortuga.
New York: Random House, 1975.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title page. Near fine in an excellent price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 3917
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Finely Bound second edition of Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Small House at Allington.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1864.
Finely bound edition the fifth novel in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt topstain, with eighteen illustrations by J.E. Millais including tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to volume one. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions to the front free endpapers and small stamps to the title pages.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 112301
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First Edition of The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA; Signed by Jack Treynor
TREYNOR, Jack L..
The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA.
Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1976.
First edition of this work on pension funding. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jack L. Treynor on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 109849
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First edition of Palgrave's The Treasury of Sacred Song
PALGRAVE, Francis T.
The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889.
First trade edition of Palgrave's treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher's gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In near find condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 111084
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First edition of Susan Cheever's Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker; inscribed by her to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
CHEEVER, Susan [Erica Jong].
Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of Cheever's frank and moving autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "New York City January 1999 For Erica and Ken What can I say? No words could begin to express mt gratitude, my fond memories, my affection and my love for you both S C." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142607
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Early 20th century printing of Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk
LEWIS, Matthew Gregory.
The Monk: A Romance.
London: Gibbings & Company, 1906.
Early 20th century printing of the author's classic gothic novel. Octavo, three volumes in the original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with etchings by R.C. Armour, engraved frontispiece to each volume. In near fine condition. A very attractive example of one of the most important Gothic novels of its time.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145001
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First Edition of A Life In Our Times; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A Life In Our Times.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
First edition of Galbraith's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine, autographed sticker to the front panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146272