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FIRST EDITION OF JOHN UPDIKE'S FIRST NOVEL THE POORHOUSE FAIR
UPDIKE, John.
The Poorhouse Fair.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
First edition of Updike’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear Jacket design by Harry Ford.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114676
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First edition of Years of Renewal; Signed by Henry Kissinger
KISSINGER, Henry.
Henry Kissinger: Years of Renewal: The Concluding Volume of His Memoirs.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of the concluding volume of Kissinger's memoirs. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Henry A. Kissinger on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photographs by Mao Zedong and Darleen Rubin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146432
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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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Signed Limited Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones; Signed By Him
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Emperor Jones.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Signed limited first edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author, this is number 274. Quarto, original boards. Signed by Eugene O'Neill. Illustrated by Alexander King. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117631
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be": First Edition of Mother Night
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Mother Night.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966.
First edition of this work, basis for the 1996 film, starring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, and Alan Arkin. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146224
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Rare First Edition of Willmoore Kendall's The Conservative Affirmation
KENDALL, Willmoore.
The Conservative Affirmation.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 34061
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"The lesson of patience and self-containing may be learnt in these trips": The Canoe and the Saddle; Signed by John H. WIlliams
WILLIAMS, John H. (Editor).
The Canoe and the Saddle or Klalan and Klickatat to Which Are Now First Added His Western Letters And Journals.
Tacoma: John H. Williams, 1913.
Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. With sixteen color plates and more than one hundred other illustrations. Signed by John H. Williams on the title page. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by John H. Williams. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 61031
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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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Signed Limited Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones; Signed By Him
O'NEILL, Eugene.
The Emperor Jones.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Signed limited first edition, one of 750 examples, this is number 472. Signed by Eugene O'Neill. Illustrated by Alexander King. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 43896
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First edition of Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm
WHITE, Patrick.
The Eye of the Storm.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's ninth published novel. Ocatvo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Desmond Digby.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 119085
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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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“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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“Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not”: First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Point Counter Point.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928.
First edition of Huxley's classic satiric novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine, contemporary name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 140844
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First Edition of Fred Gipson's Hound-dog Man
GIPSON, Gred.
Hound-dog Man.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
First edition of this work, basis for the 1959 film directed by Don Siegel, starring Fabian, Carol Lynley, and Stuart Whitman. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, contemporary name to the front free endpaper. Uncommon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142079
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First edition of Charles Baker's The Esquire Culinary Companion; signed by him
BAKER, Charles H.
The Esquire Culinary Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book Or, Around Europe with Knife, Fork, and Spoon.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959.
First edition of Baker's famed Esquire Culinary Companion. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Charles H. Baker Jr." Near fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 127386
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"KNOWLEDGE COMES, BUT WISDOM LINGERS": The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate
TENNYSON, Alfred.
The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1884.
Finely bound example of the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Octavo, bound in a full contemporary polished emerald green calf prize-binding, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. Presentation inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141528