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First Edition of A Book of Travellers' Tales; Signed by Eric Newby
NEWBY, Eric.
A Book of Travellers’ Tales.
New York: Viking Press, 1985.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Eric Newby on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some closed tears.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 5559
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First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch; one of 100 numbered copies
NORTON, Charles Eliot. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.
First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's concise sketch of Kipling's early life, written for the new popular edition of his writings and prepared with his approval. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling. One of one hundred numbered copies, this is number 52. In near fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123761
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“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance": John F. Kennedy's First Edition Copy of The Strategy of Peace
KENNEDY, John F.
The Strategy of Peace.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
First edition of the selected foreign policy speeches and statements on defense, peace, and national security delivered by Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a very good jacket. Edited by Allan Nevins.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144218
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"The luxuriance and beauty of tropical nature is a well-worn theme": First Edition of Alfred Russel Wallace's Tropical Nature and Other Essays
WALLACE, Alfred Russel.
Tropical Nature and Other Essays.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1878.
First edition of English naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace's collected essays on tropical ecology. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In good condition. From Guille-Alles Library, Guernsey with the original library labels to the spine and front panel, folding lending card affixed to the front pastedown, library stamps.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 92517
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First Edition of Friedman and Schwartz's Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods
FRIEDMAN, Milton; Anna J. Schwarz.
Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970.
First edition of this monumental work on history of monetary statistics in the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 110121
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George H. Morris' Hunter Seat Equitation in the original dust jacket
MORRIS, George H.
Hunter Seat Equitation.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971.
First edition, early printing of the definitive work on the art of teaching and riding the hunter seat. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword A. Eugene Cunningham. Line Drawings by Jan Conant. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket typography by Gina Rosencrantz.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 142013
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"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own": The Chosen; Inscribed by Chaim Potok
POTOK, Chaim.
The Chosen.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967.
First edition, early printing of the author's first book set in the mid-twentieth Century, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Gidens, Best Wishes Chaim Potok 10-3-72.". Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 120971
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First Edition of The Double; Inscribed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
The Double.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harold Jose Saramago 29.10.2008." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Claudine G. Mansour. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140684
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First Edition of A Life of Magic Chemistry; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist George Olah
OLAH, George A.
Life of Magic Chemistry: Autobiographical Reflections of A Nobel Prize Winner.
New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2001.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Inscribed by George Olah on the front free endpaper. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as issued.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 15069
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First Edition of Irvin Yalom's The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel; inscribed by Him
YALOM, Irvin D.
The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005.
First edition of this "beautifully wrought tale of a therapy group’s final year and a moving debate about the end of life” (Kirkus Reviews). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Andy Irvin D. Yalom." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vicq de Cumptich. Author photograph by Reid Yalom.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 141496
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First edition of Alasdair Gray's Something Leather; inscribed by him to photojournalist Sally Soames
GRAY, Alasdair. [Sally Soames].
Something Leather.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.
First edition of Alasdair Gray's sensational novel. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Sally from Alasdair 27 June 1990 Glasgow." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally 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 on…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 124163
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First Edition of Famous Financial Fiascos; Signed by John Train
TRAIN, John.
Famous Financial Fiascos.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this overview of financial fiascos. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by John Train on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roger Black. Illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan. Foreword by C. Northcote Parkinson.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 47637
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First edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Le Mur
SARTRE, Jean-Paul.
Le Mur. [The Wall].
Paris: Gallimard, 1939.
Limited edition of Sartre's 1939 short story collection, containing one of his greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall. Octavo, original boards. One of 1,000 numbered copies, this is number 910. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 137275
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Anne Morrow Linbergh's Gift From the Sea
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.
New York: Pantheon, 1955.
First edition, early printing of this modern inspirational classic. Octavo, original half blue cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrations by George W. Thompson.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 138202
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First Edition of One Mans Bible; Signed by Gao Xingjian
XINGJIAN, Gao.
One Man’s Bible.
New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel published in English. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Cicq de Cumptich. Jacket painting by Gao Xingjian.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 1236