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From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters; Signed by Ralph Guldahl
SARAZEN, Gene.
From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters.
Chicago: Wilson Sporting Goods Company, 1937.
First edition of this work by various golfers, including Gene Sarazen. Small octavo, original pebbled cloth, gilt titles, gilt vignette. Signed by Ralph Guldahl on the half-title page. Sarazen was the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players (along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods) to win each of the four majors at least once, now known as the Career Grand Slam: U.S. Open (1922, 1932), PGA Championship (1922, 1923, 1933), The Open Championship (1932), and Masters Tournament (1935). Guldhal was the winner of the 1937 and 1938 U.S. Open and the…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 79787
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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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First Edition of Charles Tazewell's The Littlest Angel
TAZEWELL, Charles; Illustrated by Katherine Evans.
The Littlest Angel.
Chicago: Childrens Press, Inc., 1946.
First edition of this beloved Christmas classic. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133161
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"Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can": First Edition of Until I Find You; Warmly Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Until I Find You.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dana and Cheryl with my admiration and affection John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Royce M. Becker. Author photograph by Jane Sobel Klonsky. Tattoo art by Henk Schiffmacher.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 136964
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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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"For the greater good to prevail, we need to give ourselves a greater public": First Edition of PR!: A Social History of Spin; Lengthily Inscribed by Stuart Ewan
EWAN, Stuart.
PR!: A Social History of Spin.
New York: Basic Books, 1996.
First edition of this thorough history of public relations. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For John: For the greater good to prevail, we need to give ourselves a greater public, Best Stuart Ewen." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 74789
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First Edition of Die Plebejer Proben Den Aufstand; Signed by Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
Die Plebejer Proben Den Aufstand: Ein Deutshes Trauerspeil.
Luchterhand, 1966.
First Edition. Octavo. Near fine in illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by the author. Uncommon signed.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 563
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First Edition of Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine; Signed by Tom Wolfe
WOLFE, Tom.
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, sketches by the author. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 141279
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First Edition of Aghion and Howitt's The Economics of Growth; Inscribed by Both Economists
AGHION, Philippe and Peter Howitt.
The Economics of Growth.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009.
First edition of this comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms. Quarto, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper, "John, with best wishes Peter Howitt" and "Wishing you lots of success!! Philippe Aghion." Written in collaboration with Leonardo Bursztyn. Cover art by Sara Chaillet. In fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 41854
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First Edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day.
Hartford: Hartford Publishing Company, 1868.
First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, raised bands, morocco spine labels, illustrated with 18 engraved plates. In very good condition, rebacked. Second state with the title page corrected to "Douglass."
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 142076
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SALTANSTALL, Leverett] Crawford.
Famous Families of Massachusetts.
Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1930.
First edition, 2 volumes. Octavo, original red cloth. Leverett Saltanstall's copies, with an inscription from his sister in both volumes "Leverett Saltanstall from his sister Muriel Christmas 1930". Leverett was a member of the Boston brahmins and later became governor and United States Senator of Massachusetts. The Saltanstall's have a chapter devoted to them in these volumes. In very good condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 2064
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First Edition of Swine Lake; Signed by Illustrator Maurice Sendak
SENDAK, Maurice and James Marshall.
Swine Lake.
New York: Michael Di Capua Books/ Harper Collins Publishers, 1999.
First edition of this work by the award-winning artist. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 50011
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First Edition of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner; Signed by Him
STYRON, William.
The Confessions of Nat Turner.
New York: Random House, 1967.
First edition of Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Gene Barnett best wishes William Styron." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 127426
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First Edition of Richard Ford's Wildlife; Inscribed by Him to Photographer Sally Soames
FORD, Richard.
Wildlife.
New York: Collins Harvill, 1990.
First British edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Sally So finally with love. From R. January 8, 1992 London." The recipient 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…
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 121321
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First edition of John Cowper Powys' The Inmates
POWYS, John Cowper.
The Inmates.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1952.
First edition of the author's astonishing tale, set in a madhouse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Sanford.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 128106
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Signed Limited Edition of Norman Douglas' Looking Back
DOUGLAS, Norman.
Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1933.
Signed limited edition of this work by the author of South Wind. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, this is number 213 of an edition limited to 535 sets, 500 of which were for sale, signed by Norman Douglas. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 121097