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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of Sonia Sotomayor's My Beloved World; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYER, Sonia.
My Beloved World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
First edition of Justice Sotomayor's autobiography, which details the life of the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 123476
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"Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London. . . having fallen not just in love but into a family": First Edition of Roger Angell's autobiography; Signed by Him
ANGELL, Roger.
Let Me Finish.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Angell's autobiography of his early years growing up in New York. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Roger Angell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cooley Design Lab.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 7412
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First edition of Cornel West's Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism; Inscribed by him
WEST, Cornel.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Sis' Elizabeth, Stay Strong! Love, Cornel West." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146863
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John Hersey's The War Lover; Signed by Him
HERSEY, John.
The War Lover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
First edition, early printing published the same month as the first of this aviation history classic. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Hersey on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 133174
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First Edition of Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics; Signed by Frank Wilczek
WILCZEK, Frank and Betsy Devine.
Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988.
First edition of this "uncommon and uncommonly good exposition of contemporary quantum physics" (Kirkus Reviews). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Frank Wilczek on the title page with a small drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Karl Steinbrenner.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 62094
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"Pajamas are good for the soul": First Edition of When You Reach Me; Signed By Rebecca Stead
STEAD, Rebecca.
When You Reach Me.
New York: Wedy Lamb Books/ Random House, 2009.
First edition of the author’s Newberry Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Rebecca Stead on the title page. Also laid into this copy are pictures of the author at the booksigning. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 4104
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"Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate": First Edition of Liquidation; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Liquidation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gall. Translated by Tim Wilkinson.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 697
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First Edition of Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M. [Translated and Introduced by].
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this collection of poetry translated and introduced by Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M. Coeztee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Maria Lindenfeldar.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 129194
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First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston
HURSTON, Zora Neale.
Hurston: Novels & Stories: Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and Selected Stories [with] Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road and Selected Articles.
New York: Library of America, 1995.
First editions of the Library of American compilations of the works of both fiction and non-fiction of Zora Neale Hurston. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Edited by Cheryl A. Wall. Fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142448
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"Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do": First Edition of William Faulkners Final Novel The Reivers
FAULKNER, William.
The Reivers: A Reminiscence.
New York: Random House, 1962.
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 126558
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First Edition of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict; Inscribed by Roger Myerson
MYERSON, Roger B.
Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
First edition of this classic introductory work on game theory. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards. Inscribed by Roger B. Myerson on the title page. In 2007, Myerson was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." In fine condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 74034
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First edition of Cornel West's Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism; Inscribed by him
WEST, Cornel.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Sis' Julie Jerome, Stay Strong Love, Cornel West." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146136
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First edition of Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film; signed by Richard Linklater
LINKLATER, Richard; Ethan Hawke; Patricia Arquette; et al.
Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film.
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2014.
First edition of the behind-the-scenes photography book companion to Linklater's narrative film. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Matt Lankes. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "Cheers Richard Linklater." From the collection of longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist Bill Zwecker. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142505
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First Edition of What is Realism?; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
What Is Realism.
Bennington, VT: Bennington College Chapbooks, 1997.
First edition of this essay by J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Coetzee. Fine in wrappers.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 1366
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“At this he laughed, and so did we: the jests of the rich are ever successful": First Series of English Idylls Deluxe Vellum edition of Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1904.
First Series of English Idylls Deluxe vellum edition of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, original publisher's full cream vellum elaborately decorated in gilt, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece and pictorial title page, illustrated with twenty-five color illustrations by C.E. Brock. In near fine condition. A very attractive binding.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 138984
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"They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin": First American Edition of In The Castle of My Skin
LAMMING, George; Introduction by Richard Wright.
In The Castle Of My Skin.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1953.
First American edition of the author's first novel, which was championed by eminent figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Endpapers and frontispiece by Denis Williams. Introduction by Richard Wright.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 144398