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"The Spring of 1977 found me, newly past thirty, a bad case of wasted talent in a largely waste city": First edition of Robert Goddard's Past Caring
GODDARD, Robert.
Past Caring.
London : Robert Hale Limited, 1986.
First edition of Robert Goddard's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Wendy Taylor.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 92501
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First Edition of Milton Babbitt's Words About Music; Inscribed by Him
BABBITT, Milton; Edited by Stephen Dembski & Joseph N. Straus.
Words About Music.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the Babbitt, "For _____ ______, With warmest greetings, from Milton Babbitt P.S. how ty Rot-partitione!" Edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus. A very nice inscription.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 1279
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First Edition of Phishing For Phools; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Shiller
AKERLOF, George A. and Robert J. Shiller.
Phishing For Phools.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
First edition of "this tour de force" (Alan Blinder). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Robert J. Shiller on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Edward Koren. Jacket illustration by Jason Alejandro.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 70027
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First Edition of Portraits Etched In Stone: Early Jewish Settlers; Inscribed by David de Sola Pool
DE SOLA POOL, David.
Portraits Etched In Stone: Early Jewish Settlers 1682-1831.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
First edition. Thick quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Doris + Leopold Woolf in happy memory of four years ago. David de Sola Pool December 26, 1952." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 32012
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First Edition of Mrs. Henderson and Other Stories; Warmly Inscribed by Francis Wyndham
WYNDHAM, Francis.
Mrs. Henderson and Other Stories.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Caroline with lots of love from Francis." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket painting by Jane Human.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 59038
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"Every ball game is an opening night, and with every winner there is a loser": First edition of Laraine Day's Day with the Giants; signed by her and illustrator Leo Durocher
DAY, Laraine [Leo Durocher].
Day with the Giants.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952.
First edition of Day's account of her experiences as "The First Lady of Baseball". Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Leo Hershfield. Signed by Lairaine Day and Leo Durocher on the third free endpaper. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Jacket photograph by Editta Sherman.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 123480
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"The Magic City": Rare panoramic map of Miami Bayfront Park
Miami Bayfront Park Panorama.
Rare panoramic view of Miami Bayfront Park. One page, folded, the panorama measures 28.5 inches by 7 inches with an advertisement for the City of Miami to the verso. In near fine condition. A bright and desirable piece.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 114357
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Karl Baedeker's The Rhine From Rotterdam To Constance; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
BAEDEKER, Karl.
The Rhine From Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers.
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, Publishers, 1900.
Revised edition of Baedeker's classic standard guidebook to the Rhine Valley. Octavo, original boards, ribbon bound in, all edges marbled, illustrated with numerous folding maps. Fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 12042
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First Edition of Samuel Shem's The Spirit of the Place; Inscribed by Him
SHEM, Samuel.
The Spirit of the Place.
Kent, OH: The Kent University Press, 2008.
First edition of this ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page using his real name, "To Arline, Best wishes, Steve." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Marc Chagall.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 142111
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First Edition of Tatoo:1730s-1970s. Henk Schiffmacher's Private Collection
HENK SCHIFFMACHER,.
Tatoo: 1730s-1970s. Henk Schiffmacher’s Private Collection.
Taschen, 2021.
First edition of this "impressive, exhaustive tour through the history of tattooing” (Vice.com). Folio, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Edited by Noel David. In fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 125841
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First Edition of Doris Lessing's In Pursuit of English; Signed by Her
LESSING, Doris.
In Pursuit of the English.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960.
First edition of "one of the most authentic books ever written about the English" (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 2696
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First edition of J.B. McClure's Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad, in Peace and War
MCCLURE, J.B. [Ulysses S. Grant].
Stories, Sketches and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad, in Peace and War.
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, Publishers, 1879.
First edition of McClure's compilation of the speeches, wartime and travel memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial green cloth stamped in black and gold, peach endpapers, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of Grant. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, name to the front endpaper. A bright example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146820
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"he alone saved our civilisation": First edition of The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History; signed by Boris Johnson
JOHNSON, Boris.
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014.
First edition of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's work on the the life and character of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Boris Johnson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146247
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition
HENTY, G. A.
The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Joseph Nash, R.I. and John Schonberg. In near fine condition. A superior example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 122778
