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"Works of love are always works of joy": First Edition of Mother Teresa's Meditations From A Simple Path; Signed by Her
TERESA, Mother.
Meditations From A Simple Path.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.
First edition of this classic collection of words by Mother Teresa. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "M Teresa MC." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua Archbishop of Philadelphia. Books signed by Mother Teresa are rare.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 133704
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“Do ordinary things with extraordinary love": First Edition of Mother Teresa's Life in the Spirit: Reflections, Meditations, Prayers; Signed by Her
TERESA, Mother.
Life in the Spirit: Reflections, Meditations, Prayers. Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.
First edition of this work by powerful work by Mother Teresa. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "God bless you Mother Teresa MC." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Kathryn Spink. Rare and desirable signed, we have never encountered another one.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 133802
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"I dream of you and long for you as the sun slowly sinks in the west": Madame Sybil Terry's Poems
TERRY, Madame Sybil.
Poems.
Tampa: Florida Grower Press, 1947.
First edition of this collection of sacred, romantic, and household poems. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145569
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First edition of Rudolf Tesnohlidek's The Cunning Little Vixen; translated into English and inscribed by illustrator Maurice Sendak
TESNOHLIDEK, Rudolf. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
The Cunning Little Vixen.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985.
First edition of Rudolf Tesnohlidek's classic Czech tale, translated into English and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page, "For Nicholas Robertson Maurice Sendak." Translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan, and Robert T. Jones. Afterword by Robert T. Jones. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140351
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First edition of Nigel Tetley's Trimaran Solo; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
TETLEY, Nigel.
Trimaran Solo: The Story of Victress’ Circumnavigation and Last Voyage.
Hampshire: Nautical Publishing Company, 1970.
First edition of Nigel Tetley's account of his final solo voyage around the world his trimaran Victress. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, charts and diagrams. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 112941
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Finely Bound Set of William Thackeray
THACKERAY, William.
The Works of William Thackeray (Vanity Fair).
London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1869.
The Works of William Thackeray. Octavo, 24 volumes. Bound in three quarter leather with gilt tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt in all volumes. In excellent condition. An attractive set.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 2202
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First Editions of The Works of William Thackeray
THACKERAY, William.
The Works of William Thackeray.
London: Various Publishers, 1840-1867.
First edition of the works of William Thackeray. Octavo, 34 volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarters morocco. From the library of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, with his bookplate to each volume. Harmswoth was a British newspaper and publishing magnate who exercised vast influence over British popular opinion. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. Includes: Paris Sketch Book, 2 volumes., 1840; Comic Tales and Sketches, 2 volumes., 1841; Irish Sketchbook, 2 volumes., 1843; Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1846; Mrs. Perkins Ball, [1847]; Book of Snobs, 1848; Our Street, 1848; Vanity Fair, 1848 (With the suppressed woodcut on…
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 19005
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First Edition of William Thackeray's The Virginians; Finely Bound
THACKERAY, William.
The Virginians.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858-59.
First edition of Thackeray's memorable historical novel. Octavos, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 92535
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“All is vanity, nothing is fair": The Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
THACKERAY, William.
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. [Including The History of Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Pendennis, The Newcomes, and The Virginians].
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900-1902.
The Biographical edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Octavo, thirteen volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Maclehose with gilt titles and ruling to the spines in six compartments within raised gilt bands, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 126381
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William M. Thackeray Autograph Letter Signed to Lady John Russell
THACKERAY, William M.
William M. Thackeray Autograph Letter Signed.
Autograph letter signed by William M. Thackeray to Lady John Russell, wife of the Prime Minister. One page, the letter reads, "I have an engagement contracted 3 weeks ago unfortunately, or I should have had the greatest pleasure in coming to Richmond on Friday." Matted and framed with two engravings, one of Thackeray and the other of Colonel Newcome (a character from Thackeray's 'The Newcomers'). In very good condition with toning to the letter and very light folds. The entire piece measures 17.5 inches by 10.25 inches. A charming presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145284
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"Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?": First Edition of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Finely Bound by Bayntun
THACKERAY, William Makepeace [Cosway].
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. [Cosway].
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition, first issue of Thackeray's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full red morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Cosway-style binding with a miniature portrait of Thackeray inset into the front panel, engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title, and 38 engraved plates, spine in gilt compartments, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ivory silk doublures. The first issue, with the headline on page one in rustic type; "Mr. Pitt" on page 453; and the suppressed woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336. Van Duzer 231. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 69017
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First Edition of Toilers and Spinsters and Other Essays
THACKERY, Miss.
Toilers and Spinsters and Other Essays.
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1874.
First edition of this work by Thackeray. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. top edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $110.00 Item Number: 3005
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First Edition of Richard Thaler's The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life; Signed by Him
THALER, Richard.
The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life.
New York: Free Press, 1989.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's groundbreaking book. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Richard Thaler on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 60041
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
First edition, early printing of this revelatory look at how we make decisions. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Nudge for good! Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144495
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First Edition of Advances in Behavioral Finance; Inscribed by Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. Edited by.
Advances in Behavioral Finance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page, "For John with admiration Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 76891
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First Edition of Advances in Behavioral Finance; Signed by Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. Edited by.
Advances in Behavioral Finance.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.
First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133580