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First Easton Press Edition of C.S. Forester's Beat to Quarters
FORESTER, C.S.
Beat to Quarters.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2001.
First Easton Press edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk endpapers. From the library of businessman Ira Lipman with his bookplate. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 141532
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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
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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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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, Gabriel García .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez's masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 144678
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First Edition of Michael Crichton's Disclosure: A Novel; Signed by Him and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
CRICHTON, Michael.
Disclosure: A Novel.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
First edition of this "expertly crafted novel" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Michael Crichton on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, on the front panel, half-title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Binding and jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 123748
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First Edition of North of South: An African Journey; Signed Twice by Shiva Naipaul
NAIPAUL, Shiva.
North of South: An African Journey.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication. Additionally signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 915
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"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance": The Works of Samuel Johnson with an essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murphy
JOHNSON, Samuel.
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.
Finely bound edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, with an essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murphy. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson to volume one. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate to each volume.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 141081
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First Edition of J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life; Signed by Him
COETZEE, J.M.
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1997.
First edition of this fictionalized autobiography by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "J.M. Coetzee Cape Town, 1999." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martin Ogolter. Jacket photograph by Barbara Morgan.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 132418
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First Edition of Patrick White's Masterpiece Voss
WHITE, Patrick.
Voss.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fifth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by famed Australian artist Sydney Nolan.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 131223
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“A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing": First edition, first issue of Bret Harte's Poems
HARTE, Bret.
Poems.
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1871.
First edition, first issue with the publisher's monogram on title-page and foot of spine, and the error "S.T.K." for "T.S.K." in the caption on page 136. BAL 7253. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, brown endpapers. In very good condition with a closed tear to the crown of the spine. Bookplates. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise case.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 137304
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization; Signed by Peter Senge
SENGE, Peter M.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization.
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Early printing of Senge's bestselling classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Senge on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 58934
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First Edition of Codex; Signed by Peter Eisenman
EISENMAN, Peter.
Codex: The City of Culture of Galicia.
New York: Monacelli Press, 2005.
First edition of this work by Eisenman. Oblong quarto, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. In fine condition. Inscribed and dated by Peter Eisenman on the title page.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 38753
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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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 132034
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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
