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“One is always at home in one's past": Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.
First revised edition of Nabokov's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 73054
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First edition of Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect
DOWNEY, Juan.
Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Arts Center/Bronx Museum of Arts, 2011.
First edition of the exhibition catalogue from Downey's 2011-2012 solo exhibition covering several decades of his work. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 138515
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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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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 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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The Haw Lantern; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
The Haw Lantern.
New York: The Noonday Press / Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.
First printing of the Noonday Press edition of the poet’s seventh collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Seamus Heaney March 1991." In very good condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146785
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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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“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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First Edition in English of Le Clezio's Fever; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Fever.
New York: Atheneum, 1973.
First American edition of this collection of nine stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page Very good in a very good dust jacket with a small chip from the foot of the spine. Jacket design by Harry Ford. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 776
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All the Best; Signed by George H.W. Bush
BUSH, George H.W.
All the Best: My Life in Letters and Other Writings.
New York: Scribners, 1999.
First edition, early printing of George H. W. Bush's life and letters. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by George Bush on an official bookplate on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana. Jacket photograph by Alexanders of Houston.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 147249
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First edition of Tanya Lapointe's The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049
LAPOINTE, Tanya.
The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049.
Los Angeles: Alcon Entertainment, 2017.
First edition of the the complete behind-the-scenes story of the sequel to Blade Runner, one of the most influential science-fiction movies ever made. Oblong quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. 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…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 140883
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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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Jean Vergnes' first edition copy of his autobiography A Seasoned Chef; His personal copy
VERGNES, Jean.
A Seasoned Chef: Recipes and Remembrances from the Chef and Former Co-owner of New York’s Famous Le Cirque Restaurant.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc, 1987.
First edition of the autobiography of legendary chef Jean Vergnes, the author's personal copy. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. From the library of Jean Vergnes and thence by descent. Jean Vergnes was a classically trained and highly acclaimed French chef, best-known as the co-founder and original co-owner along with Sirio Maccion of the famed Manhattan eatery Le Cirque, which opened in 1974. Vergnes had a major influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades. He began his career working as a chef at various top restaurants in Paris during World War II, with a brief stop in Bermuda before…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146515
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"The previously untold stories of a group of true-life heroes": First Edition of Robin Moore's The Green Berets
MOORE, Robin.
The Green Berets.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1965.
First edition of this monumental work, basis for the classic film starring John Wayne. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Harsh/ Finegold.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 147175
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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote IV; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario IV.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1997.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page in 2006.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19033
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First Edition of Margaret Mead's Blackberry Winter; Signed by Her
MEAD, Margaret.
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1972.
First edition of this work by the award winning anthropologist. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed and dated "Margaret Mead 1973" on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket cover photograph by Ken Heyman. Jacket design by Lucy Mahoney.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 29069