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COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA; IN THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
MEAD, Margaret. Foreword by Franz Boas.
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth in Western Civilisation.
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932.
Early printing of Mead’s pioneering work which, upon publication, established her as the most famous anthropologist in the world. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in good condition. Foreword by Franz Boas.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 117912
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First Edition of Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of a Private Man; Inscribed by Wolfgang Stopler
STOPLER, Wofgang F.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of A Private Man.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
First edition of this biography on Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wolfgang Ann Arbor, MI Dec. 12, 1994." From the library of noted economist Richard Musgrove. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 4401
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"When people show you who they are, it is your job to pay attention.": First Edition of You Love Me; Signed by Caroline Kepnes
KEPNES, Caroline.
You Love Me: A You Novel.
New York: Random House, 2021.
First edition of the third book in the best-selling 'You' series, which spawned the popular Netflix show by the same name starring Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Caroline Kepnes. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ella Laytham and Greg Mollica. Author photograph by Courtney Pugliese.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145435
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First Edition of Ceremony And Other Poems; Inscribed by Richard Wilbur and also laid in a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur.
WILBUR, Richard.
Ceremony And Other Poems.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jane and motherhood Aff'y inscribed Dick Wilbur Cambridge May 51." Also laid in is a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146260
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First edition of Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Santiago; Signed by Him
NOOTEBOOM, Cees.
Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Cees Nooteboom on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 5715
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"Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Ape and Essence.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949.
First English edition of this cautionary tale and satire. Small octavo, original cloth, top edge blue. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146156
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First Edition of Gunter Grass' Die Vorzüge der Windhühner; Signed by Him
GRASS, Gunter.
Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.
Berlin: Luchterhand, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 78905
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First Edition of THIRD ARMY: A Brief History of Operations in Europe
SGT. C.H. MARTIN; CPL. W.W. WOODS ,.
Third Army: A Brief History of Operations in Europe.
3rd Army, G-3 Historical Sub-Section, 1945.
First edition of this pamphlet regarding the history of operations in Europe during the Second World War. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132303
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Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets; Signed by Lars Eighner
EIGHNER, Lars.
Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets.
New York: St. Marrtin's Press, 1993.
Early printing of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Lars Eighner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Front cover photograph by Martha Grenon.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132109
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First Edition of Michael Rosen's Quick, Let's Get Out of Here; Signed by Him
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Quick, Let’s Get Out Of Here.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1983.
First edition of Michael Rosen's children's classic. Quarto, original illustrated boards, with illustrations by Quentin Blake. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Michael Rosen 12/10/85." In near fine condition, small name.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 114024
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First Edition of Susan Charles' The Love Machine; Inscribed by Her
SUSAN, Jacqueline.
The Love Machine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.
First edition of this work by the author of Valley of the Dolls. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Winifred Apt Best Wishes Jacqueline Susan." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 114561
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Limited First Edition of Charles Muscatine's The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer
MUSCATINE, Charles; [Geoffrey Chaucer].
The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer: An Account of the Publication of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1963.
Limited first edition of this history of Chaucer's works with examples of his poetry and illustrations from his publications. Folio, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and knight design to the front panel, frontispiece of a page from the Ellesmere manuscript showing the squire, illustrated with facsimile woodcuts, engraved headpieces and initials, pictorial title pages, and an original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's 'Works' tipped in to page 24. One of only four hundred and fifty examples. In fine condition, ownership tag tipped in to the front pastedown.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146547
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William Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper
HAYLEY, William.
The Triumphs of Temper; A Poem: In Six Cantos.
London: Printed For T. Cadell, 1788.
Finely bound sixth edition of Hayley's popular work. 16mo, bound in full contemporary calf, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt-ruled turn ins, marbled endpapers, illustrated with fine engraved plates by Stothard. Elegant period ownership inscriptions.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 138374
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"MR. GORBACHEV TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!": First Edition of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's The Quest For Peace
REAGAN, Ronald and Mikhail Gorbachev.
In Quest of Peace.
Hamburg, West Germany: MCS Medien Creativ Service, 1990.
First edition of this lavishly illustrated tribute to Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's negotiations during the Cold War. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with numerous color photographs. In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 139024
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First Edition of J.R. Hicks' Essays in World Economics; in the scarce original dust jacket
HICKS, J.R. [John].
Essays in World Economics.
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1959.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132906
