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“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
Signed limited first edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page. In near fine condition with light toning. An exceptional example.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 89752
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"The soft-drink stand fell into bits. Molecules. He saw molecules, colorless, that made it up": First edition of Time Out of Joint; Boldly signed by Philip K. Dick
DICK, Philip K.
Time Out of Joint.
New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959.
First edition of Philip K. Dick's first novel published in hardcover format. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip K. Dick on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 95875
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The Dalai Lama: a Biography of the exiled leader of Tibet; Signed by His Holiness and Lowell Thomas
THOMAS, Jr..
The Dalai Lama: A Biography of the Exiled Leader of Tibet.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962.
First edition of this early biography of The Dalai Lama. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Signed and dated in the year of publication by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a note to the recipient on official Tibetan letterhead from the private secretary to the Dalai Lama stating that The Dalai Lama has signed this copy. Also inscribed on the half-title page by the author, "With warmes regards and best wishes to Kenneth Crouch- and with a special salute from- Lowell Thomas Jr. Dec. 14, 62." Near fine in a very good dust jacket…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 83782
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Official Peace Corps Act Page; Signed by President John F. Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.
John F. Kennedy Signed Peace Corps Act Page.
September 22, 1961.
Seventh page of an official printing of 'An Act to provide for a Peace Corps to help the peoples of interested countries and areas in meeting their needs for skilled manpower.' One page, boldly signed in the lower margin by President John F. Kennedy. In fine condition. Framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 10 inches. This section of the document outlines the general powers and authorities granted to the president under the act, and it appears to be from a printer's proof of the act: an erroneous quotation mark next to part "(d)" is circled in pencil, which…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 145801
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on": Why England Slept; Signed by Jack Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.
Why England Slept.
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940.
First edition, early printing of John F. Kennedy's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed in a contemporary hand "Jack Kennedy" on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 122533
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"But what does it matter what I suffer for you to enjoy? That I perish for a people to live" Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar to Ecuadorian independentista Manuela Garaycoa
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.
Bogota: 1827.
Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish. Sent from Bogota, the letter is dated December 6, 1827 and reads in full, "A la Senora Manuela Garaycoa. Umd. siempre se eccele a si misma on bondades para conmigo y me prodiga elofios ques ellos solo, bastarian para saviar la codica del mas ambivioiso de gloria. Y que otra cora podria yo esperar de las Garaycoas de esas amigas fieles de esas Colombians constantes de esa Gloriosa sin rival? Yo les doy las gracias a todas y seame tambien permitido…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 126188
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First edition of the Ian Fleming’s first book Casino Royale which introduced the world to 007
FLEMING, Ian.
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.
First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 138170
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“AS CLOSE TO THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL AS ANYONE”: FIRST EDITIONS OF DOS PASSOS’ MONUMENTAL U.S.A. TRILOGY; EACH INSCRIBED BY HIM
DOS PASSOS, John.
U.S.A. Trilogy: 42nd Parallel, 1919, Big Money.
Boston: Harper & Brothers and Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1930-36.
First editions of Dos Passos' epic U.S.A. Trilogy, each signed and inscribed by him. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Each are very good to near fine in the original dust jackets. We have never seen another complete set signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 129644
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Rare First Edition of Capitalism Socialism and Democracy; In the rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.
First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Exceptionally rare in this condition.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 145389
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First edition of Volume 37 Number 1 of Reviews of Modern Physics; containing Roger Penrose's fundamental article on spacetime: A Remarkable Property of Plane Waves in General Relativity; signed by him
PENROSE, Roger.
Reviews in Modern Physics: A Remarkable Property of Plane Waves in General Relativity.
New York: The American Physical Society by the American Institute of Physics, 1965.
First edition of Reviews of Modern Physics: Volume 37 Number 1, containing Nobel Laureate in Physics Roger Penrose's fundamental article on spacetime: A Remarkable Property of Plane Waves in General Relativity. Quarto, original wrappers. Signed and dated by the mathematical physicist on page 215, the first page of his contribution, "Roger P 20 Sept 2016." In fine condition. Scarce signed by Penrose.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 119437
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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved": First Edition of The Sirens of Titan; Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
The Sirens of Titan.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
First hardcover edition of the author's second novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with very light rubbing to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example, uncommon signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 35055
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First edition of the Ian Fleming’s first book Casino Royale which introduced the world to 007
FLEMING, Ian.
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953.
First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 142681
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First Edition of "The most influential social science treatise of the twentieth century": First Edition of Keynes' The General Theory; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.].
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1936.
First edition of the economist's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice example in the uncommon dust jacket.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 142399
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The Bombay Edition of Rudyard Kipling; Bound in Full Morocco by Riviere; With Volume One Signed by Him
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: The Deluxe Signed Edition. [Including Plain Tales from the Hills; The Phantom Rickshaw; The Light That Failed; Gunga Din; The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Captains Courageous; Kim; Just So Stories].
London: Macmillan & Company, 1913-38.
The Bombay edition of Rudyard Kipling's collected works. Octavo, 31 volumes, bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling and ruling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of 1,050 sets with volume one signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. A very sharp set.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 135262
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Rare Original Photograph signed by President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan
CLINTON, Bill.
Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein Signed Photograph.
1995.
Color photograph taken during the the signing of the Oslo II Accords of Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan and Hosni Mubarak on the White House lawn, signed by Clinton, Arafat and Faisal Husseini. On September 28, 1995, the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was signed in Washington, D.C. This agreement, which marks the conclusion of the first stage in negotiations between Israel and the PLO, incorporates and superseded the Gaza-Jericho and early empowerment agreements. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 13 inches. Rare and desirable signed by…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 123430