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Rare collection of Murad Tobacco Silks featuring seven University golfers
MURAD TOBACCO,.
University Golfer Murad Tobacco Silks.
Rare collection of Murad Tobacco Silks featuring seven University golfers. Universities represented include the University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, US Naval Academy, Brown University, Syracuse University, West Point, and Yale University. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 25 inches by 19 inches. In fine condition. A sharp presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 95192
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The Presidents' Edition of the University Library of Autobiography: Including All The Great Autobiographies
University Library of Autobiography: Including All The Great Autobiographies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World’s Famous Men and Women.
The National Alumni, 1918.
The Presidents' edition of the University Library of Autobiography, including self-narratives of political figures and authors through the ages, beginning with King Sargon of Babylon and ending with Leo Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. Octavo, 15 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissued-guarded portraits of each featured historical figure. One of one thousand and fifty numbered and registered copies of the Presidents' edition, this is number 698, registered to Evelyn and Warren Winkelstein. In very good condition. A very…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144625
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Rare Uncorrected Proof of P.D. James' Unnatural Causes; SIGNED BY P.D. JAMES
JAMES, P.D.
Unnatural Causes.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
Uncorrected proof of the author's third book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by P.D. James on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 3717
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"The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast": First Edition of Unnatural Causes; Lengthily Inscribed by P.D. James
JAMES, P.D.
Unnatural Causes.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
First edition of the author's third book. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page with a transcription as follows, "The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 4328
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First edition of Michael Holroyd's Unreceived Opinions; inscribed by him to photographer Sally Soames
HOLROYD, Michael.
Unreceived Opinions: Thoughts on Writers and Writing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
First edition of the award-winning biographer's collection of literary essays. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally with love M Holroyd." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on the subjects of…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126853
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Scarce First Edition of Rudolf Auspitz and Richard Lieben's Untersuchungen Uber Die Theorie Des Preises
AUSPITZ, Rudolf and Richard Lieben.
Untersuchungen Uber Die Theorie Des Preises. [Studies on the Theory of Price.]
Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1889.
Scarce first edition of this work by eminent Viennese economists Auspitz and Lieben. Octavo, original brown hard-grain cloth with spine and boards lettered and ruled in black, decorative endpapers, illustrated with economic graphs. In very good condition, embossed stamp to the title page and some additional pages, library stamp and sticker to the rear pastedown, some rubbing and bookplate to the front pastedown, "the Library of Isaac L. Rice presented in his memory to the Bates College Library." Rice was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron known primarily for his contributions to aquatic transportation manufacturing.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145337
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"Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can": First Edition of Until I Find You; Warmly Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
Until I Find You.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dana and Cheryl with my admiration and affection John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Royce M. Becker. Author photograph by Jane Sobel Klonsky. Tattoo art by Henk Schiffmacher.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 136964
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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, William.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 138077
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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, William.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 140414
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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, William.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 138572
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First Edition of Up From Liberalism; Warmly Inscribed by William B. Buckley
BUCKLEY, William F.
Up From Liberalism.
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Howard Klein Admiringly William F. Buckley." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Dos Passos. Uncommon, signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 132458
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First Edition of Up From Liberalism; Signed by William F. Buckley
BUCKLEY, William F.
Up From Liberalism.
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William F. Buckley on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Dos Passos. Uncommon, signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 130002
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed": Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities and some dampstaining to the cloth. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 137493
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First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography; In the rare original dust jacket
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, 1901.
First edition of the A.L. Burt Publishers edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 132410
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Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 141523
