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First Edition of The Tories: Conservatives and The Nation State 1922-1997; Signed by Alan Clark
CLARK, Alan.
The Tories: Conservatives and The Nation State 1922-1997.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998.
First edition of this personal account of modern Conservatives in government. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Alan Clark 22 IX." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 147117
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Signed Limited Edition of James Michener's Miracle in Seville
MICHENER, James A.
Miracle in Seville.
New York: Random House, 1995.
Signed limited edition by James Michener. Octavo, original cloth. Number 391 of 500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase, still in the original shrinkwrap.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 107453
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Looking Ahead: The Papers of David Sarnoff; Warmly Inscribed by Him
SARNOFF, David.
Looking Ahead: The Papers of David Sarnoff.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
First edition, early printing of the papers of this business pioneer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Dr. George Rich With appreciation and all good wishes David Sarnoff 68." Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 130197
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"'WHERE IS GOD?' SAID THE BLACK GIRL TO THE MISSIONARY WHO HAD CONVERTED HER?": FIRST EDITION OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God.
London: Constable & Company Limited, 1932.
First edition of Shaw's controversial 20th century retelling of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with wood-cut engravings by John Farleigh. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Small bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 137188
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First Edition of J.M. Coetzee's The Humanities of Africa; Signed by Him
COETZEE, J.M.
The Humanities in Africa/ Die Geisteswissenschaften in Afrika.
Munchen: Carl Friedrich von Siemans Stiftung, 2001.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 2479
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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYOR, Sonia.
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor.
New York: Delacorte Press, 2018.
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 half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Bianchini and Larsson McSwain.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 123929
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Moonwalker: inscribed by Charlie Duke
DUKE, Charlie and Dotty.
Moonwalker.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990.
First edition, early printing of the tenth man to walk on the moon's revealing memoir. Octavo, original red boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bob aim high Charlie Duke." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by The Aslan Group.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 146503
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"The murderer would own something even when he was dead…And I?": First Edition of Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower
WIESENTHAL, Simon.
The Sunflower.
New York: Schocken Books, 1976.
First American edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Randall Richmond.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 146793
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First Edition of Elizabeth B. Custer's Boots and Saddles
CUSTER, Elizabeth B.
Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
First edition of Elizabeth Custer's memoir. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial brown cloth decorated and stamped in black and gilt with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt embellishments of a rising sun and bugle to the front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, outline map of portions of Montana and Dakota. In near fine condition. A bright example.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 145222
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Special limited edition of Brown's Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya's Desert Lake; one of 250 numbered copies signed by him
BROWN, Monty. Foreword by Vivian Fuchs.
Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya’s Desert Lake.
London: Quiller Press, 1989.
Special limited edition of Brown's elaborately illustrated history of Kenya's northern desert region and the 13 expeditions to Lake Rudolf. Quarto, original publisher's three quarters pebbled morocco over leatherette boards, marbled endpapers, with 75 color and 50 black and white illustrations, folding map in pocket affixed to rear pastedown. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title page, this is number 49. In fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 110678
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Signed Limited Edition of Max Beerbohm's A Survey
BEERBOHM, Max.
A Survey.
London: William Heinemann, 1921.
Signed limited edition of this work, number 237 of 275 copies. Quarto, original cloth, frontispiece and 51 tipped-in chromolithographed plates, all edges gilt. Signed by Max Beerbohm to limitation. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 118774
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Rare first edition of For Britain's Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families; with contributions by Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells
KIPLING, Rudyard; Sir Walter Besant; Max Pemberton; Morley Roberts; H.G. Wells; Percy White; et al.
For Britain’s Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families.
London: Methuen & Co, 1900.
First edition of this anthology published and sold to benefit the officers and men of the British Army in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 122456
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Finely Bound Example of Samuel Maunder's Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of Belles Lettres
MAUNDER, Samuel.
The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of Belles Lettres.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1858.
The new edition of Maunder's Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and the Arts. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, raised gilt bands to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges speckled red, frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 118021
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First edition of Rosemary Jones Tung's A Portrait of Lost Tibet; from the library of Peter Matthiessen
TUNG, Rosemary Jones. [Peter Matthiessen].
A Portrait of Lost Tibet.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
First edition of the author's photographic evocation of Tibet. Quarto, original boards, ornamental art by Zlatko Paunov. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea”…
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 140207
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First Edition of James Webb's I Heard My Country Calling; Inscribed by Him
WEBB, James .
I Heard My Country Calling.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
First edition of the moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Lee with best wishes JWebb." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Laid is the original signing brochure for the reading.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 141516
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First Edition of Booth Tarkington's The Lorenzo Bunch; Inscribed by Him
TARKINGTON, Booth.
The Lorenzo Bunch.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, May 9. 1940. Inscribed for Mr. Jerome Peltier." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 65791