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"The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me": First Edition of Elie Wiesel’s Night; Signed by Him
WIESEL, Elie.
Night.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960.
First English edition of Nobel laureate Wiesel’s masterpiece, which precedes the first American edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Cowan. Foreword by Francois Mauriac. Translated from the French by Stella Rodway. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 135118
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"The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me": First Edition of Elie Wiesel’s Night; Signed by Him
WIESEL, Elie.
Night.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960.
First English edition of Nobel laureate Wiesel’s masterpiece, which precedes the first American edition. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Jacket design by Cowan. Foreword by Francois Mauriac. Translated from the French by Stella Rodway. This is the nicest example we have seen of this title.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142320
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First Edition of Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story; Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal
WIESENTHAL, Simon.
Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 110499
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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 Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story; Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal
WIESENTHAL, Simon.
Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Joseph Lichten most cordially Simon Wiesenthal August 82." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147051
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S NATURAL VALUE
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Natural Value.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1893.
First edition in English. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright. Translated by Christian A. Molloch. Edited with a preface and analysis by William Smart.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 3681
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics.
New York: : Adelphi Company, 1927.
First edition in English. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3682
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FIRST British EDITION OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. With a Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927.
First British edition of von Wieser's great sociological study. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96798
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First editions of James Russell Lowell's The Biglow Papers, First and Second Series
WILBUR, Homer. [James Russell Lowell].
Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers. [With] The Biglow Papers Second Series.
Cambridge: Published by George Nichols: 1848/Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
First edition, first issue of James Russell Lowell's first book, a bitter criticism of the Mexican-American War and opposition to the expansion of slavery; named by the Grolier Club as the most influential book of 1848. BAL 13068. First issue, published under the pseudonym, with the preliminary advertisements, and only the Cambridge imprint to the title page. With a first edition of The Biglow Papers Second Series. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. From the library of Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt with his signed bookplate to each volume.…
Price: $700.00 Item Number: 139428
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL'S THE BIGLOW PAPERS
WILBUR, Homer. [James Russell Lowell]..
Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Sixth edition of James Russell Lowell’s first book, a bitter criticism of the Mexican-American War and opposition to the expansion of slavery; named by the Grolier Club as the most influential book of 1848. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 139745
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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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"May all the forces be with you!": First Edition of Frank Wilczek's The Lightness of Being; Lengthily Signed by Him and a Signed Photograph
WILCZEK, Frank.
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces.
New York: Basic Books, 2008.
First edition of this "thrilling read... a glimpse of physics at its quirkiest and most illuminating" (The Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "May all the forces be with you! Frank Wilczek." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Also, laid in is a photograph signed by Frank Wilczek.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106758
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First Edition of Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics; Signed by Frank Wilczek
WILCZEK, Frank and Betsy Devine.
Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988.
First edition of this "uncommon and uncommonly good exposition of contemporary quantum physics" (Kirkus Reviews). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Frank Wilczek on the title page with a small drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Karl Steinbrenner.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 62094
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"No one should be entirely judged by their past": Signed Limited Edition of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband
WILDE, Oscar.
An Ideal Husband.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899.
First edition, signed limited edition. Octavo, original lavender publisher's cloth. One of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde. In very good condition with some light rubbing and darkening to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $22,000.00 Item Number: 16085
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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance": Signed Limited Edition of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband
WILDE, Oscar.
An Ideal Husband.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899.
First signed limited edition of Wilde's classic comedic stage play. Octavo, original lavender publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt flourishes to the spine and front panel. One of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde, this is number 85. In near fine condition with a touch of toning. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A superior example.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 96121
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple": Signed limited large-paper edition of The Importance of Being Earnest
WILDE, Oscar.
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899.
Signed limited large-paper edition of the author’s masterpiece, number 68 of 100 copies signed by Oscar Wilde on the limitation page. Octavo, original pale purple cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt floral motifs from designs by Charles Shannon on spine and covers, edges untrimmed. Presentation copy, with an autograph letter signed by the third and final wife of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, actress Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, to stage actor Harrison K. Ford laid in which reads, "To Harrison Ford Do hope you will enjoy this!- All good wishes Carlotta Monterey O'Neill Dec 6th 31 1095 Park Ave.-" From…
Price: $48,000.00 Item Number: 110755