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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1930.
First edition of Hopkins' biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122049
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“The four most common chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on Earth. We are not simply in the universe. The universe is in us": First Edition of Neil deGrasse Tyson's Space Chronicles
TYSON, Neil DeGrasse; edited by Avis Lang.
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2012.
First edition of the astrophysicist's humorously provocative scientific commentary. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chin-Yee Lai. Author photograph by Chris Cassidy.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145143
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First Edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's Between the Woods and the Water
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Between the Woods and the Water.
London: John Murray, 1986.
First British edition of the author's second book in the author's trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by John Craxton.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 110261
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First Edition of Egg and Spoon; Signed by Gregory Maguire
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Egg and Spoon
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.
First edition of this work by the author of Wicked. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gregory Maguire on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 4522
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“The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe": First Edition of Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto
RAND, Ayn.
The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding the nature of art. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Tom Lincoln.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 144994
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"As a young painter you are overwhelmed by the complexity of your subject. Every crease, every dimple, is an equally startling revelation": First Edition of John Berger's A Painter of Our Time
BERGER, John.
A Painter of Our Time.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
First edition of the Booker prize-winning writer's debut novel. Octavo, original red half cloth, top stain red. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145491
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First Edition of Nell Freudenberger's Lost and Wanted; Signed by Her
FREUDENBERGER, Nell.
Lost and Wanted.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
First edition of this "intelligent and moving novel" (Los Angeles Times Review of Books). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Nell Freudenberger. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 127638
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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today": First Edition Of Mikhail Gorbachevs Memoirs
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
Memoirs.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
First edition of Gorbachev's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs, Foreward by Martin McCauley. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket photograph by Eddie Adams.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145194
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First edition of Bonamy Dobree's Rudyard Kipling
DOBREE, Bonamy. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling.
London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1951.
First edition of Dobree's work on Kipling, the man and the writer. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 126348
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Signed Limited Edition of Reynolds Price's Blue Calhoun: A Novel
PRICE, Reynolds.
Blue Calhoun: A Novel.
New York : Atheneum, 1992.
Signed limited first edition. Octavo, bound in cloth, original slipcase. Signed by Reynolds Price. From the library of publisher Howard Kaminsky. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 87342
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First edition of Alfred Duggan's Count Bohemond
DUGGAN, Alfred. Preface by Evelyn Waugh.
Count Bohemond.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
First edition of Duggan's classic historical novel. Octavo, original cloth. Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscription. Jacket design by Edward Bawden.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 136049
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First edition of Miles Smeeton's Because The Horn is There; from the library of adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett
SMEETON, Miles.
Because The Horn is There.
Sidney: Gray's Publishing Ltd, 1970.
First edition of Miles Smeeton's account of his three attempts to round Cape Horn, made with his wife Beryl. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 112684
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First Edition of Golda Meir's A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
MEIR, Golda; Edited by Marie Syrkin.
A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
First edition of this oral autobiography by the former prime minister of Israel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146605
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"Oh love, love, what is love? How can I know?": First Edition of the Lost Plays of Eugene O'Neill
O'NEILL, Eugene. Introduction by Lawrence Gellert.
Lost Plays (1913-1915).
New York: New Fathoms Press Ltd, 1950.
First edition of this collection of the playwright's early plays, written as a young man. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 100014