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“There is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace": First edition of Jean Rhys's Tigers Are Better-Looking with a selection from The Left Bank
RHYS, Jean.
Tigers Are Better-Looking with a Selection from The Left Bank.
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1968.
First edition of this collection incorporating the author's earliest and most mature short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Barbara Brown.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 145495
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First Edition of The Elephant and the Flea; Inscribed by Charles Handy
HANDY, Charles.
The Elephant and the Flea: Looking Backwards to the Future.
London: Hutchinson, 2001.
First edition of this memoir by the eminent philosopher. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Les Best wishes Charles Handy 2.11.01." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145494
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First Edition of Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes; Inscribed by Alice Waters and Ann Arnold with a sketch
WATERS, Alice with Bob Carrau and Patricia Curtan.
Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child’s Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this children's book by the creator of Chez Panisse. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Lindsay, Alice Waters." Additionally inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page with a drawing of herself holding flowers and pointing at the inscription, "With greetings from the illustrator Ann Arnold." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145492
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Rare original color photograph signed by Jacqueline Kennedy; and additionally signed by Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr. as children
KENNEDY, Jacqueline; Caroline Bouvier Kennedy; John F. Kennedy Jr.
Jacqueline Kennedy Signed Photograph.
c. 1968.
Rare original color photograph of Jacqueline Kennedy with her children Caroline and John, Jr., inscribed by her on the mount, "For Billie Jean - with much love from us all Jacqueline Kennedy." Additionally signed by the young Kennedy children, "Caroline" and "John." Jacqueline Kennedy gave birth to daughter Caroline on November 27, 1957. At the time, she and husband John F. Kennedy were campaigning across Massachusetts for his re-election to the Senate, and they posed with their infant daughter for the now iconic cover of the April 21, 1958, issue of Life magazine. John F. Kennedy, Jr. was born at…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 146234
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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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"A significant work in the development of fantasy literature": Rare second edition of Under the Sunset; inscribed by Bram Stoker
STOKER, Bram.
Under The Sunset.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.
Rare second edition of Bram Stoker's first book. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Mrs. John Foord with grateful remembrance Bram Stoker New York 1884." The frontispiece and plates of the second edition were printed from wood engravings by Swain based on the engraved plates of the first edition, several of the illustrations in the text were redrawn and a number of new full-page illustrations inserted.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 146259
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From the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First edition of Alone Together: Law and the Meanings of Marriage; inscribed by Milton C. Regan to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
REGAN, Milton C. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Alone Together: Law and the Meanings of Marriage.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of Regan's interdisciplinary work examining the legal implications of marriage and divorce. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Justice Ginsburg - From one teacher to another. Warm wishes, Mitt, June 1999." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed "the Notorious R.B.G." (a play on the name of famed 90s rapper…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 146023
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"Who represents America's best hope that one day before too long fathers will enjoy equal protection from and affirmative encouragement to overcome all barriers": FROM THE LIBRARY OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG: FIRST EDITION of Good Will Toward Men; Lengthily inscribed by Jack Kammer to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
KAMMER, Jack. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
First edition of Kammer's candid work on the gender gap. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who represents America's best hope that one day before too long fathers will enjoy equal protection from and affirmative encouragement to overcome all barriers - de jure and de facto, legal and psychological, governmental and cultural - between them and their children... so that women can be equal with men... and vice versa. Jack Kammer." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 146501
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Rare Signed Photograph of Queen Elizabeth II as Princess of York
ADAMS, Marcus; [Queen Elizabeth II].
Young Queen Elizabeth Signed Photograph.
1935.
Queen Elizabeth II childhood portrait photograph print. Rare signed photographic print of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of nine, before the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, when her father was still the Duke of York, photographed by Marcus Adams, the first to ever take official photographs of Princess Elizabeth and her mother the Duchess of York and who photographed the royal family for thirty years. Signed by Queen Elizabeth, "Elizabeth of York." Additionally signed and dated by the photographer, "Marcus Adams 1935." The print measures 11 inches by 8 inches. Triple matted and framed. Together with letter…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 145479
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First Edition of Patrick White's The Vivisector
WHITE, Patrick.
The Vivisector.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First edition of this work by "one of the great magicians of fiction . . . White's scope is vast and his invention endless" (The Observer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Adams. An exceptional example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146095
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“A word in earnest is as good as a speech": First Edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House
DICKENS, Charles.
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.
First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title page, and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. With three key typographical errors called for in the first edition: "elgble" on page 19, line 6; "chair" instead of "hair" on page 209, line 23; and "counsinship" instead of cousinship on page 275, line 22. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, spine, and boards, and light toning to…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145476
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"Do assure me that the pain of separation does not outweigh the joy of confidence and belief in this abiding:" Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Autograph Letter Signed to his "Beloved friend" Lady Clare Castletown
HOLMES JR., Oliver Wendell.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Autograph Letter Signed.
Boston: September 8, 1898.
Autograph letter signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to his "beloved friend" Lady Clare Castletown, flirtatiously discussing the difficulty of putting her out of his mind, complaining of the work that awaited him after their time together, and expressing bitterness at having to respond to continuous queries concerning his father, the physician, poet, and polymath, four years after his passing. Two pages on Supreme Judicial Court stationary, quarto, original envelope, the letter reads in part, "... I wrote to you a short diary ... which I hope you will receive this week and another later ... I hate to have…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145310
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"THE MOST PRAISED AND MOST CONDEMNED 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN WORK OF FICTION": FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, PRECEDING THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
MARK TWAIN; [SAMUEL L. CLEMENS],.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884.
First English edition, preceding the first American edition, of "the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction" (Legacies of Genius). Octavo, original decorative red cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated from 174 drawings by E. W. Kemble. Binding was originally in BAL's state "B", with the gatherings secured with wire staples; this copy has been recased, presumably in the original cloth with the wire staples removed and replaced with the more conventional thread. Additionally, cloth has been expertly restored, especially at the spine tips and corners, with some red bleeding to the…
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 146372
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“I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love": First Edition of Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus; Signed by Actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw
ROTH, Philip [Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw].
Goodbye, Columbus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.
First edition of the author's first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw on the half-title page, who starred in the 1969 film bearing the same name. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sanford Roth.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146076
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Rare First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Torrents of Spring.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
First edition of Hemingway's first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine extremities and front panel.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 119154
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"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself": First Edition of My 55 Ways to Lower Your Golf Score; Signed by Jack Nicklaus to His Neighbor
NICKLAUS, Jack.
My 55 Ways To Lower Your Golf Score.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964.
First edition of the Golden Bear's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Best regards Jack Nicklaus." Very good in a very good dust jacket, embossed name to the front free endpaper. With drawings by Francis Golden.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146092