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First Edition of Ian Falconer's Olivia Forms a Band; Signed by Him
FALCONER, Ian.
Olivia Forms a Band.
New York: Atheneum, 2006.
First edition of the fourth book in Falconer's acclaimed Olivia series. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ian Falconer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 91657
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First edition of A. Scott Berg's Kate Remembered; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
BERG, A. Scott.
Kate Remembered.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's biography of Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Tom and Bill - the best reason I have to return to Chicago - with new and old affection, respectively Scott. July 2003 Chicago." The recipient, Bill Zwecker, was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133040
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First Edition in English of Le Clezio's Fever; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Fever.
New York: Atheneum, 1973.
First American edition of this collection of nine stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page Very good in a very good dust jacket with a small chip from the foot of the spine. Jacket design by Harry Ford. Translated from the French by Daphne Woodward.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 776
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Rare Original Jun 3, 1976 Issue of Rolling Stone; Featuring Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's Jimmy Carter & The Great Leap of Faith: An Endorsement with Fear & Loathing
THOMPSON, Hunter S. [Jimmy Carter].
Jimmy Carter & The Great Leap of Faith: An Endorsement, with Fear & Loathing.
Rolling Stone, June 3, 1976.
Original Rolling Stone newspaper from the June 3, 1976 issue. Quarto, featuring Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's article 'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72' beginning on page 54. In very good condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146629
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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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First Edition of On the Other Hand: A Life Story; Signed by Fay Wray
WRAY, Fay.
On the Other Hand: A Life Story.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
First edition of the definitive autobiography of the Hollywood starlet. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with numerous photographs. Signed by Fay Wray on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 137379
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First Edition of Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller: A Novel; Signed by Him
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
The Storyteller: A Novel.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
First edition of this "brilliant novel" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Mark Sturgeon. Jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer. Translated by Helen Lane.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 142072
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Limited First Edition of The Stark Reality of Responsibility; Signed by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Additionally with Foreign Affairs Pamphlets Signed by Theodore Sorensen
STEVENSON, Adlai Ewing; Theodore C. Sorensen.
The Stark Reality of Responsibility. [WITH] Two Issues of Foreign Affairs: Loyal to a Fault? and America’s First Post-Cold War President. [AND] Theodore Sorensen Autograph Note Signed.
Chicago: Americana House, 1952.
Limited first edition of Adlai Ewing Stevenson's welcoming and acceptance addresses before the Democratic National Convention. Quarto, original publisher's three quarter blue morocco over cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front panel stamped in gilt. One of one hundred copies printed on Maidstone hand-made paper and signed by the author on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Accompanied by two Foreign Affairs pamphlets by Theodore C. Sorensen: 'America's First Post-Cold War President' (Vol. 71 No. 4, Fall 1992, autograph note signed by Sorensen on Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 'Compliments' stationary secured with a paperclip, the note…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 146701
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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote IV; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario IV.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1997.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page in 2006.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19033
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First Edition of Margaret Mead's Blackberry Winter; Signed by Her
MEAD, Margaret.
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1972.
First edition of this work by the award winning anthropologist. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed and dated "Margaret Mead 1973" on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket cover photograph by Ken Heyman. Jacket design by Lucy Mahoney.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 29069
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First Edition of Henry Ford's Moving Forward; From the Ford Motor Company Archives
FORD, Henry.
Moving Forward.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. From the Ford Motor Company Archives with their stamp to the front free endpaper. Written with Samuel Crowther.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 141444
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity”: First Edition of William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun
FAULKNER, William.
Requiem for a Nun.
New York: Random House, 1951.
First trade edition of the sequel to Faulkner's early novel 'Sanctuary.' Octavo, original half cloth. First state with all issue points: first edition not stated, dark gray top stain, 'Chocktaw' rather than 'Choctaw' on page 21, dust jacket designer E. McKnight Kauffer's name misspelled as 'M. McKnight Kauffer' on the front flap of the dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 145439
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First Edition of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict; Inscribed by Roger Myerson
MYERSON, Roger B.
Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.
First edition of this classic introductory work on game theory. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards. Inscribed by Roger B. Myerson on the title page. In 2007, Myerson was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." In fine condition.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 74034
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First Edition of Cadernos De Lanzarote III; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario III.
Lisbon: Caminho, 1996.
First Portugese edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain's volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 19036
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Paul Krugman's Geography and Trade; inscribed by him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Geography and Trade.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1992.
Early printing of Paul Krugman's work on economic geography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For William Paul Krugman." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 110103
