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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories”: First Edition of White Teeth; Signed by Zadie Smith
SMITH, Zadie.
White Teeth.
New York: Random House, 2001.
First edition of "Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel" (Salman Rushdie). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Zadie Smith on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 3347
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First edition of Anita Shreve's Resistance; inscribed by her to Kenneth Burrows
SHREVE, Anita.
Resistance: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.
First edition of this work by the author of The Pilot's Wife. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "March 28, 1995 For Ken, with thanks for your help in a different battle front Anita Shreve." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142738
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First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
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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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"Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate": First Edition of Liquidation; Signed by Imre Kertesz
KERTESZ, Imre.
Liquidation.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this novel by the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gall. Translated by Tim Wilkinson.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 697
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First Edition of The Situation of Poetry; Inscribed by Robert Pinsky
PINSKY, Robert.
The Situation of Poetry.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to another poet "Lisa Colt with best wishes, Robert Pinsky November 1977." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 980
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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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John Hersey's The War Lover; Signed by Him
HERSEY, John.
The War Lover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
First edition, early printing published the same month as the first of this aviation history classic. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Hersey on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 133174
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First Edition of What is Realism?; Signed by J.M. Coetzee
COETZEE, J.M.
What Is Realism.
Bennington, VT: Bennington College Chapbooks, 1997.
First edition of this essay by J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Coetzee. Fine in wrappers.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 1366
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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 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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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of Sonia Sotomayor's My Beloved World; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYER, Sonia.
My Beloved World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
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 boards, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 123476
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First edition of Jack Valenti's Speak Up With Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches; inscribed to him by William Safire
VALENTI, Jack [William Safire].
Speak Up With Confidence: How to Prepare, Learn, and Deliver Effective Speeches.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1982.
First edition of Jack Valenti's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Bill Safire Thanks for your embrace - with the loving good wishes of Jack Valenti." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. Following Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a presidential speechwriter for both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press, describing himself as the voice of…
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 135441
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"Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London. . . having fallen not just in love but into a family": First Edition of Roger Angell's autobiography; Signed by Him
ANGELL, Roger.
Let Me Finish.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Angell's autobiography of his early years growing up in New York. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Roger Angell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cooley Design Lab.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 7412
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"Take dead aim for the pin": First Edition of Tom Kite's A Fairway to Heaven: My Lessons From Harvey Penick On Golf And Life; Inscribed by Him
KITE, Tom.
A Fairway to Heaven: My Lessons From Harvey Penick On Golf And Life.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997.
First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harry- Best of luck with your golf Tom Kite." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bradford Foltz. Written with Mickey Herskowitz.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 129108