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“And now the voice which spoke belonged to no one but herself. Oh my God, it said. Oh my God, I am all alone out here. I am all alone": First Edition of Gerald's Game; Signed by Stephen King
KING, Stephen.
Gerald’s Game.
New York: The Viking Press, 1992.
First edition of this suspense novel by King. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.
Price: $700.00 Item Number: 144895
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First Edition of Modern Security Analysis; Inscribed by Martin Whitman
WHITMAN, Martin J. and Fernando Diz.
Modern Security Analysis: Understanding Wall Street Fundamentals.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John: Nice to communicate with you after all those years. Martin J. Whitman." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul McCarthy. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144591
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First Edition of Stephen King's Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah; Signed by Him
KING, Stephen.
Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah.
Hampton Falls, NH: Donald Grant, 2004.
First trade edition of King's sixth installment in his acclaimed Dark Tower Series. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Darrel Anderson.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 144596
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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, Gabriel García .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez's masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 144678
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The River War; Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933.
Later edition of Churchill's history of the conquest of the Sudan. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Charles Peake from Winston S. Churchill Sept 1936." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 144339
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144688
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"With affection and gratitude for getting me started in DNA synthesis and for your key contributions to the story": First Edition of DNA Synthesis; Warmly Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Arthur Kornberg to fellow scientist Morris Friedkin
KORNBERG, Arthur.
DNA Synthesis.
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1974.
First edition of this important work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Morris: With affection and gratitude for getting me started in DNA synthesis and for your key contributions to the story Arthur." The recipient, Morris Friedkin conducted research on metabolism. He illustrated the pathways of oxidative phosphorylation, examined metabolic reaction within the mitochondria, and identified and characterized deoxyribose-1-phosphate, an intermediate in pyrimidine synthesis. In addition, he discovered the role of folates in metabolism, which is important to the synthesis of folate analogs in chemotherapy. In…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144689
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Rare First Edition of Capitalism Socialism and Democracy; In the rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.
First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket a few small chips. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 144692
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The only book by Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory; The Future of Industrial Man; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
The Future of Industrial Man.
New York: John Day, 1942.
First edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free end paper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 144693
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First Edition of The Dark Half; Signed by Stephen King
KING, Stephen .
The Dark Half.
New York: The Viking Press, 1989.
First edition of this novel by the author of The Shining. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Front jacket photograph by Geoffrey Gove. Photograph of King by Tabitha King.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 144694
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"It has been said that no man is a hero to his valet": First edition of Agatha Christie's One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; in the rare original dust jacket
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1940.
First edition of Christie's classic Hercule Poirot murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth, advertisements at rear. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with a chip to the spine, inscription to the front free endpaper. Uncommon in this condition, as the dust jacket usually has restoration.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 144697
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes": The New Society; Signed by Peter F. Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
The New Society: The Anatomy of the Industrial Order.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
First edition, early printing of Drucker's classic fourth book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 144698
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First edition of a celebration of John F. Nash; Inscribed by "one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century" Louis Nirenberg
NASH, John F. and Harold W. Kuhn [Louis Nirenberg and Peter Sarnak].
A Celebration of John F. Nash Jr.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996.
First edition of this collection of Nash's writings. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the mathematician on the title page, "To John Rogay Best wishes Louis Nirenberg." In near fine condition. Edited by Harold W. Kuhn, Louis Nirenberg and Peter Sarnak. Managing editor Morris Weisfeld. Louis Nirenberg was considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 144405
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"I have the only key to your heart I can stop you falling apart": First Edition of Horse’s Neck; Inscribed by Pete Townshend
TOWNSHEND, Pete.
Horse’s Neck.
London: Faber & Faber, 1985.
First edition of Townshend's series of short fictions. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Joe Pete Townshend." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144404
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"You got eyes": Rare First Edition of the Famed Photographer’s First Book The Americans
FRANK, Robert; Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
The Americans.
New York: Grove Press, 1959.
First edition of the photographer's masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 144599
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"The hospitable soul makes me wiser and bolder by provocation": The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson; one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into vol. i
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General Index.
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903.
The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, original publisher’s cloth with printed paper spine labels, illustrated with numerous mounted photogravures, frontispiece portrait of Emerson to Vol. I with lettered tissue guard. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the publisher and with an original double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one, this is number 515. The manuscript leaf reads in full, "Will anyone question the will of an aristocracy? Not, whilst there is…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 144526