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COMPLETE SET OF IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND NOVELS; each volume in the RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET and housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery; including an association copy of Live and Let Die; Signed by Albert R. Broccoli who produced the film adaptation
FLEMING, Ian [Cubby Broccoli].
Complete Set of 14 First Edition James Bond Novels: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia with Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories including A View to a Kill and Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953-66.
First editions of each volume in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth-covered boards. Each volume in a first-issue dust jacket. Casino Royale is near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping to the extremities including the crown of the spine and upper right corner of the front panel, light toning to the rear panel. Jacket design by Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die is near fine in a very good dust jacket (first state without printed acknowledgement to the author or the artist Kenneth Lewis) with light wear to the crown of…
Price: $125,000.00 Item Number: 145438
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“YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: ONCE WHEN YOU ARE BORN AND ONCE WHEN YOU LOOK DEATH IN THE FACE”: COMPLETE SET OF IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND NOVELS; Each signed twice by Artist Michael Gillette and with an original illustration in Casino Royale
FLEMING, Ian.
Complete Set of 14 First Edition James Bond Novels: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds are Forever, From Russia with Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only [Short Stories Including A View to a Kill and Quantum of Solace], Thunderball, The Spy Who loved Me, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
London: Penguin Centenary , 2008.
First editions of the Penguin Centenary edition of each volume in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, 14 volumes, original boards. With an original illustration by artist Michael Gillette in Casino Royale, signed "with love Michael Gillette." Each dust jacket is signed twice by artist Michael Gillette, once on the front panel and again on the rear panel. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. Jacket illustrations by Michael Gillette. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional set.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 125683
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The Works of Charles Dickens; Finely Bound by Bayntun and Complete in Thirty-one Volumes
DICKENS, Charles.
Complete Set of Dickens’s Works.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1863-1878.
The Library edition of the works of Charles Dickens. Small octavo, thirty-one volumes, bound in three-quarter navy blue crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated by Phiz (H. K. Browne), John Leech, George Cruikshank, and others. In near fine condition. Twenty-six of the thirty-one volumes were published during the author's lifetime, and the final volume, published in 1878, is The Life of Charles Dickens by John Foster. A bright collection.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145410
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"So the long collaboration between author and artist is ended; and it ends inevitable in an atmosphere of regret": Complete Set of Charles Dickens by the Nonesuch Press
DICKENS, Charles.
Complete Set of the Works of Charles Dickens Nonesuch Press.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38.
The complete set of Charles Dickens by the Nonesuch Press, one of only 877 sets. Octavo, 24 volumes, original cloth, woodcut illustrations, original variously colored buckram by Leighton Straker. Edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Thomas Hatton and Walter Dexter. In near fine condition. A very sharp set.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 140200
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First Editions of the Complete Set of David Attenborough’s Zoo Quest Series; Each Volume Signed by Him
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
Complete Set: Zoo Quest To Guiana, Zoo Quest For A Dragon, Zoo Quest in Paraguay, Quest in Paradise, Zoo Quest To Madagascar, Quest Under Capricorn.
London: Lutterworth, 1956-1963.
First editions of the six volumes which compiles Attenborough's acclaimed Quest Series. Octavo, 6 volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Each volume is signed by David Attenborough on the title page. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets, owner's names. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 140669
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SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES; ONE OF ONLY 147 EXAMPLES
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
Complete Sherlock Holmes.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1953.
Signed limited edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic stories starring literature’s most famous detective, number 144 of only 147 examples. Octavo, two volumes, original half morocco, buckram sides, gilt titles to the spine, top edge blue, blue endpapers, original card slipcase with printed label. Signed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as issued. Introduction by John Dickson Carr. Preface by Christopher Morley. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 142986
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"I like complexity and contradiction in architecture": First Edition of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture "an essential document in architectural literature"; Warmly Inscribed by Robert Venturi
VENTURI, Robert; Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Al, Friendship and respect Bob Venturi." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 81249
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First Edition of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture "an essential document in architectural literature"; Signed by Robert Venturi with a drawing
VENTURI, Robert; Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Robert Venturi who has added a drawing of his mother's house on the dedication page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133609
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"I like complexity and contradiction in architecture": First Edition of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture "an essential document in architectural literature"; Signed by Robert Venturi
VENTURI, Robert; Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Signed and dated by Robert Venturi on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 2585
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MANDELBROT, Benoit and James R. Wallis.
Computer Experiments With Fractional Gaussian Noises. Part 1,2,3.
Water Resources Research, 1969.
Original pamphlet from February 1969, from the Water Resources Research. Signed by Benoit Mandelbrot on the front cover. In very good condition, in wrappers as issued.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 2420
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"I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political good), but also as the necessary condition for the flowering of all the other goods that mankind cherishes: moral virtue, civilization, the arts and sciences, economic prosperity"; First Editions of Murray Rothbard's Landmark Work Conceived in Liberty Volumes 1-4
ROTHBARD, Murray.
Conceived In Liberty: Volumes 1- 4.
New York: Arlington House Publishers, 1975-79.
First editions of each volume in the author's acclaimed four volume series. Octavo, four volumes, original cloth. Each are near fine in excellent dust jackets with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional set.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 15030
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Condemned As A Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.
First edition of Henty's classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, illustrated by Walter Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 199244
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Confessions of An Advertising Man; Warmly Inscribed by David Ogilvy
OGILVY, David.
Confessions of an Advertising Man.
New York: Atheneum, 1963.
First edition, early printing of this seminal work on advertising. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Irving Lichter from your new partner David Ogilvy, January 1964." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. On the verso of the dust jacket there are "samples of David Ogilvy's wizardry," and it unfolds to reveal six advertisements he created.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140858
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First edition of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; signed by him
PERKINS, John.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004.
First edition of Perkins' bestselling exposé. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by MBV Design.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124194
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Rare Harvard Kress Library printing of Joseph de la Vega's Confusion de Confusiones
VEGA, Joseph de la.
Confusion de Confusiones.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Printing Office, 1957.
Harvard Kress Library printing of this introduction of English readers of Joseph de la Vega's 'Confusion of Confusiones.' Royal octavo, original wrappers with paper label, frontispiece of 'Scene of Confusion,' the interior of The Stock Exchange at Amsterdam as it looked in the seventeenth century. In very good condition with some rubbing.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146553
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Karl Popper's Conjectures and refutations; Inscribed by Him to Lionel Robbins
POPPER, Karl.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
Second edition of this major work by Popper. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Lionel, the most generously appreciative of readers from Karl June 1965." The recipient Lionel Robbins was a prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics and a close friend and colleague of Popper. The pair were colleagues for over twenty years, with Popper first taking up a Readership at the LSE in 1945 before being appointed Professor of Logic and Scientific Method in 1949. Their relationship was principally professional, forming a strong inter-departmental…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 100965