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First edition of Years of Renewal; Signed by Henry Kissinger
KISSINGER, Henry.
Henry Kissinger: Years of Renewal: The Concluding Volume of His Memoirs.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of the concluding volume of Kissinger's memoirs. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Henry A. Kissinger on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photographs by Mao Zedong and Darleen Rubin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146432
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DR. SEUSS'S THIDWICK THE BIG-HEARTED MOOSE
DR. SEUSS. [THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL],.
Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose.
New York: Random House, 1948.
First edition, early printing of one of the more elusive Seuss titles. Quarto, original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by the author. Very good in a good second state price-clipped just jacket with tape repairs to the front panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 135088
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be": First Edition of Mother Night
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Mother Night.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966.
First edition of this work, basis for the 1996 film, starring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, and Alan Arkin. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146224
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First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work on Benjamin Franklin; Signed by Carl Van Doren
VAN DOREN, Carl.
Benjamin Franklin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117881
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"There is a gulf already opening between those who have joined and those who have not": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The New Army in Training
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The New Army in Training.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.
First collected edition, first issue of this anthology which first appeared in 6 separate pamphlets in America of which only a few of each were printed. 16mo, original wrappers. With The Service Kipling on the rear panel. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 121084
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First Edition of Fannie Hurst's Back Street; In the Uncommon Original Dust Jacket
HURST, Fannie.
Back Street.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1951.
First edition of the bestselling story behind Ross Hunter’s classic melodrama starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, contemporary name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 142081
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First edition of Richard Ford's A Piece of My Heart; signed by him
FORD, Richard.
A Piece of My Heart.
London: Collins Harvill, 1987.
First English edition of Ford's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Richard Ford July 2. 1987 London." From the collection of British photojournalist Sally Soames. Soames worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 124920
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“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people": Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Kidnapped: Being the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.
London: Humphrey Milford/ Oxford University Press, 1930.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition. Quarto, original cloth, slipcase, illustrated by Rowland Hilder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138086
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool": The esteemed large-type edition of Collier's Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, William. Edited by John Payne Collier.
The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, A Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage.
London: Whittaker & Co, 1842-1844.
The large-type edition of Collier's Shakespeare. Octavo, three of nine original volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare engraved from the Folio edition of 1623. Mixed editions. In good condition. Uncommon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 138774
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First edition of Theodora Thompson's Underneath The Bough; finely bound by Riviere and Sons
THOMPSON, Theodora.
Underneath The Bough: A Posie of Other Men’s Flowers.
New York: John Lane, 1905.
First edition of Theodora Thompson's collection of inspirational verse. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum by Riviere & Sons with green morocco spine label lettered in gilt, botanical gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. Ownership inscription.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114286
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First edition of Daniel Morgaine's Un Tour Du Siecle en 80 Jours; inscribed by him to american journalist William Safire
MORGAINE, Daniel. [William Safire].
Un Tour Du Siecle en 80 Jours. [A Turn of the Century in 80 Days].
Paris: Editions Denoel, 1998.
First edition of Morgaine's work documenting the major events of the 20th century. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Preface by Yves Courriere. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Helene and William Safire. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 128112
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First Edition Of This Classic Text In Macroeconomics: A Neoclassical Introduction
MILLER, Merton H. and Charles M. Upton.
Macroeconomics: A Neoclassical Introduction.
Homewood, Il: Richard D. Irwin, Inc, 1974.
First edition of this landmark text in modern macroeconimics. Octavo, original blue cloth. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 100811
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“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis": First Edition of Too Big To Fail; Inscribed by Andrew Ross Sorkin
SORKIN, Andrew Ross.
Too Big To Fail.
New York: The Viking Press, 2009.
First edition of Ross Sorkin's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "You're too big to fail! Andrew Ross Sorkin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heads of State.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 100735
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First Edition of David Friedman's Law's Orders; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, David.
Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
First edition of this creative, and provocative addition to the law and economics literature. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by David Friedman on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by C. Alvarez.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 105322
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First edition of G. Manville Fenn's George Alfred Henty: The Story of An Active Life
FENN, G. Manville. [George Alfred Henty].
George Alfred Henty: The Story of An Active Life.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1907.
First edition of Fenn's biography of highly popular 19th century novelist George Alfred Henty. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with 11 plates including frontispiece portrait of Henty. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription. A sharp example of this rare title.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 122474
