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Rare First Edition of Leonard Cohen's First Book, One of 400 copies Let Us Compare Mythologies; Signed by Him in the year of publication
COHEN, Leonard.
Let Us Compare Mythologies.
Montreal: McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956.
First edition of Cohen's first book, which explores philosophy, sexuality, death, a world of violent contrasts that would define his future literary and musical careers. Octavo, original cloth. With five full-page line illustrations by Freda Guttman. Signed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, “Leonard Cohen May 1956.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon, as reportedly fewer than 400 copies of the first edition were printed (Nadel, 45).
Price: $13,500.00 Item Number: 140463
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First Edition of Leonard Cohen’s First Novel; Inscribed by Him
COHEN, Leonard.
The Favourite Game.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.
First printing of this edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John Abbott all the best Leonard Cohen London 1988." Near fine in an near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Barry Hall.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 140854
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Leonard Cohen’s First Novel; Signed by Him
COHEN, Leonard.
The Favourite Game.
London: Black Spring Press, 1996.
Later printing of Cohen's classic novel . Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the half-title page with his "Order of the Unified Heart" stamp below. In fine condition. Illustration by David Wood.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 144295
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"You go your way I'll go your way too": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing
COHEN, Leonard.
Book of Longing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
First Canadian edition and true first of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147182
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"You go your way I'll go your way too": Book of Longing; Inscribed by Leonard Cohen to fellow novelist Robert Stone and his Wife
COHEN, Leonard [Robert Stone].
Book of Longing.
New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Early printing of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Leonard Cohen on the title page, "For Janice and Bob, suffering together, Leonard Washington 2006." The recipient, American novelist Robert Stone's first two novels, A Hall of Mirrors(1967) and Dog Soldiers(1974) were published in the same era as Cohen's only published novels The Favorite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). Both author's works have come to be seen as great reflections of the zeitgeist, and darker side, of the 1960s. Cohen inscribed the present volume to Stone at BookExpo America 2006, held in…
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 96167
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The Sisterhood; FROM THE LIBRARY OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG Inscribed by Marcia Cohen to Her
COHEN, Marcia [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
The Sisterhood: The Inside Story of the Women’s Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen.
Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009.
Early edition of this brilliant record of feminist history, with a new foreword by the author, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Justice of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, "To the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsberg [sic] with years of gratitude - Marcia Cohen, 8/25/2017." The recipient, American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 146275
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First edition of Morton Cohen's Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship
COHEN, Morton.
Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship.
London: Hutchinson, 1965.
First edition of the first edited collection of the unpublished correspondence between the two great men of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135911
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Rare Winter 1958 Edition of The Tamarack Review Issue Six; Signed by Leonard Cohen
COHEN, Nathan; Ringuet; F. E. Sparshott; Mary McAlpine; John Sutherland; A. J. M. Smith; Louis Dudek; Diana Goldsborough; Murdo Mackinnon; Ronald Bates; Leonard Cohen; Beatrice Corrigan; Robert McCormack; F. R. Scott; Louis de Niverville.
The Tamarack Review Issue Six: Winter 1958.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1958.
First edition of this mixed-genre Canadian literary magazine. Octavo, original blue pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Signed and dated by Leonard Cohen on the table of contents, "Leonard Cohen 2002." Scarce early Cohen appearance from 1958 when he was 24 years old. Four of his poems are included, some of which do not appear elsewhere: 'Before the Story;' 'Poem for Marc Chagall;' 'Gift;' and 'Bait.' Also present are works by teacher and poet Louis Dudek who was the first influential teacher of Cohen at McGill University in Montreal, who encouraged Cohen to be a poet. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145368
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First Edition of McCarthy; Inscribed by Roy Cohn to close friend and writer William Safire and his wife
COHN, Roy.
McCarthy.
New York : The New American Library, 1968.
First edition of this work by Cohn, who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to close friend William Safire and his wife, "For Sadie and Bill — Much love — Roy May 25/68." 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 again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 128627
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First Vintage Books edition of Bob Colacello's Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
COLACELLO, Bob. [Andy Warhol] [William Safire].
Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up.
New York: Vintage Books, 2014.
First Vintage Books edition of "by far the best of Andy Warhol's portraits, including his own" (George Plimpton). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication, "To Bill Zwecker, with fondness, Bob Colacello 2014 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 since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133037
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First edition of Alain Colas' Around the World Alone; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
COLAS, Alain. Translated by J. F. Bernard.
Around the World Alone.
New York: Barron's/Woodbury, 1978.
First edition of Colas' riveting account of his 1978 voyage around the world aboard his 70-foot trimaran the Manureva. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 20 color plates. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest…
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115225
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"CARRYING HIS SEDITIOUS PICTURES AS IF THEY WERE DIAMONDS": FIRST EDITION OF HOUSE OF BONDAGE; SIGNED BY Joseph Lelyveld
COLE, Ernest; Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld; Text by Thomas Flaherty.
House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.
New York: : Random House, 1967.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by both "Ernest Cole" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author "Joseph Lelyveld 9.18.14" on the title page. Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. Text written with Thomas Flaherty. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 127758
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Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; elaborately bound in full polished calf
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
London: John Murray, 1858.
Finely bound example of this collection of the remarks and insights of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Small octavo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece portrait of Coleridge. In very good condition. A very nice binding.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 139225
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Finely Bound Example of The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor; Introduction and Notes by T. Ashe.
The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1885.
The Aldine edition of Coleridge’s poetical works, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Duodecimo, two volumes bound in three quarter calf over gilt boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engraved frontispieces, head-pieces, and initials. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146831
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Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette's Claudine Books; elaborately bound with an original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau
COLETTE, Sidonie-Gabrielle .
Les Quatre Claudine.
Paris: Pierre de Tartas, 1972-73.
Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette's four Claudine books with the original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Quartos, 4 volumes, bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled morocco with silk endleaves, top edges gilt, lithographic colored frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau, illustrated with 24 original colored lithographs per volume by Dauchot, Sala, Lelong and others. In near fine condition. Each volume housed in the original marbled slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 94691
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First Edition of Questions About Angels; Inscribed by Billy Collins to Laurence and Mary Rockefeller
COLLINS, Billy.
Questions About Angels: Poems.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.
First edition of Collins' fourth collection of published poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Laurence and Mary Rockefeller with best wishes Billy Collins 1996." The recipients, Laurence Rockefeller were prominent an American philanthropist, financier, and major conservationist and member of the Rockefeller Family. Mary, too, was from a prominent Billings Family. The Rockefellers turned over their land in Woodstock to form Vermont's only National Park, The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Antonina Krass.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 3889