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Rare First Edition in English of The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
London: Printed for J. Bew, 1783.
Rare first edition in English of the author's classic work. 12mo, 2 volumes, bound in full contemporary marbled calfskin. In very good condition, bookplate. Housed in a custom folding case.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 144141
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF MAN ON THE MOON: A PICTURE CHRONOLOGY OF MAN IN SPACE EXPLORATION; INSCRIBED BY THE FIRST MAN TO TOUCH THE MOON NEIL ARMSTRONG
ARMSTRONG, Neil.
Man on the Moon: A Picture Chronology of Man in Space Exploration.
Dallas: Galina, 1969.
First edition of the pictorial history of the American space program, from the establishment of NASA to the Apollo XI mission. Oblong octavo, original boards, profusely illustrated with black and white and full color photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Neil Armstrong on the front free endpaper, "To Kevin Stern- With The Best Wishes Of A Fellow Space Enthusiast Neil Armstrong." In fine condition.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 144136
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Jane Addams' The Long Road of Woman's Memory; Signed by her at Hull House
ADDAMS, Jane.
The Long Road of Woman’s Memory.
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1917.
First edition, second printing of Addams' work exploring the influence of memory on women's experience of life at Hull House. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With all good wishes from the author Jane Addams Hull-House Chicago." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 96140
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“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out": First Edition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Signed by Her
ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Handmaid’s Tale.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.
First American edition of Atwood’s finest novel, “a fluid nightmare requiem” (Clute & Nicholls, 69). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Margaret Atwood on title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration and design by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144134
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First British edition of Churchill's only full-length work of fiction: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania; bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.
First British edition of Churchill's singular attempt at full-length fiction, one of only 1,500 copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition, names. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144132
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"Wallace embraces the incompatibility of mathematics and prose and makes art from it": First Edition of Everything And More; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
First edition of this work which examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Base Art Co./Terry Rohrbach.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144245
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"Who is the most important person I've ever met in a signing queue & the first person ever to see merit in Harry Potter. With huge [underlined 4 times] thanks. J.K. Rowling": First Edition, First Printing of J.K. Rowling's Rare First Book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Inscribed by Her to Bryony Evens and with a large original illustration by Thomas Taylor
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
London: Bloomsbury, 1997.
First edition, first printing of the rarest book in the Harry Potter series, a cornerstone of young adult literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. First printing with "First published in Great Britain in 1997", the full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", "Joanne Rowling" for "J.K. Rowling", and "Thomas Taylor1997" (lacking the space) on the copyright page and "1 wand" listed twice (as the first item and last item) on the "Other Equipment" list on page 53. Octavo, original laminated pictorial boards, without a dust jacket as issued. Association copy,…
Price: $975,000.00 Item Number: 115640
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"The two large fields lay on a hillside facing south. Being newly cleared of hay, they were golden green, and they shone almost blindingly in the sunlight": First edition of D.H. Lawrence's Love Among The Haystacks & Other Pieces
LAWRENCE, D.H. With a Reminiscence by David Garnett.
Love Among The Haystacks & Other Pieces.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930.
First edition of this collection of four of Lawrence's short stories, posthumously published by close friend David Garnett. Octavo, original publisher's half buckram over bright yellow boards. One of 1600 copies printed on hand-made paper at the Curwen Press, 550 of which were for sale in the United States by Random House, this is number 356. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143228
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First Edition of Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist; Signed by Warren Buffett and Roger Lowenstein
LOWENSTEIN, Roger (Warren E. Buffett).
Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist.
New York : Random House, 1995.
First edition of this landmark work on Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Warren Buffett on the half-title page. Also, inscribed by Roger Lowenstein on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 143134
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Rare complete set of all thirteen volumes of widely celebrated Victorian literary and artistic periodical The Yellow Book
JAMES, Henry; Kenneth Grahame; Baron Corvo; Hubert Crackanthorpe; John Davidson; Ella D'Arcy; Ada Leverson; H.G. Wells; William Butler Yeats; et al.
The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly.
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894-1897.
Complete set of all thirteen volumes of one of the most important periodicals of the 1890s, with contributions by Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Grahame, H. G. Wells, and W. B. Yeats, among many others. First edition second issue, without book lists or publisher's announcements to rear. Octavo, thirteen volumes in the original publisher's yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, cover designs by Aubrey Beardsley (Vols. 1-4), Ethel Reed, and Mabel Syrett, tissue-guarded illustrated title page to each volume, extensively illustrated with tissue-guarded plates by artists including Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Laurence Housman, Joseph Pennell, William Rothenstein, and Walter Sickert. In…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144075
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"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real": The Border Trilogy; Signed by Cormac McCarthy
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2008.
First edition, early printing of McCarthy's classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144601
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"God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race": First Edition of Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story; Signed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
KING JR., Martin Luther.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.
First edition, early printing of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes Martin Luther King, Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 144105
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Il Flobert; Signed and dated by Enzo Ferrari
FERRARI, Enzo.
Il Flobert: Enzo Ferrari.
Modena: Arbe, 1976.
Rare limited first edition, one of one 1000 copies given to family and friends of Ferrari, full of his history and Enzo's personal dedications to people who played a special or important role in his life. Signed and dated by Enzo Ferrari on the half-title page, "Ferrari 78 28/9." In near fine condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 144088
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First Edition of the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Virgin Suicides; Signed by Jeffrey Eugenides
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey.
The Virgin Suicides.
London: 4th Estate, 2023.
First edition the 30th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Signed by Jeffrey Eugenides on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 144118
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The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor; Inscribed by Her to Ambassador Henry Taylor and with an original telegram
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR,.
The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor.
New York: David McKay Company, 1956.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Fay and Harry with my love and devoted friendship Wallis Windsor." With a Holiday Greetings from Western Union from Edward Wallis to the recipients laid in. The recipient, Henry Junior Taylor was an economist, author, radio broadcaster and former United States Ambassador to Switzerland He served as a foreign correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in the early years of World War II. After the war, Taylor hosted the General Motors-sponsored radio program Your Land and Mine, on which he was known for his conservative…
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 144117