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“Love and regret go hand in hand in this world of changes swifter than the shifting of the clouds reflected in the mirror of the sea": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions
CONRAD, Joseph.
The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions.
London: Methuen & Company, 1906.
First British edition of Conrad's first volume of autobiographical non-fiction. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 55033
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"But I speak from hearsay no longer; I knew my mother for ever now": First Edition of J.M. Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy
BARRIE, J.M.
Margaret Ogilvy.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1869.
First British edition of the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie's classic memoir of his mother. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Rare in this condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 109891
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First Edition of Christ in Concrete; With a full page inscription by Pietro Di Donato
DI DONATO, Pietro.
Christ in Concrete.
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939.
First edition of this classic portrait of Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear and tear.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 1871
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Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; in the original boards
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire.
London: James Cawthorn, 1810.
Early edition of Byron's satiric response to the negative review of his first book, Hours of Idleness, in the Edinburgh Review. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 119205
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"Now pay attention": First edition of Sandy Hernu's Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn; signed by both Hernu and Llewelyn
HERNU, Sandy. [Desmond Llewelyn].
Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn.
East Sussex: S. B. Publications, 1999.
Signed limited first edition of Hernu's pictorial biography of the quintessential gadget master to the world's best loved Secret Agent, James Bond. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed by Desmond Llewelyn and Sandy Hernu on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 115097
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's Duluth; Inscribed by Him to his sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Duluth.
New York : Random House, 1983.
First edition of this novel by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Kit - all love - Gore Vidal." The recipient, Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency, only six years older than Gore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket art by Carol Wald. An exceptional association.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 126272
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"It was a different game now. Clearly the machine no longer belonged to its makers": First Edition of The Soul of a New Machine; Signed by Tracy Kidder
KIDDER, Tracy.
The Soul of a New Machine.
Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981.
First edition of Kidder's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tracy Kidder on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Peter deAngeli. A nice example.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 78911
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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory”: P.B. Socci sketch of Academy Award-winning actress Ingrid Bergman; Signed by Ingrid Bergman
SOCCI, P.B. (Ingrid Bergman).
Ingrid Bergman Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of Academy Award-winning actress Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc. Signed by Ingrid Bergman. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 89643
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First Edition of Henry Ford's Moving Forward; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FORD, Henry.
Moving Forward.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Written with Samuel Crowther.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133594
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"A STATE OF JOY AND LAUGHTER": First EDITION OF JACQUELINE AND LEE BOUVIER'S ONE SPECIAL SUMMER
BOUVIER, Jacqueline and Lee [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis].
One Special Summer.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.
First edition of this delightful memoir written by the Bouvier sisters about their summer in Europe. Folio, original marbled blue paper boards, illustrated with drawings and decorations by both authors. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 141411
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First edition of Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years; signed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane. Edited by Dale Peterson.
Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
First edition of the second volume of Goodall's personal and professional correspondence; a welcome sequel to her critically acclaimed Africa in My Blood. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For the Rhoads Family- Together we can make a difference Jane Goodall." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martha Kennedy.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 142049
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Classic Work The Mystery of Banking
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Mystery of Banking.
New York: Richardson and Snyder, 1983.
First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146163
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's Vanity of Duluoz
KEROUAC, Jack.
Vanity of Duluoz.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968.
First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 131320
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First edition of Langston Hughes' Something in Common and Other Stories; from the library of GEOFFREY BRIDSON WITH WHOM HE CO-PRODUDED THE FAMED BBC SERIES THE NEGRO IN AMERICA
HUGHES, Langston.
Something in Common and Other Stories.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.
First edition, advance reading copy of this collection of thirty-seven of Hughes' tales, eleven of them appearing in book form for the first time. Octavo, paperback issue, original pictorial wrappers, with the publisher's slip tipped in which reads, "Compliments of the Author." From the library of Geoffrey Bridson with his bookplate to the pastedown. In 1965, BBC producer Geoffrey Bridson and Langston Hughes co-produced the now famous nineteen-part BBC series The Negro in America which offered a kaleidoscopic portrait of African-Americans’ contribution to twentieth century culture as well as some raw insights into the Civil Rights struggle that was then…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 139752
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First Edition of Blurred Zones; Inscribed by Architect Peter Eisenman
EISENMAN, Peter.
Blurred Zones: Eisenman Architects 1988-1988.
New York: Monacelli Press, 2003.
First edition. Folio, original gray cloth. Inscribed by architect Peter Eisenman. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 2327
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SARPI, Fra-Paolo; Courayer.
Histoire Du Concile De Trente, écrite en italienne par Fra-Paolo Sarpi, de l’Ordre des Servites; et trauit de nouveau en français, avces des notes critiques, historiques et theologiques, par Pierre-François Le Courayer.
Amsterdam: J. Wetstein et G. Smith, 1751.
Two volumes, original leather, gilt tooling to the spine. In good condition. Text in French.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 2055