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First Edition of Giving Good Weight; Signed by John McPhee
MCPHEE, JOHN.
Giving Good Weight.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee’s classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John McPhee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 145881
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First Edition of John McPhee's Annals of the Former World
MCPHEE, JOHN.
Annals of the Former World.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 1998.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, Original black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Maps by Allan Cartography. Endpapers designed by Tom Funk. Jacket art by John Clerk.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 145124
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First Edition of Wimbledon: A Celebration; Signed by John McPhee, Rod Laver, Rafael Nadal, Stan Smith, John Newcombe, John Isner, Bud Collins and Lleyton Hewitt
MCPHEE, JOHN; PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT.
Wimbledon: A Celebration.
New York: The Viking Press 1972.
First edition of this work on Wimbledon. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed on the title page by John McPhee and additionally by Rod Laver and Rafael Nadal. Signed on the front free endpaper by Stan Smith, John Newcombe, John Isner and inscribed by Bud Collins. Signed by Lleyton Hewitt on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A unique example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 100052
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First Edition of John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain; Signed by Him
MCPHEE, JOHN.
In Suspect Terrain.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1983.
First edition of this work of succinct prose. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by John McPhee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 75077
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First Edition of John McPhees First Book A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Princetons Bill Bradley; Warmly Inscribed by Him In the Year of Publication
MCPHEE, JOHN.
A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Princeton’s Bill Bradley.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1965.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “For Hazel and Louis Landa I can hear you saying to one another: “Has he some quelque chose of his own upon the anvil?” “I expect it from him since poor Bradley helped to make him rich.” With much affection, John McPhee December 25, 1965.” Louis Landa was a close colleague of McPhee’s at Princeton, where he taught English and was also an authority on Jonathan Swift. Some sunning to the spine cloth, near fine in a bright near fine price-clipped dust jacket without the usual fading to the spine.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 3974
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First Edition of John McPhee's The Deltoid Seed; Inscribed by Him
MCPHEE, JOHN.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, “For Mike Hutcheson many thanks and all the best John McPhee Bradford 1/23/89.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 2544
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First Edition of Giving Good Weight; Inscribed by John McPhee
MCPHEE, JOHN.
Giving Good Weight.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee’s classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Len Byrd all best John.” Additionally signed by John McPhee on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 2133