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First edition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet
RODGERS, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein.
Me and Juliet.
New York: Random House, 1953.
First edition of the book companion to the sixth stage collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Fred Fehl. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 137268
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First Edition of the Playwright's Pulitzer-Prize winning work Three Tall Women; Signed by Edward Albee
ALBEE, Edward.
Three Tall Women.
New York: Dutton Book, 1995.
First edition of Albee's Three Tall Women, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, his third. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Edward Albee on the title page. With a program from the 1995 Celebrity Lecture Series at Michigan State University featuring Albee as a speaker laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Steve Ash.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 5722
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First Edition of James Webb's I Heard My Country Calling; Inscribed by Him
WEBB, James .
I Heard My Country Calling.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
First edition of the moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Lee with best wishes JWebb." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Laid is the original signing brochure for the reading.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 141516
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Signed Limited First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Dean's December
BELLOW, Saul.
The Dean’s December.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Signed limited first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow. Fine in a fine slipcase and in the original acetate.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 120568
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First Edition of Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli
LEVI, Carlo.
Christ Stopped At Eboli.
New York: FSG, 1947.
First American Edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original red cloth, pictorial endpapers. Very good in a good dust jacket. Translated from the Italian by Frances Frenaye.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 1748
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"Their fate sent them to serve in India, which is nota golden country though poets have sung otherwise": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.
First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 121804
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First edition of Patch Adams' Gesundheit!; warmly inscribed by him
ADAMS, Patch [Hunter Doherty] with Maureen Mylander.
Gesundheit! Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy.
Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 1993.
First edition of the story of Patch Adams' lifetime quest to transform the healthcare system. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "2/93 For Joan, for all your generous support my heartfelt thanks in peace #." In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 134159
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First Edition of Elizabeth B. Custer's Boots and Saddles
CUSTER, Elizabeth B.
Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
First edition of Elizabeth Custer's memoir. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial brown cloth decorated and stamped in black and gilt with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt embellishments of a rising sun and bugle to the front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, outline map of portions of Montana and Dakota. In near fine condition. A bright example.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 145222
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"The search of your life is the search for your life": First Edition of Erwin McManus' Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit; Inscribed by Him
MCMANUS, Erwin Raphael.
Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit.
Nashville : Nelson Books, 2008.
Early printing of this early work by McManus. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Dan- Live your story Leave a mark! Erwin McManus." In very good condition with some highlighting. Cover design by Joby Harris.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 136213
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First Edition of William Faulkner's The Town
FAULKNER, William.
The Town.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition, first printing of the second novel in Faulkner's celebrated Snopes trilogy with line 8 on page 327 repeated as line 10. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good later issue dust jacket. Bookplate to the front free endpaper and ownership inscription to the pastedown. Jacket design by Push Pin Studios.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 140009
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Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within; Signed by Rory Stewart
STEWART, Rory.
Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2023.
First edition, early printing of this "instant classic" (Marina Hyde). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Rory Stewart on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Matt Broughton.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 144165
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's The Dean's December; Signed by Him
BELLOW, Saul.
The Dean’s December.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
First edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 19006
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"Their fate sent them to serve in India, which is nota golden country though poets have sung otherwise": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.
First edition of Kipling's collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 123804
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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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"Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society": First Edition of The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor; Signed by Her
SOTOMAYOR, Sonia.
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor.
New York: Delacorte Press, 2018.
First edition of Justice Sotomayor's autobiography, which details the life of the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Sonia Sotomayor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Bianchini and Larsson McSwain.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 123929
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Looking Ahead: The Papers of David Sarnoff; Warmly Inscribed by Him
SARNOFF, David.
Looking Ahead: The Papers of David Sarnoff.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
First edition, early printing of the papers of this business pioneer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Dr. George Rich With appreciation and all good wishes David Sarnoff 68." Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 130197
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First Edition of Philip Roth's Deception; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
Deception.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
First edition of this "extraordinary, elegant novel" (Fay Weldon, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 144392
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First Edition of Alone Across The Atlantic; From the Library of Explorer and Adventurer Steve Fossett
CHICHESTER, Francis .
Alone Across The Atlantic.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961.
First edition of this work by the famed explorer. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. From the library 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 Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing’s most prolific distance record…
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 112552
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First Edition of The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer; Inscribed by John Adams
ADAMS, John] Thomas May.
The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer.
New Jersey: Amadeus Press, 2006.
First edition of this compilation of writings by the famed composer. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the composer John Adams on the title page.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 1298
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First edition of Brantz Mayer's Captain Canot or Twenty Years of an African Slaver
MAYER, Brantz.
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition, early issue of the historian's detailed account of the African slave trade without the misprint on page 191. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, additional vignette title. In very good condition, hinges reinforced.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 142153
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"Holmes' most celebrated work": Finely bound set of Oliver Wendell Holmes' Breakfast-Table Trilogy
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, and The Poet at the Breakfast-Table.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1903 - 1904.
Finely bound fully illustrated set of the series that gained Oliver Wendell Holmes international fame. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine within raised bands, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. With full page illustrations and vignettes by H.M. Brock throughout including tissue-guarded frontispieces. Armorial bookplates. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 110258
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"BUT THOUGHT'S THE SLAVE OF LIFE, AND LIFE TIME'S FOOL; AND TIME, THAT TAKES SURVEY OF ALL THE WORLD, MUST HAVE A STOP": FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY'S TIME MUST HAVE A STOP
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Time Must Have A Stop.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1945.
First British edition of Huxley’s complex and powerful novel. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 138775
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“THE BEST NOVEL I HAVE WRITTEN”: First American edition of Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Last Chronicle of Barset.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1867.
First American edition of the final novel in Trollope’s acclaimed Barsetshire series. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, with illustrations by George H. Thomas. In very good condition. Ownership inscription to the title page.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 124063
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Rare first edition of National Bank Organization 1812-1904
National Bank Organization 1812-1904.
New York: The National City Bank of New York, 1904.
First edition of this detailed work on the organization of the National City Bank. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 124768
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Signed Limited Edition of Winston Groom's Gump & Co.
GROOM, Winston.
Gump & Co.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1995.
Signed limited first edition. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Winston Groom. In fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 138538
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Finely Bound Example of Samuel Maunder's Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of Belles Lettres
MAUNDER, Samuel.
The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of Belles Lettres.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1858.
The new edition of Maunder's Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and the Arts. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, raised gilt bands to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges speckled red, frontispiece. In very good condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 118021
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First and deluxe edition of A London Garland: Selected From Five Centuries of English Verse by W. E. Henley with Pictures of the Society of Illustrators
[THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS; ARTHUR RACKHAM],.
A London Garland: Selected From Five Centuries of English Verse by W. E. Henley with Pictures of the Society of Illustrators.
London and New York: Macmillan and Company, 1895.
First and deluxe edition of this selection of five centuries of verse with commentary by the Society of Illustrators. Quarto, original publisher's deluxe full vellum, illustrated, with one full page illustration by Arthur Rackham on page 104. In good condition with some chipping to the crown of the spine.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 142637
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First Edition of Toni Morrison's A Mercy; Signed by Her
MORRISON, Toni.
A Mercy.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
First edition of "one of Morrison's most haunting works yet” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Toni Morrison on a publisher's bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 144102
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First Edition of The Great Society: Lessons for the Future; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
GINZBERG, Eli and Robert M. Solow.
The Great Society: Lessons for the Future.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding The Great Society. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 43098
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's The T-Shirts I Love; Signed Twice by designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The T-Shirts I Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original illustrated boards by Chip Kidd. Signed twice by Chip Kidd, once on the front panel and again on the rear panel. In fine condition. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 131851
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Signed limited edition of Charles Grosvenor's An Iconography of the Portraits of T.E. Lawrence
GROSVENOR, Charles.
An Iconography of the Portraits of T. E. Lawrence.
Pasadena: The Otterden Press, 1988.
Signed limited edition of Grosvenor's catalogue of the portraits of T. E. Lawrence. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 255. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover portrait by William Rothenstein. Cover photograph by Vladmir Popovic.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 126800
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First edition of Col. Harold P. Sheldon's Tranquility: Tales of Sport with the Gun
SHELDON, Col. Harold P. Introduction by Nash Buckingham.
Tranquility: Tales of Sport with the Gun.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936.
First edition of Sheldon's collected outdoor sketches. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 94. In near fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 116019
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First Edition of Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.'s Black Against Empire
BLOOM, Joshua and Waldo E. Martin.
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013.
First edition of the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Patrick Liem.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 145142
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First Edition of Jeb Bush's Profiles in Character; Inscribed by Both Authors
BUSH, Jeb and Brian Yablonski.
Profiles in Character.
Miami: Foundation For Miami's Future, 1995.
First edition of Jeb Bush's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Foreword by William J. Bennett.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 85632
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First Edition of Winston Churchill’s Masterpiece The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.
First American edition of the fourth volume in Churchill's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144548
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First Edition of Jack Nicklaus' Memories and Mementos from Golf's Golden Bear
NICKLAUS, Jack with David Shedloski.
Jack Nicklaus: Memories and Mementos from Golf’s Golden Bear.
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007.
First edition of the 'Golden Bear' of Golf's autobiographical collection of memoirs and facsimiles. Quarto, original golden boards, illustrated with collectible facsimiles selected by Jack Nicklaus himself as his favorite pieces of memorabilia, each housed in an unopened protective pocket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Sticker to the front panel, 'Includes 10 rare removable collectibles from the Jack Nicklaus Museum.' Front jacket photo by Walter Iooss, Sports Illustrated. Rear jacket photo of the conclusion of Nicklaus's final round, in the 2005 British Open, at St. Andrews Scotland by AP, Wide World Images.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145103
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"If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised": First edition of Rockwellkentiana
KENT, Rockwell.
Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures by R.K. and, by Carl Zigrosser, a Bibliography and List of Prints.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
First edition of this classic collection of the writings and art of Rockwell Kent, including a bibliography of his work. Quarto, original pictorial cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 137037
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“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning": Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey
WILDER, Thornton.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.
Early printing of the author's masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135902
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First edition of Harold Sinclair's The Horse Soldiers ; Signed by Harold Sinclair
SINCLAIR, Harold.
The Horse Soldiers.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
First edition of Sinclair's fictionalized account of Grierson's Raid during the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. One of 750 numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 115123
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First Edition of Evaluation and Measurement of Investment Performance
KIRBY, Robert G.; John W. O'Brien; Myron S. Scholes; Rodger F. Smith; Jack L. Treynor.
Evaluation and Measurement of Investment Performance.
Charlottesville: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1977.
First edition of this collection of essays on investment performance. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 117761
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First edition of George Alfred Henty's A March on London
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
A March On London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler’s Insurrection.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898.
First edition of Henty’s classic historical adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Margetson. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription, bookplate.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122907
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"Quick, one last kiss, Genevieve. It's my last fight, an' I'll fight as never before with you lookin at me": First edition of Jack London's The Game
LONDON, Jack.
The Game.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905.
First Edition, second issue of London's tragic boxing tale with the magazine rubberstamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations and decorations by Henry Hutt and T. C. Lawrence. In good condition with a child's drawings to a few pages. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 128146
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First edition of James Peckham's Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861: A Monograph of the Great Rebellion
PECKHAM, James.
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861. A Monograph of the Great Rebellion.
New York: American News Company, Publishers, 1866.
First edition of Peckham's biography of the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132918
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First edition of Sophie Tucker's Some of These Days; Inscribed by her
TUCKER, Sophie.
Some of These Days.
United States of America: Sophie Tucker, 1945.
First edition of Sophie Tucker's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Shirley + Jack Bravo Love, Sophie Tucker Jan 1/56." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Author photograph by Maurice Seymour. With the recipients' ownership stamp to the dedication page.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 137556
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First Edition of The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College
GRANT, Gerald; David Riesman.
The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
First edition of this work by famed sociologist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For the Institute of Advanced Study with appreciation David Riesman December, 1978." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 62018
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The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February - July, 1899; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February – July, 1899.
London: Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899.
The second volume of the collected issues of the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Quarto, Vol. II, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with photographs and illustrations by numerous artists including six by Arthur Rackham for The Manoeuvres of Jerry on pages 71-77. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142672
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Rossiter Johnson's The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession 1861-1865
JOHNSON, Rossiter.
The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession. 1861-1865.
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894.
Second edition of Johnson's authoritative work on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132319
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First Edition of Alvin Hansen's Business Cycles and National Income
HANSEN, Alvin H.
Business Cycles and National Income.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1951.
First edition of this work by the "American Keynes." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 4286
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First Edition of Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth Circles The World; From the Library of Adventurer and Explorer Steve Fossett
CHICHESTER, Francis.
Gipsy Moth Circles The World.
London: Coward, McCann, Inc, 1968.
First edition of the author's account of circumnavigating the globe in his boat Gypsy IV. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate. 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 Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 143052
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Finely bound example of Francis Charles Philips' My Little Husband and If Only; finely bound
PHILIPS, Francis Charles.
My Little Husband and If Only.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894-1904.
Finely bound example Philips' two collections short stories. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges red. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 114507
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs From Books
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs From Books.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling's children's stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 121421
