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"Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappoints. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding": John Adams; Warmly Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with a long quote from this work on the title page, "For John Rogers 'Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappoints. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.' It could have been his epitaph David McCullough." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Jacket painting by Gilbert Stuart. A unique example.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 144367
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"For best results, the competitive player should never depart from his area of expertise": First Edition of The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life, Love, and Money; Signed by John Train; From the Library of Peter Matthiessen
TRAIN, John [Peter Matthiessen].
The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life, Love, and Money.
Artisan Press, 2011.
First edition of this classic work by the founding editor of The Paris Review. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Train on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of novelist Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Matthiessen was a founding member of The Paris Review. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144372
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First Edition of Michael Ontaatje's The English Patient; signed three times by Legendary dust jacket designer Chip Kidd
ONDAATJE, Michael.
The English Patient.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First American edition of this classic Booker Prize-winning novel, the basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, half cloth. Signed by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd three times: on the front panel of the dust jacket, title page, and at his credit on the rear dust jacket flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145162
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"Into the dark, into that silence that has no end": First Edition of H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon
WELLS, H.G.
The First Men in the Moon.
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901.
First English edition of Wells's classic work of science fiction. Octavo, original publisher's gilt-decorated blue cloth, illustrated with 12 plates by Claude Shepperson. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144193
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Arnold Palmers Golf Book "Hit It Hard"
PALMER, Arnold.
Arnold Palmer’s Golf Book “Hit It Hard!”
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1961.
First edition of Arnold Palmer’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light wear and rubbing.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144541
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First Edition of Alan Paton's Cry The Beloved Country
PATON, Alan.
Cry, the Beloved Country.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1948.
First edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145917
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"When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music": First edition of Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
DINESEN, Isak. [Karen Blixen].
Out of Africa.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145920
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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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“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Weight of Glory
LEWIS, C.S.
The Weight of Glory and other Addresses.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949.
First edition, first printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 145132
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First Edition of Attention and Effort; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Daniel Kahneman
KAHNEMAN, Daniel.
Attention and Effort.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
First edition of this influential work, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive sciences. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page, "For William D. Kahneman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 140270
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First Editions of Each of F. Scott Fitzgeralds Works; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Beautiful and Damned, The Vegetable, The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men, Taps at Reveille, Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon.
New York: Charles Scribners, 1920-1935.
First edition, first printings of each of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s works. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound by full green morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, twin rule to turn ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. F. Scott Fitzgerald signature on the front panel of each volume. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 139788
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First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Girl from Hollywood
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
The Girl from Hollywood.
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923.
First edition of Burroughs' contemporary fiction novel. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece by P. J. Monahan. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145116
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First edition of The Dracula Book; inscribed by Christopher Lee and signed by William Marshall on a bookplate
GLUT, Donald F. With Introductions by Christopher Lee and William Marshall.
The Dracula Book.
Metuchen, N.J: The Scarecrow Press, 1975.
First edition of Glut's authoritative history of the literary and cinematic presentations of Count Dracula, including Bram Stoker's classic novel. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Christopher Lee on the dedication page, "Art - All good wishes Christopher Lee" and additionally signed by William Marshall on a bookplate affixed to the dedication page. In fine condition. Cover illustration by Larry Byrd.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145253
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Reflections on the Psalms
LEWIS, C.S.
Reflections on the Psalms.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1958.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Elizabeth Andrews.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145135
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"And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything": First Edition of Mary Oliver's Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
OLIVER, Mary.
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2010.
First edition of Mary Oliver's beautifully evocative book of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko. Jacket photograph by Mark Emery.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145136
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First Edition of the author's Monumental Work Capital In the Twenty-First Century; Signed by Thomas Piketty
PIKETTY, Thomas.
Capital In the Twenty-First Century.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014.
First edition of Piketty's magnum opus. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Thomas Piketty on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Graciela Golup. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144401
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First Edition of Schindler's Ark; Inscribed by Thomas Keneally
KENEALLY, Thomas .
Schindler’s Ark.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.
True first edition of this Booker Prize-winning novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Shalom Tom Keneally :) 1995." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Steve and Julie Ridgeway. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 145129
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First edition of Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FOSTER, Alan Dean.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
London: Century, 2016.
First edition of the New York Times bestselling author's novelization of the seventh installment in the Star Wars film franchise. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with an 8-page color photo insert of images from the film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 145010
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"How doth the little crocodile improve its shining tail, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale": First Edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground
CARROL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1886.
First edition of the original manuscript which was later expanded and published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original scarlet cloth, elaborate gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt vignette to the rear panel, triple gilt ruled, all edges gilt, text printed in the author's handwriting including thirty-seven illustrations in facsimile, advertisements at rear. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 145905