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"I hope you will never live to see such a crisis as brought this book into Being": Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country; lengthily inscribed by him
HALE, Edward Everett.
The Man Without a Country.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1898.
Early printing of Hale's classic short story. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, stamped bald eagle vignette to the front panel, illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the free endpaper, "My Dear Julius I hope you will never live to see such a crisis as brought this book into Being Edward E. Hale." In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 112426
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"one of Handel's finest operas": Rare First edition of Handel's Rodelinda: An Opera
HANDEL, George Frideric.
Rodelinda: An Opera.
London: J. Cluer, 1725.
First edition of one of Handel's finest operas, a highly dramatic work whose taut plot resembles that of Fidelio. Quarto, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, engraved illustrated title page, index with advertisement, printed list of subscribers. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 132176
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First Edition of Market Structure and Foreign Trade; Inscribed by Paul Krugman to Fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow
HELPMAN, Elhanan and Paul R. Krugman [Kenneth J. Arrow].
Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1985.
First edition of this work important work on foreign trade. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Krugman to fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow on the title page, "For Ken Paul K." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Angelynn Grant. From the library of Kenneth Arrow.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 105886
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Commemorative Cover Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
HILLARY, Edmund and Tenzing Norgay.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Signed Commemorative Cover.
Commemorative cover with an inlaid medallion honoring the 25th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest, boldly signed by both Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Housed in its original presentation folder, the cover measures 8 inches by 4.5 inches. In fine condition. An exceptional piece of mountaineering history, signed by the two individuals who ascended Mount Everest.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138460
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"the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love": First Edition of Nothing More To Declare; Inscribed by John Clellon Holmes to His Wife
HOLMES, John Clellon.
Nothing More To Declare.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967.
First edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gershon Legman and Jay Landesman. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, "For Shirley- the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love- John Feb. 3, 1967." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Omin. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 103995
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Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman
HOOVER, Herbert & Harry S. Truman.
Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman.
1946.
Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman, signed by both Presidents. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 11.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by both Hoover and Truman.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 102878
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First collected edition of Aldous Huxley's Grey Eminence; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1956.
First collected edition of Huxley's biography of French monk François Leclerc du Tremblay. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 130128
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Presentation copy of William Hazlitt: Essayist and Critic; from the library of Robert Louis Stevenson; inscribed to him by the author and with Stevenson's bookplate signed by his stepdaughter Isobel Strong
IRELAND, Alexander. [Robert Louis Stevenson].
William Hazlitt: Essayist and Critic.
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1889.
Robert Louis Stevenson's first edition copy of the writings of one of his favorite prose writers, William Hazlitt. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, botanical gilt vignette to the front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Hazlitt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Robert Louis Stevenson on the half-title page, "To Robert Louis Stevenson Esq with Alex Ireland's cordial regards & remembrances Southport 9 Leicester St. October 2, 1889." With Stevenson's Vailima bookplate to the pastedown which is singed by Stevensons stepdaughter Isobel Strong. In good condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $3,750.00 Item Number: 104876
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“This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels" (Cyril Connolly): First Edition of Down There On a Visit; Inscribed by Him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Monroe Wheeler ex dono Christopher Isherwood." The recipient Monroe Wheeler was an American publisher and museum coordinator and a close friend of Isherwood's. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 104119
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“This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels" (Cyril Connolly): First Edition of Down There On a Visit; Inscribed by Him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Vincente Urbistondo, with my best wishes Christopher Isherwood Oct 22 1967." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 110673
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First Edition of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture; Signed by Charles Jencks
JENCKS, Charles.
The Language of Post-Modern Architecture.
New York: Rizzoli, 1977.
First edition of Jencks' classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Charles Jencks on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 108009
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First Edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles In Courage; Inscribed by Him
KENNEDY, John F.
Profiles In Courage.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Foreword by Allan Nevins. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ben Connors with very best wishes- John Kennedy." With the inaugural address of President Kennedy laid in. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Phil Grushkin. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 133140
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"To J. Edgar Hoover- a public servant of the highest courage- with the admiration of the author": First Edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles In Courage; Inscribed by Him to J. Edgar Hoover
KENNEDY, John F.
Profiles In Courage.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To J. Edgar Hoover- a public servant of the highest courage- with the admiration of the author- John Kennedy." The recipient, J. Edgar Hoover served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States for nearly 48 years, being first appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director…
Price: $125,000.00 Item Number: 134320
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First edition of C.R. Kenyon's The Argonauts on the Amazon
KENYON, C. R. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
The Argonauts on the Amazon.
London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1901.
First edition of the author's classic adventure tale, containing some of Arthur Rackham's earliest illustrations. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 6 full-pages illustrations by Arthur Rackham. In very good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 142584
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First Edition of Warren Buffett: The Good Guy of Wall Street; Signed by Warren Buffett and Andrew Fitzpatrick
KILPATRICK, Andrew; Warren E. Buffett.
Warren Buffett: The Good Guy of Wall Street.
New York: Donald I. Fine , 1992.
First edition of this early biography on investing legend Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Warren Buffett on the front free endpaper, "To Mike- With best wishes Warren E. Buffett 4-9-93." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Author photograph by E. Kent Oztekin.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 107255
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First Edition of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins; Signed by both Eric Kimmel and Illustrator Trina Schart Hyman
KIMMEL, Eric A.; Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.
New York: Holiday House, 1989.
First edition of this Caldecott Honor-winning classic. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Ann, Eric A. Kimmel." Additionally signed below by the illustrator "Trina Schart Hyman 1990." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 103993
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Rare Elaborately Illuminated nobility diploma signed by King Charles II Of Spain
KING CHARLES II OF SPAIN. [DON CARLOS],.
King Charles II Of Spain Autograph Signed Manuscript.
Madrid: May 28, 1699.
Rare elaborately illuminated nobility diploma signed by King Charles II of Spain, appointing Don Martin Damian Mendizabal the title of Marquis of Torre Gines. Quarto, bound in full red contemporary velvet covered boards with two metal clasps, containing five illuminated leaves, two fully illuminated in color with the Royal coat of arms and portrait of King Charles II, text in Spanish. Signed by King Charles II, "Yo el Rey" and additionally signed by several Royal secretaries. Bound with a printed manuscript of the Oath of Fidelity to the King of Spain with Royal stamps dated 1701 and with two autograph…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 107920
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Israel M. Kirzner's Market Theory and the Price System; Signed by Him
KIRZNER, Israel M.
Market Theory and the Price System.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2011.
First edition of the second volume of the collected works of Kirzner. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Peter J. Boettke and Frédéric Sautet.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 104622
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Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions; Signed by John Kotter
KOTTER, John and Holger Rathgeber.
Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions.
Privately Printed, 2006.
First edition of the privately printed edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Spencer Johnson. With artwork by Peter Mueller.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 107649
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First Edition of John Kotter's Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management; Inscribed by Him
KOTTER, John P.
A Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management.
New York: The Free Press, 1990.
First edition of this insightful book on leadership. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard Miller With Best Regards, John Kotter 7/91." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by W. Scot Carouge.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 106426
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Rare Civil War Era Carte-de-visite of Robert E. Lee; Signed by Him
LEE, Robert E.
Robert E. Lee Signed Carte-de-Visite.
Rare Civil War era carte-de-visite portrait of General Robert E. Lee in uniform, boldly signed "RE Lee". In fine condition. Quadruple matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 103675
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Rare Reconstruction Era Carte-de-visite of Confederate Commander Robert E. Lee; Signed by Him
LEE, Robert E.
Robert E. Lee Signed Carte-de-Visite.
Lexington, Va: Boude & Miley, [1869].
Rare Reconstruction era carte-de-visite portrait of former Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee in civilian attire, boldly signed "RE Lee." The carte-de-visite measures 2.5 inches by 4 inches with Boude & Miley's imprint on the verso. This striking postwar portrait of Lee was captured by photographer Michael Miley of Lexington, Virginia in 1869, perhaps less than a year prior to Lee's death on October 12, 1870. Following the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865, Lee became president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia; in that position, he supported reconciliation between North and South.The…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 140513
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"Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ourselves to look for it": First Edition of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers; Lengthily inscribed by Yiyun Li
LI, Yiyun.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of Li's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ourselves to look for it. For Adrienne with warmest regards, Yiyun Li." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison Saltzman.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 102837
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"The strange thing was there were times she felt she liked him very much": First Edition of Bernard Malamud's Assistant; Signed by him
MALAMUD, Bernard.
Assistant.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
First edition of Malamud's second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Bernard Malamud on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a chip to the crown of the spine. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 100488
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Signed Limited Edition of James Michener's Miracle in Seville
MICHENER, James A.
Miracle in Seville.
New York: Random House, 1995.
Signed limited edition by James Michener. Octavo, original cloth. Number 391 of 500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase, still in the original shrinkwrap.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 107453
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"It’s dollars and cents, nickels and dimes; war and peace"; First Edition of The Price; Inscribed by Arthur Miller to his Editor
MILLER, Arthur.
The Price.
New York: The Viking Press, 1968.
First edition of this play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his editor on the front free endpaper, "Dear Aaron Thanks Arthur March, 1968." Asher also edited Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and many others. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 105622
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“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found": First Edition of The Essential John Nash; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist John F. Nash
NASH, John F.; Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar.
The Essential John Nash.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this volume which compiles John Nash's most well-known papers. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nash on the half-title page, "For Harry Williams 27 April 2009 John F. Nash, Jr." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grady Klein.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 103443
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First Edition of The Essential John Nash; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist John F. Nash
NASH, John F.; Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar.
The Essential John Nash.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this volume which compiles John Nash's most well-known papers. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by John F. Nash, Jr. on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grady Klein.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 138031
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First Edition of Jack Nicklaus' Golf My Way; Inscribed by him
NICKLAUS, Jack.
Golf My Way.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
First edition of this classic golf instructional. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Jim McQueen. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, "To John Good Golfing Jack Nicklaus." Fine in a near fine jacket. Written with Ken Bowden.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 106534
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"A girl's fair face and charm of manner lured me from hanging around under the Irish tri-colour and the red banner of Labour": First Edition of Windfalls; Inscribed by Sean O'Casey to his Friend Dr. Joe Cummins
O'CASEY, Sean.
Windfalls: Stories, Poems, and Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1934.
First edition of this work by the Irish dramatist and memoirist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. J.D. Cummins, (Joe) from his old ___ Sean O'Casey With undiminished affection London Jan. 1935." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 105844
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First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo; inscribed by him
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo: Two Plays by Eugene O’Neill.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1929.
First edition of this collection of two of the great playwright's works including the long theo-philosophical meditation, Lazarus Laughed, which called for more than one hundred actors making up a masked chorus. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt author's signature to the front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Oster with all good wishes Eugene O'Neill 1931." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 104924
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"Knock, and it shall be opened unto you": First Edition of Sean O'Casey's I Knock At The Door; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
O'CASEY, Sean.
I Knock At The Door: Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1939.
First edition of this autobiography by the famed Irish playwright. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Joe Cummins, with deep affection, from Sean O'Casey remembering many delightful Dublin chats round his surgery firesides. Devon 1939. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 108016
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"The greatest Lady of This Century in whom Africa has found a friend in deed": First Edition of Ojike's My Africa; Inscribed by Him to Eleanor Roosevelt
OJIKE, Mbonu [Eleanor Roosevelt].
My Africa.
New York: The John Day Company, 1946.
First edition of this work by the Nigerian novelist and nationalist, inscribed by him to Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Eleanor Roosevelt The greatest Lady of this Century in whom Africa has found a friend in deed. Mbonu Ojike." Bookplate of Eleanor Roosevelt, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Pearl S. Buck. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 102465
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"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in": Rosa Parks: My Story; Signed by Her
PARKS, Rosa.
Rosa Parks: My Story.
New York: Dial Books, 1992.
First edition, early printing of Parks' autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, "11/21/94 Rosa Parks." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jane Byers Bierhorst. Written with Jim Haskins.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138034
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First edition of Arthur Piver's Trans-Pacific Trimaran; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
PIVER, Arthur.
Trans-Pacific Trimaran.
Mill Valley: PI-CRAFT, 1963.
First edition of the sequel to the author-designer's Trans-Atlantic Trimaran of 1961. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, charts to the verso of the dust jacket. 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. Fosset…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115630
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First edition of The Self and its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism; inscribed by Karl Popper to Lionel Charles Robbins
POPPER, Karl and John C. Eccles.
The Self and its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism.
Berlin, New York, London: Springer-Verlag, 1977.
First edition of Popper and Eccles' groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by Karl Popper in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Lionel, with love from Karl 3rd November 1977." The recipient, British economist Lionel Charles Robbins, was a prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics. He and Popper were colleagues for over twenty years and formed a strong inter-departmental alliance, fortified by their mutual friendship with Friedrich von Hayek. In a letter to Hayek on 20th October 1964, Popper wrote, "I should also mention that, through your…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 101425
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First Edition of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Cross Creek Cookery; Signed by Her
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
Cross Creek Cookery.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.
First edition of Rawlings’ heartwarming cookbook. Octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Boldly signed by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the front free endpaper. In good condition. Illustrations by Robert Camp.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138178
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"Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down this Wall": First Edition of Ronald Reagan: The Wisdom and Humor of the Great Communicator; Inscribed by Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
REAGAN, Ronald; Edited by Frederick J. Ryan.
Ronald Reagan: The Wisdom and Humor of the Great Communicator.
San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1995.
First edition of this compilation of speeches from the 40th President of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Reagan on the half-title page, "To Jeannie Happy Birthday and Best Wishes Always Ronald Reagan." Additionally signed by Mikhail Gorbachev on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited by Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. Rare and desirable signed by these two heads of states.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 103645