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“The world is full of places to which I want to return”: First Edition of The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion
HUEFFER, [Ford] Ford Madox.
The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion.
London: John Lane Company, 1915.
First edition, first issue without the 16 pp. of advertisements of this literary highspot, one of the great novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing and wear to the extremities.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 97211
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"A Good public Servant Becomes so at a high cost of personal sacrifice": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelts Classic Work You Learn By Living; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
You Learn By Living.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's classic work on how to discover life's lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. Name on the half-title page, near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Dr. David Gurewitsch. Rare signed, as Roosevelt passed away in 1962.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 52032
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“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him": John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces; Signed by Walker Percy
TOOLE, John Kennedy; Foreword by Walker Percy.
A Confederacy of Dunces.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
First edition, early printing of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Walker Percy on the title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Ed Lindlof. Foreword by Walker Percy. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144201
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Finely bound early 19th century Scottish printing of ADAM SMITH’S MASTERPIECE THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edinburgh: Printed by and For J. & J. Scrymgeour, and for Mundell & Son, and Arch. Constable & Co., 1805.
Finely bound early 19th century printing of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. A new edition containing A Life of the Author and a View of the Doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the French Economists. In good condition. Armorial bookplates.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138495
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First Edition of Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts; Signed by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner
SCALIA, Antonin & Bryan A. Garner.
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.
St. Paul, MN : Thomson/ West, 2012.
First edition of this work, which offers concise, articulate and reasoned discussions on reading and interpreting law. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by both Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Frank H. Easterbrook.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 135494
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One of 50 Copies of Evelyn Waugh's The Holy Places; Signed by Him and illustrator Reynolds Stone
WAUGH, Evelyn; Illustrated by Reynolds Stone.
The Holy Places. With Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone.
New York and London: The Queen Anne Press; The British Book Centre, 1953.
Signed limited issue, number 23 of 50 specially bound copies, signed by both the author and illustrator Reynolds Stone, from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Quarto, original red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gray endpapers, top edge gilt. Frontispiece woodcut and title page printed in brown, 3 further woodcuts in text printed in black. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 71894
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"I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you! What a program and what a place and what an experience!": Rare large format glossy color photograph of Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke walking on the lunar surface; inscribed by him
DUKE, Charlie.
Charlie Duke Signed “10th Man to Walk on the Moon” Photograph.
Rare large format glossy color photograph of Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke; the 10th man to walk on the lunar surface. Signed by Duke in gold ink, "'I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you! What a program and what a place and what an experience!' Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 LMP, 10th Man to Walk on the Moon, April 21, 1972." In fine condition. The photograph measures 16 inches by 20 inches.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 142784
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“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious": Signed Limited Edition of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman
LEE, Harper.
Go Set A Watchman.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.
Signed limited edition of the author's second novel. Octavo. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by Harper Lee. Housed in a custom clamshell box. In fine condition with the original shipping carton.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 7352
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelts Classic Work You Learn By Living; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
You Learn By Living.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's classic work on how to discover life's lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Dr. David Gurewitsch. Rare signed, as Roosevelt passed away in 1962. A very nice signed example.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 139193
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Signed Photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Jawaharlal Nehru Photograph Signed.
Signed photograph of Jawaharlal Nehru of the first prime minister of India. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 13.5 inches.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 99334
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
First edition of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. In very good condition, bookplate.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 139470
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“There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead": First Edition of Breakfast of Champions; Signed by Kurt Vonnegut
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.
First edition of Vonnegut's classic work. Octavo, original orange cloth, with drawings by the author. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the half-title page, "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Giusti. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 130518
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First Edition of Murmurs of Earth; Signed by Carl Sagan
SAGAN, Carl; F.D. Drake; Anne Druyan; Timothy Ferris; Jon Lomberg; Linda Salzman Sagan.
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record.
New York : Random House, 1978.
First edition of this fascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Sagan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 74002
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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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Early 20th Century French Empire Doré Bronze Eagle Inkwell
Early 20th Century French Empire Doré Bronze Eagle Inkwell.
c. 1920.
Early 20th Century French Empire Doré bronze inkwell featuring prominently a large bronze eagle flanked by two bronze inkwells on clawed feet. Sited on a green marble base atop two bronze winged lions and two rear feet. The entire piece measures 15.25 inches long, 7.25 inches deep, and 8.5 inches tall. In fine condition. A handsome library decoration.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 90475
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First Edition Of the Authors Third Novel: Signed By The Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
Miguel Street.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959.
First edition of Naipaul’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to the crown. Jacket design by Stephen Russ.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 3544
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"You go your way I'll go your way too": Book of Longing; Inscribed by Leonard Cohen to fellow novelist Robert Stone and his Wife
COHEN, Leonard [Robert Stone].
Book of Longing.
New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Early printing of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Leonard Cohen on the title page, "For Janice and Bob, suffering together, Leonard Washington 2006." The recipient, American novelist Robert Stone's first two novels, A Hall of Mirrors(1967) and Dog Soldiers(1974) were published in the same era as Cohen's only published novels The Favorite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966). Both author's works have come to be seen as great reflections of the zeitgeist, and darker side, of the 1960s. Cohen inscribed the present volume to Stone at BookExpo America 2006, held in…
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 96167
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"Regrets are illuminations come too late": First Edition of Joseph Campbell's Seminal Work; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
CAMPBELL, Joseph.
The Hero With A Thousand Faces.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1949.
First edition of Joseph Campbell's magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated with 22 textual drawings, 12 plates, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 144386
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“Ants are everywhere and deserve our attention": FIRST EDITION OF THE ANTS; SIGNED BY EDWARD O. WILSON WITH A DRAWING OF AN ANT
WILSON, Edward O. & Bert Holldobler.
Ants.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press, 1990.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Edward O. Wilson who has added a drawing of an ant on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marianne Perlak. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 132446
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35th Anniversary Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Inscribed by Harper Lee
LEE, Harper.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Best wishes to Gilda Conner -Harper Lee." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 144177