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"We are told that the trouble with Modern Man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature": First Edition of Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher; Inscribed by Him
THOMAS, Lewis.
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher.
New York: The Viking Press, 1974.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Margaret Carson with regards Lewis Thomas." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 118459
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge": First Illustrated Edition of The Discoverers; Inscribed by Daniel Boorstin to his Neighbors in the Year of Publication
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to know his World and Himself.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1991.
First illustrated edition of this classic work. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper in the year of publication of both volumes. Volume one's inscription reads "For Hope and Sam- good friends, good neighbors- with affection from Dan Oct. 14, 1991." Volume two's inscription reads, "For Hope and Sam- with affection over many years from Dan Oct. 14, 1991." Both volumes are in fine condition, as is the slipcase. A nice association.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5026
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First edition of Hilary Putnam's Ethics Without Ontology; Inscribed by Him
PUTNAM, Hilary.
Ethics Without Ontology.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
First edition of this work on ontology by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For John Hilary Putnam April 4, '15." Name to the front free endpaper, fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 68341
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First Edition of Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God: Creative Mythology; Inscribed by Him
CAMPBELL, Joseph.
The Masks of God: Creative Mythology.
New York: The Viking Press, 1968.
First edition of this Campbell classic, which discusses the primitive roots of mythology. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Anne and Brendan with my love and good wishes from Joe." The recipient, Brendan Gill wrote for the New Yorker for more than 60 years where he wrote more than 1,200 pieces including scores of reviews and served as the main architecture critic from 1987 to 1996. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 101266
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"Good questions outrank easy answers": Economics: An Introductory Analysis; Signed by Paul A. Samuelson
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Economics: An Introductory Analysis.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1948.
First edition reprint of the original 1948 first edition of this influential text by the father of modern economics. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the title page, "Paul A. Samuelson MIT." Some light dampstaining to a few pages, very good in a fine dust jacket. With a new foreword by the author.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 86523
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Israel M. Kirzner's Competition and Entrepreneurship; Signed by Him
KIRZNER, Israel M.
Competition and Entrepreneurship.
Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2013.
First edition of the Liberty Fund edition of Kirzner's classic Austrian School text. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Peter J. Boettke and Frederic Sautet.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 86784
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge": First Edition of The Creators; Inscribed by Daniel Boorstin in the year of publication
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Creators.
New York: Random House, 1992.
First edition of this "grand and exhilirating voyage, a bold attempt to circumnavigate the intellectual globe" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Thick octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free end paper, "For Dona [sic] Munker from Daniel J. Boorstin Oct. 21, 1992." The recipient, Donna Munker is a writer and biographer and author of Daughter of Persia. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 128201
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": Charles Dickens' David Copperfield; finely bound in full leather
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: George G. Harrap, 1924.
Finely bound example of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, tooling to the front and rear panels, frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond. In fine condition.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 119346
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Rare Advanced Reading Copy of the First edition of Baltasar and Blimunda; signed by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Baltasar and Blimunda.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1987.
Advanced reading copy of the first American edition of Saramago's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Jose Saramago 1.2006." In near fine condition. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 133612
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"God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan--or man to create both": First Edition of Colin Fletcher's Thousand Mile Summer; Signed by Him
FLETCHER, Colin.
The Thousand-Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra.
Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964.
First edition of Fletcher's classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs from the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on half title page, "For J.P. Cohn From Colin Fletcher." Also laid in is an autographed note signed, "Dear J.P.-- Fatefully-- because it was your suggestion in the first place that I approach the Chronicle. Best, Colin." Also laid in are two folded color brochures: The Man Who Walked Through Time with the author's printed Berkeley address label affixed and a note from author on novelty stationery, "Dear J.P.-- Just occurred to me that you might be…
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 132615
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Signed Limited First Edition of Bemelmans' Madeline and the Bad Hat
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline and the Bad Hat.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
Signed limited edition of the third book in Bemelmans' acclaimed Madeleine series. Quarto, original cloth. One of 985 copies signed by Ludwig Bemelmans. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 69041
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Jan Gehl's Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space; Lengthily Signed by Him
GEHL, Jan.
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.
Early printing of this "thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening work" (Jane Jacobs). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "Keep up the good work and greetings from Jan Gehl Copenhagen 20.01.2015." In near fine condition. Translated by Jo Koch.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 73672
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First Edition of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust
WAUGH, Evelyn.
A Handful Of Dust.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1934.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper. A very sharp example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 39786
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First Edition of The Cider House Rules; Warmly inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
The Cider House Rules.
New York: William Morrow , 1985.
First edition of Irving's sixth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rob with my appreciation John Irving." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, mark to the top edge. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145774
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First Edition of Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel The Yearling
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
The Yearling.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 53043
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"Wallace embraces the incompatibility of mathematics and prose and makes art from it": First Edition of Everything And More; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
First edition of this work which examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Base Art Co./Terry Rohrbach.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144245
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"Let us now praise famous men - men of little showing": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 96106
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First Edition of Organizational Psychology; inscribed by Edgar H. Schein with a quote from the book
SCHEIN, Edgar H.
Organizational Psychology.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1965.
First edition of Schein's work on organizational dynamics and psychology. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "The argument is that systems work better if their parts are in good communication with each other, are committed and are creative and flexible.' True then, still true now. All the best to John: E.H. Schein March 29, 2015." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 110438