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"All, however, shared a common pattern: an eerily similar cycle from greed to fear": First Edition of Liaquat Ahamad's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
AHAMED, Liaquat.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World.
New York: Penguin Press, 2009.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For William ‘All, however, shared a common pattern: an eerily similar cycle from greed to fear.’ Best Liaquat Ahamed New York, Sept 2015.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 120455
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“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell": First American Edition of C.S. Lewis' The Problem of Pain; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
LEWIS, C.S.
The Problem of Pain.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947.
First American edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing. Rare especially in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 120834
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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. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Base Art Co./ Terry Rohrbach.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120564
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Finely Bound Example of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; With a Foredge
BUNYAN, John.
Pilgrim’s Progress [Fore-Edge Painting]
London : L. and G. Seeley, 1840.
Finely bound example with a foredge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840 of one of the most significant works of religious English literature, Pilgrim’s Progress. Octavo, bound in full morocco, all edges gilt, 15 plates and illustrations, all hand-colored, with a fore-edge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. An nice presentation.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 120842
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First Edition of the 40th Anniversary Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Inscribed by Harper Lee
LEE, Harper.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
First edition, first printing of the 40th 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, “To C___ E___ with best wishes, Harper Lee.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli. First printings are uncommon signed.
Price: $1,950.00 Item Number: 120669
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“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us": Jurassic Park; Signed by by CHIP KIDD
CRICHTON, Michael.
Jurassic Park.
New York: Random House, 2018.
First edition of the 25th anniversary of the deluxe junior novelization of Crichton’s gripping, bestselling scientific thriller. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed the illustrator Chip Kidd on the front panel. In fine condition. Illustration by Chip Kidd.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122311
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35th Anniversary Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed 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. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Best wishes, Harper Lee.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 120791
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Signed Edition of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore; Signed three times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Kafka on the Shore.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of Murakami’s award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed three times by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear jacket flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 122969
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“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful": Signed Limited First Edition of Ready Player One
CLINE, Ernest.
Ready Player One.
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2016.
Signed limited first edition of Cline’s first novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Ernest Cline. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Desert Isle Design. Introduction by Patrick Rothfuss. Lacero by Andy Weir.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 120449
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“The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained": First Edition of Alexander Hamilton; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Alexander Hamilton.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 120901
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First Edition of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
RAND, Ayn.
Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece stamped in gilt, spine stamped in black and gilt. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by George Salter. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 120953
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"Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.
London: Macmillan, 1897.
First edition of Kipling’s richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing, with frontispiece and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Octavo, original blue cloth elegantly stamped in gilt. In near fine condition with light shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120712
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“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours”: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People; Inscribed by Him
CARNEGIE, Dale.
How to Win Friends and Influence People.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945.
Early printing of one of the best-selling books of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “My dear Katharine Knoop, My wife says you don’t need to read this book. However, I have discovered that the people who need it lease are the most enthusiastic about it. Best wishes for a Happy Christmas and a glad new year. Dale Carnegie 1945.” In very good condition. With the recipient’s bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120554
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past": First American Edition of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
ORWELL, George.
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
First American edition of Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Caricature of Orwell on the rear panel by George Holland.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 121923
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"BUT NO, I WAS OUT FOR STARS, I WOULD NOT COME IN. I MEANT NOT EVEN IF ASKED, AND I HADN'T BEEN": First Edition of Come In and Other Poems; Inscribed by Robert Frost
FROST, Robert.
Come In and Other Poems.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Harold and Florie Corbin from their ever Robert Frost Oct 18 57 L.F.A.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket, owner name. Selected by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated by John O’Hara Cosgrave II.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 120788
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"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly": First Edition of A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again; Signed by David Foster Wallace
FOSTER WALLACE, David.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1997.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Susan W/Fond Hellos David Foster Wallace.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Elizabeth Van Itallie.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 121367
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“It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way": First Edition of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion; Signed by Him
FOSTER WALLACE, David.
Oblivion: Stories.
Boston: Little Brown & Company, 2004.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 121399
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“WICKEDLY CLEVER BRAIN-TICKLERS”: NEW YORK TRILOGY; SIGNED BY PAUL AUSTER IN ALL THREE VOLUMES
AUSTER, Paul.
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass. WITH: Ghosts. WITH: The Locked Room.
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1985-86.
First editions of Paul Auster’s detective novels, each signed by him on the title page, with volume one a early printing. Octavo, original cloth. Each are signed by Paul Auster on the title page. Each are fine in a fine dust jackets. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional set.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 121435
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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man": First Edition of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
STEINBECK, John.
The Grapes of Wrath.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First edition with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 121326
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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; Bound In Full Morocco By Bayntun Riviere Bindery
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, bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 121748
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First Edition of A Rap on Race; Inscribed by Margaret Mead
BALDWIN, James and Margaret Mead.
A Rap on Race.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott and Company, 1971.
First edition of Baldwin’s emotional response to American racism juxtaposed with Mead’s logical analysis of a social scientist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Mary Katherine Rothenberger, Margaret Mead, June 14, 1971.” The recipient Katherine Rothenberger was a classmate of Mead’s at DePauw University and a lifelong friend. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Bender. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 122376
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FIRST EDITION OF SOCIOBIOLOGY: A NEW SYNTHESIS; WARMLY INSCRIBED BY EDWARD O. WILSON
WILSON, Edward O.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
First edition of Wilson’s classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrations by Sarah Landry. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Helen Vaitaitis with best wishes and thanks for your help Edward O. Wilson Museum of Comparative Biology Harvard University October 22, 1976.” Additionally signed again in full on the title page by Edward O. Wilson. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 122579
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First Edition of Haruki Murakami's Compilation Wind/ Pinball; Signed by Him and additionally three times by Illustrator Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
Wind/ Pinball.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
First edition of the compilation of Murakami’s first two novels. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Haurki Murakami on the half-title page. Additionally signed three times by illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, again on the half-title page and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Ted Gossen.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 122367
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain”: First Edition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time; Signed by Him
BALDWIN, James.
The Fire Next Time.
New York: The Dial Press, 1963.
First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the dedication page, “Jim Baldwin.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Uncommon signed.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 122578
