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First Edition of Carveth Wells' Six Years in the Malay Jungle
WELLS, Carveth.
Six Years in the Malay Jungle.
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1925.
First edition of Wells' work on the Malay jungle. Octavo, original orange cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket,
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1921
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First Edition of The Peace Puzzle: America's Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011; From the Library of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
KURTZER, Daniel C.; Scott B. Lasensky; William B. Quandt; Steven L. Spiegel; Shibley Z. Telhami [Madeleine Albright].
The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011.
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013.
First edition of this informative account of the United States' role in attempting to achieve Arab-Israeli peace. Octavo, original publisher's black boards, illustrated with a map of The Syrian-Israeli Frontier, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds”…
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147354
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"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves": First Edition of Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA,.
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
First British edition of The Dalai Lama's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147113
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First Edition of Ric Burns and James Sanders' New York: An Illustrated History
BURNS, Ric; James Sanders; Lisa Ades.
New York: An Illustrated History.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of this landmark illustrated history of the city that never sleeps. Quarto, original half cloth, heavily illustrated with 500 images in color and black and white. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 147936
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"You go your way I'll go your way too": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing
COHEN, Leonard.
Book of Longing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
First Canadian edition and true first of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147182
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First Edition of This collection of Nadine Gordimer’s Writings; Signed by the Nobel Laureate
GORDIMER, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman.
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 546
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First edition of William Safire's The Relations Explosion; from his personal collection
SAFIRE, William .
The Relations Explosion: A Diagram of the Coming Boom and Shakeout in Corporate Relations.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.
First edition of Safire's controversial book. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Abner Dean. From the library of the author, William Safire. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by S. A. Summit, Inc.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127393
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Limited First Edition of Joseph P. Lash's A World of Love; Signed by Him
LASH, Joseph P.
A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.
Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt by Peter Fiore specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition, illustrated with black and white photographs and a genealogical table. Signed by Joseph Lash on the front flyleaf. In near fine condition with a small abrasion…
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146857
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But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone I'll be speaking to you sweetly From a window In the Tower of Song": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
COHEN, Leonard.
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.
Toronto: McClellan & Stewart, 1993.
First edition of this collection of poems and songs. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen DiGrado. Jacket photograph by Edward Gajdel.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 129199
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“IS THIS REALITY, THE FINAL REALITY, OR JUST A NEW DECEPTIVE DREAM?”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
King, Queen, Knave.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
First British edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Photograph of Nabokov on the rear panel by Philippe Halsman. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. A nice example.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 89070
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First edition of Piers Paul Read's On The Third Day; Inscribed by him
READ, Piers Paul.
On The Third Day.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1990.
First edition of this thought provoking novel about the nature of faith. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally, Remembering our conversations around this book, with best wishes. Piers." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147640
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"Grub's Up!": First Edition of Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes
DAHL, Roald; Felicity Dahl; Lori-Ann Newman.
Even More Revolting Recipes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2001.
First edition of this collection of scrumdiddlyumptious treats from Dahl's famous children's stories. Medium octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated with drawings by Quentin Blake and photographs by Jan Baldwin throughout. In very good condition. Recipes by Lori-Ann Newman.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147106
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"But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid": Arthur Miller's Pultizer Prize-Winning Classic The Death Of A Salesman
MILLER, Arthur.
Death Of A Salesman.
New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
First edition of the special illustrated edition of the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studio.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 146319
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First edition of G. C. Beresford's Schooldays With Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Schooldays With Kipling.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936.
First edition of Beresford's homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 135197
