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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; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
ORWELL, George.
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
First American edition of Orwell's classic dystopian novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, 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 example.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 141815
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"ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN A GREAT WRITER AND A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER EVER PUBLISHED": Scarce First Edition of The Sweet Flypaper of Life; Lengthily inscribed by Langston Hughes
DECARAVA, Roy and Langston Hughes.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.
First edition of the classic collaboration between Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. Small octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Langston Hughes on the front free endpaper, "Especially for Lucian Stanton whose photographs I very much enjoyed seeing- Sincerely- Langston Hughes New York Feb. 23, 1960." An excellent example in the original dust jacket. Roth 101, Parr & Badger, The Photobook I, 242; The Open Book, 160. The hardcover is much more uncommon than the wrapper edition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 90534
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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; finely bound in three quarters calf
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
First edition in book form of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt tooling to the spine and raised gilt bands, frontispiece, pictorial title page and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne. In very good condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 117844
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"Lay down these words before your mind like rocks": First Edition of Gary Snyder's First Book Riprap; Signed by Him
SNYDER, Gary.
Riprap.
Ashland: Origin Press, 1959.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Limited to 500 copies. Boldly signed by Gary Snyder on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable in this condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 131298
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“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful": Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
WOOLF, Virginia.
The Voyage Out.
London: Duckworth, 1927.
Early printing of Woolf's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which has been restored. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 129080
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 106753
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collection of seven Supreme Court ruling pamphlets signed by Sandra Day O'Connor, Harry Blackmun, Anthony Kennedy, William H. Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas and Byron White
O'CONNOR, Sandra Day; Harry Blackmun.
Supreme Court Justice Signed Pamphlet Collection.
Rare collection of seven Supreme Court ruling pamphlets signed by Sandra Day O'Connor, Harry Blackmun, Anthony Kennedy, William H. Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas and Byron White. In fine condition. Cases include: Simon & Schuster Inc, v. Members of the New York State Crime Victims Board (regarding New York's "Son of Sam" law) signed by Sandra Day O'Connor, Christine Franklin v. Gwinnet County Public Schools and William Prescott signed by Byron White, Michael Barnes v. Glen Theatre Inc. signed by William H. Rehnquist, and Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Cleopatra Haslip signed by Harry S. Blackman. In fine condition. A unique collection.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 110586
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“You may not believe this. No one believes this, but it is true": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Winner Take Nothing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
First edition of Hemingway's third collection of short stories. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very nice presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 142401
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Rare original photograph of a young Charlie Chaplin; Signed by him
CHAPLIN, Charlie.
Charlie Chaplin Signed Photograph.
Rare original photograph of a young Charlie Chaplin. Signed by Chaplin beneath his portrait, "Faithfully Chas Chaplin." In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The photograph measures 7 inches by 5 inches. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 14.5 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 95208
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Rare original photograph of a young Charlie Chaplin; Signed by him
CHAPLIN, Charlie.
Charlie Chaplin Signed Photograph.
1914.
Rare original sepia-toned photograph of a young Charlie Chaplin, signed, "With Love Charles Aug 26th 14." Signed along the left edge in white, "Witzel L.A." for the photographer Albert Witzel. Framed. The entire piece measures 9.5 inches by 7 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 145797
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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, bound in three quarters calf, illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 140074
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"In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing culture": First Edition of The Art of Managing Human Resources; Lengthily signed by Edgar Schein
SCHEIN, Edgar H.
The Art of Managing Human Resources.
Oxford University Press, .
First edition of this work on management. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor opposite the title page, "In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing culture." All the best, John Ed H. Schein March 29, 2015." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Abraham J. Siegel.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 87844
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"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares": First Edition of Rosser Reeves' Reality in Advertising; Signed by Him
REEVES, Rosser.
Reality in Advertising.
New York: Borzoi/ Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.
First trade edition, published after the privately printed Ted Bates edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, slipcase. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With a promise that this is a very short, short book! Rosser Reeves Oct 8, 1962. Fine in the original glassine wrapper in a fine slipcase. Rare signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 30014
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s India and the Awakening East; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 4356
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First Edition of Faulkner's Pylon; in the rare original dust jacket
FAULKNER, William.
Pylon.
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc, 1935.
First edition of Faulkner's explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96589
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"All this life, must be life, since it is so much like a dream": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
CONRAD, Joseph.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.
London: Harper & Brothers, 1904.
First edition of what many consider to be Conrad's masterpiece, one of 2000 examples. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt. An excellent near fine example with light shelfwear, with the spine gilt nice and bright. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 135318
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"Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary": First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work Sexual Personae; Inscribed by Camille Paglia to close personal friend and smith college professor Ronald MacDonald prior to publication
PAGLIA, Camille.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
First edition of the author's ground-breaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to close personal friend Ronald MacDonald, Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, prior to publication on the front free endpaper, "For Ron - Love, Camille December 1989." Laid in is the original transmittal letter on Paglia's Philadelphia University of Arts letterhead dated December 18, 1989 which reads, "Ron! Book to be released Feb. 14 (macabre joke from Yale Press??) Feminists will surely froth! - or so predicts Il Bloom - C." Also laid in is a Bowdoin College postcard from…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 112308
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake; In exceptional condition
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133129
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"To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure": First Editions of each volume in Naipaul's India Trilogy; Each Signed by Him
NAIPAUL, V.S.
An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India; India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1964-1990.
First editions of each of the author's works in his acclaimed Indian Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Each volume is signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 90453
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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