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Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman; Lengthily Inscribed by Richard Feynman to His Cousin
FEYNMAN, Richard P.
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Adventures of a Curious Character.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.
First edition, early printing of this collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author to his cousin on the half-title page, "To Frances Lewine Hi Franky - send me your book -- you ought to write one- it's easy, all you have to do is tell all those wonderful stories of yours to some friend with an open tape recorder. Richard." The recipient, Frances Lewine was known as a champion for the rights of women journalists throughout the…
Price: $40,000.00 Item Number: 140950
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Limited Edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur; Illustrated with Original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; Sir Thomas Malory; William Caxton; John Rhys; Aymer Vallance.
[Morte D’Arthur]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All.
Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, 1927.
Limited Beardsley illustrated edition of perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English, containing two additional illustrations not appearing in the second edition, in addition to the 10 further illustrations published in the second edition that did not appear in the first. Quarto, original publisher's cloth with gilt art-deco botanical design by Aubrey Beardsley, some pages uncut, top edge gilt, illustrated with twenty-two plates by Beardsley, numerous in-text designs, and head- and tail-pieces throughout. One of one thousand six hundred examples. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146914
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"one of the most precious jewels in the national heritage": Photograph of 10 Downing Street; Signed by six British prime ministers
EDWARD HEATH, Margaret Thatcher.
10 Downing Street Signed Photograph.
Black and white photograph of the 10 Downing Street doorway, signed by six British prime ministers: Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In fine condition. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 17 inches. A rare and desirable piece of history.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 65031
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Eric Carle's First Spanish Language Edition of 10 Patitos De Goma
CARLE, Eric.
10 Patitos De Goma.
China: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006.
First Spanish language edition of 10 Patitos De Goma. Quarto, original publisher’s pictorial boards, patterned endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "Quack for Dr. J. Robert Dopinish Eric Carle." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration done by Eric Carle.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 149051
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Rare original program invitation from the 1975 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Program
AXELROD, Julius; Adolf Butenandt; Gerald Edelman; Ernst Otto Fischer; Werner Forssmann; Alfred Hershey; Bernard Katz; Feodor Lynen; Rudolf Mössbauer; Severo Ochoa; Lars Onsager.
1975 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Program.
Einladung: Tagung der Preistrager fur Medizin, 1975.
Rare original program invitation from the 1975 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Program. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by 11 Nobel Laureates in Physics or Medicine, including: Julius Axelrod, Adolf Butenandt, Gerald Edelman, Ernst Otto Fischer, Werner Forssmann, Alfred Hershey, Bernard Katz, Feodor Lynen, Rudolf Mössbauer, Severo Ochoa, and Lars Onsager. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 115948
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Official NBA Spalding Basketball; Signed by 13 Members of the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls Team, Including Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen
JORDAN, Michael; Scotty Pippen; Steve Kerr; et al.
1997-98 Chicago Bulls Team Signed NBA Basketball.
Official NBA Spalding Basketball, boldly signed by 13 members of the 1997-98 NBA Champion Chicago Bulls including Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen. Additionally accompanied by a James Spence Letter of Authentication. Housed in a custom acrylic case. This extremely rare multi-signed basketball signifies the end of the Chicago Bulls dynasty of the 1990's and marks the conclusion of the legendary Michael Jordan's tenure with the team, leaving a significant impact on both the sport and the world.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145461
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First Edition of David Mamet's 3 Uses of the Knife
MAMET, David.
3 Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
First edition of this work about the necessity of drama to make sense of ourselves and our world. Duodecimo, original publisher's half-cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 148348
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First Edition of 50-50 Gender Balance; Inscribed by Angela Z. Allen to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
ALLEN, Angela Z [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
50-50 Gender Balance: Why We Have to “Get” It and Get It – Now!
Full Circle Living, Inc, 2009.
First edition of this study on balancing our masculine and feminine qualities. Imperial octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "Dear Justice Ginsburg, You are an inspiration for this book and we are honored to be sending you a copy. Our greatest hope is that it ignites imagining countless ways everyone can promote gender balance and its attendant benefits. We welcome your comments and ideas. Sincerely, April Allen, April, 2009." American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 147835
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First Edition of 99 Stories of the Game; Signed by the Great One Wayne Gretzky
GRETZKY, Wayne; Kirstie McLellan Day.
99 Stories of the Game.
Canada: Viking, 2016.
First edition of the history of the National Hockey League from the point of view of the greatest hockey player of all-time to mark the league's ninety-nine year anniversary. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Boldly signed by the author "Wayne Gretzky 99" on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stephen Brayda. Jacket photograph Bruce Bennett and Getty Images.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147808
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“Things are always happening to me. I’m that sort of bear": Rare First Edition of A Bear Called Paddington; Inscribed by Michael Bond
BOND, Michael; Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum .
A Bear Called Paddington.
London: Collins, 1958.
First edition of the first book in the Paddington series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John with all good wishes Michael Bond. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a chip to the back panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 128753
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"I dwell in a lonely house I know, that vanished many summer ago": Robert Frost's A Boy's Will; signed and dated by him
FROST, Robert.
A Boy’s Will.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934.
Second American edition of Frost's first published work. Octavo, original beige linen cloth, engraved title page. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, "Robert Frost February 25 1936." In very good condition. Small ownership name.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 130124
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“The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time": First Edition of Stephen Hawking's Landmark Work A Brief History of Time; Signed by Carl Sagan and Illustrator Ron Miller
HAWKING, Stephen W.; Introduction by Carl Sagan.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.
London: Bantam Press, 1988.
First British edition and true first of Hawking's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Ron Miller. Signed by Carl Sagan on the title page, who wrote the introduction. Additionally signed and inscribed by the illustrator Ron Miller, who has also added a drawing. Sagan tells the following story: Sagan was in London for a scientific conference in 1974, and between sessions he wandered into a different room, where a larger meeting was taking place. "I realized that I was watching an ancient ceremony: the investiture of new fellows into the Royal Society, one of the most ancient scholarly organizations on the…
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 46009
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"It's not what's around the Christmas tree that matters it's who's around it": First Edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas
SCHULZ, Charles M.
A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1965.
First edition of the author's classic Christmas story and later filmed for television, which was later honored with both an Emmy and Peabody Award. Small quarto, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 147380
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First Edition of A Child's Calendar; Signed by Illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert
UPDIKE, John.
A Child’s Calendar.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
First edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 5035
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First Edition of A Columbus of Space; Signed by Garrett P. Serviss in the Year of Publication
SERVISS, Garrett P.
A Columbus of Space.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911.
First edition of this classic interplanetary adventure novel. Octavo, original lime green pictorial cloth, frontispiece of a scene from page 47 "Standing on the steps ... was a creature shaped like a man, but more savage than a gorilla." Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. In near fine condition. A rare example in this condition without any other signed copies in commerce.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146170
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First Editions of Each of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time series; In the Rare Original Dust Jackets
POWELL, Anthony.
A Dance to the Music of Time: A Question of Upbringing; A Buyer’s Market; The Acceptance World; At Lady Molly’s; Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant; The Kindly Ones; The Valley of Bones; The Soldier’s Art; The Military Philosophers; Books do Furnish a Room; Temporary Kings; Hearing Secret Harmonies.
London: William Heinemann, 1951-1975.
First editions of each volume in the author's acclaimed Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, 12 volumes, original publisher's cloth. Each volume is near fine in very good to fine dust jackets. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. A nice set.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 148266
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First Edition of Samuel Johnson's A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, In the Year 1774; In the Rare Original Binding
JOHNSON, Samuel.
A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, In the Year 1774.
London: Printed for Robert Jennings, 1816.
First edition of Samuel Johnson's diary of a trip to Wales in July-August of 1774, which was later incorporated into various editions of Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'. Octavo, original half-cloth, two engraved facsimile plates of Johnson's handwriting, errata slip tipped in at rear. In very good condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase. From the library of noted collector William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the left flap of the slipcase. Rare in the original binding.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 147758
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Rare first edition of A Dictionary of the Bible Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History; finely bound in full vellum
EDITED BY WILLIAM SMITH,.
A Dictionary of the Bible Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History.
London: John Murray, 1863.
First edition of Smith's Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full vellum with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges red, illustrations with three maps and illustrations throughout text. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplates.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111032
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"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again": Signed Limited Edition Of Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Farewell To Arms.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
Signed limited first edition of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Tall octavo, original white parchment over green boards. One of 510 copies signed by Ernest Hemingway. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very sharp example.
Price: $13,500.00 Item Number: 149461
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“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again": Signed Limited Edition Of Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms; Finely Bound by Zaehndorf for Asprey
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Farewell To Arms.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
Signed limited first edition of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Tall octavo, bound in full black morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey, gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine, raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, silk endpapers. One of 510 copies signed by Ernest Hemingway. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example, rare and desirable.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 149877
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"Some things aren't any good unless they're shared": First Edition of A Fine and Private Place; Signed by Peter S. Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S.
A Fine and Private Place.
New York: The Viking Press, 1960.
First edition of Peter Beagle's first fantasy novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Beagle on the front free endpaper with a smiley in the "P." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 146917
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"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge": First Editions of Each Volume in the Author’s Acclaimed Game of Thrones Series
MARTIN, George R.R.
A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows; A Dance with Dragons.
New York: Bantam Books, 1996-2011.
First editions of each of the five volumes in the author’s classic Game of Thrones series. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Each volume is fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. A very sharp set.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 148293
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"Fear cuts deeper than swords”: First Edition of the first Volume in the Author’s Acclaimed Series; Signed by George R.R. Martin
MARTIN, George R.R.
A Game of Thrones: Book One of a Song of Ice and Fire.
New York: Bantam, 1996.
First edition of the first book in the author's acclaimed Game of Thrones series. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by George R.R. Martin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Tom Hallman. Book design by James Sinclair. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 147890
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BLOS, Joan W.
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32.
New York: Scribners, 1979.
First edition of the author's Newberry award-winning novel. Octavo, original red boards. Fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a few short closed tears, and without the Newberry award winning sticker on the front panel. Signed by the author who has added some lines from this work.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 1797
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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 Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
WAUGH, Evelyn.
A Handful Of Dust.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1934.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 147546
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Rudyard Kipling and C.R.L. Fletcher's A History of England; in the rare original dust jacket
KIPLING, Rudyard and C.R.L. Fletcher.
A History of England.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1930.
Corrected edition of Kipling and Fletcher's history of Great Britain for boys and girls. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with colored plates and maps by Henry Ford. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135268
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Jonathan Edwards' A History of the Work of Redemption
EDWARDS, Jonathan.
A History of the Work of Redemption.
New York: T. & J. Swords, 1793.
Early American edition of this work by the famed philosopher and theologian. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, frontispiece. In good condition with bumping and rubbing to the extremities, toning throughout, small losses to the front free endpaper and top of the title page, spine repaired and rebacked.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 147866
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First Edition of Jonathan Edwards' A History of the Work of Redemption
EDWARDS, Jonathan.
A History of the Work of Redemption.
Boston: Draper & Folsom, 1782.
First edition of this theological work. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities and back panel, toning throughout. Ownership signature to the front pastedown.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147928
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First Edition of "Perhaps the most famous of all Hunting Books" A Hunter's Wanderings In Africa; Inscribed by Frederick Courteney Selous to James Jameson
SELOUS, Frederick Courteney.
A Hunter’s Wanderings In Africa.
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1881.
First edition of this classic firsthand account "perhaps the most famous of all hunting books" of Frederick Courteney Selous' hunting expeditions across southern and central Africa. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded wood engraved frontispiece, a folding map, with 19 black and white full-page illustrations. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To James S. Jameson with kind regards from the author Nov 1881." The recipient, James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was a Scottish explorer, naturalist, and heir to the Jameson whiskey fortune. In the early part of…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 148068
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“People can hold out just so long and then they fold": First Edition of A Is For Alibi; Signed by Sue Grafton
GRAFTON, Sue.
A Is For Alibi.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
First edition of the author's first book in her acclaimed series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Sue Grafton on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Kathie A. McGinty.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144170
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First edition of Dunea and Parry's A Journey Of Smiles; From the Library of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
DUNEA, Melanie and Nigel Parry. [Dr. Bill Magee and Kathy Magee] [Madeleine L Albright].
A Journey Of Smiles.
Norfolk, VA: Operation Smile, 2007.
First edition of this inspiring book that follows an individual's journey through the kindness of a smile. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with colorful photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed on the front paste down and front free end paper by Dr. Bill Magee and Kathy Magee, co-founders of Operation Smile. Laid in is a photo of Albright during a visit to Operation Smiles' site in Vietnam in 1999. 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…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 149064
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"Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write": First Edition of What is considered Ruth Rendell’s Greatest Works A Judgement in Stone; Signed by her
RENDELL, Ruth.
A Judgement in Stone.
London: Hutchinson, 1977.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with a transcription from the opening line of this work, "Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write" Ruth Rendell." Fine in a fine dust jacket. A unique example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 44083
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First Edition of A Life In Our Times; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A Life In Our Times.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
First edition of Galbraith's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine, autographed sticker to the front panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146272
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From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself; Inscribed to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by the men who clerked for her
KAMMEN, Michael [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Early printing of this analysis of the United States' relationship with its constitution. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece of 'Washington Giving the Laws to America' by J. P. Elven, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "March, 1987, To Judge Ginsburg, From the "boys in the back room" - Jay, Mark, & David." The inscription appears to have been written by men who clerked for Justice Ginsburg during the 1986-1987 term, when she was a Federal Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 147157
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Signed Limited First Edition of A Masque of Mercy; signed by Robert Frost
FROST, Robert.
A Masque of Mercy.
New York : Henry Holt & Company, 1947.
Signed limited edition of Frost's play of the purported last chapter in the book of Job. Royal octavo, original half cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. One of 751 numbered copies boldly signed by Robert Frost in black ballpoint on the limitation page, this is number 177. In fine condition in the original publisher's slipcase which is in near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 147534
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A New, Authentic, and Complete Edition of Captain James Cook's Voyages Round the World
COOK, James.
A New, Authentic, and Complete Edition of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Captain Cook’s First, Second, Third and Last Voyages.
London: Alex Hogg, c.1784-1786.
The authentic and complete edition of the official accounts of Captain James Cook’s voyages, “the foundation of modern knowledge of the Pacific and a cornerstone of the literature of travel and exploration” (Beddie 648, 1216, 1543; Hill 782, 358, 361). Folio, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, one large folding map, 157 black and white engraved plates with maps, charts, and illustrations. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities, rebacked and reinforced.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 147944
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First English Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Inscribed by Him
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
London: The Egoist Ltd, 1916.
First English edition, second printing of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Beatrice Randegger. James Joyce. 25 Novembre 1919. Trieste." The recipient was a private student's of Joyce in Italy. In excellent condition with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $40,000.00 Item Number: 109550
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; In the rare original dust jacket
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
New York: Huebsch, 1916.
First edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, in the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare especially in this condition, without any of the usual restoration usually encountered.
Price: $72,000.00 Item Number: 129144
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.
First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142971
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.
First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 144189
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"I am a Christian Because of Owen Meany": First Edition of A Prayer For Owen Meany; Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
A Prayer For Owen Meany.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Carole John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 129198
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Signed Limited First Edition of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany
IRVING, John.
A Prayer For Owen Meany.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1989.
Signed limited first edition of the author's seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece by Cary Henrie. Boldly signed by John Irving. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 132114
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"I am a Christian Because of Owen Meany": First Edition of A Prayer For Owen Meany; Warmly signed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
A Prayer For Owen Meany.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Warmly signed by the author on the title page, "Merry Christmas John Irving." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 145910
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Milton Friedman's A Program for Monetary Stability
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
A Program for Monetary Stability.
New York: Fordham University Press, 1961.
First edition, second printing of the author's Moorhouse I. X. Miller Lectures given at Fordham University in October 1959. Octavo, original gray cloth with green titles. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146654
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“Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world": First Edition of Jimmy Buffett's A Salty Piece of Land
BUFFETT, Jimmy .
A Salty Piece of Land.
New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2004.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lonnie Busch.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145150
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First Edition of A Song Flung Up to Heaven; Inscribed by Maya Angelou
ANGELOU, Maya.
A Song Flung Up To Heaven.
New York: Random House, 2002.
First edition of the final volume in Angelou's autobiography series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Ann Sherry, Joy! from Wendy and Maya Angelou." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. Jacket photograph by Dwight Carter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88974
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of The English; With 30 Mounted Color Plates by W. Heath Robinson
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Song of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Robinson. Quarto, original blue cloth, gilt pictorial to the front panel, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 mounted color plates, lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 120821
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few": First edition of Winston Churchill's Famous Speech; from the library of Jacqueline Kennedy
CHURCHILL, Winston S. [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis].
A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940.
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, The Baynard Press, 1940.
First edition of one of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches. Octavo, original wrappers. From the library of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis with the bookplate from the Sotheby's 23 - 26 April 1996 sale of the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to the verso of the front wrapper. When John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president on January 20, 1961, 31-year-old Jacqueline Kennedy became the third youngest First Lady in American history. As a presidential couple, the Kennedys differed from the Eisenhowers by their relative youth and their relationship with the media. Historian Gil Troy has noted that in particular, they…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 135114
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers”: First Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire; Signed by Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
A Streetcar Named Desire.
New York: New Directions, 1947.
Early printing of Williams' classic play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo, original illustrated boards. association copy, inscribed or signed by several cast members for producer Danny Selznick. Signed by Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Jessica Tandy, and Karl Malden. Inscribed by Kim Hunter on the verso of the first blank: "Love and best wishes always, Danny- one of my Favorite people- Kim." Selznick's ownership inscription on the lower corner of the half-title page. Danny Selznick is a producer and the youngest son of David O. Selznick; it was Selznick's mother, Irene Mayer Selznick, who produced the…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 87896
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“the feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic": First Edition of Each Work in Patrick Leigh Fermor's Trilogy; Each Signed by Him
LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick.
A Time of Gifts; Between the Woods and the Water; The Broken Road.
London: John Murray, 1977-2013.
First editions of each volume in Leigh Fermor's trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water are signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. The Broken Road, which was published posthumously is signed by editors Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper on the title page. Jacket artwork by John Craxton. Near fine in excellent dust jackets, name to the front free endpaper on the first volume. An exceptional set, uncommon signed.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 137399
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First Edition of A Time To Keep Silence; Inscribed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
A Time To Keep Silence.
London: John Murray, 1957.
First edition of the author's third book, detailing his experiences in various monasteries. Octavo, original blue cloth. Illustrated by John Craxton. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "From [My Mother] AE. Leigh Fermor Fudge with thanks for safe transportation to Regency Sq. Brighton MCMLXIX." Fermor has crossed out the 'To' in the printed 'To my Mother' dedication and inscribed the book as a thank you from his mother Aeileen Leigh Fermor. Known to her family as Fudge, Fermor's mother moved in old age to a rest home near Brighton, Sussex, in the late 1960's where Fermor…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 135041
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Signed Limited First Edition of John Grisham's A Time To Kill
GRISHAM, John.
A Time To Kill.
New York: Doubleday, November 1993.
Signed limited first edition of Grisham’s first book. Octavo, bound in full with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, blue speckled edges, silk ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by John Grisham on the limitation page, one of only 350 numbered copies, this is number 84. In fine condition with the rare original tissue jacket in a fine slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 147893
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"With admiration and appreciation for your friendship and support": First Edition Of A Time To Lead; Inscribed by Wesley K. Clark to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
CLARK, Wesley K with Tom Carhart. [Madeleine K. Albright].
A Time To Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
First edition of Clark's reflections on his military and leadership experiences. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, Association copy, inscribed by author on the front free endpaper, "To Madeleine with admiration and appreciation for your friendship and support Wes." 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” of NATO, “which is no diminution of…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 149012
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First Edition of A Traveler's Guide to Mars; Inscribed by William K. Hartmann to Apollo 13 Astronaut James Lovell
HARTMANN, William K.; [James Lovell].
A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet.
New York: Workman Publishing, 2003.
First edition of this complete and accessible guidebook to Mars. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with color photographs and a folding map of Martian markings charted by Earth-based telescopes in the 1960s. Association copy, boldly inscribed by the author to James Lovell on the title page, "For Jim Lovell with admiration! William K Hartmann." The recipient, James Lovell, was an Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 astronaut who was one of the first three astronauts to fly and orbit the moon alongside Frank Borman and William Anders. In near fine condition. From the collection of James Lovell. Accompanied by a sticker…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 147320
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"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life": Second Edition of Jonathan Edwards' A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, In Three Parts
EDWARDS, Jonathan.
A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, In Three Parts.
New York: J. Parker, 1768.
Rare second edition of Edwards' Great Awakening classic. Octavo, bound in contemporary full calf. In good condition with some rubbing and wear to the extremities, toning throughout.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 148000
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen": Rare First Edition in English of Leonardo Da Vinci's A Treatise of Painting
DA VINCI, Leonardo.
A Treatise of Painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Translated from The Original Italian, And adorn’d with a great Number of Cuts: To which is prefix’d The Author’s Life; Done from the Last Edition of the French.
London: Printed for J. Senex, at the Globe in Salisbury Court; and W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1721.
Rare first edition in English of da Vinci's classic treatise on painting. Octavo, bound in full speckled calf, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait facing title, thirty-one full page plates, and three folding (thirty-five in total), final two leaves of publisher's ads present after text. In near fine condition. A superior example. First editions are rare.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 148151
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Limited First Edition of A Turn in the South; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
A Turn in the South.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1989.
Signed limited first edition of captivating travelogue of the American South, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece by Bart Forbes specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the front flyleaf. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147061
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"Dear Ruth To a true opera lover! With great admiration for you remarkable achievements": First Edition of A View from the Podium; inscribed by Eve Queler to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
QUELER, Eve [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
A View From The Podium.
Xlibris, 2019.
First edition of this memoir that chronicles Eve Queler's pioneering career as a conductor. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustarted with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "Dear Ruth To a true opera lover! With great admiration for you remarkable achievements Warmest regards, Eve Queler." American lawyer and jurist, Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 148152