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Betty: A Glad Awakening; Signed by Betty Ford
Ford, Betty.
Betty: A Glad Awakening.
New York : Doubleday 1987.
Early printing of the first lady’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Betty Ford on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $40.00
First Edition of Tom Watson's Strategic Golf; Inscribed by Tom Watson
Watson, Tom; Foreword by Fred Couples.
Tom Watson’s Strategic Golf.
New York: Pocket Books 1993.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Tom Watson on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with Nick Seitz. Foreword by Fred Couples. Illustrated by Anthony Ravielli.
Price: $65.00
First Edition of Betty: A Glad Awakening; Signed by Betty Ford
Ford, Betty.
Betty: A Glad Awakening.
New York : Doubleday 1987.
First edition of the first lady’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Betty Ford on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $65.00
"Fly over the valley when the winds are keen, and nestle where the earth receives another generation of exhausted leaves": First edition of Edgar Lee Masters' Starved Rock
Masters, Edgar Lee.
Starved Rock.
New York: The Macmillan Company 1919.
First edition of the this early collection of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Inadvertently inscribed on the final free endpaper, “For S.D. Green…Edgar Lee Masters.” In very good condition.
Price: $65.00
Richards Press pocket edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Fitzgerald, Edward.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: The Richards Press 1943.
Richards Press pocket edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. 16mo, bound in full red leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. Additionally contains the Life of Omar Khayyam. Period ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. In very good condition. A charming example.
Price: $75.00
First Edition of William T. Tilden's My Story: A Champion's Memoirs
Tilden 2nd, William T.
My Story: A Champion’s Memoirs.
New York: Hellman, Williams & Company 1948.
First edition of Tilden’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Tilden, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a rubbed jacket with some chips and wear.
Price: $75.00
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
First Edition of Henry Paulson's Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower; Signed by Him
Paulson, Henry M.
Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower.
New York: Twelve Books 2015.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by Henry Paulson in the month of publication. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear.
Price: $95.00
"Wine, women and dice kept him ever hungry, ill, and poor": Finely bound example of Richard Head's The English Rogue
Head, Richard and Francis Kirkman.
The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant: Being a Complete History of the Most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd 1928.
Finely bound example of Head’s famous satirical autobiography. Quarto, bound in full tree calf with green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illustrated with plates after the originals. In very good condition. Stamp to the half-title page.
Price: $100.00
Inscribed by Richard Bach
Bach, Richard.
Stranger To The Ground.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company 1983.
First edition of the re-issue. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the half title page, who has drawn a sun and birds. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Gil Rob Wilson.
Price: $100.00
First Edition of H.G. Wells' Meanwhile, The Picture of a Lady; in the rare original dust jacket
Wells, H.G.
Meanwhile, The Picture of a Lady.
London: Ernest Benn Limited 1927.
First edition of Wells’ widely translated best-selling novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $100.00
First Edition of Fanny in France: Travel Adventures of a Chef's Daughter, with Recipes; Warmly Inscribed by Alice Waters
Waters, Alice with Bob Carrau; Illustrations by Ann Arnold.
Fanny in France: Travel Adventures of a Chef’s Daughter, with Recipes.
New York: The Viking Press 2016.
First edition of this work for anyone who loves France, food and adventure. Quarto, illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Alexis with love, Alice Waters.” Fine in a fine dust jacket, gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper. Illustrated by Ann Arnold.
Price: $125.00
First Edition of Henry James' The Real Thing
James, Henry.
The Real Thing.
New York and London: Macmillan & Co 1893.
First edition, second issue of one of James’ neatest tales. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities, small tear to the front free endpaper.
Price: $125.00
First edition of Who Gets What- and Why; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Alvin Roth
Roth, Alvin E.
Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design.
Boston/ New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015.
First edition. Octavo, half cloth. Signed by Alvin Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00
First Edition of Henry James' View and Reviews
James, Henry.
Views and Reviews: Now First Collected.
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company 1908.
First edition of this series of literary essays written in James’ earlier style. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction by Le Roy Phillips. In near fine condition. A very bright example.
Price: $125.00
