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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 with her bookplate 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 "emphasized vague appearances rather than specific accomplishments or passionate commitments" and therefore fit in well in the…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 135114
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Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery; with an autograph letter signed by him
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography with an autograph letter signed by him on his Tuskegee Institute letterhead. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Washington on his The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead which reads, "Oct. 19, 190 Mr. George A. Dary Exchange Bldg 53 State St. Boston Mass Dear Sir: - you will find enclosed a copy of my last annual report to the Board of Trustees which has just been printed. I thought you might like to read it or at least glance through…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 135007
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First Edition of Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa; Finely Bound
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen] .
Out of Africa.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First American edition of the author's masterpiece, a lyrical meditation of the years she lived in Kenya. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 134270
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Finely bound English Translation of Cicero's Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship
CICERO. [TRANSLATED BY E. S. SHUCKBURGH],.
Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1927.
Finely bound English translation of Cicero's Two Essays on Old Age & Friendship. Octavo, bound in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling and central vignette to the panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135960
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Signed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris' visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marcia and David Straus Shalom Leon Uris." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 133903
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First edition of The Tarzan Chronicles; signed by the Disney Film's producer Bonnie Arnold and directors Chris Buck and Kevin Lima
GREEN, Howard. Foreword by Phil Collins.
The Tarzan Chronicles.
New York: Hyperion, 1999.
First edition and signed limited edition of this lavishly illustrated companion volume to the acclaimed animated feature film from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Folio, original half cloth over pictorial boards, illustrated. One of sixteen hundred numbered copies signed by Bonnie Arnold, the producer of Disney's animated feature film Tarzan; and the film's directors Chris Buck and Kevin Lima, this is number 1117. Text by Howard Green. Foreword by Phil Collins. In fine condition. Housed in the original custom pictorial slipcase.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 135272
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Rare glass bust of the 23rd President of the United States Benjamin Harrison
[HARRISON, Benjamin].
Benjamin Harrison Glass Bust.
Rare frosted glass bust of the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison. Mounted on a hollow glass pedestal. In near fine condition. The bust measures 5.5 inches in height. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches in height.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 135664
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Rare second edition of Leoni's English translation of Palladio's monumental Architecture
LEONI, Giacomo. [Andrea Palladio].
The Architecture of A. Palladio: In Four Books Containing a Short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the Most Necessary Observations Concerning All Sorts of Building; As Also The Different Construction of Private and Public Houses, High-ways. Bridges, Market-places, Xystes, and Temples, with their Plans, Sections and Uprights.
London: Printed by John Darby for the Author, 1721.
Rare second edition of Leoni's English translation of Palladio's monumental work, containing new typesetting, but reusing the same plates from the first edition. Folio, two volumes bound in full calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 218 engraved plates on 203 leaves (including 15 double-page plates), as well as 12 engraved in-text plates. In very good condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 135933
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First Editions of Winston Churchill’s Masterpiece The Second World War; Bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell & Co, 1948-54.
First editions of Winston Churchill's masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 135647
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Photographic Portrait of Mother Teresa; Signed by her
MOTHER TERESA,.
Mother Teresa Signed Photograph.
Black and white photograph of Mother Teresa, boldly signed by her, "God bless you M. Teresa mc." In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 17.5 inches by 16 inches.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 134698
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Rare First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Torrents of Spring.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.
First edition of Hemingway's first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133647
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"Florida it was named - the land of flowers": First edition of Nevin O. Winter's Florida: The Land of Enchantment
WINTER, Nevin O.
Florida: Land of Enchantment.
Boston: The Page Company, 1918.
First edition of this finely illustrated celebration of the state of Florida, authored by wealthy Toledo industrialist Nevin O. Wilson. Octavo, original publisher's decorative binding, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece in color, illustrated with dozens of plates from period photographs, hand-colored folding map of the state of Florida. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription. A beautiful example of this work.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 135409
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First edition of C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia; with an autograph note signed by him to his PhD Student at Cambridge, Anthony Spearing
LEWIS, C.S.
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951.
First edition of the second book in Lewis' beloved Narnia series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. With an autograph note signed by C.S. Lewis to his PhD student at Cambridge, Anthony Spearing. On Lewis' Magdalene College, Cambridge letterhead, the note reads in full, "5th Nov. 57 Dear Mr. Spearing, I gather I have been inflicted as you as a "superior" so I suppose we out to meet. Wd. next Friday at 12 suit you? Don't bother replying if it would. Yours sincerely C. S. Lewis." The recipient of the letter, Anthony Spearing was assigned to report…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 135229
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge": First Edition of The Discoverers; Inscribed by Daniel Boorstin in the year of publication
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search To Know His World and Himself.
New York: Random House, 1983.
First edition, early printing of this "grand and exhilirating voyage, a bold attempt to circumnavigate the intellectual globe" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Thick octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free end paper, "For Jeanne Perkins- fellow discoverer- from Daniel J. Boorstin June 6, 1989." Also, laid in is a signed letter from Boorstin's wife on their letterhead. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133633
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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 over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges marbled, illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. In near fine condition, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown. A very nice example.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 133902
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“A word in earnest is as good as a speech": First Edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House
DICKENS, Charles.
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.
First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown. Illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133901
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's First Book No Voyage and Other Poems
OLIVER, Mary.
No Voyage and Other Poems.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First softcover edition of the poet's scarce first book. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition. Author photograph by Molly Malone Cook. A nice example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134612
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"This is George. He lived in Africa. He was very happy. But He had one fault: he was too curious": Curious George; in the scarce original dust jacket
REY, H.A.
Curious George.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.
First edition, early printing of the first book in the Curious George series. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133639
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"Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself": First Edition of Jack Nicklaus' Autobiography My Story; Signed by Him
NICKLAUS, Jack; Ken Bowden.
My Story.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
First edition of the Golden Bear's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Jack Nicklaus on the front free endpaper. Written with Ken Bowden. Fine in a fine dust jacket, illustrated. Dust jacket design by Paul Smith.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 133634
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"The best book on writing. Ever": First Edition of On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft; Signed by Stephen King
KING, Stephen.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.
New York: Scribners, 2000.
First edition of this work in which King describes his experiences as a writer and his advice for aspiring writers. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Stephen King on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana. Jacket illustration by Shasti O'Leary.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 109834
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"Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places": First edition of Slim Aarons' A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
AARONS, Slim.
A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of the photographer's most well-known work which covered the global social circuit in a style that remains without peer to this day. Folio, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Dear Myron We Lived The Dream Great Days Slim Aarons." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 134596
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s This I Remember; Warmly Inscribed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
This I Remember.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
First edition, early printing of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 41 photographs of the Roosevelt family, including frontispiece of the First Lady. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Lindy with love Eleanor Roosevelt." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,150.00 Item Number: 133781
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"PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED THE COURSE OF HISTORY": Thomas Norton's English translation of one of the most influential works of Protestant theology: John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion
NORTON, Thomas. [John Calvin].
The Institution Of Christian Religion, Written In Latin By M. John Calvine, Translated Into English According To The Authors Last Edition; With Sundry Tables To Finde The Principall Matters Intreated Of In This Booke.
London: John Norton, 1611.
Rare 1611 edition of Calvin's seminal work on systematic theology, regarded as one of the most influential works of Protestant theology. Quarto, bound in three quarter calf with five raised bands to the spine, elaborate architectural borders to the title page, woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. In good condition. Upper portion of title page removed.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 132719
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Rare First Edition of Capitalism Socialism and Democracy; Finely Bound
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.
First edition of Schumpeter’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 133796
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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face": Rare Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Dollar Bill
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Dollar Bill.
1935.
Original series 1935 A one dollar silver certificate, boldly signed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 12 inches. We have never seen another signed dollar bill by Roosevelt.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133851
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First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Finely Bound
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. 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. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133208
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First Edition of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Finely Bound
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
The Razor’s Edge.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.
First American edition, which precedes the British edition of Maugham’s 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. 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: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133892
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"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?": Finely bound Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
CARROLL, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.
Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated by John Tenniel, text illustrated. A stunning set.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 133820
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“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.
London: H. G. Bohn, 1852.
Early English printing of Stowe’s enormously influential work, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by Leech, Gilbert, etc. In very good condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134862
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Rare First Edition of Capitalism Socialism and Democracy; In the rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.
First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips to the extremities. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 133716
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Rare 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook; containing one of only a few photographs of Warhol in his early years
[WARHOL, Andy].
The Thistle: Andy Warhol 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook.
Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1949.
1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology Yearbook featuring a rare photograph of Andy Warhol as a college senior. Folio, original boards, illustrated. Warhol is pictured as a member of Modern Dance club. The yearbook also includes a photograph of Philip Pearlstein, a fellow graduating senior. In near fine condition. Very rare, containing one of only a few photographs of Warhol in his early years.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134091
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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, this is number 429. Fine in the rare original slipcase which is in near fine condition. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition.
Price: $14,000.00 Item Number: 133669
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“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be": First Edition of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire; Signed by J.K. Rowling
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2000.
First American edition of Rowling’s fourth book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the dedication page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Mary Grandpre.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 133625
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First Edition Of The Eleventh Novel In The James Bond Series On Her Majesty's Secret Service
FLEMING, Ian .
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First edition of the tenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original brown cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 133618
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Signed limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; with 20 remarkably intricate full color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac
FITZGERALD, Edward. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, c. 1909.
Signed limited edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, original publisher's gold-stamped vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 20 intricate full color plates tipped in to decorated Japanese vellum mounts with lettered tissue guards. This edition is limited to seven hundred and fifty copies signed by Edmund Dulac, of which this is number 212. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 133516
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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world": First Edition of Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl
FRANK, Anne.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952.
First edition of “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Translated from the Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ursula Suess. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 132288
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First British Edition of Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen] .
Out of Africa.
London: Putnam, 1937.
Rare first British edition of the author's masterpiece, a lyrical meditation of the years she lived in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133265
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“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it": First Edition of Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me
FLEMING, Ian.
The Spy Who Loved Me.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133250
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LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE: SIGNED BY IAN FLEMING, ONE OF ONLY 285 EXAMPLES
FLEMING, Ian .
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
Signed limited first edition, the only Bond title issued in a limited edition, number 37 of 285 examples of the eleventh Bond novel. Octavo, original half vellum, top edge gilt, with color frontispiece portrait of Fleming by Amherst Villiers. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $19,500.00 Item Number: 133223
