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"Wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born": First Edition of Changing Places; Signed by David Lodge
LODGE, David.
Changing Places.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1975.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by David Lodge on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to the spine.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 4019
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“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand": First Edition of Irvin D. Yalom's First Novel: When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession; Inscribed by Him
YALOM, Irvin D.
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession.
New York: Basic Books, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Linda with best wishes Irvin D. Yalom." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140974
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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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First Edition of Gotham; Signed by Edwin G. Burrows
BURROWS, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of this vast and varied epic of New York's past. Super octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white images. Boldly signed by Edwin G. Burrows on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch. Jacket illustration hand-coloring by Cathy Saksa. Authors photograph by Bruce Davidson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145185
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First Edition of Shelby Foote's Follow Me Down; Inscribed by Him
FOOTE, Shelby.
Follow Me Down.
New York: Dial Press, 1950.
First edition of this Faulknerian novel by the author of the acclaimed trilogy The Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dorothy Abbott from Shelby Foote Memphis 30 Jan 81." Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 42010
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First Edition of Harold Bloom's Shelley's Mythmaking; Inscribed by Him
BLOOM, Harold.
Shelley’s Mythmaking.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959.
First edition of Bloom's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Harold Bloom on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine crown and overall light wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 5721
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John Bunyan's Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim's Progress
BUNYAN, John; Edited with Introduction by Roger Sharrock.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to come.
London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Finely bound Oxford University Press printing of the author's famous allegory and spiritual autobiography. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Bayntun with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece of John Bunyan from the pencil drawing by Robert White in the British Museum. Presentation stamp to the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145239
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First Edition of The U.S. V Richard M. Nixon; Inscribed by Frank Mankiewicz and Bill Safire
MANKIEWICZ, Frank.
The U.S. V Richard M. Nixon: The Final Crisis.
New York: Quadrangle/ The New York Times Book Co., 1975.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, "To ____ ______, with best wishes- Frank Mankiewicz Mar. '75." Additionally inscribed by Bill Safire below, "Dear Jeff- Don't believe everything my friend Frank says! Bill Safire." Safire was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A unique copy.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 57001
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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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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed
LEWIS, C.S.
A Grief Observed.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1961.
First edition of this universal meditation on grief, published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk. Octavo, original gray cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145202
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First Edition of James S. Hirsch's Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend; Signed by Baseball Icon Willie Mays
HIRSCH, James S.
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend.
New York: Scribner, 2010.
First edition of this definitive biography authorized by Willie Mays and written by Wall Street Journal and New York Times journalist James Hirsch. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Willie Mays on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jason J. Heuer. Author photograph by Bill O'Connell. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145366
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First edition of Francis Galton's The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
GALTON, Francis.
The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa.
London: John Murray, 1853.
First edition of Sir Francis Galton's account of his expedition to South West Africa. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to this spine six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and real panels within triple gilt ruling with fleuron cornerpieces and central motif stamped in blind, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Illustrated with maps, plates and woodcuts including tissue-guarded frontispiece in color. In near fine condition. Name to the pastedown.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 115371
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First Edition of Gandhi's Autobiography; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
GANDHI, Mahatma K.
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
London: Phoenix Press, 1949.
First edition of Gandhi's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Translated by Mahadev Desai.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142027
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First editions of each volume in Jan Morris's Pax Britannica Trilogy
MORRIS, James. [Jan Morris].
Pax Britannica Trilogy: Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress, and Farewell the Trumpets.
London: Faber and Faber , 1968-1978.
First editions of each volume in the author's highly acclaimed Pax Britannica Trilogy: Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire (1968), Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (1973), and Farewell the Trumpets (1978). Octavo, three volumes, original publisher's cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Each volume is very good in a near fine dust jacket. Spotting to the top page edges of Pax Britannica and Farewell the Trumpets. Ownership name and numeric marking to the front free cartographic endpapers of Heaven's Command and Farewell the Trumpets.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144603
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First Edition of Jefferson The Virginian; Inscribed Twice by Dumas Malone
MALONE, Dumas.
Jefferson the Virginian.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.
First edition of the first volume in Malone's landmark work on Jefferson, from the library of Archibald Bolling Shepperson. Octavo, original navy cloth with gilt titles to the spine and Thomas Jefferson's seal in gilt to the front panel, frontispiece of The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and portraits. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Philippa and Shep, gratefully and affectionately, Dumas April 13, 1948," and again on the flyleaf after the title page, "For Philippa and Shep, gratefully and affectionately, Dumas Malone." The recipient, Archibald Bolling Shepperson was…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145266
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“Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds": First Edition of Models of My Life; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert A. Simon
SIMON, Herbert A.
Models of My Life.
New York: Basic Books, 1991.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dwight Harris with best wishes, Herbert A. Simon 3 November 1994." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 5012
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First edition of Garry Kasparov's Autobiography Child of Change; Signed by Him
KASPAROV, Garry.
Child of Change: An Autobiography.
London: Hutchinson , 1987.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Garry Kasparov on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 5392
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First edition of Joseph Guns' The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews; elaborately bound
GUNS, Joseph. [Translator].
The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [Hebrew Prayer Book].
Vienna: Published by Jos. Schlesinger, 1857.
First edition of Joseph Guns' translation of the primary prayers of the German and Polish Jews. 12 mo, original mounted bone onlays over celluloid boards, elaborately decorated front panel with decorated onlays, top edge gilt, brass clasp, patterned endpapers, text in Hebrew and English. In very good condition. Ownership annotations to the front and rear endpapers documenting family deaths.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 136085
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"America's most interesting city" Rare collection of New Orleans souvenir albums, pictorial travel brochures, and postcards
New Orleans Souvenir Album and Travel Brochure Collection.
Various, 1938-1960.
Rare collection of 5 souvenir albums and nine pictorial travel brochures printed between 1938 and 1960. The souvenir albums include a "Souvenir Condensed History of New Orleans for the Tourist" (c. 1955), a "Souvenir du Restaurant Antoine", "New Orleans, America's Most Interesting City", an early accordion-style pictorial album, and "Winter in New Orleans: Season 1908-1909" issued by the Southern Pacific Railway (1909). The brochures include a Louisiana Road Map issued by the Tourist Bureau of Baton Rouge, visitor's city guides, a 1938 Spring Fiesta brochure, a guide to Bellingrath Gardens, and a collection of original postcards from the Montenegro Hotel.…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 117352
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"I have the only key to your heart I can stop you falling apart": First Edition of Horse’s Neck; Inscribed by Pete Townshend
TOWNSHEND, Pete.
Horse’s Neck.
London: Faber & Faber, 1985.
First edition of Townshend's series of short fictions. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by Pete Townshend on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 2929
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"We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!": James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
MCPHERSON, James M.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
First edition, early printing of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Phoebe Roberts Congratulations on your award, from a fellow lover of books James McPherson Princeton February 28, 1989." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 136611
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FIRST EDITION OF MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.; Inscribed by Coretta Scott King
KING, Coretta Scott.
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First edition of Coretta Scott King's autobiography, which recounts the history of the Civil Rights Movement and offers an inside look at Dr. King, his sermons and speeches. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by Coretta Scott King on the front free endpaper, "To Beatrice Thrope With best wished Coretta Scott King." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Reed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 90443
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Signed Limited First Edition of The Labyrinth of the Spirits; one of 250 numbered copies signed by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz; Translated by Lucia Graves.
The Labyrinth of the Spirits.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2018.
Signed limited first edition of the fourth and final installment in the bestselling author's 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books.' Octavo, original cloth. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 94. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover design by Steve Marking. Front cover photo by Andrzej Kwolek. Author photo by Marc Driessen.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145033
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First Edition Of John Updike’s Collection of Golf Writings; With A Full Page Drawing by Illustrator Paul Szep
UPDIKE, John; Illustrated by Paul Szep.
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
First edition of this classic collection of golf stories by John Updike. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Paul Szep. Signed by the illustrator Paul Szep, who has drawn a full page sketch of John Updike. Also laid in is another illustration of Updike signed by Szep. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 7275
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"We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!": First Edition of McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom; Inscribed by Him
MCPHERSON, James M.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
First edition, early printing of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Philip Jonsson warm regards from Jim McPherson." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132329
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"Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to": First Edition of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Masterwork The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; Signed by Him
CHABON, Michael.
The Amazing Adventures and Kavalier and Clay.
New York: Random House, 2000.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Michael Chabon with a drawing of a key on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter and Kapo Ng. Jacket illustration by Marc Burckhardt.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140469
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FIRST EDITIONS OF JOHN R. HICKS' COLLECTED ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC THEORY
HICKS, John R.
Collected Essays on Economic Theory. Wealth and Welfare. With: Money, Interest and Wages. With: Classics and Moderns.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981-83.
First edition of John Hicks' three-volume series which comprise his most important theoretical papers. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 7347
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First Edition of Jane Goodall's Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey; Inscribed by Her
GOODALL, Jane with Phillip Berman.
Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey.
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
First edition of Goodall's moving memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Caroline Together we make a difference Jane Goodall." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Merri Meyer and Flag.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138205
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“Everybody must have a fantasy": First Edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; signed by Andy Warhol
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition of Warhol's classic work expounding his theories on love, fame, and success. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Warhol on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman. An exceptional example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137214
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"A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth-and then not keep it from anyone"; First Edition of Enzymatic Structures of DNA; Inscribed by Arthur Kornberg
KORNBERG, Arthur.
Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1962.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Arthur Kornberg on the front free endpaper. Small stamp of Biologist L.S. Baron on the front endpage. Fine in a dust jacket that shows just a touch of wear.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 747
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"I have the only key to your heart I can stop you falling apart": First Edition of Horse’s Neck; Inscribed by Pete Townshend
TOWNSHEND, Pete.
Horse’s Neck.
London: Faber & Faber, 1985.
First edition of Townshend's series of short fictions. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Joe Pete Townshend." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pentagram.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144404
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First Edition of Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
WHARTON, Edith.
The Glimpses of the Moon.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1922.
First edition of Wharton's sweeping epic. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near dust jacket with light wear and closed tears to the extremities.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 115679
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“I'M A VERY ORDINARY HUMAN BEING; I JUST HAPPEN TO LIKE READING BOOKS”: FIRST EDITION OF 1Q84; SIGNED BY THREE TIMES BY ILLUSTRATOR CHIP KIDD
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
1Q84.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front jacket panel, once on the title page and again on the rear jacket panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Chip Kidd.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 122589
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FIRST EDITION OF MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.; Inscribed by Coretta Scott King
KING, Coretta Scott.
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First edition of Coretta Scott King's autobiography, which recounts the history of the Civil Rights Movement and offers an inside look at Dr. King, his sermons and speeches. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Washington Pepsi Cola With Warmest Appreciation for your support Coretta Scott King 1-15-84." The recipient, Frank Washington was an American basketball player. In 1945, he played for the Washington Bears. Washington was part of the first Harlem Globetrotters team to travel around the world. Washington was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters from 1946 to 1960. After his basketball career,…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 104655
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First Edition of the Centenary Edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There; iNSCRIBED by Legendary Illustrator Ralph Steadman
CARROLL, Lewis [Ralph Steadman].
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1972.
First Centenary edition of this classic work of children's literature. Large quarto, original black boards, pictorial endpapers, numerous illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. Boldly signed by the illustrator in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Ralph Steadman 11.11.72." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book design by Brian J. Green. Uncommon signed.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146024
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First Edition of Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters; Signed by Rick Riordan
RIORDAN, Rick.
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters.
London: Puffin Books, 2006.
First English edition of the second book in the beloved 'Percy Jackson' series. Octavo, original teal boards. Boldly signed by Rick Riordan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Young.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145278
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First 50th anniversary edition of The Tin Drum; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
Boston & New York: Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of the fiftieth anniversary edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. Translated by Breon Mitchell. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Gunter Grass. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan. Author photograph by Hans Grunert.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142683
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"Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return": FIrst British Edition of J.M.G. Le Clezio's Desert; Signed by Him
LE CLEZIO, J.M.G.
Desert.
London: Atlantic Books, 2009.
First British edition of what many consider the author's breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the wrap around band. Jacket design by Ghost.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 774
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First Edition of War Diaries; Signed by Harold Macmillan
MACMILLAN, Harold.
War Diaries: Politics and War in The Mediterranean January 1943-May 1945
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1984.
First edition of the British politician's collected diaries from the Second World War. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated with maps and photographs. Boldly signed by Harold Macmillan on the title page as "Stockton," his title in the House of Lords. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the foot of the jacket spine. Jacket photograph from the Macmillan Family Archives. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145158
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First Edition of Five Chiefs; A Supreme Court Memoir; Signed by Justice John Paul Stevens
STEVENS, John Paul .
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2011.
First edition of this memoir from Justice John Paul Stevens. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by John Paul Stevens on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison J. Warner. Uncommon signed in the actual book, as most examples are signed bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139184