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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.
First American edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145926
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it": Finely Bound Set of Moliere's Oeuvres Complètes de Molière
MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin.
Oeuvres Completes de Moliere.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1878.
Finely bound set of Moliere. Quarto, 5 volumes, bound in full red morocco, illustrated with plates, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Edited by Adolphe Regnier. With the slipcovers in marbled paper. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 104673
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new": First edition of Out of My Later Years; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
EINSTEIN, Albert.
Out of My Later Years.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.
First edition of Einstein's collection of social science-related articles, addresses and speeches. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142361
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"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails": Long Walk to Freedom; Inscribed by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson .
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition, early printing of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by the author, "To Ronel, Compliments and best wishes to an outstanding lady. NMandela 28.11.95." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 143552
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"Here is Dorothy herself in the person of Judy Garland, with Toto as Himself!": First Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Technicolor edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz; in the rare original dust jacket
BAUM, L. Frank.
The Wizard of Oz.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1939.
First Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Technicolor edition of Baum's most famous Oz book, the basis for one of the greatest films in cinema history. First printing with the gilt titles to the spine and printer's imprint to the copyright page (Bienvenue & Schmidt, pg 13). Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and black labels to the spine, pictorial endpapers featuring photographs from the film. Illustrated with 8 tipped in color plates and numerous doutone plates and in-text illustrations by W. W. Denslow. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 105288
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"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness": First Edition of The Architecture of Frank Gehry; Inscribed by Frank Gehry to Academy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson
GEHRY, Frank; Foreword Henry N. Cobb.
The Architecture of Frank Gehry.
New York: Rizzoli Publishers, 1986.
First edition of this early monograph of the work of renowned architect Frank Gehry. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the architect on the half-title page, "To Frank Pierson Frank O. Gehry." The recipient Frank Pierson was a renowned Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Dog Day Afternoon (along with the Academy-nominated Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke), director, and President of both the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Coosje van Bruggen, Mildred Friedman, Joseph Giovannini, Thomas S. Hines,…
Price: $1,450.00 Item Number: 99727
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First Edition in English of Boris Pasternak's Masterpiece Doctor Zhivago; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
PASTERNAK, Boris.
Doctor Zhivago.
London: Collins & Harvill, 1958.
First edition in English of the work which garnered Pasternak the Nobel Prize in literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 144782
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FIRST EDITIONS OF STIEG LARSSONS MILLENNIUM TRILOGY
LARSSON, Stieg; Translated by Reg Keeland.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
London: Maclehose Press, 2008-2009.
First editions in English of each volume of Stieg Larrson’s Millennium trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original boards. Each volume is fine in fine dust jackets.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 101928
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First Edition of Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa; Finely Bound the Harcourt Bindery
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 by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four 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. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 142171
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"You think it's a lie. But it ain't no lie. Ever' word's the truth": First Edition of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts
STEINBECK, John.
Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts.
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937.
First edition of Steinbeck's dramatization of his poignant novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the publisher's price of $2.00. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 143012
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“SUDDENLY THERE WAS A KNOCK WHICH MADE HER PAUSE— COULD IT PERHAPS BE SANTA CLAUS?”: FIRST EDITION OF OF MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS IN TEXAS
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline’s Christmas in Texas.
Dallas, Texas: Neiman-Marcus, 1955.
First edition of Madeline's Christmas in Texas, which precedes the 1956 Christmas edition of McCall’s Magazine. 12 mo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. In near fine condition. Scarce, especially in this condition.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 95871
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"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him": First Edition of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock
GREENE, Graham.
Brighton Rock.
London: Heinemann, 1938.
First edition of Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 7206
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First Edition of Adam Smith's Paper Money; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
SMITH, Adam [George Goodman].
Paper Money.
New York: Summit Books, 1981.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "Fr Shecters-san! Thanks for all with best wishes Jerry 'Adam Smith' 2/2/81." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 112445
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First edition of The Oxford Book of Poetry for Children; profusely illustrated by Brian Wildsmith and elaborately bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
BLISHEN, Edward. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith.
Oxford Book of Poetry for Children.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
First edition of Blishen and Wildsmith's acclaimed illustrated compilation of children's poetry. Quarto, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 129349
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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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"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly": The Color Purple; Inscribed by Alice Walker
WALKER, Alice .
The Color Purple.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
First edition, early printing of Walker's third novel, in which she became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Lois, in peace and joy! Alice Walker June 2006." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144309
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First Edition of Bernard Darwin's Rubs of the Green In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DARWIN, Bernard.
Rubs of the Green.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1936.
First edition of this work by Darwin. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears and light rubbing. First editions in the original dust jackets are uncommon and this is easily the nicest example we have seen or handled.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 14004
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“The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained": First Edition of Alexander Hamilton; Signed by Ron Chernow and Lin-Manuel Miranda
CHERNOW, Ron [Lin-Manuel Miranda].
Alexander Hamilton.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabriele Wilson.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143037