Gifts
- You cannot add "The War of the Worlds." to the cart because the product is out of stock.
Showing 301–320 of 561 results
-
Browse by Category
- Browse All
- Americana
- Art and Architecture
- Autograph Letters Signed
- Biography and Autobiography
- Children's Books
- Economics and Finance
- Featured Rare Books
- Fine Bindings and Sets
- First Edition
- First Edition>Signed
- Food and Wine
- Framed Autographs and Historical Documents
- Geography
- Gifts
- Gifts - For Her
- Gifts - For Him
- Gifts - Graduation and Celebrations
- Gifts - Holidays
- History, Law, and Politics
- Literature
- Music
- New Arrivals
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Presidents and World Leaders
- Religion
- Science and Natural History
- Science Fiction and Mystery
- Signed
- Signed & Autographed Books
- Sports and Leisure
- Travel and Exploration
- Uncategorized
-
First Edition of Max Born's Einstein's Theory of Relativity
BORN, Max [Albert Einstein].
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
London: Methuen & Company, 1924.
First edition of this classic account of Born's analysis and interpretation of Einstein's theory of relativity. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein. Translated by Henry L. Brose. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 131709
-
"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
-
"We gain knowledge of our place in the universe not only from science but also from history, art and literature": First Edition of Dreams and Sky; Signed by Freeman Dyson
DYSON, Freeman.
Dreams of Earth and Sky.
New York: New York Review of Books, 2015.
First edition of this sequel to Dyson's 2006 The Scientist as Rebel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the half-title page with the following line from this work, "We gain knowledge of our place in the universe not only from science but also from history, art and literature. Freeman Dyson." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Johnston. A unique example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 110448
-
First edition of Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad
TWAIN, Mark .
The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress.
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.
First edition, third state of the author's second book with "The History of the Bible advertisement on page 654. BAL 3316. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with two hundred and thirty-four illustrations. From the library of Tiffany Thayer with his bookplate to the pastedown. American actor Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer wrote several novels, including the bestseller Thirteen Women. In a profile in Twentieth Century Authors, Thayer was described as "an atheist, an anarchist – in philosophy a Pyrrhonean – and…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 127837
-
"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
-
"People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, But people will never forget how you made them feel": First Edition of Italo Calvino's Difficult Loves; Signed by Him
CALVINO, Italo.
Difficult Loves.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories by Calvino. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Italo Calvino on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Louise Fili. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 22051
-
“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept": First Edition of Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel Angle of Repose; Inscribed by Him
STEGNER, Wallace.
Angle of Repose.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John with best wishes Wallace Stegner November 9, 1972." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by E.D.N. Designs. Photograph of the author by Alex Gotfryd. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 118652
-
"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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
“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
-
"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
-
"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
-
“IT IS THE CONSTANT AND UNDYING HOPE FOR IMPROVEMENT THAT MAKES GOLF SO EXQUISITELYWORTH PLAYING”: First Edition of Bernard Darwin's Green Memories; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DARWIN, Bernard.
Green Memories.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
First edition of the first volume of the author's autobiographical trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece portrait of the author. An excellent example in the rare dust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Examples in the original dust jacket are rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 14025
-
Finely bound people's edition of G.R. Gleig's The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington; inscribed by Arthur James Balfour to his colleague at Eton
GLEIG, G. R. [Arthur James Balfour].
The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
The People's Edition of Gleig's biography of Arthur Duke of Wellington; gifted by his godson, Arthur James Balfour to his colleague at Eton. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate 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, frontispiece portrait of Wellington. Presentation copy, inscribed by Arthur James Balfour on the front free endpaper, "Stamford Raffles Flint with the best wishes of Arthur James Balfour on his leaving Eton…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 117318
-
"An Eye as Fine As Her Ear": On Tour With Leonard Cohen; Signed by Him
COHEN, Leonard.
On Tour With Leonard Cohen.
New York : Powerhouse Books, 2014.
First edition, early printing of this work on Leonard Cohen. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the title page. Photographs by Sharon Robinson. Essay by Larry Sloman. In good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144188
-
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
-
“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