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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 of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, half cloth. Signed by Alvin Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 7343
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First Edition of The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal; Inscribed by Jared Diamond
DIAMOND, Jared.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Jared Diamond on the front free endpaper to noted book collector Larry Owens. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 5524
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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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“SUDDENLY THERE WAS A KNOCK WHICH MADE HER PAUSE— COULD IT PERHAPS BE SANTA CLAUS?”: FIRST APPEARANCE OF MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline’s Christmas.
New York: McCall's, 1956.
First appearance of Madeline's Christmas, a special insert in the 1956 Christmas edition of McCall’s Magazine. 12 mo, original wrappers as issued. In very good condition with some light wear to the rear panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 21044
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First Edition of John Irving's A Widow for One Year; Signed by Him
IRVING, John.
A Widow for One Year.
New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1998.
First Canadian edition of Irving's powerful ninth novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ken With my appreciation John Irving." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Book design by Victoria Wong.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137631
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First Edition of Evolution: The First Four Billion Years; Signed by Edward O. Wilson
RUSE, Michael and Joseph Travis.
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
First edition of this work on evolutionary thought. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn a picture of an ant. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 14051
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Signed Limited First Edition of Henry Kissinger's Does America Need a Foreign Policy?
KISSINGER, Henry A.
Does America Need A Foreign Policy?: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2001.
Signed limited first edition of this important work by the fifty-sixth Secretary of State.Octavo, bound in full leather, elaborately decorated in gilt, silk-watered endleaves, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Signed by Henry Kissinger. In fine condition. From the library of noted businessman Ira Lipman, with his bookplate.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 139306
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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. Inscribed by Jack Nicklaus on the front free endpaper. Written with Ken Bowden. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated. Dust jacket design by Paul Smith.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 44014
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First Edition of The Snow Leopard; With a note signed by Peter Matthiessen
MATTHIESSEN, Peter.
The Snow Leopard.
New York: The Viking Press, 1978.
First edition of this classic work of modern nature writing. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. With a note laid in from the author which reads, "And thank you for your kind letter PM." Near fine in a good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by George B. Schaller. Maps by Paul J. Pugliese. A unique example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 11778
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"I am Eloise and I am six": First Edition of Kay Thompson's The Absolutely Essential Eloise; Signed by and dated in the year of publication by illustrator Hilary Knight
THOMPSON, Kay; Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Kay Thompson’s The Absolutely Essential Eloise.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of the essential edition of Eloise. Slim quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated in the year of publication by illustrator Hilary Knight. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scrapbook written by Marie Brenner.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 133190
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"Pete Briggs pats pigs. Briggs pats pink pigs. Briggs pats big pigs"; First Edition of Dr. Seuss's Oh Say, Can You Say?
SEUSS, Dr. [Theodor Geisel].
Oh Say, Can You Say? “Oh my brothers! Oh my sisters! These are Terrible Tongue Twisters!”
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of this book of tongue twisters by Dr. Seuss. Octavo, original laminated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. In very good condition, without dust jacket as issued.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 139022
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First Edition of Enzymatic Structures of DNA; Inscribed by Nobel Laureate 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 title page. Named marked out on the front free endpaper, near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 19035
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of The English; With 30 Mounted Color Plates by W. Heath Robinson
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Song of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Robinson. Quarto, original blue cloth, gilt pictorial to the front panel, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 mounted color plates, lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 120821
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From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters; Signed by Ralph Guldahl
SARAZEN, Gene.
From Tee to Cup by the Four Masters.
Chicago: Wilson Sporting Goods Company, 1937.
First edition of this work by various golfers, including Gene Sarazen. Small octavo, original pebbled cloth, gilt titles, gilt vignette. Signed by Ralph Guldahl on the half-title page. Sarazen was the winner of seven major championships. He is one of five players (along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods) to win each of the four majors at least once, now known as the Career Grand Slam: U.S. Open (1922, 1932), PGA Championship (1922, 1923, 1933), The Open Championship (1932), and Masters Tournament (1935). Guldhal was the winner of the 1937 and 1938 U.S. Open and the…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 79787
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First Illustrated Edition of Richard Adam's Classic Watership Down
ADAMS, Richard.
Watership Down.
London: Penguin Books/ Kestrel Books, 1976.
First illustrated edition of the author's first and most beloved work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by John Lawrence. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with the original slipcase.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 140849
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First Edition of Tennis For the Bloody Fun of It; Signed by Tennis Greats Roy Emerson and Rod Laver
LAVER, Rod & Roy Emerson with Barry Tarshis.
Tennis for the Bloody Fun of It.
New York: Quadrangle/ New York Times Book Company, 1976.
First edition of this instructional by tennis legends Laver and Emerson. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Lengthily inscribed by Rod Laver on the title page, "For John Roy and I enjoyed our carriers, and also writing this book Rod Laver 4-4-04." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Written with Barry Tashis.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 62087
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Sir George W. Cox's Epochs of Modern History: The Crusades
COX, Sir George W.
Epochs of Modern History: The Crusades.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1887.
Finely bound example of Cox's authoritative work on The Crusades. 12mo, bound in full calf for Chatham House Grammar School, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, folding map of the Era of The Crusades. In very good condition. Period ownership names.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 138545
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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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First Edition of Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser; Inscribed by Zbigniew Brzezinski
BRZEZINSKI, Zbigniew .
Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-1981.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
First edition of Brzezinski's memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "To Susan Spezza- with best wishes, Zbigniew Brzezinski." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Garrett Loube Design Associates.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 114269
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First British Edition of Anne of Windy Willow; In the Rare Original Dust jacket
MONTGOMERY, L.M.
Anne of Windy Willows (Anne of Windy Poplars).
London: George G. Harrap, 1936.
First British edition of this novel in Montgomery's acclaimed Anne series. Octavo, original blue cloth. Light wear, else fine in the original dust jacket with some chips. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 892