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First Edition of the 40th Anniversary Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed by Harper Lee
Lee, Harper.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
First edition, first printing of the 40th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,800.00
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First British Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Warmly Inscribed by Harper Lee
Lee, Harper.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
London: Heinemann, 1960.
First British edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bobby from his devoted friend and admirer, Harper Lee March 14, 1962.” Some foxing to the page edges, the inscription a little blurred, an excellent example in the original dust jacket with light shelfwear. The recipient’s parents were head of the day-to-day operations of Barnett Insurance Agency in Monroeville, which was closely associated (and shared office space) with the law firm of Barnett, Bugg and Lee, which Harper Lee’s father, A.C. Lee, helped found. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. Examples with such warm inscriptions are rare.
Price: $15,000.00
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First Edition of Tom Watson's Strategic Golf; Inscribed by Tom Watson
Watson, Tom; Foreword by Fred Couples.
Tom Watson’s Strategic Golf.
New York: Pocket Books, 1993.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Tom Watson on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with Nick Seitz. Foreword by Fred Couples. Illustrated by Anthony Ravielli.
Price: $65.00
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First Edition of Gandhi's Towards Non-Violent Socialism
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
Towards Non-Violent Socialism.
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1951.
First edition of this work by Gandhi. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with a small stain to the front panel.
Price: $100.00
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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where": First Edition of The Nobel Prize-Winning Poet’s Classic Work; Signed by Pablo Neruda
Neruda, Pablo; Translated by Robert Bly and James Wright.
Twenty Poems.
Madison: The Sixties Press, 1967.
First edition of Neruda’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Robert Bly and James Wright. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $4,800.00
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First Edition of Henry Clews Recollections About Wall Street; Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street; Inscribed by Him
Clews, Henry.
Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.
New York: Irving Publishing Company, 1888.
First edition of Clews’ classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “___ ______ with the compliments of Henry Clews N.Y. May 3rd, 95.” In very good condition with some of the usual rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,200.00
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Inscribed Presentation Copy of Henry Clews Recollections About Wall Street; Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street
Clews, Henry.
Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.
New York: Irving Publishing Co, 1888.
First edition of Clews’ classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “___ ______ with the compliments of Henry Clews Oct. 25, 95.” In very good condition with some of the usual rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,000.00
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First Edition of Two Cheers For Capitalism; Inscribed by Irving Kristol in the Year of Publication
Kristol, Irving.
Two Cheers For Capitalism.
New York: Basic Books Publishers, 1978.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Paul Chase with best wishes from Irving Kristol 10/23/78.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
Friedman, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, “For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00
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"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it": First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
Friedman, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Milton Friedman on the half-title page, “For Kristin, more power to you, Milton Friedman.” Also signed by Rose Friedman below his signature. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00
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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
Friedman, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by both authors on the half-title page, Milton and Rose Friedman. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Steven N.S. Cheung.
Price: $475.00
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First edition of Tyranny of the Status Quo; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
Friedman, Milton & Rose.
Tyranny of the Status Quo.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration’s attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Proctor Jones with best wishes Milton Friedman.” Also signed by Rose Friedman. The recipient Proctor Jones was a San Francisco based filmmaker and author who in 1970 founded the Proctor Jones Publishing Company. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a a few closed tears.
Price: $2,000.00
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Signed Engraving of Ulysses S. Grant
Grant, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant Signed Engraving.
Washington, D.C: 1871.
Portrait engraving of President Ulysses S. Grant. Boldly signed U.S. Grant. The engraving measures 5.5 inches by 4 inches. This portrait engraving produced by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In near fine condition, affixed to an 8 inch by 10 inch sheet bearing a small note. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches 18 inches.
Price: $5,500.00
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First Edition of Henry James' View and Reviews
James, Henry.
Views and Reviews: Now First Collected.
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1908.
First edition of this series of literary essays written in James’ earlier style. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction by Le Roy Phillips. In near fine condition. A very bright example.
Price: $125.00
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived": First Edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Thoreau, Henry David.
Walden; or, Life in the Woods.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
First edition of Thoreau’s masterpiece. Octavo, original brown cloth with eight pages of advertisements inserted between rear endpapers. Title-page vignette of Thoreau’s cottage and lithographed map of Walden Pond. In very good condition with only light wear to the spine. Housed in a custom half leather clamshell box. Allen 8; Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106. A very sharp example of this work.
Price: $10,500.00
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First Edition of Walt Disney's Fantasia; Inscribed by Disney and with Twelve original drawings
Disney, Walt; Deems Taylor .
Walt Disney’s Fantasia. With a Foreword by Leopold Stokowski.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
First edition of the lavishly illustrated companion volume to Disney’s animated musical masterpiece. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 16 mounted color plates. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by thirteen people (including Walt Disney); all who worked at Walt Disney studios in the 1940s. All of the inscriptions are to Jodie Ferguson Brudge, who was a secretary at Disney Studios, and upon her leaving to get married, raise family, she asked those that she worked with to inscribe her copy of Fantasia. This work contains the following inscriptions and illustrations, inscribed by Walt Disney on the title page, “To Jodie Best Wishes Walt Disney.” Page 10 has an original full-color illustration by Milt Banta of a card game between Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Milt Banta, with the inscription “Best Wishes Always Milt Banta.” Page 14 has a full page original illustration by Russ Dyson of a “ye olde family tree” for the Ferguson [Jodie] and Dyson branches. On the Dyson branch is a self-portrait of Dyson as a bird, with the inscription, “I Hope the Ferguson Branch Doesn’t grow any Larger! Good Luck – Russ Dyson 1/18/46.” Page 57 has an original watercolor of a tree branch and paint container, and the inscription: “Jodie – If you ever run across any automatic paint brushes like these – let me know. – Claude Coats.” Page 82 has a twenty-six line inscription that is warm and thoughtful from Ben [Sharpsteen]. Page 95 has an original color illustration of a frog fishing and the inscription, “An ‘Good Fishin’ to you all the time – Jodie. Hugh Hennesy” Page 102 has an original color illustration of a self-portrait of Bill Berg, with the inscription “Good Bye Jodie – We’ll Miss You!!! Bill Berg.” Page 118 has an original illustration of a self-portrait of Jerry Hathcock waking from a nightmare, with the inscription, “Gad!! What a Nightmare! Maybe Jodie is smart to leave. Good Bye + Good Luck, Jerry Hathcock.” Page 119 has an original illustration of a bouquet of flowers, that has been drawn into the hand/wing of the printed ostrich, with the inscription: “Best Luck and Good Wishes Jodie. Phil Barber.” Page 121 has an original illustration of a self-portrait of J. Eric Gurney who is holding a banner that reads, “Best Wishes to Jodie.” The opposite end of the banner is being held by the printed hippopotamus. Page 126 has an original illustration of a self-portrait of Nick Nichols (being held aloft by the printed elephant), with the inscription: “Bye Bye Jodie Come Back And Work For Me Again. Best Nick Nichols.” Page 159 has an original full-page illustration of Jodie as a centaurette, with the inscription, “G’bye Now. Lots of Luck an’ Stuff to Jodie. George Rowley.” The verso of the rear free endsheet contains an original illustration of a guitar player in a pancho and sombrero with the inscription, ” Good Luck Jodie. William de la Torre.” An excellent example in a very good dust jacket. A unique piece of Disney history.
Price: $14,000.00
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Rare First Edition Little Golden Book of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Pluto Pup; inscribed by Walt Disney
Disney, Walt) Beecher, Elizabeth.
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Pluto Pup.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.
Rare first edition Little Golden Book of this Disney tale of a fishing trip with Mickey Mouse and his loyal pup Pluto. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt spine label and elaborate full-color illustrations throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walt Disney on the title page, “To Frank Hart – Best Wishes – Walt Disney.” In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $5,500.00
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“They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer": First Edition of What Makes Sammy Run; Inscribed by Budd Schulberg in the year of publication
Schulberg, Budd.
What Makes Sammy Run?
New York: Random House, 1941.
First edition of what many consider one of the most important novels on Hollywood and the film industry. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To Julian Johnson with respect and fond regards, Budd. March 29, 1941.” The recipient Julian Johnson was the head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the rear panel with the blurbs by F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O’Hara. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice association.
Price: $5,500.00
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First Edition of What Manner of Man: A Biography Of Martin Luther King, Jr; Inscribed by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
King Jr., Martin Luther) Lerone Bennett, Jr.
What Manner of Man: A Biography Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc, 1964.
First edition of this early biography on Dr. King. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some closed tears. With an introduction by Benjamin E. Mays. Jacket design by Herbert Temple. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $300.00
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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; Signed by Him
Yalom, Irvin D.
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession.
New York: Basic Books, 1992.
First edition of Irvin D. Yalom’s When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Irvin D. Yalom on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $275.00
