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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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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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First Edition of Adam Smith's Paper Money; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Adam [George Goodman].
Paper Money.
New York: Summit Books, 1981.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine with a few closed tears.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 20005
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First edition of Emily Beaufort's Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines; Finely Bound
BEAUFORT, Emily A.
Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines: Including Some Stay in the Lebanon, at Palmyra and in Western Turkey.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.
First edition of Emily Anne Beaufort’s account of her travels throughout Egypt and Syria. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, black morocco spine labels, folding chromolithographic frontispiece to volume I and five other chromolithogrpahic plates throughout. In near fine condition. An attractive example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 96548
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A Christmas Carol; Signed by John Irving
IRVING, John] Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories.
New York: Modern Library, 1995.
First Modern Library edition of Dickens’ classic work, with an introduction by John Irving. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Light staining to the page edges in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 1491
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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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First Edition of DNA: The Secret of Life; Signed by James Watson
WATSON, James D. & Andrew Berry.
DNA: The Secret of Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of this work by the Nobel laureate. Octavo, original cloth. Signed James Watson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 3685
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First Edition of Gary Player’s First Book; Signed by Golfing Legend Gary Player
PLAYER, Gary .
Gary Player’s Golf Secrets.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.
First edition of Gary Player’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes Gary Player.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 109227
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First Edition of Ingri & Edgar Parin D'Aulaire's George Washington; in the rare original dust jacket
D'AULAIRE, Ingri & Edgar Parin.
George Washington.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936.
Rare first edition of Ingri & Edgar D’Aulaire’s children’s classic. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with lithographs on stone in five colors and printed by offset lithography. Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire were the first 20th century artists to author and illustrate children’s books using earlier craftsman’s methods such as stone lithography. They won the Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association in 1940, recognizing the previous year’s “most distinguished American picture book for children.” Fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is price-clipped and in very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 108543
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Inscribed by Chess Grandmaster Larry Evans to United States Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson
EVANS, Larry & Tom Wiswell.
Championship Chess and Checkers for All.
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1953.
First edition of this work by the chess grandmaster. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Larry Evans on the front free endpaper, “To Ambassador Thompson Best wishes Larry Evans March, 1956.” Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few closed tears.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 3981
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"If you want to keep a man good natured, give him good food": Rare First Edition of The Chinese Cook Book
CHAN, Shiu Wong.
The Chinese Cook Book.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1917.
First edition of this early Chinese American cook book. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 86463
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Sixteeen Issues of The Financial World: Independent Appraisals of Listed Stocks
THE FINANCIAL WORLD: INDEPENDENT APPRAISALS OF LISTED STOCKS,.
The Financial World: Independent Appraisals of Listed Stocks.
16 issues dating from November 1930-June 1933. In very good condition. Uncommon wall street ephemera from the 1930’s.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5654
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From the Library of John Updike; Inscribed by the author to Him
ARTHUR, Anthony (John Updike).
Literary Feuds.
New York: St. Martins Press, 2002.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For John Updike, with admiration- Anthony Arthur.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Updike is featured in this volume of feuds.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5767
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First Edition of John Caples Making Ads Pay
CAPLES, John; Foreword by Paul West.
Making Ads Pay.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
First edition of Caples’ classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5660
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Finely bound example of f the poems of John Keats, arranged in chronological order with a preface by Sidney Colvin
KEATS, John.
The Poems of John Keats.
New York: Brentano's, 1924.
Finely bound example of the poems of John Keats, arranged in chronological order with a preface by Sidney Colvin. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95222
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First Edition of Isaac M. Wise's The Divine Service of American Israelites for the Day of Atonement; published by bloch in the rare original cloth
WISE, Isaac M.
The Divine Service of American Israelites for the Day of Atonement.
Cincinatti: Block and Co., Publishers and Printers, 1866.
First edition of one of the earliest Jewish American devotionals, written by one of the most influential Reform rabbis in the history of the United States and published by the oldest Jewish printing house in the United States. With text in Hebrew, English and German. Small octavo, original publisher’s cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. In good condition with some rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 82401
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First edition of Rod Laver's How to Play Championship Tennis; Inscribed by Him
LAVER, Rod with Jack Pollard.
How to Play Championship Tennis.
New York: MacMillan, 1965.
First American edition of this early work by one of the greatest players in the history of tennis. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by tennis great Rod Laver on the title page. Light wear, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few closed tears.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 1270
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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 Evelyn Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 110358
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First Edition of Gary Player’s First Book; Inscribed by Golfing Legend Gary Player
PLAYER, Gary [Jack Nicklaus].
Gary Player’s Golf Secrets.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.
First edition of Gary Player’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Gary Player on the title page and additionally signed by Player on the front panel of the dust jacket. Fine in a good dust jacket with a large chip to the rear panel.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 109227
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“A word in earnest is as good as a speech": The New Oxford illustrated edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House
DICKENS, Charles.
Bleak House.
London: Oxford University Pres, 1948.
The New Oxford illustrated edition of this Dickens classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with forty illustration by “Phiz” including a tissue-guarded frontispiece and an introduction by Osbert Sitwell. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 90457