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First Edition Of John Updikes Collection of Golf Writings; Signed by Him
UPDIKE, John; Illustrated by Paul Szep .
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
First edition of this classic collection of golf stories by John Updike. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Paul Szep. Signed by John Updike on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141537
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Signed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris' visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Shalom Leon Uris." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112569
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Signed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris' visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marcia and David Straus Shalom Leon Uris." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 133903
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S. K. Uyenishi's Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
UYENISHI, S.K. [Raku]; Word Portrait of the author by Percy Longhurst.
The Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan: Being a Simple Treatise on the Japanese Method of Self-Defence.
London: Athletic Publications Ltd, c. 1940.
Later edition of this comprehensive wrestling text-book. Octavo, original green cloth with black lettering and decoration, illustrated with several black-and-white plates. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145250
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"Doesn't bend like Piccadilly, or end abruptly like the Rue de la Paix": FIRST EDITION OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT'S NOVEL PARK AVENUE; SIGNED BY HIM
VANDERBILT, Jr.
Park Avenue.
New York: The Macaulay Company Publishers, 1930.
First edition of Vanderbilt's intimate portrait of the luxurious jazz era Park Avenue lifestyle. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six 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. Signed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 142172
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Rare First Edition of Harry Vardon's Progressive Golf
VARDON, Harry.
Progressive Golf.
London: Hutchinson & Company, 1920.
First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated with several folding plates from action-shot photographs. . Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips to the spine. First editions in the original dust jackets are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 13012
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Harry Vardon's Progressive Golf
VARDON, Harry.
Progressive Golf.
London: Hutchinson & Company, 1920.
Third edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated with six folding plates containing a total of thirty action-shot photographs. Very good in a good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145235
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"Last Sunday, Alexander's grandparents gave him a dollar -- and he was rich. There were so many things he could do with all of that money!": First Edition of Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday; Signed by Judith Viorst
VIORST, Judith; Illustrated by Ray Cruz.
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.
New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1978.
First edition of the second book in the author's acclaimed Alexander series. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, "Save your money! Judith Viorst." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5685
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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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"I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like": First Edition of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress
WALLIAMS, David.
The Boy in the Dress.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008.
First edition of the award-winning sketch actor's first children's book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrations by Quentin Blake. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145190
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"I like you and I know why... I like you because you and are good person to like": Sandol Stoddard Warburg's I Like You
WARBURG, Sandol Stoddard. Illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast.
I Like You.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition of Warburg's children's classic. 16mo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 124540
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“Everybody must have a fantasy": First Edition of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; signed by Andy Warhol
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition of Warhol's classic work expounding his theories on love, fame, and success. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Warhol on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman. An exceptional example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137214