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First Edition of Corporate Culture and Performance; Signed by John Kotter
KOTTER, John P. and James L. Heskett.
Corporate Culture and Performance.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by REM Studio. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145992
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First edition of Francis Marion Crawford's Our Silver
CRAWFORD, Francis Marion.
Our Silver: A Letter Addressed to George S. Coe, Esq. Chairman of Executive Council of the American Bankers’ Association.
New York: Douglas Taylor, 1881.
Rare first edition of Francis Marion Crawford's treatise on the supply and demand for the silver dollar in the United States. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 95874
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Truman; Inscribed by David McCullough to Artist Ellsworth Kelly
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Early printing of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to artist Ellsworth Kelly in the year of publication, "For Ellsworth with very best wishes David McCullough White Plains 11/18/92." The recipient Ellsworth Kelly was a painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 118531
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"First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves its fellow-kind": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's France At War On The Frontier Of Civilization
KIPLING, Rudyard.
France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.
First American edition of Kipling's second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120244
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First Edition of David's Sling: The Arming of Israel; Signed by Shimon Peres
PERES, Shimon.
David’s Sling: The Arming of Israel.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970.
First edition of the story of the creation of Israel's armed strength. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Shimon Peres on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Derrick Holmes. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 127588
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First Edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Essential Tension
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133733
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Howard Jones' Mutiny on the Amistad; signed by him
JONES, Howard.
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Revised edition of the basis for the 1997 film Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "Howard Jones Framingham, Mass. 3/6/98." In near fine condition. Cover design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135992
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First Edition of Value Investing: A Balanced Approach; signed by Martin J. Whitman
WHITMAN, Martin J.
Value Investing: A Balanced Approach.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes Martin J. Whitman." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144681
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First Edition of Kofi Annan's We The Peoples: A UN for the 21st Century; Inscribed by Him to John Whitehead
ANNAN, Kofi.
We The Peoples: A UN for the 21st Century.
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2014.
First edition of this work, in which Annan writes about the lessons of history he learned during his service as Secretary-General. Octavo, original boards. Edited by Edward Mortimer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to John Whitehead and his wife, "To John and Cynthia With friendship and much affection Kofi Annan 27-10-14." John Whitehead was a banker and civil servant, and a board member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and, until his resignation in May 2006, chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. In April 1985, Whitehead was asked to become Deputy Secretary of State,…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 59016
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First Edition of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
London: Allen Lane, 2006.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the Amartya Sen on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 108931
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First Edition of Vidal in Venice; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Vidal in Venice.
New York : Summit Books, 1985.
First edition of this wonderful overview of Venice. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Valerie from 1/2 brother Gore Vidal." The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout their lives. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Karen Katz. Edited by George Armstrong. Photographs by Tore Gill. An exceptional association.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126474
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First Edition of Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century; Warmly Inscribed by Alvin and Heidi Toffler
TOFFLER, Alvin.
Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century.
New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
First edition of this work by the author of Future Shock. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Sergio and the Munoz Family With warmth and respect from Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132352
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"The Road is always better than the inn": Daniel Boorstin's The Seekers; Inscribed by him in the year of publication
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition, early printing of the third and final volume in Boorstin's "knowledge" trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Cole- a fellow seeker from Oklahoma- from Daniel J. Boorstin December 3, 1998." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art: frontispiece plate from William Blake's Europe: a Prophecy, 1794.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133115
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First Edition of The Century; Signed by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
JENNINGS, Peter and Todd Brewster.
The Century.
New York: Doubleday, 1998.
First edition of this historic overview of the twentieth century. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by both authors, Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144008
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First Edition of Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution; Signed by Justice John Paul Stevens
STEVENS, John Paul.
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011.
First edition of this work by Justice Stevens. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Paul Stevens on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lauren Harms.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 125667
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First edition of Deeds of Valor; edited by Union Army colonel Henry M. Duffield
BEYER, W.F. and O.F. Keydel [Editors]. Introduction by Henry M. Duffield.
Deeds of Valor: How America’s Heroes Won the Medal of Honor. A History of Our Country’s Recent Wars In Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battle-Field, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations.
Detroit: The Perrien-Keydel Company, 1903.
First edition of Duffield's richly illustrated compilation of biographies and stories related to recipients of the Medal of Honor. Quarto, 2 volumes, original cloth, patterned endpapers, profusely illustrated with chromolithographic frontispieces and plates. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132381
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William P. Dewees' An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition; in the original publisher's boards
DEWEES, William P.
An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain, and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition.
Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson and Son, 1819.
Second edition of Dewees' inaugural dissertation for M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo, original boards. In good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136502
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First Edition of Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur; inscribed by Him
HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].
Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.
Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.
First edition of this work on the former head of the Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Henry Dinevosodey with highest regards from Marriner Eccles." Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 141359
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First Edition of George Gilder's Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America; Inscribed by Him With A Full Page Inscription
GILDER, George.
Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America.
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
First edition of Gilder's seminal first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by George Gilder with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 59027
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy; In the Rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
Early printing of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144262
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
First edition, early printing of this revelatory look at how we make decisions. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Nudge for good! Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144495
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First edition of Colonel Henry Doveton Hutchinson's The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart; from the library of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
HUTCHINSON, Henry Doveton [Felix Frankfuter].
The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart. Based (By Permission) on Letters Contributed to ‘The Times’.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
First edition of Hutchinson's important eye-witness account of the Tirah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt decorative vignette of an Afridi tribesman to the front panel, illustrated with 7 maps and plans, half-tone tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of General Lockhart. In near fine condition. From the library of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter with his bookplate to the pastedown. Austrian-American lawyer and jurist Felix Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119903
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First Edition of David Ben-Gurion's The Jews in Their Land
BEN-GURION, David.
The Jews in Their Land.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966.
First edition of this finely illustrated work by David Ben-Gurion. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Shahn. Translated from the Hebrew by Modechai Nurock and Misha Louvish.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140977
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First Edition of George Soros' The Age of Fallibility; Inscribed by Him
SOROS, George.
The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.
New York: Public Affairs, 2006.
First edition of this work by the author of The Alchemy of Finance. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by George Soros on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45092
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay; finely bound in full polished tree calf
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878.
Finely bound new edition of the historical essays of Macaulay. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, inner dentelles stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In very good condition. Bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138519
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Like a Holy Crusade
MILLS, Nicolaus.
Like a Holy Crusade. Mississippi 1964—the Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1992.
First edition of historian Mills' "moving account" of the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign for Black voting rights. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer William Heath on the title page. Heath is the author of The Children Bob Moses Led. With Heath's marginalia, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert McCament.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119669
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First Edition of Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur; inscribed by Him
HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].
Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.
Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.
First edition of this work on the former head of the former Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gordon Sorensen with highest regards from Marriner Eccles." Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120723
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First edition of Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941; signed by John M. Erskine
[ERSKINE, J. M.].
Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, n.d. [1941].
First edition of the history of The Commercial Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of General Manager John M. Erskine. Signed by Erskine beneath his portrait, "J.M. Erskine 27/1/42." Fine in the original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124099
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First edition of Shackleton Baileys Cicero; FROM THE LIBRARY OF ENGLISH CLASSICIST BERNARD KNOX WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE
BAILEY, D. R. Shackleton. [Bernard Knox].
Cicero.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First American edition of Baileys classic work on Cicero. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 134285
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First Edition of Martin Gilbert's Churchill: A Life; Inscribed by Him
GILBERT, Martin.
Churchill: A Life.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991.
First edition of this "masterpiece of scholarship" (The Guardian). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To David A. Rezneck with the author's regards Martin Gilbert." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Karsh. Jacket design Raquel Jaramillo.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142433
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First Edition I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941; Signed by Both Frederick Lewis Allen and Agnes Rogers
LEWIS ALLEN, Frederick; Agnes Rogers.
I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941.
New York: : Harper & Brother Publishers, 1947.
First edition of this illustrated work of the American people in the early twentieth century. Quarto, original illustrated cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors, "For Dick Lounsbury with the best wishes of the assemblers: Agnes Rogers" and also signed by Frederick Lewis Allen. In very good condition with The Knickerbocker Club stamp in a good dust jacket with wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45091
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FIRST British EDITION OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. With a Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927.
First British edition of von Wieser's great sociological study. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96798
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First Edition of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
CHANG, Iris.
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.
New York: Basic Books, 1997.
First edition of this "powerful, landmark book" (Richard Rhodes). Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rick Pracher.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 125001
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Paul Johnson's A History of Christianity; Warmly Inscribed by Him
JOHNSON, Paul.
A History of Christianity.
New York: Atheneum, 1979.
First paperback edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Christian with love from the author Paul Johnson August '94." In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132639
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First Edition of Five Chiefs; A Supreme Court Memoir; Signed by Justice John Paul Stevens
STEVENS, John Paul .
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir.
New York: Little Brown and Company, 2011.
First edition of this memoir from Justice John Paul Stevens. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by John Paul Stevens on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Allison J. Warner. Uncommon signed in the actual book, as most examples are signed bookplates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139184
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First Edition of Byzantium; Inscribed by John Julius Norwich on date of Publication
NORWICH, John Julius.
Byzantium: The Apogee.
London: Viking Press, 1991.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "Dear Derek with all love from John Julius Publication Day, 14.x.91." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 4421
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First Edition of Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice; Lengthily Inscribed by Victor Fuchs
FUCHS, Victor R.
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of "by far, the best book on the subject of medicine as it relates to economics" (Minneapolis Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "10/7/85 To Catie and Pod, with appreciation for a lovely evening. All good wishes, Vic." Also laid in is an autographed letter signed to the same recipient Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 107631
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First Edition of Daniel Boorstin's The Creators; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
BOOSTIN, Daniel J.
The Creators.
New York: Random House, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Ed Robertson from Daniel J. Boorstin Sept 24, 1992." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132614
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First Edition of In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story; Signed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story.
Wisconsin: Shadow Mountain, 2010.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by David McCullough on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143615
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First Edition of How Did We Find Out About Germs; Inscribed by Isaac Asimov
ASIMOV, Isaac.
How Did We Find Out About Germs.
New York: Walker and Company, 1974.
First edition of this work by the award-winning writer. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "For Allen and Andrew Isaac Asimov." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by David Wood.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 129739
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First Edition of Loeb and Safire's Plunging Into Politics; Warmly Inscribed by Marshall Loeb
LOEB, Marshall and William Safire.
Plunging Into Politics.
New York: David McKay Company, 1964.
First edition of Safire and Loeb’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To the Langs, Who have done more for me than they shall ever know. Marshall November, 1964." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by A/D Associates.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 130822
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Scarce first edition of Winston S. Churchill's Speech At the Mass Meeting Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Saturday 5th October, 1946
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Speech by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill O.M., C.H., M.P. At the Mass Meeting Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Saturday 5th October, 1946.
London: Published by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office, [1946].
First edition of Churchill's speech defending the position of the Conservative and Unionist Party. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 134618
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The City of Falling Angels; inscribed by John Berendt to Erica Jong
BERENDT, John [Erica Jong].
The City of Falling Angels.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2005.
Early printing of Berendt's suspenseful novel set in the decadent and mysterious city of Venice. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Erica - A fellow Venetophile, Best wishes - John Berendt New York May 23 '07." The recipient, Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142328
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Signed Photograph of Potter Stewart to Fellow Justice Irving Kaufman
STEWART, Potter.
Potter Stewart Signed Photograph.
Signed photograph from Potter Stewart to Irving Kaufman. "For Irving R. Kaufman, With the best wishes and high regard of his friend Potter Stewart." The recipient, Irving Kaufman was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, and was awarded the Presidential medal of Freedom in 1987 by President Reagan “for his exemplary service to our country, his work as chairman of the President’s commission on organized crime and his multifacted efforts to promote an understanding of the law and our legal tradition." He awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 50026
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Rare Eighteenth Century Map Of the mouth of the Pearl River by renowned French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Des Isles Qui Sont a l’Embouchure de la Riviere de Canton. [Eighteenth Century Map Of The Islands Which Are At The Mouth Of The Canton River].
Paris: c. 1750.
Eighteenth century map of the isles of the Pearl River (formerly the Canton River) by French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. One page, hand-colored, central fold. In very good condition. Later hand-coloring. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18.25 inches by 14 inches.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137244
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First Edition of Hope For Animals and Their World; Signed by Jane Goodall and Thane Maynard
GOODALL, Jane with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson.
Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
First edition of this work by this by Goodall. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Jane Goodall on the half-title page and by inscribed on the title page, "For Mike- with hope Thane Maynard." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138447
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First edition of Gertrude Atherton's The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
ATHERTON, Gertrude.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
First edition of the first novel in the author's California series. Octavo, original cloth elaborated stamped in gilt, illustrated by Harrison Fisher. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116833
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"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it": First edition of Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion; signed by the film's screenplay writer Tony Kushner
RUBEL, David. Tony Kushner. Forewords by Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy. [Doris Kearns Goodwin].
Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion.
New York: Disney Editions, 2012.
First edition of this pictorial companion to Spielberg’s monumental 2012 historical drama Lincoln. Quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Signed on the title page by Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for the film loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137109
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First edition of Jack Valenti's A Very Human President; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
VALENTI, Jack. [William Safire].
A Very Human President.
New York: W.W. Norton & Compan Inc, 1975.
First edition of Valenti's intimate biography of Lyndon Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire - a wise and eloquent 'old pro' - and me dear and valued friend Jack Valenti." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135521
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First Edition of William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance; Inscribed by the Co-Founder of the NAACP Fanny Garrison Villard
VILLARD, Fanny Garrison .
William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance. Together with a Personal Sketch By His Daughter Fanny Garrison Villard and a Tribute by Leo Tolstoi.
The Nations Press Printing Co, 1924.
First edition of this tribute to the prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Mildred L. Wood May 30, 1925 From Mrs. Villard." Fanny Garrison Villard was a co-founder (with her son) of the NAACP and active in women's suffrage and peace movements. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and the wife of railroad tycoon Henry Villard. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 81133
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Kenneth J. Roberts' Black Magic; inscribed by him
ROBERTS, Kenneth J.
Black Magic: An Account of its Beneficial Use in Italy, of its Perversion in Bavaria, and of Certain Tendencies Which Might Necessitate its Study in America.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924.
Early printing of Roberts' work on fascism in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece of Mussolini. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For S. D. Green with the best wishes of Kenneth J. Roberts Palm Beach January, 1927." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96104
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Margaret Dilke's Women's Suffrage
DILKE, Margaret.
Women’s Suffrage.
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., n.d..
Stereotyped edition of English suffragette Margaret Dilke's treatise on women's suffrage. Octavo, bound in full cloth, original wrappers bound in. In good condition. Stamps.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135204
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"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives": First Edition of John Adams; signed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Nancy Kovac with greetings from David McCullough 2017." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Jacket painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138030
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First Edition of The Economics of Computers; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist William F. Sharpe
SHARPE, Willam F.
The Economics of Computers.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's early work on computers. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To James Bill Sharpe." Near fine in a good dust jacket, name to the endpaper.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133579
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Masterpiece The Ethics of Liberty
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Ethics of Liberty.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.
First edition of Rothbard's greatest contribution to the politics of freedom. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140921
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First Edition of Robert Caro's Working; Signed by Him
CARO, Robert.
Working.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
First edition of Caro's memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Robert Caro on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142519
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First edition of In Search of America; signed and inscribed by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
JENNINGS, Peter and Todd Brewster.
In Search of America.
New York: Hyperion, 2002.
First edition of the bestselling authors' lavishly illustrated work exploring American identity from the country's foundation to present day. Quarto, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs edited by Vivette Porges. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "Rebecca You are on a great journey! & a great person P.J." and "Todd Brewster 9.26.02." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Elton Robinson.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144820
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Burnaby's On Horseback Through Asia Minor
BURNABY, Frederick Gustavus.
On Horseback Through Asia Minor.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877.
Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in original publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, spine vignettes in black, illustrated with 3 folding maps and a mounted photographic portrait frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 105843
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First edition of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; signed by him
PERKINS, John.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004.
First edition of Perkins' bestselling exposé. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by MBV Design.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124194
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The author's autograph edition of Richard Byrd's Little America; one of one thousand numbered copies signed by him
BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Signed limited edition of Byrd’s account of his first expedition to the South Pole. Octavo, original publisher's half parchment over blue boards, with 74 illustrations and maps. Author's Autograph Edition, one of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author and publisher on the limitation leaf, this is number 139. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140404