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First Edition of John le Carre's Mission Song; Signed by Him
LE CARRE, John.
Mission Song.
London: Viking, 2006.
First edition of this work by the author of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 131338
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First edition of John Diamond's Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...; Signed by him
DIAMOND, John.
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…
London: Vermilion, 1998.
First edition of Diamond's story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Diamond on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Sally Soames.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 141524
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Henry Landau's All's Fair: The Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines; Signed by Him
LANDAU, Henry.
All’s Fair. The Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1934.
Early printing of Landau's biography of his time in the British Secret Service. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Captain Henry Landau." Near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 83469
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First Edition of A Song Flung Up to Heaven; Inscribed by Maya Angelou
ANGELOU, Maya.
A Song Flung Up To Heaven.
New York: Random House, 2002.
First edition of the final volume in Angelou's autobiography series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Ann Sherry, Joy! from Wendy and Maya Angelou." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. Jacket photograph by Dwight Carter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88974
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Signed Limited Edition of Lillian Hellman's Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time
HELLMANN, Lillian.
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979.
Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Lillian Hellman. Fine in a fine dust jacket in a fine slipcase. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133292
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"It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special": First edition of Oliver's Story; inscribed by Erich Segal
SEGAL, Erich.
Oliver’s Story.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.
First edition of the dramatic sequel to Love Story, the basis for the 1978 film starring Ryan O'Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Regards- Erich Segal 9 June 1978." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Scott.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 143618
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Signed Limited Edition of James A. Michener's My Lost Mexico
MICHENER, James A.
My Lost Mexico.
Austin: The State House Press, 1992.
Signed limited edition of this novel by the award-winning author, one of 350 numbered copies, this is number 59. Octavo, original half cloth, with illustrations by the author. Signed by James A. Michener. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 119391
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"It is a lot of Sundays later but all sundays have become one": Our Game; signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John .
Our Game.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.
First edition, second printing of this novel by the author of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Douglas Brothers.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146510
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First Edition of Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triump of Sepu Kangri; Signed by Bonington and Clarke; From the library of fellow Adventurer Steve Fossett.
BONINGTON, Chris and Charles Clarke.
Tibet’s Secret Mountain: The Triump of Sepu Kangri.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 2000.
First edition of this work by Bonington and Clarke. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke on the title page. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 111347
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First Edition of Cats' A.B.C.; Signed by Beverley Nichols
NICHOLS, Beverley.
Cats’ A.B.C.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.
First British edition of this charming children's book about the lives, personalities, and quirks of cats. Royal octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout by Derrick Sayer. Boldly signed by Beverley Nichols on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147943
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First Edition of Harold Pinter's The Dwarf; Signed by Him
PINTER, Harold.
The Dwarfs.
London: Faber & Faber, 1990.
First edition of this “fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful" (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Harold Pinter on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Andrzej Klimowski.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 76345
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“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good": First Edition of Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture; Signed by Him
CARTER, Jimmy.
The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
First edition of Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize lecture. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Accordino.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147852
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First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
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First Edition of Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story; Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal
WIESENTHAL, Simon.
Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.
First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Joseph Lichten most cordially Simon Wiesenthal August 82." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 147051
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"Then life was thornless to our ken, and, bramble-rise, thy hills were then a rise without a bramble": Frederick Locker's London Lyrics; inscribed by him
LOCKER, Frederick.
London Lyrics.
London: John Wilson, 1868.
Rare privately printed edition of Locker's first book. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "John S. Smith from the author July 28 1868." In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 124134
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First Edition of the Next Century; Inscribed and Dated by David Halberstam in the Year of publication
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Next Century.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.
First edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "For Sandy and Virginia with love David Jan 1991." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 144104
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First Edition of Beowulf; Signed by Neil Gaiman
GAIMAN, Neil and Roger Avary.
Beowulf: The Script Book.
San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2007.
First edition of this illustrated work of Beowulf. Octavo, original wrappers. illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. In fine condition. Art and cover by Gabriel Rodriguez. Colors by Jay Folos.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 116056
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Signed Copy of the Very Busy Spider
CARLE, Eric.
The Very Busy Spider.
New York: Philomel Books, 1984.
Later printing of The Very Busy Spider. Oblong quarto, original publisher’s pictorial boards, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Eric Carle on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration done by Eric Carle.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 149073
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First edition of Heinrich Boll's Missing Persons and Other Essays; Inscribed by Leila Vennewitz in the year of publication
BOLL, Heinrich.
Missing Persons and Other Essays.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the translator in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To May and Peter, with love, Leila October '77." Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith K. Leeds. Jacket photograph by Jill Krementz.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122432
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First Edition of A Republic, If You Can Keep It; Signed by Neil Gorsuch
GORSUCH, Neil.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It.
New York: Crown Forum, 2019.
First edition of this riveting work by the Supreme Court Justice. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Neil Gorsuch on a Supreme Court Historical Society bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Joseph Perez.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 148246
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First edition of John Diamond's Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...; inscribed by him photojournalist Sally Soames
DIAMOND, John.
C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…
London: Vermilion, 1998.
First edition of Diamond's story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To dearest Sally with thanks and - well you know. With love John Diamond." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 124373
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First edition of Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Santiago; Signed by Him
NOOTEBOOM, Cees.
Roads to Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Cees Nooteboom on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 5715
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First Edition of Gunter Grass' Die Vorzüge der Windhühner; Signed by Him
GRASS, Gunter.
Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.
Berlin: Luchterhand, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 78905
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First edition of Daniel Schorr's Come to Think of it; inscribed by him to American journalist Bill Safire
SCHORR, Daniel.
Come to Think of It: Notes on the End of the Millennium.
New York: Viking, 2007.
First edition of Schorr's insightful analysis of of modern history. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To the Safires with admiration mingled with affection Dan." 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 “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128073
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First Edition of the Importance of Being Ernest; Signed by Ernest Cline
CLINE, Ernest.
The Importance of Being Ernest.
Austin, TX: Write Bloody Press, 2013.
First edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Ernest Cline on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 12020
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Tom Stoppard's On the Razzle; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
On the Razzle.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982.
First edition, early printing of this classic play. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Pentagram.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128103
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"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own": The Chosen; Signed by Chaim Potok
POTOK, Chaim.
The Chosen.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the author's first book set in the mid-twentieth Century, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Chaim Potok. Fine in a fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 87977
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First Edition of Susan Charles' The Love Machine; Inscribed by Her
SUSAN, Jacqueline.
The Love Machine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.
First edition of this work by the author of Valley of the Dolls. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Winifred Apt Best Wishes Jacqueline Susan." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Charles.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 114561
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First Edition of On Leadership; Signed by British prime minister Tony Blair
BLAIR, Tony.
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century.
London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024.
First edition of this masterclass on leadership from a master statesman. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tony Blair on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 148261
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First edition of D. J. Enright's Selected Poems; inscribed by him to legendary photojournalist Sally Soames
ENRIGHT, D. J.
Selected Poems 1990.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
First edition of this collection containing many of Enright's finest poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the title page, "For Sally Soames (& cameras) - Dennis Enright." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 124389
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First Vintage Books edition of Bob Colacello's Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
COLACELLO, Bob. [Andy Warhol] [William Safire].
Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up.
New York: Vintage Books, 2014.
First Vintage Books edition of "by far the best of Andy Warhol's portraits, including his own" (George Plimpton). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication, "To Bill Zwecker, with fondness, Bob Colacello 2014 Chicago." The recipient, Bill 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 career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133037
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First Edition of Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin: A Novel; Signed by Him
MCCANN, Colum.
Let the Great World Spin: A Novel.
New York: Random House, 2009.
First edition of the author's classic work, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colum McCann on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer. Jacket drawing by Matteo Pericoli.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 136771
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First Edition of The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader; Signed by Him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.
New York: The Modern Library, 1995.
First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Bernstein on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Roderick MacLeish.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 68963
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First Edition of Ceremony And Other Poems; Inscribed by Richard Wilbur and also laid in a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur.
WILBUR, Richard.
Ceremony And Other Poems.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jane and motherhood Aff'y inscribed Dick Wilbur Cambridge May 51." Also laid in is a sonnet broadside from Charlee and Richard Wilbur. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146260
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Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets; Signed by Lars Eighner
EIGHNER, Lars.
Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
Early printing of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Lars Eighner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Front cover photograph by Martha Grenon.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132109
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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. Boldly signed by John Irving in a contemporary signature on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Book design by Victoria Wong.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133537
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Signed Limited First Edition of Thornton Wilder's The Angel That Troubled The Waters and Other Plays
WILDER, Thornton.
The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1928.
Signed limited first edition of this collection of three-minute plays by American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Imperial octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Wilder photographed by Doris Ulmann. One of seven-hundred and seventy-five copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 726. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145431
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First Edition of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth; Signed by Him
STOPPARD, Tom.
Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980.
First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition. Cover photograph by Bob Chase.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 128109
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The Dot and the Line; Signed by Norton Juster
JUSTER, Norton.
The Dot and the Line.
New York: Random House, 1963.
Early printing of this classic work. Small octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Norton Juster on the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket, with inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146182
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"Kabir says: Listen, my friend there is one thing in the world that satisfies, and that is a meeting with the guest": First edition of Robert Bly's The Kabir Book; inscribed by him
BLY, Robert.
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir.
Boston: The Seventies Press, 1977.
First edition, review copy with the publisher's review slips laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Regan, Robert Bly." Bly has added a drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 123768