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“To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort”: First Edition of Gene Kranz's Failure Is Not An Option; Warmly Inscribed by Him
KRANZ, Gene.
Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
First edition of this memoir by Gene Kranz, who was the flight director from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "To John 'Failure is not an option!' Eugene F Kranz." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Accordino.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143399
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"Into the dark, into that silence that has no end": First Edition of H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon
WELLS, H.G.
The First Men in the Moon.
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901.
First English edition of Wells's classic work of science fiction. Octavo, original publisher's gilt-decorated blue cloth, illustrated with 12 plates by Claude Shepperson. In very good condition. Small embossed bookplate to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 143735
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“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever": First Edition of Jacques Cousteau's Whales; Signed by Him
COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves and Yves Paccalet.
Whales.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Jacques Cousteau. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 143622
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“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever": Limited First Edition of Jacques Cousteau's Whales
COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves and Yves Paccalet.
Whales.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
Limited first edition of this classic work. Quarto, original leatherette, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine slipcase. Translated by I. Mark Paris.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 143650
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First edition in English, limited issue of A Description of Louisiana, by Father Louis Hennepin, Recollect Missionary
SHEA, John Gilmary.
A Description of Louisiana, by Father Louis Hennepin, Recollect Missionary.
New York: John G. Shea, 1880.
First edition in English, limited issue of Hennepin’s first book Description de Louisiane, the first report of Niagara Falls and the headwaters of the Mississippi River above the Wisconsin River. Royal octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, patterned endpapers, engraved folding map with tape repair. One of 250 numbered copies, this is number 76. Bradford 2251; Sabin 80023. Provenance: Bookplate of William L. Clements to the pastedown. In very good condition. Robert Clark broadsheet advertisement for the book laid tipped in.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 143219
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First American Edition of Ernest Shackleton's South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition: 1914-1917
SHACKLETON, Ernest.
South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition: 1914-1917.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1920.
First American edition of Shackleton’s own account of his ill-fated expedition, with folding map at rear, in-text maps and illustrations, and 88 plates, most after photographs by Frank Hurley. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth, color frontispiece, numerous plates, large folding map, errata slip. In near fine condition, bookplate. A very sharp example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142888
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Limited edition of John Gilmary Shea's Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi
SHEA, John Galmary.
Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi, by Cavelier, Dt. Cosme, Le Sueur, Gravier, and Guignas.
Albany: Joel Munsell, 1861.
Limited edition of Shea's important history of the early explorers of the Mississippi, printed for subscribers. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Bradford 4933; Field 1395; Sabin 80003. Provenance: from the library of American businessman James Phinney Baxter (1831-1921) of Portland, Maine with his bookplate to the pastedown. Bookplate of Peter Priester laid in. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 143881
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First edition of Frankl Hurley's Argonauts of the South
HURLEY, Frank.
Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of the Voyages and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.
First edition of Hurley's appreciation of the two principal figures of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Royal octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 75 plates and maps. Provenance: from the Arctic and Antarctic collection of Gerald F. Fitzgerald with his library plate to the pastedown. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143724
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First Editions of Rudyard Kipling's The First and Second Jungle Books
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan, 1894-95.
First editions of both volumes of The Jungle Book. Octavo, two volumes, original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard present. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. A sharp example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 143467
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First Edition of Joshua Slocum's Classic Work Sailing Alone Around the World
SLOCUM, Captain Joshua.
Sailing Alone Around the World.
New York: The Century Company, 1900.
First edition of "the finest single-handed adventure story yet written" (Seafarer). Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorially stamped in silver and green, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 143497
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"This is one of those books which makes a permanent difference to one’s view of the world": First Edition of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands
THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1959.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, map unopened in the inside pocket of the rear pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143468
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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found": First Edition of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
STEINBECK, John.
Travels with Charley.
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First edition of Steinbeck’s beloved cross-country narrative. 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. In fine condition.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 143469
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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found": First Edition of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley; Inscribed by Him
STEINBECK, John.
Travels with Charley.
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First edition of Steinbeck’s beloved cross-country narrative. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Freeman. Photographs of Steinbeck by Hans Namuth.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 142958
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First edition of Commander Frank Wild's Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest
WILD, Frank.
Shackleton’s Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest.
London: Cassell and Company, LTD, 1923.
First edition of Wild's personal account of the final episode in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Royal octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, gilt decorated vignette of the Quest to the front panel, pictorial endpapers by Garth Jones, illustrated with a colored frontispiece, numerous maps and over 100 illustrations from photographs. Provenance: from the Arctic and Antarctic collection of Gerald F. Fitzgerald with his library plate to the pastedown. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Clip to the front free pictorial endaper.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 142802
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First edition of Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924; inscribed by William K. Vanderbilt
VANDERBILT, William K.
Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924.
New York: Brentano's, Publishers, 1925.
First edition of Vanderbilt's account of his 1924 three-month summer cruise aboard the diesel yacht Ara. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To C. M. ... from W. K. Vanderbilt June 26th 1925." In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 143551
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Hugh Robert Mills' The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton
MILLS, Hugh Robert.
The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1924.
Second edition of Mill's appreciation of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with numerous plates and 4 maps in the text. Provenance: from the Arctic and Antarctic collection of Gerald F. Fitzgerald with his library plate to the pastedown. Presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "From B.M.F. 24.11.25." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 143821
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First Edition of The Right Stuff; Signed by Tom Wolfe, Chuck Yeager and John Glenn
WOLFE, Tom.
The Right Stuff.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.
First edition of Wolfe's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the half-title page and additionally signed by pilots Chuck Yeager and inscribed by John Glenn. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kiyoshi Kanai. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A very sharp example, rare signed by Wolfe, Yeager and Glenn.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142331
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"you see stretching from the spurs of Ritter a row of exceedingly sharp and slender spires": The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir; with an original autograph manuscript page from Muir's The Mountains of California
MUIR, John.
The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.
The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir, one of 750 numbered sets produced with an original autograph manuscript page bound into the first volume. Octavo, 10 volumes in the publisher's deluxe three quarter crushed levant morocco over cloth boards with gilt titles and tulip stamping to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, ribbons bound in, illustrated with 69 photogravures, including colored frontispiece, 34 halftone plates of the author's sketches, 7 maps, and 2 plates of his drawings. One of 750 numbered sets with an original manuscript page bound…
Price: $10,000.00 Item Number: 143457
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First Edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's Seven Came Through; Inscribed by Him
RICKENBACKER, Captain Edward V. Introduction by W.L. White.
Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.
First edition of Rickenbacker's account of 24 days adrift in a life raft. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With my every best wish to Gertrude Moellering Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker." Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143617
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"This is one of those books which makes a permanent difference to one’s view of the world": First Edition of Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands
THESIGER, Wilfred.
Arabian Sands.
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1959.
First American edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, map on the rear pastedown. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 143506