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"If you ever want to accumulate some capital of your own - speculate, don't invest": Wall Street 20th Century; signed by Gerald M. Loeb
Edited by John Arthur Neumark. [Gerald M. Loeb].
Wall Street 20th Century.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Daily News 1960.
Collection of fundamental articles related to 20th century Wall Street. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated with photographs and charts. Boldly signed by renowned Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb on the front panel who contributed the article ‘A Challenge for the Ambitious.’ Introductory letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower. Other contributors include: Benjamin Graham, Robert C. Riehle, Bernard M. Baruch, William D. Kerr, and Craig Severance. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by this Wall Street legend.
Price: $3,800.00
"Nabokov resembled a seventeenth-century polymath, an erudite yet discursive and imaginative author like Robert Burn or Sir Thomas Browne": First edition of Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute
Nabokov, Vladimir. Edited by Peter Quennell.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc 1980.
First edition of this tribute to the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov with essays by Peter Quennell, Alfred Appel, Jr., Robert Alter, and Dmitri Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth over boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph of Nabokov by Leonie Finlay.
Price: $25.00
"Here is Dorothy herself in the person of Judy Garland, with Toto as Himself!": First Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Technicolor edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz; in the rare original dust jacket
Baum, L. Frank.
The Wizard of Oz.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1939.
First Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Technicolor edition of Baum’s most famous Oz book, the basis for one of the greatest films in cinema history. First printing with the gilt titles to the spine and printer’s imprint to the copyright page (Bienvenue & Schmidt, pg 13). Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and black labels to the spine, pictorial endpapers featuring photographs from the film. Illustrated with 8 tipped in color plates and numerous doutone plates and in-text illustrations by W. W. Denslow. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example": First Edition of Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Twain, Mark.
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. And the Comedy, Those Extraordinary Twins.
Hartford: American Publishing Company 1894.
First edition, first state of Twain’s story about two boys. Octavo, original brown cloth. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,250.00
"When two such brilliantly ebullient intellects get together by mail, they charge the air with all sorts of pyrotechnics": First Edition of The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971
Nabokov, Vladimir and Edmund Wilson. Edited, Annotated and with an Introduction by Simon Karlinksy.
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: 1940-1971.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1979.
First edition of this annotated compendium of the Nabokov-Wilson letters. Octaovo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $25.00
First edition of Eugene O'Neill's The Moon of the Caribbees and Six Other Plays of the Sea
O'Neill, Eugene.
The Moon of the Caribbees and Six Other Plays of the Sea.
New York: Boni and Liveright 1919.
First edition of this collection of seven one-act plays of the sea. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00
First Edition of Louis Menand's Pulitzer Prize-winning Work The Metaphysical Club; Inscribed by Him
Menand, Louis.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2001.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Louis Menand on the title page. Near fine in a near dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $175.00
Rare First Edition of Karl Karsten’s Scientific Forecasting
Karsten, Karl.
Scientific Forecasting: Its Methods and Application to Practical Business and to Stock Market Operations.
New York: Greenberg 1931.
First edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,800.00
"What gets measured gets improved": First Edition of Post-Capitalist Society; Signed by Peter Drucker
Drucker, Peter F.
Post-Capitalist Society.
New York: Harper Collins 1993.
First edition of one of the final works by “the world’s greatest management thinker… deserves to be measured alongside people such as Keynes or Schumpeter” (Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $600.00
First Edition of My Father, My President; Signed by President George H. W. Bush and Doro Bush Koch
Bush Koch, Doro (George H.W. Bush).
My Father My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H.W. Bush.
New York: Warner Books 2006.
First edition of this work by the daughter of the 41st President of the United States. Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by both Doro Koch Bush and George H.W. Bush on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anne Twomey.
Price: $600.00
"The greatest Lady of This Century in whom Africa has found a friend in deed": First Edition of Ojike's My Africa; Inscribed by Him to Eleanor Roosevelt
Ojike, Mbonu [Eleanor Roosevelt].
My Africa.
New York: The John Day Company 1946.
First edition of this work by the Nigerian novelist and nationalist, inscribed by him to Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Eleanor Roosevelt The greatest Lady of this Century in whom Africa has found a friend in deed. Mbonu Ojike.” Bookplate of Eleanor Roosevelt, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Pearl S. Buck. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,500.00
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be": First illustrated edition of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane.
Mansfield Park: A Novel.
London: Richard Bentley 1837.
First edition published as one volume and first illustrated edition of Austen’s third published novel. Small octavo, bound in three quarters period leather over marbled boards, engraved frontispiece and title vignette. In very good condition.
Price: $1,200.00
First edition of George Catlin’s Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Bound in Contemporary Leather
Catlin, George.
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.
London: Published By the Author, At the Egyptian Hall 1841.
First edition, first issue. Octavo, bound in contemporary gilt-paneled calf. With 3 maps and 310 plates. An exceptional near fine example, rebacked, with the plates clean. Rare in contemporary calf.
Price: $4,750.00
First Edition of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
Sen, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company 2006.
First edition of this “indispensable book” (Anwar Ibrahim). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Amartya Sen on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00
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
