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“Many of the books tossed into the flames in Berlin that night by the joyous students under the approving eye of Dr. Goebbels had been written by authors of world reputation": First Edition of William Shirer's Classic work The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich; Signed by Him
SHIRER, WILLIAM L.
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1960.
First edition “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by William L. Shirer on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar. First editions are rare signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 118723
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First Edition of Donald's Lincoln's Herndon; Warmly Inscribed by Him
DONALD, DAVID.
Lincoln’s Herndon.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948.
First edition of the Pulitzer-Prize historian’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Ann and Mary Ann Schmidt from Marion Bonzi with the best wishes of the author, David Donald Christmas 1948.” On page 11, she is mentioned as “Expertly and meticulously she has read the book both in manuscript and in proof. Her passion for accuracy has saved me from a score of errors.” Bonzi was instrumental in a number of heavyweight scholarly productions. Two years after this inscription she married Lincoln historian Harry E. Pratt (1901-56), who served as Illinois state historian and authored and edited a prolific array of Lincoln-related titles, and they became a formidable husband/ wife Lincoln team. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional association.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 118772
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“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel": First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.
Death in the Afternoon.
Charles Scribner's Sons: New York 1932.
First edition of Hemingway’s early work on bullfighting. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece by Juan Gris. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips. Jacket illustration by Roberto Domingo.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 119227
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Finely Bound First Clarke Edition of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination
POE, EDGAR ALLAN; ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRY CLARKE.
Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
New York: Brentano's 1923.
Finely bound edition of Poe’s classic work. Small quarto, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine label, raised bands, illustrated with 32 color plates. In fine condition, bookplate. Illustrated by Harry Clarke. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 119431
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First Edition of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL .
The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1860.
First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. BAL 7621.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 119422
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First Edition of Robert M. Parker's The Wines of the Rhone Valley; Signed by Him
PARKER, ROBERT M.
The Wines of the Rhone Valley.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1987.
First edition of this comprehensive work on wines of the Rhone Valley. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Christopher Wormell. Boldly signed by Robert M. Parker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Koppel and Scher. Maps by Jeanyee Wong.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 119529
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“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD
HUXLEY, ALDOUS.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus 1932.
Signed limited first edition of Huxley’s masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page, this is number 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 118355
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“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”: First Hardcover Edition of american psycho; Signed by Bret Easton Ellis
ELLIS, BRET EASTON.
American Psycho.
London: Picador 1998.
First hardcover edition of this modern cult classic. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bret Easton Ellis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 119528
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First Edition of Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal; Signed by Him
BOURDAIN, ANTHONY.
A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal.
New York: Bloomsbury 2001.
First edition of this written record of Bourdain’s travels around the world in his search for the perfect meal. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Anthony Bourdain on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by High Design.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 118461
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First Edition of Harry Truman’s Memoirs; Inscribed by President Truman in Volume One
TRUMAN, HARRY S.
Memoirs: Year of Decisions and Memoirs: Years of Trial and Hope 1946-1952.
New York: Doubleday & Company 1955-56.
First editions of President Truman’s presidential memoirs. Octavo, two volumes, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of Volume I in the year of publication, “With many thanks and best wishes to Jack Fuller from Harry Truman Nov. 28, 1955.” Both volumes are near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jackets. Jacket designs by Sydney Butchkes. Jacket photographs by Eliot Elsofon and U.S. Army Corps.
Price: $900.00 Item Number: 119588
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First Edition of Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head; Inscribed by Her to Sally Soames
MURDOCH, IRIS.
A Severed Head.
London: Chatto & Windus 1961.
First edition of the author’s fifth novel which was a harbinger of the sexual revolution that was to hit Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally with all my best wishes Iris Murdoch.” 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 on her subjects and developed intimate rapports with them during her process, resulting in striking and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph, she captured the unique personalities of some of the world’s most gifted authors, poets, and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime: Manpower (1987) with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers (1995) with a preface by Norman Mailer. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Woodcock.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 118629
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"The most wonderful collection of photographs that has been seen about the history of the Jewish People": First edition of Yigal Lossin's Pillar of Fire: The Rebirth of Israel - A Visual History
LOSSIN, YIGAL.
Pillar of Fire: The Rebirth of Israel – A Visual History.
Jerusalem: Shikmona Publishing Company Ltd 1983.
First edition of Lossin’s visual history of the Jewish people. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Presentation inscription.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 119740
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First edition of My First Horse; illustrated by Lionel Edwards and with contributions by Siegfried Sassoon, Cynthia Asquith, and Laurian Jones
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED; CYNTHIA ASQUITH; LAURIAN JONES; A.F. TSCHIFFELY; LIONEL EDWARDS; VIC OLIVER.
My First Horse.
London: Peter Lunn 1943.
First edition of this collection of equestrian reminiscences. Oblong octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lionel Edwards. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 119722
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First illustrated edition of Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED.
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.
London: Faber & Faber Limited 1929.
First illustrated edition of Sassoon’s Fox-hunting classic. Octavo, original japon vellum, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by William Nicholson. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 119433
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First edition of Douglas Rutherford's Grand Prix Murder
RUTHERFORD, DOUGLAS.
Grand Prix Murder.
London: Collins Crime Club 1955.
First edition of Rutherford’s early murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in near fine condition with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 119604
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First Edition of Saul bellow's Something to Remember Me By; Inscribed by Him to Sally Soames
BELLOW, SAUL.
Something to Remember Me By. Three Tales. The Bellarosa Connection, A Theft, Something To Remember Me By.
New York: The Viking Press 1991.
First edition of this trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and “greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century” (James Wood, The New Republic). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally Soames, Saul Bellow Chicago Oct 10 ’91.” 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 on the subjects of her photographs and developed intimate rapports with them during her process resulting in intimate and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph, she captured the creative energy and personality of some of the world’s most gifted authors, poets, and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime, Manpower (1987) with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers (1995) with a preface by Norman Mailer. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Herb Tauss.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 118778
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"LIGHT OF MY LIFE, FIRE OF MY LOINS": FIRST American EDITION OF Nabokov's TOUR DE FORCE LOLITA
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR.
Lolita.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1955.
First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Photograph of Nabokov by Maclean Dameron. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119451
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First Columbian Edition and True First of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL.
El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera [Love in the Time of Cholera].
Bogota: Editorial Oveja Negra 1985.
First Columbian edition and true first which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 118569
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"With affection and much admiration": John Le Carre's Our Game; Warmly Inscribed by Him to Sally Soames
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 boards, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally with affection and much admiration- David alias John le Carre 13 VI ’95.” 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 on the subjects of her photographs and developed intimate rapports with them during her process resulting in intimate and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph, she captured the creative energy and personality of some of the world’s most gifted authors, poets, and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime, Manpower (1987) with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers (1995) with a preface by Norman Mailer. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 118634
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First Edition of Claude Simon's The Flanders Road; Signed by Him
SIMON, CLAUDE.
The Flanders Road.
New York: George Braziller 1961.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Claude Simon on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Translated from the French by Richard Howard.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 118563
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"I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce": First Edition of Across the River and Into the Trees; Inscribed by Ernest Hemingway
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST.
Across the River and Into the Trees.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1950.
First edition of Hemingway’s first novel since For Whom the Bell Tolls. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Victor Beaver With all best wishes Ernest Hemingway Winter 1951.” Near fine second state with the Scribner’s seal with no A in a near fine first state dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by A. Ivancich. Jacket photograph by Paul Radkai. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 119252
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"I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog": First Edition of Saul Bellow's Herzog; Inscribed by Him to Sally Soames
BELLOW, SAUL.
Herzog.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1965.
First British edition of the author’s second of three National Book Award winning novels, which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally S. from S. Bellow Best wishes Oct 10 ’91 Chicago, Ill.” 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 on the subjects of her photographs and developed intimate rapports with them during her process resulting in intimate and revealing portraits. In addition to the several world leaders Soames came to know and photograph, she captured the creative energy and personality of some of the world’s most gifted authors, poets, and playwrights. She published two books of photographs during her lifetime, Manpower (1987) with text by Robin Morgan and an introduction by Harold Evans and Writers (1995) with a preface by Norman Mailer. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Griffiths.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 118261
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Rare collection of early 20th century photographs of Indian landmarks and landscapes
Indian Landmark Photograph Collection.
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Rare collection of black and white photographs taken by John Nort Hall an army photographer with the British military police stationed in India. 15 photographs measuring 8 inches by ten inches, the collection includes photographs of the Taj Mahal, temples, oxen bathing, and local people working and living. In near find condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 119534
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Rare first edition of Memoranda on the Indian States 1934
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Memoranda on the Indian States 1934 [Corrected up to 1st January 1934].
Delhi: Manager of Publications 1934.
First edition of this extensive history of Indian statehood including the history of each state, how it is ruled and by whom and data on the economics and conditions of each state. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with charts and graphs. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119344
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First edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House; elaborately bound in full morocco
DICKENS, CHARLES.
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury & Evans 1853.
First edition of this immensely popular Dickens novel. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edged marbled. Illustrated with 38 engravings, frontispiece and pictorial title page by Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”). In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 119541
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Rare complete first edition of Abraham Fornander's Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore
FORNANDER, ABRAHAM. WITH TRANSLATIONS EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH NOTES BY THOMAS G. THRUM.
Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore: the Hawaiians’ Account of the Formation of Their Islands and Origin of Their Race, with the Traditions of Their Migrations, Etc., As Gathered From Original Sources by Abraham Fornander.
Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press 1916-1917.
Rare complete first edition set of Fornander’s foundational work on Hawaiian history and legend. Quarto, 9 parts in 3 volumes bound in three quarters 20th century calf with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling and stamping to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, original wrappers bound in. In fine condition. A rare and desirable complete first edition set.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 119435
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Percy Fitzpatrick's Classic Work Jock of the Bushveld; Signed by Him
FITZPATRICK, PERCY.
Jock of the Bushveld.
London: Longmans, Green and Company 1913.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Percy Fitzpatrick on the title page. In near fine condition with light shelfwear to the extremities. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119744
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First edition, first printing of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle; with music by Donald Swann
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. MUSIC BY DONALD SWANN.
The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1967.
First edition of the first appearance in sheet music form of the classic song cycles that appeared throughout The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Quarto, original boards with gilt titles and gilt tooling to the spine and front panel. Poems and by J.R.R. Tolkien. Music by Donald Swann. With decorations by J.R.R. Tolkien and Samuel Hanks Bryant. The songs from the book were sold simultaneously in a record album entitled Poems of the Middle Earth with verse performed by Tolkien and piano accompaniment performed by William Elvin. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photographs by Roger Hill and Brian Shuel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 119260
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Rare First Edition of Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
STORY, JOSEPH.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; with a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company 1833.
First edition of one of the most significant early studies of the Constitution, second only to The Federalist in its era. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full brown calf, morocco spine labels, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels. In near fine condition with light toning to the text. A very sharp example.
Price: $8,500.00 Item Number: 118376
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am": First Edition of Sylvia Plath's Classic The Bell Jar
PLATH, SYLVIA.
The Bell Jar.
London: Faber and Faber 1966.
First edition published using the author’s real name. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 118578