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First Edition of The Sea Lion; Signed by Ken Kesey
KESEY, KEN.
The Sea Lion: A story of the Sea Cliff People.
New York: Viking 1991.
First edition of this beautiful piece of children’s literature. Super octavo, original half cloth, lavender endpapers, fully illustrated by Neil Waldman. Boldly signed and dated by the author in gold felt tip on the front free endpaper, “Ken Kesey 1992.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145361
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live": First Edition of The White Album; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, JOAN.
The White Album.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1979.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,300.00 Item Number: 146032
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First Edition of Sailing Alone Around the World; Signed by Joshua Slocum in the Year of Publication
SLOCUM, CAPTAIN JOSHUA.
Sailing Alone Around the World.
New York: The Century Company 1900.
First edition, early printing of “the finest single-handed adventure story yet written” (Seafarer). Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorially stamped in silver and green, top edge gilt. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Spray New London July 10th 1900 Joshua Slocum.” In very good condition. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. An exceptional example, signed first editions are rare.
Price: $11,000.00 Item Number: 146030
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Rare original combined promotional poster for Stephen King's The Dark Half and Four Past Midnight; signed by Stephen King
KING, STEPHEN.
The Dark Half and Four Past Midnight Stephen King Signed Promotional Poster.
New York: Signet/Penguin/Viking .
Combined promotion and advertising campaign poster for Stephen King’s best-selling horror novels The Dark Half and Four Past Midnight. One page, the poster features a full color image of Stephen King with both books. Boldly signed by Stephen King in black felt pen. The poster measures 22 inches by 16.75 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145483
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RARE HANDWRITTEN ETHIOPIAN COPTIC GE’EZ BIBLE ILLUMINATED WITH TWO FULL-PAGE MINIATURE PAINTINGS
Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.
Ethiopia: C. 18th Century.
Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Duodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, with full-page hand-painted miniatures depicting the Transfiguration of Jesus, Saint Tekle Haymanot of Ethiopia, Saint George slaying the dragon, the Madonna and child, Jesus and Mary, the Annunciation, the Birth of Jesus, and the Journey to Bethlehem. Housed in the original leather chemise slipcase with leather carrying handle.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 145316
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"Happy Groundhog's Day": A River Runs Through It; Lengthily Inscribed by Norman Maclean
MACLEAN, NORMAN.
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.
Chicago: The University of Chicago 1976.
First edition, second printing of Maclean’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Feb. 2, 1977 (A birthday on Groundhogs Day) University of Chicago to John H. Shankes Happy Groundhog’s Day Norman Maclean.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to the spine. Jacket photograph by Joel Snyder.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145808
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Economic Analysis of Law; From the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
POSNER, RICHARD [RUTH BADER GINSBURG].
Economic Analysis of Law.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1977.
Second edition, early printing of the author’s groundbreaking work, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Octavo, original cloth. American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White, Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights, winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.”, a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination, voting rights, and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia (1996) which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. (2000) in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. In near fine condition. Issued without a dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association linking these giants of law.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 146017
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"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding": First Edition of Einstein On Peace
EINSTEIN, ALBERT] EDITED BY OTTO NATHAN AND HEINZ NORDEN; PREFACE BY BERTRAND RUSSELL.
Einstein On Peace.
London: Methuen and Co 1960.
First edition of this work on Einstein. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Preface by Bertrand Russell.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145898
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First Edition of Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
SILVERSTEIN, SHEL.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1974.
First edition of the author’s first collection of children’s poetry. Quarto, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt onlay to the front panel, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146014
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"Those are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again": First Edition of No Ordinary Time; With a full page inscription by Doris Kearns Goodwin
KEARNS GOODWIN, DORIS.
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1994.
First edition of the historian’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed with a quote by the author on the front free endpaper, “To John, ‘Those are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again. These simple lives. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, inspired her to make the rest of her life worthy of her husband’s memory. As long as she continued to fight for his ideals, she would continue to live,’ All my best, Doris Kearns Goodwin.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. A unique example.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 145346