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35th Anniversary Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed by Legendary Actor Gregory Peck
LEE, HARPER [GREGORY PECK].
To Kill A Mockingbird.
New York: HarperCollins 1995.
First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic film starring Gregory Peck. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Academy-Award winning actor Gregory Peck on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145873
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"I hate no man, envy no man, but love all mankind": First Edition of The Master Key to Riches; Signed by Napoleon Hill
HILL, NAPOLEON.
The Master-Key to Riches.
Los Angeles: The Willing Publishing Company 1945.
First edition of Napoleon Hill’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Napoleon Hill on a half-title page. Very good in a good dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 145872
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"Peggy Sweetheart, Cartes and Sudie want to go for a ride on this carriage but I think we'd better wait for Peggy and Mama. Here is a kiss X. Here is a crab kiss ↃC xxx Love, Daddy": First edition The Catcher in the Rye; with an autograph postcard signed by J.D. Salinger to his daughter Peggy
SALINGER, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1951.
First edition of Salinger’s debut novel, a cherished portrait of adolescence and one of the most widely banned books ever published. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the rear panel photograph of Salinger. Jacket design by Michael Mitchell. Author photograph by Lotte Jacob. With an autograph postcard signed by J.D. Salinger to his daughter Peggy laid in. The postcard bears a plastichrome image of horsedrawn carriages on 59th Street in New York City, inscribed by J.D. Salinger on the verso, “Peggy Sweetheart, Cartes and Sudie want to go for a ride on this carriage but I think we’d better wait for Peggy and Mama. Here is a kiss X. Here is a crab kiss ↃC xxx Love, Daddy.” Postmarked New York, New York May 4 11:30 AM 1959. In February 1955, at age 36, Salinger married Claire Douglas, a Radcliffe student who was art critic Robert Langton Douglas’s daughter. They had two children, Margaret Salinger (also known as Peggy – born December 10, 1955) and Matthew “Matt” Salinger (born February 13, 1960). Peggy Salinger wrote in her memoir, Dream Catcher, that she believes her parents would not have married, nor would she have been born, had her father not read the teachings of Lahiri Mahasaya, a guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, which brought the possibility of enlightenment to those following the path of the “householder” (a married person with children). After their marriage, Salinger and Claire were initiated into the path of Kriya yoga, the first of several of Salinger’s ever-changing spiritual belief systems which also included Dianetics. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable with such a touching postcard from Salinger to his only daughter.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 145286
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"LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY": FIRST EDITION OF LOVE STORY; SIGNED AND SIGNED BY ERICH SEGAL, ALI MACGRAW AND RYAN O'NEAL
SEGAL, ERICH.
Love Story.
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers 1970.
First edition, early printing of the author’s best-selling novel, a “sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental” work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Erich Segal, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal who co-starred in the 1970 film adaptation. A tragedy, the 1970 film Love Story was produced by Howard G. Minsky and directed by Arthur Hiller and starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, alongside John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut in a minor role. The film is considered one of the most romantic by the American Film Institute (No. 9 on the list) and is one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Near fine in a near fine original acetate, inscription to the front pastedown. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 145831
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First Edition of A Century of Arts and Letters; Signed by All Eleven Contributors
AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS; BEESON JACK; CALISHER HORTENSE; HUXTABLE ADA LOUISE; KAHN WOLF; LEWIS R.W.B.; LIPPOLD RICHARD; MAILER NORMAN; OZICK CYNTHIA; SCHLENSINGER ARTHUR JR.; EDITED BY JOHN UPDIKE.
A Century of Arts and Letters.
New York: Columbia University Press 1997.
First edition of this work celebrating the history of the American Academy of Arts & Letters on its centenary. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed on the the title page by all eleven contributors. Preface and edited by John Updike. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145842
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"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real": First Edition of The Border Trilogy; Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy
MCCARTHY, CORMAC.
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.
New York: Everyman's Library 2008.
First edition of McCarthy’s classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author, “For Tom and Corinne All the best Your friend Cormac.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 145835
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife": Rare first edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
AUSTEN, JANE.
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel.
London: Printed for T. Egerton 1813.
First editions of all three volumes of Jane Austen’s masterpiece, her bestselling book during her lifetime which remains a landmark of English literature. 12mo, three volumes bound in full mottled calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling and botanical gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges speckled black. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. A very attractive example of this significant work in English literature.
Price: $140,000.00 Item Number: 145824
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“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed” and “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds": First Edition of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, RON.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
New York: Random House 1998.
First edition of this landmark biography of John D. Rockefeller. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145837
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First Edition of Julia's Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking; Signed by Her
CHILD, JULIA.
Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2000.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Julia Child. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Jane Julia Child.” Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Front of the jacket photograph by Micheal McLaughlin. Book photograph by Paul Child.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145839