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First Edition of Chakkar: Polo Around the World
EDITED BY HERBERT SPENCER; PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRED MAYER. ,.
Chakkar: Polo Around the World.
New York: Drake Publishers Inc. 1971.
First edition of this monumental tribute to polo, limited to 500 copies. Quarto, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Contains essays by Prince Philip, Hanut Singh, Earl Mountbatten, Juan Carlos Harriott, Cecil Smith, Ricardo Santamarina, Baron de Rothschild and Robert Skene. Photography by Fred Mayer. Edited by Herbert Spencer. Designed by Nicholas Fassbind. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144543
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First edition of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo; signed by Him
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE.
The Rose Tattoo.
New York: New Directions 1951.
First edition of one of Williams’ most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 143108
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First British Edition of The Dog Years; Signed by Gunter Grass With a Large Drawing
GRASS, GUNTER.
Dog Years.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World 1965.
First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s third and final novel in his acclaimed Danzig Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication by Gunter Grass with a large drawing of a chicken on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gunter Grass. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A unique signed example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145663
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First Edition of the Centenary Edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There
CARROLL, LEWIS.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.
London: MacGibbon & Kee 1972.
First Centenary edition of this classic work of children’s literature. Large quarto, original black boards, pictorial endpapers, numerous illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some light toning to the extremities of the dust jacket. Book design by Brian J. Green.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 145272
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"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody": First Modern Library Edition of the death and life of great american cities
JACOBS, JANE.
The Death And Life of Great American Cities.
New York: The Modern Library 1993.
First Modern Library edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145661
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First Edition of Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters; Signed by Rick Riordan
RIORDAN, RICK.
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters.
London: Puffin Books 2006.
First English edition of the second book in the beloved ‘Percy Jackson’ series. Octavo, original teal boards. Boldly signed by Rick Riordan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Young.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145278
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“Governments don't produce economic growth people do”: First Edition of the 40th President of the United States Autobiography An American Life; Signed by Ronald and Nancy Reagan
REAGAN, RONALD [NANCY REAGAN].
An American Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster 1990.
First edition of the 40th President of the United States’ memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by both Ronald and Nancy Reagan on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony, Inc. Rare and desirable signed by both the president and first lady.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 145667
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First Edition of Ron Chernow's Grant; Signed by Him
CHERNOW, RON.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, ALDOUS.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus 1930.
First English edition of the author’s fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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First Edition of Jane Jacobs' Cities and the Wealth of Nations
JACOBS, JANE.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life.
New York: Random House 1984.
First edition of this eye-opening analysis of economics. Octavo, original red publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the rear panel.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145275