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First Edition of Berenice Abbott's Changing New York; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
ABBOTT, BERENICE.
Changing New York.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1939.
First edition stated on copyright page; first issue with blue topstain of Abbott’s landmark work on New York. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 97 halftone plates that display “the historical importance of the documentary mode… its power as a medium of personal expression” (Parr & Badger). Text by Elizabeth McCausland. Presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs. Susan Sherman With most cordial regards Berenice Abbott April 4, 1939.” Some rubbing to the corners of the cloth, an excellent example in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Scarce and desirable, especially signed and inscribed in the year of publication.
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 57048
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"They were heroic women who came from every corner of the nation...": First Edition of On Silver Wings; signed by Marianne Verges and 19 members of the WASPS
VERGES, MARIANNE. FOREWORD BY SENATOR BARRY GOLDWATER.
On Silver Wings 1942-1944: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II.
New York: Ballantine Books 1991.
First edition of Marianne Verges’ romantic retelling of the history of the WWII WASP corps. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and additionally signed and inscribed by 14 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) on the front free endpaper including Scotty Bradley Gough, Lorraine Rodgers, Elaine Harmon, Ethel M. Finley, Dawn Y. Seymour, Ann Carl, Beth Black, and Gayle Ben’s Reed. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James R. Harris. Jacket photograph: Pilot Libby Gardner. Rare and desirable.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145137
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S. K. Uyenishi's Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
UYENISHI, S.K. [RAKU]; WORD PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR BY PERCY LONGHURST.
The Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan: Being a Simple Treatise on the Japanese Method of Self-Defence.
London: Athletic Publications Ltd c. 1940.
Later edition of this comprehensive wrestling text-book. Octavo, original green cloth with black lettering and decoration, illustrated with several black-and-white plates. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145250
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“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have": First Edition of A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal; Inscribed by Anthony Bourdain
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 inscribed by Anthony Bourdain on the title page who has added a drawing of a skull in a chef hat with a large butcher knife in its mouth, “Cook Rule! To Erica, Anthony Bourdain.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by High Design.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145603
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"Take this stake in your left hand, ready to place the point over the heart, and the hammer in your right...": First American edition of Dracula; inscribed by Bram Stoker, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and dozens of additional icons of horror cinema
STOKER, BRAM.
Dracula.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co 1899.
First American edition of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece, the progenitor of the vampire genre which remains “arguably the most potent literary myth of the twentieth century” (Leatherdale, 11), signed by him and a host of other actors who portraed vampires. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Harry Powers from Bram Stoker 16 May 1900.” Subsequently from the collection of George W. Fuller with his bookplate to the pastedown, then Forrest “Forry” J. Ackerman who dedicated his life to building what many consider to have been the world’s largest personal collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror memorabilia. Ackerman purchased the book in the early 1950s and throughout the years had actors who had portrayed vampires, as well as other members of the horror genre, sign the book. Additionally inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bela Lugosi who starred as Count Dracula in the 1931 American film adaptation, “To my friend, Forrest Ackerman, in remembrance, Bela Lugosi” and signed by him again, “Bela Lugosi.” Additionally signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper and pastedown by over a dozen legends of horror cinema including Christopher Lee (who starred as Count Dracula in the 1958 English film adaptation), Vincent Price, Bill Obbagy, Ingrid Pitt, Karl Freund, Donald A. Reed, Barry Atwater, Maila Nurmi “Vampira”, Carla Laemmle, Carroll Borland, John Carradine, Raymond McNally, Ferdy Mayne, Paul Naschy, and Barbara Leigh. In very good condition with interior tape reinforcements to the hinges, rebacked. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A unique example, exceptionally rare and desirable signed by Stoker, Lugosi and such an assemblage of icons of the horror genre.
Price: $60,000.00 Item Number: 145817
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Signed Limited Edition of the Duke of Windsor's A King's Story; With An Additional Signed Note by Him
WINDSOR, DUKE OF [EDWARD VIII].
A King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1951.
Signed limited edition of the Duke of Windsor’s classic autobiography. Royal octavo, bound in the full publisher’s morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, three gilt coats of arms as Prince of Wales, King of England, and Duke of Windsor with accompanying gilt signatures to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamped-in, watered-silk end leaves, top edge gilt, silk ribbon bound-in, frontispiece of the Duke of Windsor leaving Westminster after his first and last Opening of Parliament November 3, 1936, foldout map of the Duke of Windsor’s travels abroad from 1898 to 1936, illustrated with photographs. One of three hundred and eighty-five numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 11. With an additional note inscribed by the Duke of Windsor on his official monogrammed stationary affixed to the front free endpaper, “To Harry and Fay with best wishes from Edward April 1951.” In very good condition. Housed in the original slipcase.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 145247
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"The best inside information is on the tape": First Edition of Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years; Lengthily Inscribed by Legendary Investor Richard Wyckoff and in the Rare Dust Jacket
WYCKOFF, RICHARD D.
Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1930.
First edition of this classic work by Wyckoff who implemented his methods of technical analysis of the financial markets (the study of charts showing movements of stock-prices and other data). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To my good friend and former associate on Wall Street, New York E. Kilburn Scott this volume is inscribed, with kindest personal regards Richard D. Wyckoff London June 24/31.” Very good in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Housed in a custom house morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Books signed and inscribed by Wyckoff are rare.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 145604
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"Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so": First Edition of Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe; Warmly Inscribed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, JANE.
Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1990.
First edition of this “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania” (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Alan, Perhaps, one day, you will visit Africa and meet wild chimpanzees. I hope so. Jane Goodall.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Jacket photograph by Gerry Ellis. Rear Jacket photograph by Ken Regan.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145836
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First American Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL. TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA.
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1970.
First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145926
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First Edition of A Golfers Life; Inscribed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, ARNOLD .
A Golfer’s Life.
New York: Ballantine Books 1999.
First edition of the golfing legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, with 16 black-and-white photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To O.H. Best Wishes Arnold Palmer.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with James Dodson.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145606