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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Authors Magnum Opus; Signed By David Foster Wallace in the year of publication
WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1996.
First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication on the title page, “Hello! David Foster Wallace 2/96.” Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 145601
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The Easton Press' Collector's Edition of Henry Kissinger's Years of Upheaval
KISSINGER, HENRY.
Years of Upheaval.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press 1996.
The Easton Press Collector’s Edition of Kissinger’s candid account of the turbulent years of the second Administration of Richard Nixon, detailing the Watergate scandal and the 1973 October war in the Middle East. Octavo, original publisher’s full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and scrolling to the front and rear panels, watered-silk end leaves, all edges gilt, ribbon bound-in, illustrated with photographs. In fine condition, from the personal library of Ira A. Lipman by The Easton Press with the publisher’s presentation bookplate to the half title page.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 145232
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First Edition of Grace Wharton's The Literature of Society
WHARTON, GRACE.
The Literature of Society.
London: Tinsley Brothers 1862.
First edition of this collection of observations on the literature of European historical figures. Octavo, two volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and wide triple gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by Bayntun Bindery and Stuart Kidd, marbled endpapers all edges gilt, ribbons bound in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait to each volume, extra-illustrated with numerous tissue-guarded engravings. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145231
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First Edition of Thomas De Quincey's On Style and Conversation
QUINCEY, THOMAS DE.
On Style and Conversation: A Series of Essays
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black 1862.
First edition of this collection of selected works in their original form. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate blind stamping to the front and rear panels, forest green endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145230
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Rare First Edition of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator; Signed by One of the Greatest Traders Ever, George Soros
LEFEVRE, EDWIN [GEORGE SOROS].
Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator.
New York: George H. Doran Company 1923.
First edition of this Wall Street classic, signed by legendary investor and trader George Soros. Octavo, original publisher’s ochre cloth, decoratively stamped in blind. Boldly signed by George Soros on the front free endpaper. Hungarian-American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist, George Soros, has authored fifteen books on global capitalism, finance, and politics that offer insights into his approach to business and investing. Starting his career working in British and American merchant banks, Soros quickly seeded his fortune with his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, later renamed Quantum Fund after the theory of quantum mechanics, and his short sale of $10 billion worth of pound sterling during the 1992 Black Wednesday currency crisis, which earned him the name ‘The Man Who Broke the Bank of England.’ Having developed the economic theory of reflexivity, founding the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and contributing heavily to knowledge on investment and economics, George Soros has undoubtedly made his mark on the greater financial world. In very good condition with rubbing and wear to the spine extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 145228
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First Edition of Sir Richard F. Burton's The Gold-Mines of Midian
BURTON, SIR RICHARD F.
The Gold-Mines of Midian and The Ruined Midianite Cities.
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co 1878.
First edition of the sequel to ‘Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.’ Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth stamped in black and gilt, rebacked, beveled edges, black endpapers, illustrations in text, folding map of North-Western Arabia, advertisements at rear. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145227
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First Edition of Richard F. Burton's Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
BURTON, RICHARD F.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. 1856.
First American edition of one of “the greatest works of travel ever published” (Penzer, 49). Octavo, original publisher’s decorative cloth with gilt titles and ornamentation to the spine, gilt central crescent moon to the front panel, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded lithographic frontispiece of El Medinah, additional pictorial title page, folding map of the route of Richard F. Burton from Yambu to El Medinah and Meccah. In very good condition with some toning to the page edges and rubbing to the spine extremities.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145224
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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil": First Editions of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind
ARENDT, HANNAH.
The Life of the Mind. Volume One: Thinking; Volume Two: Willing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978.
First editions of “the most intriguing…and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Fine in fine dust jackets. First editions are rare.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145761
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"A day without laughter is a day wasted": Charles Chaplin's Autobiography; Inscribed by Him
CHAPLIN, CHARLES.
My Autobiography.
London: The Bodley Head 1964.
First edition, early printing of Charlie Chaplin’s extraordinarily vivid autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. With a letter of provenance laid in to Bob Israel describing the legibility of Chaplin‘s inscription and gifting five color photographs depicting Chaplin with Oona O’Neil Chaplin and others. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145221