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“I fear neither death nor fire, being prepared for both": Rare fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
FOXE, John.
Acts and Monuments of matters of most speciall and memorable happenyng in the Church, with an Universall history of the same…Newly revised and recognized. [Foxe’s Book of Martyrs].
London: John Daye, 1583.
Fourth edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs (as it was later known), and the last to be published in his lifetime. The first English edition was published in 1563. Folio, 2 volumes bound into one in full near contemporary full brown calf over beveled boards elaborately stamped and paneled in blind, rebacked, seven raised bands to the spine, later brass fixtures to the front and rear panels, text in two columns, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout. Text lacks preliminaries and title-page, and first five leaves remounted and partially restored (with significant loss to text), and final twenty leaves with significant chipping.…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 145220
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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get": First edition of Tap Dancing To Work; Signed by Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis
BUFFETT, Warren E. & Collected and Expanded by Carol Loomis.
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything.
New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2013.
First edition of this collection of writings by and about Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by both Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Joseph Perez.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145816
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First Edition of The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining; Inscribed by Sally Quinn
QUINN, Sally.
The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
First edition of this practical and witty guide to the party scene. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Susan Davis. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, "To Bill and Idelene, you don't need any guidance from me about being great hosts or great guests - you're the best! Much love Sally Q." Near fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Author photograph by Sigrid Estrada.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145210
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First Edition of Wine; Inscribed by Hugh Johnson
JOHNSON, Hugh.
Wine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
First edition of this early work by the foremost wine expert in the world. Quarto, original cloth, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Bob Balzer every good wish from Hugh Johnson Oct. 71." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145908
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"It is a sickness of the emotions, and its symptoms can be seen on the labels of whiskey bottles": First Edition of John Prebble's Culloden
PREBBLE, John.
Culloden.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961.
First edition of this detailed recollection of the ordinary people involved in the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. Octavo, original red and black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with paintings and maps. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership inscription from the year of publication. Ephemera tipped in.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145208
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First Edition of Gotham; Signed by Edwin G. Burrows
BURROWS, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of this vast and varied epic of New York's past. Super octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white images. Boldly signed by Edwin G. Burrows on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch. Jacket illustration hand-coloring by Cathy Saksa. Authors photograph by Bruce Davidson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145185
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First Edition of Alvin Hansen's Readings In Business Cycles and National Income
HANSEN, Alvin H. and Richard V. Clemence.
Readings In Business Cycles and National Income.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1953.
First edition of this work edited by the "American Keynes." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144383
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"Welcome to the fad-surfing age, complete with a seemingly endless supply of programs and mantras": First Edition of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom; Inscribed by Eileen C. Shapiro
SHAPIRO, Eileen C.
Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers.
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to strategy fads and effective management. Octavo, original navy blue half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jay, with best wishes, Eileen Shapiro." Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Also laid in is an inscribed business card tipped in, "This, written by our friend and former neighbor Dr. Albert Shapiro's daughter, Eileen Shapiro, should be a good read according to a very biased father! Bestis, Bud." Jacket design by Jean Seal. Jacket photograph by Jeff Divine. Author photograph by Mort Kaye Studios.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145205
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“WHEN YOU COME TO A FORK IN THE ROAD, TAKE IT”: Signed Limited Edition of My Favorite Summer 1956; Signed by Mickey Mantle
MICKEY MANTLE & PHIL PEPE,.
My Favorite Summer 1956.
New York: Doubleday, 1991.
Signed limited first edition of this exciting baseball reminiscence by the legendary baseball player. Octavo, original leather, illustrated. Boldly signed by Mickey Mantle in gold ink on the front panel. In fine condition. Uncommon.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 131304
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“THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER WRITTEN”: Rare complete first edition set of Edward Gibbon's masterpiece The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
GIBBON, Edward .
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, In The Strand, 1776-1788.
First edition, first state of Gibbon's "masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style" (PMM). Quarto, six volumes, bound in modern half calf over marbled boards by Bayntun-Riviere with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges speckled red, engraved frontispiece portrait of Gibbon by John Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Vol. II, three engraved folding maps, half-titles in vols. I-III and V, all 4 errata leaves (lacking half-titles in vols. IV and VI, vol. I with half-title. Strahan predicted the popularity of Gibbon's History and doubled the print run…
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 145050
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"Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy": First Edition of The Giving Tree; In the rare original dust jacket
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
The Giving Tree.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.
First edition with all the first issue points to both the book and dust jacket. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Near fine in a very good first-issue price-clipped dust jacket with the full torso picture of Shel Silverstein, with hair, covering top left half of back of the dust jacket, three reviews of Lafcadio, by Kirkus. The New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 145783
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“You might as well take your punishment and get it over with": Advanced Review Copy of the First Edition of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key
HAMMETT, Dashiell.
The Glass Key.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
First edition of Hammett's personal favorite novel. Octavo, original cloth. Advance review copy, with the slip pasted to the front free endpaper, in very good condition, corner clipped, name to the front pastedown. Rare as an advance copy.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145902
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The breaking of the wave cannot explain the whole sea": First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941.
First edition, second issue of Nabokov's first novel published in English. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144602
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"When one believes that all the tigers in the jungle are dead, it is quite amusing to walk along the jungle paths in a dressing-gown with a fan instead of a gun": First Edition of H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter
WELLS, H.G.
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918.
First American edition of this satirical portrait of late-Victorian England, the education system on the eve of the First World War, and the effects of that war on English society. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 145204
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed
LEWIS, C.S.
A Grief Observed.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1961.
First edition of this universal meditation on grief, published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk. Octavo, original gray cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145202
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"'Woman' was the test, but not every woman seemed to qualify": First Edition of Women, Race & Class; Inscribed by Angela Y. Davis
DAVIS, Angela Y.
Women, Race & Class.
New York: Random House, 1981.
First edition of this thought-provoking piece of history by Civil Rights activist, Angela Davis. Octavo, original textured half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ali, Best, Angela Davis 4/23." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Silverman. Author photograph by Phillipe Halsman. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145195