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Milton Friedman Letter Signed To John Chamberlain
FRIEDMAN, Milton [John Chamberlain].
Milton Friedman Autographed Letter Signed.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1976.
Autograph letter signed by Milton Friedman to journalist John Chamberlain, dated March 19, 1976, just seven months before Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. The recipient John Chamberlain was a well-known journalist, business and economic historian, syndicated columnist and literary critic. A nice association linking these great twentieth century intellects. Matted and framed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 3775
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it": First Editions of Winston Churchills Masterpiece The Second World War
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell & Co, 1948-54.
First editions of Winston Churchill's masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 139229
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Original NASA photograph of the Apollo 14 Mission launch; signed by viewers Spiro Agnew and Neil Armstrong
ARMSTRONG, Neil and Spiro Agnew.
Neil Armstrong and Spiro Agnew Apollo 14 Mission Launch Signed Photograph.
1971.
Official NASA photograph of the VIP grandstand at the Apollo 14 viewing site at Launch Complex 39 on January 31st 1971. Signed by both legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong and the 39th Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew. Both are shown seated in the grandstand with Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sofia of Spain beneath the American and Spanish flags. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 15 inches.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 100438
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"I know I cannot put it into words": First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's Hungry Hearts; Lengthily inscribed by Her and with an Autographed Signed Letter
YEZIERSKA, Anzia.
Hungry Hearts.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.
First edition of Anzia Yezierska's rare first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. and Mrs. Love appreciatively yours Anzia Yezierska." With an autographed letter signed from Yezierska tipped to the pastedown, dated February 25, 1921 on Metro-Goldwyn stationary, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Love at the Hayward Hotel in Los Angeles, thanking them profusely for their help, it reads, "I know I cannot put it into words, but I cannot help wanting to tell you how much both of you helped me yesterday. It would have taken a week…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 101233
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“one of the transcendent moral influences of our century" (John F. Kennedy) Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography; Inscribed by him
SCHWEITZER, Albert.
Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949.
First edition, early printing of the Nobel laureate's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Schweitzer on the recto of a photograph to Miss Margaret Lial and additionally inscribed and signed by him in French on verso and additionally inscribed by conductor and pianist Antonia Brico. The Dutch born conductor and pianist, Antonia Brico had an enduring friendship with Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the organ-playing doctor who practiced medicine in the wilds of Africa. The two shared a love of Bach’s music, and she detoured home from an engagement in Europe to visit Schweitzer in Africa in 1950. This…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140103
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"Holmes' most celebrated work": First Edition set of Oliver Wendell Holmes' Breakfast-Table Trilogy
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; The Professor at the Breakfast-Table; and The Poet at the Breakfast-Table.
Boston: Philips Sampson; Ticknor; Osgood, 1858, 1860, 1872.
First editions of the work that gained Oliver Wendell Holmes international fame. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. With full page illustrations and vignettes by H.M. Brock throughout including tissue-guarded frontispieces. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom case. A beautiful set.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140446
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Inscribed by Pio Barajo
BAROJA, Pio.
Desde la última vuelta del camino: El escritor según él y según los críticos. Familia, infancia y juventud. Final del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Galería de tipos de la época
Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 1944-47.
First editions of each of the first four volumes in Baroja's autobiography. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full calf. The third volume is a presentation copy, inscribed by Pio Bajora to Philip Bonsal. Bonsal was in the foreign service in Madrid at the time, then transferred to ambassadorial duties in South America, eventually becoming US ambassador to a number of South American countries, and the last ambassador to Cuba. Baroja was a key novelist of Generation of '98 and became a committed anarchist and lefty. He was one of Ernest Hemingway's main Spanish influences. His memoirs, of which these are…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 67896
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Finely Bound Set of the Novels of Victor Hugo
HUGO, Victor.
The Novels of Victor Hugo.
Boston : Dana Estes, n.d.
The Illustrated Cabinet edition of the novels of Victor Hugo. Octavo, 12 volumes. Bound in three quarters navy blue morocco over blue cloth, elaborate gilt decorated spines with raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, with illustrated plates, frontispieces. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 105448
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First Edition of the Authors Prophetic Book The Coming of Post Industrial Society; Inscribed by Daniel Bell in the year of Publication TO IRVING KRISTOL AND GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB
BELL, Daniel.
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting.
New York: Basic Books, 1973.
First edition of this insightful work which speaks about the coming of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Irving and Bea- with affection, as always, Dan May 30, 1973." The recipients were Irving Kristol and his wife Gertrude Himmelfarb, who were close friends of Bell’s. Kristol was a journalist who was dubbed the “godfather of neoconservatism.” Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian who was…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 118638
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First Edition of Albert Camus' L'État de Siège; warmly inscribed by him to Jean de Bosschère
CAMUS, Albert.
L’État de Siège. [The State of Siege].
Paris: Gallimard, 1948.
First edition, early printing of Camus' fourth play, a political allegory about resistance to the plague of authoritarian rule. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "A Jean de Bosschère assiege sure anso mars insoumais [L'Etat de Siege] are Esperes a plus cordials Albert Camus." The recipient, Jean de Bosschère lived for most of the 20th century between London and France, and illustrated his own works as well as the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, and the classical works of Aristophanes, Ovid, Strato and Apuleius. He published his own works of poetry, and…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 137545
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"Maybe you could show me how to let go, Lower my guard, Learn to be free. Maybe if you whistle, Whistle for me": First Edition of Anyone Can Whistle; Inscribed by both Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim
LAURENTS, Arthur & Stephen Sondheim.
Anyone Can Whistle: A Musical Fable.
New York: Random House, 1965.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly Inscribed by both Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine bright jacket without the fading usually encountered with the spine.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 762
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From the library of Stephen Hawking
TAYLOR, J.C. [Stephen Hawking].
Gauge Theories of Weak Interactions.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
First edition of this work on gauge theory. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking, with his signature on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 119299
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“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen”: FIRST EDITION OF WINNIE-THE-POOH; IN THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
MILNE, A.A.; Decorations by Ernest H. Shephard.
Winnie-the-Pooh.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd, 1926.
First edition of this children's classic. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt decorations to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, cartographic endpapers. illustrated with line drawings by Ernest H. Shepard. Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 143577
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“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never...": First Editions of each volume of Winston Churchill's Collected War Speeches
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Winston Churchill’s War Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, Secret Session Speeches.
London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1941-46.
First editions of each volume of Churchill's collected War Speeches, with Into Battle in the first state lacking page numbers on pp. 78 and 294. Octavo, 7 volumes,original cloth, illustrated with 50 half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces. Woods A66(a), A89, A114. Each volume is near fine in a very good to near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 144322
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"To Gertrud Kraus in very old friendship": FIRST EDITION OF The Tower of Babel; Inscribed BY ELIAS CANETTI to Close Friend Gertrud Kraus
CANETTI, Elias.
The Tower of Babel [Auto-Da-Fe].
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most well-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gertrud Kraus in very old friendship from Elias Canetti October 1947." The recipient Gertrud Kraus was an Israeli pioneer of modern dance in Israel and close friend of Canetti. Kraus studied piano at the State Academy in Vienna but after graduating decided that what she really loved was dance. She enrolled again at the State Academy, this time in the modern dance department headed by Gertrud Bodenwieser. After graduation, she joined Bodenwieser's…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 117372
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"Whatever In Creation Exists Without My Knowledge Exists Without My Consent": First Modern Library Edition of Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece Blood Meridian; Signed by the author
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.
New York: The Modern Library, 2001.
First Modern Library edition author's classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Marion Ettlinger. Introduction by Harold Bloom. Uncommon signed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140497