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First edition of John Hutchinson's The Families of Flowering Plants
HUTCHINSON, John.
The Families of Flowering Plants. Arranged According to a New System Based on Their Probable Phylogeny.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.
First edition of Hutchinson's classic work on the classification of flowering plants. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, with illustrations by W.E. Trevithick and the author. In very good condition. Small ownership name to each volume.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 137296
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"Fade in: film - a quick group of shots showing New York in a real thunderstorm": First edition of Best Television Plays; edited by Gore Vidal
VIDAL, Gore. [Editor].
Best Television Plays.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1956.
First edition of this collection of eight previously unpublished television scripts selected by Gore Vidal. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Editor photograph by Roger Moore.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 139759
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First Edition of the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Virgin Suicides; Signed by Jeffrey Eugenides
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey.
The Virgin Suicides.
London: 4th Estate, 2023.
First edition the 30th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Signed by Jeffrey Eugenides on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 144118
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First Edition of Ed Ruscha and the Great American West
RUSCHA, Ed [Karin Breuer; Kerry Brougher and D.J. Waldie].
Ed Ruscha and the Great American West.
San Francisco: Fine Arts of San Francisco, 2016.
First edition of this work on the renowned artist. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 144358
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First expanded edition of Jason Fry's Star Wars: The Last Jedi
FRY, Jason. Based on a story by Rian Johnson.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
London: Century, 2018.
First expanded edition of the international bestselling author's novelization of the eighth installment in the Star Wars film franchise. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with an 8-page color photo insert of images from the film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145011
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“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this": First Modern Library Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kim.
New York: The Modern Library, 1950.
First Modern Library edition of what many consider Kipling's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121867
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"Objective mathematical notions must be thought of as timeless entities": First Edition of Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality
PENROSE, Roger.
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First American edition of this comprehensive and sophisticated account of the physical universe and its underlying mathematical components. Octavo, original half cloth, 390 illustrations of mathematical diagrams. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Jacket photograph by Brenda Tharp. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145173
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First Edition of All About Golf: How to Improve Your Game
SEYMOUR, Bert.
All About Golf: How to Improve Your Game.
London: Ward, Lock & Company, 1924.
First edition. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated by 33 action photographs and many diagrams. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 87637
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Willard Espy's Words at Play Finely Bound; Presentation copy with a Typed Letter Signed by the author laid in
ESPY, Willard R.
An Almanac of Words at Play.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1975.
Early printing of Espy's work on wit in wordplay. Quarto, bound in half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red spine labels, marbled endpapers. Presentation copy, from the library of Jonathan Goodman with his embossed library stamp to the front free endpaper. Enclosed is a typed letter signed by the author to the recipient date March 7, 1977 in the original envelope. The letter reads in part, "First time any correspondent has mentioned giving the Almanac the leather treatment. Next time I'm in London I must call to learn whether you really did it...Sincerely, Willard…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 95845
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"The various accidents which befell a very worthy couple after their uniting in the state of matrimony will be the subject of the following history": Finely Bound Example of Henry Fielding's Amelia
FIELDING, Henry.
Amelia.
New York: White and Stokes, 1882.
Finely bound example of Fielding's fourth and final novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, marlbed endpapers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 101438
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Arthur Elson's A History of Opera: Giving an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Different Schools, with a Description of the Master Works of Each
ELSON, Arthur.
A History of Opera: Giving an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Different Schools, with a Description of the Master Works of Each.
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1906.
Early printing of Elson's critical history of Opera. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial onlay to the front panel, top edge gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Verdi, index. In near fine condition. A very nice example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 142583
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“The more bare a life is, the more we fear change"; First Edition of Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case
GREENE, Graham .
A Burnt-Out Case.
London: Heinemann, 1961.
First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Lacey Everett.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115799
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"We were then strung out in a six-mile line, thirty ships, all heading westwards": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Fleet in Being
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
First edition of this collection of articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121444
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Yuichi Hibi's A Weekend With Mr. Frank; one of 500 copies signed by Hibi on the verso of an original print
HIBI, Yuichi. [Robert Frank].
A Weekend With Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print.
Tuscon, Arizona: Nazarelli Press, 2006.
Signed limited edition of the companion book to Yuichi Hibi's 2001 documentary on the life and work of Robert Frank. Small octavo, original boards, containing five reproductions of black and white photographs and one original print. One of 500 numbered copies signed on the verso of the original print by Yuichi Hibi, this is number 240. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122098