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"In a little village there was a church, and on the top of the church stood a weathercock": Evelyn Sharp's The Story of the Weathercock
SHARP, Evelyn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
The Story of the Weathercock.
London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..
Early printing of Sharp's children's classic. Quarto, original publisher's decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charles Robinson. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135422
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First Edition of Byrd's Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition; From the Library of Adventurer and Explorer Steve Fossett
BYRD, Richard E.
Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935.
First edition of Admiral Byrd’s classic exploration work of his second Antarctic Expedition. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated with maps. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also…
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 112714
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First Edition of The Prince of the Marshes; Inscribed by Rory Stewart
STEWART, Rory.
The Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Stewart's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Rory Stewart on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 3491
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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 Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties; Signed by Michael Lesy
LESY, Michael.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties.
New York: Norton, 2007.
First Edition. Octavo, black cloth with gilted titles to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Michael Lesy on the half title page.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 799
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"This is precisely what I expected Hong-Kong would be like": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's 'They' and the Brushwood Boy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
‘They’ and the Brushwood Boy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925.
First edition of this collection of two Kipling stories. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with illustrations in color by F. H. Townsend. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121873
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First edition of Henry Williamson's How Dear Is Life
WILLIAMSON, Henry.
How Dear Is Life.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1954.
First edition of the fourth novel in the author’s semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne. Bookplate.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 128068
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' The Kipling Country
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
The Kipling Country.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1924.
First edition of Hopkins' illustrated homage to Kipling's home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon Volk. In good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 135263
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First edition of Frank Norris's Harper Prize-winning novel Tower in the West
NORRIS, Frank.
Tower in the West.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
First edition of the author's Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115647
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Thy Servant A Dog
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Thy Servant A Dog.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.
First British edition of Kipling's beloved children's classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121847
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First British Edition of Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960.
First British edition of Nabokov's first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine. Jacket design by Eric Ayers.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133254
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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 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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"The young adventurers we called ourselves. Doesn't seem real now, does it?" Agatha Christie's Postern of Fate
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Postern of Fate.
London: Book Club Associates, 1973.
First Book Club edition of the Christie's final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacker design by Margaret Murray.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133405
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First edition of Joan River's autobiography Still Talking; Signed by her
RIVERS, Joan with Richard Meryman.
Still Talking.
New York: Turtle Bay Books/Random House, 1991.
First edition of Joan Rivers' autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "xxoo! Joan Rivers." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Charles William Bush.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 138731