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First Edition of Chakkar: Polo Around the World
EDITED BY HERBERT SPENCER; PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRED MAYER. ,.
Chakkar: Polo Around the World.
New York: Drake Publishers Inc., 1971.
First edition of this monumental tribute to polo, limited to 500 copies. Quarto, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Contains essays by Prince Philip, Hanut Singh, Earl Mountbatten, Juan Carlos Harriott, Cecil Smith, Ricardo Santamarina, Baron de Rothschild and Robert Skene. Photography by Fred Mayer. Edited by Herbert Spencer. Designed by Nicholas Fassbind. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144543
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First edition of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo; signed by Him
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
The Rose Tattoo.
New York: New Directions, 1951.
First edition of one of Williams' most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 143108
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“Governments don't produce economic growth people do”: First Edition of the 40th President of the United States Autobiography An American Life; Signed by Ronald and Nancy Reagan
REAGAN, Ronald [Nancy Reagan].
An American Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
First edition of the 40th President of the United States' memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by both Ronald and Nancy Reagan on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony, Inc. Rare and desirable signed by both the president and first lady.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 145667
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First Edition of Ron Chernow's Grant; Signed by Him
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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"He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time": First Edition of The Call of the Wild In the Scarce Original Dust Jacket
LONDON, Jack.
The Call of the Wild.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903.
First edition of one of the most desirable classics in American literature. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light wear. With 18 full-page color illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. A very sharp example.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 131891
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“Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn": First Edition of Truman
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
First edition of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145614
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First Edition of Jefferson The Virginian; Inscribed Twice by Dumas Malone
MALONE, Dumas.
Jefferson the Virginian.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.
First edition of the first volume in Malone's landmark work on Jefferson, from the library of Archibald Bolling Shepperson. Octavo, original navy cloth with gilt titles to the spine and Thomas Jefferson's seal in gilt to the front panel, frontispiece of The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and portraits. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Philippa and Shep, gratefully and affectionately, Dumas April 13, 1948," and again on the flyleaf after the title page, "For Philippa and Shep, gratefully and affectionately, Dumas Malone." The recipient, Archibald Bolling Shepperson was…
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145266
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“Here I am, where I ought to be": First edition of Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
DINESEN, Isak. [Karen Blixen].
Out of Africa.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bookplate to the front pastedown. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145695
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“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145698
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"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SOCIAL SCIENCE TREATISE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY": First edition of John Maynard Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1936.
First edition of the economist’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 145812
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"I USE THE WORD MIRACLE TO MEAN AN INTERFERENCE WITH NATURE BY SUPERNATURAL POWER": FIRST EDITION OF C.S. LEWIS' MIRACLES: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
LEWIS, C.S.
Miracles: A Preliminary Study.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947.
First edition of Lewis’ study of the logical possibility of miracles, in which he presents the case that a supernatural world may exist including a benevolent creator. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145828
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Inscribed by Alex Haley
X, Malcolm with the assistance of Alex Haley.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
New York: Grove Press, 1968.
Paperback edition of one of Time's ten most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "Mark, a pleasure to know you! Alex Haley." In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Introduction by M.S. Handler. Rare signed and inscribed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145830
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“Isn't it amazing? The Americans have so many good afterthoughts!": First Edition of the Author's Rare First Book Setting Free The Bears
IRVING, John.
Setting Free the Bears.
New York: Random House, 1968.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Weiss. Illustration by Robert Dale.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145823
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road
KEROUAC, Jack.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac's classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear without any fading to the spine. Jacket design by Bill English. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Easily one of the nicest examples we have seen.
Price: $11,500.00 Item Number: 145820
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"Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life": First Edition of The Phantom Tollbooth; Signed by Norton Juster
JUSTER, Norton; Feiffer.
Phantom Tollbooth.
New York: Epstein & Carroll, 1961.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Boldly signed by Norton Juster on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable in this condition and signed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 145819
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"This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it" First Edition of Schumpeter's Capitalism Socialism and Democracy; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism Socialism and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942.
First edition of the economist’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 145814