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First Edition of Philip K. Dick's Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said; Signed by Him
DICK, Philip K.
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of this novel which won the John W. Campbell Award and nominations for the Hugo and Nebula. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio. An exceptional example, uncommon and desirable signed.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 101435
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"The true natural rights of men, then, are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society": The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot; Inscribed by Russell Kirk
KIRK, Russell.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953.
First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Russell Kirk on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by Kirk.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 130940
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“Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones": First Edition of Cormac McCarthy's Suttree; Inscribed by the author to Screenwriter Orin Borsten
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
Suttree.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of the author's fourth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Orin All The Best Cormac." The recipient, Orin Borsten was a screenwriter and publicist, who began his career as a child actor in Atlanta and appeared on Broadway in the American Way. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 125288
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Rare First Edition, First Printing of Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches.
New York: C.H. Webb, 1867.
First edition, first printing of the author's rare first book. Octavo, original cloth, first issue lacking the leaf of ads facing the title page but with unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. In very good condition with light wear to the extremities. A sharp example.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 125145
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"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet": First Edition of The Stand; Inscribed by Stephen King to friend and fellow Writer and Icon of the beat generation William Burroughs
KING, Stephen [William Burroughs].
The Stand.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1978.
First edition of the author's classic fourth novel. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Bill Burroughs- With love and good wishes Stephen King 9/20/94." The recipient, William Burroughs is credited as a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. His writings had a strong influence on King as an adolescent and young man. As a English major at the University of Maine, King was taught by instructors who consciously identified with the beat movement. Burroughs was also impressed by…
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 132641
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First Edition of Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess; Inscribed by Him to Friend and Chess Competitor Vic Traibush
FISCHER, Bobby.
Bobby Fischer’s Games of Chess.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.
First edition of the only book ever written entirely by Bobby Fischer. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Vic Traibush with best wishes from Bobby Fischer April 26,1964." The recipient, Vic Traibush was a friend of Fischer who played chess at the New York Chess Club, and became friends with some of the great chess players of the era. He was an accomplished player and won the Colorado State Chess Championship in 1955, 1967, and 1970. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Frank Pagnato. Photograph…
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 144098
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": First Edition of Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy; In the Rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942.
First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. First editions in the original dust jacket are rare, especially in this condition.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 115568
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First British Edition of No Easy Walk To Freedom; Signed and Dated by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson.
No Easy Walk To Freedom: Articles, Speeches, and Trial Addresses.
London: Heinemann, 1965.
First British edition of Nelson Mandela's classic account of the struggle against South Africa's apartheid system. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author opposite the title page, "NMandela 15.3.06." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Oliver Tambo. Edited by Ruth First. Foreword by Ahmed Ben Bella. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 134215
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on": First Edition of Why England Slept; Inscribed by Jack Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.
Why England Slept.
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940.
First edition of John F. Kennedy's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand, "For Asa Bordages with best wishes Jack Kennedy." The recipient, Asa Bordages was a feature writer for the New York World-Telegram and playwright known for the 1941 play Brooklyn USA. Introduction by Henry R. Luce. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice presentation.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 19055
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"I hardly think that any letter will further your object; still, if the accompanying one can be made of the least service, I shall be happy": Rare autograph letter signed by Great American Author Herman Melville
MELVILLE, Herman.
Herman Melville Autograph Letter Signed.
c. 1855.
Rare autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand of great American novelist Herman Melville. One page, the letter reads in full, "Pittsfield Aug 26 Osmond Tiffany Esq. My dear Sir, With pleasure I comply with your request, but hardly think that any letter will further your object; still, if the accompanying one can be made of the least service, I shall be happy. Wishing you all success in your affairs I am Very Truly Yours H Melville." The recipient, Osmond Tiffany was a Baltimore merchant and occasional author who contributed to the Atlantic Monthly and The Knickerbocker. In 1855, he…
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 138591
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THE FIRST JEWISH TRANSLATION OF THE PENTATEUCH INTO ENGLISH
LEESER, Isaac.
The Law of God.
Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5605, 1845-46.
First edition of the “first English translation of the Pentateuch in America,” the 1845 Hebrew-English Bible by one of the most prominent and influential figures in American Jewish history. Octavo, 5 volumes. Translated by Isaac Leeser. Bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition. A nice example, rare in contemporary binding.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 78547
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“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn": First edition of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind; signed by eleven members of David O. Selznick's epic American 1939 film adaptation and with an autograph note signed by Margaret Mitchell
MITCHELL, Margaret.
Gone With the Wind.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936.
First edition of Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece which remains one of the fastest selling novels in the history of American publishing, with 50,000 copies sold in a single day. Octavo, original cloth. First printing, with “Published May 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. Association copy, signed by eleven members of David O. Selznick's epic American 1939 film adaptation on the front pastedown and front free endpaper with nine adding the names of the characters they portrayed, "Evelyn Keyes, 'Suellen' [O'Hara]," "Mickey Kuhn, 'Beau [Wilkes] age 7 years,'" "Marcella Martin [Cathleen Calvert]," "Ann Rutherford, 'Careen' [O'Hara],'" Rand…
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 136276
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"When you come to observe faithfully the changes of each humblest plant, you find that each has sooner or later its peculiar autumnal tint, or tints": The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau; In the Original Binding
THOREAU, Henry David.
The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906.
The manuscript edition of the writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the original manuscript sheet by Thoreau from his journal tipped-in to volume 1. The two page manuscript fragment comprises 58 lines from "Autumnal Tints," in altered form, published in the Atlantic Monthly, October 1862, and collected in Excursions the following year. The fragment concludes with the line containing the title phrase: "When you come to observe faithfully the changes of each humblest plant, you find that each has sooner or later its peculiar autumnal tint, or tints [...]." Octavo, 20 volumes. Bound in the publisher's three-quarter green morocco over…
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 97590
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First Edition of William Faukner's Soldiers' Pay; In the Original Dust jacket
FAULKNER, William.
Soldiers’ Pay.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926.
First edition of Faulkner's first book in the rare first state dust jacket with An American Tragedy as the first of five titles listed on the rear jacket panel. Octavo, original cloth. Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some toning to the spine and some chipping to the extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Rare and desirable.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 81010
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“All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience”: First edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's landmark work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1792.
Rare first edition of this landmark work in both Enlightenment philosophy and the history of feminism. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Randolph & English. From the library of Virginia chancery lawyer Henry G. Cannon with his ownership inscription to the pastedown and that of his father, the book's previous owner, to the top portion of the title page which has been excised and supplied. Period notation from presumably a member of the Cannon household to the first page of the dedication to M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun, "This Talleyrand is the man who said…
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 124556
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James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses; Signed by Him
JOYCE, James.
Ulysses.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924.
Fourth printing of Joyce's masterpiece, signed by him. Quarto, original wrappers. Signed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "James Joyce Paris 7 January 1924." In very good condition, the joints lightly repaired. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Uncommon signed.
Price: $18,500.00 Item Number: 139635