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"With esteem and admiration- for what they do, and the way they do it- and the community they create”: THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST; WARMLY INSRIBED BY DAVID HALBERSTAM
HALBERSTAM, David.
The Best and the Brightest.
New York: Random House, 1972.
First edition, early printing of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Rik and Margaret with esteem and admiration- for what they do, and the way they do it- and the community they create David Halberstam May 16, 1996." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Chet Jezierski. An exceptional example, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144036
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"I will come again and conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can": First Edition of High Adventure; Signed by Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
High Adventure.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
First British edition of Hillary's account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the frontispiece, "E.P. Hillary." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145919
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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City
KEROUAC, Jack.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in an excellent price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and a chip to the extremities. Jacket design by Leo Manso.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 47652
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Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country; lengthily inscribed by him
HALE, Edward Everett.
The Man Without a Country.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1898.
Early printing of Hale's classic short story. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, stamped bald eagle vignette to the front panel, illustrated with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, "Charles Wolcott from Mrs. Hubbard with the best wishes of Edward E. Hale March 10, 1902." With a photograph of the author tipped in beneath the inscription. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 105108
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First Edition of John Grierson's High Failure: Solo Along the Arctic Air Route; inscribed by him
GRIERSON, John. Introduction by Wolfgang von Gronau.
High Failure: Solo Along the Arctic Air Route.
London: William Hodge & Company, Limited, 1936.
First edition of English Aviator John Grierson's account of his solo trip along the Arctic Air Route. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Associtation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Chief Factor Ralph Parsons with best wished John Grierson 15/11/36." The recipient, Ralph Parsons was a Canadian Arctic explorer and fox fur trader who played an important role in the development of early trading posts around Hudson Strait, particularly on the south shore of Baffin Island. He was named Fur Trade Commissioner in 1931 and the posts he founded across the…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 111250
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Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Inadequacy; Signed by Both
MASTERS, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson.
Human Sexual Inadequacy.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Masters and Johnson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Emery based on a design by George Price. We have never encountered another signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117478
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First Edition of Milton Friedman, Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and Edmund Phelps; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
LUCAS, Jr..
Milton Friedman, Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and Edmund Phelps.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economists. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed on the half-title page, "Best wishes Robert E. Lucas, Jr." In fine condition. Edited by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142136
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"But no one was there to see it:" First Edition of The First Three Minutes; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Steven Weinberg
WEINBERG, Steven.
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe.
New York: Basic Books, 1979.
First edition, early printing of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John Steven Weinberg Oct 2000." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of rubbing.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 128101
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First Edition of Born on the Fourth of July; Warmly Inscribed by Him in the year of Publication
KOVIC, Ron.
Born on the Fourth of July.
New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976.
First edition of this classic book, basis for the 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "11/26/76 Mary Thank you for being so nice to me and my family Love Ron and Peace." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph by Bob Adelman.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138131
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"We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is": First Edition of Masters 1985; Boldly signed by Champion Bernhard Langer
LANGER, Bernhard.
Masters 1985.
Augusta National Club, 1985.
First edition of the Augusta publication of the 1985 Masters. Quarto, original boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Bernhard Langer on the half-title page. In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 135231
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First Printing of Cook's First Voyage as Chart of Part of the Coast of New South Wales, from Cape Tribulation to Endeavour Straits
COOK, James.
Carte d’une Partie de la Côte de la Nle. Galles Meridle…from: Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa majesté britannique, et successivement exécutés par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l’Endeavour.
Paris: 1774.
First French printing of this well-known first map of the east coast of Australia. The map measures 13.25 inches by 12 inches. Matted. The entire piece measures 29 inches by 18 inches. One of the first detailed maps of this part of Australia's east coast and The Great Barrier Reef.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120762
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First edition of Jules Michelet's The Insect; finely bound in full morocco with a double fore-edge painting
MICHELET, Jules. Illustrated by Giacomelli.
The Insect. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875.
First edition of this elaborately illustrated work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, with 140 illustrations by Giacomelli. Decorated with a hidden double fore-edge painting displaying landscapes of Boston and Philadelphia. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136458
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"I will come again and conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can": First Edition of High Adventure; Inscribed by Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
High Adventure.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
First British edition of Hillary's account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, bound in full morocco, marbled endpapers, slipcase, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in a contemporary hand, "To Muriel Brent-Smith E.P. Hillary." In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140999
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Rare First Edition of Merer Baba's God to Man An Man To God
BABA, Meher.
God to Man And Man To God.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955.
First edition of this work by Meher Baba. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by C.B. Purdom.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117989
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First Edition of Beyond the Melting Pot; Inscribed by Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb
GLAZER, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963.
First edition of this classic work, "perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed and dated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Irving and Bea- With Great Respect Daniel Aug 1963." The recipients, Irving Kristol and his wife Gertrude Himmelfarb, who were close friends of Moynihan. 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 a leader of conservative interpretations of history and…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 118618
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"They killed my girl," Rheinhardt said, walking down the street. "I'm gonna to bust up the bar": First Edition of A Hall of Mirrors; Lengthily Inscribed by Robert Stone
STONE, Robert.
A Hall of Mirrors.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Stone who has additionally added the line from this title as follows, "They killed my girl," Rheinhardt said, walking down the street. "I'm gonna to bust up the bar. Robert Stone." Laid in a program from a literary festival signed by Stone as well. Light rubbing to the bottom cloth, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A unique example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 1108