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"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own": Chuck Yeager Signed Glamorous Glennis III F-15 Aircraft Model
YEAGER, Chuck.
Chuck Yeager Signed Glamorous Glennis III F-15 Aircraft Model.
Model of the Glamorous Glennis III F-15 speed of sound aircraft, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 16 inches in length, 10 inches in height and 12 inches in width. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 106598
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"No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done": Chuck Yeager Signed Bell X-5 Experimental Research Plane
YEAGER, Chuck.
Chuck Yeager Signed Bell X-5 Experimental Research Plane.
Display model of the Bell X-5 experimental research plane, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 8.5 inches in height, 13 inches in height and 8.5 inches in width. In fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 103598
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"The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day": CHUCK YEAGER BELL X-1 SPEED OF SOUND SIGNED AUTO ROCKET
YEAGER, Chuck.
Chuck Yeager Signed Bell X-1 Speed of Sound Auto Rocket.
Model of the Bell X-1, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 14 inches in length, 10 inches in height and 11 inches in width. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 100398
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Rare First Edition Of Richard Yates Powerful First Novel Revolutionary Road; Inscribed And Dated By Him
YATES, Richard.
Revolutionary Road.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Yates on the front free endpapaper, "For Jim Brady With best wishes always, Dick Yates Feb 1, 87." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example, uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 2784
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Rare First Edition Of Richard Yates Powerful First Novel Revolutionary Road; Inscribed And Dated By Him
YATES, Richard.
Revolutionary Road.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Richard Yates on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 41090
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Richard Yates' Young Hearts Crying; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
YATES, Richard.
Young Hearts Crying.
New York: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1984.
First edition, early printing of this classic work by "one of the most important and influential writers of the second half of the century” (Robert Stone). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ellen Quinn Assuming she will agree this isn't much of a book, and with best wishes anyway, Dick Yates 2/13/88 (with a drawing of a heart)." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Jeffrey Adams. Jacket design by Richard Rossiter.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139289
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Exceptionally rare second edition of Ye Zipei’s complete map of the world, one of only two known copies produced by terrestrial globe expert Liu Yan
YAN, Liu (Liu Dezhi). [Ye Zipei].
Complete Map of the World with All Nations.
China: Wanguo Dadi Quantu, 1851 [Xianfeng period].
Exceptionally rare second edition of Ye Zipei’s complete map of the world, one of only two known copies produced by terrestrial globe expert Liu Yan. The terrestrial map is comprised of six accordion-style albums bound in handmade paper with white titular labels lettered in hand to each front panel. A woodblock print in red and black ink, the map features two hemispheres defined by straight meridian and circular parallel lines and a ground of red grids. The left hemisphere centers on the south pole, while the right one on the north pole; both are bordered by the equator, adopting the…
Price: $30,000.00 Item Number: 131424
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“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand": First Edition of Irvin D. Yalom's First Novel: When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession; Inscribed by Him
YALOM, Irvin D.
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession.
New York: Basic Books, 1992.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Linda with best wishes Irvin D. Yalom." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140974
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First Edition of Irvin Yalom's The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel; inscribed by Him
YALOM, Irvin D.
The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005.
First edition of this "beautifully wrought tale of a therapy group’s final year and a moving debate about the end of life” (Kirkus Reviews). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Andy Irvin D. Yalom." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vicq de Cumptich. Author photograph by Reid Yalom.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 141496
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First Edition of Irvin D. Yalom's Inpatient Group Psychotherapy; Inscribed by Him
YALOM, Irvin D.
Inpatient Group Psychotherapy.
New York: Basic Books, 1983.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Pat Irvin D. Yalom." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 141494
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First Edition in English of Xingjian's Snow in August; Inscribed by Him
XINGJIAN, Gao.
Snow in August.
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2003.
First edition in English of the Nobel Laureate's play that is based on the legendary Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Review copy, with slip laid in, fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Gilbert C.F. Fong.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 1234
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First Edition of One Man’s Bible; Signed by Gao Xingjian
XINGJIAN, Gao.
One Man’s Bible.
New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel published in English. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Cicq de Cumptich. Jacket painting by Gao Xingjian.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 1236
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First Edition of Gao Xingjian's Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather; Inscribed by Him
XINGJIAN, Gao.
Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004.
First American edition of the author's first collection of short stories published in English. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Pour ____ ____ Gao Xingjian Paris le 20 Octobre 2006." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 138015
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"Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature": First Edition of Soul Mountain; Signed by Gao Xingjian
XINGJIAN, Gao.
Soul Mountain.
New York: Harper Collins, 2000.
First edition in English of the author's magnum opus, which led to him winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2000. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Mabel Lee.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 138016
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"This book is offered to those women on the fighting line who have had the courage to face ridicule, and the wit to turn the laugh upon their enemies by their indifference to derision": Rare first edition of Constance Smedley's Woman: A Few Shrieks!
X. [SMEDLEY, Constance]; Appendix by Mrs. Philip Snowden [Ethel Snowden].
Woman: A Few Shrieks!
Letchworth Herts: Garden City Press , [1907].
First edition of Constance Smedley's rare feminist tract, published under the pseudonym X and with an appendix by Ethel Snowden. Octavo, original cloth, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Appendix by Ethel Snowden. In good condition. Stamps throughout including to the front and rear panels and top edge. Bookplates to the pastedown.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 134985
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“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past": First Edition of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids; Signed by Him
WYNDHAM, John.
The Day of the Triffids.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc , 1951.
First American edition, which preceded the British edition of Wyndham's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Wyndham on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Bender.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 82090