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First Edition of Don Winslow's acclaimed The Power of the Dog; Signed by Him
WINSLOW, Don.
The Power of the Dog.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 2005.
First edition of the first novel in Winslow's acclaimed The Power of the Dog trilogy. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Don Winslow in the year of publication on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124988
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FIRST EDITION OF MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.; Inscribed by Coretta Scott King
KING, Coretta Scott.
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First edition of Coretta Scott King's autobiography, which recounts the history of the Civil Rights Movement and offers an inside look at Dr. King, his sermons and speeches. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by Coretta Scott King on the front free endpaper, "To Beatrice Thrope With best wished Coretta Scott King." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Reed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 90443
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"In the inner city or like we call it home we think a lot about uptown and the silent nights and the houses straight as dead men": First Vintage Books edition of Lucille Clifton's Good Times; inscribed by her
CLIFTON, Lucille.
Good Times.
New York: Vintage Books, 1969.
First Vintage Books edition of the former Poet Laureate of Maryland's first poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the title page, "For Richard - who was part of the old Buffalo good times - Lucille Clifton 3/75." In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 135834
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First Edition of Luc Sante's Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York; Signed by Him
SANTE, Luc.
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York.
New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1991.
First edition of Sante's classic work, which tells the story of New York's Lower East Side, circa 1840-1920. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Luc Sante on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 138180
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First edition of Peter Diamond's A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Micro Foundations of Macroeconomics: The Wicksell Lectures, 1982; signed by him
DIAMOND, Peter.
A Search-Equilibrium Approach to the Micro Foundations of Macroeconomics: The Wicksell Lectures, 1982.
Cambridge: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Diamond at the 1982 Wicksell lectures. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Peter Diamond on the half-title page. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 114504
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First Edition of Michael Herr's Walter Winchell; Inscribed by Him and signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
HERR, Michael.
Walter Winchell.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93." Additionally signed three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the half-title page, and on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120899
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's The Second American Revolution and other essays (1976-1982); Inscribed by Him to his Stepmother
VIDAL, Gore.
The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982).
New York: Random House, 1982.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Kit all love Gore Vidal." The recipient, Katherine "Kit" Vidal was Eugene Vidal's second wife; he married her in 1939 when she was a 20 year old model with the Powers Agency, only six years older than Gore. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. An exceptional association.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125211
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it": First Edition of Peter Drucker's Adventures of a Bystander; Inscribed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Adventures of a Bystander.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.
First edition of Drucker's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 72052
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"WHAT YOU KNOW CANNOT REALLY HURT YOU": The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable; Signed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
TALEB, Nassim Nicholas .
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
New York: Random House, 2007.
First edition, early printing of this work concentrating on outlier events. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Thomas Beck Stvan. Jacket art by Photodisk/ Getty Images.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142962
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Finely bound example of Alain-René Lesage's famous 18th century novel History of Gil Blas De Santillane
LESAGE, Alain-René.
Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune, n.d.
Finely bound example of Lesage's famed picaresque novel. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings by the best artists of Paris. In fine condition. A beautiful set.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145006
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"While we are here on this earth we should not only be nourished by our food, we should also enjoy the infinite pleasures of the table": First edition of In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs; Signed by Julia Child
CHILD, Julia with Nancy Verde Barr.
In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs.
New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1995.
First edition of the companion book to Child's Cooking With Master Chefs. Quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated with more than 100 color photographs by Micheal McLaughlin. Boldly signed by the Julia Child on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Jacket photographs by Micheal P. McLaughlin.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145488
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“OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN, THE SADDEST ARE THESE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN'": First edition, First issue of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise case.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 137359
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First Edition of Without End; Inscribed by Adam Zagajewski to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen
ZAGAJEWSKI, Adam.
Without End: New and Selected Poems.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen, "To Peter Matthiessen- most amicably- Adam Zagajewski Houseton, February 2005." Also, laid into this book is a note to Matthiessen stating that "Adam was pleased to inscribed this copy..." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Translated by Clare Cavanagh, and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C.K. Williams.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 4688
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First edition of Jean-Louis Bourgeois' Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition; signed by him and Carollee Pelos and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
BOURGEOIS, Jean-Louis. Photographs by Carollee Pelos. [Peter Matthiessen].
Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition.
New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1980.
First edition of this spectacular celebration of traditional Adobe architecture in the West. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs by Carollee Pelos. Historical Essay by Basil Davidson. Signed by Jean-Louis Bourgeois and Carollee Pelos on the half-title page. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140210
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"Wootton Major it was called because it was not very large, though it was at that time prosperous": First edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Illustrations by Pauline Baynes.
Smith of Wootton Major.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1967.
First American edition of Tolkien's classic fairy story. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, bookplate. Jacket photograph of Tolkien by Roger Hill.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144732