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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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"So that, in learning the truth I drew from the gospel, I was not only no alone, but was with all the best men of the past and present": First edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's The Christian Teaching
TOLSTOY, Leo.
The Christian Teaching.
London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1898.
First edition in English of Tolstoy's work the history and influence of Christianity, inspired by his own spiritual awakening. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Translated by Vladimir Tchertkoff. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124036
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First edition of Pete Hamill's The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook; signed by him
HAMILL, Pete.
The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook.
New York: Random House, 1980.
First edition of the author's classic collection of sketches encapsulating the essence of New York. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Susan Stillman. Signed by Pete Hamill on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket illustration by Susan Stillman. Author photograph by Brian Hamill.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124308
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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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“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 Rachel Carson's Under the Sea-Wind
CARSON, Rachel L.
Under the Sea-Wind.
London: Staples Press Limited, 1952.
First British edition of Carson's first book and her personal favorite. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125649
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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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First edition of Of Mandino's The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II; warmly inscribed by Og Mandino
MANDINO, Og.
The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II.
New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
First edition of the sequel to the author's classic guide to success. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Kay Love! Og Mandino." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus One.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 131605
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"All tales may come true": First Edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Tree and Leaf
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
Tree and Leaf.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First American edition of Tolkien's classic work exploring the literature of fantasy and myth. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144282
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First Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket and Glassine
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
First edition of Lindbergh's definitive autobiography. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket and glassine.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 112449
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Rare First Edition of "one of the most influential books of the 20th Century" The Lonely Crowd
RIESMAN, David with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer.
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120191
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"Photographing a cake can be art": First Edition of Still Life; Signed by Irving Penn
PENN, Irving.
Still Life.
New York: Bullfinch Press, 2001.
First edition of this collection of photographs. Tall quarto, original beige cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Irving Penn on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 4324
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"The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below the horizon, and simultaneously to lift an orange moon at the other": First Folio Edition of Between the Woods and the Water; Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Between the Woods and the Water.
London: The Folio Society, 2006.
First Folio edition of the author's second book in the author's trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine slipcase. Illustrated by Mary Kuper.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 38087
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First Edition of Ken Purdy's The Kings of the Road; In the rare original dust jacket
PURDY, Ken W.
The Kings of the Road.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 129712
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First edition of Models of Economic Growth: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association at Jerusalem; Signed by Peter Diamond
[DIAMOND, Peter]. Edited by James A. Mirrlees and N. H. Stern.
Models of Economic Growth: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association at Jerusalem.
The International Economic Association: Macmillan, 1973.
First edition of the proceedings of the Conference on economic growth models held by the International Economic Association at Jerusalem. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Peter Diamond on the front free endpaper, who contributed an article to this volume. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 126882