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First edition of Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street; Inscribed by Him
ZWEIG, Martin E.
Winning on Wall Street.
New York: Warner Books, 1986.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "James Best of Luck Marty 4/25/86." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Jacket photograph by Bob Wolfson. Written with the editorial assistance of Morrie Goldfischer.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100037
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"How Brave are you, little Annemarie?": First Edition 25th Anniversary Edition of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars; Signed by Her
LOWRY, Lois.
Number The Stars.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
First 25th Anniversary edition of Lowry's first Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "With best wishes Lois Lowry." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheila Smallwood. With an introduction by the author.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142577
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First Edition of Edwin Lefevre's Sampson Rock of Wall Street
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Sampson Rock of Wall Street.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1907.
First edition of the author's first full-length novel and third literary work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144149
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FIRST EDITION OF SEX AND THE CITY; SIGNED BY CANDACE BUSHNELL
BUSHNELL, Candace.
Sex and the City.
New York : The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996.
First edition of the author's hugely successful first book. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Candace Bushnell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145151
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First Edition of Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur; inscribed by Him
HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].
Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.
Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.
First edition of this work on the former head of the former Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gordon Sorensen with highest regards from Marriner Eccles." Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120723
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"When the water's countenance blurs 'twixt glance and second glance... hear the Channel Fleet at sea, Libera nos domine!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Traffics and Discoveries.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904.
First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120541
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First edition of Vladimir's Nabokov The Defence
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
The Defence [Defense].
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964.
First edition of this early Nabokov novel, which tells the tragic story of a man destroyed by his own genius and of the hopeless efforts of the wife who loves him to save him from himself. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by John Curtis. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140004
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"Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?" Rare first edition of Oscar Wilde's Ave Imperatrix!
WILDE, Oscar.
Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire by Oscar Wilde.
Washington: Snohomish, 1902.
First edition of Wilde's classic Hellenic poem. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with engravings and hand painted initials embellished in gilt, frontispiece by John Dennis Clancy. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140214
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First Edition of Martin Gilbert's Churchill: A Life; Inscribed by Him
GILBERT, Martin.
Churchill: A Life.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991.
First edition of this "masterpiece of scholarship" (The Guardian). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To David A. Rezneck with the author's regards Martin Gilbert." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Karsh. Jacket design Raquel Jaramillo.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142433
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"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated": First Edition of Arnold Palmer's My Game and Yours; Inscribed by Him
PALMER, Arnold.
My Game and Yours.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.
First edition of Palmer's second book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Adrienne Best Wishes Arnold Palmer." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 38997
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First Edition of Travers and Rice's The Winning Shot; From the library of Golf Course Architect Albert W. Tillinghast
TRAVERS, Jerome D. and Grantland Rice.
The Winning Shot.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1915.
First edition of this early work by Travers and Rice, "one of the first golf books to carry Mr. Rice's name" (Murdoch 784). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. From the library of Albert W. Tillinghast, with his handwritten inventory card laid in. Tillinghast was a golf course architect and one of the most prolific architects in the history of golf; he worked on more than 265 different courses. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015. A nice example with noted provenance.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 87998
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"The way I see it, we all have a dream of ourselves, that we could be more than we are": First Edition of The Tailor of Panama; Signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John.
The Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.
First edition of this "tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated" (The New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by John le Carre on a bookplate affixed to the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145400
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First Edition of the 40th Anniversary of The Extended Phenotype Selfish Gene; Signed by Him
DAWKINS, Richard.
The Extended Selfish Gene.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
First edition of the 40th Anniversary of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Desmond Morris.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 112343
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Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries; inscribed by Irving Caesar
CAESAR, Irving and Rudolph Sieczynski.
Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries Signed Musical Score.
New York: Harms Inc, 1937.
Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries. Quarto, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Irving Caesar on the front wrapper, "To Percy with friendship from Irving." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138548
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First Edition of My Years With General Motors
SLOAN JR., Alfred P.
My Years With General Motors.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964.
First edition of Sloan's influential work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Edited by John McDonald with Catherine Stevens. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138802
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"There's no greater pleasure than to talk over the big things with a believer": First Edition of Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination; With an Autographed Postcard from WIlder
WILDER, Thornton.
Heaven’s My Destination.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935.
First edition of this comedic novel about a modern-day Don Quixote. Octavo, original cloth. With an autographed postcard from Thornton Wilder laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Haberstock.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140196