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Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group John Bogle; all but one volume signed or inscribed by Bogle
BOGLE, John C.
Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor; John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years; Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group; The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism; The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns; Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition; Don’t Count on it!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes; The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation; Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.
New York: McGraw Hill and Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994-2019.
Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group, all but one volume signed or inscribed by him. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth and half cloth. The collection contains: Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: Irwin, 1994. First edition, early printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Rob Skalski - with best wishes for a fine career at Vanguard. John Bogle November 19, 1997"; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 143557
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First Edition of Last Tales; Signed by Isak Dinesen
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen].
Last Tales.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "Isak Dinesen Je Responderai." While in Africa, Blixen took as her motto “Je Responderai,” “I will answer,” from the family crest of her lover, Denys Finch-Hatton. She explained: “I liked this old motto so much that I asked Denys, an earlier pioneer in African than myself – although all we settlers who had come out before the war looked upon ourselves as one family, a kind of Mayflower people – if I might have it for my own. He…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 145946
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First Edition of Jurgen Habermas' Knowledge and Human Interests; Signed by Him and Daniel Bell
HABERMAS, Jurgen [Daniel Bell].
Knowledge and Human Interests.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
First edition in English of Habermas' classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Jurgen Habermas on the front free endpaper. Sociologist Daniel Bell's copy, with his signature and his extensive notes throughout. Translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket desiged by Richard C. Bartlett.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 49027
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First Edition of Theodore Roosevelts Rare First Book The Naval War of 1812
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
The Naval War of 1812 or the History of the United States Navy During the Last War With Great Britain.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882.
Rare first edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s landmark first book. Octavo, original blue cloth, titles the spine in gilt, gilt vignette to the front panel.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 92868
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First Editions of Ford Madox Ford's Classic Tetralogy Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up and Last Post
FORD, Ford Madox.
Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up and Last Post.
New York: 1924-1928.
First editions of each novel in the author's classic modernist series Parade's End. Octavo, four volumes. Each volume is in very good to near fine condition, with A Man Could Stand Up in the original dust jacket. Each volume is housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An exceptional presentation of this set.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 143044
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From the library of Stephen Hawking
SCHATZMAN, Evry (editor).
Cargèse Lectures in Physics, Volume Six.
New York : Gordon and Breach, 1973.
First edition of this work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 115754
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"Charmer of serpents - why not try the birds?": First Edition of Roger Tory Peterson's First Book A Field Guide to the Birds; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PETERSON, Roger Tory.
Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.
First edition, third state with the date on the copyright page of Peterson's first book. Octavo, original green pebbled cloth, illustrated with 4 color plates with printed overlays, 32 monochrome plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Claire Kelly, charmer of serpents - why not try the birds? - Roger T. Peterson (Dictator) - C.M. Beal (Interpreter)." The recipient Claire Kelly, while a student at Cornell dated Peterson's personal assistant C.M. Beal and at the time she was also working with snakes at the Museum of Natural History. In very good condition with some light dampstaining.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 102012
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Finely Bound Set of Plato's Dialogues
PLATO,.
Plato’s Dialogues.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892.
Finely bound set contains Plato's Dialogues. Octavo, five volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt portrait to the front and rear panels of each volume, all edges gilt, inner dentelles. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 140887
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First edition of Wall Street 1955: Investment Careers, Procedures & Precepts; signed by Legendary Wall Street trader Gerald M. Loeb
LOEB, Gerald M.; Bernard M. Baruch; Benjamin Graham; William S. Goedecke; Walter Maynard; John Stevenson et al.
Wall Street 1955: Investment Careers, Procedures & Precepts.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Daily News, 1954.
First edition of this compilation of reports published by Yale as an introduction to Wall Street for aspiring students. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Gerald M. Loeb on the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 116393
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Rare first edition of Octavia Butler's Kindred
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Kindred.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979.
First edition of Butler's bestselling novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with loss to the rear panel. Jacket illustration by Larry Schwinger. Jacket typography by Elizabeth Levine. First editions of this classic Butler novel are difficult to find.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 125900
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"One of the earliest books printed in Roman type": Rare incunable edition of Justinus's epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus
JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus.
Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii Historias.
Venice: [Philippus Pincius], c. 1497.
Rare incunable edition of Justinus's epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus. Chancery folio, bound in one quarter vellum over patterned boards with ink titles to the spine, Roman type. In very good condition. Bookplate. Period marginalia. Exceptionally rare, one of the earliest books printed in Roman type, which would influence famed 15th century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, as well as such latter day designers as William Morris and Bruce Rogers.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 126068
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"SURGICAL ANATOMY IS, TO THE STUDENT OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY, THE MOST ESSENTIAL BRANCH OF ANATOMICAL SCIENCE": Gray's Anatomy
GRAY, Henry.
Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical [Gray’s Anatomy].
Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1862.
Rare second edition of this influential work on Anatomy. Quarto, bound in contemporary wrappers, possibly original, illustrated with wood-engravings after the drawings by H. V. Carter. In good condition.
Price: $3,600.00 Item Number: 137096
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"Rebus, unable to move, decided it was safe to go to sleep now": First Edition of Knots & Crosses; Signed by Ian Rankin
RANKIN, Ian.
Knots & Crosses.
London: Bodley Head, 1987.
First edition of the author's first Inspector Rebus mystery. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Rankin who has additionally added the words, "Rebus, unable to move, decided it was safe to go to sleep now." Rankin has also added his knots & crosses motif.
Price: $3,750.00 Item Number: 995
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Presentation copy of William Hazlitt: Essayist and Critic; from the library of Robert Louis Stevenson; inscribed to him by the author and with Stevenson's bookplate signed by his stepdaughter Isobel Strong
IRELAND, Alexander. [Robert Louis Stevenson].
William Hazlitt: Essayist and Critic.
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1889.
Robert Louis Stevenson's first edition copy of the writings of one of his favorite prose writers, William Hazlitt. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, botanical gilt vignette to the front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Hazlitt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Robert Louis Stevenson on the half-title page, "To Robert Louis Stevenson Esq with Alex Ireland's cordial regards & remembrances Southport 9 Leicester St. October 2, 1889." With Stevenson's Vailima bookplate to the pastedown which is singed by Stevensons stepdaughter Isobel Strong. In good condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $3,750.00 Item Number: 104876
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First Edition of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism; Inscribed by Daniel Bell to Harvard Colleague George Homans
BELL, Daniel.
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1976.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Daniel Bell on the front free endpaper a month before publication, "For George and Nancy Homans with affectionate regards, Dan Bell Dec. 18, 1975." The recipient, George Homans was a sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology and a colleague of Bell's at Harvard University. He is known for his research in social behavior and his works including The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his Exchange Theory and the many different propositions he enforced to better explain social behavior. A few pencil notes in the text by Homans, fine…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 16092
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“The sea of grief has no shores, no bottom; no one can sound its depths": First Edition of Primo Levi's If Not Now, When?; Signed by Him
LEVI, Primo.
If Not Now, When?
New York: Summit Books, 1982.
First edition in English of Levi's novel based on a true story. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Primo Levi on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carin Goldberg. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Introduction by Irving Howe.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 72019