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First Edition of Theodore Pratt's That Was Palm Beach; signed by him
PRATT, Theodore.
That Was Palm Beach.
St. Petersburg, Florida: Great Outdoors, 1968.
First edition of Pratt's history of Flagler era of Palm Beach, Florida. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. In very good condition. Front cover photograph of "the great Royal Poinciana Hotel which once stood in Palm Beach, the grandest hotel of all time, the largest wooded building ever built in the history of the world."
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138405
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's For Love of the King
WILDE, Oscar.
For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1923.
First edition of the infamous fifteenth volume of Metheun's Collected Works of Oscar Wilde which caused a legal dispute between Wilde's bibliographer, Christopher Millard and the publisher. Octavo, original publisher's white linen cloth. One of 1000 copies printed on handmade paper. Publisher's "Presentation Copy" stamp to the title page. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139527
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"WORLD REVOLUTION OR WORLD DESTRUCTION": H.G. Wells The Fate of Homo Sapiens in the rare original dust jacket
WELLS, H.G.
The Fate of Homo Sapiens.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1939.
Early printing of this work by the author of Invisible Man. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 118627
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Silent House; Signed by Him and Three Times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Silent House.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
First edition of this "superb novel, which grips the reader and refuses to let go" (The New Yorker). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by dated in the year of publication by Orhan Pamuk on the title page. Additionally signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, once on the title page, and again on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122479
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First Edition of Institutio Ad Doctrinam Christianam Liberaliter Discendam
JOHANN SALOMO SEMLER,.
Institutio Ad Doctrinam Christianam Liberaliter Discendam.
Halae Magdebvrgicae, 1774.
First edition. Octavo, three quarters leather over marbled boards. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 2416
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Signed by Frank Genry
FORSTER, Kurt W. (Frank O. Gehry).
Frank O. Gehry.
Germany: Cantz, 1999.
First edition of this compilation of Gehry's works. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Gehry on the dedication page. In fine condition. Edited by Cristina Bechtler in collaboration with Kunsthasus Bregenz. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 80019
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First edition of Michael Rosen's Arabian Frights and other Gories; Signed by Michael Rosen
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Chris Fisher.
Arabian Frights and Other Gories.
London: Scholastic Children's Books, 1994.
First edition of Michael Rosen's children's classic. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Signed and dated by the author on the verso of the half-title page, "Aug 15 2004 Michael Rosen." In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 88126
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"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it": First edition of Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion; signed by the film's screenplay writer Tony Kushner
RUBEL, David. Tony Kushner. Forewords by Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy. [Doris Kearns Goodwin].
Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion.
New York: Disney Editions, 2012.
First edition of this pictorial companion to Spielberg’s monumental 2012 historical drama Lincoln. Quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Signed on the title page by Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for the film loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137109
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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 Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Henry Dinevosodey 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: 141359
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First Edition of Josh Singer's screenplay First Man; Signed by Him
SINGER, Josh [James R. Hansen] [Neil Armstrong].
First Man.
London: Titan, 2018.
First edition of Singer's annotated screenplay of First Man, based on the life of Neil Armstrong. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Signed by Josh Singer on title page. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137552
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First Edition of Robert Caro's Working; Signed by Him
CARO, Robert.
Working.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
First edition of Caro's memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Robert Caro on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142519
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Nine Bad Shots of Golf and What To Do About Them; Warmly Inscribed by Jim Dante
DANTE, Jim and Leo Diegel with Collaboration with Len Elliot .
Nine Bad Shots of Golf and What To Do About Them.
New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1947.
First edition, later printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To: Julian Lovitt Here's hoping you improve your game. Golfingly Jim Dante 4/24/48." Light rubbing, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips and tears. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 38032
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First Edition of Value Investing: A Balanced Approach; signed by Martin J. Whitman
WHITMAN, Martin J.
Value Investing: A Balanced Approach.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes Martin J. Whitman." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144681
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First edition of Deeds of Valor; edited by Union Army colonel Henry M. Duffield
BEYER, W.F. and O.F. Keydel [Editors]. Introduction by Henry M. Duffield.
Deeds of Valor: How America’s Heroes Won the Medal of Honor. A History of Our Country’s Recent Wars In Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men Who Were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battle-Field, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations.
Detroit: The Perrien-Keydel Company, 1903.
First edition of Duffield's richly illustrated compilation of biographies and stories related to recipients of the Medal of Honor. Quarto, 2 volumes, original cloth, patterned endpapers, profusely illustrated with chromolithographic frontispieces and plates. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132381