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First Edition of Leo Tolstoy's What is Art?
TOLSTOY, Leo.
What Is Art?
London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.
First edition of this work by the Russian master. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Tolstoy. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the half-title page. Translated by A. Maude.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133803
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Charles Handy's The Age of Paradox; Inscribed by Him
HANDY, Charles.
The Age of Paradox.
Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.
First edition, second printing of the author's heartfelt work on ethical business. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Randy, Best Wishes for your next curve! Charles Handy 2/23/95." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sisco & Evans.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136268
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“WHY THE BUSINESS MAN SHOULD PLAY GOLF”: FIRST EDITION OF TRAVERS’ GOLF BOOK
TRAVERS, Jerome D.
Travers’ Golf Book.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1913.
First edition of this four-time U.S. amateur champion’s first book. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, photographic cover portrait to the front panel, with forty eight stop-action illustrations. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 115871
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Advance reading copy of Ken Follett's Code to Zero; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
Code to Zero.
New York: Dutton, 2000.
Advance reading copy of the first edition of Follett's page-turning thriller. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,"To Ken + Erica - with love, Ken Follett." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142730
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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 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 Gore Vidal's Screening History; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
Screening History.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Valerie, love, Gore Vidal." The recipient, Valerie Vidal was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lisa Clark. An exceptional association.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 126011
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First Edition of The Stone Raft; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Stone Raft.
New York: Harcourt, 1995.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's third book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Harold Jose Saramago 29.10.2008." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Paola Piglia. Jacket design by Steven Cooley. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140682
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First Edition of Age Of Diminished Expectations: Signed By Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman
KRUGMAN, Paul.
The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of Krugman's straightforward treatise on the position of the American economy in the 1990s. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by Paul Krugman on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Christopher Volet. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135228
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Rare First edition of Thorstein Veblen's Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America
VEBLEN, Thorstein.
Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1923.
First edition of Veblen's last book. Octavo, original green cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135297
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
First edition, early printing of this revelatory look at how we make decisions. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Nudge for good! Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144495
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First Edition of Byzantium; Inscribed by John Julius Norwich on date of Publication
NORWICH, John Julius.
Byzantium: The Apogee.
London: Viking Press, 1991.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "Dear Derek with all love from John Julius Publication Day, 14.x.91." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 4421
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"First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves its fellow-kind": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's France At War On The Frontier Of Civilization
KIPLING, Rudyard.
France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.
First American edition of Kipling's second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120244
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First Edition of Jane Goodall's Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe; Signed by Her
GOODALL, Jane.
Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
First edition of this “engrossing account” of her time among the chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Jane Goodall on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper and note to the title page where this was signed. Jacket design by Lucy Bartholomay. Jacket photograph by Gerry Ellis. Rear Jacket photograph by Ken Regan.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138182
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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
