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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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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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Howard Jones' Mutiny on the Amistad; signed by him
JONES, Howard.
Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Revised edition of the basis for the 1997 film Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "Howard Jones Framingham, Mass. 3/6/98." In near fine condition. Cover design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135992
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First Edition of David Goldblatt: Intersections; Signed by the Photographer
GOLDBLATT, David.
David Goldblatt: Intersections.
Prestel Publishing, 2005.
First edition of this work which brings Goldblatt’s color photography in South Africa from 2002 to 2011. Oblong quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed by David Goldblatt on the title page. Fine in a fine jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 533
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“To interpret Nature is not to improve upon her: it is to draw her out; it is to have an emotional intercourse with her, absorb her, and reproduce her tinged with the colors of the spirit": First edition of John Burroughs' Wake-Robin
BURROUGHS, John.
Wake-Robin.
New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press, 1871.
First edition of the author's first commercially published book in BAL's binding A; the most elaborate of the three variant first edition bindings, of which there is no known priority. BAL 2135. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition with the gilt decorations very bright. Housed in a custom folding chemise case.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139475
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First Edition of George Gilder's Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America; Inscribed by Him With A Full Page Inscription
GILDER, George.
Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America.
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
First edition of Gilder's seminal first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by George Gilder with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 59027
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first edition of Ken Tate's New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses Volume One; with a rare portrait signed by him tipped in
TATE, Ken with Oscar Riera Ojeda.
New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses. Volume One.
Mulgrave: Images Publishing, 2003.
First and only edition of the first volume in Tate's monograph series. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. With a rare portrait of Tate signed by him tipped in to the pastedown of the accompanying custom clamshell box. Unopened in the original shrink wrap.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 127014
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"To forbid the thought of escape, even that slightest butterfly thought of escape, was to murder one": Signed limited edition of colson whitehead's The Nickel Boys
WHITEHEAD, Colson.
The Nickel Boys.
New York: Doubleday, 2019.
Signed limited first edition from the Powell's series. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colson Whitehead on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase with the original booklet laid in. Jacket design by Oliver Munday.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144172
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy; In the Rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
Early printing of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144262
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"The Breath of an old-fashioned nosegay": First edition of the Crum Elbow Folks; lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt
BARNES, P.R. Foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt.
Crum Elbow Folks.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938.
First edition of Barnes' classic tale of the small Quaker settlement of Crum Elbow with a foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Sara D. Roosevelt on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sept. 1938 For W. French Cyrus Paris - from Sara D. Roosevelt - This is a story of the 'Friends' who lived until lately in 'Crum Elbow' about a mile East from Hyde Park." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100315
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First edition of Shackleton Baileys Cicero; FROM THE LIBRARY OF ENGLISH CLASSICIST BERNARD KNOX WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE
BAILEY, D. R. Shackleton. [Bernard Knox].
Cicero.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First American edition of Baileys classic work on Cicero. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 134285
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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 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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"A curse on cursive!": First Edition of Muggie Maggie; inscribed by Beverly Cleary
CLEARY, Beverly.
Muggie Maggie.
New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1990.
First edition of the story of Maggie Schultz, an eight-year-old girl who refuses to learn cursive. Octavo, original boards. Illustrated by Kay Life. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Enjoy! Beverly Cleary 1990." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 118045
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First Edition of Philip Roth's The Humbling; Signed by Him and Legendary Artist Milton Glaser
ROTH, Philip.
The Humbling.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
First edition of Roth's 30th book, concerning "an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a 'counterplot of unusual erotic desire'." Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page and signed by legendary artist Milton Glaser on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138184
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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