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First Edition of Robert J. Shiller's Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risks; Signed by Him
SHILLER, Robert J.
Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society’s Largest Economic Risks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and winner of the first Paul A. Samuelson Award. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Robert J. Shiller Oct. 8, 2015." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 130611
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“Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble": Irrational Exuberance; Signed by Robert J. Shiller
SHILLER, Robert J.
Irrational Exuberance.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Robert J. Shiller Oct 8, 2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 144343
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First Edition of William Shirer's End of a Berlin Diary; Inscribed by Him
SHIRER, William L.
End of a Berlin Diary.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
First edition of the sequel to Shirer's acclaimed Berlin Diary. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Gareth L. Pawlowski- William L. Shirer." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 118341
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Scarce First editions in English of Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home to the Sea
SHOLOKHOV, Mikhail. Translated by Stephen Gary.
And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home To The Sea.
London: Putnam, 1934-1940.
First edition in English of the major epic of Soviet literature and one of the first works of Soviet literature to be translated into English. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's cloth. And Quiet Flows the Don is very good in a good dust jacket. The Don Flows Home To The Sea is very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 143722
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First Edition of Uncommon Places; Inscribed by Stephen Shore
SHORE, Stephen.
Uncommon Places.
New York: Aperture, 1982.
First edition of Shore’s remarkable photobook of the American landscape, in which “the nondescript emerges as an opportunity for awakened perception." Oblong quarto, original cloth, with 49 color plates. Inscribed by the photographer Stephen Shore on the half title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 1060
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Musical Quotation Signed by Russian Composer and Pianist Dmitri Shostakovich
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri.
Dmitri Shostakovich Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
1947.
Handwritten musical quotation inscribed by Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich in Russian above the opening three bars of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 in D minor (Op. 47) on a two-stave system with holograph tempo directive and title, "To Lionel Okvin from Dmitri Shostakovich 17th February 1947." Double matted and framed with a photograph of Shostakovich. The entire piece measures 14.75 inches by 15.75 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 82418
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First Edition of The Fiscal System of Venezuela; Inscribed by Carl Shoup
SHOUP, Carl S.
The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Carl Shoup on the front free endpaper, "To A.R. Ilersic with regards- C.S. Shoup." Also laid in a signed letter from Shoup to the same recipient. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Edited by Carl S. Shoup. Contributors include John F. Due, Lyle C. Fitch, Sir Donald McDougall, Oliver S. Oldman and Stanley S. Surrey.
Price: $95.00 Item Number: 75023
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First edition of Anita Shreve's Resistance; inscribed by her to Kenneth Burrows
SHREVE, Anita.
Resistance: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.
First edition of this work by the author of The Pilot's Wife. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "March 28, 1995 For Ken, with thanks for your help in a different battle front Anita Shreve." The recipient, American litigator Kenneth David Burrows married American novelist Erica Jong in 1989. 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…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142738
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First Editions of Martin Shubik's The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions Volumes 1 &2; Inscribed by Him to Benoit Mandelbrot
SHUBIK, Martin [Benoit Mandelbrot].
The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
First editions of Shubik's work regarding the theory of money. Octavo, 2 volumes. Association copies, both volumes are inscribed by Martin Shubik to Benoit Mandelbrot. Volume one is signed, "To Benoit and Aliette To old friends with best wishes Martin S. June 7, 2000. P.S. You made an error. You were going to get a free copy- if need you can assign it." Volume 2 is inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Benoit and Aliette To old friends with best wishes Martin Shubik June 7, 2000." Mandelbrot writes, "The indispensable intermediary who started the process that…
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 49001
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First Edition of George P. Shultz's Ideas & Action: Featuring the 10 Commandments of Negotiation; Signed by Him
SHULTZ, George P.
Ideas & Action: George P. Shultz, Featuring the 10 Commandments of Negotiation.
Erie, PA: Free To Choose Press, 2010.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by George P. Shultz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Forewords by Henry A. Kissinger, Diane Feinstein and William J. Perry.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 139641
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First edition of George P. Shultz's Leaders and Followers in an age of Ambiguity; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
SHULTZ, George P. [William Safire].
Leaders and Followers in an Age of Ambiguity: The Charles C. Moskowitz Memorial Lectures.
New York: New York University Press, 1975.
First edition of the sixteenth book in the Charles C. Moskowitz Memorial Lecture Series. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire with my admiration for the quality of your thought... and the courage of your convictions and with many thanks for all your help and your friendship George P. Shultz." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter and a close friend of the then Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. Safire joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968.…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 133041
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First Edition of George Shultz's Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future; Signed by Him
SHULTZ, George P. Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger.
Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future.
Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2013.
First edition of this work by the former Secretary of State and Treasury. Octavo, original boards. Signed by George P. Shultz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Henry A. Kissinger. Cover design by Jennifer Navarrette.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 121830
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Scarce New Edition with large Additions of Ebenezer Sibly's The Medical Mirror, or Treatise on the Impregnation of the Human Female
SIBLY, Ebenezer.
The Medical Mirror, or Treatise on the Impregnation of the Human Female, Shewing the Origin of Diseases And the Principles of Death.
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by all Booksellers in Town & Country, c. 1798.
Scarce early printing of Sibly's The Medical Mirror. Octavo, bound paper-covered boards, illustrated with engraved frontispiece, vignette title page and 13 anatomical plates engraved by W. Newman. New Edition with large Additions. In very good condition. Bound into a three-ring medical binder. Exceptionally rare, with only a handful of copies having appeared at auction in the last 80 years.
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 129707
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First Edition of Gathered Leaves: From the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge; from the library of militant English Suffragette Emily Duval
SICHEL, Edith. [Mary E. Coleridge; Emily Duval].
Gathered Leaves: From the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. With a Memoir by Edith Sichel.
London: Constable and Company, 1910.
First edition of this collection of the prose of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge from the library of militant English suffragette Emily Duval. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece portrait of Coleridge. From the library of Emily Duval, although not marked. English suffragette Emily Duval was a militant petitioner in the fight for women’s voting rights and was imprisoned on six occasions. Her daughter, Elsie Duval, was also arrested many times throughout her life and in 1913 became the first woman to be released from Holloway Prison under the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act'. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 134052
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Rare first edition of Henry Sidgwick's magnum opus The Methods of Ethics; in the original cloth
SIDGWICK, Henry.
The Methods of Ethics.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1874.
First edition of Sidgwick's magnum opus, which "in many ways marked the culmination of the classical utilitarian tradition" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Octavo, original brown pebbled cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, triple black ruling to the front panel. In near fine condition. Scarce in the original cloth.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 126877
