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First Edition of Sam Shepard's Five Plays
SHEPARD, Sam.
Five Plays: Chicago; Icarus’s Mother; Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand. Melodrama Play. Shepard, Sam.
Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Patrick Sullivan from photographs by Hope Wurmfeld.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 141325
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First edition of Tad Shepperd's Pack & Paddock
SHEPPERD, Tad.
Pack & Paddock.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of this collection of poems of the hunt. Small octavo, original publishers three quarters morocco with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt with others uncut, illustrated by Paul Brown. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 551. In fine condition. Bookplate.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 116893
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"One of the best first-hand accounts of the Civil War": First Edition of the Personal Memoirs Of P. H. Sheridan
SHERIDAN, Philip Henry.
Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1888.
First edition of Sheridan’s military autobiography, with 27 maps and 18 plates. Octavo, 2 volumes, original gilt-stamped green cloth, patterned endpapers. In near fine condition with light shelfwear.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 131823
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The School For Scandal; Finely Bound by Asprey
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley; Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
The School For Scandal.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1911.
Finely bound by Asprey. Quarto, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 25 tipped in color plates by Hugh Thompson. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 61082
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"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other": First Edition of Memoirs of William T. Sherman; Inscribed three times by Him
SHERMAN, William T.
Memoirs of William T. Sherman.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875.
First edition of this memoir from one of the most well regarded generals, “oft-consulted and much-quoted reminiscences ... Sherman wrote as he fought; dynamically and bluntly” (Nevins II, 89). Octavo, bound in publishers three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by General Sherman three times: on the front free endpaper of Vol. I, "Mrs. E.J. Lynch Presented by Gen. W.T. Sherman 1876 New York City"; on the front free endpaper of Vol. II, "Mrs. E.J. Lynch Presented by Gen. W.T. Sherman 18"; and the second free endpaper of Vol. II, “Mrs. Eleanor…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 103400
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William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed to Mary Audenried
SHERMAN, William T.
William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed.
St. Louis, Missouri: May 21, 1885.
Autograph letter signed by William T. Sherman to the widowed Mary Audenried, whom he is rumored to have had a decade-long affair with. In this personal letter, William T. Sherman advises Mary Audenried, the widow of his former aide-de-camp Joseph C. Audenried, on how to manage her underage daughter's restless behavior. He shares that his wife and daughter may be leaving town and mentions the name of a local hotel, possibly hinting at a rendezvous. One page, bifolium, large duodecimo, the letter reads in part, "It is of hard course that one so loving as you should be lonely but…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145302
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First Edition of Macro Markets; Signed by Robert J. Shiller
SHILLER, Robert J.
Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society’s Largest Economic Risks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by Robert Shiller on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 108001
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First Edition of Robert Shiller's Market Volatility; Signed by Him and John Campbell
SHILLER, Robert J.
Market Volatility.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed on the title page by both Robert J. Shiller and John Campbell, who co-authored one of the articles included in this work. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 103779
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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