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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization; Signed by Peter Senge
SENGE, Peter M.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization.
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Early printing of Senge's bestselling classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Senge on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 58934
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First Edition of John Cheever's The Enormous Radio and Other Stories
CHEEVER, John.
The Enormous Radio and Other Stories.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1953.
First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grace James.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 142887
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First Edition of North of South: An African Journey; Signed Twice by Shiva Naipaul
NAIPAUL, Shiva.
North of South: An African Journey.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication. Additionally signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 915
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Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
MáRQUEZ, Gabriel García .
Cien Años de Soledad. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Barcelona: Circulo de Lectores, 1967.
First Círculo de Lectores edition of Márquez's masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 144678
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First Edition of Phishing For Phools; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Shiller
AKERLOF, George A. and Robert J. Shiller.
Phishing For Phools.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
First edition of "this tour de force" (Alan Blinder). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Robert J. Shiller on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Edward Koren. Jacket illustration by Jason Alejandro.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 70027
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First Edition of Reading the Man; Signed by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
PRYOR, Elizabeth Brown.
Reading the Man.
New York: Viking, 2007.
First edition of this “unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography” (Boston Globe). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Elizabeth Brown Pryor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 117223
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First Edition of Portraits Etched In Stone: Early Jewish Settlers; Inscribed by David de Sola Pool
DE SOLA POOL, David.
Portraits Etched In Stone: Early Jewish Settlers 1682-1831.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
First edition. Thick quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Doris + Leopold Woolf in happy memory of four years ago. David de Sola Pool December 26, 1952." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 32012
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"That day so well remembered - a day, indeed, impossible to forget - was the first of September, 1921": First Edition of James Hilton's So Well Remembered, Signed by Him
HILTON, James.
So Well Remembered.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945.
First edition of James Hilton's later novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sincerely, James Hilton." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine. Jacket illustration by George Picken.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 90801
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“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame": William Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust; In a Stunning Fine Dust Jacket
FAULKNER, William.
Intruder In The Dust.
New York: Random House, 1948.
First edition of this classic Faulkner novel, which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 118002
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Uncorrected Proof of Martin Dressler; Signed by Steven Millhauser
MILLHAUSER, Steven.
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer.
New York: Crown, 1996.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize- winning novel. Octavo, original beige wrappers. Signed by Steven Millhauser on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 887
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First Editions of John Jacob Astor: Business Man; In the Rare Original Dust Jackets
PORTER, Kenneth Wiggins.
John Jacob Astor: Business Man.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931.
First editions of this biography on the businessman John Jacob Astor. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Both volumes are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 12078
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First Edition of Henry James' The Private Life, Lord Beaupre, and The Visits
JAMES, Henry.
The Private Life, Lord Beaupre, The Visits.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893.
First edition of this collection of novellas published at the height of James' career. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, in near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 80104
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“A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing": First edition, first issue of Bret Harte's Poems
HARTE, Bret.
Poems.
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1871.
First edition, first issue with the publisher's monogram on title-page and foot of spine, and the error "S.T.K." for "T.S.K." in the caption on page 136. BAL 7253. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, brown endpapers. In very good condition with a closed tear to the crown of the spine. Bookplates. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise case.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 137304
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First edition of Russell Baker's Growing up; inscribed by him to American Journalist William Safire
BAKER, Russell [William Safire].
Growing Up.
New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc., 1982.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist's enchanting memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Bill Safire, who could have written it better - Russ Baker Sept 1982." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly…
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 128167
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"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance": The Works of Samuel Johnson with an essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murphy
JOHNSON, Samuel.
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.
Finely bound edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, with an essay on his life and genius by Arthur Murphy. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson to volume one. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate to each volume.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 141081
