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First Edition of Economist Joseph A. Schumpeter's Imperialism and Social Classes
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Imperialism and Social Classes.
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Inc, 1951.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Economist Robert K. Arnold's copy with his signature to the front free endpaper. Translated by Heinz Norden. Edited with an introduction by Paul M Sweezy. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5508
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First Edition of Story Lines; Inscribed by Photographer Robert Frank
FRANK, Robert.
Storylines.
Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2004.
First edition of this volume, which commemorates the first major exhibit of Frank’s work in Britain. Oblong quarto, original flexible photographic wrappers Inscribed and dated in 2007 by Robert Frank on the title page. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 7357
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“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious": Signed Limited Edition of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman
LEE, Harper.
Go Set A Watchman.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.
Signed limited edition of the author's second novel. Octavo. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by Harper Lee. Housed in a custom clamshell box. In fine condition with the original shipping carton.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 7352
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First Edition of Saul Bellow's Him With His Foot In His Mouth; Inscribed by Him in the Year of Publication
BELLOW, Saul.
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 7344
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Cien Anos De Soledad; Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and translator Gregory Rabassa
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Cien Anos de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude].
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1972.
First edition, early printing of the author’s masterpiece which is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the translator of this novel into English, Gregory Rabassa. Very good in wrappers. Rare and desirable signed by both Garcia Marquez and Rabassa.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 7284
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First Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire; Signed by Tennessee Williams
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
A Streetcar Named Desire.
New York: New Directions, 1947.
First edition of Williams' classic play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket which has had some expert restoration to the extremities. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 7342
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“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious": Signed Limited Edition of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman
LEE, Harper.
Go Set A Watchman.
London: William Heinemann, 2015.
Signed limited edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco. One of a 100 numbered copies, signed by Harper Lee. Housed in a custom clamshell box. In fine condition.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 5503
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“Woman must have her freedom": First Edition of Woman and the New Race; Signed and dated by Margaret Sanger
SANGER, Margaret; Preface by Havelock Ellis.
Woman and the New Race.
New York: Brentano's, 1920.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Margaret Sanger Dec. 8, 1928." In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 5468
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Classic Work The Mystery of Banking; Boldly Signed by Him
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Mystery of Banking.
New York: Richardson and Snyder, 1983.
First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Murray Rothbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare signed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 14056
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"Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London. . . having fallen not just in love but into a family": First Edition of Roger Angell's autobiography; Signed by Him
ANGELL, Roger.
Let Me Finish.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Angell's autobiography of his early years growing up in New York. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Roger Angell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cooley Design Lab.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 7412
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"It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your own": First Edition of Hard Rain Falling; Inscribed by Don Carpenter
CARPENTER, Don.
Hard Rain Falling.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Books signed by Carpenter are rare.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 5482
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"There can be peace in the world": First edition of Growing Toward Peace; Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and Regina Tor
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor & Regina Tor.
Growing Toward Peace.
New York: Random House, 1960.
First edition of this work by Roosevelt and Tor. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Eleanor Roosevelt and Regina Tor opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Laid in is a publicity photograph of both authors. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. This is the first example we have seen signed by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 5476
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Inscribed by the President of the Philippines to Henry Kissinger
RAMOS, Fidel [Henry A. Kissinger].
Philippines: A Vision For The Nations.
Philippines: Studio Designs, 1995.
First edition of this work on the Philippines. Quarto, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by Philippines President Fidel V. Ramos (while in office) to the great American elder statesman of world affairs Henry Kissinger, "To Dr. Henry Kissinger with best wishes. Mabuhay! Fidel Ramos 8 Jan 96." Ramos was the 12th President of the Philippines, serving 1992-1998 after succeeding Corazon Aquino (who endorsed Ramos.) Includes a short introductory essay by Ramos.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 5314
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First Edition of In China; Inscribed by Eve Arnold to Henry Kissinger
ARNOLD, Eve [Henry A. Kissinger].
In China.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
First edition of this monograph on China. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Henry Kissinger, "For Henry Kissinger in whose giant footsteps I followed in China, and it was a tough act to follow! All good wishes, Eve Arnold." Arnold is referring to the slow opening throughout the 1970s of Communist China to Westerners, an opening famously managed on the United States end by protean Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, in collaboration with Presidents Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford. Kissinger would later write his classic work On China, detailing…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5313
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First edition of Suzanne Labin's Chile: The Crime of Resistance; Inscribed to Henry Kissinger
LABIN, Suzanne [Henry A. Kissinger].
Chile: The Crime of Resistance.
Surrey, England: Foreign Affairs Publishing Company, 1983.
First edition of Chile: The Crime of Resistance. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication to Henry Kissinger, "A Henri Kissingers Secretaire d'Etat hommage respectueux, Suzanne Labin le Paris 12.3.83." A nice association linking Labin, a provocative anti-Communist French analyst and Kissinger, a pro-Pinochet supporter. Labin portrays a Chile that vindicates Kissinger's policies -- Allende was the oppressor and Pinochet a beacon of progress according to Labin. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 5310
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First Edition of the Importance of Being Ernest; Signed by Ernest Cline
CLINE, Ernest.
The Importance of Being Ernest.
Austin, TX: Write Bloody Press, 2013.
First edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Ernest Cline on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 12020