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"It is a sickness of the emotions, and its symptoms can be seen on the labels of whiskey bottles": First Edition of John Prebble's Culloden
PREBBLE, John.
Culloden.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961.
First edition of this detailed recollection of the ordinary people involved in the last Jacobite Rising of 1745. Octavo, original red and black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with paintings and maps. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership inscription from the year of publication. Ephemera tipped in.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145208
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First Edition of Gotham; Signed by Edwin G. Burrows
BURROWS, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of this vast and varied epic of New York's past. Super octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white images. Boldly signed by Edwin G. Burrows on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch. Jacket illustration hand-coloring by Cathy Saksa. Authors photograph by Bruce Davidson.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145185
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First Edition of Alvin Hansen's Readings In Business Cycles and National Income
HANSEN, Alvin H. and Richard V. Clemence.
Readings In Business Cycles and National Income.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1953.
First edition of this work edited by the "American Keynes." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144383
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"Welcome to the fad-surfing age, complete with a seemingly endless supply of programs and mantras": First Edition of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom; Inscribed by Eileen C. Shapiro
SHAPIRO, Eileen C.
Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers.
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to strategy fads and effective management. Octavo, original navy blue half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jay, with best wishes, Eileen Shapiro." Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Also laid in is an inscribed business card tipped in, "This, written by our friend and former neighbor Dr. Albert Shapiro's daughter, Eileen Shapiro, should be a good read according to a very biased father! Bestis, Bud." Jacket design by Jean Seal. Jacket photograph by Jeff Divine. Author photograph by Mort Kaye Studios.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145205
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“THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER WRITTEN”: Rare complete first edition set of Edward Gibbon's masterpiece The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
GIBBON, Edward .
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, In The Strand, 1776-1788.
First edition, first state of Gibbon's "masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style" (PMM). Quarto, six volumes, bound in modern half calf over marbled boards by Bayntun-Riviere with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges speckled red, engraved frontispiece portrait of Gibbon by John Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Vol. II, three engraved folding maps, half-titles in vols. I-III and V, all 4 errata leaves (lacking half-titles in vols. IV and VI, vol. I with half-title. Strahan predicted the popularity of Gibbon's History and doubled the print run…
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 145050
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"Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy": First Edition of The Giving Tree; In the rare original dust jacket
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
The Giving Tree.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.
First edition with all the first issue points to both the book and dust jacket. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Near fine in a very good first-issue price-clipped dust jacket with the full torso picture of Shel Silverstein, with hair, covering top left half of back of the dust jacket, three reviews of Lafcadio, by Kirkus. The New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 145783
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“You might as well take your punishment and get it over with": Advanced Review Copy of the First Edition of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key
HAMMETT, Dashiell.
The Glass Key.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
First edition of Hammett's personal favorite novel. Octavo, original cloth. Advance review copy, with the slip pasted to the front free endpaper, in very good condition, corner clipped, name to the front pastedown. Rare as an advance copy.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145902
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The breaking of the wave cannot explain the whole sea": First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941.
First edition, second issue of Nabokov's first novel published in English. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 144602
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"When one believes that all the tigers in the jungle are dead, it is quite amusing to walk along the jungle paths in a dressing-gown with a fan instead of a gun": First Edition of H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter
WELLS, H.G.
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918.
First American edition of this satirical portrait of late-Victorian England, the education system on the eve of the First World War, and the effects of that war on English society. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 145204
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear": First Edition of C.S. Lewis' A Grief Observed
LEWIS, C.S.
A Grief Observed.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1961.
First edition of this universal meditation on grief, published under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk. Octavo, original gray cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145202
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"'Woman' was the test, but not every woman seemed to qualify": First Edition of Women, Race & Class; Inscribed by Angela Y. Davis
DAVIS, Angela Y.
Women, Race & Class.
New York: Random House, 1981.
First edition of this thought-provoking piece of history by Civil Rights activist, Angela Davis. Octavo, original textured half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ali, Best, Angela Davis 4/23." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Silverman. Author photograph by Phillipe Halsman. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145195
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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today": First Edition Of Mikhail Gorbachevs Memoirs
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
Memoirs.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
First edition of Gorbachev's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs, Foreward by Martin McCauley. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket photograph by Eddie Adams.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145194
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First Edition of Henry M. Stanley's Magdala
STANLEY, Henry M.
Magdala: The Story of the Abyssinian Campaign of 1866-7.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896.
First edition of the second part of the 'Coomassie and Magdala' volume. Octavo, original leather binding, illustrated with a map of the British expedition and numerous drawings by Melton Prior and other artists. In very good condition. Library bookplate to the front pastedown with the Latin motto 'Vicilans Non Cadet' - 'The vigilant man falls not.' The library was named in honour of Sir Henry Behrend, Chairman of The Jews’ Hospital and Orphan Asylum at West Norwood, England.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145193
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"Perhaps the most widely read golf tutorial ever written": First Edition of Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf; Signed by Legendary golfer Ben Hogan
HOGAN, Ben with Herbert Warren Wind.
Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1957.
First edition of one of the best-selling golf books of all-time. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ben Hogan on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Anthony Ravielli. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 145805
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"I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like": First Edition of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress
WALLIAMS, David.
The Boy in the Dress.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008.
First edition of the award-winning sketch actor's first children's book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrations by Quentin Blake. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145190
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RARE HANDWRITTEN ETHIOPIAN COPTIC GE’EZ BIBLE ILLUMINATED WITH TWO FULL-PAGE MINIATURE PAINTINGS
Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.
Ethiopia: C. 18th Century.
Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Small octodecimo, original leather boards, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, with full-page hand-painted miniatures depicting Saint George slaying the dragon, the Madonna and child, Jesus and Mary, and Jesus preaching. Housed in the original leather chemise slipcase with twine carrying handle.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 145189