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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.
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London : Hutchinson , 1987.
First edition of this chess legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Garry Kasparov on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1959.
First edition of Bloom’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Harold Bloom on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine crown and overall light wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
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Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955.
First edition of the biography of the founder of the American birth-control movement. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by Margaret Sanger on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For Alice Adams one of our Planned Parenthood Mother of four lovely children my congratulations and admiration Margaret Sanger April 17 55.”TheContinue reading "The Margaret Sanger Story."
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New York : Atheneum Publishers, 1961.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original blue cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author to “For Barbara Norman- with all best wishes, after much too brief acquantaince, but with permanent affection, Teddy White Theodore H. White.” Topstain lightly stained, very good in a very good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed first printings areContinue reading "The Making of the President 1960."
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1974.
First edition of this work on the history of the double helix. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by both the author and Francis Crick on the title page, who contributed the foreword. The author has transcribed the following from this work, “The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explainContinue reading "The Path to the Double Helix."
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New York : Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1961.
First edition of the famed photographer’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Frances Colley Weegee.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
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New York : : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Review copy with material laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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c. 1900.
Original oil painting, measuring 18 by 22 inches, handsomely gilt framed, entire piece measures 24 by 28 inches. In very good condition.
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New York : The Viking Press, 2006.
First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela’s archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela on the title page in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : Outing Company, 1915.
First edition of Dimock’s autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some mention of fishing for tarpon, trout and salmon. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,Continue reading "Wall Street and the Wilds."
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1994.
First edition of this biography on Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wolfgang Ann Arbor, MI Dec. 12, 1994.” From the library of noted economist Richard Musgrove. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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New York : The MacMillan Company, 1952.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Herbert Hoover on the title page. An excellent near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the foot of the spine and extremities.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 1953.
First edition of Weiner’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Norbert Weiner on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : Viking, 2007.
First edition of this work on apartheid activist Mac Maharaj. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Padraig O’Malley. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “For Hazel and Louis Landa I can hear you saying to one another: “Has he some quelque chose of his own upon the anvil?” “I expect it from him since poor Bradley helped to makeContinue reading "A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Princeton’s Bill Bradley."
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London : Allen Lane, 1973.
First edition. Folio, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, “To Peggy and Frank Taplin with kind, associational thoughts from Eric de Mare Jan. 1973.” Also laid in, is a page and half handwritten signed letter to the same recipients. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a closed tear to the front panelContinue reading "The London Dore Saw: A Victorian Evocation."
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
First edition of this work on the legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Sonny Rollins on the front free endpaper, “To John- many thanks Sonny Rollins.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee. Foreword by Sonny Rollins.
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New York : FSG, 1982.
First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the back panel. The second volume in the Nobel Prize winning author’s autobiography.
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New York : Harper Collins, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.
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London : Macmillan, 1941.
First editions of Rebecca West’s masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers. Both volumes are signed by West with volume one inscribed and dated in 1965 by the author, volume two is signed and dated in 1965. Both volumes are near fine in near fine dust jackets that show light shelfwear to theContinue reading "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937."
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, “For Dorian + John with love and thanks for your friendship Milton + Rose.” Fine in a nearContinue reading "Two Lucky People: Memoirs."
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London : Little Brown and Company, 1994.
First British edition of the first autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “Dear Lynne, with thanks. Nelson Mandela 27.2.97.” The recipient was the realtor who sold NelsonContinue reading "Long Walk To Freedom."
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New York : Hyperion, 1998.
First edition of Peter Fonda’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication, “For Howard Love messin’ with the bees! Peter Fonda ’98.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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