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1950.
Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and lengthily inscribed and dated by her in Spanish. Retaining the original mount. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 18 inches. In near fine condition.
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New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.
First edition of this work by the father of venture capitalism. Quarto, original half cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909.
Macmillan’s Colonial Library edition of Kipling’s Actions and Reactions, intended for circulation only in India and The British Colonies. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907.
First separate edition of this Kipling children’s classic. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and vignette to the front panel, illustrated by F. H. Townsend, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition.
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New York : Boni & Liveright, 1926.
First edition of Faulkner’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with a touch of shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell chemise and box.
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Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1887.
First edition of Peter M’Naughton’s translation of the poems of Ossian. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Uncommon.
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New York : The Macmillan Co, 1927.
First edition of Dobias’ charming retelling of the classic Norwegian fairy tale. Small octavo, original illustrated boards, patterned endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.
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London : Chatto & Windus, 1933.
Signed limited edition of this work by the author of South Wind. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, this is number 213 of an edition limited to 535 sets, 500 of which were for sale, signed by Norman Douglas. In near fine condition.
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Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1914-26.
Signed limited edition of Rudyard Kipling’s collected works. Octavo, 27 volumes. Bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling and ruling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. One of 1,050 sets with volume 1 signed by Rudyard Kipling. In fine condition. AnContinue reading "The Works of Rudyard Kipling: The Deluxe Signed Edition. [Including Plain Tales from the Hills; The Phantom Rickshaw; The Light That Failed; Gunga Din; The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Captains Courageous; Kim; Just So Stories.]"
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New York : Simon and Schuster, Inc, 1939.
First edition of Pecora’s account of his role as chief counsel in the dramatic 1930s Senate hearings on Wall Street’s role in the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Octavo, original blue cloth. Fine in a near dust jacket with light rubbing and a closed tear to the front panel. Rare in the original dust jacket.
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New York : Grove Press, 1957.
Number 25 of the rare first edition O’Hara’s classic work of poetry, published in an edition of 75 hardbound copies. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Mike- Happy Birthday and I hope the Houses and Odes go on and on into 1262- Frank.” Near fine inContinue reading "Meditations In An Emergency."
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Paris : Collection Française, 1925.
Limited Collection Française edition of Bourget’s most notable work. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, illustrated with colored engravings. One of 1021 numbered copies, this is number 233.Continue reading "Le Disciple."
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Edinburgh : G.G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, 5 volumes, bound in half leather, all edges gilt. With 58 engraved plates and 3 folding maps. In near fine condition.
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New York : Stein and Day, 1965.
First edition of the author’s collection of vignettes relaying the stories of ten personal friends involved in the communist movement. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Arnold Krammer inscribed with the regards of the author Bertram Wolfe.” The recipient, Dr. Arnold Krammer,Continue reading "Strange Communists I Have Known."
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New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958.
First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to historian Arnold Krammer, “For Dr. Arnold Krammer Shalom Leon Uris.” The recipient, Arnold Krammer was a historian who specialized in German and United States history and a professor atContinue reading "Exodus: A Novel of Israel."
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First edition of this work by “one of the great magicians of fiction . . . White’s scope is vast and his invention endless” (The Observer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Adams. An exceptional example.
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Rare black and white photograph of the pilot of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets. Signed and dated by Tibbets, “Paul Tibbets, Pilot 6 AUG 1945.” The entire piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches. In fine condition.
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Einladung : Tagung der Preistrager fur Medizin, 1975.
Rare original program invitation from the 1975 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Program. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by 11 Nobel Laureates in Physics or Medicine, including: Julius Axelrod, Adolf Butenandt, Gerald Edelman, Ernst Otto Fischer, Werner Forssmann, Alfred Hershey, Bernard Katz, Feodor Lynen, Rudolf Mössbauer, Severo Ochoa, and Lars Onsager. In fine condition.
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London : Edward Arnold, 1919.
First edition of this essential early manual on single-handed cruising by one of the greatest yachting writers of the 20th century. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the front pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstopContinue reading "Single-Handed Cruising."
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Ottawa, Illinois : Jameson Books, 1979.
First edition, early printing of Reisman’s argument against regulated price controls. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by George Reisman on the title page. In near fine condition.
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New York : The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Bernstein on the front free endpaper. With a signed postcard to the author from Bernstein’s editor laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Michael Langenstein.
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New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1972.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s study in economic policy and theory. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Lincoln.
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Rare autograph note signed by and entirely in the hand of Austrian-British economist Friedrich August von Hayek. One-page lined index card, the note reads, “We cannot admit that all words are equally good. However unfashionable this may be, there is moral progress, also moral decline – and in the last resort we can more beContinue reading "Friedrich August von Hayek Autograph Note Signed."
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New York : Harper & Row, 1982.
Signed limited first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow. Fine in a fine slipcase and in the original acetate.
Read more Doriot, Georges F
M'Naughton, Peter [Ossian]
Pecora, Ferdinand
James, Bruce
Axelrod, Julius; Adolf Butenandt; Gerald Edelman; Ernst Otto Fischer; Werner Forssmann; Alfred Hershey; Bernard Katz; Feodor Lynen; Rudolf Mössbauer; Severo Ochoa; Lars Onsager
Reisman, George. Introduction by William E. Simon
Bernstein, Peter L
Phelps, Edmund S
Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]
