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Chicago : Dartnell, 1996.
First edition of this classic collection of essays. Quarto, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, “For John Rogers, In appreciation of a Thoughtful Reader, Sidney J. Levy.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2003.
First edition of the third companion book to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, the book that began Eric Carle’s career as an illustrator. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Eric Carle. Signed by Carle on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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London : Hamish Hamilton, 1958.
First edition of Shaffer’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Sir Peter Shaffer.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket photograph by Angus McBean. A very nice example.
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Rare typed letter signed by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. One page, typescript on Frankfurter’s Supreme Court letterhead, the letter is dated February 1, 1941 and reads, ‘Dear Judge McAllister: I appreciate the charm of your letter even though you response is out of all proportion to the accurate prose on my part which stimulatedContinue reading "Felix Frankfurter Typed Letter Signed."
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1926.
Rare autograph note collection in the hand of the Father of the Nation of India, Mahatma Gandhi, written at the height of the struggle for Indian Independence. The collection includes two autograph notes, two autograph letters, and three autograph postcards with Gandhi’s “Blessings” inscribed at the conclusion of each. The postcards are postmarked May 27,Continue reading "Mohandas K. Gandhi Autograph Note Collection."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.
First edition of one of the most important crime novels of the twentieth century, adapted as a motion picture seven times. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly Signed by James M. Cain on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshellContinue reading "The Postman Always Rings Twice."
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London : Chatto & Windus; Edinburgh and William Blackwood and Sons, 1883-1884.
Finely bound collection of Trollope’s Mr. Scarborough’s Family and An Old Man’s Love. Octavo, five volumes uniformly bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In good condition. Bookplates.
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry and verse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With a partial rare original wrap around band.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
First edition of Malamud’s sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his cousins, “For Minnie and Marshall With affection Bern.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Jacket photograph by Janna Malamud.
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.
First edition of Malamud’s second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his cousin, Marshall Malament’s sons, “ToContinue reading "The Assistant."
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Johannesburg : Raven Press, 1974.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the title page, “Philippa – love from John.” Coetzee married Philippa Jubber in 1963 with whom he had two children, Nicolas and Gisela. The couple divorced after 17 years when the children wereContinue reading "Dusklands."
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1966.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the half-title page. Many aspects of this book were popularized by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Both volumes instrumental in introducing the gene’s-eye view to evolutionary biology. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name andContinue reading "Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critic of Some Current Evolutionary Thought."
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Santa Monica : The Rand Corporation, 1951.
Rare first appearance of mathematician Samuel Karlin and Nobel Prize-winning economist Lloyd Stowell Shapley’s early work on the geometry of the moment space, a precursor to Shapley’s development of von Neumann and Morgenstern’s theory of games. Quarto, original wrappers, unbradded. From the collection of Lt. R.S. Weinberg with his ownership inscription to the front panel.Continue reading "Geometry of Moment Spaces."
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Hampshire : Nautical Publishing Company, 1970.
First edition of Nigel Tetley’s account of his final solo voyage around the world his trimaran Victress. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs, charts and diagrams. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstopContinue reading "Trimaran Solo: The Story of Victress’ Circumnavigation and Last Voyage."
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Typed letter signed by Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. Two pages, typescript on Frankfurter’s Supreme Court letterhead, the letter is dated November 14, 1949 and reads in part, “My dear Mrs. McAllister: If persuasiveness, conveyed by an old and very cherished friend, could enable me to hurdle the obstacles that bar my presence at theContinue reading "Felix Frankfurter Typed Letter Signed."
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London : Hamish Hamilton Children's Books, 1982.
First pop-up, or ‘plop-up’, edition of Briggs’ well-known work. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated with pop-ups engineered by Ron Van Der Meer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a pop-up opening door on the verso of the front panel in the year of publication, “For Eileen Ireland With Best Wishes from Raymond Briggs 29Continue reading "Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book."
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990.
First edition of the author’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to close personal friend Ronald MacDonald, Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, prior to publication on the front free endpaper, “For Ron – Love, Camille December 1989.” Laid in is the original transmittal letter onContinue reading "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson."
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New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.
First edition of Faulkner’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, black and white patterned paper boards. Near fine in a very good unrestored first-issue dust jacket with the iconic design by Kathe Kollwitz on the front panel and a price of $3.00 for the book Humanity Uprooted on the rear panel, with a chip to the spine.Continue reading "The Sound and the Fury."
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New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961.
First edition of this work by the famed explorer. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon SpiritContinue reading "Alone Across The Atlantic."
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London : Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890.
First edition of Guthrie’s collection of short comedic plays which originally appeared in Punch magazine. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters vellum by Morrell with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with twenty illustrations to volume I and twenty-five to volume II by Partridge including frontispieces. In near fineContinue reading "Voces Populi."
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1931.
Rare half-tone portrait of Canadian golf legend George Lyon. Signed by Lyon, “Geo. S. Lyon.” Period frame. The entire piece measures 8.25 inches by 5.75 inches. In very good condition.
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London : Smith, Elder, and Co, 1864.
Finely bound edition the fifth novel in Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire series. 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, gilt topstain, with eighteen illustrations by J.E. Millais including tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to volume one. In veryContinue reading "The Small House at Allington."
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New York : Phaedra, 1965.
First edition of this novel by the author of Lolita. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.
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New York : The Macaulay Company, 1930.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the spine tips. Jacket design by Beth Krebs Morris.
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Williams, George C. [Richard Dawkins]
Tetley, Nigel
Briggs, Raymond. Paper Engineer Ron Van Der Meer
Paglia, Camille
