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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.
First edition, first printing with the date of 1955 on the title page of this classic work. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a bright near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lucy E. Clark. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell boxContinue reading "The Great Crash 1929."
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New York : Everyman's Library, 2008.
Everyman’s Library edition of McCarthy’s classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Rare and desirable signed.
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London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1784.
Rare Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of this pamphlet arguing that restricting trade between the British West Indies and the newly independent United States would devastate the Caribbean sugar economy. Octavo, original wrappers, several pages uncut, with an added postscript. In very good condition. From the collection of Birmingham-Southern College, where is was stored inContinue reading "Thoughts on the late Proceedings of Government, Respecting the Trade of the West India Islands with the United States of North America."
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New York : Random House, 1985.
First edition of the author’s classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half red cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali.
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New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1854.
First edition of Vol. I and II of this collection of biographical portraits; from the library of William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarter calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments withing raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. General William Tecumseh Sherman and his son P.T. Sherman’s bookplates toContinue reading "Memoirs of Celebrated Characters."
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Tokyo : Hasegawa Takejirō, 1898.
First edition of volume eighteen in Hasegawa Takejirō’s Japanese Fairy Tale Series. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, bound in color printed crepe-paper, illustrated throughout with color woodcuts, cord ties. In near fine condition. Translated by Mrs. T.H. James. Illustrated by Kobayashi Eitaku.
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New York : Random House, 1972.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by EudoraContinue reading "The Optimist’s Daughter."
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London : J. M. Dent & Sons. Ltd., 1969.
First British edition of this sophisticated “post-Philby” spy novel, set against the political tension of Greece under the Colonels, in which loyalty, desire, and diplomacy prove difficult to tell apart. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Terry James.
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London : Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795.
First edition of this important collection of Smith’s essays, featuring the important first publication of his History of Astronomy. Quarto, bound in quarter calf with gilt titles to the spine. One of 1,000 copies. Containing the first publication in book form of Dugald Stewart’s Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, which hadContinue reading "Essays on Philosophical Subjects… To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Dugald Stewart."
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[Edinburgh] : Published by The Scottish Liberal Federation, 1928.
First edition of the 1928 report of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, presented by David Lloyd George on a presentation bookplate affixed to the flyleaf which reads: Presented to Councillor Duncan MacBean withContinue reading "The Scottish Countryside Being the Report of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee 1927-1928."
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Dallas, Texas : Matt Holt Books, 2023.
First edition of renowned musician, musical director, and rock star Mark Rivera’s revealing memoir. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brigid Pearson.
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New York : The Berkley Publishing Group, 2013.
First edition, early printing of “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ray! With best wishes to a fellow history buff and patriot! Onward and upward, Adam Makos.” Additionally signed byContinue reading "A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
First edition of the second book in the author’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the front free endpaper and additionally signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel, on the front free endpaper and on the rear jacket flap. FineContinue reading "Lasher."
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London : Cassell, 1947.
First British edition of Rands’s breakthrough work and her first major literary success. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, allContinue reading "The Fountainhead."
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New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.
First edition of this classic collection by the author of Giovanni’s Room. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New Orleans : B.E. Trice Publishing, 1998.
Signed limited first edition of McCarthy’s classic trilogy. Octavo, original half leather over marbled boards. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page and three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd in the year of publication; on the half title page, on the front panel of the book and on the slipcase. Fine in aContinue reading "Cities of the Plain."
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New York : Applause Books, 1992.
First edition of this work which was the basis for the award-winning film, starring Kevin Cosner, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page and by Academy Award-winning actors Kevin Costner and Gary Oldman. In near fine condition.
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New York : Doubleday, 1995.
First edition of Grisham’s sixth novel, basis for the film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, and Danny Glover. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John Grisham, five-time Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola, Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon and jacket designer Whitney Cookman on theContinue reading "The Rainmaker."
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London : [Richard Field and William Jaggard] for Nathaniel Butter, [c.1616].
First edition, first issue of the first complete English translation of Homer’s works. Folio, bound in full contemporary English calf with elaborate gilt floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised richly gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, rebacked, boards restored preserving mostContinue reading "The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke by Geo. Chapman."
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[Boston : John Murray Forbes, 1862].
First and only printed pamphlet of the Emancipation Proclamation, produced for distribution to Union soldiers and African Americans (both enslaved and free) in December of 1862; the month preceding the issuance of the executive order. 16mo, original salmon wrappers as issued. In 1899, the publisher’s daughter recalled the genesis of this pocket-sized edition: “With the view of placing the Proclamation of Emancipation in the hands of the negroes themselves, my father had printedContinue reading "The Proclamation Of Emancipation, By The President Of The United States, To Take Effect January 1st, 1863."
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New York : Minton, Balch & Company, 1927.
Signed limited edition, preceding the first trade edition of what many consider the greatest golf book of the 20th century. Octavo, original half vellum over green boards, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated. One of 300 numbered copies signed by both Robert T. Jones and O.B. Keeler on the limitationContinue reading "Down the Fairway: The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr."
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London : George Eld, 1610.
First edition in English of Augustine’s monumental work. Translated by John Healey. Folio, bound in full contemporary English panelled calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, central ornament tooled in gold to the front and rear panels, rebacked. Decorative woodcut head-pieces and decorative and woodcut initials, including three twelve-lineContinue reading "Of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Jo. Lod. Vives."
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New York : Grove Press/The Olympia Press, 1959.
First edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare in this condition.
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962.
First edition of Gary Player’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Gary Player on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes Gary Player” and additionally signed by Mason Rudolph. Mason Rudolph (1934–2011) was an accomplished American professional golfer whose career reflected the disciplined precision and steady temperament characteristic of mid-twentieth-century golf. A five-time PGA TourContinue reading "Gary Player’s Golf Secrets."
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Jones, Robert [Bobby] T. Jr. and O.B. Keeler. Foreword by Grantland Rice. [Gary Player]
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