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New York : Random House, 1984.
First edition of this eye-opening analysis of economics. Octavo, original red publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the rear panel.
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London : Viking, 2005.
First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela’s archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s fifth novel. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with the review information laid in.
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Toronto : S. B. Gundy, 1926.
First Canadian edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. In very good condition.
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New York : Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.
First enlarged edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs. In fine condition.
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London : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Secaucus, NJ : Castle Books, 1977.
Later edition of this incredibly detailed snapshot of American history based on eyewitness accounts. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout with over three hundred black and white drawings, paintings, and photographs from the photographic collection of Frederick Hill Meserve. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Brendan F. Mulvey.
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Hutchinson : London, 2010.
First edition of this personal portrait of the twentieth century. Octavo, original black boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author portrait by Catrina Bovill.
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London : Book Club Associates, 1980.
First edition of the first volume in Pitt’s masterful history of the war in the Western Desert. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan.
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New York : E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922.
First British edition, early printing of Jones’ a spirited series of public letters in which the English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones critiques and debates the political, social, and economic ideas of H. G. Wells in the turbulent years following the First World War. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with a frontispiece by Oliver Herford. FromContinue reading "My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letters Addressed."
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London : Chatto & Windus, 1969.
First edition of Pritchett’s collection of humorous short stories. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ionicus.
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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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New York : The Modern Library, .
First Modern Library edition of Ibsen’s collected plays. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of American actor Zachary Scott, the first husband of Elaine Scott who later married writer John Steinbeck. Scott is best remembered for his many roles as villains and “mystery men” in dozens of musical comedies, film noirs, and psychological thrillers throughoutContinue reading "Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen."
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
First edition of this collection of short stories by the National Book-Award winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Robert Stone on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
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Boston : Little, Brown, 1955.
First American edition. Octavo, original blue boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1982.
First edition of Campbell and Skinner’s accessible study of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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London : Routledge Y Kegan Paul, 1978.
First British edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Steven Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : The Viking Press, 1982.
Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo, original wrappers with the publisher’s date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1950.
First edition of this collection of seven mathematical research papers on the topic of nonlinear oscillations. Medium octavo, original orange wrappers, illustrated with equations and graphs. In very good condition. Accompanied by a typed list of errata printed circa publication.
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Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.
First edition, early printing of Rickenbacker’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
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London : Faber and Faber, 1968.
First edition of this novel by the author of The Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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London : Heinemann, 1977.
First edition of the third book in Wilbur Smith’s original Courtney trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
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London 1915.
First edition of this short patriotic speech. Quarto, unpaginated single sheet of stiff white paper folded once. Delivered at the Mansion House on January 27, 1915. In very good condition.
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London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959.
Publisher’s advance proof of the author’s second book. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
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