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New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
First edition of Richards’ autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Front jacket photograph by David LaChapelle. Rear jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold.
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New York : The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of this collection of poems of the hunt. Small octavo, original publishers three quarters morocco with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt with others uncut, illustrated by Paul Brown. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 551. In fine condition. Bookplate.
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New York and London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.
First edition of Ropes’ account of the American Civil War. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with maps and plans, with 13 folding maps for Vol II in a pocket affixed to the front pastedown. In good condition. Ex-library.
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Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2013.
First edition of this informative account of the United States’ role in attempting to achieve Arab-Israeli peace. Octavo, original publisher’s black boards, illustrated with a map of The Syrian-Israeli Frontier, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serveContinue reading "The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011."
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London : Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1916.
First British edition of Wells’ influential First World War novel depicting the moral and emotional upheaval of wartime Britain. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, titles and floral tooling stamped in blind to the front panel. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature toContinue reading "Mr. Britling Sees Through."
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Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, 1959.
First edition of the reissue of Nabokov’s first novel in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Drawing by Michael Train. A nice example.
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New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee’s classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Len Byrd all best John.” Additionally signed by John McPhee on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition of this landmark illustrated history of the city that never sleeps. Quarto, original half cloth, heavily illustrated with 500 images in color and black and white. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
First edition of this collection of McPhee’s classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John McPhee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
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London : Heinemann, 1974.
First edition of this powerful novel from the author of ‘When the Lion Feeds.’ Octavo, original light blue cloth. Very good in the very good dust jacket.
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Tarzana : Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1933.
First edition of the second book in Burroughs’ realistic historical ‘Apache’ series. Octavo, original cloth with red top stain. In very good condition.. Lacking the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and four illustrations by Studley Burroughs.
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London : Heinemann, 1961.
First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Lacey Everett.
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London : Century, 2018.
First expanded edition of the international bestselling author’s novelization of the eighth installment in the Star Wars film franchise. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with an 8-page color photo insert of images from the film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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London : Sphere, 2014.
First edition of the second novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sian Wilson.
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London : Penguin Books, 2006.
Second edition of this critical analysis of how warfare has evolved from traditional industrial-age conflicts to modern “war amongst the people.” Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Albright was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted underContinue reading "The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World."
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London : Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1956.
First edition of Paul Scott’s third novel. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania : The Franklin Library, 1984.
Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbledContinue reading "A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962."
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1962.
First edition of Gary Player’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
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London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949.
First edition of Keynes’ intellectual, literary and reflective history. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece photograph of Keynes, Bertrand Russell and Lytton Strachey at Garsington. In very good condition. Introduced by David Garnett.
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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 : Putnam & Co., Ltd, 1952.
First edition of English yachtsman Edward C. Allcard’s detailed account of his second solo trip across the Atlantic aboard the yawl Temptress. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, 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 toContinue reading "Temptress Returns."
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New York : Harper & Brothers, 1947.
First edition of Benchley’s collection of humorous essays. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with unique drawings by Gluyas Williams. Very good in a good dust jacket. Author photograph by Ben Pinchot.
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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. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mark Rivera on the half-title page,”Dear Alina, with much love & hope always… Mark Rivera.” Rivera has added a drawing of a modern peace sign. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designContinue reading "Sideman: In Pursuit of the Next Gig."
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New York : The Viking Press, 1998.
First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martin Ogolter. Original drawing of Willy Loman by Joseph Hirsch. Photograph of Arthur Miller by Esther Handler.
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Biography and Autobiography
Biography and Autobiography
Biography and Autobiography
