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New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934.
First American edition of this children’s classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 27 line cuts (13 full-page) and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by P.L. Travers on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.Continue reading "Mary Poppins."
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Rare collection of documents related to the 1871 Treaty of Washington including signatures of all of the key figures involved in its signing including President Ulysses S. Grant, his Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and the British delegation led by George Robinson, Earl de Grey and Ripon. The collection was assembled by Frederic Daustini Cremer who acted asContinue reading "Ulysses S. Grant Treaty of Washington Signed Document Collection."
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New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of the author’s first collection of children’s poetry. Stated first edition on the copyright page. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Shel Silverstein with an original poem on the front free endpapers to the children of his editor and publicist William Cole, “For Alex and Rossa and Billy, IContinue reading "Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings."
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New York : Targ Editions, 1984.
Rare first edition of Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Lecture. Original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Translated from the Spanish by Marina Castaneda. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceptionally rare, especially signed.
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New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1949.
First edition of this important work which popularized cognitive images of early computers. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to the author to his ACM collaborator, Austrian mathematician Franz Alt (who is also thanked in the acknowledgements), “To Franz, with thanks againContinue reading "Giant Brains or Machines That Think."
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Chicago : Published by Keen & Lee, 1856.
First edition of Purple’s Statutes from the law library of Abraham Lincoln and William Herndon. Large octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full contemporary calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. With Herndon’s ownership signature on behalf of the firm to the front pastedown of Vol. I, “A. Lincoln W. Herndon Lincoln & Herndon Springfield”Continue reading "A Compilation of the Statutes of the State of Illinois, of a General Nature, In Force January 1, 1856. Collated with Reference to Decisions of the Supreme Court of Said State, and to Prior Laws Relating to the Same Subject Matter."
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New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
First edition of King’s “last grand expression of his vision” (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Carl Colodne, With Best Wishes for Peace and Justice, Martin Luther King Jr.” Fine in a fine dust jacket, smallContinue reading "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
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New York : Antheneum, 1978.
First edition of this children’s classic. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Judi Barrett, with an original drawing of clouds and meatballs and by the illustrator Ron Barrett on the front free endpaper and on the pastedown and again on a bookplate with an original drawing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. HousedContinue reading "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs."
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1944.
Scarce autograph note signed by J.D. Salinger on April 4, 1944, two months and two days before he saw combat at Utah Beach on D-Day. One page from an oblong octavo autograph album bound in full leather, the note is dated 4/4/44 and reads, “Dear Molly – I just don’t have anything bright to say.Continue reading "J.D. Salinger Autograph Letter Signed."
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Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1969.
Volume LI of Harvard University’s Review of Economics and Statistics containing Robert Merton’s Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case, which introduced the concepts of continuous-time optimization later featured in his landmark work Continuous-Time Finance. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands,Continue reading "The Review of Economics and Statistics: Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty."
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1958.
First edition of Arendt’s classic penetrating examination of the human condition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Cordially Hannah Arendt.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Founded over a century ago in 1900, TheContinue reading "The Human Condition."
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1962.
First edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Milton Friedman on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare signed.
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New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
First printing of the third revised edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To my good friend, Ted Weisman hoping it will help him in his nefarious projects Ben Graham Aug 1965.” Near fine in a near fineContinue reading "The Intelligent Investor."
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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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London : Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899.
First edition, signed limited edition. Octavo, original lavender publisher’s cloth. One of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde. In very good condition with some light rubbing and darkening to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1973-1979.
First editions of the economist’s magnum opus. Octavo, 3 volumes, original black cloth. Volume one is inscribed on the front free endpaper by F.A. Hayek to his colleague and legal scholar, Theo Mayer-Maly with his bookplate below. Mayer-Maly’s work Rechtsgeschichte der Freiheitsidee in Antike und Mittelalter is cited in volume one of Law, Legislation andContinue reading "Law, Legislation and Liberty. A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy."
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Cold Spring, NY : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1987.
First edition of the collected speeches of the 52nd Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. Foreword by James D. Watson. Quarto, original red cloth, illustrated with photographs, diagrams. Association copy, inscribed by James Watson to Francis Crick on the front free endpaper, “For Francis, the first of us to think sensibly as to whatContinue reading "Evolution of Catalytic Function: Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology."
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Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Rawls on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Books signed by Rawls are rare.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
First edition, first first issue with the six line colophon on the last page of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by the author, Roald Dahl XXXX XXXX” on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. Rare and desirableContinue reading "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory."
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New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934.
First American edition of this children’s classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 27 line cuts (13 full-page) and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by P.L. Travers on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket with a small repair to the spine. Rare and desirable signed.
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Garden City, NY : Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1965.
First edition of Dick’s classic novel, which was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Chibbaro. Exceptionally rare signed.
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c. 1930.
Queen Elizabeth II hand-drawn and colored Christmas card signed to her governess, Marion Crawford. One page, folded, illustrated with a Christmas tree traced and colored with crayon and a golden horseshoe wrapped in holly, the card reads, “To Crawfie From Lilibet.” Elizabeth was given the nickname, ‘Lilibet,’ which was used primarily by her immediate familyContinue reading "Queen Elizabeth II Hand-Drawn and -Colored Christmas Card"
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Rare official NASA photograph of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module ‘Eagle.’ Oversized glossy color photograph of Lunar Module ‘Eagle’ soaring above the moon with the Earth visible in the background. Boldly signed on the mount in by all three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. From the personal collection of NASA employee JohnContinue reading "Apollo 11 Lunar Module ‘Eagle’ Signed NASA Photograph."
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c. 1930s.
Photograph of George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth, boldly signed by him. Sepia-toned glossy photograph of George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth. Signed by Babe Ruth near the bottom of the photograph. Matted and framed with a plaque describing Ruth’s claim to fame which reads, “George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth 1895-1948 ‘Babe’ Ruth won fame as one of the greatestContinue reading "George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth Signed Photograph."
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Economics and Finance
Economics and Finance
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