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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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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 : 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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[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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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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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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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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1990.
Original Christmas card inscribed by President Ronald Reagan to his daughter Patti Davis. Christmas card from 1990 featuring a festive pinecone on the front. Inscribed by Reagan in black felt tip, “Dear Patti, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Love – Mom & Dad.” Patti Davis (b. 1952), the daughter of U.S. President Ronald ReaganContinue reading "Ronald Reagan Inscribed Christmas Card to His Daughter Patti Davis."
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Rare photographs of President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, annotated in his hand. Two color satin-finish photographs. The first is of Ronald Reagan on horseback at Camp David with his handwritten inscription to the border beneath, “A sample of what I’d do at Camp David when we spend a weekend there.” The second of RonaldContinue reading "Ronald Reagan Annotated Photographs."
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Color close-up photograph of Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Peter Higgs, who discovered The Higgs mechanism which predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which became one of the great goals of physics. Boldly signed by Peter Higgs. In fine condition. The piece measures 5.75 inches by 4 inches.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 1990.
First edition of the 40th President of the United States’ memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Michael – Wish Very Best Wishes and Regards Ronald Reagan Feb. 8-1991.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony, Inc.
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Paris : Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1845.
First edition of this monumental nineteenth-century French fencing manual. Octavo, written in French, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, crossed foils and armored helmet decorations stamped in gilt to the corners of the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins andContinue reading "La Théorie de L’Escrime. [The Theory of Fencing]."
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Rare autograph album bound into the original limp leatherette of Rights and Wrongs of Golf by Robert T. Jones. Duodecimo, gilt titles to the front panel. Signed on the first blank by Robert T. Jones, Jr. (four-time U.S. Open champion and winner of the 1930 Grand Slam) and Gary Player (nine-time major champion and careerContinue reading "Right and Wrongs of Golf."
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New York : Bantam Books, 2011.
First deluxe edition of the first book in the author’s acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by George R.R. Martin on the title page. Fine in the original publisher’s blue slipcase which is in fine condition.
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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.
First edition of the first lady Barbara Bush’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by both Barbara Bush and President George W. Bush on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a photograph of George W. Bush at Station Square in Pittsburgh, taken during his visit on August 4, 2000, as part ofContinue reading "Barbara Bush: A Memoir."
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New York : Random House Inc., 2008.
First edition of Salman Rushdie’s richly imagined historical novel linking Renaissance Florence and the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar through the legend of a mysterious and captivating woman known as the “Enchantress.” Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. DustContinue reading "The Enchantress of Florence."
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1980.
Original Ronald Reagan campaign poster from the 1980 presidential election. Official campaign poster for Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, featuring a powerful black and white portrait of Reagan with bold white writing at the top stating, “He’ll provide the strong new leadership America needs.” Boldly signed by Ronald and Nancy Reagan in ballpoint pen to theContinue reading "Ronald and Nancy Reagan Signed 1980 Campaign Poster."
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Jones, Robert [Bobby] T. Jr. and O.B. Keeler. Foreword by Grantland Rice. [Gary Player]
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