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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
First edition of Jeffrey Meyers’s acclaimed full-length biography of George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Megan Wilson.
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New York: William Morrow, 2026.
First edition of the number one New York Times bestselling author and Fox News host’s account of six pivotal moments in the making of the United States. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Brian Kilmeade on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Moore.
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962.
First edition of Clavell’s classic first book, basis for the film starring George Segal. Octavo, original cloth, top stain green. Boldly signed by James Clavell on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Martha Lehtola. Rare and desirable signed.
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New York: Schoken Books, 2002.
First edition of this powerful work by the Nobel Laureate. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout, Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Cherry Hills Village, Colorado: 1954.
Exceptionally rare original golf scorecard from the Cherry Hills Country Club outside Denver, dated October 7, 1954, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon from a round the two men shared during Eisenhower’s first term. The card preserves the hole-by-hole scores of the four players, each in his own column,Continue reading "Golf Scorecard Signed by President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon."
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Germany: c. 1890.
A late nineteenth-century figure of Sir Walter Scott, Scotland’s revered poet, novelist, and historian, portrayed full length standing with a cane and leaning against a pruned stump draped with his plaid, raised upon a monument plinth. The plinth is cast with verses from Scott’s poem Harp of the North, Farewell, “Much have I owed thyContinue reading "Cast Iron Figure of Sir Walter Scott."
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London: New English Library, 1977.
First edition of Pele’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed in green marker by Pele on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roger Judd. Written with Robert L. Fish.
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New York: Antheneum, 1966.
First edition of Clavell’s immensely popular bestseller, the second book in the Asian Saga. Thick octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by James Clavell on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a toned spine.
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London: J. & A. Churchill, 1957.
First edition of Watson and Crick’s classic work on Virus Structure. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by James Watson on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very near fine jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
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New York: Wynwood Press, 1988.
First edition of this fictional work by one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Pele on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket cover illustration by Edward C. Carenza. Written with Herbert Resnicow.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author and dated in 2001. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Laureate. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Mendelsund. Translated by David Hapgood.
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Bobbs-Merrill: New York, 1974.
First edition of the first novel in the author’s acclaimed series, basis for the film starring Chevy Chase. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Gregory McDonald and Chevy Chase, who has written his character Fletch below his signature on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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New York: New American Library, 1965.
First paperback edition of Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, the eleventh James Bond novel and the last published in the author’s lifetime. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Sean Connery on the front cover. Scottish actor Sean Connery’s acting breakthrough came in the role of British secret agent James Bond. Between 1962 andContinue reading "You Only Live Twice."
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London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752.
First edition of Henry Fielding’s fourth and final novel. Octavo, four volumes, bound in full morocco by Worsfold, gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spines in seven compartments within raised gilt bands, black and green morocco lettering-pieces, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles,Continue reading "Amelia."
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Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon, 1871.
First Salt Lake City edition of the Book of Mormon, the scripture Joseph Smith first published in 1830 as a record of the ancient peoples of the Americas, which became the founding text of the Latter-day Saints and one of the most widely distributed books ever printed. Brigham Young’s own copy of this rare editionContinue reading "The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi."
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Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, [1903-1907].
First edition, the deluxe Edition of the Presidents, of this monumental twenty-volume history of the continent, limited to a single set for each President of the United States, this set issued with an original autograph of President James Buchanan. Octavo, 20 volumes, bound in the publisher’s full green levant morocco by Barrie with gilt titlesContinue reading "The History of North America."
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Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2008.
First Easton Press edition of this cornerstone in science fiction, basis for the classic film Bladerunner starring Harrison Ford. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by actor Harrison Ford on the title page. In fineContinue reading "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?"
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London: Printed by and for L. Alexander, 1822.
First edition of this early Anglo-Jewish Hebrew Bible. Octavo, five volumes, modern cloth with gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, the text in Hebrew and English, illustrated with 35 engraved plates. With the Hebrew text conformable to the edition of Everardo van der Hooght, a parallel English translation on the facing page, andContinue reading "The Holy Bible, In Hebrew."
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987-1998.
First editions of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s Beloved trilogy, each signed by Toni Morrison. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Beloved is inscribed by Toni Morrison on the front free endpaper, Jazz is inscribed on the title page, and Paradise is signed on the half-title page. Each volume is fine in fine dust jackets. An exceptionalContinue reading "Beloved Trilogy: Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise."
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London: Printed for Alex Hogg, 1784.
Paul Wright’s new and complete edition of Foxe’s celebrated Book of Martyrs, the great history of Christian martyrdom. Folio, bound in contemporary full sheepskin with gilk titles to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, an engraved frontispiece, profusely illustrated with dramatic engravings throughout. In good condition with wear to the hinges, rubbing, theContinue reading "The New and Complete Book of Martyrs, or, An Universal History of Martyrdom: Being Fox’s Book of Martyrs."
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Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros & Co., 1888.
First limited edition of Whitman’s self-described “big book essentially the book, irrespective of expensive binding: it has portraits, notes, title page, all the guarantees of my personality: it is as clearly the book as anything could make it.” Large octavo, handsomely bound in modern full brown morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spineContinue reading "Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman 1855-1888."
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
First edition, early printing of these powerful personal accounts by the women of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, fifty-two firsthand testimonies from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and inscribed on the title page by three women of the movement: Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, a SNCC field organizer andContinue reading "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC."
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, 1989.
First edition of this richly illustrated history of the American presidency, the deluxe American Bicentennial Presidential Inaugural Edition issued to commemorate the inauguration of George H. W. Bush. Thick octavo, publisher’s deluxe full blue cloth, the front board and spine stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound in, illustrated throughout. OneContinue reading "The American Presidents."
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Richard M. Nixon.
Crick, Francis and Watson, James D.
Smith, Joseph. [Brigham Young; Anson Mills].
Brittain, Alfred; Guy Carleton Lee; Francis Newton Thorpe, et al [James Buchanan].
Foxe, John. [Paul Wright].
Noonan, Martha Prescod Norman; Joan Trumpauer Mulholland; Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Whitney, David C. [George H. W. Bush; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard M. Nixon; Gerald R. Ford; Jimmy Carter].
