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New York : George H. Doran Company, 1926.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth. In very good condition. Shakespeare and Company ex libris bookplate to the front pastedown.
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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 : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of this “harrowing, propulsive drama… about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff, and an average Joe” (New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper and signed four times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd: on the front panel in the year of publication, the frontContinue reading "No Country For Old Men."
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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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Norwalk, Connecticut : The Easton Press, 1992.
Signed limited first edition of this classic work, basis for the film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner. Octavo, bound in full leather with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, watered silk moire endpapers, with a silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Bill Kinsella andContinue reading "Shoeless Joe. [Field of Dreams]."
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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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London : Harper Collins Publishers, 2004.
First British edition of the 21st and last, incomplete novel in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series, published posthumously in 2004. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers of the Jack Aubrey series, including facsimiles of O’Brian’s final manuscript. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by William Waldegrave. Cover illustration by Geoff Hunt.
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London : [Richard Field and William Jaggard] for Nathaniel Butter, [c.1616].
First edition, first issue of the first complete English translation of Homer’s works. Folio, bound in full contemporary English calf with elaborate gilt floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised richly gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, rebacked, boards restored preserving mostContinue reading "The Whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke by Geo. Chapman."
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[Boston : John Murray Forbes, 1862].
First and only printed pamphlet of the Emancipation Proclamation, produced for distribution to Union soldiers and African Americans (both enslaved and free) in December of 1862; the month preceding the issuance of the executive order. 16mo, original salmon wrappers as issued. In 1899, the publisher’s daughter recalled the genesis of this pocket-sized edition: “With the view of placing the Proclamation of Emancipation in the hands of the negroes themselves, my father had printedContinue reading "The Proclamation Of Emancipation, By The President Of The United States, To Take Effect January 1st, 1863."
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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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London : George Eld, 1610.
First edition in English of Augustine’s monumental work. Translated by John Healey. Folio, bound in full contemporary English panelled calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, central ornament tooled in gold to the front and rear panels, rebacked. Decorative woodcut head-pieces and decorative and woodcut initials, including three twelve-lineContinue reading "Of the Citie of God: With the Learned Comments of Jo. Lod. Vives."
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New York : Grove Press/The Olympia Press, 1959.
First edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare in this condition.
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New York : Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1952.
First edition, first issue of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, original blue cloth, first issue with “A” and publisher’s seal printed on the copyright page and no mention of the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded the following year. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of Hemingway byContinue reading "The Old Man and the Sea."
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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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Paris : Printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1795.
The rare Renouard‘s bi-lingual edition of Franklin’s popular aphorisms, first published as the preface to the Poor Richard‘s Almanac. “The prettiest edition yet printed” (Ford, Franklin 135). Sabin 25596. 12mo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine, gilt turn-ins, engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin by A. Tardieu after Duplessis. This elegant ParisianContinue reading "The Way to Wealth or Poor Richard Improved."
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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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Washington, D.C. : NASA, 1974.
First edition of this work on the historic first lunar landing era. Quarto, original pictorial cloth, illustrated with color photographs. Boldly signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in black felt tip on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed on the front pastedown by NASA administrators Thomas O. Paine, James C. Fletcher, andContinue reading "Apollo."
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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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San Francisco : Collins Publishers, 1993.
Signed limited edition from Upper Deck of this work which share the thoughts and observations and photographs of important moments in Michael Jordan’s life, and career highlights. Folio, original cloth, original slipcase. Contains the original shipping box and tissue. Boldly signed by Michael Jordan on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
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