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New York: D. Robbins & Co., c. 1950s.
A vintage comedy magic trick originated by U.F. Grant and manufactured under the E-Z Magic label by D. Robbins & Co. of New York. Complete with the trick silks and brassiere, together with the original typed instruction sheet printed on both sides, explaining the working of the trick along with variations for stag shows andContinue reading "The Funny Brassiere Trick."
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.
First edition of this pioneering study of female delinquency by the renowned Harvard criminologists Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, a landmark of early twentieth-century social science and penology. Octavo, original tan cloth decorated in maroon. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper, “To Mr. and Mrs. Leon Miller, with the compliments ofContinue reading "Five Hundred Delinquent Women."
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.
First edition of this classic golfing technique manual. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Arthur and Carrie, with best regards, Bob Jones.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Feder. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box madeContinue reading "Golf Is My Game."
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Paris: Robert Laffont, 1986.
First edition of Robuchon’s classic cookbook, published three years before Gault Millau named him Chef of the Century. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with full-page color photographs by Corrinne Ryman and Pierre Cabannes. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in French on the half-title page which translates to, “To Monsieur Saito, with myContinue reading "Ma Cuisine Pour Vous: Les Recettes Originales de Joël Robuchon."
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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 Hemingway was awarded the following year. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Photograph ofContinue reading "The Old Man and the Sea."
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New York: Bloomsbury, 2007.
First edition of this work by the award-winning chef. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Kirk, Anthony Bourdain.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Amy C. King.
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New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1963.
First edition of this sweeping illustrated history of the American West, bringing together the work of nine leading historians of the frontier under editor-in-chief Jay Monaghan. Quarto, original publisher’s full morocco, the spine gilt-tooled in five compartments within raised bands, profusely illustrated with Western art including the drawings of Ed Borein. Near fine in theContinue reading "The Book of the American West."
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
First edition of this novel, basis for the classic film starring Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Updike and additionally signed by actor Jack Nicholson on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Updike.
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New York: Random House, 2012.
First edition of the Nobel laureate’s study of Vienna in 1900, where painters, writers and physicians turned at the same moment to the unconscious, and of what modern brain science can now say about what they found. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front freeContinue reading "The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present."
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
First edition of the novel that brought Wharton international success. First issue with the Scribner’s seal to the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentellesContinue reading "The House of Mirth."
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.
First edition in English of Vargas Llosa’s epic of the Canudos rebellion, the millenarian uprising in the backlands of northeastern Brazil that the young republic crushed in the 1890s. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Helen R. Lane. JacketContinue reading "The War of the End of the World."
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948.
Signed limited first edition of General Eisenhower’s wartime memoirs. Thick octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge gilt. One of 1,426 numbered copies, this is number 439. Boldly signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower on the “Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force” page. In fine condition in the original acetate jacket.
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Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.
First edition of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, which had an initial print run of only 5,000 copies and earned Harper Lee the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Octavo, original half-cloth with the spine lettered in brown. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper inContinue reading "To Kill A Mockingbird."
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1974.
First edition of this remarkable anthology, which tells the story of American enterprise in the words of the men and women who built it, gathering the first-person recollections of the great industrialists, financiers, and entrepreneurs of the age. Octavo, original half-cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Includes stories of Andrew Carnegie, HenryContinue reading "The Autobiography of American Business: The Story Told By Those Who Made It."
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Lexington, Va: Washington College, 30 November, 1867.
Rare report card from Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, signed by Robert E. Lee as president of the college. The printed form, completed in manuscript, reports on the standing of a student, Mr. R. C. Morrison, for the session ending November 30, 1867, and is signed by Lee at the foot as President. After theContinue reading "Robert E. Lee Signed Washington College Report Card."
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New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
First edition of Silverstein’s provocative illustrated work for adults. Quarto, original cloth with gilt titles, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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Henley-on-Thames: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1983.
First British edition of this novel of Rome under Fascism, which follows a single ten-lira coin as it passes from hand to hand through the city, binding together the lives of nine strangers and a doomed attempt on the life of a dictator. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. TranslatedContinue reading "A Coin in Nine Hands."
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990.
First edition of “Vonnegut’s best novel in years-funny and prophetic…something special” (The Nation). Octavo, original half cloth, yellow endpapers. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
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Washington, D.C.: Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, 1949.
First edition, second printing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities’ question-and-answer primer on the Communist threat. Issued at the height of the Red Scare and gathering in one booklet the committee’s series on Communism in the United States, in religion, education, labor and government, together with its Spotlight on Spies. Octavo, original printed wrappers.Continue reading "100 Things You Should Know About Communism."
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1954-1965.
A collection of seven commemorative medallions of Sir Winston Churchill in silver, bronze and white metal, struck between his eightieth birthday in 1954 and the year of his death in 1965. Housed in a glass-topped wooden display table on tapered legs with the medals set on a pale green felt bed. The largest is aContinue reading "Winston Churchill Commemorative Medallions in a Display Table."
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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1944.
First edition, early printing of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery,Continue reading "The Road to Serfdom."
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London: George Allen and Unwin, 1954-55.
First editions, first states of each title comprising the The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original red cloth, folding map in the rear of each volume. Near fine in excellent dust jackets with light rubbing and wear. An exceptional set.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Booth Mooney’s biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the front free endpaper, “For Murray Milner, outstanding public servant, from his friend, Lyndon B. Johnson.” Near fine in very good dust jacket.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, c. 1967.
Second editions of Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings trilogy, the revised text of the epic that stands as the foundational work of modern fantasy literature. Octavo, three volumes, all in the publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth, illustrated with folding maps. A mixed-printing set of the revised second edition, comprising the fourteenth printing of The FellowshipContinue reading "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King."
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