Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963. First Edition. Octavo; x + 273pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $6.50 price; book in green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is chipped and creased along edges and spine ends, with some rubbing along joints and smudging along fore-edge. Boards nudged at... More
![The Atlantic Community: A Study in Unity and Disunity [Inscribed to Tom Wicker]. Drew Middleton](/pictures/thumb/5528.jpg?v=1570544674)
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Signed by author to fellow New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker on title page with inscription, "For / Tom Wicker / a kind and gifted / colleague, with / very good wishes / Drew Middleton / 10/18/65." Octavo. 303 pages... More
![Any Woman's Blues: A Novel of Obsession [Signed to William Safire]. Erica Jong](/pictures/thumb/5526.jpg?v=1570473974)
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on full title to journalist William Safire with inscription "For Bill Safire -- Who often makes me wish I'd said that! Warmly, Erica Jong, 12 March '90." Additional signed handwritten note on Jong's note-sized stationary... More
![Alger et ses Peintres 1830-1960 [Painters of Algiers 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5525.jpg?v=1570562132)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2000. First Edition. Folio; 286pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured deep ochre boards with gold stamping on spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge, but with no chips or tears. Binding tight and square. The first in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué..... More
![Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation [Inscribed and with TLS to William Safire]....](/pictures/thumb/5521.jpg?v=1570546582)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. First Edition. Signed by editor Liu on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To William Safire - / Whose words and / wit inspire - / Eric Liu / 8/94." Additional typed letter signed from Liu to Safire laid in. Letter is... More
![L'Algérie du Sud et ses Peintres 1830-1960 [The Painters of Southern Algeria 1830-1960]. Marion...](/pictures/thumb/5520.jpg?v=1570561426)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2003. First Edition. Folio; 214pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacketover textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Jacket very lightly rubbed along bottom edge. Boards square with light bumps to corners and spine ends. The third in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying..... More
![SeinLanguage [with ALS to William Safire]. Jerry Seinfeld](/pictures/thumb/5518.jpg?v=1570469274)
New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Later Printing. Signed letter to author and journalist William Safire on Seinfeld's cardstock stationary dated 11-29-05 with written note "Bill, Thank you for indulging my curiosity. And here is a further soupcon of silliness. Jerry." Octavo; 180pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket over charcoal paper- and... More
![L'Algérie des peintres 1830-1960 [Painting in Algeria 1830-1960]. Marion Vidal-Bué](/pictures/thumb/5517.jpg?v=1570560685)
Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2002. First Edition. Folio; 318pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Spine slightly cocked; binding otherwise tight. The second in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying Algerian painting region by region. Full-color reproductions on most..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1910. 12mo; 223pp +xxvi notes. Full leather with gilt lettering and borders, leather turn-ins, marbled endpapers, and gilt page edges. Binder's mark of The Riverside Press on verso of front free endpaper at top. Front board separated down joint, but still holding... More
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905. Second Edition. Octavo; 334pp +3pp ads and catalogue slips. Rebound in red leather with gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Covers rubbed along joints with some light bumping to corners and a bit of darkening to spine. Small pencil note at... More
![Dreams of a Final Theory [Inscribed to William Safire]. Steven Weinberg](/pictures/thumb/5513.jpg?v=1570542182)
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. First Edition. Quarto. 334 pages. Signed by author on half title page to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire, / with great respect / and best wishes, / Steven Weinberg / Nov 1999." Illustrated unclipped dust jacket shows light creasing to spine... More
Edinburgh: J. Ogle / Manners & Miller [et al.], 1812. Third Edition. Octavo; [iv], 291pp +1 ads. Full calf with red leather title card to spine. Boards bumped and worn at corners and spine ends, with rubbing along joints and a good bit of scuffing and smudging to surface. Hinges... More
![Speaking American: How the Democrats Can Win in the Nineties [Signed to William Safire]. David...](/pictures/thumb/5506.jpg?v=1570218767)
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992. Stated First Printing. Signed by the author to columnist William Safire with inscription "9/26/93 To Wm. Safire -- Who needs no lessons in speaking American. With respect & admiration, David Kusnet." Octavo; 240pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers crisp with very faint sunning to... More
![The Arms Control Delusion [Signed to William Safire]. Malcolm Wallop, Angelo Codevilla](/pictures/thumb/5505.jpg?v=1570217996)
San Francisco: ICS Press, 1987. First Edition. Signed by the author to columnist William Safire with inscription "To Bill Safire -- Here is an arguement [sic] that swims up stream from Conventional Wisdom. I hope you are intrigued -- Regards, Malcolm, May 1988." Octavo; 220pp. Illustrated dust jacket with... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. Stated First Edition with full numberline. In First State dust jacket with "Vollman" misspelling on back and original $29.95 price intact; book in blue paper- and cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, with some rubbing... More
Third edition. Hardcover. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1830. Stated Third Edition. (15 x 9cm): 272 pp. Red leather binding on spine with marbled paper over boards. Lettering stamped in gold on spine. Corners of cover rubbed through to boards. Binding is sound. Pages toned with age, but are... More
Washington DC: The National Tribune, Co., [1902]. Octavo; 202 pp., followed by 2 maps. Blue paper wraps with lettering in black. No date on title page, but 36th encampment took place in 1902. Cover toned with writing in pencil that states the name "Hartwell" and the year 1906... More
Hardcover. Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr. and Jos. Cushing, 1814. 12mo. (13x8cm); 254 pp. Contemporary calf binding with black title label on spine. Notes in ink and pencil on endpapers and title page indicate this book belonged to a military student at West Point in 1818. Binding is sound... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Inscribed by author to economist Herbert J. Cummings on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Herbert Cummings / From an old / colleague and / friend, with / kindly memories / Adolf A Berle Jr / November 1954."... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 184 pages. Signed by author to economist Herbert J. Cummings on half title with inscription, "From an old friend / to an old friend / remembering many / struggles in the / public service. / For Herbert Cummings / from... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1940. Later printing. Quarto. 395 pages. Signed by Berle to economist Herbert J. Cummings on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Herbert Cummings / with all good wishes / for glorious adventure / and safe return / Adolf Berle / February 15, 1942." Graphic... More
Softcover. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001. Third printing. Inscribed by the author on title page to journalist William Safire: "For William Safire -- The real wordsmith from one of his many readers. Dana Gioia, 2004, Washington, DC." Octavo; 72 pp, followed by the author bio and information about Graywolf... More
Hardcover. Wilmington [Del.]: Johnson & Preston, 1797. 12mo.; vi [1] 8-159 pp. Missing pages 89-92. From the library of journalist and White House speechwriter William Safire. Contemporary binding is heavily worn with boards showing through on majority of front and back. Corners and edges rubbed with chipping to... More
Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1979 facsimile of three-volume First Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as published in Edinburgh in 1768-1771. Octavo; Vol. I 698pp; Vol. II 1011pp; Vol III 954pp. Brown imitation leather with raised bands on spines and gilt stamping, including title against a red panel. Facsimile is printed on... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989. First Edition. Quarto; 480pp. Decorative pop-art hard binding in coated paper. Dustjacket of stiff plastic with screened images of Warhol front and back. Spine and top edges of boards sunned. Plastic dustjacket now missing bottom third of spine strip due to "baking,"... More