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Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row is the waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California, USA. It is the site of a number of now-defunct sardine canning factories. The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his famous novel Cannery Row.
Song Of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon is Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison's third novel, published in 1977 by Alfred A. Knopf. It tells the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, a young African-American living in an unnamed mid-western city in the mid-nineteenth century as he seeks to discover his own identity and relationship to the world he lives in and uncovers his family's history. Winner of the National Book Critics Award, it has faced numerous school bans and challenges since publication. Former U.S. President Barack Obama...
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Pylon
by William Faulkner
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His family was rooted in local history: his great-grandfather, a Confederate colonel and state politician, was assassinated by a former partner in 1889, and his grandfather was a wealth lawyer who owned a railroad. When Faulkner was five his parents moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he received a desultory education in local schools, dropping out of high school in 1915. Rejected for pilot training in the U.S. Army, he passed...
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East Of Eden
by John Steinbeck
East of Eden is a novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1952. It tells the multi-generational story of two families, the Hamiltons and the Trasks, in California's Salinas Valley. The novel explores themes of good and evil, love and hate, and the human capacity for both. It also delves into the nature of family dynamics, inheritance, and the American dream. The characters are complex and nuanced, and the novel's narrative structure allows for a deep exploration of their motivations and emotions. East of...
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The Mansion
by William Faulkner
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His family was rooted in local history: his great-grandfather, a Confederate colonel and state politician, was assassinated by a former partner in 1889, and his grandfather was a wealth lawyer who owned a railroad. When Faulkner was five his parents moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he received a desultory education in local schools, dropping out of high school in 1915. Rejected for pilot training in the U.S. Army, he passed...
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The Wild Palms
by William Faulkner
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem is a novel by the American author William Faulkner published in 1939. The novel was originally published under the title The Wild Palms, which is the title of one of the two interwoven stories. This title was chosen by the publishers, Random House, over the objections of Faulkner's choice of a title.
Nobel Prize Library - Published Unter the Sponsorship Of the Nobel Foundation & the Swedish Academy - Halldor Laxness - 1955
by Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann Halldor Laxness
Nobel Prize Library - Published Unter the Sponsorship Of the Nobel Foundation & the Swedish Academy - Giorgos Seferis - 1963
by Sholokhov Mikhail, Sienkiewicz Henryk, Spitteler Carl Seferis Giorgos
Nobel Prize Books & Ephemera
Nobel Laureates 1901-2000
by Symons, Alan
London: Polo Publishing. 2000. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Excellent condition - looks as new. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 437 pages + Alphabetical Index. Record of the achievements of 703 people from 55 countries. Brief biographies including a summary of world events for each year. Alphabetical index of recipients by each Award. Robust, professional packaging...
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A$30.00
EARLY POEMS AND STORIES
by YEATS, W. B
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner inscription on front blank. A bright, Fine copy in a Fine, intact white slipcase, a printed label on one side, with mild soiling. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Copy #214 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf.
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A$4,841.88
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LECTURE
by CARTER, Jimmy
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The true first printing and without the ubiquitous remainder mark. INSCRIBED "Best wishes to Joyce" and SIGNED by the author as "J. Carter" on the page with the publisher's logo.
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A$290.51
A KIND OF RAPTURE
by [MORRISON, Toni] BERGMAN, Robert
New York: Pantheon, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Robert Bergman. Folio (9-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in black cloth. Introduction by Toni Morrison and afterword by Meyer Schapiro, the only text in this absolutely stunning collection of color photographic portraits, mostly of street people, which Schapiro says "bring to mind some of the greatest painted portraits." Bergman created his own color separations, using high-resolution digital equipment, for these photographs which...
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A$96.84
DOCUMENT SIGNED (DS)
by BUCK, Pearl
(New York): (John Day), [1969]. Wraps. Near Fine. An 8" x 10" pamphlet of 8 pages consisting of a biographical sketch and checklist of the Nobel Prize winning author SIGNED by her including her middle initial below her printed signature. The cover features Clara Sipprell's photograph of Buck looking down at a small oriental figure. Attractive piece.
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A$387.35
THE COMMON SENSE OF MUNICIPAL TRADING
by SHAW, George Bernard
London: A. C. Fifield, 1908. Second Edition. wraps. Some darkening to wraps. Very Good. Orange-brown wraps. Laurence A54b: "This 'edition' was reprinted from plates or moulds of the first edition [1904] ... as No. 5 in the Fabian Socialist Series." Contains a new preface by Shaw.
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A$48.50
Signed Photograph
by WHIPPLE, George Hoyt (1878 - 1976)
1940. very good. Scarce signed photograph: "G.H. Whipple", black and white, paper stock, 8" X 10", a shoulder-up image of Dr. Whipple dressed in a laboratory coat and grasping a microscope, c. late 1940's. Minor foxing at the lower right-hand corner otherwise in very good condition.<br/> <br/> American physician and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy; for their discoveries concerning liver...
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A$464.82
ELMER GANTRY
by LEWIS, Sinclair
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Richard Brooks). It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture.
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![Ein Weg zur experimentellen Prufung der Richtungquantelung im Magnetfeld [and] Der experimentelle Nachweis. .](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/838/245838533.0.b.1.jpg)
Ein Weg zur experimentellen Prufung der Richtungquantelung im Magnetfeld [and] Der experimentelle Nachweis. .
by Stern, Otto and Walther Gerlach
1921. First edition. Stern, Otto (1888-1969). et al. (1) Ein Weg zur experimentellen Prüfung der Richtungsquantelung im Magnetfeld. In Zeitschrift fur Physik 7 (1921): 249-253. (2) (with Walter Gerlach [1889-1979]). Der experimentelle Nachweis des magnetischen Moments des Silberatoms. In ibid. 8 (1921): 110-111. Together 2 whole volumes. [iii]-vi, 414; iv, 419pp. Braunschweig: Fried. Vieweg & Sohn; Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921-22. 224 x 149 mm. Vol. 7 in half morocco, cloth boards, a little rubbed;...
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The Le Chatelier principle in linear programming. U.S. Air Force Project RAND report RM-210
by Samuelson, Paul A
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1949. Samuelson, Paul Anthony (1915-2009). The Le Chatelier principle in linear programming. U.S. Air Force Project RAND report RM-210. Offset typescript. 18ff. Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation, 4 August 1949. 280 x 217 mm. Original printed wrappers with author and title of paper supplied in original typescript, three or four small marginal tears, but fine otherwise. Samuelson's copy, no. 25 of most likely 50 copies or fewer, assigned to Samuelson on the title...
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A$5,810.25
WINSTON CHURCHILL Photograph at Normandy Nine Days after the Invasion
by CHURCHILL, WINSTON
CHURCHILL, WINSTON. Nine days after the Allied invasion of France, this official British press photograph of Churchill was taken. Churchill in dark clothing stands between Field Marshal Alan Brooke and General Bernard Law Montgomery at Montgomery's headquarters in France. South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Smuts stands last on the other side of Montgomery. The news service stamp on verso is Acme NewsPictures with the usual warnings of republication without crediting the news service. The...
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A$725.12
Die gegenwartige Situation in der Quantenmechanik
by Schroedinger, Erwin
1935. First edition. Schrödinger's Cat Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961). Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik. In Die Naturwissenschaften 23 (1935): 807-12; 823-28; 844-49. Whole volume. xix, [1], 870, 12pp. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935. 264 x 192 mm. Quarter cloth ca. 1935, hand-lettered paper spine label, light wear to corners. 4 library stamps on general title and 1 on first leaves of some numbers., but otherwise a very good copy. First Edition, journal issue. Schrödinger's paper...
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A$2,324.10
Signed Photograph
by HERZBERG, Gerhard
1971. unbound. Black-and-white head shot measuring 7 x 5 inches. Signed in full near the bottom. No place, no date, circa 1971. Near fine.<br/> <br/> German-born Canadian scientist and winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.<br/> <br/>
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A$154.94
FROM THE SAVOY. AN ESSAY ON GOING TO CHURCH
by SHAW, George Bernard
Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1905. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Unauthorized, as was the 1896 Roycoft edition, of Shaw's first work published in America. Laurence A26c.
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A$48.50
BECKETT, SAMUEL. Autograph Letter SIGNED
by BECKETT, SAMUEL
SAMUEL BECKETT. Autograph Letter SIGNEDBeckett is best known for his play, "Waiting for Godot," published in 1952 with its original French title, "En attendant Godot" and first performed in 1953. He wrote many of his best known works in French as he did this letter. Before the start of World War II, Beckett moved to France, joined the Resistance during the war and settled there permanently after the war. in French, 8v0, March 30, 1960. Translation: "Dear old Frank, I am very touched by your sweet letter...
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ON POETRY
by [AUDEN, W. H.] PERSE, St.-John
(New York): Bollingen Series, (1961). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson B77. Published in an edition of 2500 copies, none of which were for sale, in white card covers with a grayish green printed wrapper. This is St.-John Perse's Nobel Acceptance Speech translated by Auden and printed here in both the original French and Auden's English translation. SIGNED by Auden on the title page. Quite uncommon, especially signed.
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A$774.70
An Introduction to the Study of Wave with Fourteen Diagrams
by De Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond
New York; Nd(ca.1928): E.P. Dutton and Co. Octavo. 249 pages, index, and 14 diagrams, translated from the French by H.T. Flint. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927. De Broglie suggested in 1924 that particles might have wave properties in addition to particle properties. Three years later the wave nature of electrons was detected experimentally. Objects of everyday experience, however, have a computed...
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A$255.65
THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN
by SINGER, Isaac B
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Larry Rivers. Large quarto (9-1/8" x 12") bound in blue goatskin and natural Irish linen; housed in a sand-colored cloth slipcase. With a new preface by Singer for this edition. One of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with three color lithographs by Larry Rivers on paper imported from Italy, one of which is folding. SIGNED by both the author and the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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A$484.19
The Birthday Party and The Room. New York, Grove Press, Signed
by PINTER, HAROLD
This edition bound in black and tan boards has no publication date and is in very good condition overall with some rubbing at the spine. Autograph
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A$725.12
PLAYS AND CONTROVERSIES
by YEATS, W. B
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner inscription on front endpaper. A bright, Fine copy in a Fine, intact white slipcase, a printed label on one side, with expected soiling. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Frontispiece portrait of Yeats from charcoal drawing by John Singer Sargent, and seven more illustrations in text. Copy #190...
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A$3,873.50
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Lunnyi serp [The Crescent Moon]
by Tagore Rabindranath
B. Vasin - translation from English.One of 2.000 copies printed.
First separate edition of the translation, that was previously appeared in Collected works by Tagore in 1916.Original edition published in London in 1913.Very rare.We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC. Two copies kept by National Russian Library.
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First separate edition of the translation, that was previously appeared in Collected works by Tagore in 1916.Original edition published in London in 1913.Very rare.We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC. Two copies kept by National Russian Library.
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A$232.41
THE LAST ANALYSIS. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF SAUL BELLOW'S ONLY PLAY
by BELLOW, Saul
First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine and quite exceptional. An undated early holograph version of Saul Bellow's only full-length play contained in a ledger-type notebook (8-1/4" x 11-3/8") with marbled paper boards and a black cloth spine. Bellow has subtitled this as "A Work in Progress." Acts I and II of this version are complete in 71 pages with 4 pages of preliminary material for an Act III, all handwritten by Bellow. The 1964 staged version was reduced to two acts. Bellow appears to have written...
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A$38,735.00
The Nobel Century
by Geeslin, Campbell (Managing Editor); Preface by Stig Ramel;Introduction by Asa Briggs
London: Chapmans. 1991. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 280 pages. The definitive book on the world's greatest prize - The Nobel Prize. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$25.00
The Grapes of Wrath (First Edition)
by John Steinbeck
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket with first edition statement at the bottom front jacket flap. Wraparound jacket art by Elmer Hader, whose work graced four Steinbeck titles. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression, singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. Basis for the 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won...
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A$11,620.50
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LECTURE
by CARTER, Jimmy
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a price sticker shadow on the front panel. The true first printing and without the ubiquitous remainder mark. INSCRIBED "Best wishes to Joyce" and SIGNED by the author as "J. Carter" on the page with the publisher's logo. Laid in is a promotional card for the 2008 Plains Peanut Festival featuring the Carters.
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A$290.51
