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"I've either got to be a writer or I fail." As New SIGNED (without personalization) First Edition of Vachss' Two Trains in Library Quality Gift condition. Often considered Vachss' take on Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, reimagining Hammett's concept of a small American city torn between several corrupt forces, with the protagonist acting as the fuse that sets the events in violent motion. Of this novel, Vachss told NY Mag: "It s the sum total of everything that I learned over all these years. Without question I've either got to be a writer or I fail." A beautiful signed First edition copy. Book #5vb251n. $36. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED First hardcover edition. First printing with code "43 L" on page 179. Presentation copy with signed inscription on Title Page by van Vogt to legendary book detective Gyngr Shon of the Old London Bookshop. "May your quest for the future be successful -- A E Van Vogt" Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club as the first hardcover printing. A fine copy in mildly soiled jacket with a few scuff marks. Scarce signed. Book #Pv5b106. $75. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED "Sincerely" without personal inscription by Van Vogt and wife Lydia, Rogue Ship is a novel "fixed" together from segments of three short stories (Centaurus II, Rogue Ship, and The Expendables) which originally appeared between 1947 and 1963. First published in the US in 1965, this is the first British edition SIGNED. Some light soiling and handling to jacket is evident. The Book itself is Very Near Fine. Book #Pv5b107. $100.

SIGNED by von Mises on front flyleaf. Original publisher's green cloth lettered in black; original unclipped dust jacket (light toning overall, with small spot of skinning to spine panel, else fine). FIRST EDITION, of the economist's planned epilogue to his work Socialism (1922). The central point of Planned Chaos is its devastating analysis and refutation of the disastrously "mixed economy," the omnipresent belief that capitalism and socialism are not the only alternative economic systems, that the "third way," variously called "interventionism" or the "hampered economy" is a viable alternative. Dr. von Mises' analysis and evaluation of issues 75 years old read like illuminating insights into today's headlines, particularly his critique of government enforced minimum wage rates (Do you read me, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders?) "The issue," he writes, "is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. INSCRIBED BY VON MISES TO PHILANTHROPIST AND BUSINESSMAN HARRY B. EARHART… Read More

SIGNED by von Mises, soft cover as issued, an invaluable contribution to Misesian scholarship, this bibliography was originally presented to von Mises on the occasion of his 80 birthday. "But as soon as it went to print, I was dissatisfied with it because I had found some omissions" (Bien). Bien, von Mises' student, assistant, and friend, revised it to include "not only Mises's published works in all languages, but crucial passages from contemporary reviews of Mises's works, including reviews in German, French, and Spanish. I had help with the Italian, and the Czech I left only in titles, but the rest I did myself" (Bien). Prepared with the assistance of von Mises himself, this is the first revised edition of his works from his earliest until Dec. 1969. "However," Bien writes in her Introduction, "even Dr. Mises cannot say for sure whether or not there are omissions." Essential for any von Mises collector and RARE signed by him. A splendid example. Book #Pv2102. $3900. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand,… Read More