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SIGNED by David Foster Wallace on the Title Page. Original color pictorial wrappers. A long out-of-print First Edition copy, seldom encountered signed. Signed first edition of this early scholarly consideration of rap, and Wallace's book immediately preceding his epic Infinite Jest. Uncommon in the first edition (it was reissued in 2013, by Back Bay Books sans the original subtitle, following Wallace's death), it is scarce signed. And while the rear cover erroneously proclaims the book "the first serious consideration of rap" (both Steven Hager and David Topp beat them to that distinction), it remains an early, if largely academic, interrogation of hip-hop. Book #Cv2354. $3500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SEALED in publisher s original shrink wrap, a rare, pristine copy, one of only 250, of David Foster Wallace's oeuvre, a memoriam or epitaph of his greatest works published after he died a tragic suicidal death. THE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE READER introduces his ever-growing readers to his remarkable humor, kindness, sweeping intellect, and versatility as a writer. Featuring selections of his brilliant fiction and nonfiction, the Reader is comprised of outstanding chapters from the novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, along with legendary stories including "The Depressed Person," "Good Old Neon," and his previously unpublished first story. This collection also features Wallace's essays delving into luxury ("A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"), morality ("Consider the Lobster"), sports ("Roger Federer Both Flesh and Not"), literature, and the deep paradoxes of American life, plus reading lists from his career as a professor. This deluxe edition of THE DAVID FOSTER… Read More

First edition. SIGNED by the author to the title page, his printed name smacked out. "The living is the telling, there's nothing going on with me that isn't either told or tellable, and if so, what's the difference, why live at all?" Octavo. 467, [1] blank] pages. Publisher's baby blue paper boards backed in black cloth, spine stamped in metallic blue; dazzling original illustrated dust jacket. Internally clean, fresh and tight. One of only 1300 copies issued on substandard paper stock, text block admits inevitable faint toning along some margins and edges. Dust jacket unclipped ($18.95); minor wear to head and foot of spine and corners. Housed in custom brown cloth clamshell case, spine stamped in gilt. Very near fine book in a fine jacket. Book #vC2222. $4900. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science. Seller Inventory # Vc2222

SIGNED and inscribed on front paste-down by Booker T Washington in the year of publication. "It is only as the black man produces something that makes markets of the world dependent on him for something will he find his rightful place": RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BINDING OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S BLACK-BELT DIAMONDS, 1898, INSCRIBED, AND DATED BY HIM. First edition of these highly celebrated singular excerpts of Washington's early lectures and writings, drawn extensively from his Sunday Evening Tuskegee Talks, including passages from Democracy and Education (1896), Southern Lynch Law (1893) and other influential works. Compiled in print for the first time and edited by prominent African American journalist and activist, Victoria Earle Matthews, "an instrumental figure in the social reform to 'uplift' African Americans." Black-Belt Diamonds, published two years before Washington's first autobiography, Story of My Life and Work, is a core assembly of "gems" from his earlier influential… Read More

SIGNED by James Watson, in SEALED shrink wrap and in PERFECT. condition! A beautiful Limited Numbered Collector's Edition signed by the author, James D. Watson, on the limitation page in fine unread condition, bound in handsome tan brown leather with gold titling and black accents. Enclosed in a matching slipcase that is in perfect, Library-Quality condition, still in the original shrink wrap. This edition includes scientific voices and commentary to the narrative, with more background information and illustrations as well as numerous photographs (many published for the first time), many letters and other documents in full or in part. Book #Cv2351. $898. This heavy item will require extra shipping charges. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history and science.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND Dated in year of publication directly to the front fly leaf. Hardbound First Edition/First Printing in chestnut and tan boards with gilt lettering along spine; as new condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket in bright, wonderful condition. A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television - as irreverent and alluring as the beloved actress herself. You won't find a better copy! Book #Pv5a155. $95. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED second printing of Whitehead's memoirs from Goldman Sachs to chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation after 9 11. A very near fine signed copy with no other wwritings or markings save for Whitehead's inscription to "a great leader in his own right." Book #P5b110. $58. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by Walt Whitman in commemoration of his 70th birthday. Intended for Whitman's private distribution and Banned by American bookshops and libraries for its explicit sexual imagery. One of only 300 copies of Whitman's 70 birthday edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman s literary masterpiece, "America's second Declaration of Independence" (PMM, 342). With six portraits of Whitman, including the famous original mounted frontispiece photograph with a butterfly resting on his finger. Whitman s explanatory note is printed on the title page: "Today, after finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special complete, final utterance, in one handy volume of L. of G. with their Annex, and Backward Glance-and for stamping and sprinkling all with portraits and facial photos, such as they actually were, taken from life, different stages. Doubtless, anyhow, the volume is more a Person than a book. And for testimony to all (and good measure) I here with pen and ink append my name." Text and… Read More

SEALED, Perfect copy, presumed First Edition. When Fragments was first released, it was sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. It's never been touched through the decades. Book #P2108. $52. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science. Book #P2108. $52. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED First Edition, one of only 5000 first printing copies of this high spot of twentieth century drama. With The Glass Menagerie, Williams set out to create a new kind of "Plastic Theatre," a highly expressionistic language of the stage to replace what he saw as the stale conventions of realism. In theatrical terms, Williams's approach has been called Brechtian: It uses devices meant to create what the German playwright and dramaturge, Bertolt Brecht, (Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children), called the "alienation effect." Williams succeeded, thereby revolutionizing American theater. Within two weeks of opening on Broadway in 1945, the play won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, catapulting Williams to fame. In the words of the citation, the award was offered "To Tennessee Williams for his play 'The Glass Menagerie' and its sensitive understanding of four troubled human beings" (New York Times).8vo. Original publisher's russet cloth; spine stamped in black… Read More

SIGNED by Tenessee Williams (no personalization) on the front flyleaf, a highly collectible first edition copy, one of only 5080 copies, of his Pulitzer Prize winning drama of faded, promiscuous Blanche DuBois vs her brutally sexy brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, still celebrated 75 years after its Broadway opening as one of the finest achievements in the American theatre. A highspot of theatre and cinema, Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s. Of his Broadway performance in Streetcar, Brando remarked: "What I remember most about a Streetcar Named Desire was the emotional grind of acting in it six nights and two afternoons a week. Try to imagine what it was like walking on stage at 8:30 every night having to yell, scream, cry, break dishes,… Read More

SIGNED positively New First Edition copy, still in Easton Press's shrink wrap. Opened only by the author for his signature. Reflecting on the deepest origins of language, storytelling, and art, E O Wilson, one of our most highly celebrated biologists, chronicles the evolution of creativity from primate ancestors to humans, spurred on by the invention of language. "Without the invention of language," Wilson concludes, 'we would have remained animals. Without metaphors, we would still be savages." Bound in fine genuine leather, this utterly flawless, library-quality copy of The Origins of Creativity in publisher's shrink wrap is accented with 22k gold lettering and decorations and hubbed with Easton's distinctive raised spine rings. Page ends are gilded in 22k gold to protect against dust and humidity. Origins is also printed on archival-quality acid-neutral paper, Smyth sewn for strength and durability. Endsheets of moire silk and a permanent satin ribbon page marker. Contains Easton's Certificate of… Read More

SIGNED UNmatched Condition! His new title's coming summer, 2021! UNread copy of Fire and Fury, Wolff's account of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and the early days of his presidency. Acquired in person on January 16, 2018 in Philadelphia, this First Edition, Fifth Printing, has already become very scarce and highly desirable. A beautiful copy signed without personalization of a book which has made publishing history. Michael Wolff's Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency" is scheduled for July, 2021, publisher Henry Holt has announced. Trump, who condemned Fire and Fury and attempted to have its publication halted, is among those who spoke to Wolff for his new book, according to Holt. Book #Pv5b202. $52. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, & science.

"Freedom belongs to the strong" (from Wright's inscription). WRIGHT, Richard (1908–1960). Uncle Tom's Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with titles lettered in gilt (sunning to spine; some soiling to paper edges). Fourth edition. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT WITH AN AUTOGRAPHED QUOTATION SIGNED: "To Charlotte Rosenbaum / 'Freedom belongs to the strong' / Sincerely, Richard Wright / 7/8/40 / Chicago." Originally published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. Book #Cv2302. $1550. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.