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1960A33112New York: Reynal & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed on the front endpaper by the subject Felix Frankfurter. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and beginning chips along with some lightish spots of rubbing to the spine ends and front cover. "Felix Frankfurter November 15 1882 February 22 1965 was a jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was active politically helping to found the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court for 23 years and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court." This book was "the only commercially published oral history conducted with a Supreme Court justice." . Reynal & Company hardcover books
1970110917Phila.: Girard Bank 1970. First edition. Inscribed by Michener on the title page. "To Morris Duane James A. Michener." Also signed by Wyeth as "James B. Wyeth" on the title page. Illustrated label on front board. Issued without dustjacket. Slipcase. The slipcase has a tiny scratch; it is in Near Fine condition. The book is in Fine condition. Duane was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer mover and shaker in the city's civic endeavors and a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. Inscribed by Author & Artist. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine. Illus. by Jamie Wyeth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Girard Bank Hardcover books
1915L02594875 ad pages with 20 photo plates including frontispiece. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 3/4" issued in light blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. inscribed by Charmain on front end paper. First Edition.<br /><br />Charmian Kittredge London November 27 1871-January 14 1955 was Jack London's second wife. After divorcing Bess Maddern London in 1904 London married Charmian Kittredge the following year. Biographer Russ Kingman called Charmian "Jack's soul-mate always at his side and a perfect match." She was the author of several books about her life with Jack London: The Log of the Snark Our Hawaii and The Book of Jack London. The last is considered by scholars to be an important but flawed source of biographical information on London: Clarice Stasz calls it "an uneven account that omits Jack's illegitimacy yet has surprisingly frank information nonetheless concerning his personality." Their relationship became the subject of a book Clarice Stasz' American Dreamers. The couple had no children who survived them. One died soon after being born and another pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Shortly after the death of Jack London Charmian had an affair with Harry Houdini. A PBS source cites an Houdini biographer saying: Most of the evidence of their affair convincingly reconstructed by Houdini biographer Kenneth Silverman comes from brief entries in Charmian's diaries. They saw each other over several weeks early in 1918 while Charmian was living in New York where Houdini was starring in the patriotic World War I extravaganza "Cheer Up." Charmian wrote that after they saw each other a few times Houdini made a "declaration" that "rather shakes me up." They became intimate a short time later. She wrote that one visit by Houdini had "stirred me to the deep" and that he apparently felt the same declaring "I'm mad about you" and "I give all of myself to you." Throughout she refers to him alternately as "Magic" her "Magic Man" or "Magic Lover." As intense as it apparently was their attachment did not last long. Charmian the "New Woman" whose marriage to London had included open sexual experimentation never stopped seeing other men.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Inscription to front end paper. Edge wear length paraphrasing to back end paper corners bumped else a very good copy lacking jacket. Macmillan Company hardcover books
200030939NY: Simon & Schuster 2000. First edition. Limited issue signed by Thompson on the front free endpage as issued. Leather-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations all edges gilt moire pastedowns and endpages satin pagemarker. Issued without dustjacket. Limitation not specified purportedly about three hundred copies. Introduction by David Halberstam. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Rear board bottom edge with trifle bump; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
19242604<p> Harper & Brothers New York and London 1924 Octavo bound in original slate gray cloth with gilt titles 294 pp. including index. Top edge stained yellow. Stated first edition in the <b>RARE ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER.</b> Offsetting from old moisture damage evidenced by a white residue mark running the width of the rear cover approximately one inch from the top edge. The damage mirrors a stain on the wrapper's rear panel and spine. The stain while noticeable is less detracting than one might expect not affecting the spine of the book itself that is otherwise fine and bright. There is other minor soiling and wear to the dust wrapper but it is unfaded and complete lettered in navy blue against a pale turquoise ground. '"Price $4.00" is printed on the inner flap along with a list of Harper publications on psychology and psychoanalysis. The back flap and rear panel also serve as advertisements for current Harper publications. The front cover of the dust wrapper however is fully dedicated to the promotion of Houdini ".He dissects with an especially keen scalpel he does not wield it as one determined to destroy but rather a seeker after truth. Although he has the utmost respect for the honest belief of any person he is the relentless enemy of deliberate fraud and the account of his adventures in the investigation and detection of it forms a valuable chapter in the crusade for the truth." Thus the wrapper is indeed a marvelous historical document in its own right. Not just a mere ornamental cover for a book it stands as a publisher's clever harnessing of the public's endless fascination with the magician and man who was the Great Houdini.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
197012230San Lazzaro di Savena BO: Privately Printed 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #763 of a non-commercial numbered edition. Signed and inscribed on the title page by Enzo Ferrari to the famous Italian actress Lina Volonghi in 1971. 249 18pp. Red cloth lettered in white on the spine panel. This is a new edition of the most famous title by Ferrari Le mie gioie terribili an autobiographical work in which he discusses his life and his cars with revised text different photographs and printed in a slightly different format. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with just a hint of wear a faint spot to the verso and a very mildy faded spine panel. A really charming an indeed rare presentation copy. ; Quarto; 249 pages; Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Privately Printed hardcover books
194432352Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in original vellum-backed marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label in original blue slipcase. Small quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. 10 pp. Printed beautifully with large calligraphic typeface title printed in red capitals in red and blue pages ruled in red. Limited edition numbered 61 of 100 copies. Inscribed by FDR to Jonathan Daniels on front free endpaper. Daniels son of Josephus Daniels was FDR's administrative assistant and served as his press secretary in the month before the president died. <br/><br/> (U.S. Government Printing Office) hardcover books
