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Fine Autograph Letter Signed By Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Max Planck, Berlin, 1938

1. PLANCK, Max. Autograph letter signed. Berlin, June 12, 1930. One octavo leaf, 6 by 8-1/4 inches, written on recto. $1600.

Fine autograph letter signed by physicist Max Planck, thanking Samuel Clemens’ distant cousin Cyril Clemens for electing him an honorary member of the Mark Twain Society.

Max Planck was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. In 1938, Planck celebrated his 80th birthday. At the end of the year, the Prussian Acade-my lost its remaining independence and was taken over by Nazis; Planck protested by resigning his presidency. His letter reads in full (translated): “I have received your kind letter of 22.4 in which you notified me that the Mark Twain Society has elected me as an honorary member and I want to thank you very much for that. It will be my special pleasure and honor from now on to be permitted to count myself amongst the member of your greatly esteemed Society.” Includes two letters to Cyril Clemens from Albert Einstein’s secretary, Helen Dukas, including a typed letter signed dated 1947 advising him that “You may reach Professor Max Planck c.o. University Gottingen, British Zone, Germany.” Cyril Clemens (1902-99) was a distant cousin to Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and spent much of his career researching, writing about, and promoting the work of Mark Twain. Text in German. Fine condition.

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Inscribed By Albert Einstein

2. EINSTEIN, Albert. Out of My Later Years. New York, 1950. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $12,500.

First edition of Einstein’s second collection of social science-related articles, addresses, speeches, letters and papers covering the period before, during, and after the Second World War, inscribed by him, “To Mrs. Enid Ruth Hammer, A. Einstein. 52.”

Commenting on the potential conflict of science and politics, Albert Einstein once turned to an assistant and sighed, “Yes, time has to be divided this way between politics and our equations” (DSB). Einstein offers further thoughts crossing that divide, mirroring his political, social, philosophical and scientific concerns. Drawn from articles, speeches, letters and various papers, all written from 1934 to 1950, with many published here for the first time, the book includes selections on science, ethics, public affairs, issues in Jewish history, the dilemma of modern war and tributes to figures such as Marie Curie, Isaac Newton and Mahatma Gandhi. A nearly fine copy.

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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: The Basis For A New Scientific Language

3. HEISENBERG, Werner. Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematick und Mechanik. IN: Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 43; pp. 172-198. Berlin, 1927. Octavo, modern half black mo-rocco; custom box. $9000.

First appearance of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, setting absolute limits on human knowledge and redefining the study of subatomic particles.

The uncertainty principle “states simply that it is not possible to calculate with perfect accuracy both the position and momentum of a subatomic particle. Ef-fectively, the more certainty with which a subatomic particle’s speed is mea-sured, the less accuracy can be assigned to its position. The uncertainty prin-ciple gave full weight to an idea that had been known to physics for several years: namely, that ordinary language cannot describe the atom. The atom can only be measured, and into these measurements is built inherent uncertainty due to the limitations of human perception” (Simmons, Scientific 100). Since Heisenberg and other scientists insisted that theory should only include such el-ements which are, in principle, observable, the uncertainty principle required a completely new direction to the atom. Still more profoundly, Heisenberg’s paper forced scientists to confront the unsettling notion that one of the most revered and ancient goals of science, namely that of being able to understand at any one moment the position and velocity of every particle in the universe, must be abandoned. Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics for “the creation of quantum mechanics” (Nobel: The Man and his Prizes). Bookplate; owner signature on title page. A fine copy.

“I Enjoyed Particularly Reading Some Of The Interesting Books That You Have Collected”

4. FERMI, Enrico. Autograph letter signed. (TIPPED INTO: BORN, Max. Atomic Physics, 1947.). Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dec. 1953. Small sheet of paper, 5 by 3 inches, handwritten in pencil on verso. Tipped into Atomic Physics, octavo, original cloth. $7500.

Fine autograph letter signed from 1938 Nobel Laureate in Physics Enrico Fermi to Harvard Physics Professor Philippe Le Corbeiller for the use of his office and book collection during his visit. The letter has been tipped into a heavily annotated later edition of 1954 Nobel Laureate Max Born’s Atomic Physics—undoubtedly one of the books that Fermi mentions reading during his stay.

The letter reads in full, “Dear Professor Le Corbeiller: Thank you very much for allowing me to use your office during my visit to Harvard. I enjoyed particularly reading some of the interesting books that you have collected. Sincerely Yours, E. Fermi.” Fermi dated the letter only “Dec.”, somebody, presumably Prof. Le Corbeiller, later added the year “‘53.” Professor Enrico Fermi was the first Morris Loeb “Short Term” Lecturer at Harvard University in the 1953 Fall Term. It was at this time that Fermi used Le Corbeiller’s office. This copy of Max Born’s Atomic Physics was undoubtedly one “of the interesting books” collected by Le Corbeiller that he “enjoyed particu-larly reading.” Rubber stamped on the half-title page indicating ownership is “P. Le Corbeiller / Cruft Laboratory / Harvard University / Cambridge 38, Mass.” Philippe Le Corbeiller (1891-1980), French-American electrical en-gineer, mathematician, physicist, and educator who fled France in 1941 and taught at Harvard until 1968. On some pages, Le Corbeiller has pen-ciled mathematical equations, short notes, and numerous page references to other pages. The book itself has had expert restoration to the original cloth. Autograph letter fine.

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The Search For The Higgs Boson: Landmark 1964 Paper By The Co-Winner Of The 2013 Nobel Prize For Physics, Francois Englert

5. ENGLERT, F. and BROUT, R. Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Me-sons. IN: Physical Review Letters. Volume 13, Number 9, pp. 321-23. New York, 31 August 1964. Quarto, original printed paper wrappers. $4500.

First edition of this groundbreaking paper in the search for the Higgs boson—a crucial theoretical particle that at the time of this paper’s publication had not yet been named. The recent discovery of the Higgs boson led to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert jointly winning the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for laying the theoretical groundwork with a series of three papers published in Physical Review Letters in 1964, of which this is one. (Englert’s co-author, Brout, died in 2011 and was thus ineligible.).

In 1964 three teams proposed related but different approaches to explain how mass could arise in local gauge theories. These three, now famous, papers were written by 1) François Englert and Robert Brout; 2) Peter Higgs; and 3) Gerald Guralnik, C. Richard Hagen, and Tom Kibble, and all are credited with the prediction of the Higgs boson and Higgs mech-anism which provides the means by which gauge bosons can acquire non-zero masses in the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking. The mechanism is the key element of the electroweak theory that forms part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and of many models, such as the Grand Unified Theory, that go beyond it. The papers that introduce this mechanism were published in Physical Review Letters and were each recognized as milestone papers by PRL’s 50th anniversary celebration. Staples renewed, wrappers expertly repaired at fold. A near-fine copy.

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Exceptional Presentation-Association Copy Of Soddy’s Interpretation Of The Atom, Inscribed To Physicist John Joly

6. SODDY, Frederick. The Interpretation of the Atom. London, 1932. Thick octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3200.

First and only edition, presentation copy, of Frederick Soddy’s second book on physics and radioactivity, with two folding tables and dozens of half-tones, inscribed on a tipped-in slip: “J. Joly Esq. F.R.S., Somerset House, Temple Road, Dublin. Thanks for the use of illustrations. FS. October 1932.”

Soddy’s second book is an analysis of the rapid developments in radioactivity and atomic theory in the early decades of the 20th century. A pioneer in atomic theory, Soddy was Rutherford’s col-laborator in, among other things, the crucial alpha-ray experiments that led to their revolutionary disintegration theory of radioactivity. Soddy independently became the first to recognize that chemically identical atoms of different atomic weights were all varieties of the same atom, leading him to coin the term “isotope” (Jenkins-Jones, 446). In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize. This copy is in-scribed to Irish physicist John Joly, thanking him for photographs, including the one at Figure 33 that depicts “Haloes of Unknown Origin in Ytterby Mica.” Joly’s greatest fame came in the area of radioactivity, where he made groundbreaking discoveries into “ter-restrial heat and the effect it would have on calculations of the age of the earth made by Kelvin’s method” (DSB). A near-fine in-scribed copy with an outstanding association.

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Inscribed By James Watson

7. WATSON, James D. The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York, 1968. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $4500.

First edition of Watson’s controversial personal account of the DNA discovery, inscribed on the front flyleaf by him, “For Jay Hoagland, from Jim Watson.” The recipient, Mahlon “Jay” Hoagland, Jr., is the son of biochemist Mahlon Hoagland, who first described tRNA, “the elusive adaptor molecule that Dr. Crick had proposed to account for the step in which amino acids are transported to the ribosome” (New York Times).

“One of the investigators, more than any of the others, realized the decisive importance of the DNA molecules in bi-ology, and it was this understanding which urged him relentlessly to push this work toward a successful conclusion” (Mayr, 823). “He has described admirably how it feels to have that frightening and beautiful experience of making a great scientific discovery” (Richard Feynman). Mahlon Hoagland, father of the recipient, worked with Crick after de-scribing the tRNA molecule: “It soon turned out that a biochemist at the Harvard Medical School, Mahlon Hoagland, had quite independently obtained some experimental evidence that supported my proposal [that a tRNA molecule of some sort must exist]… A little later Mahlon came to Cambridge for a year and we did experiments together on trans-fer RNA” (Crick, What Mad Pursuit, 96). Cloth sunned along upper and lower edges; dust jacket with gently sunned spine and a few small chips. A very good inscribed copy.

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1962


Comprehensive Signed Limited Edition Of Yeats’ Poems

9. YEATS, William Butler. The Variorum Edition of the Poems. New York, 1957. Large thick octavo, original red and tan cloth, slipcase. $3800.

Signed limited first edition, one of 825 copies signed by Yeats.

Few poets revised as frequently or extensively as did Yeats. This vol-ume contains variant wordings from a wide range of published sources,

from the first appearance of individual poems to their final appear-ance in various collections, each footnoted with Yeats’ emenda-tions. With an appendix containing Yeats’ own notes regarding the poems. As was occasionally the case with popular authors, Yeats signed his name to number of specially printed sheets to be tipped into publications after his death. Without scarce original acetate. A bit of minor rubbing and toning to slipcase. Book fine.

Deluxe Illustrated Set Of The Works Of Anatole France, One Of Only 50 Copies

8. FRANCE, Anatole. The Authorized English Translations of the Novels and Short Sto-ries. New York and London, 1914. Nineteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco gilt. $4800.

Beautifully bound “Bergeret Edi-tion,” number 1 of only 50 sets, of France’s novels and short stories, with over 40 full-page illustrations, a number by Auguste Leroux.

“I have sought truth strenuously, I have met her boldly. I have never turned from her even when she wore an unexpected aspect.” No-bel Prize-winner Anatole France is particularly known for “his graceful erudition, his love of beauty… his subtle, biting irony… his clarity of thought, and his elegant, melodi-ous style” (Reid, 242). This beau-tifully bound limited edition of France’s works includes The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (translated by Lafcadio Hearn), whose skep-tical old scholar protagonist made France famous, At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque, in which France ridicules believers in the occult, Penguin Island, his famous satire on human nature, and The Opinions of Jérôme Coignard, which captures the atmosphere of the fin de siècle. Several frontispieces and plates excised. A splendid set, with spines toned to mellow brown and only minor scuffs to covers of first and last volumes.

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“A Pagan Novel For A Pagan World”

10. LEWIS, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. New York, 1925. Octavo, original buckram

spine, blue paper boards, custom cloth slipcase. $3200.

Signed limited first edition of what many consider Lewis’ greatest novel, one of only 500 large paper copies signed by him.

“Using for his theme the losing fight made by two men with whom scientific truth is religion, Mr. Lewis draws a picture for us that is disqui-eting in its disillusionment… Arrowsmith is a pagan novel for a pagan world… an authentic step forward” (Books of the Century). Although Arrowsmith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Lewis declined the honor, ostensibly because Main Street (1921) had not been so honored. His

rejection, however, also secured front-page status for this satire of the medical profession in the nation’s newspapers. Adapted to the screen in 1931 by director John Ford. With-out scarce original glassine and slipcase. A very nearly fine signed copy.

“Anticipated And Influenced Much Of 20th-Century Drama”

11. PIRANDELLO, Luigi. Scamandro. Roma, July 1909. Octavo, original parchment wrappers; custom mo-rocco clamshell box. $2500.

First and only separate edition of the first published play by the win-ner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature, probably privately printed for friends in a very small number of copies. Very rare.

“As a writer of poetry, short stories, novels, essays and drama, Pi-randello’s career is marked by change, evolution, and development of concepts and themes that anticipated and influenced much of 20th-century drama. His contributions include several of the absolute hallmarks of the modern stage” (Pribic, 330). Scamandro is Pirandel-lo’s first published play and points the way toward his later landmarks; it is correspondingly much more difficult to obtain in first edition, as it comes from the period before his theatrical success and was privately printed. Text in Italian. Some neat repairs to spine. An extremely good copy, very scarce.

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O’Neill’s “Most Successful Work,” Signed

12. O’NEILL, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra. New York, 1931. Tall octavo, original full Japan vellum gilt, black morocco spine label; slipcase. $1650.

Signed limited first edition, one of only 550 copies signed by O’Neill, with eight facsimile leaves of O’Neill’s notes on the play in a special pocket at the rear of the book.

“Mourning Becomes Electra is in many respects O’Neill’s most success-ful work. It transposes the events of Aeschylus’ Oresteia to a Puritanical family in New England, replacing the old acceptance of fate with a modern

doctrine of psychological causation” (Hartnoll, 612). The trilogy “probably led to the award of the Nobel Prize in 1936, and on which his rep-utation largely rested until a decade and more after his death” (Black). Without scarce original slipcase. Interior fine, lightest soiling to vellum. A scarce about-fine signed copy.

“One Of The Most Brilliant Treatises On War That Has Ever Been Written”

13. CHURCHILL, Winston. The World Crisis. London, 1923-31. Six volumes. Octavo, original navy cloth, slipcase. $6000.

First English editions of Churchill’s im-portant history of World War I. “Not only the best account of the most tremendous convulsion the world has ever seen, but one of the most brilliant treatises on war that has ever been written” (Spectator).

During WWI, Churchill served variously as the head of the British Navy, Minister for Munitions, and as a foot soldier in the trenches. The World Crisis offers his first-hand account of the British government’s massive efforts to win the war, and de-picts the political events that would serve as object lessons for Churchill when WWII broke out. Illustrated with numerous maps (many folding), charts, facsimiles, photographs, and a large folding colored map at rear of last volume. Preceded by the American editions, although “the English is more aesthetically desirable… equipped with shoulder notes on each page which summarize the subject of that page… It is more popular among collectors who wish to own only one edition” (Langworth). Without scarce dust jackets. Bookplates of British orthopedic surgeon W. Rowley Bristow, noted for his studies of injuries sustained by soldiers during both World Wars, in Volumes I-IV and VI. A fine set of this increasingly scarce Churchill title.

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Warmly Inscribed By Pearl Buck: First Edition Of Buck’s Classic

14. BUCK, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York, 1931. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, dust jacket. $42,000.

First edition, first issue, of Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a Chinese farmer’s sorrows and joys during the reign of the country’s last emperor, in rare original dust jacket, warmly inscribed by the author on the half title, “For Judy, every good wish, Pearl S. Buck.” An exceptional copy in lovely unrestored dust jacket.

Her greatest novel, The Good Earth, “immediately became an international bestseller, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, and made Pearl Buck’s name a household word” (ANB). She went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938—“the first American woman selected for Nobel recognition in any field. The award confounded early critical predictions of would-be publishers and literary agents, who warned that Western readers would take no interest in her fictional accounts of the ancient lands and peoples of Asia. Today her work is internationally acclaimed, and she remains one of America’s most widely translated authors” (Pribic). First edition, first issue, second state, with top edge brown and copyright page reading “John Day Company” as opposed to “John Day Publishing Company.” This change was made late in the first print-ing; therefore, the second state is scarcer than the first. Book very nearly fine with fine interior, very minor inoffensive crease to endpaper and half title, cloth lightly rubbed. Rare original and unrestored dust jacket about-fine with minute rubbing to spine edges, small closed tear to lower left corner and minor faint discoloration to lower right corner of front panel. A most desirable and excep-tional copy, in the elusive original dust jacket and inscribed by Buck.

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“The Greatest American Novel Since The Turn Of The Century”

15. FAULKNER, William. Absalom, Absalom! New York, 1936. Octavo, original half green cloth, custom clamshell box. $11,000.

Signed limited first edition, one of only 300 copies signed by Faulkner—with folding map of Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

“Absalom is the peak of Faulkner’s fictional achievement. It is unquestionably the greatest American novel since the turn of the century… Its sole competitors among contemporary American novels are Dreiser’s American Trage-dy and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, neither of which approaches Faulkner’s innovative daring” (Karl). As issued without dust jacket or slipcase. A fine signed copy.

1949


“After All, He Said To Himself, It Is Probably Only Insomnia. Many Must Have It”

16. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. New York, 1933. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $5000.

First edition of arguably Hemingway’s finest collection of short stories, in original dust jacket.

This distinguished collection of 14 Hemingway stories—six of which make their first appearance here (although the dust jacket claims 9)—includes “A Natural History of the Dead” and “After the Storm”—“more imaginative than anything Hemingway has hitherto written” (New York Times). Of particular importance is “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” the brilliant short story that se-cured Hemingway’s reputation as “the modern American master of the [form]… [The] epigraph to Winner Take Nothing… is per-haps the finest and most accurate brief description of Heming-way’s heroes, of what he set out to do in his best work and what in the main he accomplished” (McCormick). Book fine. Fresh bright dust jacket lightly toned with light wear to spine ends. An attractive unrestored copy in near-fine condition.

“An Entirely New Theatrical Language”

17. BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. London, 1956. Octavo, original yellow cloth; dust jacket. $1600.

First English edition of Beckett’s greatest and most influential play, translated into English from the original French by Beckett himself, in scarce original dust jacket.

“One of the most influential plays of the post-war period” and one of the central documents of the Absurdist school, Waiting for Godot earned Beckett worldwide acclaim (Drabble, 1038). “Beckett’s work invented an entirely new theatrical language, palpable and compre-hensible images of the absurd, and unforgettable metaphors of the human condition” (Hollier, 1010). En attendant Godot was written in 1946 but not published until the 1952 Paris first edition. The first English translation was published by Grove Press in 1954, followed by this 1956 London edition. With the tipped-in publisher’s notice: “When Waiting for Godot was transferred from the Arts Theatre to the Criterion Theatre, a small number of textual deletions were made to satisfy the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain. The text printed here is that used in the Criterion Theatre production.” A highly desirable about-fine copy.

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“I’ll Be Ever’where—Wherever You Look. Wherever They’s A Fight So Hungry People Can Eat, I’ll Be There”

18. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, illustrated endpapers, dust jacket; box. $17,000.

First edition, first issue, advance review copy of Steinbeck’s most important novel, his searing masterpiece of moral outrage and “intense humanity,” winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize, with laid-in publisher’s advance review copy card containing inkstamped “Apr 14 1939,” and promotional folding pamphlet, “What America Thinks of The Grapes of Wrath,” in original dust jacket, handsomely housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

“It is a long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum… Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled” (Peter Monro Jack). First issue, with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with laid-in publisher’s review copy card (mea-sures 3 by 5 inches) in typescript with inkstamped “Apr 14 1939.” Laid-in folding promotional pamphlet (3-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches) titled, “What America Thinks of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.” Tiny bit of tape reinforcement to verso of bright dust jacket. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

1962


“The Greatest Achievement In Spanish Literature Since Don Quixote”

21. GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York, 1970. Octavo, orig-inal green cloth, dust jacket. $5000.

First edition in English of “one of the preeminent literary achievements of the century,” in scarce first-issue dust jacket.

García Márquez’s wife Mercedes “had to pawn her hair dryer and their elec-tric heater to pay for the postage to mail the finished manuscript… to his Argentine publisher, who printed 8000 copies. They sold out in a week… Although the Boom in Latin-American fiction was well under way, the popu-lar response to One Hundred Years of Solitude was almost unimaginable… It is the most famous manifestation of the Boom, and García Márquez is the most celebrated of the prominent Boom writers” (Jon Lee Anderson). Pablo Neruda proclaimed it “the greatest achievement in Spanish literature since Don Quixote” (Klein, 26). First-issue dust jacket with exclamation point on front flap. Originally published in 1967 in Spanish. A fine copy in scarce price-clipped dust jacket.

Signed By Saul Bellow

19. BELLOW, Saul. Humboldt’s Gift. New York, 1975. Octavo, original half yellow cloth, dust jacket. $1200.

First edition of Bellow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, signed by him on a tipped-in leaf.

Awarded the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Humboldt’s Gift is the eighth novel by “the most distinguished novelist of the post-war period in America” (Vinson, 124). It was Bellow alone who “managed brilliantly, in the words of Philip Roth, ‘to close the gap between Thomas Mann and Damon Runyon.’ In doing so, he capture a huge slice of American life… giving new immediacy to the American novel” (New York Times). One of an unspecified number signed by Bellow on a tipped-in leaf for Kroch and Brentano’s First Edition Circle. A fine signed copy.

Inscribed By Isaac Bashevis Singer

20. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Stories for Chil-dren. New York, 1984. Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket. $500.

First trade edition of Singer’s enchanting collection of children’s stories, inscribed by him, “To D— and J— I. B. Singer.”

This wonderful collection of more than three dozen children’s stories in-cludes “A Tale of Three Wishes,” “A Hanukkah Eve in Warsaw,” and “Naftali the Storyteller & His Horse, Sus.” “First edition, 1984” on copyright page. Issued the same year as a signed limited edition, no priority established. A fine inscribed copy.

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“Enormously, Achingly Alive”

22. MORRISON, Toni. Sula. New York, 1974. Octavo, original orange cloth gilt, dust jacket. $3800.

First edition of Morrison’s scarce second book, signed by the author on the title page.

Nominated for the National Book Award, Sula met with not only critical acclaim but also popular success, establishing Mor-rison as one of the 20th century’s most significant novelists. “Her extravagantly beautiful, doomed characters are locked in a world where hope for the future is a foreign commodity, yet they are enor-mously, achingly alive” (Sara Blackburn). A fine signed copy.

“Fearful And Wonderful—Horribly Brilliant!”: Grass’ Danzig Trilogy, Each Volume Signed By The Author

23. GRASS, Gunther. The Tin Drum. WITH: Cat and Mouse. WITH: Dog Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962, 1963, 1965. Three volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jackets. $4500.

First American editions of the Nobel Laureate’s acclaimed Danzig trilogy, each volume signed by Grass.

When Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, his first novel, The Tin Drum was singled out for particular praise. The “publication of The Tin Drum meant a second birth for the German novel of the 20th century… It seems to stage the very march of history” (Nobel Prize Presentation Speech). Mark Van Doren praised Grass’s master-piece as “fearful and wonderful-horribly brilliant!” Grass followed up the Tin Drum with these two works that also tell about life in the Free City of Danzig before, during, and after World War II. All translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim. Minor abrasion to cloth of Dog Years. Bright dust jackets with very mild toning to spine only of Tin Drum, light edge-wear to Dog Years. A near-fine set, signed in each volume.

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“The Highest Latitude Then Reached By Man”

24. NANSEN, Fridt-jof. Farthest North,

Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96. Westminster, 1897. Two volumes. Octavo, original blue-green ribbed cloth gilt. $875.

First edition in English of Nansen’s account of his own polar expedition in the Fram, with frontispiece portrait, four folding maps printed in color, and more than 112 illustrations from sketches and photographs, of which 16 are printed in color.

“During the winter of 1894-95 it was decided that an expedition should be made northward over the ice on foot in the spring… Being satisfied that the ‘Fram’ would continue to drift safely,” Nansen led the expedition to 86 degrees North, “the highest latitude then reached by man” (Britannica). In the final decade of his life, Nansen devoted himself primarily to the League of Nations, following his appointment in 1921 as the League’s High Commissioner for Refugees. In 1922 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of the displaced victims of the First World War. First published in Norwegian earlier the same year. Near-fine condition.

Inscribed By Mother Teresa

25. MOTHER TERESA. Typed letter inscribed. Calcutta, April 17, 1985.

Printed buff-colored postcard, measuring 5-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches, with typed signed letter on verso. $1500.

Postcard from the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta with a typed letter from Mother Teresa thanking a Mr. Aruldass for his 10 rupee donation and for giving as much as he was able, in-scribed: “God bless you M Teresa MC.”

The typed letter is dated “April 17, 1985” and reads in full: “Dear Aruldass, Thank you for answering the call to love through your gift of Rs10/-for our poor–especially as you are giving not from your abundance but till it hurts. Assuring you of our prayers. [signed] God bless you. M Teresa MC.” Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Thirty years prior, the Albanian nun had left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic school in Calcutta to devote her life to working among the poorest in the slums. Orig-inal postal markings. Two hole punches, one affecting the word “Dear.” About-fine condition.

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Warmly Inscribed By Elie Wiesel To Renowned Scholar And Writer, Jacob Baal-Teshuva

26. WIESEL, Elie. Photograph inscribed. No place, 1988. Original black-and-white photograph. $800.

Original black-and-white photograph of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, inscribed to noted Chagall scholar, Jacob Baal-Teshu-va, “For Jacob—and Eve. Elie Wiesel,” with printed caption below image announcing the 1988 publication of Wiesel’s novel Twilight.

On winning the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, Elie Wiesel was hailed as “one of our most important spiritual leaders and guides.” This black-and-white photograph by Roman Vishniac contains a caption printed below the image, noting the 1988 publication of Wiesel’s Twilight, which was praised by The New York Times as a novel “that tackles large issues boldly… [with] somber imag-inative power.” Wiesel’s inscription, in blue ink along the right margin, is to his good friend Jacob Baal-Teshuva, the renowned Chagall scholar, writer and diplomat. Fine.

Signed By Nelson Mandela

27. MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Norwalk, CT, 1994. Octavo,

original full dark green morocco gilt. $9200.

Signed limited edition, one of an unknown limitation signed by the Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa’s first black president.

“The Nelson Mandela who emerges from his memoir… is consid-erably more human than the icon of legend… Mandela is, on the evidence of his amazing life, neither a messiah nor a moralist nor really a revolutionary but a pragmatist to the core, a shrewd bal-ancer of honor and interests. He is, to use a word unhappily fallen into disrepute, a politician, though one distinguished from lesser practitioners of his calling mainly by his unwavering faith in his ulti-mate objective, ending white minority rule.” At Mandela’s death in 2013, thousands gathered “to celebrate a life virtually unmatched in modern times… the last and most beloved of a generation of leaders who liberated South Africa from apartheid… in a feat many outsiders find even more miraculous, he triumphed over the spite to which a man might feel entitled if he has spent 27 years locked in a cell for the crime of presuming to be a citizen in his native land” (New York Times). A fine signed copy.

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“Trust But Verify”: Two Extraordinary Color Photographs Of Reagan With Gorbachev, One Inscribed By Reagan And The Other Signed By Gorbachev

28. GORBACHEV, Mikhail; REAGAN, Ronald. Photographs signed. No place, no date. Two color photographic prints, each measuring 10 by 8 inches. $20,000.

Two color photographs of Reagan and Gorbachev, one at the signing of the INF Treaty in 1987, inscribed: “‘Trust But Verify’—Ronald Reagan,” and the second of the two leaders embracing at the 1992 presentation of the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev.

The first of these signed color photographs represents a turning point in U.S.-Soviet relations. It depicts the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, unquestionably one of the most important agreements of the Cold War. The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km. The print is from the actual signing ceremony and shows Gorbachev and Reagan exchanging pens. “Trust but verify” is an English translation of a Russian proverb. Suzanne Massie, a Russian writer, taught Rea-gan the proverb and suggested that he learn a few to help him with Soviet relations. Reagan developed a particular affinity for “Trust but ver-ify,” using it so often that even Gorbachev com-mented on it. The second print is from the first Ronald Reagan Freedom Award ceremony. The award is the highest civilian honor by the Ron-ald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The award is given to “those who have made monumental and lasting contributions to the cause of free-dom worldwide.” The first award was presented to Gorbachev. The photograph was taken after presentation. Gorbachev has signed this second print. Fine condition.

1990


Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, Signed By Jimmy Carter

29. CARTER, Jimmy. The No-bel Peace Prize Lecture. New York, 2002. Small octavo, original beige cloth; dust jacket. $400.

First edition, signed on the title page by the 39th President.

Jimmy Carter won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Peace “for his de-cades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international

conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development” (Nobel Citation). This lecture was delivered on December 10, 2002 when he received the Prize. A fine signed copy.

2002

2009 Inscribed By President Barack Obama

30. OBAMA, Barack. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the Ameri-can Dream. New York, 2006. Octavo, original boards, dust jacket. $4500.

First edition, inscribed on the title page, “To Dan & Sha-ron – Best wishes! Barack Obama.” “Obama… is that rare politician who can actually write” (New York Times). Written while he was still the junior Unit-ed States senator from Illinois, Obama’s second book calls for a renewal of politics grounded in “a set of ideals that continue to stir [America’s] collective conscience; a com-mon set of values that bind us together despite our differ-ences; a running thread of hope that makes our improbably experiment in democracy work.” Fine.


First Edition Of Hicks’ Three-Volume Collected Essays On Economic Theory

31. HICKS, John R. Collected Essays on Economic Theory. Wealth and Welfare. WITH: Money, Interest and Wages. WITH: Classics and Moderns. Cambridge, Massachusetts,

1981. Octavo, original blue, green, and red cloth and paper boards, dust jacket. $1500.

First edition of this collection of essays on money and growth, including two previously unpublished essays.

This three-volume series comprises Hicks’ most important theoretical papers. It covers topics such as price and income; welfare economics; monetary theory; the differences between Hicks and Keynes; Hicks’ views on earlier economists; math-ematical economics; and trade. “One of the most important and influential economists of the 20th century, the trail of the eternally eclectic John Hicks is found all over economic the-ory… The quintessential ‘economist’s economist,’ Hicks can-not be said to have founded a ‘school… If any, his school was ‘economics… Hicks’ scholarly output is a perfect demonstra-tion of how economics should be done: without partisanship for pet theories, without ideological quibbling, his own strict-est critic, learning from all and everywhere, constantly search-ing for new ideas and staying glued to none… No economist, before or since Hicks, has achieved such ‘Olympian’ schol-arship” (Fonseca). “Hicks will probably appear in the history of economics as the greatest British theorist of the century” (Niehans, 371). Fine condition.

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1982 Inscribed By George Stigler

32. STIGLER, George J. Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist. New York,

1988. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $800.

First edition of Stigler’s memoirs, inscribed on the half title: “To Erica with best wishes, George J. Stigler.”

George Stigler’s autobiography is “a vivid and wonderfully written account of both his personal and professional life… He was a ma-jor intellectual force behind one of the most influential schools of

thought in economics, known as the Chicago school” (ANB). Stigler was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982 “for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation.” A fine signed copy.


Inscribed By Robert Fogel

34. FOGEL, Robert William. The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitar-

ianism. Chicago and London, 2000. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $650.

First edition of this “profound piece of intellectual history” (Library Journal), signed on the title page by Nobel laureate R.W. Fogel and dated by him, “3/14/13.”

In 1993 Fogel, along with Douglass Hall, received the Nobel Prize in Economics for developing “‘new economic history,’ or cliometrics, i.e.

research that combines economic theory, quantitative methods, hypothesis testing, counterfactual alterna-tives and traditional techniques of economic history, to explain economic growth and decline” (Nobel press release). In The Fourth Great Awakening Fogel “ambi-tiously tries to integrate the history of American religion with the history of social reform and the move toward equality” (Publishers Weekly). A fine inscribed copy.

One Of The Central Theories Of Corporate Finance

33. MODIGLIANI, Franco and MILLER, Merton Howard. “The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment.” IN: American Economic Review, Volume XLVIII,

Number 3, pp. 261-297. Menasha, Wisconsin, June, 1958. Octavo, original printed orange paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $4500.

First printing of Nobel Prize-winner Franco Modigliani and Nobel Prize-winner Merton Miller’s landmark theory of corporate finance.

“Up to the middle of the 1950s, the literature of corporate finance consisted mainly of descriptions of methods of institutions. Theoret-ical analysis was rare. It was not until Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller, in 1958, presented their now-famous theorem, and at about the same time James Tobin (Nobel Prize 1981) and others started to develop the theory of portfolio selection, that a scientific theo-ry emerged concerning the connection between financial market characteristics and the financing of investments, debts, taxes, etc. Once established, this theory developed very rapidly” (Nobel Me-dia). The Modigliani-Miller theorem is largely responsible for mod-ern thinking on capital structure. It holds, in the absence of certain financial interference—taxes, bankruptcy costs, agency costs, and asymmetric information—and in an efficient market, the value of a firm is unaffected by how a firm is financed. Thus, setting aside those financial disturbances, it does not matter if a firm’s capital is raised by issuing stock or selling debt or, indeed, by what a firm’s dividend policy is. Hence, the Modigliani-Miller theorem is often called the capital structure irrelevance principle. Toning to spine and bottom half inch of front wrapper, creasing to corner of back wrapper. A near-fine copy. Rare.

1985

1993


“Held In Enormously High Respect By Theoretical, Empirical And Policy Economists Alike”: Signed By Amartya Sen

36. SEN, Amartya. On Economic Inequality. New York, 1973. Octavo, original half white paper boards, dust jacket. $1500.

First American edition of this classic text on economic inequality, dis-cussing theories ranging welfare economics to Marxism, signed on the title page by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.

Nobel laureate “Amartya Sen has made fundamental contributions to at least four fields: social choice theory, welfare economics, economic mea-surement, and development economics… The pre-eminence that he has achieved in each of these different fields is remarkable for any scholar: that

he has achieved pre-eminence in so many is utterly extraordinary. He is held in enormously high respect by theoretical, empirical and policy economists alike—to say nothing of philosophers and political theo-rists” (Guardian). Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Econom-ics for landmark work that “opened up a new field within the theory of social choice” (Erikson, Nobel Prize Presentation Speech). Preceded by the British first edition. Near-fine, a desirable signed copy.

1998

The First Publication Of Nash’s “Two-Person Cooperative Games”

35. NASH, John. “The Bargaining Prob-lem.” IN: Econometrica, Volume 21, Numbers 1,2, and 4, pp. 128-40; 97-117; 503-46; 269-90. Chicago, January-October 1953. Octavo, con-temporary green cloth. $2800.

First edition of the complete volume of Econometrica containing the first publication of this influential article on game theory and the Nash equilibrium, as well as the first editions in English of Borel’s three sem-inal papers on game theory, and the first editions (written in French) of two of Maurice Allais’ groundbreaking papers on the Allais Paradox.

“Nash’s last significant contribution to the theory of games” (Nasar, 120). Published shortly after Nash received his Ph.D. in 1950, this is one of only three articles directly derived from Nash’s thesis research. While von Neumann and Morgenstern’s theory dealt with two-person zero-sum games, or “pure rivalries,” Nash explored rivalries with the possibility of mutual gain. His conclusion that any game that meets certain conditions has one equilibrium point became known as the “Nash equilibrium,” a founding concept in analyzing economic behavior, and the one for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1994. This volume of Econometrica also includes three articles by celebrated game theorist Émile Borel, two of which are the first editions in English. Borel “was the first to define games of strategy and to consider best strategies, mixed strategies, symmetric games, infinite games, and applications to war and economics. He proved the minimax theorem for three players… He must be considered the inventor… of game theory” (DSB). Comments by Fréchet and von Neumann follow the articles. Additionally, this volume includes Maurice Allis’ two papers, in French, on the Allais Paradox, which concerns the theory of choice under uncertainty. Ex-library, with expected stamps on title page and blanks. Near-fine.

1994


“The Person Chiefly Responsible For The Development Of Cooperative Game Theory Is Lloyd Shapley”

38. GALE, David and SHAPLEY, Lloyd. “College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage.” IN: The American Mathe-matical Monthly. Volume 69, Number 1, pp. 9-15 [entire issue present]. Menasha, WI and Buffalo, NY, January, 1962. Octavo, original blue printed paper wrappers. $2750.

First edition of this groundbreaking early paper by the co-winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics, Lloyd Shapley.

“This year’s prize-winning work encompasses a theoretical frame-work for analyzing resource allocation, as well as empirical studies and actual redesign of real-world institutions such as labor-market clearinghouses and school admissions procedures. The foundations for the theoretical framework were laid in 1962, when David Gale and Lloyd Shapley published a mathematical inquiry into a certain class of allocation problems [the present paper]… The person chiefly responsible for the development of cooperative game theory is Lloyd Shapley… In collaboration with D. Gale, H. Scarf and M. Shubik, Shapley created the theory of matching markets. Launching the the-ory, Gale and Shapley (1962) expressed the hope that one day it would have practical applications. This hope has been fulfilled by the emerging literature on market design” (Scientific Background on the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel [commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics] 2012). Had Gale lived, it is virtually certain he would have shared the Nobel with Shapley and Alvin E. Roth. Near-fine.

Signed By Joseph Stiglitz

37. STIGLITZ, Joseph. Making Global-ization Work. New York and London,

2006. Octavo, original blue paper boards, dust jacket. $400.

First edition, signed on the title page by Joseph Stiglitz.

Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz “spent most of the 1990s atop the commanding heights of this globalizing economy, first as the chair-man of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and then as chief

economist at the World Bank… Now, as enthusi-asm about economic integration has waned, Sti-glitz has emerged as one of globalization’s most prominent critics… Making Globalization Work is an optimistic book, offering the hope that global society has the will or the ability to address global problems and that international economic integra-tion will ultimately prove a force for good… Stiglitz has given us a well-written and informative prim-er on the major global economic problems” (New York Times). A fine signed copy.

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