nobel
prize
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PHYSICS
1918
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 Academy 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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1921
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 morocco; 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. Effectively, the more certainty with which a subatomic particle’s speed is measured, the less accuracy can be assigned to its position. The uncertainty principle 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 elements 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.
19 3 8
“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 particularly 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 engineer, mathematician, physicist, and educator who fled France in 1941
and taught at Harvard until 1968. On some pages, Le Corbeiller has penciled 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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2013
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 Mesons. 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 mechanism 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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CHEMISTRY
1921
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 collaborator 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 inscribed 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 “terrestrial heat and the effect it would have on calculations of the
age of the earth made by Kelvin’s method” (DSB). A near-fine inscribed copy with an outstanding association.
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PHYSIOLOGY & MEDICINE
1962
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 biology, 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 describing 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 transfer 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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LITERATURE
1921
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 Stories. New York and London, 1914. Nineteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco gilt. $4800.
Beautifully bound “Bergeret Edition,” 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.” Nobel 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, melodious style” (Reid, 242). This beautifully bound limited edition of
France’s works includes The Crime
of Sylvestre Bonnard (translated
by Lafcadio Hearn), whose skeptical 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.
1923
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 volume contains variant wordings from a wide range of published sources,
from the first appearance of individual poems to their final appearance in various collections, each footnoted with Yeats’ emendations. 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.
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1930
“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 disquieting 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. Without scarce original glassine and slipcase. A
very nearly fine signed copy.
1934
“Anticipated And Influenced Much
Of 20th-Century Drama”
11. PIRANDELLO, Luigi. Scamandro.
Roma, July 1909. Octavo, original parchment wrappers; custom morocco clamshell box. $2500.
First and only separate edition of the first published play by the winner 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, Pirandello’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 Pirandello’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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1936
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 successful 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 reputation 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.
1953
“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 important 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 firsthand account of the British government’s
massive efforts to win the war, and depicts 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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1938
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 printing; 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 exceptional copy, in the elusive original dust jacket and inscribed by Buck.
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1949
“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 Tragedy 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.
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1954
“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 secured Hemingway’s reputation as “the modern American master
of the [form]… [The] epigraph to Winner Take Nothing… is perhaps the finest and most accurate brief description of Hemingway’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.
1969
“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 comprehensible 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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1962
“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 (measures 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.
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1976
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.
1978
Inscribed By Isaac Bashevis Singer
20. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. Stories for Children. 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 includes “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.
1982
“The Greatest Achievement In Spanish Literature Since Don Quixote”
21. GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. One Hundred
Years of Solitude. New York, 1970. Octavo, original 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 electric 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 popular 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.
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1993
“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 Morrison 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 enormously, achingly alive” (Sara Blackburn).
A fine signed copy.
1999
“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 masterpiece 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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PEACE
1922
“The Highest Latitude Then Reached By Man”
24. NANSEN, Fridtjof. 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.
1979
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, inscribed: “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. Original postal markings. Two hole punches, one affecting the word
“Dear.” About-fine condition.
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1986
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-Teshuva, “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 imaginative 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.
1993
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 considerably 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 balancer 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 ultimate 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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1990
“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 Reagan the proverb and suggested that he learn a
few to help him with Soviet relations. Reagan
developed a particular affinity for “Trust but verify,” using it so often that even Gorbachev commented on it. The second print is from the first
Ronald Reagan Freedom Award ceremony. The
award is the highest civilian honor by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. The award
is given to “those who have made monumental
and lasting contributions to the cause of freedom worldwide.” The first award was presented
to Gorbachev. The photograph was taken after
presentation. Gorbachev has signed this second
print. Fine condition.
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2002
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture,
Signed By Jimmy Carter
29. CARTER, Jimmy. The Nobel 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 decades 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.
2009
Inscribed By President
Barack Obama
30. OBAMA, Barack. The
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. New York, 2006. Octavo, original boards, dust
jacket. $4500.
First edition, inscribed on the title page, “To Dan & Sharon – Best wishes! Barack Obama.”
“Obama… is that rare politician who can actually write”
(New York Times). Written while he was still the junior United 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 common set of values that bind us together despite our differences; a running thread of hope that makes our improbably
experiment in democracy work.” Fine.
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ECONOMICS
1972
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; mathematical 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 theory… The quintessential ‘economist’s economist,’ Hicks cannot be said to have founded a ‘school… If any, his school was
‘economics… Hicks’ scholarly output is a perfect demonstration of how economics should be done: without partisanship
for pet theories, without ideological quibbling, his own strictest critic, learning from all and everywhere, constantly searching for new ideas and staying glued to none… No economist,
before or since Hicks, has achieved such ‘Olympian’ scholarship” (Fonseca). “Hicks will probably appear in the history
of economics as the greatest British theorist of the century”
(Niehans, 371). Fine condition.
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 major 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.
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1985
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. Theoretical 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 theory emerged concerning the connection between financial market
characteristics and the financing of investments, debts, taxes, etc.
Once established, this theory developed very rapidly” (Nobel Media). The Modigliani-Miller theorem is largely responsible for modern 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.
1993
Inscribed By Robert Fogel
34.
FOGEL, Robert William. The Fourth
Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism. 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 alternatives and traditional techniques of economic history,
to explain economic growth and decline” (Nobel press
release). In The Fourth Great Awakening Fogel “ambitiously 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.
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1994
The First Publication Of Nash’s
“Two-Person Cooperative Games”
35.
NASH, John. “The Bargaining Problem.” IN: Econometrica, Volume 21, Numbers 1,2, and 4, pp. 128-40;
97-117; 503-46; 269-90. Chicago, January-October 1953. Octavo, contemporary 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 seminal 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.
1998
“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, discussing 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 measurement, 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 theorists” (Guardian). Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics 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.
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2001
Signed By Joseph Stiglitz
37. STIGLITZ, Joseph. Making Globalization 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 chairman of Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and then as chief
economist at the World Bank… Now, as enthusiasm about economic integration has waned, Stiglitz 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 integration will ultimately prove a force for good… Stiglitz
has given us a well-written and informative primer on the major global economic problems” (New
York Times). A fine signed copy.
2012
“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 Mathematical 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 framework 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 theory, 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.
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