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1993rif. 109045London: Chatto & Windus 1993. First British edition. Hardcover. His fourth novel. A very near fine copy with the usual darkening to the pages in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Lively on the title page. Chatto & Windus unknown books
1857rif. 408581857. Sedgwick Adam 1785-1873. Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall. Dent Yorkshire Oct. 7 1857; Trinity College Cambridge Oct. 31 1857. 8pp. total. 186 x 113 mm. Light soiling along folds but very good. Letters with excellent scientific content from one of the founders of modern geology. Sedgwick was responsible for defining the Devonian and Cambrian ages in the geological time scale and his immensely popular lecture courses on geology delivered annually at Cambridge between 1819 and 1870 had an enormous influence on succeeding generations of English geologists. One of his students was Charles Darwin who began attending Sedgwick's lectures in January 1831 and accompanied Sedgwick on a geological field tour of Wales the following summer. The two men remained friends until Sedgwick's death even though Sedgwick was never able to accept Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. IIn his Oct. 7 letter to Marshall Sedgwick discusses the geological researches he was then undertaking in England's Lake District: "I mean D.V. to work my way to Ulverston; & on Saturday or possibly Monday to transfer my head quarters to Broughton. I want to connect our work in all quarries on the east side of the road with the great open quarries in the Ireleth country; which we failed to do. The beds in the great open quarries strike very differently from those you & I saw; yet the strike of the cleavage is unchanged in direction & from end to end almost perpendicular--I think it highly probable that the bed between the Ireleth slate & the Ulverston estuary are nearly all from the flag or flag & grit--And I suspect that some hard gritty ridges I remember to have seen in a part of Cartmell Fell are but a repetition by enormous fault of the Comiston grits. . . ." Sedgwick also notes his intention to "hear Dr. Livingstone's evening lecture"; this is a reference to David Livingstone 1813-73 famous for his exploration of Africa. Sedgwick later provided a preface to Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures 1858. In his Oct. 31 letter Sedgwick touches on his precarious health--"On Monday I ought to have begun my course of lectures but on that day I had a severe relapse of vertigo & was obliged to put off my lectures until Friday yesterday"--and continues his discussion of his work: "All the rocks from the Ireleth country to the Comiston Ulverston sands are Comiston flag--But in our final traverse we found the hard Comiston grits in the hills S. W. of Penny Bridge--just where they ought to be--I think there is an enormous break down the valley meeting the complicated faults which come down from the hill a little North of Seathwaite at an angle.--In short the country from Ireleth Moor inclusive to the Sand of Ulverston has had a shove southwards of about five miles!" The recipient of these letters James Marshall was an amateur geologist and Fellow of the Geological Society. A friend of both Sedgwick and John Herschel Marshall was "a keen advocate of scientific education" Briggs Victorian Cities 1993 p. 161. Olroyd Earth Water Ice and Fire 2002 p. 20. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. . unknown books
1948rif. 220115Pasadena California: Trail's End Publshing Co 1948. Collector's Edition one of 600 copies. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo. Carl Rungius. Collector's Edition one of 600 copies. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo. Rampaging Herd 16; Adams Six-Guns 14 Trail's End Publshing Co unknown books
1814rif. 236681London: Printed for the Author 1814. Fourth edition with "many additions and improvements. 44 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in marbled later wrappers. Very good. Fourth edition with "many additions and improvements". 44 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First published in 1797 this was a popular anti-tobacco tract which was also reprinted in editions of 1798 1805 as well as this last lifetime London edition a New York edition appeared in 1829. "Fairholt notices that DISSERTATION 'was one of the bitterest attacks on the habit and becme the textbook of the oppositionists'" Brooks Arents Catalogue. Arents Vol. IV 1126-c Printed for the Author unknown books
1917rif. 217987Toronto: Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited 1917. Author' Edition. First edition Number 848 of 875 Impressions on All-Rag Watermarked Paper signed by the Publisher. Illustrated. 23 vols. 4to 27.2 x 20.5 cm. Bound in fulll green morocco upper board with large gilt seal t.e.g. Fine. Author' Edition. First edition Number 848 of 875 Impressions on All-Rag Watermarked Paper signed by the Publisher. Illustrated. 23 vols. 4to 27.2 x 20.5 cm. Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited unknown books
1990rif. 102084London: Secker & Warburg 1990. First edition. Softcover. His second book. A fine copy of this paperback original. Inscribed and signed by Thorpe on the title page in 1993. Secker & Warburg unknown books
1988rif. 102083London: Secker & Warburg 1988. First edition. Softcover. 85 pages. Thorpe's first book a collection of poems reportedly done in a printing of 1000 copies. A very fine copy of this paperback original in a very fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Thorpe on the title page in 1993. Uncommon. Secker & Warburg unknown books
rif. 06714Paris: chez Bulla et chez Aumont 1830. Victor Adam's Spectacular Masterpiece of the Bullring Twelve Magnificent Hand-Colored Lithographs Heightened with Gum Arabic With an Autograph Letter Signed by the Artist ADAM Victor Jean Victor Adam. Combat du Taureau / Corrida de Toros Bull Fight. Douze sujets dessinés d'après nature par Victor Adam. Paris: chez Bulla et chez Aumont ca. 1837. First edition. Oblong folio 13 7/16 x 18 7/8 inches; 341 x 480 mm. Twelve magnificent hand-colored lithographed plates by Victor Adam printed by Lemercier Bénard et Cie. each with captions in French and Spanish and all heightened with gum arabic. An autograph letter in French signed by Victor Adam mounted on the verso of the front blank. Plate III with a neat one-inch repair to the lower blank margin; a few occasional minor marginal marks. The contemporary hand-coloring exceptionally bright and fresh throughout. Three-quarter dark blue morocco over marbled boards. Front cover with large rectangular dark blue morocco label bordered and lettered in gilt. Spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt and lettered in gilt compartments. An exceptionally fine complete and beautifully colored example of one of the most spectacular pictorial representations of the Spanish bullfight produced during the French Romantic era further distinguished by an autograph letter signed by the artist. Jean Victor Adam 1801-1866 one of the most accomplished and prolific French lithographers of the nineteenth century studied under Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Charles Meynier. Celebrated particularly for his military and equestrian subjects Adam possessed an extraordinary ability to capture animals in motion a talent nowhere more dramatically displayed than in his remarkable Combat du Taureau. The twelve plates present a vivid and compelling pictorial narrative of the traditional Spanish corrida beginning with the ceremonial entrance of the bull into the arena and proceeding through the successive encounters with the picadors and other participants the increasingly dangerous confrontations between man horse and bull and finally the matador's fatal thrust and the removal of the dying animal from the ring. Adam's remarkable powers of observation his understanding of equine and bovine anatomy and his ability to convey movement and violent action combine to produce a series of exceptional dramatic intensity. The magnificent bulls spirited horses brilliantly costumed horsemen and richly decorated borders are rendered with extraordinary precision and vitality. The artist does not disguise the brutality of the spectacle; rather he captures its pageantry danger excitement and tragedy with an immediacy seldom encountered in nineteenth-century sporting lithography. Each composition is enclosed within an elaborate ornamental border incorporating appropriate emblems and motifs of the bullring. The exceptionally fine contemporary hand-coloring heightened throughout with gum arabic lends a remarkable brilliance and luminosity to the costumes animals and arena scenes. The resulting visual effect is both sumptuous and theatrical. Of particular interest is the accompanying autograph letter in French signed by Victor Adam and mounted on the verso of the front blank. An attractive and unusual association with the artist adding a further dimension of desirability to this already remarkable suite. A notably scarce publication especially complete and in such exceptionally fine contemporary coloring. An imperfect example containing only six of the twelve plates appeared as lot 953 in the dispersal of the library of Howth Castle Ireland on September 22 2021. A complete example retaining its original lithographed wrapper is preserved in the Musée Carnavalet Paris where the series is dated 1837. The work is also recorded by Palau and in the nineteenth-century catalogue of Damascène Morgand. Adam's finest lithographic achievements belong to the great flourishing of French Romantic lithography during the 1830s and 1840s before his work became increasingly commercial in character. Combat du Taureau is among the most ambitious and visually impressive productions of this period combining his celebrated mastery of animal subjects with a powerful sense of theatrical composition. A magnificent and exceptionally desirable suite of twelve hand-colored lithographs representing one of the great achievements of nineteenth-century French sporting art and a cornerstone work for any serious collection of bullfighting literature and iconography. References: Palau 2598; Damascène Morgand 18412; not in Bobins. Paris: chez Bulla et chez Aumont, 1830 unknown books
rif. 06465Paris: Hautecoeur Frères 1860. A Delightful and Extremely Scarce Equestrian Caricature Album Sixteen Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Albert Adam Son of the Celebrated Victor Adam ADAM Albert illustrator. Scènes Comiques d'après Nature. Plates lithographed by Godard. Paris: Hautecoeur Frères 1860. Oblong octavo 6 5/16 × 10 inches; 161 × 253 mm. Hand-colored lithographed pictorial title-page and sixteen numbered hand-colored lithograph plates many containing several individual scenes. Publisher's pictorial green paper boards upper cover illustrated lithographically neatly rebacked to style. Neat contemporary ink inscription dated 1860 on front free endpaper. An excellent example of this extremely scarce and delightfully humorous collection of equestrian caricatures preserved in its original pictorial publisher's boards. Albert Adam's Scènes Comiques d'après Nature is a wonderfully entertaining series of humorous sketches depicting the trials and tribulations of horses riders coachmen passengers and other unfortunate participants in the hazards of nineteenth-century travel. The sixteen beautifully hand-colored lithographs contain numerous individual illustrations frequently combining a principal composition with several smaller vignettes. Horses bolt carriages overturn riders are unceremoniously thrown from their mounts and the supposedly dignified travelers of fashionable France find themselves in the most undignified predicaments. Adam's spirited draughtsmanship keen observation of equine behavior and delightful sense of humor are evident throughout. An Extremely Scarce Publisher's Album of Sixteen Hand-Colored Lithographs The present example contains the first sixteen consecutively numbered plates of Scènes Comiques d'après Nature preserved in the publisher's original pictorial green boards. David Brass Rare Books previously handled a larger example DB 04067 containing thirty-two numbered plates comprising the same first sixteen compositions followed by a further sixteen numbered 17-32. A closely related publication Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes also issued by Hautecoeur Frères and lithographed by Godard presents thirty-two numbered compositions arranged two to a sheet on sixteen larger leaves. The first compositions correspond to those in the present album. See David Brass Rare Books DB 04860 and Bibliotheca Hippologica Johan Dejager no. 361. These surviving examples establish that Adam's illustrations circulated in different formats and arrangements. Whether Scènes Comiques d'après Nature was originally issued in separate sixteen-plate livraisons or whether the smaller albums represent publisher's selections from a more extensive series remains to be conclusively determined. Copies retaining their original pictorial boards are particularly desirable. Albert Adam 1833-1900 was a French draughtsman caricaturist and lithographer the son of the celebrated painter and lithographer Jean-Victor Adam 1801-1866 with whom he frequently collaborated. Like his father Albert specialized in equestrian subjects demonstrating a particular talent for the depiction of horses in motion and the humorous mishaps of riders and travelers. His lively compositions capture both the elegance and the inherent absurdities of nineteenth-century sporting and social life. The Plates: Un Chien emporté with two smaller scenes. Culbute à la Marche. Désagrément du Macadam with two smaller scenes. Le Pot de fer et le Pot de terre with two smaller scenes. Une Famille d'Allemands. Touché!!! with three smaller scenes. Ces Messieurs s'amusent with five smaller scenes. C'est celle-là! qui est une bête de premier mérite with one smaller scene. Une branche de salut with three smaller scenes. Une belle Famille with four smaller scenes. Un accident imprévu with two smaller scenes. Un Cheval qui a couru à la Marche with five smaller scenes. Voiture à l'usage des amateurs de culbutes with one smaller scene. Le Déjeuner interrompu. Arrosement public et gratis with four smaller scenes. La Ruade with five smaller scenes. A charming and remarkably uncommon example of mid-nineteenth-century French equestrian caricature with delightful contemporary hand-coloring preserved in the publisher's original illustrated green boards. Related reference: Bibliotheca Hippologica Johan Dejager no. 361 for the related Tribulations Parisiennes et Campagnardes. Paris: Hautecoeur Frères, 1860 unknown books
2006rif. 171766Culver City CA: N.p. 2006. Fifth Numbered Draft / White Shooting Draft script for the 2007 film. Copy belonging to uncredited senior model maker Greg Jein with their name on a label on the bottom right corner of the cover sheet. Two straight single New York firefighters Chuck and Larry Adam Sandler and Kevin James pretend to be a gay couple to receive domestic partner benefits so Larry a widowed father can provide life insurance for his two children. Featuring Dan Aykroyd Jessica Biel Steve Buscemi and Ving Rhames in supporting roles. Set in and shot on location in Brooklyn New York Los Angeles and Niagara Falls Canada. Front wrapper integral with cover sheet memo noted as 5th Numbered/White Shooting Draft on the front wrapper dated 8/23/06. Title page present dated 8/23/06 noted as 5th Numbered Draft - White Shooting Script with credits for screenwriter Barry Fanaro treatment by Lew Gallo revisions by "Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel / Gary Ross / Jon Favreau / Stephen Engel / Peter Tolan / ALexander Payne and Jim Taylor / Adam Sandler Allen Covert and Nick Swardson / Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy / Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel / Adam Sandler Robert Smigel Tim Herlihy and Tom Shadyac" and "Current Revisions" by Adam Sandler Allen Covert and Donna Langley. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with dampstaining to the bottom of the final ten pages bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1997rif. 171935N.p.: N.p. 1997. Draft script for the 1998 film. An awkward 31-year-old mama's boy works as the water boy for a university football team but becomes an unexpected success as an outside linebacker. Set in Louisiana and shot on location in central Florida. Self wrappers. Title page present dated October 15 1997 with credits for screenwriters Adam Sandler and Tim Herlihy. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2015rif. 17333New York: Random House 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket unclipped $27.00. Quarter black paper with blue paper on the boards silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound clean internally. A collction of six stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son. Random House hardcover books
1996rif. 172997Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1996. Table Draft script Second Draft script and Third Draft script for Season 1 Episode 3 of the unaired 1996 television series. Third Draft script with revision pages laid into the back of the script and a label affixed to the front wrapper with the name of executive producer Stephen Steve Sustarsic. Included with the screenplays is a contact sheet for the cast. Created by David Silverman Twentieth Century-Fox produced and filmed seven episodes of the television series in 1996 which never aired. Series following a Lincoln Memorial security guard who after accidentally taking a bullet for the president gets his wish to become a Secret Service agent. Table Draft: "The Write Stuff:" Purple titled wrappers noted as TABLE DRAFT on the front wrapper dated October 13 1996 with credits for screenwriter Adam Lapdius Lapidus and director Jeff Meyer. Title page integral with front wrapper. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 50. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Draft: "The Write Stuff:" Blue titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated October 16 1996 with credits for screenwriter Adam Lapidus and director Jeff Meyer. Title page integral with front wrapper. 50 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Third Draft: "The Write Stuff:" Blue titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as THIRD DRAFT on the front wrapper dated October 17 1996 with credits for screenwriter Adam Lapidus and director Jeff Meyer. Title page integral with front wrapper. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/17/96 and 10/18/96. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Contact sheet bound with a staple at the top left corner Very Good plus. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
1799rif. 19803London: A. Strahan; T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies 1799. Ninth Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. The ninth edition of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published in London in 1799. Octavo three volumes xii 499; 2; vi 518pp 6; vii 1 465pp 1 49pp index 1 ads. With an appendix to the second volume and an index in the third. Half title in each volume. Uniformly bound period polished calf boards new spines titles stamped in gilt with decorative gilt embellishments. Original marbled boards hinges rebuilt text block resewn. Light toning to endpapers text block clean throughout. Pencil marks on rear endpapers of Volume I. An attractive set which appeared nine years after Smith's death. First published in 1776 Smith's work established a foundation for classical political economy through its treatment of the division of labor capital international trade taxation and public expenditure. A. Strahan; T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies unknown books
1985rif. 161959Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1985. Vintage studio still photograph of actor Griffin Dunne from the 1984 film. A man and a woman who have been involved in an affair must hide their association when they attend a dinner party with their respective partners. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967rif. 161915N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1967 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A sadistic maniac preys on young couples. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes in the corners. N.p. unknown books
2025rif. 17148New York: MCD Farrar Straus and Giroux 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Adam Johnson in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 716pp. Gentle shelfwear to dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with upper board decorated in gilt stars and spine lettered in gilt. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unmarked. A highly presentable signed first edition of this "powerful and original epic" The New York Times by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Orphan Master's Son. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. Talking corpses poetic parrots and a fan that wafts the breath of life-this is the world young K rero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her island a place so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. Her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation and the wayward stranger offers them an impossible choice: they can remain in the only home they've ever known and await the uncertainty to come or K rero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What K rero and her people don't know is that the promised refuge is no utopia-instead Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency. The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting graves are being opened and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together the stranger and K rero embark upon an epic voyage-one that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific. Evoking the grandeur of Wolf Hall and the splendor of Sh gun the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson conjures oral history restores the natural world and locates what's best in humanity. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive The Wayfinder is an instant timeless classic. Signed by Adam Johnson in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 716pp. Gentle shelfwear to dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with upper board decorated in gilt stars and spine lettered in gilt. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unmarked. A highly presentable signed first edition of this "powerful and original epic" The New York Times by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Orphan Master's Son. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. Talking corpses poetic parrots and a fan that wafts the breath of life-this is the world young KÅrero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her island a place so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. Her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation and the wayward stranger offers them an impossible choice: they can remain in the only home they've ever known and await the uncertainty to come or KÅrero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What KÅrero and her people don't know is that the promised refuge is no utopia-instead Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency. The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting graves are being opened and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together the stranger and KÅrero embark upon an epic voyage-one that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific. Evoking the grandeur of Wolf Hall and the splendor of ShÅgun the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson conjures oral history restores the natural world and locates what's best in humanity. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive The Wayfinder is an instant timeless classic. MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
2011rif. 163915Los Angeles: New Line Cinema 2011. Draft script for the 2012 film musical. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. Laid in with the script are four bound gatherings of revision pages dated variously between May 20 and June 13 2011. Based on the long-running 2005 jukebox musical by Chris D'Arienzo about a pair of star-crossed lovers who meet on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. As with the stage play the film featured numerous rock hits from the 1980s with songs by Bon Jovi Def Leppard Poison Pat Benatar Joan Jett Whitesnake and others. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Miami Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale Florida and in Los Angeles. Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 18 2011 noted as FULL YELLOW with credits for screenwriters D'Arienzo Allan Loeb Jordan Roberts Michael Arndt and Justin Theroux. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Xerographic duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages about Fine bound with two gold brads. New Line Cinema unknown books
2025rif. 17260New York: Author's Equity 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good . First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Adam Cohen to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". xviii 357pp. A hint of shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket with Signed Copy label to front panel. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unread. A very presentable signed first edition of this account of a harrowing journey at sea and its legal aftermath by acclaimed journalist Pulitzer Prize juror and New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. "A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many" Yann Martel author of Life of Pi On May 19 1884 the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism. Their decision to sacrifice the youngest-17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker-ignited a firestorm of controversy upon their rescue. Instead of being hailed as heroes and survivors Dudley and his crew found themselves at the center of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens a landmark murder trial that would establish the legal precedent that necessity cannot justify murder-a principle that continues to shape Anglo-American law today. In Captain's Dinner acclaimed journalist Pulitzer Prize juror and New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen masterfully depicts both the harrowing weeks at sea and the sensational trial that followed. "Is killing one innocent person justified if it saves the lives of three others Cohen's answer-in this riveting account-reads like a thriller" former U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. Through this Victorian tragedy Cohen reveals an enduring conflict between primal instincts and moral principles. This book will "make you think long and hard about what you might do to survive" Ezekiel J. Emanuel M.D. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Perfect for readers of David Grann's The Wager and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea this pulse-pounding true story has become a real-life example of one of life's greatest moral dilemmas. "Thoroughly researched and impeccably argued" Martel. Rich with narrative detail and real-life courtroom twists "brilliant and profound" bestselling author Amy Chua Captain's Dinner strikes at the heart of a question that haunts us all: When does survival justify murder Publisher. Signed by Adam Cohen to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". xviii 357pp. A hint of shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket with Signed Copy label to front panel. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unread. A very presentable signed first edition of this account of a harrowing journey at sea and its legal aftermath by acclaimed journalist Pulitzer Prize juror and New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. "A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many" Yann Martel author of Life of Pi On May 19 1884 the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism. Their decision to sacrifice the youngest-17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker-ignited a firestorm of controversy upon their rescue. Instead of being hailed as heroes and survivors Dudley and his crew found themselves at the center of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens a landmark murder trial that would establish the legal precedent that necessity cannot justify murder-a principle that continues to shape Anglo-American law today. In Captain's Dinner acclaimed journalist Pulitzer Prize juror and New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen masterfully depicts both the harrowing weeks at sea and the sensational trial that followed. "Is killing one innocent person justified if it saves the lives of three others Cohen's answer-in this riveting account-reads like a thriller" former U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. Through this Victorian tragedy Cohen reveals an enduring conflict between primal instincts and moral principles. This book will "make you think long and hard about what you might do to survive" Ezekiel J. Emanuel M.D. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Perfect for readers of David Grann's The Wager and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea this pulse-pounding true story has become a real-life example of one of life's greatest moral dilemmas. "Thoroughly researched and impeccably argued" Martel. Rich with narrative detail and real-life courtroom twists "brilliant and profound" bestselling author Amy Chua Captain's Dinner strikes at the heart of a question that haunts us all: When does survival justify murder Publisher. Author's Equity hardcover books
2012rif. 169393New York: Random House 2012. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. As New. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Random House unknown books
1958rif. 168459San Francisco: White Rabbit 1958. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. A book of poetry by noted San Francisco-based poet journalist and photographer Helen Adams with illustrations by Jess Collins. Spine lightly toned else Near Fine in sewn wrappers. White Rabbit unknown books
2012rif. 17759New York: Random House 2012. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed first edition of The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson. Octavo 12 443pp 7. Black hardcover title in red on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with full number line listed. Solid text block. In the publisher's dust jacket $26.00 retail price on front flap a fine example. Signed by Adam Johnson on a tipped-in leaf. The Orphan Master's Son received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Random House hardcover books
2025rif. 16410New York: Little Brown and Company 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /Very good . First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Adam Haslett in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition Stated First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 323pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable signed first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A mother and son estranged for years must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family forgiveness and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever by "one of the country's most talented writers" Wall Street Journal At forty Peter an asylum lawyer in New York City is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann his mother who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart. With unsurpassed emotional depth Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and the love that might be restored by facing it.Publisher. Signed by Adam Haslett in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition Stated First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 323pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable signed first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A mother and son estranged for years must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family forgiveness and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever by "one of the country's most talented writers" Wall Street Journal At forty Peter an asylum lawyer in New York City is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann his mother who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart. With unsurpassed emotional depth Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and the love that might be restored by facing it.Publisher. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2002rif. 165641New York: Ruth Horowitz 2002. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Includes texts by Evan Hause Richard Howard Adam Klein Lynne Tillman and Martin Wilner. Fine in spiral-bound wrappers in a lightly toned else Near Fine example of the publisher's slipcase. Ruth Horowitz unknown books
rif. 165739Various cities: RAM / Whitney Museum / Steidl / Nash Editions 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition complete in three volumes one of a numbered edition of 55 this being No. 42 with an original print SIGNED by the artist. Each volume additionally SIGNED by the artist on the half-title page. Text in English and German. Each volume Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning along the jacket spines. Print Fine in publisher's paper folio. Print and volumes housed together in publisher's white hard plastic slipcase. Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. RAM / Whitney Museum / Steidl / Nash Editions unknown books
