Search Results: Books from The Manhattan Rare Book Company

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION, the basis for the 1983 Academy Award winning film starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Usual mild age-toning to text, only the slightest wear to extremities of jacket. A beautiful copy.

London: Collins. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION of Cornwell's second published book in the Sharpe series on the Napoleonic Wars. Set in August 1810 during the Peninsular War and featuring the destruction of Almeida. Although it is Cornwell's second book in the series, it is the ninth book chronologically in the fictional epic. London: Harper Collins, 1981. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, dust jacket price-clipped, otherwise fine.

Rome: Roma: G.Giacomo de Rossi, 1660. 5th edition or later. no binding. Fine. Beautiful 1660 engraving of the Baths of Caracalla, by Marco Sadeler. Exquisite original engraving from 1660 of Rome showing parts of the Baths of Caracalla.  Engraved by Marco Sadeler, part of the most famous European print-making family of the 17th Century. Plate #19 from: Vestigii dussa parte di dentro delle terme d'Antonino caracala. Roma: G.Giacomo de Rossi, 1660. A few stray spots, otherwise fine with exceptionally large margins. Engraving: 14.5 x 10.25 in.; image alone: 10.25 x 6 in.

Valencia Spain & New York: Aperture/A New Images Book & IVAM/Col.lecció Centre del Carme, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of one of Prince's most influential books, published in conjunction with the artist's landmark 1989 exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art in Valencia, Spain. Illustrated with over 200 color images and with a preface by Corinne Diserens & Vincent Todoli and an 'interview' with Richard Prince and the author J.G. Ballard. (Valencia, Spain/New York): Aperture/A New Images Book & IVAM/Col.lecció Centre del Carme, (1989). Quarto (286x195mm), original photo-pictorial wrappers. A fine copy.

London: Victor Gollancz. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. Octavo, original grey boards, original dust jacket. Slight creasing to top of rear panel of dust jacket. A BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY.

New York: Delacorte, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY O'BRIEN on title page: "To David, Peace, Tim O'Brien." The winner of the 1979 National Book Award. "Going After Cacciato was a breakthrough book not only for O'Brien, but for American literature, the first howl of the Vietnam Vet hurling through the public's disdain. It is that rare gem, a work of American magical realism" (Liz Rosenberg, National Book Foundation). New York: Delacorte, 1978. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Cloth with a touch of fading at edges (as often); dust jacket with striking artwork by M.S. Chaing with only the most minute wear at edges. A beautiful copy.

London: np, 1941. No Binding. Fine. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Noel Coward, with content pertaining to theater. Addressed to a young admirer, Robert Bishop, Coward writes: "I was very interested to get your nice letter. I had a miniature theater when I was younger than you & I have never forgotten all the pleasure it gave me. "I think, taken all round, it is a good plan to go to a training school such as Italia Conti - although I did not do so myself. I rather advise it as it is so much easier to get an opening through a school than on one's own. Anyway, all good luck to you. "Yours Sincerely [signed] Noel Coward" Quarto (8x10 in.), one sheet (recto and verso, 1.5 written pages); folds, otherwise fine. WITH: Three letters (three sheets total) on Coward's letterhead to Robert Bishop from Lorn Lorraine, Coward's secretary.

New York: William Morrow & Co. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. FIRST EDITION OF CREWS' first novel. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1968. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Book very good with slight lean but no discoloration to endpapers (as usual); dust jacket near fine with only most minimal wear. A superb copy.

New York: Random House, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Truman Capote's first novel. Published in 1948, when Capote was only 23 years old, "Other Voices almost immeditaely jumped onto the New York Times best-seller list, where it remained for nine weeks. It sold more than 26,000 copies... Although many other novels of 1948, including Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, outsold it several times over, no other was so much discussed, or became so controversial. Truman's reputation, which had been building among literary people since "Miriam," exploded in all directions. People who had never walked into a bookstore suddenly knew the name and, most certainly, the face of Truman Capote" (Clarke, Capote). New York: Random House, 1948. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine; dust jacket clean and bright with light toning to spine and a few tiny abrasions. A very attractive copy.

Spain: np. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. Large initial "C" cut from a Spanish antiphonal (c. 1500) richly painted on parchment. Initial painted in shades of brown and tan on a decorated purple background. Initial is framed in a lovely gold frame with custom matting and UV protected glass. A few spots of flaking around the border edge, otherwise fine. Frame Size: 10x12 inches (255x305mm); Cutting: 3x4.5 inches (75x115mm).

Spain: np. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. Large initial "D" cut from a Spanish antiphonal (c. 1500) richly painted on parchment. Initial painted in shades of brown on a decorated purple background. Framed in a lovely gold frame with custom matting and UV protected glass. A few spots of flaking and a hint of rippling; colors strong and dark. Frame Size: 10x12 inches (255x305mm); Cutting: 3.5x5 inches (90x130mm).

Spain: np. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. Brightly painted initial "E" cut from a Spanish antiphonal (c. 1500) on parchment. . Initial painted in gold & red on a beautifully decorated violet background framed in gold. A little flecking at border, otherwise fine. Initial is framed in a lovely gold frame with custom matting and UV protected glass.     
Frame Size: 10x12 inches (255x305 mm) 
Cutting:  3.75x4.5 inches (113x93 mm).

New York: Xavier Moreau Inc. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION of one of Newton's most successful books, illustrated with 180 black-and-white photographs. Although the limitation is not stated, it is believed that the edition was limited to 200 copies. (New York): Xavier Moreau Inc., (1984). Tall quarto, original silver-stamped gray cloth, original slipcase. A fine copy.

London: Macmillan, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Kipling's popular nautical tale, with vivid descriptions of the Massachusetts fishing industry. The basis for the 1937 film starring Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, and Mickey Rooney. London: Macmillan, 1897. Octavo, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. Book slightly cocked (as often); a few spots to cloth, crease to rear endpaper. Text unusually clean and cloth gilt bright. Without scarce dust jacket.

Stockholm: Moderna Muséet, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, profusely illustrated with full-page black and white photographs. Warhol's Moderna Muséet catalog "is a fine example of the catalogue-as-artist's-book, a form that ostensibly began with the Dadaists and Surrealists, and is produced with some of the roughest reproductions ever seen, which are entirely appropriate, and supplemented by a long section of Factory snapshots by Billy Name. The genre was revitalized by the Pop movement, and Warhol in particular, which demonstrates his position as a latter-day Dadaist. The Moderna Museet publication especially had a great influence upon Japanese photography in the late 1960s and 1970s, particularly the photobooks of the Provoke era" (Parr and Badger, Vol II). Published by Moderna Muséet, Sweden, in 1968 as an exhibition catalogue for the show "Andy Warhol" at the Moderna Muséet in Stockholm, February - March, 1968. Stockholm: Moderna Muséet, 1968. Quarto (approx. 8.5… Read More

London: Taylor & Francis. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important papers in the history of statistics, introducing the 'chi-squared' test of goodness of fit, "one of the most useful of all statistical tests" and "one of Pearson's greatest single contributions to statistical methodology" (DSB). "Specification or stochastic modeling of data is an important step in statistical analysis of data. Karl Pearson was the first to recognize this problem and introduce criterion, in a paper published in 1900, to examine whether the observed data support a given specification. He called it chi-squared goodness-of-fit test, which motivated research in testing of hypotheses and estimation of unknown parameters and led to the development of statistics as a separate discipline... In an article entitled "Trial by Number", [Ian] Hacking says that the goodness of fit chi-square test introduced by Karl Pearson (1900) 'ushered in a… Read More

Paris: Les Editions De Minuit. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. First French edition, SIGNED BY BECKETT on title page; one of only 112 copies printed on "bouffant select marques" and reserved for the publishers. A collection of six short plays, translated from English by Beckett. Includes: Comédie, Va et vient, Cascando, Paroles et musique, Dis Joe, Acte sans paroles II. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, (1966). Octavo, original printed wrappers; glassine. Unopened. A FINE COPY.

New York: Harper & Row. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND DATED BY MAURICE SENDAK (1981). A delightful collaboration between Sendak and Keeshan, better known for his role as Captain Kangaroo. Text by Robert Keeshan. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. 16mo. Original color pictorial boards, original dustjacket. Rare signed.

Leipzig: Barth, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of two important Einstein papers, including one of the two papers on his Noble Prize winning work on the photoelectric effect. On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption: A continuation and development of Einstein's revolutionary first paper in 1905 on the photoelectric effect ("On a Heuristic Point of View about the Creation and Conversion of Light"). "In a companion paper [to "On a Heuristic Point..."], published in 1906, Einstein exposed appeal to the quantum as fundamentally counter to the ethos of classical physics: 'the theoretical bases on which Planck's radiation theory rests are different from those of Maxwell's theory'. Planck had not initially intended to quantify light-radiation itself, but Einstein demonstrated that his own 'light-quantum hypothesis' was implicit in Planck's earlier work. In viewing radiation not as a continuous wave, but as composed of small packets of energy (later called photons),… Read More

Paris: Surréalistes, 1930. First edition. Original wrappers. Good. FIRST EDITION ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDRÉ BRETON. Written within the span of only three weeks during the summer of 1930, André Breton and Paul Éluard's L'Immaculée Conception is a quintessential example of the Surrealist practice of automatic writing. While Surrealism today may at first evoke painters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí, Surrealism was demarcated by its founders, namely Breton, as an experiment as much, if not more, in language and literature as the visual arts. Thus, the process of automatic writing which he developed across his lifetime sits at the heart of the first Surrealist Manifesto (1924)-and L'Immaculée Conception represents a pinnacle automatic text executed by two of the major Surrealist vanguards themselves. In a 1961 interview with Judith Jasmin, Breton maintained that the mission of Surrealism has been the same since 1924, and that Surrealism continues to be defined as:… Read More