The Inspiring Leadership of Sir Winston ChurchillPosted 27 June 2015Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Those words were spoken by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, otherwise known as Winston Churchill, one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th .... 
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$1,257.00 Description: First edition of Faulkner's first collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, blue topstain. Near fine in a good dust jacket with loss to the spine. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. Appearing two years after The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner's These 13 was issued on September 13, 1931 while he was writing the novel Light in August. These 13 won early praise as a collection of stories that "are, for the most part, Faulkner novels in miniature, " with A Rose For Emily ... Read More
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$407.00 Description: First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "James Best of Luck Marty 4/25/86." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Jacket photograph by Bob Wolfson. Written with the editorial assistance of Morrie Goldfischer. Renowned financier Martin Zweig guides readers to smart investing in the 1990s stock market with proven strategies on how to make informed buy and ... Read More
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![The Works of Joseph Conrad: Signed Limited Edition [Including Almayer’ S Folly; an Outcast of the Islands; the Nigger of the Narcissus; Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Nostromo; the Secret Agent; Under Western Eyes].](https://www4.alibris-static.com/imageid/2049752290_t.jpg)
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$6,507.00 Description: Signed limited edition of the complete works of Joseph Conrad, signed by Joseph Conrad on the limitation-page of Volume I. Octavo, 20 volumes, finely bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. One of 780 copies signed by Conrad. In near fine condition. A nice set. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine ... Read More
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$857.00 Description: First edition, first state, of Chandler's fifth hard-boiled novel featuring his iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe. Octavo, original orange cloth. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket by Boris Artzybasheff. To Raymond Chandler, whose novels helped define the hard-boiled novel, crime stories "belong 'to a world gone wrong, ' but 'down these mean streets a man must go who is himself not mean" (Bruccoli & Layman). Novelist Robert Parker said: "I learned to write from Raymond ... Read More
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$2,807.00 Description: First edition of Malamud's second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Susie and Paul dear friends, greetings! Bern Corvallis, Oregon January, 1958." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Near fine in a very ... Read More
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The Interpretation of Financial Statements $3,507.00 Description: First edition with the statement of first edition on the copyright page of this classic in understanding balance sheets. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Written in collaboration of Harold T. Johnson, Birl E. Shultz, Albert P. Squier, Belmont Towbin and Eric C. Vance. First printings are exceptionally scarce. First published in 1937, this highly praised manual has become a standard in understanding corporate balance sheets and income statements. This second revised edition takes ... Read More
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$482.00 Description: First edition of the best book on index investing ever published. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Andrea Karlosak with best wishes John C. Bogle." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Welsh. Foreword by Peter L. Bernstein. "Cogent, honest, and hard-hitting-a must read-for every investor" (Warren E. Buffett). John C. Bogle was founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and President of its Bogle Financial Markets ... Read More
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$457.00 Description: First edition of Malamud's sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Susie and Paul With affection for dear friends-Bern." The recipients, Suzanne and Paul Shrag were close friends of Malamud and brother of printmaker Karl Schrag. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Malamud began the initial composition of the novel in 1969 and completed it in 1971. Its plot ... Read More
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$1,807.00 Description: First edition of the third book in Cleary's classic Henry Huggins series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the title page. In very good condition. Illustrated by Lois Darling. Like most of the Henry Huggins books, the incidents in this book follow an ongoing plot line. In this case, Henry wants to go on a salmon-fishing trip with his father. However, Ribsy has been causing all manner of trouble for the family. For example, Ribsy tries to prevent the garbage man ... Read More
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