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Nobel Prize Books & Ephemera
THE LAST ANALYSIS. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF SAUL BELLOW'S ONLY PLAY
by BELLOW, Saul
First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine and quite exceptional. An undated early holograph version of Saul Bellow's only full-length play contained in a ledger-type notebook (8-1/4" x 11-3/8") with marbled paper boards and a black cloth spine. Bellow has subtitled this as "A Work in Progress." Acts I and II of this version are complete in 71 pages with 4 pages of preliminary material for an Act III, all handwritten by Bellow. The 1964 staged version was reduced to two acts. Bellow appears to have written...
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SGD 34,482.50
THE COMMON SENSE OF MUNICIPAL TRADING
by SHAW, George Bernard
London: A. C. Fifield, 1908. Second Edition. wraps. Some darkening to wraps. Very Good. Orange-brown wraps. Laurence A54b: "This 'edition' was reprinted from plates or moulds of the first edition [1904] ... as No. 5 in the Fabian Socialist Series." Contains a new preface by Shaw.
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SGD 43.17
BECKETT, SAMUEL. Autograph Letter SIGNED
by BECKETT, SAMUEL
SAMUEL BECKETT. Autograph Letter SIGNEDBeckett is best known for his play, "Waiting for Godot," published in 1952 with its original French title, "En attendant Godot" and first performed in 1953. He wrote many of his best known works in French as he did this letter. Before the start of World War II, Beckett moved to France, joined the Resistance during the war and settled there permanently after the war. in French, 8v0, March 30, 1960. Translation: "Dear old Frank, I am very touched by your sweet letter...
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SGD 1,479.99
Autograph Letter Signed; "Sinclair," to Luigino and Dorothy, Baron and Baroness Franchetti, July 18, 1949
by Lewis, Sinclair
-. Folded, corners slightly bent, fine.. 2 pages, written on one leaf of personal printed stationery, approx 7-1/4 X 7-1/2 in. Lewis writes to announce his plans for sailing to Europe and travel itinerary together with his recently retired brother, who has never been out of the country. Lewis received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first American to be so honored.
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SGD 689.65
ELMER GANTRY
by LEWIS, Sinclair
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second state of the binding. Made into a 1960 film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. It won three Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Richard Brooks). It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Picture.
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SGD 86.21
A KIND OF RAPTURE
by [MORRISON, Toni] BERGMAN, Robert
New York: Pantheon, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Robert Bergman. Folio (9-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in black cloth. Introduction by Toni Morrison and afterword by Meyer Schapiro, the only text in this absolutely stunning collection of color photographic portraits, mostly of street people, which Schapiro says "bring to mind some of the greatest painted portraits." Bergman created his own color separations, using high-resolution digital equipment, for these photographs which...
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SGD 86.21
Signed Photograph
by HERZBERG, Gerhard
1971. unbound. Black-and-white head shot measuring 7 x 5 inches. Signed in full near the bottom. No place, no date, circa 1971. Near fine.<br/> <br/> German-born Canadian scientist and winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.<br/> <br/>
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SGD 137.93
DOCUMENT SIGNED (DS)
by BUCK, Pearl
(New York): (John Day), [1969]. Wraps. Near Fine. An 8" x 10" pamphlet of 8 pages consisting of a biographical sketch and checklist of the Nobel Prize winning author SIGNED by her including her middle initial below her printed signature. The cover features Clara Sipprell's photograph of Buck looking down at a small oriental figure. Attractive piece.
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SGD 344.82
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Mysterien [Mysterier][The Mysteries] (Original script for the 1976 play)
by Knut Hamsun (novel)
N.p.: Theater-Verlag Kurt Desch, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 German play. Text in German. The first known dramatic production of Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun's 1892 novel "Mysterier," premiering at Oslo's National Theater in the summer of 1976. Whether the stage adaptation was done by Hamsun or another unnamed party is not clear. The novel was adapted a few years later into a Dutch film called "Mysteries" in 1978, starring Sylvia Kristel and Rutger Hauer. An itinerant stranger...
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SGD 379.31
The Grapes of Wrath (First Edition)
by John Steinbeck
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. First Edition. First issue dust jacket with first edition statement at the bottom front jacket flap. Wraparound jacket art by Elmer Hader, whose work graced four Steinbeck titles. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, literature's lasting testament to the Great Depression, singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. Basis for the 1940 John Ford film starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won...
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SGD 10,344.75
Eine Darstellung seines wissenschaftlichen Wirkens . . . Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag des Forschers
by Ehrlich, Paul
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1914. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. viii, 668pp. Frontispiece portrait. 257 x 173 mm. Original orange printed wrappers. Fine copy, uncut and unopened, of this festschrift prepared for Ehrlich's 60th birthday, which covers all the major areas of Ehrlich's research. Included is a bibliography of Ehrlich's writings to 1914, prepared by Hans Sachs.
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SGD 482.76
Signed Feldpost Card
by MEITNER, Lise (1878-1968)
Berlin, 1917. unbound. very good(+). Exceedingly rare Feldpost card "Lise Meitner", 3.5" x 5", Berlin Lichterfelde, Ziethen Str. 15, May 23rd 1917, in German (translated), to Lieutenant Otto Hahn, Inspectorate of Gas Regiments, Great Headquarters, German Feldpost #344, in full: "Thank you very much for your letter, which I plan to answer more detail in the coming days. Of course it would be even better if you could come personally. So far the results are not so clear that they...
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SGD 2,758.60
Autograph Letter Signed; "Mommsen," to an unidentified recipient, August 18, 1863
by Mommsen, Theodor
Berlin. -. Faint toning, folded for mailing, slight roughness to upper edge.. Two pages, on recto and verso of a single bifolium, approx. 5-1/2 X 4-1/4 in. Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was a lawyer, historian, scholar, and political figure. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902.
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SGD 1,034.48
THE MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN
by SINGER, Isaac B
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Larry Rivers. Large quarto (9-1/8" x 12") bound in blue goatskin and natural Irish linen; housed in a sand-colored cloth slipcase. With a new preface by Singer for this edition. One of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with three color lithographs by Larry Rivers on paper imported from Italy, one of which is folding. SIGNED by both the author and the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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SGD 431.03
Nobel Laureates 1901-2000
by Symons, Alan
London: Polo Publishing. 2000. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Excellent condition - looks as new. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 437 pages + Alphabetical Index. Record of the achievements of 703 people from 55 countries. Brief biographies including a summary of world events for each year. Alphabetical index of recipients by each Award. Robust, professional packaging...
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SGD 26.52
FROM THE SAVOY. AN ESSAY ON GOING TO CHURCH
by SHAW, George Bernard
Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1905. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Unauthorized, as was the 1896 Roycoft edition, of Shaw's first work published in America. Laurence A26c.
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SGD 43.17
Autograph Postcard Signed; to Otto Stern, July 25, 1953
by Meitner, Lise; Franck, James; Laue, Max von, et al
Hamburg. -. Fine. Written on one side of a picture postcard, approx. 4 X 6 in., with a color photo of tulip gardens on the other side, stamp cancelled with a postmark from the Internationale Tagung Wissenschaft und Freiheit, from which the scientists wrote to their colleague. A remarkable postcard, sent from this group including two Nobel Prize-winning physicists -- and one who most certainly should have received a Nobel Prize -- to another Nobel Prize-winning physicist. The bulk of the text here is...
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SGD 4,827.55
ON POETRY
by [AUDEN, W. H.] PERSE, St.-John
(New York): Bollingen Series, (1961). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson B77. Published in an edition of 2500 copies, none of which were for sale, in white card covers with a grayish green printed wrapper. This is St.-John Perse's Nobel Acceptance Speech translated by Auden and printed here in both the original French and Auden's English translation. SIGNED by Auden on the title page. Quite uncommon, especially signed.
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SGD 689.65
PLAYS AND CONTROVERSIES
by YEATS, W. B
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner inscription on front endpaper. A bright, Fine copy in a Fine, intact white slipcase, a printed label on one side, with expected soiling. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Frontispiece portrait of Yeats from charcoal drawing by John Singer Sargent, and seven more illustrations in text. Copy #190...
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SGD 3,448.25
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LECTURE
by CARTER, Jimmy
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The true first printing and without the ubiquitous remainder mark. INSCRIBED "Best wishes to Joyce" and SIGNED by the author as "J. Carter" on the page with the publisher's logo.
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SGD 258.62
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LECTURE
by CARTER, Jimmy
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a price sticker shadow on the front panel. The true first printing and without the ubiquitous remainder mark. INSCRIBED "Best wishes to Joyce" and SIGNED by the author as "J. Carter" on the page with the publisher's logo. Laid in is a promotional card for the 2008 Plains Peanut Festival featuring the Carters.
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SGD 258.62
Autograph Quotation SIGNED, on post card size stationery card , n.p., Sept. 15, 1919
by GALSWORTHY, JOHN
Galsworthy pens a quotation from "The Pigeon: A Fantasy in Three Acts" (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915.) "but our spirits they cannot touch, for they never understand. Without that, Monsieur, all is dry as a parched skin of orange." "Fernand the Pigeon." The light cream card shows a thin turquoise border, slightly soiled from aging, slight removal of paper on verso at former point of attachment. Remnant of attached backing shows on upper right corner. Autograph
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SGD 584.82
EARLY POEMS AND STORIES
by YEATS, W. B
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner inscription on front blank. A bright, Fine copy in a Fine, intact white slipcase, a printed label on one side, with mild soiling. New and Revised Edition. Original green cloth-backed brown paper boards with a paper label on the front cover and on the spine, housed in the original slipcase. Copy #214 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation leaf.
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SGD 4,310.31
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Lunnyi serp [The Crescent Moon]
by Tagore Rabindranath
B. Vasin - translation from English.One of 2.000 copies printed.
First separate edition of the translation, that was previously appeared in Collected works by Tagore in 1916.Original edition published in London in 1913.Very rare.We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC. Two copies kept by National Russian Library.
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First separate edition of the translation, that was previously appeared in Collected works by Tagore in 1916.Original edition published in London in 1913.Very rare.We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC. Two copies kept by National Russian Library.
Please be advised that certain books in our collection may require an export permit for international shipping. If you are interested in purchasing such books for delivery abroad, kindly contact our... Read more about this item
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SGD 206.89
The Le Chatelier principle in linear programming. U.S. Air Force Project RAND report RM-210
by Samuelson, Paul A
Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1949. Samuelson, Paul Anthony (1915-2009). The Le Chatelier principle in linear programming. U.S. Air Force Project RAND report RM-210. Offset typescript. 18ff. Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation, 4 August 1949. 280 x 217 mm. Original printed wrappers with author and title of paper supplied in original typescript, three or four small marginal tears, but fine otherwise. Samuelson's copy, no. 25 of most likely 50 copies or fewer, assigned to Samuelson on the title...
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SGD 5,172.38
