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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ellery Queen (the collaborative pen name of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee) on the front free endpaper, inscribed "To August Derleth with best wishes from 'Ellery Queen.'" Bound in publisher's half grey cloth over decorative wrapper boards stamped in red and gilt; top edge stained red. Near Fine with lightly crimped spine ends else fine. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear; dampness staining to verso. An important association between major authors in American genre fiction: mystery and horror, inscribed to August Derleth (1909-1971), H.P. Lovecraft's literary executor, co-founder of Arkham House and inventor of the term "Cthulu Mythos." He, along with Arkham House co-founder Donald Wandrei, were the first to publish H.P. Lovecraft's writings. The Memoirs of Solar Pons authored by Derleth has a forward by Ellery Queen.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ellery Queen and inscribed, "To Dick -- to whom I find refreshment -- Best, Ellery Queen per M.B.L." [Manfred Bennington Lee]. xii, [3], 422pp. Bound in publisher's dark brown cloth stamped in yellow; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with moderate edge wear, scuffing to surface with cup ring to center front board. Top edge of textblock dampstained with trivial tidal mark. Front gutter tender with light tanning to contents. An important anthology as well as an early one that includes stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Starrett, H.H. Holmes [Anthony Boucher], Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Fergus Hume, John Kendrick Bangs, Edgar Wallace, et al. The title is a spin on Rudyard Kipling's "The Female of the Species" (1911) where the poet writes that females are far more dangerous than males.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. First Edition. First edition. (All first printing points present: stated "First Printing" on copyright page, no mention of later publisher Angriff Press, full page count, does not state "First published in 1966 by" on title page.) xii, 1348 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in an unclipped dust jacket, Near Fine, slightly dulled with short tears along spine folds at head. Jacket unfaded. An attractive copy.Professor Carroll Quigley's magnum opus, a world history of power with a focus on the Anglo-American elite. In many ways Quigley was a complex bundle of contradictions: a conservative defender of Western civilization who opposed the Vietnam War and was Bill Clinton's mentor at Georgetown. During the early cold war he was a true Washington insider who worked as a consultant for the Defense Department, the Navy, and other government entities, but his work is most often referenced by perennial outsiders like the John Birch… Read More

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Good. Signed by W.VO. Quine on front flyleaf and inscribed to his friend distinguished mathematician Stephen C. Kleene, a co-creator of computability theory, "for Steve Kleene / in admiration and / warmest regard / Van [his nickname]." Kleene is mentioned numerous times in this autobiography. First edition. xii, (2), 499 pp. Purple cloth with white lettering. Near Fine in a Good somewhat worn, thoroughly spine-sunned, unclipped jacket with a tear in the back panel. Slight lean to spine. A very nice association between two major figures in mathematical logic.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. (As stated on copyright page.) 348 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket with price intact ($4.00), chipped head, a bit of wrinkling darkening to spine panel, creased snag to to top of back panel. Clean pages, toned with age, spine slightly toned. Quine's second book, rare in original jacket.

Cambridge: Harvard Cooperative Society, 1948. Paperback. Fair. First edition, presumed first issue. 156 p. Mimeographed of typescript, printed on rectos only, bound in plain paper wraps. Fair with staining and creasing to cover and former owner's notes throughout in pencil and pen, name and dorm address on title page. Includes a final exam from 1949-1950, a four-page booklet. This work is an early version of what would become the seminal textbook Methods of Logic, used by Quine for his Harvard class Philosophy 140, an introductory class in logic, as a coursebook. Quine mentions typing it with his wife, Marge, on their honeymoon in the memoir The Time of My Life. Theory of Deduction did not circulate much beyond the Harvard student body and has never been reprinted, although it was considered significant enough by Quine's colleagues to be reviewed in The Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1949. This copy is from the estate of Donald Davidson, through the trade. A scarce document of the evolution of Quine's… Read More

New York: Bantam / Turner, 1992. First edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Daniel Quinn on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner and dated 3/30/95. [iv], 267 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth and boards with silver spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket with trivial shelf wear, unclipped ($20.00). The popular philosophical novel with a prolonged critique of civilization, surprisingly uncommon as a signed first.

London: Methuen and Company, 1923. First British Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First British edition. 166 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with small bump to outer edge and a bit of foxing to top edge, but cloth and contents bright and clean. The Uruguayan author debuted in English with this collection of short stories, a heady Amazonian blend of Kipling, London, and Poe. While still little-known among English readers, Spanish readers and critics generally consider him a major South American author and a progenitor of the magical realist movement.