Search Results: Titles starting with H from Pen Ultimate Rare Books

SIGNED by both authors -- Muhammad ALI and Thomas Hauser -- in perfect, UNread condition. 1st Edition. First Edition, fourth printing. Ali signs and dates "97"; Hauser inscribes to former Atlanta Braves announcer, Pete Van Wieren, making this copy a remarkable Association Copy. An original photo of Pete and Ali is included. Ali's signature and photographs have appreciated rapidly, particularly in Library-Quality condition like this. You'll never locate a better copy. Book #Pv5b101. $268. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Complete with foldout! "RESTRICTED NOT TO BE PUBLISHED" US military instructions manual for the eradication of Nazism in Germany distributed only to high ranking military officers just prior to Germany's surrender. Octavo. Hole-punched and cord tied in the original pale grey cloth-backed printed boards. A bit of wear to extremities, covers lightly stained; still a surprisingly well preserved copy of this most uncommon classified military document. Book #Pv2226. $898. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, erotica, history, and science.

Collection of seven original photographs centered around the signatures of Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy. Pics are from the infamous gathering for Kennedy's 45th birthday at Madison Square Garden, May 19, 1962, less than three months before Monroe's untimely death. Framed, it measures 28" x 35". Very fine save for a tiny nick to lower left corner of flame. "I can now retire from politics after having had Happy Birthday sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way," remarked Kennedy after Monroe's performance. Most striking and rare. Book #Cv9a001. $6000. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND Dated in year of publication directly to the front fly leaf. Hardbound First Edition/First Printing in chestnut and tan boards with gilt lettering along spine; as new condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket in bright, wonderful condition. A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on television - as irreverent and alluring as the beloved actress herself. You won't find a better copy! Book #Pv5a155. $95. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

First Edition copy of Harris' Hermes, an attempt at a scientific argument toward a universal theory of Greek, Latin, and modern grammar. A very good or better copy, hinges holding strong, with NO writing and NO bookplates. The best price on the market! Book #Pv5b158. $298. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science. *****All our books are sanitized for your protection before mailing.

SIGNED by LL Cool J, No Finer copy! Complete with never-played CD, "And the Winner Is" launched the HipKidHop series 7x7, paper-over-board books packaged with CD singles, presenting messages worth rappin' about. The lyrics of each song form the text, which appears against a backdrop of full-bleed cartoon art. On the CD, LL Cool J sings his songs in mild, melodic rap, backed up by the appealing voices of youngsters. After completing the songs, he urges listeners to sing the lyrics themselves, accompanied by the music and background sound effects. In And the Winner Is, "I never give up" is the refrain, as LL Cool J offers a lesson on the basketball court in how to be both a good winner and a good loser ("When you heard the winners cheering, you wished they understood,/ How hurt you felt when they felt so good"). Computer-aided artwork superimposes photos of the rapper's head on cartoon renditions of a player's body. As New Condition. Book#v5b255. $95. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by Jeter on Title Page. Condition: Fine in fine Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "Just try to make solid contact, stay level and in control. Positive thoughts only, right?" With Derek Jeter s upcoming January 21, 2020 announced election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame a mere formality, there s no better time to acquire signed DJ before his signed books skyrocket. Signed by Derek Jeter, this is a beautiful copy of Jeter's first baseball novel. In very collectible condition, Hit and Miss is part of Jeter's new publishing empire. More signed Derek Jeter available. Book #P5a115. $375. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Ayn Rand's first published work with her byline, "A. Rosenbaum". In this profusely illustrated 43 page booklet, "Hollywood: American City of Movies," published in Leningrad in 1926 sans Rand's permission or knowledge, 21 YO Ayn Rand conveys with characteristic lucidity and fire the glamour and glitter of Hollywood and its great stars. Rand never saw a copy; she learned of its publication in a letter from her family after she had arrived in the USA. Text is entirely in Russian. Light wear to wrapper extremities, a few faint creases, and two contemporary rubber-stamped (in Russian) to rear wrapper; discreet, archival tissue reinforcement around the staples on verso of spine-fold, and to one corner tip; clean throughout; Very Good+. There are only four known extant copies. Very Rare Ayn Rand! Book #N1244. $16,500. We carry the largest selection of rare, signed, and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet!

SIGNED by Murphy on title page. A positively perfectly new copy, unread and unopened and unhandled except by Murphy for his signature. This is one to watch. "It is precisely style and atmosphere that give An Honest Living so much electricity and dimension. Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fallen dreams and doom-bitten characters" (New York Times). Book #v5a1008. $88. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED without personalizarion, Slezkine pens a story of the Moscow House of Government, "where Communist true believers lived before their destruction." A superlative, unread First Edition copy in a Very Fine jacket. Book #2123. $88.*******We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED First Edition copy of Roth's Pen/Faulkner award winning novel: "We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It s in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark." ROTH, Philip. The Human Stain. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. First edition of Roth s Pen/Faulkner award-winning novel, boldly signed by him on the title page. "In terms of sheer productivity, brilliance, distinctly American diction, philosophical rage, comic irritability, dramatic representations of solitude, uniqueness of voice and unwavering repugnance toward heterosexual convention, it is difficult to think of a contemporary artist with whom Philip Roth might even be compared"(New York Times). Basis for the 2003 film directed by Robert Benton,… Read More