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Official Super Bowl XLII Game Program

SUPER BOWL XLII PROGRAM: THE NEW YORK GIANTS UPSET OF THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS, SIGNED BY 34 GIANTS, INCLUDING ELI MANNING AND DAVID TYREE, WHO BOOKENDED THE "HELMET CATCH"

(FOOTBALL). Official Super Bowl XLII Game Program. New York, 2008.

The official 2008 Super Bowl XLII program, signed by New York Giants Fred Robbins, Jay Alford, Barry Cofield, Jeff Feagles, Rich Seubert, Steve Smith, David Tyree, Gerris Wilkinson, Ahmad Bradshaw, Brandon Jacobs, Zak DeOssie, Kevin Boss, Craig Dahl, Sinorice Moss, Kawika Mitchell, Adam Koets, Antonio Pierce, Jerome Collins, Chase Blackburn, Eli Manning, Osi Umenyiora, Kevin Boothe, Kevin Dockery, Madison Hedgecock, Domenik Hixon, Sam Madison, Grey Ruegamer and Justin Tuck, along with general manager Jerry Reese. $2800.

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Tenting on the Plains

"ADDING GREATLY TO THE CUSTER LEGEND"

(CUSTER, George A.) CUSTER, Elizabeth B. Tenting on the Plains. New York, 1889.

Second edition, issued by Mark Twain & Charles Webster’s publishing firm in a series displaying the gilt-decorated “shoulder-strap” on the spines, with frontispiece portrait and 28 illustrations. $850.

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Competition As A Dynamic Process

INSCRIBED BY INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIST JOHN MAURICE CLARK TO HIS FRIENDS, WELL-KNOWN SCIENTISTS CARYL AND EDNA HASKINS

CLARK, John Maurice. Competition As A Dynamic Process. Washington, 1961.

First edition of this influential economics work framing labor as an overhead cost, inscribed to his friends, prominent scientists Caryl and Edna Haskins: “To Caryl and Edna Haskins with best wishes: J.M. Clark.” $850.

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Russian Test of Time

RUSSIAN CHESS CHAMPION GARRY KASPAROV’S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED BY HIM

KASPAROV, Garry. Russian Test of Time. Baku, 1985.

First edition of the Russian chess champion’s first book, a combination of game analysis and autobiography, signed by Kasparov in Cyrillic on the title page and dated 12/03/2006. $450.

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Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion [facsimile]

LAVISH TRIANON PRESS LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE OF ALTERNATIVE COLORED VERSIONS OF THE FIRST 25 PLATES OF BLAKE'S JERUSALEM

BLAKE, William. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion [facsimile]. London, 1974.

Fine Trianon Press limited edition facsimile, number 199 of only 500 copies (from a total edition of only 558), of alternative colored versions of the first 25 plates of Blake's Jerusalem. A fine copy, with publisher's prospectus (two copies) laid in. $1500.

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Portrait de Mounet-Sully

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED TRIAL SHEETS FOR COCTEAU’S PORTRAIT DE MOUNET-SULLY, 1945, ONCE BELONGING TO GLENWAY WESCOTT

COCTEAU, Jean. Portrait de Mounet-Sully. Paris, 1945.

Original pre-publication sheets of line cuts by Cocteau, most before letters, four hand-colored in gouache by Cocteau, stamped number “16” and inscribed by "Cyril" to a member of the Shakespeare and Company literary circle: “Glenway [Wescott], in memory of Villefranche 1929, our 1st meeting and 40 years of enjoyment since. London 1970.” $1500.

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Steep Ascent

"LOST TIME WAS LIKE A RUN IN A STOCKING. IT ALWAYS GOT WORSE"

LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. Steep Ascent. New York, 1944.

First edition, signed by Lindbergh on the half-title and signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper: “For Mary Sheridan Rubin from Anne Lindbergh, March 15th, 1944” (the year of publication). $700.

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Len Deighton. An Annotated Bibliography

TWICE SIGNED BY LEN DEIGHTON

(DEIGHTON, Len) MILWARD-OLIVER, Edward. Len Deighton. An Annotated Bibliography. Maidstone, Kent, 1985.

Signed limited first edition, number 209 of only 375 copies signed by Deighton—"a major influence on the course of espionage fiction"—with publisher's accompanying laid-in "Uncorrected Page Proof" from the novel London Match, signed by Deighton above the proof page, with foreword by Julian Symons. $400.

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Peak in Darien

"WITH LOVE TO JEAN—IN ASOLO IN 1981"

STARK, Freya. A Peak in Darien. London, 1976.

First edition of this concise collection of essays about Freya Stark's experiences as a traveler in unfamiliar places and her meditations on life, inscribed on the title page by Freya Stark to her close friend, Jean Gunn: "with love to Jean—in Asolo in 1981," and with her last name crossed out, presumably to reflect intimacy. $900.

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10 Photographs

“IN THE CARTIER-BRESSON TRADITION”

STETTNER, Louis. 10 Photographs. Paris and New York, 1949.

Limited first edition, unnumbered, one of only 265 copies, an exceptional portfolio collection of ten striking exhibition-size duotones after photographs by Louis Stettner, inscribed by him in French on the dedication leaf in the year of publication, “à le Sheriff. Avec … [unclear] Louis Stettner, Paris, Oct 22, 1949.” $3200.

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Opium. Journal d'une Desintoxication

"A GLIMPSE INTO THE LIFE OF A TORTURED SOUL WHO CRIES OUT IN LINES THAT EXCITE THE SENSES AND CAUSE US TO WONDER ABOUT THE DAILY NIGHTMARE OF ADDICTION"

COCTEAU, Jean. Opium. Journal d'une Desintoxication. Paris, circa 1930.

Third edition of Cocteau’s accounts of opium addiction, richly illustrated with the artist’s drawings. $475.

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