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BOLDLY INSCRIBED WITH A HEART DRAWING BY MUHAMMAD ALI TO CO-AUTHOR THOMAS HAUSER, THE PUBLISHER'S PROMOTIONAL POSTER FROM THE NEIL LEIFER PHOTOGRAPH USED ON THE FRONT COVER OF THE 1992 BOOK, MUHAMMAD ALI MEMORIES

ALI, Muhammad. Poster signed. New York, 1992.

Original publisher's promotional poster for the photobook Muhammad Ali Memories, boldly inscribed by Ali in gold ink on the image to the book's co-author Thomas Hauser "To Tom from Muhammad Ali" with a hand-drawn heart and the date "6-3-92". $9000.

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Book of Recipes for the Cooking School

"SUCCESS IN COOKING DEPENDS UPON INTELLIGENT HANDLING OF MATERIALS AND CONTROL OF THE COOKING MEDIUM"

LYFORD, Carrie Alberta. Book of Recipes for the Cooking School. Hampton, Virginia, 1921.

First edition of this collection of recipes intended for Home Economics students at the Hampton Institute. $2250.

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Hudibras, a Poem

"HE THAT COMPLIES AGAINST HIS WILL IS OF HIS OWN OPINION STILL"

BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras, a Poem. London, 1822. Two volumes.

Later edition of this bitingly humorous 17th-century poem dealing with scholastic pedantry, Aristotelian logic, theological controversy, witchcraft, alchemy, astrology and war, with 12 striking hand-colored aquatints by John Heaviside Clark. $325.

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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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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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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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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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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways

WITH ELABORATE AND COLORFUL MOROCCO INLAYS OF TWO HORSES AND A COACHMAN

TRISTRAM, William Outram. Coaching Days and Coaching Ways. London, 1924.

Later edition of Tristram's seven historical essays on Britain's coach roads, with 214 line cut illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Riviere with detailed morocco inlays of two horses and a coachman. $1850.

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Human Body The Temple of God

"VULGARITY AND OBSCENITY ARE NOT IN THE BODY"

WOODHULL, Victoria Claflin and CLAFLIN, Tennessee C. The Human Body The Temple of God. London, 1890.

First edition this 19th-century lecture on the body and religion as seen through a progressive lens, along with various political and women's rights essays and press notices. $1850.

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