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W.E.B. Du Bois' seminal work The Souls of Black Folk; Signed by Him
DU BOIS, W.E.B. [DuBois].
The Souls of Black Folk.
New York: The Blue Heron Press, 1953.
Later edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original black cloth over patterned boards, illustrated with musical notations. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "W.E.B. Du Bois March 18, 1957." In fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 142344
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THE DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS; FINELY BOUND AND WITH A CONCEALED FORE-EDGE PAINTING TO EACH VOLUME
PEPYS, Samuel. With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke.
Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Published for Henry Colburn, 1854.
Finely bound fourth edition of the diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys. Octavo, four volumes bound in red Russia with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, each volume decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting including a portrait of Pepys, the Great Plague, the Fire of London, and the Battle of Solebay, illustrated, folding map. In very good condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 138281
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“Live while you live, then die and be done with": First Edition of Death Be Not Proud; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Inscribed by John Gunther
GUNTHER, John.
Death Be Not Proud.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949.
First edition of this deeply moving book, a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a page bound in, "Every good wish to ..... John Gunther NY Jan 67." In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 146071
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The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor; Inscribed by Her to Ambassador Henry Taylor and with an original telegram
THE DUCHESS OF WINDSOR,.
The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor.
New York: David McKay Company, 1956.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Fay and Harry with my love and devoted friendship Wallis Windsor." With a Holiday Greetings from Western Union from Edward Wallis to the recipients laid in. The recipient, Henry Junior Taylor was an economist, author, radio broadcaster and former United States Ambassador to Switzerland He served as a foreign correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in the early years of World War II. After the war, Taylor hosted the General Motors-sponsored radio program Your Land and Mine, on which he was known for his conservative…
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 144117
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First Edition of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Inscribed by Martin Sherwin and signed twice by Kai Bird
BIRD, Kai and Martin J. Sherwin.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Martin Sherwin and signed by Kai Bird on the front free endpaper. Additionally inscribed by Kai Bird on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stephanie Kloss.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 147047
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Mikhail Kalashnikov's Conversation With A Gunsmith; Signed by Him
KALASHNIKOV, Mikhail.
Conversation With A Gunsmith.
2012.
Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Mikhail Kalashnikov on the title page. In near fine condition. Books signed by Kalashnikov are uncommon.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 125159
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First Edition of T.H. White's England Have My Bones; Inscribed by Him To Sir Thomas Birkett
WHITE, T.H.
England Have My Bones.
London: Collins, 1936.
First edition of the author's classic memoir. Octavo, original cloth, with 8 full page woodcut illustrations by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sir Thomas Birkett with the author's constant gratitude for the best fortnight of his life." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,650.00 Item Number: 135368
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"How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water": First Edition of Elspeth Huxley's The Flame Trees of Thika; Signed by Her
HUXLEY, Elspeth.
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.
First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 129827
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First Edition of Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today's Youth; Signed by Her
PARKS, Rosa.
Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth.
New York: Lee & Low Books, 1997.
First edition of this collection of letters written to the mother of The Civil Rights movement and her responses. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "4/24/97 Rosa Parks." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tania Garcia. Jacket photograph by Mark T. Kerrin. Written with Gregory J. Reed. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 131103
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"There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice": First Edition of Grant’s Memoirs
GRANT, Ulysses S. [U.S.].
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-86.
First edition of the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, which focuses mainly on his military career during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth with title and front panel in gilt, illustrated with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134188
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"Few men in civil life have had a career more crowded with incident, enterprise, and various intercourse with the world than mine": Struggles and Triumphs; Signed by P.T. Barnum
BARNUM, P.T.
Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum.
Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1879.
Author's edition of this utterly engaging autobiography, revised, enlarged, newly illustrated and written up to December 1878 by the author. Duodecimo, original hard-grain cloth with gilt titles and portrait of P.T. Barnum to the spine, blind stamped triple ruled frame with ornamental corners enclosing central quatrefoil device, gray top stain, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Phineas T. Barnum, 33 black and white illustrations, many of which are by True Williams, the famed illustrator of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.' Signed by the author on the Publisher's Note page, '"Compliments of P. T. Barnum." In very good condition with rubbing to the…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145347
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“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big": Trump: The Art of the Deal; Inscribed by Donald J. Trump
TRUMP, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz.
Trump: The Art of the Deal.
New York: Random House, 1987.
First edition of Trump's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ann, Best Wishes, Donald Trump." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket photograph by Michele Singer.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 141485
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“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big": Trump: The Art of the Deal; Inscribed by Donald J. Trump
TRUMP, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz.
Trump: The Art of the Deal.
New York: Random House, 1987.
First edition of Trump's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dan, Donald Trump." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket photograph by Michele Singer. First edition stated to the copyright page.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146026
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"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other": The personal Memoirs of General William T. Sherman; from the library of his son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
SHERMAN, William T.
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1891.
Early edition of this memoir from one of the most well regarded generals, “oft-consulted and much-quoted reminiscences ... Sherman wrote as he fought; dynamically and bluntly” (Nevins II, 89). Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of William T. Sherman, illustrated with folding maps in each volume, his son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the exterior, splitting to the interior front hinge of both volumes. Philemon Tecumseh Sherman transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, before he died. Eleanor was the granddaughter of…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145721
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Louis A. Coolidge's Ulysses S. Grant; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
COOLIDGE, Louis A. [Ulysses S. Grant; William Tecumseh Sherman].
Ulysses S. Grant.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924.
Later edition of this biography of the eighteenth president of the United States; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, two volumes, original cloth, top stain red, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant in each volume. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown of both volumes beneath his ownership signature with an additional gift inscription on the title page of Vol. I. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the extremities, front and rear panels of both volumes. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145876
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First edition of James Herriot's The Lord God Made Them All; inscribed by him
HERRIOT, James.
The Lord God Made Them All.
London: Michael Joseph, 1981.
First edition of this installment in Herriot's true-life-saga as a veterinarian in the Yorkshire countryside. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bill... James Herriot." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Fay Godwin. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 129084
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"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails": Long Walk to Freedom; Inscribed by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson .
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition, early printing of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by the author, "To Ronel, Compliments and best wishes to an outstanding lady. NMandela 28.11.95." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 143552
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First Edition of Louis Menand's Pulitzer Prize-winning Work The Metaphysical Club; Inscribed by Him To Edward O. Wilson
MENAND, Louis.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow Pulitzer Prize award winning author Edward O. Wilson, "For Edward with best wishes Louis Menand." Wilson's signature to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 111949
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"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet": First Edition of Life; Signed by Keith Richards in the year of publication
RICHARDS, Keith.
Life: Keith Richards.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
First edition of Richards' autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed and dated by the author om the year of publication on the front free-endpaper, "Keith Richards '10." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Front jacket photograph by David LaChapelle. Rear jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145196
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Collection of six first editions of the works of James Merrill; each volume inscribed by him to American playwright Michael Feingold
MERRILL, James.
James Merrill First Edition Collection: Scripts for the Pageant, From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976, The Changing Light at Sandover, Late Settings: Poems, Recitative: Prose, and A Different Person: A Memoir
Various Publishers, 1980-1986.
Collection of six first editions of the works of James Merrill; from the library of American playwright Michael Feingold. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth and wrappers, the collection includes: Stated first edition of 'Scripts for the Pageant' [New York: Atheneum, 1980]; Stated first edition of 'From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976' [New York: Atheneum, 1982]; Stated first edition of 'The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant, and a new coda, The Higher Keys' [New York: Atheneum. 1982]; Stated first edition of 'Late Settings: Poems' [New York:…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 145436