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First edition of Mary Howitt's Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden
HOWITT, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer].
Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.
London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.
First edition of Howitt's work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, tipped in tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bremer with an inscription from her to Howitt in facsimile. In very good condition. Scarce with only one other copy traced at auction. Bookplate.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124150
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First Edition of Thomas H. Sherman's Twenty Years with James G. Blaine; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
SHERMAN, Thomas H.; with Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler [William T. Sherman].
Twenty Years with James G. Blaine: Reminiscences by His Private Secretary.
New York: The Grafton Press, 1928.
First edition of this biography of American statesman, Republican politician, and Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, from the observations of his private secretary; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of James G. Blaine, illustrated with black and white photographs. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early…
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 145741
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"To see a thing and tell it in plain words is the greatest thing a soul can do": First Edition of Edward Bok's Twice Thirty; in the rare original dust jacket
BOK, Edward.
Twice Thirty: Some Short and Simple Annals of the Road.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth over decorated boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 123941
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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand": First Edition of Milton & Rose Friedmans memoirs Two Lucky People; Warmly Inscribed by Both
FRIEDMAN, Milton and Rose D.
Two Lucky People: Memoirs.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Dorian + John with love and thanks for your friendship Milton + Rose." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3148
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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72865
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First Edition of John Maynard Keynes' Two Memoirs. Dr. Melchior: A Defeated Enemy And My Early Beliefs
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.].
Two Memoirs. Dr. Melchior: A Defeated Enemy And My Early Beliefs.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949.
First edition of this memoir by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece photograph of Keynes, Bertrand Russell and Lytton Strachey at Garsington. Introduction by David Garnett. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135355
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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, First Issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin with a first edition of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; With a signed Card and Cart-de-visite
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly and A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
First edition, first issue of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, volume with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. In very good condition. With a rare carte-de-visite and note card signed "truly yours HB Stowe." Comes with a first edition of Stowe's A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1853. Housed in a custom case.
Price: $11,000.00 Item Number: 112652
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"Thine is the victory without the battle- the crown without the conflict": Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; Lengthily signed by her
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly and A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892.
Finely bound example of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, volume with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. Lengthily signed by the author as follows, "There is no death to such as thou dear Eva, neither darkness nor shadow of death. Thine is the victory without the battle- the crown without the conflict Uncle Tom's Cabin Chap 24 Harriet Beecher Stowe April 17 1893." In near fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 117857
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“THE SOCIAL IMPACT ON THE UNITED STATES WAS GREATER THAN THAT OF ANY BOOK BEFORE OR SINCE”: FIRST ISSUE OF UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly.
Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852.
First edition, first issue, with "spilt" (rather than "spiled") in Volume I, 42, line 1; "cathecism" (rather than "catechism") in volume II, 74, line 5; and all other first issue points of the author's classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in contemporary three quarters leather over cloth, gilt titles to the spine, volume with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. In very good condition with light wear and toning. A nice example, scarce and desirable in contemporary binding.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 104745
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First Edition, First Issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly.
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company. Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
First edition, first issue of Stowe's classic American novel, widely considered the book that precipitated the American Civil War. Octavo, two volumes in the original publisher's cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles and vignettes to the front panels, illustrated with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. BAL's binding B (no priority). Portrait of Stowe tipped in opposite the title page of volume I. In very good condition.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142642
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The Presidents' Edition of the University Library of Autobiography: Including All The Great Autobiographies
University Library of Autobiography: Including All The Great Autobiographies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World’s Famous Men and Women.
The National Alumni, 1918.
The Presidents' edition of the University Library of Autobiography, including self-narratives of political figures and authors through the ages, beginning with King Sargon of Babylon and ending with Leo Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. Octavo, 15 volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissued-guarded portraits of each featured historical figure. One of one thousand and fifty numbered and registered copies of the Presidents' edition, this is number 698, registered to Evelyn and Warren Winkelstein. In very good condition. A very…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144625
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First edition of Michael Holroyd's Unreceived Opinions; inscribed by him to photographer Sally Soames
HOLROYD, Michael.
Unreceived Opinions: Thoughts on Writers and Writing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
First edition of the award-winning biographer's collection of literary essays. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Sally with love M Holroyd." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research on the subjects of…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 126853
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First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography; In the rare original dust jacket
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, 1901.
First edition of the A.L. Burt Publishers edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 132410
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Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery; with an autograph letter signed by him
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography with an autograph letter signed by him on his Tuskegee Institute letterhead. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author. Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Washington on his The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead which reads, "Oct. 19, 190 Mr. George A. Dary Exchange Bldg 53 State St. Boston Mass Dear Sir: - you will find enclosed a copy of my last annual report to the Board of Trustees which has just been printed. I thought you might like to read it or at least glance through…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 135007
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed": Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities and some dampstaining to the cloth. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 137493
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Rare First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.
First edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 141523
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First edition of Captain John Claus Voss' Venturesome Voyages of Capt. Voss; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
VOSS, John Claus.
Venturesome Voyages of Capt. Voss.
Yokohama: Japan Herald Press, 1913.
First edition of the author's account of his most notable voyages, including his attempt to sail around the world in his canoe Tilikum. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 13 plates and 2 maps, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Voss. Rebacked. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 114370
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Voltaire's Vie de Moliere; finely bound
VOLTAIRE (AROUET, François-Marie).
Vie de Moliere.
Lausanne: Chez Francois Grasset & Comp, 1772.
Early edition of Voltaire's biography of one of the most influential and widely translated writers of all time. Octavo, bound in full sprinkled sheepskin. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pictorial endpapers, all edges red, ribbon bound in. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Tasteful period bookplate.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95126
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"Life is not the one you lived but the one you remember and how you remember it to tell it": First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Authors Autobiography, Vivar para Contarla; Inscribed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with a Large Drawing of a Flower to Close Friends Juana and Sergio Munoz
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Vivir para Contarla [Living To Tell the Tale].
Bogota: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2002.
First edition in Spanish of the Nobel Prize-winning author's memoir. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page with a large drawing of a flower, "Para Juana y Sergio, la flor del carino despues de los postres Gabriel Garcia Marquez Los Angeles, 2004." (In English it reads, "the flower of love after dessert). Garcia Marquez has also underlined the dedication of this work. The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 132701
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Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov : The Russian Years
BOYD, Brian [Vladimir Nabokov].
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Early printing of this biography on Nabokov. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 87069
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Reader's Union edition of Roger Fulford's Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle
FULFORD, Roger.
Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle.
London: Readers Union/Faber and Faber, 1958.
Reader's Union edition of Fulford's work on the UK women's suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth. English journalist, historian, writer and politician Roger Fulford authored several important biographies and other works. Between 1964 and 1981 he edited five volumes of letters between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal. He was President of the Liberal Party from 1964 to 1965. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135490
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"THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT": THE CONGRESSMAN'S POWERFUL MEMOIR, First Edition of WALKING WITH THE WIND, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JOHN LEWIS
LEWIS, John .
Walking with the Wind. A Memoir of the Movement.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition, early printing of Congressman Lewis' pivotal account of the Civil Rights movement that transformed America. Octavo, original half cloth, with 16 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Terry Thomas, Keep the faith. Best Wishes, John Lewis 10-30-98." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photograph by Danny Lyon. Written with Michael D'Orso.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 145399
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First Edition of Wall Street and the Wilds; Lengthily Inscribed by A.W. Dimock
DIMOCK, Anthony W.
Wall Street and the Wilds.
New York: Outing Company, 1915.
First edition of Dimock's autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some mention of fishing for tarpon, trout and salmon. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Melville A. Clark Dear Melville; If one must choose between the wilds of Wall Street and the gentleness of the wilds the wise man will take the woods. A.W. Dimock The Happy Valley Oct. 18,1917." In near fine condition, with some offsetting to the…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 4562
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First Edition of Wall Street and the Wilds; Lengthily Inscribed by A.W. Dimock
DIMOCK, Anthony W.
Wall Street and the Wilds.
New York: Outing Company, 1915.
First edition of Dimock's autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some mention of fishing for tarpon, trout and salmon. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to a family member, "To Susan Whitney Dimock Dear Mrs. Dimock As the shadows lengthen the thoughts turn often to the friends of long ago, and my memory vibrates to the mention of the name of Henry Dimock Most sincerely yours Anthony W. Dimock The…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 46768
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"The best inside information is on the tape": Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years; Inscribed by Legendary Investor Richard Wyckoff
WYCKOFF, Richard D.
Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931.
Second edition of this classic work by Wyckoff who implemented his methods of technical analysis of the financial markets (the study of charts showing movements of stock-prices and other data).. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Misses Niell and Tyson with best regards Richard D. Wyckoff April 19/32." In very good condition. Books signed and inscribed by Wyckoff are rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145810
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"The best inside information is on the tape": First Edition of Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years; Lengthily Inscribed by Legendary Investor Richard Wyckoff and in the Rare Dust Jacket
WYCKOFF, Richard D.
Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930.
First edition of this classic work by Wyckoff who implemented his methods of technical analysis of the financial markets (the study of charts showing movements of stock-prices and other data). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my good friend and former associate on Wall Street, New York E. Kilburn Scott this volume is inscribed, with kindest personal regards Richard D. Wyckoff London June 24/31." Very good in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Housed in a custom house morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 145604
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"The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed" Wanderer; Inscribed by Sterling Hayden
HAYDEN, Sterling.
Wanderer: An Autobiography.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
First edition, second printing (before publication) of Hayden's autobiography. Octavo, original black cloth, pictorial endpapers. Lengthily inscribed and dated by Sterling Hayden in the year of publication opposite the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 118549
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First Edition of War Diaries; Signed by Harold Macmillan
MACMILLAN, Harold.
War Diaries: Politics and War in The Mediterranean January 1943-May 1945
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1984.
First edition of the British politician's collected diaries from the Second World War. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated with maps and photographs. Boldly signed by Harold Macmillan on the title page as "Stockton," his title in the House of Lords. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the foot of the jacket spine. Jacket photograph from the Macmillan Family Archives. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145158
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War Memoirs of David Lloyd George; In the rare original dust jackets and an autograph note laid in
LLOYD GEORGE, David.
War Memoirs of David Lloyd George.
London: Odams Press Limited, .
First editions, early printings of the first two volumes in Lloyd George's autobiography, with an autographed letter signed of David Lloyd George laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jackets. On Lloyd George's Downing Street letterhead, the letter reads in full, "March 5th. Dear Mr. Grossmith Thank you so much for the chocolates last night. It was kind of you to send them. We thoroughly enjoyed the play. I have seen it several times, & we often hear it on the electro phone here in Downing Street. With renewed thanks from me & my daughter &…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 135372
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First Edition of Warren Buffett: The Good Guy of Wall Street; Signed by Warren Buffett and Andrew Fitzpatrick
KILPATRICK, Andrew; Warren E. Buffett.
Warren Buffett: The Good Guy of Wall Street.
New York: Donald I. Fine , 1992.
First edition of this early biography on investing legend Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Warren Buffett on the front free endpaper, "To Mike- With best wishes Warren E. Buffett 4-9-93." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Author photograph by E. Kent Oztekin.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 107255
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"One of the most important documents of World War II": Rare First Edition of Mary Berg's The Warsaw Ghetto
BERG, Mary.
Warsaw Ghetto.
New York: L.B. Fischer Publishing Company, 1945.
First edition of this powerful collection of diary entries begun by Berg at the age of fifteen, one of the most important documents in the age of Hitler. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132202
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"One of the most important documents of World War II": Rare First Edition of Mary Berg's The Warsaw Ghetto
BERG, Mary.
Warsaw Ghetto.
New York: L.B. Fischer Publishing Company, 1945.
First edition of this powerful collection of diary entries begun by Berg at the age of fifteen, one of the most important documents in the age of Hitler. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 141428
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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102
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First edition of Jim Peck's We Who Would Not Kill; Signed by Him
PECK, Jim.
We Who Would Not Kill.
New York: Lyle Stuart, 1958.
First edition of the civil rights hero's story of a group of conscientious objectors who were imprisoned for their beliefs during World War II. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Signed by Jim Peck on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 119230
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First Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket and Glassine
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
First edition of Lindbergh's definitive autobiography. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket and glassine.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 112449
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Signed Limited Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
Author's autograph edition of Lindbergh's autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century's greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight. One of 100 numbered copies, this is number K, signed by both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates. In near fine condition. Introduction by Myron T. Herrick. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 129369
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Signed Limited Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We; in the original blue box with matching number
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
Signed limited edition of Lindbergh's autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century's greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight. One of 1000 numbered copies, this is number 97, signed by both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates, with the publisher's note laid in. Fine in the original glassine and in the original blue box with matching number. Introduction by Myron T. Herrick. One of the finest most preserved example possible.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 133274
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Signed Limited Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
Author's autograph edition of Lindbergh's autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century's greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight. One of 100 numbered copies, this is number 392, signed by both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates. In very good condition. Introduction by Myron T. Herrick.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 140405