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First Edition of Jack Kerouac's First Book The Town and the City
KEROUAC, Jack.
The Town and the City.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
First edition of Kerouac's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 138596
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First edition of Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
WOOLF, Virginia.
Flush: A Biography.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933.
First edition of Woolf's fictional "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt borders and facsimile signature stamped to the front panel, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with four original drawings by Vanessa Bell and six other illustrations. In fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 146583
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First Edition of Sergeant York: His Own Life Story and War Diary; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
YORK, Alvin C.
Sergeant York: His Own Life Story and War Diary.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1928.
First edition of this classic work by one of the most decorated soldiers, basis for the 1941 film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by Tom Skeyhill. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name and inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 146815
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"Enter the wild wood and view the haunts of nature": William Cullen Bryant's A Forest Hymn bound with In The Woods With Bryant, Longfellow, and Halleck; decorated with a rare double fore-edge painting
BRYANT, William Cullen.
A Forest Hymn [Bound with] In The Woods With Bryant, Longfellow, and Halleck. [Fore-edge Painting].
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1860-1862.
Finely bound collection of two classic American poems; decorated with a rare double fore-edge painting. Quarto, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous engravings by John A. Nums and John A. Hows, all edges gilt with a concealed double fore-edge painting which reveals a hunting scene and a scene of figure skaters. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 139346
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Rare Stock Certificate for American Express; Signed by American Bussinessman William Fargo
FARGO, William.
William Fargo Signed Stock Certificate for American Express Company.
New York: American Express Company, 1873.
Rare American Express Company stock certificate signed by American businessman William Fargo. Imperial octavo, one page with the "Safety & Dispatch" vignette of the dog (mascot of American Express) at the center. The certificate is dated March 29, 1873 and issues fifty shares of Capital Stock to Rev. William Bliss Ashley. Partially printed document signed by "Wm G. Fargo" as President, "Alex Holland" as Treasurer, and "J. N. Knapp" as Secretary. In very good condition with cancellation stamp and cancel cuts on the front, light toning. Transfer information present on verso. The piece measures 11.25 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 147775
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A. P. Wavell's Other Men's Flowers; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
WAVELL, A. P.
Other Men’s Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by A. P. Wavell.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.
Finely bound example of Wavell's fine anthology. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition,
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 132135
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"What if it should turn out eternity was but the steeple on our house of life": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION of Robert Frost's Steeple Bush; one of only 751 copies SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST
FROST, Robert.
Steeple Bush.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947.
First edition, first printing of this spiritually-themed Frost collection. Octavo, original half cloth over boards, front panel decorated in gilt. One of 751 copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 167. Fine in the rare original glassine which is in very good condition and slipcase which is in near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 110271
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith; finely bound and decorated with a fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. and Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy of the Arts. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846.
Finely bound example of Goldsmith's complete poetical works, decorated with a fore-edge painting of a golfing scene. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt scrolling and fleuron cornerpeices to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, illustrated with wood engravings, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a golfing scene. Ownership inscription. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 140226
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First Edition of Malthus' The Principles of Political Economy
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert [T.R.].
Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application.
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821.
First American edition of this landmark work in political economy. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, black leather morocco spine label. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 23029
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FIRST EDITION OF MAX BEERBOHM'S ZULEIKA DOBSON
BEERBOHM, Max.
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.
London: William Heinemann, 1911.
First edition of Beerbohm’s classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom chemise clamshell box. A very nice example.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 131261
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"Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...": First Edition Of Roald Dahls Beloved Book Matilda; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
DAHL, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Matilda.
New York: Viking, 1988.
First edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her genius, and her indifferent parents. 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. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 147482
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"THE PAIN OF PARTING IS NOTHING TO THE JOY OF MEETING AGAIN": Charles Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; elaborately bound in full crushed blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Elaborately bound Oxford illustrated edition of one of Dickens' most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full crushed blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With thirty-nine illustrations by 'Phiz' and and Introduction by Dame Sybil Thorndike. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 129073
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"Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?": Exodus; Inscribed by Leon Uris to Historian Arnold Krammer
URIS, Leon.
Exodus: A Novel of Israel.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958.
First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to historian Arnold Krammer, "For Dr. Arnold Krammer Shalom Leon Uris." The recipient, Arnold Krammer was a historian who specialized in German and United States history and a professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He was twice a Fulbright scholar in Germany in 1992-1993 and 2002-2003. He was the author of seven books, the most recent of which was War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: Historical Perspective, published in 2009. He is…
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 115423
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"Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere": First Edition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
HEANEY, Seamus.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.
London: Faber and Faber, 1999.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 142996
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Turgenev's Favorite work by Tolstoy; First Edition of Tolstoy's The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852
TOLSTOY, Leo.
The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878.
First edition in English of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 123937
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Charles McCays Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
MACKAY, Charles.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852.
Second edition of this important, entertaining and influential early study of crowd behavior, subsequently used to explore popular psychology and to chart the stock market, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations, in original cloth. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Illustrated with numerous engravings throughout. In near fine condition, names to the title page. Uncommon in the original cloth and in this condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 132543
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Margaret Mead's Male and Female; Inscribed by Her in the year of publication
MEAD, Margaret.
Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1949.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Harry Shapiro from Margaret Mead September 1949." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With the compliments of Margaret Mead laid in. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 122351
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; with 12 remarkably intricate full color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac
FITZGERALD, Edward. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, c. 1920.
Magnificent edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, title page on Japanese vellum, with 12 full color plates tipped with tissue guards. In fine condition. A nice presentation.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 126161
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Concert Program; Signed by Louis Armstrong and Four of His Band Members
ARMSTRONG, Louis.
Louis Armstrong Signed Program.
New York: Associated Booking Corp, n.d.
‘Louis Armstrong and his Concert Group' program. Quarto, original wrappers, 20 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs of the band and its members. Boldy signed by Louis Armstrong on the thirteenth page, and additionally signed by Velma Middleton, Barney Bigard, Tummy Young, and Danny Barcelona on their respective portraits. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 146533
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Where the Wild Things Are; Signed by Maurice Sendak
SENDAK, Maurice.
Where the Wild Things Are.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.
Early edition of one of the most desirable books in modern children’s literature. Oblong quarto, original cloth backed pictorial paper boards. Boldly signed by Maurice Sendak on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 139431
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First Edition of Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons
PARFIT, Derek.
Reasons and Persons.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 138268
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"You must do the things you think you cannot do": A presentation for friends of the First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelts On My Own; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
On My Own: The Years Since The White House.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.
First edition of Roosevelt's last book of autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. One of the advance signed presentation to friends of the author signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. In near fine condition with the original acetate dust jacket.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 130498
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“In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up”: First Edition of Dickens Nicholas Nickleby
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over boards, gilt titles to the spine. First issue points with "visiter" for "sister" on p. 123, "latter" for "letter" p.160, "flys" for flies on p. 245, and "visiters" for "visitors" on p. 272. First issue points for first four plates. In very good condition.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 117498
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Signed by Nobel Laureates Naguib Mahfouz and Nadine Gordimer
MAHFOUZ, Naguib; Foreword by Nadine Gordimer.
Echoes of An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday, 1997.
First edition of this autobiography by the first Arab writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both Nobel Laureates Naguib Mahfouz and Nadine Gordimer, who contributed the foreword to this volume. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Both signatures were obtained in person.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 1907
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“Solitude is the playfield of Satan": First Edition of Pale Fire
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Pale Fire.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.
First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 140795
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"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray"; Finely Bound Set of Lord Byron
LORD BYRON; THOMAS MOORE,.
The Works of Lord Byron: His Life and Poems.
London: John Murray, 1851.
Finely bound collection of the works of Lord Byron. Octavo, sixteen volumes, contemporary full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, frontispiece to each volume. In very good condition.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 3289
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Rare collection of 5 issues of War in Pictures; featuring several rare Cecil Beaton wartime photographs
[BEATON, Cecil; Winston S. Churchill].
War In Pictures.
London: L. T. A. Robinson, 1940-1941.
Rare collection of five issues of War in Pictures featuring several rare Cecil Beaton wartime photographs. Folio, the collection includes the August 1940, September 1940, January 1941, June 1941, and July 1941 issues of the popular WWII periodical. Each issue contains numerous large-format wartime photographs, many by Cecil Beaton including a large portrait of Winston S. Churchill captioned: "Winston Churchill 'The Hammer of the Hun' -a study of Britain's great war Prime Minister. His unfailing courage, wisdom and determination have confronted the Nazis with their first and most formidable opposition in Europe" and many other portraits and action shots by…
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 125681
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First edition program for the ceremonies held at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore; Signed by William Rehnquist and Byron White who administered the oaths of office
CLINTON, Bill. (William Rehnquist and Byron White).
President Bill Clinton Inauguration Ceremonies Program.
Washington, D.C: Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, 1993.
Original program for the ceremonies held at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on January 20th 1993. Octavo, original wrappers with the gold Presidential seal to the front panel. Signed on the front panel by William Rehnquist who administered the oath of office to President Clinton and Byron White who administered the oath to Vice President Albert A. Gore Jr. In fine condition with two stamps postmarked 'Inauguration Day January 20th 1993' to the front panel.
Price: $1,000.00 Item Number: 100004
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First Edition of The Black House; Signed by Stephen King
KING, Stephen & Peter Straub.
The Black House.
New York: Random House, 2001.
First edition of this work by the author of Carrie. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc Cohen.
Price: $1,000.00 Item Number: 143655
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First Edition of Bill Owens' Suburbia; Inscribed by Him; With a Signed Photograph Laid In
OWENS, Bill.
Suburbia.
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.
First Edition. Oblong quarto, original photographic stiff paper wrappers. Inscribed by the photographer, "For William Enjoy "William" Bill Owens 2008." Laid into is a photograph signed by Bill Owens on the verso. In excellent condition with only light wear.
Price: $1,000.00 Item Number: 1910
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“What I did, anybody can do": First Edition of WEEGEE by Weegee; Inscribed by Him
WEEGEE,.
Weegee by Weegee: An Autobiography.
New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1961.
First edition of the famed photographer's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frances Colley Weegee." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $1,000.00 Item Number: 2292
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Rare diagram of key locations in the assassination of John F. Kennedy; drawn and signed by Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boom
BOONE, Eugene. [John F. Kennedy].
Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone Signed John F. Kennedy Assassination Map.
Original bird's eye view diagram of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas Texas with annotations detailing the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone, the officer who recovered Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository after Kennedy's assassination. One page, the map shows key locations in the assassination including the "Grassy Knoll" and "School Book Depository," and traces the steps Boone took after shots rang out, with notes by Boone, He writes: "When shots were fired I ran from the front of the Sheriff's Office to the freight yard looking for…
Price: $1,000.00 Item Number: 139357
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Rare First Edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz's American Vines
VIALA, Pierre and Louis Ravaz; Raymond Dubois and Edmund Twight.
American Vines (Resistant Stock): Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation.
San Francisco: Press of Freygand-Leary Co, 1903.
Rare first American edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz's of 'Les Vignes Americaines,' translated in its entirety from the original French by Raymond Dubois and Edmund H. Twight. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, botanical endpapers, illustrated with diagrams. In near fine condition, Santa Cruz Department of Agriculture stamps to the front pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147239
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First Edition of La Guerra del Fin del Mundo; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
La Guerra del Fin del Mundo [The War of The End of The World].
Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral, 1981.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 132328
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"The mathematician is studying something objective, even if he is not studying an unconditional reality of non-material things": First edition of Christopher Norris's Hilary Putnam; Inscribed by him to Hilary Putnam
NORRIS, Christopher.
Hilary Putnam: Realism, Reason, and the Uses of Uncertainty.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002.
First edition of Christopher Norris's study of the philosophy of Hilary Putnam. Octavo, original boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Hilary Putnam, With best wishes (and in some trepidation) Christopher Norris (Cardiff, October 2002)." In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 88088
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First Edition of The Game Of Thrones Deluxe Edition; Signed by George R.R. Martin
MARTIN, George R.R.
A Game of Thrones.
New York: Bantam Books, 2011.
First deluxe edition of the first book in the author's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by George R.R. Martin on the title page. Fine in the fine blue slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145901
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“Any earner who earns more than he can spend is automatically an investor”: G.M. Loeb's the battle for investment survival; In the rare original dust jacket
LOEB, Gerald M.
The Battle For Investment Survival.
Boston: Barron's Publishing Company, Inc, 1952.
First printing of the second edition of Loeb's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the spine and rear panel. Rare and desirable in the original dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 108223
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Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale; finely bound and decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Bickers and Son, 1880.
Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a fore-edge painting of Squire Thornhill visiting the Primrose family, illustrated. In very good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138744
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THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM; Inscribed by Writer and Publisher Elbert Hubbard to His Niece
KHAYYAM, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald; [Elbert Hubbard].
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1906.
Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Address by John Hay and Introduction by Clarence S. Darrow. Oblong duodecimo, original half red suede over black boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, red leather spine label, top edge gilt, illustrated with decorated headpiece, tailpieces, and initials by W. W. Denslow. Association copy, inscribed by writer and publisher Elbert Hubbard to his niece on the front flyleaf, "To Mrs. Wellman with love and blessing, from her uncle Elbert Hubbard." In very good condition with rubbing to the corners…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146576