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Capture of Jefferson Davis Collection
[DAVIS, Jefferson].
Capture of Jefferson Davis Collection.
Fine collection of pieces related to the capture of Jefferson Davis near Irwinville, Georgia on May 10, 1865. The collection includes an original carte-de-visite of Davis's captor, Colonel B.J. Pritchard; a calling card signed by Pritchard; a cabinet card of "The Only Photo in the Word of the Exact Spot where Hon. Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy, was captured May 10th, 1865, by Fourth Michigan Cavalry, near Irwinville, Irwin county, Ga. Taken and copyrighted December 31st 1894, by J.H. Harris, Tifton, Berrien county, Ga."; a first edition of Edwin M. Stanton's Letter of the Secretary of War, Communicating, In compliance…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 132583
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MAURER, David W.
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940.
First edition of this classic study of con men, basis for the film The Sting directed by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and Robert Shaw. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy, with the letter and notes from the publisher, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the rare wrap around band.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146060
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Original Donald Brooks Sketch from the production of Dance a Little Closer
BROOKS, Donald.
Dance a Little Closer: Donald Brooks Original Pencil and Watercolor Drawing.
1983.
Original Dance a Little Closer is a pencil and watercolor drawing depicting the Cynthia character in a full length pink and peach gown with a second drawing depicting the back of the gown, signed lower right by legendary designer Donald Brooks. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 27 inches by 22 inches. Brooks was the costume designer for the 1983 production of Dance a Little Closer.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 137699
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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits; Signed by Him
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. In very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140953
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First Edition of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
BELLAMY, Edward.
Looking Backward 2000-1887.
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888.
First edition, first issue with "J. J. Arakelyan" imprint on verso of title leaf of this classic utopian novel. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 140787
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Find the Constellations; Inscribed by H.A. Rey with a drawing
REY, H.A.
Find the Constellations.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.
First edition, second printing of this classic illustrated work by the author of Curious George. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "To Brian happy stargazing! H.A. Rey 4-24-1960." Rey has added a drawing of a child looking at three stars. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 120761
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Rare Royal military appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria
VICTORIA, Queen.
Queen Victoria Royal Military Appointment Signed.
1898.
Rare large format Royal Military Appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. One vellum leaf, partially printed. The document is dated 9th April 1898 and appoints Francis Duncombe Astley-Russell to the position of Quarter Master in Her Majesty's Land Forces. Boldly signed by Queen Victoria in the upper right corner, "Victoria R." Retaining the blue Royal paper seal. Countersigned by Landsdowne. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed with the original transmittal envelope. The document measures 15.25 inches by 12 inches. The entire piece measures 32.25 inches by 28 inches.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 124088
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HURSTON, Zora Neale.
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.
Philadelphia : J.P. Lippincott Company, 1938.
First edition of Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 26 illustrations. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141718
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"DASHED HOPES AND GOOD INTENTIONS. GOOD, BETTER, BEST, BESTED": FIRST EDITION OF WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF; SIGNED BY EDWARD ALBEE
ALBEE, Edward.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
New York: Atheneum, 1962.
First edition of Albee's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Edward Albee 2010." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 126769
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Rare First Edition of Harry Vardon's Progressive Golf
VARDON, Harry.
Progressive Golf.
London: Hutchinson & Company, 1920.
First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated with several folding plates from action-shot photographs. . Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips to the spine. First editions in the original dust jackets are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 13012
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Signed Christmas Cards from Nobel Laureates Nelson Mandela and F. W. De Klerk
MANDELA, Nelson and F.W. de Klerk.
Nelson Mandela and F. W. De Klerk Signed Christmas Cards.
Rare original Nelson Mandela and F. W. De Klerk Christmas cards, boldly signed by each. The signed card from Mandela showing children playing in the snow, signed inside in black ballpoint, "N. Mandela, 10.12.97", which measures 7.75 inches by 5.25 inches and a Christmas card of de Klerk and his wife Elita, signed, "F. W. de Klerk" and measures 6 inches by 6 inches.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131394
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First Edition of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture "an essential document in architectural literature"; Signed by Robert Venturi with a drawing
VENTURI, Robert; Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Robert Venturi who has added a drawing of his mother's house on the dedication page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Vincent Scully.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133609
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on": First Edition of John F. Kennedy's Why England Slept
KENNEDY, John F.
Why England Slept.
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940.
First edition of John F. Kennedy's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Introduction by Henry R. Luce. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Laid in is a copy of Kennedy's Inaugural Address.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145871
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First Edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's Moscou; Inscribed by Him
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.
Moscou [Moscow].
Paris: Collection Neuf/ Robert Editeur, 1955.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the famed photographer. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "a Monsieur et Madame Henri Dumur avec mon souvenir le meilleur Henri Cartier-Bresson." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138199
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First Edition of Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar le petit elephant; From the Library of Maurice Sendak
BRUNHOFF, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak].
Histoire de Babar le petit elephant. [The Story of Babar the Little Elephant].
Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1931.
First edition of the first book in de Brunhoff’s Babar the Elephant series in the original French; from the library of Maurice Sendak, although not marked. Folio, original half cloth over pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. In good condition with rubbing to the boards and light toning throughout. Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, is often hailed as “the Picasso of children’s books.” He has produced more than 85 books which have populated children’s imaginations for years. For his contributions to children’s literature, Sendak received the third biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in 1970, one…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 147153
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First Edition of A Pictorial History of the Negro in America; Signed by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer
HUGHES, Langston and Milton Meltzer.
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1956.
First edition of this important compilation on the history of African Americans. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 147261
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“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny": Free to Choose; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.
First edition, early printing of Friedmans' persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Milton Friedman on the half-title page to mathematician David Cox. Light rubbing, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. A nice association.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 15043
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First edition of The Works of Benjamin Franklin; compiled by Jared Sparks
SPARKS, Jared. [Benjamin Franklin].
The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and A Life of the Author.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1840.
First edition of Jared Sparks' authoritative compilation of Franklin's works and letters. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full contemporary polished calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141375
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you... yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!" First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's If
KIPLING, Rudyard.
If.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1910.
First American edition of Kipling's ever-relevant tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. Small octavo, original illustrated boards. In near fine condition, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, some pages uncut. An exceptional example, rare and desirable.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145798
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First edition, first issue of Mark Twain's King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
King Leopold’s Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule.
1905: The P. R. Warren Co, Boston, Massachusetts.
First edition, first issue of Twain's work of political satire harshly condemning King Leopold's rule over the Congo Free State. Small octavo, original wrappers as issued. In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth and chemise case with a second edition third printing of the pamphlet which contains the publisher's later advisory, "The publishers desire to state that Mr. Clemens declines to accept any pecuniary return from this booklet, as it is his wish that all proceeds of sales above the cost of publication shall be used in furthering the effort for relief of the people of the Congo State.…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 95339