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"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real": The Border Trilogy; Signed by Cormac McCarthy
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2008.
First edition, early printing of McCarthy's classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144601
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COMPLETE SET OF DICKENS' CHRISTMAS BOOKS; Finely Bound by Riviere & Son
DICKENS, Charles.
The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1886.
Finely bound example of Dickens' Christmas books, reprinted from the stereotype plates of the original. Octodecimo, five volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, additional illustrated title page to each volume with the exception of A Christmas Carol, engraved illustrations by John Leech, D. Maclise, R. Doyle, and C. Stanfield. In very good condition with rubbing to the exterior hinges and extremities, abrasions and darkening to the spines, some splitting to the…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145260
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Rare signature of legendary mountaineer Edmund Hillary; framed with Yousuf Karsh's iconic portrait of him
HILLARY, Edmund. [Yousuf Karsh].
Edmund Hillary Signature and Yousuf Karsh Portrait.
1953.
Rare notecard signed by Edmund Hillary who on May 29, 1953, along with Tenzing Norgay, became the first climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of the ninth British expedition led by John Hunt. Boldly signed by Hillary on a notecard less than six weeks after his successful ascent of Mt. Everest, "E. P. Hillary, July 5th 1953." The 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest was the eighth in 30 years to attempt Everest. On May 29th, 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay at last stood at the summit; it was a culminating moment…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 137381
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf by The Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 139172
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"The absolute foundation of professional cooking, and the most useful thing I can teach you, is the concept of mise en place. As a cook, youR "meez" is your first principle, your belief system, your religion, your Tao": First Edition of Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook; Inscribed by him with a large drawing of a knife
BOURDAIN, Anthony with Jose De Meirelles and Philippe Lajaunie. Photographs by Robert DiScalfani.
Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2004.
First edition of Bourdain's classic French bistro cookbook. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs by Robert Discalfani. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author who has drawn an image of a knife on the title page, "To Janet and Larry Anthony Bourdain." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Helicopter. Jacket photograph by Robert Discalfani.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 130373
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Rare 17th century printing of Rufus' celebrated history of Alexander the Great
CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.
De Rebus Alexandri Magni, Cum Commentario Perpetuo & Indice Absolutissimo Samuelis Pitisci. [History of Alexander the Great].
Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halma, 1685.
Rare 17th century printing of Rufus' celebrated history of Alexander the Great. Octavo, bound in full vellum, with engraved title, folding map and 9 engraved plates (some folding) depicting the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a view of the ancient city, and a folding map of Alexander's domain. In very good condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131499
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"To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure": First Editions of each volume in Naipaul's India Trilogy; Each Signed by Him
NAIPAUL, V.S.
An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India; India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1964-1990.
First editions of each of the author's works in his acclaimed Indian Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Each volume is signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 90453
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock in the rare original cloth
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, original blindstamped pictorial cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 99753
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome; From the library of Michael Sadleir
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. From the library of Michael Sadleir with his bookplate to the pastedown. Sadleir was a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer. Sadleir began to work…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 99339
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35th Anniversary Edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed by Legendary Actor Gregory Peck
LEE, Harper [Gregory Peck].
To Kill A Mockingbird.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic film starring Gregory Peck. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Academy-Award winning actor Gregory Peck on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145873
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
La Hojarasca.
Bogota: Ediciones- S.L.B., 1955.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by artist Cecilia Porras. In very good condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138058
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Complete Finely Bound Second Edition Set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1966.
Complete second edition of each title of Tolkien’s epic, best-selling Lord of the Rings Trilogy with a later edition of The Hobbit. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in contemporary red morocco with morocco spine labels and motifs onlaid in six compartments within raised bands, matching motifs stamped in blind on the front panel of volume, marbled endpapers to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, illustrated with drawings and folding maps. Signed by the binder, Jean Gladstone-Goodwin, on the verso of inserted custom-made title pages of typescript, pen and ink. In good condition with rubbing to the spine and extremities of each volume,…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146003
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The Structure of Matter; inscribed by "the father of the hydrogen bomb" Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward O.; Francis Owen Rice.
The Structure of Matter.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1949.
First edition, secondo printing of this introductory volume on the properties of matter and their systematic interpretation by quantum mechanics. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with charts and graphs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stan in memory of a spectacular appreciation of the application of the theory of atomic structure, Edward Teller." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with small loss to the crown of the spine. Bookplate to the pastedown. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146896
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Original Photograph signed by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Albert Schweitzer
SCHWEITZER, Albert.
Albert Schweitzer Autograph Signed Photograph.
Large photograph of Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene purchasing supplies for the hospital, signed and inscribed by him. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11 inches. One of the largest signed photographs we have seen or handled.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 117846
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Rare plaster replica of the famed Houdon bust of George Washington
ANDERSON, Ronald Lee. [Jean-Antoine Houdon; George Washington].
George Washington Houdon Bust Sculpture.
Life-size sculpture of the head of George Washington, after the famed Houdon bust of George Washington of 1785. Plaster, the piece measures 11.5 inches by 9 inches and is attributed to American portraitist Ronald Lee Anderson who likely sculpted the work as an exercise as a college student. French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon was revered for his life-like portrayals of numerous notable eighteenth-century philosophers, inventors, and political figures including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Napoléon Bonaparte, and George Washington. In 1784, the Virginia General Assembly commissioned a statue of George Washington "to be of the finest marble and the…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 121908
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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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“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it": The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad; each volume in the rare original dust jackets
CONRAD, Joseph.
The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad. [Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of “Narcissus”, Tales of Unrest, Lord Jim, The Inheritors, Youth: and Two Other Stories, Romance, Typhoon and Other Stories, Nostromo, The Mirror of the Sea, The Secret Agent, A Set of Six, Under Western Eyes, Some Reminiscences, ‘Twist Land & Sea Tales, Chance, Victory, Within the Tides, The Shadow Line, The Arrow of Gold, On Day More, The Rescue].
Edinburgh & London: Various Publishers, 1925.
Collection of the writings of Joseph Conrad. Octavo, 20 volumes, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets which are in near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 125741
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First Edition of The Magnificent Ambersons; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Lengthily Inscribed by Booth Tarkington
TARKINGTON, Booth.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic Orson Wells film often regarded as among the greatest films of all time. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, 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, " For Rose and John Narteau from Florence and John Jameson and inscribed, with pleasure by Booth Tarkington Indianapolis…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144080
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"I remember Evelyn first at Oxford, a convivial, pink-faced, blue-tweeded figure with, almost invariably a glass in his hand": First revised edition of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop; inscribed by him to life-long friend Patrick Balfour
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Scoop.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1964.
First revised edition of Waugh's satire of sensationalist journalism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Patrick, with regards from Evelyn." The recipient, Scottish author-journalist Patrick Balfour,(Lord Kinross), was a life-long friend of Waugh’s. Balfour was serving as a correspondent for The Evening Standard and Daily Sketch in East Africa and became a close companion of Waugh’s as he wrote the present volume. Laid in is a four-page typescript article written by Balfour about his friendship with Waugh, titled "Evelyn Waugh". The article begins, "I remember Evelyn first at Oxford, a convivial, pink-faced, blue-tweeded…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 95271
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First Edition of Dangling Man; Signed by Saul Bellow and Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
BELLOW, Saul.
Dangling Man.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt borders to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Boldly signed by Saul on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146618