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“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat": Signed First Edition of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich; In the rare original dust jacket
HILL, Napoleon.
Think and Grow Rich.
Meriden, Conn.: The Ralston Society, 1937.
Rare first edition of this classic bestseller, which has sold over 100 million copies. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Napoleon Hill on an official bookplate on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable in the original dust jacket and signed.
Price: $18,000.00 Item Number: 133570
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"A Major Source for Shakespeare": Second and preferred edition of Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
HOLINSHED, Raphael.
The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland With: The Third volume of Chronicles, beginning at Duke William the Norman [Holinshed Chronicles].
London: John Harrison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, 1587.
Preferred second edition of the greatest Elizabethan repository of English history which served as an important source for Shakespeare's plays. Folios, 3 volumes bound into 2, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, red morocco spine labels, gilt ruled, woodcut initials and title pages. Separate title pages and pagination for The Description and Historie of England, The Description and Historie of Ireland, and The Description and Historie of Scotland comprising volume 1. When this expanded second edition of the Chronicles appeared in January 1587, the Privy Council, responding to Queen Elizabeth’s displeasure at certain passages, ordered the Archbishop…
Price: $18,000.00 Item Number: 95438
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"one of the most important works in all of English literature": First edition of Johnathan Swift's masterpiece Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first Surgeon, and then Captain of Several Ships. [Gulliver’s Travels].
London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, 1726.
First edition of one of the most important works in all of English literature, Teerink's "AA" edition of Jonathan Swift's masterpiece. Octavo, four parts in two volumes bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, botanical gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Lemuel Gulliver (Teerink's 2nd state), illustrated with five engraved maps and one engraved table. In very good condition. A desirable example of this landmark work in English literature.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 146104
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First Edition of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; Signed by Her
RAND, Ayn.
Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece stamped in gilt, spine stamped in black and gilt. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. An exceptional example.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 139659
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“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again": COMPLETE FIRST EDITION SET OF C.S. LEWIS' THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA; FINELY BOUND BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY
LEWIS, C.S.
The Chronicles of Narnia Set: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician’s Nephew, The Last Battle.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950-1956.
First editions of each book in the author's classic Chronicles of Narnia series, which has sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages. Octavo, 7 volumes, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to each front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The set comprises of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle. Each are…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 140690
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Rare Globe Terrestre d'apres les Decouvertes les Plus Recentes
BERTRAUX, Emile .
Globe Terrestre d’apres les Decouvertes les Plus Recentes [Terrestrial Globe].
Paris: Emile Bertraux, 1879.
A fine and highly detailed French terrestrial library globe showing the earth's geography as it was mapped in the late nineteenth century. The globe includes the oceans' major currents, the declination of the sun, color-coded European colonial possessions, the locations of railway tracks, telegraph lines, and ocean liner routes, as well as the tracks of various explorers, including Columbus, Cook, Vancouver, D'Urville, and Freycinet, among others. The globe consists of twelve hand-colored lithographed paper gores and two calottes pasted to a plaster and wood sphere; the globe's graduated brass meridian circle is set within a later stand consisting of a…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 136769
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"ONE OF THE GREAT CHARACTERS OF MODERN FICTION": FIRST EDITION OF KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK; SIGNED BY HIM
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos [Kazantzaki].
Zorba The Greek.
London: John Lehman, 1952.
First edition in English, preceding the American edition by one year of the author's most popular novel. basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Anthony Quinn. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nikos Kazantzakis. From the library of Odysseas Elytis, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1979. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Carl Wildman. Introduction by Ian Scott-Kilvert. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Trade editions signed by Kazantzakis are exceptionally rare.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 138764
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James Joyce's First Privately Printed Edition copy of Marguerite Finaly's Reliquiae; with his ownership inscription
FINALY, Marguerite. [James Joyce].
Reliquiae.
Paris: Privately Printed, 1925.
James Joyce's first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly, compiled by her husband, Horace Finaly, in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce's ownership inscription. Octavo, bound in full crushed morocco by G. Cretté with gilt titles to the spine, silk-watered doublures and endleaves, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marguerite Finaly. One of 150 copies privately printed. Signed and dated by Joyce on the title page, "James Joyce Paris 27.xi.1926." Horace Finaly became a close friend of Marcel Proust in Paris and contributed to the magazine La Banquette. He rose to prominence as head…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 131904
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"God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race": First Edition of Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story; Signed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
KING JR., Martin Luther.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.
First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes Martin Luther King, Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 145065
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"the first novel in the English language": Rare complete set of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series
DEFOE, Daniel.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Serious Reflections During the Life And Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719-1720.
Rare complete set of early editions of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a stated second edition. Small octavo, three volumes bound in full period paneled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ornamental blind stamping to the front and rear panels, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe in Vol. I, folding engraved world map in Vol. II, folding engraved frontispiece of Crusoe's island in Vol. III, decorated headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout. In very good…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 145589
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Rare Typed Letter Signed by the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. R. Oppenheimer to Los Alamos Engineer George Little
OPPENHEIMER, J. Robert; [George Little].
J. Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed. [WITH] Related Manhattan Project Ephemera.
Santa Fe: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1945.
Rare typed letter signed by the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J.R. Oppenheimer. Quarto, one page on Oppenheimer's Santa Fe stationary, dated October 13, 1945, the letter reads in part, 'Dear Mr. Little This letter is to acknowledge your contribution to the development of the atomic bomb. The unequivocal success of the Los Alamos Project was made possible by the unstinting efforts and sacrifices of the members of the Special Engineering Detachment ... During the extreme production rush of the early summer you were one of a small group who did the work of a much larger group. During this…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 147275
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“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”: Exceptionally rare First American edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; in the original publisher's cloth
BY THE AUTHOR OF "JANE EYRE." [BRONTE, Emily].
Wuthering Heights. A Novel.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1848.
First American edition (published less than five months after the virtually unobtainable London first edition) of Emily Brontë's singular masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher's purple cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In good condition with splitting and wear to the cloth. Period ownership inscription to the pastedown. Exceptionally rare in the original publisher's cloth.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 146424
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First Edition of C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet; In the Scarce Original Dust Jacket
LEWIS, C.S.
Out of the Silent Planet.
London: The Bodley Head, 1938.
First edition of the author's classic first book in his acclaimed Space Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Exceptionally are and desirable in the original dust jacket.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 130744
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"the most celebrated biography in the English language": Rare First Edition of Boswell's The Life of Johnson
BOSWELL, James.
The Life of Johnson.
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in The Poultry, 1791.
First edition, first issue of both volumes of the most celebrated biography in the English language, which was published on May 16, 1791 in a print run of only 1,750 copies. Quarto, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Johnson, engraved by J. Heath after the Sir Joshua Reynolds (1756) painting. Volume one is the first state with the word “give” reading on page 135, line 10. First state of volume two, with two engraved illustrations, “The Round Robin” at p. 92, and the “facsimiles” of Dr. Johnson's handwriting on p. 588. In near fine condition with light toning,…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 80005
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary": Rare First Separate Edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
POE, Edgar Allan.
The Raven.
New York: W. Jennings Demorest, c. 1869-1870.
The first separate American edition of Poe's most famous poem, and likely the first separate edition overall, preceding the 1869 Glasgow edition (BAL 16216). Small octavo, original cloth, blue endpapers. Octavo, original colored pictorial wrappers printed in blue and gold. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Only four copies of this separate Demorest edition have been located in OCLC, at the Huntington, Yale University, Brown University, Emory University, all with their bindings unspecified. Though The Raven is here published separately, another issue has been noted at both the University of Virginia and the Free Library Company…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 144195
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Rare Complete First Edition Set of Issac Leeser's Discourses on the Jewish Religion; Bound in the Original Cloth
LEESER, Issac.
Discourses on the Jewish Religion.
Philadelphia: Sherman & Co, 1836-1867.
Rare complete first edition set of one of the ‘major builders of American Judaism’, Isaac Leeser’s Discourses on the Jewish Religion. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound in the original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities of each volume, bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership stamp to the front free endpaper of each volume, some loss to the spine of Vols. I and VI. A rare and unrestored example of early American Judaica.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 146786
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The Artists' Edition of the Works of Alexander Dumas, one of only 100 numbered copies; Finely Bound
DUMAS, Alexandre. [Alexander].
The Works of Alexandre Dumas.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company Publishers, 1894-1904.
The Artists' Edition of the complete works of Alexander Dumas. Octavo, 46 volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and botanical decorations to the spine in four compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, photogravure frontispieces in 2 states to each volume, one hand-colored and the other on Japan vellum, each with lettered tissue guard, title-pages printed in red and black on Japan vellum, illustrated with numerous photogravures. One of 100 numbered copies of the Artists' edition, this is number 9. In near fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 144834
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Rare 19th century autograph album containing the signatures of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B. Hayes, and numerous governors, senators, and cabinet members
[LINCOLN, Abraham; James Buchanan; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes; Andrew Johnson; Franklin Pierce.
Presidential Autograph Album Containing the Signatures of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Others.
[1877-1880].
Unique 19th-century autograph album containing the signatures of six American presidents, fifteen senators, several cabinet members, and governors including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Buchanan, and Franklin Pierce. Narrow quarto, bound in one quarter period dark brown cloth over stiff marbled wrappers, the autograph album is a repurposed 19th-century caucus record, dating from ca. 1870. The caucus book is alphabetically tab-indexed and filled out in ink, voters are tracked by their name with caucus results appearing in the back. Although this is labeled “Ward 5” in the first page, the term "Ward" was flexible in its usage. This could…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 146562
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“THE MOST NATURALISTIC DEPICTION OF AMERICAN MAMMALS EVER DONE”: FIRST OCTAVO EDITION OF AUDUBON’S QUADRUPEDS
AUDUBON, John James and John Bachman .
The Quadrupeds of North America.
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854.
Rare first octavo edition of Audubon’s Quadrupeds, illustrated with 155 magnificent hand-colored lithographic plates. Tall octavos, three volumes, bound in full straight red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt stamped bear on front board, rear board with blind stamped bear, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. An exceptional example, rare and desirable in this condition.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 139368
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"It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve, but if need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die": First Edition of No Easy Walk To Freedom; Signed and Dated by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson.
No Easy Walk To Freedom: Articles, Speeches, and Trial Addresses.
New York: Basic Books Inc., Publishers, 1965.
First edition of Nelson Mandela's classic account of the struggle against South Africa's apartheid system. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "NMandela 25.5.95." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Parke P. Bowman. Introduction by Oliver Tambo. Edited by Ruth First. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 109564