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Autograph From "one of the most influential figures in human history" Charles Darwin
DARWIN, Charles.
Charles Darwin Autograph.
Rare autograph from Charles Darwin, boldly signed, "With M. Darwin's Best Compliments." Matted and framed with a portrait of Darwin. The entire piece measures 11.9 inches by 9 inches. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 145367
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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved": First Edition of The Sirens of Titan; Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
The Sirens of Titan.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
First hardcover edition of the author's second novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with very light rubbing to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example, uncommon signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 35055
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"The soft-drink stand fell into bits. Molecules. He saw molecules, colorless, that made it up": First edition of Time Out of Joint; Boldly signed by Philip K. Dick
DICK, Philip K.
Time Out of Joint.
New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959.
First edition of Philip K. Dick's first novel published in hardcover format. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip K. Dick on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 95875
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First Edition of the Photographer’s Seminal First Book; Inscribed By Peter Beard with original artwork
BEARD, Peter Hill.
The End of the Game.
New York: The Viking Press, 1965.
First edition of the photographer's first book with over 75 black-and-white and color photographic plates. Tall quarto, original ivory cloth. Uniquely inscribed by Peter Beard across four pages, including original artwork. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Special Delivery To Renny & Lucas H. from your pal Peter (Beard) Hog Ranch Box 4191 Nairobi 1960's and beyond with his footprints and drawings. On the half-title page Beard has in original photographs and made annotations and below the author's note an original photograph of his daughter "Zara B. Lamu Jan 1990." Very good in a very good dust…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 148059
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“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light": Signed Limited First Edition of Dylan Thomas' In Country Sleep
THOMAS, Dylan .
In Country Sleep.
New York: New Directions, 1952.
Signed limited edition, one of 100 copies of this collection of poems, including the first book appearance of "Do not go gentle into that good night," published the year before his death, Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Dylan Thomas. Fine in a fine slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 109248
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"Modern macroeconomics began with this book, no wonder it's not easy to read": First Edition of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; Lengthily Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.] [Robert M. Solow].
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936.
First edition of the economist's masterpiece, generally regarded as the most influential social science treatise of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, "Modern macroeconomics began with this book, no wonder it's not easy to read Robert Solow." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A unique example.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 138055
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"A momentous event in the calendar of crime novel publishing": First edition of Agatha Christie's Endless Night; Inscribed by Her
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Endless Night.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1967.
First edition of Christie's masterful murder mystery; one of her personal favorites. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Agatha Christie Sept 1970." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. Housed in a custom clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 142019
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First Edition of Einstein: His Life And Times; Signed by Albert Einstein in the year of publication
FRANK, Philipp [Albert Einstein].
Einstein: His Life And Times.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.
First edition of this classic work by Frank, a famed contemporary of Einstein. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the subject in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "A. Einstein 47." Translated from a German manuscript by George Rosen. Edited and Revised by Shuichi Kusaka. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. Rare and desirable signed by Einstein.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 147192
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The Definitive Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain; Signed by Mark Twain and his biographer and literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Writings of Mark Twain. [Including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Prince and the Pauper; A Tramp Abroad].
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-27.
The Definitive edition, one of 1024 numbered sets, with volume one signed by Mark Twain and Albert Bigelow Paine. The publisher states that Twain intended a definitive edition and signed 1024 single leaves in 1906 in anticipation of this edition. Octavo, 37 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine over marbled boards, each volume illustrated with frontispiece and plates. In very good condition.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 125020
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First Edition of REPORTS OF CASES DETERMINED IN THE GENERAL COURT OF VIRGINIA, FROM 1730, TO 1740; AND FROM 1768 TO 1772; Inscribed by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
JEFFERSON, Thomas [Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph].
Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia, From 1730, TO 1740; And From 1768 TO 1772.
Charlottesville: F. Carr and Co., 1829.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor and Thomas Jefferson’s grandson on the front free endpaper, "Rick Barnhead Presented by Tho Jefferson Randolph Grand son of the author." In very good condition. Rare and desirable, especially signed and inscribed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 128396
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“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success": Rare Stock Certificate for the Ford Motor Company of Canada; Signed by American Industrialist Henry Ford
FORD, Henry.
Henry Ford Signed Stock Certificate for the Ford Motor Company.
Walkerville, Ontario: The Ford Company of Canada Limited, 1908.
Rare Ford Motor Company stock certificate signed by American industrialist Henry Ford. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript with red embossed seal, the certificate is dated December 17, 1908 as certificate #100 and issues 20 shares in the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. Signed by Henry Ford as President of the Company and additionally signed by Gordon Morton McGregor as Secretary. Matted and framed with a portrait of Ford and an informational placard. In fine condition. The piece measures 18 inches by 25.25 inches. An exceptional piece.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 146752
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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality": First Sphere edition of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit; Signed by Yoko Ono and John Lennon
ONO, Yoko; Introduction by John Lennon.
Grapefruit.
London: Sphere Books Limited, 1971.
First Sphere edition of Ono's seminal piece of conceptual art. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper. The uncommon Sphere edition of Ono's Grapefruit integrates the 'cheeky' subject matter of her 1966 short film Bottoms. Rare and highly sought-after signed by both Ono and Lennon.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 142829
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"Perhaps the greatest French illustrated book of the first half of the eighteenth century": Rare first edition, first issue of Oeuvres de Moliere
MOLIèRE. [POQUELIN, Jean-Baptiste].
Oeuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle Edition.
Paris: [Pierre Prault], 1734.
First edition, first issue of one of the greatest French illustrated books of the first half of the eighteenth century. First issue with "Comteese" in vol. VI, p. 360, line 12. Quarto, six volumes bound in full calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 33 engraved plates by Laurent Cars after François Boucher, engraved frontispiece portrait of Molière by Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié after Charles-Antoine Coypel, 210 engraved head and tailpieces, and 104 engraved initials by Joullain and Cars after Boucher, Blondel and Oppenord. In near…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 130224
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"Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth": First Edition of William Faulkner's The Town; Signed by Him in the year of publication
FAULKNER, William.
The Town.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition, first state with the 5/57 at the bottom of the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "11 Nov 57 Best wishes William Faulkner." With the publisher's advance review copy slip dated May 1, 1957 laid in and a copy of the jacket photograph of Faulkner by Phyllis Cerf laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with only light rubbing to the crown of the spine, bookplate. Jacket design by Push Pin Studios. Rare and desirable signed in the year…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 125095
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Rare Illuminated Astrological Sign Symbol Painting Collection; elaborately bound in full decorated calf and containing twelve original paintings
Illuminated Astrological Sign Symbol Painting Collection.
Rare collection of illuminated paintings depicting the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Quarto, bound in full calf with gilt tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with fleuron cornerpieces surrounding a gilt-bordered morocco onlay displaying a coat of arms, patterned endpapers, twelve vellum leaves. The illuminated paintings include: the Aires the Ram, Taurus the Bull, the Gemini Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, the Maiden Virgo in Medieval dress, the Scales of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius the Centaur, Capricorn the Goat, Aquarius the Water-bearer, and Fishes Pisces. Painted in a style reminiscent of Medieval…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 199552
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First Edition of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock; Inscribed by Him
GREENE, Graham.
Brighton Rock.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First American edition, preceding the British edition by one month of Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Richard Graham Greene." Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by George Salter. Housed in a custom clamshell box. First editions signed and inscribed are scarce
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 98352
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world”: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson; Finely Bound in Full Morocco
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Including Treasure Island; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped].
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans, Green and Company, 1894.
Edinburgh edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, often considered the finest edition of Stevenson due to the paper quality used. Octavo, complete set, 34 volumes, bound in full contemporary morocco, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 25015
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“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry": Thomas Mann's Death In Venice; Inscribed by Him
MANN, Thomas.
Death in Venice.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
First edition of this translation of Mann's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Dedicated to Mr. Carl Lammle by Thomas Mann 15.VII.36." Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some expert restoration to the extremities. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed, this is the first example of this edition we have encountered.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 140382
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Rare uncorrected galley proof of James Baldwin's Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
BALDWIN, James.
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone.
New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968.
Rare uncorrected galley proof of Baldwin's fourth novel. Square quarto, original spiral bound wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "Peace James Baldwin." In very good condition. Publication date annotated in ink on the front wrapper. Very uncommon signed.
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 140823