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“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you”: Signed Limited First Edition of Kahlil Gibran's Sand and Foam
GIBRAN, Kahlil.
Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
Signed limited edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth over marbled boards, number 33 of 95 copies, signed by Kahlil Gibran. Illustrated with seven drawings by the author. In near fine condition.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 131582
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First edition of One City; signed by J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh
RANKIN, Ian; Alexander McCall Smith; Irvine Welsh. Introduction by J. K. Rowling.
One City.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005.
First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh's most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. One of 150 numbered copies signed by J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh on the half-title page, this is number 100. Introduction by J. K. Rowling. Foreword by Rt Hon. Lesley Hinds. Near fine in the original slipcase which is in fine condition.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 124173
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"Whose courage and brilliance are rarely equaled and never surpassed. With best birthday wishes": From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Louis Begley's Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters; Inscribed by Bill Bader to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
BEGLEY, Louis; [Bill Bader] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
First edition of this case study on corruption in the justice system. Octavo, original publisher's boards. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the front free endpaper, "March 2012. For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Whose courage and brilliance are rarely equaled and never surpassed. With best birthday wishes, - Bill Bader." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147322
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Rare First edition, presentation copy of Jaws; inscribed by Peter Benchley with an original drawing of a shark
BENCHLEY, Peter.
Jaws.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of Benchley’s bestselling thriller and basis for the blockbuster 1975 motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. Octavo, original cloth, blue endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "to: Frank ... - keep writing! - best wishes - Peter Benchley." Benchley has added an original drawing of a shark beneath his signature. From the library of noted collector William Strutz with his small bookplate to the pastedown. Near fine in a near fine first-issue dust jacket with the $6.95 price. Author photograph by Alex Gotfryd. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed with an original…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 148200
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Rare Second Edition of Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert [T.R.].
An Essay on the Principle of Population, as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society.
London: T. Bensley, 1803.
Rare second edition of this cornerstone text of modern economics. Quarto, bound in full diced morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 143843
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RARE ELABORATELY ILLUMINATED PATENT OF NOBILITY SIGNED BY Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega, King of Arms to King Charles III of Spain
DON RAMON ZAZO OF ORTEGA,.
Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega Signed Patent of Nobility.
Rare illuminated patent of Nobility signed by Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega, historian and King of Arms to Charles III, King of Spain. Quarto, bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, fleuron cornerpieces and central gilt motif within botanically gilt frames to the front and rear panels, elaborately illuminated vellum leaves including six full-page hand-painted coats of arms from the houses of Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega, Zarra, Echavarria, Aldecoa, and Lizerazu. Text in Spanish. Signed by Don Ramon Zazo of Ortega at the conclusion of the patent with a remnant of the original Royal paper…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 109050
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"And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly": "the greatest juvenile classic since Winnie the Pooh"; First Edition of The Story of Ferdinand; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Inscribed by Muro Leaf with three drawings
LEAF, Munro. Illustrated By Robert Lawson.
The Story of Ferdinand.
New York: The Viking Press, 1936.
First edition of Munro Leaf's beloved children's classic. 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 stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with three drawings opposite the title page, "For Dick with all best wishes of Ferdinand and Munro Leaf." In fine condition. An exceptional presentation on one of the most sought after children's books of the twentieth…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 147987
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Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cookbook; Signed Three Times by Andy Warhol
VANDERBILT, Amy; Drawings by Andy Warhol.
Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Cookbook.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Andy Warhol. Signed three times by Warhol, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Rickey Andy Warhol", on the title page using his full name, "Andrew Warhol" and again at the introduction, "To Rickey Andy Warhol." Drawings by Andrew Warhol. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed three times by Warhol.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 148051
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First Edition of Golden Rules of Economic Growth; Inscribed by Edmund Phelps to Paul Samuelson
PHELPS, Edmund S. [Paul A. Samuelson].
Golden Rules of Economic Growth: Studies of Efficient and Optimal Investment.
New York: W.W. Norton & Norton Company, Inc., 1966.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's first book, a collection of twelve essays in mathematical economics. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson, "To Paul with best wishes Edmund Phelps." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. From the library of Paul A. Samuelson. An exceptional association linking these two great economists of the twentieth century.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 132356
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First Edition, First Issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly.
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company. Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
First edition, first issue of Stowe's classic American novel, widely considered the book that precipitated the American Civil War. Octavo, two volumes in the original publisher's cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles and vignettes to the front panels, illustrated with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. BAL's binding B (no priority). Portrait of Stowe tipped in opposite the title page of volume I. In very good condition.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142642
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RARE PRINTED LETTER SIGNED BY THEODORE HERZL IN the wake of the collapse of Zionist fundraising efforts in Russia
HERZL, Theodor.
Theodor Herzl Printed Letter Signed.
December 19, 1903.
Printed letter signed by the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, in the wake of the collapse of Zionist fundraising efforts in Russia. One page, printed, sent from Vienna on December 19, 1903, the letter is in German and translates into English as, "As of around the 23rd of Oct. we have requested that you, in consideration of the current situation in Russia, which for a longer time has made the collection and delivery of the Shekel impossible to us, to compress in the fund-raising of the Shekel in your country as quickly as possible, and to send us the…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 143208
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"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win": The Works of Edward Gibbon; One of 73 Numbered Sets; Finely Bound
GIBBON, Edward.
The Works of Edward Gibbon, Including The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
New York: Fred Defau & Company, 1906.
The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon, one of numbered 73 sets, this is number 7. Octavo, 15 volumes, bound in full dark blue levant morocco, inlaid red tulips at the corners of boards and center of each spine, raised bands, gilt titles to the spine, brown morocco doublures and watered silk flyleaves, binding by MacDonald, plates in three states: photogravure colored, on India paper, and printed on velin. In fine condition. An exceptional set, most rare and desirable.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 98478
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First Edition of Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road; Inscribed by Him to Friend and Screenwriter Harry Behn
CALDWELL, Erskine .
Tobacco Road.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
First edition of Caldwell's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Harry Behn with the best wishes of Erskine Caldwell M.G.M. Culver City June 10th 1933." The recipient, Harry Behn was a screenwriter who wrote classics such as The Big Parade and Hell's Angels. Behn collaborated with Caldwell on a screenplay (Call it Experience, p. 157). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional association, rare and desirable signed and…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 116873
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Rare First Edition of Sylvia Plath's The Colossus and Other Poems
PLATH, Sylvia.
The Colossus and Other Poems.
London: Heinemann, 1960.
First edition of the first complete volume of poetry to be published by Plath and the only volume published in her lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142976
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Rare 1911 Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent; elaborately bound in full morocco with gilt metalwork embellished with inlaid precious stones
Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent
Vienna: 1911.
Rare Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent bestowing upon Brunn industrialist Adolf Noble von Kurschner and his descendants a Hungarian noble title. Folio, bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt metal onlays embellished with precious stones, inner dentelles, silk-watered endleaves, tasseled ribbon bound in. The patent is richly decorated with hand-painted illuminated borders, large hand-painted coat of arms. Signed by the Minister of the Interior: Vienna, December 11, 1911, the patent extends the hereditary title of baron bestowed on Adolf Noble von Kurschner to his descendants Adolf Baron von Kurschner and his wife Marie Baroness von Kurschner as well as their direct descendants.…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 132158
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Sylvia Miles' personal working script collection; containing over 50 original shooting and play scripts used, signed, and annotated by her
MILES, Sylvia.
Sylvia Miles Original Working Script Collection.
Sylvia Miles' personal collection of over 50 working shooting and play scripts used by her, with her ownership signatures, and with her annotations throughout. Approximately 50 volumes, scripts include: Into It: A Screenplay by Edward Pomerantz, The Deathwatcher: A Screenplay by Robin Miller, Play That On Your Old Piano: A Comedy in Three Acts by Dan Blue, Going Home by Lawrence B. Marcus, Next Year In Jerusalem and The Night Before Paris by Martin Sherman, The Riot Act by Will Greene, Infancy by Thorton Wilder, The Sentinel: A Screenplay by Michael Winner, Rosebloom by Harvey Perr, The Ghost Dancers: A…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 110785
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“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it": First Edition, First Issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
London: Longman, Green, and Co, 1886.
First edition, first issue with the publication date on the upper wrapper altered by hand of Stevenson's classic book. Octavo, original wrappers, advertisements. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. First editions in the original wrappers are rare.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 110275
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“THE MOST WIDELY READ OF ALL AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES": TRUE FIRST EDITION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.
Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, Écrits Par Lui-Même, et Adressés à Son Fils, Suivis d’un Précis Historique de Sa Vie Politique, et de Plusieurs Pièces, Relatives à Ce Père de la Liberté. [Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin].
Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, 1791.
True first edition of the first part of Franklin’s famed autobiography which preceded the first English edition by two years. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate period gilt tooling to the spine, ribbon bound in. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 139755
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Rare first edition, first state of Jane and Ann Taylor's Little Ann; inscribed by Louisa May Alcott
TAYLOR, Jane and Ann. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. [Louisa May Alcott].
Little Ann and Other Poems.
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1882].
First edition, first state of this children's classic. First state with the half green cloth binding, all edges stained blue and bright yellow endpapers. Schuster & Engen 109a. Octavo, original half green cloth over pictorial boards, illustrated by Kate Greenaway, printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Association copy, inscribed by Louisa May Alcott on the front free endpaper, "Aubrey, from his friend L. M. Alcott Aug. 1884." Louisa May Alcott remains best known for her beloved children's classic, Little Women, published in 1868. One of the most popular juvenile books ever published, “Little Women is an outstanding achievement of 19th-century…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 142318
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"MATCHLESS, A TIME BOMB THAT’S NEVER BEEN DEFUSED" FIRST EDITION OF WILLIAM KLEIN’S NEW YORK; SIGNED BY HIM
KLEIN, William.
New York. Life is Good and Good For You in New York: Trance Witness Revels.
Milano: Feltrinelli Editore, 1956.
First edition of one of the most celebrated of the photographic books of the second half of the 20th century. Quarto, original cloth, original pamphlet bookmark. Signed "Happy New York William Klein." The pamphlet bookmark is also signed by Klein, as well. An excellent example in the original dust jacket with a few small closed tears.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 3724