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First Edition of Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial; Signed by Him
ISHERWOOD, Christopher.
The Memorial: Portrait of a Family.
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932.
First edition of the author's classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Banting. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142447
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“In a gentle way, you can shake the world": First edition of Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
GANDHI, Mahatma [Mohandas K.].
Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story.
London: George Allen& Unwin, 1930.
First edition of Gandhi's revealing autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Edited by Charles F. Andrews. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133894
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First on the Moon; Signed by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
ARMSTRONG, Neil; Michael Collins; Edwin E. Aldrin.
First On The Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
Early printing of this work, which describes the events leading up to and during the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned landing on the Moon. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140419
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Rare first edition of David Davidson's Comprehensive finely illustrated Family Bible
DAVIDSON, David.
The Comprehensive Family Bible; Containing The Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorized Version. With Copious Critical, Explanatory, and Practical Notes, and Reflections; A General Introduction, Parallel Passages, Index of Subjects, and Chronological Tables.
Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London: Blackie and Son, 1858.
First edition of Davidson's finely illustrated family Bible. Large quarto, bound in contemporary full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate decorative tooling to the front and rear panels stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Illustrated with numerous hand-colored maps and engraved plates by Holl, Robinson, Knight, and Whitfield including frontispiece and engraved title page. In very good condition. Interior hinges reinforced. A nice example of this popular 19th century illustrated Bible.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 130348
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Tennis Great William Tilden Signed Photograph
TILDEN, William.
William Tilden Photograph Signed.
Rare photograph of American tennis legend William Tilden. Boldly signed by Tilden, "Wm T. Tilden 2nd." Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 11.5 inches by 10 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 100124
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First Edition of Hymns of the Ages: Second Series; from the library of Ulysses S. Grant
[GRANT, Ulysses S.].
Hymns of the Ages: Second Series. Being Selections From Wither, Crashaw, Southwell, Harington, and Other Sources.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865.
First edition of the second series of Hymns of the Ages, from the library of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. From the library of Ulysses S. Grant with a presentation bookplate to the pastedown which reads, “Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, from the Citizens of Boston, January 1, 1866.” In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 138284
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“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread": First Edition of Native Son; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
WRIGHT, Richard .
Native Son.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
First edition, first issue with "A - P" on the copyright page. 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 inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145947
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers”: First Edition of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
PYNCHON, Thomas.
Gravity’s Rainbow.
New York : The Viking Press, 1973.
First edition of Pynchon's National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marc Getter. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147618
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First Edition of Anthony Burgess' One Hand Clapping; Inscribed by Him to the executive producer of A Clockwork Orange Si Litvinoff
[ANTHONY BURGESS] JOSEPH KELL,.
One Hand Clapping.
London: Peter Davies, 1961.
First edition of this work by the author of A Clockwork Orange. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To dear Si with affection 'Joe’(Anthony/John.” The recipient, Si Litvinoff was the executive producer for Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange that was based on Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel, with Litvinoff's signature to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Gorman. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134575
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"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other": The personal Memoirs of General William T. Sherman; from the library of his son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
SHERMAN, William T.
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1891.
Early edition of this memoir from one of the most well regarded generals, “oft-consulted and much-quoted reminiscences ... Sherman wrote as he fought; dynamically and bluntly” (Nevins II, 89). Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of William T. Sherman, illustrated with folding maps in each volume, his son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the exterior, splitting to the interior front hinge of both volumes. Philemon Tecumseh Sherman transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, before he died. Eleanor was the granddaughter of…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145721
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First Edition of Charles Rollin's The Ancient History; From the Library of General William Tecumseh Sherman
ROLLIN, Charles [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians Macedonias and Grecians.
New York: George Long, 1830.
First edition of this historical collection of travel accounts; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, four volumes, bound in full calf with gilt titles and labels to the spine, frontispiece portrait of Charles Rollin to Vol. I, folding map of the City of Syracuse besieged by the Athenians to Vol II, folding map of the coast of Spria, Phoenice and ot the Holy Land to Vol. III, folding map of Egypt and part of the Holy Land to Vol. IV, pictorial title page to each volume. General William Tecumseh Sherman and his son P. T. Sherman’s booklates…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145753
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FIRST EDITION OF SOCIOBIOLOGY: A NEW SYNTHESIS; SIGNED BY EDWARD O. WILSON WITH A DRAWING OF AN ANT
WILSON, Edward O.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
First edition of Wilson's classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrations by Sarah Landry. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has added a drawing of an ant. From the library of MIT biomedical professor Robert Mann, with his stamp on the front free endpaper, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and closed tears.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 16093
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First Edition of Geek Love; Signed by Katherine Dunn and three times by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd
DUNN, Katherine.
Geek Love.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
First edition of this classic work, named by The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Katherine Dunn on the title page and signed three times by legendary designer Chip Kidd; on the front panel; on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. The book's original cover art by Chip Kidd caused a sensation at book conventions when it was introduced in 1989. Its plain, stark orange color and unusual fonts went against conventional design aesthetics. In keeping with the novel's theme of mutation, the lettering of the title employs mutated…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147967
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Extra-illustrated first edition of Robert Southey's The Pilgrim's Progress With a Life of John Bunyan; elaborately bound in full morocco by bayntun riviere
SOUTHEY, Robert. [John Bunyan].
The Pilgrim’s Progress. With a Life of John Bunyan.
London: John Murray and John Major, 1830.
First edition of A Pilgrim's Progress to include Southey's Life of Bunyan, extra-illustrated with 15 plates, 6 in color. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, triple gilt ruling and decorative borders to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bunyan, illustrated with two engravings by William Raymond Smith after paintings by John Martin and woodcut illustrations in text by Charles Nesbit. This copy extra-illustrated with 15 plates, 6 in color. Southey's biography of Bunyan reinvigorated interest in…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133036
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“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination": The Left Hand of Darkness; Inscribed by Ursula Le Guin
LE GUIN, Ursula K. [LeGuin].
The Left Hand of Darkness.
New York: Walker & Company, 1969.
Early printing of the author's Nebula and Hugo award-winning novel. Octavo, original gray cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "For Louise with best wishes Ursula Le Guin 5/III/88." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lena Fong Lueg. Jacket illustration by Jack Gaughan. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147540
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First paperback edition of Paul Bocuse's French Cooking; INSCRIBED BY PAUL BOCUSE TO FELLOW LEGENDARY FRENCH CHEF JEAN VERGNES
BOCUSE, Paul [Jean Vergnes].
Paul Bocuse’s French Cooking.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.
First paperback edition in English of Bocuse's classic work on French cuisine. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. Translated from the French by Colette Rossant. Presentation copy, inscribed by Paul Bocuse on the title page, "A l'ami Jean Vergnes a mon ami... en sommelier du Cirque la plus belle cuisine de N.Y. 16.08.2008." The recipient, Jean Vergnes, was a classically trained and highly acclaimed French chef, best-known as the co-founder of the famed Manhattan eatery Le Cirque, which opened in 1974. Vergnes had a major influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades. He began his career working as a…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144607
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Rare early 18th Century Oxford Book of Common Prayer; finely bound in full contemporary calf together with The Whole Book of Psalms
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter of Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung in Churches. [Together with]: The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others.
Oxford: Printed by the University Printer, 1729.
Rare early 18th Century Oxford Book of Common Prayer. Duodecimo, bound in full contemporary polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt central ornament within gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition. Together with The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others. [London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1729] in an identical binding. In near fine condition. A very nice set.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 140235
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First edition of James Herriot's The Lord God Made Them All; inscribed by him
HERRIOT, James.
The Lord God Made Them All.
London: Michael Joseph, 1981.
First edition of this installment in Herriot's true-life-saga as a veterinarian in the Yorkshire countryside. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bill... James Herriot." Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Fay Godwin. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 129084
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Led Zeppelin II; lengthily inscribed by album cover artist David Juniper
JUNIPER, David. [Led Zeppelin].
David Juniper Signed Led Zeppelin II Album.
Burbank, CA: Atlantic Recording Corporation, 2014.
A fine example of Led Zeppelin's greatest albums which earned album cover artist David Juniper a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package. Lengthily signed on the front panel by album cover artist David Juniper, "The music of Led Zeppelin I had blown me away and so on spec, I mocked up a fold-out design for the second album and took it [to] Led Zeppelin's manager. David Juniper. Designer of the cover art for Led Zeppelin II." David Juniper was was a classmate of Jimmy Page's at Sutton Art College in Surrey. His clever design for Led Zeppelin II was based…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134256
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"I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog": First Edition of Saul Bellow's Herzog; Signed by Him and Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
BELLOW, Saul.
Herzog.
New York: The Viking Press, 1964.
First edition of the author's second of three National Book Award winning novels, which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. 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 inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by Saul Bellow on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142269
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“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created": First edition of The Road Ahead; Signed by Bill Gates
GATES, Bill.
The Road Ahead.
New York: The Viking Press, 1995.
First edition of Gates' modern classic work on the information age. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Bill Gates on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Laurie Rippon. With an interactive CD-ROM.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 117376
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Race, Reform, and Rebellion; From the Library of Nobel Prize-Winning Author J.M. Coetzee
MARABLE, Manning. [J.M. Coetzee].
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990.
University of Mississippi Press: Jackson and London, 1990.
Revised second edition from the library of Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee with his ownership signature to the title page. J.M. Coetzee is an essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (three times), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. Waiting for the Barbarians received both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Age of Iron was awarded the Sunday Express Book of…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 144545
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First Edition of The Suffrage of Elvira; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
The Suffrage of Elvira.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1958.
First edition of Naipaul's second book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Robert Micklewright. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 2135
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First Edition of A Columbus of Space; Signed by Garrett P. Serviss in the Year of Publication
SERVISS, Garrett P.
A Columbus of Space.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911.
First edition of this classic interplanetary adventure novel. Octavo, original lime green pictorial cloth, frontispiece of a scene from page 47 "Standing on the steps ... was a creature shaped like a man, but more savage than a gorilla." Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. In near fine condition. A rare example in this condition without any other signed copies in commerce.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146170
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Rare Signed Golda Meir Certificate
MEIR, Golda.
Golda Meir Signed Certificate.
1956.
Signed by the future Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, then Labor Minister Golda Myerson on an official Ministry of of Labor Certificate of Excellence in Studies granted to ORT school girl in the sewing profession, dated June 20, 1956. This certificate is signed with her original name just before David Ben-Gurion ordered her to change her English name to a Hebrew one. In very good condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 133284
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"And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom": First Edition of H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man
WELLS, H.G.
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897.
First edition, first issue of Wells’ popular cautionary tale of overreaching scientific ambition. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt and black-stamped pictorial red cloth. First issue with the first page numbered 2, the title page printed in orange and black and publisher’s ad leaf at rear. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. Housed in a slipcase.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 146157
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“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity": First Edition of Mark Twain's Classic The Prince and the Pauper; From the library of William Safire
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
The Prince and the Pauper.
James R. Osgood and Company: New York, 1882.
First edition, second state with the Franklin Press imprint on the copyright page and corrected text on page 124 line 1 (corrected from estate to state). BAL 3402. Johnson p. 39-41. Octavo, original publisher's green pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, with one hundred and ninety-two illustrations. From the library of William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 127482
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First Edition of Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins
WILSON, Margaret.
The Able McLaughlins.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine second state jacket, with notice of the Harper Prize printed at the top of the front panel and the front flap, with $2.00 price present, but no Pulitzer Prize sticker or re-order coupon at bottom rear flap. Uncommon.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142067
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"Now I am going to write a diary because we are going to America because of the war": First Edition of P.L. Travers' I Go By Sea, I Go By Land; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
TRAVERS, P.L.
I Go By Sea, I Go By Land.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941.
First edition of this classic work, a fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "K. Jean Bourne, P.L. Travers 6 December '41." With drawings by Gertrude Hermes. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with reinforcement to the verso. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 103991
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"I wish you good fortune": First Edition of Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Warmly signed by Her
LESSING, Doris.
The Golden Notebook.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80 24 Gada Garden London." Also with postcard from the British Museum signed by Lessing on the same date. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 114758
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“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big": Trump: The Art of the Deal; Inscribed by Donald J. Trump
TRUMP, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz.
Trump: The Art of the Deal.
New York: Random House, 1987.
First edition of Trump's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ann, Best Wishes, Donald Trump." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket photograph by Michele Singer.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 141485
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Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments Royal Premiere Program; Signed by Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, and three others
DEMILLE, Cecil B; Anne Baxter; Yul Brynner; Yvonne De Carlo; Charlton Heston; Edward G. Robinson.
The Ten Commandments.
Piccadilly Circus: VistaVision, 1957.
Rare official Royal Premiere program for the 1957 production of Cecil B. DeMille's epic religious drama 'The Ten Commandments,' presented in the presence of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester in aid of The British Red Cross Society. Small folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Signed by five of the principal actors on the front panel of the full-color double gatefold insert: Charlton Heston (Moses), Yul Brynner (Ramses), Anne Baxter (Nefretiri), Edward G. Robinson (Dathan), and Yvonne De Carlo (Sephora). In very good condition with some rubbing to the front panel, slight splitting to the staple binding, light toning to the…
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147207
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Rare Photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Signed by Them
TUTU, Desmond and The Dalai Lama.
Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu Signed Photograph.
Rare photograph signed by the two Nobel Peace Prize winners. Color photograph of Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama holding hands in a joyous pose. Signed by each beneath their respective portraits. In fine condition. The piece measures 7.5 inches by 5.75 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 147286
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First Edition of John Neff On Investing; Signed by Him
NEFF, John with S.L. Mintz.
John Neff On Investing.
New York : John B. Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of this work by the legendary investor. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the dedication page, "Best wishes John B. Neff." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Olinsky. Jacket photograph by Brad Wilson. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142421
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"For in the end, is it not fitting that a book about the Constitution should close by studying what the Constitution is not about?" First Edition of American Constitutional Law; Lengthily Inscribed by Laurence Tribe
TRIBE, Laurence H.
American Constitutional Law.
New York: The Foundation Press, 1978.
First edition of the legal scholar's classic treatise on constitutional law. Quarto, original red boards. In near fine condition, issued without a dust jacket. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed the author on the front free endpaper, "For Adri- For in the end, is it not fitting that a book about the Constitution should close by studying what the Constitution is not about? Laurence H. Tribe June 2009." In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 143896
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First edition of Tyranny of the Status Quo; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Tyranny of the Status Quo.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration’s attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a slightly toned spine. Jacket design by Lem Rauk/ Visible Ink. Jacket photography by Frank Castro and Associates. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 4646
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Rare First Edition Confederate Record of laws passed pertaining to recently freed slaves at the General Assembly of Alabama, Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on the Second Monday in January 1861
MOORE, Andrew.
Acts of the Called Session of the General Assembly of Alabama, Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on the Second Monday in January 1861.
Montgomery, Alabama: Shorter & Reid, State Printers, 1861.
Rare first edition of this Confederate imprint recording new laws and regulations pertaining to freed slaves. Octavo, bound in period quarter calf over boards, red morocco spine label with gilt titles. In very good condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 96174
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“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort": First Edition of Charles Dickens' Bleak House
DICKENS, Charles.
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.
First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marble endpapers. In near fine condition. Illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 136226
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"You don't think I'd steal something that didn't belong to me, do you?" First Edition of Practise to Deceive; Signed by Peter O'toole
BRADSHAW, George [Peter O'Toole].
Practise to Deceive.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.
First edition of this collection of short stories, one of which Venus Rising was the basis for the classic film How to Steal A Million, starring Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by legendary actor Peter O'Toole on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon Studios. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 110748
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"the greatest statesman of our century": Rare Dag Hammarskjold Autograph
HAMMARSKJOLD, Dag.
Dag Hammarskjold Autograph.
1960.
Rare autograph of diplomat, economist, and author who served as secretary general of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash. Boldly signed "Dag Hammarskjold, 1 Februari 1960,” on a 3.5 inch by 2 inch card, which is affixed to a white 8.25 inch by 11.75 inch mount bearing an attached portrait of Hammarskjold. In fine condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 117232