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“Once upon a time there lived a little boy named jack”: Jack the Giant Killer; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
DOYLE, Richard.
Jack the Giant Killer.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888.
First manuscript facsimile edition, reproduced from Richard Doyle’s original text. Slim quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips and tears. Any dust jacket from the 1880's are rare; this is the only example we have seen or heard of. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 59056
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"Let this be all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds should judge thee wrong": Collection of documents signed by President Grant and eight members of his administration
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Collection of documents signed by President Grant and eight members of his presidential administration.
1860-1891.
A collection of eleven letters and documents signed and hand-written by the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and eight members of his presidential administration. Contents include a printed warrant for the pardon of John and Jerome Whisonant who were held at the Albany Penitentiary in 1874 signed by Grant, an 1860 one page autograph letter signed by Secretary of the Treasury Lot M. Morrill discussing misappropriated funds, an autograph quotation in the hand of 17th Vice President Schuyler Colfax, "Let this be all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds should judge thee wrong. Schuyler…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 73063
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"Make your theories fit your facts, not your facts your theories": First Edition of Dickson G. Watts Classic Thoughts on Life; Signed by Him
WATTS, Dickson G.
Thoughts on Life.
Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1899.
First edition. Small octavo, original cloth. Signed by Dickson G. Watts on the title page. In good condition, with some wear to the cloth.This is the first Watts signature we have encountered. Rare.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 4486
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"Tarzan of the Apes found many things to puzzle his young head": First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan; Inscribed by him to his brother-in-law Eddie Gilbert
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1919.
First edition of the sixth book in Burroughs' epic Tarzan series. Octavo, original orange cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Edward Gilbert Best Wishes Always, Edgar Rice Burroughs. The recipient, Edward Gilbert was the brother of Burroughs' second wife and silent film actress Florence Gilbert. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with some chipping and loss to the crown and foot of the spine. Rare and desirable signed by Burroughs.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 96781
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Rare "Noh aspires to indescribability": 200 Utaibon Noh Chantbooks
200 Utaibon Noh Chantbooks.
Kyoto: Tsunenosuke Hinoki, 1943-1944.
A theatrical collection of exactly 200 Utaibon Noh chantbooks. Original wrappers with stitched binding, average of approximately 20 pp. each, title labels on rice paper, patterned paper covers, calligraphic text in red and black. All in very good to fine condition. Housed in a dedicated wooden case, which is in good condition with partitioning to one of the doors. From the collection of Mae Smethurst, a University of Pittsburgh professor who authored a groundbreaking book comparing Noh drama to Greek classical drama. An exceptional rarity.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 145827
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The Royal Edition of The Writings of Mark Twain
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel Clemens].
The Writings of Mark Twain.
Hartford, Connecticut: The American Publishing Company, 1899-1907.
The Royal edition of the writings of Mark Twain. Octavo, 21 volumes of the original 25 bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards for Brentano's with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with many full-page illustrations, including etchings, photogravures, and engravings, with numerous frontispiece portraits of Twain. One of an unstated number of copies of the Royal edition, this is number 287. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 138944
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First Edition of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1964.
First American edition of le Carre's classic work, which went on to reinvigorate the spy genre. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Feder. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 144403
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Signed Limited Edition of Pablo Neruda's Alturas de Macchu Picchu
NERUDA, Pablo and Martin Chambi.
Alturas de Macchu Picchu.
Chile: Nascimento, 1954.
Signed limited edition of Neruda's masterpiece. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers as issued, photographs by Martin Chambi. Signed by Pablo Neruda at the colophon as issued. In near fine condition. Laid in is the scarce insert on green paper that was issued with all copies, which is a bibliographic note on the genesis and publication history of the poem by Jorge Sanhueza. This is the first definitive edition of the poems, including the Chambi photographs referenced in "The Latin American Photobook. A superior example, rare in this condition.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 77014
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“The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak": First Edition of Grace Metalious' Peyton Place; Inscribed by Her in the Year of Publication
METALIOUS, Grace.
Peyton Place.
New York: Julian Messner, Inc, 1956.
First edition of this landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, which spawned a successful feature film and a long-running prime time television series soap opera. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author shortly after publication, "To Jay Dupuis with best wishes, Grace Metalious. Oct. 10, 1956." The initial first edition was released on September 24, 1956 and the print run was minimal, as it was Metalius' first book. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks. The recipient was a relative…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 89943
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First Editions of Henry Yule's The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East; finely bound in full morocco by sangorski and sutcliffe
YULE, Colonel Henry.
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East.
London: John Murray, 1871.
First edition of Yule's important work which correlated Polo's travels with their present-day locations. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling and vignettes to the front panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with maps and engraved illustrations many folding and in color. From the Adventure and Exploration collection of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 111068
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"CARRYING HIS SEDITIOUS PICTURES AS IF THEY WERE DIAMONDS": FIRST EDITION OF HOUSE OF BONDAGE; SIGNED BY Joseph Lelyveld
COLE, Ernest; Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld; Text by Thomas Flaherty.
House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.
New York: : Random House, 1967.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by both "Ernest Cole" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author "Joseph Lelyveld 9.18.14" on the title page. Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. Text written with Thomas Flaherty. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 127758
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"One of the most important editions of Machiavelli's works": Rare first Cambiagi edition of Opere Di Machiavelli
MACHIAVELLI, Nicolo.
Opere Di Machiavelli.
Firenze: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1782-3.
First Cambiagi edition of the works of Machiavelli, one of the best and most important editions of his works. Quarto, bound in full period vellum with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, engraved portrait frontispiece of Machiavelli by Gregori after Santi di Tito, large arms of Earl Cowper on each title page, folding plate opposite p. 333 in Vol. II showing the layout of an army camp, another opposite p. 1 in Vol. IV a facsimile letter in Machiavelli’s hand. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 129048
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"CANDY MAKING, AS A PASTIME FOR YOUNG FOLKS, IS NOT TO BE SURPASSED": FIRST EDITION OF AUNT BABBETTE'S HOME CONFECTIONERY
KRAMER, Bertha F.
“Aunt Babette’s” Home Confectionery.
Chicago and Cincinnati: Bloch Publishing & Printing Co, 1893.
First edition of this early collection of confectionery recipes published as a companion to the author's first book, Aunt Babette's Cook Book, the first American Jewish cookbook to become a best-seller in 1889. Also published by Bloch Publishing Company, the oldest Jewish printing house in the United States, Aunt Babette's Cook Book was perhaps so successful because of the extensive inclusion of non-Kosher recipes, reflecting the early assimilation tendencies of the 19th-century Reform Jewish movement. Small octavo, original cloth. In good condition.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 75073
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Rare signed photograph of major league baseball legend ty cobb playing golf
COBB, Ty.
Ty Cobb Signed Photograph.
Photograph of baseball legend Ty Cobb posing on a golf course with three other golfers, signed by Ty Cobb. Also signed by golfers M. Ridgely and Frank Robinson. In very good condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 11 inches by 13 inches. Photographs signed by Cobb are rare.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 89005
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"We've Dug So Fast And We've Dug So Well That We've Quite Forgotten To Leave A Way Out!": First Edition Of Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel In The Original Dust Jacket
BURTON, Virginia Lee.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939.
First edition of this children's classic with the date of 1939 on the title page. Oblong quarto, original tan cloth. A very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the spine extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 2398
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First edition of The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats; complete and in the original publisher's vellum binding
YEATS, William Butler.
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats.
London: Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press for Chapman and Hall, 1908.
First collected edition of the works of William Butler Yeats. Octavo, original publisher's half vellum over cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine and front panels, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, limited to 1060 copies, photogravure frontispiece portrait in volumes 1, 5 and 7 with tissue guards as issued, titles printed in red and black. In fine condition. A rare and very sharp complete set in the original publisher's binding.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 146956
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First American Edition of Thomas Mann's Classic Doctor Faustus; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
MANN, Thomas.
Doctor Faustus.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
First American edition of Mann's classic retelling of the story of Dr. Faustus, the man who sold his soul to the devil for 24 years of health and genius. Octavo, original boards, red topstain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Joseph Golde thankful for his musical hospitality Chicago 23 Febr. 1950 Thomas Mann." A few notes in the text from the recipient, near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Salter. Photograph of Mann by Yousuf Karsh. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by the author, as…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 77021
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First McCulloch Edition of Adam Smith’s Masterpiece The Wealth of Nations; Finely Bound
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London: Adam Black, and William Tait/Longman, Rees, 1828.
First McCulloch edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine labels, raised bands, frontispiece to volume one. In near fine condition. An exceptional set of this classic work.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 141427
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"Rebus, unable to move, decided it was safe to go to sleep now": First Edition of Knots & Crosses; Signed by Ian Rankin
RANKIN, Ian.
Knots & Crosses.
London: Bodley Head, 1987.
First edition of the author's first Inspector Rebus mystery. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Rankin who has additionally added the words, "Rebus, unable to move, decided it was safe to go to sleep now." Rankin has also added his knots & crosses motif.
Price: $3,750.00 Item Number: 995
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First edition of Ethics in Service; Signed by William Howard Taft
TAFT, William H.
Ethics in Service.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1915.
First edition of this collection of addresses delivered by the 27th president of the United States in the 1914 Page Lecture Series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Howard Taft on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.
Price: $3,600.00 Item Number: 146513