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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: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1799.
Early edition of Adam Smith's magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine labels. In near fine condition, rebacked. An exceptional set of this classic work.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 137589
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Rare Ulysses S. Grant Autograph; Additionally Signed by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and U.S. Generals Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler
GRANT, Ulysses S.; Hamilton Fish; Leonard Wood; Joseph Wheeler.
Ulysses S. Grant, Hamilton Fish, Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler Autographs.
N.p., [1874-1902].
Autographs of President Ulysses S. Grant, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and United States Army Generals Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler. Octavo, one page. Signed by Grant, "U. S. Grant." Additionally signed and dated by Wheeler ("Joseph Wheeler Genl. USA. Apl. 11. 1902"), Wood (Leonard Wood Army Genl USA June 30th 1902"), and Fish ("Hamilton Fish Sect of State June 5/74"). In very good condition with light toning to the edges. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 146684
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Photograph of Civil Rights Activist Rosa Parks; Signed by Her
PARKS, Rosa.
Rosa Parks Photograph Signed.
Rare iconic photograph of Rosa Parks "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement," signed by her. In fine condition. The photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 147223
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself": First Edition of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman; Inscribed by him
SHAW, George Bernard.
Man and Superman.
Westminster: Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Charles Roebuck Ramsden Goodhart from G. Bernard Shaw 21st May 1905." In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise box. Rare signed and inscribed.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 132653
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From the Library of Stephen Hawking
SCHMUTZER, E. [Stephen Hawking].
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation . . Jena, 14-19 July 1980.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
First edition of this work on relativity and gravitation. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 119378
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Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group John Bogle; all but one volume signed or inscribed by Bogle
BOGLE, John C.
Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor; John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years; Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group; The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism; The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns; Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition; Don’t Count on it!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes; The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation; Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.
New York: McGraw Hill and Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994-2019.
Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group, all but one volume signed or inscribed by him. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth and half cloth. The collection contains: Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: Irwin, 1994. First edition, early printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Rob Skalski - with best wishes for a fine career at Vanguard. John Bogle November 19, 1997"; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 143557
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"One of the earliest books printed in Roman type": Rare incunable edition of Justinus's epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus
JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus.
Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii Historias.
Venice: [Philippus Pincius], c. 1497.
Rare incunable edition of Justinus's epitome of the Historia Philippica by Pompeius Trogus. Chancery folio, bound in one quarter vellum over patterned boards with ink titles to the spine, Roman type. In very good condition. Bookplate. Period marginalia. Exceptionally rare, one of the earliest books printed in Roman type, which would influence famed 15th century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, as well as such latter day designers as William Morris and Bruce Rogers.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 126068
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First Edition of Saving Private Ryan: A Film by Steven Spielberg; signed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
SPIELBERG, Steven. Photographs by David James; [Tom Hanks].
Saving Private Ryan: A Film by Steven Spielberg.
New York: Newmarket Press, 1999.
First edition of the illustrated book companion to the Academy Award-winning film. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs by David James. Presentation copy, inscribed by Steven Spielberg on the front panel, "Bill, Remember when... Steven Spielberg" and additionally inscribed by Tom Hanks, "To Bill, Peace. Forever. Tom Hanks." In fine condition. Mounted and framed. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 15 inches.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 132619
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“The Body of Benjamin FRANKLIN Printer, Like the Covering of an Old Book Its contents torn out and stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies Here, Food for Worms": Scarce first edition of Nathaniel Ames' 1771 Almanack, containing the first known printing of Benjamin Franklin's famous epitaph
AMES, Nathaniel. [Benjamin Franklin].
An Astronomical Diary or Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord Christ 1771.
Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770].
First edition of Nathaniel Ames' 1771 Almanack, containing the first known printing of "the most famous of American epitaphs" (Mark Van Doren). 12mo, original wrappers stitched as issued. In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example of this scarce early almanac.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 125283
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"Charmer of serpents - why not try the birds?": First Edition of Roger Tory Peterson's First Book A Field Guide to the Birds; Warmly Inscribed by Him
PETERSON, Roger Tory.
Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.
First edition, third state with the date on the copyright page of Peterson's first book. Octavo, original green pebbled cloth, illustrated with 4 color plates with printed overlays, 32 monochrome plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Claire Kelly, charmer of serpents - why not try the birds? - Roger T. Peterson (Dictator) - C.M. Beal (Interpreter)." The recipient Claire Kelly, while a student at Cornell dated Peterson's personal assistant C.M. Beal and at the time she was also working with snakes at the Museum of Natural History. In very good condition with some light dampstaining.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 102012
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The Works of Anthony Trollope; finely bound
TROLLOPE, Anthony.
The Works of Anthony Trollope.
London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1881.
The New Edition of the Works of Anthony Trollope. Octavo, 28 volumes bound into 14 in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red and brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 110205
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"The true natural rights of men, then, are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society": First edition of Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind
KIRK, Russell.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953.
First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First editions are scarce.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 142023
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Rare 18th Century Catholic Antiphonal; containing the Festa Februarii, Festa Martii, and Festa Aprilis
18th Century Catholic Antiphonal.
Rare 18th Century Catholic antiphonal containing the Festa Februarii, Festa Martii, and Festa Aprilis. Quarto, bound in full leather, hand-written script of both music and lyrics in black and red, all edges red, ribbon bound in. In very good condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 123047
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FIRST SCALIGERO EDITION OF ARISTOTLE'S INFLUENTIAL WORK OF ZOOLOGY: THE HISTORY OF ANIMALS
ARISTOTLE. TRANSLATED BY JULIUS CAESAR SCALIGER,.
Aristotelis Historia de Animalibus, Ivlio Caesare Scaligero Interprete, cum Ejusdem Commentariis.
Tolosae [Toulouse]: Apud Dominicum & Petrum Bosc, 1619.
First Scaliger edition of Aristotle’s pioneering work on zoology which had a powerful influence on zoology for over two thousand years. Folio, bound in full contemporary vellum-covered boards, engraved vignette title page, in-text woodcut illustrations, and numerous woodcut initials throughout. Julius Caesar Scaliger was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance humanism to defend Aristotelianism against the New Learning. In spite of his contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high. Jacques Auguste de Thou claimed that none of the ancients could be placed above him…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133054
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“It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself": First American Edition of Love In The Time Of Cholera; Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Chip Kidd
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Love in the Time of Cholera.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
First American edition of the author's work, which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson and Chip Kidd. Additionally signed by Chip Kidd on the rear dust jacket flap. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 116002
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed": First Edition of A History of the 90th Division in World War II; Signed by General Dwight Eisenhower
EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
A History of the 90th Division in World War II: 6 June 1944 to 9 May 1945.
Baton Rouge, LA: Army & Navy Publishing Company , 1946.
First edition of this work on the 90th division in World II. Quarto, original leatherette boards, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by General Dwight Eisenhower on the title page, "To Skippe Sheppard Best wishes from Dwight D. Eisenhower." The recipient, Captain Harlo John Sheppard was in the 712th Tank Division, with his name and notes throughout. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed by Eisenhower, this is the first example we have seen.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 140008
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Rare original program from the Christmas Party of the Oldsmobile Girls held on December 19th 1928; signed by legendary aviator Amelia Earhart
[EARHART, Amelia].
Amelia Earhart Signed Oldsmobile Girls Club Christmas Party Program.
[Lansing, Michigan]: [1928].
Rare original program from the holiday luncheon held for female employees of Olds Motor Works held on December 19th 1928, signed by legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. Octavo, bound in handmade tissue paper with a red ribbon, illustrated with a tipped in portrait of Amelia Earhart. Signed by Earhart in pencil beneath her portrait. In very good condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 142535
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First Edition of Stephen Sondheim's Collected Lyrics: Look I Made A hat; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Writer Annie Dillard
SONDHEIM, Stephen [Annie Dillard].
The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
First editions of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page to fellow writer Annie Dillard, "For Annie Best Wishes from Stephen Sondheim." Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Annie Dillard.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133175
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“YOU DRAW CLOSER TO TRUTH BY SHUTTING YOURSELF OFF FROM MANKIND”: FIRST EDITION OF AUTO-DA-FE; SIGNED BY ELIAS CANETTI
CANETTI, Elias.
Auto-Da-Fe.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most well-known work. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Elias Canetti on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light shelfwear. Translated by from the German by C. V. Wedgwood. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 48755
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Signed Photograph of Rabindranath Tagore
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph.
1921.
Photograph of Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore. Signed and dated on the photograph, "Rabindranath Tagore Jul. 22, 1921." Double-matted and framed. The photograph measures 3.5 inches by 5 inches. The entire piece measures 13.5 inches by 18.25 inches. Photographs signed by Tagore rare.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 33058