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First Editions of the Complete Set of David Attenborough’s Zoo Quest Series; Each Volume Signed by Him
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
Complete Set: Zoo Quest To Guiana, Zoo Quest For A Dragon, Zoo Quest in Paraguay, Quest in Paradise, Zoo Quest To Madagascar, Quest Under Capricorn.
London: Lutterworth, 1956-1963.
First editions of the six volumes which compiles Attenborough's acclaimed Quest Series. Octavo, 6 volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Each volume is signed by David Attenborough on the title page. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets, owner's names. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 140669
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Maurice Ravel Signed Autograph musical quotation signed and an autograph letter signed
RAVEL, Maurice.
Maurice Ravel Autographed Signed Letter and Signed Musical Quotation.
Autograph musical quotation signed and an autograph letter signed by Maurice Ravel. The quotation, 3 bars from his Chansons madécasses, notated on a two-stave system, with holograph title, lyrics, tempo directive and instrument labels. The letter in French is addressed to "My friend", in French, stating that he received his note when leaving Geneva and mentioning two places he might be when he returns at Christmastime, dated Paris 15 December 1928 With Hotel D'Athènes" stationery. Both matted and framed together with a commemorative medallion. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 27 inches. A striking piece, rare and desirable.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 72755
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First Edition, association copy of Winston S. Churchill's The River War; signed and annotated by E.B. Lack
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899.
First editions of Churchill's history of the conquest of the Sudan. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Association copy, with signatures and annotations by E.B. Lack, who helped to supply gunboats to the Admiralty during the campaign. Woods A2(a). In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell slipcase.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 144336
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"The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you:" Rare First Edition of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; Signed by E.L. Konigsburg
KONIGSBURG, E. L.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
New York: Atheneum, 1967.
First edition of the author's Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by E.L. Konigsburg on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, rare in this condition and signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 23067
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"But what does it matter what I suffer for you to enjoy? That I perish for a people to live" Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar to Ecuadorian independentista Manuela Garaycoa
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.
Bogota: 1827.
Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish. Sent from Bogota, the letter is dated December 6, 1827 and reads in full, "A la Senora Manuela Garaycoa. Umd. siempre se eccele a si misma on bondades para conmigo y me prodiga elofios ques ellos solo, bastarian para saviar la codica del mas ambivioiso de gloria. Y que otra cora podria yo esperar de las Garaycoas de esas amigas fieles de esas Colombians constantes de esa Gloriosa sin rival? Yo les doy las gracias a todas y seame tambien permitido…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 126188
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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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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman": First Edition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Signed by Her
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Second Sex.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
First edition in English of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Simone de Beauvoir on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions of this classic work are rare and none have appeared at auction in the last sixty years.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 21090
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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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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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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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"There is no story that is not true, The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others": First Edition of Things Fall Apart; Signed by Chinua Achebe
ACHEBE, Chinua.
Things Fall Apart.
New York: Astor-Honor/ An Obolensky Book, 1959.
First edition, early printing of this "true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world" (Barack Obama). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. First editions are rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 132663
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The River War; Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933.
Later edition of Churchill's history of the conquest of the Sudan. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Charles Peake from Winston S. Churchill Sept 1936." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 144339
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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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“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers": First Edition of Cecil Beaton's Fair Lady; Inscribed by Cecil Beaton to Actress Vivien Leigh
BEATON, Cecil [Vivien Leigh].
Cecil Beaton’s Fair Lady.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
First edition of Beaton's Fair Lady, a witty compilation of his personal diary entries recorded while managing the costume and set design of the 1957 Warner Brothers film starring Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Association copy, inscribed by the author to actress Vivien Leigh on the front free endpaper, "For Vivien With Blessings from Cecil." Beaton met Vivien Leigh on the set of The Doctor's Dilemma in Edinburgh, Scotland in November of 1941. He was working as a photographer for Vogue magazine at the time and after attending the play took the first of what would become…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 65071
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Rare and unique frame constructed with original wood recovered during repair work on USS Constitution
MCINTYRE, Joseph.
U.S.S. Constitution Original Recovered Timber Frame.
Unique frame constructed with original wood recovered during repair work on USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat most noted for her actions during the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom. The frame houses an early 20th century mounted photograph of an image of USS Constitution. Accompanied by a typed note signed by Quarterman Shipjoiner Joseph McIntyre which reads in full, '"February 23rd 1907" U.S.S. Constitution. This picture was copied from a Photograph taken of the Historic of Frigate Constitution on a cruise of Malta 1849. This frame was made from…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 145679
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on": Why England Slept; Signed by Jack Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.
Why England Slept.
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940.
First edition, early printing of John F. Kennedy's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed in a contemporary hand "Jack Kennedy" on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 122533
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“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Signed by Him
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
First edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on a slip laid in. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with professional restoration.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 138100
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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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Rare Original Photograph signed by President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan
CLINTON, Bill.
Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein Signed Photograph.
1995.
Color photograph taken during the the signing of the Oslo II Accords of Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan and Hosni Mubarak on the White House lawn, signed by Clinton, Arafat and Faisal Husseini. On September 28, 1995, the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was signed in Washington, D.C. This agreement, which marks the conclusion of the first stage in negotiations between Israel and the PLO, incorporates and superseded the Gaza-Jericho and early empowerment agreements. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 13 inches. Rare and desirable signed by…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 123430