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"... fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try": First Edition of Percy Fitzpatrick's Classic Work Jock of the Bushveld; Signed by Him
FITZPATRICK, Percy.
Jock of the Bushveld.
London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1907.
First edition, first issue with drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his front legs rather than his back on pages 65, 337 and 457. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Percy Fitzpatrick on the title page. In excellent condition with the spine gilt bright and light rubbing to the extremities. Illustrated by E. Caldwell. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First printings signed by Fitzpatrick are rare.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 70082
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“I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Donner bakery gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want": First edition of the Daniel Keyes' Flowers For Algernon; Lengthily Signed by Him
KEYES, Daniel.
Flowers for Algernon.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966.
First edition of the author's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, basis for the Oscar award-winning movie adaptation Charly. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, who has transcribed the opening paragraph as follows, "I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Donner bakery gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want. Daniel Keyes." Additionally signed again by Daniel Keyes on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Carl Smith.…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 7304
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Rare First Edition in English of DOSTOEVSKY'S The Possessed; with an autograph letter signed by translator Constance Garnett
DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor.
The Possessed.
London: William Heinemann, 1913.
First edition in English of Dostoevsky's classic novel. Octavo, original red cloth. Translated into English by Constance Garnett. In near fine condition. With a two-page letter signed and entirely in the hand of the translator, Constance Garnett, laid in. Dated May 23, 1929 and sent from The Cearne, Edenbridge Kent, the letter reads, "Dear Mr. Wright I wonder whether you have set off yet for the West Indies? I think you must almost regret going in this lovely spring weather. At last I have two Irish stamps which I enclose. Have you seen the coins? They are very charming. I…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 111316
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"The wind blows the plumtree branches, this way...that": First Edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Signed by Ken Kesey and Legendary Actor Kirk Douglas
KESEY, Ken [Kirk Douglas].
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Kirk Douglas on the half-title page. Douglas starred in the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as McMurphy. Additionally laid in is a note from Kesey which reads, "For Henry: The wind blows the plumtree branches, this way...that. Ken Kesey." Near fine in a very good first-issue dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 138471
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Rare Photograph of the British Royal Family; Signed by Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, Prince Philip and Princess Anne
ELIZABETH II, Queen; King Charles III; Prince Philip; Princess Anne.
Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, and Family Photograph Signed.
New Zealand: 1970.
Rare photograph of the British royal family; signed by them. Vintage glossy color photograph of the British royal family posing in front of a New Zealand National Airways Corporation jet during their 1970 tour of the island nation. The royal family toured New Zealand from March 12-30, 1970, as Queen Elizabeth II participated in the James Cook bicentenary celebrations and introduced her children, Prince Charles (age 21) and Princess Anne (age 19), to the country. Signed on the mount by King Charles III as Prince ("Charles"), Queen Elizabeth ("Elizabeth R, 1970"), Prince Philip ("Philip"), and Princess Anne ("Anne"). Affixed to an…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 146732
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"Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy": The Giving Tree; Signed by Shel Silverstein with a Drawing
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
The Giving Tree.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.
Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein with an original drawing on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 144497
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“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving": First Edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Signed by Her
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
New York: Arthur A.Levine Books / Scholastic Inc, 2007.
First American edition of the seventh and final novel in Rowling's immensely popular Harry Potter series. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page, with the author's hologram to the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Mary GrandPre. Uncommon signed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 140780
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“It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky": First Edition of E.B. White's Here is New York; Inscribed by Him
WHITE, E.B.
Here Is New York.
New York: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1949.
First edition of this classic meditation on the City of New York. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "E.B. White Dec. 1949." Presented above by Katherine White, "Merry Christmas from the Whites." White was a writer and wife of the author. She was the fiction editor for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1960. In 1977, William Shawn wrote, "More than any other editor except Harold Ross himself, Katharine White gave The New Yorker its shape, and set it on its course." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 74056
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First Edition of Ludwig von Mises' Epistemological Problems of Economics; Signed by Him
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Epistemological Problems of Economics.
Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Co, 1960.
First edition in English of a “milestone” in Mises’ groundbreaking theory of human action, containing “his seminal philosophical and methodological” argument for the scope of economic science. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by Ludwig von Mises on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Translated by George Reisman.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 96745
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First Edition of Stable Money; Inscribed by Irving Fisher
FISHER, Irving.
Stable Money.
New York: Adelphi Publishers, 1934.
First edition of Fisher's classic treatise. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Alden A. Potter with the compliments and good wishes of Irving Fisher November, 1941." Near fine in the rare dust jacket that has a small chip to the crown and light rubbing to the exterior. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 2825
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“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years": First Edition of Thomas Wolfes Look Homeward, Angel; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
WOLFE, Thomas.
Look Homeward, Angel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "To Mrs. Dorothy Mencher with kindest regards Thomas Wolfe Nov 8, 1929." In very good condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 136222
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Rare Reconstruction Era Carte-de-visite of Confederate Commander Robert E. Lee; Signed by Him
LEE, Robert E.
Robert E. Lee Signed Carte-de-Visite.
Lexington, Va: Boude & Miley, [1869].
Rare Reconstruction era carte-de-visite portrait of former Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee in civilian attire, boldly signed "RE Lee." The carte-de-visite measures 2.5 inches by 4 inches with Boude & Miley's imprint on the verso. This striking postwar portrait of Lee was captured by photographer Michael Miley of Lexington, Virginia in 1869, perhaps less than a year prior to Lee's death on October 12, 1870. Following the conclusion of the American Civil War in 1865, Lee became president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia; in that position, he supported reconciliation between North and South.The…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 140513
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First Edition of D'entre les morts; Signed by both Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac (writing as Boileau-Narcejac).
D’entre les morts.
Paris: 1954.
First edition of the French crime fiction duo's third novel, preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three of the roman noir that was turned into the 1958 Hollywood classic Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "A Madame Cordroc 'h, avec notre gratitude et l'homage de notre défèrente sympathie Th. Narcejac Pierre Boileau." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In very good condition.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 74068
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“You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of": First Edition, First Issue of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Roald Dahl
DAHL, Roald.
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
First edition, first issue with the six line colophon on the last page in the first-issue dust jacket, without the ISBN number on the rear panel. 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. Boldly signed and dated by the author on a page bound in, "Roald Dahl 1988." In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 147116
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"Oh, my heart, what a muddle!": Autograph Manuscript Page From Louisa May Alcott
ALCOTT, Louisa May.
Louisa May Alcott Manuscript Leaf.
Autograph manuscript page from Louisa May Alcott's Jack and Jill, Chapter VIII, page 129. One page. The manuscript page reads, “up no capers with that child! The idea of a hot bath in the middle of the day, and him full of dinner, and croupy into the bargain! Wet a corner of a towel at the kettle-spout and polish him off if you like, but you won’t risk his life in no bath-tubs this cold day.' Miss Bat’s word was law in some things, so Molly had to submit, and took Boo away, saying, loftily, as she left the room,…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 65051
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First Edition of The Game of Logic; Inscribed by Lewis Carroll to His Nephew
CARROLL, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
The Game of Logic.
London: MacMillan and Co, 1887.
First trade edition of Lewis Carroll’s game, with scarce original card and several original markers. Octavo, original publisher's red cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to his nephew, on the half-title in purple ink in the year of publication, "Bertram J. Collingwood with the Author's love Mar. 87." The volume contains the original envelope containing the playing board, with six of the nine rare counters. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 26048
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First Edition of Bureaucracy; Signed by Ludwig von Mises and In the Rare Dust Jacket
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Bureaucracy.
London: William Hodge & Company, 1945.
First edition of this early work by von Mises. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ludwig von Mises on the title page. Near fine in a original price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example, uncommon in the dust jacket.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 145921
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"All things return, both sphere and mote, and I shall hear my bluebird's note, and dream the dream of Auburn dell": First Edition, first issue of Ralph Waldo Emerson's May-Day and Other Pieces; Signed by him
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
May-Day and Other Pieces.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
First edition, first issue of this collection of Emerson's later poems. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and botanical emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. Signed by Emerson on the title page, "R.W. Emerson." In very good condition with rubbing to the crown of the spine and minor chipping to the front free endpaper. Rare and desirable.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 96771
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“A DISTINCT STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMPIRICAL SCHOOL”: FIRST EDITION OF JAMES MILL’S MAGNUM OPUS, ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE HUMAN MIND; WITH A 4 PAGE AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED LETTER TO LORD ASHLEY IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION
MILL, James.
Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind.
London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829.
First edition of this classic exploration of the processes of human thought by the father of John Stuart Mill, whose own “logical and ethical doctrines are evidently suggested” by this work. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, armorial stamp to the front panel of the Earl of Shaftesbury, with a four page autographed letter signed by James Mill discussing his interest in the book to Lord Ashley dated 8 July 1829, the year of publication of this volume. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury was a British politician, philanthropist, and a social reformer. He was the eldest son of…
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 141327