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First edition of Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women's Suffrage
MILL, John Stuart.
Speech of the Late John Stuart Mill at the Great Meeting in Favour of Women’s Suffrage, Held in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, January 12, 1871.
Edinburgh: Printed by John Lindsay, For The Edinburgh National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1873.
First edition of the posthumously printed transcription of Mill's famed speech in support of women's suffrage. Octavo, bound in paper-covered boards. In very good condition. Embossed stamp. Exceedingly rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 135941
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Rare deluxe limited edition of Alexander Dumas fils' The Princess of Baghdad
DUMAS FILS, Alexandre.
La Princesse De Bagdad: Piece en Trois Actes. [The Princess of Baghdad].
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881.
First edition of Dumas Fils' famed play, one of only 10 numbered copies printed on China paper. Royal octavo, bound in full ebony morocco stamp-signed by Pagnant with gilt titles and raised bands to the spine, central gilt coat of arms with red and blue morocco onlays and motto "Hun Contre Tous" to the front panel, red and gold monogram "L C" to the rear panel, wide gilt-decorated inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. One of the 10 deluxe numbered copies printed on China paper, this is number 5. Dumas instructed that the imaginary coats of arms of the…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142628
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Christian LaCroix Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Ricardo Tischi. In an envelope affixed to the rear of the framed piece is the original tissue guard featuring an inscription in Knight's hand, "Jan 24 5pm Christian LaCroix Ecole Nationale 14 Rue Bonaparte" and an arrow pointing to the gold glitter beneath the model's feet, "actual gold dust used on the runway." In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95330
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"The perfect book" (Alice Walker): Rare first edition of Mules and Men; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
HURSTON, Zora Neale.
Mules and Men.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1935.
First edition of Hurston's classic work, "the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore" (Alan Lomax). Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Introduction by Franz Boas. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 141719
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“The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts”: First Edition of one of the classic works on Interior Design The Decoration of Houses
WHARTON, Edith & Ogden Codman Jr.
The Decoration of Houses.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.
First edition of Edith Wharton's first published book. Quarto, original marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 56 plates. In very good condition. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124586
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The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot
ELIOT, George.
The Works of George Eliot.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d..
The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter half russet crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, hand-colored tissue-guarded frontispiece and photogravure plate printed on cream velin to each volume. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 277. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144866
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Rare photograph of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón; Inscribed by Her
PERóN, Eva.
Eva Perón Signed Photograph.
Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and inscribed, "Para el Senor Kenneth H. Browne con afecto Eva Peron." Double matted and framed. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 15.5 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119773
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First editions of Jacques Pepin's La Technique and La Methode; La Technique inscribed by Pepin to fellow legendary French chef Jean Vergnes
PEPIN, Jacques [Jean Vergnes].
La Technique: The Fundamental Techniques of Cooking: An Illustrated Guide. [With] La Methode: An Illustrated Guide to the Fundamental Techniques of Cooking.
New York: Times Books, 1978-1979.
First editions of the legendary French-American chef's most popular works on the fundamental techniques of cooking. Quarto, 2 volumes, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs by Leon Perer. La Technique is a fourth printing. Association copies, La Technique is inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow chef and personal friend Jean Vergnes and his wife Pauline. 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…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 143120
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First Edition of The French Lieutenant's Woman; Signed by John Fowles and Screenwriter Harold Pinter
FOWLES, John [Harold Pinter].
The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.
First edition of Fowles' classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by both John Fowles and Harold Pinter on the title page. Pinter wrote the screenplay for the 1981 film bearing the same name. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. An excellent near fine example in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Endpaper drawing by Tom Adams. Rare and desirable signed by both Fowles and Pinter.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 91873
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"The inspiring story of women's struggle for recognition in American public life": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok's Ladies of Courage; Signed by Both
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor and Lorena A. Hickok.
Ladies of Courage.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954.
First edition of Roosevelt and Hickok's tribute to women in America. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 116277
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Rare autograph note signed by German-American actress Marlene Dietrich to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio; with an 18-page astrological chart created for DiMaggio
DIETRICH, Marlene. [Joe DiMaggio].
Marlene Dietrich Autograph Note Signed to Joe DiMaggio.
Rare autograph note signed by German-American actress Marlene Dietrich to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio. The note accompanied an 18-page Astrological Horoscope report by Hollywood astrologer Carroll Righter which Dietrich arranged to have made for DiMaggio. Signed by Righter at the conclusion of the report and with an additional inscription by Dietrich which reads, "M. Righter does not know your name. If you should want to ask him anything specific you must refer to your birth date and place. M." A close friend of DiMaggio's, German-American actress Marlene Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 102561
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Original Hilary Knight Watercolor Illustrations for Neiman Marcus's Monthly Magazine The Book
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Original Hilary Knight Watercolor Signed.
Original ink and watercolor painting by American illustrator Hilary Knight. Titled, 'Silver Bangles Thick and Thin', the painting depicts 'N. Emily', a character Knight created to embody a typical Neiman Marcus customer for 24 double-page fashion spreads published in The Book, Neiman Marcus' monthly magazine for two years in the late 1990s. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 27.5 inches by 19 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95323
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FIRST EDITION OF AYN RAND'S NIGHT OF JANUARY 16TH; INSCRIBED BY HER IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION
RAND, Ayn.
Night of January 16th.
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1968.
First edition in book form of the successful Broadway play by the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Wendy - Cordially - Ayn Rand 11/13/68." Very good in a very good dust jacket which has become adhered to the boards. With an additional dust jacket which is in near fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 138949
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“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep": The Edition De Luxe of The New Century Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The New Century Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the latest edition of William Aldis Wright.
Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1901.
The Edition De Luxe of The New Century Shakespeare, limited to only one thousand copies. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter period crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with engraved plates, each with lettered tissue guard including frontispiece to each volume, title pages printed in red and black. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 534. Introductions, notes and glossaries to each Play by Israel Gollancz. In very good condition. A handsomely bound and printed edition of Shakespeare's…
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 145932
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; Inscribed by Gertrude Stein
STEIN, Gertrude.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933.
First edition, second printing of Gertrude Stein's most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "... November 20/34 Chicago." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Some loss to the spine and front panel of the dust jacket, costing most of the word "The" in the title, light rubbing to the rear panel of the dust jacket and jacket extremities, light toning to the jacket flaps.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 145411
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Rare 1940s Westover Schoolgirl Scrapbook
[PRINCE, Marie].
1940s Westover Schoolgirl Scrapbook.
Rare scrapbook from the collection of Marie Prince, documenting her tenure at The Westover preparatory school for girls in the early 1940s. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, the scrapbook contains several letters, notes, and large format photographs. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 116294
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Classic Work You Learn By Living; Signed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
You Learn By Living.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's classic work on how to discover life's lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. Near fine with a previous inscription to the half-title page in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 50001
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration features model Maria Carla, Givenchy designer Riccardo Tischi's muse. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 95328
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“AMONG THE BEST EVER WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN”: FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE OF A.A. MILNE’S FOUR POOH BOOKS
MILNE, A.A.; Illustrated by Ernest Shepard.
The Four Pooh Books: When We Were Very Young; Winnie-The-Pooh; Now We Are Six; The House At Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1924.
Finely bound example of each work in Milne's wonderful Pooh quartet. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear boards, gilt onlay to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by Ernest Shepard. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 134501
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf by The Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 139172
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First Edition of Snoopy and 'It Was a Dark and Stormy Night'; Inscribed by Charles M. Schulz
SCHULZ, Charles M.
Snoopy and ‘It Was a Dark and Stormy Night’.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Lucille and Beals - Charles M. Schulz." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 147221
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"Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara Wrote in her delicate calligraphy": First Edition of The House of Spirits; Lengthily Inscribed by Isabelle Allende to fellow novelist Annie Dillard
ALLENDE, Isabel. [Annie Dillard].
The House of the Spirits: A Novel.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Annie, 'Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara Wrote in her delicate calligraphy' Isabel Allende." Allende has also drawn a flower on the title page. The recipient, fellow author Annie Dillard has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and her books have been translated…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 127009
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1970 Polish Festival of Sacrosong Diploma Signed by Pope John Paul II
POPE JOHN PAUL II,.
Pope John Paul II Autograph Sacrosong Diploma Signed.
Rare original woodblock-print diploma from the 1970 Polish Sacrosong Music Festival. Signed by Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła), "Karol card Wojtyla." The famous Polish Sacrosong Festival was established in 1969 to preserve Catholic identity during the Cold War, future pope Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was a major patron of the festival, featured vocalist, and appeared in a full-length feature album, Pope John Paul II At The Festival Sacrosong, produced and distributed in more that 30 worldwide networks in 1979. In excellent condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 19 inches. Rare and desirable…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 82450
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First edition of Edward Augustus Gross and Homer Joseph Dodge's Manual For Women Voters; including The Constitution of the United States, The Declaration of Independence, The Monroe Doctrine, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
GROSS, Edward Augustus and Homer Joseph Dodge.
Manual For Women Voters.
New York: Federal Trade Information Service, 1922.
First edition of this introductory manual for newly enfranchised American women following the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 135244
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“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us": Rare photograph inscribed by Helen Keller
KELLER, Helen.
Helen Keller Signed Photograph.
Original photograph of Helen Keller with her Great Dane, Sieglinde, and beloved teacher Anne Sullivan's Scottish Terrier. Inscribed by Helen Keller, "To Perry Finkelstein, with cordial greetings, Helen Keller, June 14th, 1938, Helen Keller." Helen Keller had at least one pet from childhood until the end of her life. Dogs served as a special source of companionship to Keller and accompanied wherever she went, from college classrooms to a visit to Japan. Keller is even credited with helping to introduce Japanese Akita breed to the United States with her beloved Kamikaze-Go and Kenzan-Go which were imported directly from Japan. The…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 89153
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“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”: Rare First Edition of Mary Poppins; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
TRAVERS, P.L.
Mary Poppins.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934.
First American edition of this children's classic. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition, bookplate. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144179
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's My Days; Inscribed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
My Days.
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1938.
First edition of this firsthand look of everyday life in the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Roosevelt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Miss Trefether With a Merry Xmas from Eleanor Roosevelt." Introduction by Malvina Thompson Scheider. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 92438
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting of Shakespeare
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare with Copious Glossarial Notes and a Biographical Notice. [Fore-edge Painting].
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, n.d.
Finely bound example of Inglis' compilation of the dramas of Shakespeare. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of Shakespeare, illustrated with four engravings on steel. In very good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138237
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems
OLIVER, Mary.
The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972.
First edition of the author's second collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Forbes. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146637
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome; From the library of Michael Sadleir
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. From the library of Michael Sadleir with his bookplate to the pastedown. Sadleir was a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer. Sadleir began to work…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 99339
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Rare Original Hilary Knight Chi'Lin Chinese Unicorn Watercolor Painting
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Original Hilary Knight Ch’i-Lin and her Chinese Unicorn Watercolor Painting.
Rare original water color painting of Hilary Knight's characters Ch'i-Lin and her Chinese Unicorn. Rondo, painted in watercolor, ink and gold paint. Captioned by Knight in the lower left corner in pencil. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 16 inches. A lovely presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96228
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"We wish, using our own capacities, seeing with our own eyes, and not as the women of the past have done, with the eyes of men, to understand our true position, to see clearly what are our duties and our rights": First Edition of Charlotte Despard's Woman in the New Era
DESPARD, Charlotte. With an Appreciation by Christopher St. John.
Woman in the New Era.
London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910.
First edition of Charlotte Despard's impassioned feminist tract. Octavo, original wrappers. With an Appreciation by Christopher St. John. In good condition. Exceptionally rare with no other copies traced at auction.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 135290
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Original Hilary Knight Butterfly Prince Painting
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Original Hilary Knight Butterfly Prince Painting.
Large original painting of Hilary Knight's Butterfly Prince. Gouache and gold paint. Signed by Hilary Knight in the lower left corner of the painting. In fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 21 inches.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96229
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First American edition of Muriel Spark's The Mandelbaum Gate; warmly inscribed by her to her American literary agent Dorothy Golding
SPARK, Muriel.
The Mandelbaum Gate.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
First edition of Spark's complex, suspenseful novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication to her American agent, Dorothy Golding, "Dorothy - happy remembrances & love - Mariel 4 October 1965." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Typography, binding and jacket design by George Salter.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 116375
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First American Edition of Leo Tolstoy's Where Love is, There God is Also
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Where Love Is, There God Is Also.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1887.
First American edition in English of Tolstoy's short story in reference to the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas. Small octavo, original cloth with elaborate gilt tooling to the front panel. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. In near fine condition. First editions are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96100
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First edition of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo; signed by Him
WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
The Rose Tattoo.
New York: New Directions, 1951.
First edition of one of Williams' most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 143108
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“But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed every thing else, was the only daughter of the king, named Formosanta": First Edition of Voltaire's The Princess of Babylon
VOLTAIRE (AROUET, François-Marie).
Voyages et Aventures d’une Princesse Babylonienne [The Princess of Babylon].
Geneve: 1768.
First edition of one of Voltaire's best-known works of prose. Octavo, original full period calf, gilt titles to the spine, red morocco spine label, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 82403
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Jane Addams' The Long Road of Woman's Memory; Signed by her at Hull House
ADDAMS, Jane.
The Long Road of Woman’s Memory.
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1917.
First edition, second printing of Addams' work exploring the influence of memory on women's experience of life at Hull House. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With all good wishes from the author Jane Addams Hull-House Chicago." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 96140
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock in the rare original cloth
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, original blindstamped pictorial cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In very good condition with a few chips to the spines. An attractive example.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 95854