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Rare New York Giants 1955 Team Signed Baseball; signed by Willie Mays and 24 other team members
MAYS, Willie; Monte Irvin; Hoyt Wilhelm; Al Dark; Sid Gordon; Al Corwin; et al.
New York Giants 1955 Team Signed Baseball.
Rare unbranded baseball signed in blue ballpoint on the sweet spot and side panels by 25 members of the 1955 New York Giants, including: Willie Mays, Monte Irvin, Hoyt Wilhelm, Al Dark, Sid Gordon, Al Corwin, Bill Taylor, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Bobby Hofman, Marv Grissom, Davey Williams, Whitey Lockman, Wes Westrum, Joey Amalfitano, Windy McCall, Ray Katt, Paul Giel, Don Liddle, Hank Thompson, Dusty Rhodes, Billy Gardner, Johnny Antonelli, Ruben Gomez, and Don Mueller. The ball also bears a stamped Leo Durocher signature on the sweet spot. In fine condition. Accompanied by a full letter of authenticity from JSA.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 145912
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"It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes": Finely Bound Editions of Marlborough: His Life and Times
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough: His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1966.
Finely bound editions of Churchill's important biography of his notable ancestor, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Octavo, 4 volumes bound in 2, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, signature to the front panel of each volume, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with hundreds of maps and plans (many folding), plates and document facsimiles. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 139506
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Rare Stock Certificate for the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company; Endorsed and Signed by Andrew Mellon
MELLON, Andrew.
Andrew Mellon Signed Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company Stock Certificate.
Philadelphia: American Bank Note Co, 1890.
Rare Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company stock certificate endorsed by the commanding American banker Andrew Mellon. Oblong quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the certificate is dated April 10, 1890 and issues 21 shares of the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway Company stock to A.W. Mellon. Signed by Mellon on the verso, "A.W. Mellon." In near fine condition with a vertical crease and signature cancellation hole punches along the bottom edge. Matted and framed with a portrait of Mellon and an informational placard. The piece measures 17.5 inches by 28 inches.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 146771
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First Edition of The Conquest of Everest; Signed by three expedition members Edmund Hillary, George Lane and Charles Evans
HUNT, John; With a Chapter on the Final Assault by Edmund Hillary [Tenzing Norgay].
The Conquest of Everest.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1954.
First edition of this classic account of the first ascent of Mount Everest. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 8 pages of photographs in full color, and 48 pages in black and white, maps, sketches and drawings. Foreword by Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. Boldly signed by signed by three expedition members on the front endpaper, Edmund Hillary, George Lowe and Charles Evans. Additionally inscribed by Evans above the signatures, "To all the Edwards." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by these mountaineering legends.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 147911
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"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from": First Edition of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men; Signed by cormac mccarthy and Three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
No Country For Old Men.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
First edition of this “harrowing, propulsive drama… about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff, and an average Joe” (New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy and signed three times by jacket artist Chip Kidd; on the front panel, below McCarthy's signature and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 131381
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"It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes": Finely Bound First Editions Churhill's of Marlborough: His Life and Times
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough: His Life and Times.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1933-38.
First editions of each volume of Churchill's important biography of his notable ancestor, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, with hundreds of maps and plans (many folding), plates and document facsimiles. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140247
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"A Pike is a Prince of his own liquid country, and like a universal monarch, can command all the regiments of the scaled army": Scarce first edition of the art of trolling from the library of Alfred Dennison
NOBBES, Robert.
The Compleat Troller, or, The Art of Trolling.
London: Printed for T. James for Tho. Helder, 1682.
Rare first edition of Nobbes' authoritative work on the history and methods of trolling. First issue with the engraved hook on page 37 pointing to the right and two woodcut illustrations in the text. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Lord Spencer's copy with his ownership inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper, "From Lord Spencer's Library 18/". From the library of renowned angling collector Alfred Denison with his gilt leather bookplate to the verso of the front panel. Denison's angling collection of over…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 89160
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Original NASA photograph of the Apollo 14 Mission launch; signed by viewers Spiro Agnew and Neil Armstrong
ARMSTRONG, Neil and Spiro Agnew.
Neil Armstrong and Spiro Agnew Apollo 14 Mission Launch Signed Photograph.
1971.
Official NASA photograph of the VIP grandstand at the Apollo 14 viewing site at Launch Complex 39 on January 31st 1971. Signed by both legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong and the 39th Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew. Both are shown seated in the grandstand with Prince Juan Carlos and Princess Sofia of Spain beneath the American and Spanish flags. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 15 inches.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 100438
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"Warner Brothers' Towering Triumph": Rare collection of original Warner Bros. Pictures promotional lobby cards for the 1949 film The Fountainhead
[RAND, Ayn].
The Fountainhead Warner Brothers Pictures Original 1949 Lobby Card Collection.
Warner Bros. Pictures, 1949.
Rare collection of eight original Warner Brothers promotional lobby cards for the 1949 film The Fountainhead, based on the bestselling novel by Ayn Rand and starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. Each of the eight cards measures 11 inches by 14 inches and is numbered 49/330 in the lower right corner. In fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 48 inches by 32 inches.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 145618
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“Win one for the Gipper!": First Edition of the 40th President of the United States Autobiography An American Life; Warmly Inscribed by Ronald Reagan
REAGAN, Ronald .
An American Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
First edition of the 40th President of the United States' memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Scott Mutryn- Win one for the Gipper! With Best Regards. Ronald Reagan Oct. 28-'93." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, paper clip indentation to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Robert Anthony, Inc. A unique inscription.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 146728
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“THE ONLY THING NEW IN THIS WORLD IS THE HISTORY THAT YOU DON'T KNOW”: First Edition of President Truman’s Mr. Citizen; Inscribed by Him to His Treasury Secretary
TRUMAN, Harry S.
Mr. Citizen.
New York: Bernard Geis, 1960.
First edition, the author's edition. Octavo, original half leatherette, slipcase, illustrated with 32 pages of black-and-white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Honorable John Wesley Snyder from his good friend, comrade and associate in most trying times. He was the greatest of the great Secretaries of the Treasury." The original slipcase is also inscribed to Snyder from Truman but has faded. John W. Snyder was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1946 by his close personal friend President Truman, with whom he had served in the Army Reserves. His task as Secretary was to establish a…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 3806
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"Forty years ago I rode the first forbidden trail which was to carry me into the broad highway of outlawry": First Edition of When Daltons Rode; Signed by Emmett Dalton
DALTON, Emmett. In collaboration with Jack Jungemeyer.
When the Daltons Rode.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1931.
First edition of Emmett Dalton's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth with smoking gun vignette to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Emmett Dalton after a photograph taken in 1892. Signed by Emmett Dalton beneath his frontispiece portrait. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 104057
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"THERE IS A POINT OF NO RETURN, UNREMARKED AT THE TIME, IN MOST LIVES": FIRST EDITION OF THE COMEDIANS; INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM GREENE
GREENE, Graham.
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Clive from Graham Greene." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Ivan Lapper. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 98568
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Rare First French Edition of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
PAINE, Thomas.
Droits de L’Homme; En Reponse a L’Attaque de M. Burke Sur La Revolution Francois. [Rights of Man: Part the First Being An Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attach on the French Revolution].
Chez F. Buisson: Paris, 1791.
First French edition of Thomas Paine's classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism. Octavo, bound in contemporary one quarter calf over marbled boards. In very good condition. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 96176
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Photograph of Racing Legend Jim Clark; Signed by Him
CLARK, Jim.
Jim Clark Signed Photograph.
Original photograph of Formula One racing legend Jim Clark, boldly signed by him on the front, "With Best Wishes Jim Clark. From the collection of BRDC chairman and racing driver Peter Stubberfield. In near fine condition. The image measures 7.5 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140277
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Roald Amundsen's Copy of Nord I tåkeheimen: utforskningen av jordens nordlige strøk i tidlige tider
NANSEN, Fridtjof (Roald Amundsen).
Nord I Takeheimen: Utforskningen av Jordens Nordlige Strok i Tidlige Tider.
Christiana: Jacob Dybwads, 1911.
First edition of Nansen's history of Arctic exploration, from the library of explorer Roald Amundsen with his signature. In the year this work was published, Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, having traveled south on Nansen’s own ship, the Fram. Quarto, original cloth, in-text illustrations. Signed and dated Roald Amundsen 13 May 1912. In very good condition with some light wear to the extremities.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 78072
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Manuscript Edition of Albert J. Beveridge's Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858
BEVERIDGE, Albert J. [Abraham Lincoln].
Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.
Limited manuscript edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, four volumes bound in the publisher's cherry-red three-quarter crushed morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, red silk ribbons tipped in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln and additional tissue-guarded color plate views of the Lincoln Memorial to each volume, illustrated with thirty-two tissue-guarded plates and maps throughout, window-mounted leaf of the author's manuscript research notes adhered to the front flyleaf of Vol. I, some pages uncut,…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 146970
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“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar": Rare B.C. Rich acoustic guitar signed by the King of horror, Stephen King
KING, Stephen.
Stephen King Signed Acoustic Guitar.
B.C. Rich, .
B.C. Rich acoustic guitar signed by the "King of Horror", Stephen King. In near fine condition. A very unique piece.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 145052
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The Spirit of St. Louis; Warmly Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh; In exceptional condition
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "To J. Carlton Ward, Jr. With deep appreciation Charles A. Lindbergh." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 147812