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“THE MOST WIDELY READ OF ALL AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES": TRUE FIRST EDITION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY in the scarce original wrappers
FRANKLIN, Benjamin.
Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, Écrits Par Lui-Même, et Adressés à Son Fils, Suivis d’un Précis Historique de Sa Vie Politique, et de Plusieurs Pièces, Relatives à Ce Père de la Liberté. [Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin].
A Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, 1791.
True first edition of Franklin’s famed autobiography, which preceded the first English edition by two years, in the scarce original wrappers. Octavo, original wrappers, with the original publisher's paper spine label present. With page 204 misnumbered 360, lacking the three final leaves and rear wrapper. Ownership inscription to the verso of the front wrapper. In very good condition. Exceedingly scarce in the original wrappers.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 124077
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"THE FIRST CASUAL PORTRAIT OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT": Rare casual color portrait of the 1977 Burger Court; signed by nine supreme court justices
BURGER, Warren; John Paul Stevens; Lewis F. Powell Jr.; Harry A. Blackmun; William H. Rehnquist; Thurgood Marshall; Warren E. Burger; Wm J. Brennan Jr.; Potter Stewart; Byron R. White.
Warren E. Burger Supreme Court Signed Photograph.
c. 1977.
Large color photograph of the Burger Court, signed by nine justices and referred to as "first casual portrait of the US Supreme Court." The full color photo print of the famed photograph taken on January 10, 1977 of the 9 US Supreme Court justices casually sitting or leaning on a set of library tables is signed in the lower margin, "John Paul Stevens," "Lewis F. Powell, Jr.," "Harry A. Blackmun," "William H. Rehnquist," "Thurgood Marshall," "Warren E. Burger," Wm J. Brennan, Jr.," "Potter Stewart," and "Byron R. White." The image measures 17 inches by 11.25 inches. The entire piece measures 20…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145513
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From the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First edition of Jay Winik's The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World; inscribed by him to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
WINIK, Jay. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.
New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
First edition of Winik's "cinematic reconstruction of the birth of the modern world" (Robert Dallek). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Chevy Chase, MD Dec. 2007 To Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Marty Ginsburg Who in our own day continues the rich legacies of our Founders! With best wishes and much admiration Jay Winik." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 146983
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First Edition of Continuous-Time Finance; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Robert C. Merton and Paul A. Samuelson
MERTON, Robert C.; Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson.
Continuous-Time Finance.
Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
First edition of Merton's landmark work, which introduced the concepts of continuous-time optimization. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson. Inscribed by Robert C. Merton on the title page. Additionally signed by Paul A. Samuelson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by these two Nobel Prize-winning economists.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 49003
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Signed by Walt Disney and 13 other Hollywood Actor and Actresses
SPEED, F. Maurice [Walt Disney].
Film Review.
London: Macdonald and Co, 1939.
First edition of this overview of Hollywood. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed on the front pastedown and endpapers by Walt Disney and 13 other Hollywood actors and actresses, including, Chico Marx "To Pat Sincerely Chico Marx"; Pat O'Brien; "To Pat my own namesake Love Pat O'Brien Nov 21, 1947; Deborah Kerr, "I see a dark Stranger" (on page 76) "with best wishes Deborah Kerr"; Merle Oberon "To Pat all the best Merle Oberon"; Joe E. Brown "To Pat Joe Brown." Brown was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s, with films like A Midsummer Night's Dream, Earthworm…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 112422
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Black and White Photograph Signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip; from the Royal 1954 Christmas Card
ELIZABETH II, Queen and Prince Philip.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph.
1954.
Black and white photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with young Prince Charles and Princess Anne waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, signed by Queen Elizabeth II, "Elizabeth R 1954" and Prince Philip, "Philip." Removed from the official Royal 1954 Christmas card. The photograph measures 7 inches by 5 inches. Matted and attractively framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 13.5 inches.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145203
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Finely Bound First Edition of Fads and Fancies
MANN, William d'Alton.
Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Being a Portrayal of their Tastes, Diversions and Achievements.
New York: Town Topics Publishing Company, 1905.
First edition of this lavishly published work regarding New York's wealthy society at the time, including names such as John Jacob Astor, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Huntington. Folio, original full green morocco, elaborate tooling to the spine, front and back panels, green silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt. Illustrated hundreds of photogravures, all edges gilt. Signed by William Mann, the publisher of Town Topics. Includes sketches of Astor, Pell, Yerkes, Stanford White, Flagler, Schwab, Depew, C.P. Huntington, H.E. Huntington, Chanler, Cleveland, Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, Foxhall Keene, and many others. In fine condition. Housed in rare original felt-lined wooden…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 129391
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Finely Bound Set by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of the Works of Kahlil Gibran
GIBRAN, Kahlil.
The Works of Kahlil Gibran, Including: The Prophet, The Madman, The Forerunner, Sand and Foam, Jesus the Son of Man, The Earth Gods, The Wanderer, The Garden of the Prophet, Prose Poems, Nymphs of the Valley, Spirits Rebellious, and A Tear and a Smile.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962-1965.
Finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco, gilt titles to spines direct with two raised bands and gilt tooling, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated plates by Gibran. Complete with each of the text volumes of his works as published by Knopf (originally between 1918 and 1950). In fine condition. An attractively bound set of Kahlil Gibran.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 82975
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From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Abner J. Mikva and Patti B. Saris' The American Congress: The First Branch; Inscribed by Mikva to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
MIKVA, Abner J; Patti B. Saris [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
The American Congress: The First Branch.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1983.
First edition of this comprehensive view of the history and function of Congress. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by co-author Abner J. Mikva on the front free endpaper, "To Ruth and Mary, Friends, inspirations and nice people! Ab Mikva." His obituary in the New York Times remembers Mikva." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 146582
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Cosway Style Binding by Bayntun of John Fyvie's Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era
FYVIE, John [Cosway].
Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era. [Cosway].
London: Archibald Constable, 1916.
Octavo, bound in full dark blue morocco Cosway-style binding by Bayntun. Both the front and rear panels with a double gilt fillet border around an inner border incorporating ornamental cornerpieces, upper cover set with an oval portrait miniature of an actress under glass, within an ornamental gilt border, lower cover with panel border; raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a repeated ornamental panel in the rest; board edges gilt dotted, turn-ins gilt, doublures and both endpapers of dark blue watered silk, all edges gilt. Extra-illustrated with 10 additional plates. In fine condition. Housed in a felt-lined modern cloth box.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 27030
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Rare First Edition of William Martin Leake's Travels in Northern Greece; In the Original Cloth
LEAKE, William Martin.
Travels in Northern Greece.
London: J.Rodwell, 1835.
First edition of Leakes work on Northern Greece. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, 10 engraved maps and plans, some folding, and 44 plates, wood-engraved illustrations in text. In near fine condition with some toning and light wear to the extremities. Armorial bookplates to each volume. First editions in the original cloth are rare.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 63015
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First Edition, Presentation Copy of S. Weir Mitchell's Doctor and Patient; inscribed by him
MITCHELL, S. Weir.
Doctor and Patient.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888.
Rare first edition, presentation copy of the father of American neurology's most popular work. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Mrs. Johnson with the author's regards." Weir has also noted "25 copies large paper No. 19." In near fine condition.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 106806
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EACH OF BOB WOODWARD'S FOUR VOLUMES DOCUMENTING THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENCY, INSCRIBED BY HIM TO GENERAL COLIN POWELL
WOODWARD, Bob [Colin Powell].
Bush at War, Plan of Attack, State of Denial, and The War Within: A Secret White House History.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002-2008.
First editions of each volume, inscribed by Woodward to Colin Powell. Octavo, 4 volumes, original boards, illustrated. Bush at War is inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Secretary Powell Very Respectfully Bob Woodward." Plan of Attack is signed by Bob Woodward on the front free endpaper. State of Denial is inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Colin Powell Best Wishes Bob." The War Within is inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Colin Powell Volume IV Warmest regards Bob Woodward." Each are near fine to fine in near fine dust jackets. From the library of Colin Powell.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 140438
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First Edition of Maurice Allais' Magnum Opus Economie & Interet; Inscribed by Him; From the Library of Kenneth Arrow
ALLAIS, Maurice (Kenneth J. Arrow).
Economie & Interet.
Paris: Imprimerie National, 1947.
First edition of Allais' groundbreaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Maurice Allais on the title page of volume one. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow, with his name in each volume. In near fine condition with light shelfwear, minor mending to the first few pages of volume one. A nice association linking these two Nobel Prize winning-economists and giants of twentieth century economics.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 16078
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Rare visitor's log from the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 signed by Winston S. and Clementine Churchill, David Lloyd George, Raymond and Violet Asquith among others
CHURCHILL, Winston S.; Clementine Churchill; David Lloyd George; Raymond Asquith.
Winston S. Churchill and David Lloyd George Signed Japan-British Exhibition Visitor’s Log.
1910.
Rare visitor's log from the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 signed by Winston S. and Clementine Churchill, David Lloyd George, Raymond and Violet Asquith among others. Oblong quarto, bound in full leather with gilt inner dentelles. Signed and dated on the first several pages of the logbook by David Lloyd George, Louis Brennan (the inventor of the gyro monorail which won the exhibition's Grand Prize), Raymond Asquith, Clementine S. Churchill, Violet Asquith, Winston S. Churchill, Brazilian President Hermes de Fonseca, and several others dated May 16, 1910 to February 18, 1911. Accompanied by a collection of original photographs from the exhibition…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 119055
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Living with an Alcoholic: With the Help of Al-Anon; Signed by Bill and Lois Wilson
WILSON, Bill and Lois.
Living with an Alcoholic: With the Help of Al-Anon.
New York: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Inc, 1964.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Bill and Lois Wilson on the front free endpaper, "From Lois B. Wilson, all good wishes" and "Yours, Bill." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by both Bill and Lois Wilson.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 130675
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"If it weren't for people like you, people like me would never grasp the opportunity to learn in this land": First edition of Paul G. Kauper's Religion and Constitution; lengthily inscribed by Bill Clinton to his former high school principal Johnnie Mae Mackey
KAUPER, Paul G. (Bill Clinton).
Religion and the Constitution.
Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.
First edition of this collection of lectures devoted to contemporary questions regarding religion in its relation to the constitutional order. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Bill Clinton on the front free endpaper, "5 - 14 - 66 Georgetown University To Mrs. Johnnie Mae Mackey, This little book is a glowing testimonial to the freedom of man in America and the efforts of our judges to perpetuate and insure that freedom to every man. But if it weren't for people like you, people like me would never grasp the opportunity to learn in this land. May I make my small contribution…
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 95273
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless”: Original photograph of Mother Teresa meeting German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Signed by both
MOTHER TERESA AND HELMUT KOHL,.
Mother Teresa and Helmut Kohl Signed Photograph.
Black and white photographic portrait of Mother Teresa and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Signed by Mother Teresa, "God bless you M. Teresa mc" and signed by Helmut Kohl. Mother Teresa and Chancellor Kohl met on July 13, 1986 at Mother Teresa's home in Oggersheim. Kohl gained a reputation for his strong commitment to European integration and French–German cooperation. He was also a dedicated ally of the United States and supported Reagan's policies in order to weaken the Soviet Union. He has been described as "the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" by both U.S. Presidents George H.W.…
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 96017
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Le Globe Classique, Nouvelle Edition: Rare 19th Century French Terrestrial Globe
DIEN, Charles.
Globe Classique, Nouvelle Edition: Rare 19th Century Charles Dien Terrestrial Table Globe.
Paris: Sold by W. & S. Jones, 1844.
Rare mid-19th century French terrestrial table globe: Charles Dien's The Globe Classique, Nouvelle edition. The globe measures 10 inches in diameter with an engraved longitude ring and brass latitude ring. Mounted on brass and mahogany stand. The globe is composed of hand-colored paper gores over a plaster sphere. The entire piece measures 20 inches in height. French astronomer and cosmographer Charles Dien published highly detailed atlases, works on astronomy, and both celestial and terrestrial globes in Paris throughout the 1840s and 1850s. Dien was also renowned for the sophisticated engravings he designed for the many books produced by his father's…
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 96538
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Signed Limited Edition; One of 250 Copies Signed by Henry M. Stanley
STANLEY, Henry M.
In Darkest Africa or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.
London: Sampson, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1890.
First edition, edition de luxe, number 242 of 250 copies signed by Henry Stanley. Original half black morocco over vellum, top edges gilt, 2 volumes. Two steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, two photogravure plates on India paper, mounted, 36 wood-engraved plates on India, mounted, 6 etchings by M.G. Montbard signed by the artist in pencil, 4 coloured maps and plans; the 2 larger folding maps mounted on linen. In near fine condition with some light rubbing to the extremities, bookplate. A very nice example.
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 93277