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“The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera": First Edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.
The Decisive Moment.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.
First edition of Cartier-Bresson's classic work, with 126 photographs by “the Raphael of 20th-century photographers." Folio, original illustrated boards. With the captions booklet laid in. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Henri Matisse.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 121432
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First Edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.
London: Constable and Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author at his home on the half-title page, "Ayot St Lawrence 5th Oct. 1934 Dear Dr. Shaw This afternoon is impossible: as you see, I am out of reach. I shall be in London tomorrow. If you ring up Whitehall 3160 my secretary may be able to fix up a meeting for us. faithfully G. Bernard Shaw.' Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 131696
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First Edition of William Faulkner's These Thirteen
FAULKNER, William.
These Thirteen (13).
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.
First edition of Faulkner's first collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, blue topstain. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 60040
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"Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us!": First Edition of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewhit; with the signature of the dedicatee, famed English philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts laid in
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of the last of Dickens' picaresque novels. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with by "Phiz" with 40 plates. With a clipped signature of the dedicatee, Angela Burdett-Coutts laid in. The dedicatee, Angela Burdett-Coutts became one of the wealthiest women in England in 1837 when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million following the death of her stepgrandmother, Harriot Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans.…
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 139459
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Rare First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first book La Hojarasca; Which introduced the World To Magical Realism
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
La Hojarasca.
Bogota: Ediciones- S.L.B, 1955.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by artist Cecilia Porras. In very good condition, name to the title page.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 141457
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First American edition of Thomas Mann's Joseph in Egypt; inscribed by him to Carl H. Pforzheimer
MANN, Thomas.
Joseph in Egypt.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
First American edition of the third installment of Mann's four-part novel retelling the vast saga of Genesis, which Mann considered his greatest work. Octavo, 2 volumes, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Herr Pforzheimer, herrlich dankbar fur schonste, reichste Gastfreundschaft" which translates as "thankful for a beautiful summer day in his wonderful estate." The recipient, Carl H. Pforzheimer was a founder of the American Stock Exchange and amassed a large fortune on Wall Street as a specialist in Standard Oil stock. He was an avid collector of rare books and manuscripts and built the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley…
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 96001
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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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“What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see": First Edition of Jane Bowles' Two Serious Ladies
BOWLES, Jane.
Two Serious Ladies.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A sharp example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 142122
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Rare original large format acrylic painting signed by Vietnam War Veteran and Golden Globe Award winning screenwriter Ron Kovic
KOVIC, Ron.
“The Joy of Color!” Ron Kovic Original Painting.
2013.
Rare original large format acrylic painting signed by Vietnam War Veteran and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter Ron Kovic. On thick Aquarell watercolor paper, the painting is signed three times by the artist on the verso, "Ron Kovic Oct 2013", "'The Joy of Color' by Ron Kovic" and with a signed self-caricature. American anti-war activist, writer, and United States Marine Corps sergeant Ronald Lawrence Kovic was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the Academy Award–winning 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone. Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 135265
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First Edition of La Guerra del Fin del Mundo; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa
VARGAS LLOSA, Mario.
La Guerra del Fin del Mundo [The War of The End of The World].
Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 1981.
First edition of the author's magnum opus in the original Spanish. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Cover design by Jordi Sanchez.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 145391
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories; Signed by Him
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
Early printing of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the half-title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Guy Fleming. Rear panel photograph by Jerry Bauer. Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein. A superior example, uncommon signed.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 97433
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"I am a Christian Because of Owen Meany": First Edition of A Prayer For Owen Meany; Inscribed by John Irving
IRVING, John.
A Prayer For Owen Meany.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
First edition of the author's seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "Merry Christmas John Irving." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 145910
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First edition of William Inge's A Loss of Roses; inscribed by him to actor Peter O'Toole
INGE, William. [Peter O'Toole].
A Loss of Roses: A New Play by William Inge.
New York: Random House, 1960.
First edition of Inge's 1959 play, from the working library of legendary stage and screen actor Peter O'Toole. Octavo, original half cloth over pictorial boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Peter O'Toole Best wishes, Bill Inge." The recipient, Peter O'Toole, began his acting career in the 1950s, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his television debut in 1954. Based at the Bristol Old Vic from 1956 to 1958, he starred in numerous productions including King Lear (1956), The Recruiting Officer…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 123340
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First Edition of Martin Amis' Money; Signed by Him
AMIS, Martin.
Money.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Amis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author's photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 133821
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"The crux of the matter is whether total war...is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose": John Hersey's Hiroshima; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Lengthily Inscribed by Him
HERSEY, John.
Hiroshima.
New York: Milestone Editions, 1946.
First Milestone edition of Hersey's classic work, which has sold over three million copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 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. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Peter Rubenstein: 'The crux of the matter is whether total war...is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.' -p.122 John Hersey August, 1984." In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144305
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First Edition of Beverly Cleary's Henry and Ribsy; Signed by Her
CLEARY, Beverly.
Henry and Ribsy.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1954.
First edition of the third book in Cleary's classic Henry Huggins series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the title page. In very good condition. Illustrated by Lois Darling.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 10007
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"Maybe I could grow me a bale to the acre, like Pa was always talking about doing": First Edition of Tobacco Road; Finely bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Erskine Caldwell
CALDWELL, Erskine .
Tobacco Road.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
First edition of Caldwell's classic work. 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 by Erskine Caldwell on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147461
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“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow": First Edition of The Nobel Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison's Masterpiece Beloved; Inscribed by Her
MORRISON, Toni.
Beloved.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
First edition of the author's fourth novel and considered by many her finest. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Debra Toni Morrison." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 132605
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“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory": First Edition of Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
MURAKAMI, Haruki.
The Elephant Vanishes.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
First edition of this classic collection of stories, one of which was the basis for the 2018 acclaimed film Burning. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Karen Haruki Murakami (in both Japanese and English) 5/6/93 Princeton, NJ." Additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, above Murakami's signature and on the jacket rear panel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 138128
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare; elaborately bound in full morocco
SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With A Glossary.
Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1825.
Finely bound example of the collected dramatic works of William Shakespeare. 12mo, bound in full pebbled dark green morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels withing triple gilt ruling to the spine and front panels, gilt turn-ins and wide gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, engraved additional pictorial title and title-vignette. In very good condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 142618
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First edition of Henry Miller's Journey Into an Antique Land; inscribed by him to his second wife and muse June Mansfield
MILLER, Henry.
Journey Into an Antique Land.
Big Sur: Ben Ben Press, 1970.
First edition of Miller's short illustrated work on a visit to St. Remy in the South of France. 12mo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. One of only 2000 copies. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front panel to his second wife, June Mansfield, "For June, All the best! Henry 1/16/67." In fine condition. Miller's second wife, June, convinced him to commit to writing full time and became the inspirations for most of his best known works including Tropic of Cancer. After they divorced in 1934, they remained close friends and Miller continued to send his…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 95358
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First Edition of Churchill's Ian Hamilton's March; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Ian Hamilton’s March.
London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.
First edition of Churchill's fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. 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 signature to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt,engraved frontispiece portrait of Ian Hamilton, folding map in color and 4 pages of advertisements for Churchill's works at rear. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144787
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"The Tin Drum Will Become One Of The Enduring Literary Works Of The Twentieth Century": Finely Bound First Edition Of The Tin Drum; Signed by Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
New York: Pantheon, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic first novel. Octavo, bound in full black morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, top edge gilt. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page. Translated by Ralph Manheim. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 3796
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First Edition of The Adventures of Augie March; Signed by Saul Bellow
BELLOW, Saul.
The Adventures of Augie March.
New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
First edition of Bellow's first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the John Steinbeck ad on the rear flap and no reviews. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 58004
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"I feel like we've died and gone to heaven - only we had to climb up": First Edition of Barefoot In the Park; Signed by Neil Simon, Mike Nichols, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Ashley, Jane Fonda and Herb Edelman
SIMON, Neil.
Barefoot in the Park.
New York: Random House, 1964.
First edition of the playwright's first book, review copy with the slip laid in. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Neil Simon, Mike Nichols, who directed the Broadway production (and won his first Tony Award), Gene Saks, who directed the film adaptation; and Elizabeth Ashley, who co-starred with Robert Redford in both the stage and screen versions. Additionally signed on inserted cards by Jane Fonda and, who took over Ashley's role in the film and Herb Edelman, who appeared in both versions. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146190
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AMERICA’S "BEST WAR NOVEL": FIRST EDITION OF THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, INSCRIBED BY NORMAN MAILER TO PAUL BARTEL
MAILER, Norman.
The Naked and the Dead.
New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Thick octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Paul after the pleasure of our first meeting Norman Mailer Oct. '87." The recipient, Paul Bartel was a director, actor and the creator of such films as Eating Raoul, Death Race 2000, Lust in the Dust, among others. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Jacket design by Karov.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 118122
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Finely Bound Edition of Rudyard Kipling's The First and Second Jungle Books; Bound by Bayntun Bindery with a Fore-Edge Painting
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Macmillan, 1978.
Finely bound edition of both volumes of The Jungle Book, with an exceptional fore-edge painting. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard present. Illustrated by J. L. Kipling, W.H. Drake and P. Frenzeny. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 139448
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"Defy Gravity": First Edition of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Signed by Gregory Maguire and Composer Stephen Schwartz
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1995.
First edition of Gregory Maguire’s immensely popular reinvention of Oz. Octavo, original illustrated boards, cartographic endpapers. Lengthily signed by the author with a large drawing on the half-title page, "best wishes from Gregory Maguire" and additionally inscribed by composer Stephen Schwartz on the half-title page, "To Adrienne, Defy gravity! Stephen Schwartz." Schwartz is a musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Wicked, Godspell and Pippin. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Douglas Smith. Jacket design by Joel Avirom. A unique example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147024
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First Edition of Pearl Buck's Classic First Novel The Good Earth; Finely Bound the Harcourt Bindery
BUCK, Pearl S.
The Good Earth.
New York: The John Day Company, 1931.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100, line 17. 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. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143665
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"the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love": First Edition of Nothing More To Declare; Inscribed by John Clellon Holmes to His Wife
HOLMES, John Clellon.
Nothing More To Declare.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1967.
First edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gershon Legman and Jay Landesman. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper, "For Shirley- the brave adventurer, the good companion, my love- John Feb. 3, 1967." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Omin. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 103995
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“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome": First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
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 contemporary name to the front free endpaper. A very nice example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 98455
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel
HURSTON, Zora Neale .
Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.
First edition of this humorous novel set in Florida, a place Hurston knew well, having been born in Eatonville, an entirely black Florida town. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 143512
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“Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot?”: First Edition of Dickens Dombey And Son
DICKENS, Charles.
Dombey and Son.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Octavo, bound in original cloth. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title by H. K. Browne. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 131468
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AMERICA’S "BEST WAR NOVEL": FIRST EDITION OF THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, INSCRIBED BY NORMAN MAILER TO JOURNALIST JOE HAAS
MAILER, Norman.
The Naked and the Dead.
New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948.
First edition of the author's first book. Thick octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to journalist Joe Haas, "For Joe Haas in Jamaica after our Lady Norman Mailer May 1969." Near fine in a very good first issue price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Karov.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 4625
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"How carefully they hold their linden shields, firm in the hand so nothing to fear": rare first edition The Battle of Maldon; signed by the author and in the rare original glassine
BUTTERFIELD, Frederic William Louis [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle].
The Battle of Maldon, and Other Renderings from the Anglo-Saxon; Together with Original Verse.
Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1900.
First edition of this collection of English verse published to raise contributions for the Widows' and Orphans' Branch of the Transvaal War Fund. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Arthur Conan Doyle on the half-title page. Near fine in the scarce original glassine.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 92491
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"An epic that breaks the laws of gravity": First edition of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of the Ang Lee Film; inscribed by director Ang Lee to Sigourney Weaver
LEE, Ang and James Schamus. [Sigourney Weaver].
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of the Ang Lee Film Including the Complete Screenplay.
New York: Newmarket Press, 2000.
First edition of the book companion to the epic Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by director Ang Lee on the front free endpaper, "To dear Sigourney & Jim With Love Ang Lee 李安." The recipient, Golden Globe Award-winning American actress Sigourney Weaver, is best known for her pioneering action heroine roles in science fiction films including Alien (1979), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), WALL-E (2008), and Avatar (2009). In 1997, she appeared in Ang Lee's American drama film The Ice Storm. Her role as Janey Carver in the Ice Storm earned her a Golden Globe…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 123591
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First Edition of Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers in the Rare Original Dust Jacket; Signed by Her
YEZIERSKA, Anzia.
Bread Givers: A Novel.
Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1925.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on the limitation page. Very good in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 84583
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First British edition of Churchill's only full-length work of fiction: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania; bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.
First British edition of Churchill's singular attempt at full-length fiction, one of only 1,500 copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition, names. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144132
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"Then freeing up her pent-up soul she rushed in frantic race, and fragments of the miller's wheel threw in the miller's face": First Edition of Julia Ward Howe's Passion-Flowers; inscribed by her to fellow author Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
HOWE, Julia Ward.
Passion-Flowers.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854.
First edition of Julia Ward Howe's first book. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher's advertisements at rear dated 1853. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper prior to publication, "Lizzie Agassiz from her Julia Howe Dec. 22nd 1853." The recipient, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American author, naturalist, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In very good condition with the gilt to the spine bright. An exceptional association.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 109025
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"Better than anyone else, he told the truth about his time. He was a professional. He wrote honestly and well": Sixteen Volumes of the Works of John O’Hara; Bound in Leather
O'HARA, John.
The Works of John O’Hara.
New York: : Random House, .
First editions. Octavo, 16 volumes. Elegantly bound in three quarter red morocco. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers. An attractive group.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 4370
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write": Saul Bellow's retained copies of the original contracts with Viking Press for his novels Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, and Mosby's Memoirs
BELLOW, Saul.
Saul Bellow Signed Novel Contracts.
New York: Viking Press, 1956-1968.
Saul Bellow's retained copies of the original contracts with Viking Press for his novels Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, and short story collection Mosby's Memoirs. Each contract is four pages, signed at the conclusion by Bellow. The first contract dated April 4, 1956 obligates Bellow to "three untitled novels in 1956, 1957, and 1958" to which Bellow has added a note indicating that one of these will be Henderson the Rain King. The second, dated August 27, 1964 confirms Bellow's delivery of the finished work Herzog. The third, dated January 22, 1968 confirms Bellow's delivery of "a volume of short…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 61091
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"He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time": First Edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild
LONDON, Jack.
The Call Of The Wild.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903.
First edition of one of the most desirable classics in American literature and London's best and most enduring work. BAL 1187. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth blocked in black, white, and terra-cotta, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Decorated with 11 color plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece and 5 color illustrations in text by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorations by Charles E. Hooper. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. A nice example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 144519
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"Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us!": First Edition of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewhit
DICKENS, Charles.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full calf by Root and Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 40 plates. In near fine condition, remnant of a bookplate to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 137984
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First Edition Of the Author’s Third Novel: Signed By The Nobel Prize-Winning Author V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
Miguel Street.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959.
First edition of Naipaul’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to the crown. Jacket design by Stephen Russ.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 3544
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First Edition of A Time of Gifts; Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.
First American edition of the author’s masterpiece, which ranks among the greatest travel books of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146173
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Rare 18th Century Heart-Shaped Christian Broadside; containing liturgical prayers, hymns, and creeds in latin
Rare 18th Century Heart-Shaped Christian Broadside.
Germany: c. 1780.
Rare late 18th century liturgical broadside. Printed broadside mounted on a decorated heart-shaped hardwood frame with a hand-painted botanical border containing Protestant liturgical chants, daily prayers, and hymns. Text in Latin. In very good condition. Scarce and desirable.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 96227
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“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that": Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple; with a rare promotional brochure from Steven Spielberg's 1985 film adaptation signed by Alice Walker
WALKER, Alice .
The Color Purple.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
First edition, early printing of Walker's third novel, which made her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds. With a promotional brochure for the 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg, signed by Alice Walker. [A Steven Spielberg Film: The Color Purple: Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize Winning Story. Warner Bros. Inc.: 1985]. Oblong octavo, original purple wrappers, illustrated with color photographs from the film. In fine condition. A nice pairing.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146798
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A Short History of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Specially Bound on the Occasion of the 800th Anniversary of Its Foundation; From the Library of Edward, The Duke of Windsor
POWER, Sir D'Arcy and H.J. Waring [King Edward VIII].
A Short History of St Bartholomew’s Hospital 1123-1923, Specially Bound on the Occasion of the 800th Anniversary of Its Foundation.
London: Charles Whittingham and Griggs, Ltd, 1923.
Elaborately bound presentation copy, belonging to King Edward VIII. Octavo, full tan morocco, elaborately gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels with black morocco inlays, cornerpieces of thistles and flowers, front panel with central crown and gilt medallion portraits of Rahere and Harvey, silk endpapers. Full-color frontispiece illustration of The Tomb of Rahere in the Church of Saint Bartholomew the Great, thirty-four black and white plates with tissue guards. Presentation plate to rear free endpaper, "Presented on the Occasion of the Eight Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Stanmore, Treasurer. On Behalf of the Governor's of the…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 36018
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Rare complete collection of all 80 issues of The Magic World
PIERCE, J.E and Walter B. Gibson.
The Magic World.
Philadelphia: The Magic World Publishing Co, 1917-1924.
Rare complete collection of all 80 issues of The Magic World, the early 20th century periodical 'Devoted to the Interests of Magicians, Ventriloquists, Illusionists, and Others of the Allied Arts.' Octavo, 80 issues, illustrated. The issues range from April 1917 to June 1924, several feature stories about Harry Houdini with his magic trick tutorials. In near fine condition. Housed in three stiff paper wrappers.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 132590
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First British Edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls in Exceptional Condition
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
For Whom The Bell Tolls.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1941.
First British edition of the novel that is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. Dust jacket designed by Hans Tisdall. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146090
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.
First edition of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. In very good condition, bookplate.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 139470
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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Author’s Magnum Opus Infinite Jest; With a Signed Promotional of this Novel
WALLACE, David Foster.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Signed promotional of Infinite Jest laid in. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146279
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First Edition, first issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
STEVENSON, Robert Louis .
A Child’s Garden of Verses.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1885.
First edition, first issue of Stevenson's classic work. Small octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edges gilt. With publisher's logo in gilt at top left of front cover, presumed publisher's blind stamp on title page, gilt apostrophe on spine with curved tail, gilt "of" on spine in smaller type, without advertisements. In near fine condition, owners name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a contemporary custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 123972
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"Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable": First edition of Bertrand Russell's History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools); signed by him
RUSSELL, Bertrand.
History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools).
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1962.
First edition of Russell's 21-word summary of human history, issued on the occasion of his 90th birthday and written in reaction to the Cuban missile crisis. 16 mo, original wrappers, illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 128355
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First edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 132470
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"What use, after all is Man, if not to teach God His lessons?"; First Edition of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus; Lengthily Signed by Him
SHAFFER, Peter.
Amadeus.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1980.
First edition of the playwright's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "What use, after all is man, if not to teach God His lessons?" Peter Shaffer." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Front cover photograph by Nobby Clark.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 128746
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First Edition of The Stonemason; Signed by Cormac McCarthy and Signed Three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.
Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994.
First edition of this expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Additionally signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd, on on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear panel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 141442
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Alfred Lord Tennyson's Masterpiece Idylls of the King; with an exceptional fore-edge painting
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
Idylls of the King [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1869.
Finely bound example with a fore-edge painting of Tennyson's "long-meditated great task" which brought him to fame (Baugh, 1388). Octavo, bound in full red pebbled morocco, spine stamped in gilt in compartments, all edges and turn ins gilt, fore-edge painting with view of The Market Place, Cambridge. In very good condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 123739
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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, William.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 138077
