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“THE DISTANCE IS GREAT FROM THE FIRM BELIEF TO THE REALIZATION FROM CONCRETE EXPERIENCE”: DOCUMENT SIGNED BY QUEEN ISABELLA I, QUEEN OF SPAIN
ISABELLA I, Queen of Spain.
Isabella I, Queen of Spain Signed Document.
Single quarto manuscript document signed by Queen Isabella of Spain, dated 20 November, 1501. With "La Reyna" at the top, and signed "Yo la Reyna." The letter is for a credit to Isabella's chamberlain, Sancho de Paredes for various supplies, services, and expenditures. Matted and framed opposite a portrait of Isabella. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 20.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by Queen Isabella.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 39080
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First British Editions of The Border Trilogy; Each Volume Signed By Cormac McCarthy and Three Times Each by Chip Kidd
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.
London: Picador, 1992-1998.
First British editions of each title in the author's acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, three volumes. All three volumes are signed by Cormac McCarthy and additionally signed three times in each volume by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear flaps. Each are fine in near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 145942
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"To the Justice, With gratitude, respect, and affection": From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Susan H. Williams' Constituting Equality; Inscribed by Williams to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
WILLIAMS, Susan H. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Constituting Equality: Gender Equality and Comparative Constitutional Law.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
First edition of this interdisciplinary collection of essays on women's issues. Octavo, original publisher's boards. Association copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "To the Justice, With gratitude, respect, and affection. Susan." 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 “the Notorious R.B.G.” (a play on the name of famed 90s rapper The Notorious B.I.G.), Ginsburg was responsible for some…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147321
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“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found": First Edition of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley; Inscribed by Him
STEINBECK, John.
Travels with Charley.
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First edition of Steinbeck’s beloved cross-country narrative. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Freeman. Photographs of Steinbeck by Hans Namuth. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 142958
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First British Edition of The Wild Palms; Signed by William Faulkner
FAULKNER, William.
The Wild Palms.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1939.
First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's grandly inventive, heart-stopping classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "William Faulkner New York 3 March 1953." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed with no other inscribed British edition ever appearing at auction.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 144096
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"Whose courage and brilliance are rarely equaled and never surpassed. With best birthday wishes": From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Louis Begley's Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters; Inscribed by Bill Bader to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
BEGLEY, Louis; [Bill Bader] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
First edition of this case study on corruption in the justice system. Octavo, original publisher's boards. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the front free endpaper, "March 2012. For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Whose courage and brilliance are rarely equaled and never surpassed. With best birthday wishes, - Bill Bader." 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: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147322
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Rare Signed Photograph of Both President Franklin and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. and Eleanor.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Photograph: Christmas 1941.
1941.
Rare original black and white photograph of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt sitting together at a table, signed by both, dated Christmas 1941. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 18.5 inches.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 124815
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"Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them": Carson McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter; With a Note Signed by Her
MCCULLERS, Carson.
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940.
First edition, first printing with the date of 1940 on the title page of the author's first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. With a note laid in from the author which reads, "With all good wishes from Carson McCullers Thanks for the good time at the Inn." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 138095
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"Thank you for all your help in making this book possible": First Edition of Philip Fisher's highly regarded Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks; Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Philip A.
Paths To Wealth Through Common Stocks.
Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1960.
First edition of Fisher's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free end paper, "Thank you for all your help in making this book possible, Mrs. Nel Pozo Sincerely Phil Fisher." The recipient was an assistant to the author who helped Fisher with this book. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Most desirable inscribed example of this investment classic.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 4682
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First Edition of Friedman's Sampling Inspection; Signed by Him and In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
Sampling Inspection: Principles, Procedures, and Tables for Single, Double, and Sequential Sampling in Acceptance Inspection and Quality Control Based on Percent Defective.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1948.
First edition of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Scarce in the original dust jacket and signed by Friedman
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 138192
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Rare Pair of Photographs of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip; Signed by Them
ELIZABETH II, Queen and Prince Philip..
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Pair of Signed Photographs.
1954.
A rare pair of photographs of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Two 8 inch by 6.12 inch portrait photographs of Queen Elizabeth dressed in an off-shoulder ballroom dress with the Riband and Star of the Order of the Garter across her chest and the Diamond Diadem upon her head and Prince Philip dressed as an Admiral of the Fleet, matte-finish gelatin silver prints, signed and dated on the card mount in fountain pen by the Queen and Prince below their respective portraits, "Elizabeth R 1954" and "Philip 1954." Housed in fine blue leather presentation frames by H. H. Plante,…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 145450
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First Edition of Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel The Yearling; Uniquely Inscribed by Her Across three pages
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
The Yearling.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, uniquely and lengthily inscribed by the author across three pages; on the front free endpaper, the second free endpaper and its verso, "For Harry W. Zollars Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - A writer loses all rights to elucidate a book, once he has corrected the last proofs. Anything unexplained at that point must go forever unsaid. Yet he may still offer a private opinion, as on the work of any other. In my opinion, this book about Jody, is in reality Penny's book. Penny was once Jody, and…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147651
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First Edition of Berger and Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge; Inscribed by both Berger and Luckmann
BERGER, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann.
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966.
First edition of one of the most important sociological texts of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper, "For Hansfried, Peter and Thom L." The recipient, Hansfried Kellner was a sociologist and colleague of Peter Berger. They co-wrote two successful books together, Sociology Reinterpreted and The Homeless Mind. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Norman Ives. First editions are rare, especially with such an association.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 65056
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"Once there was a little tree ... and she loved a little boy": The Giving Tree; Signed by Shel Silverstein
SILVERSTEIN, Shel.
The Giving Tree.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.
Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscription to the half-title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147387
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"ENOUGH FOR ME IN DREAMS TO SEE AND TOUCH THY GARMENTS' HEM- THY FEET HAVE TROD SO NEAR TO GOD, I MAY NOT FOLLOW THEM": FIRST EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S MANY INVENTIONS; inscribed by him to his second cousin
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Many Inventions.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling's poems and tales. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page in the year of publication to his second cousin by marriage, "Eliot [sic] Balestier from Rudyard Kipling Xmas. 93." The recipient, Elliot Francis Balestier was the second cousin of Kipling's wife, Caroline Balestier and her brother, Wolcott, with whom Kipling collaborated with for the novel The Naulahka: A Story Of East And West, which he would later name his historic shingle style house in Dummerston Vermont after. In very good condition. A fine…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 123441
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First Edition of Tiresias and Other Poems; Inscribed by Lord Alfred Tennyson to his niece
TENNYSON, Lord Alfred.
Tiresias and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1885.
First edition of this collection of poems by one of the most famous poets of the Victorian era. Duodecimo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by Lord Alfred Tennyson to his niece on the title page, "Cecilia from her affectionate Uncle Tennyson April 15th - 87." Cecilia Tennyson was the daughter of Tennyson's youngest brother, Horatio, and was named after one of his sisters. In very good condition. From the library of noted collector William A. Strutz with his small bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco folding case. A wonderful…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147858
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First edition of One City; signed by J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh
RANKIN, Ian; Alexander McCall Smith; Irvine Welsh. Introduction by J. K. Rowling.
One City.
Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005.
First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh's most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. One of 150 numbered copies signed by J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh on the half-title page, this is number 100. Introduction by J. K. Rowling. Foreword by Rt Hon. Lesley Hinds. Near fine in the original slipcase which is in fine condition.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 124173
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"Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle cats come one come all: the jellicle moon is shining bright- jellicles come to the jellicle ball": Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats; Inscribed by T.S. Eliot
ELIOT, T.S.
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1960.
Later printing of Eliot's beloved collection of whimsical feline poems which served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 megamusical phenomenon Cats. Octavo, original yellow pictorial cloth, illustrated by T. S. Eliot. Association copy, inscribed by the author to portrait painter Sir Gerald Kelly on the front free endpaper, "For Gerald Kelly with the warm regards & admiration of the author of these verses and the illustrator, T.S. Eliot (O.P.)" Eliot and the recipient, Gerard Kelly, struck up a close friendship back in the early 1920s, and in 1960 Kelly was commissioned to paint a portrait of Eliot, which…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 145467
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view": Rare First Book club edition of To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed by Harper Lee
LEE, Harper.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.
First book club edition (published the same year as the first edition) of Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author, "With all good wishes, Harper Lee" on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. Jacket design by Shirley Smith. Photograph of Lee on the back panel by Truman Capote. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 147955