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"And when that happened the right words would be found": First Edition of the Author’s First Book Cover Her Face; Lengthily Signed by P.D. James
JAMES, P.D.
Cover Her Face.
London: Faber and Faber, 1962.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original green cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with the added words, "And when that happened the right words would be found. P.D. James 4/8/14." The inscription is the final lines of this novel. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Charles Mozley. An exceptional example.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 146895
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“A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men": First Edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator; Inscribed by Roald Dahl
DAHL, Roald.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
First edition of the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Timothy Love Roald Dahl." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 146383
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Signed Limited Edition of Looking Forward; Signed by George H.W. Bush
BUSH, George.
Looking Forward: An Autobiography.
New York: Doubleday Press, 1987.
Signed limited first edition of the 41st President of the United States' memoir, published during his term as Vice-President. Octavo, original blue leather, all edges gilt, original slipcase. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by George Bush. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 146899
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First Edition of Stephen Berrien Stanton's Collected Poems; Gifted By the Author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
STANTON, Stephen Berrien [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Collected Poems.
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1930.
First edition of this collection of poems; gifted by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original cloth. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownership inscription, "P. T. Sherman from Stephen Stanton." In near fine condition with light toning to the spine.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145986
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First Edition of The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth; Inscribed by James Lovelock
LOVELOCK, James.
The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth.
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988.
First edition of this harmonic synthesis of Greek Gaia Theory and scientific thought. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams, and graphs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "With warm best wishes To Duck & Lucy Manoft from Jim Lovelock October 1988." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kevin O'Neill.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146624
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First Edition of Swine Not? A Novel Pig Tale; Signed by Jimmy Buffett
BUFFETT, Jimmy.
Swine Not? A Novel Pig Tale.
New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Jimmy Buffett on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kosh.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146486
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Rare Original December 13, 1968 Time Magazine Cover; Signed by the 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority Yasser Arafat
ARAFAT, Yasser.
Yasser Arafat Signed Time Magazine Cover.
Time Magazine Latin America, 1968.
Rare Time Magazine Latin American Edition cover from the December 13, 1968 issue. Octavo, one page, featuring a reproduction of a bust portrait of Yasser Arafat painted by Hector Garrido. Signed and dated by Arafat in Arabic at the upper right. In near fine condition with mail folds.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146623
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First Edition of Julia's Menus for Special Occasions; Inscribed by Julia Childs
CHILD, Julia; E. S. Yntema.
Julia’s Menus for Special Occasions.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
First edition of this collection of six menus for special celebrations. Quarto, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with one hundred and twenty full-color photographs by James Scherer. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Bon Appétit Julia Child." In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146621
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From the Library of Apollo I Commander Gus Grissom: Staff Report: The Next Ten Years in Space 1959-1969; Annotated with Mathematical Equations in Grissom's Hand
GRISSOM, Gus.
Gus Grissom Annotated Staff Report of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration: The Next Ten Years in Space 1959-1969.
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1959.
Rare Astronautics and Space Exploration Staff Report booklet; from the library of Gus Grissom. Octavo, original wrappers, annotated with mathematical equations in Grissom's hand on the rear panel. In very good condition. Accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity from Grissom's son, Mark Grissom, a Letter of Authenticity from Steve Zarelli of Zarelli Space Authentication.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146615
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Rare Photograph of the First President of Israel Chaim Weizmann's 60th Birthday Portrait; Signed by Him
[WEIZMANN, Chaim]; Sir Oswald Birley.
Chaim Weizmann Signed Photograph of his 60th Birthday Portrait.
n.p., n.d..
Rare signed photograph portrait of the future first President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann on his 60th birthday. Silver gelatin photograph of an original oil on canvas portrait of Weizmann done by British portrait artist Sir Oswald Birley in 1934 on the occasion of Weizmann's 60th birthday. Signed by Weizmann in the lower right corner, "C Weizmann." Mounted on cardboard. In very good condition with diagonal creasing across the image, minor toning to the edges. The piece measures 10 inches by 8.225 inches. The Birley portrait of Weizmann exists in the collection of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146614
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"The true natural rights of men, then, are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society": The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot; Inscribed by Russell Kirk
KIRK, Russell.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953.
First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Russell Kirk on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by Kirk.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 130940
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"There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it": First Edition of David Foster Wallace’s First Novel, The Broom of the System; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Him
WALLACE, David Foster.
The Broom of the System.
New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and author's initials to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,600.00 Item Number: 146609
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First edition of Ambergris: A Selection From the Poems; inscribed by Aleister Crowley to English Zionist Sir Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett
CROWLEY, Aleister.
Ambergris: A Selection From the Poems.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1910.
First edition of this scarce collection of Crowley's poetry. Octavo, original publisher's boards lettered in gilt, rebacked, frontispiece portrait. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the rear free endpaper, "Henry Mond from Aleister Crowley." The recipient, Sir Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett was an English politician, industrialist and Zionist. He served as Member of Parliament for the Isle of Ely 1923-24 as a Liberal and deputy chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries from 1940 to 1947. Having been brought up in the Church of England, he reverted in the 1930s to his family's original Judaism and became a champion…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 146395
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"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads": Signed Collector's Edition of Shelby Foote’s Classic Civil War Trilogy
FOOTE, Shelby.
The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991.
Signed collector's editions of the author's authoritative text on The Civil War. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panel, all edges gilt, watered silk endpapers, cartographic flyleaves, ribbon bound in to each volume, illustrated with maps. Boldly signed by Shelby Foote in volume one. In near fine condition with a bookplate to the opposite of the half-title pages.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 146608
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Rare Scientific Pamphlets Compiled During President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1938 Smithsonian-Sponsored Scientific Expedition to the Galapagos Islands; Both Inscribed by Him to his Personal White House Physician Admiral Ross McIntire
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Presidential Cruise Pamphlets.
City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1939.
First editions of two zoological pamphlets published as a result of collections and investigations made during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Presidential Cruise of 1938 to the Galapagos, both being presentation copies inscribed and signed “FDR” on the front wrapper. Octavo, two pamphlets, original brown printed paper wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copies, inscribed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to his White House doctor, "Ross McIntire from FDR." The pamphlets include: A New Dicrocoeliid Trematode Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938 (Allen McIntosh, June 8, 1939) and The Polychaetous Annelids Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938 (Olga Hartman, June 9, 1939). The recipient…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146601
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From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Ken Gormley's The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History; Inscribed by Bill Bader to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
GORMLEY, Ken; [Bill Bader] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History.
New York: New York University Press, 2016.
First edition of this "fluidly fashioned collection of essays about how the roster of American presidents shaped the executive duties as defined in the Constitution" (Kirkus Reviews). Octavo, original half cloth, original red silk ribbon, illustrated with black and white images. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader on the front free endpaper, "For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with great admiration and best wishes, - Bill Bader, 12 April, 2016." 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…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 146581
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Toledo Israel Bond Committee Invitation; Signed by The First Lady of the Free World Eleanor Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Israel Bond Committee Invitation.
B'Nai Israel Social Hall (Kenwood Blvd.): The Toledo Israel Bond Committee, November 11, 1957.
Rare invitation from the Toledo Israel Bond Committee, addressed to "The Outstanding Woman of Our Time" First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. One page, invitation administered on behalf of State of Israel Development Bonds to attend a community meeting at B'Nai Israel Social Hall on November 11, 1957, illustrated with a portrait of Roosevelt on the front panel, boldly signed by her beneath the portrait of herself. In near fine condition with card folds. A rare and unique example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146600
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“BUT IS GOD A YALE MAN?”: First Edition of God and Man at Yale; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by william f. Buckley
BUCKLEY JR., William F.
God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom”.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951.
First edition of the author's first book and seminal 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 William F. Buckley on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146491
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?": The Hitch Hiker's Guide To the Galaxy; Signed by Douglas Adams
ADAMS, Douglas.
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To the Galaxy. [Hitchhiker’s]
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1998.
Signed limited edition of this modern classic. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, original gold silk ribbon, watered silk endpapers. Boldly signed by Douglas Adams. In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146587
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Ellen Raskin's Newbery-Award Winning Novel The Westing Game; Inscribed by Her
RASKIN, Ellen.
The Westing Game.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1978.
First edition, second printing of Raskins's Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Barbara Nelson Boom! Ellen Raskin 6.25.79." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. Scarcely seen signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 146586
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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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From the Library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First Edition of Donald G. Mathews and Jane Sherron de Hart's Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation; Inscribed by de Hart to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
MATHEWS, Donald G; Jane Sherron de Hart [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
First paperback edition of this "comprehensive analysis of the politics of the Equal Rights Amendment" (Journal of American History). Octavo, original publisher's pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by co-author Jane Sherron de Hart on the half title page, "For Ruth Bader Ginsberg [sic] with admiration Jane De H." 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…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 146580
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Signed limited edition of John Masefield's Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse
MASEFIELD, John.
Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937.
First edition of John Masefield's adaptation of the great chivalric romance. Octavo, original half-cloth. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 69. In very good condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 115649
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is at last published in panoramic, earth-shattering, hyper-hysterical format": First edition of The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Signed by Douglas Adams in the year of publication
ADAMS, Douglas.
The Illustrated Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994.
First illustrated edition of Adams' modern classic. Folio, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "Douglas Adams 22-9-94." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146617
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First edition of A Pocket Full of Rye; inscribed by Agatha Christie in the Month of Publication
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
A Pocket Full of Rye.
London: Collins Crime Club, 1953.
First edition of Christie's ingenious murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, "For Stephen from Agatha Nov. 1953." Fine in the rare original dust jacket with two small closed tears. Housed in a custom full morocco slipcase with chemise by M.J. Adjarian. From the Richard Manney collection. An exceptional example, one of the nicest examples extant.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 146514
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First edition of Ethics in Service; Signed by William Howard Taft
TAFT, William H.
Ethics in Service.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1915.
First edition of this collection of addresses delivered by the 27th president of the United States in the 1914 Page Lecture Series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Howard Taft on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.
Price: $3,600.00 Item Number: 146513
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Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down; Inscribed by him
BOWDEN, Mark.
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
First edition, early printing of the award-winning journalist's account of the U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, adapted into the 2001 Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Grant, Best Wishes, Mark Bowden." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman. Author photograph by Peter Tobia.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146263
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Photograph from the filming of the 1969 classic film easy rider; signed by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper
FONDA, Peter and Dennis Hopper.
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper Signed Easy Rider Photograph.
Large glossy color photograph of the 1969 film Easy Rider stars Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper cruising on their choppers. Boldly signed by both Fonda and Hopper in blue felt tip. In fine condition. The photograph measures 14 inches by 11 inches.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 146534
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Limited Edition Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail; Signed by Illustrator Thomas Hart Benton
PARKMAN, Francis. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton.
The Oregon Trail.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945.
Signed limited edition of Parkman’s classic account of his journey along the Oregon Trail. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial title page, illustrated with numerous plates by Thomas Hart Benton. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the crown of the spine and a faint stain to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146546
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“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed” and “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds": First Edition of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition of this landmark biography of John D. Rockefeller. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146458
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"Everybody must have a fantasy": The Philosophy of Andy Warhol; Signed Twice by Warhol with a drawing
WARHOL, Andy.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
First edition, early printing of this work by Warhol. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed in green by Andy Warhol on the half-title page. Additionally inscribed by Warhol on the title page, "To Bob & son Andy Warhol," with a drawing of a can of Campbell's Pea Soup can. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Herb Lubalin. Jacket photograph by Philippe Halsman.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 146539
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Matt Groening's Cartoon Book Love Is Hell; Inscribed by The Author with a Drawing of Binky
GROENING, Matt.
Love is Hell.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
Special New Mini-Jumbo edition of this comical cartoon book that were the source material for The Simpsons by the creator of 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama.' Oblong quarto, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by the author on the front pastedown, "Matt Groening, 9/16/87," below a full-length sketch of his character Binky with a speech bubble inscribed in red ink: "To Deair!!!" In near fine condition. This early sketch of Binky was drawn roughly five months after 'The Simpsons' premiered on 'The Tracey Ullman Show' April 19, 1987 and a little over two years before Springfield's finest made their Fox network debut…
Price: $700.00 Item Number: 146535
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Concert Program; Signed by Louis Armstrong and Four of His Band Members
ARMSTRONG, Louis.
Louis Armstrong Signed Program.
New York: Associated Booking Corp, n.d.
‘Louis Armstrong and his Concert Group' program. Quarto, original wrappers, 20 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs of the band and its members. Boldy signed by Louis Armstrong on the thirteenth page, and additionally signed by Velma Middleton, Barney Bigard, Tummy Young, and Danny Barcelona on their respective portraits. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 146533
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S. H. M. Byer's The March to the Sea; Inscribed by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
BYERS, S. H. M.
The March to the Sea: A Poem.
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1896.
Early edition of this historically significant poem and song; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original green cloth, botanical endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, "To P.T. Sherman; the son of the general who made the great march: with many good wishes from - the author - S. H. M. Byers." Additionally signed by Sherman on the front pastedown above his bookplate. The recipient, Philemon Tecumseh Sherman, the son of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, transferred his library and books inherited from his father to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, before he…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146574
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Rare Author's Edition of Lincoln: A Picture of Story of His Life; Signed by Stefan Lorant
LORANT, Stefan.
Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
Rare author's edition of this pictorial history of the sixteenth president of the United States of America. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs, documents, and political drawings. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase. Accompanied by two portraits of Lincoln which appear in a manila envelope with Lincoln's signature in facsimile.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146569
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First Edition of Ivanhoe: A Grove Play; Signed by Walt Disney
NORRIS, Charles G; Music by Harry I. Wiel; [Walt Disney].
Ivanhoe: A Grove Play.
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1936.
First edition of this Grove Play produced and performed by and for Bohemian Club members. Octavo, original orange boards. Signed by Walt Disney opposite the dedication page. Additionally signed and inscribed by nearly 70 individuals. In his book, 'Walt Disney: An American Original,' Bob Thomas recounts the story of Walt Disney's visit to the Bohemian Club in 1936, the year in which his signature appears in this volume -- apparently the snoring from the following evening inspired the snoring scene in the Dwarfs' cottage in Snow White. In very good condition, ownership inscription to the front pastedown, "For Orrville Taylor.…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 146500
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"Love? First give justice! There's nothing above! And then you may love!": In This Our World; Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Copy
GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson].
In This Our World.
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.
Second edition of Gilman's first collection of poetry, coupled with almost eighty previously uncollected pieces. Duodecimo, enclosed in a handsewn black silk cover, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Gilman. Inscribed by Gilman on the front free endpaper, "Charlotte Perkins Stetson Her copy!" In good condition with detached binding, some pages in the front and rear loose, closed tears to the hinges of the silk cover, gift inscription in the year of publication on the front free endpaper above Gilman's inscription, "Presented by M. Maynard for Xmas 1899," some poems dated in pencil, loss to the frontispiece tissue-guard. Accompanied by an autograph…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146575
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First Edition of Abner Dean's Naked People; Inscribed by Him to American Journalist William Safire
DEAN, Abner [William Safire].
Naked People: A Selection of Drawings From Four of His Books: It’s A Long Way to Heaven; What Am I Doing Here?; And On the Eighth Day; Cave Drawings for the Future.
New York: Stein and Day, 1963.
First edition of this collection of drawings from four books by American cartoonist Abner Dean. Oblong octavo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Association copy, inscribed by the artist on the dedication page, "To Bill Safire - the one-man Publicombine Cordially, Abner Dean." Accompanied by an autograph letter signed by Dean to Safire thanking him for his response and "generous gift" with a drawing, which has also been signed by him. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After…
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 146550
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First edition of Agatha Christie's Destination Unknown; inscribed by her to close personal friend Stephen Glanville
CHRISTIE, Agatha.
Destination Unknown.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1954.
First edition of Christie's classic spy novel set in Morocco and the Atlas Mountains of Maghreb. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Stephen [Glanville] with love from Agatha." The recipient, Stephen Glanville was an English historian and professor of Egyptology at University College, London. He was close friends with Agatha Christie's second husband, Max Mallowan, a fellow archaeologist and comrade-in-arms during World War II. Glanville was acknowledged by Christie to have been the inspiration for two of her works: 'Death Comes As the End' and 'Akhnaton,' both…
Price: $9,500.00 Item Number: 146509
