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First Edition of You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown; Inscribed by Charles Schultz with a large Drawing of Charlie Brown
SCHULZ, Charles M.
You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of Charlie Brown on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Front jacket photograph by Cynthia Farah. Jacket design by Robert Reed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 146002
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First Edition of Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911; Inscribed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
HARLAN, Malvina Shanklin; Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911.
New York: The Modern Library, 2002.
First edition of this memoir rediscovered by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Justice Ginsburg on the title page, "Best wishes to Bonnie Brewer Ruth Bader Ginsburg." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Afterword by Linda Przybyszewski. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Ginsburg.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 133534
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ROYAL 1962 CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S CARD; SIGNED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH AND PRINCE PHILIP
ELIZABETH, Queen and Prince Philip.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Royal Christmas Card.
1962.
Royal 1962 Christmas and New Year Card with a mounted color photograph of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip with young Prince Charles, Princess Anne, and Prince Andrew. Signed by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, “Elizabeth R 1962” and “Philip.” In near fine condition. The card measures 9.75 by 14.5 inches.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 134922
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“Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire": First Edition of Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man; Inscribed by Him To Fellow Writer Peter Matthiessen
RHINEHART, Luke [George Cockcroft].
The Dice Man.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971.
First edition of this cult classic. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen on the half title page, "For Peter From a friend you should cherish, and from me. Luke Rhinehart." With Matthiessen's bookplate. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. An exceptional association copy, rare signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 44008
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First Edition of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold; Signed by John Le Carre
LE CARRE, John.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1964.
First American edition of le Carre's classic work, which went on to reinvigorate the spy genre. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Feder. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 144403
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“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”: Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back; Both Signed by P.L. Travers
TRAVERS, P.L.
Mary Poppins. [AND] Mary Poppins Comes Back.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936.
Later printings of this children's classic and its sequel. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, top stain navy blue, illustrated with 27 line cuts and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard in Mary Poppins, 44 line cuts and chapter tailpieces in Mary Poppins Comes Back. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper of each volume. In near fine condition, with an ownership inscription to the front pastedown of both volumes. Housed in a pictorial slipcase. Rare signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 147246
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Rare signed photograph of major league baseball legend ty cobb playing golf
COBB, Ty.
Ty Cobb Signed Photograph.
Photograph of baseball legend Ty Cobb posing on a golf course with three other golfers, signed by Ty Cobb. Also signed by golfers M. Ridgely and Frank Robinson. In very good condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 11 inches by 13 inches. Photographs signed by Cobb are rare.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 89005
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"Make your theories fit your facts, not your facts your theories": First Edition of Dickson G. Watts Classic Thoughts on Life; Signed by Him
WATTS, Dickson G.
Thoughts on Life.
Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1899.
First edition. Small octavo, original cloth. Signed by Dickson G. Watts on the title page. In good condition, with some wear to the cloth.This is the first Watts signature we have encountered. Rare.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 4486
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First Edition of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism; Inscribed by Daniel Bell to Harvard Colleague George Homans
BELL, Daniel.
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1976.
First edition of the author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Daniel Bell on the front free endpaper a month before publication, "For George and Nancy Homans with affectionate regards, Dan Bell Dec. 18, 1975." The recipient, George Homans was a sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology and a colleague of Bell's at Harvard University. He is known for his research in social behavior and his works including The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his Exchange Theory and the many different propositions he enforced to better explain social behavior. A few pencil notes in the text by Homans, fine…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 16092
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Photograph of Big Ben; Signed by Five British prime ministers
EDWARD HEATH, Margaret Thatcher.
Big Ben Tower Signed Photograph of British Prime Ministers.
Color photograph of Big Ben Tower, signed by six British prime ministers: Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, John Major and Tony Blair. In fine condition. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14.25 inches by 16.25 inches. A rare and desirable piece of history.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 73058
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“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious": Signed Limited Edition of Harper Lee's Go Set A Watchman
LEE, Harper.
Go Set A Watchman.
London: William Heinemann, 2015.
Signed limited edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco. One of a 100 numbered copies, signed by Harper Lee. Housed in a custom clamshell box. In fine condition.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 5503
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few": First edition, deluxe signed limited issue of So Few: A Folio Dedicated to All Who Fought and Won the Battle of Britain; one of only 401 numbered copies
PIERCE, Michael; John Golley; Roy Asser; Bill Gunston; Brian Masterton; AVM Freddie Hurrell.
…So Few. A Folio Dedicated to All Who Fought and Won the Battle of Britain 10th July – 31st October 1940.
London: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990.
First edition, deluxe signed limited issue of this lavishly illustrated folio commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the distinguished RAF pilots who fought in it, the most crucial battle in British history. Quarto, original publisher's full crushed blue morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, inset embroidered RAF brevet to the front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 25 tissue-guarded color silhouette portraits of distinguished RAF pilots each signed by the featured pilot and artist Michael Pierce with his embossed stamp, additionally illustrated with numerous black-and-white and full color…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 139010
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Large Lithograph of Nobel Peace Prize-Winner Albert Schweitzer; Signed by Him and Artist William Sharp
SCHWEITZER, Albert; Artist William Sharp.
Albert Schweitzer Signed Lithograph.
Signed by the artist William Sharp in pencil. Inscribed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, "A Mr John Zuber avec mes bonnes pensees Albert Schweitzer. Lambarene 13. Juin 1960." The translation reads, "To Mr John Zuber with my good wishes Albert Schweitzer Lambarene 13th June 1960." Schweitzer received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life”, expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa. The lithograph measures 14.5 inches by 11.5 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 41060
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"CARRYING HIS SEDITIOUS PICTURES AS IF THEY WERE DIAMONDS": FIRST EDITION OF HOUSE OF BONDAGE; SIGNED BY Joseph Lelyveld
COLE, Ernest; Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld; Text by Thomas Flaherty.
House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.
New York: : Random House, 1967.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by both "Ernest Cole" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author "Joseph Lelyveld 9.18.14" on the title page. Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. Text written with Thomas Flaherty. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 127758
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"In the sea caves, for whole days I gazed into your eyes" One page autographed handwritten poem completely in the hand of Nobel Prize-Winning Poet George Seferis
SEFERIS, George.
In The Sea Caves. George Seferis Poem.
One page signed handwritten poem completely in the hand of George Seferis. Translated from the Greek: "In the sea caves, there's a thirst there's a love, there's an ecstasy, all hard like shells, you can hold them in your palm. In the sea caves, for whole days I gazed into your eyes, and I didn't know you nor did you know me. George Seferis." Original manuscripts from Seferis are rare. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 12 inches by 20 inches.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 3776
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"Let this be all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds should judge thee wrong": Collection of documents signed by President Grant and eight members of his administration
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Collection of documents signed by President Grant and eight members of his presidential administration.
1860-1891.
A collection of eleven letters and documents signed and hand-written by the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and eight members of his presidential administration. Contents include a printed warrant for the pardon of John and Jerome Whisonant who were held at the Albany Penitentiary in 1874 signed by Grant, an 1860 one page autograph letter signed by Secretary of the Treasury Lot M. Morrill discussing misappropriated funds, an autograph quotation in the hand of 17th Vice President Schuyler Colfax, "Let this be all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, Though worlds should judge thee wrong. Schuyler…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 73063
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"Tarzan of the Apes found many things to puzzle his young head": First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan; Inscribed by him to his brother-in-law Eddie Gilbert
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1919.
First edition of the sixth book in Burroughs' epic Tarzan series. Octavo, original orange cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Edward Gilbert Best Wishes Always, Edgar Rice Burroughs. The recipient, Edward Gilbert was the brother of Burroughs' second wife and silent film actress Florence Gilbert. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with some chipping and loss to the crown and foot of the spine. Rare and desirable signed by Burroughs.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 96781
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"The hospitable soul makes me wiser and bolder by provocation": The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson; one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into vol. i
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson with a Biographical Introduction and Notes by Edward Waldo Emerson and a General Index.
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903.
The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, original publisher’s cloth with printed paper spine labels, illustrated with numerous mounted photogravures, frontispiece portrait of Emerson to Vol. I with lettered tissue guard. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the publisher and with an original double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one, this is number 515. The manuscript leaf reads in full, "Will anyone question the will of an aristocracy? Not, whilst there is…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 144526
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First Edition of The Good Earth; Finely Bound the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Pearl Buck
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. Boldly signed by Pearl Buck on a page bound in. In fine condition.
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 147462
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First Edition of Murmurs of Earth; Inscribed by Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan to their Family
SAGAN, Carl; F.D. Drake; Anne Druyan; Timothy Ferris; Jon Lomberg; Linda Salzman Sagan.
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record.
New York : Random House, 1978.
First edition of this fascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by both Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan on the half-title page to her family in the year of publication, "Dear Les, Edie, Larry and Erica, With my deep love and wishes of joyful explorations for all of you- And especially to my brother for taking me along on that first flight from home. Annie October 27- 1978." And inscribed "With every good wish from me too. Carl." Stamp on the title page, an excellent example in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert…
Price: $3,800.00 Item Number: 20028