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"But the journey would have been better if Beatrice and Bruce had been there": First Editions of the author’s Masterpiece; Warmly Inscribed by Rebecca West to the Editors of the Ladies Home Journal
WEST, Rebecca.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
New York: The Viking Press, 1941.
First American editions of Rebecca West's masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "But the journey would have been better if Beatrice and Bruce had been there. Rebecca West 1962." The recipients, Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors of the Ladies' Home Journal for almost 27 years, from 1935 through 1962, including the golden years of the magazine. Time magazine wrote upon their 1962 retirement, the Goulds took an undistinguished journal in a field that "took the patronizing view that a woman's interests were largely confined…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145979
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"With love to you, on Washington's birthday": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s India and the Awakening East; Signed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the half-title page, "Eleanor Roosevelt with love to you, on Washington's birthday Fer. 22, 1954 Vernon." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional inscription.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 110954
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First edition of Mary Howitt's Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden
HOWITT, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer].
Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.
London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.
First edition of Howitt's work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, tipped in tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bremer with an inscription from her to Howitt in facsimile. In very good condition. Scarce with only one other copy traced at auction. Bookplate.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 124150
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"China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world": Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea during the period of Japanese occupation
Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.
Japan: c. 1930.
First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding panorama of the Great Wall of China; folding map of Korea, Manchuria and portions of northeastern China. A unique record of history.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 60076
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“You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel": First Edition, first state of Mark Twain’s Life On The Mississippi in the publisher's original full sheep
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
Life On The Mississippi.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
First American edition, first state of this provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River with tailpiece of Twain in flames on p. 441 and “The St. Louis Hotel” caption on p. 443. Octavo, original publisher's deluxe full sheep with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated. In very good condition, rebacked. Uncommon.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142314
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"This is Houston. Say again, please...": color panoramic photo print of the revised trajectory of the Apollo 13 mission, inscribed by Apollo 13 Lunar Module pilot Fred Haise and flight controller Jack Lousma
HAISE, Fred and Jack Lousma.
Fred Haise and Jack Lousma Signed Apollo 13 Revised Trajectory Panoramic Print.
Semi-glossy color panoramic photo print of the revised trajectory of the Apollo 13 mission, signed by Apollo 13 Lunar Module pilot Fred Haise in silver ink, "Fred Haise, Apollo 13 LMP, 'Speed up to save 10 hours'" and "'The big bang," and additionally inscribed by flight controller Jack Lousma, "Jack Lousma, Apollo 13 CAPCOM," who adds above "This is Houston. Say again, please. Roger. Main B Undervolt." Lousma famously received the CAPCOM message "Houston, we've had a problem" message from Apollo 13. In fine condition. The print measures 23.25 inches by 10.75 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145825
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First Edition of Pavel Petrovich Svin'in's Sketches of Russia
SVIN'IN, Pavel Petrovich (Paul Svinine).
Sketches of Russia.
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814.
Scarce first edition of this sketch of Russian locations and historical figures. Octavo, bound in three quarter red calf over red cloth boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, rebacked with original spine strip laid down, top edge gilt, color frontispiece portrait of Emperor Alexander, illustrated with fifteen hand-colored aquatint plates and an engraved leaf of music arranging a Russian national song for the guitar. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, light toning throughout.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146468
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"Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death": Original photograph signed by the father of rocket technology, Wernher von Braun
VON BRAUN, Wernher.
Wernher von Braun Signed Photograph.
Original black and white photograph signed by German-American aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. Signed by von Braun on the lower right corner, "For "Busher" Bill affectionately Wernher von Braun." In very good condition. The photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 136509
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"Strangers who come to Florida and fail to see St. Augustine, are like those who go to Europe, and return without visiting Paris or London": First edition of John F. Whitney's St. Augustine, Florida: Its Advantages as a Winter Residence for Invalids and Northern Tourists
WHITNEY, John F.
St. Augustine, Florida. Its Advantages as a Winter Residence for Invalids and Northern Tourists. Cost of Living, and How to Get There.
St. Augustine, Florida: 1873.
First edition of this early travel guide to the city of St. Augustine, Florida by the Editor and Proprietor of The Florida Press. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with advertisements. In good condition. Small bookplate. Exceptionally rare with only one other copy traced at auction and one listed in academic holding.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138377
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THE FIRST EXPLORER TO REACH THE NORTH POLE: Deluxe signed limited edition of Robert Peary’s The North Pole; one of only 500 copies
PEARY, Robert E. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
The North Pole.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Deluxe signed limited edition of Peary’s illustrated account of his journey to the North Pole, number 4 of only 500 copies signed by Peary and Captain R. A. Bartlett. Thick quarto, publisher's original full vellum decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated with a large folding map printed in color, four black-and-white mounted photogravures and 112 tipped-in photographic plates. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. In very good condition.
Price: $2,450.00 Item Number: 125090
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“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant": First Edition of John Muir's Travels in Alaska
MUIR, John.
Travels in Alaska.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a few small chips. The nicest example we have seen of the rare dust jacket.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 139821
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Autographed Check From Amelia Earhart to Her Husband
EARHART, Amelia.
Amelia Earhart Signed Check.
Signed personal check from Amelia Earhart dated December 20, 1932 payable to her husband George Palmer Putnam for $250, which measures 2.5 inches by 7.5 inches. Double-matted and framed with a sheet music cover honoring Earhart. The entire piece measures 12 inches by 18 inches, with a window in the backing for viewing Putnam's signature.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 39022
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s India and the Awakening East; Inscribed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Warmly inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 12046
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Rare 19th century pocket map of Florida by American Mapmaker J. H. Colton
COLTON, George Woolworth and Charles B.
Colton’s Map of Florida.
New York: J. H. Colton, 1872.
Rare hand-colored lithographed pocket map of Florida with an inset of the Keys. One page, with hand-colored borders and counties, the map folds into the publisher's original 16 mo. cloth binding with gilt titles to the front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 127045
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Of Flight And Life; Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh to GENERAL CLARENCE R. HUEBNER
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
Of Flight and Life.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.
First edition, early printing of this prophetic discourse on weapons of mass destruction. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Gen. Huebner with best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh." The recipient, General Clarence R. Huebner was the commander of the 1st Infantry ("The Big Red One") at Normandy and one of World War I's most celebrated heroes. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An excellent association.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144020
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"To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure": First Editions of each volume in Naipaul's India Trilogy; Each Signed by Him
NAIPAUL, V.S.
An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India; India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1964-1990.
First editions of each of the author's works in his acclaimed Indian Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Each volume is signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 90453
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Rare 19th century hand-colored lithographed map of the states of Florida and South Carolina by American cartographer S. Augustus Mitchell
MITCHELL JR., S. Augustus.
County Map of Florida and Map of South Carolina.
Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: 1860.
First edition of Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s map of the states of Florida and South Carolina, published in Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc. Embraced In Forty-Seven Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of Seventy-Six Maps And Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables. Philadelphia. One page, hand-colored the maps shows the counties and major towns and cities of each state, the Gulf of Mexico, parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina with an inset map of Charleston Harbor. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138429
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"All this life, must be life, since it is so much like a dream": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
CONRAD, Joseph.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.
London: Harper & Brothers, 1904.
First edition of what many consider to be Conrad's masterpiece, one of 2000 examples. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in gilt. An excellent near fine example with light shelfwear, with the spine gilt nice and bright. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 135318
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First Edition of V.S. Naipaul's The Middle Passage: The Caribbean; Revisited; Signed by Him
NAIPAUL, V.S.
The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1962.
First edition of this travel work, “which belongs in the same category as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain” (New Statesman). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Name on the front free endpaper and stamp on the half-title page, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Belcher.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 75489
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First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's Life-Histories of African Game Animals; in the original cloth
ROOSEVELT, Theodore and Edmund Heller.
Life-Histories of African Game Animals.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.
First edition of Roosevelt's final work on big-game hunting. Octavo, 2 volumes, original buckram cloth with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispieces, with illustrations from photographs and drawings by Philip R. Goodwin and with forty faunal maps. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 125598