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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night... [with] Supplemental Nights
BURTON, Richard F.
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night… [with] Supplemental Nights.
Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers only, .
First Burton edition of The Arabian Nights. Octavo, 16 volumes, bound in three quarter red crushed morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spin, raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 119367
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"MY ALLY & FRIEND, WITH THE PRAYER THAT WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING. SOONER OR LATER, WE'LL WIN": First Edition of Nobody Knows My Name; Signed by James Baldwin
BALDWIN, James.
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.
New York : The Dial Press, 1961.
First edition of Baldwin’s second major book of essays, featuring his powerful analyses of the politics of race and his controversial three-part essay on Richard Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "James Baldwin 9/15 - 74." Near fine in a good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Robert Jonas. Jacket photograph by Roy Hyrkin. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145473
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Rare typescript broadside of the final paragraphs of Gerald Ford's 1974 Proclamation of Pardon granting a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon; signed by both Ford and Nixon
NIXON, Richard M. and Gerald Ford.
Richard Nixon and Gerald R. Ford Signed Presidential Proclamation of Pardon.
Typescript reproduction of the final paragraphs of Ford's 1974 Proclamation of Pardon granting a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon, his predecessor, for any crimes that he might have committed against the United States as president. One page, typescript. Signed and dated by Gerald Ford, "Gerald Ford 11/5/79" and Richard Nixon. Accompanied by two glossy photographs signed by Ford. In fine condition. The signed pardon measures 7.5 by 5.5 inches. The photographs measure 8 inches by 10 inches. Exceptionally rare.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 134249
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Scarce first edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Political Economy For Beginners
FAWCETT, Millicent Garrett.
Political Economy For Beginners.
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1870.
Scarce first edition of Millicent Fawcett's immensely successful work on political economy, published the year before she helped found Newnham College for women at Cambridge in 1871. Octavo, original cloth, publisher's advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honored with a statue in Parliament Square, at the unveiling of which UK Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged, "I would not be standing here…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 134388
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Rare Miniature Book of Hours Illuminated Manuscript Leaf Collection
Miniature Book of Hours Illuminated Manuscript Leaf Collection.
Rare collection of six illuminated leaves from three late 15th century Books of Hours. Six vellum leaves decorated with illuminated initials and borders. Each leaf is framed allowing visibility of both sides of each page. In near fine condition. An exceptional collection.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 110201
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Rare original silver gelatin print of the 1952 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Economic Conference; signed by Winston S. Churchill and eight additional Finance and Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth
CHURCHILL, Winston S.; Nicolaas Havenga; Dudley Senanayake; Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh; Edgar Whitehead; Sidney Holland; Louis St. Laurent; Robert Menzies; Khawaja Nazimuddin.
Winston S. Churchill Signed 1952 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Economic Conference Photograph.
London: 1952.
Official black-and-white photograph of the members of the November 1952 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Economic Conference which historically proclaimed Queen, Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth in succession of her late father, George VI. The large black-and-white silver gelatin print is signed on the mount by Nicolaas Havenga (Finance Minister of South Africa), Dudley Senanayake (Prime Minister of Ceylon), Sir Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (Finance Minister of India), Edgar Whitehead (Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia), Sidney Holland (Prime Minister of New Zealand), Louis St. Laurent (Prime Minister of Canada), Winston S. Churchill, Robert Menzies (Prime Minister of Australia), and Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 137259
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The Declaration of Independence and Constitution; With the first appearance in book form of the 13th Amendment
Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.
New York: R. Spalding, 1865.
Rare first edition of this Civil War publication of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which features the text of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, its first appearance in book form. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Rare and desirable with only a handful appearing at auction in the last 80 years.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 117244
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First edition of Dee Alexander Brown's The Bold Cavaliers; inscribed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee to close personal friend and colleague Charles Weldon Carruth
BROWN, Dee Alexander. [Harper Lee].
The Bold Cavaliers: Morgan’s 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Raiders.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959.
First edition of the author's Civil War classic. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee on the front free endpaper to close University of Alabama college friend, Charles Weldon Carruth, "To Charles with love, Nelle." In the fall term of 1945, Lee and Carruth both enrolled in a Shakespeare course taught by one of the University of Alabama’s most famous faculty members, Hudson Strode, who directed the school’s theatre troupe and taught several courses in theatre and creative-writing. At the University of Alabama, Lee contributed a regular column…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 116234
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“There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time": Rare first edition collection of Sil Walter Scott's Waverly Novels
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Waverly Novels First Edition Collection.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne; And Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1816-1821.
First edition collection of Scott's Waverly Novels. Octavo, bound in full contemporary cloth with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, the set includes first editions of The Antiquary (1816, 3 volumes, half-titles present); Guy Mannering (1817); Rob Roy (1818, 3 volumes, half-titles); and The Abbot (1820, 3 volumes); Tales of My Landlord (second series: 1818, 4 volumes; third series: 1819, 4 volumes; fourth series: 1832, vol. 1-3); Ivanhoe (1820, 3 volumes); The Monastery (1820, 3 volumes); Kenilworth (1821, 3 volumes, half-titles); Peveril of the Peak (1822, 4 volumes); The Pirate (1822, 3 volumes); Fortunes of Nigel (1822, 3 volumes); Quentin Durward…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 124020
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"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead": First Edition of Graham Greene's Classic Work; The End of the Affair; Inscribed by Him
GREENE, Graham.
The End of the Affair.
London: William Heinemann, 1951.
First edition of the Graham Greene novel William Faulkner called, "one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jerry Shestack from Graham Greene." The recipient Jerry Shestack was a distinguished American Jurist, President of the American Bar Association and United States ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Civil Rights. Light shelfwear, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 23054
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“The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight”: First Edition of Isaac Asimov's The Stars Like Dust; Signed by Him
ASIMOV, Isaac.
The Stars Like Dust.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951.
First edition of Asimov's second science fiction novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Light offsetting to the endpapers, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the spine. Uncommon signed.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 39058
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"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not": First Editions of each Installment of The Green Mile; Each Volume Signed by Stephen King
KING, Stephen.
The Green Mile.
London: Penguin, 1996.
First edition of each of the six books published in self-contained monthly installments of this classic work, which tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. Octavo, 6 volumes, original illustrated wrappers. Each volume is signed by Stephen King on the title page. These volumes were signed in Manchester, Vermont. In fine condition. We have never seen another signed set.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 139667
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"There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.' (Law VI)": First Edition of The House of God; Lengthily Signed by Samuel Shem
SHEM, Samuel.
The House of God.
New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1978.
First edition of one of the most important medical novels ever written. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on title page, "To my dear reader of this rare 1st edition at age 40 this year. 'There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.' (Law VI) Shem 8/28/18." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Larry Noble. First editions are rare, especially signed with such a lengthy inscription.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145884
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First Edition of Walter Bagehot’s Classic work Lombard Street
BAGEHOT, Walter.
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market.
london: Henry S. King, 1873.
First edition of this "undying classic" (J.M. Keynes). Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, contemporary bookplate to the pastedown. A very nice example.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 116258
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Rare complete first edition, presentation copy set of The Bounty Trilogy; each volume inscribed by James Norman Hall to fellow authors Charles R. and Theodora Larocque Codman
NORDHOFF, Charles and James Norman Hall.
The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn’s Island.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932-34.
First editions of all three volumes of The Bounty Trilogy, based on the historical event of 1789 and adapted into the award-winning 1962 film starring Marlon Brando. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copies, each volume inscribed by James Norman Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty is inscribed by James Norman Hall on the half-title page, "For Charley + Theodora with warm regards James H. Hall." Men Against the Sea is inscribed on the second half-title page, "For Charley Codman from his friend James N. Hall. Pitcairn's Island is inscribed on the half-title page, "For Theodora Codman with warm regards…
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 145233
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"Arguably the central text of the Harlem Renaissance... hailed as an important revision of the slave narrative and a forerunner of black protest fiction": First edition of James Weldon Johnson's An Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
JOHNSON, James Weldon.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1912.
First edition of the work the central text of the Harlem Renaissance, hailed as the link between 19th and 20th African American narratives. Octavo, original cloth stamped in gilt. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 124993