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"No one should be entirely judged by their past": Signed Limited Edition of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband
WILDE, Oscar.
An Ideal Husband.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899.
First edition, signed limited edition. Octavo, original lavender publisher's cloth. One of 100 large paper copies signed by Oscar Wilde. In very good condition with some light rubbing and darkening to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $22,000.00 Item Number: 16085
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"Let us now praise famous men - men of little showing": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.
First British edition of Kipling's collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt. In fine condition. From the library of George Barr McCutcheon with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. A bright example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 96106
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First Edition of Ernest Seton-Thompson's The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; inscribed by him
SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest.
The Trail of the Sandhill Stag.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.
First edition of Seton-Thompson's illustrated work on the Sandhill wilderness. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panel, gilt ruled, colored frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated with 60 drawings by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, "To S. D. Green with well best wishes of Ernest Seton-Thompson." In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 96113
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple": Signed limited large-paper edition of The Importance of Being Earnest
WILDE, Oscar.
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co, 1899.
Signed limited large-paper edition of the author’s masterpiece, number 68 of 100 copies signed by Oscar Wilde on the limitation page. Octavo, original pale purple cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt floral motifs from designs by Charles Shannon on spine and covers, edges untrimmed. Presentation copy, with an autograph letter signed by the third and final wife of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, actress Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, to stage actor Harrison K. Ford laid in which reads, "To Harrison Ford Do hope you will enjoy this!- All good wishes Carlotta Monterey O'Neill Dec 6th 31 1095 Park Ave.-" From…
Price: $48,000.00 Item Number: 110755
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Rare First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Drums of The Fore and Aft
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Drums of The Fore and Aft.
London : F. Tennyson Neely, 1899.
First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Kipling's classic military tale. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 120480
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Rare First Edition of Kate Chopin's The Awakening
CHOPIN, Kate.
The Awakening.
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1899.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in dark green and red. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are rare, especially in this condition.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 131587
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First edition of George A. Henty's Yule-Tide Yarns
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
Yule-Tide Yarns.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with forty-five illustrations. In good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122632
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First Editions of Winston S. Churchill's second book The River War
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899.
First editions of Churchill's second book. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Woods A2(a). In very good condition.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 144851
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"Oh south winds have long memories": First edition of Howard Weeden's Bandanna Ballads; signed and inscribed three times by Joel Chandler Harris who contributed the introduction
WEEDEN, Howard. [Maria Howard Weeden; Joel Chandler Harris].
Bandanna Ballads.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899.
First edition of Maria Howard Weeden's best-known collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated by the author, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. Presentation copy, inscribed by Harris on the flyleaf, "Faithfully yours: Joel Chandler Harris Atlanta Ga.: 6 September 1900." Additionally signed by him on the title page and at the conclusion of the introduction. In fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,850.00 Item Number: 133067
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The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February - July, 1899; containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February – July, 1899.
London: Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899.
The second volume of the collected issues of the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Quarto, Vol. II, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with photographs and illustrations by numerous artists including six by Arthur Rackham for The Manoeuvres of Jerry on pages 71-77. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 142672
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First Edition, association copy of Winston S. Churchill's The River War; signed and annotated by E.B. Lack
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899.
First editions of Churchill's history of the conquest of the Sudan. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Association copy, with signatures and annotations by E.B. Lack, who helped to supply gunboats to the Admiralty during the campaign. Woods A2(a). In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell slipcase.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 144336
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"Take this stake in your left hand, ready to place the point over the heart, and the hammer in your right...": First American edition of Dracula; inscribed by Bram Stoker, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee and dozens of additional icons of horror cinema
STOKER, Bram.
Dracula.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899.
First American edition of Bram Stoker's masterpiece, the progenitor of the vampire genre which remains “arguably the most potent literary myth of the twentieth century” (Leatherdale, 11), signed by him and a host of other actors who portraed vampires. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Harry Powers from Bram Stoker 16 May 1900." Subsequently from the collection of George W. Fuller with his bookplate to the pastedown, then Forrest "Forry" J. Ackerman who dedicated his life to building what many consider to have been the…
Price: $60,000.00 Item Number: 145817
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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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The Great Operas; from the library of American journalist William Safire
VERDI, Giuseppe [Introduction]. Edited by James W. Buel.
The Great Operas: The Romantic Legends upon which the Masters of Song have Founded Their Famous Lyrical Compositions.
London, Paris, Berlin, and Philadelphia: The Societe Universelle Lyrique, 1899.
The Educational edition of this collection of the great operas. Elephant folio, 10 volumes bound into five in full pebbled leatherette for Oliver C. Safir with gilt titles to the spine and front panel and his gilt ownership name to the front panel of each volume, profusely illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text mezzo and sepia tinted illustrations. From the library of Oliver Craus Safir, and later his son, American journalist William Safire. William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968.…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134504
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Finely bound collection of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine; featuring Arthur Rackham's first printed colour plate
[RACKHAM, Arthur].
Little Folks: A Magazine For Young People.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1899.
Finley bound collection in book form of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine, featuring Arthur "Rackham's 1st printed colour plate" (Riall, p. 212), Up a Tree, used as the frontispiece. Quarto, Vol. II, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with numerous full page and in-text illustrations including 6 coloured plates. In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 142843
