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June 1967 Time Magazine Cover Signed by Israeli military commander Moshe Dayan
DAYAN, Moshe.
Moshe Dayan Signed Time Magazine Cover.
Chicago: Time Magazine, June 16. 1967.
Original cover from the June 16, 1967 issue of Time Magazine featuring a portrait of Moshe Dayan, signed by him, "M. Dayan." In near fine condition. Accompanied by a letter signed by Dayan's secretary on his Officer of the Minister of Defence letterheard dated August 14, 1967 returning the signed cover to collector Karl Peterson. In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138437
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First edition of Armand Dayout's Napoleon: Raconte Par L'Image; an exceptional example in the publisher's full deluxe morocco
DAYOUT, Armand. [Napoleon Bonaparte].
Napoleon: Raconte Par L’Image D’Apres Les Sculpteurs, les Graveurs et Les Peintres.
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1895.
First edition of one of the richest Napoleonic iconographies published. Folio, original publisher's full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, large gilt central insignia to the front panel, all edges gilt, watered silk endleaves, ribbon bound in, illustrated with hundreds of tissue-guarded chromolithographs. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 137140
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Finely bound collection of Le Tresor de la Maison, Le Journal des Femmes Economes
DE BASSANVILLE, Mme.
Le Tresor de la Maison, Journal des Femmes Economes.
Paris : de Beau, 1853-1854.
Finely bound collection of the May 1853 - April 1854 issues of Le Tresor de la Maison, Journal des Femmes Economes. Octavo, bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, index. In good condition. Rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 96210
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman": First Edition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Signed by Her
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Second Sex.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
First edition in English of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Simone de Beauvoir on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Signed first editions of this classic work are rare and none have appeared at auction in the last sixty years.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 21090
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman": Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Signed by Her
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Second Sex.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979.
First Franklin Library edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panel, all edges gilt, raised bands, silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Signed by Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by H.M. Parshley. Illustrated by Eugene Karlin. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 105112
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“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy": Signed Limited First Edition of Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Mandarins.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956.
Signed limited edition and first English edition of the novel for which de Beauvoir won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Simone de Beauvoir. Fine in a near fine dust original glassine jacket in the original slipcase. Translated from the French by Leonard M. Friedman. Rare in this condition.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 137901
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Exceedingly rare new and revised edition of M. de Bourrienne's Life of Napoleon extra-illustrated with additional portraits and views and over 50 autograph letters and notes signed by Napoleon I, members of his family, and royal associates
DE BOURRIENNE, Fauvelet. [Napoleon].
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1885.
Exceedingly rare edition of M. de Bourrienne's Life of Napoleon extra-illustrated with additional portraits and views and over 50 autograph letters and notes signed by Napoleon I, members of his family, associates, and the author bound in. Octavo, bound in three quarters scarlet morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others uncut, tissue-guarded frontispiece and full color portrait to each volume, illustrated with engravings issued in the initial publication and over 100 extra portraits and views bound in. With over 50 autograph letters signed bound…
Price: $45,000.00 Item Number: 117078
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M. de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte; With a Fore-Edge Painting of Napoleon leading his troops to battle
DE BOURRIENNE, M. [Napoleon].
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte: With a Fore-Edge Painting of Napoleon Leading His Troops to Battle. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Scott, Webster & Geary, 1836.
Rare finely bound example of the Memoirs of Napoleon with a fine fore-edge painting of Napoleon on horseback leading his troops to battle. 12mo. bound in full red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, gilt turn ins, all edges gilt. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 98390
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"There are only two books that matter in the Spanish language, Don Quixote of La Mancha and One Hundred Years of Solitude": First Edition of Don Quixote; Signed with a Drawing by Nobel Prize-winning Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez
DE CERVANTES, Miguel [Gabriel Garcia Marquez].
Don Quixote.
New York: Ecco/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.
First edition of this new translation which is considered one of the finest English-language translations of the Spanish novel, by authors and critics including Carlos Fuentes and Harold Bloom, who called her "the Glenn Gould of translators, because she, too, articulates every note." Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the front free endpaper, who has drawn a flower. "There are only two books that matter in the Spanish language, Don Quixote of La Mancha and One Hundred Years of Solitude. All the rest are mere footnotes. Their themes are one and the same: the capacity to see life not…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 118745
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First Edition of Frank De Felitta's The Entity; Signed by Him
DE FELITTA, Frank.
The Entity.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Frank De Felitta on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by The New Studio. Cover illustration by Charles Moll. First editions are rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120345
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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so": Rare Honorary Dinner Program; Signed by French General Charles de Gaulle
DE GAULLE, Charles.
Charles de Gaulle Honorary Dinner Program Signed.
1960.
Rare original dinner program from the Honorary Dinner For His Excellency General Charles de Gaulle held in New York City on April 26th, 1960, boldly signed by him. Quarto, 8 pages, string bound. Signed by Charles de Gaulle on the front cover of the program. The program includes listings of the presidents, officers, directors, and honorary members of the Alliance Francaise de New York, American Society of the French Legion of Honor, and The France-America Society. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed by General de Gaulle.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 92469
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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED ATLAS OF RUSSIA, AND ONE OF PETER THE GREAT'S MOST SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS
DE L'ISLE, Joseph Nicolas.
Russischer Atlas welcher in einer General-Charte und neunzehen Special-Charten das gesamte Russische Reich und dessen angräntzende Länder.vorstellig macht.
St. Petersburg: Entworffen bey der Kayserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1745.
Rare first edition of the first atlas printed of Russia. Folio, bound in full leather, 19 double-page maps, one large folding general map. In excellent condition with light toning. An exceptional example.
Price: $35,000.00 Item Number: 105840
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First Edition of The London Dore Saw; Inscribed by Eric de Mare
DE MARE, Eric.
The London Dore Saw: A Victorian Evocation.
London: Allen Lane, 1973.
First edition. Folio, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "To Peggy and Frank Taplin with kind, associational thoughts from Eric de Mare Jan. 1973." Also laid in, is a page and half handwritten signed letter to the same recipients. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a closed tear to the front panel and some nominal wear the the extremities.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 2474
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First Edition of William de Morgan's Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography; Signed by Him
DE MORGAN, William.
Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography.
London: William Heinemann, 1906.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. With the author's signature on the front pastedown on the Lemperly bookplate. Also, included is the author's visiting card. In near fine condition, contemporary bookplate. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 85436
