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Signed Limited Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We; in the original blue box with matching number
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
Signed limited edition of Lindbergh's autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century's greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight. One of 1000 numbered copies, this is number 97, signed by both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates, with the publisher's note laid in. Fine in the original glassine and in the original blue box with matching number. Introduction by Myron T. Herrick. One of the finest most preserved example possible.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 133274
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"African Queen was the first film I had a role in. How does one define the feeling? A classic, starring Bogart & Hepburn, directed by John Houston - I was too young to appreciate the awe of it. (If I had, I might have thought that from there it could only go downhill.) As it was, it became a learning experience. It was a also fun. I was glad that this was for me, a stage actor, the introduction to film": First Edition of C.S. Forester's The African Queen
FORESTER, C.S.
The African Queen.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.
First edition of C.S. Forester's beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston's 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Theodore Bikel in his first film role. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by actor Theodore Bikel on the front free endpaper, "African Queen was the first film I had a role in. How does one define the feeling? A classic, starring Bogart & Hepburn, directed by John Houston - I was too young to appreciate the awe of it. (If I had, I might have thought that from there it could only go downhill.) As it was, it became…
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 144196
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"Some day, perhaps in ten or twelve years, you are going to vote": First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's When You Grow Up to Vote; signed by her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
When You Grow Up to Vote.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's first book, published the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first presidential election. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. In good condition with some spotting to the cloth. First editions are rare, signed copies exceptionally so, this is the first example we have seen.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 124558
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“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other": Jane Austen's Emma
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma: A Novel. By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice.”
London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
Early separate issue from Bentley's Standard Novels series of the final novel published during Austen's lifetime, a re-issue of the 1833 edition which was the first one-volume edition and first illustrated edition. Duodecimo, elaborately bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and pictorial title by Pickering and Greatbatch dated 1833. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, spine, and rear panel, light toning and minor offsetting to the pictorial title, and antiquarian ownership signature to the front flyleaf. Reprints…
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 145588
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First Edition of Drives and Puts in the original dust jacket; Inscribed by Walter Camp in the year of Publication
CAMP, Walter and Lilian Brooks.
Drives and Puts.
Boston: L.C. Page, 1899.
First edition of this collection of golf short stories by the father of American football. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of a woman golfer by H.C. Ireland, vignette on title page, top edge gilt. Inscribed by Walter Camp in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Louis, with my best wishes, Walter Camp. Xmas 99." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light wear and restoration to the extremities. Inscribed first editions in the original dust jacket are exceptionally rare.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 82458
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Signed Limited Edition of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom; One of 1000 Numbered Copies
MANDELA, Nelson.
Long Walk To Freedom.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 numbered copies of this classic autobiography. Octavo, bound in half morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 135598
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First South African Edition of Long Walk to Freedom; Signed by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson .
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by the author, "NMandela 28.2.96." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 126733
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"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles": Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru; signed by Jawaharlal Nehru and his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and from the collection of actor and author Aly Wassil
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.
New York: The John Day Company, 1942.
Early printing of Nehru's classic autobiography, from the collection of actor and author Aly Wassil. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed on the front free endpaper by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, his sister, the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet portfolio, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Wassil with his ownership signature and annotation, "Aly Wassil M.I.T. October 21, 1949." Born in Pakistan, Aly Wassil was a graduate of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, and the author of several books including "The Wisdom of Christ," "Rubaiyat of Modern Man," "Song of the Saviour,"…
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 146425
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"Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places": First edition of Slim Aarons' A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
AARONS, Slim.
A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of the photographer's most well-known work which covered the global social circuit in a style that remains without peer to this day. Folio, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Dear Myron We Lived The Dream Great Days Slim Aarons." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 134596
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more": THE Winchester Edition of the Novels OF JANE AUSTEN; Finely Bound
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels of Jane Austen [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma].
London: Grant Richards, 1898.
The Winchester edition of the novels of Jane Austen containing each of her major works. Octavo, 10 volumes bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Austen to the first volume, top edge gilt. Contains Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 141674
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“THE DAY OF THE JACKAL WAS OVER”: FIRST EDITION OF THE DAY OF THE JACKAL; INSCRIBED BY FREDERICK FORSYTH IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION
FORSYTH, Frederick.
The Day of the Jackal.
London: Hutchinson, 1971.
First British edition of the author's first novel. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication opposite the title page, "For Dick and Ruth Epps with warmest regards, from Fredie Forsyth 16.6.71." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Simmonds and Trevor Vertigan. Uncommon signed and inscribed in the year of publication.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 131329
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Rare First Edition of Travels and Researches in Crete
SPRATT, Capt. Thomas Abel Bremage.
Travels and Researches in Crete.
London: John van Voorst, 1865.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, hand colored folding engraved maps, 14 tinted lithographed plates, 3 further plates (of inscriptions and coins), lithographed plans on india paper in the text, illustrations,
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 135308
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First edition of William Faulkner's Sanctuary; in the rare original dust jacket
FAULKNER, William.
Sanctuary.
New York: Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.
First edition of the novel that established Faulkner's literary reputation. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 138101
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"The artist’s task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it, but to perceive the esthetic reality within the actual world" First Edition of Helen Levitt’s First Book A Way of Seeing; Signed by Her
LEVITT, Helen; Essay by Agee.
A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York by Helen Levitt with an Essay by James Agee.
New York: The Viking Press, 1965.
First edition of Levitt and Agee's classic collaboration. Oblong quarto, original black cloth, illustrated with 50 black-and-white photogravures. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Essay by James Agee.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 807
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"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb": First Edition of Long Walk To Freedom; Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson.
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
Boston: Little Brown, 1994.
First American edition of the autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on the title page, "NMandela 12.5.05." It was signed in New York City by Mandela during a visit upon receipt of an honorary doctorate from Amherst College. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 55043
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Finely Bound Extra Illustrated edition of de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte; bound by Riviere and Son
FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE, Louis Antoine [Napoleon].
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By M. de Bourrienne, his Private Secretary.
London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
Finely bound extra-illustrated edition set of de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavos, eight volumes, bound in full 19th century crimson morocco by Riviere and Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within raised gilt bands, central gilt Napoleonic coats of arms and double gilt ruling to the front panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings including frontispieces to each volume. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 109608