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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. Name to the front free endpaper. A nice example.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 110596
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Lafayette Bunnell's The Discovery of the Yosemite and The Indian War of 1851
BUNNELL, Lafayette Houghton.
The Discovery of the Yosemite and The Indian War of 1851, Which Led To That Event.
Los Angeles: G.W. Gerlicher, 1911.
Fourth edition of Bunnell's account of the discovery of Yosemite Valley with the Mariposa Battalion in 1851. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated with engravings including frontispiece portrait of Bunnell and new maps and illustrations. In very good condition with wear to the extremities, remnants of a paper label affixed to the front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 104896
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“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes; In Exceptional Condition
CONRAD, Joseph.
Under Western Eyes.
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1911.
First American edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Supino A14.8.0; Cagle A14c. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145907
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“this is the story of a great inventor, the most conspicuous figure of the age of electricity”: First edition of the Boy's Life of Edison; Signed by Thomas A. Edison
MEADOWCROFT, William H. [Thomas A. Edison].
The Boy’s Life of Edison.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1911.
First edition of Meadowcroft's biography of Thomas Edison, written for children. Octavo, original cloth with paper label portrait of Edison to the front panel, illustrated with eight photographic portraits of Edison including tissue-guarded frontispiece. With Edison's autobiographical notes. Boldly signed on the second free endpaper, "Thomas A. Edison." In very good condition. First printings are uncommon signed.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 110225
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First English edition of Leo Tolstoy's Father Sergius and Other Stories and Plays
TOLSTOY, Count Leo.
Father Sergius and Other Stories and Plays.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1911.
First English edition of this collection of short stories, published shortly after Tolstoy's death. Octavo, original blue cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, patterned endpapers, color frontispiece. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. A superior example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 124064
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Rare 1911 Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent; elaborately bound in full morocco with gilt metalwork embellished with inlaid precious stones
Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent
Vienna: 1911.
Rare Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent bestowing upon Brunn industrialist Adolf Noble von Kurschner and his descendants a Hungarian noble title. Folio, bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt metal onlays embellished with precious stones, inner dentelles, silk-watered endleaves, tasseled ribbon bound in. The patent is richly decorated with hand-painted illuminated borders, large hand-painted coat of arms. Signed by the Minister of the Interior: Vienna, December 11, 1911, the patent extends the hereditary title of baron bestowed on Adolf Noble von Kurschner to his descendants Adolf Baron von Kurschner and his wife Marie Baroness von Kurschner as well as their direct descendants.…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 132158
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“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property": Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays; Signed by Her
GOLDMAN, Emma.
Anarchism and Other Essays.
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1911.
Second revised edition of Goldman's most important collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Goldman. Boldly signed by Emma Goldman on the front free endpaper. In very good condition. With biographical sketch by Hippolyte Havel. Books signed by Goldman are rare.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144296
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First Edition of Serving the Republic: Memoirs of the Civil and Military Life of Nelson A. Miles
MILES, Nelson A.
Serving the Republic: Memoirs of the Civil and Military Life of Nelson A. Miles.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1911.
First edition of the autobiography by the famed general. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132499
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more": THE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN; Finely Bound
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Works of Jane Austen [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma].
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-12.
The Winchester edition of the works of Jane Austen containing each of her major novels. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt. Contains Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and The Watstons. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 142080
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142474
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First Edition of Henry James' The Outcry
JAMES, Henry.
The Outcry.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First American edition, published simultaneously with the British edition of James' final novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, bookplate, library markings in pen to the first three pages. A very sharp example.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 80037
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First Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Last Galley
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur.
The Last Galley: Impressions and Tales.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911.
First edition of Doyle's collection of seventeen short stories, which he considered his favorite among all of his works. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 131570
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome; From the library of Michael Sadleir
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. From the library of Michael Sadleir with his bookplate to the pastedown. Sadleir was a British publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer. Sadleir began to work…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 99339
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 116178
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First Edition of Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket; With an autographed Letter Signed
BEERBOHM. MAX,.
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.
London: William Heinemann, 1911.
First edition of Beerbohm's classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. According to Mark Samuels Lasner, the Beerbohm scholar and bibliographer, there have only been five copies of this book identified as still possessing their original dust jackets. Two are in institutions, two have been in private hands. Laid in is an autographed letter signed by Max Beerbohm dated August 3, 1911, the publication of Zuleika Dobson. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 121225
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First edition of Sven Hedin's Fran Pol Till Pol; inscribed by him and with the scarce preface
HEDIN, Sven.
Fran Pol Till Pol. [From Pole to Pole].
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1911.
First edition of Swedish explorer and geographer Sven Hedin's account of his journey through Asia and Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial onlay of the globe to the front panel of each volume, patterned endpapers, illustrated with numerous charts, maps, and photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of volume I to Ella Heckscher. The recipient, Ella Heckscher was a Swedish genealogist and daughter of Legal Counsel, National Financial and Consul General Isidor Heckscher and sister of the famous…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138546