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Rare forty-four star American flag
Forty-Four Star American Flag.
Rare forty-four star American flag. The American flag bearing 44 stars was in use between July 10, 1890 when the state of Wyoming was admitted into the Union and January 4, 1896 when Utah was admitted as the 45th state. In near fine condition with ownership initials to the hoist, identified to “Camp 6 Sons of Veterans, Illinois Division USA. The flag measures 48 inches by 84 inches.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 109201
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First Edition of Wall Street; Signed by Kenneth Lipper, Oliver Stone and Martin Sheen
LIPPER, Kenneth. Based On The Original Screenplay by Oliver Stone and Stanley Weiser.
Wall Street.
New York: Berkley Books, 1988.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Dear Dan, Thanks for the encouragement. It will help me with the next novel. Ken." Additionally signed by Oliver Stone and actor Martin Sheen on the title page. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 133246
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"Earthrise, Christmas 1968": Official NASA Apollo 8 'Earthrise' Photograph Signed by James Lovell and Frank Borman
LOVELL, James and Frank Borman.
James Lovell and Frank Borman Inscribed ‘Earthrise’ NASA Photograph.
1968.
Official NASA photograph of 'Earthrise.' Glossy, color photograph of the Earth as seen from space by the Apollo 8 crew after performing lunar orbit insertion burn, NASA caption text and Kodak watermarks to the verso of the photograph, signed by Frank Borman in silver ink, "Frank Borman Apollo 8 CDR," and James Lovell, "James Lovell Apollo 8 CMP," who additionally signed "Earthrise, Christmas 1968" above his signature. In fine condition with fading to the NASA text on the verso. The piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 145373
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Exceedingly rare first edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Call to the Nation
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Call to the Nation.
London: The Daily Express, 1908.
First edition of Kipling's speech delivered at Lord Derby's Recruiting Campaign for the West Lancashire Territorial Battalions. Quarto, original wrappers. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Exceedingly rare. From the library of Raymond J. Schweizer with his bookplate to the pastedown. Rare with no recorded examples at auction in the last 60 years.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 121049
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First Edition of Last Tales; Signed by Isak Dinesen
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen].
Last Tales.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "Isak Dinesen Je Responderai." While in Africa, Blixen took as her motto “Je Responderai,” “I will answer,” from the family crest of her lover, Denys Finch-Hatton. She explained: “I liked this old motto so much that I asked Denys, an earlier pioneer in African than myself – although all we settlers who had come out before the war looked upon ourselves as one family, a kind of Mayflower people – if I might have it for my own. He…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 145946
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First Edition of The Last of the Arctic Voyages; Being a Narrative of The Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance; from the libraries of explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Steve Fossett
BELCHER, Edward Sir.
The Last of the Arctic Voyages; Being a Narrative of The Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher C.B.
London: L. Reeve, 1855.
First edition of Belcher's narrative detailing his Arctic Expedition aboard the H.M.S. Assistance in the final British attempt to locate the lost Sir John Franklin. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's blind-stamped cloth, rebacked by Zaehnsdorf retaining the original cloth binding, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, lithographed frontispiece to each volume, illustrated with 36 chromolithograph plates, charts, 3 folding maps and 2 additional maps in rear cover pocket. Association copy, inscribed by Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson to John Weaver, "For John Weaver, a contribution to his growing library from his friend Vilhjalmur Stefansson…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 95172
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"Who was always there all the way for his Country & his President from his friend": Signed limited first Edition of The Vantage Point and additionally inscribed by him to Friend and businessman Abe Feinberg
JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines.
The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency.
New York : Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
Signed limited first edition of President Johnson's autobiography, one of 300 copies, this is number 61. Octavo, original red cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 72 pages of photographs. Signed by Lyndon Baines Johnson. Additionally inscribed by Johnson in the year of publication on the dedication page, "To Abe Feinberg who was always there all the way for his Country & his President from his friend Lyndon B. Johnson LBJ Ranch ‘Xmas ’71." The recipient Abraham Feinberg was a successful businessman with investments and businesses in New York and Israel. A supporter of Jewish causes, Feinberg is regarded as having been…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 120772
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF HONORE DE BALZAC; FINELY BOUND
BALZAC, Honore de.
The Works of Honore de Balzac.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1901.
Octavo, 34 volumes. The Centenary edition. Three quarters red leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers, frontispiece to each volume with tissue guard present. Illustrated by various artists. In near fine condition. A stunning set.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 5000
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Rare original program from the Christmas Party of the Oldsmobile Girls held on December 19th 1928; signed by legendary aviator Amelia Earhart
[EARHART, Amelia].
Amelia Earhart Signed Oldsmobile Girls Club Christmas Party Program.
[Lansing, Michigan]: [1928].
Rare original program from the holiday luncheon held for female employees of Olds Motor Works held on December 19th 1928, signed by legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. Octavo, bound in handmade tissue paper with a red ribbon, illustrated with a tipped in portrait of Amelia Earhart. Signed by Earhart in pencil beneath her portrait. In very good condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 142535
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Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group John Bogle; all but one volume signed or inscribed by Bogle
BOGLE, John C.
Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor; John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years; Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group; The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism; The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns; Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition; Don’t Count on it!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes; The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation; Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.
New York: McGraw Hill and Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994-2019.
Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group, all but one volume signed or inscribed by him. Octavo, 14 volumes, original publisher's cloth and half cloth. The collection contains: Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: Irwin, 1994. First edition, early printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Rob Skalski - with best wishes for a fine career at Vanguard. John Bogle November 19, 1997"; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 143557
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Scarce first edition of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda; in the original parts
ELIOT, George.
Daniel Deronda.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1876.
First edition in the original parts of Eliot's final and most controversial work, which essentially predicts the foundation of Israel. Octavos, four volumes in eight parts in the original wrappers with 4 half-titles and 8 section titles as issued, advertisements to each part with the exception of the final part, slips to the rear of each volume with the exceptions of part 1 (no slip issued with part 8), errata slips to volumes 3 and 6, publisher's catalogue to rear of part 7 (Parrish, 37-38; Sadlier, 813). In very good condition. Housed in two custom half morocco and chemise cases.…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 96596
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“RIVERS AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE WATERY ELEMENTS ARE MADE FOR WISE MEN TO CONTEMPLATE AND FOR FOOLS TO PASS BY WITHOUT CONSIDERATION": Fine first Major edition of Walton's Complete Angler; elaborately bound by Zaehnsdorf in full green morocco
WALTON, Izaak and Charles Cotton.
The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Extensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, From Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-Rate Artists.
London: John Major, Fleet Street, 1823.
First Major edition, large paper copy of this classic of English literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant forest green morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt spine ornaments and cornerpieces of fish and tackle, quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 12 engraved plates on India paper, numerous in-text engravings, initials, and head- and tail-pieces. From the sporting library of American adventurer, naturalist, and sportsman, Brooke Dolan II. Coigney 23;…
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 147997
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Large etching of Chaim Weizmann signed by him and artist Harry S. Moskovitz
WEIZMANN, Chaim.
Chaim Weizmann Signed Etching.
Signed portrait of the renowned Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and signed by the artist Harry S. Moskovitz in lower margin. Moskovitz was a celebrated portrait painter and graphic artist whose subjects included Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. The etching measures 11 inches by 14 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 17.5 inches by 21 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 1186448
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"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see": First Edition of Joseph Conrad’s Masterpiece Lord Jim
CONRAD, Joseph.
Lord Jim.
London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.
First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. A near fine example with some wear to the extremities and the endpapers ever so slightly browned. First printing with the first issue points including the misprints "anyrate" p. 77, l. 5, "cure" (instead of "cured") p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, the omission of "keep" after "can" p. 226, 7 lines from the bottom, and "his" p. 319, last line, being printed below the line.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 45003
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First Edition of G.K. Chesterton's The Incredulity of Father Brown; in the Rare Original dust jacket
CHESTERTON, G.K.
The Incredulity of Father Brown.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1926.
First edition of Chesterton's third-published collection featuring the fictional detective Father Brown. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 96578
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Rare 1791 London edition of Thomas Paine's A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North-America
PAINE, Thomas.
A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North-America. In Which the Mistakes in the Abbes Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up.
London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1791.
1791 London edition of Paine's passionate reply to the Abbe Raynal, preceded by the 1782 Philadelphia and London editions Octavo, bound in half diced calf over marbled boards, all edges speckled red. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. Ownership name to the title page. Rare.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 134029