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"Moreover, trust is, I suspect, too deep to explain": Rare Autograph Letter Signed from John Rawls to Annette Baier
RAWLS, John.
John Rawls Autograph Letter Signed.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: January 14, 1985.
Rare autograph letter signed by one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. Small octavo, one page on Harvard University Department of Philosophy letterhead, the text reads in full, "Jan 14, 1985 Dear Annette Many thanks for your review of Parfit's Reasons & Persons with your splendid & illuminating appreciation of this work. You provide some ways to focus on it which had not occurred to me. I agree with you on its importance & no doubt it will have major effets on contemporary discussion, & into the future. On the other hand, I find myself in certain…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146554
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First Edition of Roald Dahl's The Gremlins; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket; Inscribed by Bill Justice With a Large Drawing
DAHL, Roald; Walt Disney [Bill Justice].
The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story.
New York: Random House, 1943.
First edition of Dahl’s rare first book, with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Disney animator Bill Justice on the half-title page with a large drawing of a Gremlin, "Sorry Ray That's a lousy Gremlin Bill Justice." Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as Fantasia, The Three Caballeros, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from Bambi and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. He was the director of The…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 111721
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First Edition of Our Mutual Friend: Dickens final completed novel; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere
DICKENS, Charles.
Our Mutual Friend.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.
First edition of Dickens' final completed novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 130506
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Rare forty-five star American Flag; commemorating the statehood of OKLAHOMA
Forty-Five Star American Flag.
[c. 1896].
Rare forty-five star American Flag. The forty-five star American Flag was in use between July 4, 1896 when the state of Utah was admitted into the Union and July 3, 1908 when Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state. In near fine condition. The flag measures 58 inches by 114 inches.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133095
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"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it": Signed Limited Editions of the Works of Margaret Thatcher
THATCHER, Margaret.
The Downing Street Years, The Path to Power, The Collected Speeches and Statecraft, Strategies for a Changing World.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993-97.
Signed limited editions of the works of Margaret Thatcher. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, illustrated. Each volume is signed by Margaret Thatcher. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 135731
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All the President's Men; Inscribed by Carl Bernstein to his wife
BERNSTEIN, Carl & Bob Woodward.
All The President’s Men.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
First edition, early printing of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Carl Bernstein to his wife on the front free endpaper, "For Carol - - with Love, and Thanks. Carl 5/25/74." The recipient, Carol Honsa was Bernstein's workmate at the Washington Post to whom he was married between 1968 and 1972. From the estate of Carol Honsa. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. An exceptional association, one of the finest we have seen.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 140699
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"These short stories are among the finest, and best known, in American literature": First Edition of Ambrose Bierce's Tales of Soldiers and Civilians; Inscribed by Him
BIERCE, Ambrose.
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original publisher's pale green cloth (not noted by BAL). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "H.F. Peterson With compliments of The Author." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 142120
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First edition of The Self and its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism; inscribed by Karl Popper to Lionel Charles Robbins
POPPER, Karl and John C. Eccles.
The Self and its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism.
Berlin, New York, London: Springer-Verlag, 1977.
First edition of Popper and Eccles' groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by Karl Popper in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Lionel, with love from Karl 3rd November 1977." The recipient, British economist Lionel Charles Robbins, was a prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics. He and Popper were colleagues for over twenty years and formed a strong inter-departmental alliance, fortified by their mutual friendship with Friedrich von Hayek. In a letter to Hayek on 20th October 1964, Popper wrote, "I should also mention that, through your…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 101425
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Amelia Earhart's The Fun of It; Signed by Her
EARHART, Amelia.
The Fun of It.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
Early printing of Earhart's account of her childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by Amelia Earhart on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket, small bookplate to the rear pastedown. Accompanied by two pieces of ephemera relating to Earhart. Rare and desirable signed and in the rare original dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 147178
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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know": Rare First Edition of James Salter's A Sport And A Pastime; Signed by Him
SALTER, James.
A Sport And A Pastime.
Garden City, NY: Paris Review Editions/ Doubleday, 1967.
First edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. With a publisher's compliments of the author laid in, fine in a good dust jacket with a few chips. Jacket collage by Alex Gotfryd. First editions are exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146210
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Rare Signed Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey Signed Inaugural Ceremonies Program
JOHNSON, Lyndon B. and Hubert Humphrey.
Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey Signed Inaugural Ceremonies Program.
January 20, 1965.
Original Inaugural Ceremonies Program from 1965 of Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, boldly signed by both on the front panel. Octavo, original wrappers, presidential seal in gilt, ribbon bound in, eight pages. In fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133502
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"Out of England's harbor, sailed a vessel proud on day, she was bound for New York City, so many miles away": Exceptionally Rare Collection of First Editions, Booklets, and Sheet Music dedicated to the ill-fated passengers of the RMS Titanic
PRATT, E. J..
Rare Titanic Collection.
Toronto: Various Publishers, 1912-1935.
Rare collection of first editions, pamphlets, and sheet music related to the sinking of the RMS Titanic, with a rare limited edition O.B.R. Kentucky Straight Bourbon 86-proof Whiskey 4/5 quart ceramic Titanic replica. The collections includes a first edition of E.J. Pratt's 'The Titanic' (Toronto: The Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1935) which is in near fine condition; a first edition of Mrs. Alma White's 'The Titanic Tragedy- God Speaking to the Nations' (New Jersey: The Pentecostal Union, 1913) which is in near fine condition; a later printing booklet of Caroline Bancroft's 'The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown' (Boulder: Johnson Publishing Co., 1963);…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 104582
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"There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open": First Edition of Jawaharlal Nehru's Inside America; Signed by Him
NEHRU, Jawaharlal.
Inside America: A Voyage of Discovery.
New Dehli: National Book Stall, n/d.
First printing of this edition of this collection of speeches by Nehru in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Jawaharlal Nehru Dec 1956." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed, with none appearing at auction in the last 65 years.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 142442
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First edition of C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
LEWIS, C.S.
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951.
First edition of the second book in Lewis' beloved Narnia series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership inscription to the inside jacket flap.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 143020
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's If You Ask Me; Warmly Inscribed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
If You Ask Me.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1946.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Marie with love Eleanor Roosevelt." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 35094
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“I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love": First Edition of Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus; Signed by Actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw
ROTH, Philip [Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw].
Goodbye, Columbus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.
First edition of the author's first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw on the half-title page, who starred in the 1969 film bearing the same name. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sanford Roth.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146076