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"Well," said Stuart, "a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone": First Edition of Stuart Little; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery and Signed by E.B. White
WHITE, E.B.; Illustrated by Garth Williams.
Stuart Little.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.
First edition, first printing, with code "I-U" on copyright page of the author's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by E.B. White on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 147118
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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 Edition of Thomas Merton's The Sign of Jonas; signed by him
MERTON, Thomas.
The Sign of Jonas.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
First edition of the daily journal of American Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 96038
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Rare Visiting Card Collection; Inscribed by Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Colonel De Gaulle and Theodore Roosevelt
DREYFUS, Alfred; Colonel De Galle; Theodore Roosevelt; Emile Zola; [Eleanor Roosevelt]; [Ilya Trotzky].
Visiting Card Collection.
Rare collection of seven printed visiting cards. The collection includes: Alfred Dreyfus, inscribed by him in ink, "avec tous les remerciements," n.d., 2.25 inches by 3.8 inches; Colonel De Gaulle as Commandant le 507e Regiment de Chars, inscribed by him in ink, "Merci, mon cher ami..." n.d. but after December 1937 when he was promoted to Colonel, 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches; Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., inscribed by him in ink, "Mr Roosevelt greatly regrets that he can not accede to your courteous request," n.d., 1.5 inches by 3 inches; Emile Zola at Rue de Bruxelles, Paris,…
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 146844
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"Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle": First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Forbidden City; Inscribed by him
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan and the Forbidden City.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, 1938.
First edition of the twentieth book in Burroughs' epic Tarzan series. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles stamped in red, frontispiece in color, illustrated by the author's son John Coleman Burroughs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To French C. Smith II Best Wishes Edgar Rice Burroughs." Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in fine condition. Jacket art by John Coleman Burroughs. In exceptional condition.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 90372
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"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SOCIAL SCIENCE TREATISE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY": First edition of John Maynard Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1936.
First edition of the economist’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 145812
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First edition of The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds; signed by 30 recipients of the Medal of Honor and with 10 additional signed postcards
[RUDOLPH, Donald; Robert E. Simanek; John F. Baker; Ray Davis; Francis S. Currey; Charles A. MacGillivary; et al].
The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds.
Forest Ranch, California: Sharp & Dunnigan Publications, 1984.
First edition of the complete record of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, from the Civil War through Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by 30 recipients of the Medal of Honor on the half-title page and opposite the half-title including Joe Foss, Donald Rudolph, Robert E. Simanek, John F. Baker, Jr., Ray Davis, Francis S. Currey, Charles A. MacGillivary, James R. Hendrix, William Charette, Rodolfo P. Hernández, Joseph C. Rodriguez, Harvey C. Barnum, Jr., and Roger Donlon. Accompanied by 10 additional postcards signed by honorees including Lee Mize, William Westmoreland, Roy Benavidez, and others, as well as…
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 142565
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Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman
HOOVER, Herbert & Harry S. Truman.
Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman.
1946.
Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman, signed by both Presidents. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 11.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by both Hoover and Truman.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 102878
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“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction": First Edition of Oakley Hall's Warlock; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery; Signed by Him
HALL, Oakley.
Warlock.
New York: The Viking Press, 1958.
First edition of this classic of American West literature. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by Oakley Hall on a page bound in. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 143509
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"But the journey would have been better if Beatrice and Bruce had been there": First Editions of the author’s Masterpiece; Warmly Inscribed by Rebecca West to the Editors of the Ladies Home Journal
WEST, Rebecca.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
New York: The Viking Press, 1941.
First American editions of Rebecca West's masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "But the journey would have been better if Beatrice and Bruce had been there. Rebecca West 1962." The recipients, Bruce Gould and Beatrice Blackmar Gould were co-editors of the Ladies' Home Journal for almost 27 years, from 1935 through 1962, including the golden years of the magazine. Time magazine wrote upon their 1962 retirement, the Goulds took an undistinguished journal in a field that "took the patronizing view that a woman's interests were largely confined…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145979
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First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza; Signed by Him
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Eyeless in Gaza.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.
First edition of Huxley's classic work, which many consider one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed in the year of publication by the author, "Aldous Huxley 1936." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 125643
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"In the twentieth century, the influence of Robert Moses on the cities of America was greater than that of any other person": First Edition of The Power Broker; Inscribed By Robert A. Caro and with a card signed by Caro
CARO, Robert A.
The Power Broker.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard from Robert A. Caro." Also laid in is a signed card from Robert A. Caro from the East Rockaway Library Board and the Cultural Arts Council, dated November 7, 1974. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146799
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First Edition of The Tin Drum; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Author Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1962.
First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in 1986 by Gunter Grass on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With a signed letter from Gunter Grass' secretary. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 25016
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"the first novel in the English language": Rare complete Brussels edition of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series
DEFOE, Daniel.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
Brussels: B. Le Francq, 1803.
Cook's edition of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series. Duodecimo, three volumes bound in full speckled sheepskin with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with eight engraved plates by Godin. In very good condition with rubbing to the spine. A very rare complete Brussels edition of this cornerstone in English literature.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145579
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"China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world": Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea during the period of Japanese occupation
Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.
Japan: c. 1930.
First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding panorama of the Great Wall of China; folding map of Korea, Manchuria and portions of northeastern China. A unique record of history.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 60076
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"words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them": Signed Limited Edition of Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings; One of only 100 examples
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Words and Their Meanings.
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940.
Signed limited edition, one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley and additionally by the publisher, "To my constant friend James Blake from Jake." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition, rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133128