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“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course: the space between your ears": Bobby Jones Signed Portrait
JONES, Bobby (Robert Tyre Jones.
Bobby Jones Signed Portrait.
1930.
Rare signed portrait of Bobby Jones seated with his golf clubs after a painting by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne. Signed and dated by Bobby Jones beneath the portrait in the year the portrait was published in Golf Illustrated Magazine, "Robert T. Jones Jr. Dec 29, 1930." In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 14 inches. Unique and desirable.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 95821
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FIRST EDITION OF IRVING FISHER’S THE STOCK MARKET CRASH—AND AFTER; Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Irving.
The Stock Market Crash—And After.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930.
First edition of Fisher's important work tracing the causes and the immediate aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publciation on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Robert W. King with the compliments of Irving Fisher March, 1930." In near fine condition.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 116232
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First Edition of W.D. Gann's Truth of the Stock Market Tape and Wall Street Stock Selector; Signed by Him
GANN, William Delbert [W.D.].
Truth of the Stock Market Tape and Wall Street Stock Selector.
New York: Financial Guardian Publishing Company, 1930.
First edition of this work by Gann, based on his years as a seasoned trader. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, 19 charts. Boldly signed by W.D. Gann on the front free endpaper. Two titles in one volume (as issued) and separately paginated. The Truth of the Stock Tape was originally published in 1923; The Wall Street Stock Selector in 1930. This is a first printing of the two volumes bound as one. This volume also contains Gann's forecast for 1929. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed by…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 140957
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First Edition of Henry Ford's Moving Forward; From the Ford Motor Company Archives
FORD, Henry.
Moving Forward.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. From the Ford Motor Company Archives with their stamp to the front free endpaper. Written with Samuel Crowther.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 141444
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SALTANSTALL, Leverett] Crawford.
Famous Families of Massachusetts.
Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1930.
First edition, 2 volumes. Octavo, original red cloth. Leverett Saltanstall's copies, with an inscription from his sister in both volumes "Leverett Saltanstall from his sister Muriel Christmas 1930". Leverett was a member of the Boston brahmins and later became governor and United States Senator of Massachusetts. The Saltanstall's have a chapter devoted to them in these volumes. In very good condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 2064
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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning": First Edition of Anton Reiser's Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait; Signed and dated by Albert Einstein
REISER, Anton. [Albert Einstein].
Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930.
First edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einstein's stepdaughter Ilse under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein. Signed and dated by Einstein in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Albert Einstein 1930." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare signed and in the original dust jacket.
Price: $14,000.00 Item Number: 138499
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First Edition of Anton Reiser's Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait; Signed and dated by Albert Einstein
REISER, Anton. [Albert Einstein].
Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930.
First edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einstein's stepdaughter Ilse under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein. Signed and dated by Einstein on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Albert Einstein New York 1930." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 110352
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BEAU BRUMMEL, ONE OF ONLY 550 COPIES SIGNED BY VIRGINIA WOOLF; IN THE RARE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE
WOOLF, Virginia.
Beau Brummell.
New York : Rimington & Hooper, 1930.
Signed limited first edition of this amusing account of the 19th-century dandy, one of only 550 copies (500 of which were offered for sale), signed on the verso of the half-title page by Virginia Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. Quarto, original half gilt-stamped red cloth, gray paper boards, mounted cover illustration, top edge gilt. Very good in the rare original slipcase, which is in good condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 142481
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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"I own one copy of Three Stories and Ten Poems and would be very happy if it became valuable": Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Excerpt
HEMINGWAY, Ernest .
Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Excerpt Signed.
Chicago: The Walden Book Shop, 1930.
Rare letter excerpt boldly signed by Ernest Hemingway. Published by the Walden Book Shop in 1930, the introduction begins "The following notes are excerpts from a Hemingway letter in answer to questions concerning editions and numbers of copies." It goes on to provide a long italicized quote from the letter in which Hemingway describes the printings of his early books from Three Stories and Ten Poems through the forthcoming Men Without Women (1927). The quote reads, in part: "...The books have been Three Stories and Ten Poems, Contact Press, 1953-350 copies out of print, In Our Times, Three Mountains Press,…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 95977
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Rare Signed limited edition of E. E. Cummings' untitled work
CUMMINGS, E. E.
[No Title]. [An Imaginary Dialogue Between Almost Any Publisher and a Certain Author A.D. 1930].
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1930.
First edition and signed limited edition of Cumming's cleverly titled untitled work. Quarto, original cloth stamped in silver, illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by the author. One of 491 copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 144. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Small bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent. One of the more elusive Cummings titles.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136284
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“SYNONYMOUS WITH EVERYTHING SUBVERSIVE”: First Editions of Emma Goldman's Living My Life; In the rare original dust jackets
GOLDMAN, Emma.
Living My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
First editions of the famous radical’s autobiography, with frontispiece portraits and eleven additional photogravures of Goldman, fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman and others. Octavo, 2 volumes. Near fine in a near fine dust jackets.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 108742
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First Edition of Gertrude Stein's How to Write; Inscribed by her
STEIN, Gertrude.
How to Write.
Paris: Plain Edition, 1931.
First edition of Stein's experimental work on the craft of writing. Small octavo, original half cloth and boards, paper spine label. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Arthur from Gertrude Stein." In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 90445
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First edition of Erich Maria Remarque's The Road Back; inscribed by him
REMARQUE, Erich Maria.
The Road Back.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1931.
First American edition of the sequel to Remarque's masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Wenck. We have never seen another signed example of this title.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 129730
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"Forty years ago I rode the first forbidden trail which was to carry me into the broad highway of outlawry": First Edition of When Daltons Rode; Signed by Emmett Dalton
DALTON, Emmett. In collaboration with Jack Jungemeyer.
When the Daltons Rode.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1931.
First edition of Emmett Dalton's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth with smoking gun vignette to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Emmett Dalton after a photograph taken in 1892. Signed by Emmett Dalton beneath his frontispiece portrait. In near fine condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 104057
