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First trade edition of Willy Pogany's illustrated FAUST; signed by Pogany
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Translated by Abraham Hayward. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
Faust by Goethe. With Illustrations by Willy Pogany.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1908.
First trade edition of Willy Pogany's magnificently illustrated rendition of Faust. Quarto, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with 30 colored plates by Pogany, each with lettered tissue-guard. Signed by Willy Pogany on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 143834
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"Israel is the light of a New dawn. As in ancient days, she is again a bridge from the world of darkness to a world of light": First Edition of Leon Uris' Exodus Revisited; Signed by Him
URIS, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis .
Exodus Revisited.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.
First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris' visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Shalom Leon Uris." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Project coordination by Ilan Hartuv.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112569
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Rare first edition pamphlet of The Impact of War on Iraq; signed by Nobel Peace Prize-winning politician Martti Ahtisaari
AHTISAARI, Martti.
The Impact of War on Iraq: Report to the Secretary-General on Humanitarian Needs in Iraq in the Immediate Post-Crisis Environment by a Mission to the Area Led by Mr. Martti Ahtisaari, Under-Secretary-General for Administration and Management, Dated 20 March 1991.
Westfield, New Jersey: Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, 1991.
First edition of Pamphlet #7 of the Open Magazine Pamphlet Series; inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Finnish leader Martti Ahtisaari. Tall octavo, original wrapper, inscribed by Ahtisaari on the title page, "To John, Martti Ahtisaari." In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 117046
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Collection of Four Supreme Court Ruling Pamphlets; signed by justices Harry A. Blackmun, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and David Souter
BLACKMUN, Harry A.; Stephen Breyer; Elena Kagan; David Souter.
Supreme Court Justice Signed Pamphlet Collection.
Washington, D.C.: 1991-2015.
Rare collection of four typescript Supreme Court ruling pamphlets signed by Harry A. Blackmun (Diane Griffin v. United States: December 3, 1991), David Souter (William "Sky King v. St. Vincent's Hospital: December 16, 1991), Stephen Breyer (Kingsley v. Hendrickson et al: June 22, 2015), and Elena Kagan (Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment: June 22, 2015). In fine condition. A fine collection of signatures offering first-hand insight into each justice's manner of reasoning.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 122987
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Rare Collection of Album von Berlin Postcards; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
[WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
Album von Berlin.
Rare collection of color postcards featuring destinations in Berlin, Germany; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sextodecimo, seven pages in a folding album, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 145936
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Rare Edition of Templar's The Poker Manual
TEMPLAR,.
The Poker Manual. A Practical Course of Instruction in the Game… Together with the International Code of Laws.
London: Frederick Warne , 1895.
Early edition of Templar's Poker Manual. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout with colorful red and black diagrams, all edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 69033
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First edition of John Kenneth Galbraith's A View From the Stands; inscribed by him to Elaine Steinbeck
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A View From the Stands of People, Politics, Military Power and the Arts.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986.
First edition of Galbraith's retrospective collection. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to Elaine Steinbeck, "For Elaine with love... John G - 1986." From the library of Elaine Steinbeck. Galbraith and John Steinbeck met in the early 1950s while on a holiday on St. John in the Virgin Islands. They enjoyed talking and both liked to have a drink at the end of the day, which Steinbeck referred to as “Milking Time” and Galbraith called “The Liberal Hour.” While the content of this book has nothing to…
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 128099
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First Edition of P.A. Vaile's Modern Golf; Finely Bound by Asprey
VALIE, P.A.
Modern Golf.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909.
First edition of this early work by Vaile. Octavo, finely bound in full green morocco by Asprey, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, triple gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentilles, all edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous full-page photographic plates and diagrams, including frontispiece photo with tissue-guard. In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 89767
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers": Finely bound example of The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862.
Finely bound example of The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson. Small octavo, bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece portrait of Tennyson. In near fine condition. A superior example.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 101470
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First Edition of Claude Simon's La Route Des Flandres; Inscribed by Him
SIMON, Claude.
La Route Des Flandres [The Flanders Road].
Paris: Les Editions De Minuit, 1960.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Pour Mademaiselle Allot hommage de l'auteur Claude Simon." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 1902
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"history was a literary art, because in history the subject and its audience were one. The effective historian is always telling us about ourselves": First edition of Daniel Boorstin's The Seekers; signed by him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition of the third and final volume in Boorstin's "knowledge" trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Boorstin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art: frontispiece plate from William Blake's Europe: a Prophecy, 1794.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 128155
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“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk": First Edition of Keri Hulme's The Bone People
HULME, Keri.
The Bone People.
Wellington: Spiral, 1983.
First New Zealand edition (and true first) of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 112441
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First Edition of Carl Snyder's Capitalism the Creator in the Rare Original Dust Jacket
SNYDER, Carl.
Capitalism the Creator: Economic Foundations of Modern Industrial Society.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.
First edition of this exposition on capitalism. Octavo, original cloth, with 44 original charts. Original promotional material laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 4506
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The Supreme Court of the United States; Signed by Chief Justice Warren Burger
BURGER, Warren E.
The Supreme Court of the United States.
Washington, DC: 1973.
First edition of this work on the Burger Court. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Chief Justice Warren Burger at his biography page. 20 page pamphlet on the Supreme Court published by them.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 7365
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Rare original photograph of internet pioneer Leonard Kleinrock with the ARPANET; inscribed by him
KLEINROCK, Leonard.
Leonard Kleinrock Signed Photograph.
Large format color photograph of American computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock with the ARPANET, the forerunner to the Internet. Inscribed by him, "To Kent, Leonard Kleinrock." In fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 117401
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"What I can't see isn't likely to hurt me": First Edition of the authors Newbery Honor Novel The Great Gilly Hopkins; Signed by Katherine Paterson
PATERSON, Katherine.
The Great Gilly Hopkins.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1978.
First edition of this realistic children's novel, which was ranked number 63 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Katherine Paterson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Fred Marcellino.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 140766