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"Where liberty dwells there is my country": Rare copperplate-printed toile fragment from the popular eighteenth-century English pattern "The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington"
[WASHINGTON; GEORGE; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN],.
The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington Printed Textile.
c. 1785-1790.
Rare copperplate-printed toile fragment from the popular eighteenth-century English pattern "The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington." The fragment features a copper-plate printed portrait of Benjamin Franklin in academic robes and his famous cap after the famed 1777 portrait of him by Jean-Baptiste holding the ends of a banner reading "Where liberty dwells there is my country." The fragment has been framed within a patterned textile border. In near fine condition. The piece measures 13.75 inches by 11.25 inches. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 139191
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FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT’S CLASSIC PLAY; SIGNED BY HAROLD PINTER
PINTER, Harold.
The Birthday Party.
London: Methuen & Co, 1960.
First edition of Pinter's modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Harold Pinter on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 3718
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Rare Land Grant Issued to Early Mormon Convert Charles B. Modesitt; Signed by Andrew Jackson as President
JACKSON, Andrew.
Andrew Jackson Signed Land Grant for Vigo County, Indiana, for Charles B. Modesitt.
City of Washington: General Land Office, 1830.
Rare Presidential Land Grant signed by Andrew Jackson as President. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the document is dated January 4, 1830 and grants a quarter of land in Vigo County, Indiana to Charles B. Modesitt. The recipient, Charles Burns Modesitt, was a physician and businessman and one of the first settlers of Vigo County. He became an early adherent of the Church of Latter Day Saints beginning in 1838. Matted and framed. In very good condition. The piece measures 22.6 inches by 18.3 inches.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 146758
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“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield": First Edition of Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels
SHAARA, Michael.
The Killer Angels.
New York: David Mckay, 1974.
First edition of Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, maps by Don Pitcher. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable in this condition.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 146142
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First Edition of The Tin Drum; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery and Signed by Gunter Grass
GRASS, Gunter.
The Tin Drum.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1962.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel. 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, gilt stamped to the front panel mimicking the original jacket artwork by Grass. Boldly signed by Gunter Grass on half-title page. In fine condition. Translated by Ralph Manheim. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 143646
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"The First Angling Book Written in America": First Edition of the John J. Brown's The American Angler's Guide
BROWN, John J.
The American Angler’s Guide.
New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co, 1845.
First edition of the first angling book written in America. Small octavo, original brown cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spin and front panel. In very good condition. Period name to the front free end paper. A rare piece of American angling literature.
Price: $2,150.00 Item Number: 88015
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Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages; elaborately illustrated and bound in full morocco
LODGE, Edmund.
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved From Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions.
London: Printed for Harding and Lepard, 1835.
Finely bound set of Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages. Folio, six volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated with 240 tissue-guarded engraved portraits of British royals and various historical figures including Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Thomas More, King Henry the Eighth, Thomas Cranmer, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Walter Scott among others. In very good condition. Bookplates from the Cathedral Library to the pastedowns.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 122063
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Rare Royal military appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria
VICTORIA, Queen.
Queen Victoria Royal Military Appointment Signed.
1898.
Rare large format Royal Military Appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. One vellum leaf, partially printed. The document is dated 9th April 1898 and appoints Francis Duncombe Astley-Russell to the position of Quarter Master in Her Majesty's Land Forces. Boldly signed by Queen Victoria in the upper right corner, "Victoria R." Retaining the blue Royal paper seal. Countersigned by Landsdowne. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed with the original transmittal envelope. The document measures 15.25 inches by 12 inches. The entire piece measures 32.25 inches by 28 inches.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 124088
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Rare complete set of Nuovo Teatro Comico Dell'Avvocato Carlo Goldoni
GOLDONI, Carlo.
Nuovo Teatro Comico Dell’Avvocato Carlo Goldoni Poeta Di S. A. R. Il Serenissimo Infante di Spagna Don Filippo Duca Di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, ec. [New Comic Theater of the Lawyer Carlo Goldoni].
Venezi: Francesco Pitteri, 1753-1755.
Rare complete set of Pitteri's 1757 printing of Goldoni's works of comic theater. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of Goldoni by Pitteri after Piazetta. In good condition. Armorial bookplates. A rare complete set of this scarce printing published during the author's lifetime.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 129035
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems
OLIVER, Mary.
The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972.
First edition of the author's second collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Forbes. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146637
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First edition, first issue of Mark Twain's King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule
TWAIN, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens].
King Leopold’s Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule.
1905: The P. R. Warren Co, Boston, Massachusetts.
First edition, first issue of Twain's work of political satire harshly condemning King Leopold's rule over the Congo Free State. Small octavo, original wrappers as issued. In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth and chemise case with a second edition third printing of the pamphlet which contains the publisher's later advisory, "The publishers desire to state that Mr. Clemens declines to accept any pecuniary return from this booklet, as it is his wish that all proceeds of sales above the cost of publication shall be used in furthering the effort for relief of the people of the Congo State.…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 95339
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First Edition of The Panic In Needle Park; Signed by Joan Didion and Al Pacino
MILLS, James [Joan Didion and Al Pacino].
The Panic In Needle Park.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
First edition of this work basis for the classic 1971 film starring Al Pacino, with the screenplay written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion and Academy-Award winning actor Al Pacino on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 118864
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Signed and Dated in 1959 by The Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Signed Photograph: United Jewish Appeal.
1959.
Photograph of David Ben-Gurion signed and dated in 1959 by him in Hebrew, presented to Max Goldweber in appreciation from The United Jewish Appeal. The UJA-Federation, as it is known today, was created from the 1986 merger of the United Jewish Appeal, established in 1939, and the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, a predecessor organization established in 1917. It is the largest local philanthropy in the world. Headquartered in New York City, the organization raises and allocates funds annually to fulfill a mission to “care for people in need, inspire a passion for Jewish life and learning, and…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 41088
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"Whatever is begotten born and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect": First edition of William Butler Yeats' The Tower; in the rare original dust jacket
YEATS, William Butler [W.B.].
The Tower.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928.
First edition of what is generally considered Yeats' single most important volume, one of 2000 copies. Octavo, original publisher's elaborately gilt-decorated pictorial olive green cloth with Thomas Sturge Moore's iconic engraving of Thoor Ballylee. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. A very nice example of this important work.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146520
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"Me and Robert looked at each other there a long time, they all went by him": First Edition of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; Lengthily Signed by Ernest J. Gaines
GAINES, Ernest J.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
New York: The Dial Press, 1971.
First edition of this classic novel, which depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. Octavo, original boards. Lengthily signed by the author with a powerful quote from this novel on the title page, "Me and Robert looked at each other there a long time, they all went by him Best always Ernest J. Gaines." Fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Mike McGiver. A unique example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146411
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"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example": First Edition of Joe Di Maggio's Lucky To Be A Yankee; Signed by Him
DI MAGGIO, Joe [DiMaggio].
Lucky To Be A Yankee.
New York: Rudolph Field, 1946.
First edition of this early autobiography by Joltin' Joe Di Maggio. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the frontispiece in a contemporary hand, "To Dickie with best wishes Joe Di Maggio." Introduction by James A. Farley. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131271