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Original Hilary Knight Butterfly Prince Painting
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Original Hilary Knight Butterfly Prince Painting.
Large original painting of Hilary Knight's Butterfly Prince. Gouache and gold paint. Signed by Hilary Knight in the lower left corner of the painting. In fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 21 inches.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 96229
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First Edition of The Prohibition Mania; Inscribed by Clarence Darrow
DARROW, Clarence and Victor S. Yarros.
The Prohibition Mania: A Reply to Professor Irving Fisher and Others
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.
First edition of Darrow and Yarros' forceful answer to economist Irving Fisher's defense of Prohibition. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Inscribed to S.D. Green with the regards of Clarence Darrow Nov. 20th 1927." In near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 100936
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First Edition of David Dreman's Psychology and the Stock Market: Investment Strategy Beyond Random Walk; Inscribed by Him to Close Friend Keniston P. Merrill
DREMAN, David N.
Psychology and the Stock Market: Investment Strategy Beyond Random Walk.
New York: AMACOM, 1977.
First edition of Dreman's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to close friend Keniston Merrill, "To Ken With all good wishes David." The recipient, Keniston P. Merrill worked as a financial analyst for TIAA-CREF in New York City from 1957-1964. In 1965, he joined The Five Arrow's Fund as a financial analyst. Five Arrows later became New Court Securities and then Rothschild, Inc. where Ken rose to Managing Director. In 1982, Ken left Rothschild and joined National Life Insurance Company in Montpelier as Chief Investment Officer and President and Chief…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 106537
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FIRST EDITION OF MARC CHAGALL’S JERUSALEM WINDOWS, WITH TWO ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS; IN THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE
CHAGALL, Marc; Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie.
Jerusalem Windows.
New York: George Braziller, 1962.
First edition. Folio, original red cloth. With two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contains the rarely seen original slipcase, also present is the original blue ribbon. The rear panel of the acetate shows some wear.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 4235
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Signed Limited First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Mourning Becomes Electra.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1931.
Signed limited edition of O'Neill's classic play. Quarto, original full Japan vellum gilt, black morocco spine label, signed by Eugene O'Neill, one of 550 copies this is number 363. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 142951
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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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“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for": To Kill A Mockingbird; Signed by Harper Lee
LEE, Harper.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006.
First edition of the slipcased edition of Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with the original near fine slipcase. Jacket design by Shirley Smith. Jacket photograph by Truman Capote.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145622
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“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it": First Edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat; Signed by Oliver Sacks
SACKS, Oliver.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.
New York: Summit Books, 1985.
First edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John Roger, With kind regars Oliver Sacks 1/15." Fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. Jacket design by Carin Goldberg.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 130831
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Rare 17th century printing of Rufus' celebrated history of Alexander the Great
CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.
De Rebus Alexandri Magni, Cum Commentario Perpetuo & Indice Absolutissimo Samuelis Pitisci. [History of Alexander the Great].
Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halma, 1685.
Rare 17th century printing of Rufus' celebrated history of Alexander the Great. Octavo, bound in full vellum, with engraved title, folding map and 9 engraved plates (some folding) depicting the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a view of the ancient city, and a folding map of Alexander's domain. In very good condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131499
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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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“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this": First English Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kim.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.
First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece, two pages of advertisements at rear. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco made by Asprey and Garrard. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 136986
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Rare First Edition of Amartya Sen's Choice of Techniques; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Economist Francis Bator
SEN, Amartya Kumar.
Choice of Techniques: An Aspect of the Theory of Planned Economic Development.
Oxford: Basil Blackford, 1960.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's dissertation. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Francis Bator with regards, Amartya Sen." The recipient, Francis M. Bator was Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States from 1965 to 1967. He was also a Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Bator was Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy in Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where he was founding chairman of the School's Public Policy Program, and director of studies in its Institute of Politics. Before coming to Harvard in 1967 he served as…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 115214
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"Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea": First Edition of Northern Lights; Signed by Tim O’Brien
O'BRIEN, Tim.
Northern Lights.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1975.
First edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page as follows, "Peace Tim O’Brien "I guess we’re really brothers, aren’t we? Don’t know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember." Near fine a near fine dust jacket with a single small closed tear. Jacket design by Bob Antler.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 940
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First edition of Barnard Ellinger's The City
ELLINGER, Barnard.
The City: The London Financial Markets.
Westminster: P. S. King & Staples, Limited, 1940.
First edition of Ellinger's work on the London financial markets. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Exceedingly rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 124205
