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Two Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters
MITCHELL, Margaret.
Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.
1941-42.
Two letters signed in full by Margaret Mitchell, author on the classic Gone With the Wind. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated December 26, 1941, the other December 19, 1942, each with their original envelopes; both letters refer to the commissioning of the U.S.S. Atlanta.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 21082
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Rare Signed Photograph of Both President Franklin and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. and Eleanor.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Photograph: Christmas 1941.
1941.
Rare original black and white photograph of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt sitting together at a table, signed by both, dated Christmas 1941. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches by 18.5 inches.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 124815
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First Edition of Eudora Welty's A Curtain of Green; Inscribed by Her in the year of publication
WELTY, Eudora; Introduction by Katherine Ann Porter.
A Curtain of Green.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1941.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "To Bobbie Sumner Cutler with many good wishes- and good luck Eudora Welty December, 1941." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 2816
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Winston Churchill's Acclaimed autobiography A Roving Commission: My Early Life
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A Roving Commission: My Early Life.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.
New American edition of Churchill’s acclaimed autobiography, recounting the first 25 years of his life. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Introduction by Dorothy Thompson. Good in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine and extremities. Full-page gift inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145062
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First edition of Daphne du Maurier's Frenchman's Creek; bound in a unique full blue morocco decorative binding
DU MAURIER, Daphne.
Frenchman’s Creek.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1941.
First edition of du Maurier's third novel. Octavo, bound in full blue morocco to mimic a gentleman's coat with four titanium skull-shaped buttons. In fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129408
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First edition of Pershing's work on the different states of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost; finely bound
PERSHING, James H.
The First Edition of ‘Paradise Lost’.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941.
First appearance of Pershing's work on the different states of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost which appeared in Vol. XXII, No. I. June 1941 issue of Transactions of the Bibliographical Society New Series. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, marbled endpapers, with the original wrappers bound in, illustrated. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 95340
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First Edition John Burnham's The Managerial Revolution; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
BURNHAM, James.
The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening In The World.
New York : The John Day Company, 1941.
First edition of Burnham's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Some dampstaining to a few pages, very good in the rare original dust jacket with a chip to the crown of the spine.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 71237
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"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles": First Edition Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.
New York: The John Day Company, 1941.
First edition of Nehru's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144175
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First edition of Thomas Wolfe's The Hills Beyond
WOLFE, Thomas.
The Hills Beyond.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
First edition of Wolfe's acclaimed posthumously published short story collection. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, embossed stamps.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 120308
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Joseph Hellers Copy of The Handbook of English and The Random House Handbook
HELLER, Joseph.
Harbrace Handbook of English and The Random House Handbook.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
Joseph Heller’s copies of The Handbook of English, with his signature. Octavo, 2 volumes, original boards. From the library of Joseph Heller.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 3735
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"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles": Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru; Signed by Him
NEHRU, Jawaharlal .
Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.
New York: The John Day Company, 1941.
Second printing, published the same year as the first of Nehru's classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jawaharlal Nehru on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 124759
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"Never give in - never, never, never, never": Photograph of Churchill Signed by Him; with three signed letters by Clementine Churchill and other Ephemera
CHURCHILL, Winston S. and Clementine [Edward Steichen].
Winston S. Churchill Signed Photograph with Autographed Notes.
1941.
Portrait photograph of Winston Churchill, taken by Edward Steichen, signed as prime minister, "Winston S. Churchill November 1940." With two portrait photographs of Churchill and a telegram from Churchill to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, 23 November 1961 "Thank you dearest Audrey for the luscious caviar love Winston." With three autographed letters from Clementine Churchill and one autograph Christmas card signed to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, 7 June 1956, 1 January 1959, 31 December 1965 and n.d., in 1956 enquiring after her recovery from an operation, otherwise sending thanks (including for an 'original and amusing cigar lighter') and greetings and mentioning Winston; with two envelopes.…
Price: $12,800.00 Item Number: 142492
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First Edition of Alfred Winslow Jones' Life, Liberty, and Property
JONES, Alfred Winslow.
Life, Liberty, and Property: A Story of Conflict and a Measurement of Conflicting Rights.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Laid in is an advertisement to purchase war bonds. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 45087
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"But the journey would have been better if Beatrice and Bruce had been there": First Editions of the authors 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 Sea of Cortez; Inscribed by John Steinbeck
STEINBECK, John and E. F. Ricketts.
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research.
New York : The Viking Press, 1941.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by John Steinbeck on the title page. Some offsetting to the half-title page, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by W.V. Eckhardt.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 123887