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“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”: Mary Poppins; Signed by P.L. Travers and Legendary Actor Dick Van Dyke
TRAVERS, P.L. [Dick Van Dyke].
Mary Poppins.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1962.
Later printing of this children's classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by P.L. Travers on the title page and additionally by actor Dick Van Dyke, who starred in the 1964 film adaptation. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by both Travers and Van Dyke.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 145897
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“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”: Rare First Edition of Mary Poppins; Signed by P.L. Travers
TRAVERS, P.L.
Mary Poppins.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934.
First American edition of this children's classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 27 line cuts (13 full-page) and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by P.L. Travers on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 96590
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"He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire": First edition in English of Nabokov's first novel Mary
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.
Mary.
New York: McGraw-Hill International, Inc, 1970.
First edition in English of Nabokov's debut novel. Octavo, original black cloth, mustard yellow endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very bright example.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 89051
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First Editions of Joseph Campbell's Mythology Quartet; Warmly Inscribed by Him in each volume
CAMPBELL, Joseph.
Masks Of God Mythology Set: Primitive Mythology; Oriental Mythology; Occidental Mythology; Creative Mythology.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959-68.
First editions of each volume in the author's classic quartet which explores the roots of mythology. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copies, each volume is inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Elda and Irving with love and admiration Joseph Campbell." The recipients were close friends of Campbell's who made several documentaries in which Campbell was featured. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. The author's portrait has been clipped from the rear flaps of Masks Of God and Occidental Mythology. Jacket design by Frank Wilimczyk. A…
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 136191
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First Edition of Edmund Phelps' Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change; Signed by Him
PHELPS, Edmund.
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
First edition of this work which won the 2014 Gold Medal in Economics. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Drumm0nd.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 76844
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; bound by Riviere & Son and from the library of Peggy and Steve Fossett
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound into one in three quarters morocco by Riviere & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label, double gilt ruled, gilt turn ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, three engraved frontispieces, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. From the library of legendary aviator Steve Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 96034
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"Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family": First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; Finely Bound by Bayntun-Riviere
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Large octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133871
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; with pages from the original serial tipped in to to each volume
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece in each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Tipped in to the front and rear of each volume is an extensive collection containing pages from a number of the original Master's Humphrey's Clock…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 95116
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock in the rare original cloth
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, original blindstamped pictorial cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 99753
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock in the rare original cloth
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, original blindstamped pictorial cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In very good condition with a few chips to the spines. An attractive example.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 95854
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; Three volumes bound into one
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound into one in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label, engraved frontispieces, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 96777
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf by The Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 139172
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First edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock; finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 132470
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.
First edition in book form of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound in three quarter morocco by W. Pratt with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with frontispieces and almost 200 in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”). In very good condition. From the library of William Waldorf Astor with his bookplates.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 129551
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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock
DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey’s Clock. With Illustrations By George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41.
First edition. Octavo, three volumes, contemporary half morocco, gilt titles to the spine. Three frontispieces and numerous woodcut illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne and decorated initials in the text. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 27006