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Rare First Edition of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Negro Church
DU BOIS, W.E. Burghardt [W.E.B. DuBois].
The Negro Church.
Atlanta: The Atlanta University Press, 1903.
First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition, lacking the front panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Exceptionally rare, without any record of this title appearing at auction in the last 100 years.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133316
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Signed Limited Edition of Pablo Neruda's We Are Many
NERUDA, Pablo.
We Are Many.
Cape Coliard Press, 1967.
Signed limited edition, one of only 100 examples, this is number 65. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with a cut-out by Jim Dine. Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda and the translator Alistair Reid. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Alistair Reid. Photographs by Hans Ehrmann.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 133314
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“Like most other mammals, human beings display a behavioral scale, a spectrum of responses that appear or disappear according to particular circumstances": First Edition of On Human Nature; Signed By Edward O. Wilson With A Drawing Of An Ant
WILSON, Edward O.
On Human Nature.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
First edition of this work, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn an ant. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133312
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First edition of Alfred Duggan's Count Bohemond
DUGGAN, Alfred. Preface by Evelyn Waugh.
Count Bohemond.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
First edition of Duggan's classic historical novel. Octavo, original cloth. Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscription. Jacket design by Edward Bawden.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 136049
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"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent!": Dr. Seuss's Horton Hatches the Egg
DR. SEUSS. [GEISEL, Theodor Seuss].
Horton Hatches the Egg.
New York: Random House, 1940.
Early printing of this Seuss classic. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated, second state dust jacket with $2.50 price to back flap and description of The King's Stilts. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Child's ownership inscriptions to the front free endpaper and rear panel of the dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 135097
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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Sign of the Four.
New York: The F. M. Lupton Publishing Company, n.d.
Later printing of the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Conan Doyle. In very good condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 135247
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Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Lion Man
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan and the Lion Man.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1934.
First edition, early printing of the seventeenth book in Burroughs' popular Tarzan series. Octavo, original gray cloth, frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136075
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First Edition of Thomas Hardy's A Group of Noble Dames
HARDY, Thomas.
A Group of Noble Dames.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 133304
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"'WHERE IS GOD?' SAID THE BLACK GIRL TO THE MISSIONARY WHO HAD CONVERTED HER?": FIRST EDITION OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God.
London: Constable & Company Limited, 1932.
First edition of Shaw's controversial 20th century retelling of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with wood-cut engravings by John Farleigh. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Small bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 137188
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First Edition of Albert Murray's Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture; Warmly Inscribed by Him
MURRAY, Albert.
Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture.
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For my good friend Oliver Who will keep the faith Albert Murray." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Hess and/ or Antupit.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133165
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First Edition of Death With Interruptions; Inscribed and Dated in the Year of Publication by Jose Saramago
SARAMAGO, Jose.
Death With Interruptions.
Orlando: Harcourt, 2008.
First edition of Saramago's philosophical page-turner, which hinges on death taking a holiday. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Harold Jose Saramago 29.10.2008." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 138908
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First Edition of Led Zeppelin: Live Dreams; Signed by Lawrence Ratner and artist Balazs Szabo
RATNER, Lawrence; Designed by Balazs Szabo [Robert Plant.
Led Zeppelin: Live Dreams.
Chicago: Margaux Publishing, 1993.
First edition of this illustrated work from the Laurance Ratner collection of photographs. Quarto, original black cloth with decorative metallic bas relief frame designed by Balazs Szabo, slipcase. No. 30 from an edition limited to 2000 copies. Signed by Laurance Ratner and inscribed by Szabo in silver ink on front free endpaper, "To Lenny The true collector with best wishes from Balazs 1993 Raleigh NC". Laid in is a postcard from Balazs Szabo to Leonard Fox. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 133294
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First Edition of Burgers Daughter; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Burger’s Daughter.
New York: The Viking Press, 1979.
First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Blanche Noonoo.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 133293
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Signed Limited Edition of Lillian Hellman's Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time
HELLMANN, Lillian.
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979.
Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Lillian Hellman. Fine in a fine dust jacket in a fine slipcase. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133292
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Rare First Edition of History of the New York Stock Exchange
HEMMING, Henry G.
History of the New York Stock Exchange.
New York: Henry Glover & Co, 1905.
First edition of this classic work. Thick quarto, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, four views, and 353 steel-engraved portraits of financiers such as Henry Clews, George Jay Gould, J.P. Morgan, Jr., W.C. Kellogg, Arthur Whitney, and many others. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132283
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Signed Limited Edition of Pearl S. Buck's China: Past and Present
BUCK, Pearl S.
China: Past and Present.
New York: The John Day Company, 1972.
Signed limited edition, one of 1000 copies. Quarto, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Contains photographs from Magnum photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rene Burri, Hiroshi Hamaya, Marc Riboud and Helen Snow.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 132282