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Rare Stock Certificate from the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company; Signed by Meyer Guggenheim
GUGGENHEIM, Meyer.
Meyer Guggenheim Signed Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company Stock Certificate.
New York: American Bank Note Company, 1890.
Rare Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company stock certificate signed by American industrialist and philanthropist Meyer Guggenheim. Oblong octavo, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the certification is dated March 14, 1890 and grants Guggenheim 100 shares in the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company. Signed by him on the verso, "Meyer Guggenheim." Additionally signed by Thoms D. Messler as Vice President of the Company. In near fine condition. Matted and framed with a portrait of Guggenheim and an informational placard. The piece measures 18.5 inches by 27.25 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 146774
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First Edition of To Bear Any Burden; Signed by Al Santoli
SANTOLI, Al.
To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians.
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1985.
First edition of this oral history of the Vietnam War from the author of 'Everything We Had.' Medium octavo, original red half cloth, illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by Al Santoli on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Nancy Etheredge.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 146833
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Rare Stock Certificate for the New York and Harlem Rail Road Company; Signed by Railroad Magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt
VANDERBILT, Cornelius.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Signed New York and Harlem Rail Road Company Stock Certificate.
New York: American Bank Note Co, 1864.
Rare New York and Harlem Rail Road Company stock certificate signed by one of the wealthiest Americans in history, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Oblong octavo, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the certificate is dated April 12, 1864 and grants John M. Dobin 500 shares in the New York and Harlem Railroad Company. Signed by Cornelius Vanderbilt on the verso. In near fine condition. Matted and framed with a portrait of Vanderbilt and an informational placard. The piece measures 17.6 inches by 28 inches.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 146773
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Rare Photograph of The Founding Father of Israel, David Ben-Gurion; Inscribed by Him
BEN-GURION, David.
David-Ben Gurion Signed Photograph.
Rare photograph of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion. Glossy black and white photograph of David Ben-Gurion seated with a book in his lap. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ben-Gurion in the top right corner, "To Karen Moss, D. Ben-Gurion." Framed. In near fine condition. The piece measures 11 inches by 9 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146735
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Rare Photograph of Andrew Mellon; Inscribed by Him and Elegantly Framed with an Allegheny Valley Street Railway Company Stock Certificate Issued to Him by His Brothers Richard and William Mellon
MELLON, Andrew; [Bachrach].
Andrew Mellon Photograph Signed [WITH] Signed Stock Certificate for the Allegheny Valley Street Company Issued to Him.
Pittsburgh: Allegheny Valley Street Railway Company, 1906.
Rare photograph of the commanding American banker Andrew Mellon. Octavo, black and white photogravure of Andrew Mellon, inscribed by him below his portrait, "To W. H. Thompson with my kind regards A. W. Mellon." The recipient "W. H. Thompson" may be either William Henry Thompson, a U.S. Senator from Nebraska, or William Howard Thompson, a U.S. Senator from Kansas. Additionally signed by the photographer in pencil at the lower right of the portrait, "Bachrach." Matted and framed with an informational placard and a stock certificate for the Allegheny Valley Street Railway Company. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146764
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"the first novel in the English language": Rare complete set of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series
DEFOE, Daniel.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Serious Reflections During the Life And Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719-1720.
Rare complete set of early editions of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a stated second edition. Small octavo, three volumes bound in full period paneled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ornamental blind stamping to the front and rear panels, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe in Vol. I, folding engraved world map in Vol. II, folding engraved frontispiece of Crusoe's island in Vol. III, decorated headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout. In very good…
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 145589
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First Edition of Band of Angels; Signed by Robert Penn Warren
WARREN, Robert Penn.
Band of Angels.
New York: Random House, 1955.
First edition of this classic work one of the most searing and vivid fictional accounts of the Civil War era ever written, basis for the 1957 film directed by Raoul Walsh starring Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Robert Penn Warren. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ska. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 147022
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"THE SEA IS ONLY THE EMBODIMENT OF A SUPERNATURAL AND WONDERFUL EXISTENCE": Exceedingly rare true first edition of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
VERNE, Jules.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873.
Scarce first English edition, preceding the first American edition, of Verne’s masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in black and gilt by Burn & Co., with the binder's ticket on rear pastedown, all edges gilt, illustrated with 112 splendid full-page woodcut illustrations after drawings by renowned French illustrators Alphonse-Marie de Neuville and Edouard Riou, 8-pp. publisher's advertisements at rear headed "For the Season 1872-3." Originally published in France in 1869, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas has a complex publishing history in the English language. The novel was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's…
Price: $37,500.00 Item Number: 146922
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Rare Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company Stock Certificate; Signed by the Queen of Wall Street Hetty H. R. Green
GREEN, Hetty.
Hetty Green Signed Stock Certificate for Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company.
New York: American Bank Note Co., 1902.
Rare Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company stock certificate signed by the 'Queen of Wall Street.' Octavo, one page, the certificate is dated October 6, 1902 and grants Hetty H. R. Green 4 shares in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. Signed by Green on the verso, "Hetty H. R. Green." In near fine condition with light diagonal creasing to the lower right corner and signature cancellation hole punches to the left and bottom edges. Matted and framed with a portrait of Green and an informational placard. The piece measures 16 inches by 26.7 inches. Exceptionally rare…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 146770
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Rare Centennial International Exposition Stock Certificate; Handsomely Matted and Framed
FELTON, Cornelius C.; [Fred Fraley]; [Ino Welsh].
Centennial International Exhibition Capital Stock Certificate.
Philadelphia: Centennial Board of Finance, 1877.
Rare Centennial International Exhibition lithographic capital stock certificate. Elephant folio, one page, the certificate is dated April 24, 1877 and grants one share of stock in the Centennial Board Finance to Cornelius C. Felton, illustrated with impressive engraved vignettes of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a Native American mourning the progress of industrialization, Roman busts of Presidents Washington and Grant, Lady Liberty, and various scenes of historical and cultural relevance. The recipient of this stock certificate Cornelius Conway Felton, is likely the nephew of Cornelius C. Felton, one-time regent of the Smithsonian Institution and President of Harvard University. In…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146769
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A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF PRINTING, AND ONE OF THE GREATEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS EVER PUBLISHED: Exceptionally rare colored Example of first edition of the monumental Nuremberg Chronicle; Published in 1493 and containing over 1800 splendid woodcuts illustrating the history of the world from the Creation of man to the invention of the printing press
SCHEDEL, Hartmann.
Liber Chronicarum. [The Nuremberg Chronicle].
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493.
Exceptionally rare colored example of the first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. Imperial folio, bound in full 17th-century pigskin over bevelled wooden boards with elaborate blind tooling and scrolling to the spine and panels, brass cornerpieces, 2 fore-edge clasps, 325 leaves (of 328, without blank 55/6 and 61/5-6; fos. 9/3.4, 25/1, 53/6, 54/5 and possibly others supplied from another copy), quire 55 bound at end, fos. CCLVIIII-CCLXI blank except for printed headlines. 1809 woodcut illustrations printed from 645 blocks (S.C. Cockerell's count, some German woodcuts of the fifteenth century, 1897, pp.35-6),…
Price: $350,000.00 Item Number: 146920
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Rare New Jersey Junction Railroad Company Bond Certificate; Signed by J.P. Morgan and Harris C. Fahnestock
MORGAN, John Pierpont [J.P.}; Harris C. Fahnestock.
J.P. Morgan and Harris C. Fahnestock Signed New Jersey Junction Railroad Company Bond Certificate.
New York: American Bank Note Co, 1886.
Rare first mortgage bond signed by legendary investment banker J. P. Morgan. Oblong quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the certificate is dated June 30, 1886 and issues a four per centum first mortgage bond for the New Jersey Junction Rail Road Co in the amount of $1000. Signed on the verso by J. P. Morgan and Harris C. Fahnestock as trustees of the NJJRC. The NJJRC was part of the New York Central Railroad and ran along the Hudson River south to Jersey City. Incorporated in February of 1886 and on July 1 (the day after…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 146765
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"Defy Gravity": First Edition of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West; Signed by Gregory Maguire and Composer Stephen Schwartz
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1995.
First edition of Gregory Maguire’s immensely popular reinvention of Oz. Octavo, original illustrated boards, cartographic endpapers. Lengthily signed by the author with a large drawing on the half-title page, "best wishes from Gregory Maguire" and additionally inscribed by composer Stephen Schwartz on the half-title page, "To Adrienne, Defy gravity! Stephen Schwartz." Schwartz is a musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Wicked, Godspell and Pippin. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Douglas Smith. Jacket design by Joel Avirom. A unique example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 147024
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First Edition of Breakfast of Champions; Boldly Signed by Kurt Vonnegut; In Exceptional Condition
VONNEGUT JR., Kurt.
Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.
First edition of Vonnegut's classic work. Octavo, original orange cloth, with drawings by the author. Boldly signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Giusti. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 147026
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First Edition of The Boys of Summer; Signed by Roger Kahn
KAHN, Roger.
The Boys of Summer.
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1972.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Roger Kahn on title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147029
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First Edition of Mary Oliver's House of Light
OLIVER, Mary .
House of Light.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover design by Dede Cummings. Rare.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146866