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"one of Handel's finest operas": Rare First edition of Handel's Rodelinda: An Opera
HANDEL, George Frideric.
Rodelinda: An Opera.
London: J. Cluer, 1725.
First edition of one of Handel's finest operas, a highly dramatic work whose taut plot resembles that of Fidelio. Quarto, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, engraved illustrated title page, index with advertisement, printed list of subscribers. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 132176
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First Edition of Henry James' Roderick Hudson
JAMES, Henry.
Roderick Hudson.
New York: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876.
First edition of one of James' earliest novels. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 142180
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First Edition of Roger Moore As James Bond: Roger Moore's Own Account of Filming Live and Let Die; Signed by Roger Moore
MOORE, Roger.
Roger Moore As James Bond: Roger Moore’s Own Account of Filming Live and Let Die.
London: Pan Books, 1973.
First British edition of Moore’s diary regarding the making of Live and Let Die. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Roger Moore on the title page. In near fine condition. Photographs by Luisa Moore.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133641
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First Edition of Roger Moore's James Bond Diary; Inscribed by Roger Moore
MOORE, Roger.
Roger Moore’s James Bond Diary.
Fawcett Publications, 1973.
First edition of Moore's diary regarding the making of Live and Let Die. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John from Roger Moore." In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133640
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First Edition of Roger Moore's James Bond Diary
MOORE, Roger.
Roger Moore’s James Bond Diary.
Fawcett Publications, 1973.
First edition of Moore's diary regarding the making of Live and Let Die. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146135
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First edition of Will Rogers' Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on The Peace Conference; signed by him
ROGERS, Will.
Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on The Peace Conference.
New York: Harper & Brothers: Publishers, 1919.
First edition of Will Rogers' first book. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Yours, Will Rogers." In very good condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137393
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"You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just gonna hand it to you": First Edition of the 25th Anniversary Edition of the Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award Winning Novel
TAYLOR, Mildred D.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
New York: The Dial Press, 2001.
First edition of the 25th anniversary edition of the author's classic Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146375
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Rare collection of four original photographs of Rollie Free before and during his record-breaking 1948 motorcycle ride on the Bonneville Salt Flats; each inscribed by him
FREE, Rollie.
Rollie Free Signed Motorcycle Racing Photograph Collection.
1948.
Rare collection of original photographs inscribed by motorcycle racing legend Rollie Free. The collection includes 4 photographs, all of which are inscribed by Rollie Free to close personal friend and business partner Ted Peaso. Free and Peaso co-owned a Service Station on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California at the time of Free's record-breaking ride. Peaso also fabricated the leg support for the Vincent HRD Free broke the American motorcycle land speed record with. The photographs include an image of Free during his record-breaking ride, inscribed by him, "To Ted actual photo South near fastest 23.90 seconds. North near 24 seconds…
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 119311
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Rare association copy of Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore; inscribed by W.E.B. Du Bois to Prime Minister David Lloyd George
LOWELL, Thomas. [W.E.B. Dubois; David Lloyd George].
Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933.
Early printing of the definitive biography of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations from photographs and paintings by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by W.E.B. Dubois to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, "Many Happy Returns to 'Lloyd George' Nov. 5th 1933 from W.E.B." W.E.B. Dubois wrote that "the destinies of mankind for a hundred years to come" were being negotiated in a "small room at the Hotel Crillon." The small room he was referring to was at the Paris Peace Conference and the people in the room were Prime Minister David Lloyd…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144351
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First Edition of Federico Garcia Lorca's Romancero Gitano; Signed by Him with a drawing
GARCIA LORCA, Federico.
Romancero Gitano 1924-1927 [Gyspy Ballads].
Buenos Aires: Sur, 1928.
First edition of Garcia Lorca’s classic work. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards. Signed on the title page by Federico Garcia Lorca, who has drawn a face next to his signature. Books signed by Garcia Lorca are exceedingly rare, as he was killed in 1936. In very good condition with a contemporary bookplate of Fernando Ortiz to the pastedown with light rubbing. Ortiz was a Cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. A very nice example, rare and desirable signed with desirable provenance.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 53005
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First Edition of William Klein's Rome: The City and Its People; signed by William Klein
KLEIN, William.
Rome: The City and Its People.
New York: The Viking Press, 1959.
First edition of the second volume in Klein's acclaimed series of "city" books. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the photographer on the half-title page, "Rome Great Rome William Klein." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 142864
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Rare Limited Édition Artistique Edition of the selected works of the great authors; one of only 75 sets produced
BOURGET, Paul; Gustave Flaubert; Theophile Gautier; Longus; Paul de Musset; William Shakespeare.
Romeo and Juliet; Anthony and Cleopatra; King Candaules; A Night of Cleopatra; Jean and Jeannette; Daphnis and Chloe; Heródias; A Simple Heart; Pastels; The Last Abbé.
Société des Beaux Arts: Paris, n.d .
The Édition Artistique of the selected works of Flaubert, Shakespeare, Gautier, Musset and Longus. Quarto, 10 volumes bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling embellished with botanical decorations with white, red and violet morocco onlays, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, full morocco doublures, silk-watered endleaves, top edge gilt others untrimmed, with illustrations by J. Wagrez, Louis Titz, Emile Adan, Georges Rochegrosse, Paul Avril and others. Prefaces by Anatole France and Leo Claretie. One of 75 numbered copies produced for England and America, this is number…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 132844
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Fine collection of Inaugural Gifts from the Inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President and George H. W. Bush as Vice President of the United States
REAGAN, Ronald and George H. W. Bush.
Ronald Reagan and George Bush Inaugural Gift Collection.
1981.
Fine collection of official gifts from the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President and George H. W. Bush as Vice President of the United States. The collection includes a sterling silver money clip and pill box embossed with the Reagan Bush inaugural logo and a fountain pen from the inaugural reception of George H. W. Bush bearing Bush’s signature in facsimile and housed in the original box bearing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,450.00 Item Number: 117304
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Autograph and Typed Letters Signed by Governor Ronald Reagan and American Actor John Wayne
REAGAN, Ronald and John Wayne.
Ronald Reagan and John Wayne Signed Letter Collection.
California: May 20-26, 1967.
Rare pairing of letters exchanged and signed by President Ronald Reagan as Governor and American actor John Wayne, comprised of a typed letter signed by Wayne to Reagan and Regan's handwritten draft of his reply. Three pages, 8.5 inches by 11 inches, the typed letter from John Wayne to Reagan is signed "Duke" by Wayne, expressing frustration that a friend had not been appointed to California's Horse Racing Board in favor of a Democrat's term together while taking aim at California car salesman Holmes Tuttle, a member of Reagan's 'Kitchen Cabinet,' the letter reads in part, "I was under the…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 145408