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Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman
HOOVER, Herbert & Harry S. Truman.
Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman.
1946.
Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman, signed by both Presidents. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 11.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by both Hoover and Truman.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 102878
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First Edition of Signifying Rappers; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster & Mark Costello.
Signifying Rappers.
New York: Ecco Press, 1990.
First edition of the first book to seriously consider rap and its position as a vital force in American culture. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare, especially signed by Foster Wallace.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 104837
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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings": First Edition of George Eliot's Silas Marner; In the Rare and Preferred Carter's A Publisher's Binding
ELIOT, George.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.
First edition of Eliot's third novel, widley praised as her greatest in the preferred Carter's binding "A." Octavo, original embossed russet cloth (Carter's binding "A") with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, recased, pale yellow endpapers, Blackwood and Carlyle advertisements at rear which only appear in some copies. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 146538
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"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings": First Edition of Silas Marner; In the Rare Binding
ELIOT, George.
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.
First edition of this classic work in Carter's binding "A", which is the preferred and much more elaborate, with Blackwood and Carlyle ads at the rear (which only appear in some copies). Octavo, original orange cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 4399
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First Edition of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Tommie.
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
First edition of this powerful autobiography by the Olympic gold medalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "6-7-07 To Philip Health and Wellness. Faith Tommie Smith." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kate Nichols. Written with David Steele.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 117848
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First Edition of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Tommie.
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.
First edition of this powerful autobiography by the Olympic gold medalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Michelle- Enjoy Life, it's divine Tommie Smith 1968 Olympics." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kate Nichols. Written with David Steele.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 117701
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First Edition of Orhan Pamuk's Silent House; Signed by Him and Three Times by Jacket illustrator Chip Kidd
PAMUK, Orhan.
Silent House.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
First edition of this "superb novel, which grips the reader and refuses to let go" (The New Yorker). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by dated in the year of publication by Orhan Pamuk on the title page. Additionally signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, once on the title page, and again on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 122479
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring; Finely Bound
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, bound in half morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. In fine condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 140434
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, small ownership label to the front pastedown. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146417
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144688
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"In nature nothing exists alone": Silent Spring; Signed by Edward O. Wilson
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
New York: Mariner Books, 2002.
Early printing of the 40th anniversary edition author's classic work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. Afterword by Edward O. Wilson. Introduction by Linda Lear. In fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 137514
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145502
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Rare Original Silk Stockings Script
KAUFMAN, George S..
Silk Stockings Original Musical Script.
New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, .
Rare original Silk Stockings shooting script with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Quarto, original black Hart Stenographic Bureau leatherette wrappers bound and bradded. In near fine condition. Annotations throughout. Accompanied by the vocal part of Ninotchka which is in fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 110658
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First Edition of Silver on the Tree; Signed by Susan Cooper
COOPER, Susan.
Silver on the Tree.
New York: Atheneum, 1977.
First edition of the final volume in the author's acclaimed Dark is Rising series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Michael Heslop. Boldly signed by Susan Cooper on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146164
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"But what does it matter what I suffer for you to enjoy? That I perish for a people to live" Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar to Ecuadorian independentista Manuela Garaycoa
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.
Bogota: 1827.
Rare autograph letter signed by 'El Libertador', Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish. Sent from Bogota, the letter is dated December 6, 1827 and reads in full, "A la Senora Manuela Garaycoa. Umd. siempre se eccele a si misma on bondades para conmigo y me prodiga elofios ques ellos solo, bastarian para saviar la codica del mas ambivioiso de gloria. Y que otra cora podria yo esperar de las Garaycoas de esas amigas fieles de esas Colombians constantes de esa Gloriosa sin rival? Yo les doy las gracias a todas y seame tambien permitido…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 126188
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RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY 'EL LIBERTADOR', SIMÓN BOLÍVAR TO JOSE FELIZ BLANCO
BOLIVAR, Simón.
Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.
1829.
Rare autograph letter signed by ‘El Libertador’, Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish on both recto and verso. The letter is dated May 13, 1828, and offers the recipient, Colonel José Félix Blanco, Bolívar's support in his struggle to maintain the security of Barinas (of which was made Governor in 1827) in the midst of heavy criticism from several officers including General José Antonio Páez. Bolívar notes that the offending officers have been dismissed in order to prevent the possibility of partial influence on the resulting hearings and regrets that he will be unable…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 126183