Shop
Showing 4929–4944 of 8184 results
-
Browse by Category
- Browse All
- Americana
- Art and Architecture
- Autograph Letters Signed
- Biography and Autobiography
- Children's Books
- Economics and Finance
- Featured Rare Books
- Fine Bindings and Sets
- First Edition
- First Edition>Signed
- Food and Wine
- Framed Autographs and Historical Documents
- Geography
- Gifts
- Gifts - For Her
- Gifts - For Him
- Gifts - Graduation and Celebrations
- Gifts - Holidays
- History, Law, and Politics
- Literature
- Music
- New Arrivals
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Presidents and World Leaders
- Religion
- Science and Natural History
- Science Fiction and Mystery
- Signed
- Signed & Autographed Books
- Sports and Leisure
- Travel and Exploration
- Uncategorized
-
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Masterpiece Idylls of the King; with an exceptional fore-edge painting
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
Idylls of the King [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1869.
Finely bound example with a fore-edge painting of Tennyson's "long-meditated great task" which brought him to fame (Baugh, 1388). Octavo, bound in full red pebbled morocco, spine stamped in gilt in compartments, all edges and turn ins gilt, fore-edge painting with view of The Market Place, Cambridge. In very good condition.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 123739
-
Rare Signed Brigham Young Document
YOUNG, Brigham.
Brigham Young Signed Document.
Salt Lake City: 1872.
Brigham Young signed document as President of the Utah Central Railroad Company, ordering the treasurer of the UCRC to pay $13 to C.W. Penrose, with Penrose's signature on verso. The entire piece measures 8 inches by 3.8 inches.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 123738
-
“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore": First Edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men; In the Original Dust Jacket
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
All the Sad Young Men.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
First edition, first issue of Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories. Octavo, original green cloth. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the woman's lips unbattered (Bruccoli, A12). A nice example.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 123422
-
"Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power": First Edition of Gregory Corso's The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems; Signed by Him
CORSO, Gregory.
The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems.
Cambridge, MA: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955.
First edition of the poet's first book one of 500 copies printed though about half of which were lost in the mail. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Gregory Corso. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 123719
-
"Now pay attention": First edition of Sandy Hernu's Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn; signed by both Hernu and Llewelyn
HERNU, Sandy. [Desmond Llewelyn].
Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn.
East Sussex: S. B. Publications, 1999.
Signed limited first edition of Hernu's pictorial biography of the quintessential gadget master to the world's best loved Secret Agent, James Bond. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed by Desmond Llewelyn and Sandy Hernu on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 115097
-
First Edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Vegetable; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Vegetable: Or, From President To Postman.
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
First edition of what Fitzgerald called, "undoubtedly the best thing I have ever written." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket illustration by John Held, Jr. A nice example.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 123473
-
FARRINGTON, S. Kip.
Fishing the Atlantic: Offshore and On.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1949.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Dr. Bledsoe, a great afternoon, ___ ___ and shot, who knows the game offshore and on. America's With best wishes, S. Kip Farrington Dec 8th 49 From Tony Holman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 123827
-
Rare First Edition in English of Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyitch
TOLSTOI, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy].
Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1887.
First edition in English of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole with a preface by him. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 123477
-
First edition of Philip K. Dick's The Divine Invasion; Signed by Him
DICK, Philip K.
The Divine Invasion.
New York: Timescape Books, 1981.
First edition of the second book in Dick's gnostic VALIS trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick on the publisher's official bookplate produced for this edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Rowena Morrill. Typography by Patricia Manzone.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 123684
-
"To forgive and forget is easier than to remember": First edition of Reuben Ainsztein's Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe
AINSZTEIN, Reuben.
Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe: with a Historical Survey of the Jew as Fighter and Soldier in the Diaspora.
London: Paul Elek, 1974.
First edition of Ainsztein's survey of the Jewish military from the destruction of the Jewish state by Rome to 1939. Thick octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Sally Soames who is proud of being a Jewess Reuben Ainsztein London 21 July 1977." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 123442
-
First Edition of Graham Greene's The Comedians
GREENE, Graham.
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Ivan Lapper.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 123659
-
First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants; with illustrations from the 1937 film Elephant Boy
KIPILNG, Rudyard.
Toomai of the Elephants
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.
First separate edition Kipling's story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film "Elephant Boy" starring Sabu Dastagir, India's first child actor. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs from the film by Mrs. F. H. Flaherty. In good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 123115
-
First edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Tour of Inspection
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Tour of Inspection.
New York: Privately Printed, 1928.
First edition in book form of Kipling's classic short tale. Octavo, original boards. One of 93 copies printed from type for private distribution, this is number 42. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 123884
-
First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch; one of 100 numbered copies
NORTON, Charles Eliot. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling A Biographical Sketch.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.
First separate edition of Charles Eliot Norton's concise sketch of Kipling's early life, written for the new popular edition of his writings and prepared with his approval. Octavo, original boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling. One of one hundred numbered copies, this is number 52. In near fine condition. Scarce.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123761
-
Rare Original Photograph signed by President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan
CLINTON, Bill.
Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein Signed Photograph.
1995.
Color photograph taken during the the signing of the Oslo II Accords of Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan and Hosni Mubarak on the White House lawn, signed by Clinton, Arafat and Faisal Husseini. On September 28, 1995, the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was signed in Washington, D.C. This agreement, which marks the conclusion of the first stage in negotiations between Israel and the PLO, incorporates and superseded the Gaza-Jericho and early empowerment agreements. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 13 inches. Rare and desirable signed by…
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 123430
-
First edition of Danny Moynihan's Boogie-Woogie; one of 500 copies signed by him
MOYNIHAN, Danny; Damien Hirst.
Boogie-Woogie.
London: Duckworth Literary Entertainments Ltd, 2000.
First edition of Moynihan's satirical debut novel set in the contemporary art world of 1990s New York. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the title page and dust jacket designer Damien Hirst on the rear panel of the jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Damien Hirst. Author photograph by Jenny Von Sommers.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124404