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"from their well-dressed friend who in Italian silk, couldn't look less like a writer": First Edition of Bellow's Seize the Day; Inscribed by Him with a full page inscription
BELLOW, Saul.
Seize the Day.
New York: The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For the Gabels from their well-dressed friend (who in Italian silk, couldn't look less like a writer) with best wishes Saul Bellow." The recipients were close friends of Bellow's while he was a student at Northwestern University, where he graduated with honors and earned bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and sociology. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some wear and tear. Jacket design by Bill English. Association copies of Seize the Day are uncommon.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 114568
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First Edition of Peter Green's Achilles His Armour
GREEN, Peter.
Achilles His Armour.
London: John Murray, 1955.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Peter Green on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 119653
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Rare plaster replica of the famed Houdon bust of George Washington
ANDERSON, Ronald Lee. [Jean-Antoine Houdon; George Washington].
George Washington Houdon Bust Sculpture.
Life-size sculpture of the head of George Washington, after the famed Houdon bust of George Washington of 1785. Plaster, the piece measures 11.5 inches by 9 inches and is attributed to American portraitist Ronald Lee Anderson who likely sculpted the work as an exercise as a college student. French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon was revered for his life-like portrayals of numerous notable eighteenth-century philosophers, inventors, and political figures including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Napoléon Bonaparte, and George Washington. In 1784, the Virginia General Assembly commissioned a statue of George Washington "to be of the finest marble and the…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 121908
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First editon of The Armies of the Night; Inscribed by Norman Mailer to Christopher Lawford and signed by Noam Chomsky
MAILER, Norman [Noam Chomsky].
The Armies of the Night.
New York: The New American Library, 1968.
First edition of this nonfiction novel, which went on to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Chris Lawford remembering our good conversation last summer Norman Mailer March 1983." Additionally signed by one of the subjects, Noam Chomsky. The recipient, Christopher Lawford is an author, activist and member of the Kennedy family and friends with the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 5790
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelts India and the Awakening East; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
India and the Awakening East.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 4356
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“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale": First Edition of The Last Unicorn; Inscribed by Peter Beagle
BEAGLE, Peter S.
The Last Unicorn.
New York: The Viking Press, 1968.
First edition of Beagle's classic second book, which follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others.. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Larry Peter S. Beagle 11/8/93." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mel Williamson.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141515
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First Edition of Robert Kennedys Manifesto To Seek A Newer World; Signed by Him
KENNEDY, Robert F.
To Seek A Newer World.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967.
First edition of Robert Kennedy's classic fourth book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert F. Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket photograph by Lawrence Fried.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131782
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake; In exceptional condition
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133129
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Of Flight And Life; Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh to GENERAL CLARENCE R. HUEBNER
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
Of Flight and Life.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.
First edition, early printing of this prophetic discourse on weapons of mass destruction. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Gen. Huebner with best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh." The recipient, General Clarence R. Huebner was the commander of the 1st Infantry ("The Big Red One") at Normandy and one of World War I's most celebrated heroes. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An excellent association.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144020
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First Edition of Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension; Inscribed by Benoit Mandelbrot
MANDELBROT, Benoit.
Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension.
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977.
First edition of the mathematician's groundbreaking work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Samuel With the author's compliments Benoit Mandelbrot." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 144375
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Rare Civil War Pocket Diary Kept by Assistant Surgeon Robert P. Davis, 84th Indiana Regiment
[DAVIS, Robert P.] .
Pocket Diary of Assistant Surgeon Robert P. Davis, 84th Indiana Regiment.
[1863].
The Civil War pocket diary of Assistant Surgeon Robert P. Davis, 84th Indiana Regiment. 16mo, original wrappers, the diary is printed with blank three days per page, entries have been recorded intermittently beginning on January 1, 1863 and include brief accounts of skirmishes at Resaca, Hooker's rescue of the Indiana Regiment and reports of duties and the diarist's own illness: May 27: “I am on duty at the Hospital handing instruments for amputation.” The next day: “At same duty as yesterday.” June 1: the sick and wounded are moved to a more permanent hospital and their field tents are moved…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 132395
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Rare 19th century hand-colored lithographed map of the states of Florida and South Carolina by American cartographer S. Augustus Mitchell
MITCHELL JR., S. Augustus.
County Map of Florida and Map of South Carolina.
Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: 1860.
First edition of Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s map of the states of Florida and South Carolina, published in Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc. Embraced In Forty-Seven Quarto Maps, Forming A Series Of Seventy-Six Maps And Plans, Together With Valuable Statistical Tables. Philadelphia. One page, hand-colored the maps shows the counties and major towns and cities of each state, the Gulf of Mexico, parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina with an inset map of Charleston Harbor. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138429
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Finely bound early 19th century Scottish printing of ADAM SMITH’S MASTERPIECE THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
SMITH, Adam.
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edinburgh: Printed by and For J. & J. Scrymgeour, and for Mundell & Son, and Arch. Constable & Co., 1805.
Finely bound early 19th century printing of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. A new edition containing A Life of the Author and a View of the Doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the French Economists. In good condition. Armorial bookplates.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 138495
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First edition of Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903; inscribed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to Calvert Bowyer Vaux
OLMSTED, Frederick Law. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Theodora Kimball.
Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903: Early Years and Experiences Together with Biographical Notes.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.
First edition of the first volume of the autobiography of one of the foremost figures in American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Olmsted. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and Theodora Kimball. Association copy, inscribed by Frederick Law Olmsted on the front free endpaper, “C. Bowyer Vaux from [printed calling card: Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted. Brookline, Mass.] Philadelphia. December 13th 1922.” The recipient, Calvert Bowyer Vaux was the son of English-American architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux, who brought in the elder Olmsted (who had never before designed a landscape) to plan…
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 129553
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“Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert": First Edition of J.K. Rowling's Quidditch: Through the Ages; Signed by Her
ROWLING, J.K [Kennelworthy Whisp].
Quidditch: Through the Ages.
New York: Arthur A. Levine/ Scholastic Books, 2001.
First edition of this "amazingly imaginative work" (Associated Press). Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page. In fine condition. Rare signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 141463
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“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe": Dreams From My Father; INSCRIBED BY BARACK OBAMA
OBAMA, Barack.
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2004.
First paperback edition of the future President's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Bob - All the best! Barack" In fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133108