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One of the Most Rare Baseball Books; First Edition of Baseball in Cincinnati: A History
ELLARD, Harry.
Baseball In Cincinnati: A History.
Cincinnati: Press of Johnson & Hardin, 1907.
First edition of this rare baseball work. One of 500 numbered examples, this copy is 309. Octavo, original cloth. Rubbing to the cloth extremities, one page has an old tape repair, in very good condition.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 3964
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"A Work Calculated to Promote the Protestant Religion By Giving a Pious and Christian Turn to the Mind": The Vicar of Oakley's Improved Edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs embellished with copious illustrations
FOXE, John. [Wright.
The New and Complete Book of Martyrs, or, An Universal History of Martyrdom: Being Fox’s Book of Martyrs.
London: Printed for Alex Hogg, 1784.
Folio, bound in full brown calf, gilt title and tooling to the spine, front and rear panel, raised bands. Engraved frontispiece, copiously illustrated with engravings throughout. In very good condition with some spotting.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 54022
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"Where liberty dwells there is my country": Rare copperplate-printed toile fragment from the popular eighteenth-century English pattern "The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington"
[WASHINGTON; GEORGE; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN],.
The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington Printed Textile.
c. 1785-1790.
Rare copperplate-printed toile fragment from the popular eighteenth-century English pattern "The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington." The fragment features a copper-plate printed portrait of Benjamin Franklin in academic robes and his famous cap after the famed 1777 portrait of him by Jean-Baptiste holding the ends of a banner reading "Where liberty dwells there is my country." The fragment has been framed within a patterned textile border. In near fine condition. The piece measures 13.75 inches by 11.25 inches. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 139191
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“Human action is purposeful behavior": First Edition of Ludwig Von Mises' Human Action: A Treatise On Economics; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.
London: William Hodge and Company Limited, 1949.
First edition of von Mises' magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 146867
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First Edition of Henry Clews Recollections About Wall Street; Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street; Inscribed by Him
CLEWS, Henry.
Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.
New York: Irving Publishing Company, 1888.
First edition of Clews' classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "___ ______ with the compliments of Henry Clews N.Y. May 3rd, 95." In very good condition with some of the usual rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 46042
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I Am Prepared to Die; Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson.
I Am Prepared to Die.
Kent: A.G. Bishop & Sons, Ltd, c. 1965.
Second edition of Mandela's Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated on the front panel, "NMandela 25.3.05." In fine condition.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 125089
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“We'll meet again, we'll part once more”: First Edition of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
JOYCE, James.
Finnegans Wake.
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 106753
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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it": First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's UN: Today and Tomorrow; Signed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor and William DeWitt.
UN: Today and Tomorrow.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1953.
First edition of this work on the United Nations by the former First Lady. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with very light rubbing to the extremities. Rare signed.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 22053
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"The most comprehensive account of the chess match of the century": First Edition of Richard Roberts' Fischer/Spassky: The New York Times Report on The Chess Match of the Century; with a first day cover signed by Bobby Fischer and his coach William Lombardy
ROBERTS, Richard with Harold C. Schonberg.
Fischer/Spassky: The New York Times Report on The Chess Match of the Century.
New York: Quadrangle Books, Inc, 1972.
First edition of Roberts' account of the legendary chess match. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. With an original first day cover from the World Chess Championship 1972 in Reykjavik signed by Bobby Fischer and his coach William Lombardy laid in. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Author photograph by Alfred Wegener. The first day cover is in fine condition.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 137655
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"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts": The Works of Charles Dickens
DICKENS, Charles; Illustrations by Marcus Stone.
The Works of Charles Dickens [Including: Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Little Dorrit; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Dombey & Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby].
London: Chapman and Hall, .
Complete set of Charles Dickens' works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated throughout. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 3144
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelts Classic Work You Learn By Living; Signed by Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
You Learn By Living.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's classic work on how to discover life's lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. Near fine with a previous inscription to the half-title page in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 50001
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Rare First Edition of Letters addressed to William Wilberforce
CROPPER, James.
Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register (January – May 1821) with Letters Addressed to William Wilberforce, M. P. Recommending the Encouragement of the Cultivation of Sugar in Our Dominions in the East Indies, as the Natural and Certain Means of Effecting the General and Total Abolition of the Slave-Trade.
Liverpool: James Smith, 1822.
First edition of this compilation of issues of Cobbett's Register collected in 1821 bound together with Cropper's letters to Wilberforce. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards. Bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to the front panel, with his signature to the title page and notes to the front free endpaper and verso. In very good condition. First editions are scarce, with the last copy appearing at auction was in 1948.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 75022
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration features model Maria Carla, Givenchy designer Riccardo Tischi's muse. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 95328