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“With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head": First Edition of Tim O'Brien's If I Die In a Combat Zone, Box Me Up & Ship Me Home; Signed by Him
O'BRIEN, Tim.
If I Die In a Combat Zone, Box Me Up & Ship Me Home.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.
First edition of O'Brien's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tim O'Brien on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Photograph by Susan Futterman. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 142299
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"Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death": Original photograph signed by the father of rocket technology, Wernher von Braun
VON BRAUN, Wernher.
Wernher von Braun Signed Photograph.
Original black and white photograph signed by German-American aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. Signed by von Braun on the lower right corner, "For "Busher" Bill affectionately Wernher von Braun." In very good condition. The photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 136509
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"one of the most movingly redemptive novels I have ever read": First Edition of True Confessions; Signed by John Gregory Dunne and by Joan Didion
DUNNE, John Gregory [Joan Didion].
True Confessions: A Novel.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.
First edition of this work, basis for the film, with the screenplay by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Design by Guy Fleming. Photograph by Nancy Ellison. It was the basis for the 1981 film True Confessions, directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Joan Didion. Rare and desirable signed by both Dunne and Didion.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144261
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“I know that like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have": Rare photograph of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón; Lengthily Inscribed by Her
PERóN, Eva.
Eva Perón Signed Photograph.
1950.
Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and lengthily inscribed and dated by her in Spanish. Retaining the original mount. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 18 inches. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 116038
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ROYAL CHRISTMAS CARD Signed by King Charles III and PRINCESS DIANA
DIANA, Princess of Wales; King Charles III.
Princess Diana and King Charles III Signed Christmas Card.
1983.
Royal 1983 Christmas card bearing two royal seals and an original color photograph of Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles and the young Princes William. Signed by Prince Charles (King Charles III), "from Charles and" signed by Princess Diana, "Diana." In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145672
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Rare photograph of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón; Inscribed by Her
PERóN, Eva.
Eva Perón Signed Photograph.
Rare photographic portrait of the First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón, signed and inscribed, "Para el Senor Kenneth H. Browne con afecto Eva Peron." Double matted and framed. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 15.5 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119773
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FIRST EDITION OF LUCAS SAMARAS’ FIRST BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHY; INSCRIBED BY HIM TO LES NAVARRE
SAMARAS, Lucas.
Samaras Album.
New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art and Pace Editions, 1971.
First edition of Samaras’ multimedia self-portrait, featuring a self-interview, autobiography, and hundreds of Polaroid images, both black-and-white and in color. Large quarto, original embossed pictorial cloth, mounted cover photograph. Association copy, inscribed by Lucas Samaras to Les Navarre on the title page. Navarre was the director of the Harry Abrams Art Gallery and a close friend of the artist. In fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 1371
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John Brown's John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work; signed and inscribed by John Brown, President Woodrow Wilson, Alexander Stewardt, Charles A. Salmond, James Stark and many other turn of the 20th century American, English, and Scottish educators and ministers
BROWN, John. [Woodrow Wilson; Charles A. Salmond; Alexander Stewart; James Stark; et al].
John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work.
London: Wm. Ibister Limited, n.d..
Early edition of Reverend John Brown's important biography of his predecessor and the author of Pilgrim's Progress, English Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "With all fraternal regards John Brown Bedford, England, August 10th 1899" and signed by his wife, "Ada H. Brown." Additionally signed by Robert Christie, "Robert Christie Presbyterian Seminary Allegheny, Pa"; Woodrow Wilson, "Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, New Jersey"; Alexander Stewart "Alexander Stewart D.D. St. Mary's College- St. Andrews- Scotland-"; Charles A. Salmond, "Charles A. Salmond. South Morningside Free Church, Edinburgh-"; James Stark, "James Stark Aberdeen"; and…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 121964
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"the first novel in the English language": Rare complete Brussels edition of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series
DEFOE, Daniel.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
Brussels: B. Le Francq, 1803.
Cook's edition of all three books in Defoe's classic Robinson Crusoe series. Duodecimo, three volumes bound in full speckled sheepskin with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with eight engraved plates by Godin. In very good condition with rubbing to the spine. A very rare complete Brussels edition of this cornerstone in English literature.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 145579
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Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower; Signed by Her
BUTLER, Octavia E.
Parable of the Sower.
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.
Early printing of this classic post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from the award-winning author which "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stark Design. Interior design by Marcy Kass. Uncommon signed.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 123464
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“She was buried in his flesh. She throbbed in the beat of his pulses. She was wine in his blood, a music in his heart": First Modern Library Edition of Look Homeward, Angel; Inscribed by Thomas Wolfe
WOLFE, Thomas.
Look Homeward, Angel.
New York: The Modern Library, 1934.
First Modern Library edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Beryl Burk, with best wishes Thomas Wolfe Oct. 30, 1935." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 127273
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The Memorial edition of the Revised Version of the Holy Bible; in the publisher's deluxe full morocco
[BIBLE],.
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated Out of the Original Tongues: Being the Version Set Forth A.D. 1611 Compared with the Most Ancient Authorities and Revised.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1881-1885.
The Memorial edition of the Revised Version of the Holy Bible with a presentation slip signed by the President and Secretary of the American Committee of Revision. Royal octavo, three volumes, original publisher's deluxe full pebbled morocco, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 139542
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First Edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Noticia de un Secuestro; Lengthily Inscribed by Him to Close Friends
GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel.
Noticia de un Secuestro [News of a Kidnapping]
Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1996.
First edition of this work of nonfiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "Para Juana y Sergio, en la linea contra la Helius - Burlon; y Le amistad de siempre, Gabo 96." The recipient, Sergio Muñoz Bata and his wife Juana, were close friends of Marquez. They met in 1964 in Mexico City in the home of author Carlos Fuentes, who often hosted a literary open house or "salon" on Sundays. At the time, Marquez was largely unknown to the literary world…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132317
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"Well," said Stuart, "a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone": Stuart Little; Signed by E.B. White
WHITE, E.B.; Illustrated by Garth Williams.
Stuart Little.
New York: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.
First edition, early printing of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated by Garth Williams. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "Best wishes E.B. White." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138081
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First edition of John Quincy Adams' The Jubilee of the Constitution
ADAMS, John Quincy.
The Jubilee of the Constitution. A Discourse Delivered at the Request of the New York Historical Society, in the City of New York, on Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1789.
New York: Published by Samuel Colman, 1839.
First edition of John Quincy Adams' powerful speech—“one of Adams' best”—delivered at the request of the New York Historical Society on the 50th Anniversary of Washington’s Inauguration. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece and half-title. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 126793
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Richard Watson's An Apology for the Bible in a Series of Letters, Adressed to Thomas Paine
WATSON, Richard.
An Apology for the Bible; In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a book entitled The Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being and Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology.
Philadelphia: Printed for W. Young, Mills & Son, 1796.
Rare early printing of this response to Thomas Paine's 'The Age of Reason.' Duodecimo, original full leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities, front panel, and spine, some toning throughout, a small loss to the front flyleaf, and bookplates to the front free endpaper and pastedown. Many editions of this book were put out in the same year, all up and down the coast of Colonial America, all fairly small runs.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 146706