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First edition of Ma Vie From Kiev to Kiev; Lengthily inscribed by Serge Lifar
LIFAR, Serge. Translated by.
Ma Vie From Kiev to Kiev: An Autobiography Translated by James Holman Mason.
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1970.
First edition of Serge Lifar's intimate, revealing autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 115204
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Signed limited editions of Robert Graves' Beyond Giving, The Green Sailed Vessel, Timeless Meeting, and At The Gate
GRAVES, Robert.
Beyond Giving, The Green Sailed Vessel, Timeless Meeting, and At The Gate.
London: Privately Printed at the Stellar Press, 1969-1974.
Signed limited editions of four volumes of Graves' collected verse, written between 1969 and 1974. Octavo, four volumes, original stiff paper wrappers. Each volume is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Robert Graves. In near fine condition. An attractive collection.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 115104
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"Oh, let me sing one song before I lie enfolded in my shroud. Oh let me sing one dong before I die and mingle with the crowd": Rare signed limited edition of Louis K. Anspacher's Tristan & Isolde: A Tragedy; inscribed by him
ANSPACHER, Louis K.
Anspacher
New York: Brentano's, 1904.
Rare signed limited edition of the author's adaptation of the great chivalric romance. Octavo, original boards. One of one hundred copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, this is number 93. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Henry Seligman, with the cordial greetings of Louis K. Anspacher." In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 115508
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First Edition of Arms and the Covenant; Signed by Randolph Churchill
CHURCHILL, Winston S.; Randolph Churchill.
Arms and the Covenant. Speeches by The Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: George G. Harrap, 1938.
First edition of this collection of speeches, signed by Churchill's son Randolph, who was the editor of this volume. Octavo, original cloth, photographic frontispiece of Churchill. Signed on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed by Randolph S. Churchill." In near fine condition.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 115632
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First Edition of Winston Churchill's London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer.
London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, 1900.
First edition of Churchill’s fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In near fine condition.
Price: $1,150.00 Item Number: 115789
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Rare First Edition of Kazantzakis's Tertsines; Signed by Helen Kazantzakis
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos.
Tertsines.
Athens: Konstantinidis and Michalas Press, 1960.
First Greek edition of this collection of poems by the author of Zorba the Greek. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Signed by Helen Kazantzakis.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 117523
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"Who hath desired the sea? Her excellent loneliness rather than forecourts of kings": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Five Nations
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Five Nations.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1903.
First American edition of Kipling’s notable poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped vignette to the front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 121348
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First Edition, First Issue of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
WHARTON, Edith.
Ethan Frome.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of a bud of romance ice-bound and turned into a frozen horror in the frigid setting of a New England winter landscape” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 116178
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First Edition of Ullman's Day on Fire, The; Signed by Him
ULLMAN, James Ramsey.
The Day On Fire: A Novel Suggested by the Life of Arthur Rimbaud.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958.
First edition of this masterwork of biographical fiction. Octavo, original cloth. One of 350 presentation copies signed by James Ramsey Ullman. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine. Jacket design by George Salter.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 115744
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First Edition of Economist on Wall Street; Inscribed by Peter Bernstein to His Sister Aline Bernstein Saarinen
BERNSTEIN, Peter.
Economist on Wall Street: Notes on the Sanctity of Gold, the Value of Money, the Security of Investments, and Other Delusions.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970.
First edition of this classic collection of early Bernstein writings. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the author's sister, "For Aline - With all my love - Peter." The recipient, Aline Bernstein Saarinen was a well-known critic of art and architecture in the United States, an author and a television journalist, who married the architect Eero Saarinen. She was given the International Award for Best Foreign Criticism at the Venice Biennale in 1951. She received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for best newspaper art criticism in 1953, and the American Federation of Arts Award for best…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 115722
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First Editions of William Klein's New York, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo; Each signed by Him
KLEIN, William.
New York, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo.
Various Places: 1956-1964.
First editions of each of the photographers famed city books. Tall quarto, 4 volumes. Each are signed by William Klein, with the caption booklet of New York signed as well. Very good to near fine books in original dust jackets showing some light rubbing and wear. A very sharp set of these volumes.
Price: $12,800.00 Item Number: 115672
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"The best-printed American writer": First edition of Joseph Blumenthal's Robert Frost and His Printers
BLUMENTHAL, Joseph.
Robert Frost and His Printers.
Autin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985.
First edition of this work on Frost's relationships with his printers. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated. One of 1000 copies printed at the letterpress of A. Colish with plates made and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121466
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First edition of Robert Lowry's Casualty; inscribed by him
LOWRY, Robert.
Casualty.
New York: New Directions, 1946.
First edition of Lowry's powerful story about a WWII Photo Reconnaissance Wing in Italy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Robert Levine Good friend to the Little Man Robert Lowry." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Author photograph by Peter Martin.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 115068
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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
