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Jules Verne Autographed Letter Signed
VERNE, Jules.
Jules Verne Autographed Letter Signed.
Rare autographed letter signed by the father of science fiction Jules Verne. autograph letter signed. Letter addressed to "mon cher Peragillo" and mentioning "Le Tour du Monde." Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 6.75 inches by 6.75 inches.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 138073
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Finely bound First Edition of Lady and the Tramp
DISNEY, Walt; Ward Greene.
Lady and the Tramp: The Story of Two Dogs.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.
First edition of Lady and the Tramp. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled and illustration to the front panel, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with charming illustrations by Joe G. Rinaldi. Foreword by Walt Disney. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 119244
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"I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true": Uncorrected Proofs of each volume in the authors Acclaimed Cairo Trilogy; Each signed by the Author
MAHFOUZ, Naguib.
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street.
New York: Doubleday, 1990-1992.
Uncorrected proofs of author's most well known work; a trilogy originally published in Egypt in the 1950's and which garnered him the Nobel Prize in literature decades later in 1988. Octavo, 3 volumes, original illustrated wrappers. Each volume is signed by Mahfouz and in near fine condition. Translated by William M. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny. Books signed by Mahfouz are rare as he left Egypt only twice during his life, each time only but for a short time.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 1754
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Rare Original September 15, 1967 Time Magazine Cover; Signed by Former President of the Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu
THIEU, Nguyen Van.
Nguyen Van Thieu Signed Time Magazine Cover.
August 27, 1968.
Rare Time Magazine Latin American Edition cover from the September 15, 1967 issue. Octavo, one page, featuring a reproduction of a bust portrait of Nguyen Van Thieu painted by Boris Chaliapin. Boldly signed and dated by Thieu as President at the lower left, "Thieu Aug. 27th 1968." In near fine condition with mail folds and clipping to the edges. Signed pieces from Thieu are exceptionally rare.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146627
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1795 Edition of Letters From General Washington To Several Of His Friends, In June And July 1776; In Which is Set Forth an Interesting View of American Politics, at That All-Important Period
[WASHINGTON, George]; Benjamin Franklin Bache.
Letters From General Washington To Several Of His Friends, In June And July 1776; In Which is Set Forth an Interesting View of American Politics, at That All-Important Period.
Philadelphia: The Federal Press, 1795.
Rare 1795 printing of this piece of royalist propaganda. Octavo, bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, frontispiece portrait of General George Washington. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, toning to the front and rear free endpapers.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146670
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"I FIRST MET HIM IN PIRAEUS": FIRST EDITION OF KAZANTZAKIS’ ZORBA THE GREEK; FINELY BOUND BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY; SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR PETER BIEN
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos.
Zorba The Greek.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.
First edition of Kazantzakis' masterpiece, basis for the beloved Academy award-winning film. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by the translator of the most recent translation with the added words, "I first met him in Pireaus. Peter Bien." Translated by Carl Wildman. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 143544
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First Edition of Cheaper by the Dozen; Signed by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
GILBRETH, Jr..
Cheaper by the Dozen.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1948.
First edition of this hilarious memoir, the basis for the 1950 and 2003 film adaptation. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. on the front free endpaper. Illustrated by Donald McKay. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to front panel. Uncommon signed and in the original jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 97548
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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know": Rare First Edition of James Salter's A Sport And A Pastime; Signed by Him
SALTER, James.
A Sport And A Pastime.
Garden City, NY: Paris Review Editions/ Doubleday, 1967.
First edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. With a publisher's compliments of the author laid in, fine in a good dust jacket with a few chips. Jacket collage by Alex Gotfryd. First editions are exceptionally rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146210
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Rare Signed Photograph of The Members of The World War Debt Commission and Belgian Commission; Including Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon
HERBERT HOOVER AND ANDREW MELLON,.
World War Foreign Debts Commission Act Signed Photograph.
Signed photograph of the members of The World War Foreign Debt Commission and the Belgian Commission. Signed below by each member, including Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce and future President of the United States), Andrew W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury), Frank B. Kellogg (Secretary of State and 1929 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize), Reed Smoot (United States Senator and co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act), Theodore E. Burton (United States Senator from Ohio), Charles R. Crisp, Richard Olney, Edward N. Hurley, Garrard B. Winston, Arthur N. Young and F.G. Blair of the Debt Commission. Also signed by…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 21058
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"There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open": First Edition of Jawaharlal Nehru's Inside America; Signed by Him
NEHRU, Jawaharlal.
Inside America: A Voyage of Discovery.
New Dehli: National Book Stall, n/d.
First printing of this edition of this collection of speeches by Nehru in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Jawaharlal Nehru Dec 1956." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed, with none appearing at auction in the last 65 years.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 142442
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is at last published in panoramic, earth-shattering, hyper-hysterical format": First edition of The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Signed by Douglas Adams in the year of publication
ADAMS, Douglas.
The Illustrated Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994.
First illustrated edition of Adams' modern classic. Folio, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "Douglas Adams 22-9-94." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146617
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CHURCHILL'S OWN COPY of the FIRST SWEDISH EDITION of his famed work Step by Step; in the publisher's full morocco presentation binding
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Steg for Steg 1936-1939. [Step by Step 1936-1939]. [Winston Churchill’s Copy]
Stockholm: Skoglunds Bokforlag, 1939.
First Swedish edition and Churchill's own copy of the last book he published before the outbreak of the Second World War. Octavo, in the publisher's rare full morocco presentation binding by Nordiska Bokhandelns Bokbinderi with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in. It is thought that Churchill's Swedish publishers, Messrs. Skoglund Bokforlag, normally sent him two specially bound copies of each title they published. It was his practice to…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146028
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First Edition of Essays on Economics and Economists; Inscribed by Ronald Coase
COASE, Ronald H.
Essays on Economics and Economists.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
First edition of this collection of articles by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Ronald Coase on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 3919
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"When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will": Rare First Edition of Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna; Inscribed by Actress Hayley Mills
PORTER, Eleanor H. [Hayley Mills].
Pollyanna.
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1913.
First edition of Eleanor H. Porter's classic of children's literature. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece, illustrated by Stockton Mulford. Inscribed by actress Hayley Mills. Mills starred in the 1960 movie adaptation Pollyanna, alongside Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. The film won Hayley Mills an Academy Juvenile Award. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 138834
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"Art is language of the entire human personality": First Editions of Each Volume in the Authors Acclaimed Cairo Trilogy; Each Volume Signed by Naguib Mahfouz
MAHFOUZ, Naguib.
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street.
New York: Doubleday, 1990-1992.
First American editions of author's most well known work; a trilogy originally published in Egypt in the 1950's and which garnered him the Nobel Prize in literature decades later in 1988. Octavo, 3 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume was signed by Naguib Mahfouz at the Shepheard Hotel in Cairo in 2006. All three are near fine in near fine dust jackets. Jacket designs by Carin Goldberg. Translated by William M. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Books signed by Mahfouz are rare as he left Egypt only…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 274