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First Edition of Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. In fine condition. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 116901
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First Edition of Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
First edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 117891
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Finely Bound example of The Golden Treasury Selected from the best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged with notes
PALGRAVE, Francis T.
The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged with Notes.
London: Macmillan & Company, 1909.
Finely bound example of the Golden Treasury. Octavo, bound in full morocco, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised spine bands, inner dentelles, moiré silk endleaves, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 109328
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“The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything": Signed Limited Edition of Music by Philip Glass
GLASS, Philip.
Music by Philip Glass.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
Signed limited edition, one of 250 numbered copies. Octavo, original leather, in the original slipcase. Fine in a fine slipcase. With the musical score laid in, as issued. Signed by Philip Glass on the limitation page. Edited and with supplementary material by Robert T. Jones.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 109279
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Signed by Both Francis Crick and James Watson
CRICK, Francis and Watson.
The Nature of Viruses: The Biophysics and Biochemistry of Viruses (CIBA Foundation Symposium).
London: J. & A. Churchill , 1957.
First edition of James Watson and Francis Crick’s Virus Structure. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both James Watson and Francis Crick. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 2040
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“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire”: Signed Limited Edition of Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale
BENNETT, Arnold.
The Old Wives’ Tale.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927.
Signed limited edition of Bennett's masterpiece. Quarto, bound in original half vellum, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. One of 5oo copies, signed by Arnold Bennett. Near fine in the rare original slipcase.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114732
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First edition of Alain Colas' Around the World Alone; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
COLAS, Alain. Translated by J. F. Bernard.
Around the World Alone.
New York: Barron's/Woodbury, 1978.
First edition of Colas' riveting account of his 1978 voyage around the world aboard his 70-foot trimaran the Manureva. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 20 color plates. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest…
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115225
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"But I speak from hearsay no longer; I knew my mother for ever now": First Edition of J.M. Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy
BARRIE, J.M.
Margaret Ogilvy.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1869.
First British edition of the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie's classic memoir of his mother. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case. Rare in this condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 109891
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First Edition of Philip Roth's When She Was Good; Signed by Him
ROTH, Philip.
When She Was Good.
New York: Random House, 1967.
First edition of Roth's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page in a contemporary signature. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 112689
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Finely bound example of Francis Charles Philips' My Little Husband and If Only; finely bound
PHILIPS, Francis Charles.
My Little Husband and If Only.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894-1904.
Finely bound example Philips' two collections short stories. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges red. In near fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 114507
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Rare World War II Era Japanese flag signed by 29 soldiers of the United States 49th Field Artillery Battalion
World War II Era 49th Field Artillery Battalion Signed Japanese Flag.
Rare World War II era Japanese flag signed by 29 soldiers of the United States 49th Field Artillery Battalion. In near fine condition. The flag measures 27 inches by 32.75 inches with 'Okinawa' inscribed in ink to the central red disc and "49th Full Artillery" inscribed at the top of the page in addition to the 29 signatures. Framed. The entire piece measures 39 inches by 33 inches.
Price: $10,000.00 Item Number: 109748
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Finely bound example of Bagot's Casting of Nets
BAGOT, Richard.
Casting of Nets.
Bernhard Tauchnitz: Leipzig, 1901.
Finely bound example of Bagot's early novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine. Ownership names. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 114706
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"LET THE WORD GO FORTH FROM THIS TIME AND PLACE, TO FRIEND AND FOE ALIKE, THAT THE TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED TO A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICANS": Rare original invitation collection from the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F.
John F. Kennedy Inauguration Invitation Collection.
1961.
Rare collection of original invitation materials from events held upon the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. The collection includes an official "Inauguration Ceremonies" program, a green admission pass marked "Senate Steps" admitting the bearer to the Senate Wing Steps, a blank "Inaugural Concert" ticket order form with envelope, and photographic portraits of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson with facsimile signatures. With the original Congress of the United States envelope which contained the collection. All items are in fine condition. An exceptional collection.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 90374
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First Edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary: A Drama; inscribed by him to his son Hallam Tennyson
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
Queen Mary: A Drama.
London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875.
First edition of the first book in Tennyson's historical trilogy. Small octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his son on the title page, "Hallam from A." Tennyson's eldest son Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson served as his father's personal secretary and served as his official biographer. His Tennyson: a Memoir was published in 1897 and he bequeathed many of his father's notebooks to Trinity College in 1924. A significant association copy.
Price: $7,200.00 Item Number: 109503
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First Edition of Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn; Signed by Her and actor Kirk Douglas
BAKER, Dorothy [Kirk Douglas].
Young Man with a Horn.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, "with best wishes Dorothy Baker." Additionally signed by legendary actor Kirk Douglas, who starred as Rick Martin in the film. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 110742
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Signed Limited Edition of Eugene O'Neill and the Senator From Texas
O'NEILL, Eugene .
Eugene O’Neill and the Senator From Texas.
New Haven: Yale University Library Gazette, 1961.
Signed limited first edition, number 79 of 100 examples, signed by Earle B. Mayfield. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Edited by John S. Mayfield. With an original signed letter from the editor laid in.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 112069