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John F. Kennedy Engraved Portrait; Signed by Ronald Reagan as Governor of California and 24 State and Lieutenant Governors
REAGAN, Ronald. [John F. Kennedy].
Ronald Reagan Signed John F. Kennedy Engraved Portrait.
1967.
Original engraved portrait of President John F. Kennedy signed by President Ronald Reagan as Governor of California and 24 State and Lieutenant Governors including: Nelson Rockefeller, John B. Connally, Tim Babcock, Jack Williams, Don Samuelson, John J. McKeith, Walter J. Hickel, and others. With a 13-cent "John F. Kennedy" stamp, cancelled on the anniversary of JFK's birthday, May 29th 1967. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19.5 inches by 16.5 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 94707
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Rare First Edition of Capitalism Socialism and Democracy; Finely Bound
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.
First edition of Schumpeter’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 133796
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First Edition of The Ginger Man; Signed by J.P. Donleavy; From the Library of Publisher Seymour Lawrence
DONLEAVY, J.P.
The Ginger Man.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.
First edition, first issue with the words, Special Volume, Francs: 1.500 to the rear panel. Small octavo, original green wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, "Washington D.C. March 1994 J.P. Donleavy." In fine condition. From the library of Donleavy's publisher Seymour Lawrence. Introduction by Arland Ussher. An exceptional example.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 110478
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"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends": First Editions of The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Each Inscribed by President Hoover
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941: Three Volume Complete Set.
New York: MacMillan, 1951-1952.
First editions of each volume in Hoover’s memoirs. Octavo, 3 volumes, illustrated. Each volume is inscribed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper. Each are near fine in near fine dust jackets. Includes: Volume One: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941. Includes an original photograph of Hoover with his Belgian shepherd King Tut. An exceptional set, uncommon signed and in the first printing.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 94356
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"There are wines listed in this book that give us a great sense of pleasure, and there are others that help in refreshing one's spirit": Rare Original Calligraphic Le Cirque Wine List; inscribed by front room captain Joseph C. Garni to Le Cirque co-founder Jean Vergnes
GARNI, Joseph C. [Jean Vergnes].
Le Cirque Carte Des Vins. [Original Le Cirque Wine List].
[1974].
The original Le Cirque wine list used prior to the restaurant cataloging their wine cellar and printing a commercial style wine list, presented by front room captain Joseph C. Garni to Le Cirque co-founder Jean Vergnes. Quarto, bound in full leather with "Carte Des Vins Le Cirque" stamped in gilt, gilt ruling, and scrolling to the front panel, watered moiré silk endleaves, 14 pages contained in laminated sleeves, text in calligraphy decorated with hand-colored borders, the list contains sections of Champagnes, Bordeaux, Bourgogne, wines of the Rhone, Loire, Alsace, Vins Mousseux, Rose, Italian and American reds. Design, calligraphy and illustration…
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 146731
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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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Two volumes from the Library of Ulysses S. Grant
SCOTT, Walter [Ulysses S. Grant].
Waverley Novels. Woodstock.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
Two volumes from the library of Ulysses S. Grant, published the same year The Civil War was raging. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. From the library of Ulysses S. Grant with a presentation bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes which reads, "Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, from the Citizens of Boston, January 1, 1866." In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 119455
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"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real": First Edition of The Border Trilogy; Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy
MCCARTHY, Cormac.
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2008.
First edition of McCarthy's classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author, "For Tom and Corinne All the best Your friend Cormac." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 145835
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Rare Signed Brigham Young Document
YOUNG, Brigham.
Brigham Young Signed Document.
Salt Lake City: 1872.
Brigham Young signed document as President of the Utah Central Railroad Company, ordering the treasurer of the UCRC to pay $13 to C.W. Penrose, with Penrose's signature on verso. The entire piece measures 8 inches by 3.8 inches.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 123738
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Rare 18th century printing of Pictures of the Old and New Testaments; lavishly illustrated with 151 full-page engravings
Pictures of the Old and New Testaments, Showing the Most Nottable Historys, in 150 Copper Platis, brought in Copper by the Most Famouss and Pricipal Masters.
Amsterdam: Reinier & Josua Ottens, n.d..
Rare 18th century printing of this lavishly illustrated biblical text. Quarto, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, illustrated with 152 copper-engraved plates after Matthias Scheits. Text in English and French. In near fine condition. From the library of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington with his bookplate. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. Rare.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 131429
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"What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes": First Edition of Harry Houdini's The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin; Signed by Him
HOUDINI, Harry.
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin.
New York: The Publishers Printing Co, 1908.
First edition of this work by Houdini regarding his one-time idol. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Houdini, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Harry Houdini on the front free endpaper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, in near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 99655
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First Edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Queen Mary: A Drama; Signed by Him
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
Queen Mary: A Drama.
London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875.
First edition, first issue of the first book in Tennyson's historical trilogy with “behled” on page 126. Small octavo, bound in full red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, double gilt ruled, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Association copy, signed by Alfred Tennyson on the title page with Ellen Terry's inscription below, "From her loving Ellen Terry" and below that "Her old friend, Henry Irving." The recipient, Sir Henry Irving performed in and produced the the first production of Queen Mary at the Lyceum Theatre in April of 1876. The book was…
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 95173
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Rare signed limited edition of David Bowie's Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust; signed by him and photographer Mick Rock
BOWIE, David. Photographs and Captions by Mick Rock.
Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.
Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2002.
First edition, signed limited issue of this profusely illustrated homage to one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, David Bowie. Folio, original quarter leathers over illustrated boards, photographic endpapers, all edges silver, illustrated with photographs by Mick Rock. One of 2,500 numbered copies signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock, this is number 683. Housed in the original publisher's decorative lidded box. In fine condition.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 138421
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First Edition of Mollie Fancher; Signed by Her
DAILEY, Abram H. [Mollie Fancher].
Mollie Fancher: the Brooklyn Enigma. An Authentic Statement of Facts in the Life of Mary J. Fancher, The Psychological Marvel of the Nineteenth Century.
Brooklyn: Eagle Book Printing Dept, 1894.
First edition of this work on Mollie Fancher. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Mollie Fancher on the title page. In very good condition. Books signed by Fancher are rare.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 129342
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"one of the earliest books on golf instruction and the impetus for all other books of instruction on the game": First edition of Hutchinson's Hints on the Game of Golf
HUTCHINSON, Horace G.
Hints on the Game of Golf.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1886.
First edition one of the earliest books on golf instruction and the impetus for all other books of instruction on the game. Small octavo, original cloth, publishers advertisements before the half title page for Peile's Lawn Tennis as a Game of Skill and four books on angling. From the library of O.M. Leland with his ownership signature and library markings on the verso of the front free endpaper. O.M. Leland of Minneapolis, Minnesota assembled one of the world's finest golf libraries and collection of golf memorabilia which he donated to the USGA Golf Museum and Library, or "Golf House", in New York in…
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 95902
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“SYNONYMOUS WITH EVERYTHING SUBVERSIVE”: First Editions of Emma Goldman's Living My Life; In the rare original dust jackets
GOLDMAN, Emma.
Living My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.
First editions of the famous radical’s autobiography, with frontispiece portraits and eleven additional photogravures of Goldman, fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman and others. Octavo, 2 volumes. Near fine in a near fine dust jackets.
Price: $3,250.00 Item Number: 108742