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Rare First Edition of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Negro Church
DU BOIS, W.E. Burghardt [W.E.B. DuBois].
The Negro Church.
Atlanta: The Atlanta University Press, 1903.
First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition, lacking the front panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Exceptionally rare, without any record of this title appearing at auction in the last 100 years.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133316
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First Edition of Herman Melville's Omoo
MELVILLE, Herman .
Omoo.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847.
First edition of this classic Melville work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise slipcase. BAL 13656. A sharp example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 144159
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ROYAL CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S CARD; SIGNED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH AND PRINCE PHILIP
ELIZABETH, Queen and Prince Philip.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Royal Christmas Card.
Royal Christmas and New Year Card with a mounted color reproduction of Sebastiano Ricci's The Holy Family. Signed by Queen Elizabeth, "Elizabeth R" and Prince Philip, "Philip." In near fine condition. The card measure 18.5 inches by 7.75 inches.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 134861
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The Works and Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson; finely bound by Sotheran
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. [with] The Letters of Robert Stevenson. [Including Treasure Island,
London: Various Publishers, 1902.
Uniformly bound collection of the works and letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo, 36 volumes bound in three quarter morocco by H. Sotheran and Co.with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142853
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Rare Original Warren & Wetmore Blueprint Portfolio of the iconic Royal Hawaiian Hotel
WARREN, Whitney and Charles Delevan Wetmore.
Hotel at Waikiki Beach Blueprint Portfolio.
New York: Warren & Wetmore Architects, c. 1925 .
Rare original blueprint portfolio for Warren & Wetmore's iconic "Hotel at Waikiki Beach", later named the Royal Hawaiian. Folio, containing 30 sheets bound and bradded. In very good condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 114203
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“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words": First Edition, First Issue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
London: George Newnes, 1902.
First edition, first issue of the third Sherlock Holmes novel, and widely considered as the best of the series. Octavo, original black and gilt stamped pictorial red cloth, illustrated by Sidney Paget. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 143782
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's Landmark Work Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Roy La Grone. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 117889
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"Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again": First Edition of The Spirit of St. Louis; Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh a month before publication to Close Friends Walter and Elizabeth Bartky
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author a month before the date of publication on the title page, "To Walter and Elizabeth Bartky With best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh August, 1953 Publication date is Sept. 14th." The recipient, Walter Bartky was an American educator and mathematician and friend of the Lindberghs. After receiving a Ph.D. from the university, he served on its faculty in the astronomy department. In 1943 he became associate dean of…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 144547
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Rare Original Silver Gelatin Print of Rabindranath Tagore; Signed by Him
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph.
Rare original silver gelatin print of Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore. Signed by Rabindranath Tagore below the photograph. The entire piece measures 5 inches by 3 inches.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 120647
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question": First Edition of James Joyces Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
JOYCE, James.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.
First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 142971
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Rare First Edition of Free At Last
COLLINS, Mrs. Jane S.
Free At Last.
Pittsburgh: Murdoch, Kerr & Co, 1896.
First edition of this historical story of Black civil rights in the Jim Crow era. Octavo, original cloth, with 16 drawings and portraits, including Frederick Douglass and Abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Rare with only one example appearing at auction in the last 90 years.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 137487
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First Editions of The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
[JOHN F. KENNEDY],.
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.
First edition of the official multi-volume record on the assassination of President Kennedy. Octavo, 12 volumes. In fine condition.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133201
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“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice”: First Edition of H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau
WELLS, H.G.
The Island of Doctor Moreau.
London: William Heinemann, 1896.
First edition, first issue of “the ultimate science fiction novel and the ultimate horror story” (Gene Wolfe). Octavo, original publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in red and black, tissue-guarded frontispiece. First issue with 33pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear and in Currey’s (B) binding lacking monogram on rear board. Hammond B3; Currey p. 520; Wells 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very sharp example.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 145003
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Rare First Edition of The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R. I. With Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island
BROWN, William J.
The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R. I. With Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island.
Providence: Agnell, 1883.
Very rare first edition of the narrative of William J. Brown, born in 1814 the son of a free Black man and Native American woman in Providence, Rhode Island. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Rare as only one example has appeared at auction in the last 80 years.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 130502
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Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects
WEBSTER, Pelatiah.
Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects: Published During the American War, and Continued Up to the Present Year, 1791.
Philadelphia : Joseph Crukshank, 1791.
First edition of these influential essays concerning the finances and government of the fledgling United States by Webster, who took a strongly-laissez-faire position economically, and was a proponent of what would become the Constitution of the United States. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. First editions are rare.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 133510
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"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey": One of 100 Sets of The Works of Lord Byron
LORD BYRON. [GEORGE GORDON BYRON],.
The Works of Lord Byron.
Boston: Francis A. Nicolls and Co, 1900.
The Edition des Amateurs, one of 100 copies signed by the editor of the complete works of Lord Byron. Octavo, 16 volumes. Bound in full contemporary morocco, elaborate tooling to the front and rear panels with central arms, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, frontispieces and plates each in three states. Edited by Richard Henry Stoddard. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 109282