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first edition of Ken Tate's New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses Volume One; with a rare portrait signed by him tipped in
TATE, Ken with Oscar Riera Ojeda.
New Classicists: Ken Tate Architect, Selected Houses. Volume One.
Mulgrave: Images Publishing, 2003.
First and only edition of the first volume in Tate's monograph series. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. With a rare portrait of Tate signed by him tipped in to the pastedown of the accompanying custom clamshell box. Unopened in the original shrink wrap.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 127014
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"I am the Wild West, no show about it. I was one of the people who kept it wild": First Edition of Buffalo Girls; Signed by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
MCMURTRY, Larry.
Buffalo Girls.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry on the title page and the dedicatee "Best wishes Diana Ossana" on the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Wendell Minor. Uncommon signed by both McMurtry and Ossana.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146185
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George Iles's Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
ILES, George [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908.
The second volume of a stunning collection of autobiographies, this volume containing William Tecumseh Sherman's memoir; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octodecimo, original red cloth, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition. In 1908, upon completing work on 'Little Masterpieces of Autobiography,' Iles sent Philemon Tecumseh Sherman the entire set of works as thanks for Sherman's permission to reprint from his father's memoirs.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145976
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First edition of Francis Marion Crawford's Our Silver
CRAWFORD, Francis Marion.
Our Silver: A Letter Addressed to George S. Coe, Esq. Chairman of Executive Council of the American Bankers’ Association.
New York: Douglas Taylor, 1881.
Rare first edition of Francis Marion Crawford's treatise on the supply and demand for the silver dollar in the United States. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 95874
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Paul Johnson's A History of Christianity; Warmly Inscribed by Him
JOHNSON, Paul.
A History of Christianity.
New York: Atheneum, 1979.
First paperback edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Christian with love from the author Paul Johnson August '94." In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 132639
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Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries; inscribed by Irving Caesar
CAESAR, Irving and Rudolph Sieczynski.
Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries Signed Musical Score.
New York: Harms Inc, 1937.
Musical score from Rudolf Sieczynski and Irving Caesar's Vienna Dreams and Vienna Cries. Quarto, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Irving Caesar on the front wrapper, "To Percy with friendship from Irving." In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138548
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First edition of Colonel Henry Doveton Hutchinson's The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart; from the library of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
HUTCHINSON, Henry Doveton [Felix Frankfuter].
The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais and Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart. Based (By Permission) on Letters Contributed to ‘The Times’.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
First edition of Hutchinson's important eye-witness account of the Tirah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt decorative vignette of an Afridi tribesman to the front panel, illustrated with 7 maps and plans, half-tone tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of General Lockhart. In near fine condition. From the library of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter with his bookplate to the pastedown. Austrian-American lawyer and jurist Felix Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 119903
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"Toledo lived in my mind just as El Greco had painted it in the storm": Rare First Greek Edition of Nikos Kazantzakis' Spain
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos.
Spain [In Greek].
Athena: 1937.
Rare first Greek edition of this early travelogue by Kazantzakis. Octavo, bound in half morocco over cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 23009
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Rare First Edition of What Happened to Me; Inscribed by Lasalle Corbell Pickett
PICKETT, Lasalle Corbell [George Pickett].
What Happened to Me.
New York: Brentano's, 1917.
First edition of the autobiography of LaSalle Corbell Pickett, wife of Confederate General George Pickett. Duodecimo, original cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait of the author dated January 17, 1917. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For my friend of many years Mr. W. W. Norman - with the sincere regards of the author: LaSalle Corbell Pickett. March 27, 1923." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145485
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"You must play boldly to win": First Edition of Go For Broke; Inscribed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, Arnold.
Go for Broke: My Philosophy of Winning Golf.
London: William Kimber and Co. Limited, 1974.
First British edition of this autobiographical golf instruction book from 'The King' of golf. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the fly leaf, "To Nora Best Regards Arnold Palmer." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Braren.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145496
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, small ownership label to the front pastedown. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146417
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First Edition of Thomas Kuhn's The Essential Tension
KUHN, Thomas S.
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133733
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“OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN, THE SADDEST ARE THESE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN'": First edition, First issue of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In near fine condition. Rear endpaper clipped. Housed in a custom clamshell and folding chemise case.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139441
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"IF I HAD A WORLD OF MY OWN, EVERYTHING WOULD BE NONSENSE. NOTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT IS, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT ISN'T": Lewis Carrol's Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
CARROLL, Lewis.
Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
New York: Worthington Co, n.d..
Early printing of the immensely popular sequel to Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136052
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First Edition of George Agar Ellis' The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask
ELLIS, George Agar.
The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask, Extracted from Documents in the French Archives.
London: John Murray, 1826.
First edition of this early account of the French legend, later retold by Alexandre Dumas in The Man in the Iron Mask. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary straight grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges marbled. In very good condition. An attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137292
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“WHY THE BUSINESS MAN SHOULD PLAY GOLF”: FIRST EDITION OF TRAVERS’ GOLF BOOK
TRAVERS, Jerome D.
Travers’ Golf Book.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1913.
First edition of this four-time U.S. amateur champion’s first book. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, photographic cover portrait to the front panel, with forty eight stop-action illustrations. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 115871