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Rare Scientific Pamphlet Collection compiled during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1938 Smithsonian-sponsored scientific expedition to the Galapagos islands; six signed and inscribed by him
[FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT],.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Cruise Pamphlet Collection.
City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1939-1942.
First editions of ten botanical and zoological pamphlets published as a result of collections and investigations made during Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidential Cruise of 1938 to the Galapo, six being presentation copies inscribed and signed "FDR" on the front wrapper. Octavo, ten pamphlets, original brown printed paper wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copies, 6 pamphlets are signed and inscribed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 5 to his friend and long-time colleague in combating polio, Basil "Doc" O'Connor. The pamphlets include: Flowering Plants Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938 (Ellsworth P. Killip, May 27, 1939), inscribed. "R.T. McI From F.D.R."; Two New Gobioid…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 123500
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"Your affectionate husband and father, John Brown": Rare autograph letter signed by John Brown to his wife and children
BROWN, John.
John Brown Autograph Letter Signed.
Kingsport, Ohio: 1859.
Rare autograph letter signed by and completely in the hand of Abolitionist John Brown to his wife and children regarding his return home. One page, entirely in the hand of John Brown, the letter is dated 7th April, 1859, and reads in part: "Kingsport, Ohio Dear Wife and children All, I write you March 25th enclosing Draft for $150, saying write me Care of American House... to say what articles you need of provisions, clothing, shoes +c. Have you written? I still wish you to retain what money you can for a few days, as I hope to be at…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 124158
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Rare First Edition of Kate Chopin's The Awakening
CHOPIN, Kate.
The Awakening.
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1899.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in dark green and red. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are rare, especially in this condition.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 131587
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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down": First edition of Bob Dylan: Chronicles: Volume One; signed by Bob Dylan
DYLAN, Bob.
Bob Dylan: Chronicles.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
First edition of Dylan's revealing autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Coco Shinomiya. PSA/DNA LOA and sticker to the title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 143531
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The Connoisseur's Federal Edition of The Complete Works of Alexander Hamilton; Finely Bound
HAMILTON, Alexander.
The Works of Alexander Hamilton.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904.
The Connoisseur's Federal edition of the works of Alexander Hamilton, one of only 100 sets. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over silk cloth, morocco spine labels, frontispieces and additional engraved title-pages on japon vellum. Edited by Henry Cabot Lodge. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 125895
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First Edition of John F. Kennedy's Profiles In Courage; Inscribed by Him
KENNEDY, John F.
Profiles In Courage.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956.
First edition of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Foreword by Allan Nevins. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ben Connors with very best wishes- John Kennedy." With the inaugural address of President Kennedy laid in. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Phil Grushkin. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 133140
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"To my sweetheart, Sylvia": Sylvia Plath's childhood copy of A Little Maid in Vermont; inscribed to her by her mother
CURTIS, Alice Turner [Sylvia Plath].
A Little Maid of Vermont.
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1927.
First edition of the author's children's classic; from the library of Sylvia Plath. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Grace Norcross. Presentation copy, inscribed by Sylvia Plath's mother on the front free endpaper, "Feb. 10, 1941 To my sweetheart, Sylvia from Mommy" and with her father, Otto Plath's, embossed library stamp. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, was a second-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father, Otto Plath (1885–1940), was from Grabow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany and worked as a professor of biology at Boston University. Plath would have been 8 years old when her mother…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 134822
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Extensive collection of over fifty first edition Civil War era pamphlets
DODGE, W.C.; Andrew Johnson; Henry J. Raymond; et al.
Civil War Political Pamphlet Collection.
Various publishers, c. 1861-1865.
Extensive collection of over fifty first edition Civil War era pamphlets on topics including politics, battles, foreign relations, debt, and the draft. Octavo, 52 volumes, original wrappers. The collection includes first editions of: Memorial to the Hon. Secretary of War, or, How to Strengthen our Army and Crush the Rebellion, with a Saving of Life and Treasure [Dodge, W.C. Washington DC: McGill & Witherow, 1864. From the collection of James W. Grimes (1816-1872), Governor of Iowa and United States Senator from Iowa with his ownership inscription]; Correspondence between John H. Gilmer and Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury [Richmond:…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 135127
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“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God": First Edition of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock; Inscribed by Him
GREENE, Graham.
Brighton Rock.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First American edition, preceding the British edition by one month of Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Clive affectionately, Graham." The recipient Clive Francis is a British actor, known for his roles in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Inspector Clouseau and The Crown and was a friend of Greene's. An excellent example in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and wear. Jacket design by George Salter. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 106788
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One of the most highly recommended investment books ever written; Rare First Edition of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923.
First edition of this Wall Street classic. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of legendary Forbes columnist Joseph D. Goodman, with his signature on the front free endpaper and half-title page. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, one of the nicest we have seen and with noted provenance.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 137629
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“Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet": First American Edition of Seven Years in Tibet; Lengthily Inscribed by Heinrich Harrer and By His Holiness the Dalai Lama
HARRER, Heinrich [His Holiness The Dalai Lama].
Seven Years in Tibet.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1954.
First American edition of Harrer's classic account, signed by Harrer and The Dalai Lama. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with over 40 photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Heinrich Harrer in both English and Tibetan on the half-title page, "To Mrs. Rosser with best wishes in remembrance of my lecture in Philadelphia from H. Harrer Jan. 1955." Additionally signed by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who was tutored by Harrer while he living in Tibet. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Richard Graves. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed by…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 112165
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"Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...": First Edition Of Roald Dahl’s Beloved Book Matilda; Signed by Him and Legendary Artist Quentin Blake
DAHL, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Matilda.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her genius, and her indifferent parents. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Rare and desirable signed by both Dahl and Blake.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 138289
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"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights": Finely Bound set of william Blackstone's Influential Work Commentaries on the Laws of England
BLACKSTONE, William.
Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765.
First edition set of Blackstone's landmark work. Quarto, 4 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco title labels lettered, raised bands. In near fine condition, rebacked. A very sharp set.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 139240
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First edition of Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter; inscribed by him to his editor Bernard Smith
HUGHES, Langston.
Not Without Laughter.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
First edition of Langston Hughes’ award-winning debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication to his editor, "For Bernard Smith ~ Sincerely, Langston Hughes July 3, 1930." The recipient, American literary editor and critic Bernard Smith began working at Alfred A. Knopf in 1928 and eventually rose to editor-in-chief and managing editor. He notably edited the works of B. Traven, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Langston Hughes, including this, Hughes' debut novel. In near fine condition. An exceptional association copy, inscribed by Hughes to the man that helped…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 129438
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"My ally & friend, with the prayer that we'll keep on fighting. sooner or later, we'll win": First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son; Inscribed by Him to Civil Rights Advocate Morris Milgram
BALDWIN, James.
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.
New York: The Dial Press, 1961.
First edition of Baldwin's second major book of essays, featuring his powerful analyses of the politics of race and his controversial three-part essay on Richard Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "For Morris Milgram: My ally & friend, with the prayer that we'll keep on fighting. Jimmy B. -& sooner or later, we'll win." The recipient, Morris Milgram was a civil rights advocate and fair housing developer, who fought for integrated housing across the United States following World War II. In 1954, Milgram built the earliest racially integrated private housing community…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 133249
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First edition of Henry James' The Princess Casamassima: A Novel; an exceptional example from the libraries of Barton Currie and later Maurice Sendak
JAMES, Henry.
The Princess Casamassima: A Novel.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.
First edition in book form of one of James's "three formidable novels" published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, half-titles, 2 pages of advertisements at rear of vols. II and III. From the library of Barton Currie with his bookplate to the pastedown and later Maurice Sendak, although not marked. American journalist, author, and book collector Barton Currie contributed hundreds of articles and stories for publications such as New York Evening World, New York Evening Sun, Harper's Weekly and Good Housekeeping in the…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 135364