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"THE FACT THAT A GREAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE SOMETHING IS NO GUARANTEE OF ITS TRUTH”: Rare Original Sketch of the Dust Jacket of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge; Signed by him
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
The Razor’s Edge Original Dust Jacket Design Signed.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.
Rare W. Somerset Maugham’s original ink sketch showing his dust jacket design concept for his greatest novel, The Razor’s Edge, executed on a blank Western Union telegram form, which was followed by the publisher pretty much to the letter. A striking piece of literary history demonstrating that the author’s intentions for the book were honored from the text to the jacket itself, including his signature Moroccan symbol, used on nearly all his books, including reprints; and an interesting example of a major author’s notion of self-representation. In his autobiographical book, The Summing Up, Maugham wrote of the symbol: “[My father]…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 128489
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First South African Edition of Long Walk to Freedom; Signed by Nelson Mandela and Mac Maharaj, who transcribed this volume
MANDELA, Nelson .
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.
First South African edition of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by the author, "NMandela 15.3.06" and additionally signed by "Mac Maharaj 20 Sept 2007" on the verso of the front free endpaper. Maharaj was a political activist and member of the then banned South African Communist Party, who worked in a clandestine manner on anti-apartheid activities with Nelson Mandela. In July 1964, Maharaj was arrested in Johannesburg, charged and convicted with four others including Laloo Chiba and Wilton Mkwayi on charges of sabotage in the little Rivonia…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 140892
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"MATHEMATICS IS A LANGUAGE": FIRST EDITION OF PAUL SAMUELSON’S FOUNDATIONS OF ANALYSIS
SAMUELSON, Paul A.
Foundations of Economic Analysis.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s magnum opus and one of the most influential economic texts of the twentieth century as published in Harvard Economic Studies as volume LXXX in the series. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. In near fine condition with light toning to the spine. Harvard College library bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 135729
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"THE MOST EFFECTIVE ANTI-WAR STATEMENT IN AMERICAN LITERATURE": First Edition of Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun; Signed by Him
TRUMBO, Dalton.
Johnny Got His Gun.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1939.
First edition of Trumbo's powerful novel, which won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Dalton Trumbo on the half-title page. Near fine in the original dust jacket with rubbing and wear, lacking the front flap. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 110238
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Rare First Printing of Francis Parkman's The California and the Oregon Trail
PARKMAN, Francis.
The California and Oregon Trail.
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.
First edition, first printing of Parkman’s classic account of his journey along the Oregon Trail. Octavo, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispiece and vignette half title by Felix Octavius Carr Darley. This is the scarce first issue in cloth, with ad leaf preceding the frontispiece. Publisher’s catalogue in the rear and binding with PARKMAN set in sans-serif type on the spine. A good example with the crown and foot of the spine showing wear and wear to the bottom boards, without the usual restoration. Contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco case.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 2720
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"The first full-sized marble statue in New England": Fine terracotta pedestrian statue of George Washington, after Sir Francis Chantrey's Washington as a Roman Senator, 1826
CHANTREY, Sir Francis. [George Washington].
Washington as a Roman Senator, 1826. [Sir Francis Chantrey George Washington Terracotta Pedestrian Statue].
c. 1850.
Fine terracotta statue of President George Washington, after Sir Francis Chantrey's Washington as a Roman Senator, 1826. Terracotta. In 1818, the Washington Monument Association commissioned Francis Chantrey to sculpt a pedestrian statue of George Washington in white marble. Unveiled in Doric Hall of the Massachusetts State House in November 1827, it was the first sculpture to be placed in the then new State House and the first full-sized marble statue in New England. In fine condition. The statue measures 14.75 inches in height.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 123164
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“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth": Rare First Edition of John Stuart Mill's The System of Logic
MILL, John Stuart.
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation.
New York: John W. Parker, 1843.
First edition of this classic work on logic. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with some wear to the cloth and overall toning. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions in the original cloth are rare.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 34033
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Rare Houdini Picture Corporation Stock Certificate; signed by master illusionist Harry Houdini
HOUDINI, Harry.
Harry Houdini Signed Houdini Picture Corporation Stock Certificate.
New York: The Brown-Green Co., January 23, 1922.
Rare stock certificate signed by the world’s greatest escape artist, master illusionist Harry Houdini. One page, partially printed in brown and black ink with an embossed seal, the document is dated January 23, 1922 and certifies that W.E. Jefferson hereby owns twenty shares of the Capital Stock of Houdini Picture Corporation. Signed by Harry Houdini as President of the Corporation and countersigned by Harry H. Poppa as Assistant Treasurer. In near fine condition. With a Houdini Picture Corporation Voting Trust Certificate awarding 30 shares of common capital stock of Houdini Picture Corporation to Abel Shearer.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 129031
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"I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood": First Editions of the authors Masterpiece; Signed and Inscribed by the author
WEST, Rebecca.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.
London: Macmillan, 1941.
First editions of Rebecca West's masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers. Both volumes are signed by West with volume one inscribed and dated in 1965 by the author, volume two is signed and dated in 1965. Both volumes are near fine in near fine dust jackets that show light shelfwear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Scarce and desirable signed by West.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 1495
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Rare First Edition of Economists Joseph Schumpeters Classic Work Business Cycles
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, And Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939.
First edition of the economist’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes. Original cloth. Some light rubbing to the cloth, a very good set of this landmark work. From the library of economist Moses Abramovitz, with his signature to volume one. Abramovtitz was known for his Catch-Up Growth Hypothesis, which attempted to explain what caused Western Europe's Golden Era of economic growth from 1948 until 1972 and also for his work on business cycles. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable with noted provenance.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 3909
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"Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?": First Edition of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Finely Bound by Bayntun
THACKERAY, William Makepeace [Cosway].
Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. [Cosway].
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition, first issue of Thackeray's masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full red morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Cosway-style binding with a miniature portrait of Thackeray inset into the front panel, engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title, and 38 engraved plates, spine in gilt compartments, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ivory silk doublures. The first issue, with the headline on page one in rustic type; "Mr. Pitt" on page 453; and the suppressed woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336. Van Duzer 231. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 69017
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Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring; inscribed by him
COPLAND, Aaron.
Appalachian Spring. (Ballet for Martha).
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1945.
First edition of the Booksey and Hawkes Pocket Orchestral Score of Copland's Appalachian Spring, one of the most enduring of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original wrappers as issue. Inscribed by the composer on the title page, "For Bruce Kubert Aaron Copland Heaton Hall July 1946." In very good condition with a tear to the front panel. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 96244
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First editions of the first anthology of Jewish sermons published in America in the original cloth; compiled by Isaac Leeser and from the library of Moses Montefiore
LEESER, Isaac.
Discourses, Argumentative and Devotional, on the Subject of Jewish Religion.
Philadelphia: C. Sherman and Co, 1836-1841.
First edition of "the first anthology of Jewish sermons in America" which "marked the coming of age of the American synagogue and ministry"(Goldman). Association copy linking the two most prominent and influential figures in Jewish America and England of this era, Issac Leeser and Moses Montefiore. American Jewish lay minister, author, translator, and publisher Issac Leeser revolutionized the format of the early American Jewish sermon by preaching in English, helping to establish regular sermons as a central part of the American rabbi's work. Aspiring to make his influence international, Leeser corresponded regularly with Jewish leaders in England, most notably philanthropist and activist Sir Moses Montefiore, who played a pivotal role in the development of Proto-Zionism. (Goldman, 687; Rosenbach, 413, 479, 476; Singerman, 0632, 0748). Octavo, four volumes bound in two,…
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 82404
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“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”: Signed limited Edition of P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins and Legendary Actor Dick Van Dyke
TRAVERS, P.L. [Dick Van Dyke].
Mary Poppins.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1997.
Signed limited edition of this children's classic, one of 100 numbered copies, this is number 37. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Mary Shepard. In fine condition. Additionally signed "God bless! Dick Van Dyke" on the front free endpaper, who starred in the 1964 film adaptation. A unique example.
Price: $5,800.00 Item Number: 142005
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"The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them": Laurence Sternes Masterpiece The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy; signed by Laurence Sterne in volumes V, VII, and IX
STERNE, Laurence.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760-1767.
First and mixed editions of all nine volumes of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language, signed by Laurence Sterne in volumes V, VII, and IX as called for. Small octavo, nine volumes bound into five in full contemporary calf with elaborate gilt tooling and morocco spine labels lettered in gilt to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, engraved frontispieces after Hogarth to volumes I and III, half-titles in volumes V, VII and IX (as called for). Signed by the…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 144538
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"One of the most important books on Wall Street"; G.M. Loeb's The Battle For Investment Survival; Signed by Him
LOEB, Gerald M. [G.M.].
The Battle For Investment Survival.
New York: Barron's, 1943.
Early printing of Loeb's classic work Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gerald M. Loeb on the front free endpaper. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 119657