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“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly": SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brave New World.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.
Signed limited first edition of Huxley's masterpiece. Octavo, original yellow cloth, gilt topstain as issued. One of a limited edition of 324 numbered copies signed by Aldous Huxley on the limitation page, this is number 8. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 118355
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"To Hubert Humphrey with my high regard": First Edition of The Lyndon Johnson Story; inscribed by Lyndon Johnson to his vice president Hubert Humphrey
MOONEY, Booth. With a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson [Hubert Humphrey].
The Lyndon Johnson Story.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Booth Mooney's biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the front free endpaper, "To Hubert Humphrey with my high regard Lyndon B. Johnson." The recipient, Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., served as Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey took office on January 20, 1965, ending the 14-month vacancy of the Vice President of the United States, which had remained empty when then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the Presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 140814
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"Who represents America's best hope that one day before too long fathers will enjoy equal protection from and affirmative encouragement to overcome all barriers": FROM THE LIBRARY OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG: FIRST EDITION of Good Will Toward Men; Lengthily inscribed by Jack Kammer to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
KAMMER, Jack. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
First edition of Kammer's candid work on the gender gap. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who represents America's best hope that one day before too long fathers will enjoy equal protection from and affirmative encouragement to overcome all barriers - de jure and de facto, legal and psychological, governmental and cultural - between them and their children... so that women can be equal with men... and vice versa. Jack Kammer." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 146501
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"I am only waiting for love to give myself up at last into his hands": Gitanjali (Song Offerings); Signed by Rabindranath Tagore
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Gitanjali [Song Offerings].
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.
First Bolpur edition of this collection of prose translated by Tagore from the original Bengali, largely for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, engraved frontispiece portrait of Tagore. Boldly signed by Rabindranath Tagore on the half-title page. Introduction by W.B. Yeats. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 144306
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Rare original typographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln composed of his Emancipation Proclamation
LINCLON, Abraham; Designed and written by W.H. Pratt. Lithograph by A. Hageboeck.
Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation Typographic Portrait.
Davenport, Iowa: 1865.
Original typographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln composed of his Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 26.5 inches by 19 inches. An exceptional piece, a rare and desirable piece of Americana.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 95831
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First Edition of Erskine Caldwell's God’s Little Acre; Inscribed by Him
CALDWELL, Erskine.
God’s Little Acre.
New York: The Viking Press, 1933.
First edition of what many consider Caldwell's finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Ingle Barr Here is a book you should read some day Erskine Caldwell." The recipient, Ingle Barr was a prominent book collector. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 134506
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"I am afraid there can be no question of my releasing Volume I before the 15th November": Excellent typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill to friend and publisher Desmond Flower regarding the publication of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Winston S. Churchill Typed Letter Signed.
1955.
Excellent typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill. On Churchill's Chartwell letterhead, the return address of which has been corrected to La Cappocina, Cap d'Ail, A.m. The letter is dated 27 October, 1955, addressed to Desmond Flower, and reads: My dear Desmond, I am afraid there can be no question of my releasing Volume I before the 15th November. I have had Hodge and Kelly out here, and we have been working very hard. There is plenty of time. I am sorry if this should cause you inconvenience. Yours very sincerely, "Winston Churchill P.S. I have to read page 2…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 119601
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"Don't Stop Me Now'Cause I'm having a good time, having a good time": Original Record of Queen's Jazz, Signed by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon
MERCURY, Freddie. Brian May.
Queen. Jazz Signed Album.
1989.
Original record, boldly signed by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon on the front panel. In fine condition. Framed. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 18 inches. Rare and desirable signed by each member of Queen.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 122488
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First Edition of The World of Salvador Dali; Inscribed by Him Twice with a Large Drawing of Don Quixote
DESCHARNES, Robert [Salvador Dali].
The World of Salvador Dali.
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1962.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work of Dali. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly signed and inscribed by Dali on two pages, "Pour Seth Dennis hommage de Salvador Dali 1963" with a large drawing. Fine in a very good dust jacket. A unique example.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 139499
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ERASMUS, Desiderius (Erasme).
Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis.
Coloniae: Iohannem Gymnicum, 1529.
Rare edition, a sound, complete copy, lacking only the final blank. Title within pictorial woodcut border. Octavo, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, dated 1534 in blind, brass clasps, minor statins and soiling and some early penned marginalia. Also bound in are three additional works, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium; Plutarch. De Liberis Educandis; and Horatius Flaccus.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 1832
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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
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SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF BIG GAME HUNTING IN THE ROCKIES; SIGNED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and On the Great Plains. Comprising “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman” and “The Wilderness Hunter.”
New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1899.
Signed limited first edition of this fascinating account of every species of big game in temperate North America Roosevelt has hunted. Quarto, bound in full three-quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands restored by J. MacDonald Company, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original silk ribbon laid-in, 55 tissue-guarded illustrations by Frederic Remington, A. B. Frost, J. Carter Beard, Swain Gifford, Henry Sandham and other well-known artists throughout. One of only 1000 copies signed by Roosevelt beneath the tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of himself in Rough Rider's uniform, this is…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 145341
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Presentation copy of Winston Churchill's The Story of My Early Life: A Roving Commission; inscribed by Winston Churchill
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Story of My Early Life: A Roving Commission.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945.
Later printing of Churchill's acclaimed autobiography, recounting the first 25 years of his life. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 7 plates, one folding map. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To E.A. Allen from Winston S. Churchill Christmas 1946." In very good condition. Housed in a custom velvet-lined half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 145060
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Every Building on the Sunset Strip; Inscribed by Ed Ruscha
RUSCHA, Ed [Edward].
Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1966.
First edition, second issue. Small octavo, original stiff self-wrappers, original slipcase. Inscribed by the artist on the title page, "For John Ed Ruscha." One continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued paper segments with black-and-white photographs of every building on the sunset strip. Fine in a fine slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 93546