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Official White House photograph of the young Kennedy family after Easter Mass in Palm Beach, Florida, 1963; inscribed by John F. Kennedy
KENNEDY, John F. [Jacqueline Kennedy].
Official White House Kennedy Family Easter 1963 Signed Photograph.
1963.
Official White House photograph of the young Kennedy family in front of their family home in Palm Beach, Florida on Easter Sunday in 1963. Glossy color photograph featuring an image of President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy with their two young children Caroline and John, Jr. Inscribed by John F. Kennedy in the lower left portion of the photograph, "For Violet ... with best wishes John F. Kennedy." Dated beneath the inscription in another hand, "9/22/63." In very good condition. Matted and framed. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches. The entire piece measures 15 inches…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 146994
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"You got eyes": Robert Frank's The Americans; Inscribed by Him
FRANK, Robert; Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
The Americans.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959.
First edition of the photographer's classic work. Oblong quarto, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Peter Thompson Robert Frank." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the spine. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. Uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 146872
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First Edition of All the President's Men; Signed by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Ben Bradlee, George Bush, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Butterfield
BERNSTEIN, Carl & Bob Woodward; Benjamin Bradlee.
All The President’s Men.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
First edition of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Signed by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the title page. Additionally signed by President George H.W. Bush, editor Ben Bradlee, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Butterfield. George W. Bush wrote in 41 Portrait of My Father, regarding The Watergate Scandal, "The final straw came on August 5, 1974. The Supreme Court had ruled that the White House must turn over all the tapes to Leon Jaworski, the new Watergate special prosecutor and a friend of Dad’s from Houston. "The tapes revealed that Nixon had spoken to…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 101455
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Rare original Bag One lithograph; signed by John Lennon; Presented by him to Jonathan Cott, who was the conducted the final solo interview with Lennon
LENNON, John. [The Beatles].
John Lennon Signed “Bag One” Lithograph.
New York: Cinnamon Press, 1970.
Rare Bag One lithograph signed by Beatles icon John Lennon. One page, the title page from Lennon's Bag One Portfolio. Signed by him beneath the image. From the collection of Jonathan Cott, author and editor of numerous books, predominately focusing on music and who has written articles for varied publications such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Vogue, Esquire and The Wall Street Journal. This was presented by John Lennon to Jonathan Cott, who interviewed Lennon and Yoko Ono several times, and whose December 5, 1980 interview with Lennon was the final solo interview conducted…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 144022
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"I share entirely your view that it is vitally necessary for everyone in the Middle East to live in peace": Autograph Letter Signed by David Ben-Gurion
BEN-GURION, David.
David Ben-Gurion Autographed Letter Signed.
1970.
Autograph letter signed by the founder of modern day Israel and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion. It reads, "Sdeh. Boker, 28. 2. 70 Dear Mr. George P. Viegelmann, Jr. I share entirely your view that it is vitally necessary for everyone in the Middle East to live in peace. I am expressing a private view: I would be ready to give up a great Part of the areas which we hold since the six day war, if this would bring peace; by peace I mean friendship with our Arab neighbors and cooperation politically, economically and culturally, but perhaps only Russia…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 82248
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Rare De Witt Clinton High School Class of 1941 Yearbook; signed by James Baldwin as a graduating senoir
[BALDWIN, James].
James Baldwin Signed De Witt Clinton High School Class of 1941 Yearbook.
Bronx, New York: Published by the Senior Class of De Witt Clinton High School, June 1941.
Rare De Witt Clinton High School Class of 1941 Yearbook signed by James Baldwin as a graduating senior. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by James Baldwin to the right of his senior photograph of page 36, "James Baldwin." His accolades read: JAMES A. BALDWIN "Baldy" Magpie Editorial Boards; Student Court. Novelist-Playwright. 'Fame is the spur and - ouch!' Additionally signed by dozens of other graduating seniors. With copies of the Commencement Exercises, List of Awards and Prizes and June 1941 'Class-Nite' program laid in. In very good condition. Exceptionally rare, one of the earliest Baldwin autographs…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 130241
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First editions of Parts I and II of Stephen King's The Plant; both volumes warmly inscribed by him to his publicist
KING, Stephen.
The Plant. The Opening Segment of an Ongoing Work and Part Two.
Bangor, Maine: Philtrum Press, 1982-1983.
First editions of the first two parts of King's rare unfinished epistolary novel. Octavo, original saddle-sewn olive green wrappers with folding flaps stamped and lettered in black, each part is one of 200 numbered copies printed at the Stinehour Press and designed by Michael Alpert: Part One, No. 147; Part Two, No. 138. Presentation copies, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Part I, "For Barbara - All best, and have a very Happy New Year! Stephen King 1/11/83" and on the half-title page of Part II, "For Barbara - with best wishes, Steve King 1/2/83." With…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 136499
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First Edition of Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket; With an autographed Letter Signed
BEERBOHM. MAX,.
Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.
London: William Heinemann, 1911.
First edition of Beerbohm's classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. According to Mark Samuels Lasner, the Beerbohm scholar and bibliographer, there have only been five copies of this book identified as still possessing their original dust jackets. Two are in institutions, two have been in private hands. Laid in is an autographed letter signed by Max Beerbohm dated August 3, 1911, the publication of Zuleika Dobson. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 121225
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“Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years": First Edition of Look Homeward, Angel; Inscribed by Thomas Wolfe in the year of publication
WOLFE, Thomas.
Look Homeward, Angel.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "To Jo Dauber with thanks for dragging me in. Thomas Wolfe, Nov. 27, 1929." Near fine in a very good first-issue dust jacket with the photograph of Wolfe by Doris Ulmann. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A nice example, uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 125635
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"Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are": First Edition of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Signed by Ken Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Phil Lesh, Larry McMurtry, Ken Babbs, Ralph Metzner, Ed McClanahan, Paul Krassner and Angela Davis
WOLFE, Tom [Ken Kesey.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968.
First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960's. Octavo, original cloth. Signed on title page and opposite page by Ken Kesey, Hunter S. Thompson, Phil Lesh, Larry McMurtry, Ken "Wolfe Boy" Babbs It had the Babbs Touch", "Blessings galore! Ralph Metzner", "Moi Aussi!! Ed McClanahan (and with a drawing), "Hey I'm here...Paul Krassner" and by Angela Davis on half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. An exceptional example.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 146456
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First Edition of The Nobel Lectures in Medicine 1942-1962; Signed by Francis Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins
WATSON, James D; Francis Crick; Maurice Wilkins; Arthur Kornberg.
Nobel Lectures: Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962.
Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1964.
First edition of this collection of Nobel Lectures in physiology or medicine from the years 1942-1962. Thick Octavo, original yellow cloth. Signed by all three Nobel Prize-winning scientists Francis Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins on the title page. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962, "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material."Fine in a very good dust jacket with some closed tears and toning to the spine. An exceptional piece signed by these Nobel Prize-winning scientists.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 95688
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First Edition of W.D. Gann's Truth of the Stock Market Tape and Wall Street Stock Selector; Signed by Him
GANN, William Delbert [W.D.].
Truth of the Stock Market Tape and Wall Street Stock Selector.
New York: Financial Guardian Publishing Company, 1930.
First edition of this work by Gann, based on his years as a seasoned trader. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, 19 charts. Boldly signed by W.D. Gann on the front free endpaper. Two titles in one volume (as issued) and separately paginated. The Truth of the Stock Tape was originally published in 1923; The Wall Street Stock Selector in 1930. This is a first printing of the two volumes bound as one. This volume also contains Gann's forecast for 1929. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed by…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 140957
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First Edition of Jacob D. Cox's Atlanta; General William Tecumseh Sherman's Copy, Inscribed by Him
COX, Jacob Donelson [William T. Sherman].
Atlanta.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882.
First edition of this account of General William Tecumseh Sherman's career-defining campaign; from the library of William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles, illustrated with maps of battle operations. Inscribed by General Sherman on the front free endpaper, "General Sherman 1882, from the Author No. 75 West 71 St. New York." William Tecumseh Sherman and his son Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's bookplates to the front pastedown. In very good condition with light rubbing to the spine, front and rear panels, a small loss to the bottom edge of the front free endpaper. This set was inherited by P.…
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 145734
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Rare First Edition of Leonardo Da Vinci's Trattato della Pittura di Lionardo da Vinci
DA VINCI, Leonardo.
Trattato della Pittura di Lionardo da Vinci. [Leonardo da Vinci].
Paris: Jacques Langlois, 1651.
Rare first edition of this classic treatise of da Vinci's work on painting, two parts in one volume. Folio, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles, engraved portrait of da Vinci in each part, engraved vignette on title, engraved initials, head and tail pieces, engraved text illustrations. In very good condition, marginalia, rebacked. Compiled from his original notes by his pupil Francesco Melzi. First editions are rare.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 130267
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“Not until we can deliver our secret to our respective worlds and acquire an intact ship": First Edition of Larry Niven's Ringworld; Lengthily Signed by Him
NIVEN, Larry.
Ringworld.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1972.
First British and first hardcover edition of this classic work, which went on to win the 1970 Nebula and 1971 Hugo award for best novel. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page, "Not until we can deliver our secret to our respective worlds and acquire an intact ship. Larry Niven." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A unique example.
Price: $16,000.00 Item Number: 139744
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"the most celebrated biography in the English language": Rare First Edition, First Issue of Boswell's The Life of Johnson
BOSWELL, James.
The Life of Johnson.
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in The Poultry, 1791.
First edition, first issue of both volumes of the most celebrated biography in the English language, which was published on May 16, 1791 in a print run of only 1,750 copies. Quarto, bound in full morocco by Birdsall, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Johnson, engraved by J. Heath after the Sir Joshua Reynolds (1756) painting. Housed in a custom clamshell box. In fine condition. An excellent example of this landmark work.
Price: $16,500.00 Item Number: 120374