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Joseph Fattorusso's Wonders of Italy
FATTORUSSO, Joseph.
Wonders of Italy: The Monuments of Antiquity, The Churches, The Palaces, The Treasures of Art.
Florence, Italy: Giuseppe Fattorusso, 1952.
Later printing of this handbook for students and travelers navigating the history and culture of Italy. Octavo, finely bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt onlay grid of the coats of arms of various Italian cities to the front panel, double gilt ruling to the rear panel, frontispiece of a partial view of the Palace of the Doges, generously illustrated with 3275 black and white photographs by Fratelli Alinari, Giacomo Brogi, and D. Anderson, numerous chronological and genealogical tables of various sovereign houses, and twenty-two plates in full color. In…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 145486
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Large Signed Portrait of Woodrow Wilson; Signed by Him and the Artist Frederick Reynolds
WILSON, Woodrow; Frederick Reynolds.
Woodrow Wilson Signed Portrait.
Limited edition engraving by artist Frederick Reynolds, signed by both the artist and Woodrow Wilson, one of 300 numbered. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19.5 inches by 24 inches. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 29015
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“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television”: Rare Artist's Sketch of Woody Allen; Signed by Woody Allen
SOCCI, P.B. (Woody Allen).
Woody Allen Signed Sketch.
Rare graphite artist's sketch of American director and comedian Wood Allen. Signed by Woody Allen in the upper left corner of the sketch. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 8.75 inches by 11.5 inches. A unique example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 89099
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First Edition of Milton Babbitt's Words About Music; Inscribed by Him
BABBITT, Milton; Edited by Stephen Dembski & Joseph N. Straus.
Words About Music.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the Babbitt, "For _____ ______, With warmest greetings, from Milton Babbitt P.S. how ty Rot-partitione!" Edited by Stephen Dembski and Joseph N. Straus. A very nice inscription.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 1279
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"words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them": Signed Limited Edition of Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings; One of only 100 examples
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Words and Their Meanings.
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940.
Signed limited edition, one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley and additionally by the publisher, "To my constant friend James Blake from Jake." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition, rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133128
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Words of Mercury; Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh; Edited by Artemis Cooper.
Words of Mercury.
London: John Murray, 2003.
Early printing of this collection of essays by Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designed by Octavius Murray. Edited by Artemis Cooper.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 78903
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First Edition of Work Suspended. Two Chapters of an Unfinished Novel; Warmly Inscribed by Evelyn Waugh in the Year of Publication
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Work Suspended. Two Chapters of an Unfinished Novel.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1942.
First edition, one of only 500 copies. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Carolyn with love from Evelyn Christmas 1942." In very good condition.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 146276
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"Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize": First Edition of Robert Moses' Working for the People. Promise and Performance in Public Space; Warmly Inscribed by Him
MOSES, Robert .
Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Space.
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1956.
First edition of this work by the legendary Robert Moses. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Janet Hooper Ostahn, the daughter of an old and valued friend, from Robert Moses." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Herbert Bayard Swope. Books signed by Moses are uncommon.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 124814
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First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Working With The Hands
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Working With The Hands.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, tissue guard. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 133459
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Finely bound collection of Charles Dickens' works
DICKENS, Charles and John Forster.
Works of Charles Dickens.
London: 1837-1874.
Finely bound collection of a selection of Dickens' works as well as Foster's acclaimed biography. Octavo, 16 volumes uniformly bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, red and green contrasting morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The collection is comprised of: a first edition of Pictures from Italy [London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846]; First edition in book form of Hard Times [London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854]; First edition in book form of the Uncommercial Traveller [London: Chapman and Hall, 1861]; Third edition of Sketches by Boz [2…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 131992
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First Edition of Robert Penn Warren's World Time and Enough; Inscribed by Him
WARREN, Robert Penn.
World Enough and Time.
New York: Random House, 1950.
First edition of this classic novel; one of the big sleepers in 20th century American fiction and the "richest of [Warren's] novels" (New York Herald Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Sutherland regards Robert Penn Warren." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Jules Gottlieb. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 142272
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Rare Signed Photograph of The Members of The World War Debt Commission and Belgian Commission; Including Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon
HERBERT HOOVER AND ANDREW MELLON,.
World War Foreign Debts Commission Act Signed Photograph.
Signed photograph of the members of The World War Foreign Debt Commission and the Belgian Commission. Signed below by each member, including Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce and future President of the United States), Andrew W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury), Frank B. Kellogg (Secretary of State and 1929 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize), Reed Smoot (United States Senator and co-sponsor of the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act), Theodore E. Burton (United States Senator from Ohio), Charles R. Crisp, Richard Olney, Edward N. Hurley, Garrard B. Winston, Arthur N. Young and F.G. Blair of the Debt Commission. Also signed by…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 21058
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Signal Corps Rare Original World War I Photographs
SIGNAL CORPS,.
World War I Original Photographs.
Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Company, .
Rare original Signal Corps photographs from the First World War. Over one hundred warfare photographs including: troops, destruction, invasion, tanks, and casualties. In fine condition with slight curling. The images measure 6.5 inches by 8.75 inches. Housed in the original box with paper labels "Open only in photographic dark room; Sensitized Paper; Manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company; Rochester, N. Y., U. S. A."
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 146551
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Rare World War II Era Japanese flag signed by 29 soldiers of the United States 49th Field Artillery Battalion
World War II Era 49th Field Artillery Battalion Signed Japanese Flag.
Rare World War II era Japanese flag signed by 29 soldiers of the United States 49th Field Artillery Battalion. In near fine condition. The flag measures 27 inches by 32.75 inches with 'Okinawa' inscribed in ink to the central red disc and "49th Full Artillery" inscribed at the top of the page in addition to the 29 signatures. Framed. The entire piece measures 39 inches by 33 inches.
Price: $10,000.00 Item Number: 109748
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Original World War II Photograph album of American serviceman in India: Taj Mahal, Calcutta, barracks, funeral biers, contortionists
World War II Photographic Album of American Serviceman in India: Taj Mahal, Calcutta, etc.
1940s.
Twelve inches wide, contains roughly 200 photographs of life in India, ca. 1943, with visits to the Taj Mahal, much in Calcutta, documenting life in the barracks, street life including contortionists, a snake charmer, funeral biers, documentation of an airplane crash, etc. Whoever kept this album trained in Jackson, Mississippi and the first some pages have white ink captions for photos of life in the camp that are no longer there. The person who took these photographs was probably in the Air Force and a number were taken while in the air.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 109234
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First Edition of Norman Podhoretz's World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism; Signed by Him
PODHORETZ, Norman.
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism.
New York: Doubleday , 2007.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Norman Podhoretz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 33023