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Rare Original S. L. Kaye Sketch Portrait of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion; Signed by Him
KAYE, S. L.; [David Ben-Gurion].
David Ben-Gurion Signed S.L. Kaye Sketch.
1960.
Framed rare graphite artist’s sketches of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion by artist S. L. Kaye. Signed and dated by Ben-Gurion below the portrait, "D. Ben-Gurion 9. 3. 60." Additionally signed by the artist at the corner of his sketch. In fine condition. The piece measures 20.9 inches by 16.9 inches. A fine example.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 145560
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Johann Christoph Volkamer Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate of Arbutus Cotyledon Africana frutefcens
VOLKAMER, Johann Christoph.
Cotyledon Africana frutefcens [Fruiting African Cotyledon] Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate.
Nuremberg: Nürnbergische Hesperides, c. 1710.
Hand-colored engraved botanical plate from Johann Christoph Volkamer's 'Nürnbergische Hesperides.' Hand-colored engraved botanical plate of Cotyledon Africana frutefcens, or the fruiting African Cotyledon. In near fine condition. Double matted with a gilt ornamental border and framed. This piece measures 21.5 inches by 16.75 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145528
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Johann Christoph Volkamer Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate of Arbutus im Wörnlischen Garten
VOLKAMER, Johann Christoph.
Arbutus im Wörnlischen [Tree in Wörnlischen Garden] Garten Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate.
Nuremberg: Nürnbergische Hesperides, c. 1710.
Hand-colored engraved botanical plate from Johann Christoph Volkamer's 'Nürnbergische Hesperides.' Hand-colored engraved botanical plate of Arbutus im Wornlischen Garten, or the tree in Wörnlischen Garden. In near fine condition. Double matted with a gilt ornamental border and framed. This piece measures 21.5 inches by 16.75 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145526
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Johann Christoph Volkamer Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate of die Baumwollen
VOLKAMER, Johann Christoph.
Baumwollen [Cotton Plant] Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate.
Nuremberg: Nürnbergische Hesperides, c. 1710.
Hand-colored engraved botanical plate from Johann Christoph Volkamer's 'Nürnbergische Hesperides.' Hand-colored engraved botanical plate of die Baumwollen, or the Cotton Plant. In near fine condition. Double matted with a gilt ornamental border and framed. This piece measures 21.5 inches by 16.75 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145527
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First Edition of The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family.
New York: Random House, 1993.
First edition of Ron Chernow’s ambitious saga of the Warburg dynasty. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146062
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Special Collection of Four Volumes of Legendary Panerai Watches
Four Volume Collection of Legendary Panerai Watches.
Milan: Arti Grafiche Color Black, 1998-2003.
Limited first editions of these extravagant photographic timelines of Panerai watches. Oblong duodecimo, original boards, generously illustrated with luminous photographs of Panerai watches and the people involved in their creation, diagrams of their designs, and pictures of other engineering exploits undertaken by the company, the collection includes a first edition of 'Legendary Watches' (Novate: Arti Grafiche Color Black, 1998), a first edition of 'Panerai Historia: From the Depths of the Sea' (Novate: Arti Grafiche Color Black, 1999), a limited edition of 'Special Editions 1997-2003: Laboratorio Di Idee' (Novate: Arti Grafiche Color Black, 2003, one of one-thousand nine-hundred and fifty, this…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145497
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“There is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace": First edition of Jean Rhys's Tigers Are Better-Looking with a selection from The Left Bank
RHYS, Jean.
Tigers Are Better-Looking with a Selection from The Left Bank.
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1968.
First edition of this collection incorporating the author's earliest and most mature short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Barbara Brown.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 145495
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First Edition of The Elephant and the Flea; Inscribed by Charles Handy
HANDY, Charles.
The Elephant and the Flea: Looking Backwards to the Future.
London: Hutchinson, 2001.
First edition of this memoir by the eminent philosopher. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Les Best wishes Charles Handy 2.11.01." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145494
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First Edition of Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes; Inscribed by Alice Waters and Ann Arnold with a sketch
WATERS, Alice with Bob Carrau and Patricia Curtan.
Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child’s Restaurant Adventures With 46 Recipes.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this children's book by the creator of Chez Panisse. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Lindsay, Alice Waters." Additionally inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page with a drawing of herself holding flowers and pointing at the inscription, "With greetings from the illustrator Ann Arnold." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145492
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Rare original color photograph signed by Jacqueline Kennedy; and additionally signed by Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr. as children
KENNEDY, Jacqueline; Caroline Bouvier Kennedy; John F. Kennedy Jr.
Jacqueline Kennedy Signed Photograph.
c. 1968.
Rare original color photograph of Jacqueline Kennedy with her children Caroline and John, Jr., inscribed by her on the mount, "For Billie Jean - with much love from us all Jacqueline Kennedy." Additionally signed by the young Kennedy children, "Caroline" and "John." Jacqueline Kennedy gave birth to daughter Caroline on November 27, 1957. At the time, she and husband John F. Kennedy were campaigning across Massachusetts for his re-election to the Senate, and they posed with their infant daughter for the now iconic cover of the April 21, 1958, issue of Life magazine. John F. Kennedy, Jr. was born at…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 146234
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"As a young painter you are overwhelmed by the complexity of your subject. Every crease, every dimple, is an equally startling revelation": First Edition of John Berger's A Painter of Our Time
BERGER, John.
A Painter of Our Time.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
First edition of the Booker prize-winning writer's debut novel. Octavo, original red half cloth, top stain red. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145491
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"A significant work in the development of fantasy literature": Rare second edition of Under the Sunset; inscribed by Bram Stoker
STOKER, Bram.
Under The Sunset.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.
Rare second edition of Bram Stoker's first book. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W. V. Cockburn, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Mrs. John Foord with grateful remembrance Bram Stoker New York 1884." The frontispiece and plates of the second edition were printed from wood engravings by Swain based on the engraved plates of the first edition, several of the illustrations in the text were redrawn and a number of new full-page illustrations inserted.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 146259
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From the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: First edition of Alone Together: Law and the Meanings of Marriage; inscribed by Milton C. Regan to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
REGAN, Milton C. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Alone Together: Law and the Meanings of Marriage.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of Regan's interdisciplinary work examining the legal implications of marriage and divorce. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Justice Ginsburg - From one teacher to another. Warm wishes, Mitt, June 1999." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history, lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed "the Notorious R.B.G." (a play on the name of famed 90s rapper…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 146023
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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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Rare Signed Photograph of Queen Elizabeth II as Princess of York
ADAMS, Marcus; [Queen Elizabeth II].
Young Queen Elizabeth Signed Photograph.
1935.
Queen Elizabeth II childhood portrait photograph print. Rare signed photographic print of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of nine, before the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, when her father was still the Duke of York, photographed by Marcus Adams, the first to ever take official photographs of Princess Elizabeth and her mother the Duchess of York and who photographed the royal family for thirty years. Signed by Queen Elizabeth, "Elizabeth of York." Additionally signed and dated by the photographer, "Marcus Adams 1935." The print measures 11 inches by 8 inches. Triple matted and framed. Together with letter…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 145479
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First Edition of Patrick White's The Vivisector
WHITE, Patrick.
The Vivisector.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First edition of this work by "one of the great magicians of fiction . . . White's scope is vast and his invention endless" (The Observer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Tom Adams. An exceptional example.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 146095