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Rare First Edition of Malthus' Principles of Political Economy
MALTHUS, Thomas R. [T.R.}.
Principles of Political Economy Considered With a View to Their Practical Application.
London: John Murray, 1820.
Rare first edition of Malthus' classic work. Octavo, bound in full diced morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 143844
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"The enclosed bill will make a fair exchange": Rare Silver Certificate One Dollar Bill Boldly Signed by Harry S. Truman and framed with a typed letter signed by him as President to Alexander Jones of The Daily Home News
TRUMAN, Harry S.
Harry S. Truman Dollar Bill and Typed Letter Signed.
Kansas City, MO: Federal Reserve Bank Building, 1953.
Rare silver certificate one dollar bill, boldly signed by Harry S. Truman. Framed with a typed letter signed to Alexander Jones of The Daily Home News. One page on Truman's personal letterhead, the letter is dated June 5, 1953 and reads in full: Thanks a lot for your thoughtfulness in sending me the 1924 dollar. If I remember correctly, the last dollars were coined in 1926. Mr. Hy Gardner took it upon himself to set the date of the last coinage and you gave me credit for it. I am fixing it so there will be no robbery — the…
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 147068
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"The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast": First Edition of Unnatural Causes; Lengthily Inscribed by P.D. James
JAMES, P.D.
Unnatural Causes.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
First edition of the author's third book. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page with a transcription as follows, "The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 4328
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First Edition of Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter; Signed by Theodore Roosevelt in the year of publication
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
First edition of Roosevelt's important collection of first-hand hunting accounts, including a lengthy description of newly created wilderness reserves. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt with tissue guard present, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author in the year of publication on the second preliminary leaf, "with regards of Theodore Roosevelt Dec 11th 1905." In near fine condition, crease to the front free endpaper. Trade editions are uncommon signed, especially in the year of publication.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 125172
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“THE SOCIAL IMPACT ON THE UNITED STATES WAS GREATER THAN THAT OF ANY BOOK BEFORE OR SINCE”: FIRST ISSUE OF UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly.
Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852.
First edition, first issue, with "spilt" (rather than "spiled") in Volume I, 42, line 1; "cathecism" (rather than "catechism") in volume II, 74, line 5; and all other first issue points of the author's classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in contemporary three quarters leather over cloth, gilt titles to the spine, volume with title vignettes and six wood-engravings. In very good condition with light wear and toning. A nice example, scarce and desirable in contemporary binding.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 104745
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The Collector's Edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; signed by J.K. Rowling
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
New York: Scholastic Press, 2000.
First edition of the collector's edition of the first book in Rowling's Harry Potter Series. Octavo, original publisher's full leather decorated in gilt with pictorial onlay to the front panel, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated by Mary Grandpre. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page. Fine in the original glassine which is in fine condition.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 131491
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"The little house first stood in the country, but gradually the city moved closer and closer": First Edition of Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House
BURTON, Virginia Lee.
The Little House.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942.
First edition of one of the rarest and most sought after children’s classics. Oblong quarto, original blue cloth. Near fine in an excellent unrestored dust jacket that shows a small chip to the crown of the spine and some light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 2325
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First Editions of The Works of William Thackeray
THACKERAY, William.
The Works of William Thackeray.
London: Various Publishers, 1840-1867.
First edition of the works of William Thackeray. Octavo, 34 volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarters morocco. From the library of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, with his bookplate to each volume. Harmswoth was a British newspaper and publishing magnate who exercised vast influence over British popular opinion. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. Includes: Paris Sketch Book, 2 volumes., 1840; Comic Tales and Sketches, 2 volumes., 1841; Irish Sketchbook, 2 volumes., 1843; Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1846; Mrs. Perkins Ball, [1847]; Book of Snobs, 1848; Our Street, 1848; Vanity Fair, 1848 (With the suppressed woodcut on…
Price: $8,000.00 Item Number: 19005
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart": The works of Washington Irving: The author's autograph edition
IRVING, Washington.
The Works of Washington Irving: The Autograph Edition [The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle].
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895–97.
The Works of Washington Irving: The Author's Autograph edition. Octavo, 40 volumes, uniformly bound in full morocco by the Knickerbocker Press, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with suede doublures and endleaves. One of 500 sets, this set contains a page of original manuscript by Irving tipped in to volume one of The Alhambra. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 86738
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"SITTING BY NIGHT IN MY SECRET STUDY…": Rare First Edition in English of Nostradamus' True Prophecies or Prognostications
NOSTRADAMUS, Michael.
True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning.
London: Thomas Radcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson, 1672.
First edition in English of Nostradamus famous prophetical work. Folio, contemporary calf, title page printed in red and black, lacking the frontispiece. In very good condition. Rare and desirable in contemporary calf.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 129189
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“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you”: Signed Limited First Edition of Kahlil Gibran's Sand and Foam
GIBRAN, Kahlil.
Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
Signed limited edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth over marbled boards, number 33 of 95 copies, signed by Kahlil Gibran. Illustrated with seven drawings by the author. In near fine condition.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 131582
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First British Edition of The Wild Palms; Signed by William Faulkner
FAULKNER, William.
The Wild Palms.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1939.
First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's grandly inventive, heart-stopping classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "William Faulkner New York 3 March 1953." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed with no other inscribed British edition ever appearing at auction.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 144096
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First Edition of Friedman's Sampling Inspection; Signed by Him and In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
Sampling Inspection: Principles, Procedures, and Tables for Single, Double, and Sequential Sampling in Acceptance Inspection and Quality Control Based on Percent Defective.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1948.
First edition of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Scarce in the original dust jacket and signed by Friedman
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 138192
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First Edition of For Whom The Bell Tolls; Signed by Ernest Hemingway
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
For Whom The Bell Tolls.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
First edition, early printing of the novel that is regarded as one of Hemingway’s best works. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ernest Hemingway. Near fine in an excellent near fine first issue dust jacket without the photographer's name to the rear panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed by Hemingway.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 117657
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The Theory of Economic Development; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A. [Robert M. Solow].
The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936.
First edition of what many scholars believe to be Schumpeter's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist and student of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Solow on the front free endpaper, with the inscription which reads, "I sat in Schumpeter's lectures just about 70 years ago. The best of what I remember is in the middle chapters of this book. Robert Solow 5/10/06." Solow in reviewing Schumpeter's work said, "In my view--and that of most contemporary economists, I believe--Schumpeter's most original and most lastingly significant book was Theory of Economic Development, which appeared in 1911 (and was translated into English…
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 63014