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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run": Rare black and white Photograph signed by babe ruth
RUTH, Babe [George Herman].
George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth Signed Photograph.
c. 1930s.
Photograph of George Herman 'Babe' Ruth, boldly signed by him. Sepia-toned glossy photograph of George Herman 'Babe' Ruth. Signed by Babe Ruth near the bottom of the photograph. Matted and framed with a plaque describing Ruth's claim to fame which reads, "George Herman 'Babe' Ruth 1895-1948 'Babe' Ruth won fame as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His record of 714 home runs stood for 39 years until Hank Aaron beat the record in 1974. In 1914, Ruth joined the Boston Red Sox and became a successful pitcher. In 1920, he was traded to the New York…
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 145338
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First Edition of Orville J. Victor's The History, Civil, Political & Military of the Southern Rebellion
VICTOR, Orville J.
The History, Civil, Political & Military of the Southern Rebellion, From its Incipient Stages to its Close.
New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, [1861].
Complete first edition set of one of the earliest histories of the American Civil War. Octavo, four volumes, original publisher's full pebbled morocco decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated with steel engraved plates, additional vignette title pages. frontispieces, and maps. In good condition. A rare complete set, we have never seen another one.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133063
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"You will have the vote. Truth is great and will prevail": Rare First edition of John Masefield's My Faith in Woman Suffrage
MASEFIELD, John.
My Faith in Woman Suffrage.
The Woman's Press, [1910].
First edition of the English Poet Laureate's speech delivered in the Queens Hall, February 14th, 1910. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 135641
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Rare Original Photograph of Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor administering the vice presidential oath of office to Dan Quayle; Signed by both O'Connor and Quayle
O'CONNOR, Sandra Day and Dan Quayle.
Sandra Day O’Connor and Dan Quayle Signed Photograph.
January 20, 1989.
Rare original photograph of Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor administering the vice presidential oath of office to Dan Quayle. Signed by Sandra Day O'Connor and inscribed by Dan Quayle, "Rami Lasman With Best Wishes - Dan Quayle." In fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 101584
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Rare early 18th Century English Map of the State of Florida
A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida. Drawn from the best Authorities. [18th Century Map of Florida].
London: [c. 1765].
Engraved 18th century English map of the state of Florida; one of the earliest printed maps of the state which appeared in the London Magazine in March of 1765. One page, the map is divided into British East and West Florida, showing South Florida as a group of over 50 islands and a number of wide navigable water routes from the Gulf to the Atlantic. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.75 inches by 17.5 inches.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138232
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First Edition of Poets from the North of Ireland; Signed by Seamus Heaney
HEANEY, Seamus.
Poets from the North of Ireland.
1979: Blackstaff Press, Belfast.
First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Edited by Frank Ormsby.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 141441
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs For Youth From Collected Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs For Youth From Collected Verse.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1924].
First edition this selection of Kipling's songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121607
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Rare original 1970s Palitoy Star Wars Radio Controlled R2-D2
[LUCAS, George].
Star Wars Palitoy Radio Controlled R2-D2.
Coalville, Leicester: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp./Palitoy, [1977].
Rare Palitoy Star Wars Radio Controlled R2-D2, housed in the original box. Complete with wireless control, original Styrofoam packaging, price tag. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145054
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Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas
THIERS, Adolphe.
Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].
Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..
Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with 66 plates by Dufour and Duvotenay printed by Dyonnet. In very good condition. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131402
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First Edition of Elspeth Huxley's With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook; inscribed by her
HUXLEY, Elspeth.
With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook.
1964: William Morrow & Company, New York.
First edition of Huxley's authoritative report on the rapidly changing political climate of post-colonial East Africa. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps and drawings by Jonathan Kingdon. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Joe Ferrier with my best wished Elspeth Huxley." Laid in is the original typed transmittal letter, an autograph card and photograph of Huxley; all three signed by her to Ferrier. The recipient, Joe Ferrier was a lifelong fan and pen pal of Huxley’s. They often exchanged letters, books, and article clippings between England and the United States. Near fine in a…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 96083
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Rare Fourth American edition of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
PAINE, Thomas.
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.
Albany: Re-Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, n.d.
Fourth American edition of Paine's classic work. Octavo, disbound. In near fine condition. A rare and desirable American separate printing.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134509
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition In Parts of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.
First edition in parts of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original blue-green illustrated serial issue wrappers being twenty parts in nineteen with the majority of preliminary advertisements present, frontispiece, vignette title-page and forty engraved plates. In excellent condition, an unrestored example of Dickens' classic work, with some of the backstrips with small chips. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 96702
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Rare January 1971 Time Magazine Cover; Signed by Senator Ted Kennedy
KENNEDY, Edward [Ted].
Senator Ted Kennedy Signed 1971 Time Magazine Cover.
Chicago: Time Magazine, November 29, 1971.
Original cover from the November 29, 1971 issue of Time Magazine featuring a portrait of Senator Ted Kennedy, signed by him. In near fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 139032
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finely bound and copiously illustrated 19th century printing of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
BUNYAN, John.
The Pilgrim’s Progress and Other Works of John Bunyan with an Original Memoir by the Reverend George B. Cheever, D.D.
Howard Street, Glasgow; South Bridge, Edinburgh; 22 Paternoster Row, London: William Mackenzie, n.d. [1862].
Finely bound and copiously illustrated 19th century printing of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 31 plates and numerous in-text illustrations, additional pictorial title page, folding plate of Bunyan's Dream. In very good condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 144028
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The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot
ELIOT, George.
The Works of George Eliot.
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d..
The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter half russet crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, hand-colored tissue-guarded frontispiece and photogravure plate printed on cream velin to each volume. One of one thousand numbered copies, this is number 277. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 144866
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"Sail on O Ship of State! Sail on, o union, strong and great!" One of the two broadsides specially printed and carried by Churchill to the Atlantic Conference signed by both him and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano; Winston S. Churchill. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow].
Sail On, O Ship of State! The Longfellow Verse in Mr. Roosevelt’s Message to Mr. Churchill.
Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., [1941].
Rare lithographic broadside signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the thirty-second President of the United States and Winston S. Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the Atlantic Conference; one of only two known examples of this broadside specially printed at Churchill's direction and signed by both world leaders at their first wartime conference. One page, the lithograph features the famed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow verse first used by FDR in a letter of support to Churchill before the United States entered the war and a galleon at sea. The letter, sent the day before Roosevelt's third inauguration on…
Price: $150,000.00 Item Number: 125419