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“While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them”: Photograph of Clara Barton; Signed by Her
BARTON, Clara.
Clara Barton Signed Photograph.
Signed photograph of Clara Barton wearing a Red Cross collar pin, boldly signed by Clara Barton. Published by Mathew Brady of Washington, D.C. Matted and framed. The photograph measures 4.25 inches by 6.5 inches. The entire piece measures 12 inches by 14.75 inches. In fine condition. Photographs signed by Clara Barton are rare.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 53042
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“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free”: Photograph of Clarence Darrow; Inscribed by Him
DARROW, Clarence.
Clarence Darrow Signed Photograph.
Original photograph of prominent American attorney and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow. Signed by Darrow on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph four years after the historic Scopes Monkey Trial, "Clarence Darrow with best wishes to his friend Donald Gallagher Chicago March 14th 1929." Matted and framed the entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 84255
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Finely Bound Example of Claudii Claudiani Opera
CLAUDIUS CLAUDIANUS; NICOLAAS HEINSIUS; L'ANCIEN PIETER BURMAN,.
Claudii Claudiani Opera, Quae Exstant, Omnia Ad Membranarum Veterum Fidem Castigata.
Amstelaedami: Ex Officina Schouteniana, 1760.
Quarto, original vellum, gilt tooling and stamping to the front and rear panels and spine. In very good condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 2821
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Rare Stock Certificate for the San Francisco and San Joaquin Railway; Signed by Major Industrialist Claus Spreckels
SPRECKELS, Claus.
Claus Spreckels Signed Stock Certificate for the San Francisco & San Joaquin Railway.
San Francisco: San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway, 1895.
Rare San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway stock certificate signed by industrialist Claus Spreckels. Quarto, one page page partially printed in red, green, black, and accomplished in manuscript, the certificate is dated February 26, 1895 as certificate #6 and issues 500 shares in the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway. Signed by Claus Spreckels as President of the Company and additionally signed by Alexander Mackie as Secretary. Matted and framed with a portrait of Spreckels and an informational placard. In fine condition. The piece measures 16 inches by 27 inches. Rare.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 146754
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First Edition of Sorche Nic Leodhas' Claymore and Kilt
LEODHAS, Sorche Nic [LeClaire Gowans Alger].
Claymore and Kilt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
First edition of Sorche Leodhas' beloved collection of historical tales, never before recorded. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137529
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First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's Clea; Inscribed by Him
DURRELL, Lawrence.
Clea.
London: Faber & Faber , 1969.
First edition of the author's final novel in his classic Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Inscribed for Lewis Lawrence Durrell." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 124897
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Rare original photograph of the 946 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference; signed by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Jan Smuts and each other sitter
ATLEE, Clement; Ben Chifley; Walter Nash; Jan Smuts; et al.
Clement Atlee Signed 1946 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference Photograph.
1946.
Large original photograph of the 1946 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, signed by UK Prime Minister Clement Atlee among every other sitter. The large silver gelatin print is signed on the mount by UK Prime Minister Clement Atlee, Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand Walter Nash, South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts, and Labour Cabinet Minister Arthur Henderson among others. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 34.5 inches by 24.5 inches.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 137423
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Rare silver gelatin print of the October 1948 Meeting of Commonwealth Prime Minsters; signed by Clement Atlee and Jawaharlal Nehru among many others
ATLEE, Clement; Jawaharlal Nehru; et al.
Clement Attlee and Jawaharlal Nehru Signed October 1948 Meeting of Commonwealth Prime Minsters Photograph.
1948.
Large black-and-white photograph of the October 1948 Meeting of Commonwealth Prime Minsters, signed by each sitter including British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Prime Minister of the Republic of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. The large silver gelatin print is signed on the mount by UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the Republic of India Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of New Zealand Peter Fraser, Sir Godfrey Huggins (Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia), Liaquat Ali Khan (Prime Minister of Pakistan), Hugh Dalton (British Chancellor of the Exchequer), Louis St. Laurent (Prime Minister of Canada), and many others. In near fine condition.…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 137509
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First Edition of Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court; Inscribed by Edward Lazarus
LAZARUS, Edward.
Closed Chambers: The First Eyewitness Account of the Epic Struggles Inside the Supreme Court.
New York: Times Books, 1998.
First edition of this groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Alan, With best wishes, Edward Lazarus." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heidi North.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 144222
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs; Signed by Judi Barrett
BARRETT, Judi; Illustrated by Ron Barrett.
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.
New York: Atheneum Books , 1978.
First edition, early printing of this children's classic. Oblong quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Judi Barrett on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 119733
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"They toil, argue, starve and siffer, hope and fear, love and hate": First Edition of Co-op: A Novel of Living Together
SINCLAIR, Upton .
Co-op: A Novel of Living Together.
Pasadena, CA: Published by the Author, 1936.
First edition of Sinclair's Co-op. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, lacking the front free endpaper.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146055
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Exceptional U.S. Coast Survey Chart of New York City and New York Harbor
FERGUSON, J. and E. Blunt.
Coast Chart No. 120, New York Bay and Harbor, New York.
Washington, D.C: U.S. Coast and Geodesic Survey, 1910.
Rare 1910 reissue of the 1866 U.S. Coast Survey Chart of New York City; one of the first 19th century charts to depict modern New York City including Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island. One page, color map of New York Harbor with an inset view of the Navesink Highlands. Includes harbors, channels, lighthouses, tide tables, and sailing instructions. In near fine condition. Framed. The entire piece measures 34 inches by 27 inches. A brightly colored view of The New York Harbor.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 133906
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"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world": Finely Bound set of William Cobbett's Paper Against Gold and Collective Commentaries
COBBETT, William.
Cobbett’s Paper Against Gold and Collective Commentaries.
London: John M. Cobbett, 1821-1822.
Finely bound example of the political commentaries of late sixteenth century English political figure and pamphleteer William Cobbett. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, black morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 81168
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Rare First Edition of Letters addressed to William Wilberforce
CROPPER, James.
Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register (January – May 1821) with Letters Addressed to William Wilberforce, M. P. Recommending the Encouragement of the Cultivation of Sugar in Our Dominions in the East Indies, as the Natural and Certain Means of Effecting the General and Total Abolition of the Slave-Trade.
Liverpool: James Smith, 1822.
First edition of this compilation of issues of Cobbett's Register collected in 1821 bound together with Cropper's letters to Wilberforce. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards. Bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to the front panel, with his signature to the title page and notes to the front free endpaper and verso. In very good condition. First editions are scarce, with the last copy appearing at auction was in 1948.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 75022
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Advance reading copy of Ken Follett's Code to Zero; inscribed by him to Erica Jong and Ken Burrows
FOLLETT, Ken [Erica Jong].
Code to Zero.
New York: Dutton, 2000.
Advance reading copy of the first edition of Follett's page-turning thriller. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,"To Ken + Erica - with love, Ken Follett." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142730
