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"THE MOST CELEBRATED BIOGRAPHY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE": Boswell's Life of Johnson; decorated with a concealed split fore-edge painting
CROKER, John Wilson [James Boswell].
Boswell’s Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to The Hebrides.
London: John Murray, 1860.
Finely bound example of the most celebrated biography in the English language, decorated with a concealed split fore-edge painting. Octavo, bound in full period morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed split fore-edge painting revealing two maritime landscapes, illustrated, ribbon bound in. In very good condition. Bookplate. A unique example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 138277
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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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First edition of Ambergris: A Selection From the Poems; inscribed by Aleister Crowley to English Zionist Sir Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett
CROWLEY, Aleister.
Ambergris: A Selection From the Poems.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1910.
First edition of this scarce collection of Crowley's poetry. Octavo, original publisher's boards lettered in gilt, rebacked, frontispiece portrait. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the rear free endpaper, "Henry Mond from Aleister Crowley." The recipient, Sir Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett was an English politician, industrialist and Zionist. He served as Member of Parliament for the Isle of Ely 1923-24 as a Liberal and deputy chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries from 1940 to 1947. Having been brought up in the Church of England, he reverted in the 1930s to his family's original Judaism and became a champion…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 146395
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"The Things that make us happy make us wise": Rare First Hardcover Edition of Little, Big; Signed by John Crowley
CROWLEY, John.
Little, Big.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1981.
First hardcover edition of this landmark of modern fantasy. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John- The things that make us happy make us wise John Crowley." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Pat Doyle. Photograph of the author by Richard Sutor. A very sharp example of this work.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 1471
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"One by one the bulbs burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends": Rare First Hardcover Edition of Little, Big; Lengthily Signed by John Crowley
CROWLEY, John.
Little, Big.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1981.
First British edition and first hardcover edition of this landmark of modern fantasy. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, "For _____- John Crowley 'One by one the bulbs burned out, like long lives come to their expected ends.'" Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pat Doyle. Photograph of the author by Richard Sutor.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 79887
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First edition of George Cruikshank's Omnibus; elaborately bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son
CRUIKSHANK, George.
George Cruikshank’s Omnibus.
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842.
First edition of George Cruikshank‘s Omnibus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates and in-text illustrations by Cruikshank, as well as an engraved portrait of Cruikshank by C.E. Wagstaff. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 133420
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Rare First Edition of Schumpeter's Rudimentary Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians
CRUM, W.L. and Joseph A. Schumpeter.
Rudimentary Mathematics for Economists and Statisticians.
1946: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1946.
First edition of this classic work by Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 130196
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Rare Signed limited edition of E. E. Cummings' untitled work
CUMMINGS, E. E.
[No Title]. [An Imaginary Dialogue Between Almost Any Publisher and a Certain Author A.D. 1930].
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1930.
First edition and signed limited edition of Cumming's cleverly titled untitled work. Quarto, original cloth stamped in silver, illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by the author. One of 491 copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 144. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Small bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent. One of the more elusive Cummings titles.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136284
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First Edition of Walter Cunningham's The All-American Boys; Signed by Him
CUNNINGHAM, Walter.
The All-American Boys.
New York: Macdonald and Co, 1977.
First edition of "the best of all the astronaut books" (Los Angeles Times). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Walter Cunningham on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, owner name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Robert Silverman. Written with the assistance of Mickey Herskowitz.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142901
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"Docking target during rendezvous": Apollo 7 Rendezvous Photograph; Lengthily Signed by Walter Cunningham
CUNNINGHAM, Walter.
Walter Cunningham Signed Apollo 7 Rendezvous Photograph.
October, 1968.
Large format photograph of the Saturn IVB module, which was being used to simulate docking maneuvers in orbit during the Apollo 7 mission. Color photograph of the Saturn IVB module. Lengthily inscribed in gold felt tip by Walter Cunningham, "Docking target during rendezvous Walt Cunningham Apollo 7 LMP October 1968." In fine condition. The piece measures 16 inches by 20 inches.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 145300
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First Edition of The New York Idea: An Experiment in Democracy; inscribed by Mario Cuomo to William Safire
CUOMO, Mario [William Safire].
The New York Idea: An Experiment in Democracy.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1994.
First edition of the 52nd Governor of New York's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "To Bill Safire, One of our proud hoasts [sic] (but isn't there something wrong with that grammatically? Mario 1994." The recipient, William Safire, was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 103423
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"To my sweetheart, Sylvia": Sylvia Plath's childhood copy of A Little Maid in Vermont; inscribed to her by her mother
CURTIS, Alice Turner [Sylvia Plath].
A Little Maid of Vermont.
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1927.
First edition of the author's children's classic; from the library of Sylvia Plath. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Grace Norcross. Presentation copy, inscribed by Sylvia Plath's mother on the front free endpaper, "Feb. 10, 1941 To my sweetheart, Sylvia from Mommy" and with her father, Otto Plath's, embossed library stamp. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, was a second-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father, Otto Plath (1885–1940), was from Grabow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany and worked as a professor of biology at Boston University. Plath would have been 8 years old when her mother…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 134822
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Rare 17th century printing of Rufus' celebrated history of Alexander the Great
CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.
De Rebus Alexandri Magni, Cum Commentario Perpetuo & Indice Absolutissimo Samuelis Pitisci. [History of Alexander the Great].
Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halma, 1685.
Rare 17th century printing of Rufus' celebrated history of Alexander the Great. Octavo, bound in full vellum, with engraved title, folding map and 9 engraved plates (some folding) depicting the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a view of the ancient city, and a folding map of Alexander's domain. In very good condition. Period ownership inscription.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 131499
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First Edition of Elizabeth B. Custer's Boots and Saddles
CUSTER, Elizabeth B.
Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885.
First edition of Elizabeth Custer's memoir. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial brown cloth decorated and stamped in black and gilt with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, gilt embellishments of a rising sun and bugle to the front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, outline map of portions of Montana and Dakota. In near fine condition. A bright example.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 145222
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Carl Cutler's Greyhounds of the Sea; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
CUTLER, Carl C.
Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984.
Third edition of Cutler's masterwork on the history of the American clipper ship, revised to include his Five Hundred Sailing Ship Records of American Built Ships. Large octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 112357
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First Edition of Carl Cutler's Greyhounds of the Sea
CUTLER, Carl C.
Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship.
New York: Halcyon House, 1930.
First edition of Cutler's masterwork on the history of the American clipper ship. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 131492