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Fine
Matisse Autographed Letter
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Matisse, Henri. [1869-1954].
1 Page A. L. S. n.p., 11 03 09. 8vo. Elegantly Framed & Glazed with carefully coordinated quad matting. A curious letter about housekeeping at his villa & studio -
neatly signed. A very handsome presentation. Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour & his fluid, brilliant & original draughtsmanship. As a printmaker, & sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.[1] His mastery of the expressive language of colour & drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.
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Sartre
Presentation Copy / THE WORDS
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Sartre, Jean-Paul. THE WORDS. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JEAN-PAUL
SARTRE. Signed. New York: George Braziller, 1964. First
American Edition Inscribed & Signed by Jean-Paul Sartre on the title-page in
blue ballpoint: 'A John P. James, Jr. trés cordialement [signed] Sartre, 18
Oct. 69'. 8vo. 255 pp. A near fine copy in black cloth, white titles to the
spine, rose topstain, (John P. James, Jr.'s neat bookplate on the front
pastedown), in a bright, fresh, price-clipped dustwrapper. Translated from the
French by Bernard Frechtman. A brilliant autobiography that is often compared
with, Rousseau's, Confessions. Housed in an elegant custom clamshell case,
black cloth over marbled paper, red morocco spine label with gilt titles.
$5,750
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LEAVES
OF GRASS - Bucke
/ Greenshields Copy
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Whitman, Walt.
LEAVES OF GRASS with Sands at Seventy & a Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads. Camden, New Jersey,
[May 31st,] 1889. Privately Printed. First edition thus. 8vo., 382pp + 20pp. Late 20th-century limp black morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A very good copy showing some use with some modest restoration to the spine crown & corners. Custom clamshell case. One of only 300 copies of Leaves of Grass printed in commemoration of Whitman's 70th birthday,
boldly signed by Whitman on the title page. With six portraits of the author, including the famous original mounted frontispiece photograph with a butterfly resting on his finger. This copy is further enhanced by its association with Whitman's great friend &
his literary executor, Richard Maurice Bucke, who has inscribed & signed the front fly-leaf:
"J. N. Greenshields from his friend R. M. Bucke [three line quotation from "I Sing The Body Electric", these lines underscored in the text] Asylum, London, Ont. 6 Nov.
'95." Greenshields was a prominent Montreal lawyer & important financier.
Bucke was born in England & raised in Canada, studied medicine & served as superintendent of the London, Ontario Asylum for the insane from 1877 until his death in 1902. He wrote two enthusiastic studies of Whitman; Walt Whitman: A Contemporaneous Study, [1883] [was the first biography of Whitman ever written] & Walt Whitman: Man and Poet, [1897]. Bucke helped edit Whitman's Complete Writings, [1902] & In Re Walt Whitman, [1893]. Bucke's Cosmic Consciousness, [1901] reflects much of Whitman's mysticism.
'Whitman's influence over Bucke, a prematurely modern man smothered by the starched collars & repressed sexuality of the period, was profound.
Whitman's fearless, infectious enthusiasm, prodigious lust for life & distain of convention consumes Bucke & frees him from his social
bondage'. An important & notable Association Copy.
"When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice
Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and
patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde
ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on
true events." - From a review of the 1990 NFB film Beautiful
Dreamers, staring Rip Torn as Whitman & Colm Feore as Bucke.
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Lovely
Inscribed Presentation Gabrielle Roy
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Roy, Gabrielle.
RUE DESCHAMBAULT. (STREET OF RICHES). Signed. Montreal: Beauchemin, 1955. First Edition of Gabrielle Roy’s fourth book, a collection of eighteen short stories, winner of the 1957 Governor General's Award, Inscribed by this important Canadian author on the front free endpaper to acclaimed pianist, accompanist and chamber musician John Newmark in French.
"A John Newmark, qui percoit si finement avec une si delicate sensibilite la resonnance d'un livre affortura quelques bons moments, Gabrielle
Roy." [Inscription freely translated as: "To John Newmark, who finely perceives with delicate sensibility the nuances of a book, this one, with the hope that he will be afforded some wonderful moments. Gabrielle Roy."] Genuine presentation Gabrielle Roy books are rarely encountered. A near fine or better copy showing some light use [spine slightly cocked] in the publisher's illustrated stiff paper wrappers with integral French flaps. 8vo. 261 pp.
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ROOTS
- A Unique Copy - Signed by A Baker's Dozen
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Haley, Alex..
ROOTS. THE SAGA OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. A unique early reprint. 8vo., 688pp. A fine copy in DJ with the original $12.50 price on the flap. Inscribed by Haley & a dozen other leading cast members of the original breakthrough Roots mini-series across the front pastedown & the front free endpaper. All of the inscriptions are to Carrie Hodes.
Alex Haley has inscribed the book: "Carrie Hodes best from Kunta's Family! Alex Haley" - Lavar Burton [the
young Kunta Kinte] has inscribed: "Carrie You're Beautiful - Have a happy life Kunta Kinte" The book is further enhanced with inscriptions & the signatures of:
Richard Roundtree [Sam Bennett], Vic Morrow [Ames], Ben Vereen [Chicken George],
Lynda Day George [Mrs. Reynolds], Lorne Greene [Mr. Reynolds],
Louis Gossett JR. [Fiddler], John Amos [Played Toby-Kunta as an adult],
Olivia Cole [Mathilda], Composer Gerald Fried & Producer Quincy Jones [Who together won the 1977 EMMY for the musical score] - & Executive Producer
David L. Wolper. An altogether unique compilation of signatures on an important book. $1350
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Inscribed
by Ernie Pyle To John & Gwyn Steinbeck
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[John
Steinbeck]. Pyle, Ernie. HERE IS YOUR WAR. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1943. The Pyle/Steinbeck Presentation Copy. A likely first edition but a possible candidate for a variant binding with an undated title page & no further printings mentioned on the verso, neither of which are actually called for. 8vo, 304pp., tan cloth, black titles. A wartime production of uncertain bibliography with binding variants frequently encountered; teal boards with silver titling, green cloth with black titling, burgundy cloth with silver titling. Regardless, this is one of Pyle's own copies of this WWII classic, inscribed by one great war correspondent, Pulitzer winner & great friend to another on the front free endpaper:
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"To Gwyn & John Steinbeck - / Alright goddamit, since you wouldn't ask / for one, here's one anyway - personally, I / think its wonderful! / Ernie
Pyle" An extraordinary copy in very good condition with some professional repair to the spine ends, contents clean, dust jacket with original $3.00 price, showing modest use with small loss at the crown & heel. [In later printings, the excerpt by Malcolm Bingay on the rear flap was replaced by a blurb by Steinbeck]. Custom Clamshell Collector's Case with a beautiful wood cut style blind emboss of the famous Pyle dust jacket illustration. Ernie Pyle's moving first-hand reportage as a roving war correspondent for Scripps-Howard, of the plight of WWII American G.I.'s fighting Germans in North Africa. Pyle followed the American troops from England through the campaign in Tunisia, the Allies first great victory. "There are really two wars and they haven't much to do with each other. There is the war of maps and logistics, of campaigns, of ballistics, armies, divisions and regiments--and that is General [George] Marshall's war. - Then there is the war of the homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at the Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and bring themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage--and that is Ernie Pyle's war." - John Steinbeck, TIME $8750
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Burgess
The DEDICATION COPY
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Burgess, Anthony as Joseph Kell [pseudonym].
ONE HAND CLAPPING. London: Peter Davies, 1961. First Edition, First Impression. The Dedication Copy, With the author's Signed presentation to his wife on the front endpaper in blue ink:
'To Hazel/for her birthday/28th Sept, 1961/Joseph Kell' - below which, in red ink, Burgess has printed;
'Joseph Kell is/Anthony Burgess'. This is the second book Burgess published under the name Joseph Kell and very scarce with any authorial inscription. A very good copy showing some use in nubby yellow and red spotted cloth, metallic blue titles to the spine in a near fine [presumably supplied], bright blue, price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper. $5350
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Ginsberg
Presentation To Meredith
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Ginsberg, Allen.
KADDISH. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. 12mo., 100pp. Printed wrappers. Inscribed Association Copy presented to William Meredith "
For William Meredith / Jan 18, 78 / Allen Ginsberg" with Ginsberg's usual added decorative graphic flair. This is an early issue with a seven line statement on the back panel rather than the 10 lines found on the 1st issue & other than the 23 line statement found on later reprints. Great copy linking these two major
20th American century poets. Number 14 in the Pocket Poets Series. Next to HOWL, Ginsberg's most important book. Dowden p. 8. Cook, City Lights Books, 30, p. 42; Kraus 17 $1450
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PATERSON
- Inscribed Masterpiece
Williams, William Carlos.
PATERSON. Signed. New York: New Directions, [1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958].
First Editions All. This set unique of this landmark work as the first volume is nicely inscribed in an early hand on the front free endpaper:
"Bob MacGuffie - Hopefully / William Carlos Williams". Five Octavo Volumes; mostly quite fine in like dustwrappers showing only the slightest use [Volume 4, very good, with a narrow line of damping to the wrapper spine]. All first editions in clear plastic outer wrappers which may not have been originally supplied by the publisher but are certainly contemporary. The first four books limited to only 1000 copies, the fifth to 3000.
Williams' epic masterpiece. [Book III - Winner of the first ever National Book Award for Poetry - 1950]. Housed in a fine gilt-lettered custom ¼ morocco over marbled paper clamshell case.
Connolly 100 - The Modern Movement. $5975
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Ashbery
Presentation To Howard Moss
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Ashbery, John.
THE DOUBLE DREAM OF SPRING.
Inscribed. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1970. First Edition Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Ashbery on the ffe. to Howard Moss, long-time Poetry Editor at the New Yorker magazine. A near fine copy in the original 1/4 black cloth over green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine dustwrapper. 8vo. 95 pp. Includes the poet's, Sunrise In Suburbia, For John Clare and The Bungalows. An Excellent Association
Copy. $1450
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Ashbery, John.
SOME TREES -1956
- Inscribed lovely 1st in DJ of his 1st book, also available.
Excellent
1914 H-Q & QQ 56 / Max Carrados
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Bramah, Ernest.
MAX CARRADOS. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1914. First Edition, first
issue, with the eight-page catalogue dated Autumn, 1913 and thirty-two
page catalogue dated September, 1913 at the rear of the book. The
Florence and Edward Kaye copy with their neat leather bookplate. A fine
copy in red cloth, gilt titles and decorations in a red quarter leather
slipcase, five raised bands, gilt titles, red cloth covered chemise and
ribbon pull. A truly beautiful example of this Queen's Quorum 56 &
Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. $1500
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DALI
Inscribed Monograph
DALI
[ Introduction by Michel Tapie ]. Les Editions Du Chene, Paris,
1957. 1st Edition. A very uncommon Dali monograph, with an extraordinary
two page Dali presentation inscription. First edition. 4to., [14 1/2' x
11"] French style wrap-a-round stiff paper covers, with a mounted
colour illustration on the front panel. 11pp Tapie introduction, in
French; 16 exquisite full colour plates, each mounted on the recto of
each page; & a 5 pp biography at the rear. All of the mounted
illustrations are of excellent quality, and include: "La Harpe
Invisible Fine Et Moyenne", "Spectre De La Libido",
"Le Severage Du Meuble Aliment", "Le Chevalier De La
Mort", "Les Atavismes Ce L'Angelus De Millet",
"Pain", "Leda Atomica", "Madone De Port-Lligat",
"Paysage De Port-Lligat", "Assumpta Corpuscularia
Lapislazulina", "Persistance De La M emoi re", "Le
Christ En Croix", "Vitesse Supersonique Staique De La Madone
De Raphael", "La Cene", a detail of "La Cene",
& "Nature Morte Vivante". On the front endpapers is a
large & bold Dali inscription that read "Pour Comte Du Liege /
Dali / 1958" . The Comte Du Liege, is a Regal title of the
Belgian Royal Family, and is akin to the rank of a Duke. The best Dali
inscriptions are noted for their flare & elaborate Daliesque design
- this one is no exception. A superb example from perhaps the greatest
artist of this past century - we know he would agree. $3850
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Vollmann
/ Vonnegut Illustrated Presentation.
Vollmann, William T. Signed.
THE ATLAS. new York: The Viking Press, 1996. EXCEPTIONAL
[Double] SIGNED COPY INSCRIBED BY VOLLMANN TO VONNEGUT.
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Tall 8vo., 459pp. First Edition; First Impression, numerically indicated. Fine, in black quarter cloth, over ivory paper-covered boards, stamped in silver on the
backstrip, top edge stained pale orange, as called for, in a fine, bright dustwrapper, with the correct price corner intact.
Inscribed by Vollmann to Kurt Vonnegut [who also signed], with a drawing covering the front free endpaper &
pastedown, depicting Vonnegut & Vollmann as a two headed snake
- Vonnegut, with eyes open (& moustache very much in evidence), & Vollmann with eyes closed - a visual & poetical reference to Vonnegut's comment upon the author's first novel, "You Bright And Risen Angels, praising
Vollmann's, "vision," as a literary figure. An extremely important association copy of Vollmann's surrealistic view of Society & it's future. The Best Possible Copy To Hide Away From Yourself For A Little While.
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Poems which Shelley had in his pocket when he was drowned, and which
Trelawney threw upon the funeral pyre, I confess I should never read
it... though I might keep it in a little shrine and burn incense to
it." - Harry B. Smith. |
The
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Baldwin, James.
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN. Signed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf., 1953. First Edition of the author's landmark first book
Signed by Baldwin on the half-title page in black fountain pen. An excellent example of his early signature. GTIOTM is regarded as a 'prose tour-de-force revolutionizing the American syntactical landscape by bringing together a stunning grasp of English prose with the language, rhythms and cadences of the black church'. A near fine or better example, (hint of erasure mark on the front free endpaper) in brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine in an excellent, clean dustwrapper [one small tear repaired at the bottom of the front flap's fold. Housed in an embossed custom clamshell case. A very nice bright excellent copy. $3950
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Crick
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Francis
Crick & James Watson & 7 other Nobel Winning Scientists have
Signed this May 28th, 1981 Memorial First Day Cover for Rachel
Carson. An
extraordinary document in fine condition. $3600
Crick & Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material"; Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and zoologist
for the 1986 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for work on human growth factors; George H. Hitchings, The 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Julius Axelrod. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1970; American biochemist and molecular biologist Paul Berg received the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry for ''his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard for recombinant DNA; Walter Gilbert, the 1980 Novel Prize for Chemistry & Melvin Calvin, The 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants".
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Inscribed
Presentation 'Saint'.
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Charteris, Leslie.
THE SAINT GOES WEST. Garden City: Doubleday Crime Club, 1942. True First Edition preceding the UK edition. Excellent presentation copy. Inscribed by the author in black fountain pen on the front free endpaper to his favourite wine merchant: "To Julian E. Blum / our favourite purveyor / of beautiful fluids with / our profound esteem / Sincerely / Leslie Charteris / and [trademark 'saint' stick man figure toasting with a wine glass] 26 August
42". A near fine example in a very good or better dustwrapper that has been treated kindly to a bit of archival restoration at the edges. Delightful copy - Cheers. $1500
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Crowley
- Original Printing Plates For The ACE OF DISKS & THE SUN
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Crowley, Aleister & Frieda Harris - related material].
An original engraved colour printing plate, used to reproduce the Tarot card 'Ace of Disks' in the First edition of The Book of Thoth (1944) and the prototype samples of the Thoth Tarot cards
(1943). London: OTO/Chiswick Press Ltd. [1944], 1943. The plate is metal (probably copper?) 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, and is mounted on a second brass or copper sheet that is about 1/8 of an inch larger on each
edge. The method used for the printing was the collotype process, which in this instance required four different printer's blocks for each illustration. These were run through the presses in sequence with different colored inks, the end result being the very high quality color reproductions that were required. The blocks within any given set varied quite dramatically in appearance. One or two would usually have sections of the background of the design cut away or deeply engraved so that there was no chance of the ink adhering to those parts of the design where it was not wanted. This gave the plates themselves a high relief, almost sculpted look. Others of the plates were lightly but very finely etched on the surface, giving them enormous detail, although it usually requires reasonably close examination of the plate to see it. In 1943 Crowley had eight sets of these printing blocks made: seven sets were for the designs for the tarot cards 'Ace of Disks', 'The Lovers,' 'The Ace of Swords,' 'The Sun,' 'The Hierophant,' 'Lust', and 'The Universe,' with the eighth set for the Rose-Cross design that would appear on the reverse side of each card. The plates were primarily struck so that color prints of the designs could be made to tip into his forthcoming 'The Book of Thoth', however he also took advantage of their availability to have a small test run of those particular tarot cards made. These he distributed to friends and acquaintances that might be persuaded to help finance the full printing of the pack. The plate is from the collection of Edward Noel Fitzgerald, (1908-1958), also known as Frater Agape, a IX degree member of the
O.T.O. He had been a friend and follower of Crowley's, and remained friends with Harris after The Beast's death. The two met via Crowley, and were part of the small circle in Britain in the 1950s who continued to take an interest in his work. Harris supplied FitzGerald with a small collection of material relating to the preparation and exhibition of the Thoth tarot designs, and the publication of The Book of Thoth. Although not designed as such, the plates themselves are quite decorative. They could perhaps be mounted on a box holding tarot cards, a bookend, or simply for display in a frame. However they are displayed, there is no doubt that each plate is a unique memento of the first ever printing of one of the most significant Tarot decks ever produced, and of course of 'The Book of
Thoth'. This particular engraving is moderately finely done, and presents a reverse (mirror) image of the 'Ace of Disks.' Four finger nail size rubbed patches, probably deliberately done by the printers so the ink would not adhere to those parts of the design, otherwise overall VG condition. A one-of-a-kind Crowley item.
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Crowley, Aleister & Frieda Harris - related material].
An original engraved colour printing plate, used to reproduce the Tarot card
'The Sun' in the First edition of The Book of Thoth (1944) and the prototype samples of the Thoth Tarot cards
(1943). London: OTO/Chiswick Press Ltd. [1944], 1943. The plate is metal (probably copper?) 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, and is mounted on a second brass or copper sheet that is about 1/8 of an inch larger on each
edge. The method used for the printing was the collotype process, which in this instance required four different printer's blocks for each illustration. These were run through the presses in sequence with different colored inks, the end result being the very high quality color reproductions that were required. The blocks within any given set varied quite dramatically in appearance. One or two would usually have sections of the background of the design cut away or deeply engraved so that there was no chance of the ink adhering to those parts of the design where it was not wanted. This gave the plates themselves a high relief, almost sculpted look. Others of the plates were lightly but very finely etched on the surface, giving them enormous detail, although it usually requires reasonably close examination of the plate to see it. In 1943 Crowley had eight sets of these printing blocks made: seven sets were for the designs for the tarot cards 'Ace of Disks', 'The Lovers,' 'The Ace of Swords,' 'The Sun,' 'The Hierophant,' 'Lust', and 'The Universe,' with the eighth set for the Rose-Cross design that would appear on the reverse side of each card. The plates were primarily struck so that color prints of the designs could be made to tip into his forthcoming 'The Book of Thoth', however he also took advantage of their availability to have a small test run of those particular tarot cards made. These he distributed to friends and acquaintances that might be persuaded to help finance the full printing of the pack. The plate is from the collection of Edward Noel Fitzgerald, (1908-1958), also known as Frater Agape, a IX degree member of the
O.T.O. He had been a friend and follower of Crowley's, and remained friends with Harris after The Beast's death. The two met via Crowley, and were part of the small circle in Britain in the 1950s who continued to take an interest in his work. Harris supplied FitzGerald with a small collection of material relating to the preparation and exhibition of the Thoth tarot designs, and the publication of The Book of Thoth. Although not designed as such, the plates themselves are quite decorative. They could perhaps be mounted on a box holding tarot cards, a bookend, or simply for display in a frame. However they are displayed, there is no doubt that each plate is a unique memento of the first ever printing of one of the most significant Tarot decks ever produced, and of course of 'The Book of
Thoth'. This particular engraving is moderately finely done, and presents a reverse (mirror) image of the 'The Sun.' It does not have the great detail of the others in the set, which is particularly evident in the center or the design which is indistinct and cloudy. Overall VG condition for this one-of-a-kind Crowley item.
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Ernest
Hemingway Original Autograph Display
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Hemingway,
Ernest. Original Autograph Display. Neat original Hemingway
pencil autograph franked from a provisions order form used at berth 520
where Hemingway moored his precious yacht Pilar. Beautifully framed in
gilt decorated wood & glazed to an overall size of 17” x 22”,
double matted in windows with gilt filets; excellent litho quality image
of Karsh’s famous portrait. A stunning display of the author of:
‘The Old Man And The Sea’ & ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’. $2350
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Inscribed
Presentation Longfellow - The Divine Comedy
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Presentation Copy. Translated by Longfellow.
THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1867. 8vo., 489pp., publisher's gilt-decorated forest green covered embossed cloth.
Inscribed by Longfellow in pencil on the half-title:
"W.W. Follett Synge from The Translator". A very good example of a fine association copy showing minor wear at the tips & spine extremities. A collection of letters from Synge [William Webb Follett, 1826-1891, who wrote: Tom Singleton, Dragoon and Dramatist] to Longfellow can be found in the Berg Collection.
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Crevecoeur JOURNEY INTO
NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA
AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK
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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de.
.JOURNEY INTO
NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF
NEW YORK. Ann Arbor,
MI: University
of
Michigan
Press, 1964. Translated by
Clarissa Spencer Bostelmann. Her Copy. First Edition. Tall 8vo., 619pp.
An excellent copy in dustwrapper. The first complete English translation
of Crevecoeur's monumental oeuvre. CSB's presentation, inscribed to her
mother on the ffe: "For my Mother, / peerless inspiration /
Devotedly / Clarissa / April 1964". Mrs. C. S. Bostelmann small
blue address sticker at the top of the ffe with 6 lines of relevant
manuscript notes at the bottom. "More than a book of travel ,
Journey...expresses Crevecoeur's belief in the corruption of
Old World
civilization and his prophecy that the American Revolution would bring
harmony, abundance, and democracy. This is a book rich in early American
lore." Custom TBCL Slipcase. With:
Crevecoeur, Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de. VOYAGE
DANS LA HAUTE PENSYLVANIE ET DANS L'ETAT DE NEW YORK PAR UN MEMBRE
ADOPTIF DE LA NATION
ONEIDA
TRADUIT ET PUBLIE PAR
L'AUTEUR DES LETTRES D'UN CULTIVATEUR AMERICAN. Paris: De L'Imprimerie de
Crapelet, Chez Maradan, 1801. First Edition. Three Octavo Volumes:
[xxxii], 1-427; [xiv], 434; [xii], 409, [1], pp., eleven finely engraved
plates, both views and maps of which 7 are folding. A very good lightly
rubbed set in solid antiquarian condition; with the text blocks clean
& fresh & free of blemish. The translator, Clarissa Spencer
Bostelmann's set with strong original provenance; the bookplate of
Samuel W. Pennypacker [1843 - 1916 / Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903
to 1907, Americanist, President of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania] on the front pastedown of each volume. These
volumes are finely printed and illustrated. Of special note are: the
portrait of Washington engraved from a cameo executed by Madame Brehan
in NY (1789); the powerful pictures of an Onondaga sachem and Koohassen
,an Oneida warrior; and the fine maps & plans, including a large
folding map of the Southern United States, engraved by Tardieu.
"Original work of this author, presented under the guise of a
translation." - Howes Only his initials appear at the end of the
dedication to George Washington. "This work is distinguished by its
valuable details on the aboriginal tribes, and their gradual
disappearance. No other writer has so well described the Indian great
councils, or assemblies, where they deliberate on their public
interests.". Howes C884; Sabin 17501; Brunet II, 424
$9350
Crevecoeur [1731-1813] traveled widely in
America after the French &
Indian War, and became a naturalized citizen in 1765. In the Revolution
he chose the Loyalist side, and during the War he resided in
France. During this separation
from his adopted home he wrote: LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER.
"This volume was more widely read in England & Europe and had a
greater influence in attracting its readers to America
than any other book of the
period" - Vail 674. When he returned to America
in 1783 he found that his
home had been burnt by Indians, and that his wife and children were
gone. This present work was written during the difficult years of the
French Revolution. It was intended to be merely a fourth volume of the
"Letters From an American Farmer", but Crevecoeur eventually
created an entirely new work. In its pages one discovers the final
evolution of his ideas, intimate observations, and dreams about America. It is filled with details
on the gradual disappearance of the aboriginal tribes and the great
Indian Councils. He also had intimate knowledge of the characters of the
founding fathers. Crevecoeur was, for many years, the French Consul in New York
and enjoyed the friendship of Washington, Franklin, and other leaders. The
author spent nearly 25 years in America, saw
Washington, in 1774, come to the
first Congress fresh from his farm, witnessed his extraordinary career,
and in 1797, saw him return to private life as an agriculturalist.
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Salinger, J.D.
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. A fine SIGNED copy of the March, 1952 reprint. [The first issue was July, 1951]. Salinger's remarkable first book,
neatly signed in black fountain pen at the top of the title
page. An excellent example of Salinger's elusive signature - Custom clamshell case.
"The Catcher In The Rye is undoubtedly a 20th-century classic. It struck a popular note, particularly with young
readers. $33500
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Coleridge's
Anonymous Translation of Goethe - 1st English Edition
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Johann Wolfgang von. FAUSTUS: From the German of Goethe.
[Faust] [Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Trans.]
London
: Boosey and Sons, 1821. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of part 1 of
"Faust" & one of the earliest translations of any part
of Goethe's Masterpiece into English.
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In the original drab boards.
Though uncredited, the translation was executed by Coleridge. 8vo.
viii + 86pp. + index of engravings after Moritz Retzsch by Henry Moses
which were issued separately by Boosey in a slightly larger format.
This volume is with Title Page but missing the Portrait frontis. Which
was excised very early on. 1 folding plate. The earliest version of
any part of Goethe's "Faust" dates from 1813 when a fragment
appeared in Mmme de Stael's
GERMANY. An uncredited translation of another fragment, possibly by J.C.
Morgan, was printed in "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" in
1820, the same year as the Retzsch portfolio. Later, married copies of
the illustrations & text volume sometimes appear bound together.
THIS VOLUME IS THE FIRST COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF PART I. Some light
wear to the spine; a uniform very, very light damp staining to the
lower margin throughout. This first edition of the text volume in the
original boards is quite rare. "Coleridge began, but soon
abandoned, the translation in 1814, returning to the task in 1820. At
Coleridge's own insistence, it was published anonymously in 1821,
illustrated with 27 line engravings copied by Henry Moses after the
original plates by Moritz Retzsch. His publisher, Thomas Boosey,
brought out another edition in 1824. Although several critics
recognized that it was Coleridge's work, his role as translator was
obscured because of its anonymous publication. Coleridge himself
declared that he 'never put pen to paper as translator of Faust', and
subsequent generations mistakenly attributed the translation to George
Soane, a minor playwright, who had actually commenced translating for
a rival press." (Faustus from the German of Goethe Translated by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, publication date September 2007.) In a custom
designed clamshell case in fine condition.
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Gielgud's Copy
Of Hamlet Plus....
"To Hamlet from Polonius / in
admiration..."
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[GIELGUD, Sir John]. OUR ACTRESSES; Or, GLANCES AT STAGE FAVOURITES. Past and Present. By Mrs. C. Baron Wilson. 1844. First Edition. In Two Volumes.
Finely bound by Morrell in half brown morocco, marbled boards, the spines with raised bands and nicely decorated gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Short biographies of
61 actresses, with 10 engraved portraits. Sir John Gielgud's copy, INSCRIBED to him on a preliminary blank in each volume:
"To John Gielgud / from / Miles Malleson / To Hamlet from Polonius / in admiration / July
1944". William Miles Malleson (1888, Surrey - 1969). In 1943 he appeared in Gielgud's revival of Love For Love, & during the war years he appeared along with Gielgud as Polonius to Gielgud's Hamlet. An incredible association copy. $3500
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[GIELGUD, Sir John]. SHAKESPEARE. HAMLET. Prinz Von Daenmark. 1913. Mit 16 Lictdrucktafeln nach den Lithographieen von
Eugene Delacroix. INSCRIBED. First Edition Thus. Large Folio [13 inches wide by 18 inches tall]. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. Full morocco,
gilt. the spine elaborately decorated in gilt, front panel titled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.
Presentation Copy from famous early German stage actress & film
star, Elisabeth Bergner to Sir John Gielgud. "To John / from Elisabeth / London, Christmas
1973". Sir John Gielgud's copy - completely appropriate & intriguing as Gielgud's career was distinguished by his numerous performances as Hamlet.
$12500
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"My favorite of my
own books - Roger Zelazny"
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Zelazny, Roger.
LORD OF LIGHT. New York: Doubleday, 1967. First Edition of this masterpiece. A fine bright copy in dustwrapper showing minimal use.
Inscribed by the author: "To Bob Shulman / My favorite of my / own books / - Roger
Zelazny". Extraordinary Copy. Levack A25a. Winner of the 1968 Hugo / Nominated for the 1967 Nebula.
$9850
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Notable Inscribed Zelazny Titles Available
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THE
COLLECTOR
True First
Edition, First Book, First Binding /Black Cloth
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Fowles John.
THE COLLECTOR. London: Cape, 1963. True First Edition in
the rare Black Boards. An excellent copy of what is certainly the original trial or advance binding preceding the usual brown cloth.
A very fine exceptional copy of his breakthrough novel. $18000
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THE TEACHINGS OF DON
JUAN - "NONORDINARY REALITY"
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Castaneda, Carlos.
THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN. A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.True First Edition of the Author's first book. 8vo, (xii), 196pp. Publisher's medium gray cloth covered boards lettered in gold, green endpapers. True First edition of Castaneda's very scarce first book & the first book in the Don Juan series. Issued in a small edition [likely 750 - 1250 copies] by a university press, the book was well-read on campus & copies of this, the true 1st [not to be confused with the later Simon & Schuster, 1973 printing] are difficult to find in collectible condition . A seminal 60's book of some great counter-cultural significance through which Don Juan's perception & mastery of
"nonordinary reality" opened up the mind of an era to the possibilities of a more mystical & magical existence, linking various theme s of spirituality, drugs & metaphysics. A fine fresh example of this profoundly influential work, in an excellent dustwrapper - the nicest we have seen in years. A spectacular copy of this much sought after book in a fine custom fitted slipcase.
$2450
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A
COLLECTION Of RELATIVITY 'Sans Pareil'
Rare
Signed Relativity - First US Edition In Original Dustwrapper
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Einstein, Albert. RELATIVITY.
SIGNED. The Special and General
Theory. Translated by Robert W. Lawson. New York, Henry Holt and
Company 1920. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. 8vo., xiii + 168 pp. A very good
or better copy; gilt stamped upper cover, the gilt spine lettering a bit
faded. Signed By Einstein in full:
"Albert Einstein", in black fountain pen on the half title.
In the rare
original
first
edition dustwrapper - a very good or better example,
neatly restored at the extremities. Custom gilt-lettered, deep blue
cloth clamshell case. [Differs from the
UK
edition only in page arrangement - Weil] $78500
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Rare
Relativity - First UK Edition In Original Dustwrapper
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Einstein,
Albert. RELATIVITY. The
Special And The General Theory. A
Popular Exposition. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1920]. First Edition in English, First
UK
Edition. A popular exposition translated by Robert W. Lawson. Small
8vo. xiii. 138pp., frontispiece portrait, five diagrams, eight pages
of Ads. Publisher's blind-stamped red cloth titled in gilt [not black]
at the spine. A
very good copy indeed in an excellent example of the rare
original dustwrapper with expert minor restoration
primarily at the extremities of the spine. In a fine custom blue cloth
slipcase with E=mc2 embossed
in relief on the side. $37500
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BORGES
/ Major Presentation of EL ALEPH
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Borges,
Jorge Luis. [Vicente Barbieri]. EL ALEPH.
Buenos Aires
: 1949. Inscribed by Borges to his close friend, one of the most important
Argentine poets, Vicente Barbieri: "
Para
el colega Vicente Barbieri con la amistad de / Jorge Luis Borges"
- [For the colleague Vicente Barbieri with the friendship of / Jorge Luis
Borges]. In Borges' own words: "Ficciones y El Aleph (1949 y 1952)
son, según creo, mis libros más importantes". (Autobiografía
pp.111-112). The Borgesian quest for the Verb, the Word, which is all
words, for the absolute Book, which is all books, takes flesh in El Aleph.
$18800
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Inscribed
- THE
MYSTERY OF THE HANDSOM CAB
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Hume, Fergus W. [1859 -1932]. THE MYSTERY OF THE
HANDSOM
CAB. London, [1888].
Rare Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author on the half title: "To / Will J. Benners / With best wishes / Fergus Hume." "Ranks as the most successful Detective Story of all time" - Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1960. This is the Florence & Edward Kaye copy with their neat leather bookplate pasted on a panel of the chemise. Quarter red calf slipcase with 5 raised bands. [Likely acquired by the Kayes from The House of El Dieff in 1976] The Collector No.273, p43. Graham Greene and Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction [Appendix], (1966).
$8500
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Two
Great Durrell Books
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Durrell, Lawrence. THE BLACK
BOOK.
Paris: Obelisk Press. 1938. Volume 1 in the Villa Seurat Series, edited by Henry Miller. First edition. First Issue. Original printed wraps. Octavo. 260pp. A cornerstone of prose fiction & long denied publication in the US until Lawrence gained recognition for his masterwork "Quartet". This is a fine copy showing very light use of what has become a Durrell rarity. According to Alan Thomas's Illustrated Checklist/Bibliography, 1983, the first issue did not contain the erratum slip which was added later owing to a mistake in the pagination & only after "a number of copies had been dispatched". Stiff clear Mylar protective outer wrapper. Neat collector's bookplate of editor, [collector], Morley
Kennerley. "The books I own are impeccable. The fine binding lie along the wall in the firelight, snoozing softly in richness." - Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book. Collectible copies of this title are few & far between. $3250
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Durrell, Lawrence. Durrell, Lawrence.
Six Poems from the Greek of Sekilianos and Seferis. Rhodes: Privately Printed, 1946. First edition. Decorated Wrappers. Translations of three poems by both Sekilianos & Seferis. A unique copy. Durrell has inscribed in a contemporary hand on the inside front cover:
"For Wallace & Anna, One Very Rare Book. Larry." A fine example showing light use. Custom cloth slipcase & chemise with a gilt lettered spine label. Fewer than 50 copies were published. Few survived. Very rare inscribed.
$8500
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Signed
by Cornelius KREIGHOFF - Rare
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THE
LITERARY WORKS OF SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. By Henry William Beechey.
Signed by Cornelius Krieghoff on
the title page of both volumes. New and Improved Edition. Two Volumes.
Krieghoff, [1815 - 1872], the consummate portrayer of finely detailed,
carefully composed anecdotal scenes of English & French Canadian
life associated himself with this great English master through his
writings & musings about life & craft. $3150
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First
Edition of THE YEARS - Nice Example
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Woolf, Virginia.
THE
YEARS. The Hogarth Press, 1937. First Edition. A
Lovely Copy. $3000
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Unique T.
S.
Eliot Presentation 1st with Rare Autographed Cast Album
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Eliot,
T. S. MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL. OUTSTANDING ELIOT PRESENTATION
COPY WITH THE RARE ORIGINAL CAST PHOTO ALBUM
Inscribed to the First Leader of the Chorus of Canterbury Women
on the occasion of the first performance ever of the play, June 19th,
1935. "
To / Miss Beverly Primrose Wells / from T. S. Eliot / June
15-22, 1935" - With, THE ORIGINAL CAST PHOTO ALBUM FOR THE
PERFORMANCE. $57500.
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First
Edition of BEING GENIUSES TOGETHER - The Finest Memoir Of Expatriate Paris
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McAlmon, Robert. BEING GENIUSES
TOGETHER. First edition. First binding. 8vo, pp. 373. Gilt stamped blue cloth. Blue topstain. McAlmon's important modernist memoir of expatriate Paris.
Reminiscences of the seminal Contact Press & Paris Literary Life of the 1920's. Certainly his scarcest book rarely seen in dustwrapper. A superior copy, fine in the dustwrapper which shows a little light use [one
chip at the bottom of the front panel]. In a custom collector's clamshell case. lovely. Cyril Connolly once wrote: "It' is not just the famous books which are hard to find. Several million books of 1938, 1939 and 1940 perished in the
Blitz hence the rarity of Beckett's "Murphy", MacNeice's "Yeats" and McAlmon's "Being Geniuses Together"."
$4250
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First
Edition - Bright Copy of His Rare First Book
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Davies, W. Robertson.
SHAKESPEARE'S BOY ACTORS. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1939. First edition of the author's rare first book. 8vo., pp. vii, 207, [1] [Bibliography]. Publisher's [electric] blue cloth covered boards, clean blue topstain, gilt-lettered at the spine with the blind-embossed crest on the front cover. Eight black & white plates. A very nice, near fine or better copy, in a very good or better copy of the rare [pc] illustrated white dustwrapper showing minimal use; 1 tear neatly mended on the verso of the back panel. An excellent, bright, unfaded example of this Davies
high Spot & in definite collector's condition. Davies account of the life & training of the Elizabethan boy actors, a consideration of their particular abilities & shortcomings, & discussion of the extent to which these actors set free or ham pered Shakespeare in his female characterization. Very scarce indeed. Most of the edition was pulped to accommodate the paper shortage of the war years. Perhaps a few hundred copies were actually sold which accounts for its infrequent appearance on the market. In the last twenty-five years, less than a dozen copies have surfaced in varying states of perfection or lack thereof, usually without dustwrapper, in both the Toronto & Montreal markets. $3975
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Absolutely
Superb Inscribed Rand High Spot
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Rand, Ayn.
ATLAS SHRUGGED. First Edition, First issue. Excellent Copy In Dustwrapper.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper in black fountain pen: "To
Graham Porter / - Cordially - / Ayn Rand / 06/25/58"
$21700
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Greene's
First Book - Exceptional Copy
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Greene,
Graham. THE MAN WITHIN.
London: Heinemann, 1929. 1st
Edition. Spectacular First edition of Greene's first novel. Publisher's
black cloth, spine lettered gilt. A very fine fresh copy in dustwrapper.
Certainly one of the finest available on the market. Wobbe A2. The title
for THE MAN WITHIN (1929) was taken from Sir Thomas Browne's (1605-1682)
"There's another man within me that's angry with me." The film
version of the book, starring Michael Redgrave & Richard
Attenborough, was made in 1947. $9,875.00
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Greene's
First Signed Limited Edition.
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Greene,
Graham. THE BEAR FELL FREE. London: 1935 First edition. A near fine copy in a very good or better
dustwrapper showing minor restoration at extremities of the spine. Copy
244 of 250 [of a total edition of 285]. Signed by Greene. A nice
copy of the author's first limited edition.
$2175
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Signed First, First Issue
THE LONG VALLEY. Uncommon Signed.
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Steinbeck,
John. First Edition, First
Issue, THE LONG VALLEY. 1938. An excellent example neatly signed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper:
"John Steinbeck / 1945". An important Steinbeck short story collection [13] which includes the classic 'Saint Katy the Virgin', & the 4 stories comprising 'The Red Pony'.
$7950
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SIGNED Fitzgerald
In Rare Original Dustwrapper
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Fitzgerald,
F. Scott. THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED. Signed.
New York, 1922. An early reprint in the original dustwrapper. Nicely signed by
the author in black fountain pen on the dedication page: "Sincerely
/ F. Scott Fitzgerald". The Beautiful and Damned brought
Fitzgerald accolades from those whose opinions he valued. Mencken
congratulated him for staking out new ground. Fitzgerald was aiming
high; he only wanted to be the best novelist of his generation* $13250
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FROM A
SURGEON'S JOURNAL Inscribed by Cushing
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INSCRIBED
CUSHING
Cushing, Harvey W. FROM A SURGEON'S JOURNAL. 1936. First Edition - Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the ffe:
"For Ruby McIntire Chalfield with the regards and best wishes of Harvey Cushing. Commencement Day
1937". The book is further signed a second time on the Title Page.
$2650
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WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES Inscribed To His Father
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Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]. WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES. Inscribed To His Father. London and New York:Harper & Brothers, 1899.
First Edition. Important Family Presentation Copy, inscribed on the second free endpaper to his father:
"For / Joseph Wells / From his / affectionate son / H. G. Wells". A fine copy showing light use, minimal spotting to contents - very nice indeed.
Publisher's original red cloth, gilt lettered at the spine. 8vo., pp. [1-8] [1] 2-328 [329] [330-332: blank] [note final leaf is a blank],
three inserted plates on glossy stock with illustrations by H. Lanos. One of Well's major "scientific romances", rarely found inscribed.
The most significant example as there is no formal printed dedication, this presentation might very well be it. [Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2459- 62.
"a vividly exciting story." - Bleiler (ed), Science Fiction Writers, p. 27. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-165; (1981) 1-174; and (1987) 1- 106.
Bleiler, Science- Fiction: The Early Years 2332. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s- 1930s 803. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 25. Lewis,
Utopian Literature, p. 202. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 228. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1176.
Sargent,
British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 120. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 78. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 151 14.
Currey (2002), p. 426 (binding A). Hammond B6. Wells 15. Wells Society 15]. Custom half red leather clamshell protective presentation case.
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THE PASSIONATE
FRIENDS: A NOVEL
- The G. B. Shaw Copy
Wells,
H[erbert] G[eorge]. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS: A NOVEL George Bernard Shaw Presentation London: MacMillan, 1913. The [GB] Shaw Copy. First edition, first issue with all the correct points. A fine copy in the publisher's patterned sage green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. [very minor offsetting to the endpapers & a small stain at the outside bottom of the front pastedown - still a remarkable fresh copy & an extraordinary example, Inscribed by
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Wells with a flourish for Charlotte Shaw & George Bernard Shaw through her with good humored advice as follows:
"Mrs. Shaw / with warm regards / HGW / and do make GBS try a
novel" - The inscription in rebuttal to Shaw having earlier admonished Wells to try writing a play. Green calf clamshell protective presentation case, gilt decorated & lettered at the spine. THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS was produced as a movie by Stoll in 1923, again by David Lean in 1948 (script by Eric Ambler), & again by Paramount in 1952. Wells Soc. 51; Hammond A9. "Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells were both dedicated to reshaping the world: as Shaw commented in one letter to Wells, " The first volume of [Karl Marx's] Capital (all I ever read of it) changed the mind of Europe; a thing we two have been trying to do all our lives." 1 Although (apart from some satiric fantasies) Back to Methuselah is Shaw's only direct attempt to picture what this change might mean, H. G. Wells was very much in the futures business with almost a third of his voluminous writings being explorations from the present into visionary alternatives. Titles like The World Set Free or Men Like Gods offer much the same ecstatic hope for change as Shaw's
"metabiological Pentateuch"; and a comparison between the ways in which each envisaged the future is illuminating. It encapsulates the extremes of the turn-of-the century revolutionary movement in which they were both involved, as well as throwing the nature of Shaw's beliefs into high relief by the contrast. The links between the two writers, both of whom aspired to be the intellectual leader of the new century, are well known: their common membership in the Fabian Society, and the Wells forced resignation after publicizing the scandal of his affair with Amber Reeves (at that time the secretary of the Society) in his novel Ann Veronica, their extensive correspondence from at least 1901 right up to just three days before Wells' death in 1946, which shows that each read the other's work, even sending drafts of some pieces to one another. What has not been as fully realized is the degree to which both Wells' novels and Shaw's plays were written as direct responses to each other's work. There are enough overlaps or cross-references to qualify several of their works as a serious literary conversation, and significantly, the subject of their artistic argument was specifically their idea of the perfect society, and the means through which it might be." -
Innes, C. D. "Utopian Apocalypses: Shaw, War, and H. G. Wells" SHAW The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies - Volume 23, 2003, pp. 37-46, Penn State University Press
$45000
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Inscribed
DEDICATION
COPY Hellman to Hammett
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THE
DEDICATION COPY.
[Hammett,
Dashiel] THE NORTH STAR. By Lillian Hellman. New York:1943. “
For
Dashburger, /
Who is too far away: who is / always too far away if he isn’t / in the
next chair. Much, much / love, Lilly”. $19750
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The
Father Of Detection & The First Crime Narrative. Haycraft Queen Cornerstone #3.
VIDOCQ
SIGNED.
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An Extraordinary Collection of First Editions. 10
Vols. [VIDOCQ & His Detractors.]. Incl: 1 - Four Vols.
/ Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de sureté, jusqu'en 1827. With; 2 - Four Vols. / Mémoires d'un forçat ou Vidocq
dévoilé.
[Memories of a convict or Vidocq revealed] Issued By Four Different
Publishing Houses* [1828-1829]. With the "Lexique d'argot",
Slang Dictionary in the 4th volume. With; 3 - Two Vols. / [L'HERITIER
(Louis-François)], Supplément aux Mémoires de Vidocq. $25000
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Bellow
Signed VICTIM - Excellent Copy
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Bellow, Saul,
THE VICTIM. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947. Lovely example of the First edition of the author's second book. Signed by Bellow at the top of the title-page in black ink. First edition. 8vo., 294pp., black cloth, lettered in light blue to spine, top edge stained blue. A fine copy in dustwrapper, price-clipped, showing minimal use; The delicate powder blue dustwrapper just a bit faded at the spine, a couple of short closed tears. By far a better than usual example of this important Burgess 99 Novel.
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Crowley
Signed Presentation Copy inscribed to his great friend, Edward
Thornton
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KONX OM
PAX
Essays in
Light
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Crowley, Aleister. Crowley, Aleister.
KONX OM PAX. Essays in Light. London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1907.
Signed Presentation Copy inscribed to his great friend, Edward
Thornton. One of 500 signed copies, additionally inscribed in blue/black fountain pen on the ffe:
"Dear Thornton, / Here's luck! How is it / I never hear from you? / Aleister Crowley / [22 Chancery Lane
WC]" Small 4to. The first issue bound in black buckram with white lettering [light out of darkness]. A very good copy with some minor shelf wear & surface rubs; the white silk screened titles still quite sharp - a bit of light foxing to t he fly leafs [Signed by Aleister Crowley beneath his frontis portrait]. The book contains four essays primarily & was one of Crowley's own favourite works. He wrote glowingly of it in his 'Confessions', in particular describing the final essay 'The Stone of the Philosophers' as being " really beyond praise". "I now began to see that this was schoolboyish bashfulness, and to feel my responsibility as an exponent of the hidden knowledge, to treat my prose as reverently as my verse, and (consequently) to produce masterpieces of learning and wit. The "Dedication and Counter-Dedication" of
Konx Om Pax is wholly admirable and it rises to a delightful satirical climax of four stanzas on the "empty-headed Athenians". "The Wake World" is a sublime description of the Path of the Wise, rendered picturesque by the use of the symbols of the Taro, and charming by its personification of the soul as a maiden. "My name is Lola, because I am the Key of Delights, and the other childr en in my dream call me Lola Daydream." "Ali
Sloper; or the Forty Liars" shows traces of my old vulgarity. The dramatis personae contain a lot of bad puns and personal gibes, but the dialogue shows decided improvement; and the "Essay on Truth" is both acute and witty, with few blemishes.
"Thien Tao" gives my solution of the main ethical and philosophical problems of humanity with a description of the general method of emancipating oneself from the obsession of one's own ideas, while there are passages of remarkable eloquence. The last essay in
Konx Om Pax, "The Stone of the Philosophers which is hidden in Abiegnus, the Rosicrucian Mountain of Initiation", is really beyond praise. Its genesis is interesting. I had written at odd times, but mostly during my travels with the Earl of
Tankerville, a number of odd lyrics. The idea came to me that I might enhance their value by setting them in prose. I therefore wrote a symposium of a poet, a
traveller, a philosophical globetrotter, an a dept, a classical scholar and a doctor. They are made to converse about the chronic calamity of society, and the poems (ostensibly written by one or other of the men) carry on the thought. The result is, in reality, a new form of art; and I certainly assisted the lyrics by giving them appropriate springboards". -
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To
666 From 777 - Achad,
Frater [Charles Stansfeld Jones] Inscribed To Crowley
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[Crowley, Aleister].
Achad, Frater [Charles Stansfeld Jones]. Q.B.L. or The Bride's
Reception: Being A Short Cabalistic Treatise On The Nature And Use Of The Tree Of Life.
Chicago: Printed For The Author, 1922. First edition of Achad's most important book.
Ex-Libris Aleister Crowley.
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Extraordinary Presentation Copy Inscribed By Frater
Achad: "To my Beloved Father / 666 / in the hope that this, my / first book, may meet with / his approval /
777". 8vo., 106 pp + 43pp. + 4 colour plates (including frontispiece) + 1 folded black & white diagram. Limited Edition: #2 of 250 signed copies.
THE MOST IMPORTANT POSSIBLE ASSOCIATION COPY. Black paper-covered boards, linen spine, paper title label, top edge gilt. Label slightly chipped, some wear to corners and edges of boards. Light damping along top margin of first few leaves and a couple of inconsequential nicks. Interesting bookplate of Phyllis
Duveen. A very good & important copy. Aleister Crowley ("666") considered himself to be the "Spiritual Father" to Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones, "777"), as he relates on page 801 of the CONFESSIONS: "What I had really done ... was to beget a Magical Son. So, precisely nine months afterwards ... Frater
O.I.V., entirely without my k now ledge, became a Babe of the Abyss. ... The Book of the Law speaks of this 'Child' as 'One,' as if with absolute vagueness. But the motto which Frater
O.I.V. had taken on becoming a neophyte was 'Achad,' which is the Hebrew word for 'One.' It is further predicted that this 'Child' shall discover the Key of the interpretation of the Book itself, and this I had been unable to do." In this light, Achad refers to Aleister Crowley as his "Beloved Father" in the INSCRIBED DEDICATION. This is copy # 2 of 250; we presume that copy #1 was retained by the Author. The bookplate of Phyllis
Duveen, the wife of Denis I. Duveen, a noted collector of Alchemical books &
Esoterica] was possibly executed by AUBREY BEARDSLEY (although unsigned). The Duveen Collection is noted for its depth and balance. The catalogue of Duveen's library "Bibliotheca Alchemica et
Chemica: An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy, Chemistry, and Cognate Subjects in the Library of Denis I.
Duveen," printed in London, 1949 remains a touchstone for scholars and collectors of European Chemistry before 1900. There are some penciled annotations in the margins of the text. These include the following: Page 2 has the phrase "get Essay
Berashith" (to be found in the Collected Works of Aleister Crowley). Page 49 has the word
"Tau" noted across from a discussion of THE UNIVERSE. Page 64 has the phrase "Book 777" across from a section on THE TREE OF LIFE. Page 97 has the phrase
"Liber Legis" in the margin where the author refers to THE INITIATION OF 1917... BY THE MASTERS OF WISDOM FROM OTHER PLANES OF BEING. We cannot confirm that this penciling is in the hand of Crowley, nor of the previous owner Duveen but all things are possible. $44400
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The
DEDICATION COPY
of
CLAVELL'S First Book
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Clavell, James.
KING RAT.
Boston, 1962. The
Dedication Copy. 8vo., 406pp. True First Edition [preceding the
British]& first book in his "Asian Saga". The author's
powerful debut work; a semi-fictional account of his incarceration at
Changi prison camp in Singapore. Inscribed: "Mother / I'll bet there were / many times when we /
both figured that this / particular story would / never be told - / with
love / from me / Nov '62". $28500
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Signed First, First Issue
EAST OF EDEN. Very Desirable
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Steinbeck,
John. EAST OF EDEN. First Edition, First Issue, First State DJ.
Lovely Copy. New York: 1952. Neatly signed in blue ink on the title page:
"John
Steinbeck / 1953". An extremely nice copy. Goldstone &
Payne A32b. While the signed limited edition is readily available,
signed trade editions are rarely seen.
$7500
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Rare
Thomas D'Arcy McGee Presentation Inscribed
Association Copy. $34500 SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES. CHIEFLY ON THE SUBJECT OF BRITISH AMERICAN
UNION. First
Edition. London: 1865
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Non
Plus Ultra - The Most Wanted Mystery Of The
Century - An Extraordinary Example
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B.i.g B.i.r.d
Hammett, Dashiel. THE MALTESE FALCON.
New York: 1930. First Edition. First State. A Simply Spectacular Copy In
Dustwrapper. $136000
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An Excellent Example The
Maestro's High Spot
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Superb Nabokov, Vladimir.
LOLITA Paris: Olympia Press, 1955.
First Edition. First State Superior Set. $9750
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Wilkes In Dustwrapper - A Pioneering Book From The Dawn Of The Computer Age
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Wilkes, Maurice V. with David J. Wheeler and Stanley Gill.
THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS FOR AN ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. Cambridge, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1951. Fine in rare dustwrapper.
$4500
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Frost's
First Book Inscribed To Crosbie Guage
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Frost, Robert.
A BOY'S
WILL. London: 1913. Presentation Copy of the First Edition of the author's first
book; neatly & succinctly inscribed in blue-black fountain pen on the half-title to friend & admirer George
Crosbie, of Crosbie Gauge Publishing to whom Frost
presented many of his books: "For Crosbie / from / Frost". A fine copy in the original cream linen
wrappers. Custom cloth case with chemise. $7800
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Frost Inscribed Rarity - 1of
37 Copies
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Frost, Robert.
THE GOLD HESPERIDEE. Lovely inscribed copy [Unmarked but
Ex-Libris, George Crosbie of Crosbie Gage]. First Edition.
1935. 12mo., 8pp, tan wrappers. Frost has made an "X"
in fountain pen at "favorites", and has added in his fine hand at the bottom of the page - " X Nearer correct than I thought / when I first read this statement /
R.F.
"- Fine. In custom chemise &
slipcase. One of Frost's impossible "A" items - 500 copies - all but 37 were withdrawn.
Uncommon enough but RARE Inscribed. $5500
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INSCRIBED
CELINE
To GEORGE REAVEY. Connolly The Modern Movement #74
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Celine,
Louis-Ferdinand. VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT. [Journey to the End
of Night]
Paris: 1932. A superb Presentation Copy of Celine's legendary First Book,
Inscribed to George Reavey. Editor, Translator of the Russians, owner of
Pan-Europa Press, Samuel Beckett's agent & good friend, connected to
Joyce & considered the Pre-eminent Surrealist Publisher with close
ties to the Avant-Garde of French letters. A
Cornerstone of Modern World Literature. $15750
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Signed
H. S .T.
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Thompson, Hunter S.
FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL '72. Signed. Thompson's third book & second of his Fear & Loathing accounts. 8vo., 506pp., [1] blank, [3] Steadman illustrations, [1] blank, [1] acknowledgements.
Signed [Initialed] on the half title by Thompson on an appropriate day:
"H. S. T. / Friday 13. Nov 1998". First Edition in a near fine or better First Issue dustwrapper. Thompson's off-the-wall Gonzo take on the 1972 Nixon/McGovern Presidential race for the Presidency. One of the scarcest of Thompson's titles to be found signed.
$3970
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Edition BEETHOVEN PIANOFORTE SONATAS
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Beethoven, L. Van. Ernst
Pauer,
Editor. London, [1880]. 3 Folio Vols. Highly embellished bindings with gilt, blue
& black stamped decor, blind
stamped borders, decorative end-papers. A magnificently
ornate & scarce fine binding set. $3850
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Bartlett's
"Familiar Quotations" - Uncommon PRESENTATION COPY
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Bartlett,
John. FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: A COLLECTION OF PASSAGES, PHRASES, AND
PROVERBS TRACED TO THEIR SOURCES IN ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE.
Signed. 1892. Rare Presentation Copy of the ninth edition and the last
edited by Bartlett himself, this copy is warmly inscribed: "Mary D.
Flagg / With the / sincere regard of / John Bartlett". In a
handsome contemporary full crushed morocco binding. An American
Classic. $1750
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V. S. Naipaul's copy Inscribed by
Theroux
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Theroux, Paul. SUNRISE
WITH SEAMONSTERS. TRAVELS & DISCOVERIES.
Boston: 1985. Important Presentation & Association Copy. First Edition
Inscribed By Paul Theroux to Nobel Prize winning Trinidadian author, V.
S. Naipaul on the front free endpaper, 'For Vidia, To mark
twenty years of friendship - if you only knew how your good influence
has kept me on the straight and narrow, with love, Paul' &
additionally Signed by Theroux on the title-page. Theroux's friendship
with Naipaul had spanned decades, Theroux penning, "V. S. Naipaul:
An Introduction to His Work". $22500
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Schulberg,
Budd. THE HARDER THEY FALL. 1947. Signed. Excellent Presentation
Copy. First Edition. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper to Hall of Fame sportswriter Jimmy Cannon dated in the year of publication:
"For Jimmy, / who takes a game / with athletes and makes a world / with people / With admiration and warm / regards / Budd / July 15
1947". An explosive novel. A unique Association Copy linking Schulberg & Cannon; two of America's greatest [sports] writers - both listed in the International Boxing Hall Of Fame. Schulberg is the only non-boxer honored as a "Living Legend of Boxing" by the World Boxing Association. $2875
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BLAISE PASCAL'S
PENSEE
2nd Edition, 1670 - PMM 152
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Pascal,
Blaise. PENSEES DE M. PASCAL sur la religion et sur quelques
autres sujets...
Paris: 1670. [Not published in English until 1803]. The uncommon seconde édition
of Pascal's masterwork issued the same year as the 1st edition. Brunet
IV, 398; PMM 152. MAIRE IV, no 8; CLAUDIN
et PLACE
Bibliothèque Rocheblière No 127, Tchémerzine / Scheler V, p. 70. Le
Petit, p. 207. $3500
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Advance
Presentation Copy of Lindbergh's SPIRIT
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Lindbergh, Charles A.
THE
SPIRIT OF
ST. LOUIS. Inscribed Presentation Copy. New York: 1953, First Trade Edition, First Issue. One of a handful of important
Author's advance copies inscribed prior to publication. $4250
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Capote's
True Original Birth Certificate
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Issued in the parish of New Orleans &
registered the 3rd day of October, 1924 & showing the birth of
Truman Streckfus Persons, Sept. 30th, 1924. A unique document given
by Capote's mother, Lillie Mae Faulk Persons [soon to be Capote] to her
sister, Lucille Faulk Ingram for safekeeping. An amazing document. $35000
Truman
Capote's True original Birth Certificate
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Inscribed by Capote To His Aunt Lucille
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Capote, Truman,
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY.
Family Presentation Copy.
Inscribed to his Aunt
& Cousin. New York: Random House (1966). $18750
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The Best Copy of DIARY
OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE
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Kaufman,
Sue. DIARY
OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE. 1st. A significant presentation inscribed
on the ffe to the woman who inspired this work: "To
Mabel Frohlich / who is the model / for my heroine. /
Sue Kaufman". As there is no formal printed dedicatee,
this particular presentation comes about as close to the mark as we're
going to get. Basis for the 1970 Frank Perry film of the same name
starring Carrie Snodgrass & Richard Benjamin. An important 60's
title, which shared the morphing cultural & cinematic stage &
screen with "The Graduate". $7500
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"A large nose is
the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.”
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The
First American
Cyrano
Was
Published In French.
Rostand, Edmond.. CYRANO DE BERGERAC. 1898.
True First American Edition [In French] preceding the Doubleday English
edition. A very nice copy. Rare. Cyrano was first published [1898] by Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle in Paris....
$1475
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Stephen
Leacock Original Autograph Display
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Leacock,
Stephen. Original Autograph sentiment over a TLS dated Feb
12th, 1924,
Easton
, Pennsylvania
on club sized stationery [6” 1/4 x 8” ¼]. In black fountain pen:
“ My best thanks for such / a fine note / Stephen Leacock” freely
inscribed over the delightful original typed recipient’s
missive: “Apparently the penalty for writing such delightful books is
to be pestered by the readers of them….”. Displayed in matted
windows with a handsome sepia photo print image, framed &
glazed in an elegant museum quality wood frame to an overall size of 14” x 20”. A lovely presentation. $775
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The Best Of WWI
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WWII
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Norman
Mailer's
WWII Masterpiece. An exquisite copy of the First Edition. $7500
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Mailer's Uncommon Second
Book, Green Variant. A Very Fine 1st in DJ. $750
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Mailer's Second
Book, Red Variant. Inscribed. A Fine lovely copy in dustwrapper of the
First Edition. $1500
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Goodbye
To All That - Inscribed By Graves - Rare
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A Graves Highlight. SIGNED & DATED. First Edition, Second Issue Rarely found signed. An excellent example
in a modestly used wrapper. $3500
Graves,
Robert. GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. With the infamous Sassoon poem excised & replaced with cancels
& asterisks. 8vo, pp. 448. Publisher's salmon pink cloth gilt, frontispiece, 7 illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the ffe. In blue fountain pen:
"With best wishes / Robert Graves / 1944". A near fine copy in a very good cream coloured pictorial dustwrapper showing some use with three narrow chips. [Designed by Len Lye and with a photograph of Graves by Alfred Cracknell]. Signed copies are very uncommon. [Higginson A32b.]
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Graves,
Robert. GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First Edition, First Issue with the anti-war passage on page 290 & Sassoon Poem on pages 341 - 343 present. 8vo, pp. 448. Publisher's salmon pink cloth gilt, frontispiece, 7 illustrations. Original cream coloured pictorial dustwrapper printed in black designed by Len Lye and with a photograph of Graves by Alfred
Cracknell. A fine fresh, excellent copy; the passages in question being an unauthorized transcription of a poem from Sassoon to Graves, which were subsequently removed at Sassoon's request. [Higginson A32a.]
$4860
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The
Young Lions - Signed by Shaw - A Most Substantial Book
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Shaw's
Important WWII Novel. First Edition, Signed. The equal to Mailer's
N&D. An extremely nice copy.
Shaw, Irwin.
THE YOUNG LIONS. New York. Random House, 1948. Signed First Edition of the author's important First Novel. 8vo., 694pp. Half scarlet & black gilt lettered cloth, cream endpapers, red top-stain. A fine copy in a very bright dust jacket with some excellent conservation at the spine extremities.
Neatly Signed by Shaw in blue ink on the title page. An excellent example of this major World War II novel, as significant as Mailer's Naked And The Dead & increasingly more difficult to find signed & in condition.
Basis for the Edward Dmytryk1958 film starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, & Hope Lange. $1250
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Turgnev's Masterpiece
&
Romeo & Juliet's Origin
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Turgenev. FATHERS
AND SONS.
New York, 1867. Rare First Edition in English of this Masterpiece. Originally
pub. in Russian in 1862. Turgeniev has often been credited with
the invention of the word "nihilism," exemplified in the
novel by the unforgettable character Bazarov.... $6500
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Bandello, Matteo. (Shakespeare, William).
NOUVELLES DE BANDELLO. Paris: 1879. First Fr. Ed. of Romeo & Juliet, ltd. to 300
copies. Penned by the Italian author, Matteo Bandello & published
in 1554, collecting twenty-one short stories that subsequently formed
the basis for many European literary works, notably, Shakespeare's,
Romeo and Juliet & Much Ado about Nothing. Originally translated
into English in 1562, by Arthur Brook, in his poem, Tragical History
of Romeus and Juliet. $1400
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SCHEHERAZADE
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Scott, Jonathan.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. London: 1811.
First Edition.
These epic stories of
Scheherazade stand alone as a cornerstone to Medieval Middle Eastern
literature
Introducing amongst others, Aladdin, Ali Baba
and the Forty Thieves, & The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor.
Rare & Desirable. $5500
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Thomas
Wolfe Trio
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Wolfe,
Thomas. OF TIME AND THE RIVER.
Signed.
New York
: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935 First Edition, first issue Signed by Wolfe
in blue-black fountain pen on the title page. Thick 8vo. [xii], 912 pp.
Dark blue cloth. Near Fine in dustwrapper showing light use at the
extremities. Collector's name dated April 5th, 1935 on the front endpaper. A
very nice copy. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Johnston
A3.I.a.. First Edition. $2975
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Wolfe,
Thomas. FROM DEATH TO
MORNING. Signed
and dated by Thomas Wolfe, January 10th, 1936, in blue-black
fountain pen on the front endpaper. In the first issue dustwrapper,
without the letters "BTC" on the front cover. One of Wolfe's
most esteemed collections of short stories inclusive of, Death The Proud
Brother, Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, The Four Lost Men and The Web of
Earth. $2975
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Wolfe, Thomas. THE
STORY OF A NOVEL. Association / Presentation Copy Inscribed By
Maxwell Perkins to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings:
'To Marjorie, With admiration and affection from Maxwell Perkins, May
22nd, 1936.' Ex-Libris Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, with her pencil
quotations marking passages throughout the book. On the margin of pp.
17, Rawlings wrote, 'Something you can't understand or believe
until it happens', in reference to Wolfe's passage, 'I wanted to lead
the same kind of obscure and private life I'd always had and not be told
about my fame and success'. $5875
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Huxley
Family Rarities
Aldous & Julian's Copy on T.H. Huxley
Huxley, Aldus. 1932. T. H. HUXLEY AS A MAN OF LETTERS. Family Copy. Imperial College of Science and Technology, Huxley Memorial Lecture. First and only edition.
Julian Huxley's copy with his signature at the head of the front cover. Also signed on page 1 by the author who published Brave New World the same
year.
$9500
Huxley
[Julian] came from the distinguished Huxley family. His brother was the writer Aldous Huxley, and half-brother a fellow biologist and Nobel laureate, Andrew Huxley; his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley; and his paternal grandfather, the subject of this lecture, was biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, famous as a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin and proponent of
evolution...
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Huxley
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Huxley, Aldous.
BRAVE NEW WORLD. First Edition. Louis MacNeice's Copy Signed by him on the front pastedown. An important landmark of 20th century fiction and a Connolly 100 title.
$1250
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BROTHER TO BROTHER
Huxley, Aldous.
THEMES AND VARIATIONS. Family Copy. First Edition. Inscribed
"For Julian & Juliette with all my love Aldous 1950".
Fine.
$8500
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Huxley
Cont'd.
Huxley, Aldous. AFTER MANY A SUMMER. 1939. First Edition. Inscribed to George Cukor:
" For George, in the midst of 'Pride & Prejudice,' & in friendship. Aldous H.
1939."
Below this Huxley penned another inscription in 1945: "Why did you desert us before the
shooting?" A.H.,
1945." Presentation
Copy.
$6750
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Bucky
Meets Napoleon & Joseph Conrad
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Bucky
Fuller Presentation
Copy
NINE CHAINS TO THE
MOON. 1938. First Edition of Buckminster Fuller's first book. Excellent Presentation Copy,
Inscribed: 'To ...with confidence in his ability to demonstrate creation responsibility in his day for other
men'. $3000
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From The Library Of Joseph
Conrad
MINUTES OF A CONVERSATION WITH NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE. By I. H. Vivian. First Edition. 1839. A very good copy of a rare Napoleon item. Author's presentation copy,
inscribed:
'Henry Reeve esq. with I H. Vivian(s) Compliments". With the printed label to the inside front board:
"From the library of Joseph Conrad, sold at messrs. Hodgsons. March 13th,
1925."
Presentation
Copy.
$1500
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THE
DECLINE OF THE WEST PMM 410
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DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES
PMM 410
xx
Spengler’s Masterpiece. 2 Vols. 1920. An extremely
nice set DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES. Umrisse Einer Morphologie der
Weltgeschichte. Two octavo Volumes. [Translated into English as: THE
DECLINE OF THE WEST]. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN # 410. A very popular
title in its day, early printings of the separate volumes are not
uncommon but collectible uniform sets are rarely found. An outstanding
example in condition. Custom chemise & slipcase. $5750
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Burne-Jones
FLOWER BOOK In Original Unbound State
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Rare
Burne-Jones FLOWER BOOK Folio.
In The Original Unbound State.
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward.
THE FLOWER BOOK. 1905. Landmark
Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece Of The Book Arts. This copy in the
publisher's folio sized clamshell box; 38 original water-colour designs.
Exquisite. $13750
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Aliester
Crowley AES
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Jerry
Seinfeld Comedy MS
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A.
Y. Jackson Portrait Signed
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Puzo
"GODFATHER" MS
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Charles
G. D. Roberts Portrait Signed
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Sir
John Gielgud Portrait Signed
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Robertson
Davies Quotation Signed
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Pascin
To Carco ALS
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Gide
"Leaves Of Grass" ALS
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Rodin
ALS
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'Bucky'
MOON Letter Signed
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De
Chirico APS
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Voltaire
Autograph Display
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Buckminster
Fuller TIME Signed
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George
Rouault ALS
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Thomas
Hardy Signed
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Gustave
Flaubert ALS
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Theodore
Dreiser Inscribed Photo
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Kipling
& Maurois Signed Photo
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Stephen
Mallarme ALS
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James
Baldwin GTIOTM Signed First Page
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Stephen
Leacock ALS
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Jean-Baptiste
Corot
ALS
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Edgar
Degas
ALS
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Theodore
Dreiser Inscribed Photo
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Kipling
& Maurois Signed Photo
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James
Baldwin GTIOTM Signed
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Aliester
Crowley AES
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Jerry
Seinfeld Comedy MS
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Puzo
"GODFATHER" MS
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Pascin
To Carco ALS
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Gide
"Leaves Of Grass" ALS
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