Firenze (Florence): David Passigli, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Two large quarto volumes (10" x 13-1/2") bound in contemporary full dark green morocco leather with raised bands and stamped gilt lettering to the spines, the front and rear covers with elaborate ornamental designs and red morocco onlays. Illustrated with a printed.....
London & New York: The Nonesuch Press and The Dial Press, 1924 - 1927. Stephen Gooden. Hardcover. Five quarto (8" x 12-1/8") volumes bound in full parchment with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, fleuron cornerpiece designs and central ornament within gilt frames to the front and rear covers.....
Basil: Ludovici Regis, 1621. Third Latin Edition. Hardcover. Folio (8" x 12-1/2") bound in library buckram; irregularly paginated: [10], 502, [58] pages. Illustrated with 273 woodcuts, many full and half page, some signed with the monogram "RMD," and generally attributed to Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (fl.1525-1572) or, less commonly, Blasius.....
New York: Susan B. Anthony, (1902). First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth volume, eventually complete in six volumes, in publisher's purple cloth. Illustrated with copperplate and photogravure engravings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Anthony on her birthday, filling the front free endpaper: "Mrs Mariana Wright Chapman/Brooklyn -- New York --/This Huge Volume.....
14 June 1970. Letter. Fine 4-page letter written entirely in the jazz legend's hand with interesting personal content on the back of four 8-1/2" x 11" photocopies of his advertisement for "Lose Weight The Satchmo Way," often used by Armstrong as stationery to his frequent correspondent, Mr. Kauffmann. Armstrong mentions.....
Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Helen Sewell. Hardcover. Octavo (5-7/8" x 9-1/8") bound in full embossed brown sheepskin leather. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Preface by Frank Swinnerton. Illustrated with line drawings by Helen Sewell. Copy #1241 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on.....
Buffalo: Courier Company, 1889. Early Edition. Hardcover. One of several editions of one of the most famous American autobiographies by one of the world's most sensational entrepreneurs. This is a special copy in a full black morocco leather publisher's presentation binding with gilt decorations on the spine and Barnum's gilt.....
Glen Echo, MD: 4 February 1906. Letter. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on both sides of a 10-5/8" x 6-3/4" sheet of light blue paper from the 85year-old founder of the American Red Cross to her friend and supporter Roscoe [Green Wells], who held various positions in the National First.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1911). First Edition. Hardcover. Lightly tipped to the front pastedown is a printed copy of the author's most famous poem "America the Beautiful," complete with music. Lightly tipped to the front endpaper is a printed copy of the same poem (3-1/2" x 5-1/2") signed.....
Tel Aviv: 17 November 1964. Letter. A short but very interesting letter written and SIGNED in Hebrew on 5-1/2" x 7-3/4" ruled paper with punch holes in the margin. Addressed to "Dear friend" David Hacohen, an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1949 and 1953.....
New York: Irving Berlin Music Corporation, (1945) but later. wraps. Quarto (9" x 12") in gray and green illustrated wraps; 6 pages. Vintage sheet music with words and music by Irving Berlin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front cover: "For Iris and Jeff/with love from/Irving Berlin/1979."
[1981]. Hardcover. Thick quarto (8-7/8" x 11-3/4" x 3" thick) in a plastic-enclosed black pebbled leather 3-hole binder containing 194 vintage pieces of sheet music by Irving Berlin, likely all reprints, specially compiled and arranged alphabetically with a special contents page bound at the front. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1979). First Edition. Wraps. Beige printed wraps. The uncorrected proof of Boyle's first book, rarely seen in this scarce advance format.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. Six octavo volumes (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in half natural cowhide leather and printed paper sides designed by Valenti Angelo. The unabridged translation complete with notes and index by Sir Richard Burton. Illustrated with 1001 drawings by Valenti Angelo. Copy #323.....
[1853]. Manuscript. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT completely in Carlyle's hand but not signed of @250 words on the verso of a letter (8" x 9-7/8") addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil, the notes appear to be historical and biographical.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Early Edition. Hardcover. Decorated red cloth. Carnegie's tribute to his adopted country, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by him on the dedication page: "S C Brastow/For Auld Lang Syne/Andrew Carnegie/NYork April 22/1891."
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. Reproduces.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth stamped in silver; (xii), 504 pages including an Index. SIGNED by Catt on the front endpaper. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) succeeded Susan B. Anthony as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900 and played an essential.....
(Easthampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press, 1990. Alan James Robinson. First Edition. hardcover. Folio (10-3/8" x 15-7/8"), the exact untrimmed size of the First Folio of 1623, bound by Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton in full gilt-lettered rust morocco, with marbled endsheets by Faith Harrison, in a custom cloth clamshell box with.....
London: 4 September 1944. Letter. A SIGNED letter on the Prime Minister's stationery from John Miller Martin, principal private secretary (1940-1945) to Winston Churchill, to Richard Tobin of the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE giving details about the story of Churchill singing "Rule, Britannia" on the cruiser Enterprise in July 1944.....
Cooperstown: 23 October 1850. Letter. An incredible 3-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on two sheets of 8-1/2" x 6-7/8" paper by the author of THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS written on behalf of James Henry Hackett (1800–1871) to his old friend Charles Augustus Murray (1806–1895) who was at this time consul-general.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. John Steuart Curry. Hardcover. Octavo (6-7/8" x 10") bound in full chestnut leather, gold-stamped, with an illustration embossed on the front cover. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with drawings by John Steuart Curry. Copy #960 of 1000 SIGNED by the artist, one of.....
n.p. 12 May 1965. Letter. A fine TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) on thin onionskin paper from Cukor to Northern Ireland film director Brian Desmond Hurst SIGNED as "George." Cukor writes a few short months after winning the Academy Award for Best Director for MY FAIR LADY starring Audrey Hepburn. The.....
Honolulu, Oahu, HI: Polynesian Press; New Era and Argus Office, 1855-1856. First Edition. Hardcover. New Series Volume IV, Numbers I - 12 and Volume V, Numbers 1 - 10; Old Series, Volumes XII and XIII. Quarto (9-1/8" x 11-5/8") bound in recent calf-backed marbled boards; 92, 4, 80 pages. Despite.....
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1937-38. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-five large octavo volumes bound in the publisher's linen buckram which varies in color throughout the set, gilt title on black leather spine labels, top edges gilt. Numerous plates, some in color, and text illustrations from the original steel plates and woodblocks. Printed.....
