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.....
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1927). Hardcover. A later printing, ex-library copy with the bookplate of The Phillips Exeter Academy library on the front pastedown, stamped DISCARDED, of a book made into a film starring Burt Lancaster that won three Academy Awards. An undistinguished copy BUT for the fact.....
Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620. Jacques Callot. First Callot Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (7-1/8" x 10-1/4") bound in 18th century tree calf leather, gilt ruled and decorated spine with the cypher "RD" or "RLD," edges speckled blue-green; marbled endpapers; [10], 65, [1] pages: [1], [4], A2, B1, C2-F2, G1, H2-I2, L2.....
[1926]. Manuscript. Exceptionally scarce 4-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem written by Auden as a teenager. Published in THE OXFORD OUTLOOK in November 1926 and not published in book form until 1994 in W. H. AUDEN JUVENILIA edited by Katherine Bucknell, from which much of the information below was acquired.....
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wraps. A 43-page 7-3/4" x 13-3/4" carbon copy typescript laid loosely into a makeshift folder consisting of a large piece of graph paper with the title THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO/W. H. AUDEN written in pencil in an unknown hand on the front cover. Not dated. Occasional minor ink corrections also in.....
New York: New Directions, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Patchen's second book, consisting of 800 copies, this copy INSCRIBED "with respect and admiration" for W. H. Auden on 10 May 1940 and SIGNED by Patchen. Patchen's first book brought him much acclaim including comparisons to Auden, unlikely as that might seem.....
New York: [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes], 1856-1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (10-3/4" x 16") in the original cloth rebacked with a recent brown morocco leather spine, lettered in gilt, and corners; original morocco label with the name "James Burnside" in gilt on the front cover; 416 (of 424) pages.....
n.p. [1938]. Manuscript. Handwritten Manuscript, not signed and apparently complete in 2 pages, of a review of William Henry Chamberlain's JAPAN OVER ASIA, published in 1938 by Duckworth. In part: "The vast majority of Western people know almost nothing about Asia.... Here, with a journalist's easy and vivid accuracy, the.....
New York: The Century Co., 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Early but not first printing, which was in April 1907, of this title which advocated improved treatment of children and eugenic practices such as keeping the unfit and first cousins from marrying. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front.....
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 #328.....
Chicago: American Photogravure Co., 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 12") in broken publisher's gilt-decorated leather-backed cloth; 16 pages of text and 65 full-page photogravure plates with tissue guards. From the unidentified author's preface: "To fully illustrate the many beautiful spots to be found in Los Angeles County .......
[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.....
Washington DC: 1 July 1977. Letter. Superb letter on White House stationery SIGNED in full to the Prime Minister of Italy, Giulio Andreotti, regarding an upcoming visit to the United States and a youth unemployment bill recently passed by the Italian parliament. In part: "You have suggested an excellent agenda.....
Havana: Editora del Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial wraps bound in black morocco-backed gilt-lettered dark blue morocco leather; 97 pages. Lengthily INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page by Fidel Castro to Lieutenant Pedro García Peláez sending him this book in acknowledgment of his birthday.....
Washington: U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (5-1/2" x 7-1/2") bound in flexible blue morocco leather lettered in gilt (including Coolidge's name at the bottom right) and decorated in gilt with stars in the corners and the Presidential coat-of-arms in the center. With a printed title.....
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.....
Cleveland: White Horse Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Dahlberg's second book, one of only 95 copies printed. This copy is from the more uncommon issue with the tipped-in illustrations and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page which states the copies numbered 1 through 10 were signed.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. John Tenniel. Hardcover. In publisher's heavily gilt-decorated full red morocco leather. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel. Copy #1327 of 1500 with typography and binding by Frederick Warde who has SIGNED the colophon page. Additionally SIGNED for the publisher on a separate page.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1925). Reprint. Hardcover. A scarce book in its true First Edition of 1900, this is a fairly early copy of a book rarely found signed let alone with such a superb presentation. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For/George.....
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1758. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10") bound in contemporary marbled calf leather with a gilt-decorated spine with 5 raised bands and a gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, text block edges stained red; xliv, 484 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, and 10 engraved.....
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in recent full blue morocco leather with gilt rules and lettering on the spine, marbled endpapers. Edited by John Baillie and Hugh Martin with contributions by Eliot, Karl Barth, and five others. Eliot's essay concerns "the different forms in which.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1876. Later printing. Hardcover. Publisher's brown cloth; 251 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Emerson. First published in 1846. This copy is SIGNED by the author "R. Waldo Emerson/April 13, 1876" on the.....
New York: Stackpole Sons, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Fante's much acclaimed first book, made into a movie starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed to -------/with the hope that he/enjoys this book/J. Fante/Los Angeles/Nov. 14, 1939." Charles Bukowski, among.....
[@1957]. Manuscript. Fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a complete poem of 29 lines titled "A Nearly Next to Naught Song," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the dedication "For Richard Hocking/once the author's pupil for/a lesson or two at Shady Hill/or rather on the.....
Manuscript. On a 4-7/8" x 6-3/8" piece of heavy white paper is a fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the ten-line poem, "A Time To Talk," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the postscript "This is from Mountain Interval which you must see that you.....
