Washington: 29 March 1830. Letter. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Adams on one large sheet of paper folded to 7-7/8" x 9-3/4" to the editor of the AMERICAN ANNUAL REGISTER, Joseph Blunt, sending corrections to his important and lengthy unsigned article dealing with the Russo-Turkish War and Greece.....
Boston: Edes & Gill, 1769. First Edition. Hardcover. Recently re-sewn into marbled paper over boards, with a printed paper label on the front panel and fresh endpapers, and enclosed in a custom clamshell box with a leather spine lettering piece. Adams 62A, Evans 11133, Heartman 509 ("certainly one of the.....
London: William Lane, 1791. Second Edition. Hardcover. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/4") volumes in later full polished calf with gilt rules, a blind-stamped and gilt-decorated spine with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; xii, 414; [ii] 492 pages. Lacking the half-title pages but otherwise complete. Illustrated with a large folding map.....
Reno, NV: Jack Bacon & Co., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in half black leather and blue marbled boards. Illustrated with photographs. The story of the Lear Jet written by the widow of the founder in a personal, autobiographical manner. Of a total edition of 5000 copies, there were 26.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1825. William Daniell. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 8 folio (10-1/4" x 14-1/4") volumes handsomely bound in 6 volumes in later 19th century deep-green morocco leather with gilt rules, heavily gilt-decorated spines with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all.....
London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. Avigdor Arikha. First Edition. wraps. Folio (11-3/4" x 15") in wraps, loosely housed as issued in a paper folder, cloth chemise, and slipcase. Text printed by Will and Sebastian Carter on paper made by J. Barcham Green. Of a total of 137 numbered copies illustrated with.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Ludwig Bemelmans. First Edition. Hardcover. A notebook of several voyages through South America, with a concentration on Ecuador. Illustrated with color plates of the Plaza Independencia, Quito, Luchow's Restaurant, House and Garden of Andre Roosevelt in Quito, and Indians in the patio of the.....
Pawlet, [VT]: Claude Fredericks [Banyan Press], 1958. First Edition. Softcover. Gray paper wrappers with title printed in orange, with publisher's printed envelope. Copy #60 of 500 copies. Berryman's uncommon second book, a slim collection of poems, this copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page to the.....
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards and dustwrapper designed by Ben Shahn with his illustrations in the text. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Miss Charlotte Thomson/with every good wish of/-- John Berryman" in Providence, May, 1963.
Letter. A fine archive of 4 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED in Beston's neat hand consisting of 10 pages and 2 hand-addressed and SIGNED envelopes along with a small photograph of Beston and his wife, Elizabeth Coatsworth, annotated in another hand on the rear. Three of the letters are addressed to Wilmot.....
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[1692 - 1779]. First Edition. Wraps. A string-tied manuscript (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") of Japanese Flower Arrangements (Kadou), author unknown, from the middle of the Edo era (1692-1779) consisting of 32 leaves with no text and a total of 63 lovely hand-colored drawings, one per page, of flower arrangements.
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, (1923). Third Edition. Hardcover. The first of five volumes, published a few months after the first edition. SIGNED by the author on the front blank: "Winston S. Churchill/19 Mar. 1924."
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth and orange paper-covered boards decorated with a gray and silver design, top edge stained orange, remnants of paper spine label. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to poet Weldon Kees in Provincetown on.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. There were 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, which.....
Boston: Osgood, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Original terra cotta cloth. BAL 5272: Signature mark N present on page 209; Myerson A34.1.a: correct readings on page 308. Myerson also notes that "Emerson was greatly assisted in compiling this volume by James Elliot Cabot and Ellen Emerson." This copy is INSCRIBED and.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated white linen, the gift binding, one of only 100 copies bound thus from a total edition of 2000. Both BAL 5250 and Myerson A28.1.a note that the earliest inscribed copies are dated 1 May 1867, May Day. This copy is INSCRIBED and.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Fitzgerald's last book published before his masterpiece THE GREAT GATSBY which had a print run of 20,870 copies while this book had only 7,650 published. As with the better known GATSBY, this title, Fitzgerald's only published full-length play, also explores the.....
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Grand Rapids, MI: South High School, June 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in textured gray cloth, gilt-stamped on the front cover; 171 pages. A typical high school yearbook, filled with small individual photographs of students as well as larger group poses and with many student autographs.....
Cambridge: 28 October 1958. Letter. A thoughtful AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on both sides of 7" x 9" King's College letterhead to Professor [Rex] Warner. In part: "My glimpse of you yesterday reminded me that I had never ... thanked you for your lecture.... I am very glad that you.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1934). First Edition. Hardcover. Crane A2.2. The Second American Edition of Frost's first book, designated "First 1934 Edition" on the copyright page. The book was redesigned and the text completely reset, with a woodcut by Thomas Nason added and a few minor changes by.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1936). First Edition. Hardcover. A later printing of the First Trade Edition of Frost's third Pulitzer Prize winner. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to a professor at the University of Texas, Philip Graham, with two stanzas.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1923. J. J. Lankes. First Edition. Hardcover. Beveled cloth. First Limited Edition of one of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer Prize containing such poems as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Fire and Ice." Illustrated with woodcuts by J......
New York: Henry Holt, 1915. First American Edition. Hardcover. Stated "Third Edition" on the copyright page but actually the Second Edition and the first edition printed in America; Crane A3.2: 1300 copies published. Tipped to the front pastedown is an @50 word AUTOGRAPH LETTER dated 12 May 1923 from South.....
New York: John Wiley & Son, 1866. First American Edition. Hardcover. Original purple cloth. James Garfield's copy SIGNED and dated by the future President on the front free endpaper: "J. A. Garfield/1867" with his printed bookplate ("Library of/James A. Garfield/Inter Folia Fructus") on the front pastedown. Books signed by Garfield.....
London: Bernard Lintott, [1716]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") bound in full polished calf with gilt-ruled borders and gilt dentelles by F. Bedford. One of only 250 copies of the Large Paper Issue with the engraved headpiece and ornaments. Gay's best remembered poem and thought by many to.....
