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.....
Washington DC: 18 January 1900. Letter. Fine handwritten four-page letter on all sides of a 9-1/2" x 7-3/4" sheet of paper folded in half to a Miss R. K. Crandall, written in answer to an inquiry about documents concerning American foreign affairs. In part: "Miss Donnely was instructed to copy.....
1967 - 1968. hardcover. Autograph Guest Book (10" x 7-5/8") in gilt-lettered red cloth maintained 1967-1968 by the Banfer Gallery, Inc. in New York City and containing autographs on 95 pages including Edward Albee, John Ashbery, Paul Cadmus (5 times), Truman Capote, Jean Charlot, Adolf Dehn, Michael Frank, Stephen Holden.....
New York: 1950. A scarce 8" x 10" Black-and-White Formal Photograph SIGNED by Bill Wilson: "To Martie C--/With affection/and thanks/Bill/NY -- 9/50."
(New York): (Limited Editions Club), (2005). Benny Andrews. First Edition. Original Art. Folio (19-1/2" x 25-1/2") consisting of 6 color etchings and 2 letterpress text pages: a title page and a colophon page. There were 300 copies of O'Connor's book illustrated by Benny Andrews and published by the Limited Editions.....
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.....
London: Faber & Faber, (1963). First British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield A45b: 3000 copies, preceded by the American edition which had a larger printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To/Hedwig [Petzold]/with love/from /Wystan" in 1963 on the front free endpaper and with seven manuscript corrections by Auden in the text. Sensational association copy!.....
Birmingham: 14 September 1938. Letter. Superb 1-1/2 page TYPED LETTER SIGNED on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to American historian, philosopher, and literary critic Lewis Mumford. In part: "I nearly wrote you a fan letter once before, when I read CIVILIZATION AND TECHNICS, and now.....
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: [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.....
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1765. First Edition. Hardcover. The First Baskerville Edition and the Eighth overall. Quarto (9-7/8" x 12-1/2") bound in original blue paper-covered boards with light green paper backing, uncut and mostly unopened; [12], [ii]-xiii, [2], 504, [18]. Gaskell 30 describes that the errata leaf is frequently missing. This.....
Photograph. An 8" x 10" photo of Belafonte with his business manager, Jay Kennedy, and another man, apparently producer Sidney Buchman, Kennedy's partner, at a restaurant table from the early to mid-1950s. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Belafonte to Kennedy: "Dad! Dad!! Dad!!! On this day we released ourselves to further.....
[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.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1989. Jacob Lawrence. hardcover. Large folio bound in full midnight blue Japanese cotton. Copy #249 of only 400 numbered copies, SIGNED on the colophon by Jacob Lawrence who has contributed 8 original silkscreens to this massive (16" x 22") and truly magnificent work, one of.....
[New York]: [Limited Editions Club], [1994]. John Biggers. First Edition. Original Art. Large folio consisting of 5 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS and the title and colophon pages. For her favorite poem, originally published in I SHALL NOT BE MOVED, Angelou chose the internationally acclaimed African-American printmaker John Biggers to illustrate a book.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Bishop's third collection of poems. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "Best wishes for Michael ?/Elizabeth Bishop." An important collection, seldom found signed.
Athens, GA & London: The University of Georgia Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. A Review Copy with publisher's inserts laid in. This copy SIGNED by 14 contributors on the front endpaper including Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, Charles Simic, Stephen Dobyns, Robert Creeley.....
Tangier, Morocco: 1978 - 91. Letter. Archive of 31 items SIGNED in full or as "Paul B.," each to Gregory Stephenson: 2 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS * 25 TYPED LETTERS * 4 AUTOGRAPH POSTCARDS. The letters, discussing publication of works by himself and other writers, and complaining of the bureaucratic and meteorological.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, (1872) and (1874). First Edition. Hardcover. Two folio volumes (10" x 12-1/4") bound in original decorated publisher's morocco leather. Illustrated with 49 beautiful steel engravings, all tissue guards present, and numerous wood engravings. Images include diverse scenes from the Catskills to pre-bridge Golden Gate.....
[August - September 1914]. Manuscript. A 13-page working draft in pencil with corrections, mostly on rectos of 5-1/2" x 9" sheets, SIGNED by Burroughs at the conclusion. Written in response to a statement published by two German philosophers defending their country's invasion of Belgium at the outset of World War.....
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.....
Edinburgh & London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, n.d. First British Edition. Hardcover. Decorated red cloth, part of the Famous Scots Series and likely published in the same year as the American edition, 1905. Carnegie's biography of the inventor of the steam engine. INSCRIBED on the half-title page by the author.....
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."
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. This book on the effects of pesticides is a landmark in environmental writing inspiring the movement that led to the banning of DDT and raising awareness of the important connection between humans and their environment which hitherto had been generally taken for.....
