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.....
Newburyport: Morss and Brewster, (1837). First Edition. wraps. Original printed blue wrappers; 68 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front blue wrapper: "Deacon Samuel Savile/from/John Quincy Adams." Books inscribed by Adams are quite uncommon, and when found are usually signed on a presentation slip pasted in rather than in the.....
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.....
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: 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.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Jane Freilicher. Hardcover. Folio (11" x 15-1/2") bound in full light gray linen with a large rust-colored leather title label mounted to the front cover and another to the spine of the clamshell box covered in the same linen. Printed on hand-made paper with.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. The second volume of his New York trilogy. This is copy "D" of only 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Early but not first printing. Introduction and comments by Poppy Cannon. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on a piece of Toklas's 5, rue Christine stationery: "For Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt/En souvenir of a memorable meeting in 1934./With appreciation and.....
