[Chicago]: [R. S. Owens & Company], 1986. Statue. Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing in a Children's Series" to David Korr for SESAME STREET (1985-86). Consisting of a cast copper and nickel, gold-plated trophy weighing approx. 7 pounds, the statue stands 15-1/2" tall and depicts a winged woman, representing the.....
[1950s?]. First Edition. Softcover. Folio (12" x 16") sheets string-tied with numerous actual fabric samples loosely laid in. From early in the Showa Era (1926-1989), this appears to be from the Hasegawa Kimono company, apparently still in business, and contains samples for everyday wear. There are approximately 80 to 100.....
1927. Softcover. Decorated suede covers (9-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a rawhide tie containing ninety-four 4-1/4" x 3-1/2" original photographs captioned in white ink on the album pages and six 4" x 6" commercial photographs with captions in the negatives, all documenting an automobile trip out west, starting in or near.....
London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in contemporary calf rebacked with the original spine with a new gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label, the original label loosely laid in; [xii], 464, [2, ads] pages. Complete with half title and the engraved folding map.....
Washington DC: 18 January 1900. Letter. Fine SIGNED 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.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 27 July 1878. Print. Folio (11" x 16") extracted from an 1878 issue of HARPER'S WEEKLY, the woodcut image is quite likely the first depiction of blacks playing America’s game.
1940s. Manuscript. A collection of 16 MANUSCRIPT poems, all unsigned and undated but for two dated "16? November 1945," written in pencil on 14 8-1/2" x 11" sheets and one smaller sheet; housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell box. Four of the poems appear in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF.....
1940s. Manuscript. Included are 23 pages of a handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT in pencil on unlined 8-1/2" x 11" and lined 6" x 9" paper, along with a 15-page carbon typescript draft of most of the article that appeared in LIFE on 18 September 1950. A fair amount of the content.....
25 June 1917. Letter. An early four-page handwritten letter on one 6-1/4" x 9-7/8" sheet of paper folded into fours to American poet Orrick Johns, explaining his comparison of Johns to Edwin Arlington Robinson and responding to a comparison of his 1916 book of poetry, THE JIG OF FORSLIN: A......
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."
no date [1880]. Manuscript. One 7-5/8" x 9-3/4" lined sheet with an AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on one side consisting of 24 lines (@220 words) completely in Alcott's hand. In part: "'That barking dog is for Boo, & the little yellow sled so Molly can drag him to school, he always tumbles.....
New York: Golden PTG Service, 1922. First Edition. Framed Broadside. A 5-1/2" x 23-1/4" broadside matted and framed to 10-1/4" x 28-1/2" serving as the original playbill for this famous one-night performance of what is considered the foundational document of the Algonquin Round Table. All of the members of the.....
Portland [ME]: Lamson, n.d. Photograph. Wonderful SIGNED photograph (2-1/2" x 3-7/8") of Hans Christian Andersen seated at a small table and holding an open book. On the otherwise blank verso of the photograph, Andersen has written, in English, "The first moment of arrival at home is however the Bouquet of.....
New York & London: John Lane, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Anderson's third book and first book of poetry, this copy a superb Association copy INSCRIBED simply "Miss Marietta Finley" and SIGNED "Sherwood Anderson" in green ink on the front endpaper. Anderson met unmarried, 24-year old "Babs" Finley at the Art.....
(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.....
London: T. Bensley for the author, 1797-1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Twelve large quarto volumes (8-1/2" x 10-1/2") volumes consisting of volumes 1-6 bound in full green morocco leather gilt with all edges gilt and volumes 5-10 in half brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners, gilt-lettered spines; marbled.....
London: Tegg and Castleman, [1803]. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern calf-backed orange paper boards (4-1/8" x 7"); 72 pages. Frontispiece engraving by I. Taylor after a design by W. M. Craig. Scarce Gothic fiction employing Phantasmagoria, developed in the late eighteenth century from the earlier magic lantern: illusionistic exhibitions and public.....
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.....
Rochester [NY]/London/Paris: Susan B. Anthony, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. The first three volumes of what eventually would be complete in six volumes, in publisher's sheep, neatly and professionally rebacked with new sympathetic spines retaining four of the six original contrasting black and burgundy morocco spine labels with two new similar.....
Indianapolis & Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. The first two volumes of three, with the last not published until 1908. Original green cloth with a gilt portrait on the front covers and gilt lettering on the spines. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Anthony and other.....
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: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards in dustwrapper (11-1/2" x 11-1/2") illustrated with photographs scanned and processed by Michael Light with an essay by Andrew Chaikin. A total of 129 full-page and oversize black-and-white and color reproductions of NASA photographs of the moon's surface primarily.....
(Shropshire, UK): The Tern Press, 1992. Nicholas Parry. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in a spectacular artist's binding signed "MC" at the bottom of the rear pastedown and housed in a felt-lined black cloth clamshell box with a lettered red morocco spine label. Full red morocco leather with red.....
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.....
