New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1943. Later printing. Hardcover. SIGNED with a fine, long INSCRIPTION in green ink by Carnegie on the front endpaper: "My dear Theo:--/As Abe Lincoln used/to say:-- may you/pluck a thistle and/plant a flower wherever/you feel a flower/will grow./Dale/April 15 1945/Abe Lincoln died/80.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. First Issue with all the points: dotted "i" in copyright notice, perfect running head at page 9, "CVI" on back-strip, and list on rear cover ending with 105; in the First State of the B binding of tan muslin. This copy.....
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885 & 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in the apparently most uncommon binding for this title: full sheep leather with marbled endpapers and edges, contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. With 49 maps and illustrations, including two steel-engraved frontispiece portraits and two etched.....
New York: Harper & Row, (1995). Anniversary Edition. Hardcover. A later printing from the Anniversary Edition of Lee's first book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and source for a beloved film and play. Attractively SIGNED on the half-title page.
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Early Printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in pencil, as customary, on the front free endpaper "To Mr. Samuel Mather/Lest he forget me/with every good wish/From Helen Keller/December." Samuel Mather was an American industrialist and philanthropist from Cleveland who co-founded Pickands.....
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Original highly gilt-decorated reddish-brown calf, a superb publisher's gift binding. BAL 4024 & 16143. The first appearance in print of this classic Poe piece collected the same year in his TALES. Other first appearances include Longfellow (BAL 12074) and Emerson (BAL 5202).....
London: Cadell & Davies, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in attractive modern full tan calf in antique style, with heavily gilt-decorated spine with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; [4] viii, cxxxii, 412 pages + errata leaf. FIELD 967: "No writer.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Hall's second major collection INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet David Ray on the front endpaper: "For Dave in Ithaca,/with friendship and in admiration,/on a good visit,/Don Hall/April 12, 1962."
London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") in the original blue cloth, neatly rebacked retaining the original gilt-lettered and decorated spine, endpapers renewed; [viii], xxxiii, [i], 740 pages. Illustrated with a portrait, 9 hand-colored plates, and 21 views, charts, and maps, including the large.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Felix Darley. Hardcover. Thin octavo (6-1/2" x 9-3/4") bound in full green sheepskin. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. Printed in Kaatskill type designed and cut for the book by Frederic W. Goudy and set by Bertha M. Goudy at the Village Press. Illustrations reproduced.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1929. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in decorated green cloth. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman reproduced from the original wet-plate negative taken in 1876 by Frank Pearsall of Brooklyn as well as a facsimile of a page in the copy of the first.....
New York: A. J. Johnson, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio (15" x 18-1/2") bound in original decorated cloth with gilt-lettered and decorated brown morocco leather spine and corners. Complete with 105 numbered hand-colored maps (many double-page) including insets; 2 unnumbered hand-colored maps; 2 hand-colored plates showing world time differences.....
[Washington, DC]: [Government Printing Office], [1879]. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 12 pages. SIGNED on the top margin of the front cover "With Compliments of/R. B. Hayes" by the President. An outline of Hayes's attempts to reform the custom-house appointment process, stripping away the traditional party-based "spoils system" and implementing.....
New York: Atheneum, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. His fourth book. INSCRIBED on the verso of the front blank and SIGNED by the poet "To David Rogers/with all best wishes/from/Randall Jarrell." On the facing page Jarrell has also written out the complete short but powerful poem, "A War," first published in.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1966). First Edition. Wraps. Tall Uncorrected Proof in spiral bound printed yellow wraps of this novel. SIGNED by the author on the front cover.
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.....
Honolulu: Amfac, Inc. (American Factors, Ltd.), (1949). First Edition. Prints. A series of 10 color plates, 18-3/4" x 14-1/2", loose as issued but lacking the portfolio, ready for framing, from paintings by Peter Hurd, with a 4-page folder, 9-1/4" x 14-1/2", containing descriptions of the scenes depicted. Each print is.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1931). First Edition. Hardcover. Fifth Printing. Complete in one volume, illustrated. Superbly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Steffens, filling the front pastedown, to wealthy Boston surgeon and socialite, Dr. Le Roi Goddard Crandon, and his wife, Mina "Margery" Crandon, perhaps the most famous psychic medium.....
Framed Manuscript. On a 3-3/4" x 3-3/4" sheet [sight] Porter has written in green pencil a two-bar melody quotation from his 1932 song "Night & Day," and SIGNED below it "Cole Porter." It is matted with a 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" photo of Porter and framed to an overall size of.....
Louisville, KY: 3 February 1870. Letter. A 2-page letter on the front and verso of a 5-1/8" x 8" sheet of blindstamped Galt House letterhead addressed to Mr. Grinnell and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum." In full: "I enclose a letter from Congressman Kellogg according to my agreement with you.....
Columbia [TN]: 15 December 1842. Letter. A fine 3-page handwritten letter on two 7-3/4" x 10" sheets, the second leaf laid into another sheet with the address to S. H. Laughlin in N. Minnville, Tennessee, on the verso, SIGNED in full as James K. Polk. Marked at the top as.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1955) & (1956). First Edition. hardcovers. Early but not first printings of each volume. Each copy is INSCRIBED to Captain Jack H. Seim and SIGNED by the author on the half-title pages on 28 September 1965. Truman usually only signed one volume, most often.....
Paris: L'Auteur [Guyot] & Gueffier, 1772-1775. Second Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Eight parts bound into 4 octavo (5-1/4" x 8") volumes in contemporary half calf over paste-paper boards, spines gilt with gilt morocco lettered labels, decorative endpapers. Illustrated with 99 (all but 5 are Hand-Colored) full-page illustrations (3 folding) and 2.....
Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1898 - 1899. First Edition. Softcover. Folio (13" x 19") in original gray printed wraps issued in 12 monthly parts in slipcases. Complete set with a total of 72 prints, including 12 in color. Each part contains 6 individual prints by artists including Hokusai, Shunsho, Choshun, Ritsuo.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize winning novel made into a film. INSCRIBED in the year of publication and SIGNED by Rawlings on the front endpaper: "For/Gladys and Clifford Lyons/Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings/March 1938." Dr. Clifford Lyons of the University of Florida testified on Rawlings's behalf.....
