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Item #021157 A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH THE WORDS ARE DEDUCED FROM THEIR...

JOHNSON, Samuel

A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: IN WHICH THE WORDS ARE DEDUCED FROM THEIR ORIGINALS, AND ILLUSTRATED IN THEIR DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS BY EXAMPLES FROM THE BEST WRITERS. To Which Are Prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar

London: J. F. and C. Rivington, et al. 1785. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. The First Unabridged Single Folio Volume edition, here bound in two tall folio (11-1/4" x 17-3/4") volumes, each with a title page, in contemporary tree calf leather neatly rebacked with the original gilt decorated spines with matching red.....

Price: $2,500.00

Item #021156 ORIGINAL CARTOON ART: “Oh--and Look Out for the Shark!”. Gahan WILSON

WILSON, Gahan

ORIGINAL CARTOON ART: “Oh--and Look Out for the Shark!”

n.p. n.d. Gahan Wilson. Drawing. Original pen, ink, watercolor, and gum arabic on paper, 9" x 12", SIGNED by the artist at the lower left and titled in pencil in the bottom margin. The cartoon depicts a man diving into a pool with the caption spoken by another man in.....

Price: $2,000.00

Item #021155 THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS Hand-lettered with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR. William MORRIS,...

[MORRIS, William] BUCHOLZ, R. J

THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS Hand-lettered with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR

1961. Framed Manuscript. Morris's poem beautifully hand-lettered by Bucholz on a 4-1/2" x 8-1/2" sheet of paper with a charming small ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR at the top. SIGNED and dated by Bucholz at the bottom of the page. An attractive presentation of Morris's evocative poem framed to an overall size of.....

Price: $250.00

Item #021154 THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS. Thomas K. HERVEY

HERVEY, Thomas K

THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS

London: William Spooner, 1836. Robert Seymour. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (4" x 6-1/2") beautifully bound by Birdsall in full dark green morocco with triple gilt rules and multiple floral gilt decorations on both covers, spine with five raised bands and gilt decorations and lettering, gilt dentelles, green silk endpapers.....

Price: $3,000.00

Item #021153 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. Charles L. DODGSON, LEWIS CARROLL

DODGSON, Charles L. (LEWIS CARROLL)

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. John Tenniel. Hardcover. In original full blue morocco binding with heavy gilt decorations, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine. Copy #867 of 1500 copies with typography and binding by Frederick Warde and with the original John Tenniel illustrations. This is one of less than.....

Price: $2,500.00

Item #021152 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, with Biography and Introduction by Nathan...

POE, Edgar Allan

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, with Biography and Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole

London & New York: The Chesterfield Society, (1908). Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Complete in 10 volumes (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") bound in later 3/4 deep brown morocco leather and boards with horizontal grained coated paper with pastel marble pattern, gilt-decorated spines with five raised bands and matching burgundy morocco gilt-lettered spine.....

Price: $1,500.00

Item #021151 TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Helen KELLER

KELLER, Helen

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

Wrentham [MA]: 7 January [1904-1917]. Letter. A lovely one-page letter on a sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" paper addressed to a friend named Villa and SIGNED in pencil by Keller. In full: "Teacher [Anne Sullivan] is right in the midst of pies, and she wants me to thank you for.....

Price: $1,500.00

Item #021150 THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. Tim O'BRIEN

O'BRIEN, Tim

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition and SIGNED by the.....

Price: $300.00

Item #021148 HANSEL AND GRETEL AND OTHER STORIES. Jacob GRIMM, Wilhelm, Kay Nielsen

GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm (Kay Nielsen)

HANSEL AND GRETEL AND OTHER STORIES

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Kay Nielsen. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/4") bound by The Chelsea bindery in full black crushed morocco leather with covers ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, bordered and lettered in gilt compartments, gilt board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, plum end.....

Price: $5,000.00

Item #021147 SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. Thomas EDISON

EDISON, Thomas

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

Framed Photograph. A 7-1/2" x 10" black-and-white portrait printed on 11-1/2" x 14-1/2" paper with the Pach Bros. 1906 imprint at the bottom right of the image. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Thomas Neal./from Thomas A. Edison" below the image. Framed to an overall size of 12" x 15". A fine.....

Price: $3,500.00

Item #021146 ANDROCLES AND THE LION, OVERRULE, PYGMALION Inscribed to Charles Ricketts. George...

SHAW, George Bernard

ANDROCLES AND THE LION, OVERRULE, PYGMALION Inscribed to Charles Ricketts

London: Constable, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of one of Shaw's most popular plays, PYGMALION, a radical reworking of Ovid's classic tale with a feminist twist. Shaw wrote PYGMALION for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell who appeared to be the only actress willing to say the taboo word "bloody".....

Price: $7,500.00

Item #021140 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Theodore ROOSEVELT, Teddy

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy)

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Decorated blue cloth. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for/Ernest A. Cardozo/with the best wishes of/Theodore Roosevelt." Most signed copies of this title that we have seen have been the.....

Price: $7,500.00

Item #021138 SALOME. Oscar WILDE

WILDE, Oscar

SALOME

London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Andre Derain and Aubrey Beardsley. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (8" x 11"), copy #65 of 1500 numbered copies. The first volume in black wrappers is the French original illustrated by Andre Derain with gouache drawings on black paper reproduced through the pochoir process and SIGNED.....

Price: $350.00

Item #021137 LEAVES OF GRASS. Walt WHITMAN, Edward WESTON

WHITMAN, Walt (Edward WESTON)

LEAVES OF GRASS

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Edward Weston. Hardcover. Two slim, tall quarto (9" x 12") volumes bound in imitation vellum reproducing in dark grass-green ink a photograph by Edward Weston who has illustrated the volume with 49 photographs specially commissioned for this book and made into exquisitely clear half-tones.....

Price: $1,500.00

Item #021136 THE LITTLE PRINCE. Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de

THE LITTLE PRINCE

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1943). Antoine de Saint-Exupery. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #365 of 525 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the tipped-in limitation page. The American edition appeared before the French or English editions and is essentially the only way to obtain a signed edition of this.....

Price: $25,000.00

Item #021135 DOCUMENT SIGNED: Lose Weight The "Satchmo" Way. Louis ARMSTRONG

ARMSTRONG, Louis

DOCUMENT SIGNED: Lose Weight The "Satchmo" Way

Document. Three 8-1/2" x 11" typed pages detailing Armstrong's diet and use of laxatives. At the top of the first page, Armstrong has written "To my pal/Alec Ward" and SIGNED "Louis Armstrong." At the bottom of the third page, he has written “P. S. Satchmo Slogan/the more you sh t/the.....

Price: $1,000.00

Item #021128 THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Mark TWAIN, Samuel CLEMENS

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1933. E. W. Kemble. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full green cloth stamped in blind and gilt with an illustration of Huck in gilt on the front cover. With a new introduction by Booth Tarkington and the original illustrations by E. W......

Price: $350.00

Item #021123 TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Stephen SONDHEIM

SONDHEIM, Stephen

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

1 June 1984. Letter. Typed Letter on personal letterhead SIGNED in full apparently acknowledging a comment on his recent musical SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. In full: "Thanks for the nice thoughts and for taking the trouble to put them down on paper. Your reaction was exactly what I......

Price: $350.00

Item #021122 AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) Regarding Perfect Equality of Rights. Susan B. ANTHONY

ANTHONY, Susan B

AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) Regarding Perfect Equality of Rights

Autograph. Exceptional SIGNED quotation by Anthony on the verso of a fragment of an invitation completely in her hand on a 5-1/2" x 3-1/4" piece of paper. In full: "Perfect equality of rights for/women-- is the demand of/Yours respectfully/Susan B. Anthony/Rochester, N.Y./Jan. 1, 1898." Would make an outstanding presentation framed.....

Price: $2,500.00

Item #021121 [WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON]. Ralph Waldo EMERSON

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo

[WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON]

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900 (1880s). Reprint. Hardcover. Ten small (4-1/2" x 6-1/8") volumes bound by Stikeman & Co. for Charles Scribner's in 3/4 green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines, top edges gilt. Though not numbered on the spines, these appear to be from.....

Price: $600.00

Item #021120 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Gaston LEROUX

LEROUX, Gaston

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

London: Mills & Boon, Limited, (1911). First British Edition. Hardcover. Recent full black morocco leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with onlay of mask to front cover, silver lettering to spine and front cover after the original, Japanese endpapers, and all edges silvered; housed in a felt-lined black cloth slipcase; vi.....

Price: $5,000.00

Item #021119 IT'S UP TO THE WOMEN. Eleanor ROOSEVELT

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor

IT'S UP TO THE WOMEN

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. "A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women." This is copy #138 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Her first book.

Price: $2,500.00

Item #021118 THE TOWN. Conrad RICHTER

RICHTER, Conrad

THE TOWN

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. The concluding volume in Richter's THE AWAKENING LAND trilogy about the Ohio frontier and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front end paper: "Autographed for/Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kirwan/and family of Pottsville/Conrad Richter/February.....

Price: $4,500.00

Item #021116 THE NEW NATIONALISM. Theodore ROOSEVELT, Teddy

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy)

THE NEW NATIONALISM

New York: The Outlook Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth. Introduction by Ernest Hamlin Abbott. Collects speeches made by Roosevelt in August and September 1910 on his tour of the United States, in which he espoused his political platform of social welfare and opposition to corporate political power.....

Price: $4,500.00

Item #021115 ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM JULY 19, 1940...

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano

ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM JULY 19, 1940 TO JANUARY 20, 1941

[Washington]: The White House (Government Printing Office), Christmas 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Small slim quarto (7" x 10") bound in parchment-backed marbled boards, printed paper title label to spine, top edge gilt; vignette on title partly printed in red and blue, initials printed in red; 24, [1] pages. Copy #20.....

Price: $20,000.00

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