THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
Biography
LYTTON STRACHEY
Cambridge: University Press, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 27 pages. The Rede Lecture for 1943, a critical remembrance of Strachey.
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to.....
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published edition to.....
AN AFTERNOON AT COLONUS. A RECOLLECTION OF EDWARD DAHLBERG
New York: Pequod Press, 1978. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps. IIllustrated by Leni Fuhrman with a print tipped-in opposite the title page. One of 100 numbered copies with handset type SIGNED by the author and the artist on the colophon page.
BOARDMAN ROBINSON
University of Chicago, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 13") in gilt-lettered cloth. With a chapter by Adolph Dehn and a catalogue raisonee. Illustrated with numerous plates, mostly black-and-white.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUNG STATESMAN 1901-1914
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. hardcover. The second volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the last of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front pastedowns and.....
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUTH 1874-1900
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The first volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the first of two of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front.....
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-backed boards. Copy #148 of 1000 SIGNED by the author. Owner inscription on the front endpaper dated 1929 mentioning a "letter of sympathy when the President's son Calvin Coolidge died," which was once glued to the gutter of the half.....
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-backed boards. Copy #584 of 1000 SIGNED by the author.
THE CASE OF SALVADOR DALI
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1959). First American Edition. Hardcover. An early illustrated biography of the eccentric artist, uncommon in dustwrapper.
THE DISCOVERER. A NEW NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND HAZARDOUS ADVENTURES OF THE GENOESE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.
THE BOY'S LIFE OF EDISON
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1911). First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's sage green pebble-grain cloth with front cover stamped in blind and lettered in gilt with oval photographic portrait of Edison pasted to center; "Published November, 1911" on the copyright page. Illustrated with 8 photographic plates including a frontispiece portrait of.....
THE DIARY OF DOSTOYEVSKY'S WIFE
New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Dostoyevsky. An account of a trip from Russia through Germany to Switzerland with her famous husband. Hannah French's copy with her signature on the front endpaper.
LYTTON STRACHEY. A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY: Volume I: THE UNKNOWN YEARS 1880-1910 and Volume II: THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1968). First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. Holroyd was the first person to have unrestricted access to Strachey's papers including previously unpublished correspondence from many who comprised the Bloomsbury group.
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Scholary biography of this great legal mind. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Joseph De Caro/with best wishes/David A. Lockmiller/Nov. 4, 1939."
THE HEADMASTER. FRANK L. BOYDEN, OF DEERFIELD
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, a biography of a remarkable educator. Illustrated with photographs.
PATHS THROUGH THE FOREST. A BIOGRAPHY OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover.
WHERE'S THE REST OF ME?
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fourth Printing of Reagan's first book. Illustrated with photographs. Written prior to Reagan's successful 1966 run for Governor of California, this book recounts Reagan's career in Hollywood. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the late President on the front endpaper: "To Margaret.....
WHERE'S THE REST OF ME?
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fourth Printing of Reagan's first book. Illustrated with photographs. Written prior to Reagan's successful 1966 run for Governor of California, this book recounts Reagan's career in Hollywood. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the late President on the front endpaper: "To Helen.....
THE READING FINGERS. LIFE OF LOUIS BRAILLE 1809-1852
New York: American Foundation for the Blind, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Pamphlet in a hardcover pamphlet binder; 65 pages.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE CITIZEN
New York: The Outlook Company, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing, in publisher's original decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates. This copy virtually unique as it is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by both the author and the subject, as President. Riis's inscription is dated 5 August 1908. Roosevelt writes: "with the best.....
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: MAN OF THE CENTURY
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles.
MR. CITIZEN
(New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his experiences after leaving the White House. Copy #881 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. It is likely that less than the stated 1000 were published as we have personally seen close.....
MR. CITIZEN
(New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his experiences after leaving the White House. Copy #929 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. It is likely that less than the stated 1000 were published as we have personally seen close.....