THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE
New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
New York: Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work.
Cambridge: University Press, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 27 pages. The Rede Lecture for 1943, a critical remembrance of Strachey.
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.....
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.
University of Chicago, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. With a chapter by Adolph Dehn and a catalogue raisonee. Illustrated with plates.
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-backed boards. Copy #584 of 1000 SIGNED by the author.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1959). First American Edition. Hardcover. An early illustrated biography of the eccentric artist, uncommon in dustwrapper.
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.
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.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1928. First American Edition. Cloth. 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.
Boston: Little, Brown, (1973). hardcover. Second Printing. A book of portraits, one of which, "Julia," was the source of the movie of the same title.
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.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. With a foreword by U. S. Senator Lyndon Johnson. Illustrated with photographs. With a full-page INSCRIPTION SIGNED by the future President on the front endpaper: "To Bill [?]/My old schoolmate/and devoted friend/Lyndon B Johnson." Books genuinely signed by LBJ are.....
London: The Richards Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Portraits of Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris, Aleister Crowley, John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys, Llewelyn Powys, and William Somerset Maugham. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, a biography of a remarkable educator. Illustrated with photographs.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover.
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.....
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.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by the popular American artist "Sincerely Norman Rockwell" on the first blank, a page tipped in by the publisher.
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.....
Chillicothe, OH: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated cloth; duodecimo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"), 239 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece view of Blennerhassett's mansion. Howes S-12; New Howes S-13 "b". The first attempt by this early expert to unravel the Burr-Wilkinson Conspiracy. General James Wilkinson, the Commanding.....
New York: American Artists Group, 1943. John Steuart Curry. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in publisher's cloth. A critical study of Curry, illustrated with numerous drawings and illustrations, including 8 full-page color plates, by the artist. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with his initials and SIGNED in.....