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“One Of The Most Important And Valuable Of The Large Folio Works On
South African Fauna”: With 30 Beautiful Folio Hand-Colored Lithographs
1. HARRIS, William Cornwallis. Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern
Africa Delineated from Life in their Native Haunts... London, 1840 [-1843]. Large folio
(15 by 21 inches), contemporary cloth boards rebacked and recornered in green close grain
morocco gilt. $32,000.
First edition, with 30 splendid large folio hand-colored lithographs of wild African animals
in their natural habitats, lithographed tailpiece vignettes and lithographed title page.
First state, with both printed and lithographed title pages dated 1840; also with scarce list
of subscribers, “almost always missing” (Tooley).

“One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works
on South African fauna” (Mendelssohn I, 688). These plates are
based on a hunting expedition Harris made in 1836-37. “Harris
was appointed to the Bombay engineers in 1823… In 1836 Harris
was invalided to the Cape [of Good Hope] for two years by a
medical board… On the voyage to the Cape, Harris, who from a
very early age had, his friends said, ‘been afflicted with shootingmadness,’
made the acquaintance of Richard Williamson, of the
Bombay civil establishment, a noted shikary, and the two
arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game…
Harris and his friend started by ox-wagon from Algoa Bay, by
way of Somerset and the Orange River, meeting with large game
in the districts long since cleared, and travelled in a north-easterly
direction until they reached the kraals of the famous Matabele
chief Moselikatze. That potentate proved friendly, and permitted
the travelers to return to the colony by a new and previously
closed route” (DNB). Probably no more than 500 copies were
published. The prospectus indicates that the publishing costs will
be paid “when 500 Subscribers shall have been obtained” and the
subscribers’ list finally published with the parts accounts for 449
copies of the work. Abbey, Travel 335. Lithographed title page remargined, text professionally cleaned, occasional
faint dampstaining, hand-coloring bright. A beautiful copy of this splendidly illustrated work.
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“The Whole Of Science Is Nothing More Than A Refinement Of Everyday Thinking”:
First Edition Of Out Of My Later Years,
Warmly Inscribed By Albert Einstein To A Fellow Scientist
2. EINSTEIN, Albert. Out of My Later Years. New York, 1950. Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket. $15,500.
First edition of Einstein’s second collection of social science-related articles, addresses, speeches, letters, and papers
covering the period before, during, and after the Second World War, inscribed by him in German to a fellow
scientist, “Dr. Blunck mit herzlichen Wünschen aber ohne die Z—nung, das Zeug t—sachlich zu lesen” (Dr. Blunck,
With heartfelt wishes but without the —- , to actually read these ramblings).
Commenting on the potential conflict of science and politics, Albert Einstein once turned to an assistant and sighed,
“Yes, time has to be divided this way between politics and our equations” (DSB). In this continuation of his first
collection of essays, The World As I See It (1934), Einstein offers further thoughts crossing that divide, mirroring his
political, social, philosophical and scientific concerns. Drawn from articles, speeches, letters and various papers, all
written from 1934 to 1950, with many published here for the first time, the book includes selections on science, ethics,
public affairs, issues in Jewish history, the dilemma of modern war and tributes to figures such as Marie Curie, Isaac
Newton and Mahatma Gandhi. Recipient Dr. Blunck was a German scientist who, like Einstein, emigrated to the
United States. Einstein was especially grateful to the bacteriologist for treating Einstein’s cat “Tiger” with penicillin
in 1946—as is noted in the additional laid-in photocopy of correspondence from Einstein. Dust jacket price-clipped.
A fine copy, scarce inscribed.

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Superb Limited Deluxe First Edition Of Heart Of The Antarctic
And The Antarctic Book: Signed By Shackleton And
All Expedition Members
3. SHACKLETON, Ernest. Heart of the Antarctic. London, 1909. Two
volumes. WITH: The Antarctic Book. London, 1909. Together, three
volumes. Quarto, original full and half vellum gilt. $53,000.
Rare first edition, Special Limited Large Paper Issue of Shackleton’s
fascinating account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-09, one of
only 300 copies printed, with the first and only edition of The Antarctic Book,
with the signatures of every member of the shore party, including Shackleton.
With 16 mounted color plates, photographic frontispieces and over 200
additional illustrations including drawings and photographic plates. Three
folding maps and a folding panorama enclosed in the rear pocket of Volume II.
Shackleton first gained fame as a member of Scott’s expedition of 1901-02. In 1908, accompanied by three
companions and four ponies, he led his own expedition and approached within 100 miles of the South Pole
before being forced to return due to lack of supplies. He still outdistanced his predecessors to a degree
unequalled in the history of polar exploration, and proved conclusively the feasibility of reaching the Pole.
While Shackleton’s heroic journey southward was the greatest achievement of this expedition, it was also
noteworthy for the first attainment of the Magnetic South Pole and the first ascent of Mt. Erebus, both achieved
in separate journeys led by T.W. Edgeworth, as well as for substantially increasing knowledge of the region’s
geology. The Antarctic Book, which includes the 16 signatures of the shore party, was issued only with this
Limited Edition of The Heart of the Antarctic
and has never been reprinted. It contains
reproductions of drawings done by the party,
including four mounted color portraits, the
poem “Erebus” by Shackleton and the
whimsical story “Bathybia” by Douglas
Mawson, also a member of the party. First state
of The Antarctic Book, with an additional poem
“Aurora Australis” listed on the contents page,
later corrected and appended to
the preceding poem, of which it
formed a portion. All volumes
printed on specially made Van
Gelder paper, watermarked “1907
BAE 1909.” A bit of occasional
foxing, neat repair to spine head of
Volume I, a touch of insignificant
darkening to vellum, less than
usual. An exceptional copy of this
rare and splendid work.
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“th e m a g n a c a r t a o f t h e u n i t e d st a t e s”
The 1781 First Collected Edition Of The Constitutions Of The American States,
One Of Only 200 Copies Printed For Congress
4. (CONSTITUTION). The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; The
Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation Between the Said States; The Treaties
Between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America. Philadelphia, 1781. 12mo,
contemporary full brown calf, custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. $23,500.
Very rare first collected edition of the Constitutions of the American states, one of only 200 copies printed
for Congress, in contemporary calf.
Published by order of Congress, this important collection is the first authoritative and original printed text
of the Constitutions of the 13 states. The collection also contains printings of a number of other influential
American documents: including the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the 1778
treaty of amity and commerce with France (the first treaty between the United States and any other country)
and the treaty of alliance with France (assuring the French of an alliance should their recognition of the
United States lead to war with Great Britain). “It contains a greater portion of unsophisticated wisdom and
good sense, than is, perhaps, to be met with in any other legislative code that was ever yet framed. It is, in
short, the book which may be considered the Magna Carta of the United American States” (Monthly Review).
Many constitutional scholars—most notably Willi
Paul Adams in The First American Constitutions:
Republican Ideology and the Making of the State
Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era
(2001)—have demonstrated that the political
systems and initiatives of the state
constitutions were vital to the construction
of the Federal Constitution of 1787. Although
the imprint reads Philadelphia, this volume
was actually published by Bailey in Lancaster,
where he had moved with Congress after the
British occupation of Philadelphia began in
September 1781. Sabin 16086. Howes C716
(“aa”). Evans 17390. Early owner signature,
dated 1824, to front pastedown endpaper;
evidence of bookplate removal. Text only
very lightly embrowned; both free endpapers
perished. Rubbing to extremities of
contemporary calf. A most handsome copy.
Rare and important.

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“My Heart Is Filled With Love For This Country”:
The Audacity Of Hope, Signed By President Obama
5. OBAMA, Barack. The Audacity of Hope. New York, 2006. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust
jacket. $4500.
First edition, first printing, signed by President Barack Obama.
By now, Barack Obama’s meteoric rise to the presidency of the United States has become a familiar but nonetheless
remarkable story. The first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review, Obama rejected employment at
lucrative law firms or with prestigious judges and instead became a community organizer, working on a daily basis
solving problems great and small, learning to combine idealism and pragmatism to reach equitable solutions for all.
After his electrifying speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and election as senator from Illinois,
Obama gained a national platform. It was at this point that he wrote The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming
the American Dream, his second book. Unusual for someone of his position, he chose to not have a co-author or
ghostwriter. Rather, the freshman senator from Illinois wrote late into the night while the rest of his family was
sleeping. The book is a bold statement of Obama’s values and the direction he wants for the United States. His central
message is that readers should “get involved in an issue that you’re passionate about. It almost doesn’t matter what it
is—improving the school system, developing strategies to wean ourselves off foreign oil, expanding health care for
kids. We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our
democracy suffers as a result.” Equal parts personal memoir and political manifesto, The Audacity of Hope played
an enormous role in winning supporters for Obama’s pioneering presidential bid, as his book tour gradually
transformed into a political campaign. Fine condition.
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“Bowyer’s 1806 Edition Is A Sumptuous One, Finely Printed And Expensively Illustrated”:
Hume’s Magnificent Ten-Volume Atlas Folio Set, Beautifully Bound
6. HUME, David. The History of England. London, 1806. Five volumes in ten. Large thick atlas folio (14 by 19
inches), contemporary full brown polished calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down. $20,000.
Magnificent atlas folio “Bowyer” edition of Hume’s renowned history, originally sold only to subscribers, with 196
(of 197) lovely and finely engraved illustrations, in full contemporary polished calf gilt in ten massive volumes.
“This work has enjoyed the rank of a classic in historical literature from the day of its completion to the present time.
In point of clearness, elegance, and simplicity of style it has never been surpassed” (Adams). First published between
1754 and 1761, Hume’s History of England was “the first significant study to embrace all of English history and the
first broad historical survey in English that properly rates as a work of literature… Hume was the first historian to
consider such things as manners, commerce, finance, and arts and sciences at length and the first to give them in
some cases greater importance than kings and battles” (Day). The Bowyer edition of Hume “is one of the most
splendid works ever published.” (Allibone, 914-16). Robert Bowyer had announced his intention to publish a
sumptuous edition of Hume’s History as early as January 1792. In his prospectus for this “finely printed and lavishly
illustrated set,” Bowyer estimates a cost of 60 guineas for the five folio volumes, with additional title pages for those
who preferred it bound in ten volumes (as here). Copies have been found with varying numbers of plates: this set has
196. Lowndes, 1139. Bookplates. Traces of bookplate removal (Vol. II). Light scattered foxing, closed tear to endpaper
of Volume II, light dampstaining mildly affecting corners of a few plates.

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“Wilde Was Accused Of All The Available Vices…”:
Rare Author’s Edition Of Wilde’s Poems, One Of Only 220 Copies Signed By Wilde
7. WILDE, Oscar. Poems. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1892. Octavo, original gilt-decorated pale violet
cloth, custom clamshell box. $17,000.
Author’s edition, only of only 220 copies signed by Wilde.
The original publication, in 1882, of Wilde’s Poems created a storm of controversy: “Wilde was accused of all the
available vices from…. insincerity to indecency, heavy charges against a first book… it was becoming evident that the
critics were laying for Wilde, and that nothing but utter originality would silence them… he was beginning to
experience the victimization he had once imagined for Keats. [Wilde] knew perfectly well that his ideas were shocking
to the English… He had no intention of changing. They must change.” Wilde’s response to the criticism was that “A
poem is well or badly written. In art there should be no reference to a standard of good or evil” (Ellman, 144-149). “In
May 1892 Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane issued 220 copies of Bogue’s
fifth edition of the Poems, the first two preliminary leaves being cut out. For these
were substituted a new half title, on reverse being particulars of the issue, all
being designed by Charles Ricketts. Pale violet cloth boards with gilt lettering
and designs and decorated endpapers, all by Charles Ricketts” (Mason 309). The
limitation page bears Wilde’s signature and reads: “This edition consists of 220
copies, 200 of which are for sale.” Mason 309. Bookplate of English poet and critic
Ernest Radford. Interior fine. Lightest wear to joints, gilt bright. A very near-fine
uncut copy. Scarce.
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One Of The Most Important Works Ever Written On The American Constitution:
Story’s Commentaries, Beautifully Bound
8. STORY, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; with a Preliminary Review of
the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution. Boston and
Cambridge, 1833. Three volumes. Octavo, period-style full green close-grain morocco gilt. $17,500.
First edition of this influential treatise, one of the most important works ever written on the American
Constitution, second in significance only to The Federalist, handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt.
Comparing Story’s Commentaries to The Federalist, James Kent wrote, “It is written in the same free and liberal
spirit, with equal exactness and soundness of doctrine, and with great beauty and eloquence of composition”
(American Law I: 241). Alexis de Tocqueville, in his work on American democracy, drew heavily on Story’s
Commentaries, which when translated into French and German earned Story an international reputation. “The
judicial station of the author, his opportunities for hearing constitutional questions mooted and settled, for the
last quarter of a century, his habits of patient and thorough investigation, give a weight and value to Judge Story’s
writings upon Constitutional Law, which few similar works can claim… Taking The Federalist as the basis of his
Commentaries, he advocates a liberal construction of the palladium of our liberties, in order to attain a proper
exercise of the functions of the government… he sustains his positions with great power of argument, fullness
of illustration, and by indisputable authorities” (Marvin, 669).
“Joseph Story, considered perhaps the most learned scholar ever to sit on any American court, was also the
youngest man ever named to the Supreme Court. Story was soon the Court’s leading supporter of Marshall’s
nationalistic views and became a virtual second in doctrine to Marshall himself. When he joined the Court, it
was entering upon its historic period of constitutional construction, and Story participated in the landmark
decisions of the next two and a half decades. In
1829, while he was still on the Court, Story became
the first Dane Professor of Law at Harvard. His
appointment signaled the reorganization of
Harvard Law School and its emergence as the first
modern school of law. Despite his heavy judicial
duties, he taught two of the three yearly
terms at the school and found time to
publish a number of significant works that
constituted the first great specialized
treatises on American law… as a law teacher
and writer on the subject, he had no peer”
(Schwartz, 110-11). Howes S1047. Sabin
92291. Lightly penciled owner signatures to
front free endpapers, title page (Vol. I). Text
generally fresh, light scattered foxing, mild
marginal dampstaining. Beautifully bound.

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The First Serial Printing Of The U.S. Constitution:
Rare Subscriber’s Copy Of Mathew Carey’s 1787 American Museum
9. (CONSTITUTION) CAREY, Mathew, editor. The American Museum, Or Repository of Ancient and
Modern Fugitive Pieces. Philadelphia, July-December, 1787. Thick octavo, contemporary half brown calf,
custom chemise and clamshell box. $15,000.
First edition of Carey’s American Museum for 1787, the September issue, containing the first serial printing of the
U.S. Constitution and featuring the first serial printing of the first six Federalist papers issued outside of New York
City. A rare Subscriber’s copy in contemporary calf and boards.
Mathew Carey’s pioneering American Museum “shares with The Columbian Magazine the honor of being the first
successful American magazine” (Mott, 100). The Museum fast became the source of first resort for governmental
information, including the proceedings of Congress, activities of cabinet departments, texts of state constitutions,
treaties with foreign countries, and current international developments. The September 1787 issue is especially
important offering the first serial printing of the U.S. Constitution. This magazine also presents what are among the
first serial printings of the initial Federalist papers, printing “the first six papers in November and December 1787”
(Crane, “Publius in the Provinces,” 590). The American Museum is the “one magazine [that] reprinted some of the
essays outside of New York City” (Maggs, “Concise Guide,” 816). This rare Subscriber’s copy is that of James Ross
with his signatures, and his gift inscription on the July title page. Light scattered foxing and occasional margin
dampstaining, closed tears, one leaf with loss to upper third (487-8), some edge-wear with loss to corners of front
board. A very good Subscriber’s copy, scarce in contemporary calf.
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Baskett’s Magnificently Illustrated 1717 Elephant Folio “Vinegar Bible”
10. BIBLE. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Oxford, 1717, 1716. Two volumes. Thick
elephant folio (14 by 22 inches), contemporary full blind-tooled diced brown calf gilt rebacked with original spines
laid down, custom slipcases. $16,500.
First edition of the monumental, splendidly illustrated “Vinegar Bible,” with 60 detailed steel engravings, beautifully
bound in contemporary, elaborately gilt-decorated calf.
In 1709 John Baskett purchased the exclusive royal patent to print Bibles in England. This magnificent edition of the
Bible is Baskett’s most important work, highly regarded for its large, elegant type; its 60 striking copper-engraved
vignette head- and tailpieces depicting some of the most dramatic
moments of Scripture; and its many delicately engraved historiated
initials. “Unfortunately the book contained many misprints and
earned the nickname ‘A Baskett-full of Errors’” (Darlow & Moule).
Most notably, this edition takes its name from a misprint found in
the headline above Luke 20 that mentions the parable of the “vinegar”
instead of the “vineyard.” Typographical mistakes notwithstanding,
scholars and collectors alike today esteem the “Vinegar Bible” as one
of the most beautiful and legible editions of Scripture ever published.
This copy with additional engraved general title page bound in as
frontispiece, with view of Oxford on other general title page, and
with vignette title page for New Testament depicting the Annunciation
dated 1716. Includes Apocrypha. Darlow & Moule 735. Contemporary
signature and owner inscription; owner’s name “I. Phelipps” gilttooled
to front boards. Mild marginal dampstaining, scattered light
foxing, occasional marginal closed tears. Beautifully bound in
contemporary calf.

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“Snow-Capped Peaks And Gemlike Mountain Lakes”:
Signed Limited Edition Of Sierra Nevada Signed By Ansel Adams,
One Of 500 Copies, With 50 Exquisite Halftone Plates
11. ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. Berkeley, 1938. Large folio, original white cloth. $14,000.
Signed limited first edition, number 102 of only 500 copies signed by Adams, who “realized in his pictures what
Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry,” featuring 50 luminous mounted halftone prints including “Half Dome.”
To Ansel Adams, the open vistas of the American West were “an event, an ephemeral, continuing drama. The
protagonist of the drama is the light.” Adams photographed these “snow-capped peaks and gemlike mountain
lakes… so persuasively that it has seemed to most younger photographers of ambition that that book has been
closed” (Szarkowski, American Landscapes, 13-14). In the luminous images of Sierra Nevada, this superlative
landscape photographer affirms his renown for elevating “the act of photography to a religious experience. He
realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry: the uniqueness of American landscape and
nature” (Icons of Photography, 96). Commissioned by a president of the Sierra Club to assemble a book of photographs
in tribute to his son, who died in a climbing accident, Adams created this outstanding volume, whose striking
halftones set a new high standard for photobooks. Included is “Half Dome,” widely considered his first masterpiece
and “one of Adams’ most famous mountain subjects” (New York Times). In these images Adams created a timeless
vision “of the Sierra Nevada—the revelation of the beauty of wide horizons and the tender perfection of detail”
(Foreword). Each separately mounted halftone print measures nine
by seven inches. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. See Open
Book, 88; Roth, 58. Contemporary gilt inscription, bookplate. Plates
fine and beautiful, original cloth with expert restoration to spine
and extremities. Highly desirable.
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“The Greatest Historical Work Ever Written”:
Full First Edition Of Gibbon’s Landmark Decline And Fall, In Contemporary Tree Calf
12. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1776-88. Six volumes.
Quarto, contemporary full tree calf gilt sympathetically rebacked. $31,000.
Full first edition set of one of the great classics of Western thought, with three engraved folding maps by Kitchin of
the Western and Eastern Roman Empire and of Constantinople and frontispiece portrait of Gibbon.
“This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works…
Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this
day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose” (PMM 222). All 1000 copies of the first edition of Volume I were
sold within two weeks of publication in January 1776. While printing the proposed first edition of 500 copies, the
printer increased the order to 1000 copies; certain corrections were made in the first 200 or so pages of the book in
the second 500 copies, the remainder of the text being the same in all 1000 copies. All 1000 copies of Volume I were
offered for sale at the same time. Volume I here is the first state of the first edition, Norton variant 2 with leaves a4
and X4 without signatures. Bound with all half titles and with eight-page publisher’s catalogue at the rear of Volume
VI. Norton 20, 23, 29. Rothschild 942. Grolier 100. Armorial bookplates. Owner signatures. Marginal annotations
in Volume I. Only occasional scattered light foxing to generally fresh and clean interiors, contemporary tree calf
with some age-wear, spines richly gilt and handsome. A complete, near-fine full first edition of this landmark.

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“To The Woman I Found And I Lost And Still Love And Always Will…”:
Presentation/Association Copy Of Guthrie’s American Folk Song,
Exceptional First Edition Inscribed In Paint In The Year Of Publication With
Guthrie’s Bold And Brilliant Red Brushstrokes, With Additional Autograph Lines
13. GUTHRIE, Woody. American Folk Song. New York, 1947. Slim quarto, original half blue cloth, stiff blue
illustrated wrappers, staple-bound as issued; pp.48. $22,000.
First edition of “the most extensive piece of Guthrie’s writing actually to see print in the postwar years” (Joe Klein),
this rare and extraordinary association copy inscribed in the year of publication, with brilliant red brushstrokes in
Guthrie’s hand on the front wrapper, traced across the printed text, and in the huge bold painted inscription to an
intimate friend and correspondent across the entire pastedown and endpaper: “To the woman I found and I lost
Charlotte Strauss and still love and always will all of my days and nights too, Woody Guthrie, 1947,” continued on
the rear pastedown in verse stanza, “You might think Several thoughts about me All of which Would be wrong I
loved the sound Of your voice On my fone [sic] WG [circled] May 28, 1947.”
This rare presentation copy of American Folk Song, inscribed by Guthrie only three months after the tragic death of
his daughter Cathy, was published at a time when he struggled to find refuge from his grief. In 1946 Guthrie had
“spent days typing hundreds of pages of his wartime essays and songs… Some would later appear with songs Guthrie
wrote in the years before and after the war in [this] slender collection underwritten by Asch’s DISC Records” (Cray,
306). Moe Asch, son of writer Sholem Asch, had “commissioned Woody to do a variety of projects, ranging from the
songbook American Folk Song (from which ‘Leadbelly is a hard name’ derives)” to many legendary recordings
(March & Leventhal, 196). This exceptional copy of American Folk Song contains not only an autobiographical essay
that is “the most extensive piece of his writing actually to see print in the postwar years” (Klein, 345), but also evokes
Guthrie’s turmoil in the vivid red brushstrokes of his inscription that are also
traced on the book’s cover and within. During this period, “as if to emphasize
his written comments… Guthrie took to slashing purple watercolor brush
strokes down his typewritten pages… announcing, Woody Guthrie was here,
alive, still alive” (Cray, 316). Containing lyrics to 28 songs, led by “Stackabones
Own Song” that recalls his pet name for Cathy, and classics such as “Tom Joad,”
together with Guthrie’s autobiographical essay “My Life,” tributes to Leadbelly
and others, numerous illustrations by Guthrie,
and his closing note: “Let me be known as just the
man that told you something you already knew.”
New Grove 7, 856. Tiny trace of label removal to
upper corner of front wrapper, not affecting text.
Text and illustrations fresh and bright, lightest
edge-wear to original wrappers. An extraordinary
about-fine presentation copy of this classic
American work. Please see
pages 60-63 for additional
information and related
Woody Guthrie items.
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“My Own Favorite Amongst My Little Books”:
Tailor Of Gloucester, One Of Only 500 Privately Printed Copies
14. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London, 1902. 12mo, original pictorial pink boards, custom
clamshell box. $12,000.
True first edition, one of only 500 privately printed copies, of Potter’s second book, with frontispiece and 15
illustrations in color, three of which do not appear in the first trade edition of October, 1903.
Inspired by a real-life incident involving a tailor’s efforts to finish a waistcoat for
the new mayor of Gloucester, this book “was Potter’s own favorite of all her
stories, and one can see why, for in it she indulges her own fascination with the
era of her grandparents and great-grandparents… Fairy tale, nursery rhyme
and Arcadian fantasy all come together for a moment in perfect balance”
(Carpenter, 148). “Evidently with some regret, Beatrix Potter [deleted from
the first trade edition] eight or nine pages of text [which appear in this
edition] where she had described in detail how Simpkin wandered through
the streets of Gloucester on the night of Christmas Eve, when all the animals
were talking and the carol singers were singing. This is the part of the story
which contained the majority of her rhymes and verses” (Linder, 117).
Quinby, 3. Usual pinpoint foxing mainly to endpapers and boards, only
slightest toning to spine and front board, much brighter than often found. A
very lovely copy of an exceedingly rare work.

“Gratifyingly Full Of Detail
And Naughty Doings”
15. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of
Tom Kitten. London and New York,
1907. 12mo, original green-brown
paper boards, mounted cover
illustration. $2000.
First edition of Potter’s story of a
kitten who loses much more than his
mittens, with color frontispiece and
26 color illustrations.
“It was the garden at Hill Top [her
farm in Sawrey] which Beatrix Potter
used as the setting for The Tale of Tom
Kitten, and the pictures in the book
give us delightful glimpses of this
garden” (Linder, 185, 187). “Gratifyingly
full of detail and naughty
doings” (Taylor et al., 133). “The year
1907 appears on the front of the title
page of the first three printings, which
are believed to be identical” (Linder,
427). Without scarce original glassine
dust jacket. Quinby 13. Bookseller’s
small ticket. Tiny owner’s inscription
to front free endpaper. Gift inscription
dated Christmas 1907 to half title.
Interior with scattered slight soiling,
tiny closed tear to corner of page 17
(not affecting image). Light rubbing
to spine ends and corners. Near-fine.
“What A Funny Sight It Is To
See A Brood Of Ducklings
With A Hen!”
16. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of
Jemima Puddle-Duck. London, 1908.
16mo, original gray boards, die-cut
pictorial mounted centerpiece. $3200.
First edition of Potter’s much-loved
story of one proud but foolish duck’s
quest for a nesting place, with frontispiece
and 26 color illustrations.
Set at Hill Top, Potter’s beloved farm
in the Lake District, and starring a
real duck who lived there, The Tale of
Jemima Puddle-Duck “is not just a
farmyard story… but a fable warning
of the consequences of venturing
into the unknown—and in quite
unsuitable clothes” (Taylor et al.,
133-34). “The year 1908 appears on
the front of the title page of the first
three printings, which are believed
to be identical” (Linder, 427).
Without scarce original dust jacket.
Quinby 14. Interior and original
boards quite lovely, head
of spine with very minor
expert restoration. A
beautiful copy.
“It Is Said That The Effect Of
Eating Too Much Lettuce Is
‘Soporific’”
17. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of
the Flopsy Bunnies. London and
New York, 1909. 16mo, original
brown boards, mounted cover
illustration. $2000.
First edition, first or second printing,
of the further adventures of Peter
Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, with
color frontispiece and 26 plates.
This book, the story of Peter Rabbit’s
sister Flopsy and her family,
represents the final stage “in the
defeat of Mr. McGregor, who by the
end… has been made into a proper
fool, just as giants should be”
(Carpenter, 146). First edition, first
or second printing, with notice
board on page 14, Quinby’s Plate
VII for endpapers and Evans
imprint on page 86.
Without scarce original
dust jacket. Quinby 16.
Interior generally clean.
Small loss to spine foot.
An extremely good copy.
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“Boston Instantly Turned Into A Revolutionary Hothouse”:
Exceptional Collection Of Very Rare First Printings Of The 1773 Tea Act
That Sparked The Boston Tea Party, The Incendiary Townshend Tea Act (1767)
And The 1772 Amendatory Tea Act
18. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (PARLIAMENT). (TEA ACT) An Act to allow a Drawback of the Duties of
Customs on the Exportation of Tea... London, 1773. WITH: (TOWNSHEND ACT) An Act for taking off the
Inland Duty of One Shilling per Pound Weight upon all Black and Singlo Teas... London, 1767. WITH: An Act
for explaining and amending an Act… and for setting certain Doubts and Disputes which have arisen upon the
said Act of Parliament. London, 1772. Three documents. Folio, disbound, in custom portfolio and slipcase. $6500.
Very rare first printings of three controversial Parliamentary Tea Acts…the 1773 Tea Act that fueled the Boston Tea
Party, the 1767 Townshend Act on tea importation—the only Townshend Act left standing after repeal of the other
three in 1770—and the 1772 Amendatory Tea Act; three fiercely provocative laws on taxation whose passage
increasingly triggered colonial fury and further punitive laws. Each Act one of only 1100 copies printed.
This collection begins with the 1767 Tea Act—one of four Townshend Acts that “struck at the very foundation of
American political liberty” (Cochran & Andres, 953). It continues with the 1772 Amendatory Tea Act and culminates
in the 1773 Tea Act that fueled the Boston Tea Party. Passed only one year after repeal of the Stamp Act, the 1767 Tea
Act was the only one of the four Townshend Acts not repealed in 1770. With that Tea Act, reinforced by the Act of
1772, “the storm that stirred this particular cup would overwhelm British America… [in December of 1773], “Boston
instantly turned into a revolutionary hothouse,” and on the 16th, men disguised as Indians smashed 342 chests of tea
(Schama II:468). An angry Britain “‘threw off the mask,’ John Adams said,” and passed the four punitive laws known
as the Coercive Acts (Bailyn, 118). “‘The dye is now cast,’ wrote the king to Lord North. ‘The Colonies must either
submit or triumph’” (Morison, 204). Printed in gothic type (indicative of first edition). These first printings are from
Parliament’s Sessional Volumes, the earliest and most accurate contemporary source of the text, preceding all the
American printings. Acts printed prior to 1796 are extremely scarce, since the maximum number printed was only
around 1100 copies. Text fresh and clean, occasional expert achival repair without affecting text. An extremely
important about-fine collection of major Revolutionary acts.

o r v i l l e w r i g h t
Famous Photograph Of The First Flight, Signed By Orville Wright
19. (AVIATION) WRIGHT, Orville. Printed photograph of the “Flyer” signed. No
place, circa 1905. Halftone photograph (5 by 3-1/2 inches), framed with photographic
portraits. $6800.
Printed halftone photograph of the Wright brothers’ historic first flight—perhaps the most
famous image in the history of flight—captioned “First Man-Flight, December 17, 1903,
Kitty Hawk, N.C.” and signed by Orville Wright. Framed with portraits of both brothers.
At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, “on December 17, 1903, the birth of aviation was realized
with the 1903 Wright Brothers’ Flyer as the infant” (Flight Journal). This photograph depicts
the famous flight, and is signed by Orville Wright, the world’s first airplane pilot. Orville set
up the photograph by placing a tripod at the location where the plane was to take off, and
John T. Daniels, one of the few witnesses to the event, snapped the shutter during the 12
seconds that the first heavier-than-air vehicle flew its 120 feet. Orville documented the event
in his diary: “After running the engine and propellers a few minutes to get them in working
order, I got on the machine at 10:35 for the first trial… On slipping the rope the machine
started off increasing in speed to probably 7 or 8 miles. The machine lifted from the truck
just as it was entering on the fourth rail. Mr. Daniels took a picture just as it left the tracks.”
Three more flights were made that day with Orville’s brother Wilbur piloting the record
flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. Signature bold and clear, very faint stain
to sky of print. A historic piece, handsomely framed.
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Rare First Edition Of The First James Bond Novel
20. FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale. London, 1953. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $43,000.
First edition, of Fleming’s scarce first book, in unrestored first-issue dust jacket. An exceptionally nice
unrestored copy.
“Fleming accomplished an extraordinary amount in the history of the thriller. Almost single-handedly, he
revived popular interest in the spy novel, spawning legions of imitations, parodies, and critical and fictional
reactions… Through the immense success of the filmed versions of his books, his character James Bond became
the best known fictional personality of his time and Fleming the most famous writer of thrillers since Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle” (Reilly, 571). The novel was twice made into a film, each titled Casino Royale: a 1967 Bond spoof
with an all-star cast headed by Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, and Woody Allen; and the 2006
thriller, starring Daniel Craig in his first outing as Bond and Judi Dench as M. Casino Royale is certainly the
rarest of Fleming’s novels. “According to the Cape archives, 4760 sets of sheets of the first printing were delivered,
but only 4728 copies were bound up. Many of these went to public libraries and we believe that less than half of
the first printing was sold to the public. The jacket is genuinely rare in fresh condition” (Biondi & Pickard, 40).
This copy in first-issue dust jacket, with two-paragraph summary and the statement “Jacket devised by the
author” on front flap. Book fine, light wear to extremities and light soiling to white rear panel of bright, unrestored
dust jacket. A near-fine copy, scarce in such excellent condition.

“One Of The Least Forgettable
Characters In Modern Fiction”
21. FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London,
1958. Octavo, original brownstamped
paper boards, dust jacket,
custom half leather slipcase and
chemise. $4000.
First edition of the sixth Bond
thriller, introducing Dr. No, perhaps
the most famous of the Bond villains
and the first to appear on film, this
copy with the desirable silhouette of
a dancing girl brown-stamped on the
front cover.
The further adventures of “literature’s
most famous spy” (Steinbrunner &
Penzler, 151) and basis for the first
Bond film in 1962, starring Sean
Connery and Ursula Andress. Time
acclaimed the title villain as “one of
the least forgettable characters in
modern fiction” (Black, 32). First
edition, with all points. With brownstamped
dancing girl silhouette on
front board (“probably intended to be
Honeychile Rider” [Biondi & Pickard,
44]); no clear priority. Biondi &
Pickard, 44-45. Contemporary owner
signature. Book fine, only most minor
wear to extremities of bright dust
jacket. A fine copy.
“I Love Its Colour, Its
Brilliance, Its Divine
Heaviness… The Power
That Gold Alone Gives”
22. FLEMING, Ian. Goldfinger.
London, 1959. Octavo, original black
paper boards, dust jacket. $3200.
First edition of the seventh James
Bond thriller, in which Fleming’s
super-spy thwarts Auric Goldfinger’s
plot to plunder Fort Knox.
“In the first two months of 1958,
Fleming wrote the first draft of
Goldfinger under the working title
The Richest Man in the World. This
was destined to become a
quintessential example of both the
novels and the movies” (Biondi, 35).
Perhaps surprisingly, given 007’s
globe-spanning adventures, Goldfinger
is the only Bond novel to
include a map (on unnumbered page
246). Made into the 1965 film
starring Sean Connery as Bond and
Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore.
Biondi & Pickard, 45. Text block
slightly cocked, price-clipped dust
jacket with minor rubbing, tape
repair to verso. A near-fine copy.
“How’s Your Coefficient Of
Toughness, James?”
23. FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes
Only. London, 1960. Octavo,
original black paper boards, dust
jacket. $2800.
First edition of Fleming’s eighth
Bond title, the only collection of
Bond short stories published in
Fleming’s lifetime, including the title
story, “From a View to a Kill,” and
“Quantum of Solace.”
This five-story collection has “the
only British dust jacket with any
depiction of Bond: the eye in the
peephole is his. Fleming made [artist
Richard] Chopping paint it many
times, until he was satisfied with the
shape and, particularly, the color”
(Biondi & Pickard, 46). “For Your
Eyes Only” was made into the 1981
film starring Roger Moore and
Carole Bouquet; the 1985 film A
View to a Kill starred Moore,
Christopher Walken and Grace
Jones; the 2008 film Quantum of
Solace starred Daniel Craig. Book
fine, very light wear to extremities of
bright dust jacket with light fading to
red spine type, as often. A fine copy.
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o n he r m a j e s t y ’s s e c r e t s e r v i c e
“You See, We’ve Got All The Time In The World”:
Limited First Edition Of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Signed By Ian Fleming
24. FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London, 1963. Octavo, original half vellum gilt,
mylar dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $13,500.
Signed limited first edition, of the eleventh Bond novel, the only Bond title issued in a limited edition, one
of only 250 copies signed by Ian Fleming, in which 007 takes a bride, only to have his happiness cut short by
the schemes of his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld.
The eleventh James Bond novel—the first to be published after the debut of the Bond film series—became “an
immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic” (Biondi & Pickard, 48, 53). “By the time of publication, On
Her Majesty’s Secret Service had received nearly a quarter more subscriptions than any previous Fleming
novel” (Lycett, 419). George Lazenby, in his only outing as the secret agent, starred in the 1969 film version,
with Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Blofeld. With color frontispiece portrait of Fleming. Published
simultaneously with the trade edition. Issued without dust jacket but with protective mylar jacket. Interior
fine, only lightest soiling to vellum spine, as often seen. A fine copy, in the original mylar jacket.

Signed By Ansel Adams
25. ADAMS, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range
of Light. Boston, 1979. Oblong folio, original
red and blue cloth, original photographic dust
jacket. $1500.
First trade edition, first printing, with 116 striking
black-and-white photogravures, most full-page,
boldly signed by Adams.
“During his lifetime Adams was arguably the
world’s most famous photographer, with
reproductions of his works hanging everywhere
from college dorm rooms to museum galleries the
world over” (McDarrah, 3). Preceded the same
year by a signed limited edition of 250 copies. A
fine signed copy.
“Goddard’s Imagination Carried Man Through Galaxies”:
Robert Goddard’s Biography, Inscribed By Charles Lindbergh
26. (AVIATION) (LINDBERGH, Charles A.) LEHMAN, Milton. This High
Man. The Life of Robert H. Goddard. With a Preface by Charles A. Lindbergh.
New York, 1963. Octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $4200.
First edition biography of rocketeering pioneer Robert Goddard, inscribed,
“To George R. Brooks, With best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh.”
Robert Goddard was one of the most influential American rocket
scientists of the 20th century. “Goddard’s imagination carried man
through galaxies,” writes Lindbergh in his preface. With frontispiece
photograph of Goddard and illustrated with many other photographs
and diagrams. The recipient of this copy was George R. Brooks, Director
of the Missouri Historical Society. Bookplate. A fine copy in a very lightly
rubbed dust jacket.
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Costumes For Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty For The Ballet Russes,
With 56 Mounted Color Plates By Léon Bakst And Portrait Of Bakst
By Picasso, Signed By Bakst
27. (BALLET) BAKST, Léon. L’Oeuvre de Leon Bakst pour La
Belle au Bois Dormant. Paris, 1922. Large folio, original limp cream
paper covers, glassine. $5200.
Signed limited first French edition, number 59 of only 500 copies
signed by both Bakst and publisher Maurice de Brunoff, with 56
mounted color plates and a portrait of Bakst by Picasso.
A gifted painter, Bakst is best remembered for the sets and costumes
he designed for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in the early decades of the
20th century. His exotic and sumptuous designs, in conjunction
with Diaghilev’s radical and provocative choreography, helped
revitalize ballet and lay the framework for modern interpretive
dance. It was the Ballet Russes that first brought Tchaikovsky’s
Sleeping Beauty (renamed Sleeping Princess) to the west in 1921, featuring scenery and
costumes by Bakst. “Bakst’s greatest claim to theatrical glory lies in his feeling for
synthesis, in his impeccable instinct for harmony” (Levinson). Without original slipcase.
Text and plates fine, very minor rubbing to spine ends of original paper covers, spine of
glassine mostly perished. An about-fine copy.
“A Work Of Art In Itself”: Johnson’s Beautifully Bound
And Illustrated Russian Ballet, 1913
28. (BALLET) JOHNSON, Alfred Edwin. The Russian Ballet. Boston
and New York, 1913. Tall quarto, contemporary full navy
morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $2200.
First American edition, published simultaneously with the
English edition, of this grand tribute to the Russian ballet,
with 12 full-page color plates, color headpieces and numerous
in-text line cuts by René Bull, splendidly bound in full
morocco-gilt by Stikeman.
“In Russia the ballet has never been allowed, as elsewhere, to die
of starvation and inanition. Apart from State encouragement of
the dancer’s art, an outlet has been provided for the musician
and the decorative painter and designer. The result is that the
ballet, as understood in Russia, is no mere excuse for the
exploitation of individual talents, but a work of art in itself, to
the achievement of which the energies and abilities of all
concerned are subordinated… This book seeks to present a
souvenir of the performances with which so many spectators have been delighted.” Among the 17 ballets featured are
Petrouchka, Cléopâtre, Sceherazade, L’Oiseau de Feu, L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune and Salome. René Bull’s wonderful color
illustrations are evocative of his famous treatments of the Arabian Nights (1912) and the Rubiayat (1913). Gift inscription.
Plates lovely and bright. Minor loss to original spine at spine ends. Very nearly fine.

Boldly Signed By Marilyn Monroe, A 1959 Program From An
Award Benefit Honoring Her Husband Arthur Miller
29. MONROE, Marilyn. Program signed. Philadelphia, September 27, 1959. Slim
octavo, original tan self-wrappers (measures 7 by 9-1/2 inches), staple-bound as
issued, signed in cursive on the title page; pp.[8]. $6800.
Original 1959 program for a Philadelphia benefit honoring Arthur Miller’s
achievements and his receipt of an honorary degree from the Hebrew University,
signed on the title page by Marilyn Monroe, then married to Miller and soon to
star in The Misfits, a movie written by Miller that was filmed within months of
this tribute.
In 1959 Pulitzer Price-winning dramatist Arthur Miller received an honorary
degree from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. To commemorate the prestigious
award and his “distinguished achievement in the Dramatic Arts,” a dinner in
Miller’s honor was held in Philadelphia by a Chapter of the American Friends of
the Hebrew University. Miller and his wife Marilyn Monroe were in attendance as
honored guests, along with Miller’s parents. This program of that evening is signed
by Monroe in dark blue ink—a signature that dramatically crosses the lower half of the title page. Miller and Monroe had
married in 1956. In the summer of 1960, less than a year after this September 1959 benefit, both were in Nevada filming
Miller’s original screenplay for the film The Misfits. Directed by John Huston, the movie starred Monroe with Clark Gable
and Montgomery Clift. During the difficult months of filming, Miller and Monroe’s marriage began to break up and in
1961, the year The Misfits was released, they divorced. Text fresh with only a tiny bit of margin staining not affecting text
or signature. A rare signed program in about-fine condition.
“To A Tough Critic, But A Friendly One…”:
Signed Limited First Edition Of Omar Bradley’s A Soldier’s Story,
One Of 750 Copies, Inscribed To Famed Reporter Walter Trohan
30. BRADLEY, Omar N. A Soldier’s Story. New York, 1951. Thick octavo,
original beige cloth, acetate dust jacket, slipcase. $2500.
Signed limited first edition, number 239 of 750 copies numbered and signed by
Bradley, presentation/association copy inscribed on the title page to famous
Washington reporter and bureau chief: “Best regards to Walter Trohan, a
tough critic, but a friendly one. Omar N. Bradley.”
A Soldier’s Story recounts the battles of World War II from the perspective of
legendary General Omar Bradley, who led more combat troops than any other
field commander in history. Inscribed by Bradley to Chicago Tribune reporter
Walter Trohan, who covered Washington from the second year of FDR’s term
through to Nixon, and was famous for breaking the story of Truman’s intent to fire General Douglas MacArthur (Ritchie,
Reporting from Washington, 10). In a later interview, Trohan recalled that after getting the tip, “I got my Pentagon man
Lloyd Norman to go to General [Omar] Bradley, who was then Chief of Staff.” As Trohan was alerting the President’s Press
Secretary that “we had this tip; we were going to run it… in came Bradley and he went in to see the President… I knew he
was going to report to the President about this story… That was the firing of MacArthur… if we hadn’t of pushed them, he
wouldn’t have done it… And he tells that in his own Memoirs, Mr. Truman” (Truman Library). Tiny margin inkstamp on
dedication leaf. Book fine, light edge-wear to scarce original acetate and slipcase. An about-fine association copy.
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Signed By Jackie Robinson:
First Edition Of Baseball Has Done It
31. (BASEBALL) ROBINSON, Jackie. Baseball Has Done It. Philadelphia
and New York, 1964. Octavo, original cream cloth, dust jacket. $5000.
First edition of this primary documentation of baseball’s integration—“what
it is like to be both a baseball star and a Negro,” —signed, “Best wishes. Jackie
Robinson.”
This is an extraordinary collection of interviews between a number of famous
black players and baseball legend Jackie Robinson. “Professional athletes
seldom speak as frankly to interviewers as these men do to Jackie Robinson.
Integration is a fact in baseball—here [African-American players] speak out
about what it means to them, to baseball, and to the country.” Grobani 8-261.
Book fine, edge-wear and chipping to original dust jacket. A near-fine,
signed copy.
“The American Game Par Excellence”:
Spalding’s History Of Baseball,
Inscribed By John Morrill Of The Boston Red Caps
32. (BASEBALL) SPALDING, Albert G. America’s National
Game. New York, 1911. Thick octavo, original blue pictorial
cloth gilt. $4000.
First edition of this essential baseball history, with over 100 fullpage
illustrations and four fold-out plates, including panoramic
views of the Polo Grounds, Shibe Park, Comiskey Park and Forbes
Field. Inscribed by John Morrill, an early player with the Boston
Red Caps: “Mr. E.B. Daily, Compliments of John F. Morrill, Nov
2nd 1911.” With a rain check ticket to the 60th anniversary
National League game in June 1936 laid in.
“A history of the game by one of the pioneer giants” (Grobani 6-9).
Spalding transformed baseball “from its dual origins as either a gentlemen’s club or a rowdy working-class pastime into a
popular, commercial, and professional sport… [His] newspaper obituaries across the nation recognized Spalding… as the
father of what was now considered to be ‘America’s game’” (ANB). Without rare original
dust jacket. Inscribee John Morrill “started playing baseball at the age of 19 with a local
amateur team. He played every position on the diamond and was one of the best known
all-around players in the game. He was one of the last barehanded catchers and made a
reputation for himself in that position” (New York Times obituary). Morrill served as first
baseman and manager of the Boston Nationals in 1883, the year the team won the
pennant. He played for most of his career with the Boston Red Caps (now the Atlanta
Braves). He is listed on the Boston roster on page 219 of this book. Interior fine, original
cloth exceptionally bright and lovely. A fine copy with exceptional provenance.

“…If Everything Else In Our Language Should Perish,
It Would Alone Suffice To Show The Whole Extent Of Its
Beauty And Power” (Macaulay): 1682 Oxford King James
Bible In Lovely Restoration-Era Morocco-Gilt
33. ( B I B L E ) . The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and
the New. Oxford, 1682. Quarto, contemporary full paneled red
morocco gilt. $7500.
Late-17th century (1682) Oxford edition of the King James Bible, in
distinguished Restoration-era paneled morocco-gilt.
The magisterial King James “Authorized Version” of the Bible (first published
1611) has exercised an incalculable impact on piety, language and literature
throughout the English-speaking world. This copy boasts a handsome,
contemporary full morocco binding, elegantly gilt-tooled with central
panels on both boards composed of floral rolls and fillets with floral
cornerpieces, and the spine compartmentalized with various floral tools including poppies and tulips. With both general
and separate New Testament title pages, each bearing royal armorial woodcuts. Ruled in red throughout. Includes
Apocrypha. Owner inscription dated 1693/4. Gift inscription dated 1966 from noted scholar and bibliographer Edwin
Wolff II, longtime librarian at the Library Company of Philadelphia, to his wife, Mary, on their first anniversary. Gutter
reinforced at general title page. Lower corner of leaf A1 of Apocrypha restored. Mild rubbing to handsome binding, corners
lightly bumped. An excellent Bible in a distinguished Restoration-era binding.
Handsome Pictorial Bible,
With Over 800 Woodcut Illustrations
34. BIBLE. The Pictorial Bible; Being the Old
and New Testaments. London, 1836-38. Three
volumes. Quarto, contemporary full polished
navy calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and
boards. $3200.
First edition of this generously illustrated Bible, a
notable Victorian attempt to interpret the
Scriptures in their original, ancient Near Eastern
contexts, featuring 828 wood-cuts after numerous
renowned artists.
This copiously annotated edition of the King James
Bible complements the magisterial text with 828
detailed wood-cuts of not only the Scripture’s
dramatic highlights but also the dress, manners and
natural world of ancient Israel and its neighbors, making them a valuable aid in biblical study. Artists whose work is
represented include Michaelangelo, Raffaelle, Rubens, Poussin and Rosellini. Volume III with map of the Sinai peninsula
painted on the fore-edge. Owner inkstamps. Old pencil bibliographic notations and old price to verso of front free
endpaper in first volume. Rear inner hinge of volume III expertly reinforced. An excellent Bible, very handsomely bound.
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“It Was A Pleasure To Burn”:
Fahrenheit 451, Signed Limited First Edition,
One Of Only 200 Copies Bound In Asbestos
35. BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York, 1953. Octavo, original white asbestos cloth. $16,000.
Signed limited first edition, number 193 of only 200 copies bound in fragile asbestos cloth. One of the most
sought-after modern works and most rare in this edition.
“What is distinctive about Fahrenheit 451 as a work of literature is not what Bradbury says but how he says
it… Bradbury’s evocative, lyrical style charges [the book] with a sense of mystery and connotative depth that
go beyond the normal boundaries of dystopian fiction… It is the only major symbolic dystopia of our time”
(Donald Watt). The first edition was issued in four different bindings (a paperback binding preceded the
three hardcover bindings, among which no priority has been
determined); this is the rarest binding, and one of the most desirable of
all classic science fiction editions (Curry, 44). New York Public Library,
Books of the Century, 162. Interior fine. With almost none of the
cracking to asbestos cloth usually seen; very light toning to spine and
light spotting to boards. An about-fine copy of a highly desirable signed
limited first edition.

First Edition Of Burton’s
The City Of The Saints
36. BURTON, Richard F. The City of the Saints
and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London, 1861. Octavo, contemporary threequarter
scarlet calf. $3200.
First edition of this important American travel
narrative by one of Britain’s greatest explorers,
with two folding maps and eight full-page plates.
After returning from his travels in East Africa,
Burton found that his “plan of life was now entirely
unsettled. His engagement to his future wife, which
may be said to date from before his expedition to
Central Africa, was not recognized by her family.
There seemed to be no career for him either in India
or as an explorer. But he could not rest from travel… in the summer of 1860 he set off on a rapid run across North
America, with the special object of studying the Mormons at Salt Lake city. This, of course, resulted in a book, The City of
the Saints (1861), which is characterized by much plain speaking. Within a month of his return Isabel Arundell consented
to marry him without her parents’ knowledge” (DNB). Penzer 68-69. Bookplate of noted collector of Western Americana
and Californiana Roger K. Larson; contemporary owner signature to title page. A fine copy.
“Which Way Is The Enemy’s Gate?”:
Ender’s Game, Signed By Orson Scott Card
37. CARD, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game. New York, 1985. Octavo,
original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition of the provocative first book in Card’s star-spanning
“Ender Saga,” boldly signed by the author.
Card “exploded onto the science fiction scene with his first published
story, ‘Ender’s Game’ for Analog in 1977; it was nominated for a Hugo
and served as the germ for the Ender series, the first two volumes of
which were published in 1985 and 1986… [by which time Card] had
clearly established himself as one of the two or three dominant figures
of recent science fiction… The Ender saga stands as one of the very few
serious moral tales set among the stars” (Clute & Nicholls, 194-95). “A sophisticated power
fantasy. Grimly fascinating” (Anatomy of Wonder II-217). Dust jacket bright and very nearly fine
with short diagonal crease to front flap and panel. Book fine. A desirable signed copy.
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Cartier-Bresson’s Decisive Moment, With Cover Design By
Matisse, Accompanied By Inscribed Gallery Catalogue
38. CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Decisive Moment. New York,
1952. WITH: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Paris, 1976. Folio, original
pictorial boards, dust jacket. Original caption booklet and gallery
catalogue laid in. $7500.
First edition in English, published simultaneously with the French,
featuring 126 photographs by “the Raphael of 20th-century
photographers,” with binding and dust jacket designs by Matisse.
Accompanied by the 1976 Lucien Henry gallery catalogue, inscribed by
Cartier-Bresson, “Pour Carlton avec l’amitie d’Henri.”
“Cartier-Bresson has a special interest in photographing people and in
capturing the essence of what has not previously been seen. He is
famous for his theory of the ‘decisive moment’—that is, seizing the split
second when the subject stands revealed in its most significant aspect…
Today he ranks as one of the most important and influential
photographers of this century.” (Blodgett, 96) Decisive Moment is Cartier-Bresson’s most famous work, containing his most
comprehensive and important statement on the meaning, technique, and utility of photography. “The simultaneous
publication [of this edition with Images à la Sauvette] in New York in July 1952, with a cover by Matisse (who had just had
his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art) was a tremendous success” (Roth, 134). With extremely scarce dust jacket
and separate caption pamphlet and inscribed gallery catalogue laid in. Gift inscription. Book fine, only shallow chipping to
exceptionally clean and bright original dust jacket. A splendid copy, with inscribed gallery catalogue.
Original 1719 Map Of French North America
39. CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham. “Carte de la
Nouvelle France, où se Voit le Cours des Grandes
Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi.” FROM: His
Atlas Historique, Volume VI, Number 23. Amsterdam,
1719. Single copper-engraved double-page sheet (20-1/2
by 17-1/2 inches). $2500.
First impression of Châtelain’s map of French territories
in North America from his celebrated Atlas Historique
(1719), with explanatory notes by Nicolas de Guedeville.
Derived from Nicolas de Fer’s map of 1718, the features
west of the Mississippi contain numerous inland details
with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and
animals of North America. An inset at top left charts the
mouth of the Mississippi; another at bottom right presents
a prospect of Quebec City and the plan of the attack from
New England in 1690. While the cartography is based on the rare four-sheet map by de Fer, the surface vignettes come
from de Bry. Châtelain’s Atlas Historique was groundbreaking for its time, with notes by Nicolas de Guedeville on
geography, history, ethnology, heraldry, and cosmography. With fleur-de-lis watermark. Shirley I:337. A crisp, dark
impression, small archival tape repair to bottom of fold, four very tiny holes. About-fine condition.

1687 Edition Of Chaucer’s Works, The Last Gothic Type
Edition: “Incomparably The Greatest Of An Age”
40. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Our Ancient, Learned,
& Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer. London, 1687. Folio,
later 19th-century period-style full red paneled calf gilt. $8800.
Third Speght edition of Chaucer’s works, the last edition to be set in
Gothic type, with engraved frontispiece “Progeny of Chaucer,”
incorporating a full-length portrait of the author and an image of
his tomb. A stunning copy in beautiful elaborate calf-gilt.
After this edition the quality of Chaucerian editorship declined, to
be later revived in the 1775 Tyrwhitt edition of Canterbury Tales.
This is the third printing of Thomas Speght’s edition, which “held
sway for well over a hundred years, far longer than any other. It was
the text read and owned by Milton, Junius, Pepys, Dryden, and
Pope” (Derek Pearsall). It is essentially a reprint of Speght’s 1602
edition, being the eighth collected edition, and includes for the first
time the printing of the conclusions to the Cook’s and the Squire’s Tale, then recently discovered, on the verso of the last leaf.
Beautifully printed in two columns of Gothic type, with a divisional title to the “Works” containing a three-quarter page
woodcut arms and small woodcut armorial diagram on a2 v , errata slip pasted over relevant text on G1 v . Wing C3736.
Owner signature on title page. Occasional marginal pencil notations. A fine copy, with only two fairly inoffensive early
light ink smudges to title page. A very beautiful volume.
Postal Atlas Of China, 1936,
With 31 Large Color Maps
41. CHINA. Postal Atlas of China.
Nanking, 1936. Large folio (15-1/2 by 21
inches), original full green morocco, dust
jacket. $4800.
First printing of the 1936 edition of this
Chinese postal Atlas, with 31 color maps.
This exceptional postal atlas features 31
maps, all double-page and seven folding.
It includes Tibet and Manchuria, and
features lists of of postal office names in
English and Chinese, including latitude
and longitude, and distances between
places. An invaluable resource from a
highly volatile period in China’s history,
during the brief Republic, after Japan’s
invasion of Manchuria and before Mao’s revolution. With text in Chinese and English. Book and maps fine. Dust
jacket toned, with some loss to folds. Rare.
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“The Little House Was Curious About The City And Wondered What It Would Be Like To
Live There…”: Rare First Edition Of Virginia Lee Burton’s The Little House
42. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) BURTON, Virginia Lee. The Little House. Boston, 1942. Oblong quarto, original
blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $15,000.
First edition of Burton’s classic book, winner of the Caldecott Award, beautifully illustrated by the author.
One of the rarest and most sought-after children’s classics,
Burton’s The Little House tells the story of a thinking and
feeling house, from its earliest days isolated in the country
through its later years as it watches a city come to life around
it. “Taking her cue from her small sons, Aristides and Michael,
Burton chose subjects that would intrigue children…
[including] Mary Ann, the steam shovel… [Burton’s books]
have heroes and heroines children can understand and enjoy,
ingenious and satisfactory endings and lively illustrations.
The books survive because they exhibit so effectively the
elements most basic to children’s literature” (Silvey, 109-10).
Contemporary gift inscription on dedication page. Book
near-fine, with a few tiny spots of soiling, shallow dampstain
to top edge of text block, and unusually fresh and lovely cloth.
Price-clipped dust jacket near-fine with a few small expertly
repaired closed tears. An exceptional copy. Rare.

“Greetings To You… From Mr. Willy Wonka!”
43. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory. New York, 1964. Octavo, original red cloth, dust
jacket. $9200.
First edition, first issue, of Dahl’s deliciously delightful tale of magic and
morality, with numerous in-text illustrations by Joseph Schindelman.
A beautiful copy in fine condition.
“Charlie earned for its author a cult following among child readers… Dahl
has been called a literary genius; his books have been considered modern
fairy tales” (Silvey, 186). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is already a
great classic work… [and] one of the most enduring post-war children’s
books… Dahl is undeniably special” (Connolly, 102). First issue, in full red
cloth and with six lines of publishing information on last page (instead of
five). First-issue dust jacket, with no ISBN number on rear panel. Dust
jacket with spine lightly toned. A beautiful copy of an increasingly scarce
first edition, especially in this fine condition.
Signed By Roald Dahl
44. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the
Great Glass Elevator. New York, 1972. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust
jacket. $4500.
First edition of Dahl’s sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, boldly
signed on the title page by Roahl Dahl.
The further adventures of Charlie Bucket and Willie Wonka, with in-text
illustrations by Joseph Schindelman. “Dahl seems to have made an art form
of the rediscovery that children tend to warm to the sorts of horror that make
lesser mortals (adults) squirm with displeasure… He is undeniably special”
(Connolly, 104). Book very nearly fine, bright dust jacket about-fine with a
few tape repairs to verso. A handsome signed copy.
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“One Of The Most Endearing Books Ever Written For Children”
45. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. London, 1908. Octavo,
original blue cloth gilt. $12,500.
First edition of the beloved children’s novel, which author A.A. Milne once referred to as a “household book,”
“one of the classic read-aloud books that should not be missed by any family” (Silvey). A very lovely copy.
“Unquestionable is the permanence, as an inspired and characteristically English contribution to children’s literature,
of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows… one of the most endearing books ever written for children… Part
of the secret success of the book is that its appeal is ageless and parents never tire of reading it aloud. Like all great
books it is inexhaustible” (Eyre, 62). Grahame created his classic as a series of bedtime stories for his four-year-old
son Alastair, who was known as Mouse; yet it also became “in many respects an elegy for the old idyllic English rural
life which Grahame could now see was passing away forever” (Carpenter & Prichard, 218). In a letter to Theodore
Roosevelt, Grahame described the book as “an expression of the very simplest of joys of life as lived by the simplest
beings.” C.S. Lewis praised it as “a perfect example of the kind of story which can express things without explaining
them” (Carpenter, 168). Without extremely rare original dust jacket. Pierpont Morgan Children’s Literature 269.
Front inner paper hinges slightly split, binding nearly fine. Spine with slight toning and most minor rubs to
extremities, gilt bright and fine. A very nearly fine copy.

“An Honorable Place In Any Library Of
Children’s Books”: First Editions Of
Kipling’s Jungle Books, Splendidly Bound
46. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Jungle Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book.
London, 1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20thcentury
full dark blue morocco gilt. $6800.
First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete
with adventure and excitement” (Silvey, 374), elegantly
bound by Riviere & Son in full morocco with pictorial
inlays on the front of each volume, the first depicting a
tiger head and the second Mowgli and a wolf before a fire.
“Among the 15 stories in [these volumes] are some of
Kipling’s most memorable narratives” (Abraham, 36). “The child who has never run with Mowgli’s wolf pack, or stood
with Parnesius and Pertinax to defend the Northern Wall... has missed something that he will not get from any other
writer” (Carpenter & Prichard, 297). Illustrated largely by W.H. Drake and Kipling’s father, J. Lockwood Kipling, “this
most desirable pair... will always fill an honorable place in any library of children’s books” (Quayle 87). Original pictorial
cloth gilt bound in at rear. Livingston 104, 116. Text clean and fine, joints expertly restored, gilt bright, superbly bound.
Curious George, Inscribed By Margret Rey
47. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) (REY, Margret) REY, H.A.
Curious George. Boston, after 1969. Slim quarto, original yellow cloth,
dust jacket. $3800.
Later edition of the first book in the cherished adventures of the
perpetually curious “good little monkey,” inscribed by his co-creator,
“To Aaron and Lillian from Margret Rey.”
“Through the character of Curious George, the adventurous tailless
monkey, H.A. Rey projected his own lively curiosity in the world around
him and at the same time kept his stories within the realm of children’s
activities and comprehension… Curious George remains a recognized
and beloved monkey who will continue
to amuse and comfort children for years
to come” (Silvey, 554). Although H.A.
Rey died in 1977, Margret continued to write children’s books; she died in 1996. The first
edition of Curious George is quite rare, and books signed or inscribed by either of the Reys,
particularly Curious George titles, are most uncommon. Interior generally clean, cloth fine,
bright dust jacket with light expert restoration. A very good copy, desirable and elusive
inscribed by one of Curious George’s creators.
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“Aslan Is On The Move”: First Edition Of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
48. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) LEWIS, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. London, 1950.
Octavo, original teal cloth, dust jacket. $12,000.
First edition of the first volume in Lewis’ acclaimed Chronicles of Narnia, a “story of high imaginative
adventure, told with great beauty” (Meigs, 480).
“The immediate inspiration for [The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe] was a series of nightmares that Lewis
had about lions. More seriously, he was concerned to do for children what he had done for an adult readership
in his science fiction trilogy… The [Narnia] novels are not allegorical; they are entirely in keeping with the
belief, shared by Lewis and his close friend and Oxford colleague Tolkien, that stories in themselves, especially
of the mythical type, can give spiritual nourishment without imparting abstract meaning… As Naomi Lewis
has written, the books are ‘intoxicating’ to all but the most relentlessly unimaginative readers, and must be
judged the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author” (Children’s Literature,
370). “Adored by children and academics alike, these books are extremely collectable, sought-after, scarce…
and worth every penny” (Connolly, 186). Currey, 251. Book extremely good with some color loss to spine (as
often) and moderate toning to spine ends. Dust jacket bright and extremely good with restoration to spine ends.
A lovely copy.

a r t h u r r a c k h a m /j.m. b a r r i e
“His Acknowledged Masterpiece”:
The Highly Prized Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens,
Illustrated And Signed By Arthur Rackham
49. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) (RACKHAM, Arthur)
BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London, 1906.
Quarto, original full pictorial vellum gilt, silk ties. $15,000.
Signed limited first separate edition, number 313 of only 500 copies
signed by Rackham, with 50 color illustrations. A fine copy.
The first name of Barrie’s most famous character “came from
Peter Llewelyn Davies, who when still a baby became the subject
of stories told by Barrie to [Peter’s older brothers]. According to
these stories Peter, like all babies, had once been a bird and could
still fly out of his nursery window and back to Kensington
Gardens… From these stories came the ‘Peter Pan’ chapters in The Little White Bird [1902], afterwards re-issued
with Arthur Rackham illustrations as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens” (Carpenter, 177). “The 50 color plates
were unanimously praised by all who saw them” (Dalby, 76). The book--with which the “gift book” genre
originated (Eyre, 41)--established Rackham’s worldwide reputation and remains “his acknowledged
masterpiece… [Barrie praised] Rackham’s rendering of the fairy world… but the book has much more to offer.
The glimpses he provides of stylized London reality effectively set off the fairy life that exists in unsuspected
conjunction with it, and he captures the loveliness of the Gardens themselves with masterly skill” (Ray, 204, 206
[catalogue number 329]). “A much-sought-after volume” (Quayle, Early Children’s Books, 87). Mounted plates
bound together at the end of the text rather than throughout as suggested by plate list. Latimore & Haskell, 27.
Bookplate. A beautiful copy, most rare in this condition.
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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows,
Inscribed By J.K. Rowling
50. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows. London, 2007. Thick octavo, original stiff paper pictorial
boards, dust jacket. $13,500.
First edition of the seventh and final book in
Rowling’s phenomenally popular fantasy series,
inscribed by the author, “To Janet. J.K.
Rowling.”
“We can’t think of anyone else who has sustained
such an intricate, endlessly inventive plot over
seven thick volumes and so constantly surprised
us with twists, well-laid traps and Purloined
Letter-style tricks. Hallows continues the
tradition, both with sly feats of legerdemain and with several altogether new, unexpected
elements.” (Publishers Weekly) Publisher or bookseller’s small security sticker to title page,
stamped with the release date of the book (“21/07/07”). A fine and rare inscribed copy.
“The One With The Power To Vanquish The Dark Lord
Approaches”: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix,
Inscribed By J.K. Rowling
51. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix. London, 2003. Thick octavo, original pictorial boards,
dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $13,500.
First edition of the fifth book in the extraordinarily
successful fantasy series, inscribed, “To Katien
with best wishes, JK Rowling.”
Worldwide enthusiasm and intense media
attention accompanied the publication of the fifth
installment in this astoundingly popular series.
“Harry Potter has shown empire-building skills
that would put Queen Victoria to shame…
Worldwide sales have topped 190 million in more
than two hundred countries… It’s a Harry Potter world, and we just live in it” (Weinberg, 43).
Rowling has rarely held signings for the later books in her series, so inscribed copies such as
this are increasingly scarce and desirable. Fine condition.

“I’ll Stay Till The Wind Changes”:
Five Volumes Of The Mary Poppins Series,
Each Inscribed By The Author
52. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) TRAVERS, P.L. Mary
Poppins. WITH: Mary Poppins Comes Back. WITH:
Mary Poppins Opens the Door. WITH: Mary Poppins
In the Park. WITH: Mary Poppins from A-Z. New York,
1964. Five volumes. Small octavo, original cloth, dust
jackets. $3200.
Later American editions of the five most notable volumes in
the beloved Mary Poppins book series, inscribed by P.L.
Travers (often with a small drawing—a star, a butterfly, etc.)
in each volume.
“There is no such thing as a children’s book,” Pamela Lyndon
Travers once declared. “There are simply books of many
kinds and some of them children read” (Haviland, 155). Since the first of an eventual eight
books about the magical Mary Poppins appeared in 1934, innumerable children have chosen
to read them. “The first Mary Poppins stories were written when [Travers] was recovering
from an illness, and were told to two children of her acquaintance. Mary Poppins appeared in
1934 and was an immediate success” (Carpenter & Prichard, 540). Cooper & Cooper, 157.
Books near-fine to fine, with only very lightest sunning to spines of three of the volumes. Dust
jackets very good, with light edgewear and chips to spine of Mary Poppins, Marry Poppins in
the Park, and Mary Poppins from A to Z.
“One Of The Finest Children’s Fantasies Of The 20th Century”
53. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) WHITE, T.H. The Sword in the Stone. London, 1938. Octavo, original black cloth,
dust jacket. $3800.
First edition of the original version of White’s playful—and profound—
recounting of King Arthur’s boyhood, illustrated with numerous linecuts by
the author.
White drew inspiration from both Malory’s Morte d’Arthur and his own
experiences as a schoolmaster when creating this charming story of the
young, future king and Merlyn, his magical tutor. “The characterizations are
exceptionally fine and the story has a perfect blend of humor and
sentimentality” (Anatomy of Wonder 5-318). “Few would deny its romance
and humanity” (An English Library, 56). Although White substantially
revised the book for its 1958 inclusion in The Once and Future King, this
original version remains “one of the finest children’s fantasies of the 20th
century” (Clute & Grant, 1010-11). Cloth fresh and about-fine with only
minor light staining. Price-clipped dust jacket with light toning to spine,
small chips to spine head, far better than usually seen. An attractive copy
in near-fine condition.
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My African Journey, Inscribed By Churchill In The Year Of Publication
54. CHURCHILL, Winston. My African Journey. London, 1908. Octavo, original pictorial red cloth. $16,800.
First edition of this early Churchill work, with three full-page maps and over 60 photographs, many taken by Churchill,
inscribed on the front flyleaf, “From Winston S. Churchill, 1 December 1908.”
“As undersecretary of State for the Colonies in 1907,” Churchill traveled
to Africa on a tour of inspection… [he] saw the advantages of producing
a travelogue on Britain’s valuable possessions in East Africa. Among
these, Churchill waxes most eloquent on Uganda, which he calls ‘a
pearl’” (Langworth, 80). My African Journey “includes photographs
allegedly taken by Churchill, the only such appearance in the canon; the
text is important because it shows Churchill raising prescient questions
involving the betterment of the East African population” (Langworth,
80). Cohen A27.1. Occasional scattered minor foxing to text; light toning
to spine. A nearly fine, fresh copy, scarce inscribed.

“One Of The Most Brilliant Treatises On War That
Has Ever Been Written”
55. CHURCHILL, Winston. The World Crisis. London,
1923-31. Six volumes. Octavo, original navy cloth. $6000.
First English editions of Churchill’s important history of World
War I. “Not only the best account of the most tremendous
convulsion the world has ever seen, but one of the most brilliant
treatises on war that has ever been written” (Spectator).
During World War I, Churchill served variously as the head of
the British Navy, Minister for Munitions and as a foot soldier
in the trenches. The World Crisis offers his first-hand account
of the British government’s massive efforts to win the war, and
depicts the political events that would serve as object lessons
for Churchill when World War II broke out. Illustrated with numerous maps (many folding), charts, facsimiles,
photographs, and a large folding colored map at rear of last volume. Preceded by the American editions, although “the
English is more aesthetically desirable… equipped with shoulder notes on each page which summarize the subject of that
page… It is more popular among collectors who wish to own only one edition” (Langworth, 108). Bookplate and
bookbinder ticket in Volume I. Occasional light scattered foxing to interiors; light rubbing to cloth extremities, slight
discoloration to edge of Volume II rear board. A near-fine set of an increasingly scarce Churchill title.
Scarce Complete 12-Volume
Collection Of First Editions Of
Churchill’s World War II And
Post-War Speeches, 1941-61
56. CHURCHILL, Winston S. World War
II Speeches and Post-War Speeches. London,
1941-61. Together, 12 volumes. Octavo,
modern full navy morocco gilt. $8000.
First editions of Churchill’s separately
published World War II and post-war
speeches, including his rare last book,
handsomely bound in full morocco gilt.
Churchill’s war speeches, published between
1941 and 1946, “constitute a contemporary
history of the war which is as lively as it is authoritative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to
be the last word upon the war” (Randolph Churchill). The bulk of Churchill’s speeches between late 1945, when he was
voted out of the office of Prime Minister and became the leader of the opposition party in Parliament, through his second
premiership of 1951-55, up to 1959, when he gave his last public speech, make up the post-war speeches. The speeches
included in these volumes trace the development of Churchill’s call for European unity through the abatement of socialist
party power in Britain’s parliament, the start of the Korean War, rising tensions in the Middle East, and the establishment
of NATO. This set contains the rare only printing of The Unwritten Alliance, the last of Churchill’s books printed in his
lifetime. Occasional scattered light foxing to interiors. A handsome set in fine condition.
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“This Is Not History: This Is My Case”:
Churchill’s Brilliant History Of The
Second World War
57. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World
War. London, 1948-54. Six volumes. Octavo,
modern full navy morocco gilt. $3500.
First English editions of Churchill’s World War II
masterpiece, part history and part memoir, written
after he lost reelection as Prime Minister.
The six volumes of Churchill’s masterpiece were
published separately between 1948 and 1954. With
the Second World War, Churchill “pulled himself
back from humiliating defeat in 1945, using all his
skills as a writer and politician to make his fortune,
secure his reputation, and win a second term in
Downing Street” (Reynolds, xxiii). “Winston himself affirmed that ‘this is not history: this is my case’” (Holmes, 285).
Churchill was re-elected to the post of Prime Minister in 1951. “The Second World War is a great work of literature,
combining narrative, historical imagination and moral precept in a form that bears comparison with that of the
original master chronicler, Thucydides. It was wholly appropriate that in 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature” (Keegan, 175). Although preceded by the American editions, the English editions are generally
preferred for their profusion of diagrams, maps and facsimile documents. Occasional scattered light foxing to
interiors and fore edges. Fine condition.
Churchill And Roosevelt’s Correspondence
58. CHURCHILL, Winston S. and ROOSEVELT, Franklin
D. The Complete Correspondence. Princeton, 1984. Three
volumes. Thick octavo, modern three-quarter navy
morocco gilt. $1750.
First edition of this collection of the correspondence between
Churchill and Roosevelt, spanning the years 1933-45.
Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps. With
extensive annotations and index by editor Warren Kimball.
Cohen A287.1.a. Fine condition.

A Classic Civil War Autobiography, Handsomely Bound,
With Grant’s Signature
59. (CIVIL WAR) GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S.
Grant. New York, 1885-86. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary
three-quarter dark brown morocco gilt. $4800.
First edition of the memoirs of one of the most recognized figures
in American military history, illustrated with numerous steel
engravings, facsimiles and 43 maps. With Grant’s signature
tipped in.
After an ineffectual term as president, ruined by bankruptcy and
dying of throat cancer, Grant agreed to publish his memoirs to
provide a measure of economic security for his family. Mark Twain
agreed to serve as the publisher. Struggling to dictate his notes to a
stenographer, Grant finished his memoirs shortly before his death in
the summer of 1885. “It seemed to Twain, sitting quietly near him in his bedroom at Sixtieth Street, that Grant had fully
regained the stature of a hero” (Kaplan, 273). “No Union list of personal narratives could possibly begin without the story
of the victorious general. A truly remarkable work” (New York Times). “Grant’s memoirs comprise one of the most valuable
writings by a military commander in history” (Eicher 492). A fine copy in handsome deluxe publisher’s bindings.
“A Necessary, Primary Source… It Should Be
Read Carefully And Often”: Johnson’s Classic
Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War,
A Source For The Red Badge Of Courage
60. (CIVIL WAR) JOHNSON, Robert
Underwood, and BUEL, Clarence Clough.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New
York, 1887-88. Four volumes. Quarto,
contemporary three-quarter dark brown
polished calf gilt. $2800.
First edition of this essential Civil War
reference, with hundreds of in-text
illustrations, maps, plans and facsimiles.
Editor Johnson “coaxed recalcitrant
generals to take up the pen… The enterprise
was a landmark on the long road to reconciliation” (DAB). “The 388 articles by 226 authors are accompanied by 197
well-drawn maps, nearly 1500 engraved illustrations, statistical summaries, orders of battle, and editorial notes… The
engravings are among the best relating to Civil War history… Numerous accounts by general officers make this work a
necessary, primary source for all Civil War libraries… It should be read carefully and often” (Eicher 743). So vivid are the
accounts in Battles and Leaders that Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle, based his classic Red Badge of Courage
largely on his reading of this landmark work. A few marginal closed tears in Volume II. Minor marginal dampstaining to
final few leaves of Volume III. Light expert restoration to extremities, Volume II joints expertly repaired.
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“The Most Valuable Of All The Contemporary
Accounts”: Clarendon’s History Of The Civil Wars
In England, 1702
61. CLARENDON, Earl of [HYDE, Edward]. The History of
the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford, 1702-07.
Three volumes. Tall folio, contemporary full paneled brown
calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down. $6000.
Mixed first (Volumes I & III) and third (Volume II) editions of
this “broad and lucid” history of the “Puritan Revolution,”
with engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title-page in
each volume.
“One of the most important sources for our understanding of
the events which changed the course of British history… [It]
chronicles in absorbing detail the intrigues and upheavals, the
alliances and confrontations, the triumphs and the tragedies,
of the 1640s and 1650s. In elegant and vital prose it brings to
life the personalities who shaped the era, and the principles for
which a nation was divided” (Oxford University Press).
Armorial bookplate. Text quite clean, with only faint dampstain to fore-edge margins. Beautiful contemporary calf-gilt
with expert restoration.
“This Admirable Translation Far Exceeds All Preceding
Ones”: Whiston’s 1737 English Translation Of Josephus
62. (CLASSICS) JOSEPHUS, Flavius. The Genuine Works of
Flavius Josephus. London, 1737. Thick folio, period-style full
brown calf gilt. $4200.
First edition of William Whiston’s English translation from
Havercamp’s 1726 Greek and Latin texts of Josephus,
illustrated with two large engraved folding plates: “Map of
Palestine” and “Descriptions of [Whiston’s] Models of the
Tabernacle of Moses.” Bound in full calf-gilt.
A controversial figure, Josephus remains undeniably important
in history, literature and the arts. His historical works are “among
the most valuable sources for the study of early Judaism and early
Christianity” (Columbia University Press). “Without [these
writings] little would have been known of the history of the
Second Temple nor would it have been possible to write such a
history… In point of literary talent Josephus ranks among the
leading writers in world literature” (Encyclopedia Judaica). This
English translation “far exceeds all preceding ones, and has never been equaled by any subsequent attempt of this kind”
(Lowndes, 1235). Text generally clean, with only occasional stray spots of foxing, faint dampstaining to first and last few
leaves only, small archival tape repairs to folds of plates. A near-fine copy.

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“The Oldest Extant Document Of Greek Philosophy”:
First English Translations Of Plato’s Apology And Phaedo, 1675
63. (CLASSICS) PLATO. Plato His Apology of Socrates and Phaedo or Dialogue Concerning the Immortality of Mans
Soul. London, 1675. Small octavo, late 18th-century full tree calf. $17,800.
First edition in English of Plato’s defense of Socrates and his record of Socrates’ prison-cell discourse on the immortality
of the soul, with engraved frontispiece of Socrates taking the cup.
“That Plato should be the first of all the ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was
inevitable… The germs of all ideas can be found in Plato… By 15th-century standards, Plato was a best-seller” (PMM 27).
During Socrates’ imprisonment, Plato came to his defense, attended to him in his cell, and was present for his discussion on
the immortality of the soul, which Plato later committed to writing as the Phaedo. This is the first appearance in English of
both Plato’s Apology of Socrates and his Pheado, translated from the original Greek by Walter Charleton, whose original
manuscripts, “Socrates Triumphant, or Plato’s Apology for Socrates” (1675) and “Immortality of the Human Soul” (1657)
are preserved in the British Library (DNB). The Apology, the oldest extant document of Greek philosophy, is “in the widest
sense an example of forensic oratory” (Dunkle) and is “still about the best introduction to Western philosophy that there is”
(Ross, Commentary). In Phaedo, Plato records Socrates’ suggestion that the cognitive soul may enter the world intact and
that the life principle of the soul cannot wear out. The present first edition of two of Plato’s authentic dialogues is preceded
only by the pseudo-Platonic Axiochus translated by Spenser (printed in 1592 and known by a unique copy only) and a
selection of Plato’s dialogues printed for school use in 1673. The identity of the translator was revealed when a copy was
found in John Evelyn’s library presented to him by the translator, William Charleton. This is the first English translation
ever printed of authentic dialogues of Plato (Jayne, 139). Title page printed in red and black. Wing P2405. Interior fine.
Lovely 18th-century tree calf with joint and spine ends expertly restored. A fine copy.
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“Livy Gave Rome Her Epic”:
1659 Edition In English Of Livy’s History Of Rome,
Translated By Philemon Holland
64. (CLASSICS) LIVY. The Romane Historie.
London, 1659. Thick folio, contemporary full brown
calf rebacked. $3200.
Second edition of Philemon Holland’s English translation
of Livy’s monumental history of Rome.
Titus Livius began his great history between 27 and 25 B.C.,
completing it only shortly before his death in 17 A.D. Livy’s
genius lay in lively storytelling rather than critical history,
and his aim in the Romane Historie was to rekindle a spirit
of patriotism in his countrymen by recounting the heroic
deeds of their ancestors. “Livy’s heroes were to revive again
and again—in 18th-century Virginia and in Revolutionary
Paris. There are still statues in the public parks of the
founders of the American and French Republics clad in the
togas or the armor of Cincinnatus or Horatius… Livy, not
Virgil, gave Rome her epic” (Rexroth, 92-93). “This was the
first of that stately array of folio translations of the classics
which issued from the pens of the ‘translator generall in his age’” (Pforzheimer 495). Holland’s esteemed translation, the
first complete English translation, was first published in 1600. With indices. Bookseller ticket; library stamp on final leaf.
Occasional marginal pencil annotations. Expert paper repairs to reinforced title-page. Closed tear to leaf Zz6, affecting
text but not readability. Interior generally clean. Expert restoration to corners of contemporary calf covers. An excellent
copy. Scarce.
“Overflowed With Anecdotes Of Lust, Violence, And Idiosyncrasy”:
1606 First Edition In English Of Suetonius’ Historie Of Twelve Caesars
65. (CLASSICS) SUETONIUS. The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome.
London, 1606. Tall quarto, modern half russet morocco. $6200.
First edition in English of Suetonius’ dramatic biographies of the Caesars, the important
Holland translation.
“De Vita Caesarum, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, is largely responsible for that vivid
picture of Roman society and its leaders, morally and politically decadent, that dominated
historical thought until modified in modern times… [it is] exciting reading” (Britannica).
“Classical ‘lives’ became prototypes for later writings about individuals. A rival for Plutarch
was Suetonius (flourished A.D. 112-121), whose Lives of the Caesars overflowed with
anecdotes of lust, violence, and idiosyncrasy” (Boorstin, The Creators, 586). With woodcut
initials and elaborate woodcut chapter headpieces incorporating medallion portraits. STC
23424, with Holland’s name on the title-page. Brueggemann, 703. Quire K pages bound out of order. Occasional marginal
notes in an early hand. Scattered light foxing to interior, moreso to preliminary and concluding leaves. Bottom half of leaf
B2 removed with no loss of index text (verso blank). A few open tears not affecting text. Some inoffensive marginal
embrowning and some damp staining to bottom margin. A very good copy of a scarce translation.

“A Profound Influence On Renaissance Thinking”:
1603 First Edition In English Of Plutarch’s Morals
66. (CLASSICS) PLUTARCH. The Philosophie; commonlie called, The
Morals. London, 1603. Thick folio, contemporary three-quarter
brown calf rebacked. $11,000.
First edition in English of Plutarch’s complete Moralia, containing
all of the famous philosopher’s surviving writings on ethical,
religious, physical, political and literary topics.
The ideas Plutarch expressed in the Morals exerted a profound
influence on Renaissance thinking. They revived the rational
moral philosophy of the ancients while providing an indispensable
contemporary account of Greek political life. This important first
English language edition, “a most accurate translation” by
Holland, contains over 70 essays, primarily in dialogue form
(Lowndes, 1891). This translation greatly influenced the 1612
edition of Bacon’s Essays, which contain counsels on public
morality and private virtue recognizably derived from Plutarch.
Most of Holland’s translations were issued in heavy folios such as this, leading Pope to describe the “groaning shelves”
bending under the weight of Holland’s works. Owner signature, scattered marginalia. Bookseller’s small ticket. Pencil
bibliographic notation to rear pastedown. Occasional minor marginal closed tears. Expected age-wear to 18th-century
marbled boards. A near-fine copy.
Important 1676 Expanded Edition Of North’s Translation
Of Plutarch’s Lives, “Shakespeare’s Storehouse Of
Classical Learning”
67. (CLASSICS) PLUTARCH. Lives Of The Noble Grecians and
Romans… Further added, The Lives of Several Eminent Persons.
London, 1676. Thick folio, late 18th-century full brown paneled calf gilt
rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down. $4200.
Expanded and highly desirable sixth edition of the first English
translation, with 25 “Eminent Persons of Ancient and latter times” by
Thevet—five of which are new to this edition, including Christopher
Columbus and Hernando Cortés.
The first edition of North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives, the first into
English, was published in 1579. “The Lives are works of great learning
and research. The influence of Plutarch’s method has been constantly
manifest in the biographies of the modern great and in the authors who
have been inspired by it. (PMM 48). “It is written throughout in
admirably vivid and robust prose. But it is as Shakespeare’s storehouse of classical learning that it presents itself in its most
interesting aspect. To it (it is not too much to say) we owe the existence of the plays of Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony
and Cleopatra, while A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles, and Timon of Athens are all indebted to it” (DNB). With
woodcut medallion portraits within ornamental borders throughout Plutarch’s Lives and copper-engraved portraits
throughout Thevet’s additional Lives at the end. See PMM 48. Early owner signature; occasional marginal annotations.
Expert paper repairs to a few leaves. Age-wear to handsome 18th-century calf. An excellent copy.
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“The Horror! The Horror!”: First Issue Of Conrad’s Youth,
Containing The First Book Appearance Of
“Heart Of Darkness”
68. CONRAD, Joseph. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories.
Edinburgh and London, 1902. Octavo, original green cloth, custom
clamshell box. $5800.
First edition, first issue, containing the first appearance in book form of
Heart of Darkness—“one of the most powerful short novels in the English
language” (Farrow, 14).
“Youth” and “Heart of Darkness” were the first of Conrad’s stories to
attract wider attention. “A vast body of critical commentary has mined
the dense richness and consciously paradoxical quality of this seminal
modernist work, with its modern version of a Dantean journey into the
Inferno, its Faustian figure of Kurtz provoking ambivalently fascinated
horror… The influence of Heart of Darkness can be traced in writers as
diverse as T.S. Eliot, Andre Gide, H.G. Wells, [Chinua] Achebe, William Golding, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, and
George Steiner, while Francis Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now taps some of its rich imaginative possibilities by transposing
it to the Vietnam War” (Stringer, 292). First issue, with thirty-two pages of publisher’s advertisements dated “10/02.” Wise
10. Original cloth bright and fresh. Only light toning to spine. Text fine. Extremely good condition.
First Edition Of Custer’s Classic Account
69. CUSTER, George A. My Life on the Plains. New York, 1874.
Octavo, original gilt-stamped russet cloth. $4500.
First edition of this scarce classic of western Americana, illustrated
with eight full-page wood-engravings by A. Roberts, including a
portrait of Custer and four portraits of chiefs.
Originally serialized in Galaxy magazine between 1872-74, Custer’s
fascinating autobiography of life as a cavalryman fighting Native
American tribes on the plains appeared in book form only two
years before his last stand at Little Bighorn. Introduced by his
sketch of the landscape and speculations on the history and
nature of the “Indian,” Custer’s narrative begins with the
expedition of Major-General Hancock in the spring of 1867
and ends with the Washita campaign on the frontiers of Kansas.
Copies also found in green, blue and maroon cloth. Howes C981.
Graff 961. Rader 1011. Contemporary pencil gift inscription. Faint
evidence of bookplate removal, open tear to marginal corners of
pages 45 to 48, light scattered soiling to text, only slight soiling and a bit
of wear to extremities of cloth. Extremely good.

“One Of The Most Important Books Of Our Generation”:
40th Anniversary Edition Of Hayek’s The Road To Serfdom,
One Of Only 200 Copies Elaborately Bound In Full
Morocco-Gilt And Signed By Friedrich Hayek
70. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) HAYEK, Friedrich A. The Road to
Serfdom. Chicago, 1984. Octavo, original brown morocco gilt. $4600.
Limited Special 40th Anniversary Signed Edition of Hayek’s classic defense
of free enterprise, “a major event in the intellectual history of the United
States,” one of only 200 copies exquisitely bound in full morocco-gilt and
signed by Friedrich Hayek.
“Hayek has written one of the most important books of our generation.
It restates for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the
power and rigor of reasoning that John Stuart Mill stated… in his great
essay, ‘On Liberty’” (Hazlitt, 82).
Hayek’s analysis of the link between
planning and totalitarianism and his moral defense of capitalism caused a
sensation when it was published. Because of its enduring influence, The Road to
Serfdom is considered “a major event in the intellectual history of the United
States” (Gottfried, 10). The first edition was published in London in 1944. A
beautiful signed copy in fine condition.
The Most Influential Economic Treatise Of
The 20th Century
71. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) KEYNES, John Maynard. The General
Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London, 1936. Octavo,
original blue-green cloth, dust jacket. $9000.
First edition of Keynes’ last major work, the most influential
economic treatise of the 20th century, in scarce original dust
jacket.
The General Theory ranks with the Wealth of Nations as an
intellectual event and with Malthus’ Essay on Population as a
guide to public policy. “The world-wide slump after 1929
prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new
methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First
in A Treatise on Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory,
he subjected the definitions and theories of the classical school
of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them
seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM 423). Bookplate.
Book with pinpoint foxing to edges of text block, exceptionally
nice price-clipped dust jacket with very minor edge-wear and
toning to extremities. A handsome, nearly fine copy. Scarce.
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“Many Shall Be Restored That Are Now Fallen And Many Shall Fall That Are Now In Honor”:
First Edition Of Graham And Dodd’s Classic, 1934
72. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) GRAHAM, Benjamin and DODD, David L. Security Analysis. New York, 1934.
Octavo, original red cloth, custom clamshell box. $26,500.
Extremely rare first edition, first printing, of Graham’s seminal work, considered the Bible of modern financial
analysis.
Few published works of the 20th century have exerted the influence or had as devoted a following as Security Analysis.
Prior to its publication, investors often relied on intuition or the character of a business owner to make their decisions.
Writing in the wake of the catastrophic stock market crash, Graham and Dodd designed “value-oriented investment,”
a disciplined, realistic approach to constructing a solid financial portfolio. Popular when it was published, it continues
to shape the strategies and the training of financiers. The original 1934 work is extremely scarce; it is reported that even
the publishers do not have a first printing in their archives. Copies of the first edition are known to appear both in black
cloth binding, with “Whittlesey House—McGraw Hill” in gilt at the foot of the spine, and in red cloth binding, with
“McGraw—Hill Book Company” in gilt at the foot of the spine, as with the present copy. No priority of issue has been
established; because the book is of exceeding rarity, either binding is equally desirable. Stated “First Edition” on title
page, with no mention of printing on copyright page. Without exceptionally rare dust jacket. Contemporary owner
signature. Interior fine, very light rubbing to cloth extremities, very light toning to spine. An about-fine copy.

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“No One Has Ever Become Poor Reading Graham” (Warren Buffett):
First Edition Of The Intelligent Investor
73. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) GRAHAM, Benjamin. The Intelligent Investor. New York, 1949. Octavo,
original blue cloth, dust jacket. $20,000.
First edition of Graham’s classic work.
After the overwhelming success of his groundbreaking work, Security Analysis, in 1949 Benjamin Graham,
“motivated by the need for consumer education and protection… produced a version of his investment text designed
for the individual investor. Such a reader was likely to be put off by the size and depth of Security Analysis… The
Intelligent Investor was a hit. A book of less than half the size of Security Analysis, nevertheless it was written with
the same clarity and integrity. In it, Graham clearly distinguished between investing and speculating. An investment,
he explained, was based on incisive, quantitative analysis, while speculation depends on whim and guesswork…
Graham intended the book for the man on Main Street, but as with his earlier book, Wall Street professionals found
it indispensable. Because it was so widely read, the book brought greater visibility, respect and prestige to the field
of security analysis” (Lowe, 129-30). “Benjamin Graham was a seminal figure on Wall Street and is widely
acknowledged to be the father of modern security analysis… Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor are still
considered the ‘bibles’ for both individual investors and Wall Street professionals” (The Buffer Stock Project). Firstissue
dust jacket, with $3.50 price and “Editor of Barron’s” on front flap. Book fine, scarce dust jacket exceptionally
good with only a bit of creasing, shallow chipping to spine ends. A handsome copy in near-fine condition.
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“The First And Greatest Classic Of Modern Economic Thought”:
Important First Octavo Edition Of Smith’s Wealth Of Nations, 1784,
The First Edition To Incorporate Significant Additions And Revisions By Smith
74. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
London, 1784. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf gilt sympathetically rebacked. $12,500.
First octavo edition (third edition overall) of Smith’s landmark work on the individual’s right to the free exercise of
economic activity, “the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (PMM 221). A beautiful copy in
contemporary tree calf of the first edition to incorporate significant additions and revisions by Smith.
Smith’s Wealth of Nations was an immediate success when first published, and four additional editions came out during
Smith’s lifetime. The 1776 first edition is exceptionally rare. “The tone of irreverent skepticism with which it describes the
motives of men and governments has influenced the style of economic discourse to the present day… The historical
importance of the Wealth of Nations is surpassed by no other economic book… Smith, for the first time, put together the
body of economic knowledge that can still be recognized as an early form of what today may be called mainstream
economics… There is little in Jean-Baptiste Say, Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill that is not, more or
less directly, an elaboration of Adam Smith” (Niehans, A History of Economic Theory, 62-72). This is the first edition to
incorporate many of his significant additions, revisions and corrections, together with an extensive index. It was the last
revision Smith made. Goldsmith 12554. Kress B789. Rothschild 1901. Owner signatures to title pages. Text generally fresh
and fine. A beautiful copy.

Boldly Inscribed By Disney
75. (DISNEY, Walt) FEILD, Robert D. The Art of Walt
Disney. London and Glasgow, 1947. Thick folio, original
cream cloth, dust jacket. $8500.
Later English edition of this early evaluation of Disney’s art
and “culture”—“presumed to lie outside the range of
legitimate art criticism”—with 237 images on 59 plates
(many in color) showing the development of Disney’s
technique and style, inscribed in sepia conté crayon: “To Bob
Smith, All best wishes. Walt Disney.”
Art critic Robert Feild’s purpose in writing this book
was “to present the art of Walt Disney as a growing
force in our midst.” Formal criticism of cartoon art
was so entirely new at the time that “we have no
standards by which to judge the art of today, no
terminology with which to discuss, for instance, the
work of a man like Walt Disney… How is one to write
about Walt Disney if his art, which is that of the
Animated Sound Picture, is to most people still a
mystery while the artist himself is an enigma invariably associated with a Mouse?” First published in New York in 1942.
The recipient of this copy, Robert Smith, was primarily a layout artist who had freelanced for Disney since the 1950s, and
whose later work included the 1988 Disney feature film Oliver & Company, as well as the 1990 sequel The Rescuers Down
Under. His last assignment for Disney Studios was as character designer and visual developer for The Lion King. Inscription
bold and clear. Small chip to front free endpaper, some rubbing and toning to original cloth, lovely price-clipped dust jacket
with only most minor wear. An about-fine copy.
“In This Book He Is Unsurpassable”: First Edition Of
Faulkner’s The Hamlet, A Beautiful Copy
76. FAULKNER, William. The Hamlet. New York, 1940. Octavo, original
black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $4800.
First trade edition of Faulkner’s first novel in the acclaimed Snopes trilogy,
in a custom clamshell box. A beautiful copy.
The Hamlet was the only novel Faulkner published between Absalom,
Absalom! (1936) and Knight’s Gambit (1949). The critical response was very
positive: Malcolm Cowley considered it Faulkner’s best work since
Sanctuary, while The New York Times hailed it as “nothing short of
superb—subtle and yet direct, humorous, homely, brilliantly evocative of a
decaying South in the generation after the Civil War… In this book he is
unsurpassable.” Preceded by the signed limited edition of only 250 copies.
Petersen A.221b. Brodsky 213. Bruccoli & Clark I:123. A fine copy in an
exceptionally bright fine dust jacket.
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First Edition Of Eliot’s The Waste Land
77. ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. New York, 1922. Octavo, original flexible
black cloth, custom clamshell box. $12,000.
First edition of one of the most important poems of the 20th century,
one of only 1000 copies. One of the first 500 copies printed, in the
earliest binding.
Perhaps the greatest and most important poetic work of the 20th
century, Eliot’s Waste Land “came as a profound shock… Within less
than a decade, The Waste Land had attained a kind of eminence from
which it has never been dislodged” (Ackroyd, 127-28). “‘Waste Land is, I
think, the justification of the modern experiment since 1900’ (Pound)”
(Connolly, 30b). The first edition consisted of 1000 copies: approximately
the first 500 copies were bound in flexible black cloth with the copy
number on the limitation page stamped in type 5mm high; the later
copies were bound in stiff black cloth with the copy number 2mm high.
In addition, early in the printing a letter dropped out of the text (the “a”
in “mountain” on page 41, line 339). Although each copy of the first edition is numbered, this does not reflect the order in
which the copies were printed. This copy (number 423 of 1000 copies) has the earliest binding and limitation page and the
letter “a” has been dropped, suggesting it was printed at the end of the first 500 copies, before the binding was changed.
Without exceedingly rare original dust jacket. Gallup A6a. Sackton A6a.3-4. Contemporary gift inscription. Owner
signature. Magazine photograph clipping of Eliot tipped onto front pastedown endpaper. Bookseller ticket. Faint pencil
marginal annotations. Interior fine, light toning to cloth spine. A near-fine copy of a literary landmark.
“So We Beat On, Boats Against The Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past”:
First Edition Of The Great Gatsby
78. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, 1925. Octavo,
original green cloth, custom clamshell box. $4600.
First edition, first issue, of this landmark of 20th-century fiction.
Noted critic Cyril Connolly called Gatsby one of the half dozen best
American novels: “Gatsby remains a prose poem of delight and sadness
which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as
Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it” (Modern
Movement 48). First printing, with “sick in tired” on page 205 and all other
first-issue points. With front flap of the extremely rare original dust jacket
laid in. Bruccoli A11.1.a. A bit of occasional scattered light foxing to interior,
only minor rubbing to fore-edge of cloth extremities. Near-fine condition.

“Most Important Source On The Astor Adventure”:
First Edition In English Of Franchere’s Classic Of
The Northwest Fur Trade
79. FRANCHERE, Gabriel. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest
Coast of America in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First
American Settlement on the Pacific. New York, 1854. Small octavo,
original blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. $2500.
First edition in English, illustrated with three plates and enlarged
from the original French edition.
First published in French in 1820, Franchere’s work was “the first
printed account in book form of John Jacob Astor’s attempt to establish
the Pacific Fur Company post at the mouth of the Columbia River. It
is also the most informative single record of affairs at Fort Astor” (Lilly
Library, Pacific Northwest 1542-1846: 37). Franchere’s party was the
first to use the South Pass, which was to become the main pass over the northern Rockies.
The narrative also includes the first printed account of the overland journey back from Oregon to the east through
Canada. Franchere kept a diary, from which he prepared a manuscript for publication. “To this translation of the original
work, the author contributed new material in the form of a Preface to the Second Edition, an additional chapter in which
he alludes to the many changes that had occurred to the scenes which he had long ago visited and described, and an
Appendix in which he gives an account of some of the persons who left Astoria before and after its transfer to the British”
(Graff 1400). Prepared in part to correct some aspects of Washington Irving’s account of the Astorians. With publisher’s
advertisements. Streeter 3691. Interior clean with sharp, clear plates, only light edge-wear to spine extremities of original
cloth, gilt bright. A near-fine copy, scarce in this condition.
“Something There Is That Doesn’t Love A Wall…”:
First Issue Of Frost’s North Of Boston
80. FROST, Robert. North of Boston. London, 1914. Octavo, original olive
cloth, custom clamshell box. $3800.
First edition of Frost’s second published book. One of only 350 copies in firstissue
binding.
This volume represents a pinnacle of Frost’s career, containing such classic
poems as “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Home Burial,” and
“The Wood-pile.” Of it, Frost wrote, “I had some character strokes I had to get
in somewhere and I chose a sort of eclogue form for them. Rather I dropped into
that form. And I dropped to an everyday level of diction that even Wordsworth
kept above… I think I have made poetry. The language is appropriate to the
virtues I celebrate” (Thompson 428). First issue, binding A, in coarse olive-green
cloth with fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Of the approximately 1000 copies of North of Boston printed, only about 350
appeared in the rare first-issue binding. No dust jacket was issued with North of Boston. Crane A3. Bookplate of author and
journalist Francis Warrington Dawson. An exceptionally handsome copy in fine condition of one of Frost’s rarest books.
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Important 1818 Quarto Edition Of Franklin’s
Writings, Including The First Appearance Of A
Major Part Of His Autobiography, As He Wrote It—
“The First Great American Classic”
81. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Memoirs of the Life and Writings
of Benjamin Franklin. London, 1817-18. Three volumes. Quarto,
contemporary three quarter brown calf gilt. $4500.
First edition “from the original manuscripts” of Franklin’s
influential Autobiography—the first major American literary
expression of the “self-made man” ideal so central to the nation’s
identity—as well as the first appearance in any form of its third
part, together with the first edition of Franklin’s personal
correspondence; the quarto edition, illustrated with engraved
frontispiece portrait, seven plates (one folding) and a facsimile
letter. An excellent copy in contemporary calf and boards.
When Benjamin Franklin died, the bulk of his papers passed to his grandson, William Temple Franklin. Temple Franklin
began preparing an edition of his grandfather’s works, but could secure no publisher for the project. In the meantime, the
first two parts (of four) of Franklin’s Autobiography—“the first great American classic” (Winterich, 89)—appeared in
French (1791, 1798); all early English editions re-translated those French editions. In 1818, this edition appeared, marking
the first appearance of any part of the Autobiography in the original English, as written by Franklin, as well as the first
appearance in any form of the work’s third and largest part (which covers the years 1731-57). Temple Franklin’s continuation
through 1790 “is [also] of great value” (Ford 561). Private Correspondence (1817) “forms Volume III of Temple Franklin’s
edition… but copies were separately sold; and, owing to the delay in the publication of the first volume of that work, this
was the first issued” (Ford 555). Sabin 25545. Old, faint owner signature to title pages. Occasional pencil marginalia. Some
marginal dampstaining to first few gatherings of Volume I. In Volume III, pages xiii-xiv and xv-xvi misbound, both present.
Expert restoration to contemporary calf.
“And A Poet Said, Speak To Us Of Beauty”:
The Prophet, Signed By Kahlil Gibran
82. GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Prophet. New York, 1930. 12mo, original full
gilt-stamped black morocco, custom clamshell box. $2800.
Later edition of Gibran’s English masterwork, signed by Gibran.
First published in 1923, Gibran’s lyrical masterpiece, one of the most
influential works of the 20th century, was one of the first books he wrote
in English. It enjoyed a tremendous resurgence at the height of the
counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s, ranking alongside The
Catcher in the Rye and Catch-22 as cornerstones of the movement.
Illustrated with 12 collotype plates by Gibran. With frontispiece portrait
of gibran. This is the seventh printing of the “Pocket edition” of Gibran’s
famous work. Without scarce original dust jacket. Bookplates. Owner
stamp of poet David Middleton. Light wear to spine ends and corners, gilt
bright. A near-fine signed copy.

g e o r g e m a c d o n a l d f r a s e r
Flashman To The Rescue! First Editions Of All 12 Flashman Novels,
With Flashman Inscribed By George MacDonald Fraser
83. FRASER, George MacDonald. Complete Flashman Series. London, 1969-2005. 12 volumes. Octavo, original paper
boards, dust jackets. $9500.
Complete set of first editions of the 12 novels in Fraser’s popular Flashman series, with the first novel, 1969’s Flashman,
inscribed: “To Jerry, all good wishes, George M. Fraser.”
Harry Flashman is expelled from Rugby and decides to join the British Army—to the making of his reputation. Flashman
is a total cad, a coward, a cardsharp, a spendthrift, a drunk. He is also hilariously amusing and disturbingly charming.
The Flashman novels follow him through the high points in British history: the Afghan rebellion of 1842, the rise of
Bismarck, subterfuge in Borneo and Madagascar, the first Sikh War, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the Teiping
Rebellion, plus a few years in America escaping his creditors and his wife. Kingsley Amis noted, “Whether Flashman goes
a-rogering in Timbuktu or flees headlong down the Amazon pursued by native tribesmen with poisoned darts, I will
follow him in the confident expectation of being uninterruptedly entertained… George MacDonald Fraser is a marvelous
reporter and a first-rate historical novelist.” Includes Flashman (1969), Royal Flash (1970), Flash for Freedom! (1971),
Flashman at the Charge (1973), Flashman in the Great Game (1975), Flashman’s Lady (1977), Flashman and the Redskins
(1982), Flashman and the Dragon (1985), Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990), Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
(1994), Flashman and the Tiger (1999) and Flashman on the March (2005). Flashman and the Tiger first appeared in serial
form in the Daily Express, September 29 to October 3, 1975. Volumes I-VIII and XII have cartographic endpapers; dust
jackets for the first nine novels feature the acclaimed wrap-around artwork of Arthur Barbosa. All volumes in near-fine
to fine condition. Scarce inscribed and in the complete series.
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“…A Sense Of Being Self-Prophetic Master Of The Universe”:
Kaddish, Presentation Association Copy Inscribed By Ginsberg
84. GINSBERG, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems,
1958-1960. San Francisco, 1961. Small octavo, original
black and white paper wrappers. $2800.
First edition, first printing, of this significant collection of
poems—including the title piece, part lamentation for his
mother, part protest of American society—presentation/
association copy inscribed by the poet to his friend, editor
William Targ: “Allen Ginsberg for Roslyn & Bill Targ, Dec.
15, 1975.”
After Howl (1956) won Ginsberg widespread attention,
Kaddish and Other Poems “confirmed his reputation as a
poet of idiosyncratic accomplishment and direct emotional
appeal. Taking its title from the Jewish form of prayer for the dead, the title poem mourns and celebrates Ginsberg’s
mother; the political perspective established by treatment of her socialist convictions provides the basis for the poem’s
continuation of his uncompromising critique of American society” (Stringer, 248-49). This first printing consisted of
2500 copies; with no printer’s information on page 100 and with 7-line blurb on rear wrapper Morgan. A4a1.1. Bill Targ
was a notable publisher and bibliophile; he was editor-in-chief at Putnam’s at the time this book was inscribed to him.
In later years, he ran his own private press, Targ Editions. Only light edge-wear and slightest soiling. A near-fine
inscribed copy with an exceptional association.
“Glows With The Fire Of A Suppressed, Secret,
Feverish Excitement”: First Edition Of Hawthorne’s
Scarlet Letter In Original Cloth
85. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, a Romance.
Boston, 1850. Octavo, original blind-tooled brown cloth, custom threequarter
calf clamshell box. $15,000.
First edition of Hawthorne’s American classic, one of only 2500 copies
printed.
“Since 1837, when he had written [the short story] ‘Endicott and the Red
Cross,’ he had often been tormented by a symbol—a scarlet ‘A,’ worn by
an adultress in that tale—which had, at last, worked its way into a fulllength
book” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 349). The first edition of The Scarlet
Letter sold out in ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his
fortune and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the
appearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley et al., 652). The novel “glows with the fire of a suppressed, secret, feverish
excitement… a fire that neither wanes nor lessens, but keeps at its original scorching heat for years” (Allibone I:805). First
edition, Clark’s typesetting states x2 and a2, no priority established. With the four pages of publisher’s advertisements
inserted between the front endpapers. Clark A16.1. BAL 7600. Very light occasional soiling to generally clean text, light
damp staining to bottom margin of pages 114-130, most minute wear to spine ends, unrestored cloth exceptionally clean,
gilt fine and bright. A lovely unrestored copy.

First Edition Of The Premiere Volume Of The Bauhaus
School, With Seminal Works By Gropius, Kandinsky,
Moholy-Nagy, Klee And Others: “The Most Significant
Art-Theoretical Writings Of The Period”
86. GROPIUS, Walter. Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923.
München, 1923. Square quarto, original red- and blue-stamped black
paper boards respined, custom clamshell box. $9000.
First edition of the premiere volume of the Bauhaus School,
“invaluable among the literature of the period” in the first
publication of seminal essays by Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky,
Klee, Grunow and Schlemmer, and over 160 full-page halftones and
lithographs, many in color.
This major inaugural volume of the
Weimar Bauhaus School appeared in the summer of 1923 to document the school’s first major
exhibit. In its pages are “the most significant art-theoretical writings of the period” and an
assemblage of over 160 plates, many in color (Ruhrberg, 178). Especially notable herein is the
first publication of seminal essays by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and prominent artists
László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, among others. The lead essay, Gropius’
“Idee und Aufbau des Staatlichen Bauhauses” (Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus), is
“invaluable among the literature of the period… giving an extended survey of his opinions
just at the time when he, and the Bauhaus, were entering their period of greatest mastery”
(Banham, 279). Issued by the school’s own publishing house, the book features a cover design
by Herbert Bayer and is divided into three sections: I. School, II. Building, III. Independent
Pictorial and Sculptural Work. Lettering printed in black and red; text in German. As issued
without dust jacket. Text and plates generally fresh and bright, endpapers and title page with a
bit of expert restoration. A beautiful copy. Very scarce.
“Passion. Duels. Miracles. Giants. True love”:
First Edition Of The Princess Bride, Inscribed By The Author
87. GOLDMAN, William. The Princess Bride. New York, 1973. Octavo,
original gray cloth, dust jacket. $3200.
First edition of Goldman’s most popular book, inscribed: “8
Feb 83. For N——-. Best wishes. William Goldman.”
Goldman satirizes familiar fairy tale formula—“Fighting…
Revenge… Beasts of All Natures and Descriptions”—in this
book-within-a-book, a unique blend of slapstick comedy and
wistful sentiment. Goldman also wrote the popular 1987
screen adaptation directed by Rob Reiner. Fantasy and Horror
7-139. Fine condition.
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The publication of Bound for Glory and America’s entry into World War II marked the beginning of a
tumultuous and sometimes tragic period in folk-singer Woody Guthrie’s life. By 1947, he had served in
two branches of the Armed forces, divorced his first wife, married his second and lost his young daughter
to a freak electrical fire. He had also started his legendary series of recordings with Moe Asch and begun
to show the first signs of Huntington’s, the disease that would take his life.
Yet, through it all, Guthrie had love—love of writing and love of women. In 1945, while stationed in
Illinois, Guthrie began a correspondence with a young fan named Charlotte Strauss, attempting to fend
off the crippling loneliness that plagued him. Their epistolary affair lasted for years, a relationship kept
separate from Guthrie’s divorce and remarriage. The eloquent, rambling letters that resulted were
characterized as much by their brilliance as by their occasional lapses into stream-of-consciousness
style. Over time, Strauss was entrusted with Guthrie’s book, American Folksong, his album, Struggle,
and his most candid thoughts on subjects ranging from love and marriage to poverty and hunger.
Individually, each item presented here provides a glimpse into the mind of perhaps the greatest folk
musician American has ever known. Taken together, the items constitute nothing less than an archive
of Guthrie’s hidden hopes and private fears.
“Your Letter About My Book (Bound For Glory) Got Down Here Today… You Have Taken
Me Back Over My Old Tracks”: Important 1945 Autograph Letter Signed By Guthrie,
The First In His Long And Notable Correspondence With Charlotte Strauss,
Discussing Bound For Glory
88. GUTHRIE, Woody. Autograph letter signed. Scott Field, Illinois, October
29, 1945. Six pages on three sheets of lined paper, measuring 8 by 10-1/2 inches,
neat cursive on recto and verso, bound with single staple at upper corner. $11,800.
Original signed autograph letter, this six-page letter written entirely in Woody
Guthrie’s penciled cursive, twice signed by him and dated October 29th, 1945,
the first in his largely unpublicized correspondence with Charlotte Strauss. Here
Guthrie talks of the 1200-page manuscript for Bound for Glory that was “cut
down to four hundred and forty eight pages,” and slyly confesses that “I like to
hear people talk about me and my works.”
In this October letter, his first to Strauss, Guthrie tells her that “your letter about
my book (Bound for Glory) got down here today. Marjorie read it [the letter] at
home and then mailed it on… Your letter gets me to feel just like my book made
you feel… You have taken me back over my old tracks again and showed me
twelve thousand more stories and places to write about… You won’t feel bad if I
tell you plain that I like to hear people talk about me and my works.” Guthrie
talks of submitting a 1200-page manuscript to his Bound for Glory publisher,
which “they cut down to four hundred and forty eight pages,” and asks for “permission to
publish all or any part of your letter”—a request she seems to have resisted in their continuing
and intimate correspondence. New Grove, 856. Text fresh and clean, faint creases at foldlines.
A highly desirable letter in about-fine condition.

“th i s is me s t r u g g l i n g”
Exceptional And Rare Presentation/Association Copy Of Guthrie’s Struggle,
The Famous 1945 Asch Recordings Of Guthrie’s Powerful Ballads,
Wonderfully Inscribed Within Weeks Of The Album’s Release,
With Additional Extraordinary Five-Page Related Letter Describing And Presenting The Album
89. GUTHRIE, Woody. LP album inscribed. “Documentary #1 Struggle.” WITH: Autograph letter signed. New
York, 1945. Oblong quarto, original half blue cloth, illustrated front board, three interior paper sleeves housing three 78 rpm
discs. WITH: Five pages on three sheets of lined notebook paper, measuring 8 by 10-1/2 inches, neat cursive on recto and
verso (blank final page), bound with single staple at upper corner. $25,000.
Original album of three 78 rpm discs, this
exceptional association copy inscribed on the
sleeve of the first disc to Charlotte Strauss:
“To Charlotte, Christmas and New Year ’46,
Woody, Marjorie, Cathy. This is me
struggling.” With an original signed five-page
autograph letter, written entirely in Woody
Guthrie’s neat penciled cursive, twice signed
by him and dated “Dec. 6, 1945,” celebrating
the release of the album and his recent
marriage to Marjorie Mazia.
This copy was inscribed by Guthrie to Strauss
not long after its release. Struggle was one of
the first albums produced after Guthrie began
recording for renowned producer Moe Asch,
and contains some of his most powerful work.
Near the album’s release, Guthrie married
Marjorie Mazia, while continuing his
correspondence with Strauss. The wonderfully poetic letter came within weeks of Guthrie’s marriage (following a romance
he describes as “the worst kind of sin you ever heard of till… we got the papers and now our sins are all legal and honest”).
Guthrie also proudly writes of “a new album of my own [that] came out a couple of weeks back… the songs are based mainly
on actual scenes out of our struggle to build on trade unions.” Guthrie talks of asking Asch to send a copy as “my present to
you in partial return for all of your good letters and pieces,” but it would be Guthrie who sent her the album. Though he
writes, “they’ve got me out here on the desert now to keep these mountains company all around. A lonesome stretch of
the road for some folks,” Guthrie’s flirtatiousness and gentle counsel for Strauss shines with his happiness at the hope of
returning to his “singing and dancing daughter Cathy, who is 3 years old and knows all of our records by heart.” Only a year
later Cathy’s tragic death in a fire would devastate the Guthries. This letter, however, written right beforehand, speaks to
Guthrie’s interest in worker’s rights, in the rhythm of the desert, and in Charlotte and her poetry. He writes, “I love the fact
that you do take long walks with your poems to hear your blood pound and see your feet walk. You own the thing you see
from a stick to a city and this is how you know other people. You own the whole world full of them and you have your own
language to fit them all. I would like to read some of your poems made up about factual and actual things that you read
or saw happen. You can tell a tale. You ring all of the drops dry when you speak and all of history books and streets are
waiting for you to tell.” New Grove, 856. Three 78 rpm discs in fine condition, slight edge-wear with tiny bit of loss to spine
head, light foxing to original album boards. Letter with lightest creases at fold-lines. Near-fine condition.
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“th e b e s t t h i n g i’v e do n e so f a r” (w o o d y g u t h r i e)
Very Scarce Original 1940 Album Dust Bowl Ballads,
With Three Original 78 Recordings Including Tom Joad,
With Exceptional Letter Of Presentation For The Album
90. GUTHRIE, Woody. LP album. “Dust Bowl Ballads.” WITH: Original booklet. “Dust Bowl Ballads.” WITH:
Autograph letter signed. Camden, New Jersey, 1940. Oblong quarto, original half dark blue and illustrated paper boards,
three interior paper sleeves housing three 78 rpm discs; original booklet, measuring 7 by 9-1/2 inches, laid in, and single
leaf, measuring 9 by 6 inches, of typescript on verso laid in. Letter: single sheet of lined paper, measuring 8 by 10-1/2
inches, neat cursive on recto. $20,000.
Original album of three 78 rpm discs featuring the legendary first recording of Guthrie’s Tom Joad and four additional
Guthrie ballads, with original Victor booklet “Dust Bowl Ballads,” written by Guthrie. With an original signed
autograph letter written entirely in Woody Guthrie’s neatly inked cursive, signed by him and dated “January Second,
Nineteen Forty Six,” noting his gift of these albums to Charlotte Strauss and gratitude for her letters during his lonely
months on a Las Vegas air base.
This landmark 1940 album of Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads, with the first recording of Tom Joad and four additional ballads,
is widely hailed as “his masterpiece, an American classic that deserves to be placed alongside Huckleberry Finn” (Salon).
“One night in New York, Guthrie asked Pete Seeger where he could get a typewriter. ‘The Victor people want me to write a
song about The Grapes of Wrath [1940],’ he said.” Seeger took Guthrie to a friend’s apartment; the next morning he found
Guthrie’s “17-verse ballad called Tom Joad sitting in the typewriter… Victor was so impressed that it decided to use all 17
verses.” Included is an autograph letter signed presenting the album to Charlotte Strauss. In this January 2, 1946 letter
Guthrie expresses his appreciation for Strauss and her letters, herein noting his gift of several albums to her. With laid-in
original Victor booklet Dust Bowl Ballads with text by Guthrie, and single leaf of typescript containing Steinbeck’s sevenline
description of Guthrie beginning “Woody is just Woody,” ending with “I think we call this the American spirit” and
“John Steinbeck” in typescript. Album with three 78 rpm discs in original paper sleeves: Talkin’ Dust Bowl Blues (26619-A)
and Blowin’ Down This Road (26619-B); Do Re Mi (26620-A) and Dust Cain’t Kill Me (26620-B); Tom Joad-Part 1 (26621-A)
and Tom Joad-Part 2 (26621-B). New Grove, 856. Original 78 rpm discs in fine condition, very lightest edge-wear to bright
original boards; laid-in booklet
with slight foldline crease,
small bit of tape to upper edge
of Steinbeck leaf. Letter text
fine, faint tiny pinholes at left
margin, tiny bit of loss to upper
edge without affecting text. An
exceptional album letter and
presentation letter in aboutfine
condition.

“t h e t r u t h o f t h i s w h o l e p a g e sta n d s j u s t
a s t r u e a s a n y h o l l e r in a n y l a n d o n e a r t h”
Extraordinary 1946 Autograph Letter Signed By Woody Guthrie,
Featuring A Lengthy Lyric Poem And Eight Original Sketches
91. GUTHRIE, Woody. Autograph letter signed. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: October 8, 1946. Eight pages on four
sheets of paper, measuring 8 by 14 inches, neat cursive on recto and verso, staple-bound. $16,000.
Original signed autograph letter, this eight-page letter written entirely in Woody Guthrie’s hand, signed by him and
dated “10-8-‘46,” featuring Guthrie’s pensive yet whimsical long poem to Charlotte Strauss, with eight original sketches
of a man adrift in a swirl of hearts.
In the autumn of 1946, Guthrie and his wife Marjorie shared a house in the Pocono Mountains near Stroudsburg,
Pennsylvania with two other families, spending weekends together and allowing Guthrie time alone during the week to
work. This eight-page letter to Charlotte Strauss—at once elegiac, Whitmanesque and undeniably the voice of Woody
Guthrie—is especially poignant in a cascade of closing poetic stanzas accompanied by his sketches of a man adrift in a swirl
of hearts. As the letter’s vivid lyricism makes clear throughout, “Guthrie’s importance in the American literary tradition
cannot be separate from… an uninhibited stream-of-consciousness style [that] would have a strong impact on songwriters
of the next generation, most notably Bob Dylan” (Santelli, 88). Here Guthrie writes of autumn’s vibrant colors, bright as any
“on the slopes of Montana” or seen in the “glows of our Oklahoma sunsets.” Where “sky lights dance all over every leaf,” he
writes, “I can hear in all of these colors my own first and true song.” This is the eloquence and vision that Guthrie shared
with Whitman, both seeking an American voice that would “roll with the strong cadences and ‘varied carols’ of the American
people” (Santelli, 70). In long, melodic passages,
Guthrie writes enchanting descriptions of nature
such as: “These colors up here in the Poconos make
me feel like I’m sinking down and jumping up new.
The red is red like paint in a bucket poured, splashed,
smeared all together with funny yellow leaves, dull
brown ones, bushes dobbed purples and all crazy
kinds of shadows, all kinds of sun sprays and sky
lights dance all over every leaf. I’m glad I’m here. I’m
glad I’m here, glad to eat here, glad to walk here on
these ponds and drifts of dead leaves.” He finds the
music in the sounds of nature from crickets to tree
frogs and goes on to present Charlotte, a poet, with
examples of his own lyric-like verse including: “Go
down where / The maples grow / And say you’re
coming / Yes or no. / But not no. / ’Cause I can’t take
no. / And I wont [sic] take no. / Wont [sic] have no. /
Dont [sic] want no. / Had too many noes [sic] / On
my river already.” New Grove, 856. Text fresh and
bright, light creases at fold-lines, small bit of loss to
upper corner of first leaf slightly affecting some
words. About-fine condition.
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“One Of The Keenest… Explorers Of What Can Be Termed
Real Morality”: First Edition Of The Return Of The Native
92. HARDY, Thomas. The Return of the Native. London, 1878. Three
volumes. 12mo, early 20th-century three-quarter tan morocco gilt. $4200.
Scarce first edition in book form, first issue, of Hardy’s attack on Victorian
hypocrisy—what some hail as “his greatest work of fiction”—handsomely
bound by Bayntun.
Although initially rejected by Hardy’s editor and poorly received by critics—
many of whom disapproved of the author’s “dangerous tendency to depict
women as fully human” (Seymour-Smith, 239)—The Return of the Native “in
its balance and control is his greatest work of fiction” (Baugh et al., 1466). “The
first edition of The Return of the Native was the final product of nearly two
years of creation and re-creation. Hardy probably began writing the novel at the end of 1876; the writing was stalled in the
spring of 1877 as, in his struggles to find an editor who would accept the story as a serial, he decided to recast the narrative
completely; and the last chapters were not completed until March 1878, by which time the first three serial episodes had
been published in Belgravia. Throughout 1878 Hardy revised the proofs of the serial episodes, and in the late summer also
began reconsidering the novel as a complete thing in preparation for its publication in three volumes. Thus when Smith,
Elder issued the first edition several weeks in advance of the novel’s last episode in the December 1878 issue of Belgravia,
it appeared as the culmination of a continuous process of writing” (Simon Gatrell). First issue, lacking single quote mark
after “A Pair of Blue Eyes” on title page of Volume I. Volume I without part-title for “Book First.” Webb, 11-13. A fine set,
handsomely bound.
The Father Of Modern Political Science:
1675 First Edition In English Of Machiavelli’s Works
93. MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo. The Works of the Famous Nicolas
Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. London, 1675.
Folio, modern half brown speckled calf, 18th-century marbled
boards and vellum corners. $12,500.
First edition in English of this comprehensive collection of the
great Italian statesman’s most important writings, including The
Art of War, Discourses on Livy and his primer on power politics,
The Prince.
“Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of
mankind” (PMM 63). “Machiavelli is a popular symbol for the…
completely unprincipled, and unscrupulous politician whose whole
philosophy is that the end justifies the means… From a comparative
reading of [Discourses and The Prince], one must come to the
startling conclusion that Machiavelli was a convinced republican.
He had no liking for despotism, and considered a combination of
popular and monarchical government best… It is hardly disputable
that no man previous to Karl Marx has had as revolutionary an impact on political thought as Machiavelli” (Downs, 12).
Wing M128. Owner signature on title page. A beautiful copy. Scarce and important.

“Produced A Fermentation Of English Thought
Unsurpassed Until The Advent Of Darwinism”
(PMM): The First Collected Edition Of Hobbes’
Works, In English, 1750
94. HOBBES, Thomas. The Moral and Political Works of
Thomas Hobbes. London, 1750. Folio, full contemporary
brown calf gilt rebacked and recornered. $5500.
First collected edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, “the
most original political philosopher of his time” (PMM),
featuring seminal writings such as Leviathan, De Corpore,
Human Nature, Behemoth and others, with engraved portrait
plate and re-engraved Leviathan frontispiece, in handsome
contemporary calf.
The Works of Thomas Hobbes spans “one of the most
momentous periods of English history, and he was one of its
most conspicuous figures” (PMM 138). “Few books have
caused more or fiercer controversy” (Rosenbach 36:345). Much
of what Hobbes argues in Leviathan can be traced to his De
Corpore, also herein, a work published after Leviathan, yet the first to offer his view “of a trilogy on body, man and citizen,
in which everything in the world of nature and man was to be included in a conceptual scheme” (Edwards IV:31). “When
John Adams wrote that ‘he who would found a state, and make proper laws for the government of it, must presume that all
men are bad by nature,’ he was expressing an idea that was derived at once from Hobbes” (Lutz & Warden, 38). Macdonald
& Hargreaves 107. CBEL I:871. Plates and text fresh, light scattered foxing, minor wear to edges of preliminary blank leaves;
some expected rubbing to contemporary boards. A highly desirable copy in extremely good condition.
“Fort Knox Of Golfing Knowledge”
95. HUNTER, Robert. The Links. New York and London, 1926. Tall octavo, original green cloth. $3500.
First edition of the “demonic challenges” of great courses, with 50 photographs and 10 detailed diagrams, designed for the
aficionado of golf course architecture.
“Robert Hunter partnered with the legendary designer Alistair McKenzie on
such classic courses as Cypress Point. The Links is his elegantly written paean to
golf course design, and it remains a Fort Knox of golfing knowledge. Hunter
explains and extols the glories of a good golf course, what makes that course
good, the thinking that goes into individual holes to make them interesting,
and, in the end, the wisdom that puts all of it together to create a fair test for the
golfer. Understanding the hows and whys of the demonic challenges that
designers subtly and not so subtly integrate into their layouts will certainly save
an observant golfer a stroke or two” (Jeff Silverman). Hunter’s goal, by way of
detailed drawings, contemporary photographs and explanatory text, was not
only to describe what made classic holes so great, but also why they would stand
the test of time. Donovan & Murdoch 21930. Stamps of ownership on the half
title and final blank leaf. Fine condition.
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Inscribed By Hemingway To Boxing Great Gene Tunney
96. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. New York, 1935. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $25,000.
First edition, presentation/association copy, of Hemingway’s gripping account of big game hunting—“the most literary
hunting trip on record”—warmly inscribed by the author to a famous heavyweight champion: “To Gene Tunney, from
his friend and admirer Ernest Hemingway.”
Between the publication of Winner Take Nothing (1933) and To Have and Have Not (1937), “Hemingway went to Africa to
shoot the bounding kudu and the ungainly rhinoceros and to reply to his critics. The result is Green Hills of Africa… the
most literary hunting trip on record” (New York Times). With Scribner “A” on copyright page. Hanneman 13A. Bruccoli &
Clark I:179. Inscribed to world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, “one of the best strategists and quickest thinkers in
the history of boxing” (ANB). “Tunney was famous for twice defeating rival Jack
Dempsey. What isn’t well known is that he loved Shakespeare and counted such
literary giants as Ernest Hemingway and George Bernard Shaw among his friends…
Tunney also sparred with Hemingway, typically after the men had a few drinks…
One time after a debate about whether a street fighter could take a professional boxer
Hemingway accidentally gave Tunney a bloody nose, prompting Tunney to respond
with a few fast punches that stopped just short of Hemingway’s face” (International
Herald Tribune). Light toning to extremities of book, dust jacket with mild edge-wear.
A desirable inscribed presentation/association copy in near-fine condition.

“Hume Aims To Be The ‘Newton Of The Passions’”:
First Edition Of Enquiry Concerning The Principles
Of Morals, 1751
97. HUME, David. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of
Morals. London, 1751. 12mo, contemporary full polished brown calf
sympathetically rebacked, custom wrapper and clamshell box. $7500.
First edition, first state of what Hume considered “incomparably the
best” of all his work, his corollary to Treatise of Human Nature and a
key work within the Utilitarian school of political and moral
philosophy, one of the most important traditions in English-speaking
philosophy, including such eminent thinkers as Adam Smith, Jeremy
Bentham, and John Stuart Mill.
Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) was the first attempt to
apply principles of Locke’s empirical psychology to a theory of
knowledge. In this and his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of
Morals, Hume stands as a leading voice in the school of Utilitarianism,
“the most influential and longest continuing tradition in English
speaking moral philosophy… Hume’s Enquiry importantly explores
“how we make moral judgments… the ‘mechanism’ of moral judgments. How are they made and what accounts for their
content? Hume aims to be the ‘Newton of the Passions’… What Hume is trying to do is explain the fact that we agree…
On Hume’s view there is only one possible basis… the psychological tendency we have to identify with the interests and
concerns of others when our own interests do not come into competition with them” (Rawls 162, 177-87). First state, with
leaf L3 uncancelled. Todd 193-94 (a). Contemporary owner inscription, initials. Small inked notation to title page not
affecting text. Text fresh with light scattered foxing, tiny closed tear to corner of ffep, mild rubbing to contemporary calf.
An extremely good copy.
“The Cynical Flexibility Of A Portentous Verbal Virtuoso Is
Manifest”: Joyce’s Tales Told Of Shem And Shaun,
One Of Only 500 Copies
98. JOYCE, James. Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from
Work in Progress. Paris, 1929. Small quarto, original printed paper wrappers,
original glassine. $3000.
First edition, number 373 of only 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen
paper, out of a total edition of 650 copies.
This is the second separately published portion (preceded by Anna Livia
Plurabelle) of what would become Finnegans Wake, containing the episodes
“The Mookse and the Gripes,” “The Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard
Dump” and “The Ondt and the Gracehoper.” Brancusi’s symbolic frontispiece
“Portrait of the Author,” was intended, according to the artist, “to express the ‘sens du pousser’ which he found in
Joyce; the sense of enigmatic involution is also conveyed… When Brancusi’s sketch was shown to John Joyce [James’
father] in Dublin, he remarked gravely, ‘The boy seems to have changed a good deal’” (Ellman, 614). Without original
cardboard slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon 36.Shallow chip to spine foot; spine of original glassine perished. Near-fine.
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Pictorial Documentation Of Wellington’s Defeat Of Napoleon,
The Martial Achievements Of Great Britain, 1799-1815,
With 54 Splendid Large Hand-Colored Folio Aquatints
99. JENKINS, James. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. London, circa
1831. Folio, contemporary three-quarter straight-grain red morocco gilt $7800.
First edition, later issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British military action during Lord Wellington’s
Peninsular Campaign, with hand-colored frontispiece, vignette title page and dedication with Wellington’s coat-of-arms
and 51 additional vividly hand-colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William
Heath. A beautiful production, uncut in original boards.
“A brilliant and worthy record of a brilliant period in England’s history” (Hardie, English Coloured Books, 147). From the
terrifying rout and retreat at Corunna to the glorious victory at Talavera, the British and their allies fought to keep
Napoleon out of Spain and Portugal. In 1807 a demoralized and ill-defended Spain was at the mercy of the French
Emperor. Seven years later and the loss of over a million lives, the French finally retreated over the Pyrenees, never to
return. The Anglo Portuguese Army under a brilliant strategist, the Duke of Wellington and supported by Spanish
guerrilla irregulars, had ground down the best equipped and most feared army in Europe. Jenkins’ work “is worthy of its
theme; nor could one desire a finer record of heroic deeds” (Prideaux, 224). Scenes include “The Burning of Moscow,”
“The Storming of St. Sebastian,” “The Entrance of the Allies into Paris,” and “The Battle of Waterloo.” Each plate is
accompanied by text describing the action, with lists of those killed and wounded, and excerpts from contemporary
bulletins, dispatches, letters, and speeches. The aquatint engraver Thomas Sutherland was known for his separately issued
sporting prints of horses, coaches and hunting scenes after Henry Alken and others. By 1804 he was signing his engravings
and shortly thereafter was employed by London publisher Rudolph Ackermann. First published in 1814-15, Sutherland’s
plates for Jenkins’ Martial Achievements were reprinted several times: this copy was printed on text stock watermarked
“J. Whatman 1812,” with plate stock watermarked “T. Edmunds 1830” and “1831.” Original publisher’s price label on front
pastedown. Without list of subscribers. Tooley 281. Abbey Life, 365. Prideaux, 341. Plates fine with vivid hand-coloring,
vertical crease to front free endpaper, light a few light marks of handling. A lovely about-fine copy.

“He Found Himself Changed In His Bed
To Some Monstrous Kind Of Vermin”:
First Edition In English Of Kafka’s Metamorphosis
100. KAFKA, Franz. The Metamorphosis. London, 1937.
Slim octavo, original half blue cloth. $5500.
First edition in English of Kafka’s astonishing and haunting
novella, one of his most significant works.
“While critics have interpreted this chilling story variously as a
description of despair in a meaningless world, as a reaction to
institutional authoritarianism, and as an expression of conflict
between the author and his father, its power seems to rest in its
resistance to explanation. W.H. Auden has said of it, ‘Had one
to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same
kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe
bore to theirs, Kafka would be the first one would think of’” (New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, 13). “Kafka
published few works in his lifetime and left a testamentary direction that his unpublished writings should be destroyed,
which was disregarded by his friend and executor Max Brod,” who published The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926) after
Kafka’s death in 1924 (Garland & Garland, 466). Kafka himself published The Metamorphosis in German in 1915. Translated
by A.L. Lloyd. Without scarce original glassine. Bookplate. Owner initials. A beautiful copy in original paper boards.
“A Virtuoso In Verse”: Signed Limited First Edition
Of Kipling’s Collected Poems
102. KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929. London,
1929. Three volumes. Quarto, original full burgundy
morocco. $4800.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 525 copies (of which 500
were for sale) signed by Kipling.
“As a virtuoso in verse [Kipling] had more than one style at his
command” (Baugh et al., 1505), from earnest cockney dialect to
soaring prophetic proclamation. This handsome collection
presents all of Kipling’s poetry—including such memorable
works as “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din” and “If”—set in Baskerville
type and printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press.
With frontispiece portrait of Kipling in Volume I, signed in
pencil by the artist, Francis Dodd. Without rare original glassine
and dust jackets. Livingston 545. Interior clean and fine. Minor
abrasions to bindings. An about-fine set.
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“The Most Worthy Of The Great
Philosophers”: 1714 First Edition
Of Locke’s Collected Works,
Beautifully Bound
104. LOCKE, John. The Works. London, 1714.
Three volumes. Folio, early 19th-century full
speckled tan calf gilt. $9300.
First edition of the famous philosopher’s collected
works, “the most worthy… of the indisputably
great philosophers.” Beautifully bound in full
19th-century elaborate calf-gilt.
“A Genuine Modern Version Of Tragedy”: Signed By Le Carré
103. LE CARRÉ, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. London, 1963.
Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $4600.
First edition of this espionage classic, signed by Le Carré.
“In the tradition of Conrad, Maugham and Greene, John Le Carré’s realist spy
novel is a form which represents a genuine modern version of tragedy… The Spy
Who Came in From the Cold is still Le Carré’s cleanest job: compact in structure,
deftly deceptive in the unfolding of its triple-cross, and painfully human in the
characterizations of two victims of ‘our’ side’s necessary but evil mission”
(Reilly, 933-34). “In a covert war later immortalized in John Le Carré’s The
Spy Who Came in From the Cold, [West and East German intelligence chiefs]
conducted the battle of moles, infiltration, counter-infiltration, double agent
and triple agent” (Volkman, 180). Book fine, lightest edge-wear to bright
dust jacket. A scarce, about-fine signed copy.
“His influence has been enormous.” Published ten
years after his death, this is the first collected edition
of Locke’s work and the earliest to put his name to
the immensely important Two Treatises of
Government, “the basis of the principles of
democracy,” as well as the letters on “Toleration”
and The Reasonableness of Christianity. Also
included is the groundbreaking Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, “the
first modern attempt” to analyze human knowledge (PMM 193, 194). With exquisite
copper-engraved frontispiece portrait by George Vertue and full-page memorial plate
(bound in this copy between leaves F1 and F2, Volume I). Yolton 363. Attig 848. Armorial bookplate. Small institutional
inkstamps to verso of frontispiece. Interiors generally clean; light dampstaining to only first few leaves of Volume III. Two
title pages of Volume I, including the general, backed with linen; general title pages of Volumes II and III similarly backed.
Early calf-gilt bindings beautiful. An excellent copy.

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“Shoot All The Bluejays You Want, If You Can Hit ’Em, But Remember, It’s A Sin To
Kill A Mockingbird”: First Edition Of One Of The Rarest Of American Classics
105. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia and New York, 1960. Octavo, original half
green cloth, dust jacket. $22,000.
First edition of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, in the rare original dust jacket.
Lee’s portrayal of life in a small Alabama town captured the essence of the South at one of its most trying
times. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
It is “an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the
tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well
understood” (Jonathan Daniels). Original dust jacket with photo of Lee by Truman Capote on back.
Cloth very slightly rubbed, scarce original dust jacket with light rubbing, minor stain to rear panel. A
near-fine copy of one of the most desirable and elusive of modern American first editions.
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“A Depth Of Loyalty For Which I Am Most Grateful”:
Photolithograph Portrait Of General MacArthur, Signed By Him,
Accompanied By A 1961 Typed Letter Also Signed By MacArthur
106. MACARTHUR, Douglas. Photolithograph signed. WITH: Typed letter
signed. New York, circa 1961. Three items altogether. Photolithograph on ivory card
stock (image measuring 7 by 9 inches, 2-inch border), signed on lower corner; single
letterhead leaf (8-1/2 by 11 inches), typewritten and signed on the recto; facsimile
letterhead leaf (8-1/2 by 11 inches). $2500.
Large signed photographic portrait of General MacArthur—the same image found
on the 1971 commemorative 6¢ stamp—accompanied by a 1961 letter typewritten
on his personal Sperry Rand letterhead to his secretary of “the past ten years,”
gratefully acknowledging her faithful service.
This handsome, signed, black-and-white photolithographic portrait of General
MacArthur was ultimately found on the 1971 6¢ commemorative postage stamp
honoring his lifelong service. Accompanying the portrait is MacArthur’s warm letter to his secretary of “the past ten years,”
dated November 9, 1961. The letter reads: “Dear Mrs. Varney: It is with deep regret that I learn of your decision to resign
from your present position with Remington Rand in order to find employment in the public relations field. For the past ten
years you have devoted part of your time to secretarial work for me and have acquitted yourself with outstanding efficiency
and skill and a depth of loyalty for which I am most grateful. Please accept my hearty wishes for success and happiness in
your future undertaking. Most cordially, [signed] Douglas MacArthur.” With facsimile of a letter to Varney from MacArthur’s
longtime aide Major General Courtney Whitney, expressing similar regard. Portrait bright, with trace of paperclip mark to
verso; letters clean and fresh. A fine collection.
“To… Dear Friends Who Have Made A Difference In My Life”:
A River Runs Through It, Warmly Inscribed By Maclean,
With Lengthy Autograph Letter Signed Laid In
107. MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories. Chicago
and London, 1976. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $6500.
First edition, first printing of the author’s first book, one of only 1577 copies printed,
presentation association copy warmly inscribed: “March 12, 1976. To Betty and
George. Dear friends who have made a difference in my life. Norman.” With a
lengthy autograph letter signed by Maclean.
Though critically acclaimed, Maclean’s book received little popular attention until
adapted as a major film. In unclipped first-issue dust jacket, without edition
statement. Maclean’s autograph letter reads, in part: “Feb. 16, 1969. Dear George &
Theo., Thank you for your contribution to Jessie’s Memorial Fund and thank you for all that you and yours have done to help
me face the world without her… As for your great kindness to Jessie and me, it is hereditary and extends to the second and
even third generations. Young George and Betsy have always been friendly and warm-hearted... Even Charlie and John
already show the ‘Bobrinskoy Touch’… As ever, Norman.” Jessie was Maclean’s wife, who died in 1968. Someone has
written “(Maclean)” next to the author’s signature on his letter. Maclean wrote the letter to George and Theodora
Bobrinskoy, friends in Chicago. Lawyer George V. Bobrinskoy, Jr. was best known for representing heirs to the estates of
Hemingway and Stravinsky. The George [Jr.] and Betsy referred to in the letter were the Bobrinskoys’ son and daughterin-law;
Charlie and John, their grandsons. An exceptional copy in fine condition, beautifully inscribed.

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“No Larger Triumph Of The Visionary Will In Western Literature”:
Rare First Editions Of Paradise Regain’d And Samson Agonistes, 1671
108. MILTON, John. Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To Which Is Added, Samson Agonistes. London,
1671. Small octavo, early 18th-century full polished brown calf rebacked with elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid
down, custom clamshell box. $12,500.
Rare first editions, in one volume, of Milton’s Paradise Regain’d and his Samson Agonistes—“the most powerful
drama in the English language”—handsomely bound.
In 1665, Milton’s friend Thomas Ellwood visited him at the cottage to which he had fled from plague-ridden London
and was handed the manuscript of Paradise Lost. “I pleasantly said to him, ‘Thou hast said much here of Paradise
Lost; but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?’… And when, afterwards, I went to wait on him… he showed me
his second poem, called Paradise Regained, and in a pleasant tone said to me, ‘This is owing to you’” (Winterich, 10).
In Samson Agonistes, issued in the same volume, Milton treated biblical history in the manner of the Greek
dramatists, creating “the most powerful drama in the English language after the severe Greek model” (David
Masson). Designed to be more imposing than Paradise Lost, this volume is printed with heavily leaded lines on a fine
Holland paper water-marked with the Strasbourg Lily. With corrected state of sheet F2 (once thought to be an issue
point, now thought to be without priority). Containing errata leaf, tipped-in license page. Wither to Prior 613. Wing
M2152. Light penciled marginalia to rear blank leaf; small margin notation (B1). Text fresh and bright, with
embrowning to first two leaves, binding with expert restoration, quite handsome. Most desirable.
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Walter Scott’s Life Of Napoleon, Presentation Copy To Scott’s Irish Friend Maria Edgeworth
109. (NAPOLEON) (SCOTT, Walter). The Life of Napoleon
Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. Edinburgh and London,
1827. Nine volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green
calf, custom cloth slipcases. $3200.
Second edition, published the same year as the first, of this
popular history by the most celebrated author of the early 19th
century, inscribed in a secretarial hand: “Maria Edgeworth
from the Author,” and later presented by her: “To Charles de
Bassyn Fox fr E.”
“Scott’s command of structure is remarkable, his narrative skill
striking. The Napoleon is… a profound and searching analysis
of a towering subject” (Edgar Johnson). The work led to a
controversy with General Gourgaud, the French historian who
followed Napoleon into exile, about whom Scott had published
certain documents. “There was some talk of a duel, which ‘pleasantly stimulated’ Scott’s feelings; but the affair blew
over” (DNB). Gourgaud later published a “refutation” of Scott. The recipient of this particular set was Maria Edgeworth,
author of Castle Rackrent and “one of the eminent intellectuals in Irish history.” Occasional date penciled in margin.
Armorial bookplate of Charles Fox. Light scattered foxing, light rubbing to contemporary boards. A superb literary
association copy, in extremely good condition.
Signed By Napoleon As Emperor
110. NAPOLEON. Autograph document endorsed. Outreau, France, June 29,
1804-August 2, 1804. Six folio sheets, 11-1/2 by 17 inches. $6500.
Autograph document boldly
endorsed by Napoleon, with his
imperial signature: “Napoleon.”
This packet of documents contains
glowing recommendations by
several officers for the promotion
of their colleague, Sergeant-Major
Pierre Coste, and has been endorsed
by Napoleon on the recto of the
first page. Napoleon often endorsed
such documents with a simple
“Np.”. This full signature is thus
highly prized. It is also a new
signature for him; until he had himself proclaimed to be “Napoleon, Emperor
of the French” on May 18, 1804, he had signed his name “Bonaparte.” His
endorsement of these documents occurred on 14 Thermidor, year XII
(August 2, 1804), at which time he had only been emperor for two and a half months. The writer highlights this elevation
in stature by addressing the letter in large, elaborate calligraphy to “His Majesty Napoleon first Emperor of the French.”
Coste spent most of his military service with The Army of Italy, which had been commanded by Napoleon himself. Text
in French. Only very minor edgewear. A near-fine collection of original documents.

“I Have Sworn… Eternal Hostility Against Every Form
Of Tyranny Over The Mind Of Man”: First Edition Of
The First Collection Of Jefferson’s Writings,
Very Scarce Uncut And In Original Boards
111. (PRESIDENTS) JEFFERSON, Thomas. Memoir,
Correspondence, and Miscellanies. Charlottesville, 1829. Four
volumes. Octavo, original drab boards, linen spines and printed
paper spine labels. $6800.
First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s writings,
edited by his grandson, in very scarce original boards.
This four-volume collection begins with a memoir written by
Jefferson at age 77, and includes a journal kept by him while
Secretary of State during Washington’s administration. “The rest
consists exclusively of a voluminous correspondence, ranging from 1775… to June 1826, only ten days before his death”
(Sabin 35891). With four-page folding facsimile of Jefferson’s manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, and engraved
frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart. Occasional unobtrusive institutional markings. Old ink presentation to title
page of Volume II. Scattered mild foxing. Volume IV with expert repair to front joint. Spines and spine labels lightly
rubbed, original paper boards lightly stained.
1794 American Edition Of Jefferson’s
Notes On The State Of Virginia,
The First American Edition To
Include A Map
112. (PRESIDENTS) JEFFERSON, Thomas.
Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia,
1794. Octavo, contemporary full brown tree sheep
rebacked. $8500.
Second American edition of the only book-length
work by Jefferson published in his lifetime, with
large folding map of Virginia by Samuel Lewis
(not issued with the first American edition) and
folding chart listing Indian tribes.
“The Notes on Virginia laid the foundations of
Jefferson’s high contemporary reputation as a universal scholar and of his present
fame as a pioneer American scientist… [It] may still be consulted with profit
about… 18th-century Virginia” (DAB). First published in a privately printed edition of 200 copies in 1785. Stockton
issued the exceptionally rare first English edition in 1787 in an edition of 1000 copies. The first American edition followed
in 1788 but did not include a map. This second American edition contains the famous Samuel Lewis map of Virginia,
which appeared the following year in Guthrie’s New System of Modern Geography, the first American Atlas published in
America. With full page illustration of Madison’s Cave, numerous tables, folding chart of Indian tribes and a printing of
Jefferson’s 1786 Act for Establishing Religious Freedom. Sabin 35898. Howes J78. Owner signatures and inscriptions.
Interior fresh and clean, expert archival repair to folding map. A near-fine copy in contemporary American sheep,
complete with scarce Lewis map.
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Handsome 1862 Military Appointment, Signed By Lincoln As President
113. (PRESIDENTS) LINCOLN, Abraham. Engraved document signed. Washington, February 5, 1862.
Single vellum sheet (16 by 19-1/2 inches), partially printed and finished in a secretarial hand, embossed blue
paper seal. $16,500.
Fine Lincoln Civil War document appointing Samuel Breck as Assistant Adjutant General with the rank of Captain,
countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, and docketed by Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas, with
fragile paper seal present. Lincoln’s signature bold and fine.
Career officer Samuel Breck “graduated the United States Military Academy in 1855 and served in the Florida War
of 1855-56. He was Assistant Professor of geography, history, and ethics at the Academy in 1860-61. During the Civil
War he served as Assistant Adjutant-General of Gen. McDowell’s division in the beginning of 1862… and [later in
the year] of the Department of the Rappahannock, being engaged in the occupation of Fredericksburg and the
Shenandoah Valley expedition” (Appleton’s). Breck received three brevets for war service (Boatner, 82). From 1870
onward he served in Washington as Assistant Adjutant-General in charge of rolls, returns, and the preparation of
the Volunteer Army Register, under
General George D. Ruggles, whom in
1897 he succeeded as Adjutant
General of the Army with the rank of
Brigadier General (New York Times).
This second commission of Captain
Breck, as Assistant Adjutant-General,
is handsomely engraved with two
military vignettes, one of an
emblematic eagle and the other an
army motif with crossed flags,
cannon, and other accoutrements of
war. Docketed in red ink in upper
left-hand corner by Adjutant General
Lorenzo Thomas, who later served as
Secretary of War under President
Andrew Johnson. Faint fold lines,
small spot to right-hand margin (not
affecting text). Fine condition,
Lincoln’s signature bold and fine.

“The Most Important Series Of American Political
Debates”: Exceptional First Issue Of The Lincoln-
Douglas Debates
114. (PRESIDENTS) LINCOLN, Abraham. Political Debates
Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas.
Columbus, 1860. Octavo, original brown cloth, custom clamshell
box. $8000.
First edition, first issue, of the most famous debates in American
history, the event that transformed Lincoln into a national
presidential candidate. An excellent copy in original cloth.
Running as a little-known candidate for the Illinois senatorship in
1858, Lincoln challenged incumbent Stephen Douglas to a series of
debates. Douglas had been responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act
of 1854, which contained a provision that the question of slavery
should be decided by the territorial settlers themselves. In contrast to
Douglas’ “Popular Sovereignty” stance, Lincoln held that the United
States could not survive as half-slave and half-free states. The result
was a memorable chain of lively arguments in front of cheering crowds. Though Lincoln lost the senatorial race, he wisely
compiled and preserved the texts of the debates himself and had them published in advance of the presidential election of
1860, during which he defeated a split Democratic party. First issue, with no advertisements, no rule above the publisher’s
imprint on the copyright page and with numeral 2 at the bottom of page 17. Monaghan 69. Text generally fresh with usual
scattered foxing, slight edge-wear to bright original cloth. An extremely good copy of this major American work, better
than usually found.
Author’s Edition Of Mr. Citizen,
Inscribed By Truman To His Secretary Of Commerce, Charles Sawyer
115. (PRESIDENTS) TRUMAN, Harry. Mr. Citizen. New York, 1960.
Octavo, original half brown morocco. $2500.
Limited “Author’s Edition,” specially bound presentation association copy,
warmly inscribed on the half title by President Truman to his Secretary of
Commerce, “To the Honorable Charles Sawyer from his true friend, with
kindest regards, Harry Truman, Independence, August 27, 1960.”
Truman’s reflections on life after the presidency, illustrated with 32
pages of black-and-white photographs. This copy is one of an
unknown limitation of the first edition in this special deluxe
binding set aside for the former president’s use. Without original
glassine and slipcase. Inscribed to Charles Sawyer. President
Truman appointed Sawyer, former governor of Ohio and
ambassador to Belgium, the Secretary of Commerce in 1948, in
which capacity he served until the end of Truman’s presidency. An
about-fine inscribed presentation association copy.
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First Edition Of Sparks’ Life Of
Washington, Extra-Illustrated
With Hand-Colored Plates
116. (PRESIDENTS) SPARKS, Jared.
The Life of George Washington. Boston,
1839. Octavo, modern full crimson
morocco gilt, original gilt-stamped brown
cloth bound in. $2600.
First edition of Sparks’ esteemed biography
of “the Father of his Country,” illustrated
with 14 engraved plates of portraits, views,
battle plans and facsimiles and extraillustrated
with 34 additional engraved
plates, most hand-colored, handsomely
bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Sparks not only edited the first, monumental collection of Washington’s papers but also
wrote this biography of the nation’s first president. Sabin 88989. Howes S816. Collector’s
morocco-gilt bookplate. A fine copy.
Chasing Big Game In The United States: Teddy Roosevelt’s
Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman, 1885 Limited First Edition
117. (PRESIDENTS) ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.
Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. New York and London,
1885. Quarto, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, uncut. $3500.
Limited first “Mendora” edition, one of 500 copies printed, of Teddy
Roosevelt’s work on big game hunting in the northern plains, illustrated with
frontispiece, four India-proof impressions of etchings by R. Swain Gifford,
seven Japan-proof impressions of drawings by J.C. Beard, and 19 full-page
plates by Gifford, Beard, Henry Sandham, A.B. Frost and others.
“Midway through Roosevelt’s third term [in the New York State Assembly] in
1884, his wife died after giving birth to a daughter. He immersed himself in
legislative matters to the end of the session, then sought solace on his ranch in
western Dakota—‘a land of vast silent spaces, a place of grim beauty’… For a
while the 25-year-old widower considered a life of ranching, hunting, and writing. He expanded his cattle operation,
published Hunting Trips of a Ranchman” (ANB). Includes chapters on “Ranching in the Badlands,” “The Deer of the River
Bottoms,” “The Lordly Buffalo” and “Still-Hunting Elk on the Mountains.” Issued in a trade edition in 1886. Wheelock,
9. Evidence of bookplate removal. Interior fine, light wear to cloth extremities, short closed tear to foot of spine, gilt bright.
A near-fine copy.

Murphy’s Travels In Portugal, With 24 Plates
119. MURPHY, James Cavanagh. Travels in Portugal.
London, 1795. Folio, 20th-century full dark green close-grain
morocco gilt. $2600.
First edition of this collection of “fragments” of Murphy’s travels in
Portugal, with 24 full-page hand-colored etchings.
Resulting from a commission by William Burton Conyngham for
a drawing of the great Dominican church and monastery of
Batalha in Portugal, artist and architect James Murphy traveled to
Cadiz, where he spent seven years studying Moorish architecture.
This is an account of the places and people he encountered,
depicted in 24 splendid hand-colored plates, with descriptions
culled “chiefly from the Portuguese writers.” Plate III is “A View of
the Church of Batalha,” built to commemorate the victory of the
Portuguese over the Castilians at the battle of Aljubarrota in 1385.
An uncut, about-fine copy.
“The Blood And Sweat, The Craft And Cunning
And Blind Luck”: Limited Edition Of Theodore
Roosevelt’s The Winning Of The West,
With Fine Autograph Manuscript Leaf
118. (PRESIDENTS) ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The
Winning of the West. New York and London, 1900. Four
volumes. Royal octavo, original three-quarter dark green
morocco gilt. $12,000.
Splendid Daniel Boone edition, one of only 200 finely
bound copies with an original manuscript leaf tipped in,
of Roosevelt’s historical masterwork, copiously illustrated
and printed on hand-made paper. The original
manuscript leaf is a particularly fine one about victory
and its “mad abuse.”
The manuscript, the text of which appears in slightly
altered form on pages 1 and 2 in Volume IV, includes
revisions in Roosevelt’s hand and reads “…infinitely greater contests waged on continents for fields and with the ages for
a measure of time. The victors in actual life arise only despite brutal blunders and repeated checks, watched nearby, while
the fight stamps to and fro, the doers and the deeds stand out naked and ugly; we see all too clearly the blood and sweat,
the craft and cunning and blind luck, the raw cruelty and stupidity, the shortcomings of heart and hand, the mad abuse
of the victory. Strands of meanness and cowardice are everywhere shot through the woof of lofty and generous daring.
There are failures bitter and shameful side by side with feats of triumphant prowess. Of those who venture in the contest,
some achieve success; others strive as hard, and are rewarded by no achievement; yet others strive fully and fail ignobly.”
With five folding maps and 103 plates. A fine, handsome set.
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Parry’s Second Voyage For A North-West Passage
120. PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage. London,
1824. Quarto, 20th-century period-style three-quarter tan calf gilt. $2200.
First edition of Parry’s second voyage, illustrated with
eight large folding maps and charts and 31 full-page maps
and copperplate engravings.
This account of Parry’s second voyage is particularly
important for its depiction of Eskimo customs, ceremonies,
and domestic life and its maps showing the discoveries
made in the Polar Sea north of Canada. “Throughout the
whole of this splendid work, the characteristics of the
Esquimaux… absorb the attention of the writer. The last 79
pages are entirely devoted to the subject of the aborigines
of the Arctic lands… of the beautifully engraved
copperplates, 22 are illustrative of their fishing and
walrus-hunting, their boats, summer tents, winter huts,
villages, modes of traveling, building and hunting, interior of their dwellings, their villages… and portraits of characteristic
individuals singly and in groups. The work is in truth a splendid treatise on aboriginal life” (Field 1184). Sabin 58864.
Lande 1385. Smith 7963. Hill 1312. Bookplate. Marginal faint staining to some plates, not affecting images. An exceptionally
clean, near-fine copy.
First Edition Of Atlas Shrugged,
Signed By Dedicatee Nathaniel Branden
121 . RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York, 1957. Thick octavo, original
green cloth, dust jacket. $8500.
First edition of one of the most popular and influential novels of the last 50
years, signed by Nathaniel Branden, Rand’s lover and intellectual heir, to
whom she dedicated the book, on the dedication page.
“From 1943 until its publication in 1957, [Rand] worked on the book that many
say is her masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged. This novel describes how a genius named
John Galt grows weary of supporting a society of ungrateful parasites and one
day simply shrugs and walks away. He becomes an inspiration to like-minded
men and women, all of whom eventually follow his example, until society, in its
agony, calls them back to responsibility and respect” (ANB). Rand considered
writer and psychotherapist Nathaniel Branden her “intellectual heir” and dedicated Atlas Shrugged to him and to her
husband, Frank O’Connor. Rand’s intense philosophical and personal relationship with Branden became a sexual
relationship in 1954 with the reluctant permission of Rand’s husband and Branden’s wife.
The relationship ended abruptly in 1968 after Rand discovered Branden’s secret affair with
the woman who became his second wife. Rand publicly “excommunicated” Branden from
Objectivism (without revealing her real reason) and removed his name from the dedication
page of subsequent printings of Atlas Shrugged. First printing, in first-issue dust jacket.
Perinn A4a. Light damp staining to top edge of text block and upper fore edge; very faint
staining to rear board. Light edge wear and shallow chipping to spine ends to bright dust
jacket with a few ink marks on spine and tape repairs to verso. Extremely good, scarce
signed by Branden.

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Among The Most Desirable Of American Firsts:
Exceptional First Edition Of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead,
“A Hymn In Praise Of The Individual,” An Exceptional Copy
122. RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Indianapolis and New York, 1943. Octavo, original red cloth, dust
jacket, custom clamshell box. $33,500.
Beautiful first edition, first issue, of Rand’s best-selling and unforgettable celebration of the individual
spirit, in rare first-issue dust jacket. An extraordinary copy in extremely bright and fresh original
dust jacket.
In The Fountainhead—Rand’s first major Objectivist novel as well as her first best-seller—“Rand has
taken her stand against collectivism, ‘the rule of the second-hander, the ancient monster,’ which has
brought men ‘to a level of intellectual indecency never equalled on earth.’ She has written a hymn in
praise of the individual” (Lorine Pruette). First issue, bound in red cloth, with first edition stated on
copyright page, in first-issue dust jacket, with back panel listing 16 Bobbs-Merrill books. Perinn A3a.
Vinson, 1139. Small and faint circular inkstamp to dust jacket front flap. Bright and beautiful dust jacket
with only a bit of wear, spine completely unfaded; book fine. A beautiful copy, one of the nicest we have
seen, in outstanding condition. Most desirable.
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“The Greatest Treasure-House Of Any Language In The World”: First Edition Of The Oxford
English Dictionary, An Exceptional Set In Full Contemporary Calf-Gilt
123. MURRAY, James, et al., editors. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Oxford, 1888-1928. 20
volumes. Thick folio, contemporary full brown morocco gilt. $22,000.
First edition in book form of the famous Oxford English Dictionary, “a project of unprecedented historical and
cultural importance” (New York Times).
“The O.E.D. is the greatest treasure-house of any language in the world,
unrivalled for its comprehensiveness and ease of consultation as well as for its
reliability and scholarship” (PMM 371). “The scheme of ‘a completely new
English Dictionary’ was conceived in 1858… Herbert Coleridge and after him
Dr. F.J. Furnivall, were the first editors. Their work, which covered 20 years,
consisted mainly in the collection of materials, and it was not until Dr. J.A.H.
Murray took the matter up in 1878 that the preparation of the Dictionary began
to take active form… The essential feature of the Dictionary is its historical
method, by which the meaning and form of the words are traced from their
earliest appearance on the basis of an immense number of quotations, collected
by more than 800 voluntary workers. The Dictionary contains a record of 414,825
words, whose history is illustrated by 1,827,306 quotations” (Drabble, 728). A
fine set in full contemporary morocco-gilt.

e d g a r a l l a n po e
“The Highest Of All Highspots”
124. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales. New York, 1845. Octavo, periods style full blue morocco gilt. $18,000.
First edition of “the first important book of detective stories, the first and the greatest, the cornerstone of cornerstones”
(Queen’s Quorum 1). Includes Poe’s greatest tales, among them “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Fall of the
House of Usher” and “The Gold-Bug.” With scarce half title. Beautifully bound.
Poe’s Tales is undoubtedly one of the most important prose works in the history of American fiction. Several of the
dozen stories in this remarkable collection are among the best known in literature: “The Murders in the Rue
Morgue,” “The Gold-Bug,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Purloined Letter” and the terrifying “Descent into
the Maelstrom.” “These tales have been so pregnant with suggestion, so stimulating to the minds of others, that it
may be said of many of them that each is a root from which a whole literature has developed” (Conan Doyle). “Of the
12 stories in the book, in fact, at least six have come to be among the best known in the language. What other great
collection of short stories can show anything like that proportion?” (Winterich, 258-59). Second printing, with
imprints of T.B. Smith and R. Craigheads Power Press on the copyright page; no priority given among the first three
printings (BAL 16146). “Impressions from the plates of several pages vary in an anomalous way” (BAL). This copy
has battered letters on page 160; unbroken “E” in “ROGET” in the running title on page 187; and the “S” missing
from “TALES” in running title on page 224. Bound with half title but without advertisements. BAL 16146. Pencil
owner signature. Scattered foxing to interior, not affecting readability.
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His “One And Only Intellectual Biography”:
Signed By Einstein
125. (SCIENCE) EINSTEIN, Albert. Albert Einstein: Philosopher-
Scientist. Evanston, 1949. Octavo, original brown cloth, slipcase. $12,500.
First edition, one of 760 copies signed and dated by Einstein.
“The greatest physicist of the 20th century” (PMM 408). An excellent study
of Einstein’s life as well as of his scientific and philosophic thought,
illustrated with photographic portraits and plates. Includes Einstein’s
autobiographical notes in German and English; 24 descriptive and critical
essays on Einstein’s work (contributors include Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de
Broglie, Max Born, Kurt Gödel and Niels Bohr), together with
Einstein’s responses; and a bibliography of his writings and index.
This volume is the seventh in the “Library of Living Philosophers.”
With remnants of original glassine laid in. A fine copy.
Faraday’s Groundbreaking Experimental Researches In
Electricity, First Collected Edition
126. (SCIENCE) FARADAY, Michael. Experimental
Researches in Electricity. London, 1839, 1844, 1855. Three
volumes. Octavo, original green cloth (Volume I rebacked with
original cloth spine laid down). $8000.
First collected edition of these revolutionary papers on
electricity, containing the 29 series of papers that first appeared
between 1832 and 1852 in the Philosophical Transactions, and
other pertinent papers and letters published in other scientific
journals, in original cloth.
The electrical research of Faraday, “one of the greatest physicists
of the 19th century and one of the finest experimenters of all
time… was the starting point for the revolutionary theories of
Clerk Maxwell and later of Einstein… It laid the foundation of
the modern electrical industry” (PMM 308). “The collection encompasses the entire range of Faraday’s remarkable
achievement, including his discovery of electromagnetic induction, his demonstration of the identity of all forms of
electricity, his first general theory of electricity as a function of interparticulate strain, and the last series of researches on
magnetism, containing the germ of modern field theory” (Norman). With 17 plates (13 folding); bound without
advertisements. With eight-page publisher’s catalogue. Horblit 29. Norman 762. Bookseller ticket in Volume I. Early
owner signature to Volume II. Inner paper hinges of Volumes I and II expertly reinforced, free endpapers in Volume III
renewed, occasional scattered light foxing to interiors, light wear to cloth extremities, with some rubbing and soiling to
boards and toning to spines of Volumes II and III. An extremely good copy of this scientific landmark.

“Einstein Equated Maxwell With Newton” (PMM):
Maxwell On Electricity And Magnetism, 1873 First Edition
127. (SCIENCE) MAXWELL, James Clerk. A Treatise on Electricity
and Magnetism. Oxford, 1873. Two volumes. Octavo, modern full brown
calf gilt. $12,000.
First edition, early issue, of Maxwell’s most detailed and comprehensive
work, advancing ideas that would become essential for modern physics,
including the landmark hypothesis that light and electricity are the
same in their ultimate nature.
The Treatise “extended Maxwell’s ideas beyond the scope of his earlier
work in many directions, producing a highly fecund demonstration of the
special importance of electricity to physics as a whole. He began the
investigation of moving frames of reference, which in Einstein’s hands
were to revolutionize physics; gave proofs of the existence of electromagnetic
waves that paved the way for Hertz’s discovery of radio waves; worked out connections between the electrical and optical
qualities of bodies that would lead to modern solid-state physics; and applied Tait’s quaternion formulae to the field
equations, out of which Heaviside and Gibbs would develop vector analysis” (Norman). “Maxwell most clearly prefigures
20th-century physics” (Simmons). Early issue, with Maxwell’s book listed on page 24 of the publisher’s catalogue (dated
May, 1877) at the rear of Volume II. Volume I bound without half title. Errata sheets precede the texts in both volumes.
Horblit 72. Norman 1466. Simmons, Scientific 100, 64-7. Signed on the half title by noted physicist Frederick Slate, author of
The Fundamental Equations of Dynamics (1918). Occasional marginal pencil notation. Library perforations to title pages
and plates. A fine copy.
First Edition Of The Double Helix, Signed By James Watson,
From The Library Of Andre Cournand, Winner Of The Nobel
Prize In Medicine, With His Owner Signature
128. (SCIENCE) WATSON, James D. The Double Helix. New York, 1968.
Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $4900.
First edition of Watson’s controversial personal account of the discovery of DNA,
signed by him. From the library of Nobel Prize-winning physician Andre
Cournand, with his owner signature.
“One of the investigators, more than any of the others, realized the decisive
importance of the DNA molecules in biology, and it was this understanding
which urged him relentlessly to push this work toward a successful conclusion,
in spite of his rather modest technical qualifications for this task” (Mayr, 823).
“He has described admirably how it feels to have that frightening and beautiful
experience of making a great scientific discovery” (Richard Feynman, winner
of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics). This copy is from the library of Nobel Prize-winning physician Andre Cournard and
bears his owner signature. Cournand was awarded the prize in 1946 along with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson Richards
for his “discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.” Book with light
toning to edges of cloth, dust jacket with faint dampstain to bottom edge of rear panel, only mild rubbing and toning to
extremities, and a few tape repairs to verso. A near-fine copy with an outstanding provenance and association.
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“A Central Document Of The American Experience”:
Exceptional Unrestored First Edition Of Thoreau’s Walden, The Lilly Copy
129. THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston, 1854. Octavo, original brown cloth,
custom slipcase. $25,000.
First edition of this important American classic. A lovely unrestored copy, from the library of preeminent book
collector J.K. Lilly with his morocco booklabel.
“Thoreau’s Walden occupies a special place in our American heritage. Moreover, the book is still alive and vibrant,
and it reaches out to touch the life of each one of us who is receptive… It has come to be thought a central
document in the American experience” (Treasures of the Huntington Library). “For almost a hundred years an
inspiration to nature-lovers, to philosophers, to sociologists” (Grolier, 100 American, 63). With lithographed map
of Walden Pond facing page 307; advertisements at rear dated May 1854. BAL 20106. Myerson A2.1.a. From the
library of esteemed book collector J.K. Lilly, bearing his morocco booklabel. A businessman and philanthropist,
Lilly was the grandson of the founder of Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company. Over the course of 30 years, Lilly
formed one of the world’s most distinguished book collections, covering a wide range of subjects. As he donated
20,000 of his books and 17,000 manuscripts directly to Indiana University, creating the Lilly Library, books from
Lilly’s personal collection are seldom available to purchase. Accordingly, this copy of Walden is considered to be
quite rare and desirable. Contemporary owner inscription and bookstamp. Bookplate. Auction ticket. Auction
description tipped onto endpaper. Only occasional soiling to text and none of the usual foxing, front inner paper
hinge repaired, a few marks to fore-edge, only lightest wear to binding, gilt very bright and fresh. An exceptional
unrestored copy, with outstanding provenance.

“The Social Impact Was Greater Than Any Book
Before Or Since”
130. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life
Among the Lowly. Boston and Cleveland, 1852. Two volumes.
Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, custom chemises and
slipcases. $12,800.
First edition, first issue, in original cloth, of Stowe’s classic and
vastly influential novel, with title vignettes and six woodengravings.
“In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-19th century
America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those
engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the
evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery
forces it was a slanderous attack on ‘the Southern way of life’…
the social impact of [the novel] on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since” (PMM 332). “Within
a decade after its publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin had become the most popular novel ever written by an American… there
is substantial evidence that the book precipitated the American Civil War” (Downs, Books That Changed America, 108).
“Begun as a serial in the National Era… Uncle Tom’s Cabin ran from June 5, 1851 to April 1, 1852, gaining an everincreasing
audience as the story progressed. On March 20 of 1852, [this, the first issue in book form] was officially
published. By the time the book came out an eager public was waiting to buy it, and over 10,000 copies of the two-volume
work were sold in the first week” (Patkus & Schlosser). First issue, with “spilt” in Volume I, 42, line 1; “cathecism” in
Volume II, 74, line 5; and all other first issue points. Later editions attribute the wood-engravings to Boston architect
Hammatt Billings. BAL 19343, B binding (brown “T” cloth, no priority established). Grolier American 100 61. Scattered
mild foxing. Light wear to spine ends and extremities, light dampstaining to front board of first volume. An attractive
copy in very good condition.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Inscribed By Williams
131. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York, 1957. Octavo,
original salmon cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition, fourth American printing, of Williams’ longest-running play, for
which he won his second Pulitzer, inscribed by the playwright: “To Abe,
Tennessee Williams.”
In 1973 Williams admitted, “Though Glass Menagerie may be my best play, Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof is still my favorite” (Devlin, 244). In his Memoirs the playwright
elaborates: “That play [in its published version] comes closest to being both a
work of art and a work of craft… I believe that in Cat I reached beyond
myself… to a kind of crude eloquence of expression in Big Daddy that I have
managed to give no other character of my creation” (Williams, 168). “Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof is the work of a mature observer of men and women and a gifted
craftsman… It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is
the basic truth” (New York Times). Includes both the Broadway and the original version of the Third Act, which Williams
reluctantly rewrote at director Elia Kazan’s request. First published in 1955. Crandell A15.I.f. Dust jacket with light
rubbing to edges. Book fine. A desirable, rare inscribed copy.
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Wilde’s Masterpiece: The Picture Of Dorian Gray,
One Of Only 250 Large-Paper Copies Signed By Wilde
132. WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London, New York & Melbourne, 1891. Octavo, contemporary
three-quarter purple morocco gilt, custom clamshell box. $16,500.
Rare and most desirable large-paper first signed limited edition, one of only 250 copies printed on Van Gelder
handmade paper, signed by Oscar Wilde.
Considered Wilde’s greatest work, The Picture of Dorian Gray is also his
only novel, combining the supernatural elements of the Gothic novel with
the sins of French decadent fiction. Wilde insists in the Preface, “There is
no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or
badly written. That’s all” (page vi). Critics nevertheless attacked the work
for its immorality. Though Wilde claimed, “I wrote this book entirely for
my own pleasure… Whether it becomes popular or not is a matter of
absolute indifference to me,” he also responded to critics: “Leave my book,
I beg you, to the immortality that it deserves.” This deluxe signed edition
is of considerably greater rarity and value than the unsigned first trade
edition issued a few months earlier. At least one contemporary review
praised this edition in particular: “the book, with its unique and piquant
binding and lettering, its characteristic title page and yet more characteristic
preface, is a delight to eye and hand” (Glasgow Herald). Title page, half
title, and cover designed by Charles Ricketts, who designed the bindings
of many Wilde volumes. Mason 329. Gilt armorial emblem on front board.
Owner chop stamp. A fine copy, most scarce and desirable.

“A Man Who Does Not Think For Himself Does Not
Think At All”: Eight Works By Oscar Wilde,
Uniformly Bound, Including Three First Editions
133. WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales.
WITH: A House of Pomegranates. WITH: An Ideal Husband.
WITH: Essays, Criticisms and Reviews. WITH: A Woman of
No Importance. WITH: Lady Windermere’s Fan. WITH:
Sebastian Melmoth. WITH: The Duchess of Padua. London,
Paris, New York, 1889-1905. Together, eight volumes. Slim
quartos, octavos, small octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter
green morocco gilt. $7200.
Mixed first, limited and early edition set of eight Wilde works
uniformly bound in a lovely art nouveaux binding by Hatchards.
First editions: A House of Pomegranates (1891); An Ideal Husband
(1899), one of 1000 unnumbered copies (both titles with original
cloth bound at rear); Essays, Criticisms and Reviews (1901). Limited editions: the early 1903 privately printed editions
of A Woman of No Importance (1894), number 109 of 250 copies; Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893), number 160 of 250
copies (each with original cloth at rear). The Happy Prince and Other Tales is the 1889 second edition, published one
year after the first, with original paper wrappers at rear. The Duchess of Padua is an undated, privately printed New
York edition, circa 1910, with original cloth at rear. Sebastian Melmoth (1905) is second edition, published one year
after the first, with original paper wrappers bound at rear. Armorial bookplates. Lovely green morocco largely toned
to rich brown. A fine set, handsomely bound.
“A Woman Must Have Money And A Room Of Her Own If She Is To Write Fiction”:
Signed Limited Edition Of Virginia Woolf’s Classic
134. WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York and London, 1929.
Octavo, original cinnamon cloth, custom half morocco clamshell box. $15,000.
Signed limited first edition, one of 492 copies distinctively signed by Woolf in
her characteristic purple ink.
Woolf’s compelling essay on women and writing has become a classic feminist
text. Her “aim was to establish a woman’s tradition, recognizable by its
circumstances, subject-matter, and its distinct problems… A Room of One’s Own
charted this vast territory with an air of innocent discovery which itself sharpens
the case against induced ineffectiveness and ignorance that for so long clouded
the counter-history of women” (Gordon, 182). “A woman must have money and a
room of her own if she is to write fiction,” said Woolf, “and that, as you will see,
leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction
unsolved.” Printed in the United States by Robert Josephy and published on
October 21, 1929; this edition preceded the English edition (both trade and signed
limited) by three days. Woolmer 215A. Kirkpatrick A12. Light sunning to original
cloth. A near-fine signed copy.
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Wonderful Inscribed Photograph Of
Louis Armstrong
135. ARMSTRONG, Louis. Halftone
photograph inscribed. FROM: Flair
magazine. Paris, November 1950. Original
tear-sheet, measuring 9 by 12 inches. $1350.
Wonderful bust portrait of the inimitable
jazz great, on tear-sheet from Flair
magazine, boldly inscribed: “To Susie,
Louis Armstrong.”
135
This characteristic image of Satchmo is
reprinted from the November 1950 issue of
Flair. On the verso is Tallulah Bankhead’s
138
article on Armstrong, in which she dubs
him “rara avis, a great man.” Tack holes in corners, paper
tape on verso.
Rare 1870 Edition Of “The First Baseball Guide
Published For Commercial Sale”
136. (BASEBALL) CHADWICK, Henry. Beadle’s Dime
Base Ball Player. New York, 1870. 12mo, original pictorial
orange wrappers. $2600.
1870 edition of Beadle’s Dime Base Ball Player, with
professional club records and statistics for the year 1869,
baseball history, instruction and the new code of rules.
The Beadle baseball guide, first printed in 1860, was “the
first baseball guide published for commercial sale to the
public” (Smith 172). Editor Henry Chadwick, “widely
known as the ‘Father of Baseball’” (DAB), chaired the
National Association of Base Ball Players. Interior with
only a little light foxing, only minor edge-wear to fragile
original wrappers.
Signed By Catfish Hunter
137. (BASEBALL) HUNTER, Jim “Catfish” and KETEYIAN,
Armen. Catfish: My Life in Baseball. New York, 1988.
Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $450.
First edition of this inside story of Hunter’s years as a
“stopper,” signed “Jim Catfish Hunter.”
“‘Catfish Hunter taught a new generation of Yankees ‘how
to win’” (George Steinbrenner). He pitched a perfect game,
won the Cy Young award, earned 224 victories and played
on five World Series championship teams. Fine.
The DiMaggio Albums,
One Of 700 Sets Signed By
DiMaggio
138. (BASEBALL) DIMAGGIO,
Joe. The DiMaggio Albums.
New York, 1989. Two volumes.
Quarto, original full blue
morocco, blue cloth slipcase,
shipping materials. $2200.
Signed limited first edition, one
of 700 sets signed by DiMaggio.
Over 800 pages of newspaper
accounts, photos and reproductions of memorabilia from
DiMaggio’s incomparable career, with commentary and an
introduction by DiMaggio himself. Fine.
Boys Of Summer, Inscribed
139. (BASEBALL) KAHN, Roger. The Boys of Summer.
New York, 1972. Octavo, original beige and gray cloth, dust
jacket. $1600.
First edition, inscribed: “Feb. 17, 1972. For Roone Arledge,
who’s made ABC Sports so damn good. Best, Roger Kahn.”

Kahn’s “delightful narrative of growing up within shouting
distance of Ebbets Field” covers the teams of the ’50s before
the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. The recipient of this
copy was president of ABC News Roone Arledge. “A 1994
Sports Illustrated magazine ranking placed Arledge third,
behind Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan, in a list of 40
individuals who have had the greatest impact on the world
of sports in the last four decades” (Museum of Broadcast
Communications). About-fine.
Signed Photograph Of “The Mick”
140. (BASEBALL) MANTLE, Mickey. Color
photograph signed. New York, circa 1980. Original
photograph, measuring 8 by 10 inches; matted, entire piece
measures 11 by 14 inches. $1200.
Full color photograph of Mickey Mantle in Yankee
pinstripes, boldly signed with blue marker.
Mantle played in several Old-Timer’s Games from the late
1970s into the 80s. This dugout photograph, in Yankee
pinstripes with bat in hand, appears to be taken at one of
those games. Fine.
Ted Williams Autobiography, Signed By Him
141. (BASEBALL) WILLIAMS, Ted. My Turn at Bat:
The Story of My Life. New York, 1969. Octavo, original
half white cloth, dust jacket. $1100.
First edition of Williams’ intensely personal autobiography,
“the story of a loner who never sought, and
even resisted, the popularity he deserved,” signed by him.
The story of the life and
extraordinary baseball
career of perhaps the
game’s most controversial
player, told by Ted Williams
himself. “The book
also contains… the most
authoritative commentary
ever written on the art of
hitting a baseball.” Light
foxing to bottom text-edge,
minor soiling to original
price-clipped dust jacket.
Signed By 25 New York Mets Ballplayers
142. (BASEBALL) VECSEY, George. Joy in Mudville.
New York, 1970. Octavo, original half gilt-stamped
turquoise cloth, dust jacket. $1250.
First edition of this “complete account of the unparalleled
history of the New York Mets from their most perturbed
beginnings to their amazing rise to glory and renown,”
signed by 25 Mets players, including Tommie Agee, Donn
Clendenon, Duffy Dyer, Tug McGraw, Cleon Jones, Al
Weis, coach Eddie Yost and manager Yogi Berra. Book
and signatures fine, dust jacket near-fine.
“Don’t Forget. Please Feed The Cat”
143. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New
York, 1958. Octavo, original canary yellow cloth, dust
jacket. $2200.
First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly
Golightly.
“If you want to capture a period in New York, no other
book has done it so well… He could capture period and
place like few others” (Norman Mailer). With three other
stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar” and “A
Christmas Memory.” Book about-fine, dust jacket
extremely good.
“I Can Smell Lots Of Goodies”
144. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) GRUELLE,
Johnny. Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land. New York, Joliet
and Chicago, circa 1931. Octavo, original
half blue cloth, box. $950.
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First or early edition of this delicious
installment in the Raggedy series, with
beautiful color illustrations.
After his daughter recovered from an
illness in 1915, cartoonist Johnny Gruelle
began making copies of a rag doll he had
designed for the sick child; and, in 1918,
Gruelle’s book of Raggedy Ann Stories saw
print, with Andy appearing in his own title
two years later. Book fine with only the
most minor foxing, original box unusually
well-preserved. Beautiful.
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Original Signed And Inscribed
Schulz Drawing Of “Sally”
145. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE)
SCHULZ, Charles M. Pencil drawing
of “Sally,” signed. Sebastopol,
California, circa 1960. Single sheet of
illustration board measuring 7-1/2 by
9-1/2 inches. $2200.
Original full page pencil drawing of
Charlie Brown’s younger sister, Sally,
signed by Schulz and additionally
inscribed in Schulz’ hand: “For Jim
from Sally.”
Schulz was the most widely syndicated
cartoonist in history. His character
Sally, Charlie’s younger sister, “has a lot of trouble with
malapropisms, both in speech and writing. One of the
strip’s running jokes is the unintentionally humorous
school reports she gives at the front of the class, which are
frequently inspired by malapropisms and end with her
feeling humiliated” (NationMaster). Fine.
“A Little Masterpiece”: First Edition In English
Of Bambi In Scarce Original Dust Jacket
146. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) SALTEN, Felix.
Bambi: A Life in the Woods. New York, 1928. Octavo,
original green cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First trade edition in English, illustrated by Kurt Wiese,
in scarce original dust jacket.
Felix Salten is the pseudonym of Hungarian journalist
Siegmund Salzmann. Bambi first appeared in German in
1923—this edition in English was preceded only by a
scarce limited edition of 1000 copies. Shelf numbers,
including one sticker on book spine and written on dust
jacket spine. Near-fine.
Lady And The Tramp, First Edition
147. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) GREENE, Ward.
Lady and the Tramp. New York, 1953. Octavo, original
half orange cloth, dust jacket. $1250.
First edition of this Disney classic.
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After Greene wrote “Happy Dan, The
Whistling Dog,” Walt Disney asked
him to develop the short story into a
full-length novel. The Disney film
was based on this novel. With
charming illustrations by Joe G.
Rinaldi. Near-fine.
Signed By Amelia Earhart
148. EARHART, Amelia. 20 Hrs. and
40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship.
New York, 1928. Octavo, original
burgundy cloth. $1750.
First edition, second printing,
illustrated with 61 black-and-white
photographic plates, signed by Earhart.
Earhart writes: “I can only hope that some of the fun of
flying the Atlantic has sifted into my pages and that some of
the charm and romance of old ships may be seen to cling
similarly to the ships of the air.” This second printing was
printed two months after the first. Without scarce dust
jacket. Fine.
149
Biography Of Confederate General Beauregard
149. (CIVIL WAR) ROMAN, Alfred. The Military
Operations of General Beauregard. New York, 1884. Two
volumes. Octavo, original green cloth. $900.
First edition of this “valuable source on the first victor of
the Confederacy” (Eicher 186).

With frontispiece portraits, a full-page engraved plate
depicting Fort Sumter before and after the War, and a fullpage
map of Charleston City and Harbor.
“This work is highly laudable on its subject
and highly critical of Beauregard’s enemies;
the general himself penned a good part of the
text” (Nevins II:86). With errata slip in Volume
I. Near-fine.
“A Triumph Of Scholarly Tribute”
150. (CIVIL WAR) (LEE, Robert E.)
FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. R.E. Lee: A
Biography. New York and London, 1940. Four
volumes. Octavo, gilt-stamped pebbled blue
cloth, wooden shipping crate. $1250.
Early “Pulitzer” edition of Freeman’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning biography of the Confederate general, in
scarce publisher’s wooden shipping crate.
Illustrated with full-page photographs, facsimiles, maps
and battle plans. Freeman, the son of a former Confederate
soldier, “was invited in 1915 to write a biography of Lee for
Scribner’s… His biographical method produced an ample,
empathetic, and ruminative treatment, abundantly
researched and documented, a triumph of scholarly tribute”
(DAB). First published in 1934-35. Fine.
“When The Battle Waged Hottest, Sheridan
Was At His Best”
151. (CIVIL WAR) SHERIDAN, P.H. Personal
Memoirs. New York, 1888. Two volumes. Octavo, original
gilt-stamped pictorial dark green cloth. $650.
First edition of Sheridan’s military autobiography, with
27 maps (many folding) and 17 plates.
“A military classic with occasionally surprising
literary content” (Eicher, 200). Here, Sheridan
recounts three decades of military service,
including his many decisive Civil War campaigns
and his later Indian campaigns, his military
governorship of Texas and Louisiana and his
tenure as commander-in-chief of the army after
Sherman’s retirement. Sheridan completed the
work days before his death in 1888. Without rear
free endpaper in Volume I. Near-fine.
“Lusty, Violent, Wildly Funny” (Dorothy Parker)
152. DONLEAVY, J.P. The Ginger
Man. Paris, 1955. Small octavo,
original printed green paper
wrappers. $1500.
First edition of Donleavy’s first and
most celebrated novel.
“While Donleavy’s first novel was not
quite as much of a coup for the
Olympia Press as Vladimir Nabokov’s
Lolita, which they published the
same year, it was nevertheless more
literary than some of their
publications… Unfortunately, it also
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led to the Press’ downfall, when the
author sued the proprietor, Maurice
Girodias, for breach of contract. Girodias was obliged to
sell his firm’s title and had the further humiliation of seeing
Donleavy buy it at auction… The attendant publicity
ensured that Donleavy’s reputation as a writer of bawdy
farces became firmly established” (Parker, 319). Near-fine.
Ice Axe, Boldly Signed By Sir Edmund Hillary
153. (EVEREST) HILLARY, Edmund. Ice axe signed.
No place, circa 1955. Wood and steel shaft measures 39
inches; steel blade measures 9 inches. $2000.
Authentic vintage ice axe boldly signed by Sir Edmund
Hillary on the wooden shaft at a later date.
Expected wear and rust from age and use. Fine.
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Signed By Judy Garland
154. GARLAND, Judy. Program
signed. Philadelphia, April 29, 1961.
Slim octavo, measuring 6 by 9 inches;
pp. [4]. $1800.
Original concert program for an April
29, 1961 performance by the legendary
Judy Garland at Philadelphia’s Academy
of Music, boldly signed by her.
On a Saturday evening in April 1961,
Judy Garland gave an especially
memorable concert—“An Evening
With Judy”—benefitting the Polio
League of Philadelphia and the March
of Dimes. This signed program is a wonderful memento
from that night. Small trace of tape removal to one leaf, not
affecting text. A fine signed program.
“Paris Is A Moveable Feast”
155. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New
York, 1964. Octavo, original half rust cloth gilt, dust
jacket. $500.
First edition, with eight pages of photographs.
Hemingway declared to a friend in 1950: “If you are lucky
enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever
you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is
a moveable feast.” Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket
about-fine.
1688 English Koran In Contemporary Calf
156. (KORAN) ROSS, Alexander. The Alcoran of
Mahomet. London, 1688. Octavo, contemporary full
brown speckled calf rebacked. $1800.
Third edition of the first translation of the Koran into
English, with a life of the Prophet.
Ross translated from Du Ryer’s French translation
(1647), first published in 1649. The sacred book of Islam
was not translated directly from Arabic into English
until George Sale did so in 1734. First published in a
quarto edition in 1649, followed by an octavo edition in
the same year. Near-fine.
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“Blessed Is The Fruit Of Thy
Womb…”
157. (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated
Leaf from a Book of Hours. Poitiers,
France, circa 1470. Single vellum leaf,
measuring 4-1/2 by 6 inches, illuminated in
gold, black, brown, red, purple, green, gray,
white and blue inks. $1700.
Splendid illuminated manuscript leaf from
a 15th-century Book of Hours, containing
the entire text of the Ave Maria and
portions of Matins, with two two-line
initials, two elaborate floriated borders,
two birds, and two grotesques, richly
rendered with gold and lapis lazuli.
Written in 14 lines of neat, regular Gothic book hand in
brown, gold and red inks, the text also includes a twoline
initial in gold on a blue ground. There is a lovely
border composed of acanthus leaves in blue and gold;
green, gold, and black leaves; gray and white flowers; an
exquisite green and blue bird; and a beautifully executed
simian drollery. The verso has 14 lines of text, one twoline
capital, a similar border, one nearly identical bird
and a very similar drollery. Fine.
157

“My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord…”
158
158. (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated Leaf from a
Book of Hours. Poitiers, France, circa 1470. Single vellum
leaf, measuring 4-1/2 by 6 inches, illuminated in gold, black,
brown, red, mauve, green and blue inks. $1700.
Beautiful illuminated manuscript leaf from a 15th-century
Book of Hours, containing the entire text of the Magnificat
and the antiphon to Psalm 97, with 11 initials, two
elaborate floriated borders, and two grotesques, richly
rendered with gold and lapis lazuli.
The Magnificat (Luke 1:41-55) is, according to Roman
Catholic teaching, “the song of the Mother of God and of
the Church.” Written in 14 lines of neat, regular Gothic
book hand in brown, gold and red inks, the text also
includes a two-line initial in gold on a mauve ground and
three one-line initials in gold (two on blue, one on mauve).
There is a lovely border composed of acanthus leaves in blue
and gold; green, gold and black leaves; blue flowers; and a
richly rendered drollery featuring a human head, animal
ears and a bird’s body. The verso has 14 lines of text, seven
one-line capitals, a similar border and a nearly identical
drollery. Fine.
Signed By Irving
159. IRVING, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany.
New York, 1989. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust
jacket. $1600.
First trade edition, signed on the title page by John Irving.
“An amazingly brave piece of work” (Stephen King). Nearfine,
scarce signed.
“Shaped At Least Two Generations’
Understanding”
160. (KENT, Rockwell) SHAKESPEARE, William.
Complete Works. Garden City, 1936. Two volumes.
Folio, original blue cloth, vellum spine labels, custom
clamshell box. $1500.
Signed limited first edition of this handsomely illustrated
Shakespeare, one of only 750 copies, signed by the artist
Rockwell Kent.
Kent’s 40 dramatic full-page illustrations, including two
two-color frontispieces, “have, like the Moby Dick images,
shaped at least two generations’ understanding of the
characters portrayed” (Stanley 48). Without original
slipcase. About-fine.
Inscribed By Jake La Motta
161. LA MOTTA, Jake. Raging Bull. Englewood Cliffs,
1970. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $1250.
First edition of the controversial champion’s autobiography,
inscribed: “To my good friend Carl, Luck,
health & Happiness. keep punching. Jake La Motta.” The
basis for Martin Scorsese’s 1980 Academy Award-winning
film starring Robert De Niro. With a laid-in publisher’s
slip. About-fine.
Signed By Harper Lee
162. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York,
1999. Octavo, original gray paper boards, dust jacket. $1200.
Fortieth Anniversary edition, signed by Harper Lee. Fine.
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“Suspended Between Radiance
And Darkness”
163. MCCULLERS, Carson. The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston,
1940. Octavo, original buff cloth, dust
jacket. $2500.
First edition of McCullers’ first novel,
in scarce dust jacket.
With this novel, young McCullers
“immediately achieved great critical
prominence” (Hart, 242). “No matter
what the age of its author, The Heart Is
a Lonely Hunter would be a remarkable
book. When one reads that McCullers is a girl of 22 it
becomes… something beyond that, something more akin
to the vocation of pain to which a great poet is born” (New
York Times). Near-fine. Scarce.
Limited First Edition Of Japon Japonais,
With Over 100 Heliogravures Of Images
By Yoichi Midorikawa
164. MIDORIKAWA, Yoichi. Japon Japonais. Lausanne,
1959. Quarto, original plain stiff boards, photographic
French wraps. $1800.
Limited first edition of this scarce postwar photobook on
Japan, reserved for members of la Guilde du Livre, with
over 100 velvety heliogravures (many full page) featuring
the work of award-winning Japanese photographer Yoichi
Midorikawa.
The over 100 heliogravures capture a culture in transition,
with images of factory workers and rural villagers, women
pearl divers and elegant artists of the tea ceremony, lyric
seascapes of swirling mist and moonlight, and astounding
panoramas of hillsides sculpted into productive farmland.
One of 10,000 copies printed for members of la Guilde du
Livre. Text in French. About-fine.
First Edition In English Of The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle, Signed By Haruki Murakami
165. MURAKAMI, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle. New York, 1997. Octavo, original pictorial blue
paper boards, dust jacket. $950.
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First edition in English, signed:
“haruki, 11/7/05.”
“A wildly ambitious book that not only
recapitulates the themes, motifs and
preoccupations of Murakami’s earlier
work, but also aspires to invest that
material with weighty mythic and
historical significance” (New York
Times). First published in Japanese in
three volumes, 1994-95. Fine.
Scarce First Edition Of
Lamb’s Illustrated History
Of New York
166. (NEW YORK CITY) LAMB, Martha J. History of
the City of New York: Its Origin, Rise and Progress. New
York, 1877. Two volumes. Thick quarto, original beveled
gilt-stamped purple cloth. $1200.
First edition of Lamb’s important History, with extensive
coverage of New York’s colonial days and its role in the
Revolution, featuring 31 full-page tinted plates, numerous
in-text illustrations and maps, eight full-page maps (two
hand-colored) and the double-page Ratzer Map of New
York City, 1767.
Lamb’s two-volume History is highly valued as the “most
complete history” of New York City to that time. “Far
superior to any earlier work on the subject… The work won
acclaim for [Lamb] as one of the most advanced women of
the century” (DAB). Volume II bound without plate IV.
Near-fine.
Inscribed By President Nixon
167. NIXON, Richard. Six Crises. New York, 1962.
Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $850.
First edition, inscribed by the 37th president in the year of
publication: “To Frank Curcio from Dick Nixon. 4-5-62.”
Nixon recounts the case against Alger Hiss, the anti-
American riots in South America and the 1960 Presidential
campaign, among other experiences. In addition to the
personalized inscription Nixon wrote by hand, this book
features an autopen signature (“Richard Nixon”) on a
tipped-in leaf. Owner embossed stamp on same page as
Nixon inscription. Fine.

Ten Vintage Gelatin Silver Prints Of Gaza
During The 1956 Suez War
168. (MIDDLE EAST). Photograph Collection. The
Suez War of 1956. San Francisco
Examiner, 1956-1957. Ten prints
altogether. Vintage gelatin silver
prints (most measure 8 by 10
inches). $750.
Scarce collection of ten vintage
gelatin silver prints documenting
the 1956 Suez War, dramatically
focusing on the lives of refugees in
Gaza from November 1956 to
March 1967.
Two images attributed to
photographer Fred Bayat, one to
Rene Jarland, others unassigned.
Most prints with in-negative
captions of the Associated Press
(AP) or International News Photo
(INP); two with the news story or
a photographic clipping tipped to print verso. Prints verso
with inkstamps of the San Francisco Examiner or INP. A
fine collection of images.
Signed 12-Volume Set Of O’Neill’s Plays
169. O’NEILL, Eugene. The Plays. New York, 1934-35.
Twelve volumes. Tall octavo, original gilt-stamped russet
cloth. $2500.
Signed limited “Wilderness Edition,” one of 770 sets signed
in Volume I by O’Neill, with introductory notes by O’Neill
and photogravure frontispieces.
“O’Neill was the great wrestler, fighting God to a standstill.
The theater will forever need the towering rebuke of his life
and his work and his agony” (Arthur Miller). This set
includes Strange Interlude; Mourning Becomes Electra; The
Emperor Jones; Ah, Wilderness!; All God’s Chillun Got
Wings; Lazarus Laughed; Marco Millions; The Hairy Ape;
Beyond the Horizon; Welded; Dynamo; Diff’rent; The Straw;
The First Man; Days Without End; Gold; The Great God
Brown; Anna Christie; Desire Under the Elms; The Fountain;
and nine one-act plays, including the famous “Before
Breakfast.” Without original glassine or slipcases. Fine.
“Timshel!”
170. STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York, 1952.
Octavo, modern full red morocco gilt. $2600.
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Signed limited first edition of this
modern story of Cain and Abel,
one of 1500 copies signed by
Steinbeck.
Of East of Eden, Steinbeck
declared, “I think everything else
I have written has been, in a sense,
practice for this” (Salinas Public
Library, 45). Without scarce
original acetate or slipcase. A fine
signed copy, handsomely bound.
Signed By Styron
171. STYRON, William. Sophie’s
Choice. New York, 1979.
Octavo, original red cloth, dust
jacket. $550.
First trade edition of the award-winning novel, signed by
the author.
“Powerfully moving” (Burgess, 99 Novels, 121). Sophie’s
Choice received the first American Book Award for fiction.
About-fine.
Beautifully Illustrated Biography Of
Queen Victoria
172. (VICTORIA) HOLMES, Richard. Queen Victoria.
London and Paris, 1897. Folio, contemporary threequarter
brown morocco gilt, boards gilt-stamped with
royal arms. $985.
First trade edition of this biography of Queen Victoria,
attractively bound by Zaehnsdorf, illustrated with 41
photogravure and engraved plates, including a fine handcolored
frontispiece.
Holmes served as Librarian of Windsor Castle and wrote
this largely personal biography to refute “many little myths”
that had grown up around Victoria’s life. Bookplate of
English historian Thomas Hodgkin. Fine.
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