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Whitney Darroiw was the director of the Princeton UniversIty Press and his son was a famous cartoonist for the New Yorker. Read More Item Details for Pen and Ink Drawing "Here I Come with all best wishers for a Merry Christmas Whitney Darrow." Add to Wish List
Item #325008
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Philadelphia: July 4, 1794. In the midst of the French revolutionary wars, in January 1794 a Spanish fleet seized Fort Dauphin in Saint Domingue. That same year, in conflict with the United States over the navigation of the lower Mississippi and the boundary between the United States and Spanish Florida..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed, "Edm: Randolph" as Secretary of State, to Messrs. Viar and Jaudens, the Spanish consuls to the United States, concerning the capture of the Ship Russell, taken as a Spanish prize at Fort Dauphin, Saint Domingue Add to Wish List
Item #376337
Price: $30,000
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First American edition, earliest issue, with bowing hobbit on title page, frontispiece mounted on stub, lacking half-title, chapter VII numbered VI, maps bound opposite to listing in illustrations, jacket priced $2.50. First American edition, in scarce original dust jacket, of the fantasy classic—"among the very highest..... Read More Item Details for The Hobbit or There and Back Again Add to Wish List
Item #378301
Price: $50,000
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The MANUSCRIPT EDITION, No. 271 of 600 sets with an inserted leaf of autograph manuscript. A bold, scrawling manuscript where Thoreau’s pen can barely keep pace with his thought. This is likely from an early draft manuscript of Walden, for there are extensive pencil annotations, words..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript leaf from working draft of WALDEN, the end of chapter III, “OF READING” [inserted in:] The Writings in Twenty Volumes, Manuscript Edition Add to Wish List
Item #338075
![Item #352741 Autograph Manuscript from Excursions [inserted in:] The Writings in Twenty Volumes....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/352741.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785340963)
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The MANUSCRIPT EDITION, No. 51 of 600 sets with an inserted leaf of autograph manuscript. A choice Thoreau manuscript on a classic American topic in an attractive set of the standard edition of Thoreau Manuscript comprises 58 lines collected in Excursions in slightly different form ("To..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript from Excursions [inserted in:] The Writings in Twenty Volumes Add to Wish List
Item #352741
Price: $1,500
London: Chapman and Hall, [1948]. Boyle, Stuart. First edition, Unnumbered copy of 250 Large Paper copies signed by Waugh and Boyle. Read More Item Details for The Loved One Add to Wish List
Item #378228
Price: $7,500
London: Gibbings & Company, Limited, 1902. Following his stint in the Office of the Chief of Cavalry in Washington, D.C. from 1927 to 1931, Patton attended the Army War College, graduating in June 1932. The present volume from his library was acquired and read by Patton at that time. Perhaps..... Read More Item Details for Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Add to Wish List
Item #375448
Price: $1,000
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1804. First edition. The first edition of the American travels of this French firebrand and social critic, who went to America to avoid imprisonment in France. The narrative is notable for Volney's comments concerning the French royalist colonies in the Ohio country. He also includes..... Read More Item Details for View of the Climate and Soil of the United States Add to Wish List
Item #377584
Price: $3,750
Atlanta: 1939. Excellent and personal letter from author Margaret Mitchell during production of Gone with the Wind, reporting her impressions on production stills (not present) from the filming of the blockbuster movie (which would be released in December 1939). Reading (in part): “The seven pictures arrived yesterday afternoon. I thank..... Read More Item Details for Typed letter, signed (“Margaret Mitchell Marsh”), to Marcella Robwin, assistant to David O. Selznick, 15 February 1939, acknowledging production stills Add to Wish List
Item #374827
Price: $7,500
New York: June 18, 1990. The autobiography of Katharine Houghton Hepburn (Knopf, Ballantine 1991), America's best-known actress, whose professional career spanned over 5 decades in an era when most women's acting careers are over after the age of 35, promised from the very outset to be best seller - which..... Read More Item Details for Typed Contract Signed ("Katharine Hepburn") between Hepburn and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for the terms of publishing the Knopf and Ballantine printings of her autobiography, ME: STORIES OF MY LIFE. With an archive of associated materials, including memoranda, letters of agreement, amendments, royalty statements, copies of contracts between Knopf and foreign publishers, press clippings, etc Add to Wish List
Item #374731
Price: $11,800
Scott Field, Illinois: 10/29/1945. “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 OFTEN INTIMATE CORRESPONDENCE WITH CHARLOTTE STRAUSS, DISCUSSING BOUND FOR GLORY. Original signed..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed Add to Wish List
Item #375830
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[United States: c.1800]. "Published at a time when children's literature was still almost entirely moral and instructional in content, the earliest movable books helped usher in an era of more entertaining literary fare ... Stories about Harlequin and other popular characters from plays were reproduced as turn-up booklets until more..... Read More Item Details for [Early manuscript copy of Sands's Metamorphosis or, A Transformation of Pictures with Poetical Explanations, with charming hand-colored drawings] Add to Wish List
Item #378285
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London: J. Johnson, 1792. First English Edition. First British edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. For the period, Bartram's work is unrivalled. "William Bartram was born in natural history. His father, John Bartram, was a self-taught..... Read More Item Details for Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, The Cherokee Country, The Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws Add to Wish List
Item #377047
Price: $9,500
Williamsburg: William Parks, 1747 [i.e. circa 1753]. First edition, third issue. One of the first American histories to be written and printed in the British colonies, and the first such in Virginia. Stith, who was well connected in the colony, had access to numerous important sources, including the library of..... Read More Item Details for The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia: Being an Essay Towards a General History of this Colony ... [Bound with:] An Appendix to the First Part of the History of Virginia Add to Wish List
Item #378294
Price: $12,500
[United States]: [circa 1800]. "Published at a time when children's literature was still almost entirely moral and instructional in content, the earliest movable books helped usher in an era of more entertaining literary fare ... Stories about Harlequin and other popular characters from plays were reproduced as turn-up booklets until..... Read More Item Details for [Early manuscript copy of Sands's Metamorphosis or, A Transformation of Pictures with Poetical Explanations, with charming hand colored drawings] Add to Wish List
Item #367060
Price: $8,500
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first issue, with "sick in tired" for "sickantired" on p. 205. In 1922, having already written This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned, Fitzgerald told his publisher Max Perkins, "I want to write something new — something extraordinary and..... Read More Item Details for The Great Gatsby Add to Wish List
Item #377213
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Charlottesville: Published by Joseph Martin, Moseley & Tompkins, Printers, 1835. First edition. Dedicated to the members of the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, Martin's Gazetteer is, as the dedication notes, "the first work which has ever appeared since the publication of Mr. Jefferson's Notes, which professed to embrace all which..... Read More Item Details for A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia, and the District of Columbia: Containing a Copious Collection of Geographical, Statistical, Political, Religious, Moral and Miscellaneous Information ... To which is added a History of Virginia from its First Settlement to the Year 1754: with an Abstract of the Principal Events from the Period to the Independence of Virginia Add to Wish List
Item #378262
Price: $3,000
London: Imprinted…by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, 1619 [colophon 1620]. An early edition of the King James Bible, which was first issued by Robert Barker in 1611. As Darlow & Moule note, "many of these Bibles were issued in a mixed state. It is practically impossible to distinguish between all..... Read More Item Details for The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New [bound with 4 supplementary works] Add to Wish List
Item #378216
![Item #375237 A Few Neighbor-Children. [Autograph Manuscript, signed]. James Whitcomb Riley](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/375237.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783717336)
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[N.p: ca. 1900. Published in The Century, January 1902, pp. 431-3; collected in The Book of Joyous Children (Scribners, 1902). “Me an’ Bert an’ Mille-Bell / Knows a Joke an’ We won’t tell” Manuscript poem, character sketches of children and their delights, in Hoosier dialect, by the Indiana poet James..... Read More Item Details for A Few Neighbor-Children. [Autograph Manuscript, signed] Add to Wish List
Item #375237
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Paris: Paris: Mérigot père, 1788. First edition. Beautiful copy of this classic illustrated account of the famous "English garden" - among the earliest of its kind on the Continent - designed by the Marquis Louis-René de Girardin in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose vision of nature inspired Girardin and who..... Read More Item Details for Promenade ou Itinéraire des Jardins d'Ermenonville Add to Wish List
Item #229842
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Oyster Bay: 1939. Theodore Roosevelt III (1887-1944) was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. He served in the first world war and as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1921–1924), Governor of Puerto Rico (1929–1932), and Governor-General of the Philippines (1932–1933). Roosevelt returned to military service in the second world..... Read More Item Details for Collection of 6 typed letters, signed (“Theodore Roosevelt” or “Ted”) from Theodore Roosevelt III, introductions and testimonials for his friend Francis Kettaneh Add to Wish List
Item #374347
Price: $5,000
Nome: [ca. 1900-1910]. An album of photographs assembled by one of the principal provisioning businesses in Nome during the Gold Rush. Many of the images are signed by Nowell, others attributable to Hegg (including several that appeared within his Souvenir of Nome, the Beau Mercantile copy included), and others attributed..... Read More Item Details for [Album of photographs of Nome during the Gold Rush, assembled by John Lewis Beau (1863-1927), owner and operator of the Beau Mercantile Company] Add to Wish List
Item #378257
![Item #352471 [Photograph album] Beaver Brook Camp, Riley Brook, New Brunswick [and:] Sisson Lake...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/352471.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774456340)
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[New Brunswick, Canada]: November 1938; November 1939]. A charming album chronicling two deer hunting trips outfitted by Paradise Fish and Game Club in New Brunswick, with Evan G. Ross as Guide for both. The owner of the album is presumed to be Ken Davis, as indicated in an article included..... Read More Item Details for [Photograph album] Beaver Brook Camp, Riley Brook, New Brunswick [and:] Sisson Lake Camp, Nictau, New Brunswick, Canada Add to Wish List
Item #352471
Price: $10,000
Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. "A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history" (Phillips). A landmark of American sporting publication, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the publication ceased with the 4th part..... Read More Item Details for The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports Add to Wish List
Item #373706
Price: $8,500
Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken the Publisher Opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street, October 1775. An important issue of this important American magazine, the only magazine issued in America during the Revolutionary crisis. This issue includes a fine engraved folding "Map of the Present Seat of War on the Border of..... Read More Item Details for The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum. For October, 1775 Add to Wish List
Item #378152