A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
n.p. Edwin A. Abbey Sketchbook. Extracts from an early Edwin Abbey sketchbook, containing 19 pencil sketches signed by Abbey. Some are rudimentary sketches of trees and shrubs, others detailed, complete drawings of landscapes and houses This album was given to Abbey Thom Kissel from his grand-uncle Alden Freeman, in appreciation..... Read More about Sketchbook of drawings
Price: $9,000
Quincy [MA]: 11 September 1843. John Quincy Adams Supports U.S. Purchase of Noah Webster's Synopsis. In this letter to Noah Webster's son William G. Webster, the former President endorses the suggestion of “purchasing the synopsis of [your father's] great work and causing it to be deposited in [the Library of..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed, to the son of Noah Webster, concerning his support of the Federal...
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[Ca. June 2, 1980]. Read More about "'Il Penseroso,' by John Milton”
Price: $7,500
London: George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Garden. New York: 112, Fourth Street, 1891-1901. The poets (and number of volumes) are: Akenside (1), Beattie (1), William Blake (1), Burns (3), Butler (2), Chatterton (2), Chaucer (6), Churchill (3), Coleridge (2), Collins (1), Cowper (3), Dryden (5), Falconer (1), Goldsmith..... Read More about The Aldine Edition of British Poets
Price: $7,500
[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and..... Read More about The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...
Price: $10,000
New York: [May 12, 1951]. Read More about Portrait photograph of Judith Anderson as Medea
Price: $3,500
[published New York: Limited Editions Club, printed by Edmund Thompson at Hawthorn House in Windham, Conn, 1935]. The complete set of Angelo's fine, oval miniature drawings for the fine LEC edition Hawthorne's classic, comprising his original illustrations for the cover, the title page, and the 21 chapter headpieces. Quite as..... Read More about 23 original drawings, mostly signed ("Valenti Angelo"), for Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE...
Price: $2,750
London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. The Glory of the English Bow. One of the more important archery books of the period after Ascham’s TOXOPHILUS (1545), written by Wood who was "Marshall to the Regiment of Archers." It..... Read More about The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed...
Price: $4,000
Amsterdam: Gedrukt [by Hendrik Harmensz] voor d'Autheur, waar by dit werk ook te bekomen is, op de Bloemgraft, omtrent de drukkery van d'Heer Blaauw : en by Timotheus ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper in de Nes, naast de Brakke-Gront, 1685. First edition. Prophets, Oracles, and Sacrifices. Four-part work on religion in the..... Read More about Spiegel der Sibyllen, van Vierderley Vertooningen ... Seer rykelijk verçiert met allerhande...
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London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. First edition of one of the most celebrated titles in children’s literature, a work whose small illustrated format heralded a change in children's publishing, and a book that has achieved classic status while remaining explosively controversial. Read More about The Story of Little Black Sambo
Price: $6,000
London: Witherby for the New York Zoological Society, 1918-1927. First Edition, no. 67 of 600 numbered copies. Beebe's text was been called "perhaps the greatest ornithological work of the present century, notable not only for its beauty and the wealth of information it contains, but also for the unusual grace..... Read More about A Monograph of the Pheasants
Price: $4,500
[Rapallo?]: 1914. Lord Northcliffe Trains a One Penny Elephant. Lord Northcliffe as Ringmaster training an elephant with '1d' on its head; Northcliffe reduced the price of the Times to one penny in 1914. Read More about Lord Northcliffe (“The Times”
Price: $11,000
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"The Old Selves contemplate the Siamese-twin figure of the Young Selves, each holding a stick, labelled BEGGAR-STAFF. The two had won fame as poster-artists called the Berggarsatff Brothers." Hart-Davis. Reproduced in Observations, 1925. Read More about The Old and the Young Self, inscribed [William Nicholson:] 'Who were that?' [James Pryde:] 'Who...
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Originally published in Small Beer, one of Bemelmans’ early books, based on his experiences in Hollywood. Read More about “His hands danced the flight of the giant whistling butterflies”
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n.p. Original Bemelmans Watercolor Studies. Ludwig Bemelmans (1892-1962), Austrian-born American painter and writer, drew on his hotel and restaurant experiences for many of his stories and novels, which he often illustrated with his own sophisticated drawings and watercolors. Although he also wrote for adults, he is perhaps best known for..... Read More about Watercolor studies of Madeline and Pepito and the head of a young woman
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London: Printed for C. Stalker, 1787. First edition, with half-title. Begins with a chapter on the natural history of fish, goes on to the best manner of making and choosing rods, lines, hooks, etc. Chapter IV provides a description of flies. "Best was Keeper of His Majesty's Drawing-room in the..... Read More about A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. Confirmed by actual Experience, and Minute...
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First book edition of Harper Bible (first issued in 54 parts). Harper Bible in Deluxe American binding. A copy in deluxe binding of the first complete book edition of the Harper Bible. "...this Harper publication was a remarkable production for its time and place..... Read More about The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original...
Price: $8,000
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Wilmington, Delaware: (Privately Printed. Printed by the Anthoensen Press Portland, Me), 1965. First edition. Probably 50 or 100 copies. Mostly reminiscences of the Tuscarora Club, near Margaretville in the Catskills, but also with a trip to the Beaverkill one rainy April day. Portraits of Ogden Pleissner, Carl Martin, Jr., etc. Inscribed..... Read More about Tuscarora Recollections, [Preface by David J. Reinhardt, Jr
Price: $3,500
St. Charles County, Missouri Territory: July 5, 1819, September 8, 1827 and October 30, 1876. Signed by Daniel Boone's Sons, Daniel M. and Nathan. Daniel Boone (1734-1820), born near Reading, Pennsylvania, is known as a great pioneer and Indian fighter. His family left for North Carolina in 1750 and settled..... Read More about Together, three documents signed by Daniel Boone's sons: Manuscript Document, signed by Daniel M....
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[New York: March 24, 1938]. Van Vechten, Carl. Reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAITS (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Margaret Bourke-White
Price: $3,750
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London: W. Sams, Book & Printseller, to the Royal family opposite St James's Palace, 1825. Third state, the first being produced in 1818. A large and important depiction of an exhibition sparring match held in Fives Court, in London's Little St. Martin's Street, a tennis and fives court hired for..... Read More about The Interior of the Fives Court, with Randall and Turner Sparring. Engraved by C[harles] Turner...
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[New York]: 1923. Original Huck Finn Illustration by Worth Brehm. A poignant and surperbly drawn depiction of the scene when Huck, out hunting on Jackson's Island, meets the runaway slave, Jim. Huck stands at the left of the drawing, while Jim, at the foot of a large tree, kneels in supplication..... Read More about Illustration for Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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New York: 1910. Worth Brehm. Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm. A moment of high drama, as, observed by Tom and Huck above, the mysterious Spaniard and Injun Joe unearth the box of treasure in the cellar of the haunted house. Read More about “‘Pard, There’s Thousands of Dollars Here’ said Injun Joe”
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New York: 1910. Worth Brehm. Original Tom Sawyer Preliminary Drawing by Worth Brehm. A very interesting drawing indeed, showing Tom, in profile, seated on a barrel with other boys standing by, directing one of a series of his chums who, for a consideration, he has allowed to whitewash the fence..... Read More about Preliminary drawing for illustration to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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