1911. Fine Flint Frontispiece: "Perseus and Danaë" Beautiful watercolor with mythological content by Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969) who was a member, and later president, of the Royal Academy; his exceptional draughtsmanship, coupled with a superb sense of color and highly imaginative powers of composition, made him one of the... Read More

v.p: 1920-1922. American Impressionist Garber Encourages A Young Artist. An interesting and rather heartening correspondence between an established artist, the American impressionist Daniel Garber, and his pupil and protégé, Austin Purves. It includes a letter from Garber to the even more established artist Edward Howland Blashfield, decorator of the Great..... Read More

[ca. 1950 - 1993]. A rich collection of photographs, autographs, personal records, LPs and ephemera from the personal collection of bebop pioneer Dizzy Gillespie, which amply records the trumpter's outsized personality and his importance as a global jazz ambassador. Includes Dizzy's own collection of mostly larger format photographs of other... Read More

London: Done for the George G. Harrap Co. limited edition of 125 copies, 1940. Stephen Gooden (1892-1955) was the most accomplished line engraver of his time. He illustrated a number of books, among them the Nonesuch Press Bible, the Rubaiyat, the Fables of La Fontaine, George Moore's The Brook Kerith... Read More

London: J. and P. Knapton ... and W. Standby .. 1750. Second edition. Beautiful Copy. Second edition of this compilation of the games of one of the strongest players of the 17th century, complete with the terminal leaf of errata.Uncommon. Read More

Scott Field, Illinois: November 3, 1945. “TELL ME THE CENTER, THE CORE… I WANT YOU TO USE AS YOUR BLUEPRINT AND PLAN TO LIVE BY, TO THINK AND DREAM BY, TO SPEAK BY, AND TO WRITE TO ME BY”: ORIGINAL EIGHT-PAGE 1945 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY WOODY GUTHRIE. Original signed... Read More

[Carmel, Calif: 1927]. Hagemeyer Portrait of Suffragist Sara Bard Field. Magnificent portrait of the great suffragist, reformer, activist, free-thinker, and poet, Sara Bard Field (1882-1974). Bard was also the passionate lover of the anarchist C.E.S. Wood, and the couple lived together in a celebrated "free union" first in San Francisco..... Read More

London: Vinton, 1902-1903. Halford’s Dry Fly Series. A complete set of Halford's “Dry Fly Series”, in uniform publisher’s cloth. The first title is inscribed to W.H. Pope, acknowledged by Halford in the preface as one of the “best dry-fly fishermen of the day.” With Nathaniel Lloyd, Pope “undertook the arduous..... Read More

[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1870]. Harvard's First Black Graduate, One of the “Talented Tenth”. Of particular interest is the portrait of Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard College's first black graduate and the first black graduate of a top-tier university (Slater, "The Blacks who First Entered the World of White Higher Education" p...... Read More

Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba: August 7, 1941. The Hemingways on a Diet. George Brown owned a gym in New York City where Hemingway worked out when he was in the town, and he and George Brown became fast friends, Brown serving as his trainer and boxing coach... Read More

Dated July 7, 1932. First Contract With Rko Studios For "A Bill Of Divorcement," 1932. RKO had already cast John Barrymore as the father in "A Bill of Divorcement", but the studio was having trouble casting the role of the daughter. Miss Hepburn's agent, Leland Hayward, heard about the trouble... Read More

Venedig [i.e., Vienna: printed for the author by Paul Kaltschmidt], 1926. One of 100 copies, this being no. 79. With 4-Page Typescript Story, 'Der verirrte böse Hund'. Rare novella, issued in an edition of just one hundred copies by the Viennese-born author, dramatist, and artist Friedrich (Fritz) von Herzmanovsky-Orlando (1877-1954)... Read More