A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition. Presentation from Eliot to Allen Tate. With the error at page 29, line 1 “here” for “her.” A remarkable association copy, with the following pre-publication presentation inscription from Eliot to his American friend and admirer, poet and critic Allen Tate: "To Allen Tate from..... Read More about The Cocktail Party. A Comedy
Price: $6,000
Boston: Houghton MIfflin, 1917. First Edition. With a Fine Collection of Original Photographs. Engraving by Bartolozzi with his signature, engraving of Henry Arthur Jones and his signature. Read More about Passages from the Journals of Thomas Russell Sullivan 1891-1903
Price: $2,500
February-March, 1887. The Florida Frontier, 1887. Assembled by a party of men on an extended tour and hunting expedition in the area, the album documents numerous locations in southwest Florida in the period immediately following the extension of the Florida Southern Railroad into the Peace River region in 1886. All... Read More about Album of 63 photographs of Outdoor Scenes in the Myakka Frontier, Peace River, and Fort Myers...
Price: $10,000
1977. One of six examples, signed by the 3 Dettes: Walt, Winnie, and Mary on the back of the display. Read More about The Catskill Collection of the Dettes
Price: $3,250
Los Angeles: August 25, 1939. Fonda and The Grapes of Wrath: a Contract with 20th-Century Fox. Under the terms outlined in this contract (e.g., $3,250 per week), Henry Fonda was destined to star in the film which won him an Academy Award nomination for best actor, the film by which... Read More about Typed Contract Signed between Fonda and Twentieth-Century Fox, a one-year contact to begin with...
Price: $4,500
London: Printed for the Author. To be sold by Henry Mortclock [sic] at the Phenix, 1694. First edition. Read More about Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland. Wherein most or all of the Cities,...
Price: $10,000
March 7, 1941. Inscribed beneath the image, "For Beryl Harold Levy, with every good wish from his fellow-worker in the vineyard of understanding the judicial process. Felix Frankfurter March 7, 1941." Levy was a legal scholar, philosopher, author, and an expert on the legal opinions of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo... Read More about Portrait photograph of Justice Felix Frankfurter, signed and inscribed to Beryl H. Levy
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[New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1929. First edition, first state, one of 100 copies copies on Dutch charcoal paper. Frazier’s first state, one of one hundred copies on Dutch Charcoal paper (identified by the spacing of the chain lines) and with the transposed lines on page 31 uncorrected. Read More about Why
Price: $3,250
London: Published by George Harrap, 1935 - 1936. Gooden, Stephen. One of 12 sets of proofs pulled before the copper plates were steel-faced, each plate being in the final state, and each signed by Gooden at lower right corner. Gooden's Aesop, one of 12 sets of Proofs. A rare and... Read More about Aesop's Fables
Price: $12,500
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 about Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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London: 1 March 1876, 23 November 1876. Grant on His Friend Gordon's First Tour of Duty. COL. GRANT ON GORDON'S FIRST TOUR OF DUTY IN AFRICA: In the March 1876 letter, Grant notes The Times's report on Gordon's contemplation of retirement. "It is reported ... that my excellent friend Colonel... Read More about Two Autograph Letters signed to Carl Christian Giegler, Chief of Sudan Telegraph, in Khartoum
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[Portland, Oregon: Published by Champoeg Press, 1980]. The Archive of the Book. In mid-1978, George Grant and Champoeg Press editors Bob Wethem and Dick Abel entered into negotiations which culminated in the 1980 publication of a limited edition of Mr. Grant's book, The Master Fly Weaver. The archive of correspondence... Read More about The Master Fly Weaver. [Editor's Archive of Correspondence and Galleys
Price: $5,000
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 about Chess Made Easy: or, The Games of Gioachino Greco, the Calabrian; with Additional Games and...
Price: $3,750
[New York]: Privately Printed [by The Derrydale Press], 1929. First edition, first issue , no. 58 of 100 copies, with errata on page 49 tipped-in. Printed by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press. One of 100 copies. A choice copy of a rare book. Inscribed by the author on the... Read More about El Greco
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London: Vinton & Co, 1897. Edition De Luxe, no. 60 of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author on the title page of each volume. One of 100 Signed Copies, With an Added Fly Tied by Halford. Frederic M. Halford (1844-1914), author and angler of the late Victorian and... Read More about Dry Fly Entomology: a brief description of leading types of natural insects … with the 100 best...
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London: George Routledge, 1913. First combined edition. Presentation Copy to John Henderson, With Correspondence. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY to angling author and master fly tyer John Henderson (senior) who contributed a chapter "Dry-Fly on Lough Arrow" (an outstanding trout fishery in Ireland) illustrated with three photogravure plates from his negatives. Several... Read More about The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. A Complete Manual. Including The Fisherman's Entomology and the...
Price: $7,500
New York: E.F. Dutton, 1910. Edition De Luxe, no. 4 of 50 copies for the USA (plus another 75 for the UK), signed by the author. A lavish example of book production, superbly illustrated, and with the complete set of 33 actual flies mounted in Vol. II. Read More about Modern Development of the Dry Fly: the new dry fly patterns, the manipulation of dressing them,...
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New York: July, 1942. Hammett on Pozner "...the best novel that has come out of this war" A rare and beautiful example of Hammett's hand, and a remarkable sentiment from the author of THE MALTESE FALCON. Hammett responds to the publisher's request: "Vladimir Pozner's 'The Edge of the Sword' is by... Read More about Autograph Note signed ("Dashiell Hammett ") at the foot of a TLS from David Sablodowsky...
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New York: Dutton, 1930. First edition, one of 100 copies SIGNED by the artist. John Held Jr.'s Caricatures of Sport. A fine example of Held's humorous line and superb draftsmanship. Shown are ladies and gentlemen enjoying the following pursuits: Hunting, Fox Hunting, Fishing, Golf, Water Skiing, Snow Skiing, Parachuting, Tennis... Read More about Outlines of Sport [with:] original pen and ink drawing of a fishing scene, the third picture in...
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Paris: Chez Durand, 1758. First edition, second issue. Banned and Burned: the Rare First edition. First edition of the last major work of the French philosopher and encyclopédiste Helvetius, De l'esprit (On the Mind) was condemned by the Church and the Sorbonne for its uncompromising atheism, regarded as dangerously revolutionary..... Read More about De l'esprit
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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 about Typed Letter, signed (“Ernie”), to George Brown, his boxing coach and trainer
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1976. Original Drawings. A beautiful album of the original drawings for Angling for Atlantic Salmon by Shirley E. Woods (Angler’s & Shooter’s Press, 1976). Read More about Original Pencil Drawings for ‘Angling for for Atlantic Salmon’ by Shirley E. Woods 1976
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Orléans: G. Jacob for H. Herluison, 1868. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of perhaps no more than three copies. FIRST EDITION. Herluison limited his edition to 78 copies, a very few of which were printed on vellum. The present vellum copy is numbered 3 and initialled by the author/publisher. This book... Read More about Recherches sur les imprimeurs & libraires d'Orléans
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New York: Privately Printed for The Jockey Club, 1922-1980. First editions. COMPLETE SET. A cornerstone of any racing library, including the now very difficult to find Vosburgh volume, and the final volume in the series by William H. Rudy. Read More about Racing in America 1665-1979
Price: $2,750
