A choice selection of books, manuscript material and original art from all fields.
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 about Perseus and Danae
Price: $15,000
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
New York: Scribner's, 1882. A.B. Frost. Fine A.B. Frost Original Gouache. A splendid, vigorous painting, in varying tones of gray, black and white, on brown paper. It shows a group of six white-haired, uniformed, French veterans around a table in a tavern court yard, raising their tankards, and cursing those..... Read More about FINE GOUACHE ILLUSTRATION OF FRENCH MILITARY VETERANS DRINKING IN A TAVERN COURTYARD, SIGNED
Price: $2,500
[Boston: Printed by Dard Hunter, Jr, 1939]. Proof copies of the first separate edition. Printer’s Proof Copies. Laid in is a photocopy of the handbill titled “The Colonial Society of Massachusetts” detailing the poem’s history: “This poem was written and delivered by Fobert Frost at the Annual Dinner on November..... Read More about A Considerable Speck
Price: $6,000
Paris: Paris: Mérigot père, 1788. First edition. Homage to Rousseau: the English Garden at Ermenonville. 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..... Read More about Promenade ou Itinéraire des Jardins d'Ermenonville
Price: $3,000
New York: J.F. Taylor, 1903. Autograph edition, no. 24 of 50 copies. One of 50 copies, Superbly Bound. An imposing compilation of sporting personalities and statistics, illustrated with drawings and numerous photographic portraits taken especially for this book. THE TWO CHAPTER, 80-PAGE SECTION ON AMERICAN GOLF IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTING, being..... Read More about The Book of Sport
Price: $2,500
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
Price: $4,500
New York: Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House, 1928. Angelo, Valenti. No. 56 of 150 copies, SIGNED by Angelo. A superb example of the Grabhorn expertise, one of the Fifty Books of the Year; Rudolph Koch's Gothic type (Bibel Gotisch) is used here for the first time..... Read More about The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. Which treateth of the Weye to Hierusalem and...
Price: $4,000
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1926. First edition, so stated on copyright page (with publisher's code "G-A"). A scarce and desirable Zane Gray work and very much so in a really top dust-jacket. Read More about Tales of the Angler's Eldorado: New Zealand
Price: $2,500
[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
Price: $3,000
Scott Field, Illinois: October 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..... Read More about Autograph letter signed
Price: $11,800
[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 about Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field
Price: $2,500
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: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 42 of 100 copies. An engaging account of a marlin-fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay, privately printed for the author, and not offered for sale. Harkness records using bonefish for bait (pp. 9, 42-43), and seeing young tarpon, but..... Read More about Ho Hum, the Fisherman
Price: $7,500
A dialogue between husband and wife. Husband: "Why did you snub Mrs. Saville?" Wife: "Because she insisted on staying with me all evening, and the color of her dress clashed horribly with mine" Read More about "Why did you snub Mrs. Saville?"
Price: $2,500
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
Price: $5,000
1976. Complete set of the original drawings for the 16 illustrations in Gunning for Upland Birds and Wildfowl by Shirley E. Woods (Winchester Press, 1976), with one additional drawing of a red-winged blackbird not used in the book. Read More about Original Sketches by Tom Hennessey for ‘Gunning for Upland Birds and Wildfowl’ by Shirley E....
Price: $3,500
Dated June 17, 1932. Management Contract between Hepburn and Leland Hayward. Leland Hayward discovered Katharine Hepburn while she was playing the part of an Amazon queen in "The Warrior's Husband" at the Morosco Theater in New York City. Hayward felt Miss Hepburn had a star quality and after much pursuing..... Read More about Typescript document, management contract between Katharine Hepburn, the American Play Company,...
Price: $12,500
New York: 1979-1985. Charming and revealing collection of personal and business letters from Hepburn to her literary agent Freya Manston, with whom she had a long and amicable professional relationship. In 1990 Manston notably negotiated the terms of Hepburn’s 1990 autobiography with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Most of the correspondence..... Read More about Archive of 58 Typed and Autograph Letters Signed ("Kate Hep," "K. Hep," and...
Price: $5,000
Berlin: G. Fischer Verlag, [1927]. First edition, first printing with "1. bis 15. Auflage 1927" on the copyright page. The author's most famous book. Read More about Der Steppenwolf
Price: $2,500
[Long Beach, Ca: ca. 1952-3]. Hilton's last novel, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, was published in the UK and the US in 1953, the year prior to his premature death while resident in California. The archive includes the following: a) a lot of working typescript drafts on various stocks, very heavily..... Read More about Manuscript archive for his final novel, TIME AND TIME AGAIN
Price: $6,000
Hollywood, Ca: [ca. 1944-5]. Hilton's novel, SO WELL REMEMBERED, was published in the US in 1945, and attending the release of a highly successful film adaptation, in the UK in 1947, starring John Mills, Trevor Howard and Richard Carlson. This archive for the novel consists of: a) a complete carbon..... Read More about Manuscript archive for his novel, SO WELL REMEMBERED
Price: $7,500
New York: 23 March 1949. Superb portrait "Lady Day" taken in the Van Vechten studio. Arguably the finest and most haunting of the 7 portraits taken by Van Vechten from that session. With no frills, no poses, the great jazz singer stares straight out at the eye of the camera..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Billie Holiday
Price: $3,000
