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New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. First edition. Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers published in 1859, although here focused on the greenhouse and garden. "Contains 16 very beautiful full..... Read More about Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature
Price: $4,500
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1997). One of 525 sets. Read More about The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Price: $2,250
[Cambridge, Mass.]: Privately Printed [by the Harvard University Printing Office], 1951. First edition. Discursive account of highlight of the author’s partridge shooting experiences, chiefly in New Hampshire, with extensive references to his shooting journals during a twenty-year period. Read More about Partridge Adventures
Price: $750
London: Chatto and Windus, 1926. First edition. Collects “Two or Three Graces”, “The Monocle”, “Half-Holiday”, and “Fairy Godmother”. Read More about Two or Three Graces and Other Stories
Price: $225
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Clark, Roland. First edition, one of 535 copies. ‘One of the most beautiful of the Derrydale Press books’. A lovely copy of a scarce volume that is less a book than a work of art. Roland Clark's matchless drypoints, printed from the plates on..... Read More about Stray Shots
Price: $2,000
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First edition. Nice copy of a landmark work in the modern environmental movement. Read More about Silent Spring
Price: $850
[Worcester Park, Surrey]: Kerosina Books, 1988. First trade edition, one of 1,000 copies (edition of 1276). Signed. A choice collection of stories by the ever so tricky Gene Wolfe: “it is possible to claim that Wolfe's importance for the field lay in a spongelike ability to assimilate generic models and..... Read More about Storeys from the Old Hotel
Price: $225
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928. First American trade edition, printed July 1928, preceded by an edition circulated to “Friends of ‘The Inner Sanctum’” in advance of publication. In Dust Jacket. As John Galsworthy noted, “a little masterpiece”. One of the books that launched the fortunes of SImon & Schuster..... Read More about Bambi. A Life in the Woods. Foreword by John Galsworthy. [Translated by Whittaker Chambers
Price: $1,000
Boston: Damrell & Moore, 16 Devonshire Street, 1856. Read More about The Unfortunate Mountain Girl: A Collection of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Price: $75
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. First edition. "The following Lectures were delivered in Boston during the spring of the present year; and in their purpose was to arouse women to a knowledge of physical laws, to show them how their dress defies these laws, and what different garments they should adopt..... Read More about Dress-Reform: A Series of Lectures Delivered in Boston, on Dress as it Affects the Health of Women
Price: $1,250
Paris: A Philadelphie, Et se trouve à Paris, Chez Ph. D. Pierres ... Pissot père & fils, 1783. The Franklin-inspired French edition of the constitutions of the original thirteen states of the newly created United States of America. Only 600 copies were printed for Franklin, of which 100 were on large..... Read More about Constitutions des Treize États-Unis de l'Amérique
Price: $4,500
Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren, -1962. First edition, text in English. "STIG LINDBERG: Swedish Artist and Designer" (1962). Stig Lindberg (1916-1982), Swedish artist and industrial designer, noted for his innovative designs in various mediums including ceramics (won a Gold Medal at the First International Ceramics Festival, in 1962, in Prague), glass..... Read More about STIG LINDBERG: Swedish Artist and Designer. Berndt Klyvare: Photo. Dag Widman: Text
Price: $400
Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1882. Author's Edition, Revised, Enlarged, Newly Illustrated and Written up to December, 1881. Presentation copy inscribed by Barnum to Mrs. Tom Thumb. Inscribed to Mrs. Tom Thumb. Signed and inscribed by Barnum: "To Countess Magri (Mrs. Tom Thumb) with best wishes" and dated Novembe 2, 1888."..... Read More about Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections
Price: $3,500
Boston: W. B. Clarke Company, 1908. Extra-Illustrated. An engaging history of this controversial Revolutionary war officer, chiefly remembered for being the first to finger Benedict Arnold. Originally presented as an address to the Fort Rensselaer chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Scarce. Read More about Colonel John Brown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold. An Address...
Price: $500
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New York: J. M. Elliott, Printer, [ca. 1838]. A rare promotional broadside for Chang & Eng, the original "Siamese Twins" who became a cultural phenomenon in the United States, England, and Europe in the 1830s. The broadside is undated and has blank spaces filled in with the date and duration..... Read More about Siamese Twins. For [1] Day only. The United Brothers, Chang-Eng
Price: $1,600
[Philadelphia]: [Childs and Swaine], 1794. In 1791, as part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program, the Federal government issued a tax on distillers of whiskey. After several years of tension and hardships faced by farmers on Pennsylvania's western frontier (for whom whiskey was a principal source of income), violence began spreading..... Read More about Third Congress of the United States ... An Act directing a Detachment from the Militia of the...
Price: $3,500
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950. No. 489 of 1500 numbered copies, designed by Bruce Rogers and signed by Frost, Rogers, and Nason. Signed by Frost, Rogers, and Nason. In 1949 the LEC awarded Frost their Gold Medal in recognition of his being “that American writer who, during the five..... Read More about Complete Poems. With a Preface by the Author, an Appreciation by Louis Untermeyer
Price: $2,250
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Prichard & Hall, 1791. First American edition. Appearing in Woodfall's "Public Advertiser" from January 1769 to January 1772, the "Junius Letters" were very outspoken against the government, especially against the actions and decisions of the Duke of Grafton and Lord North, and they expressed very..... Read More about The Letters of Junius
Price: $650
Bingham, Maine: Arthur R. Macdougall, Jr, [1939]. First edition. Copy no. 378 signed and numbered by the author on the flyleaf. Signed by the Author. Choice collection of yarns by the beloved Maine author. Attractive copy, scarce in jacket. Read More about The Sun Stood Still and Other Dud Dean Stories. Introduction by Ray P. Holland
Price: $250
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1932]. First American edition. In Dust Jacket. Another scathing satire by Waugh, the tale of the arrival of Oxford educated Seth, who undertakes to bring Civilization to his native Azania, with the aid of a young rogue and fellow classmate at Oxford. Read More about Black Mischief
Price: $575
New York: Brentano’s [Printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh, 1924]. Attractively bound collection of Keats, including many beloved poems. Read More about The Poems of John Keats. Arranged in Chronological Order with a Preface by Sidney Colvin
Price: $600
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Didion. First edition of Didion's novel of an American political wife's affair with a CIA operative in the wake of the Vietnam War, narrated by none other than Didion herself. It was released with jackets in both brown..... Read More about Democracy. A Novel
Price: $1,500
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1917. Rackham, Arthur. First Rackham Edition. Finely bound for Asprey with Lancelot inlay. Read More about The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte...
Price: $1,750
New York/London: Blue Moon Books and John Calder, 1988. Brocquy, Louis le. Limited edition, number 168 of 200, signed by the author and the artist. Superb Copy of Beckett's Last Work. Beckett's last work, with illustrations by Louis le Brocquy, including one original duotone lithograph. Limited to an edition of..... Read More about Stirrings Still
Price: $3,500
