Item 367144A Glance at The “Passion Play”.
Price: $1,250
London: W.H. Harrison, 33 Museum Street, 1881. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Glance at The “Passion Play” Add to Wish List
Item #367144
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Price: $1,250
London: W.H. Harrison, 33 Museum Street, 1881. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Glance at The “Passion Play” Add to Wish List
Item #367144
Price: $375
New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1859. Second edition. William Elliott (1788-3 Feb. 1863) was a third-generation South Carolina planter, writer, and sportsman. He served in the state senate for nearly two decades, and was respected as one of the most gifted planters of the old South producing..... Read More Item Details for Carolina Sports by Land and Water. Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing, Wild-cat, deer and bear hunting, etc Add to Wish List
Item #367139
Price: $1,750
[N.p., England: n.d., early 1920s?]. Poet Edmund Blunden’s holograph transcription of poems by John Clare, including The Destroyer, Obscurity, The Primrose Bank, Langley Bush, The Early Daisy, Violet and Daisy; and in typescript, The Ragwort and Flowers. The first leaves of the holograph poems show typesetting marks. Blunden was very..... Read More Item Details for Flowers and Trees [Fair Copy Transcription of Six Poems in the hand of Edmund Blunden] Add to Wish List
Item #367134
Price: $250
New York: Peace Eye Bookstore, [June 1965]. First broadside edition. Published in the final issue of Fuck You, A Magazine of the Arts (Vol. 9, issue 5), the Delcaration of Conscience calls for a "Fuck-in" to protest, and offset the bad Karma from the Vietnam war. An early piece of..... Read More Item Details for A Declaration of Conscience Against War-Creeps Add to Wish List
Item #367121
Price: $75
[New York]: Macmillan, 1970. First American Edition. SIGNED. Signed "MAURICE CXHEVALIER 1970" on the half-title. Read More Item Details for I Remember It Well Add to Wish List
Item #367107
Price: $100
Lanham, [Maryland], New York and Plymouth, UK: The Derrydale Press, [2008]. First trade edition. At head of title: The Derrydale Press Foxhunters’ Library. Substantive and well illustrated history of the celebrated Radnor Hunt on Philadelphia’s Main Line, established in 1883. Read More Item Details for Bright Hunting Morn. The 125th Anniversary of Radnor Hunt Add to Wish List
Item #367096
Price: $15,000
New York: 21 February 1953. ‘I do not want to be misquoted’. At the threshold of celebrity, Kerouac writes his friend Allen Ginsberg and Ace Books distancing himself from the forthcoming paperback original publication of William Burroughs’ first novel, Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee. Through Carl Solomon, Ginsberg..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“John Kerouac”), to Allen Ginsberg and A.A. Wyn of Ace Books re: Junkie Add to Wish List
Item #367091
Price: $2,750
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1895. First edition. Beautiful Copy. An outstanding copy of this classic ghost tale. John Meade Falkner (1858-1932) was also author of Moonfleet (1898). Read More Item Details for The Lost Stradivarius Add to Wish List
Item #367090
Price: $2,750
Paris: Édition de la Belle Page, 1950–53. First editions, from the limited issues, each inscribed by the author. VIEWS ON A CHANGING VIETNAM, INSCRIBED. Collection of four works interpreting Vietnam for a contemporary French public, written during the First Indochinese War by Tran Van Tùng (1915–post-1964), a France-based Vietnamese author..... Read More Item Details for Le Viet-Nam et sa civilisation. [And:] Le Viet-Nam au combat. Nationalisme contre Communisme. [And:] Le Viet-Nam face a son destin. [And:] Le Viet-Nam immortel Add to Wish List
Item #367089
Price: $22,500
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand, 1771. First Edition, first issue. The first published account of Cook's first voyage, and thus the first appearance of any narrative of this epochal voyage. As such, it is the first published account of discoveries made during the..... Read More Item Details for A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771; Undertaken in Pursuit of Natural Knowledge of the Royal Society: containing All the various Occurrences of the Voyage ... to which are added a Concise Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee Add to Wish List
Item #367085
Price: $165,000
London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker, 1589. First edition, second issue. With the Rare Folding Map. The first edition, second issue of one of the greatest of all travel books, presenting for the first time the many narratives of exploration and travel compiled by Richard Hakluyt..... Read More Item Details for The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500 Yeeres: Divided into several parts, according to the positions of the Regions whereunto they were directed… Add to Wish List
Item #367084
Price: $10,000
London: for George Nicol, 1790. First Edition. First edition of Bligh's account of the famous mutiny and the incredible voyage which followed. Although the mutiny is now the best known incident, the most remarkable part of the narrative is undoubtedly Bligh's account of the voyage in the Bounty's launch. His..... Read More Item Details for A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, One of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with Charts Add to Wish List
Item #367080
Price: $8,500
London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition. The full official account of the Bounty expedition, the famous mutiny, and Bligh's miraculous navigation to safety. This work "includes a revised version of the text of Bligh's narrative of the mutiny, previously published in London in 1790 ... This account was based upon..... Read More Item Details for A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew Add to Wish List
Item #367079
Price: $3,500
London: Cassell, 1948-54. First English edition. Finely bound first editions of Winston Churchill's masterpiece. Previously serialized in London's Daily Telegraph, this may be regarded as Churchill's magnum opus; it has been translated into some 20 languages. Its six volumes span the period from the end of the First World War..... Read More Item Details for The Second World War. Vol. I: The Gathering Storm; Vol. II: Their Finest Hour; Vol. III: The Grand Alliance; Vol. IV: The Hinge of Fate. Vol. V: Closing the Ring; Vol. VI: Triumph and Tragedy Add to Wish List
Item #367070
Price: $12,500
[United States]: [circa 1800]. "Published at a time when children's literature was still almost entirely moral and instructional in content, the earliest movable books helped usher in an era of more entertaining literary fare ... Stories about Harlequin and other popular characters from plays were reproduced as turn-up booklets until..... Read More Item Details for [Early manuscript copy of Sands's Metamorphosis or, A Transformation of Pictures with Poetical Explanations, with charming hand colored drawings] Add to Wish List
Item #367060
Price: $15,000
Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co, 1836. First edition. Scarce Early Texas Promotional Tract, Dedicated to Stephen F. Austin. This is Mrs. Holley's second book on Texas, intended as a practical and informative guide for emigrant's to the area. Despite the title, which is similar to the author's Baltimore 1833..... Read More Item Details for Texas Add to Wish List
Item #367057
Price: $27,500
New York: G. & W. Endicott, 1847. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on front upper wrapper in ink, in an unidentified hand: "Presented by Johnson Whiting" "Five of the rarest lithographs of the [Mexican] War" (Tyler). A very scarce series of Mexican-American War views, which according to Whiting family tradition..... Read More Item Details for Army Portfolio. By Capt. D. P. Whiting, 7th Inf'y, U.S.A. No. 1 [wrapper title, all published] Add to Wish List
Item #367054
Price: $7,500
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1914]. Nielsen, Kay. First trade edition. Inscribed by Nielsen. Fifteen wonderful stories selected from the volume of folk tales by Asbjörnsen and Moe entitled “Norske Folkeeventyr.” Danish artist Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) studied in Paris and lived in England in the years before the first world war..... Read More Item Details for East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen Add to Wish List
Item #367048
Price: $4,500
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, 1826. First edition. Flint's First Novel and the First Novel in English Set in Texas. Perhaps best know for his Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone (1833), which did much to develop the myth of Boone in the west, Flint began his career as an itinerant..... Read More Item Details for Francis Berrian, or the Mexican Patriot Add to Wish List
Item #367047
Price: $250
New York: [Peace Eye Bookstore], [1965]. First edition. Important catalogue of 276 items sold by Ed Sanders out of his Peace Eye bookshop, a lot of early New American Writing, some rare works from the Mimeo Revolution, and lots from his Fuck You Press, including an already rare full-run of..... Read More Item Details for Catalogue #4: Of Manuscripts, Holographs, Literary Relics, Drawings, Books, Magazines, Tractata, Ejaculata, Dreck, Freak-Spews, Gobble Vectors, Poetry, etc Add to Wish List
Item #367044
Price: $1,500
New York: George D. Smith, 1905. Copy number 143 of 235 copies on American hand made paper from an edition of 250 copies, signed by George D. Smith on the limitation page. First edition. Uncommon publiction of Whitman’s recollections on seeing Lafayette at the Brooklyn ferry in 1825, from an..... Read More Item Details for Lafayette in Brooklyn. With an Introduction by John Burroughs Add to Wish List
Item #367043
Price: $1,500
[New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1984]. Le Witt, Sol. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist. Finely printed text of Borges’ masterpiece, Ficciones, with introductory essay, The Designs of Jorge Luis Borges by Alexander Coleman, and silk screens by Sol LeWitt. Read More Item Details for Ficciones Add to Wish List
Item #367041
Price: $75
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1958. First Edition, one of 400. Read More Item Details for Noticias de California. First Report of the occupation by the Portolá Expedition, 1770, with facsimiles of the orginal printings Add to Wish List
Item #367038
Price: $13,500
London: Macmillan and Co, 1866; 1872. Tenniel, John. Second edition (and the first published English edition) of Alice; first edition of Through the Looking Glass, first issue. A nice set of Dodgson’s Alice books, landmarks of nineteenth-century children’s literature that have fascinated and influenced writers, artists, and readers ever since..... Read More Item Details for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking Glass; and What Alice Found There Add to Wish List
Item #367027
Price: $7,500
London: Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Co-Author Christopher Sykes’ Copy. Innocence and Design is satirical novel and travel book about Persia (called Media in the book), written under the Waughburton pseudonym by Robert Byron and his friend Christopher Sykes, with illustrations by Sykes. This is Sykes’ copy of the first edition..... Read More Item Details for Innocence and Design by Richard Waughburton Add to Wish List
Item #367022