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Iowa City, Iowa: The Stone Wall Press, 1960. First Edition, no. 59 of 180 copies printed on Rives Light by Kimber Merker and Raeburn Miller, out of a total edition of. Collects the three volumes of poetry Kees published before his disappearance in 1955: The Last Man, The Fall of..... Read More about The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees. Edited by Donald Justice
Price: $1,000
New York: Harper & Brothers, -1968. First edition. Inscribed by Maxine Kumin: "for Evvie with best wishes- Maxine Kumin" (on front flyleaf). Read More about THE PASSIONS OF UXPORT. A Novel
Price: $50
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1915. First edition with Osler’s introduction; fourth edition overall, originally published in 1827. "This charming 'autobiography' tells of the adventures of the famous gold-headed cane, successively in the possession of Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, William and David Pitcairn, and Baillie, and then retires to a glass..... Read More about The Gold-Headed Cane. With an Introduction by Sir William Osler … and a Preface by Francis Packard
Price: $100
London: 1800s. A collection of sketches, prints, and letters from and to noted English portrait painter, Sir David Wilkie. Sir David Wilkie (b.1785 - d.1841) was a Scottish-born painter known for his historical scenes and portraits, and was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Included..... Read More about Sir David Wilkie archive of letters, including 13 ALS from Wilkie, received letters, ephemera,...
Price: $13,500
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Rackham, Arthur. First Rackham edition, one of 2020 copies, designed and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers, who signed the colophon. Rackham's last work, a beautiful interpretation of this beloved classic, and a choice book designed by Bruce Rogers. Read More about The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne
Price: $1,250
London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition. Beautiful Copy of a Classic. “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” A beautiful copy of the rare first edition of the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes novels. Read More about The Hound of the Baskervilles
Price: $7,500
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. First edition. Author's First Book. Read More about Sister Carrie
Price: $3,500
[New York]: A Seymour Lawrence Book, Delacorte Press, [1969]. First edition. A beautiful copy of this 20th century high-spot. Vonnegut’s most powerful novel, for which he drew on his experience as a prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden. Read More about Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death
Price: $4,000
Port Praya, Cape Verde Islands: January 27, 1845. "... Lieut. Reid came into my cabin and informed me that Mr. Hurst had been brought on board badly wounded. On going into the Ward Room I found that a ball from one of the ship pistols had passed through both his..... Read More about Contemporary true copy of an autograph letter signed from H. Bruce to Matthew C. Perry, detailing...
Price: $650
Twelvetree Press, [1981]. Third Edition, one of 5000 casebound. 80 black-and-white photographs by George Platt Lynes. With introductory texts by Jack Woody, Glenway Wescott, Lincoln Kirstein, and George Balanchine. Read More about George Platt Lynes Phoographs 1931-1955. With introductory texts by Jack Woody, Glenway Wescott,...
Price: $200
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1902. Presentation copy, signed with initials on the upper wrapper. Separately-issued offprint from Modern Philology (Vol. 11, No. 2, Octobert 1904) by the noted Boston etymologist and OED contributor Albert Matthews considering the origins and usage of the word "lynching" Read More about The Term Lynch Law
Price: $200
Kowaliga, Alabama: August 22, 1912. The letter begins: "Imagine in a remote rural community of Alabama, one thousand colored men, women and children 'leveling up' by means of the school-life which the name at the top of this letter-head signifies ... The uplifting influence of this unique work is all..... Read More about Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the Kowaliga...
Price: $500
Circa 1865. Located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the canal's 1864-65 construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island which was controlled by Confederate artillery. Miller reproduces this image..... Read More about Dutch Gap Canal and group of soldiers including an African American solider at the left holding a...
Price: $350
Newport, Rhode Island: February 20, 1793. Invitation to a Washington Birthday Celebration. Although first created as a federal holiday in 1889, public celebrations of Washington's birthday can be traced to as early as during the Revolutionary war. Nevertheless, this letterpress invitation to a ball in Newport is a very early..... Read More about President's Birth-Night ... [partly-printed card within a typographic border, accomplished in...
Price: $3,500
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition. Scarce first edition of Du Bois's autobiographical collection of essays, verse and fiction, rarely found with the dust jacket. "If The Souls of Black Folk achieved its singular impact through W.E.B. Du Bois's masterly interweaving of the personal and the universal..... Read More about Darkwater. Voices from within the Veil
Price: $7,500
New York: Bunnell and Price, 1852. First edition. The 1835 Great Moon Hoax was prompted by a series of six articles published in the New York newspaper The Sun, about the supposed discovery of life and even civilization on the Moon. Read More about The Celebrated "Moon Story," its Origin and incidents; with a Memoir of the Author, and...
Price: $850
![Item #346651 Hunting with Rifle and Camera in the Canadian Rockies [Spine title]. Joseph McAleenan](/pictures/thumb/346651.jpg?v=1672847239)
[New York: Privately printed, 1916]. One of 20 copies, inscribed by the author. Diary of one of the "winter re-unions" (p. 3) in the Canadian wilderness of the author and his friends (Dr. Harlow Brooks, John Murgatroyd, George Clifton, Ed. Deming and others). “This hunt ... would be largely photographic..... Read More about Hunting with Rifle and Camera in the Canadian Rockies [Spine title
Price: $17,500
Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858. Second Edition. The Model for ‘Uncle Tom’. This second edition is vastly enlarged (by 136 pages) from the first of 1849. It was the original 76-page narrative which gave Harriet Beecher Stowe the inspiration for her character of “Uncle Tom.” In fact, the 3rd edition..... Read More about Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Price: $500
New York: Thomas Greenleaf, April 30, 1794. Beginnings of American Populism. The populism of the French Revolution arose in the nascent United States largely in the formation of Democratic Societies. "In their brief career, the societies and their activities provoked considerable controversy. By organizing public or semi-public discussions of political..... Read More about Greenleaf's New York Journal &c. Extra ... The Democratic Society of this city having...
Price: $2,400
Paris: Pierre Husson, 1706. From the collection of John Waldie (b.1781 - d.1862), who was the administrator of Hendersyde Park at Kelso, Roxburgshire, Scotland. Read More about Méthode abrégée et facile pour apprendre la géographie… avec un abrege de la sphere…
Price: $500
London: John Cassell, 1852. Cruikshank, George. First Cruikshank edition. Immensely best-selling in England and America. BAL identifies one edition (BAL 19518) — not illustrated — which precedes this edition by a few weeks, but the Cassell edition, being by far the more desirable, has traditionally been called the English first..... Read More about Uncle Tom's Cabin
Price: $1,250
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-1886. First edition, the deluxe binding. Deluxe Copy in Superior Condition. The president and Civil War general's remarkable memoir, written in the final years of his life as he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Suffering both physically and financially, as the result of financial..... Read More about Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Price: $3,000
Exeter: Dec. 12, 1854. Albert W. Lovering (1823-1907) would become one of the largest booksellers of the 19th century, operating a thriving business in Boston and subsequently in New York. But prior to opening those stores he operated a shop in his hometown of Exeter, New Hampshire. The present broadside..... Read More about Christmas & New Year's Gifts ... Games for the Juveniles, viz; Goody Two Shoes, Dr. Busby,...
Price: $1,500
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, edition of 950 copies, this copy unnumbered and marked for Review. Inscribed. First edition of one of the most beloved books of American sporting stories. The title story was first published in Recreation magazine in 1916, collected in John C. Phillips’ Classics..... Read More about De Shootinest Gent'man and other tales. Introduction by Col. Harold P. Sheldon
Price: $1,750
London: Putnam, 1924. First edition. First Book, Inscribed. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, Isabel Adams from Leslie Hartley. An outstanding copy of the first book from this L.P. Hartley (1895-1972), whose other works included The Go-Between (1953), with the famous opening sentence, “The past is a foreign country: they do..... Read More about Night Fears and other stories
Price: $7,500