Item 257754Histoire de L'Empereur Napoléon.
Price: $1,500
Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et C[i]e, 1839. Read More Item Details for Histoire de L'Empereur Napoléon Add to Wish List
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Graduation Gifts
We are pleased to present a catalogue of gifts for graduates and teachers. Whether you are looking for a book to thank an inspirational teacher, or a gift to celebrate your future lawyer, historian, or author, we have a collection of beautifully bound and rare items to mark this important time.
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Item 313189Boccaccio's Decameron.The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation framed in Ten Dayes of an hundred curious pieces, by seven...
Price: $2,000
Oxford: Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934-1935. No. 132 of 325 copies. A handsomely bound copy of this modern fine press edition of the Decameron. Read More Item Details for Boccaccio's Decameron.The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation framed in Ten Dayes of an hundred curious pieces, by seven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen Add to Wish List
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Inscribed to Henry Clay Frick II
Item 323379History of Carnegie Steel. An Inside Review of Its Humble Origin and Impressive Growth.
Price: $4,500
New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903. First edition. Author's Edition, printed throughout on imperial Japanese vellum, and full bound in crushed levant, limited to 75 numbered copies signed by the author. Additionally inscribed by the author to Henry Clay Frick II, "In memory of the grandfather whose name he..... Read More Item Details for History of Carnegie Steel. An Inside Review of Its Humble Origin and Impressive Growth Add to Wish List
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The Centenary Limited Edition
Item 317011The Collected Works of ….
Price: $4,500
[London]: The Library of Imperial History in association with Charles Scribner's Sons and the Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, [1973-75]. Centenary Limited Edition. One of said-to-be 3000 sets for both the British and American markets. The Centenary Limited Edition. The definitive set of works by Churchill, produced with the cooperation of..... Read More Item Details for The Collected Works of … Add to Wish List
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In Presentation Bindings
Item 334887A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New World; Volume III...
Price: $5,400
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956; 1956; 1957; 1958. First American Editions. In Presentation Bindings. Issued in four volumes, this is the very rare U.S. publisher's deluxe issue, bound for presentation. We have had and seen one other deluxe set of this edition, presented to the president of the Book-of-the-Month Club..... Read More Item Details for A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New World; Volume III: The Age of Revolution; Volume IV: The Great Democracies] Add to Wish List
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Item 322233Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Price: $6,000
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first issue with 6 line colophon. The US edition precedes the British by 3 years. Read More Item Details for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Add to Wish List
Item #322233
Item 300833La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English. The Italian text edited by Mario...
Price: $1,500
[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1928. No. 293 of 1475 copies. Read More Item Details for La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English. The Italian text edited by Mario Casella.. with the .English version of H.F. Cary Add to Wish List
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Finely Bound
Item 314016Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
Price: $300
Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Company, [1967]. Finely Bound. Binder's stamp on inside front cover smudged and illegible. Read More Item Details for Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary Add to Wish List
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Item 315508Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound.
Price: $12,000
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858-1885. An attractively bound set of Eliot's works, all in first edition, containing all of her major novels: Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858 (2 vols.); Adam Bede, 1859 (3 vols.); Silas Marner, 1861; Mill on the Floss, 1860 (3 vols.); Romola, 1863 (3..... Read More Item Details for Collection of first editions of her major works, uniformly bound Add to Wish List
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Item 333601One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Price: $1,950
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition in English, second state dust jacket with a period rather than an exclamation mark at the end of the first paragraph. Read More Item Details for One Hundred Years of Solitude Add to Wish List
Item #333601
Item 310398The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edited by J.B. Bury, M.A. With Introduction by the...
Price: $600
New York: Fred DeFau & Company, [1906]. Read More Item Details for The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edited by J.B. Bury, M.A. With Introduction by the Rt. Hon. W.E.H. Lecky Add to Wish List
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Gooden's Aesop, one of 12 sets of Proofs
Item 236767Aesop's Fables.
Price: $12,500
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 Item Details for Aesop's Fables Add to Wish List
Item #236767
Item 306829True Stories From History and Biography.
Price: $750
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Billings, Hammat. First Edition. This selection prints together Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old People, Liberty Tree and Biographical Stories. Hawthorne made minor revisions for this selection. Read More Item Details for True Stories From History and Biography Add to Wish List
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Item 62287God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse.
Price: $400
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955. Fifteenth printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man...Your arm's too short to box with God." Read More Item Details for God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse Add to Wish List
Item #62287
THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC TREATISE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Item 321337The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Price: $12,500
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1936. First Edition. THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC TREATISE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. First edition of Keynes’ last major work, the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, in scarce original dust jacket. The General Theory ranks with the Wealth of Nations as an intellectual..... Read More Item Details for The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Add to Wish List
Item #321337
Early work on behaviorism, by an American utopian
Item 309240Elements of Materialism: Inculcating the idea of a future state, in which all will be more happy, under whatever circumstances...
Price: $1,000
Adams, Mass: for the Author, by A. Oakey, 1829. First edition. Early work on behaviorism, by an American utopian. First and only edition of this utopian mediation on materialism which explores the physiological, social, psychological, and spiritual effects of environmental conditions and the laws of physics on individual behavior–– an..... Read More Item Details for Elements of Materialism: Inculcating the idea of a future state, in which all will be more happy, under whatever circumstances they may be placed than if they experienced no misery in this life Add to Wish List
Item #309240
The Cartesian World, Illustrated
Item 238836An Entire Body of Philosophy, According to the Principles Of the Famous Renate Des Cartes In Three Books: I. The...
Price: $4,500
London: printed by Samuel Roycroft, and sold by the undertaker Richard Blome, dwelling in New Weld-street, at the Green Pales, near Clare-Market: and at these booksellers following; Mr. Horn and Mr. Southby by the Royal Exchange; Mr. Chiswell, Mr. Clavell and Mr. Brome, i S. Pauls Church-yard; Mr. Tonson, in..... Read More Item Details for An Entire Body of Philosophy, According to the Principles Of the Famous Renate Des Cartes In Three Books: I. The Institution ... II. The History of Nature ... III. A Dissertation of the Want of Sense and Knowledge in Brute Animals ... Written Originally in Latin by the Learned Anthony Le Grand, No w carefully translated from the last Corrections, Alterations, and large Additions of the Author, never yet Published Add to Wish List
Item #238836
SPECIAL EDITION
Item 244867Lincoln, His Life in Photographs.
Price: $350
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1941]. First edition, Number 5 of a special edition, signed by the author on the half-title. SPECIAL EDITION. Read More Item Details for Lincoln, His Life in Photographs Add to Wish List
Item #244867
Item 322119Conversation at Midnight.
Price: $400
New York: Harper & Bros, 1937. First edition, Number 112 of the Limited edition of 597 copies printed on Worthy Charta Paper. Read More Item Details for Conversation at Midnight Add to Wish List
Item #322119
Item 62379Tar Baby.
Price: $150
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First edition, second printing. Read More Item Details for Tar Baby Add to Wish List
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Item 40312The Dialogues of Plato. Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions by B.(enjamin) Jowett.
Price: $500
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1875. Second edition, Revised and Corrected Throughout, with Additions and an Index of Subjects and Proper Names. Read More Item Details for The Dialogues of Plato. Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions by B.(enjamin) Jowett Add to Wish List
Item #40312
DELUXE EDITION
Item 218846Auguste Renoir. Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Vol. I (all published): Figures 1860-1890. Avant-propos de Jean Renoir; Préface de Charles...
Price: $4,000
Lausanne: Editions Durand-Ruel, [1971]. Copy XII of 150 "imprimé spécialement pour Madame Charles S. Payson." DELUXE EDITION. Read More Item Details for Auguste Renoir. Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Vol. I (all published): Figures 1860-1890. Avant-propos de Jean Renoir; Préface de Charles Durand-Ruel Add to Wish List
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Item 312947Roget's International Thesaurus.
Price: $250
London and Glasgow: Collins, [1971]. Third Edition. Read More Item Details for Roget's International Thesaurus Add to Wish List
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Inscribed to Morgenthau in the Deluxe Binding
Item 238988Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to South America, November & December...
Price: $20,000
[Washington, D.C.]: United States Printing Office, 1937. First edition, one of 75 (but probably one of only 7 in this binding). Inscribed to Morgenthau in the Deluxe Binding. A sumptously produced White House Christmas book, commemorating FDR's nearly month-long diplomatic mission to promote "hemispheric solidarity" with South America. The book..... Read More Item Details for Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to South America, November & December 1936 Add to Wish List
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Item 314012Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Price: $2,500
London: Hodder & Stoughton Publishers, [1908]. W. Heath Robinson. One of 350 copies signed by the artist. A beautiful copy of this remarkable illustrated edition of one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Though later in his career Robinson would become known for humorous illustrations and cartoons of whimsical machines, he..... Read More Item Details for Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night, or What You Will Add to Wish List
Item #314012