Item 240617Come over to My House.
Price: $600
New York: Beginner Books. A Division of Random House, Inc, [1966]. Read More Item Details for Come over to My House Add to Wish List
Item #240617
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Price: $600
New York: Beginner Books. A Division of Random House, Inc, [1966]. Read More Item Details for Come over to My House Add to Wish List
Item #240617
Price: $450
London: Richard Bentley, 1845. First edition, no half-titles. Read More Item Details for Anne Hathaway; or, Shakespeare in Love Add to Wish List
Item #323801
Price: $6,000
London and New York: William Heinemann, and Doubleday, Page & Co, 1908. Rackham, Arthur. Deluxe Edition, no. 747 of 1,000 copies. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Rackham Edition, Finely Bound. "Rackham cast his spell over the play," notes Derek Hudson, "his drawings superseded the work of all his..... Read More Item Details for A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham Add to Wish List
Item #323553
Price: $300
Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet; Dublin: W. Robertson; Liverpool: G. Philip & Son, 1862. Read More Item Details for The Poetical Works of William Shakspeare [sic] and the Earl of Surrey. With memoir and critical dissertation, by the Rev. George Gilfillan Add to Wish List
Item #315693
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
Price: $2,500
London: William Heinemann, [1926]. Deluxe edition with extra colored plate, No. 352 of an entire edition of 560 copies, 260 reserved for America. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Rackham's The Tempest, One of 560 Deluxe Copies. A lovely book, of which Hudson notes, "In 1926 an excitingly original..... Read More Item Details for The Tempest. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Add to Wish List
Item #321848
Price: $2,250
London: William Benbow, 1826. First pirated edition. Pencilled note on the Buxton Forman copy identifies this edition as a piracy. Poems selected from Benbow's edition of “Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems” published the same year. But for 1824's Posthumous Poems, this is the first selected poems of Shelley. This version reprints..... Read More Item Details for Miscellaneous Poems Add to Wish List
Item #322393
Price: $2,000
London: Printed and Published by W. Clark, 1821. First published edition, thin paper copy. Though a piracy by William Clark – with the help of book pirate Thomas Moses, whose monogram appears in black letter below the imprint on the penultimate leaf – the is the first published edition of..... Read More Item Details for Queen Mab Add to Wish List
Item #322391
Price: $700
New York: Printed by William Baldwin and Co. corner of Chatham Street, 1821. "First American Edition", variant with an engraved title-page, and with "A Philosophical Poem” in the title, printed in Old English type; actually Second Unauthorized edition. This edition is purported to be New York imprint, but has since..... Read More Item Details for Queen Mab; a Philosophical Poem Add to Wish List
Item #322392
Price: $300
San Francisco: Printed for Williams Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, 1922. No. 61 of 150 copies printed, with compliments card from Clark laid in. Beautiful Nash production and great homage to the poet. Issued with ADONAIS. Issue with a facsimile of the Pisa edition of 1821, in blue..... Read More Item Details for Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Add to Wish List
Item #322960
Price: $750
London: For the Shelley Society, 1887. One of 500. Read More Item Details for Epipsychidion … A Type Fac-Simile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1821. With an Introduction by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke and a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Edited by Robert Alfred Potts Add to Wish List
Item #322889
Price: $550
Golden Cockerel, 1944. One of 50 copies with the facsimile letters; signed by the editor Walter Sidney Scott. Handsome volume recording the correspondence of a key period in Shelley’s life. Read More Item Details for Shelley at Oxford. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg together with Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock, and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley Add to Wish List
Item #321904
Price: $1,500
London: Published For The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927. One of 780 sets. Read More Item Details for [Works] The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck Add to Wish List
Item #322893
Price: $250
National Screen Service Corp, 1951. The film is based on Shute's 1948 novel, No Highway. Read More Item Details for James Stewart Marlene Dietrich. No Highway in the Sky. … Directed by Henry Koster. … Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. 51/340 Add to Wish List
Item #322858
Price: $2,500
Stanford [CA]: 1977-1982. From Stanford to Taxi. A fun and fascinating look into the creative process of Samuel Michael “Sam” Simon (1955-2015), a dynamic and versatile force in American television who won nine Primetime Emmy Awards, eight of which were for his work on the iconic animated sitcom, The Simpsons..... Read More Item Details for Two sketch books and loose pages containing original drawings and concept artwork Add to Wish List
Item #310212
Price: $250
[United States/ (Milwaukee, Wisconsin?)]: [Privately Printed for Authors], Christmas 1932. First edition. Uncommon publication; OCLC lists only six holdings [Virginia, Arkansas State, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Denver Public Library, US Air Force Academy and New Mexico]. Inscribed to J.E. Raycroft from "Skeet." April 10-1933. Read More Item Details for REUNION ALOFT: The Log of a 5,200 Mile Flight Over the Southwestern States, October 21 - November 2, 1932. [By] L. R. Smith, '"Ray"/ C. Arthur Bruce, "Art"/ Evon A. Vogt, "Skeet"/ [and] Ed. La Parle (Pilot), "Ed" "Skipper." Add to Wish List
Item #325011
Price: $3,750
Dublin: 1794. First Irish Edition. According to Sabin, this is "generally considered the best contemporary account of the Revolution written from the British side." Stedman was a native of Philadelphia, a Loyalist who served as an officer under Howe, and later an examiner of Loyalist claims for the British government. ..... Read More Item Details for The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War … In Two Volumes Add to Wish List
Item #248283
Price: $2,500
[New York]: Ca. 1940s. A husband seated on his bed of nails imperiously summons his stubborn wife to join him on hers. "William Steig is the doyen of New Yorker artists, having contributed to the magazine since 1930. He is the author of more than forty books, including many beloved..... Read More Item Details for Original drawing for a New Yorker magazine cartoon, pen and wash Add to Wish List
Item #34326
Price: $750
Boston: The Four Seas, [1922]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Geography and Plays. Foreword by Sherwood Anderson Add to Wish List
Item #320185
Price: $250
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Forgotten Village Add to Wish List
Item #18157
Price: $9,000
Taschen, 2011. No. 29 of 125 copies with color pigment print on archival paper (print "A"), signed by Stern. Lavishly produced volume with the text of Norman Mailer’s 1973 biography, Marilyn, and photographs of the legendary actress taken by Bert Stern in a photo session shortly before her death. Read More Item Details for Marilyn Monroe Add to Wish List
Item #314786
Price: $1,000
Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2003. Limited edition of 50 copies on handmade paper and printed letterpress by Mark Linott. Read More Item Details for Study of Two Pears. Étude de Deux Poires A Poem by Wallace Stevens with a translation into French by Bernard Noel Add to Wish List
Item #324127
Price: $7,000
New York: J.B. Gibson Company, 1893. UNRECORDED CENTENNIAL HISTORY: ‘A Bulwark against Panic’. Centennial publication comprising a list of officers and committee members, a 9-page list of members, an anonymous 30-page illustrated “History of the New York Stock Exchange” from its origins in 1792 (with list of past presidents), with..... Read More Item Details for Souvenir of the New York Stock Exchange Add to Wish List
Item #244131
Price: $2,000
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. Second edition. The second edition of Strutt’s monumental work on the costume of England, first published in 1796. Read More Item Details for A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time … with Critical and Explanatory Notes by J. R. Planché Add to Wish List
Item #262717
Price: $650
New York: Printed by Collins and Co, 1819. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM DR. J.W. FRANCIS. A fascinating early American medical essay on the philosophical nature of genius and the prevalence of associated diseases of the mind, principally depression (tristimania) and delusions (amenomania), and with a further section on the abuse of..... Read More Item Details for An Inaugural Essay on Genius and Its Diseases Add to Wish List
Item #321429
Price: $2,500
[N.p., English: late 19th century]. 19th Century Illustrated Swiss Manuscript of Unusual Quality. Curious and beautifully executed manuscript with sketches of Swiss valleys and wildflowers. Unique. Read More Item Details for The Geier-Wally. A Tale of the Tyrol in Verse by PTE [Illustrated Manuscript] Add to Wish List
Item #309369
Price: $1,750
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First edition, inscribed one day before publication date. Inscribed to His Secretary, Pre-Publication. Inscribed to Tarkington's amanuensis/secretary Elizabeth (Betty) Totter, who, during the author's growing blindness, seems to have taken down this novel by dictation, and probably prepared it for publication as well: "For Betty..... Read More Item Details for Penrod Jashper Add to Wish List
Item #321044
Price: $1,250
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1881. Pyle, Howard. First edition thus. Pyle's second book. Pyle's second commission to illustrate a book, after Yankee Doodle, published the same year. “The Lady of Shalott, designed in the rather florid Art Nouveau style enjoying popularity in England, was quite unlike any other..... Read More Item Details for The Lady of Shalott Add to Wish List
Item #322319
Price: $600
London: Edward Moxon, 1859. First edition, second issue, with verso of title with imprint of Bradbury and Evans. Read More Item Details for Idylls of the King Add to Wish List
Item #222451
Price: $2,250
London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition, first state of page 91 as "19" and with ‘carcanet’ (for ‘coronet’) on p. 72, with errata. FIRST ISSUE IN BOARDS. Read More Item Details for Poems, Chiefly Lyrical Add to Wish List
Item #322936
Price: $4,500
Bronx: July 14, 1974. In full: "Before leaving U.S. I just want to thank you for all the concern you have for the poor of the world, and also for all you are anxious to do for them. I will prey for you and yours, that He may always be..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter, signed ("M. Teresa M.C."), to Robert MacNamara, thanking him "for all the concern you have for the poor of the world" Add to Wish List
Item #320128
Price: $150
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. Read More Item Details for Of the Farm Add to Wish List
Item #58694
Price: $450
Paris: A. Quantin, 1886. First edition. Read More Item Details for La Francaise du Siècle. Modes-Mouers-Usage Add to Wish List
Item #250137
Price: $100
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Van Allsburg, Chris. First edition. When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment. Read More Item Details for Just a Dream Add to Wish List
Item #265007
Price: $300
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1985]. Van Allsburg, Chris. First edition. A Caldecott award winner and New York Times bestseller. The story of a young boy who takes the train to the North Pole and meets Santa and his elves. This classic Christmas tale has enchanted children for the last 30..... Read More Item Details for The Polar Express Add to Wish List
Item #264963
Price: $400
New York: Wu-Shan Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment, 2011. First edition, trade issue. One of 1964 copies. The recordings, which are duplicated on the albums and CDs, feature audio conversations, songs, spoken word performances, and sound experiments from various contributors along with a recording from Ivan Karp. Read More Item Details for Fifteen Minutes Add to Wish List
Item #322388
Price: $300
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1954]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Ponder Heart Add to Wish List
Item #214645
Price: $1,250
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825, 1826. Cruikshank, Robert. First edition. ROBERT CRUIKSHANK. A vast panorama of high and low life in Regency England, from aristocratic London and the fashionable spas to pubs and boxing rings and street markets and sailors' carousals and town-and-gown riots, all caught in Westmacott's text..... Read More Item Details for The English Spy. An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle Add to Wish List
Item #248060
Price: $950
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Siskind. Read More Item Details for Song of the Open Road Add to Wish List
Item #324016
Price: $1,500
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892-1894. Number 445 of 750 copies of the "Artists' Edition" Number 1 of 750 Sets, with Illustrations by Pyle, Remington, and Darley. With a 2-1/2 pp. ALS tipped in from Whittier from Danvers, Mass. in 1883. Read More Item Details for The Works of…including Sanuel T. Pickard's two-volume Life and Letters Add to Wish List
Item #320929
Price: $4,000
San Francisco: C.A. Murdock & Co, 1887. First edition of the author's second book. In Rare Dust Jacket. Laid in are a signed half-tone photograph of Wiggin and a signed 2 page note by her (undated). Read More Item Details for The Birds' Christmas Carol Add to Wish List
Item #322312
Price: $1,000
New Haven, CT: New Directions, 1964. First edition, second issue, with pp. 19-22 tipped in and Scene Two starting on p.21. Inscribed. Inscribed by Williams to Bob Wilson, owner of the Phoenix Book Shop, on the front free endpaper. Perhaps Williams' least successful play. In a 1971 interview with Rex..... Read More Item Details for The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Add to Wish List
Item #320839
Price: $2,000
[New York]: New Directions, [1971-1981]. First editions, signed on the flyleaf or title page in Vols. 2-6. SIGNED, VOLUMES 2-6. An outstanding set of the collected theatrical writings of Tennessee Williams. Volumes 2-6 are signed by the author. The set consists of Volume I: Battle of Angels, The Glass Menagerie..... Read More Item Details for The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Add to Wish List
Item #41324
Price: $300
[Philadelphia: Blandsford and Inskeep, 1808-1814. Wilson is the Father of American ornithology. He was born and raised in Paisley, Scotland.American Ornithology was published the first seven volumes of his landmark work on American birds between 1808 and his death in 1813; the eighth and ninth volumes, edited by George Ord..... Read More Item Details for Hand-Colored Engraving from the Birds ... 1. The Common Coot. 2. Purple Gallinule. 3. Gray Phalarope. 4. Red Phalarope. 5. Wilsons Plover . Drawn from Nature by A. Wilson. Engraved by J.G. Warnicke Add to Wish List
Item #239004
Price: $300
[Philadelphia: Blandsford and Inskeep, 1808-1814. Wilson is the Father of American ornithology. He was born and raised in Paisley, Scotland.American Ornithology was published the first seven volumes of his landmark work on American birds between 1808 and his death in 1813; the eighth and ninth volumes, edited by George Ord..... Read More Item Details for Hand-Colored Engraving from the Birds ... Plate 43. 1. Turtle Dove. 2. Hermit Thrush. 3. Tawnwy Thrush. 4. Pine swamp Warbler . Drawn from Nature by A. Wilson. Engraved by A. Lawson Add to Wish List
Item #239003
Price: $75
[San Francisco: The James H. Barry Co, 1961]. First edition. Tiger Hunting. Read More Item Details for Shikar Add to Wish List
Item #321959
Price: $1,200
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First American edition. Attractive copy of the first full length novel featuring Bertie Wooster and the immortal, imperturbable Jeeves. Read More Item Details for Thank You, Jeeves Add to Wish List
Item #315634
Price: $200
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Bonfire of the Vanities Add to Wish List
Item #324123
Price: $1,250
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Wyeth, Andrew. First edition. Inscribed Copy to Lincoln Kirstein. INSCRIBED by the artist to Lincoln Kirstein on the half-title: "To Lincoln & Fido / Betsy & Andy." Kirstein, who was on the board of MoMA, met Andrew Wyeth after the museum acquired CHRISTINA'S WORLD in 1948..... Read More Item Details for Andrew Wyeth Add to Wish List
Item #244136
Price: $750
Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, [1980]. First edition. Inscribed to Lincoln Kirstein in the artist's hand, "For Lincoln / With love / Andy -" An outstanding association copy. Kirstein, who was on the board of MoMA, met Andrew Wyeth after the museum acquired CHRISTINA'S WORLD in 1948. Wyeth was still largely..... Read More Item Details for Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Aquarelles, Dry Brush, Dessins Add to Wish List
Item #244188
Price: $1,200
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, [1970]. First edition. INSCRIBED by the artist to Lincoln Kirstein, "For Lincoln / with love / Andy" and with a post-script, "The FINNISH VIRGIN / is still hanging in the Mill House / -A." Wyeth is likely referring to THE VIRGIN (1970), his celebrated nude..... Read More Item Details for Andrew Wyeth. Introduction by David McCord. Selection by Frederick A. Sweet Add to Wish List
Item #244145
Price: $9,000
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, c. 1921. Original Illustration of Winkle by Wyeth. A charming pen-and-ink sketch of Rip Van Winkle inscribed to Veronica S. Hutchinson. Hutchinson was a Carnegie Institute of Technology-trained librarian who worked first as a children's librarian at the Cleveland Public Library before joining the rare book..... Read More Item Details for Ink drawing of Rip Van Winkle Add to Wish List
Item #320296
Price: $600
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. Read More Item Details for The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary Add to Wish List
Item #234474
Price: $600
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. Read More Item Details for The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary Add to Wish List
Item #309570
Price: $3,500
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Warde, Frederic. First edition, one of 642 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half-title. Read More Item Details for The Winding Stair Add to Wish List
Item #302451