Portrait photograph of Chester Himes.
New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes
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New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes
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Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. First edition, Large Paper printing. Signed by Holmes, Jr. Signed in blue ink and dated May 23, 1930, by then Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Read More about The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell
Price: $3,500
Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1831. Johannot, Tony. First edition, third issue. First edition, third issue, of Hugo's first great success as a novelist, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, in a fine retrospective binding by René Aussourd. Though styled the "Troisème Édition" on the title-page, this is in fact the third issue of..... Read More about Notre-Dame de Paris
Price: $15,000
vp [Washington, D.C.; Dublin]: vd [1792-1811]. Early 19th century American and Irish political library of Maryland Congressman Alexander McKim. Alexander McKim (1748-1832) fought in the Continental Army, serving under Lafayette. He was elected to the Maryland Senate and the United States Congress as a Democratic-Republican in the 11th through 13th..... Read More about Collection of 51 American and Irish Political pamphlets, from the library of Maryland...
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Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report, "The best by far of these individual reports...It is a long, carefully written journal, consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report..... Read More about Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857 and 1858 by Lieutenant Joseph C....
Price: $2,000
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1980]. First edition. Inscribed by Lady Bird. Inscribed “For Jane [Engelhard] — with ally my love — and appreciation for your true friendship for Lyndon — Lady Bird”. Read More about Lyndon. An Oral Biography
Price: $350
[Washington: n.d., 1960s]. A fine informal photograph of President Johnson with author and hunter Robert Ruark. Read More about Photograph of the President, seated in a chair beside author Robert Ruark and another official,...
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. London: Hutchinson & Co, 1902. First American edition, from English sheets. Johnston (1858-1927), British explorer and colonial official. His early interest in the natural sciences was combined with his concern for the political problems of colonial Africa. He began his first trip to sub-Saharan..... Read More about The Uganda Protectorate. An attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany,...
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Underwood, 55 Broad St., Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Pa: Jan. 1947. Author's Corrected Typescript, Signed on Title. David H. Keller, M.D. (1880-1966), was born in Philadelphia and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. After practicing medicine for more than a decade, he became an neuropsychiatrist in 1914, and subsequently practiced in..... Read More about Corrected Typescript Signed of his novel, The Homunculus
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London: The Author, 1895 & 1901. First Editions. Read More about The Salmon Fly. [With:] Tips
Price: $2,750
New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. Kirmse, Marguerite. First edition, one of 750 copies. British-born Marguerite Kirmse (1866-1954) trained in London as a harpist and artist. Arriving in New York in 1910, she found herself unable to perform because oftroubles with the musicians’ union. She worked as an artist, and began..... Read More about Marguerite Kirmse's Dogs. Introduction by Reginald T. Townsend
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London: Martin Secker, [1929]. First edition no. 218 of 250 copies of the deluxe issue. Read More about Pansies
Price: $1,250
Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American edition, one of 56 copies to secure copyright. One of 56 Copies. Poet and diplomat James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) burned bright and briefly. He joined the diplomatic service in 1908, trained for two years, and was posted to Constantinople in 1910, “but..... Read More about An Essay on Flecker
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London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. First Edition, No. 34 of 500 copies. Read More about Men in Print. Essays in Literary Criticism
Price: $550
New York: George H. Doran Co, 1927. First American Edition, Number 209 of 250 copies on white laid watermarked paper. With line drawings from the 1926 ‘Seven Pillars’. Original price $30.00. Read More about Revolt in the Desert
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Paris: de L'Imprimerie de la République, an VI - an VIII [1798-1800]. First edition, octavo issue (Atlas volume is vol. IV of the quarto issue). French Circumnavigation. Substantial account of the 1790-1792 circumnavigation by French creole Etienne Marchand (1755-1793), who sailed from Marseilles in the Solide, round Cape Horn to..... Read More about Voyage autour du Monde pendant les Années 1790, 1791, et 1792 … précédé d’une...
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Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1903. Number 49 of 60 copies printed on Japan Paper, with the etched plates in three states, two of which are colored by hand, with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOLLOWING THE TITLE, SIGNED BY ROCHEGROSSE. Read More about Le Poison des Pierreries
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1963]. First edition. Read More about Leaving Cheyenne
Price: $2,500
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Fifty-seventh edition. Inscribed to Ronald Colman. "To Ronald Colman In the hopes that some day, not in too far distant, our acquaintance will not be limited to screen and book. Sincerely yours H. C. McNeile 'sapper" Nov. 34." Read More about Bull-Dog Drummond
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Saint-Paul, A.-M: Les Cahiers du Contadour, [n.d., 1939]. First edition in French, one of a very few copies printed. 'Je m'appelle Ishmaèl" — véritable édition originale de Moby Dick en français. The first notice of Moby Dick in French dates from the first volume of the Revue des Deux Mondes..... Read More about Moby Dick. Traduit de l’Américain par Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith et Jean Giono
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Pawlet, Vt: The Banyan Press, [1954]. First edition, copy no. 123 of 210 numbered copies. Merrill's extremely scarce early collection, this copy inscribed to Robert Wilson (owner of the famous Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village) in 1964. Read More about Short Stories
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St. Petersburg: 1903. First edition in Russian. Inscribed Classic of Immunology. First Russian edition of a classic of immunology, for which the author won a Nobel Prize in 1908, sharing it with Paul Ehrlich. This copy is inscribed (in Russian): "To Joseph Mankovich Krauzman in fond remembrance from Elia M...... Read More about L'immunité dans les maladies infectieuses [title in Russian
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London: Bohn, 1842; 1854. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Superb Hand-Colored Plates. The "great work" (ODNB) of Samuel Meyrick (1783-1848), antiquary and leading historian and collector of arms and armor. Meyrick's Inquiry into Antient Armour was first published in 1824 and appears here in an expanded edition. Meyrick constructed Goodrich..... Read More about A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England,...
Price: $6,000
New York: Privately Printed and Published by The Anglers' Club of New York, 1954. First edition, one of 591 copies. Inscribed to John McDonald. "A collection of the small lures", notes the author on the title page, "on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good..... Read More about Fishless Days. By Sparse Grey Hackle
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London: T.C, Newby, 1845. First edition. Sporting Triple-Decker. "The aim has been simply to depicture ... those invigorating scenes connected with our national sports ... " - Preface "Like his contemporaries, 'Nimrod' (C.J. Apperley) and 'Yorkshireman' (Surtees), Mills deserves the foremost recognition amongst the ranks of those versatile scribes, pertaining..... Read More about The Old Hall; or, Our Hearth and Homestead ... In Three Volumes
Price: $850