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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,...
Price: $1,000
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,...
Price: $1,000
Basil: Printed and sold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1796. Read More about Sketches of the History of Man considerably enlarged by the last additions and corrections
Price: $900
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
Price: $2,500
![The Salmon Fly. [With:] Tips. George M. Kelson](/pictures/thumb/254862.jpg?v=1534806300)
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
Price: $1,750
![Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. [with:] The Last...](/pictures/thumb/232748.jpg?v=1534805400)
London: Edward Moxon, 1823; 1833. First edition, first issue of the first series; first English edition of the second series. A Lovely Copy. An irresistible copy of Lamb’s classic essays. Read More about Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. [with:] The Last...
Price: $2,000
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
Price: $2,500
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
Price: $1,500
London: Printed for G. & J. Robinson, 1804. First edition, with half-titles. A BEAUTY. First edition in an Irish binding of Sophia Lee's partly autobiographical epistolary novel. It was translated into French by Madame de Salaberry and published under the title Savinia Rivers, ou le danger d'aimer. Read More about The Life of a Lover
Price: $7,500
N.p: March 10, 1864. 'Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, / And Edith with golden hair': The Children's Hour. Beautiful presentation of this fair copy by Longfellow of one of his most delightful poems, "The Children's Hour" [ ... ] Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, fair copy, of "The Children's Hour," Signed ("Henry W....
Price: $12,500
1778. State of the French Government: Louis XVI attempts Reform, 1776-8. In a law dated 18 March 1776, Louis XVI attempted to rationalize the organization of provincial governments, and the present manuscript is the resulting report on the actual ranks and classes of the various provincial government officials. The principal..... Read More about Etat des gouvernemens tant généraux que particuliers et des Etats Majors du Royaume...
Price: $12,500
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...
Price: $3,000
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
Price: $3,000
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
Price: $2,000
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
Price: $12,500
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London: John Murray, 1846-7. First editions of Melville’s first two novels: Typee in first issue, p.19 l.1 reading “Pomarea”; Omoo with signature P present on p. 209 (BAL state A). ‘Typee’ & ‘Omoo’ in First Issue. Melville’s first novel was based upon his experiences living in the Marquesas after he..... Read More about Typee.] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesa...
Price: $4,500
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
Price: $1,000
![L'immunité dans les maladies infectieuses [title in Russian]. Elie Metchnikoff](/pictures/thumb/25789.jpg?v=1534803967)
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
Price: $2,000
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
Price: $1,000