One of three copies for the family. One of 3 Copies. Rare collection of photographs taken and, likely, developed and assembled all by Avedon himself, rather than by his studio, and characteristic of his private life, but not of his public oeuvre. The negatives are said to have been destroyed..... Read More about Saroyan family album

[Rochester, NY ?]: 1899. First edition and apparently unrecorded. A manuscript slip, " 'Compliments of the 'Children,' " is tipped in before the first leaf. UNRECORDED. Illustrated diary of William B. Burke's three-week hunting and fishing trip up the Saguenay River into the country south of Chicoutimi in early October..... Read More about Memories of Chicoutimi

New York: Random House, [1965]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed for Anya and Harold Arlen. Inscribed by Capote "For Anya and Harold [Arlen]/with much love from/Truman Capote [this crossed out] (ha ha)" on the half-title. Dated below in pencil Apr 26-67. And with a Random House compliments slip laid-in "The..... Read More about In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899. First edition, first printing, second state with single quotation mark on p. 459. Read More about The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes

Princeton, NJ: Privately printed, 1902. One of 60 copies, “LX Exemplarum in Usum Amicorum”. The text of this essay by President Cleveland originally appeared as an article in The Saturday Evening Post. Read More about A Defense of Fishermen

London: Charles Brome, 1687. Fourth edition, first published in 1674 as The Compleat Gamester. Read More about Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess. Together with all manner of...

Los Angeles: 1918. Unique. A delightful memoir of a camping trip to Parmachenee Lake, Maine, in 1871, prepared for the author’s grandson, to whom the preface is addressed, with a series of oval watercolors of outdoor scenes throughout the text. Unique and charming record. Read More about A Trip to Parmachenee Lake, Maine

New York: D. Appleton, 1866; London and New York: Macmillan, 1872. First edition, second issue of Adventures; first edition of Looking-Glass, first issue with "wabe" misspelled. The Immortal Alice. An attractive set of the Alice books, with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the first printing, second issue, comprising the sheets..... Read More about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, or What Alice Found There. By...

[New York]: Societé Anonyme, Inc, [1921]. First edition. First report of the Société Anonyme – Duchamp, Stella, Hartley, Man Ray, et al. The first annual report of the Société Anonyme, founded in 1920 by Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Henry Hudson and Andrew McLaren, listing members (including Duchamp..... Read More about Société Anonyme, Inc. (Museum of Modern Art). Report 1920 – 1921

London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, first impression, first issue, first state. A very pretty copy of Fleming’s second novel, written in just two months at his Goldeneye estate, before the reviews of the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, landed. Read More about Live and Let Die

[Great Britain]: [circa 1761]. Towards the end of the French and Indian War, William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops, thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200,000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies, the..... Read More about Manuscript document signed "George R" authorizing payment of £60,634 to the Province...

New York: Harmony Books, [1995]. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title, “For Robert Silvers, with thanks for a long association, Steve / Stephen Jay Gould”. Read More about Dinosaur in a Haystack

Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1819. "A sermon preached at the ordination of two missionaries just prior to their departure as members of the first 'company' of missioanries ... to the Hawaiian Islands" (Forbes). Includes "Instructions from the Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the..... Read More about The promised land. A sermon, delivered at Goshen, (Conn.) at the ordination of the Rev. Messrs....

Honolulu: 1839. The Women and Children of the Early Missionaries to Hawaii. "Under the name of each member are listed the names and birth dates of her children ... The printed minutes of the 1840 General Meeting record an edition of 250 copies" (Forbes). The 1839 edition is scarce with..... Read More about Names of Members and Children, Belonging to the Maternal Association of the Sandwich Island'...

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First American edition, English sheets. First American edition, from English sheets. The first American edition of Joyce's seminal short story collection, one of 504 copies bound up from sets of the sheets of the English edition, which appeared in 1914. Read More about Dubliners

1493 3/4 Allison [Ave.], Los Angeles 26: [n.d., ca. 1955]. One of Kesey’s earliest short stories. Beginning after his sophomore year at the University of Oregon, Kesey spent his summers in Los Angeles, trying to break into Hollywood as an actor, and later as a screenwriter. Starting in July 1955..... Read More about Typescript entitled "The Street in the Forest"

London: Macmillan, 1894 & 1895. First editions. A nicely-matched set of the two Jungle Books. Read More about The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book

London: May 24, 1862. Rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened. "Edgware Road Station" along with an open railroad car filled with dignitaries including Lord Richard Grosvenor, Earl (Sixth) Macclesfield, Mr. Chas Wood, Amsburey, Lord Werlock(?), Sir Stephen Elgin, Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. I Fowler (Engineer) in white..... Read More about The First London Underground Trip

[St. John’s Wood, London: 1926]. Published by Spurr & Swift in 1926, in an edition of 265 copies signed by the author. A choice and lengthy Machen holograph manuscript from the middle 1920s, at the apogee of his celebrity, in which he looks back at some of the ideas from..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Arthur Machen”), of the “Prospectus” Introduction to his...

[Quebec]: 1886-1888. Record of three seasons at the Micmac Salmon Club on the Matapedia where it joins the Restigouche river with 178 records of daily weather and river conditions, participants and pools fished, salmon and grilse caught (as well as the ones that got away), weights, flies used, and other..... Read More about Fishing Record 1886 [Cover title

New York: n. p, 1971. First edition, stamped "Copyright 1972 / By Yoko Ono" (Most cataloguers note this erroneously and unironically as being published in 1971, and by MoMa, who had nothing to do with this publication). Elusive artist's book. In 1971, "Yoko Ono staged an 'intervention' at MoMA without..... Read More about Museum of Modern [F]art. Yoko Ono – one woman show. Dec. 1st – Dec. 15th. For Information...

[Boston: Lawrence Durborow, Inc, n.d., ca. 1920s]. First edition. Founded in 1890 with a lease of 120,000 acres, Parmachenee Club is one of the oldest and most exclusive of the Maine fishing clubs. The Parmachenee Belle fly was invented by Henry P. Wells, a member since the 1890s. Rare... Read More about The Story of the Parmachenee Club. Parmachenee Lake, Maine

December, 1958. Coyne, James, photo. Unseen photo, with long note to Hughes’ parents. Unknown outtake from a session taken by James Coyne for "Four Young Poets" (Corrine Robins, Mademoiselle, January 1959), which featured the couple's life in Boston, and reproduced Plath's poem "The Times are Tidy" and Hughes' poem "Pennies..... Read More about Photograph of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes at Home in 1958, inscribed at length by Plath to Edith...

London: Printed for J. Willford, [1733]; [1734]. First edition. Read More about An Essay on Man. Address’d to a Friend. Part I [Large Paper Copy]. [Bound with:] An Essay on...

London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803. First edition. Extraordinary Copy in Original Boards. Rejecting the formalism of his predecessor Lancelot Brown, Repton adopted a more natural and varied style of ornamentation which has been described as combining “artistical knowledge...with good taste and good sense.” Compiled chiefly from..... Read More about Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Including Some Remarks on Grecian...

N.p. [Washington, D.C.?]: n.d. [1940?]. Rare FDR Log: A Radio Message from Ernest Hemingway. A log of FDR’s inspection cruise of naval bases in the British West Indies. The log is a detailed narrative of the President’s activities and the progress of the ship he traveled on, the Tuscaloosa. As..... Read More about Log of the President’s Inspection Cruise through the West Indies on Board the U.S.S....

Philadelphie [but Amsterdam? Zurich? Paris?]: chez John Robert, imprimeur du Congrès général, 1775. First "American" edition. ‘Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains’. Mitch Fraas, in his Don't Believe that Imprint (blog post on June 13, 2013, http://mappingbooks.blogspot.com) cites an "explosive increase" of false American imprints appearing..... Read More about Du contract social; ou, Principes du droit politique. Avec le Discours sur l’e’conomie [sic]...

Boston: Printed by R. and S. Draper, for the Honorable and Reverend the President and Fellows of Harvard-College, 1763. This copy bears the ownership signature of "David Pulsifer, 3d. 1830. Mar. 4." on the front free endpaper. Pulsifer (1802-1894) a noted antiquarian, historian, and expert in chirography, was born in..... Read More about An Hebrew Grammar, Collected chiefly from those of Mr. Israel Lyons...and the Rev. Richard...

New York: William Morrow, 1957. First American edition. INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE. The acclaimed novel of Australians facing the consequences of a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Filmed in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire. Inscribed by the author to his wife on the front flyleaf..... Read More about On the Beach

New York: Random House, 1960. First American edition, first printing. Inscribed to “Big Bob” Silvers. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To Big Bob, best of luck, Terry." Terry Southern, acclaimed satirist and screenwriter, was a regular contributor to the Paris Review from its launch in 1953, and among his contributions were..... Read More about The Magic Christian

London: Alfred Miller, 137, Oxford Street, 1831. First edition. Surtees' First Book. Surtees' first book, and the only one to bear his name; it was written when the novelist-to-be was, somewhat off-handedly, practicing law in London. It deals in a straightforward way with the laws of horse-dealing and soundness, a...... Read More about The Horseman’s Manual. Being a Treatise on Soundness, The Law of Warranty, and Generally on the...

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, [circa 1800]. Large Broadside Printing of Washington's Farewell Address. Written largely by Alexander Hamilton, Washington's famed Farewell Address was first printed in newspapers in September 1796 at the end of his second term as President, emphasizing the importance of unity and morality, the dangers of political..... Read More about Address of the late General George Washington, To the Citizens of the United States, on declining...

London: Medici Society, 1926. First edition. Copy number 6 of 130 numbered copies (of which 100 were for sale). Inscribed to French friends, Paul & Minnie Bourget. The bibliography notes only copies with a facsimile signature on p.ii, which suggests that this is one of the 30 copies retained by..... Read More about Twelve Poems

Philadelphia: Johnston and Coulston, March 11, 1880. First edition. The author/artist's own copy. Signed by Johnston on the portrait and additionally signed and dated Camden, June 25, 1891 on the front endpaper. Printed in Hectograph and with Original Contributions by Walt Whitman. The hektograph printing process, was introduced in the..... Read More about The Studio Souvenir of John R. Johnson [sic] Artist