Paris: 1970-73. To Jean Demélier. A group of brief responses to his friend, the French writer Jean Demélier (b.1940), thanking him for his letters, mentioning travel plans, arranging meetings, etc. In the note dated 5-11-70, Beckett punningly congratulates Demélier on his soon to be published first novel, Le Rêve de..... Read More about Collection of 6 autograph postcards signed and 1 autograph letter signed ("Sam"), to...

Pamplona: Nicolas de Assiayn, Impressor del Reyno de Navarra, 1614. Second edition. The rare true second edition of Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares, a collection of 12 novellas inspired by Boccaccio and first published by Robles in Madrid in 1613, between publication of the first and second parts of Don Quixote (1605..... Read More about Novelas Exemplares

[Corvinus Press, 1936]. One of 12 copies printed for Liddell Hart, signed by both authors. Presentation from Storrs, who sent Lawrence to Arabia. With presentation inscription from Storrs to Sir Edward Marsh. A beautiful memorial production of the Corvinus Press, here inscribed from Ronald Storrs, at whose behest Lawrence was..... Read More about Lawrence of Arabia

London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. First edition. First book on television, signed by Baird. WITH THE FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT SIGNED BY JOHN LOGIE BAIRD. The first book on television, focusing on the work of the Scottish engineer Baird (1888-1946), who produced the first television image in outline..... Read More about Television. Seeing by Wireless

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Instiution, March 16, 1936. First edition. An important marker in the development of rocketry and space flight, the pamphlet sums up Goddard's pioneering work in rocketry over the previous two decades. On March 16, 1926 Goddard launched the world's first liquid propellant rocket, from a site near..... Read More about Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development

Paris: Chez Maradan, Libraire, 1808. First edition. First edition of the first history of black literature. Grégoire (1750-1831) was an abolitionist and a former Bishop of Blois. His De la Littérature des Nègres (Paris, 1808) was aimed at the seemingly false sympathy of Thomas Jefferson as expressed in his Notes..... Read More about De la Littérature des Nègres, ou recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs...

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

[Paris: 1856-7]. Artillery Instruction Manuscript, 1856. Comprehensive manuscript record of French thinking and teachings on artillery and military logistics, at the time of the Crimean War, from the French officer training school, the Ecole d’Etat-Major (now the École Supérieure de Guerre), in a small and legible hand, comprising notes on..... Read More about Artillerie 2. Année [spine title] Manuscript course in artillery, for the Ecole d’Etat-Major,...

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1963. One of three hundred copies. Inscribed. Whimsical operetta of the Brontë sisters, by the Alexandrian artist and librettist Bernard de Zogheb (1924-1999), who was one of the last survivors of the cosmopolitan Alexandria of an earlier age. “But beyond his work as an..... Read More about Le Sorelle Brontë. Opera in quattri atti. [Edited with a foreword by James Merrill

[Addiscombe, Surrey: n.d., ca. 1848]. Unpublished. Superbly Illustrated Victorian Artillery Textbook. With chapters on artillery, practice with live shells, mortar practice, notes on the foundry, boring, and carriage departments, and extensive chapters on gunpowder and laboratory work. Composition is after October 1848 based on the dates of ricochet and mortar..... Read More about Notes on Artillery

London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. First edition (one of 1,000 copies printed, 500 of which were used for the combined edition with EXULTATIONS). Read More about Personae

New York: April 29, 1980. Signed by Salinger, Spanish rights to Catcher in the Rye. A signed copy of the contract for the Spanish-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and a Barcelona publisher for a book club edition. The final three provisions of the contract..... Read More about Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Spanish-language publishing rights for The...

[London: Privately printed], 1885. Substantial and authoritative account of the Seychelles Archipelago, with original photographic plates recording drawings of botanical and zoological subjects, as well as views of the islands. The narrator describes climbing the Morne Seychellois, the principal mountain of the main island (2,975 feet). Uncommon. Read More about Six Years in Seychelles, with Photographs from Original Drawings