Amherst College. Class of 1874.
[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More about Amherst College. Class of 1874
Price: $2,250
Brooklyn Book Fair 2019
The Complete Poker Player.
Danbury, Conn: Behrens Publishing Company, 1880. Second edition, wrappered issue with Behrens imprint. The first Behrens edition of this foundational work on poker, essentially a wrappered issue of the second Dick & Fitzgerald edition of 1880. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC..... Read More about The Complete Poker Player
Price: $900
![Item #315954 Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges]. Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Hernandez](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/315954.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669653928)
Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges].
Buenos Aires: Rueda, [1968]. The classic Argentine epic poem, El Gaucho Martin Fierro, with an introduction by Borges. Borges wrote prologues for three editions of Martin Fierro in the 1960s (each is distinct; this is the third). Read More about Martin Fierro. [Prologo de Jorge Luis Borges
Price: $500
Las Kenningar.
Buenos Aires: Francisco A. Colombo, 1933. First edition. Read More about Las Kenningar
Price: $1,750
Prólogos. Con un prólogo de prólogos.
Buenos Aires: Torres Agüero, [1977]. Second edition. Read More about Prólogos. Con un prólogo de prólogos
Price: $500
The Best Edition
The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director.
London: Printed for the Author, 1762. Third edition. The Best Edition. The third, and best, edition — with an additional 40 plates — of the highly influential furniture-pattern book by the London cabinetmaker, Thomas Chippendale, who was, in fact, the first English cabinetmaker to ever publish his designs. “His special..... Read More about The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Price: $10,000
Geography and Some Explorers.
London: Privately Printed by Strangeways and Sons, January, 1924. First edition, No. 21 of 30 copies. SIGNED by CONRAD. Knowles and Moore note that Conrad agreed to provide a general preface for J.A. Hammerton's serial publication "Countries of the World" and the piece was written in November of 1923. Read More about Geography and Some Explorers
Price: $2,500
Presentation from Storrs, who sent Lawrence to Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia.
[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
Price: $5,000
Author's Copy
The M.D. A Horror Story.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition, limited edition of 50 SIGNED copies (38 in half leather and 12 in full), this being one of two (?) author's copies, lettered ("AC2") on the limitation page. Author's Copy. The longest of Disch’s Supernatural Minnesota novels. Billy Michaels grows up to..... Read More about The M.D. A Horror Story
Price: $300
Leben. Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Manfred Eigen”) at head of first page.
26 February 1980. Manfred Eigen (1927-2019) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for “studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy” (shared with Ronald Norrish and George Porter). The present draft manuscript discusses biochemical, physical, and..... Read More about Leben. Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Manfred Eigen”) at head of first page
Price: $2,500
With TLS to Louis Untermeyer
On Poetry and Poets.
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. First Edition. With TLS to Louis Untermeyer. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A REVEALING LETTER BY ELIOT. Louis Untermeyer's copy, with newspaper clippings neatly pinned and laid-in at front and with a TLS from Eliot mounted on the pastedown, 16 August 1961. Eliot replies to..... Read More about On Poetry and Poets
Price: $2,500
How Gamblers Win; or, the Secrets of Advantage Playing Exposed … by a Retired Professional.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, (1868). Second edition, wrappered issue. The second edition, published by Dick & Fitzgerald, following the first edition of 1865. One of the earliest and subsequently widely read works on advantage play and cheating in poker and other card and dice games. With contemporary "Special..... Read More about How Gamblers Win; or, the Secrets of Advantage Playing Exposed … by a Retired Professional
Price: $850
Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware.
Birmingham: [n.d., ca. 1820-1830]. Rare engraved early nineteenth century brassfounder's trade catalogue with the manufacturer's name given (usually not noted in such a work). While the actual catalogue appears to be ca. 1820-1830, some of the actual copper plates would appear to have been engraved somewhat earlier, ca. 1800-1810 Plates..... Read More about Engraved pattern book of cast brass furniture fittings and other hardware
Price: $6,500
Manuel du Tourneur. Ouvrage dans lequel on enseigne aux amateurs la manière d'exécuter sur le tour à pointes, à lunettes...
Paris: Hamelin-Bergeron, 1816. Second, expanded edition. Second edition of the definitive contemporary work on the lathe, originally published in 1792-96. The illustrations show wood turning machinery and tools, finished products, and hand-colored depictions of 72 varieties of wood grain. Read More about Manuel du Tourneur. Ouvrage dans lequel on enseigne aux amateurs la manière d'exécuter sur le...
Price: $900
Autograph Letter, signed (“Glubb”), discussing his writing, and conveying a carbon typescript, “The Diary Chapter I. Zillebeke” and photograph, to...
Mayfield Sussex: 23rd Sept. 1979. Typescript published in: Into Battle. A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (Cassell, 1978). Nice late letter in a bold hand from Glubb Pasha, Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), who served with distinction in France in the first world war, and was thrice wounded. Glubb’s..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Glubb”), discussing his writing, and conveying a carbon...
Price: $900
The Deserted Village, A Poem.
London: Printed for W. Griffin, 1770. First edition. The quarto edition is now believed to be the true first, preceding the several unauthorized duodecimo printings, demonstrated to have been later piracies by William B. Todd (v. Rothschild 1032 'Notes' and Studies in Bibliography, vi, 1953). Read More about The Deserted Village, A Poem
Price: $2,500
An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the Youthful and Inexperienced Against...
Boston: Redding & Co, 1845. Second edition, improved. Second edition of this popular work on the evils of gambling and the tricks and deceptions used to defraud the unwary, by the riverboat gambler-turned anti-gambling crusader Jonathan Green (1813-1887). With chapters on cheating in poker, faro, and many other games. Green's..... Read More about An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the...
Price: $3,500
One Hundred Tricks with Cards. Gamblers' Tricks with Cards, Exposed and Explained.
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, n.d. [ca. 1880s]. Later printing. The heavily battered type suggests this is a later printing of Green's exposure of gamblers' deceptions. Toole Stott notes the first printing in wrappers in 1850. Read More about One Hundred Tricks with Cards. Gamblers' Tricks with Cards, Exposed and Explained
Price: $1,500
Photograph, inscribed.
[Havana, Cuba]: Bohemia, April 16, 1964. Signed beneath the image with the revolutionary's signature slogan, "Hasta la victoria siempre, Che." A rare image of Che, taken in Havana in 1964 for Bohemia, a Cuban weekly magazine. Read More about Photograph, inscribed
Price: $8,500
The Scarlet Letter, a Romance.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition (2500 copies printed). The great novel of the Puritan American conscience. Hawthorne's most widely read work, and a book now less accessible in agreeable condition than it was a decade ago. Here in a handsomely bound copy with fine provenance. There are..... Read More about The Scarlet Letter, a Romance
Price: $3,000
The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; Or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture.
London: I. and J. Taylor, 1789. Second edition. Second edition, published a year after the first, with slight revisions and one additional plate (9 bis). With Chippendale and Sheraton, one of the three great pattern books of the 18th century: "No compendium of furniture designs had appeared since 1762, when..... Read More about The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; Or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of...
Price: $5,000
Nouveau Traité des Serins de Canarie, contenant la manière de les élever, les apparier pour en avoir de belles races;...
Paris: Claude Prudhomme, 1713. Second edition. Revised second edition, corrected with additional observations on the serin, a small European finch related to the canary. Hervieux de Chanteloup (1683-1747) composed this treatise in his capacity as "gouverneur des serins de madame la princess …." With wood engraved plates of bird cages..... Read More about Nouveau Traité des Serins de Canarie, contenant la manière de les élever, les apparier pour en...
Price: $1,250
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Inscribed to Lena Horne
Footprints. A Tap Dancer’s World. [A Portfolio of Sixty-five Photographs].
Chicago: Footprints, Ltd, [1993]. First edition. Inscribed to Lena Horne. With lengthy INSCRIPTIONS to Lena Horne by Jim Swenson, Susan Pollard, Patsy Perkins, and George Hood, who all worked with Horne on the documentary “Charles Honi Coles — A Class Act of Tap” about tap dancer Charles Honi Coles. This..... Read More about Footprints. A Tap Dancer’s World. [A Portfolio of Sixty-five Photographs
Price: $300
A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Capt. Michael Cresap.
Cumberland, MD: Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan, 1826. First edition. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap (1742-1775), whom Jefferson, echoing others, blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated..... Read More about A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Capt. Michael Cresap
Price: $2,750
Twenty panoramic silver-print photographs of Jamaican vistas and street scenes.
Jamaica: 1908. Locatons include Port Antonio and Hotel Tichfield, Kingston (including evidence of destruction from the 1907 earthquake), Saint Ann's Bay, Cuba (as seen from a boat), and Castleton Gardens. Read More about Twenty panoramic silver-print photographs of Jamaican vistas and street scenes
Price: $950