Price: $6,000
London: Andrew Melrose, 1913. Special deluxe edition limited to 280 numbered copies only (this copy is no. 219). SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND SHACKLETON. Read More Item Details for Antarctic Days. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton's men … introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton Add to Wish List
Item #317040
Price: $1,750
London: J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. A first edition by an Englishwoman extraordinary in her time. Jane Vigor (née Goodwin, b. 1699, d. 1783), was born to a clergyman in Yorkshire. Her first husband was Thomas Ward, Esq Consul General to Russia, and it was through that marriage that she..... Read More Item Details for Letters from a Lady, who resided some years in Russia to Her Friend in England. With Historical Notes Add to Wish List
Item #318234
Price: $8,000
Sydney: [Privately printed], 1890. First edition, issued (according to Edmund Gosse) in an edition of 25 copies. The Rare Sydney Printing. Father Damien, Damien de Veuster (1840-1889) was a Belgian missionary from Belgium who worked at the leper settlement at Molokai from 1873; he eventually contracted leprosy and died of..... Read More Item Details for Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu Add to Wish List
Item #319960
Price: $27,500
[N.p., New York: ca. 1903]. Published in Ainslee’s Magazine, February 1903; collected in Roads of Destiny (1909). SIGNED. A Texas story by O. Henry from early in his New York years. William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) had variously been bank teller, pharmacy clerk, and Texas newspaperman before his conviction on several..... Read More Item Details for Art and the Broncho. Author’s Autograph Manuscript signed (“Sydney Porter” and “Olivier Henry”) Add to Wish List
Item #319931