Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1985; 1986; 1986). First editions (City of Glass is a second printing). Inscribed to Poet Clark Coolidge. The complete New York Trilogy, Paul Auster's classic meta-fictional detective story, with each copy inscribed by the author to poet Clark Coolidge. This was Auster's second work..... Read More about The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room

Milan: Gotardo da Ponte, 1510. First Edition. Uncut and Bound in Red Morocco. The first edition of the chronicler's biography of St Francis, written in 1399 by the Italian Franciscan Bartolomeo da Rinonico (Pisa, d. 1401), and presenting an extended comparison of each aspect of his life with that of..... Read More about Liber Conformitatum (vitae beati Francisci ad vitam Domini Iesu

New York: Collins and Co, 1814. Hamilton Family Bible. Inserted vellum leaves between the Old Testament and the Apocrypha contain the family register of Philip Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's son and youngest child, kept by his wife Rebecca. Rebecca McLane Hamilton (1813-1893) inherited the bible from her Aunt, Lydia Cantwell Milligan..... Read More about The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: Together with the Apocrypha

New York: The Aldine Book Company, 1903. First edition. Author's Edition, printed throughout on imperial Japanese vellum, and full bound in crushed levant, limited to 75 numbered copies signed by the author. Additionally inscribed by the author to Henry Clay Frick II, "In memory of the grandfather whose name he..... Read More about History of Carnegie Steel. An Inside Review of Its Humble Origin and Impressive Growth

London: Smith and Elder, 1857. First edition, with half-titles, 8 pages of ads for uniform edition of earlier works by the Brontes at end of vol. II. Her Last Novel. Posthumously published, the same year as Mrs. Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Read More about The Professor by Currer Bell

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1787-8. First Worcester editions. Gorgeous Copies of a Children’s Classic. Isaiah Thomas’ edition of History of Little Goody Two Shoes, the famed nursery classic and “the most celebrated of all the books in John Newbery’s Lilliputian library” (Rosenbach), together with A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, “one of the..... Read More about History of Little Goody Two Shoes [and:] The Juvenile Biographer; containing the Lives of Little...

New York: Ramparts / McGraw-Hill, (1968). Inscribed to Dr. Philip Shapiro. First edition. Introduction by Maxwell Geismer. Nicely Inscribed by Cleaver: "To Dr. Shapiro, a comrade in the struggle for Human Rights and Dignity. I always see you at the right places at the right times. Keep on pushing, baby!"..... Read More about Soul on Ice

7 Rue Lemaître, Puteaux (Seine): 15 September 1915. Duchamp Villon on His Sculptures. Sculptor Raymond Duchamp Villon (1876-1918), brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp, writes to New York art collector John Quinn, concerning his plaster and bronze sculptures, and acknowledging receipt of Quinn’s payment: “I have your letter, with..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed (“R Duchamp Villon”), to John Quinn, 15 Septmber 1915

Horsham [althouth perhaps Lewes?]: Printed by Arthur Lee; and Sold by J. F. and C. Rivington, 1784. First edition. Published anonymously by a British agent of the East India Company returning from India by the desert route, this very scarce Journal has been attributed by some to Charles Eversfield (one..... Read More about A Journal, kept on a Journey from Bassora to Bagdad; over the Little Desert, to Aleppo, Cyprus,...

[Portland, Maine]: Privately printed [by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press], 1941. First edition, on tipped in calligraphic colophon page: "No. 5 of This Private Edition of the Tuscarora Club's Forty-Year History was prepared for F. Seymour Barr December 12, 1941..." of 100 copies. There is also a printed colophon at the back..... Read More about Tuscarora Club's Forty-Year History, 1901-1941. With articles by Dr. Homer E. Fraser, Henry A....

[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: Henry Holt and Company, [1939]. First printing. Inscribed with an Early Draft of a Poem. Frost has written out an early draft of his poem “Come In” lacking the eventual first stanza, and with a variant of the first line of the eventual second. “Come In” first appeared..... Read More about Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939