The Novels of Jane Austen.
London: Grant Richards 9 Henrietta Street, 1898. Winchester Edition. Missing Vol. 1 of Sense and Sensiblity. Read More about The Novels of Jane Austen
Price: $1,250
Holiday Selections 2022
We have put together a sparkling list of books and other items that would make discerning, thoughtful gifts. There are new arrivals as well as special and unique items that we've selected in many fields, including literature, sporting, travel, Americana, children's books, and finely bound books. Please contact us if you need more personalized assistance. Our knowledgeable staff will be happy to assist you in finding the perfect gift to cherish and remember for years to come.
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The End of the Game.
New York: The Viking Press, [1965]. First edition. "In addition to being singularly beautiful (with its luscious printing and scrapbook aesthetic), THE END OF THE GAME is thoughful as well. Long taken as a seminal book on wildlife conservation, it is actually an epic visual poem on the subject of..... Read More about The End of the Game
Price: $950
Christmas & New Year's Gifts ... Games for the Juveniles, viz; Goody Two Shoes, Dr. Busby, Uncle Tom ... Gift...
Exeter: Dec. 12, 1854. Albert W. Lovering (1823-1907) would become one of the largest booksellers of the 19th century, operating a thriving business in Boston and subsequently in New York. But prior to opening those stores he operated a shop in his hometown of Exeter, New Hampshire. The present broadside..... Read More about Christmas & New Year's Gifts ... Games for the Juveniles, viz; Goody Two Shoes, Dr. Busby,...
Price: $1,500
The Collected Poems.
London: Printed for Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, by the Chiswick Press, 1919. No. 296 of 1013 copies printed in the Riccardi Press fount on Riccardi paper. Read More about The Collected Poems
Price: $200
Signed by Burroughs on the title page
Naked Lunch.
New York: Grove Press, [1959]. First American edition. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. SIGNED. Read More about Naked Lunch
Price: $3,500
In Presentation Bindings
A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New World; Volume III...
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956; 1956; 1957; 1958. First American Editions. In Presentation Bindings. We have had and seen one other deluxe set of this edition, done for the president of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Read More about A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New...
Price: $4,500
Presentation Copy, Inscribed
An Outcast of the Islands.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Presentation Copy, Inscribed. Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed "From the author"..... Read More about An Outcast of the Islands
Price: $7,500
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first issue with 6 line colophon. The US edition precedes the British by 3 years. Read More about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Price: $6,000
La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English. The Italian text edited by Mario...
[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1928. No. 293 of 1475 copies. Read More about La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English. The Italian...
Price: $1,500
Finely Bound
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Company, [1967]. Finely Bound. Binder's stamp on inside front cover smudged and illegible. Read More about Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
Price: $300
Beautiful Copy of a Classic
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition. Beautiful Copy of a Classic. “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” A beautiful copy of the rare first edition of the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes novels. Read More about The Hound of the Baskervilles
Price: $7,500
PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Beacon Search-Lights on Pioneers and Millionaires.
Boston: The Cushman Press, January, 1905. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS ALVA EDISON. Brady was an immigrant from Ireland and a Methodist minister who did much of his ministering in New Jeresy. Read More about Beacon Search-Lights on Pioneers and Millionaires
Price: $500
Representative Men.
London: George G Harrap &Co, 1910. Read More about Representative Men
Price: $750
Mountain Interval.
New York: 1916. First edition, second issue with errors corrected. Read More about Mountain Interval
Price: $1,750
NEW HAMPSHIRE with 11-line HOLOGRAPH POEM, with UNRECORDED TITLE
New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, trade issue. NEW HAMPSHIRE with 11-line HOLOGRAPH POEM, with UNRECORDED TITLE. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost, with an eleven-line poem in ink holograph on front flyleaf, with unrecorded title ("Winter Will Go") with eight variant textual differences from the final..... Read More about New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
Price: $13,500
Superb copy of the Greatest Boom Novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American edition with a first state jacket (with the exclamation point). Superb copy of the Greatest Boom Novel. A superb copy of García Márquez’s masterpiece, regarded as the greatest novel of the latter half of the 20th century, and certainly..... Read More about One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
Price: $10,000
SIGNED BY GERSHWIN AND ALAJALOV
George Gershwin's Song-book.
New York: Randon House, 1932. First Edition. One of 300 copies signed by Gershwin and Alajalov. SIGNED BY GERSHWIN AND ALAJALOV. Containing the words and music to some of the best known American music ever written: "Lady be Good," "I Got Rhythm," "Swanee." The list goes on and on. The..... Read More about George Gershwin's Song-book
Price: $8,000
The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Rackham, Arthur. First Rackham edition, one of 2020 copies, designed and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers, who signed the colophon. Rackham's last work, a beautiful interpretation of this beloved classic, and a choice book designed by Bruce Rogers. Read More about The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne
Price: $1,250
The Phantom Tollbooth.
New York: Epstein & Carroll. Distributed by Random House, [1961]. First edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. Adam Gopnick, in his appreciation of the novel, called it "the closest thing that American literature has to an Alice in Wonderland of its own...with illustrations, by Jules Feiffer, that are..... Read More about The Phantom Tollbooth
Price: $1,500
Inscribed
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
New York: Signet Books, [February, 1963]. First paperback edition, first printing. Inscribed. Inscribed under the epigraph, "For Mat, There could be disciplinary action against the plotters of this coup." SIGNED by Kesey. Read More about One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Price: $500
"Keynes’ Best Book"
The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First American Edition. "Keynes’ Best Book" A book whose prophetic insight into the terms imposed on the Central Powers at the end of World War I is now legendary.“[It]…Has the claim to be regarded as Keynes's best book. In none of the others..... Read More about The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Price: $350
The Stand.
New York: Doubleday, 1978. First edition. Choice copy of King’s dark dystopian tale, here inscribed by the author: “For Stan with all good wishes, Stephen King”. Read More about The Stand
Price: $6,000
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Fifth edition. Read More about The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Price: $450
The Bikeriders.
New York: Macmillan Company, Collier-Macmillan, 1968. First printing. Life with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. Attractive copy of a pioneering American photography book. Read More about The Bikeriders
Price: $1,500
Lady Lisa Lyon.
New York: A Studio Book/ The Viking Press, -1983. First edition, wrappered issued, of Mapplethorpe's first book. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lisa Lyon, on the half-title page. Read More about Lady Lisa Lyon
Price: $1,000