We are pleased to present Catalogue 144: Holiday Selections 2022 with highlights such as a finely bound set of The Writings of Mark Twain, with two autograph leaves; an autograph manuscript of 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush, signed and inscribed by Robert Frost; and Christopher Columbus' Epistola Christofori Colom.
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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952. First trade edition (after 35 signed copies on large paper), one of 2,500 copies. Beckett's masterpiece, and one of the defining works of the 20th century. A major innovation in modern drama, possibly the most important play of the 20th Century, and certainly the..... Read More about En attendant Godot
Price: $2,500
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
Price: $6,500
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition, first printing. Presentation Copy. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the division title for the first work: "Jean Doreski, regards from Elizabeth Bishop / Harvard, December 4th, 1970." This edition consisted of 5,500 copies and was awarded The National Book Award for Poetry..... Read More about The Complete Poems
Price: $2,500
New York: Simon & Schuster in Collaboration with Éditions Verve, 1952. First edition, American issue, printed in France. Accompanied by the separate [12] pp. quarto leaflet printing the captions to the photographs in English. Beautiful Copy in Original Dust Jacket. One of the defining books in the field of photography..... Read More about The Decisive Moment
Price: $6,000
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899. First edition, first printing, second state with single quotation mark on p. 459. Read More about The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes
Price: $7,000
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First edition, first state binding. The first part of this work, A True Story, was first published in the Atlantic in November 1874. The story is a retelling of the experiences of Mary Ann Cord (renamed “Aunt Rachel” in the story), the African-American..... Read More about A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime. By Mark Twain
Price: $5,000
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1899. Autograph Edition, number 128 of 512 copies. Finely Bound, with Two Autograph Leaves. Includes two manuscript leaves from the 1873 novel, The Golden Age. Twain and Warner jointly wrote this, which was the only author collaboration in which Twain participated. The title of the work..... Read More about The Writings of Mark Twain
Price: $50,000
[Genoa: No date, but circa 1893]. One of 25 copies on vellum: XXV tantum exemplaribus membranaceis non venalibus. A facsimile of the Rome 1493 edition of the Columbus printed by Stephan Plannck, the first edition in Latin. Read More about Epistola Christofori Colom: cui ętas nostra multũ debet: de Insulis Indię supra Gangem nuper...
Price: $3,500
![Item #334882 "Go Ahead!!" The Crockett Almanac 1841 [wrapper title]. Davy Crockett](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/334882.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690411604)
Nashville: Published by Ben Harding, [1840]. Volume 2, No. 3 of the Crockett almanacs, with the usual stories of mayhem and heroism in the West, graphically illustrated. The illustration on the front wrapper shows the great scout being mauled by a bear. Read More about "Go Ahead!!" The Crockett Almanac 1841 [wrapper title
Price: $4,250
New York: Random House, [1943]. First Edition. Dahl’s First Book. Read More about The Gremlins
Price: $3,500
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Published in parts between 1846 and 1848, and illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), Dombey and Son follows Paul Dombey and his two children, Florence and Paul, and the trials and tribulations of the family and the shipping company Paul Dombey hopes to..... Read More about Dombey and Son
Price: $750
London: Chapman & Hall, 1881-1882. "Ten copies (this is Number 3) of the Edition De-Luxe of the Chapman and Hall Dickens are specially bound in Ten Different Bindings and extra-illustrated by insertion of a series of original water color drawings, on Whatman paper, after Kyd and others. The Most Elaborate..... Read More about The Works of Charles Dickens
Price: $45,000
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. First edition, first printing dust-jacket with no price on dust jacket and $3.00 price on rear panel for "Humanity Uprooted" Faulkner’s Masterpiece. A pioneering work of American modernism, Faulkner's fourth novel, which employed a stream-of-consciousness technique and multiple narrators; the flap copy..... Read More about The Sound and the Fury
Price: $13,500
New York: William C. Bryant & Co, 1871. First edition. The report offers detailed information on the early years of Central Park, including a large folding map and guide. It includes appendices with the “Legal History of the Jurisdiction of the Department of Public Parks”; a report of the comptroller..... Read More about First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year...
Price: $1,500
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, first impression, first issue, first state. A very pretty copy of Fleming’s second novel, written in just two months at his Goldeneye estate, before the reviews of the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, landed. Read More about Live and Let Die
Price: $25,000
1946. Impeccable fair copies of 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush (1947). 1) "To an Ancient" 2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a...
Price: $32,500
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
Price: $9,500
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Ferrer, Rafael. Signed limited edition of 2000 copies, this is numbered 669 and signed by Gregory Rabassa, Rafael Ferrer, and Alastair Reid. Signed by the Artist and Translator. Márquez's most famous novel, in an inspired pairing with illustrations by the Caribbean artist Rafael..... Read More about One Hundred Years of Solitude
Price: $1,400
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
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1954. First edition, first impression. An attractively bound first edition of Golding's classic novel. A beautiful gift copy of this literary classic with a storied history. It was originally rejected by an in-house reader at Faber as "Rubbish & dull," before being picked up by..... Read More about Lord of the Flies
Price: $4,500
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. “Edition De Luxe,” limited, number 211 of 500 copies. De Luxe Edition with original drawing. Biography of Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), with an original Greenway drawing of a child wearing a smock and a bonnet. Authenticated by Greenaway’s brother who signs below on a special..... Read More about Kate Greenaway
Price: $2,000
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...
Price: $5,000
Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille, 1792. Second edition overall and first French. Variant issue. Second edition: The ‘Federalist’ in the French Revolution. The first French edition of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's celebrated collection of articles supporting the ratification of the United States Constitution. The other issue of this printing..... Read More about Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux...
Price: $10,000
Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, 1774. First edition. To "perpetuate the memory of that wanton and bloody massacre to all Generations", Bostonians fanned the flames of Revolution by holding an oration each year on the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. In 1774, just a few months..... Read More about An Oration; Delivered March 5, 1774, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston: to...
Price: $9,500
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1949. One of 975 copies printed by A. Colish. Bruce Rogers’ ‘World’ Bible. "The Type is based on that originally designed by Frederick Goudy (Newstyle) and considered by Rogers for the Oxford Lectern Bible. It was modified by Rogers and cast for..... Read More about The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Price: $1,750