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Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, No. 4 of 950 copies, inscribed by the... Read More about Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room
Price: $3,000
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Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Collections. Musée...
London & Paris: Rossange, Barthes and Lowell; Audot, Éditeur, 1829-1834. Read More about Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in...
Price: $750
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
New York as Washington knew it after the Revolution.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Smith, Sidney L. One of 135 copies on French handmade paper. Read More about New York as Washington knew it after the Revolution
Price: $450
One of 200
Arno Werner, One Man's Work. Introduced and edited by Carol J. Blinn.
East Hampton: Warwick Press, 1982. One of 200, inscribed by Carol Blinn on colophon page. One of 200. Read More about Arno Werner, One Man's Work. Introduced and edited by Carol J. Blinn
Price: $300
Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit.
Paris: Charles Carrington, 1898. One of 500 copies. Read More about Sophie Arnould Actress and Wit
Price: $200
The Reds and the Blacks. A Personal Adventure.
New York: Harper & Row, [1967]. First edition. Read More about The Reds and the Blacks. A Personal Adventure
Price: $100
This Inch of Time.
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. First edition. Inscribed by the Beale, who was ambassador to the US from Australia during the Kennedy administration, "for dear Jane [Engelhard] / with affectionate regards / from Howard Beale / Nov. 24 '77" Read More about This Inch of Time
Price: $350
Lauren Bacall By Myself.
New York: Knopf, 1979. First edition, UNCORRECTED PROOF. With a Typed Note of presentation from the publisher to "Mr. (Benjamin) Sonnenberg", dated 8 Aug. '78 : " ... I swiped this copy from the publicity department the moment it arrived this morning - not even Alfred Kazin has a copy..... Read More about Lauren Bacall By Myself
Price: $400
The Gentleman's Companion. Being an Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask.
New York: Crown at 419 Fourth Avenue, 1946. With new foreward dated 10, January 1946. Read More about The Gentleman's Companion. Being an Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker...
Price: $300
HAND-COLORED PLATES
The Village Rector.
Boston: Hardy, Pratt & Co, 1899. Édition Grand Format. HAND-COLORED PLATES. Read More about The Village Rector
Price: $150
Familiar Quotations. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1955]. Thirteenth and Centennial Edition. Completely Revised. Read More about Familiar Quotations. A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traced to their sources in...
Price: $150
American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature.
London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition, state A of volume II with Contents list numbered. Originally published in 30 parts without text, and appearing here for the first time in expanded book form, this is a beautiful series of views, showing principal cities and scenic views, engraved from drawings Bartlett..... Read More about American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature
Price: $3,500
Abdul. An Allegory.
[New York]: Privately Printed by [The Derrydale Press], 1930. One of 500 copies. Memorial volume of verse privately printed by Connett and never intended for sale. "An extremely rare Derrydale book ... very scarce ... and very hard to come by" (Frazier). Read More about Abdul. An Allegory
Price: $900
The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and the Ban de la Roche.
London: George Virtue, 1838. The First Edition. Read More about The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and the Ban de la Roche
Price: $1,000
The Stork Club Bar Book.
New York: Rinehart & Co, 1946. First edition, deluxe issue. Deluxe issue in red leather of this essential cocktail manual by society writer Lucias Beebe, with drinks for morning, noon and night. "To millions and millions of people all of over the world the Stork symbolizes and epitomizes the de..... Read More about The Stork Club Bar Book
Price: $1,250
The Journey Down.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition of the author's first novel. Read More about The Journey Down
Price: $250
Bound volume of proof wood engravings to Scripture Illustrated.
[London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1807]. A handsome volume of proofs of 81 of the 94 wood engravings for Scripture Illustrated (London, 1807). Three of the cuts — nos. 48, 49 & 51 — were cut by Bewick. With an autograph note from a British Museum curator identifying the work..... Read More about Bound volume of proof wood engravings to Scripture Illustrated
Price: $1,250
Sophia Augusta Brown's Bible, Wife of John Carter Brown
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments.
New York: American Bible Society, 1855. Sophia Augusta Brown's Bible, Wife of John Carter Brown. The bible of Sophia Augusta Brown (1825-1909), wife of John Carter Brown, herself an active bibliophile who helped her husband build his library and oversaw its stewardship after his death. Sophia Augusta was 34 and..... Read More about The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments
Price: $7,500
The Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version; With Notes, Axplanatory and Practical; Taken Principally from the Most Eminent Writers...
New York: T. and J. Swords, 1818. First American edition thus. First American edition of this expansive Bible with commentary. It was originally prepared and arranged, for British publication, by the Revs. George D'Oyly and Richard Mant under the direction of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. A nice copy..... Read More about The Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version; With Notes, Axplanatory and Practical; Taken...
Price: $1,000
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha: Translated from the Original tongues, and with...
New York: William W. Harding, 1864. Harding's Edition. Read More about The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha: Translated...
Price: $750
Beecher Family Bible
The Holy Bible...by the Late Rev. John Brown.
New York: Printed and Published by T. Kinnersley, 1825. Beecher Family Bible. Read More about The Holy Bible...by the Late Rev. John Brown
Price: $700
Important German-American Bible
Biblia, das ist: die Ganze Göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers …...
Reading: Gottlob Jungmann, 1805. Important German-American Bible. A landmark in American bible printing, this is the first German-American Bible printed outside of Philadelphia, and the first Bible printed in Reading. A significant edition, both in size and scope, this marked the spread of German printers and the more local production..... Read More about Biblia, das ist: die Ganze Göttliche Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, nach der...
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Reflections on Suicide. Translated from the French of Madame de Stael by an American Lady.
Philadelphia: Edward Earle. J. Maxwell, Printer, 1816. Contemporary notes in pencil on endpapers. Read More about Reflections on Suicide. Translated from the French of Madame de Stael by an American Lady
Price: $800
The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn.
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was one..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
Price: $650