Paris: 28 November 1988. Beckett writes from ‘a retreat for has beens’. “Paris 28.11.88 Dear Gloria, I’m in a retreat for has beens but have (?) having physiotherapy & don’t know when I’ll emerge. Haven’t seen book on Jack. What a life! Love to you both. Keep going. Somehow, Sam”..... Read More about Autograph Note, signed (“Sam”), on a Postcard to Gloria MacGowran, “I'm in a retreat for...

[Buenos Aires: 1926]. Produced in a very small number of copies for those in attendance. And Everyone Was There: Banquet for Güiraldes, signed by Borges. Group portrait from the luncheon banquet for Ricardo Güiraldes (1886-1927), fellow collaborator with Jorge Luis Borges on the short lived but influential literary journals Martín..... Read More about Photograph of the dinner in celebration of Ricardo Güiraldes and his novel Don Segundo Sombra,...

Buenos Aires: 5 May 1935. One of three copies prepared for author, publisher, and Sigifrido Radaelli (named in the contract as arbitrator). Signed Contract for Historia Universal de la Infamia. Signed contract for one of the key books by Jorge Luis Borges, Historia Universal de la Infamia, a collection of..... Read More about Contrato de Edición del Libro Historia Universal de la Infamia. [Typescript Publishing contract,...

[Buenos Aires: n.d., ca. 1927]. Unpublished Borges Tribute to His Friend Ricardo Güiraldes. Tribute by Jorge Luis Borges for his friend Ricardo Güiraldes (1886-1927), fellow collaborator on the short lived but influential literary journals Martín Fierro and Proa, and author of the acclaimed novel Don Segundo Sombra (1926). It was..... Read More about Ricardo Güiraldes. Autograph manuscript essay, signed (“J.L.B.”

London: Gollancz, 1937. First edition. In Dust Jacket. ‘not begotten, not born of a woman, but Exploded’ Outstanding copy of the prescient, alarming novel of Nazism triumphant, written by Katharine Burdekin and published as by Murray Constantine. The pseudonym was not unlocked until the mid-1980s, long after Burdekin’s death, when..... Read More about Swastika Night by Murray Constantine

New York: John S. Taylor, 1836. Second edition and first edition published in New York (originally published in Boston in 1833). Presentation copy inscribed to Caroline Weston. Inscribed by the author: "To Caroline Weston, from his affectionate friend, L. M. Child." Caroline Weston served as Vice President of the Boston..... Read More about An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First edition, one of 200 copies on finest bristol paper, of 255 total. An excerpt of Crevel's novel Babylone, illustrated by photograms by Ernst made in conjunction with Man Ray, who also collaborated with the binder, A. J. Gonon. Read More about Mr. Knife Miss Fork. Translated by Kay Boyle. Illustrated by Max Ernst

London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue with misprint "htat" on page 208. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) “completed his great cycle of evolutionary writings. It proved popular, not least because of its accessible subject matter and plentiful illustrations, including some of the earliest..... Read More about The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

New York: The Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd, 1980. Picasso, Pablo. First edition. Read More about Picasso Toros Y Toreros

New York: harper & Row, [1978]. INSCRIBED BY FORBES. Inscribed "Best wishes, Malcolm Forbes." on ffep. Read More about The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm

Leipzig & Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1905. First edition. Read More about Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten

Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1931; 1937. First editions. Large paper copies, no. XXIX of 109 and no. XII of 15 on vergé Lafuma watermarked nrf, for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française. Giono’s Great Novel of the First World War. One of the great French novels..... Read More about Le Grand Troupeau [with:] Refus d’Obéisance

London: The C. W. Daniel Company, 1925. First English edition. Signed by Goldman on the endpaper. SIGNED BY EMMA GOLDMAN IN DUST JACKET. First published New York, 1923, the work did not include significant portions of the original manuscript, which were subsequently published as My Further Disillusionment in Russia. This..... Read More about My Disillusionment in Russia ... With an Introduction by Rebecca West

Philadelphia: Printed for John Fenno, by John Bioren, 1797. First edition. Hamilton Confesses to His Affair with Mrs. Reynolds. The first edition of the infamous "Reynolds pamphlet," in which Hamilton describes his affair with Maria Reynolds and admits to paying off a blackmailer. In the pamphlet Hamilton takes the extraordinary..... Read More about Observations on certain documents contained in No, V & VI of “The History of the United...

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition. Read More about The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards... [in two volumes

Annapolis: J. Hughes, 1824-1825. Important Printing of the Maryland Jew Bill. Although Article VI of the Constitution of the United States declares that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States" at the federal level, many states continued..... Read More about An Act for the Relief of the Jews of Maryland ... [printed within:] Laws Made and Passed by the...

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1949. Limited to 3000 copies of which these are nos. 1748, and 1155. Read More about Sexus. The Rosy Crucifixion. [Vol. One to Three; [with] Vol. Four and Five] [Limited Edition

Philadelphia: Printed by R. Folwell, for Benjamin Franklin Bache, [1797]. First American edition. First American Edition of Paine's Proposal for a National Fund, a Forerunner of Today's Social Security Administration. On the title-page, Paine states plainly the objectives of his National Fund: "To Pay every Person, when arrived at the..... Read More about Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly; Being a Plan for Meliorating...

Boston: Munroe & Francis; New York: Charles S. Francis, 1827. First edition. First edition of the first cookbook written by an African American and the first book by a black American ever published by a commercial publisher. Roberts (1780-1860) was employed for many years by Christopher Gore, governor and senator..... Read More about The House Servant's Directory, Or a Monitor for Private Families: Comprising hints for...

[N.p., Asolo, S. Zenone degli Enzelini, Treviso: n.d., 1957-8]. Published as Alexander’s Path from Caria to Cilicia (London: John Murray, 1958). The typescript for Stark's 1958 book retracing the footsteps of Alexander the Great through modern Turkey, the third of four successful Turkish travelogues, “books that no English-speaking tourist visiting..... Read More about Alexander’s Path] Notes on Alexander’s March from Miletus to Phrygia. Author’s Corrected...

Stevenson purchased 400 acres in Samoa in 1890 and worked tirelessly to build Vailima, his home for the rest of his life. He cleared the brush and built a home on the property, which he moved into in 1891, bringing all of his family furniture from Bournemouth and Edinburgh, and..... Read More about Pencil Drawing signed lower right "R.L.S.", and entitled in center "Vailima",...

London: The Hogarth Press, 1941. First Edition. Woolf’s posthumous final novel. Read More about Between the Acts