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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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Baldwin's First and Most Iconic Work. Go Tell It on the Mountain is a semi-autobiographical novel of a fourteen-year-old city boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral awakening. The story is told partly through flashbacks to an earlier American South and through the perspective..... Read More about Go Tell It On the Mountain
Price: $5,000
New York: Baker & Taylor Co, 1907. First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Barton. PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed by Barton on the front endpaper: “To Mrs. Charles M. Sears. May I venture to make so small an offering as this tiny booklet to one whom I hold in such high regard..... Read More about The Story of My Childhood
Price: $4,000
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
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill, 1847. First edition, without publisher's adverts or notice for the Calcutta Review found in some copies. The rare first edition, with half-titles. The first published novel by the Brontë sisters, done in a small edition of about 500 copies. It was immensely popular, and..... Read More about Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In Three Volumes
Price: $60,000
New York: Eckstein, Hoffmann & Porr, 1883. The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge was a major event. The New York Times reported: “The pleasant weather brought visitors by the thousands from all around...It is estimated that over 50,000 people came in by the railroads alone, and swarms by the sound..... Read More about All Hail the Happy Day! May 24, 1883. New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge ......
Price: $1,500
New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., and for sale by John J. Brown & Co, 1845. First edition. Sage Sale: “Said to be the first book on angling written by an American and printed in America.” The book describes the more important American fish and how to catch them. Goodspeed..... Read More about The American Angler's Guide
Price: $3,500
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
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Clark, Roland. First edition, one of 535 copies. A lovely copy of a scarce volume that is less a book than a work of art. Roland Clark's matchless drypoints, printed from the plates on fine watermarked deckle edge paper, are luminous — one doesn't..... Read More about Stray Shots
Price: $2,500
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](/pictures/thumb/334882.jpg?v=1656546959)
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
Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1900. From an edition limited to 500 numbered sets, this is number 183. Remarkable Nature-Printed Work, Accompanied by Thirty-One Original Moth and Butterfly Specimens From the Denton Brothers. From an edition limited to 500 numbered sets (this is number 183) of this sumptuous color plate book on..... Read More about As Nature Shows Them. Moths and Butterflies of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains
Price: $8,500
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: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1970). First edition. INSCRIBED. First edition. Slightly cocked spine, bumped corners, and toning on the board edges else very good in a very good spine-faded dust jacket with rubbing and creasing. Inscribed by the author. Read More about Play It As It Lays
Price: $2,500
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1903. First Edition. "The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line" First edition of Du Bois' seminal essay collection marking his break with the accommodationist strategy of Booker T. Washington. "The monumental work was the opening salvo in the struggle..... Read More about The Souls of Black Folk. Essays and Sketches
Price: $20,000
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
Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1912. First edition. An illustrated account of the expedition of Prince Luigi Amedeo de Savoie, Duke of Abruzzi to the Karakoram Mountains, intended to test human climbing limits with an unsuccessful attempt on K2, the second highest mountain on earth. "Classic work on the Baltoro region; a...... Read More about La Spedizione nel Karakoram e Nell'Imalaia Occidentale 1909
Price: $2,000
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
Paris: Éditions Denoël, 1958. First edition. Inscribed by Poirot-Delpech to June Beckelman Guicharnaud on the half-title. June Beckelman Guicharnaud (1922-1989), noted French translator, editor and author, was married to French theatre critic and French literature scholar Jacques Guicharnaud. Read More about Pen drawing of a cat, signed by Foujita, on the front free endpaper of a first edition of...
Price: $10,000
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
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American edition. An unusually bright, crisp copy. Heaney's first commercially published book. One of 1,000 copies, using sheets from the UK edition published in the same year by Faber & Faber. An auspicious debut, it launched Heaney's career, and is still considered one..... Read More about Death of a Naturalist
Price: $1,500
[Harrisburg? 1931-1933]. Privately printed and well illustrated account of annual deer hunts at Hicks Run Camp, a hunting lodge in the property owned by H. C. Stackpole, in Elk and Cameron counties in central Pennsylvania. Stackpole was founder of the Stackpole Battery Company, later Stackpole Carbon, in St Marys, Pa...... Read More about Scenario by the three Yo-Ho-O-Oo-Ers … Film Editor — Harry Stackpole Conrad. Photography by...
Price: $4,500
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
Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. Number 2 of 210 copies (200 for sale), signed by the author. COPY #2. "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in..... Read More about Papermaking by Hand in America
Price: $8,000
Stuttgart, Dusseldorf: Edition Domberger, Galerie Schmela, [1968]. First Edition, one of 2500 copies. Inscribed by Creeley. Inscribed by Creeley on the title-page and dated vii, 29, '69, on his first trip to Darmstadt. Indiana's screenprints of the numbers 0-9 with Creeley's poems on the same theme. Read More about Numbers
Price: $2,500
New York: Published for the Booksellers, 1841. First edition. The Second Wall Street Novel – Rare. A very early — in fact, the second — Wall Street novel about a young broker who fails on the street. It explains all the chicanery, stock manipulation, scams and even a faked panic..... Read More about A Week in Wall Street. By One Who Knows
Price: $5,500
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882 [1881]. Second Edition, First American impression (with period after 1882 and “Copyright, 1881”). Read More about The Portrait of a Lady
Price: $800
[Oldwick, New Jersey: GWJ Press, n.d., ca. 2004]. First edition, no. 5 of 100 copies specially bound in quarter leather of a total edition of 500. Read More about The Essex Fox Hounds. A Look through Time. Compiled by Gretchen W. Johnson
Price: $750
London: Printed for J. & P. Knapton, T. Longman, et al, 1747. First edition, second state. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Signature A was reset to remove the address to Chesterfield on page 1, so that the text begins simply “My Lord”. Fleeman notes other changes (p. 34 in this copy has the..... Read More about The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right Honourable Philip...
Price: $7,500
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition. First edition. First edition of Joyce's autobiographical novel, recounting the schooldays and emerging artistic consciousness of his alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. The novel was refused by Grant Richards (publisher of Dubliners), Secker, and Edward Garnett for Duckworth. Finally B.W. Huebsch agreed to take on..... Read More about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Price: $5,000
New York: Epstein & Carroll. Distributed by Random House, [1961]. First edition. 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 as perfectly matched to Juster’s text as..... Read More about The Phantom Tollbooth
Price: $1,250
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956. First edition. Presentation Copy from Kennedy to His Former Boss. Later printing of this famous work, which won Kennedy the Pulitzer Prize. Presentation inscription, the front flyleaf is inscribed in Kennedy's hand: "To my former boss Louis Ruppel – with warmest regards, John..... Read More about Profiles in Courage
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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
London: Macmillan, 1894 & 1895. First editions. A nicely-matched set of the two Jungle Books. Read More about The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book
Price: $4,000
Ogdensburgh [N.Y.]: Published by J.C. Sprague, 1855. First edition, likely a presentation copy to the publisher inscribed on the front blank "To my good friend/Sprague/From the Author/Nov. 1855." INSCRIBED FROM AUTHOR TO PUBLISHER. An important overland narrative and a significant early account of Gold Rush life. "This account is acclaimed..... Read More about Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: or a Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to...
Price: $1,250
Washington, D.C: [Government Printing Office], November 9, 1904. First Woman to Argue Before the Supreme Court. In 1873, Belva Lockwood graduated from the National University Law School (now George Washington University Law School), though the school granted her a diploma only after she appealed to President Ulysses S. Grant. In..... Read More about In the United States Court of Claims. The Cherokee Nation vs. The United States ... Reply Brief...
Price: $6,500
![Item #345923 The Magic Mountain [Der Zauberberg]. Translated from the Greman by H. T....](/pictures/thumb/345923.jpg?v=1669656744)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition, Number 151 of 200 copies printed on Worthy Aurelian paper and signed by the author. Printed in Bodoni Type. Printed at the Plimpton Press. The Nobel Prize-winning author's greatest book, the story of Hans Castorp's bildung in a Davos sanitarium. Read More about The Magic Mountain [Der Zauberberg]. Translated from the Greman by H. T. Lowe-Porter
Price: $3,750
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. First edition, first issue, with date “1892” on title-page. The classic work of late nineteenth century American fly fishing. An interesting and attractive book, “an important work on the flies in use during the latter past of the nineteenth century … exquisite colored..... Read More about Favorite Flies & Their Histories
Price: $1,500
[Paris]: [1926]. Scarce Photo of Joyce at the height of his fame and influence. A vintage print of a scarce image of Joyce. Signed by the photographer Henri Martinie (1881–1963) and annotated with his studio address: "Au 19 rue de Penthièvre, à Paris". Martinie made two images of Joyce, as..... Read More about Portrait of James Joyce
Price: $15,000
London: R. H. Porter, February 1889 - August 1902. First edition. The Foundation Work for Mayan Studies. Although the Mayan ruins of Central America were made famous by Stephens's and Catherwood's early explorations, scientific and serious archaeological study began with Alfred Maudslay. A Cambridge polymath who became intrigued by the..... Read More about Biologia Centrali-Americana; Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and...
Price: $45,000
Chicago: Lakeside Press, issued by Random House, 1930. Kent, Rockwell. One of 1000 sets. A Fine Copy of Kent’s Impressive Moby Dick. A nice set of one of the most famous illustrated American books of the twentieth century In 1926 The Lakeside Press launched their ‘Four American Books’ campaign that..... Read More about Moby Dick, or the Whale
Price: $10,000
![Item #323674 Works. [Volumes I to XII]. Herman Melville](/pictures/thumb/323674.jpg?v=1671121544)
London: Constable, 1922-1923. Standard Edition. One of 750 sets, numbered and initialled by the publisher. Publication of this edition contributed materially to the renewal of interest in Melville’s writings. This set is complete through Vol. 12, The Confidence Man (1923), which includes a bibliography of first editions of Melville’s prose..... Read More about Works. [Volumes I to XII
Price: $4,000
New York: Julian Meissner, [1956]. First Edition. INSCRIBED TO HER AGENT AT PUBLICATION. Inscribed on the ffep to her agent: "To my dear friend Jacques – in gratitude for his patience, kindness and smart head. With love, Grace Metalious Sept 27, 1956." The book was published in late September, 1956..... Read More about Peyton Place
Price: $7,500
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1938. First edition, signed by editor Linnie Marsh Wolfe on the half-title page, signed by Wanda Muir Hanna on the dedication page, and with an eight-line holograph manuscript leaf in ink of John Muir, tipped in at the dedication page. WITH JOHN..... Read More about John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe....
Price: $3,500
![Item #335003 A Pictorial Description of Broadway by the Mail & Express [wrapper title]. New York...](/pictures/thumb/335003.jpeg?v=1669656576)
New York: Mail & Express, 1899. From Bowling Green to 59th Street. An ephemeral turn of the century depiction of both sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to 59th Street, valuable not only for the architectural renderings but also the locations and types of businesses. Rare, with OCLC recording only..... Read More about A Pictorial Description of Broadway by the Mail & Express [wrapper title
Price: $9,500
New York & Monte-Carlo: George Brazilier & André Sauret, 1961. First. All four of these original lithographs were done especially for this book (one in 24 colors, three in black and white, printed by Mourlot Press). They are entitled: La Pique, Le Picador II, Jeu de la Cape, Les Banderilles..... Read More about Picasso: Toreros with 4 Original Lithographs. Translated from the French by Patrick Gregory`
Price: $2,000
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition, no. 7 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. The deluxe edition on Japan vellum of this collection of pirate tales and illustrations by Howard Pyle, compiled by Merle Johnson. Read More about Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle Johnson
Price: $4,000
New York: Harpers, 1923. First edition, deluxe issue. No. 30 of 50 copies signed by Merle Johnson & editor Francis J. Dowd, with an extra plate. Read More about Howard Pyle’s Book of the American Spirit. The Romance of American History Pictured by Howard...
Price: $3,000
New York: The Penguin Press, 2006. Inscribed on ffep to Sheila McGrath, former assistant at the New Yorker whom Joseph Mitchell named his literary executor, which she served as until her death in 2012. The book is inscribed by Pynchon ("hope you enjoy it"), and laid-in are two pieces of..... Read More about Against the Day
Price: $30,000
Boston: Little Brown, [1990]. Special issue, advanced state, one of eight copies reportedly produced. Rare special issue. Pynchon's highly anticipated first new book after Gravity's Rainbow, which was published 17 years prior. Pynchon and his editor Ray Roberts made corrections to the proof up until press day, and no advance..... Read More about Vineland
Price: $4,500
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. St. Martin's Street, 1917. Rackham, Arthur. First Rackham Edition, Deluxe Issue limited to 500 copies, #333, signed by the artist. Read More about The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte...
Price: $3,000
Millbrook: Privately Printed for the author [by The Derrydale Press], 1934. First edition, no. 112 of 500 copies. An almost unprocurable Derrydale Press title. The book appeared in two bindings: red paper boards with a printed white label, and in full leather with gilt medallion on upper cover. Both are..... Read More about Thoughts Upon Hunting Kit in a Series of Nine Letters to a Friend
Price: $1,500
New York: Abkco Music, 1975. First edition. SIGNED BY MICK JAGGER. Read More about Rolling Stones Anthology Vol. 2
Price: $2,000
Philadelphie [but Amsterdam? Zurich? Paris?]: chez John Robert, imprimeur du Congrès général, 1775. First "American" edition. ‘Man is born free, and he is everywhere in chains’. Mitch Fraas, in his Don't Believe that Imprint (blog post on June 13, 2013, http://mappingbooks.blogspot.com) cites an "explosive increase" of false American imprints appearing..... Read More about Du contract social; ou, Principes du droit politique. Avec le Discours sur l’e’conomie [sic]...
Price: $4,500
Goshen, CT: The Angler's and Shooter's Press, 1973. Facsimile of First edition. Number 91 of 250 Copies on Rives hand-made paper., Signed by the Editors, with a remarque in ink of three salmon signed by Charles De Feo on the half title. A book of almost legendary importance, recounting the..... Read More about The Ristigouche and its Salmon Fishing with a Chapter on Angling Literature by Dean Sage. Edited...
Price: $2,750
Windsor, VT: 1985. Where, when, and what time of day or night were you born…? J. D. Salinger first met poet Celia Bland when she was an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College with a friend who lived near Salinger in New Hampshire. “Where, when, and what time of day or..... Read More about Two typed letters, signed "xxJDS" and "JDS", to poet Celia Bland, 17 May and...
Price: $25,000
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. First edition. Salinger’s Classic, Finely Bound. "In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader and condition: Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Of the three, only Catcher defines an entire region of human experience..... Read More about The Catcher in the Rye
Price: $7,500
Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1926. First edition. Recollections of hunting deer, waterfowl, wildcat, and turkey in Orangeburg county, South Carolina, on the Asheppo and Edisto rivers. Read More about The Happy Hunting Ground. Personal Experiences in the Low-Country of South Carolina
Price: $2,000
[Detroit: [Herold Press] for private circulation only, [1904]. First edition. This lavishly produced record of a sporting trip to Yellowstone takes the form of the diary of Detroit industrialist a "tannery magnate" Carl Schmidt, and includes a section on fishing. Chapter 9, pp. 63-72, is entitled "A Fishing Trip." The..... Read More about A Western Trip
Price: $6,000
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1947. First edition. The First Mike Hammer Novel. The book that launched Spillane's career and introduced Mike Hammer, the archetype for the harder detective of the fifties who would stop at nothing to enact justice. Read More about I, The Jury
Price: $1,250
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans; Bradbury and Evans; John Nimmo, [1847, 1853, 54, 1858, 1860, 1865 & 1888]. Leech, John. First editions except Handley Cross, first illustrated edition (first published in 1843, without illustrations). SET OF SURTEES ILLUSTRATED FIRSTS. An attractive set of these classics of English sporting literature..... Read More about Works of ... . : Hawbuck Grange, "Ask Mamma"; Handley Cross; Mr. Sponge's Sporting...
Price: $3,000
London: Longmans, 1959. First edition. "I went to Southern Arabia only just in time." Signed on the title page. Arabian Sands is Thesiger's first and most important work, recounting his crossing of the Empty Quarter under the aegis of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit: first in 1946-7, on a 2000..... Read More about Arabian Sands
Price: $3,250
[New York? June 4, 1937]. Fine, large portrait of the author, probably taken in New York in 1937, just before Fitzgerald went to Hollywood. Read More about Portrait photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Price: $7,500
London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, 1939. First edition. In rare dust-jacket. Friedrich Von Hayek (1899-1992) was an Austrian-British economist who spent much of his career at the London School of Economics. With Gunnar Myrdal he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 for work "on money and..... Read More about Profits, Interest and Investment and Other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations
Price: $5,500
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1996. Uncorrected advance proof. Signed by the Author. "Infinite Jest" is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it over and over. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball..... Read More about Infinite Jest
Price: $5,000
London: Printed for John and Francis Rivington, (No 62), 1775. The Third Hawkins edition. With note on inserted blank, "this copy of Sir John Hawkin's edition of Walton and Cotton's Angler was the late Sir Wm. Boothby's and bought at the sale of his effects at Ashbourne Hall in Nov..... Read More about The Complete Angler ... to which are prefixed The Lives of the Authors
Price: $900
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1866. First Little, Brown edition, one of 100 copies printed at the University Press: Welch, Bigelow & Co., Cambridge. Goodspeed’s Copy. Read More about The Complete Angler, or the contemplative man’s recreation … edited by John Major
Price: $3,750
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, [circa 1800]. Large Broadside Printing of Washington's Farewell Address. Written largely by Alexander Hamilton, Washington's famed Farewell Address was first printed in newspapers in September 1796 at the end of his second term as President, emphasizing the importance of unity and morality, the dangers of political..... Read More about Address of the late General George Washington, To the Citizens of the United States, on declining...
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New York: Gabriel Wells, 1925. Copy Number #36 of 575 numbered sets of this Large Paper Edition. A finely bound set of this collection of Wilde's writings, with supplementary material by Wilde's contemporaries in each volume (W.B. Yeats, Walter Pater, John Cowper Powys, John Drinkwater, Arthur Symons, Padraic Colum, et..... Read More about The Writings of... With an Introduction by Richard Le Gallienne and forewords by W. B. Yeats, etc
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New York: William H. Murphy, 1875. First edition. Draw Poker, 1875: its Rules and Math. First edition of this important early mathematical approach to poker; along with Blackbridge's The Complete Poker Player (1875), it is the earliest book devoted soley to the game. The author, Henry T. Winterblossom, advertises himself..... Read More about The Game of Draw-Poker, Mathematically Illustrated; Being a Complete Treatise on the Game, Giving...
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London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. First edition, lacking half titles. with cancels D11, in Volume 1 and B2 in volume 2. Contains a large number of first appearances of Wordsworth's best known poems, and indeed, some of the most enduring poems of the English language: "Resolution..... Read More about Poems, in Two Volumes
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New York: Horizon Press, 1963. Limited edition, number 350 A. Ameru-iva-=can edition limited to 2600 This is the American edition printed in a limited number of 2,600, it is a monograph that was originally published as the Wasmuth Portfolio (1910) in Germany that had a profound effect on architecture in..... Read More about Buildings, Plans and Designs
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Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. Complete! – Hugh Walpole's copies. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan..... Read More about A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series
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