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Browse an exceptional selection of new acquisitions with the arrival of our latest catalog of fine rare books and historic documents: Presenting 80 Great Works. Highlights of the catalog include a rare first edition of Herodotus’ Historaie in Greek, an exceptionally rare printing of Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis, a first edition set of Charles Lucian Bonaparte’s American Ornithology, a rare first limited large paper edition of Shackleton’s The Heart of the Antarctic, a scarce first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales, a first edition of Hemingway’s masterpiece The Sun Also Rises in the scarce original dust jacket, and a first edition set of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
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Signed limited edition of the author’s classic work. Number 75 of 95 copies, signed by Kahlil Gibran. Illustrated with seven View product.
The complete writings of George Washington. Large octavo, 12 volumes, uniformly bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles and tooling View product.
First edition, second printing of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Inscribed by the View product.
First edition in English of the author’s masterpiece, published just one year after the original French edition and before the View product.
Later printing of the Rands’s breakthrough work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the front View product.
First American edition, which preceded the British edition of Wyndham’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Wyndham View product.
First edition in English of the author’s masterpiece, published just one year after the original French edition and before the View product.
First edition, first issue, with the title page printed in orange and black and pages 247 and 248 being publisher’s View product.
Fourth printing of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the View product.
First edition of Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in an excellent dust jacket with some toning to the spine. View product.
Second edition of von Neumann and Morgenstern’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Von Neumann. Near fine in View product.
Tenth printing of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, published a few months after the first edition. Octavo, original half cloth. View product.
First limited edition of this epic historical drama made into the 1962 film starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris. View product.
First edition of this classic work, which remains the basis of much liberal political thought. Octavo, original cloth. In very good View product.
First edition of one of the earliest biographies of profoundly influential American abolitionist, John Brown; published in the first year View product.
Rare autograph note signed by the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. The note reads, “A verbal answer, please, by View product.
Full length photograph of Babe Ruth swinging a baseball bat. Inscribed by him, “To my good friend Jack Musante Sincerely View product.
First edition of what many consider one of the most important novels on Hollywood and the film industry. Octavo, original View product.
Rare Mohandas K. Gandhi autograph, signed at the height of the struggle for Indian Independence. Signed by Gandhi, “M.K. Gandhi 28-12-38 View product.
Royal Christmas card bearing a full-color family photograph of Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and the infant Prince William. Inscribed by View product.
First edition of Faulkner’s first book in the rare first state dust jacket with An American Tragedy as the first of five View product.
Rare first edition of Nobbes’ authoritative work on the history and methods of trolling. First issue with the engraved hook View product.
First edition, first issue with the publisher’s logo on the half title page of Kesey’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. View product.
Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding By the Author of the Essays Moral and Political.
First edition of this landmark of Enlightenment thought. 12mo, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, View product.
Rare autograph note signed by Charles Darwin to fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The note reads, “Oct. 27 Down, Beckenham View product.
First edition of this music collection of the songs of Bob Dylan. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers as issued, frontispiece portrait View product.
One volume containing four parts: Colombo and the Kelani Valley; Kandy and Peradeniya; Nuwara Eliya and Adam’s Peak and The View product.
First edition, first issue binding with “By Rail Through Asia”. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Paul Theroux on View product.
First edition of Puzo’s definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. Octavo, original half black cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by View product.
Exceptionally rare finely bound autograph album signed by the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln as well as View product.
Autograph boldly signed “U.S. Grant, Lt. Gen.” on a card. Double matted and framed with a photograph of Grant. The View product.
First edition of the first collected edition of Newton‘s writings, which has been hailed as “a fine piece of bookmaking” (Babson). View product.
First edition, first issue with first edition stated on the copyright page of the author’s first major novel, as well View product.
First edition in parts of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Original serial issue. Twenty parts View product.
First edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “robust adventure story,” illustrated with eight tipped-in plates, including frontispiece photographic portrait of “the members of View product.
Finley bound first edition set of Gleig’s history the British Empire in India from the library of Charles Dickens. Octavos, View product.
First edition in English of one of the cornerstones of Western philosophy and politics. Quarto, period style full calf, red View product.
First edition, the preferred work in Italian of da Vinci’s work on painting. Folio, Bound in full calf, gilt titles View product.
Rare first edition of this early book of fortune telling and divination through card reading. Octavo, bound in original cloth, View product.
First edition, first issue with “Published May 1936” on the copyright page of the author’s classic novel. Octavo, original gray View product.
First Stockdale edition of The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in full View product.
First editions of the first novel of the author’s acclaimed Trilogy of Desire. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on View product.
First edition of Watson’s ground breaking work regarding the discovery of DNA for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice View product.
First American edition of this children’s classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 27 line cuts (13 full-page) and chapter tailpieces View product.
First edition of the author’s first book, one of the great novels of World War II. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation View product.
Rare first edition of this important work on golf architecture by one of the world’s most influential golf architects, Dr. View product.
First edition of the lavishly illustrated companion volume to Disney’s animated musical masterpiece. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 16 mounted color plates. View product.
Military commission boldly signed by Abraham Lincoln as President August 7, 1861, and countersigned by Simon Cameron as Secretary of View product.
First edition, limited issue of this wizarding classic. Signed by J.K. Rowling on the half-title page, with the authentication hologram. View product.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist regarding quantum electrodynamics. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Feynman View product.
First American edition of Camus’ first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on View product.
First American edition of this landmark novel of the 20th century. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in View product.
First American edition of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, described by Freud as “the most magnificent novel ever written.” Octavo, original cloth, top edge View product.
The manuscript edition of the writings of Henry David Thoreau. With the original manuscript sheet by Thoreau from his journal View product.
Rare first edition, Special Limited Large Paper Issue of Shackleton’s account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909, number 97 of only View product.
Signed limited first edition, number 122 of 1000 large-paper copies signed by Roosevelt beneath the frontispiece portrait and signed by View product.
First edition of Crichton’s gripping, bestselling scientific thriller. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg on View product.
Rare autograph note signed by each of the primary members of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, including: Ernest Henry Shackleton, Frank Wild, View product.
First edition of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Quarto, 2 volumes. Bound in full brown calf, View product.
First edition of this collection of addresses delivered by General Douglas MacArthur to the Corps Cadets of West Point Military View product.
Rare Richard Nixon Presidential Commission appointing Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio as a “Member of the Conference on Physical View product.
Rare original postcard handwritten and signed by influential British novelist Virginia Woolf to her brother-in-law Clive Bell. The postcard reads, View product.
Rare letter excerpt boldly signed by Ernest Hemingway. Published by the Walden Book Shop in 1930, the introduction begins "The View product.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition with View product.
Rare early printing of Thomas Paine’s landmark work. Octavo, bound in calf over marble boards, gilt titles and tooling to View product.
First edition, first issue of the first printing, with the misprint (“stoppped”) on page 181 line 26, in the first View product.
Rare second collected edition in English of The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, translated by Edward Dacres, Machiavelli’s first View product.
First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by View product.
Magnificent first trade edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and with illustrations View product.
First edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece, published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955. First issue with the price of View product.
First edition of First Lady Helen Herron Taft’s autobiography, the first autobiography published by a First Lady of the United View product.
First edition of “one of the best musicals of the twentieth century” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards, illustrated, View product.
First edition of Muir’s collection of short works on the beauty and splendor of America’s National Parks. Octavo, original cloth, View product.
First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number View product.
First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a View product.
First edition of one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by View product.
The deluxe illustrated Ibarra edition of Cervantes’ masterpiece. Quartos, 4 volumes. Bound in full contemporary Spanish blind-stamped tree calf, gilt View product.
First edition of Nella Larsen’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free View product.
Exceptionally rare miniature book of hours illuminated with 6 full-page miniatures and 30 other pages with full illuminated borders. 12mo, bound View product.
First British edition of Churchill’s singular attempt at full-length fiction, one of only 1,500 copies. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles View product.
The Prairie edition of the Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Small octavo, 14 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled View product.
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