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Rare Mary Poppins Original Cast Soundtrack; signed by Julie Andrews
ANDREWS, Julie; Dick Van Dyke; Karen Dotrice; Glynis Johns; David Tomlinson [P.L. Travers].
Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins Original Cast Soundtrack Signed LP.
Walt Disney Productions, 1964.
Rare original LP of the Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack, boldly signed by Julie Andrews on the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 140268
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Christmas Card Warmly inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt "All my Love E.R."
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Christmas Card.
Christmas card which reads, "Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt extends her very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year." Additionally signed above by Eleanor Roosevelt, "To ______ all my love E.R." Matted and framed with a photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt. In fine condition. Measures 11.5 inches by 16 inches.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5822
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak": First Edition of the Authors Classic Work The Childrens Hour; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
HELLMAN, Lillian.
The Children’s Hour.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.
First edition of the author's first and most well-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped to front free endpaper, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Examples in the original jacket are rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111712
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"These are tales of Ateria, a country which long ago lay on the distant borderlands": First edition of Emily Post's Rare Third Novel Woven in the Tapestry; lengthily inscribed by her
POST, Emily.
Woven in the Tapestry.
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1908.
First edition of Emily Post's third novel, published before she achieved fame with her seminal work, Etiquette. 12mo, original stiff paper boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Dear Mrs. Douglas, I have done this little book in the spirit of a memorial for my Father - & not for commercial reasons. Therefore I have a sentiment too, about its readers. Knowing your sympathy I am sending you this, in the hope that you will like it a little. Emily Post 10/34/1908." In near fine condition. Uncommon, particularly inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138531
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First edition of The Trembling of the Veil; signed by William Butler Yeats and finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
YEATS, W. B. [William Butler].
The Trembling of the Veil.
London: Privately Printed For Subscribers Only By T. Werner Laurie, LTD., 1922.
Signed limited edition of Yeats’ autobiography. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Yeats after a picture by Charles Shannon. One of 1000 numbered subscribers copies signed by the author, this is number 672. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 142801
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"Linking three militant English suffragettes": First edition of Gertrude Baillie-Weaver's The Life of Emily Davison; from the collection of Emily Duval with her ownership inscription
COLMORE, G. [Gertrude Baillie-Weaver; Emily Duval].
The Life of Emily Davison.
Kingsway, W.C.: The Woman's Press, 1913.
First edition of Gertrude Colmore's brief biography of Emily Wilding Davison. Octavo, original publisher's wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Davison. Association copy, from the library of fellow English suffragette Emily Duval with her ownership inscription, "Emily D. Duvall Given to her by Mrs. Green Dec. 17th 1913." Like Davison, Emily Duval was a militant petitioner in the fight for women's voting rights and was imprisoned several times. Publishing as Gertrude Colmore, American writer and suffragist Gertrude Baillie-Weaver was active when the suffragettes were most militant. In 1911, she published her best-known work, Suffragette Sally, which furthered the cause of the women’s movement…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 135208
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"Mary Wollstonecraft started the demand of women for political liberty in England, Condorcet in France, and the heroic group of anti-slavery agitators in the United States": First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
GARRETT FAWCETT, Millicent.
Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1912].
First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's history of the women's suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth, publisher's advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honored with a statue in Parliament Square. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134219
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"She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies and all that's best of dark and bright meet her in aspect and her eyes": Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies
LORD BYRON. [GEORGE GORDON BYRON] ,.
Hebrew Melodies.
London: John Murray, 1815.
First edition of Byron's book of poetry written at the request of the Hon. D. Kinnaird. Octavo, bound in half cloth over paper-covered boards. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120805
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The Oxford Book of Light Verse; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
AUDEN, W. H.
The Oxford Book of Light Verse.
London: Oxford University Press, 1962.
Finely bound example of the Oxford Book of Light Verse. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spin in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 131263
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The Works of Lord Byron; with a fore-edge painting of the Old Palace, Croyden.
BYRON, Lord.
The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Printed for John Murray, 1815.
Finely bound collection of the works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt title and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Decorated with a fore-edge painting of the Old Palace, Croydon. In good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134016
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"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body": First Edition of Margaret Sanger's An Autobiography; Inscribed by Her
SANGER, Margaret.
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938.
First edition of Sanger's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Sanger. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Hubert Michelman Margaret Sanger." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 5034
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First edition of James Pope-Hennessy's Queen Mary; bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
POPE-HENNESSY, James.
Queen Mary 1867-1953.
London: George Allen and Unwin Limited, 1959.
First edition of Pope-Hennessy's esteemed biography of Queen Mary, for which he was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1960. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 131526
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"A Gallery of Ghosts": Rare late nineteenth century Carte de visite album containing albumen portraits of Henry Ward Beecher, Washington Irving, and General Winfield Hancock among dozens of others
Nineteenth Century Carte de Visite Album.
Rare late nineteenth century carte de visite album containing dozens of original portraits of prominent members of the Griffith family of New York and several contemporary celebrities including Henry Ward Beecher, Washington Irving, and General Winfield Hancock. Quarto, original full leather richly decorated in gilt with inner dentelles, silk watered endleaves, gilt decorations and ruling to each album page which contains one or four original carte de visite portraits, all edges gilt, metal clasp. In very good condition. A captivating collection of nineteenth century American portraits.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 136095
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"HERE IS WHAT ELOISE DOES IN PARIS: EVERYTHING. THE EFFECT IS RAWTHER EXTRAORDINAIRE": First Edition of Eloise in Paris; Signed by Hilary Knight
THOMPSON, Kay; Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
Eloise in Paris.
New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc, 1957.
First edition of the second book in Kay Thompson's cherished Eloise series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout by Hilary Knight. Signed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper, "Hilary Knight and ME! ELOISE." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 140791
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Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet; FINELY BOUND IN FULL CRUSHED Green MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
BALZAC, Honore de.
Eugenie Grandet I.
Paris: Librarie Larousse, n.d.
Finely bound Classiques Larousse edition of Balzac's short novel, later revised to be included in his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 130184
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M. de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte; With a Fore-Edge Painting of Napoleon leading his troops to battle
DE BOURRIENNE, M. [Napoleon].
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte: With a Fore-Edge Painting of Napoleon Leading His Troops to Battle. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Scott, Webster & Geary, 1836.
Rare finely bound example of the Memoirs of Napoleon with a fine fore-edge painting of Napoleon on horseback leading his troops to battle. 12mo. bound in full red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, gilt turn ins, all edges gilt. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 98390
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First Edition of Eleanor Roosevelts This I Remember; Signed By Her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
This I Remember.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 41 photographs of the Roosevelt family, including frontispiece of the First Lady. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 138860
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray; finely bound with a concealed fore-edge painting of Eton College
GRAY, Thomas.
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Bell and Daldy, 1857.
Finely bound collection of the collected poetical works of Thomas Gray decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of Eton College. Octavo, bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of Eton College. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 142194
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Rare Photograph Signed by Charles, Prince of Wales is the oldest and longest-serving heir apparent in British history, as well as the longest-serving Prince of Wales, having held that title since 1958. Born in Buckingham Palace in 1948 as the first grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer on July 29th, 1981 at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London; the ceremony reached a global television audience of over 750 million viewers. The royal couple had two sons, princes Harry and William who became second and third in the line of succession to the British throne.
CHARLES, Prince.
Prince Charles Signed Photograph.
1994.
Rare photograph of Prince Charles and his staff taken during the 1994 Royal Tour. Signed and dated by Prince Charles, "Charles 1994." One of eleven original photographs presented by Prince Charles to his staff, this photograph was given to Sergeant Ron Lewis who is standing in the center of the back row of the photograph. In fine condition. A nice example.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 95805