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“Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”: Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are; inscribed by him
SENDAK, Maurice.
Where the Wild Things Are.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
Early printing of one of the most desirable books in modern children’s literature. Oblong quarto, original cloth backed pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Nicholas Roberston Maurice Sendak Dec. 85." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 140678
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First Edition of Of Flight And Life; Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
Of Flight and Life.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.
First edition of this prophetic discourse on weapons of mass destruction. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Elizabeth Bartky with much affection, and best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh August 1948." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An excellent association.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 144539
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A. P. Wavell's Other Men's Flowers; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
WAVELL, A. P.
Other Men’s Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by A. P. Wavell.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.
Finely bound example of Wavell's fine anthology. 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 panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition,
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 132135
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith; finely bound and decorated with a fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. and Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy of the Arts. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846.
Finely bound example of Goldsmith's complete poetical works, decorated with a fore-edge painting of a golfing scene. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt scrolling and fleuron cornerpeices to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, illustrated with wood engravings, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a golfing scene. Ownership inscription. In very good condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 140226
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Autograph military appointment signed by both former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy
MUSSOLINI, Benito .
Benito Mussolini and Vittorio Emanuele III Autograph Document Signed.
1926.
Autograph military appointment signed by both former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy from 1926. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 131501
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"There had been a heavy shower of rain, but the sun was already shining through the breaks in the clouds and throwing swiftly changing shadows on the streets, the houses, and the gardens of the city of Laurania": First edition of Churchill's only full-length work of fiction: Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.
First American edition (which precedes the British first) of Churchill's singular attempt at full-length fiction. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable in this condition, Churchill's only work of literature.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 129733
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"My sympathies are with the suffragettes": Rare English parlor game book containing numerous early 20th century signatures
[MACKENZIE, Poppy].
The Truth About My Friends.
London: Dow & Lester, n.d.
Small parlor game book belonging to Poppy Mackenzie, each page with tipped-in printed slip lifting to reveal a self-criticism or "truth" (one of them being "My sympathies are with the suffragettes"), below which the participants have signed their name. In good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 135645
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Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale; finely bound and decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting
GOLDSMITH, Oliver.
The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].
London: Bickers and Son, 1880.
Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a fore-edge painting of Squire Thornhill visiting the Primrose family, illustrated. In very good condition with the fore-edge painting exceptionally bright.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138744
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The Great Operas; from the library of American journalist William Safire
VERDI, Giuseppe [Introduction]. Edited by James W. Buel.
The Great Operas: The Romantic Legends upon which the Masters of Song have Founded Their Famous Lyrical Compositions.
London, Paris, Berlin, and Philadelphia: The Societe Universelle Lyrique, 1899.
The Educational edition of this collection of the great operas. Elephant folio, 10 volumes bound into five in full pebbled leatherette for Oliver C. Safir with gilt titles to the spine and front panel and his gilt ownership name to the front panel of each volume, profusely illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text mezzo and sepia tinted illustrations. From the library of Oliver Craus Safir, and later his son, American journalist William Safire. William Safire was an important American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign in the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968.…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134504
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The Lansdowne Poets edition of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott; finely bound with a fore-edge painting
SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. [Fore-Edge Painting].
London: Frederick Warne and Co, n.d.
The Lansdowne Poets edition of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Scott. Decorated with a fore-edge painting. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136573
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First edition of Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood
DICKENS, Charles.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870.
First edition from the original parts Dickens' final novel, with them bound in the rear. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of dickens, 12 wood-engraved plates, original wrappers bound in rear. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133997
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"Cooking is Chemistry, really": First Edition of Joel Robuchon's Ma Cuisine Pour Vous: Les Recettes Originales de Joel Robuchon; inscribed by him
ROBUCHON, Joel with Catherine Michel.
Ma Cuisine Pour Vous: Les Recettes Originales de Joel Robuchon.
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1986.
First edition of Robuchon's classic cook book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with full-page color photographs by Corrinne Ryman and Pierre Cabannes. Presentation copy, inscribed by the chef/author on the half-title page, "A Jacques Cooper, avec ma sympathie gourmaude Le 13 Mars 1986 Robuchon." In very good condition with a small area of dampstaining to the first several pages. Cover design by George Lemoine. Books signed by Robuchon are rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 138242
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First edition of the Author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; volume I signed by Carl Sandburg
SANBURG, Carl.
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939.
First trade edition of Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, four volumes, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 414 half-tones of photographs and 249 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. Signed by Carl Sandburg on the half-title page of volume one. In near fine condition. Housed in a original slipcase. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 143162
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Rare Original Playbill from the 1952 Broadway Performance of Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra; Signed by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
OLIVIER, Laurence and Vivien Leigh.
Original Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra Signed Playbill.
New York: Laurence Olivier Productions Ltd, 1952.
Rare original playbill from the February 25th 1952 performance of the Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra repertory at the Ziegfeld Theatre starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Octavo, illustrated with photographs and advertisements. Signed by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh on the front panel and inscribed by Ronald Adam, "with happy memories and good wishes, Ronald Adam." A close friend of Olivier's, WWII RAF fighter pilot Ronald Forbes Adam made his stage acting debut at this very performance. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 90375
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Rare Antique Postcard Collection Album
Antique Postcard Collection Album.
Rare folio containing hundreds of vintage postcards, most postdated between 1907 and 1917. From the collection of Ellen Warren. Folio, original cloth decorated in gilt with raised vignettes to the front panel depicting a snowy landscape and caribou bust, patterned endpapers, containing hundreds of postcards including many Christmas, New Year's and Easter postcards, family photograph postcards, and views from Santa Catalina, New York City, Lake Merrit, Royal Gorge, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In very good condition. A charming collection offering years of intimate insight into the collector's life.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 116035
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First signed limited edition de luxe of Merrihew's The Quest of the Davis Cup: Volume VI of The Lawn Tennis Library
MERRIHEW, Stephen Wallis.
The Quest of the Davis Cup: Volume VI of The Lawn Tennis Library.
New York: American Lawn Tennis, Inc, 1928.
First signed limited edition de luxe of Merrihew's classic work on the "World Cup of Tennis." Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved photogravure tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Davis, illustrated with 48 engravings after photographs. One of 250 copies printed of this edition de luxe, this is number 18. Signed and dated by the author, "S. Wallis Merrihew October 8, 1928." In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 105106
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Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook; Inscribed by Alice Waters and signed by Illustrator David Lance Goines
WATERS, Alice.
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.
New York: Random House, 1982.
First edition, early printing of Waters' first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Elizabeth Alice Waters." Additionally signed by illustrator on the half-title page, "David Lance Goines." With an original menu of Chez Panisse laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Written in collaboration with Linda P. Guenzel. Recipes edited by Carolyn Dille. Designed and illustrated by David Lance Goines. A nice signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139907
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"When I'm Six I'll fix Anthony": First Edition of I'll Fix Anthony; Signed by Judith Viorst
VIORST, Judith; Pictures by Arnold Lobel.
I’ll Fix Anthony.
New York: Harper & Row,Publishers, 1969.
First edition of this classic work. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Signed by the author opposite the title page, "Wen I'm six, I'll fix Anthony- Judith Viorst." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5687
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First edition of Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable
BULFINCH, Thomas.
The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes.
Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855.
First edition, first state of the first installment in Bulfinch's famed Mythology; with the names of both the printer and the stereotyper on copyright page. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, tissue-guarded frontispiece by Smith Pierson, in-text illustrations. In very good condition with loss to the crown of the spine. Contemporary ownership inscription. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139871
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"WE WENT SLIPPING SILENTLY ALONG, BETWEEN THE GREEN AND FRAGRANT BANKS, WITH A SENSE OF PLEASURE AND CONTENTMENT THAT GREW AND GREW": FIRST EDITION OF MARK TWAIN'S A TRAMP ABROAD
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
A Tramp Abroad.
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1880.
First edition of Twain's classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe, early issue with the portrait in BAL state B (no priority), frontispiece in the first state (captioned "Moses"), state A of the text block (no priority), and the cover stamping in state A. Octavo. 631, [1, ad] pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth, with 328 illustrations by Walter Francis Brown, True Williams, W.W. Denslow. BAL 3386. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144227