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First edition of Shackleton Baileys Cicero; FROM THE LIBRARY OF ENGLISH CLASSICIST BERNARD KNOX WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE
BAILEY, D. R. Shackleton. [Bernard Knox].
Cicero.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First American edition of Baileys classic work on Cicero. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 134285
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First Edition of George Agar Ellis' The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask
ELLIS, George Agar.
The True History of the State Prisoner, Commonly Called The Iron Mask, Extracted from Documents in the French Archives.
London: John Murray, 1826.
First edition of this early account of the French legend, later retold by Alexandre Dumas in The Man in the Iron Mask. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary straight grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges marbled. In very good condition. An attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137292
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First Edition of Theodore Pratt's That Was Palm Beach; signed by him
PRATT, Theodore.
That Was Palm Beach.
St. Petersburg, Florida: Great Outdoors, 1968.
First edition of Pratt's history of Flagler era of Palm Beach, Florida. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. In very good condition. Front cover photograph of "the great Royal Poinciana Hotel which once stood in Palm Beach, the grandest hotel of all time, the largest wooded building ever built in the history of the world."
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 138405
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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72865
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"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it": First edition of Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion; signed by the film's screenplay writer Tony Kushner
RUBEL, David. Tony Kushner. Forewords by Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy. [Doris Kearns Goodwin].
Lincoln: A Cinematic and Historical Companion.
New York: Disney Editions, 2012.
First edition of this pictorial companion to Spielberg’s monumental 2012 historical drama Lincoln. Quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Signed on the title page by Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for the film loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137109
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"IF I HAD A WORLD OF MY OWN, EVERYTHING WOULD BE NONSENSE. NOTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT IS, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WOULD BE WHAT IT ISN'T": Lewis Carrol's Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
CARROLL, Lewis.
Through The Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
New York: Worthington Co, n.d..
Early printing of the immensely popular sequel to Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Octavo, original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136052
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Leonard Bernstein's assistant and editor Jack Gottlieb's personal copy of the December 1997 Sotheby's auction catalog of the estate of Leonard Bernstein
[BERNSTEIN, Leonard; Jack Gottlieb].
A Legend: Property from the Estate of Leonard Bernstein Sotheby’s December 1997 Catalog.
New York: Sotheby's, Inc, 1997.
Leonard Bernstein's assistant and editor Jack Gottlieb's personal copy of the December 1997 Sotheby's auction catalog of the estate of Leonard Bernstein. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. With Gottlieb's notes throughout including the hammer price for each lot that sold in the auction. He has also marked the page that has a lengthy quote from him describing a French provincial walnut style folding table in the catalog, "In the inner sanctum - the staging area for super-human accomplishment - stood that table, where the Maestro marked up his performing scores in crystal-clear intricate detail, like a a fine jeweler polishing precious…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135684
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Rare first edition of Vernon Grant's Mr. Mixie Dough
GRANT, Vernon.
Mr. Mixie Dough.
Racine, Washington: Whitman Publishing Company, 1934.
First edition of Grant's children's classic. Quarto, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 16 full-page illustrations. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 136341
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"The Road is always better than the inn": Daniel Boorstin's The Seekers; Inscribed by him in the year of publication
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World.
New York: Random House, 1998.
First edition, early printing of the third and final volume in Boorstin's "knowledge" trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Cole- a fellow seeker from Oklahoma- from Daniel J. Boorstin December 3, 1998." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art: frontispiece plate from William Blake's Europe: a Prophecy, 1794.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133115
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First Edition of In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story; Signed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story.
Wisconsin: Shadow Mountain, 2010.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by David McCullough on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 143615
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"One moonlit evening, mainly to prove himself he could do it, Harold went for a walk on a tightrope": Scarce First Edition of Harold's Circus: An Astounding, Colossal, Purple Crayon Event!
JOHNSON, Crockett.
Harold’s Circus: An Astounding, Colossal, Purple Crayon Event!
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959.
First edition of the fifth book in the author's beloved series. 16mo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 101254
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“OF ALL SAD WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN, THE SADDEST ARE THESE, 'IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN'": First edition, First issue of John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf.
Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In near fine condition. Rear endpaper clipped. Housed in a custom clamshell and folding chemise case.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 139441
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First edition of J.K. Rowling's Essential Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 3 Book Reading Kit
ROWLING, J.K.
The Essential Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 3 Book Reading Kit.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003.
First edition of the Essential Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 3 Book Reading Kit. Octavo, three volumes, housed in the original pictorial slipcase and shrink wrap. The pack includes one adult first edition and 2 children's first editions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with 5 bookmarks, 5 Do Not Disturb Signs, 5 sticker sets, and 3 bookplates. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144952
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First edition, second issue of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.
The Silmarillion.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977.
First edition, second issue (printed by Billing & Sons instead of William Clowes) of "the work of Tolkien's heart," his monumental presentation of the personal mythology undergirding his epic adventure The Lord of the Rings, illustrated with a folding map of Tolkien's fantastic lands. Octavo, original cloth, folding map at rear. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144534
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"We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?" P.B. Socci sketch of Anthony Perkins; signed by Anthony Perkins
SOCCI, P.B. (Anthony Perkins).
Anthony Perkins Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.
Rare graphite artist’s sketch of American actor Anthony Perkins from a scene from the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. Signed by Anthony Perkins. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pat B. Socci gained a reputation for seeking out Hollywood icons to sign his sketched portraits. The drawing measures 11.5 inches by 9 inches.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 89138
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Rare unauthorized edition of Mark Twain's Autobiography (Burlesque) First Romance, and Memoranda
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Autobiography (Burlesque) First Romance, and Memoranda.
Toronto: James Campbell & Son, [1871].
Rare unauthorized edition of Twain's witty collection of satirical sketches; this edition possibly containing the first appearance of My Late Senatorial Secretaryship. BAL 3334. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 137267
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First Edition of A Child's Calendar; Signed by Illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert
UPDIKE, John.
A Child’s Calendar.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
First edition. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the illustrator, Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 5035
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First Edition of Hugh Johnson's Modern Encyclopedia of Wine; Signed by Him
JOHNSON, Hugh.
Hugh Johnson’s Modern Encyclopedia of Wine.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Hugh Johnson. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 119739
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Antoine François Prévost's The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux; finely bound by the Harcourt Bindery
PRéVOST, Antoine François. [The Abbe Prévost D'Exiles].
The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux.
New York: The Heritage Press, 1935.
First edition thus of Helen Wadell's translation of the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité which was adapted into the famous opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini. Quarto, bound in half morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated by Pierre Brissaud. Translated by Helen Waddell. In fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147343
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“When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you": The Power of Positive Thinking; Warmly Inscribed by Norman Vincent Peale
VINCENT PEALE, Norman.
The Power of Positive Thinking.
New York: Foundation For Christian Living, 1956.
Early printing of Norman Vincent Peale's enduring classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Dr. Richard Shaw who with his great skill demonstrated the ideas in the book- Norman Vincent Peale 10/6/89." In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133991