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"In no time at all she was princess of the land. And she and her husband, the charming Prince, rode to their palace in a golden coach to live happily ever after!": First Edition of Walt Disney's Cinderella; Signed by Him
DISNEY, Walt.
Walt Disney’s Cinderella.
Stuttgart: Bluchert-Verlag, 1951.
First German edition of the classic retelling of one of the most celebrated Disney films. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Walt Disney on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Laid in is a business card of the publisher with a note referencing this was signed in 1953. Rare and desirable signed by Walt Disney.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 106556
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“The sky was a miracle of purity, a miracle of azure. The sea was polished, was blue was pellucid, was sparkling like a precious stone, extending on all sides , all round to the horizon": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Youth
CONRAD, Joseph.
Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902.
First edition, first issue containing the first appearance in book form of Heart of Darkness—“one of the most powerful short novels in the English language” (Farrow, 14). Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. A nice example.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 105423
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Folio Green Velvet Book Display Cradle
Folio Velvet Book Display Cradle.
Green plush velvet book display cradle lined with woven gold rope. The cradle measures 26.5 inches in length, 11 inches in height, and 25 inches deep and is made to house a folio book. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 101582
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Rare collection of Tobacco Silks decorated with a variety of international flags and university pennants
MURAD TOBACCO,.
International Tobacco Silk Collection.
Rare collection of Tobacco Silks decorated with a variety of international flags and university pennants. 35 flags in total, countries represented include Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Chile, Scotland, San Domingo, and the United States. University pennants include Yale, Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Missouri. In fine condition. A bright and unique collection.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 101561
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Rare autograph note signed by German-American actress Marlene Dietrich to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio; with an 18-page astrological chart created for DiMaggio
DIETRICH, Marlene. [Joe DiMaggio].
Marlene Dietrich Autograph Note Signed to Joe DiMaggio.
Rare autograph note signed by German-American actress Marlene Dietrich to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio. The note accompanied an 18-page Astrological Horoscope report by Hollywood astrologer Carroll Righter which Dietrich arranged to have made for DiMaggio. Signed by Righter at the conclusion of the report and with an additional inscription by Dietrich which reads, "M. Righter does not know your name. If you should want to ask him anything specific you must refer to your birth date and place. M." A close friend of DiMaggio's, German-American actress Marlene Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 102561
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"A fragrant flame rose, and before as glow'd fruit, viand, blossom, and amber wine and gold": First Edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess; A Medley
TENNYSON, Alfred Lord.
The Princess: A Medley.
London: Edward Moxon, 1847.
First edition of Tennyson's serio-comedic narrative poem about the heroic Princess Ida. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and ruling to the panels stamped in blind. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 101523
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First edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Cup and the Falcon; inscribed by him and with seven lines of verse in Tennyson's hand within the text
TENNYSON, Lord Alfred.
The Cup and The Falcon.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1884.
First edition of this collection of two Tennyson plays. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Frederick & Jane Locker from Tennyson.” Tennyson has also inscribed seven lines of verse from the original manuscript of The Cup on pages 80 and 81, inserted in the concluding speech of Synorix, "Nay, rather than to clip the flowery robe of Hymen we should add some golden fringe of gorgeousness beyond old use to make the day memorial, when Synorix, first King, Comma, first Queen o' the snow here the richest…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 100620
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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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"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": Rare Original July 21st 1969 Delaware Evening Journal Front Page; Signed by legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong
ARMSTRONG, Neil.
Neil Armstrong Signed Delaware Evening Journal.
Wilmington: Delaware Evening Journal, July 21, 1969.
Rare original Delaware Evening Journal featuring the headline "Eagle Jets Safely Off Moon; In Orbit for Rendezvous", a front page article on the Apollo 11 moon landing, and large photograph of Neil Armstrong collecting dirt on the lunar surface. Boldly signed by Neil Armstrong on his photograph. Below the headline is Armstrong's famous quote, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Articles featured on the front page include, "Neil, Buzz Leave Prints on Moon", "Kennedy Charged in Crash", and "Luna 15 Lands On Moon, 500 Miles from LM." In very good condition. Double matted and framed.…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 100158
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First Edition of Lillian Smith's Memory of a Large Christmas; Inscribed by Her to Fellow Writer George Plimpton
SMITH, Lillian; Illustrated by Constance McMillan.
Memory of a Large Christmas.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1962.
First edition of this "beautifully written book which should be read by families at Christmas time as Dickens' Christmas Carol used to be" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to George Plimpton, "ForGeorge- who owe still owes me a love letter- Lillian." Decorations by Constance McMillan. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional association.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 100543
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Rare First Edition of Benjamin Graham's The Interpretation of Financial Statements
GRAHAM, Benjamin and Spencer B. Meredith.
The Interpretation of Financial Statements.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937.
First edition with the statement of first edition on the copyright page of this classic in understanding balance sheets. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Written in collaboration of Harold T. Johnson, Birl E. Shultz, Albert P. Squier, Belmont Towbin and Eric C. Vance. First printings are exceptionally scarce.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 100061
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"The real way to play golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes": Large Portrait of Legendary Golfer Bobby Jones; inscribed by him
JONES, Robert Tyre (Bobby).
Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Signed Portrait.
1954.
Attractive signed large color portrait of golfer Bobby Jones swinging his driver. Boldly inscribed by Bobby Jones, "For Will Grimsley with best regards, Bob Jones." Annotated below the portrait, "Reproduced from a painting by Thomas E. Stephens and presented by ninety-nine members of the Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta Georgia. Number 282 of a limited edition." In fine condition. Matted and framed, the entire piece measures 33.5 inches by 29.5 inches.
Price: $3,200.00 Item Number: 100047
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"Humanity is the same the world over in whatever garb or colour she may be clothed": Signed Photograph of Mahatma Gandhi
GANDHI, Mohandas K. (M.K.).
Mohandas K. Gandhi Signed Photograph.
Rare signed photograph depicting Mohandas K. Gandhi in profile with his palms pressed together, inscribed in Gujarati ("[Truth at all costs]") and signed in English M.K. Gandhi on the image in blue ink. With an autographed letter signed from Amrit Kaur, the secretary to Gandhi and later Health Minister of India, to Sgt. John McAleer, written on Gandhi's behalf, enclosing the signed photograph and responding to his letter ("...Humanity is the same the world over in whatever garb or colour she may be clothed..."), 2 pages, Poona, 5 March 1946, with envelope; photograph of Gandhi and another in rickshaws being…
Price: $13,500.00 Item Number: 100048
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Early 20th Century French Empire Doré Bronze Eagle Inkwell
Early 20th Century French Empire Doré Bronze Eagle Inkwell.
c. 1920.
Early 20th Century French Empire Doré bronze inkwell featuring prominently a large bronze eagle flanked by two bronze inkwells on clawed feet. Sited on a green marble base atop two bronze winged lions and two rear feet. The entire piece measures 15.25 inches long, 7.25 inches deep, and 8.5 inches tall. In fine condition. A handsome library decoration.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 90475
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Rare Antique Bronze Austrian Horsehead Bookends
BOOKENDS,.
Antique Austrian Bronze Horsehead Bookends.
Pair of cold-painted Austrian antique bronze horsehead bookends mounted on marble bases. The bookends measure 7 inches in height. In fine condition. A handsome example.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 90467
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Finely Bound example of Hallam's View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages
HALLAM, Henry.
View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1880.
Finely bound volume of Hallam's history of the United States. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt in five compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, gilt emblem to the front panel. From the library of I.H. Echalaz with a period gift inscription to him to the front free endpaper dated 1902. In near fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 90436
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one of the most influential works of Protestant theology; John Calvin's Institutio Christianae Religionis; In Rare Contemporary Vellum
CALVIN, John.
Institutio Christianae Religionis, Johanne Calvino Authore [Institutes of the Christian Religion].
Geneva: Apud Iohannem le Preux, 1592.
Rare early printing of Calvin's seminal work on systematic theology and one of the most influential works of Protestant theology. Folio, bound in full contemporary vellum with a burgundy spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate woodcut printer's device to the title page, woodcut headpiece and initial to the first page of text. In near fine condition with ownership inscriptions to the front free endpaper. An exceptional example.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 90388
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DANIEL J. BOORSTIN'S THE AMERICANS: THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE; LENGTHILY INSCRIBED BY HIM
BOORSTIN, David.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
New York: Random House, 1973.
Early printing of the final volume in Boorstin's The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jim Wooley - fellow Oklahoman and explorer of American history - with warm regards from Dan Boorstin July 30, 1973." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 36598
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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present": First Edition In Parts of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.
First edition in parts of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original blue-green illustrated serial issue wrappers being twenty parts in nineteen with the majority of preliminary advertisements present, frontispiece, vignette title-page and forty engraved plates. In excellent condition, an unrestored example of Dickens' classic work, with some of the backstrips with small chips. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very nice example.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 96702