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"Peggy Sweetheart, Cartes and Sudie want to go for a ride on this carriage but I think we'd better wait for Peggy and Mama. Here is a kiss X. Here is a crab kiss ↃC xxx Love, Daddy": First edition The Catcher in the Rye; with an autograph postcard signed by J.D. Salinger to his daughter Peggy
SALINGER, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1951.
First edition of Salinger’s debut novel, a cherished portrait of adolescence and one of the most widely banned books ever published. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the rear panel photograph of Salinger. Jacket design by Michael Mitchell. Author photograph by Lotte Jacob. With an autograph postcard signed by J.D. Salinger to his daughter Peggy laid in. The postcard bears a plastichrome image of horsedrawn carriages on 59th Street in New York City, inscribed by J.D. Salinger on the verso, “Peggy Sweetheart, Cartes and Sudie want to go for a ride on this carriage but I think we’d better wait for Peggy and Mama. Here is a kiss X. Here is a crab kiss ↃC xxx Love, Daddy.” Postmarked New York, New York May 4 11:30 AM 1959. In February 1955, at age 36, Salinger married Claire Douglas, a Radcliffe student who was art critic Robert Langton Douglas’s daughter. They had two children, Margaret Salinger (also known as Peggy – born December 10, 1955) and Matthew “Matt” Salinger (born February 13, 1960). Peggy Salinger wrote in her memoir, Dream Catcher, that she believes her parents would not have married, nor would she have been born, had her father not read the teachings of Lahiri Mahasaya, a guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, which brought the possibility of enlightenment to those following the path of the “householder” (a married person with children). After their marriage, Salinger and Claire were initiated into the path of Kriya yoga, the first of several of Salinger’s ever-changing spiritual belief systems which also included Dianetics. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable with such a touching postcard from Salinger to his only daughter.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 145286
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife": Rare first edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
AUSTEN, JANE.
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel.
London: Printed for T. Egerton 1813.
First editions of all three volumes of Jane Austen’s masterpiece, her bestselling book during her lifetime which remains a landmark of English literature. 12mo, three volumes bound in full mottled calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling and botanical gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, all edges speckled black. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. A very attractive example of this significant work in English literature.
Price: $140,000.00 Item Number: 145824
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“Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed” and “A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds": First Edition of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, RON.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
New York: Random House 1998.
First edition of this landmark biography of John D. Rockefeller. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145837
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First Edition of Julia's Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking; Signed by Her
CHILD, JULIA.
Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom Essential Techniques And Recipes From A Lifetime Of Cooking.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2000.
First edition of this collection of recipes by Julia Child. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Jane Julia Child.” Fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Front of the jacket photograph by Micheal McLaughlin. Book photograph by Paul Child.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145839
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"The Truth Will Set You Free. But Not Until It Is Finished With You": First Edition Of The Authors Magnum Opus; Signed By David Foster Wallace in the year of publication
WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER.
Infinite Jest: A Novel.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1996.
First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication on the title page, “Hello! David Foster Wallace 2/96.” Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspelled on the back panel. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 145601
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First Edition of Washington: A Life; Inscribed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, RON.
Washington: A Life.
New York: The Penguin Press 2010.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Ron Chernow 2/24/11.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney Design.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 145838
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"As you are now so once were we": First American Edition Of Ulysses; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
JOYCE, JAMES.
Ulysses.
New York: Random House 1934.
First American edition of Joyce’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt signature of Joyce to the front panel, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 142876
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"LOVE MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY": FIRST EDITION OF ERICH SEGAL'S LOVE STORY; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY HIM, ALI MACGRAW AND RYAN O'NEAL
SEGAL, ERICH.
Love Story.
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers 1970.
First edition, early printing of the author’s best-selling novel, a “sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental” work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Erich Segal, Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal who co-starred in the 1970 film adaptation. A tragedy, the 1970 film Love Story was produced by Howard G. Minsky and directed by Arthur Hiller and starred Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, alongside John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut in a minor role. The film is considered one of the most romantic by the American Film Institute (No. 9 on the list) and is one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Anita Scott. Author photograph by Hella Hammid. Rare and desirable.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 139599
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First Edition of Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley; Inscribed by Him to Supreme Court Justice William Rufus Day
MCKINLEY, WILLIAM [WILLIAM RUFUS DAY].
Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley.
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1893.
First edition of this collection of speeches by the United State’s 25th president. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of McKinley, illustrated with four additional tissue-guarded plates. Association copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf by William McKinley as Governor of Ohio, “For Hon. WRDay, with the sincere regard of his friend WMcKinley Columbus Ohio Dec 18/95.” The recipient, William Rufus Day served as Secretary of State under McKinley and later Supreme Court Justice under Theodore Roosevelt. Although he assumed the position of Secretary of State just a few days after the start of the Spanish-American war, Day worked tirelessly to secure the neutrality of Europe until the very end. During his tenure on the court, Day wrote 439 opinions, maintaining a staunchly antitrust perspective and delivering the Court’s important opinion in Weeks v. United States, which ruled that warrantless seizure of documents from a private home violates Fourth Amendment search and seizure requirements. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities and ownership signatures to the front free endpaper, rebacked. Books signed by McKinley prior to his presidency are rare.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 145234