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"I am sure that when I wake tomorrow all this will seem to me but a dream": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's Suspense
CONRAD, Joseph.
Suspense.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1925.
First English edition of Conrad's final, unfinished novel. Octavo, original cloth. Introduction by Richard Curle. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the spine. Jacket art by Thomas Derrick. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 130717
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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?": The Poems of Robert Browning; bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
BROWNING, Robert.
Poems of Robert Browning.
London: Oxford University Press, 1925.
Finely bound example of the poems of Browning. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles a tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling and titles to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Browning. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 131955
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"There is nothing like losing to know how not to trade, and by learning how not to trade, you learn how to trade" First Edition of Edwin Lefevres The Making of a Stockbroker
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
The Making of a Stockbroker.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925.
First edition of this classic Wall Street narrative. Octavo, original maroon cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 115693
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“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it": The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad; each volume in the rare original dust jackets
CONRAD, Joseph.
The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad. [Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of “Narcissus”, Tales of Unrest, Lord Jim, The Inheritors, Youth: and Two Other Stories, Romance, Typhoon and Other Stories, Nostromo, The Mirror of the Sea, The Secret Agent, A Set of Six, Under Western Eyes, Some Reminiscences, ‘Twist Land & Sea Tales, Chance, Victory, Within the Tides, The Shadow Line, The Arrow of Gold, On Day More, The Rescue].
Edinburgh & London: Various Publishers, 1925.
Collection of the writings of Joseph Conrad. Octavo, 20 volumes, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets which are in near fine condition.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 125741
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“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”: First Edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
WOOLF, Virginia.
Mrs Dalloway.
London: Hogarth Press, 1925.
First edition of one of Woolf's best-known novels, one of only 2000 copies. Octavo, original orange cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, scarce and desirable in the original dust jacket and in this condition.
Price: $56,000.00 Item Number: 99750
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Rare First Edition of William Reid's Golfing Reminiscences: The Growth of the Game, 1887-1925; Inscribed by Him
REID, William.
Golfing Reminiscences: The Growth of the Game, 1887-1925.
Edinburgh: J. & J. Gray, 1925.
First edition of William Reid's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With the author's compliments." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a few small closed tears and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 26007
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First Edition of Carveth Wells' Six Years in the Malay Jungle
WELLS, Carveth.
Six Years in the Malay Jungle.
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1925.
First edition of Wells' work on the Malay jungle. Octavo, original orange cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket,
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1921
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"This One in me knows the universe of the many": Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Rabindranath Tagore
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Creative Unity.
London: MacMillan & Company , 1925.
First edition, later printing. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Rabindranath Tagore Feb. 26, 1932." In very good condition with some wear to the extremities and to the side front panel. Books signed by Tagore are rare.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 22096
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“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry": First Edition in English of Thomas Mann's Death In Venice; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
MANN, Thomas.
Death in Venice and Other Stories.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
First edition in English preceding the British edition by three years of Mann's classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the crown of the spine. First editions are rare, especially in the original dust jacket.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 68098
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The Collection Française edition of Paul Bourget's Le Disciple; one of 1021 numbered copies
BOURGET, Paul.
Le Disciple.
Paris: Collection Française, 1925.
Limited Collection Française edition of Bourget's most notable work. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, illustrated with colored engravings. One of 1021 numbered copies, this is number 233. Text in French. In near fine condition. A very bright example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 115687
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"the greatest musical figure who has lived in this century": Richard Strauss Signed Program
STRAUSS, Richard.
Richard Strauss Signed Program.
1925.
Richard Strauss signed program. The program was for a concert by the Dusseldorf City Orchestra and Richard Strauss, held April 30, 1925. The program measures 6.5 inches by 8.75 inches. Double matted and framed opposite a photograph of Strauss. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 17.5 inches.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 65034
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First Edition of this Foundational Science Fiction Work Hugo Gernsback's Ralph 124C 41; Signed by Him
GERNSBACK, Hugo.
Ralph 124C 41+.
Boston: The Stratford Company, 1925.
First edition of "arguably the first major work of American science fiction" (The Economist). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With the compliments of the author H Gernsback 1925." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 108026
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“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark": The Patriot's Edition of The Life and Works of Thomas Paine
PAINE, Thomas.
The Life and Works of Thomas Paine.
New Rochelle, New York: Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925.
The Patriot's edition of the Life and Works of Thomas Paine. Octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In good condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 138611
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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First American edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's finest collections. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 122446
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First edition of The World of William Clissold; inscribed by H.G. Wells
WELLS, H.G.
The World of William Clissold: A Novel at a New Angle.
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1926.
First editions of each volume in Wells' longest novel. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.G. Wells in the year of publication on the front free endpaper of the first volume in the series, "Walter H. Parker H.G. Wells Oct. 1926." Each volume is very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable inscribed by Wells and in the rare original dust jackets.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133426
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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