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“BEYOND THE EARTH, BEYOND THE FARTHEST SKIES, I TRY TO FIND HEAVEN AND HELL. THEN I HEAR A SOLEMN VOICE THAT SAYS: "HEAVEN AND HELL ARE INSIDE”: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; One of 550 Copies Signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; In the Original Elaborate Binding
FITZGERALD, Edward; Illustrated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Siegle, Hill & Company, 1910.
Signed limited first edition of this work reproduced in color from the manuscript written and illuminated by Francis Sangorski & George Sutcliffe, number 247 of 550 copies signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Folio, bound in publisher's full vellum, front panel elaborately stamped in gilt in a peacock motif, gilt titles and a floral motif to the spine, brown gilt morocco lettering label, pictorial endleaves. With twelve full-page illustrations inserted throughout. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 108452
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Photograph Signed by Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower.
Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower Signed Photograph.
Photograph of Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower, boldly signed by each, "Dwight D. Eisenhower", and signed, "Mamie Doud Eisenhower." Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 12.5 inches. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 110337
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THE RIVERSIDE EDITION OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, HANDSOMELY BOUND
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.
The Writings of Longfellow.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1886.
Octavo, three-quarters leather, 14 volumes. Top edge gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies. This is set number 144. It also includes the three volume Final Memorials of Longfellow by Ticknor and Company published in 1887. All volumes are numbered 144 of 300 copies. Each volume contains the bookplate of noted American poet and publisher Scofield Thayer, best known for his art collection, which is housed in the Metropolitan Mueseum of Art. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 3612
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First Edition of Freeman Dyson's Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics; Inscribed by Him to Edward O. Wilson
DYSON, Freeman [Edward O. Wilson].
Symmetry Groups in Nuclear and Particle Physics.
New York: W.A. Benjamin, 1966.
First edition of this work by the famed physicist. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Edward Best wishes Freeman Dyson." The recipient, Edward O. Wilson was a biologist, naturalist and writer. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity" for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. In very good condition, with Wilson's signature to the front free endpaper. An exceptional association, linking these two great minds of the twentieth century.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 138193
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"a key point in the development of cartography in Spain": Two rare original Francisco Coello maps of Cuba from the first edition of his magnum opus Atlas of Spain and its Overseas Possessions
COELLO, D. Francisco .
Atlas de Esapana y Susus Posesiones de Ultramar: Isla de Cuba Por El Teniente Coronel Captain de Ingenieros D. Francisco Coello. [Atlas of Spain and its Overseas Possessions].
Madrid: 1851-1853.
First edition of famed cartographer Francisco Coello's magnum opus, Atlas of Spain and its Overseas Possessions, containing two large engraved broadside maps of the Island of Cuba. Housed in the publisher's original small octavo stiff paper boards, the first map displays the Island of Cuba with fine hand-colored borders. The second shows detailed views of the historical districts of Havana and Santiago de Cuba. Typography by D. Cailo Alaberand, Desbuissons, and Estruch. Outlines by Leroux, Raynaud, Leelereq, and Bacot. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 127183
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“She was buried in his flesh. She throbbed in the beat of his pulses. She was wine in his blood, a music in his heart": First Modern Library Edition of Look Homeward, Angel; Inscribed by Thomas Wolfe
WOLFE, Thomas.
Look Homeward, Angel.
New York: The Modern Library, 1934.
First Modern Library edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Beryl Burk, with best wishes Thomas Wolfe Oct. 30, 1935." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 127273
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“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind": First Edition, first issue of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere
DICKENS, Charles.
Little Dorrit.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.
First edition, first issue of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. With 40 illustrations by Hablot Knight Brown (“Phiz”), including frontispiece and vignette title page. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 130391
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First Edition of We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order TO Live; Signed by Joan Didion
DIDION, Joan; Introduction by John Leonard.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Including: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2006.
First edition of this Everyman's Library's compilation of the author's collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 144613
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First Edition of Thomas Merton's The Sign of Jonas; signed by him
MERTON, Thomas.
The Sign of Jonas.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
First edition of the daily journal of American Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 96038
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First edition of The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds; signed by 30 recipients of the Medal of Honor and with 10 additional signed postcards
[RUDOLPH, Donald; Robert E. Simanek; John F. Baker; Ray Davis; Francis S. Currey; Charles A. MacGillivary; et al].
The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds.
Forest Ranch, California: Sharp & Dunnigan Publications, 1984.
First edition of the complete record of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, from the Civil War through Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by 30 recipients of the Medal of Honor on the half-title page and opposite the half-title including Joe Foss, Donald Rudolph, Robert E. Simanek, John F. Baker, Jr., Ray Davis, Francis S. Currey, Charles A. MacGillivary, James R. Hendrix, William Charette, Rodolfo P. Hernández, Joseph C. Rodriguez, Harvey C. Barnum, Jr., and Roger Donlon. Accompanied by 10 additional postcards signed by honorees including Lee Mize, William Westmoreland, Roy Benavidez, and others, as well as…
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 142565
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"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you": First Edition of Sula; Inscribed by Toni Morrison
MORRISON, Toni.
Sula.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Dan Sieber Toni Morrison." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 138064
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Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman
HOOVER, Herbert & Harry S. Truman.
Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman.
1946.
Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman, signed by both Presidents. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 11.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by both Hoover and Truman.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 102878
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"Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle": First Edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Forbidden City; Inscribed by him
BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan and the Forbidden City.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, 1938.
First edition of the twentieth book in Burroughs' epic Tarzan series. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles stamped in red, frontispiece in color, illustrated by the author's son John Coleman Burroughs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To French C. Smith II Best Wishes Edgar Rice Burroughs." Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in fine condition. Jacket art by John Coleman Burroughs. In exceptional condition.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 90372
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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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Collection of Rare Bugatti Ephemera and Bugantics
BUGATTI,.
Bugantics and Bugatti Ephemera.
Various, .
Bugantics: The Bugatti Owners Club Magazine London. Buggatti Owners Club. 1951-1955 20 Issues in 10 Volumes. Profusely illustrated with photographs, tables, advertising, drawings. Octavo, bound in publisher's original pictorial gilt titled and decorated binding notebooks. Run extends: Volume 1 No.2 (September 1931) - Volume 18 No. 4 (December 1955). Also, an extremely rare copy of the original Parts Catalogue for the renowned Bugatti Type 57. Twenty detailed schematic plates in a spread pin folder from 1935. Also, the original sales brochure for the Bugatti Type 57 8 cylinder 3.3 litre 4 seater Saloon model.1935. Three original sales brochures for the…
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 22091
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The Democratic Book 1936; SIGNED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT; with the additional booklet and two original pins
ROOSEVELT, Franklin.
The Democratic Book 1936.
1936.
Signed Limited edition, number 1858, with illustrated title and limitation pages, 19 full-page portraits, dozens of in-text half-tones and illustrations, and a facsimile of the Constitution. Large folio, original full brown morocco gilt, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Comes with the additional booklet from the 1936 Democratic convention and two original pins, one reading, "I Want Roosevelt Again" and one which reads "Roosevelt." In near fine condition.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 38075