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Large black and white photograph of the Roosevelt Luncheon at Lordvale, the home of industrialist Henry Worcester Smith in Grafton, Massachusetts; Signed by Theodore Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Theodore Roosevelt Signed Photograph.
1909.
Large black and white photograph of the Roosevelt Luncheon at Lordvale, the home of industrialist Henry Worcester Smith in Grafton, Massachusetts, held on September 1st 1916. Signed by Theodore Roosevelt on the lower right corner of the photograph, "Theodore Roosevelt." Double matted and framed. The photograph measures 16 inches by 14.5 inches. The entire piece measures 21 inches by 19.5 inches.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 88168
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Rare Original Photograph of Lotus' Colin Chapman; Signed by Him
CHAPMAN, Colin.
Colin Chapman Signed Lotus Photograph.
Photograph depicting the Gold Leaf Team Lotus transporter in the paddock of the 1968 German GP, boldly signed by Colin Chapman. Team principal Colin Chapman can be seen speaking to Keith Duckworth and Emerson’s 49B is on axle stands in the foreground. From the collection of BRDC chairman and racing driver Peter Stubberfield. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed as Chapman passed away at the age of 54.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 140276
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"THERE IS A POINT OF NO RETURN, UNREMARKED AT THE TIME, IN MOST LIVES": FIRST EDITION OF THE COMEDIANS; INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM GREENE
GREENE, Graham.
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Clive from Graham Greene." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Ivan Lapper. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 98568
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Rare First Edition of Spooner's The Cultivation of American Grape Vines and Making of Wine
SPOONER, Alden.
The Cultivation of American Grape Vines and Making of Wine.
Brooklyn: A Spooner & Co, 1846.
First edition of one of the earliest American books on wine making. Small octavo, original cloth. In very goo condition condition with 12 page corners torn. Rare; the last example at auction was in 1984.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 102334
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“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body": First edition of Margaret Sanger's My Fight For Birth Control; signed by her and in the scarce original dust jacket
SANGER, Margaret.
My Fight For Birth Control.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931.
First edition of Sanger's remarkable first autobiography with the publisher's device to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with twenty black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Margaret Sanger on the front free endpaper. Very good in the scarce first issue dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 129460
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“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same": First British Edition of Midnight's Children; Signed by Him and Jacket Designer Bill Botten
RUSHDIE, Salman.
Midnight’s Children.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.
First British edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed on the title page by both Salman Rushdie and jacket deisgner Bill Botten. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the original wrap around band. Jacket design by Bill Botten. An exceptional signed example.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 139205
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"The single most important poem of the past quarter century in American letters": First Signed Limited Edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl: For Carl Solomon; Signed and dated by him with a signed postcard laid in
GINSBERG, Allen.
Howl for Carl Solomon.
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971.
First signed limited edition of Ginsberg's Howl with new additions and corrections. Quarto, original illustrated linen designed by Robert La Vigne. One of 275 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on hand-made paper with edges untrimmed and signed and dated by Allen Ginsberg on the title page, "Allen Ginsberg August 30, 1971 San Francisco." Laid in are the original introductory announcements by Hoyem & Grabhorn and notes by Ginsberg. Also laid in is the original transmittal postcard signed by Ginsberg and entirely in his hand. Addressed to Glen Todd, the postcard reads, "Dec 31, 71 Dear Glen, Happy New…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 95298
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Rare original playbill signed by Marlon Brando, Katharine Cornell, Cedric Hardwicke, Oliver Cliff, Wesley Addy, and Mildred Natwick
SHAW, George Bernard. (Marlon Brando.
Marlon Brando Signed Candida Playbill.
Playbill Incorporated, 1946.
Rare original playbill from the 1946 production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida starring Marlon Brando and Katharine Cornell. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed on the front panel by Marlon Brando, Katharine Cornell, Cedric Hardwicke, Oliver Cliff, Wesley Addy, and Mildred Natwick. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by the entire cast of this important production.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 96045
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"Maybe you could show me how to let go, Lower my guard, Learn to be free. Maybe if you whistle, Whistle for me": First Edition of Anyone Can Whistle; Inscribed by both Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim
LAURENTS, Arthur & Stephen Sondheim.
Anyone Can Whistle: A Musical Fable.
New York: Random House, 1965.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly Inscribed by both Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine bright jacket without the fading usually encountered with the spine.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 762
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The Political Works of Harold Joseph Laski; Uniformly Bound by Bayntun Riviere
LASKI, Harold Joseph.
The Political Works of Harold Joseph Laski.
London, New York, New Haven: GeorAllen & Unwin Ltd.; Harper & Brothers; Yale University Press , 1919-1941.
Finely bound collection of the political works of English political theorist and economist Harold Laski. Octavos, 22 volumes, uniformly bound by Bayntun Riviere Bindery in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Titles include Laski's well-known An Introduction to Politics, The State in Theory and Practice, The American Democracy, The Dangers of Obedience & Other Essays, and Studies in Law and Politics. In fine condition.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 90438
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Rare Collection of Patti Smith Signed Books, Catalogs and Magazines
SMITH, Patti.
Patti Smith Signed Autograph Document Collection.
Rare collection of first and limited editions, catalogs and magazines signed by American rock legend Patti Smith. Approximately twenty volumes, each signed by Smith, the collection includes a first edition of New Women in Rock (New York: Delilah/Putnam, 1982), a signed limited edition of Rimbaud (Zurich: Vasellari, 1991), a first edition of Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith (Pittsburgh: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2002), a first edition of Robert Mapplethorpe Portraits Patti Smith Dessins (Paris: Baudoin Lebon, 1998), the July/August 1996 issue of Option Music and Culture, the March 1998 issue of Time Out: New York, several copies of…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 110268
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First Edition of HRH The Prince of Wales Watercolours; Inscribed by King Charles
PRINCE CHARLES ,.
HRH The Prince of Wales Watercolours.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the Prince of Wales. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by author, "Jimmy” All best wishes for Xmas 1992 from, Charles." The recipient was BBC television and radio personality Sir Jimmy Savile. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 143952
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Large Paper Copy of John Muir's The Cruise of the Corwin; One of Five Hundred and Fifty Copies; In the Exceptionally Rare Dust Jacket
MUIR, John.
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 In Search of De Long and the Jeannette.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.
First edition, large paper copy, one of five hundred and fifty copies, this is number 260. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from sketches by Muir. Fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Kimes 348; BAL 14775
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 97365
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“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found": First Edition of The Essential John Nash; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist John F. Nash and Harold W. Kuhn
NASH, John F.; Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar.
The Essential John Nash.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of this volume which compiles John Nash's most well-known papers. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed John F. Nash, Jr. and Harold W. Kuhn on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grady Klein.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 132354
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First Edition of Zora Neale Hurston's Jonahs Gourd Vine; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
NEALE HURSTON, Zora.
Jonah’s Gourd Vine.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1934.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition, name to the title page. With an introduction by Fanny Hurst. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 141711