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First edition of The Wind and The Rain: An Easter Book For 1962; inscribed by Neville Braybrooke to J.D. Salinger
BRAYBROOKE, Neville. [J.D. Salinger].
The Wind and The Rain: An Easter Book For 1962.
London: Seeker & Warburg, 1962.
First edition of Braybrooke's "Easter book" of modern literature. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "To: J.D. Salinger, with best wishes, and with admiration, Neville Braybrooke." The recipient, J.D. Salinger remains best known for his classic novel The Catcher in the Rye and its memorable cynical adolescent protagonist Holden Caulfield. Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States yet in 1981, it was both the most censored book and the second most taught book in public schools…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 139746
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FIRST EDITION OF IAN FLEMINGS GOLDFINGER; INSCRIBED BY HIM To Newspaper Editor Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley
FLEMING, Ian.
Goldfinger.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1959.
First edition of the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Lionel, Something more to read! From Ian." The recipient, Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley was a politician and newspaper editor. His father, the 1st Viscount Kemsley, had given Ian Fleming his first job as a journalist when he employed him as the Foreign Manager for the Kemsley newspaper group. It was this role, with its contracted three month break every winter to allow Fleming to holiday in Jamaica, that gave Fleming the…
Price: $35,000.00 Item Number: 140248
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"This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul": First Edition of the Nobel Prize-Winning Authors Magnum Opus Independent People
LAXNESS, Halldor.
Independent People.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Grushkin. Translated from the Icelandic by J.A. Thompson. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 140244
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"The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible": First Edition of Samuel Shem's The House of God; Lengthily Signed by Him
SHEM, Samuel.
The House of God.
New York: Berkeley Books, 2010.
Early printing of this edition of one of the most important medical novels ever written. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by Samuel Shem on the title page. In near fine condition. Introduction by John Updike. Cover illustration by Colleen Reinhart.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120243
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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PEANUTS BOOK; SIGNED BY CHARLES SCHULZ
SCHULZ, Charles M.
Peanuts.
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1952.
First edition of the first collection of the Peanuts cartoons. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Harold "Duke" and Maxine Ellington Every best wish- Charles M. Schulz 5/11/92-5/11/92." In very good condition.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 140243
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First Edition of Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
THE CAXTON CLUB,.
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
First edition of this work which compiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Neil Harris.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 140239
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RARE ELABORATELY ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM A 16TH CENTURY BOOK OF HOURS DEPICTING THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE SHEPHERDS
Illuminated 16th Century French Book of Hours Manuscript Leaf. [The Annunciation of the Shepherds].
Paris: c. 1500.
Rare illuminated leaf from a 16th Century French Book of Hours, likely executed by Gilles and Germain Hardouyn. The detailed miniature is elaborately decorated with gold leaf and depicts the Annunciation of the Shepherds on the recto. The verso contains text, illuminated initials and elaborate decorated borders. In near fine condition. The entire piece measures 8.5 inches by 5.25 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132104
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First edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of the Mist
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Land of the Mist.
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd, [1926].
First edition of the third novel in the author's Professor Challenger series. Octavo, original publishers cloth. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 140202
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Rare original playbill from the September 25, 26 & 27 1964 performances of Marlene Dietrich with Burt Bacharach's Orchestra at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco; signed by both Marlene Dietrich and Burt Bacharach
DIETRICH, Marlene and Burt Bacharach.
Marlene Dietrich with Burt Bacharach’s Orchestra Featuring The Jacques Loussier Trio.
[San Francisco]: 1964.
Rare original playbill from the September 25, 26 & 27 1964 performances of Marlene Dietrich with Burt Bacharach's Orchestra at the Masonic Auditorium. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Marlene Deitrich and Burt Bacharach on the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 140205
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First edition of Jean-Louis Bourgeois' Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition; signed by him and Carollee Pelos and from the library of Peter Matthiessen
BOURGEOIS, Jean-Louis. Photographs by Carollee Pelos. [Peter Matthiessen].
Spectacular Vernacular: The Adobe Tradition.
New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc, 1980.
First edition of this spectacular celebration of traditional Adobe architecture in the West. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs by Carollee Pelos. Historical Essay by Basil Davidson. Signed by Jean-Louis Bourgeois and Carollee Pelos on the half-title page. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country.…
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140210
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The Works of Jonathan Swifts's Finely Bound
SWIFT, Jonathan .
The Works of Jonathan Swift: Including, Gulliver’s Travels.
London: Various Publishers, 1751-67.
Finely bound volumes of the works of Jonathan Swift. Octavo, 19 volumes, bound in contemporary calf, red morocco spine labels, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition, with the Cornwell House ink stamp to front free endpaper. A very sharp set.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 140938
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First edition of Oscar Wilde's Impressions of America; one of only 50 copies printed
WILDE, Oscar.
Impressions of America.
Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906.
First edition of Wilde's report on his lecture tour throughout America in 1882. Octavo, original stiff paper wrappers. One of fifty numbered copies, this is number 24. Very good with the majority of the original dust jacket.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 140212
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"Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?" Rare first edition of Oscar Wilde's Ave Imperatrix!
WILDE, Oscar.
Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire by Oscar Wilde.
Washington: Snohomish, 1902.
First edition of Wilde's classic Hellenic poem. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with engravings and hand painted initials embellished in gilt, frontispiece by John Dennis Clancy. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140214
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Signed limited edition print commemorating Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's summit of Mount Everest; signed by Edmund Hillary and artist James Lumbers
HILLARY, Edmund; Tenzing Norgay; James Lumbers.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Signed “Hillary Conquers Everest May 29, 1953” Print.
Toronto: Newport Edition Limited, 1992.
Limited edition color lithograph commemorating one of the great achievements of human stamina and will: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's summit of Mount Everest. One page, the color lithograph is signed by Edmund Hillary and artist James Lumbers. One of 1953 numbered copies this is number 771. In fine condition.
Price: $550.00 Item Number: 139714