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First Edition of The World of Salvador Dali; Inscribed by Him Twice with a Large Drawing of Don Quixote
DESCHARNES, Robert [Salvador Dali].
The World of Salvador Dali.
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1962.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work of Dali. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly signed and inscribed by Dali on two pages, "Pour Seth Dennis hommage de Salvador Dali 1963" with a large drawing. Fine in a very good dust jacket. A unique example.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 139499
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Harry Truman Signed Cabinet
TRUMAN, Harry S.
Harry Truman and His Cabinet Signed Photograph.
1945.
Signed photograph of President Harry S. Truman and his Cabinet meeting on August 10, 1945, after the Japanese Surrender. Photograph is signed in the order the men are sitting, left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach; National Housing Agency Chairman John B. Blandford, Jr.; War Production Board Chairman Julius Krug; War Mobilization Director John W. Snyder; Office of Economic Stabilization Director William H. Davis; Foreign Economics Administrator Leo Crowley; Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace; Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas; Postmaster General Robert Hannegan; Secretary of War Henry Stimson; Secretary of State James Byrnes; President Harry S. Truman; Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson; Attorney General Tom…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 67008
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“Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile": Signed Limited First Edition of John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle
STEINBECK, John.
In Dubious Battle.
New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1936.
Signed limited first edition of this "dramatically intense, beautifully written novel" (The New Republic); the first book in Steinbeck's Dustbowl trilogy, which was followed by Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, number 39 of 99 examples. Octavo, original half morocco. Signed by John Steinbeck. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 131878
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all": The Works of Oscar Wilde; complete with the rare 15th volume issued in 1922
WILDE, Oscar.
The Works of Oscar Wilde.
London: Methuen & Co, Ltd./Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908-1922.
Complete set of the works of Oscar Wilde, including For Love of a King issued in 1922 and often missing from this set. Octavo, 15 volumes in the publisher's original gilt-decorated full buckram, top edge gilt with others uncut. One of 1000 copies issued on handmade paper. The Picture of Dorian Gray bears the imprint of Charles Carrington of Paris while the rest bear Methuen and Co. In near fine condition. Very rare with the inclusion of the 15th volume.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 139028
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The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln; Finely BOUND IN FULL CRUSHED LEVANT MOROCCO IN AN ELABORATE COSWAY-STYLE BINDING
STEPHENSON, Nathaniel Wright. [Abraham Lincoln].
An Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: Consisting of his Letters Speeches and Conversations.
London: Andrew Melrose, 1926.
First edition of Stephenson's appreciation of the great American President. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco in an elaborate Cosway-style binding with a hand painted miniature ivorene portrait of Lincoln under glass to the front panel within an elaborate gilt vignette, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, watered silk endleaves, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 138601
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"Don't Stop Me Now'Cause I'm having a good time, having a good time": Original Record of Queen's Jazz, Signed by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon
MERCURY, Freddie. Brian May.
Queen. Jazz Signed Album.
1989.
Original record, boldly signed by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon on the front panel. In fine condition. Framed. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 18 inches. Rare and desirable signed by each member of Queen.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 122488
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Rare original pamphlet establishing the Palestine Mandate
LEAGUE OF NATIONS; PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY,.
Mandate For Palestine, Together With A Note By The Secretary-General Relating to its Applications to the Territory Known as Trans-Jordan.
London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1922.
Rare original pamphlet establishing the Palestine Mandate. Octavo, 12 pages. Scarce and desirable. A crucial document in Middle Eastern history.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 95292
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"the foundation of the modern German language": Rare 18th century German Martin Luther Bible
Biblia, Das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift Des Alten und Neuen Testaments. Bie Foide von Herrnn Doctor Martin Luther. [18th Century German Martin Luther Bible].
Nuremberg: Endter, 1788.
Eighteenth century printing of the Martin Luther Bible; the first Bible in the German language originally translated by Martin Luther in 1534, considered the foundation of the modern German language. Folio, bound in full pig elaborately stamped in blind with brass cornerpieces, illustrated with numerous engravings in-text, including many 1/3 page and a number of full-page, additional engraved title. In very good condition.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 142643
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"Im not brave any more darling. Im all broken. Theyve broken me": First Edition of Ernest Hemingways Classic Novel A Farewell To Arms; In the Original First State Dust Jacket
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
A Farewell To Arms.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
First edition of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine first state dust jacket with the misspelling "Katharine Barclay" in the blurb on the front flap. A very sharp example of this highspot of American literature.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 144215
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First Edition Of Storage and Stability, Grahams 1937 study on supply and demand, production and consumption, and their impact on value investing; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
GRAHAM, Benjamin; Foreword by Alvin Johnson.
Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Energy.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1937.
First edition of the author’s classic third book. Octavo, original red cloth. Foreword by Alvin Jonson. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light chipping to the spine extremities. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 34037
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Large Color Photograph Signed by Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon
RONALD REAGAN, Gerald Ford.
Photograph of Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.
Large color photograph of Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. Signed and dated by each President below their likeness. The photograph measures 16 inches by 20 inches. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 27 inches. Uncommon in such a large format.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 5478
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"To Hubert Humphrey with my high regard": First Edition of The Lyndon Johnson Story; inscribed by Lyndon Johnson to his vice president Hubert Humphrey
MOONEY, Booth. With a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson [Hubert Humphrey].
The Lyndon Johnson Story.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956.
First edition of Booth Mooney's biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the front free endpaper, "To Hubert Humphrey with my high regard Lyndon B. Johnson." The recipient, Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., served as Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey took office on January 20, 1965, ending the 14-month vacancy of the Vice President of the United States, which had remained empty when then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the Presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 140814
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ERASMUS, Desiderius (Erasme).
Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis.
Coloniae: Iohannem Gymnicum, 1529.
Rare edition, a sound, complete copy, lacking only the final blank. Title within pictorial woodcut border. Octavo, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, dated 1534 in blind, brass clasps, minor statins and soiling and some early penned marginalia. Also bound in are three additional works, De Civilitate Morum Puerilium; Plutarch. De Liberis Educandis; and Horatius Flaccus.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 1832
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Presentation copy of Winston Churchill's The Story of My Early Life: A Roving Commission; inscribed by Winston Churchill
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Story of My Early Life: A Roving Commission.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945.
Later printing of Churchill's acclaimed autobiography, recounting the first 25 years of his life. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with 7 plates, one folding map. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To E.A. Allen from Winston S. Churchill Christmas 1946." In very good condition. Housed in a custom velvet-lined half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 145060
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Rare collection of printed and manuscript documents signed by the first 28 Governors of Pennsylvania
MIFFLIN, Thomas; Thomas McKean; William Findley; Joseph Hiester; et al.
Collection of 28 Autographs of the First Governors of Pennsylvania.
c. 1798-1908.
Rare collection of printed and manuscript documents, signed by the first 28 (of 29) Governors of Pennsylvania, being a near continuous representation of the office from its establishment in 1790 with the first Governorship of Thomas Mifflin, up until the 1930s with the 29th Governorship of Gifford Pinchot. Quarto, each document is tipped in to a paper folder with calligraphic title (many with engraved portraits), and housed in a quarter blue gilt morocco presentation box with a gilt gift inscription to the 30th Governor of Pennsylvania, George Howard Earle III (1890-1974), from the "Wizard of Washington" and Democratic Party politico, Emil Hurja…
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 142634
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF JESSE LIVERMORE’S HOW TO TRADE IN STOCKS
LIVERMORE, Jesse.
How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.
First edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s most well-known traders. Octavo, original blue cloth, contains 16 full color charts. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremites. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 133596