Finley vs. Walls. Papers in the Case
by FINLEY Jesse J. WALLS Josiah T.
1876. First Edition. WALLS, Josiah T., FINLEY, Jesse J. Finley vs. Walls. Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs Josiah T. Walls, Second Congressional District of Florida. (Washington, (D.C.): Government Printing Office, 1876). Octavo, recent full speckled sheep gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. 196. $3800.First edition of the official printing of the House of Representative record in an opponent's dispute over the election of Josiah Walls to the 44th Congress, with Walls, born enslaved and a... Read More
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Official Super Bowl XXV Game Program
by FOOTBALL
1991. First Edition. Signed. (FOOTBALL). Official Super Bowl XXV Game Program. New York: National Football League Properties, 1991. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers. $2500.The official Super Bowl XXV game program, autographed by eight Giants players and two Bills: Mark Bavaro, Lawrence Taylor, Sean Landeta, Rodney Hampton, Andre Reed, Howard Cross, Stephen Baker, Carl Banks, Pepper Johnson and Scott Norwood, whose field goal attempt to win the game was wide right.Packed with articles, statistics and photographs, this program was signed... Read More
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Collection of Signed Jets Yearbooks and Previews
by FOOTBALL
2003. First Edition. Signed. (NEW YORK JETS). Collection of Signed Jets Previews and Yearbooks. New York: National Communications Group/Professional Sports Publications, 2003-2018. Eight volumes. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. $2000.A collection of eight previews and yearbooks for the New York Jets, with over 170 signatures between them, including Woody Johnson (signed twice), Mark Gastineau, Darrelle Revis (signed three times), Lito Sheppard, Dick Vermeil, Mark Sanchez, and Wayne Chrebet.This group includes:1. New York Jets 2003 Season Review, signed by Jon McGraw,... Read More
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Humor and the Presidency
by FORD Gerald R.
1987. First Edition. Signed. FORD, Gerald R. Humor and the Presidency. New York: Arbor House, (1987). Octavo, original half white paper boards, original dust jacket. $950.First edition, inscribed: To Charles Kelly, best wishes, Gerald R. Ford.An anecdotal account of humorous incidents in the lives of presidents, illustrated with classic and contemporary political cartoons. Fine condition.
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Time to Heal
by FORD Gerald R.
1979. First Edition. Signed. FORD, Gerald R. A Time to Heal. (New York): Harper & Row/Reader's Digest, (1979). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $1200.First trade edition of President Fords memoirs, one of an unknown limitation of copies specially autographed for members of The First Edition Circle, signed by Ford on a tipped-in leaf.The 38th President's memoirs are ""at once the autobiography of a political career and the human story of a dedicated but unassuming man propelled by... Read More
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Humor and the Presidency
by FORD Gerald R.
1987. First Edition. Signed. FORD, Gerald R. Humor and the Presidency. New York: Arbor House/Ultramarine, (1987). Octavo, original half brown morocco. $950.Signed limited edition, number 67 of 150 copies specially bound and signed by Gerald Ford on a tipped-in limitation page.An anecdotal account of humorous incidents in the lives of presidents, illustrated with classic and contemporary political cartoons. Issued in the same year as the first trade edition. Back free endpaper with owner blind stamp.A fine signed copy of... Read More
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United States Court of Appeals... Motion
by DU BOIS W. E. B. ROBESON Paul DULLES John Foster
1956. First Edition. (ROBESON, Paul). United States Court of Appeals. District of Columbia. Paul Robeson, Plaintiff-Appellant, against John Foster Dulles, Defendant-Appellee. Motion for Leave to File Brief and Brief Amici Curiae. New York: Hecla Press, 1956. Octavo, original cream printed self-wrappers, staple bound as issued; pp. (i)-ii, (1), 2-25 (1). $2500.First official edition of Robeson's 1956 amicus curiae brief for the long-denied restoration of his passport, a seminal document in the history of constitutionally protect freedom of speech and... Read More
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Broom of the System
by WALLACE David Foster
1987. First Edition. Signed. WALLACE, David Foster. The Broom of the System. (New York): Penguin, (1987). Octavo, pictorial white paper wrappers. $2000.First edition, softcover issue, of Wallaces acclaimed debut novel, signed on the title page by David Foster Wallace.In the tradition of Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Wallace's first novel, written while he was a 24-year-old MFA student, ""attempts to give us a portrait, through a combination of Joycean word games, literary parody and zany picaresque adventure, of... Read More
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African Slave Trade and its Remedy
by SLAVERY BUXTON Thomas Fowell
1840. First Edition. (SLAVERY) BUXTON, Thomas Fowell. The African Slave Trade and its Remedy. London: John Murray, 1840. Octavo,original brown cloth,uncut and partially unopened; pp.14, viii, (3) 6-273, (274-276), (i) ii-vi, (277), 278-582. $2800.First expanded and revised edition of British abolitionist Buxton's powerful call for an end to the slave trade, the first to include his extensive and influential Remedy, two major works that followed the lead of Wilberforce in calling for treaties and commerce to end the slave... Read More
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Collection Of Some Principal Rules and Maximes of the Common Lawes of England [Elements of the Common Lawes]
by BACON Francis
1639. BACON, Francis. A Collection Of Some Principal Rules and Maximes of the Common Lawes of England, With Their Latitude and Extent: Explicated for the more facile Introduction of such as are studiously addicted to that noble Profession [a.k.a. Elements of the Common Lawes of England]. BOUND WITH: The Use of the Law. London: Assignes of John More, 1639. Small quarto, modern full brown calf; pp. (18), 94; (8), 72. $1800.Third edition of ""one of the earliest, if not... Read More
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Freya Stark in Asolo
by STARK Freya LE VALLE Francesco
1984. First Edition. Signed. (STARK, Freya) LA VALLE, Francesco, editor. Freya Stark in Asolo. Asolo: Magnifica Comunita Pedemontana del Piave al Brenta, 1984. Octavo, original pictorial paper wrappers. $950.First edition of this richly photo-illustrated work about Middle Eastern traveler and photographer Freya Stark's life in Asolo, Italy, signed on the half title by Freya Stark with a stamp affirming that Stark signed it for an event in Asolo in the year of publication. Text in English and Italian.This bilingual... Read More
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Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
by HUTCHESON Francis
1726. First Edition. (HUTCHESON, Francis). An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; In Two Treatises. London: J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, et al., 1726. Octavo, contemporary brown calf rebacked and recornered, raised bands, later black morocco spine label; (i-iii), iv-xxvii (2), 1-304. $2500.Second edition, expanded and enlarged, issued one year after the first edition, of Hutcheson's controversial work proposing an innate moral sense similar to an inborn aesthetic onethe ""first major work of... Read More
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Cinquante Planches [Fifty Plates]
by GOYA Y LUCIENTES Francisco
1910. First Edition. GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco. Cinquante Planches d'apres sus Oeuvres les Plus Celebres. Paris: Goupil & Cie., 1910. Tall folio (13 by 18 inches), plates and text loose as issued in five parts, each part in original wrappers, the whole housed in three-quarter gray cloth rebacked original paper board portfolio with later cloth ties. $1350.First edition of this finely printed reproduction of 50 of Goya's most famous paintings, number 489 of 500 copies.Includes fine folio reproductions of... Read More
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Letter... on the Proposed Abolition of the African Slave Trade
by RANDOLPH Rev. F. RANDOLPH Francis
1787. First Edition. RANDOLPH, Rev. F[rancis], M.A. A Letter to the Honourable William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. &c. On the Proposed Abolition of the African Slave Trade. London: T. Cadell, 1788. Slim octavo, period-style three-quarter black cloth and marbled boards; pp. 56. $1650.First edition of Randolphs important 1788 Letter against swift abolition of the slave trade, published the same year Prime Minister Pitt, substituting for Wilberforce, raised the subject in House of Commons, with Randolph instead proposing... Read More
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Wit and Wisdom from West Africa
by STANLEY Henry M. BURTON Richard Francis
1865. First Edition. BURTON, Richard F. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa; or, A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1865. Octavo, modern three-quarter brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label, marbled boards and edges. $3200.First edition of Burtons collected African folk wisdom and his own observations from his three years of travels in West Africa, attractively bound.""Burton's life abounds in strange, mysterious, dark passages, but the three years in West Africathree years... Read More
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Journals of the Rev. James Frederick Schon and Mr. Samuel Crowther
by BUXTON Thomas Fowell CROWTHER Samuel SCHON James Frederick
1842. First Edition. (BUXTON, Thomas Fowell) SCHON, James Frederick and CROWTHER, Samuel. Journals of the Rev. James Frederick Schon and Mr. Samuel Crowther, Who, with the Sanction of Her Majesty's Government, Accompanied the Expedition up the Niger in 1841, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society. London: Hatchard and Son, 1842. Octavo, original blue cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, uncut. $2200.First edition of this account of attempts to interrupt the slave trade by striking treaties with African... Read More
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Forget Me Not
by SHOBERL Frederic
1847. SHOBERL, Frederick, ed. Forget Me Not. A Christmas, New Year's, and Birthday Present, for MDCCCXLVII. London: Ackermann, (1847). Small octavo, contemporary full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt; housed in a custom clamshell box. $2200.1847 edition, the final edition of this Victorian literary annual, featuring prose and poetry and ten engraved plates, finely bound with Queen Victoria's monogram in gilt.The literary annual was a particularly Victorian form, a literary collectionoften lavishly... Read More
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Forget Me Not
by SHOBERL Frederic
1846. SHOBERL, Frederick, ed. Forget Me Not. A Christmas, New Year's, and Birthday Present, for MDCCCXLVI. London: Ackermann, (1846). Small octavo, contemporary full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt, gilt tasselled silk bookmark; housed in a custom clamshell box. $2200.1846 edition, the penultimate edition of this Victorian literary annual, featuring prose and poetry and ten engraved plates, finely bound with Queen Victoria's monogram in gilt.The literary annual was a particularly Victorian form,... Read More
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Beyond Euphrates
by STARK Freya
1951. First Edition. Signed. STARK, Freya. Beyond Euphrates. Autobiography 1923-1933. London: John Murray, (1951). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition, first printing, of the self-contained second volume of Freya Stark's autobiographical trilogy, the sequel to Traveller's Prelude, inscribed by her on the half title: ""By Freya Stark.""This is the second autobiography by Middle Eastern traveler Freya Stark, written during her brief post-war marriage. A war nurse and mountaineer, Freya Stark used a period of convalescence from... Read More
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Reynolds Stone Engravings
by STARK Freya
1977. First Edition. Signed. (STARK, Freya) REYNOLDS, Stone, Reynolds Stone Engravings. London: John Murray, (1977). Tall quarto (7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches), original navy cloth, original dust jacket. $1500.First trade edition, British issue, of this richly illustrated book about the work of famous British engraver Reynolds Stone, whose engravings were used in the books of Middle East traveler Freya Stark, inscribed by Stark to the founder of the European Centre for Disaster Medicine: ""For Bill from another lover of Books... Read More
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Zodiac Arch
by STARK Freya
1968. First Edition. Signed. STARK, Freya. The Zodiac Arch. (London): John Murray, (1968). Octavo, original teal cloth, original dust jacket. $1000.First edition of this diverse collection of essays on history, philosophy, the arts, and travel, inscribed on the title page by Freya Stark to her close friends, Jean and Bill Gunn: ""by [printed: 'Freya Stark'] to dear Jean and Bill. With love from Freya. Geneva 1985.""This collection of essays by Middle Eastern traveler Freya Stark touches on topics ranging... Read More
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Seen in the Hadhramaut
by STARK Freya
1938. First Edition. Signed. (YEMEN) STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut. London: John Murray, (1938). Quarto, original beige cloth, original dust jacket. $2800.First edition of this travel memoir detailing a British woman's journey through Yemen, with 130 plates after photographs by the author, inscribed by her on the half title: ""By Freya Stark.""Freya Stark's narrative of her journey to Hadramautpart of modern-day Yemenis notable for its striking photographs of the region. A war nurse and mountaineer, Freya Stark used... Read More
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Sermon Preached... May 25th, 1774
by HITCHCOCK Gad
1774. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) HITCHCOCK, A.M. Gad. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Thomas Gage, Esq; Governor: The Honorable His Majesty's Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 25th, 1774. Being the Anniversary of the Election of His Majesty's Council for said Province. Boston: New England: Edes & Gill, 1774. Slim octavo, period-style full calf-gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (1-5), 6-56. $5200.First edition of the famed Congregationalist minister's... Read More
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Archive: Hand-colored map of the division of Germany; 25 V-Mail letters
by WORLD WAR II KEYES Geoffrey
1945. (WORLD WAR II) KEYES, Geoffrey, Lt. Gen. Archive: Hand-colored and annotated map outlining the division of Germany; 25 contemporary V-Mail letters from Keyes to his wife. Waiblingen-bei-Stuttgart, Germany: 649th Engineer Topographic Battalion, June 1945. Broadside, map measures 22 by 29 inches, titled ""Administrative Map of Western-Germany, June 4, 1945."" V-Mail letters each measure 4-1/4 by 5-1/4 inches. $12,000.Lieutenant General Geoffrey Keyes' unique hand-colored and annotated map outlining the division of Germany per the Berlin Declaration, produced just after... Read More
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Original pencil, watercolor, and gouache painting, signed
by BARBIER George
1919. Signed. BARBIER, George. Original pencil, watercolor, and gouache painting, signed. [Paris]: 1919. Original pencil, watercolor, and gouache, heightened in silver gilt, on card, measuring 8 by 10-1/2 inches; matted and framed, wntire piece measures 14 by 18 inches. $4000.Striking original pencil, watercolor, and gouache design, highlighted in silver gilt, by legendary fashion designer George Barbier, of a ""Gypsy"" with tambourine, possibly relating to costumes designed by Barbier for the Gypsy ballet ""Amarilla,"" danced by the Anna Pavlova and... Read More
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