Airplane fragment
by WORLD WAR II
1945. (WORLD WAR II). Airplane fragment. Japan/Philippines, 1945. Painted metal fragment from a World War II Japanese aircraft, measuring 3-1/2 by 4-1/4 inches. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $4500.Original fragment of a Japanese World War II airplane used in the successful kamikaze attack on the USS Salamaua in the Lingayan Gulf on January 13, 1945, with its identification scratched into the paint by its owner, Lt. Commander Fred R. Salisbury II of the Salamaua.This is a... Read More
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Archive: Wake Island Raid
by WORLD WAR II
1943. (WORLD WAR II). Archive: Wake Island Raid maps, photographs and documents. [Near Wake Island]: Intelligence Center Pacific Ocean Areas, October 5-6, 1943. Sixteen maps, photographs and documents; maps range in size from 8 by 8 inches to 18 by 21-3/4 inches; photographs range from 6-1/4 by 8 inches to 18 by 9-1/4 inches. $9500.Superb archive of rarely seen map and photographs used in planning and documenting the October 5, 1943 raid on Wake Island, which was taken by... Read More
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Pre-battle map of Okinawa Island
by WORLD WAR II
1945. (WORLD WAR II). Pre-battle map of Okinawa Island. Washington: Army Map Service, 1945. Single sheet, measuring 22-1/2 by 20 inches, with black-and-white topographical map on Side A and color oceanographic map on Side B. $2500.Official doubled-sided U.S. Army map of Okinawa Island before the Battle of Okinawa, labeled ""SECRET.""The Battle of Okinawa (code name ""Operation Iceberg"") took place on Okinawa Island between April 1, 1945 and June 22, 1945. One of the Ryukyu Islands extending southwest of the... Read More
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Mimeographed typescript of the USS Salamaua News
by WORLD WAR II
1945. (WORLD WAR II). Mimeographed typescript of the USS Salamaua News. No place, September 3, 1945. Two sheets of beige paper, staple-bound as issued, each measuring 8 by 13 inches; pp. 2. $9500.Original mimeographed USS Salamaua News newsletter containing detailed news of Japanese surrender, preliminary reports on POWs in Japan and their treatment by the Japanese, Japanese reactions to the surrender, brief news from around the world, and baseball standings, accompanied by a black-and-white photograph of the newsletter's owner,... Read More
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Life of Dr. Sanderson
by WALTON Izaak
1678. First Edition. Signed. WALTON, Izaak. The Life of Dr. Sanderson, Late Bishop of Lincoln To which is added, Some short Tracts or Cases of Conscience, written by said Bishop. London: Richard Marriott, 1678. Octavo, 20th-century full dark green morocco gilt, raised bands, brown morocco spine labels, all edges gilt; housed in a custom chemise and pull-off box. $6500.First edition of the last of Walton's four famed biographies, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Sanderson, inscribed by him on the... Read More
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You Can't Win
by BLACK Jack
1926. First Edition. BLACK, Jack. You Can't Win. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $8500.First edition of this cult autobiography about life as a burglar before automatic guns and getaway cars, with a foreword by acclaimed realist author Robert Herrick, in scarce original dust jacket.""The America of career burglar Jack Black's 1926 novel You Can't Win is one of rampant crime, drug use, fugitivity, and punitive justice"" (Art... Read More
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World to Win
by CONROY Jack
1935. First Edition. Signed. CONROY, Jack. A World to Win. (New York): Covici Friede, (1935). Octavo, original grey cloth, original dust jacket. $1200.First edition of the second novel by this important American ""worker-writer,"" inscribed by him,""For A M- a book written many years ago but I hope you'll find it of interest. Best wishes from Jack Conroy with hospitalization for diabetes. Sincerely Jack Conroy, Moberly, September 26, 1978.""Conroy, ""a premiere midwestern novelist, editor, and folklorist,"" was linked ""with the... Read More
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Disinherited
by CONROY Jack
1933. First Edition. Signed. CONROY, Jack. The Disinherited. (New York): Covici Friede, (1933). Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. $2400.First edition of a memorable presentation copy inscribed by Conroy with a nod to his birthplace in Moberly Missouri, dated within days of publication, ""For My Friend & Comrade, Leo Lipp, with sincere regards, Jack Conroy, Moberly Mo. Nov 30, 1933 (That's Thanksgiving day for some people!)""this rare copy accompanied by two laid-in photographs also inscribed by him, one... Read More
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Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
by CHARLES I HOOPER Jacob
1738. First Edition. (CHARLES I) HOOPER, Jacob. An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, During the Reign of King Charles the First London: Printed and Sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1738. Folio (7-1/2 by 12 inches), period-style full speckled sheep gilt, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $3400.First edition of Hooper's ""impartial"" history, profusely illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait depicting Charles I on horseback and 26 full-page engraved plates, many depicting... Read More
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Collection des plus beaux numeros de comoedia illustre et des programmes
by DE BRUNOFF Maurice DE BRUNOFF Jacques
1922. First Edition. DE BRUNOFF, Maurice, and DE BRUNOFF, Jacques, editors. Collection des plus beaux numéros de Comoedia Illustré et des Programmes consacrés aux Ballets & Galas Russes depuis le début a paris 1909-1921. Paris: M. de Brunoff, [1922]. Small folio, period-style full green morocco, gilt decorated spine and boards, original patterned endpapers, original color pictorial cover illustration laid down internally, uncut. $13,500.First edition of this homage to the Ballets Russes by French publisher de Brunoff, consisting of covers... Read More
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Typed letter signed
by KENNEDY Jacqueline
1968. Signed. KENNEDY, Jacqueline. Typed letter signed. No place: July 25, 1968. Single sheet of cream letterhead stationary (measures 6 by 9-inches). $7000.A fascinating typed letter on Kennedy coat of arms letterhead, signed by Jacqueline Kennedy to one of her favorite artists and designers, Leslie Tillet, where she speaks of Robert McNamara, Robert Kennedy, and civil rights efforts to aid African Americans. The letter is especially momentous in that it is dated by her the month after the assassination... Read More
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Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson
by MILBERT Jacques-Gerard
1829. First Edition. MILBERT, Jacques-Gerard. Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des parties laterales de l'Amerique du Nord. Paris: Henry Gaugain et Cie., [1829]. Folio (21-1/2 by 14 inches), period-style full red morocco gilt, raised bands, blind and gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers. $15,000.First edition of this outstanding series of American views, which ""constitute a unique and valuable record"" (Sherman) of the natural splendors to be seen along the Hudson River, in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and at... Read More
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New James Beard
by BEARD James
1981. First Edition. Signed. BEARD, James. The New James Beard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $1200.First edition of Beard's ""impressive"" cookbook, signed on the half title by James Beard.In this critically praised cookbook of nearly 1,000 recipes, James Beard ""combines foods in new and appealing ways The result is impressive invaluable both to accomplished cooks and beginners Beard's personality comes through in his pleasant and affable prose [and] the... Read More
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Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons
by BOADEN James
1827. First Edition. BOADEN, James. Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons. London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full purple morocco, raised bands, brown morocco-gilt doublures, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $1650.First edition of Boadens biography of one of the late 18th-century English stages premiere tragic actresses, with frontispiece portrait and extra-illustrated with 56 additional engraved portraits of her and her contemporaries, many hand-colored. Handsomely bound in full morocco with fine morocco-gilt doublures by Taffin.From the famed... Read More
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Echoes of Harper's Ferry
by BROWN John REDPATH James
1860. First Edition. (BROWN, John) REDPATH, James. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. Octavo, original brown cloth recased, original pale yellow endpapers retained. $2800.First edition of one of the very first books on John Brown's Raid, edited and authored by controversial journalist James Redpath, with major writings by Emerson and Thoreau, abolitionists Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, George Cheever and others, along with extensive Brown correspondence, together in book form for the first time, in original cloth.Redpath,... Read More
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Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages
by BURNEY James
1819. First Edition. BURNEY, James. A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians. London: Payne and Foss, and John Murray, 1819. Octavo, modern three-quarter russet morocco, black morocco spine label, marbled boards. $6000.First edition of Burney's classic work, giving a firsthand account of Cook's last voyage, with two folding maps.James Burney ""sailed with Captain Cook in his second voyage, 1772-4 In 1775 he was in the Cerberus on the North... Read More
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Sammy Younge, Jr.
by FORMAN James
1968. First Edition. Signed. FORMAN, James. Sammy Younge, Jr. The first black college student to die in the Black Liberation Movement. New York: Grove, 1968. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of a powerful account of the murder of Black Navy veteran Sammy Younge, Jr., which marked, to Forman, ""the end of tactical non-violence,"" inscribed by him, ""To B N, All hands & help are needed in the long range struggle. Keep on pushing & we... Read More
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Haveth Childers Everywhere
by JOYCE James
1930. First Edition. Signed. JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane; New York: Fountain Press, 1930. Slim folio, original printed paper wraps, uncut and unopened, original glassine, original gilt chemise and green cardboard slipcase. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $17,500.First edition, number 50 of only 100 signed copies on Imperial Hand-Made Iridescent Japan paper, out of a total edition of 685 copies. A stunning copy.This is one... Read More
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Autograph document signed
by KENT James
1826. Signed. KENT, James. Autograph document signed. New York, March 2, 1797. One leaf, measuring 7-1/2 by 10 inches, writing on recto; handsomely framed with engraved portrait, entire piece measures 17-1/2 by 25 inches. $1350.Autograph document signed by James Kent, acknowledging receipt of $32 for his attendance at the state legislature of New York.""Superior to any previous treatise on this subject, and a landmark in the history of international law"" (Chamberlain). ""The foremost American institutional legal treatise"" (DAB). ""Without... Read More
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Commentaries on American Law
by KENT James
1832. KENT, James. Commentaries on American Law. New York: O. Halsted, 1832. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan sheep rebacked, raised bands, brown morocco spine labels. $2500.Second edition of one of the most important legal treatises in American history.""Superior to any previous treatise on this subject, and a landmark in the history of international law"" (Chamberlain). ""The foremost American institutional legal treatise"" (DAB). ""Without Kent and Story, it is doubtful that the common law could have been received as... Read More
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Document signed
by MONROE James
1824. Signed. MONROE, James. Document signed. Washington, D.C., March 31, 1824. Original document, measuring 9-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches, printed and finished by hand on recto, docketed on the verso. $2000.Printed and manuscript land registry document, signed by President James Monroe and countersigned by George Graham, Commissioner of the General Land Office. With original paper seal.This document, printed and completed by hand, is a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office for the sale of land to Alexander Johnston... Read More
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Color of Darkness
by PURDY James
1957. First Edition. Signed. PURDY, James. Color of Darkness. Eleven Stories and a Novella. (New York): New Directions, (1957). Octavo, original half gray cloth and black paper boards, original dust jacket. $2200.First edition, first printing, presentation copy, of the first complete published work of James Purdyacclaimed for ""dialogue reminiscent of Hemingway he can do more with a whisper than most fiction writers do with a shout""inscribed to French feminist and intellectual Simone de Beauvoir: ""For Simone de Beauvoir with... Read More
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Fowl Alphabet
by ROBINSON Alan James
1986. Signed. ROBINSON, Alan James. A Fowl Alphabet. [Easthampton, MA]: Cheloniidae Press, 1986. Octavo, original vellum boards, uncut and unopened; housed with two separate portfolios with loose leaves laid in in the original chemise and clamshell box. $1850.Signed limited edition, number II of only 5 artist's proof copy (out of a total edition of 231 copies, only 31 of which are signed), with each of the 26 wood-engraved illustrations in the book hand lettered by Suzanne Moore and each... Read More
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Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
by SLAVERY MONTGOMERY James
1809. First Edition. (SLAVERYABOLITION) MONTGOMERY, James, GRAHAME, James and BENGER, E[lizabeth]. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade. London: Printed for R. Bowyer, 1809 [i.e. 1810]. Tall quarto, contemporary brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $2000.First edition of famed publisher and artist Bowyers richly illustrated volume featuring eloquent anti-slavery poems by Montgomery, Grahame and Benger, a major antislavery work issued shortly after Britains abolition of the slave trade, with... Read More
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Novels
by AUSTEN Jane
1926. AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926-32. Five volumes. Octavo, modern full crimson morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $5500.Second edition of the Clarendon Austen, illustrated with over 40 plates from contemporary sources, and with reproduction title pages from the first editions, handsomely bound.Includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. This text of this edition is based on the collation of the early editions by R.W. Chapman; the Clarendon editions... Read More
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