Laughing Anne
by CONRAD Joseph
1923. First Edition. Signed. CONRAD, Joseph. Laughing Anne. London: (The Bookman's Journal), 1923. Octavo, original full vellum, top edge gilt, untrimmed, original clamshell box. $1200.Signed limited edition of Conrad's play, number 168 of only 200 copies signed by Conrad, printed on Kelmscott handmade paper and bound in full vellum.""Laughing Anne is a dramatization of Conrad's story 'Because of the Dollars' from the collection Within the Tides (1915). The dramatized version of the story was completed in December 1921 but,... Read More
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Shadow Line
by CONRAD Joseph
1917. First Edition. CONRAD, Joseph. The Shadow Line: A Confession. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, (1917). Octavo, original gray-green cloth decorated in red, original dust jacket. $1900.First edition of this autobiographical novel, based on Conrads 1888 first command. A lovely copy in the scarce original dust jacket.Of this book Conrad has written: ""This story has been in my mind for some years. Originally I used to think of it under the name of First Command. When I managed in... Read More
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Arrow of Gold
by CONRAD Joseph
1919. First Edition. CONRAD, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold. A Story between Two Notes. London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1919). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $3500.First English edition, the first edition complete with Conrad's corrections, in scarce unrestored dust jacket.Written from 1917-18, Conrad's Arrow of Gold earned high praise on publication as richly poetic and ""tense, dramatic, vibrant with the thrill of a great passion written in that intensely individual, flexible style which renders this man of Polish... Read More
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Almayer's Folly
by CONRAD Joseph
1895. First Edition. CONRAD, Joseph. Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. Octavo, original green cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. $2400.First edition, first state, of Conrad's scarce first book, one of only 2000 copies printed.It was after meeting the real ""Olmeijer"" in East Borneo in 1887 that Conrad began working on what was to become his first novel, which he finished six years later in 1894 (he... Read More
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Works (Sun Dial Edition)
by CONRAD Joseph
1920. Signed. CONRAD, Joseph. The Works. Twenty-two volumes. WITH: JEAN-AUBRY, G. Life and Letters. Two volumes. Garden City: Doubleday, Page; Doubleday, Doran, 1920-28. Altogether, twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark brown morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut. $12,800.Signed limited ""Sun-Dial Edition"" of Conrad's works, number 651 of 735 sets, including the two-volume Life and Letters, signed in the first volume by Conrad, handsomely bound by Stikeman.""Conrad's work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme, treatment and... Read More
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Dreyfus Collection
by DUVEEN Joseph
1930. Signed. (DUVEEN, Joseph). Dreyfus Collection. Florence: Privately Printed, 1930. Large folio (19 by 26 inches), original tan cloth, uncut. $6000.Limited first edition, one of only 24 copies, with 28 stunning large tipped-in photographs of Renaissance sculpture from the Gustave Dreufus collection, inscribed by legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen to philanthropist and art collector Marshall Field (grandson of the founder of the department store), ""To Mr. Marshall Field with best wishes Joseph Duveen. New York Jany 31/31.""Duveen was one... Read More
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Plus Ultra: Or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge
by GLANVILL Joseph
1668. First Edition. GLANVILL, Joseph. Plus Ultra: Or, the Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle. London: James Collins, 1668. 12mo, period-style full paneled calf gilt. $2800.First edition of Glanvill's impassioned defense of the Royal Society against Aristotelians, led by Puritan minister Robert Crosse. Handsomely bound.""Glanvill's major writings related to the [Royal Society] were Plus ultra, or, The Progress and Advancement of Knowledge since the Days of Aristotle (1668) and Philosophia pia, or, A discourse of... Read More
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Letters to... Edmund Burke
by BURKE Edmund PRIESTLEY Joseph
1791. PRIESTLEY, Joseph, L.L.D. F.R.S. Letters to the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c. The Second Edition, Corrected. Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1791. Octavo, modern half calf and marbled boards; pp (i-iii), iv-xiii, (3) (1), 2-155 (1). $1500.First revised and ""corrected"" edition, issued same year as the first edition, of a seminal work by Priestley, the defining radical voice and scientific leader of his age, countering Burke's strike at the French Revolution... Read More
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Desperate Hours
by NEWMAN Paul MALDEN Karl HAYES Joseph
1955. First Edition. Signed. (NEWMAN, Paul) (MALDEN, Karl) HAYES, Joseph. The Desperate Hours. New York: Random House, 1955. Octavo, original gray cloth with photographic illustration mounted on front board, original dust jacket. $4500.First edition of a rare association copy of Hayes' drama that premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1955, signed on the dedication page by Paul Newman, Karl Malden and fellow original cast members, Judson Pratt, Nancy Coleman, Malcolm Brodrick, Patricia Peardon, George Grizzard, George Mathews, Fred Eisley,... Read More
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Selection of Pleadings
by STORY Joseph
1805. First Edition. STORY, Joseph. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions, Subsequent to the Declaration. Salem: Barnard B. Macanulty, 1805. Octavo, period-style full marbled calf, raised bands, original red morocco spine label laid down. $3000.First edition of the first published book by ""the most commanding legal figure of his age"" (Hall, 841), handsomely bound.""The appearance of this volume was opportune and serviceable to the Profession in this country, who had hitherto been obliged to resort to the voluminous... Read More
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Commercial and Notarial Precedents
by MONTEFIORE Joshua
1803. First Edition. MONTEFIORE, Joshua. Commercial and Notarial Precedents: Consisting of All the most approved Forms, Common and Special, which are required in Transactions of Business: With an Appendix, Containing Principles of Law relative to Bills of Exchange, Insurance, and Shipping. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1803. Octavo, contemporary full brown tree sheep, red morocco spine label; pp. (i-iii), iv-vi, (vii), viii-xvi, (1), 2-350 (2). Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $7800.First American edition of the groundbreaking work by... Read More
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Letter to Edmund Burke... in Answer to His Printed Speech
by AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURKE Edmund TUCKER Josiah
1775. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (BURKE, Edmund) TUCKER, Josiah. A Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq;Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol, and Agent for the Colony of New York, &c, In Answer to His Printed Speech, Said to Be Spoken in the House of Commons on the Twenty-second of March, 1775. Second Edition, Corrected. Gloucester: R. Raikes, 1775. Slim octavo, modern half brown calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine; pp. (1)-58 (2). $1600.Second edition, issued the same year... Read More
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Series of Answers to Certain Popular Questions
by FRANKLIN Benjamin TUCKER Josiah
1776. First Edition. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) TUCKER, Josiah. A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Questions, Against Separating From the Rebellious Colonies, and Discarding Them Entirely: Being the Concluding Tract of the Dean of Glocester, on the Subject of American Affairs. Glocester: R. Raikes, 1776. Octavo, period-style full crimson morocco gilt, black morocco spine label, pp. (i-iii), iv-xv, (xvi), (ix), x-xv, (xvi), (ix), x-xiv, (15), 16-108, (1-12). $3400.First edition of Tucker's incendiary 1776 work in which he responds to both... Read More
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Humble Address
by SMITH Adam BURKE Edmund TUCKER Josiah
1775. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (BURKE, Edmund) TUCKER, Josiah, D.D. An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland Whether a Connection with, or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of these Kingdoms. Gloucester: R. Raikes Sold by T. Cadell, 1775. Slim octavo, period-style half brown morocco and marbled boards, raised bands; pp. (1-3), 4-93 (3). $3200.First corrected edition, second overall, issued within days... Read More
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Four Tracts
by TUCKER Josiah
1774. TUCKER, D.D., Josiah. Four Tracts, on Political and Commercial Subjects. Glocester: Printed by R. Raikes, 1776. Octavo, modern half calf and marbled boards. $950.Third edition (second revised), of Tucker's four tracts in which he further develops his case for Britain granting independence to her American colonies, a controversial stance that he had adopted as early as 1766.""Tucker's developing attitude to the American colonies was motivated neither by a belief in free trade nor by any sympathy for the... Read More
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Gotham and the Gothamites
by JUDAH Samuel B.
1823. First Edition. JUDAH, Samuel B.H. Gotham and the Gothamites, A Medley. New York: The Author, 1823. Tall 12mo, original beige paper boards, uncut and unopened. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $3200.First edition of this gossipy satire discussing some of New York's most famous 19th-century personalities, the publication of which sparked a libel suit that landed the author in jail, in original boards.This satire of New York aristocracy at the beginning of the 19th century might have... Read More
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Autographs for Freedom
by DOUGLASS Frederick GRIFFITHS Julia
1853. First Edition. (DOUGLASS, Frederick) (GRIFFITHS, Julia). Autographs for Freedom. Boston / Cleveland / London: John P. Jewett / Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington / Low, 1853. Small octavo (5 by 7-3/4 inches), original blind-stamped, gilt-lettered brown cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6000.First edition of a powerful volume of nearly 40 works by leading abolitionists, together in print for the first time, co-edited by Frederick Douglass and Julia Griffiths, containing the first publication in book form of Douglass'... Read More
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Roll, Jordan, Roll
by ULMANN Doris PETERKIN Julia
1933. First Edition. Signed. ULMANN, Doris and PETERKIN, Julia. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933). Large quarto, original gilt-lettered three-quarter linen, brown paper-covered boards with imprinted image of an African-American woman on the front cover, top edge gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $25,000.Signed limited first edition, number 115 only 350 copies (327 of which were offered for sale) signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and writer of the text Julia Peterkin. With 90... Read More
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Historical Law-Tracts
by KAMES Henry Home, Lord
1758. First Edition. [KAMES, Lord, peerage title of HOME, Henry]. Historical Law-Tracts. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Millar, 1758. Octavo, contemporary mottled brown calf sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, original red morocco spine label. $2200.Rare first edition of Kames' work comparing the English and Scottish legal systems and also investigating Roman law, handsomely bound.""The Historical Law Tracts of Lord Kames are conducted upon a very judicious system of investigating the natural principles of some of the most important objects of judicial... Read More
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Statute Law of Scotland Abridged
by KAMES Henry Home, Lord
1757. First Edition. [KAMES, Lord, peerage title of HOME, Henry]. Statute Law of Scotland Abridged. With Historical Notes. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1757. Octavo, contemporary dark brown speckled calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $1800.First edition of this important summary of Scottish statute law, by a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, arranged alphabetically with his important historical notes tracing connections between ancient Scottish law, English law and Roman law.""As a writer on Scots law his... Read More
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Elements of Criticism
by KAMES Henry Home, Lord
1762. First Edition. KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. Elements of Criticism. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell A. Millar, London, 1762. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $6000.First edition of Lord Kames' comprehensive philosophical and aesthetic treatise, desirable in unrestored contemporary calf.The Elements of Criticism is the most important result of the Scottish aesthetic movement, and ""the most comprehensive work on aesthetics of the 18th century since Du Bos' Réflexions critiques of 1719""... Read More
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Original color pencil fashion sketch
by LAGERFELD Karl
1980. LAGERFELD, Karl. Original color pencil fashion sketch. [Paris]: no date. Original pencil and color pencil fashion sketch, on card, measuring 8 by 18-1/2 inches; silk matted and floated, framed; entire piece measures 12-1/2 by 22-1/2 inches. $3500.Striking original color fashion sketch on card, with penciled annotations and fabric swatch stapled to the card matching the colors in the sketch, by renowned fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel.Lagerfeld was known as the creative director of the French fashion house... Read More
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Eastern Question
by MARX Karl
1897. First Edition. MARX, Karl. The Eastern Question. A Reprint of Letters Written 1853-56 Dealing with the Events of the Crimean War. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1897. Thick octavo, original purple-brown cloth. $1500.First edition of this collection of Marx letters related to the Crimean War, published posthumously by Marx's daughter, with two folding color maps of the Balkan Peninsula, both during the Crimean War and decades later upon the publication of this book.The ""Eastern Question"" refers to the colonialist struggle... Read More
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Porgy and Bess
by GERSHWIN George SWIFT Kay
1935. First Edition. Signed. GERSHWIN, George. Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts. By George Gershwin. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. New York: Random House, 1935. Folio, original full red morocco, raised bands, black leather label on front cover, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $48,500.Deluxe limited edition of the piano-vocal score of Porgy and Bess, number 103 of only 250 copies signed by... Read More
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Eloise in Moscow
by KNIGHT Hilary THOMPSON Kay
2000. Signed. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise in Moscow. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, (2000). Slim folio, original orange cloth, mounted cover illustration, original slipcase, original shipping carton. $950.Signed limited edition of Kay Thompson's fourth Eloise book, number 36 of 300 copies signed by illustrator Hilary Knight.A highlight of this, the last Eloise title to be published in author Kay Thompson's lifetime (the first edition appeared in 1959), is the fold-out color illustration of the Kremlin. Fine... Read More
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