Hollywood Babylon II
by ANGER Kenneth
1984. First Edition. Signed. ANGER, Kenneth. Hollywood Babylon II. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984. Large octavo, original half cream cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $1500.First edition of experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger's salacious guide to Hollywood, chronicling real and imagined scandals involving actors from the 1920s to the 1970s, inscribed on the half title to his friend, California painter and gadabout Renate Druks: ""For Renate ever the Enchantress. With affection, Kenneth,"" with a signed autograph letter from Anger to... Read More
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Original United Press International teletype rollPresident Kennedy
by KENNEDY ASSASSINATION KENNEDY John KENNEDY John F.
1963. (KENNEDY ASSASSINATION). Original United Press International teletype roll. Dallas, November 22, 1963. Original typescript in blue ink on recto only. Document in one continuous roll measuring 8-1/2 inches by 27 feet, 4 inches. Housed in a custom leather box. $15,000.Original and continuous United Press International teletype roll reporting the breaking news of the Kennedy assassination, beginning only minutes after the shootings of the President and Governor Connally, noting witness reports of three shots, Mrs. Kennedys reaction, Secret Service... Read More
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As We Remember Joe
by KENNEDY John F.
1945. First Edition. Signed. KENNEDY, John F. As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, MA: Privately printed at the University Press, 1945. Octavo, original maroon cloth. $7500.First edition, second issue (of only 250 copies), of this warm tribute to the eldest of the Kennedy brothers, edited by John F. Kennedy, privately printed for family and friends, signed and inscribed by Bobby Kennedy on the front free endpaper to Maxwell Taylor, one of the most important figures in the Vietnam War: For... Read More
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White House: An Historic Guide
by KENNEDY Jacqueline KENNEDY John F.
1962. First Edition. Signed. (KENNEDY, John F.) (KENNEDY, Jacqueline). The White House: An Historic Guide. Washington: The White House Historical Association, 1962. Large octavo, original full red morocco, marbled endpapers. $29,000.Limited second edition of this guide to the White House, the second of two limited editions, number 38a of only 75 presentation copies specially bound in full morocco with the recipient's initials stamped in gilt on the front cover, warmly inscribed on the limitation page by President Kennedy to... Read More
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Typed letter signed. WITH: As We Remember Joe. WITH: Publisher's mailing list and supporting materials
by KENNEDY John F.
1944. First Edition. Signed. KENNEDY, John F. Typed letter signed. WITH: As We Remember Joe. WITH: Publisher's mailing list and supporting materials. The Palace Hotal, San Francisco; and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Undated [1945] / 1945. Single leaf of The Palace Hotel, San Francisco letterhead, measuring 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches; typed on recto and verso for two pages. Book: octavo, original maroon cloth, original glassine, original mailing box. Mailing List, together over 50 pages, and supporting materials: original heavy card portfolio,... Read More
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Wind in the Willows
by GRAHAME Kenneth
1908. First Edition. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen, (1908). Octavo, modern full green morocco gilt, gilt vignette of Mole, Toad, and Rat on front cover, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; original cloth bound in at rear. $5200.First edition of the beloved children's novel, ""one of the classic read-aloud books that should not be missed by any family"" (Silvey), handsomely bound by Asprey.""Unquestionable is the permanence, as an inspired and characteristically English contribution to... Read More
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Far Side of the Dollar
by MACDONALD Ross MILLAR Kenneth
1965. First Edition. Signed. (MILLAR, Kenneth) MACDONALD, Ross. The Far Side of the Dollar. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket. $1800.First edition of Macdonald's award-winning 12th Lew Archer crime novel, published under Kenneth Millar's best known pseudonym of Ross Macdonald, a memorable presentation copy inscribed by him as ""Ken"" in the year of publication to his close friend and neighbor, ""Feb. 8, 1965 Santa Barbara for Stretch, with affectionate good wishes,... Read More
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Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden
by PORTER Robert Ker
1813. (RUSSIA) (SWEDEN) PORTER, Robert Ker. Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden During the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1813. Two volumes bound in one. Quarto, 20th-century three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands. $3800.Second edition of this epistolary travelogue through Russia and Sweden at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, with 30 hand-colored plates (two folding), 12 hand-tinted aquatints (one folding), and one uncolored etching.Porter (1777-1842) earned considerable recognition as an artist by the... Read More
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Invasion of the Crimea
by KINGLAKE A. W.
1890. KINGLAKE, A[lexander] W[illiam]. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and An Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1890-96. Nine volumes. 12mo, mid-20th century three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $2200.Cabinet Edition of Kinglakes monumental and memorable account of the Crimean War, widely hailed as a classic of historical literature, handsomely bound by Worsfold.Kinglake served in the Crimean... Read More
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Prime Evil
by KING Stephen Winter Douglas E.
1988. First Edition. Signed. (KING, Stephen). WINTER, Douglas E., editor. Prime Evil. West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, (1988). Octavo, original black leather, original matching clamshell box. $1600.Signed, limited first illustrated edition of this anthology of horror superstars, number 885 of 1000 copies for sale in the U.S., signed by all of the authors as well as the editor Douglas E. Winter and illustrator Thomas Canty.13 stories offering ""eloquent testimony to the literary possibilities of the horror tale at the... Read More
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Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton
by KINSEY Alfred BURTON Richard F.
1886. First Edition. Signed. RICHARDS, Alfred Bates, WILSON, Andrew, and BADDELEY, St. Clair. A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. 12mo, original half brown cloth, stiff glazed decorated card boards; pp. [4] 96. $1500.Second edition of this contemporary biography of the celebrated Eastern traveler, author and linguist, with photographic frontispiece portrait. This copy from the library of Alfred Kinseys Institute for Sex Research, with its bookplate and Kinseys ownership inscription (Alfred C.... Read More
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Introduction to Econometrics
by KLEIN Lawrence R.
1962. First Edition. Signed. KLEIN, Lawrence R. An Introduction to Econometrics. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $1800.First edition of this non-technical introduction to econometrics, inscribed on the title page: ""For Gary, from Lawrence R. Klein.""""Klein's main contributions were to the construction and analysis of empirical economic models, his work on the theoretical principles and methods of econometrics was equally outstanding It is to him that we owe several seminal textbooks [including]... Read More
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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
by DICKENS Charles BROWNE Hablot Knight
1844. First Edition. DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Octavo, modern three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands. $1500.First edition in book form of Dickens' picaresque novel of ""farce, melodrama, and social criticism,"" with 40 full-page etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (""Phiz""), attractively bound.First issued in 20 numbers from January 1843 to July 1844, Martin Chuzzlewit reflects the disillusionment Dickens felt from a recent trip to the United States, his first American reading... Read More
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Dombey and Son
by DICKENS Charles BROWNE Hablot Knight
1846. First Edition. DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers. Housed in custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $5500.First edition, first issue in scarce original parts of Dickens' novel of ""Pride,"" with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (""Phiz""), including the famous first ""dark plate."" An excellent copy in the... Read More
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
by VONNEGUT Kurt
1971. First Edition. Signed. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Happy Birthday, Wanda June. New York: Delacorte, (1971). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket; housed in a custom clamshell box. $4800.First edition of this play about a big game hunter who returns home after eight years of being presumed dead, boldly signed on the half title by Kurt Vonnegut with a large self-portrait by him.Performed off-Broadway in front of packed houses for five months during 1970 and '71 and ending only after... Read More
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Bluebeard
by VONNEGUT Kurt
1976. First Edition. Signed. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Bluebeard. New York: Delacorte, (1987). Octavo, original half dark blue cloth, original dust jacket. $1500.First trade edition of Vonneguts fictional biography of artist Rabo Karabekian, boldly inscribed by Vonnegut on the half title with his signature asterisk: ""For K- H- Kurt Vonnegut Sept. 3 1996 Sagaponack NY.""""Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation"" here continues the story... Read More
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Dead-Eye Dick
by VONNEGUT Kurt
1982. First Edition. Signed. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Dead-Eye Dick. New York: Delacorte, (1982). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $1750.First edition of Vonnegut's critically praised novel, boldly signed by him with his characteristic asterisk mark.In Dead-Eye Dick, Vonnegut again draws on his own life to raise the question of innocence and responsibility in the nuclear age. ""In his own darkly humorous way, Vonnegut crafts a tale that, while acknowledging the grave complexity of this question, cuts through it with... Read More
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Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons
by VONNEGUT Kurt
1974. First Edition. Signed. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions). New York: Delacorte Press, (1974). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $1750.First edition of this collection of funny, cranky, and often insightful writing by Vonnegut including essays, review, and speeches, inscribed, ""For Terrance! Kurt Vonnegut. June 20, 1999,"" with Vonnegut's trademark asterisk mark.This wonderful and often hilarious collection features ""25 short pieces (essays, speeches at colleges and so-called learned societies, reviews, one play, a fictitious Playboy interview)... Read More
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Galapagos
by VONNEGUT Kurt
1985. First Edition. Signed. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Galapagos. (New York): Delacorte, (1985). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $1850.First trade edition of the ""best Vonnegut novel yet"" (John Irving), signed by Vonnegut with his characteristic asterisk.To writer John Irving, Galapágos is the ""best Vonnegut novel yet."" Vonnegut tells ""the story, sort of, of a second Noah's ark He is a postmodern Mark Twain: grumpy and sentimental, antic and religious."" Vonnegut, who died in 2007, ""caught the temper of... Read More
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Freedom in Exile
by DALAI LAMA
1990. First Edition. Signed. (DALAI LAMA Tenzin Gyatso). Freedom in Exile. The Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet. (New York): Cornelia & Michael Bessie/HarperCollins, (1990). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $3000.First American edition, signed after the foreword in Tibetan by the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet.""Throughout his story, told with great humility, the Dalai Lama reveals his obligation both to address the time-honored... Read More
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Twelve Loose Views from ""London""
by COBURN Alvin Langdon
1909. COBURN, Alvin Langdon. Twelve Loose Views from ""London"" [London and New York: Duckworth and Brentano's, 1909]. Twelve loose plates, each measuring approximately 7 by 9 inches. $2400.Loose collection of 12 hand-pulled gravure plates from Coburns first, groundbreaking photobook, each prepared by Coburn himself, representing a revolutionary transition from pictorialism to modernism a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism (Parr & Badger).Poised at a crucial turning point in the history of photography, representing the... Read More
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First Book of Negroes
by HUGHES Langston
1952. First Edition. Signed. HUGHES, Langston. The First Book of Negroes. New York: Franklin Watts, 1952. Square quarto, original gilt-stamped green cloth, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. $5500.First edition of Hughes' inaugural book in his major five-volume series on Black history from the 16th century to Jim Crow America, the highly elusive first printing issued at the height of McCarthyism with Josephine Baker's image and biography that was quickly omitted from subsequent printings, inscribed by him on the... Read More
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Works of Laurence Sterne
by STERNE Laurence
1808. STERNE, Laurence. The Works of Laurence Sterne. London: J. Johnson, T. Becket, et al., 1808. Four volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown morocco gilt, each front cover decorated with multi-colored morocco inlays depicting illustrations within, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4000.Early 19th-century illustrated edition of Sterne's works, with 29 engraved illustrations and vignette section titles as issued, this set extra-illustrated with an additional 14 engravings, six finely hand-colored. Four volumes beautifully bound in the Kelliegram style... Read More
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Works of Laurence Sterne
by STERNE Laurence
1926. STERNE, Laurence. The Works of Laurence Sterne. Stratford-upon-Avon; Boston and New York: Shakespeare Head Press; Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926-27. Seven volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark blue morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened. $2200.Shakespeare Head Press large-paper illustrated edition of Sterne's works, number 32 of only 500 copies, with frontispieces and a number of plates by George Cruikshank, handsomely bound in morocco-gilt at the Riverside Press.Tristram Shandy's huge popular success made Sterne, a Yorkshire... Read More
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Collection of Adultery Trials
by ENGLISH LAW
1780. (ADULTERY). Collection of Adultery Trials. London: various, circa 1780-1808. Octavo, contemporary full tan calf gilt, raised bands, marbled endpaper and edges. $3500.A collection of reports of 11 adultery trials from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, combined with 30 engravings of scandalous encounters.Published accounts of adultery trials were very popular in late-18th/early 19th-century England, a way to indulge a taste for the erotic and the scandalous under the (thin) veil of condemnation. Included here are the trials... Read More
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