Poster signed [""Zeichnungen""]
by SENDAK Maurice
1975. Signed. SENDAK, Maurice. Poster signed: Galerie Daniel Keel, Maurice Sendak Zeichnungen. Zurich: Galerie Daniel Keel, 1974. Large color poster, measuring 18 by 27 inches, closely framed. $2800.Large colorful poster for a gallery exhibition in Zurich of Sendak drawings inscribed, ""with best wishes! Maurice Sendak.""The poster features five Wild Things dancing and playing instruments as two children with candles on their heads emerge from a cake. Not in Hanrahan. The former owner of this inscribed poster was Maurice Sendak's... Read More
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Zuleika Dobson
by BEERBOHM Max
1911. First Edition. BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story. London: William Heinemann, 1911. Octavo, original russet cloth, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $1250.First edition of the caricaturist and essayist's only novel and his most enduring prose work, an ""Oxford love story"" about a ""beautiful young woman whose visit to Oxford occasions the suicide of all the undergraduates.""""By the time Max had married, retired from London, and settled in Italy, his... Read More
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Knave of Hearts
by SAUNDERS Louise PARRISH Maxfield
1925. First Edition. (PARRISH, Maxfield) SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Folio, original black cloth, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers. $4000.First edition of ""one of the greatest of American illustrated books"" (Porter, 84), the last and most lavish children's book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, with mounted cover design, pictorial endpapers, 14 full-page color plates, and nine in-text color illustrations.By 1900, Maxfield Parrish had become ""recognized as one of America's most successful artists, achieving... Read More
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Waiting for the Barbarians
by COETZEE John Maxwell
1980. First Edition. Signed. COETZEE, John Maxwell. Waiting for the Barbarians. London: Secker & Warburg, (1980). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $2700.First edition of this novel universalizing a raw and terrible moment in South Africa's history, inscribed: ""For John, J.M. Coetzee.""""I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man Mr. Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka"" (The Sunday Times). ""Waiting for the Barbarians was written in 1980,... Read More
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Revision of the Treaty
by KEYNES John Maynard
1922. First Edition. KEYNES, John Maynard. A Revision of the Treaty. London: Macmillan, 1922. Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $2800.First edition of this post-WWI economic work arguing against burdening Germany with reparations.Keynes prepared this material as a supplement to his Economic Consequences of the Peace, which he published in 1919. Both works stemmed from Keynes' condemnation of the Allied policy of demanding heavy reparations from Germany; in protest he resigned from the post of principal representative of... Read More
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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
by KEYNES John Maynard
1936. First Edition. KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London: Macmillan, 1936. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, original dust jacket; housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $18,500.First edition of Keynes' last major work, considered the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, rarely found in the original dust jacket.Keynes' General Theory ranks with Smith's Wealth of Nations as an intellectual event and with Malthus' Essay on Population as a guide for public... Read More
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Moon Jumpers
by SENDAK Maurice UDRY Janice May
1961. Signed. (SENDAK, Maurice) UDRY, Janice May. The Moon Jumpers. New York: Harper & Row, (1959, i.e. circa 1965). Slim quarto, original half maroon cloth, original dust jacket. $1600.Later edition of a childs exhilaration and enchantment with the loveliness of summer nights, inscribed by Sendak to a close friend and neighbor: ""For Elizabethwith pleasure. Maurice Sendak June '76,"" and with an original drawing of one of the moon jumpers.""'The warm night-wind tosses our hair. The wind chimes stir. And... Read More
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Value of Money
by ANDERSON Benjamin McAlester
1917. First Edition. ANDERSON, Benjamin McAlester. The Value of Money. New York: Macmillan, 1917. Octavo, original burgundy cloth. $950.First edition, advance review copy, of this ""devastating critique of leading American economist Irving Fisher's quantity theory of money"" (ANB).""In 1917 [Anderson] published The Value of Money, a devastating critique of leading American economist Irving Fisher's quantity theory of money, which used a mechanical approach common in the neoclassical school of economics. Building on his concept of social value, Anderson constructed... Read More
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My Book About Me
by MCKIE Roy SEUSS Dr.
1969. First Edition. SEUSS, Dr. and MCKIE, Roy. My Book About Me. (New York): Beginner Books/Random House, (1969). Folio (8-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches), original pictorial yellow cloth. $1950.First edition of this fill-in-the-blank autobiography for children concentrating on personal characteristics and unique talents.Written for the youngest of Beginner Books readers, this interactive autobiography asks the child who owns it to think about who she is and to fill in blanks with facts about her appearance, family, home, interests, and talents.... Read More
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Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws
by CATHERINE THE GREAT TATISCHEFF Michael
1768. First Edition. CATHERINE THE GREAT. The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias. To which is prefixed, A Description of the Manner of opening the Commission, with the Order and Rules for Electing the Commissioners. London: T. Jefferys, 1768. Quarto, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period-style calf-gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands; pp. (i-v), vi-xxiii,... Read More
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Negro Drawings
by COVARRUBIAS Miguel
1927. Signed. COVARRUBIAS, Miguel. Negro Drawings. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Quarto, original black and blue cloth, original dust jacket, possibly supplied from the trade edition. $4000.Signed limited first edition, number 50 of only 100 copies with a signed original drawing by Covarrubias opposite the limitation page, with frontispiece and 56 plates, eight of which are in color.José Miguel Covarrubias was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, ethnologist and art historian. In 1924, at the age of 19, he moved... Read More
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120 Million
by GOLD Mike
1929. First Edition. Signed. GOLD, Mike. 120 Million. New York: International, (1929). Octavo, original black cloth. $1650.First edition of the first book by controversial radical Mike Gold, published at the cusp of the Great Depression, an outstanding presentation/association copy inscribed by him to influential New York publisher and editor, Albert ""Pete,"" Gross, inscribed by Gold along an entire page, ""To Pete GrossLion Tamer, Father, Author's Friend, New Yorker, Book Maker, Philosopher, Gin Drinker and Puritan, from a fellow bum... Read More
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Dramatic Works
by MOLIERE
1878. MOLIERE. The Dramatic Works. Rendered into English by Henri Van Laun. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1878. Three volumes. Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter dark blue straight-grained morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1200.New Edition of Molières works in three volumes, handsomely bound by Asprey, richly illustrated with 19 steel-engraved plates, including tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrations in each volume.With a prefatory memoir, introductory notices, and notes, all by translator Henri Van Laun. Fine condition.
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Writings of William Blake. WITH: Wilson's Life of Blake
by BLAKE William WILSON Mona
1925. BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake. Edited in Three Volumes by Geoffrey Keynes. WITH: WILSON, Mona. The Life of William Blake. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925-27. Together four volumes. Quarto, original half vellum, marbled boards, uncut and unopened. $1850.Limited Nonesuch Press edition of Blake's Writings, number 943 of 1575 copies printed on Vidalon handmade paper, the first complete edition of the poet's writings. Together with Mona Wilson's important Life of William Blake, number 376 of 1480 copies.This is... Read More
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Bring Me a Unicorn
by LINDBERGH Anne Morrow
1972. First Edition. Signed. LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow. Bring Me a Unicorn. Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1922-1928. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Octavo, original blue cloth, facsimile autograph endpapers, original dust jacket. $1100.First edition, second printing, of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's highly praised early memoir, beautifully inscribed on the title page to her close neighbors and friends, ""For Jinny and John Oldrin (The beginning of an old story: The introduction may amuse you and the early excitement... Read More
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Transcript of Record... Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, Petitioners
by ROSENBERG CASE ROSENBERG Julius ROSENBERG Ethel SOBELL Morton
1952. First Edition. (ROSENBERG CASE) (ROSENBERG, Julius) (ROSENBERG, Ethel) (SOBELL, Morton). Transcript of Record. Supreme Court of the United States. October Term, 1961. No. 111 Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, Petitioners, vs. The United States of America. No 112 Morton Sobell, Petitioner, vs. The United States of America. Petitions for Writs of Certiorari and Exhibit Thereto. Filed June 7, 1952. New York: National Committee to Secure Justice in Rosenberg Case, circa 1952. Two volumes in eight. Oblong quarto (5-1/2... Read More
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Autograph letter signed
by MOSBY John S.
1874. Signed. MOSBY, John S. Autograph letter signed. Warrenton, Virginia, April 29, 1874. Two sheets of lined blue paper, each measuring 8-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches; pp. 2. $4500.Original signed autograph letter from Confederate Colonel John Mosby to Virginia politician James William Marshall regarding the 1874 congressional election in which Mosby, a supporter of the Grant Administration, was attempting to discourage the entry of other candidates into the race.The letter, dated ""Warrenton Apl. 29th 74"" and written entirely in Mosby's... Read More
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Typed letter signed
by DAYAN Moshe
1967. Signed. DAYAN, Moshe. Typed letter signed. Tel-Aviv, August 3, 1967. Single sheet of paper, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typing on recto only; floated, matted and framed with a photograph; entire piece measures 20 by 17 inches. $17,500.Typed letter signed by Moshe Dayan, written less than two months after forces led by Dayan during the Six-Day War captured East Jerusalem, thanking his correspondent for a gift, describing the centrality of Jerusalem to Jewish history, and discussing his interest... Read More
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Shores of the Polar Sea
by MOSS Edward L.
1878. First Edition. MOSS, Edward L. Shores of the Polar Sea. A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London: Marcus Ward, 1878. Folio (14 by 19-1/2 inches), original black- and gilt-stamped blue cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt. $7800.First edition, with 16 handsome mounted chromo-lithographic plates and numerous engravings after illustrations made on the spot by Edward L. Moss, and a map of the expedition route, in beautiful publisher's cloth.""Moss was a naval surgeon... Read More
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Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali
by SCHULBERG Budd ALI Muhammad
1972. First Edition. Signed. SCHULBERG, Budd. Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. Original red cloth, original dust jacket. $1500.First edition, inscribed on the half title by both Schulberg (""To Georgewho lives up to that mighty send-off gift Eric gave you. All best, Budd Schulberg"") and Ali (""To George from Muhammad Ali. Pearl 1972""). Author of On the Waterfront, respected journalist, and a lifelong boxing enthusiast, Schulberg travelled with Ali at the time of the famous... Read More
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Ethics of Liberty
by ROTHBARD Murray
1982. First Edition. Signed. ROTHBARD, Murray. The Ethics of Liberty. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, (1982). Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth. $7200.First edition of Rothbard's ""second magnum opus a pillar of the Rothbardian system"" in its bold pursuit of principles introduced in Man, Economy and State, inscribed in the year of publication by Rothbard, the father of libertarianism: ""To L & L F Warmest regards to two genuine and uncompromising radical (i.e. genuine) libertarians. Murray Rothbard.""""Following his revered teacher... Read More
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Case, Trevett against Weeden
by VARNUM James M
1787. First Edition. VARNUM, James M, Esq. The Case, Trevett against Weeden: On Information and Complaint, for Refusing Paper Bills in Payment for Butcher's Meat, in Market, at Par with Specie. Tried Before the Honourable Superior Court, in the County of Newport, September Term, 1786. Also, the Case of the Judges of said Court Wherein the Rights of the People to Trial by Jury, & are stated and maintained, and the Legislative, Judiciary and Executive Power of Government examined... Read More
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Lunar Surveyor Photo Archive
by NASA
1965. [NASA]. [Archive of vintage black-and-white photographs documenting Surveyors 2 and 3]. [Los Angeles: Hughes Aircraft, 1965]. Sixty-nine black-and-white photographs, most measuring 4 by 5 inches or 8 by 10 inches, in protective sleeves with card backings. $2500.Sixty-nine vintage black-and-white photographs documenting the assembly and transport of Surveyors 2 and 3, two of the spacecraft NASA used to scout lunar landing sites for the Apollo program.""Following the Ranger missions, NASA's Surveyor program was designed to find a way to... Read More
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New-England's Memorial
by MORTON Nathaniel
1772. (COLONIAL AMERICA) MORTON, Nathaniel. New-England's Memorial; Or, a Brief Relation of the Most Memorable and Remarkable Passages of the Province of God, Manifested to the Planters of New-England, in America. With Special Reference to the First Colony Thereof, Called New-Plymouth Boston printed, Newport reprinted: Solomon Southwick, 1772. Octavo, later three-quarter dark green morocco, marbled boards. $2000.Third edition of one of the ""cornerstones of early New England history"" (Church 606).""Morton's work is the first strictly historical work printed in... Read More
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Excellency of the Monarchical Government, Especially of the English Monarchy
by JAMES II JOHNSTON Nathaniel
1686. (JAMES II) JOHNSTON, Nathaniel. The Excellency of Monarchical Government, Especially of the English Monarchy In all which The Principles and Practices of our late Commonwealths-Men are Considered. London: Printed by T.B. for Robert Clavel, 1686. Folio (8 by 12-1/2 inches), full period-style blind ruled speckled calf, red morocco spine label, raised bands. $2500.Second edition of Johnston's defense of James II, published only two years before Englands Glorious Revolution forced the king into exile, handsomely bound.Throughout his few embattled... Read More
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