English Hero
by DRAKE Francis CROUCH Nathaniel
1762. [CROUCH, Nathaniel]. The English Hero: Or, Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd Inlarged and reduced into Chapters and Contents, by R.B. London: Printed for C. Hitch, L. Hawes, S. Crowder and Co., 1762. 12mo (3-1/4 by 5 inches), contemporary full calf rebacked in calf-gilt, red morocco spine label. $1800.Later edition of this popular and influential biography of Sir Francis Drake, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the sea captain, in contemporary calf boards.This brief biography of Drake, a key... 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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Mules and Men
by HURSTON Zora Neale
1935. First Edition. HURSTON, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1935. Octavo, modern full blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, original brown cloth front board and spine perserved at rear of text. $3500.First edition of Hurston's first non-fiction work""the perfect book"" (Alice Walker)hailed as ""the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore,"" widely viewed as her masterpiece.To Alice Walker, who discovered Hurston through Mules and Men, she was ""The Genius of the South""words... Read More
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Snow Crash
by STEPHENSON Neal
1992. First Edition. STEPHENSON, Neal. Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books, (1992). Octavo, original half navy cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $5500.First edition of Stephenson's high-concept, high-energy novel of the Metaverse""a permanent virtual reality that has taken on a life (and death) of its own"" (New York Times).Set in ""an onrushing tomorrow that is as farcical as it is horrific"" (New York Times), Stephenson's acclaimed third novelit earned a spot on Time's list of... Read More
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Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins
by CAULKINS Nehemiah
1849. First Edition. CAULKINS, Nehemiah. Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins, An Extract from ""American Slavery, As It Is."" New York: American And Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1849. Slim octavo, original printed self-wrappers, later marbled wrappers; pp. (i-iv), (5), 6-22 (2). $1600.First separate edition of Caulkins' devastating Narrative documenting slavery's unrelenting brutality on a North Carolina plantation, exceptional in original self-wrappers.In this still controversial work, the narrator writes of resistance by the enslaved, of those like Harry, who took to the woods... Read More
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Poster signed
by ALI Muhammad HAUSER Thomas LEIFER Neil
1992. Signed. ALI, Muhammad. Poster signed. New York: Rizzoli, [1992]. Photographic poster measuring 20 by 30 inches; framed, entire piece measures 25-1/2 by 35-1/2 inches. $9000.Original publisher's promotional poster for the photobook Muhammad Ali Memories, boldly inscribed by Ali in gold ink on the image to the book's co-author Thomas Hauser ""To Tom from Muhammad Ali"" with a hand-drawn heart and the date ""6-3-92"".This poster advertises the 1992 book Muhammad Ali Memories, which traces Ali's career through the work... Read More
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Poster signed
by ALI Muhammad HAUSER Thomas LEIFER Neil
1993. Signed. ALI, Muhammad. Poster signed. New York: Rizzoli, [1993]. Photographic poster measuring 20 by 30 inches; framed, entire piece measures 25-1/2 by 35-1/2 inches. $7500.Original publisher's promotional poster for the photobook Muhammad Ali Memories, boldly signed by Ali in gold ink on the image.After the succes of the 1991 biography of Muhammed Ali, Muhammad Ali His Life and Times, which was nominated for the a National Book Award; the co-author Thomas Hauser teamed up with famed Ali photographer... Read More
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Long Walk to Freedom
by MANDELA Nelson
1994. First Edition. MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. (Randburg, South Africa): Macdonald Purnell, (1994). Thick octavo, original black paper boards, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $6500.The preferred first South African edition of the stirring autobiography of the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa's first black president, signed on the half title: ""N Mandela, 27-2-96.""""The Nelson Mandela who emerges from his memoir is considerably more human than the icon of legend Mandela is, on the evidence of... Read More
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To Die for the People
by NEWTON Huey P.
1972. First Edition. Signed. NEWTON, Huey P. To Die for the People. The Writings of Huey P. Newton. New York: Random House, (1972). Octavo, original black cloth gilt, original dust jacket; housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $8200.First edition of this early collection of writings by Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, whose ""flamboyance, vision and passion came to symbolize an entire era,"" boldly inscribed by him, ""For R my own voice and the voice of... Read More
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Travels in England, France, Spain and the Barbary States
by NOAH Mordecai M.
1819. First Edition. NOAH, Mordecai M. Travels in England, France, Spain and the Barbary States, in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New-York; London: C. Kirk and Mercein; John Miller, 1819. Octavo, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period style speckled calf-gilt, red morocco spine label, uncut. $3400.First edition of this fascinating travelogue by Mordecai Manuel Noah, the most prominent Jew in America at the timeU.S. Consul to Tunis, the first American Jew to receive an overseas diplomatic assignmentillustrated with engraved... Read More
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All in the Family: Episode #1
by LEAR Norman
1970. First Edition. Signed. LEAR, Norman. All in the Family. Original production script for Episode #1. Los Angeles: Tandem Productions, 1970 (© 1971). Quarto, hole-punched Xeroxed sheets, original red plastic three-ring binder; pp.47. $2350.Original Final Draft production script for the first pilot episode of Lears ground-breaking comedythe episode in which Archie christens Mike Meatheadinscribed: Best Wishes, Norman Lear.After 32 years, All in the Family and the characters of Archie, Edith, Gloria and Mike are reaching more people than ever... Read More
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Bloodchild
by BUTLER Octavia
1995. First Edition. Signed. BUTLER, Octavia. Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York and London: Four Walls Eight Windows, (1995). Small octavo, original yellow paper boards, original dust jacket. $1400.First edition of this collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Kindred, signed on the title page by Octavia Butler.Butler (1947-2006) stands as ""a pioneer, an icon and one of America's best writers the first Black female science fiction writer to reach national prominence, and the only writer in... Read More
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Dawn
by BUTLER Octavia
1987. First Edition. Signed. BUTLER, Octavia. Dawn: Xenogenesis. (New York): Warner, (1987). Octavo, original half navy cloth, original dust jacket. $2000.First edition of the visionary first novel in the innovative Xenogenesis trilogy, boldly signed on the title page by Butler""the first Black woman to win Hugo and Nebula awards""a beautiful copy in the original dust jacket.Dawn, the first novel in Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy (aka Lilith's Brood), begins hundreds of years after a global nuclear holocaust and is centered around... Read More
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Costume of Turkey
by DALVIMART Octavien
1804. (TURKEY) (DALVIMART, Octavien). The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings; with Descriptions in English and French. London: William Miller, 1804. Folio (11 by 14 inches), contemporary full plum morocco gilt, all edges gilt. $4700.Second edition, later issue, of this ""delineation with fidelity of the various modes of dress and peculiarity of customs"" of Turkey, with 60 vividly hand-colored full-page plates after drawings by Octavien Dalvimart. Attractively bound in contemporary morocco.The Costume of Turkey was one... Read More
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Laws as to Licensing Inns
by OKE George C.
1874. OKE, George Colwell. GLEN, W. Cunningham, editor. The Laws as to Licensing Inns, &c. &c. Containing the Licensing Acts, 1872, 1874, and the Other Acts in Force as to Alehouses, Beerhouses, Wine & Refreshment Houses, Shops, &c. Where Intoxicating Liquors are Sold, and Billiard and Occasional Licences. London: Butterworths, 1874. 12mo, contemporary full straight-grain morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. $1250.Uncommon treatise on licensing laws for taverns, the first edition to include the Licensing... Read More
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Vicar of Wakefield
by GOLDSMITH Oliver
1766. First Edition. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Salisbury: Printed by B. Collins for F. Newberry, 1766. Two volumes. 12mo, 19th-century full tan calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $4800.First edition, first issue, of Goldsmith's best-known novel, beautifully bound by Bedford. The Vicar of Wakefield has long charmed readers ""in part due to the imaginative glow that Goldsmith so effortlessly casts over the action and to his flexible and easy style"" (Baugh,... Read More
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Poetical Works
by GOLDSMITH Oliver
1895. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical Works. New York and London: (Chiswick Press), circa 1895. 12mo, contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers with floral designs incorporating blue, green and white morocco inlays, green morocco-gilt doublures with red morocco inlays in a floral design, raised bands, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $1100.Later Aldine edition of Oliver Goldsmith's poems, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with five window-mounted engravings, two hand-colored, splendidly bound in full morocco-gilt with... Read More
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Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten
by TWAIN Mark HERFORD Oliver
1904. Signed. HERFORD, Oliver. The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Small octavo, original printed gray boards rebacked, original spine laid down. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $16,500.First edition, presentation copy from Mark Twain to his daughter, boldly inscribed by Twain on the front pastedown, Clara Clemens from one of her principal friendsher father.Herford's playful satire of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, beautifully illustrated by him, follows the adventures of... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by FITZGERALD Edward KHAYYAM Omar
1930. (FITZGERALD, Edward) KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Comprising the Metrical Translations of Edward FitzGerald and E.H. Whinfield and the prose version of Justin Huntly McCarthy. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1899). 12mo, contemporary full pale purple calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. $1100.Comparative edition of this timeless classic, featuring Edward FitzGerald's classic verse translation, followed by the prose translation of Justin Huntly McCarthy, and then by E.H. Whinfield's more modern metrical... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by FITZGERALD Edward KHAYYAM Omar
1898. (FITZGERALD, Edward) KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London and New York: Macmillan, 1898. Square octavo, 20th-century full crushed red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, front board with pictorial gilt and black morocco onlays, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; housed in a custom slipcase. $1850.Later edition, beautifully bound by Bayntun with a pictorial front board with the iconic image of a serpent wrapped around a chalice.Composed in 12th-century Persia and rendered into English by Edward FitzGerald (his... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by ROGERS Bruce FITZGERALD Edward KHAYYAM Omar
1900. (ROGERS, Bruce) (FITZGERALD, Edward) KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám the Astronomer Poet of Persia. (Boston & New York): Riverside Press (for Houghton Mifflin), 1900. Octavo, later three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, uncut. $1250.Limited edition Rubaiyat from the celebrated typographer and book designer Bruce Rogers, number 198 of only 300 copies printed by the Riverside Press, elegantly bound.Composed in 12th-century Persia and rendered into English by Edward FitzGerald (his first version appeared in 1859), these stanzas express... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by VEDDER Elihu KHAYYAM Omar
1884. First Edition. (VEDDER, Elihu, illustrator) (FITZGERALD, Edward, translator). The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam the Astronomer-Poet of Persia Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald with an Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. Folio (11 by 13 inches), 20th-century full green morocco, raised bands, spine, pastedowns and boards with elaborate gilt and brown morocco onlays, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $7000.First trade edition of Vedders wonderfully illustrated edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,... Read More
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Kewpie Primer
by O'NEILL Rose QUINN Elisabeth V.
1916. First Edition. Signed. (O'NEILL, Rose, illustrator) QUINN, Elisabeth V. The Kewpie Primer. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1916). Octavo, original pictorial blue-stamped gray cloth. $1500.First edition of this primer for an American comic legendthe Kewpie doll, richly illustrated with Kewpies on every page in black and orange, inscribed by the illustrator on the pictorial endpaper: ""With every kewpish good wish from Rose O'Neill.""""Rose Cecil O'Neill was an iconoclast in every sense of the word. A self-taught bohemian artist,... Read More
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Ballad of Reading Gaol
by WILDE Oscar
1898. First Edition. WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Slim octavo, original half cream cloth with cinnamon cloth boards, uncut. $3600.First edition, one of only 800 copies printed on handmade paper.Inspired by his prison experience and comprised in part by a plea for penal reform, The Ballad of Reading Gaol was the last work Wilde completed before his death in 1900. ""In his comedies the miscreants were always pardoned, but in the... Read More
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Ideal Husband
by WILDE Oscar
1899. First Edition. WILDE, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. Octavo, original lavender cloth gilt, uncut; housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $4800.Limited first edition, one of 1000 unnumbered copies, a very nice copy in original decorative cloth designed by Charles Shannon.Wilde's play premiered in January 1895 to an audience that included the Prince of Wales, and was an immediate success. Four months later, Wilde was in disgrace following his arrest for soliciting homosexual... Read More
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