Romance of Perfume
by BARBIER George LE GALLIENNE Richard
1928. First Edition. (BARBIER, George) LE GALLIENNE, Richard. The Romance of Perfume. New York and Paris: Richard Hudnut (William Edwin Rudge), 1928. Slim octavo, original illustrated white paper boards, uncut; original cardboard slipcase. $950.First edition of this beautiful color-illustrated volume on perfume, with a laid-in pamphlet advertising Richard Hudnuts Paris perfumery.Doubtless published to commemorate the opening of Richard Hudnut's perfumery in Paris, this lovely book is accompanied by a special pamphlet (in pocket at rear) entitled ""At 20 Rue... Read More
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Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray
by GRAY Thomas BENTLEY Richard
1753. First Edition. GRAY, Thomas (BENTLEY, Richard, illustrator). Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. London: R. Dodsley, 1753. Folio (11 by 15 inches), mid-19th-century full dark green straight-grain morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $3500.Second edition, issued the same year as the first, of Richard Bentley's illustrated edition of six of Thomas Gray's poems, including his masterpiece ""Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard"" (first published in 1751),... Read More
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by KHAYYAM Omar LE GALLIENNE Richard
1908. (LE GALLIENNE, Richard) KHAYYAM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1908. Small octavo, contemporary full teal morocco, front cover with gilt center medallion and border of flower and leaf motifs composed of black, green, tan and red leather onlays; elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, gilt-ruled dentelles, all edges gilt. $3800.Early edition of Le Gallienne's reworking of the Fitzgerald translation, beautifully bound by Bumpus.Originally composed in 12th-century Persia, these stanzas were rendered into... Read More
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Where's the Rest of Me?
by REAGAN Ronald HUBLER Richard
1965. First Edition. Signed. REAGAN, Ronald and HUBLER, Richard G. Where's the Rest of Me? New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1965). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $4600.First edition, first printing, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper ""To Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ballachino In friendship and with every good wish. Sincerely Ronnie Reagan.""Reagan's first memoir coincided with his campaign for the governorship of California, which he won in 1966. Illustrated with six pages of photographs. Recipient... Read More
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Boy
by DAHL Roald
1984. First Edition. Signed. DAHL, Roald. Boy. Tales of Childhood. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4800.First edition of Dahl's lively first autobiography, boldly inscribed by him across the entire half title: ""To Douglas Love Roald Dahl.""The funny and often macabre tales in Boy, Roald Dahl's first autobiography, recall his childhood in boarding school, the excitement of summer vacations, the drama of The Great Mouse Plot... Read More
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Works of Robert Burns
by BURNS Robert
1802. BURNS, Robert. The Works of Robert Burns; With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To Which Are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry. London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf gilt, red morocco spine labels. $1200.Third collected edition of Burns' poetry, including his correspondence and a biographical memoir by editor James Currie, with engraved portrait of Burns by James... Read More
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Works of Robert Burns
by BURNS Robert
1834. BURNS, Robert. The Works of Robert Burns, with His Life, by Allan Cunningham. London: James Cochrane, 1834. Eight volumes. Small octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter olive morocco, gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $2400.Splendid 1834 set of Burns' complete works, with lovely steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume, handsomely bound in morocco-gilt by Worsfold.""When this edition was first announced, six volumes, it was calculated, would contain all that was desirable to... Read More
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History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford
by CLUTTERBUCK Robert
1815. First Edition. (HERTFORD, ENGLAND) CLUTTERBUCK, Robert. History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford; Compiled from the Best Printed Authorities and Original Records Embellished with Views of the Most Curious Monuments of Antiquity, and Illustrated with a Map of the County. London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815, 1821, 1827. Three volumes. Folio (11 by 18 inches), 19th-century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and boards, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4500.Folio first edition of this survey... Read More
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Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerreotype
by HUNT Robert
1841. First Edition. HUNT, Robert. A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerréotype, and All the New Methods of Producing Pictures. Glasgow: Richard Griffin, 1841. Octavo, early plain blue paper wrappers and endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6500.First edition of Hunts landmark photographic work, with 29 in-text illustrations and frontispiece featuring one of the earliest representations of a negative print.In the dramatic years of photography's early growth, with Niépce developing heliography, Daguerre the daguerreotype and... Read More
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Enchanted Golf Clubs
by MARSHALL Robert
1920. First Edition. MARSHALL, Robert. The Enchanted Golf Clubs. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1920). Octavo, original pictorial paper boards, original dust jacket. $1200.First American edition of this humorous novel about a self-professed expert in every sport but golf who must learn golf in a week to win the love of a millionaire American widow and golf enthusiast, in rare original dust jacket.""What impresses me most in reading The Enchanted Golf Clubs is its urbane charm, of which there... Read More
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Novels
by SURTEES Robert
1929. SURTEES, Robert. The Novels. London; New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929-31. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $4500.Lovely limited-edition set, number 31 of only 976 sets produced, richly illustrated with over 100 hand-colored plates after John Leech, Henry Alken, ""Phiz,"" and others, and hundreds of black-and-white in-text illustrations. Handsomely bound in morocco with gilt sporting emblems by Stikeman.Surtees' novels ""deal mainly with the characteristic aspects... Read More
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Anarchy of the Ranters. WITH: Epistle to... Quakers
by FRANKLIN Benjamin BARCLAY Robert
1757. First Edition. (FRANKLIN PRINTING) BARCLAY, Robert. The Anarchy of the Ranters. BOUND WITH: PIKE, Joseph. An Epistle to the National Meeting of Friends in Dublin. Philadelphia: Reprinted, and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1757. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 7 inches), contemporary full brown speckled sheep rebacked, red morocco spine label; custom cloth slipcase, pp. viii, 111, (1); (2), 23, (1). $4800.First American edition of this collection of two key Quaker works, published by the printing firm... Read More
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Expositions and Developments
by STRAVINSKY Igor CRAFT Robert
1962. First Edition. Signed. STRAVINSKY, Igor. CRAFT, Robert. Expositions and Developments. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $2500.First edition, warmly inscribed on the half title to neighbor and longtime friend Miranda Levy, ""To my dear Miranda, with love and kisses from I Stravinsky, Nov /63.""""Few 20th-century composers enjoyed international influence and importance equal to that of Stravinsky. This influence exists in the materials of his music and in his rigorous search for... Read More
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Living History
by CLINTON Hillary Rodham
2003. First Edition. Signed. CLINTON, Hillary Rodham. Living History. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003). Octavo, original half black paper boards, original dust jacket. $1000.First trade edition of Clintons ""chart of her own course through unexplored terrain [becoming] an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others,"" boldly signed by her in black felt pen on the title page.""Enough information and personality to appeal to people on both sides of the political fence"" (Publishers Weekly). First edition, first... Read More
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Living History
by CLINTON Hillary Rodham
2003. First Edition. Signed. CLINTON, Hillary Rodham. Living History. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003). Octavo, original half black paper boards, original dust jacket. $1000.First trade edition of Clintons chart of her own course through unexplored terrain [becoming] an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others, boldly inscribed in blue felt pen by her on the title page: ""To D J C with best wishesHillary Rodham Clinton.""""Enough information and personality to appeal to people on both sides... Read More
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Clans of the Scottish Highlands
by LOGAN James MCIAN Robert Ronald
1857. LOGAN, James and MCIAN, Robert Ronald. The Clans of the Scottish Highlands. London: Willis and Sotheran, 1857. Two volumes. Folio (11 by 15 inches), publisher's full red pebbled morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers with Scottish motifs, raised bands, all edges gilt. $11,500.Second edition of the first illustrated encyclopedia of traditional Scottish tartans, with two chromolithographic heraldic frontispieces and 72 vibrant, hand-colored lithographic plates after the celebrated paintings of Robert Ronald McIan. An excellent copy in splendid publisher's... Read More
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Eureka College Yearbooks
by REAGAN Ronald
1930. Signed. REAGAN, Ronald. Eureka College Yearbooks. Eureka, Illinois: Junior Class, 1930-31. Two volumes. Quarto, original pattern blue and burgundy cloth, silver motifs to front boards. $12,500.A pair of yearbooks from Eureka College for 1930 and 1931, featuring images of and commentary on a young Ronald Reagan, inscribed by him in the 1931 book next to a picture of him with the football team, ""Best of luck & success to the Roommate. Remembering the stock of glassware. Yours in... Read More
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Typed letter initialed
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1942. First Edition. Signed. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter initialed. Washington, 1942. Single sheet of light green White House letterhead, measuring 7 by 9 inches; p. 1. $7500.Fascinating typed and hand-initialed letter written during World War II from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to his uncle, the Honorable Frederic A. Delano, thanking his uncle for sending a clipping on Tom Paine and stating that Paine's principal mistake was opposing Washington in the election of 1796.The letter, typed on light green... Read More
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Log of the Cruise of President Franklin D Roosevelt in the Gulf of Mexico
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1937. First Edition. Signed. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) [WATSON, Edwin]. Log of the Cruise of President Franklin D Roosevelt in the Gulf of Mexico. (Washington): [The White House], 1937. Quarto, original half cloth, original buff paper wrappers. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box . $6000.Limited first edition, one of an unnumbered limited, of this privately printed travel logbook about FDR's cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, inscribed on the title page: ""For Paul Hart from Franklin D. Roosevelt.""According to... Read More
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Religious Offering 1840
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D. WATERMAN Catherine H.
1840. First Edition. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) WATERMAN, Catherine H., editor. Religious Offering 1840. Philadelphia: W. Marshall, (1840). Small octavo, original elaborately embossed black morocco, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $5500.First edition of this religious gift book for 1840, illustrated with engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, and eight engraved plates. This copy from the personal library of Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed by him ""Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park 1920.""This is Roosevelt's personal copy of... Read More
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Hand-corrected manuscript for Looking Forward
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1933. Signed. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Hand-corrected manuscript for Looking Forward. No place,1933. 235 leaves measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, typing on recto, with corrections in Roosevelt's hand on 22 leaves, other corrections throughout in pencil. Housed in a large black ring binder with individual leaves placed back-to-back in mylar sleeves. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $28,000.Manuscript draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 book Looking Forward, his clarion call for a new deal that was published in the month... Read More
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Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1930. First Edition. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.). Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt Forty-Eighth Governor of the State of New York 1929. Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1930. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full red morocco, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $8500.First editions of Roosevelt's collected public papers from his time as governor, inscribed in Volume I by Roosevelt to his law partner in New York City, who went on to become a polio advocate, an executive at the... Read More
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Addresses of the President of the United States
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1937. First Edition. Signed. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to South America. November & December 1936. [Washington]: United States Government Printing Office, 1937. Large quarto, original full brown pigskin, raised bands, mounted copper cover label, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut, original half pigskin pull-off case. $18,000.Rare limited first edition, presentation copy, of Roosevelt's speeches at the Inter-American Peace Conference in 1936, one of only seven... Read More
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Flowering Plants Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938. WITH: List of the Fishes Taken on the Presidential Cruise of 1938
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1939. First Edition. Signed. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) KILLIP, Ellsworth P. ""Flowering Plants Collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938."" ISSUED AS: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 98, Number 8, pp. 1-4. WITH: SCHMITT, Waldo L. and SCHULTZ, Leonard P. ""List of the Fishes Taken on the Presidential Cruise of 1938."" ISSUED AS: Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 25, Number 8, pp. 1-10. Washington: Smithsonian, 1939-40. Two volumes. Octavo, original printed brown paper wrappers. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $4700.First... Read More
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Democratic Book 1936
by ROOSEVELT Franklin D.
1936. First Edition. Signed. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. The Democratic Book 1936. No place: no publisher, 1936. Large folio (12 by 14-1/2 inches), original full brown morocco gilt, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt. $6000.Signed limited first edition, number 799 of an unknown limitation signed by President Roosevelt, with illustrated title and limitation pages, 19 full-page portraits, dozens of in-text half-tones and illustrations, and a facsimile of the Constitution.Sold to Democratic donors at $250 each to pay off the 1936... Read More
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