Novels, Tales, and Sketches of J. M. Barrie
by BARRIE J. M.
1922. BARRIE, J. M. The Novels, Tales, and Sketches of J. M. Barrie. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $1850.""Author's Edition"" of Barrie's works, the ""only American edition of [Barrie's] works to be sanctioned by [him]"" (from the author's preface), handsomely bound.Illustrated with frontispieces in each volume and numerous full-page plates throughout. This set includes Peter... Read More
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Magazine yearbook signed [""Hispanics in the Major Leagues""]
by BASEBALL
1993. First Edition. Signed. (BASEBALL). Magazine yearbook signed [""Hispanics in the Major Leagues""]. New York: R. Paniagua, 1993. Quarto, staple-bound as issued, original photographic paper wrappers. $4500.First edition of this bilingual yearbook celebrating Latinos in baseball as of 1993, signed by 42 players including Hall of Famers Roberto Alomar and Edgar Martinez, as well as baseball luminaries Sandy Alomar, Moises Alou, John Candelaria, Julio Franco, Dave Martinez, Rafael Palmiero, Tony Pena, and Ruben Sierra.This wonderful bilingual yearbook focusing on... Read More
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World Series 1982 program
by BASEBALL
1982. First Edition. Signed. (BASEBALL). World Series 1982 program. No place: Major League Baseball Promotion Corporation, 1982. Quarto, staple-bound, original wrappers. $3800.Original program for the 1982 World Series, signed by over 70 players from the teams in the National and American League playoffs, including Randy Johnson, Dale Murphy, Phil Niekro, Joaquin Andujar, Willie McGee, Ozzie Smith, Whitey Herzog, Ted Simmons, Bob Gibson, Bob Uecker, Paul Molitor, Robin Yount, Don Sutton, Rollie Fingers, Bob Boone and Luis Tiant.The 1982 American... Read More
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
by DRED SCOTT CASE HOWARD Benjamin C. TANEY Roger B
1857. First Edition. (DRED SCOTT CASE) HOWARD, Benjamin. C. Dred Scott v. Sandford. IN: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. December Term, 1856. Volume XIX. Washington, D.C.: William Morrison, 1857. Octavo, contemporary tan cloth, tan and black morocco spine labels. $5200.First edition of the complete report of the landmark Dred Scott decision that divided a nation, became a prominent cause of the Civil War, and ultimately generated the 14th Amendment, with... Read More
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Tale of Pigling Bland
by POTTER Beatrix
1913. First Edition. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Pigling Bland. London and New York: Frederick Warne, 1913. 16mo, original maroon boards, mounted cover illustration, pictorial endpapers. $1700.First edition of Potters story of two piglets escape into a new life, illustrated with frontispiece, 14 color plates and 37 in-text vignettes.The Tale of Pigling Bland was Potter's 19th book, the second title to appear in the ""New Series"" and the last she published before her marriage to William Heelis. The book... Read More
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by CRUIKSHANK George STOWE Harriet Beecher
1852. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. With Twenty-seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank. London: John Cassell, 1852. Thirteen parts. Octavo, original pale yellow wrappers, bound by string; housed in a custom chemise and solander box. $8100.Second English edition (published the same year as the Boston first edition) of Harriet Beecher Stowes galvanizing novel of slavery, the first to feature illustrations by celebrated artist George Cruikshank, in the very fragile original thirteen issues.""The social impact of Uncle Tom's... Read More
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Haggadah for Passover
by HAGGADAH SHAHN Ben
1966. First Edition. Signed. SHAHN, Ben. Haggadah for Passover. Paris: Trianon Press, (1966). Large folio (13 by 17 inches), unsewn as issued, original glassine wrappers, original clasped parchment box. $6500.Beautiful large limited folio Passover Haggadah, number 175 of only 228 copies (out of a total edition of 292) on Arches Vergé paper, illustrated by Ben Shahn with 21 color pictorial borders and line drawings and an additional beautiful double-page color lithograph also signed by him.Lithuanian-born graphic artist Ben Shahn... Read More
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Series of Dramatic Entertainments
by WEBSTER Benjamin
1849. First Edition. WEBSTER, Benjamin, editor. The Series of Dramatic Entertainments Performed by Royal Command, before Her Majesty the Queen, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Royal Family, and the Court, at Windsor Castle. 1848-9. London: Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library, [1849]. Quarto, gilt-stamped pictorial red cloth, all edges gilt. $1800.First edition of this collection of eight plays performed before Queen Victoria, the Royal Family, and the Royal Court in 1848 and 1849, printed in black and red, with color... Read More
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Fixer
by MALAMUD Bernard
1966. First Edition. Signed. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Fixer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. $1750.First edition, presentation copy, of Malamuds Pulitzer-winning novel, inscribed by Malamud: ""For Josef, A patient and attentive hostfor making my stay in Israel so pleasurableBernard.""""Malamud's story of a Jew falsely accused of murder in czarist Russia in 1912 ends with the declaration that there is 'no such thing as an unpolitical man.' Taken as commentary on the... Read More
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Assistant
by MALAMUD Bernard
1957. First Edition. Signed. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Assistant. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1967). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $1800.First edition, later printing, inscribed: To Ruth, with affection. Bernard Malamud.""""Here Malamud develops the theme of spiritual conversion in flawless form"" (Vinson, 876). ""It is the lucidity of this story that makes it distinctive and that makes Mr. Malamud's vision shine simply throughout the stumblings and strugglings All is kept simple, real, basic; there is the... Read More
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Our Revolution
by SANDERS Bernie
2016. First Edition. Signed. SANDERS, Bernie. Our Revolution. A Future To Believe In. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2016. Octavo, original blue paper boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Bernie Sanders' account of his life and influences, featuring a detailed account of his campaign praised as ""well worth reading his ideas basically just as fresh to him today as when he left his native Brooklyn,"" signed in black felt pen by him on publisher's tipped-in... Read More
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Holy Bible
by BIBLE
1765. (BIBLE). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, James Waugh, et al., 1765. 12mo, contemporary full blue-green morocco gilt with red and green morocco onlays, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $5500.1765 ""Standard Edition"" of the King James Bible, distinctively bound in contemporary onlaid and elaborately gilt-tooled morocco, with intriguing provenance detailed in six manuscript pages... Read More
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Bibl yr Addoliad Teuluaidd [Bible in Welsh]
by BIBLE
1880. BIBLE. Bibl yr Addoliad Teuluaidd. London and New York: London Printing and Publishing Company, circa 1880. Thick folio (11-1/2 by 16 inches), period-style full dark purple pebbled morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, raised bands, brass name plate on front cover, brass clasps and catches, all edges gilt. $3500.Victorian edition of the ""Family Worship Bible"" in Welsh, with engraved vignette title page, frontispiece, and 45 folio engraved illustrations, beautifully bound with brass furniture.As with many vernacular translations, the... Read More
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Holie Bible
by BIBLE
1609. First Edition. BIBLE. The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English, out of the Authentical Latin Douai: Lawrence Kellam, 1609-10. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary vellum rebacked in vellum at an early date, early traces of ink writing on spines and front boards. Housed together in a custom slipcase and clamshell box. $25,000.Scarce first edition of the first Roman Catholic translation of the Old Testament into English, from the Latin Vulgate.""The Douai Bible is, as it professes to be, a... Read More
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Holy Bible
by BIBLE
1826. BIBLE. The Holy Bible. Oxford: Samuel Collingwood, 1826. 16mo (3 by 5-1/2 inches), contemporary full straight-grain purple morocco gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt . $1750.Handsomely bound 1826 Oxford pocket-sized edition of the King James Bible.First published in 1611 and indisputably the most influential of English Bible translations, the King James Version has exercised incalculable influence on piety, language and literature. Macaulay praised it as ""a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone... Read More
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Kiryah ne'emanah sefer Ezra
by HEBREW BIBLE
1818. (HEBREW BIBLE). OTTENSOSSER, David. SCHWABACHER, Heimann. Kiryah ne'emanah sefer Ezra mit uebersetzung und be'ur von Heimann Schwabacher und David Ottenzosser. [Fürth]: Isaac ben David Zirndorfer, 1818. Small octavo, contemporary sheep boards rebacked.. $1350.First edition of this Hebrew and German edition of the Book of Ezra, prepared and printed by three eminent figures of 19th-century German Jewish scholarship.Uncommon Judeo-German edition of the Book of Ezra, offering Hebrew text and a German translation (transliterated in Hebrew characters) on opposing pages... Read More
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My Life
by CLINTON Bill
2004. First Edition. Signed. CLINTON, Bill. My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $1500.First edition, first state, signed on the title page by President Clinton.The autobiography of President Bill Clinton, illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. First state, with ""failure"" instead of ""failures"" in the last sentence of the Acknowledgements. A fine copy.
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Memphis Riots and Massacres
by BLACK HISTORY WASHBURNE E. B. WASHBURNE Elihu B.
1866. First Edition. (BLACK HISTORY) WASHBURNE, E[lihu]. B. Memphis Riots and Massacres. 30th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 101. (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1866). Octavo, contemporary pebbled brown cloth rebacked with original spine laid down; pp. (1), 2-394. $1600.First edition of the July 1866 congressional Report of the House Select Committee containing hundreds of pages of official testimony and eyewitness accounts of the brutal May 1866 Memphis Massacre that killed over 45 Black men,... Read More
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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
by BLACKMORE Richard D.
1869. First Edition. BLACKMORE, Richard D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1869. Three volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter red straight-grain morocco rebacked, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers renewed. Housed together in a custom cloth slipcase. $2500.First edition of Blackmore's classic romantic novel of legendary Devonshire, handsomely bound. ""Combining romance, adventure, and idyll, Lorna Doone has been continuously in print since its publication"" (ONDB).A novelist and former conveyancer, ""it was in 1869, with... Read More
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Way Down South
by CUKOR George MUSE Clarence ARLEN David SLOAN Blanding
1932. First Edition. Signed. MUSE, Clarence and ARLEN, David. Way Down South. Hollywood: David Graham Fischer, (1932). Tall octavo (8 by 10-1/2 inches), original pictorial black and orange paper boards, original cloth tie. $2200.Signed limited first edition, number 631 of 1000 copies signed by Black actor Clarence Muse, an especially memorable association copy additionally inscribed by him on the limitation page, ""Sincerely your, Clarence Muse,"" from the library of famed film director George Cukor with his bookplate, coauthored by... Read More
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Let's Get a Good Shot
by KNIGHT Bobby
1969. First Edition. KNIGHT, Bobby. Let's Get a Good Shot. Walden, New York: Robert M. Knight, 1969. Slim quarto, staple-bound as issued, original pictorial beige paper wrappers; pp. 29. $1650.First edition of Bobby Knight's second book, focusing onand extensively diagramingthe best ways to get a good shot at the basket, in pristine original pictorial wrappers.""Like any other coach, Knight was fired up for his debut [as head coach of Army], but no one got fired up quite the way... Read More
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Negro in War-Time
by JOHNSON James Weldon SMITH Bolton
1918. First Edition. JOHNSON, James Weldon. ""The Negro in War-Time"" by Bolton Smith of Memphis, Tennessee. With a Rejoinder by James Weldon Johnson Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, November, 1918. Slim octavo, original printed tan self-wrappers, staple bound as issued; pp. (1-2), 3-11 (1). $2800.First edition of the electrifying response near the end of WWI by James Weldon Johnson, newly appointed Field... Read More
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Pop-up Silly Symphonies
by DISNEY STUDIOS POP-UP BOOKS
1933. First Edition. DISNEY STUDIOS. The ""Pop-up"" Silly Symphonies, Containing Babes In the Woods and King Neptune. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, (1933). Quarto, original pictorial boards, original pictorial endpapers. $1650.First edition, illustrated with in-text line drawings and plates and four double-page full-color pop-ups.""As the Depression years deepened, American book publishers sought ways to rekindle book buying Blue Ribbon Publishing of New York found a combination that proved successful. They animated Walt Disney characters and fairy tales with pop... Read More
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Works
by TARKINGTON Booth
1918. TARKINGTON, Booth. The Works of Booth Tarkington. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1918-1919. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and purple cloth, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, uncut and largely unopened, top edges gilt. $2800.Autograph edition, one of only 565 copies, signed by Tarkington in Volume 1, containing frontispiece portraits and plates, handsomely bound by Strikeman in three-quarter morocco gilt.This splendid limited edition of Booth Tarkington's Works features his first published work, The Gentleman from Indiana,... Read More
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Slavery and the Constitution
by BOWDITCH William I.
1849. First Edition. BOWDITCH, William I. Slavery and the Constitution. Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1849. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt, black morocco spine label; pp. (iv), (1), 2-156. $2100.First edition of abolitionist attorney Bowditch's incendiary 1849 work declaring the Constitution a proslavery document, defiantly announcing""we are a nation of slaveholders""a crucial work in the highly public dispute that split apart Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison.""To this day historians argue about the relationship of slavery to the Constitution""... Read More
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