Letter from Thomas Paine to George Washington
by WASHINGTON George PAINE Thomas
1797. PAINE, Thomas. Letter from Thomas Paine to George Washington, President of the United States of America. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1797. Octavo, recent half brown calf. $3000.Early English edition of Paine's bitter public attack on George Washington, issued the year following the American first edition, handsomely bound.The highly combustible relationship between Thomas Paine and George Washington, forged in the Revolution only to shatter with the publication of Paine's open Letter to George Washington, ""is not just the... Read More
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Sister of the Road
by THOMPSON Bertha REITMAN Ben L.
1937. First Edition. Signed. REITMAN, Ben, L. Sister of the Road. The Autobiography of Box-Car Bertha. New York: Macaulay, (1937). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $2400.First edition of this fictionalized autobiography of ""Box-car Bertha,"" an icon of the Great Depression who brought to light the struggle of homeless women in America, the basis for the 1972 Martin Scorcese film, inscribed in the year of publication by the author: ""July 16-1937. To Don Curtis Keefer with best wishes.... Read More
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Going After Cacciato
by O'BRIEN Tim
1978. First Edition. Signed. O'BRIEN, Tim. Going After Cacciato. (New York): Delacorte, (1978). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of this National Book Award-winner""O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldiers daily life a beautiful, painful book"" (New York Times), inscribed by him on the title page, ""To Larry, Best Wishes, Tim O'Brien.""Going After Cacciato ""is among the most outstanding fictional narratives of the Vietnam War"" (Stringer, 502). In this novel, ""O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes... Read More
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Northern Lights
by O'BRIEN Tim
1975. First Edition. Signed. O'BRIEN, Tim. Northern Lights. [New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (1975). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $1600.First edition of the author's second book and first novela ""work of serious intent with themes at least as old as the Old Testament"" (New York Times)signed on the title page by him.""Gripping and convincing Northern Lights is an impressive first novel"" (Times Literary Supplement). ""Although it is not explicitly a war novel, the book examines some... Read More
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Report of the Case of the Trustees of Dartmouth College
by DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE FARRAR Timothy
1819. First Edition. (DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE) FARRAR, Timothy. Report of the Case of the Trustees of Dartmouth College Against William H. Woodward. Portsmouth, N.H.: John W. Foster, (1819). Octavo, original blue-gray paper-covered boards, paper spine and label, uncut and almost entirely unopened. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4000.First edition of one of the most significant and influential of the early cases appearing before the Supreme Court, very scarce uncut and largely unopened in original paper boards.Before Chief Justice... Read More
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Traduction Entiere de Petrone [Satyricon]
by PETRONIUS ARBITER Titus
1694. First Edition. PETRONIUS ARBITER, Titus. Traduction Entière de Petrone, Suivant le Nouveau Manuscrit Trouvé à Bellegrade en 1688. Cologne: Pierre Groth, 1694. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full crimson morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, covers with arms of the Comtesse de Verrue stamped in gilt as centerpieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $6200.First edition in French (with the original Latin on facing pages) of Petronius' Satyricon, illustrated with 9 copper-engraved plates, bound in contemporary French morocco-gilt, from the... Read More
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Expedition of Humphry Clinker
by SMOLLETT Tobias
1771. First Edition. SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. London: For W. Johnston and B. Collins, 1771 [misprinted MDCLXXI in Volume I]. Three volumes. 12mo, early 20th-century full red crushed morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom leather-edged slipcase. $3800.First edition, one of the four possible first states, of Smollett's finest novel, beautifully bound in morocco-gilt by Chambolle-Duru.Smollett's last novel was published in 1771, the year of his... Read More
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History and Adventures of an Atom
by SMOLLETT Tobias
1769. First Edition. SMOLLETT, Tobias. The History and Adventures of an Atom. London: Robinson and Roberts, 1749 (i.e., 1769). Two volumes. 12mo, early 20th-century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed together in a custom slipcase. $2200.First edition, first issue, of this anonymously published satirical novel, very handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Francis Bedford.""If indeed he was author of The History and Adventures of an Atom, published about 1 April 1769,... Read More
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Lord of the Rings
by TOLKIEN J.R.R.
1966. TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The Two Towers. The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, (1966). Three volumes. Octavo, modern full black morocco gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, front boards gilt stamped with Eye of Sauron and the One Ring. $8800.Second editionwith the author's new foreword and his revisions to the text throughoutof Tolkien's stirring tour de force, beautifully bound.""The most influential fantasy novel ever... Read More
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Night. La Nuit
by SMITH Patti VERLAINE Tom
1976. First Edition. Signed. SMITH, Patti and VERLAINE, Tom. The Night. La Nuit. [Paris]: (Edition Fear Press), [1976]. Tall, slim octavo (4 by 10-3/4 inches), staple-bound as issued, original pictorial black paper wrappers; pp. 12. $1000.First edition, French issue, of this collection of 22 poems, half by Smith and the other half by pioneering guitarist Tom Verlaine, who co-wrote the song ""Break it Up"" with Smith on her debut album Horses, signed on the rear wrapper by Patti Smith.Publication... Read More
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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by WOLFE Tom
1968. First Edition. WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1968). Octavo, original white cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Wolfe's lively ""celebration of psychedelia,"" a handsome copy in the colorful Milton Glaser dust jacket.""The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is to the hippie movement what Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night was to the Vietnam protest movement. Wolfe is precisely the right author to chronicle the transformation of Ken Kesey from... Read More
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Sergeant York. His Own Life Story and War Diary
by YORK Alvin SKEYHILL Tom
1928. First Edition. Signed. YORK, Alvin, with SKEYHILL, Tom. Sergeant York. His Own Life Story and War Diary. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. $4800.First edition of this acclaimed Medal of Honor winner's account of his life in war and back home in rural Tennessee, signed by him.From an impoverished family in rural Tennessee, York ended up in the army in World War I only after claim of conscientious objector status... Read More
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Death Ship
by TRAVEN B.
1934. First Edition. TRAVEN, B. The Death Ship. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $2300.First American (preferred) edition of B. Traven's gripping first novel, the first to be translated into English by the author, in original dust jacket.The mysterious author B. Traven first published this work in Germany in 1925 as Das Totenschiff. It appeared in an English version translated by Eric Sutton (also in 1934), but this first American edition, to... Read More
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One Christmas
by CAPOTE Truman
1983. First Edition. Signed. CAPOTE, Truman. One Christmas. New York: Random House, (1983). Slim octavo, original black cloth, original slipcase. $1000.Signed limited first edition, number 197 of only 500 copies signed by Capote.The redemptive story of a young Capote's first Christmas with his estranged father. The photographic illustration on the slipcase pictures a young Truman seated on his father's lap.
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Hollywood on Trial
by TRUMBO Dalton KAHN Gordon LARDNER, JR. Ring
1948. First Edition. Signed. KAHN, Gordon. Hollywood on Trial. The Story of the 10 Who Were Indicted. New York, Boni & Gaer, 1948. New York: Boni & Gaer, 1948. Octavo, original gray paper boards, original dust jacket; housed in a custom clamshell box. $3500.First edition of Gordon Kahn's important contemporary account of the writers and directors known as the ""Hollywood Ten,"" an extraordinary association copy signed on the title page by Kahn, along with the signatures on the initial... Read More
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National Freedman. Vol I. No. 11
by TRUTH Sojourner HAWKINS W. G.
1865. First Edition. (TRUTH, Sojourner) (THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT) (HAWKINS, W.G.). The National Freedman, A Monthly Journal of the New York National Freeman's Relief Association. Vol. I. New York, December 15, 1865. No. 11. New York: National Freedman's Relief Association, December 15, 1865 (i.e. December 18, 1865). Slim octavo, original cream self-wrappers, original stitching as issued; pp. (345) 346-384. $4800.First issue of the December 1865 issue of the National Freedman, prominently displaying the 13th Amendment on the front wrapper, this landmark... Read More
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Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England...
by TURNER J.M.W.
1826. First Edition. (ENGLAND) TURNER, J.M.W. Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England London: John and Arthur Arch, et al., 1826. Two volumes in one. Quarto, contemporary full dark blue polished calf gilt rebacked with original spine and red morocco spine label laid down; raised bands, original marbled endpapers preserved. $2800.First edition of this picturesque tour of the southern coast of England, with 48 full-page copper-engravings38 after drawings by J.M.W. Turnerand 32 copper-engraved vignettes (two after Turner), desirable... Read More
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Ancient Regime
by TWAIN Mark TAINE H. A.
1876. Signed. (TWAIN, Mark) TAINE, Hippolyte. The Ancient Regime. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1876. Octavo, original green cloth. Housed in a custom half polished calf clamshell box. $12,000.Mark Twain's signed copy of Hippolyte Taine's The Ancient Regime, signed ""Saml. L. Clemens, Hartford 1876"" on the front flyleaf and annotated by him on the final text leaf, ""Finished Jan 29th"" and beneath that note, ""Finished Sept. 10th,"" indicating that he read the book twice. With the bookplate prepared... Read More
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Up From Slavery
by WASHINGTON Booker T
1901. First Edition. WASHINGTON, Booker T. Up From Slavery. An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901. Octavo, original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, top edge gilt. $3200.First edition of Washington's landmark autobiography, with frontispiece portrait, in original gilt-stamped cloth.Booker T. Washington, ""the son of a black slave and a white man, was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation. Freed, he taught himself to read from Webster's 'Blue-back spelling book,' adopted his inspirational surname, and walked most of the 500 miles... Read More
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Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers
by CONSTANT Samuel Victor
1935. First Edition. CONSTANT, Samuel Victor. Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. [Peking: Camel Bell, circa 1935]. Oblong octavo, original side-stitched silk cloth, orange paper cover label, mottled endpapers, French-folded leaves. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4500.First edition of this unusual documentation of Peking street-vendors, their instruments and their calls, illustrated with 61 color-printed lithographs, mounted paper cut-out and 16 mounted halftone photographs.In China, a system of peddling grew up to bring goods to them,... Read More
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Poems from the Desert
by MONTGOMERY of ALAMEIN Field General the Viscount
1944. First Edition. Signed. MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, Bernard. Poems from the Desert. Verses by Members of the Eighth Army. London: George G. Harrap, (1944). Octavo, original half navy morocco, uncut, original cardboard slipcase. $1850.Signed limited first edition of this collection of 27 poems written by members of the Eighth Army while in the Western Desert in 1942-43, number 53 of only 110 copies signed by General Bernard Montgomery, who has written the Foreword, with etched frontispiece by Stephen Gooden.Twenty-six... Read More
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Moko and Koko in the Jungle
by KUBASTA Vojtech
1961. First Edition. KUBASTA, Vojtech. Moko and Koko in the Jungle. London: Bancroft, [1961]. Folio (9 by 13 inches), staple-bound as issued, original half green cloth, original pictorial paper wrappers; pp. 8 and double-page pop-up. $950.First edition of Kubasta's jungle-themed pop-up book, featuring an eight-page story (""Moko and Koko in the Jungle"") and a vibrant, double-page, folio pop-up of an animal-filled jungle, with Swinging Orangutan intact and with rare paper dolls of Moko and Koko, in original pictorial wrappers... Read More
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American Indian Hunt
by KUBASTA Vojtech
1962. First Edition. KUBASTA, Vojtech. The American Indian Hunt. London: Bancroft, [1962]. Folio (9 by 13 inches), staple-bound as issued, original half red cloth, original pictorial paper wrappers; pp. 8 and double-page pop-up. $950.First edition of Kubasta's striking American Indian Hunt pop-up book, featuring an eight-page story (""The Day of the Bison Hunt"") and a vibrant, double-page, folio pop-up of an Indian camp, in original pictorial wrappers depicting an Indian chief.This wonderful pop-up book includes an eight-page story and... Read More
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Letters Concerning the English Nation
by VOLTAIRE
1733. First Edition. VOLTAIRE [Arouet, François-Marie] DE. Letters Concerning the English Nation. London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. Octavo, contemporary full brown speckled calf rebacked and recornered, raised bands, red morocco spine label. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4800.First edition of Voltaire's commentary on English institutions, published one year before the French first edition, the first published work to relate the tale of Newton's falling apple.Voltaire (""an approximate anagram of the name Arouet"") fled to... Read More
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Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine
by ACKERMANN Rudolph GERNING Baron Johann Isaac von
1820. First Edition. (ACKERMANN, Rudolph) GERNING, Baron Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne. London: R. Ackermann, 1820. Folio (11-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), period-style full green straight-grain morocco, gilt-decorated spine and boards. $8800.First edition, first issue, of one of Ackermanns wonderful Picturesque Tours, beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints and large folding map. A lovely copy, beautifully bound to style.In the history of book production ""there is no more attractive figure than... Read More
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