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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
First edition of the final volume in the author’s classic Pacific War trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 32 unnumbered pages of black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Ian Toll on the second free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 1992.
First edition of this collection of eleven essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
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Rare autograph signature from American financier and banker John Pierpont Morgan. Boldly signed in ink on an off-white slip clipped from a document, “J. Pierpont Morgan.” In fine condition. Matted and framed with a large portrait of Morgan and a biographical placard. The entire piece measures 14.75 inches by 25 inches.
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Bombay : Keshav Bhikaji Dhawale, October 2, 1944.
First unabridged edition of this tribute to Gandhi, with introductions by Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and a biographical essay by Albert Einstein. Quarto, original publisher’s half cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs and tipped-in color plates, frontispiece. Boldly signed by Mahatma Gandhi on the half-title page. Association copy, additionally signed by JohnContinue reading "Gandhiji: His Life and Work. Published on His 75th Birthday."
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New York : Simon and Schuster, 2016.
First edition of this work which gives “unprecedented insight into the inner workings of the Supreme Court and garner unparalleled appreciation for one of its finest minds” (Booklist). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams. Accompanied with a typed letter signed to BruceContinue reading "My Own Words. [with] Typed Letter Signed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg."
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Oxford : Basil Blackwell Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1927.
The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of the novels and selected writings of Daniel Defoe, limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. Octavo, 11 volumes bound in full navy morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt decorated inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In fine condition. AnContinue reading "The Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Captain Singleton; Memoirs of a Cavalier; A Journal of the Plague Year; Colonel Jack; Moll Flanders; Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress; A Plan of the English Commerce."
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1991.
Rare original Raw 3 comics magazine call for submissions print with a personalized drawing and note to Jules Feiffer from Art Spiegelman. Octavo, one page, ink on photocopy paper. Inscribed and initialed by Spiegelman with a personalized drawing of two sharply dressed mice having a conversation about Jules Feiffer, “So Jules sez he writes screenplaysContinue reading "Raw 3 Magazine Call For Submissions Print with Personalized Drawing Inscribed by Art Spiegelman."
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September 10, 1802.
Rare four-language ship’s passport signed by Thomas Jefferson as President and James Madison as Secretary of State. One page, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, dated September 10, 1802. The passport contains four columns, one in English and three translations in French, Spanish, and Dutch, and gives leave and permission to “John H. Milliken, masterContinue reading "Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Ship’s Passport."
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1862.
Fine oil portrait of George Washington as General and Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army by Joseph Alexander Ames. Oil on canvas, the portrait depicts Washington in profile in his Continental Army uniform. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner, “J. Ames 1862.” Ames, a self-taught artist born in 1816 in Roxbury,Continue reading "Portrait of General George Washington."
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St. Paul, MN : Thomson/ West, 2012.
First edition of this work, which offers concise, articulate and reasoned discussions on reading and interpreting law. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Antonin Scalia on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Frank H. Easterbrook.
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Rare photograph of the official seal of the president of the United States signed by seven American presidents. Color glossy photograph of the official seal of the president of the United States covering 40 consecutive years of presidential administrations. Boldly signed by Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, andContinue reading "Official Seal of the President of the United States Photograph Signed By Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush."
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New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1975.
First edition of this firsthand account of America’s Presidents and their families from the perspective of a pioneering journalist. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author to President Ford on the half-title page, “To the President and Mrs. Ford with my deepest respect and admiration forContinue reading "Dateline: White House."
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New York : Random House, 1979.
First edition of the author’s fourth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptionalContinue reading "Suttree."
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Washington : Government Printing Office, January 2, 1863.
Rare first War Department and fifth overall printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Twelvemo, General Orders No. 1 extracted from the larger volume of orders for 1863, 4 pages, disbound. President Lincoln had intended to issue the order earlier in 1862 but deliberately delayed its release until after the Union’s strategic victory at Antietam, at whichContinue reading "[Emancipation Proclamation]. General Orders, No. 1. War Department Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, January 2, 1863."
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.
Signed limited edition of this whimsical and philosophical novel. Quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, printed on hand-made paper, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with illustrations and decorations by Thomas Mackenzie. Boldly signed by the author on the limitations page, one of 525 copies. In near fine condition.
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Indialantic, Florida : C.W. Scarboro, 1965.
First edition of this visual chronicle documenting the early development of the U.S. space program at Cape Canaveral. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by six Gemini astronauts on the dedication page: Michael Collins, James Lovell, Edward H. White II, Frank Borman, Jim McDivitt, and Clifton Williams. Foreword by Kurt H. Debus. InContinue reading "Pictorial History of Cape Kennedy 1950-1965."
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Orlando : Harcourt Inc, 2006.
First edition of this collection of poetry from the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Wislawa Szymborska on the half-title page and by Billy Collins on the title page, who contributed the foreword. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman. Translated from the Polish by Clare CavanaghContinue reading "Monologue of a Dog: New Poems."
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London : Chatto & Windus, 1929.
First edition of the author’s classic novel, one of Modern Library’s 100 greatest novels of the 20th century and an inspiration for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Richard Hughes on the half-title page, “Richard Hughes Dun Laoghaire, 10 Sept 1971.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.Continue reading "A High Wind in Jamaica."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, 1993, 1994.
First editions of each volume in the author’s classic Mayfair Witches Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes. Each volume is signed or inscribed by Anne Rice and The Witching Hour and Lasher signed three times each by Chip Kidd; on the front panel, below Rice’s signature and on the rear jacket flap. Each are fine in fineContinue reading "Lives of the Mayfair Witches Trilogy: The Witching Hour; Lasher; Taltos."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
First edition of Hughes classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Alice LeVeen- Sincerely- Langston Hughes.” Near fine in a good dust jacket. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Uncommon signed and inscribed and in the rare original dust jacket.
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London : Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1909.
Signed limited edition of Kipling’s collection of songs of the seas and cities, elaborately illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto, original publisher’s full pictorial vellum decorated in gilt, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated with 30-tipped in plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous in-text illustrations. One of 500 numbered copies signed by theContinue reading "A Song of the English."
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London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, 1797.
Rare first edition of the official account of Lord Macartney’s voyage and embassy to the Qianlong emperor in 1792-94, the failure of which led to the establishment of the British trading post at Hong Kong. Three volumes (two quarto volumes of text and one folio atlas volume of plates) bound by Clarke Preston in full diced calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raisedContinue reading "An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; Including Cursory Observations Made, and Information Obtained, In Travelling Through That Ancient Empire, and a Small Part of Chinese Tartary."
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New York : Viking, 2016.
First edition of the New York Times bestselling author’s second novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Amor Towles on the title page and with his custom-designed stamp of the Kremlin opposite the title page in red ink. Towles adopted the practice of adding a custom-designed stamp when signing his books as requests for signedContinue reading "A Gentleman In Moscow."
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New York : George Braziller, Inc, 1958.
First edition of this compilation of the selected writings of Langston Hughes. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Grushkin. Rare and desirable signed.
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Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Spiegelman, Art; Francoise Mouly [Jules Feiffer]
Jefferson, Thomas and James Madison
Ames, Joseph Alexander. [George Washington]
Scalia, Antonin & Bryan A. Garner
Nixon, Richard; Gerald R. Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; George Bush; Bill Clinton; George W. Bush
[Lincoln, Abraham]
Collins, Michael; James Lovell; Edward H. White II; Frank Borman; Jim McDivitt; Clifton Williams
Rice, Anne
Staunton, Sir George. [Sir George Macartney]
