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London : Jonathan Cape, 1955.
First edition, first issue with “shoo” for “shoot” on page 10 of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Henry Blofeld on front free endpaper. Blofeld is the son of Thomas Robert Calthorpe Blofeld (1903-1986) who attended Eton with Fleming andContinue reading "Moonraker."
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New York : The Macmillan Company, 1920.
First edition of this collection of speeches and articles by President William Howard Taft from May 1915 to the adoption of the revised Paris Covenant on April 28, 1919. Octavo, original publisher’s tan cloth, red leather spine label. Signed by Taft on the front free endpaper. In very good condition with light toning to theContinue reading "Taft Papers on League of Nations."
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London : Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899.
First editions of Churchill’s second book. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Woods A2(a). In very good condition.
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London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.
First edition in English of this landmark novel of the 20th century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Mr. E.O. Bird, With the Author’s compliments and thanks Erich Maria Remarque 1.4.29.” Fine in a fine dust jacket with the original publishers tissue wrap laid over the dustContinue reading "All Quiet On The Western Front."
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Xenia, OH : The Aldine Publishing Company, 1937.
First edition of this snapshot of early life at Wilberforce, Ohio by the legendary African-American educator and activist. Small octavo, original green pictorial cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs and etchings. Boldly signed by Hallie Q. Brown on the front pastedown. In near fine condition. Accompanied by two advertisements for this and one ofContinue reading "Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce."
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New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1890.
Signed limited edition of the biography of the 4th Earl of Orford. Royal octavo, original half vellum, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with several tissue-guarded engravings and tailpieces by Percy and Leon Moran. One of four hundred and twenty-five numbered copies printed on Dickinson paper and signed by American printer and typographer Theodore Low De Vinne onContinue reading "Horace Walpole: A Memoir with an Appendix of Books Printed at the Strawberry Hill Press."
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1892-1911.
Rare collection of four letters signed by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. The collection includes: Duodecimo, four pages, embossed with the House of Commons insignia and signed by Balfour to “Dear Duchess,” which reads in part “I am very glad indeed to hear of yr. success in finding aContinue reading "Arthur James Balfour Collection of Autograph Letters Signed."
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Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1890.
First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s first short story collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.
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London : Collins, 1954.
First edition, early printing of the biography of one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by Douglas Bader on the frontispiece in the year of publication, “Douglas Bader 27/6/54.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirableContinue reading "Reach For The Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader."
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Padua : Giuseppe Comino, 1769.
Eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s twenty-eighth novella from his ‘Decameron.’ Octavo, original full vellum, engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio. In very good condition with light toning to the front and rear panel, rubbing to the spine.
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New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954.
First edition of this informal history of one of the oldest baseball teams in the United States. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, “To John Howard Shirley Povich.” Additionally signed by members of the 1954 and 1955 Senators Eddie Yost,Continue reading "The Washington Senators."
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New York : The Penguin Press, 2004.
First edition of this contemporary classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Sis’ Elizabeth, Stay Strong! Love, Cornel West.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.
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London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1854.
Finely bound selection of lyrics set to Irish tunes. Duodecimo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed double fore-edge painting. In very good condition with light rubbing to the extremities, slightContinue reading "Irish Melodies. [Double Fore-Edge Painting]."
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New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1962.
First edition of this work by the director of the Manhattan Project. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project and by Tom Ferebee, the bombardier of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Fine in a very good dustContinue reading "Now it Can be Told The Story of the Manhattan Project."
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London : Faber & Faber, 1954.
First British edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, with some marginalia. Rare in the original jacket.
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New York : Random House, 1981.
First edition of this reminder of the Vietnam War in thirty-three reports from ordinary American soldiers. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Wishing our country strength, wisdom and liberty – Al Santoli.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. JacketContinue reading "Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Fought It."
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Paris : Gallimard, 1947.
First edition of Camus’ short story collection exploring themes of existentialism and absurdism. Small octavo, original publisher’s green cloth stamped in black, blue, and gilt after a design of Mario Parassinos’. One of only nine-hundred and fifty numbered copies on alfa Cellunaf, this is number 878. In near fine condition. Housed in the original cardboardContinue reading "L’Exil et Le Royaume."
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London : Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928.
First edition of what is generally considered Yeats’ single most important volume, one of 2000 copies. Octavo, original publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated pictorial olive green cloth with Thomas Sturge Moore’s iconic engraving of Thoor Ballylee. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. A veryContinue reading "The Tower."
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.
First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed Philip Roth on the title page and additionally by the director of the film Larry Peerce and by actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, who starred in the 1969 film. Near fine in a near fineContinue reading "Goodbye, Columbus."
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1955.
Rare photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their children. Vintage matte-finish photograph removed from a Royal Christmas card from 1955, featuring a charming photo of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip posing outdoors with their two young children, signed by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on the bottom margin, “Philip” and “Lilibet, 1955.”Continue reading "Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph."
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London : Printed for I. Walsh, c. 1760.
Rare second and third edition collection of overtures by the greatest composer of the “high baroque” style. Quarto, five volumes, original half calf over marbled boards with hand-written paper labels to the front panel, engraved throughout with sheet music. The collection includes three volumes containing a second edition of XXIV Overtures as they were Perform’dContinue reading "XXIV Overtures for Violins, &c. in Eight Parts as they were Perform’d at the King’s Theatre [AND] Six Overtures for Violins, &c. in Eight Parts from the Oratorios."
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Worcester, MA : Isaiah Thomas, 1790-91.
Likely first illustrated edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Small octavo, early half sheep over marbled boards, three frontispieces, illustrated with eleven nearly full-page woodcuts, publisher’s error jump in page number from p. 324 to p. 343. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities and loss to theContinue reading "The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which is to Come: Complete in Three Parts: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: To Which is Added, the Life and Death of the Author."
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New York : Privately Printed, 1917.
First edition of this autobiographical recollection of a lawyer and American ambassador to the United Kingdom, privately printed by Caroline Sterling Choate; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original half cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Joseph Hodges Choate at the age of seventeen, illustrated throughout with several tissue-guarded photographs, “With the Compliments ofContinue reading "The Boyhood and Youth of Joseph Hodges Choate."
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London : Bloomsbury, 1999.
First deluxe edition of the first book in the Harry Potter series, a cornerstone of young adult literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time. Octavo, original original cloth, all edges gilt, cover illustration by Thomas Taylor. Signed by the illustrator Thomas Taylor with an original drawing of Harry Potter on the dedicationContinue reading "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone."
Read more Taft, William Howard; Theodore Marburg; Horace E. Flack
Dobson, Austin; [Theodore Low De Vinne]
Balfour, Arthur James
Povich, Shirley [Eddie Yost, Bob Porterfield, Jim Busby, Chuck Stobbs and Calvin Griffith'
Groves, Leslie R. [Tom Ferebee]
Santoli, Al
ELIZABETH II, Queen and Prince Philip
Handel, George Frideric
Choate, Joseph Hodges [William Tecumseh Sherman]
