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Signed by Award Winning Historian - Stephen Ambrose Americans at War First Edition and a Very Fine Copy

Ambrose, Stephen E. AMERICANS AT WAR (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1997) First edition, first printing, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in white on the spine, in the original dustjacket.

A very fine copy, pristine and as mint.

Nixon - Stephen Ambrose’s Great 3 Volume Work First Edition of Each Volume - All in Fine Dustjackets

Ambrose, Stephen E. NIXON [Comprised of:] THE EDUCATION OF A POLITICIAN 1913-1962; THE TRIUMPH OF A POLITICIAN 1962-1972; RUIN AND RECOVERY 1973-1990 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987; 1989; 1991 ) Together 3 volumes. First edition and first printing of each of the three volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Large 8vo, publisher’s original boards backed in blue cloth, the spines of two volumes lettered in copper, the last volume lettered in silver, each in its original dustjacket. All are fine copies, pristine and near as mint. Vols I and III with

Barth’s Great Work on the Expeditions Travels and Discoveries in Africa 1849-1855

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Barth, Henry. TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA: BEING A JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H. B. M.’S GOVERNMENT, IN THE YEARS 1849-1855 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857-59) 3 volumes. First American edition. With a folding map in color and over 200 full page and textual wood engravings. Thick 8vo, very handsomely bound in period blueblack half-calf over pebbled cloth boards, spines with raised bands gilt decorated, maroon and brown morocco lettering labels gilt lettered. Fine and fresh internally with no foxing, plates very bright and clean, bindings with some cracking, labels rough.

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Price: $225.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, one of the most popular historians of the modern era. Ambrose is one of a handful of historians credited with creating the popular trend of teaching history from the point of view of the “everyday man” and changing dry dates and facts into vivid living stories.

Item Number: 2

Price: $595.

publisher’s discreet marking on the bottom edge.

FINE COPIES AND FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE BOOKS. Perhaps the most famous work of the best selling historian and biographer, Ambrose once said that he was a historian who was “fascinated by leadership”. In 1970, while teaching at Kansas State University, Ambrose participated in heckling Richard Nixon during a speech the president gave on the KSU campus. Ironically, almost 20 years later he would author what is now considered to be the most fair and just Nixon political biography.

Item Number: 3

Price: $1250.

SCARCE EARLY FIRST EDITION ISSUANCE OF A SEMINAL WORK IN AFRICANA.This is the detailed account of “one of the most fruitful expeditions ever undertaken in inner Africa. In addition to journeys across the Sahara, Barth traversed the country from Lake Chad and Bagirmi on the east to Timbuktu on the west and Cameroon on the south... he studied minutely the topography, history, civilizations and resources of the countries visited... for accuracy, interest, variety and extent of information Barth’s ‘Travels’ have few rivals among works of the kind. It is a book that will always rank as a standard authority on the regions in question...” -Ency. Brit.

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The First Dated Bible and Only the Fourth Printed Bible From the Fust and Schoeffer Bible of 1462 A Rare Pentatuch Leaf from the Book of Numbers

Bible, Leaves of the Bible, Füst and Schoeffer; Early Printing.

A LEAF FROM THE FIRST DATED BIBLE. A Pentatuch Leaf from the Book of Numbers, Numbers XXX-XXXi (Mainz: Fust and Schoeffer, 1462) A fine leaf from the first dated Bible, the Fourth printed Bible (preceded only by: Gutenberg, the 36line Bible and Mentelin). Using a new type face; type set on a smaller body with more lines to the page. Printed double column, 48 lines per page. With manuscript titles in red and

Book Ends; Art Deco, Objects; Sculpture. A SET OF ART DECO BOOKENDS (American, ca. 1920) One of a limited number.

Bronze or metal cast figures based on “End of the Trail”, the iconic statue by James Fraser. The set of bookends is in a fine state of preservation.

It was for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915 that Fraser produced his most recognized work, the

Item Number: 5

Brontë, Charlotte ; Dulac, Edmund (Illustrator). THE PROFESSOR (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1922) First Edition with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Illustrated with 6 coloured illustrations after paintings by Dulac. 8vo, 3/4 contemporary honey calf over cloth boards, lettered and elaborately tooled in gilt on the spine, with dark-green morocco lettering labels, raised bands gilt stopped, compartments with gilt panel decorations and central gilt ornamental tooling, top edge gilt. A very handsome

Burnet, Gilbert. THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. In Two Parts... (London: Printed

by T.H. for Richard Chiswell, 1681,1683) 2 volumes. The Second Edition, Corrected. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and finely engraved full page plates throughout. Folio, very handsomely bound in full paneled calf to style, the covers with multipaneled designs surrounded by borders in blind, the spines with raised bands separating compartments decorated with central ornamental devices in blind. A very fine set, very beautifully

One of the Most Difficult Burton Titles to Obtain Two Trips to Gorilla Land and The Cataracts of the Congo First Edition - London - 1876

Burton, Richard F. TWO TRIPS TO GORILLA LAND AND THE CATARACTS OF THE CONGO. (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1876) 2 volumes bound as one. First edition. Two fold-out colour maps, four woodcut plates and engraved illustrations throughout the body of the text. 8vo, very handsomely bound in three-quarter dark green morocco over cloth boards, the spine with tasteful panel designs of double-ruled gilt lines. Uncommonly fresh and clean, internally fine and the binding quite nicely preserved, one tiny tear with no loss very professionally repaired on fold-line to one of the folding maps.

Churchill, Winston. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (London: Cassell and Co, 1956, 57, 58) 4 volumes. First editions. Numerous maps. 8vo, original crimson cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in bright, original pictorial dustjackets. Index in each volume. A very clean and very bright set, near fine but for some minor rubbing along the board edges, the jackets bright with only trivial edge wear, internally fine.

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Price: $295.

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Price: $2450.

bound, finely preserved.

A SUPERB SET OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Gilbert Burnett was one of the great contemporary historians and biographers of his day.

He was a popular preacher and was offered four Bishoprics before he was 29 years of age. These he refused and in 1674 was dismissed from the post of King’s Chaplain for remonstrating with Charles II for his profligacy. For over a century this was the standard reference work in the field, although Catholics disputed some of its content.

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Price: $4850.

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Burton was appointed consul at Fernando Po in 1861. Not content to remain on the island where he felt like “a caged hawk”, he spent the time exploring the region and searching for gorillas and cannibals. These explorations would produce a number of books including WANDERINGS IN WEST AFRICA and MISSION TO GELELE. This book covers two of his missions.

In 1862, Burton traveled up the Gabon river to look for gorillas. After four months leave to spend time with his wife in London and Madiera, he spent fifteen more months paddling up the Congo.

Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples An Excellent First Edition Set in Dustjackets

Price: $650.

copy with subtle mellowing to the spines and edges.

FIRST EDITION WITH DULAC’S ILLUSTRATIONS. A handsome illustrated copy of Charlotte Bronte’s THE PROFESSOR. Wimperis was able to identify many of the places referred to in the novels with the help of a friend of the Bronte sisters. He drew lovely sketches of these locations and then rendered them on wood. His illustrations add real charm to these volumes.

The History of the Reformation of the Church of England An Edgar Rice Burroughs Masterpiece

Price: 4450.

doleful “End of the Trail.” This lone figure on his weary horse is one of the most recognized symbols of the American West. Although Fraser (who also designed the famed Indian Buffalo Nickel) hoped his masterpiece would be cast in bronze and placed on Presidio Point overlooking San Francisco Bay, material restrictions during the First World War made the project impossible.

Charlotte Brontë - The Professor - Illustrated by Dulac Handsomely Bound and with Coloured Illustrations

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blue, large red and blue chapter numbers and beautiful large extended initials red and brown or red and blue each with fine pen work extending over 20 lines Folio, A very handsome leaf very well preserved.

A RARE AND IMPORTANT LEAF FROM THE 1462 BIBLE. For all intents and purposes, the earliest obtainable printed Bible leaves after those of the Gutenberg Bible – and these, at a fraction of the cost.

A Set of Art Deco Bookends American - Circa 1920 Cast in Bronze or Metal and Glazed in Green

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IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. By the beginning of World War II, Churchill had already penned half a million words of this manuscript. Lying dormant through almost six years of war followed by an even longer period in which Churchill wrote his war memoirs, this work finally was brought to fruition in 1956.

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Curzon’s Administration of the British Empire in India British Government in India - A Very Fine and Bright Set

Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquis. BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA: The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses (London: Cassell and Co, Ltd., 1925) 2 volumes. First edition, second impression, same year as the first. With 84 illustrations and plans, several of which are folding. 4to, original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on spine and upper covers, with British gilt decorative device on the upper covers and gilt ruling. A

1757 - London Bound in Fine Period Polished Calf

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner With Two Complete Sets of His Amazing Plates The Complete Text in Both English and French

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[Doré, illus.] Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, Illustrated by Gustave Doré [with,] LA CHANSON DU VIEUX MARIN (London [and] Paris: Doré Gallery, Hamilton, Adams and Co. [and] Librairie Hachette, 1877 [and] 1876) 2 separate works bound into one volume.

Extremely early printings of each volume. Each work with its own frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page and two other vignettes as chapter headpieces and both sets with the 38 fullpage engraved plates by Gustave Doré, one set with the captions in French, one set with the captions in English. Large folio, in a very impressive French contemporary binding of three-quarter

Price: $1750.

copy, quite fresh, the plates with a some of the usual spotting and toning as is almost always the case.

SCARCE IN CONTEMPORARY CALF. OLIVER TWIST was Dickens’s second novel, following quickly on the enormous success of THE PICKWICK PAPERS. It was published in volume form six months before it was completed in serial form, and Frederic Kitton states that 35 London booksellers contracted for only 528 copies.

Dickens, Charles. THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST; or, THE PARISH BOY’S PROGRESS. (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846) First single volume edition, now quite scarce. With 24 illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. 8vo, in handsome contemporary three-quarter olive-tan calf over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands tooled in gilt and blind, compartments with blind tooling, additional gilt work at the head and tail, red morocco label gilt lettered. A very pleasing and solid

One of Gustave Doré’s Most Impressive Works

Item Number: 11 Price: $450.

only light aging to the calf.

Starting in 352 BC, Greek orator and politician Demosthenes began a series of speeches to excite Athenians against the military encroachment of Philip, King of Macedonia (and father of Alexander the Great). Though ultimately defeated, Demosthenes continued to use his great oratory powers to fight against the Macedonians for fifteen years.

Oliver Twist - 1846 - The First One Volume Edition One of Dickens’ Great Books - Contemporary Calf

Price: $425.

very fine set, far nicer then is typically encountered, fresh and bright and handsome.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND AN IMPORTANT BOOK. Curzon was one of the great administrators of the British empire in India. He is credited with stabilizing the finances between the government and the provinces and instituting numerous reforms.

The Orations of Demosthenes Against the Macedonians (Demosthenes) Leland, Thomas. ALL THE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES, PRONOUNCED TO EXCITE THE ATHENIANS AGAINST PHILIP, KING OF MACEDON. (London: W. Johnston, 1757) The Second Edition, corrected. With a large folding map of the geography of Magna Graecia. 8vo, fine period polished calf, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, tan morocco lettering label gilt lettered, covers with double gilt fillet lines at the borders. A very handsome copy very well preserved with

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Price: $3850.

scarlet morocco over black and red marbled boards, the extra large corner pieces triple ruled in gilt, the spine with tall, gilt ruled raised bands, one compartment gilt ruled and lettered, the others with a triple gilt ruled geometric framework. An exceptionally beautiful copy of both works.

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN ESPECIALLY NICE CONDITION AND, IN BOTH LANGUAGES IT REMAINS ONE OF DORE’S MOST ELUSIVE TITLES. This beautifully bound set includes both the English and French edition of Coleridge’s masterwork and two full sets of the huge and impressive engraved plates of Doré.

Theodore Dreiser - Scarce First Edition - Fine in DJ’s

Item Number: 14

Price: $350.

A Very Pleasing Copy in the Elusive Maroon Cloth

Item Number: 15

Price: $795.

A Gallery of Women - 15 Tales of Womanhood - 1929

Edmund Dulac’s Picture Book

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Dreiser, Theodore. A GALLERY OF WOMEN. In Two Volumes (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1929) 2 volumes. First Edition, preceding the limited and all other editions. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper covers, dustjackets with pictorial and lettering decorations in green, brown and white. Both volumes are in fine condition, and the dust-jackets also fine and bright but for a small chip at the foot of one and very slight evidence of shelving or edge-wear at the extremities. A really

[Dulac, illus.]. EDMUND DULAC’S PICTURE BOOK (London: Hodder and Stoughton, nd; ca. 1915) First edition. With the beautiful 18 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. 4to, publisher’s original maroon cloth elaborately and pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. An especially pleasing and bright copy in the extremely scarce maroon cloth, only very lightly mellowed.

A WONDERFUL FIRST EDITION AND AN ELUSIVE TITLE. This superb collection of assorted fairy tales and songs was organized

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lovely set in unusually pleasing condition.

FIRST EDITION AND QUITE SCARCE IN SUCH FINE CONDITION. A collection of fifteen short tales centered around various female characters. The publisher states that within these tales, Dreiser “bares the heart and mind of womanhood...All Dreiser’s power of ruthless analysis of human motives...blazes forth in this book, as it brings before the reader the procession of strange and lovely women who have colored one man’s life.

specifically to accompany a quickly gathered group of paintings which Dulac had saved in his files. Originally, they were published as EDMUND DULAC’S PICTURE BOOK FOR THE RED CROSS in 1915 in order to raise money for that organization. After the war, this edition was issued with only minor changes including the elimination of all references to Red Cross fund-raising from the binding and throughout the book. At its original publication, the illustrations were widely reviewed and applauded.

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Dazzling Modern Portraits of the Ancient Pharaohs Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt First Edition in the Gilt Decorated Binding

[Egypt] Various authors; [Illus. Brunton, Winifred]. KINGS AND QUEENS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. History by Eminent Egyptologists, and Foreward by Professor J.H. Breasted. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, [nd; ca. 1924]) First edition, first printing. With15 fine tipped-in colour plates and 3 photographs by Winifred Brunton. 4to, publisher’s original light golden-brown cloth lettered and decorated on the spine in gilt, upper cover decorated in gilt at the borders and with a central gilt ornamental device with colours all in an Egyptian motif. A bright copy with

Robert Frost - A Boy’s Will

Ginsberg, Allen. WHITE SHROUD. (New York: Harper and Row, 1986) First edition. Signed and Limited to 200 copies only, specially bound and slipcased. 8vo, publisher’s original white cloth with gilt triple fish vignette on upper cover. Lettered in gilt on the spine, in the publisher’s original red cloth slipcase A very fine copy, pristine and as mint.

SIGNED BY GINSBERG, THE LIMITED, FIRST EDITION

A 20th Century Masterpiece - First Edition Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene

Greene, Graham. OUR MAN IN HAVANA. An Entertainment (London: Heinemann, 1958) First edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. A very bright and handsome copy, fine in a fine jacket, with virtually no mellowing to the colours.

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND ESPECIALLY SO IN THE GENRE OF

Item Number: 17 Price: $450.

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Grey , Zane. WESTERN UNION (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1939) First edition. Dustjacket illustrated with western scene, illustrated endpapers. 8vo, original gray cloth with black and red lettering on the spine and upper cover, in the original colour pictorial dustjacket. A very good copy, some evidence of use and with light chipping to the dustjacket.

Thomas Hardy - First Edition The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall

Hardy, Thomas. THE FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL At Tintagel in Lyonnesse. A New Version of an Old Story Arranged as a Play for Mummers in One Act Requiring No Theatre or Scenery. (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923) First Edition. With original illustrations by Thomas Hardy. 4to, publisher’s original deep-green cloth, the cover with printing and pictorial decoration in gilt, elaborately

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earn, Lafcadio. KOTTŌ: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902) First edition, the scarce first issue with the title-page background illustration printed upside-down. Beautifully illustrated with engravings by Genjiro Yeto printed in red both on plates and within the text, and with two black and white illustrations from photographs on glossy plates. 8vo, publisher’s original olive cloth, finely decorated on the upper cover and spine in gilt, light

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ESPIONAGE. The book is essentially a black comedy set in Cuba during the Batista regime, Greene drew largely from his own experiences working with British M16. The protagonist, James Wormold was brilliantly brought to life by Sir Alec Guinness in the 1963 motion picture. Since then, the story has also been adapted as a stage play, an opera and a libretto.

Item Number: 20

Price: $175.

FIRST EDITION. The story of the men who ran the first telegraph wires across the west. Dedicated to “A single strand of Iron Wire”.

Item Number: 21

Price: $175.

designed boards stamped in blind, the spine decorated and lettered in gilt. A fine and bright, very well preserved copy, handsome and clean throughout.

FIRST EDITION. Illustrated by the author from his original drawings.

Kottō - Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobweb The Scarce True First Issue, First Edition - 1902 One of Lafcadio Hearn’s Most Elegant Productions

Price: $295.

ISSUE. Allen Ginsberg is often called one of the leading voices of his generation. As a beat poet in the fifties and as a representative of the wild abandon of the sixties Ginsberg spoke his mind-- about freedom, about drugs and sex and about those he loved and those he hated. His first book, HOWL, was so raw and honest that it had to overcome censorship by trial in order to be published.

The Story of a Wire that Bound Together a Natio Zane Grey’s Western Union First Edition - In the Bright Original Dustjacket

Price: $195.

printing of the American issue is quite scarce and difficult to find.

Only 750 copies where printed by Henry Holt. Although the U.K. edition printed by David Nutt preceded this printing, circumstances in England prevented the majority of those from being released for several years. This is a bright and handsome copy.

First Edition - Allen Ginsberg - White Shroud Limited and Specially Bound - Signed - A Pristine Copy

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light wear to the tips, small red mark to the upper cover in the lower quadrant, internally, very well preserved, colour plates in lovely condition.

SCARCE IN FINE CONDITION AND A BEAUTIFUL BOOK. This is a fascinating collection of modern portraits of the monarchs of ancient Egypt. Brunton studied the mummies in the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo. She attempted to recreate life-like representations taking into account the normal changes that would have taken place from the mummification process.

First Edition - With the Scarce Dustjacket Frost, Robert. A BOY’S WILL (New York: Henry Holt, 1915) First edition, first issue, with ‘and’ on page 14. 8vo, publisher’s original blue linen cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A fine copy, bright and clean.

SCARCE IN FINE CONDITION. Frost’s first book. The first

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Price: $495.

green and black, gilt lettering. A very good and handsome copy, just a bit age mellowed as this title is prone to be, the spine a bit darkened, minor wear from age at tips and corners.

UNCOMMON FIRST ISSUE, FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR’S LOVELIEST BOOKS. The woodblock illustrations add immeasurably to Hearn’s elegantly crafted and enthralling interpretations of Japanese folk-tales and ghost stories.

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The Sun Also Rises - In the Scarce Original Dustjacket One of Hemingway’s Most Important Books

Hemingway, Ernest. THE SUN ALSO RISES (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928) First Edition, eighth printing, February 1928. A photograph of Hemingway has been added to the rear panel in place of a drawing of the author. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, with the gold paper labels on the spine and upper cover printed in black, in the scarce original dustjacket decorated and designed just as in the first printing. A very pleasing copy, surprising in its state of preservation, the black cloth still quite fresh and bright, the gold labels whole and bright, a bit of minor mellowing only to the tips or edges, internally clean, solid and

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sturdy. The rare iconic dustjacket still very handsome, toned just a bit as would be expected, and with some light evidence of shelving or use at the edges or tips.

FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRINTING, OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR’S MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS AND AN ICON IN THE WORLD OF MODERN LITERATURE. PERHAPS THE GREATEST OF THE 20TH CENTURY EXPATRIATE NOVELS . Hemingway’s fourth (and third generally published) book, and his first “bestseller.”

A Bell for Adano - Pulitzer Prize Winner - First Novel John Hersey’s Classic Story of the Italian Occupation

Hersey, John. A BELL FOR ADANO (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944) First edition, a very early issue. 8vo, publisher’s original brick red cloth lettered and decorated on the spine in gilt. In the original dustjacket. An especially fine copy for a book printed to war standards, internally very fine, the cloth and dustjacket just a touch mellowed along the edges.

FIRST EDITION OF HERSEY’S FIRST NOVEL AND THE

Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall The Beautifully Decorated Surrey Edition

Irving, Washington. BRACEBRIDGE HALL (New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press for G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896) 2 volumes. The Surrey Edition. With 28 illustrations, including four by Arthur Rackham. The text set within elaborate borders designed by Margaret Armstrong, printed in green. 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, lettered and with elaborate art nouveau decorations in gilt on the spines and upper covers. A handsome, clean and sturdy set with just the very lightest evidence of shelving to the tips.

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Joyce, James. ULYSSES (Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927) First Edition, ninth printing, and the true Paris issue of the 1927 printing. Square 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original blue wraps formatted as the first edition of 1922, printed and lettered in white on the upper cover and spine. An especially well preserved and handsome copy, especially so for the original wrappers and textblock which remains largely unopened and pristine. A fine copy of the original “Shakespeare and Company” --Sylvia Beach-- advertising card is still enclosed, the text block very fine, the wrappers with only some minor and expected mellowing or evidence of age, but clearly an unused, unread

Judge Kerr’s Five Volume History of Kentucky

Kentucky and Many Great Kentuckians An Uncommonly Nice Set in Original Pebbled Cloth

[Kentucky; History Kentucky]; Kerr, Judge Charles, Editor.

HISTORY OF KENTUCKY by William Elsey Connelley... and E.M. Coulter... (Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1922) 5 volumes. First edition. Extensively illustrated with portraits of important Kentuckians, most provided with facsimile signatures, also numerous other black and white illustrations mostly from photographs. 4to, publisher’s original bindings of pebbled navy blue cloth in morocco style, the spines with gilt lettered panels between blind ruled raised bands, impressive blue and gold marbled endpapers, flies and page edges. A unusually well preserved, very pleasing and

Jack Kerouac First Edition The Preferred Cloth Issue of Doctor Sax

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Kerouac, Jack. DOCTOR SAX. Faust Part Three (New York: Grove Press, 1959) First edition, First Printing, the preferred cloth bound hardcover issue. 8vo, publisher’s original blue-gray cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original dustjacket. A near fine copy of a book rarely found so, the cloth fresh and all very solid and proper, minor offsetting on the endpapers from

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WINNER OF THE 1945 PULITZER PRIZE. A classic novel written after first hand experience in the invasion and occupation of Italy. It tells the story of an Italian-American officer in Sicily during World War II who wins the respect and admiration of the people of the town of Adano by helping them find a replacement for the town bell that the Fascists had melted down for rifle barrels.

Item Number: 25

Price: $225.

BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED AND BOUND IN DELUXE CLOTH GILT. BRACEBRIDGE HALL is one of Irving’s most enduring works, depicting in his best style, the medley of ideas thrust upon him during his time spent living in England. Irving himself says that he had spent so much time in all stages of his existence reading and thinking about England, how the differences between the old country and the new, the country of his birth, were bubbling all about him.

Ulysses - “The Greatest Novel of the Twentieth Century” James Joyce - Shakespeare and Company - Paris - 1927 A Especially Pleasing Copy - Essentially Pristine and Unopened

Price: $3250.

Item Number: 26

Price: $7500.

copy and quite rare thus.

SCARCE EARLY PRINTING OF ULYSSES. THE RARE TRUE SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY 1927 PRINTING IN UNREAD, UNOPENED, PRISTINE STATE. The most important novel of the twentieth century . ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute, consciously or unconsciously, to Joyce’s influence.

Item Number: 27

Price: $750.

very handsome set, internally fine and essentially pristine, the cloth very nice with only the very lightest mellowing to the spines and only very minor evidence shelving.

AN IMPORTANT HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND NUMEROUS GREAT KENTUCKIANS. Volumes I and II contain a comprehensive history of the state, along with a complete index.

Volumes III through V contain countless biographical sketches of important Kentuckians both historic and contemporary. There is also an extensive list of authorities consulted. The portraits and illustrations are extensive and well produced.

Item Number: 28

Price: $2495.

the jacket flaps. The jacket in excellent state of preservation with only very minor edge rubbing.

THE SCARCE AND PREFERRED HARDCOVER ISSUE, IT IS BELIEVED ONLY AROUND 1000 COPIES, OR FEWER, WERE PRINTED.

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An Unusually Fine Set of the Signed, Limited First Edition A Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary Masterpiece Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg

[Lincoln, Abraham] Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939) 4 volumes. LIMITED First Edition, SIGNED by the Author. One of 525 hand-numbered large paper copies printed on fine rag paper. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. Large, thick 8vos, publisher’s original polished brown buckram, the spines with gilt decorations to the labeling and the upper covers with gilt facsimiles as decorative devices. Housed in the original slipcase.

Mahan, Captain A.T. SEA POWER IN ITS RELATION TO THE WAR OF 1812 (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1905) 2 volumes. First edition. Beautifully decorated with many illustrations, maps and battle diagrams. Large 8vo, publisher’s original ribbed navy-blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines. A very fine and very bright set, beautifully preserved.

Barbary Shore - 1951 - A Fine First Edition A “Courageous Work” and a Norman Mailer Classic

Mailer, Norman. BARBARY SHORE (New York: Rinehart and Co, 1951) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in white on the spine, in scarce red, white and black dustjacket. A very fine copy with only very minimal evidence of age. The jacket in very pleasing condition with only light mellowing to the spine panel.

Item Number: 30

Melville, Herman. MOBY DICK; or, The Whale (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981) First Trade Edition, First Printing. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Barry Moser.

Tall, Royal 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in large capitals down the spine in silver, in the original illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy, the dust-jacket in lovely condition with only minimal hints of mellowing to the spine panel and lower cover edges and with the price neatly covered over in black.

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Meyer, Hans. ACROSS EAST AFRICAN GLACIERS. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ASCENT OF KILIMANJARO. Translated From the German by E.H.S. Calder (London: George Philip & Son, 1891) First edition. With the publisher’s very rare announcement slipped in. 19 illustrations in the text, 12 photogravures, frontispiece chromolithograph in colours, 8 tipped-in photographs, and three colour fold-out maps. 4to, publisher’s very handsome original olive green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated on the upper cover in gilt and with overall pictorial representations in colours. A very bright, handsome,

Inscribed by the Author to a Harvard Classmate Admiral of the Ocean Sea - 1942 - First Edition Samuel Eliot Morison on Christopher Columbus

Morison, Samuel Eliot. ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942) 2 volumes. First edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. With numerous illustrations, including maps.

8vo, publisher’s original terracotta polished buckram the spines and upper covers decorated and lettered in gilt on blue. A very pleasing and handsome set, internally quite fine with no spotting or foxing at all. The cloth still very handsome and bright, though a touch mellowed by light on the spines.

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A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Mailer’s second novel, dealing with the post-war era. “BARBARY SHORE is a courageous novel. Its theme is controversial and disturbing. It is written with uncompromising honesty and passionate conviction. It is our belief, as publishers, that it will be met by violent denunciation and enthusiastic approval.

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FIRST EDITION OF THE TRADE ISSUE. “The Arion Press Moby-Dick published in 1979 in a limited edition of 265 copies, has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America’s finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened “Leviathan.”

Across East African Glaciers - First Ascent of Kilimanjaro One of the Most Important Books on Mountaineering in Africa An Unusually Handsome Copy - London - 1891

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FIRST EDITIONS IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. In this work, as well as through its predecessor entitled THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783, Mahan demonstrates the considerable ties between naval warfare and the history of the modern world.

Melville - With Barry Moser’s Illustrations - Moby Dick First Trade Edition - A Fine Copy in the Pictorial Dustjacket

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An unusually well preserved and especially fine set, handsome and as pristine with only the most minimal evidence of age. A set as mint and unused.

ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORICAL WORKS CONCERNING ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences.

A Classic Work of Captain A.T. Mahan - First Edition Sea Power in Its Relation to the War of 1812

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and pleasing copy of this quite scarce book. Only very minimal evidence of age.

IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY PRIZED BOOK. One of the most important books on mountaineering in Africa. Kilimanjaro stands over 18,000 ft and has two peaks---Kibo and Mawenzi. This book documents the first successful ascent of Kibo peak, the highest peak in all of Africa. This book is exceedingly rare in condition such as our copy and one of the most sought after books on mountaineering. It is greatly sought after in the African oeuvre.

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Price: $895.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON DECORATION (Memorial) DAY IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, 1942. It is inscribed to Basil Gavin, “Squire of Millis [Massachusetts]”. Gavin and Morison were classmates at Harvard and Morison has written “’08” after each of their names. Morison’s signature is followed by “Leut. Commander USNR.” FIRST EDITION OF THIS CORNERSTONE WORK AND A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY INCORPORATING FRIENDSHIP, A NOTE OF FONDNESS FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND AS WELL, THE U.S. NAVY.

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Botany Bay - First Edition - llustrated Dustjacket Nordhoff and Hall Magnificent Historical Fiction - 1941

Nordhoff, Charles and Hall, Norman James. BOTANY BAY (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1941) First Edition. With dustjacket illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. 8vo, publisher’s original gilt decorated cloth, housed in the original pictorially decorated dustjacket. A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket with minor toning, and a bit of minor edgewear, primarily from shelving and age.

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FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Nordhoff and Hall are best known for their collaborations in writing historical fiction, such as the best selling MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY and the series of “Bounty” books which followed it. Here they write of the penal settlement that was Australia’s first colony.

Arthur Rackham’s Hansel and Grethel - First Edition - 1920

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First Edition - Privately Printed - The Gehenna Press

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His Splendid Rendering of the Grimms’ Tales

With 10 Fine Woodcut Portraits by George Lockwood

[Rackham, illus.] The Brothers Grimm. HANSEL AND GRETHEL & OTHER TALES (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1920) First separate edition, American issue. With 20 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

4to, original red cloth with gilt pictorial vignette and lettering on upper cover and black lettering on spine. A very nice copy. The cloth only lightly mellowed, internally clean and fresh.

SCARCE. It was FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM,

Redon; Lockwood, George. HOMAGE TO REDON. Ten Portraits Cut & Engraved on Wood by George Lockwood with Redon’s Essay on Bresdin Lithography and the Naure of Black. Translated

by Hyman Swetzoff (Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1959) First Edition and one of only 150 copies printed. Illustrated with the 10 woodcut engravings by Lockwood, printed in red, orange, black, green, blue and red. The portraits printed on varied Japanese papers and protected with tissues. 4to, publisher’s original green morocco backed boards, the spine with raised bands lined

Teddy Roosevelt - Hunting Trips of a Ranchman Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains One of 500 LargePaper Copies - Rare First Edition

Roosevelt, Theodore. HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN...

(New York: The Knickerbocker Press for G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885) The Medora Edition, one of 500 numbered copies, largepaper. With 20 illustrations in black and white by A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, and others. Thick 4to, publisher’s original brown polished buckram, the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt. A handsome and well preserved copy of this important work. The spine is a tad mellowed, as is usual with this color cloth, and there is light wear to the tips, internally, the text block is very fine and very bright.

J.D. Salinger’s Iconic American Literary Classic The Catcher in the Rye - Boston - 1951 First Edition

Salinger, J. D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951) First edition and First Printing.

8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and in the original dustjacket featuring Salinger’s photo on rear cover credited to Lotte Jacobi and $3 price correctly positioned on front flap. A good and honest copy showing some use, but otherwise well preserved. The dustjacket with some evidence of age-wear at the extremities and with a chip at the bottom of

Very Scarce Henry M. Stanley Africana His Adventure Novel My Kalulu

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Stanley, Henry M. MY KALULU, PRINCE, KING, AND SLAVE: A Story of Central Africa (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1874) First edition. With 16 engraved illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, pictorially decorated in black and gilt on the upper cover featuring a native warrior, the spine similarly decorated with a jungle lion, lettered in gilt and black.

As fine a copy as one might hope to find, one signature slightly loose, very light wear to the extremities.

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first published in 1909, for which Rackham had the most affection, perhaps because it was the first book to bring him success. Constable, during and after the war, reissued the stories in three separate books (LITTLE BROTHER, LITTLE SISTER; SNOWDROP; and HANSEL AND GRETHEL) to rekindle interest in fairy books in general and Rackham’s work in particular. The American edition was published by Duttin the same year.

Price: $450.

in gilt, lettered in gilt in two compartments. A fine copy, the back mellowed to a handsome honey-green.

FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF ONLY 150 COPIES PRINTED ON SPECIAL PAPERS AND BOUND HANDSOMELY INTO MOROCCO OVER BOARDS.

Item Number: 38 Price: $2350.

FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, LIMITED ISSUE. SCARCE. Roosevelt wrote “... the wilderness has been conquered and the game killed off. The frontier itself has vanished.” “My object in writing these books was not only to give a full account of the chase of every kind of big game proper to the United States, but also where possible to touch on their life histories....I write for my fellow ranchmen and fellow hunters, and for the young men of America, in whose veins the red blood of life runs lustily, and who joy in the strenuous pleasure that comes only as the prize of toil and exposure in the open.”

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the spine panel, the bottom of the dustjacket sometime trimmed slightly to clean the bottom edge.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF AN AMERICAN ICONIC WORK AND A 20TH CENTURY LITERARY CLASSIC. J.D. Salinger’s first and still, most famous work.. Salinger tapped into a common and necessary theme in American literature with his unhappy teenage character, Holden Caulfield, who runs away from his boarding school as part of his disgust with ‘phoniness’.

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RARE, and the best copy we have ever seen of the first edition.

Stanley’s adventure novel for boys based loosely on the personal history of his young protegé, Kalulu. It is a romance based upon knowledge acquired during his journey in search of Dr. Livingstone, which began in 1871 and terminated in 1872. The book was written after the failure of his first lecture tour to America in 1872, and is dedicated to “all those who have aided to the suppression of slavery on the east coast of Africa”.

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King’s Handbook of Boston Harbor - 1888 Profusely Illustrated With 200 Illustrations Throughout

Sweetser, M.F. KING’S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. (Boston: Moses King Corporation, 1888) Early Printing Profusely illustrated throughout with 24 full page black and a great number of illustrations by Charles Copeland and others within the text. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth gilt, elaborately lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover and spine. A very good and clean copy, with some light

The Greatest Fantasy Series of All Time The Fine 50th Anniversary Printing - Lord of the Rings An Important Version of the Text Beautifully Produced

Tolkien, J. R. R. THE LORD OF THE RINGS 50th Anniversary Edition [comprised of] FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING; THE TWO TOWERS; THE RETURN OF THE KING. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [2004]) All three books in one volume. First edition thus, first printing, the special 50th Anniversary Edition.

With two large folding maps as those in the first editions, the full page map designed by Christopher Tolkien, a line drawing and all the runes designed by the author and a three page full colour facsimile of leaves from the “Book of Mazarbul”, printing in red and black. 8vo, publisher’s special binding of papercovered boards with a dark suede-like finish, the spine and

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wear to the extremities, the cover gilt still shining and bright, the interior clean and well preserved.

A FINELY ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF BOSTON’S HISTORIC HARBOR. Beautifully decorated and profusely illustrated throughout. With a great deal of information about Boston and the harbor islands and locales.

Item Number: 42 Price: $195. upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt and copper, purple silk ribbon marker bound in, in the original slipcase featuring a label printed in black and red on one side and an engraving of Isengard on the other. Very fine, the maps unopened, essentially as new.

THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF FANTASY EVER PRODUCED. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first publication of THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, Houghton Mifflin, Tolkien’s official U.S. publisher for over sixty years, produced this beautiful one-volume collector’s edition befitting in every way the stature of this masterpiece.

Lhasa and Its Mysteries - 1906 - Handsomely Illustrated Rare in Publisher’s Original Decorated Cloth

Waddell, L. Austine. LHASA AND ITS MYSTERIES, With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904 (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1906) First of Methuen’s “Cheaper” edition and the third issuance in total, only one year after the first and essentially a duplicate of the first issuance. With 155 illustrations, 86 of which are on plates and some in colour, and with 8 maps, 4 of which are folding. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth decorated pictorially in red and orange on spine and upper cover, red cloth label on spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered in red. A very good

copy, quite fresh and clean and bright internally, the binding in good order and well preserved though with a bit of toning to the spine panel.

A RARE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF TIBETAN TRAVEL, containing a new preface by the author for this edition along with the preface to the original edition. A comprehensive account of travel in Tibet, “that world of dreams and magic...” Waddell learned as much as he could about Tibetan language and beliefs, and in 1903 embarked on the two-year expedition to Lhasa, the sacred capital.

Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence - First Edition Publisher’s Original Cloth - 1920 - 1st Edition

Wharton, Edith. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920) First Edition, Mixed Issue, with the correct quote from the marriage service 1920 on both the title and copyright pages and no number at the end. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth,the upper cover and spine lettered in black. A handsome copy with covers fresh and bright and the expected

Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country Original Cloth Gilt - 1913 - 1st Edition

Wharton, Edith. THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913) First Edition. 12mo, publisher’s original red cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. A very handsome copy, quite fine with only mild mellowing to the spine panel.

Charlotte’s Web - A Bright and Lovely Copy First Edition of the English Issue in Dustjacket

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White, E. B. CHARLOTTE’S WEB (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952) First Edition, the English issue. With pictures throughout

by Garth Williams 8vo, publisher’s bright blue cloth pictorially lettered in a spider’s web motif on the upper cover and spine in red and black, in the original dustjacket. A very nice copy of this perennial favorite, the book near fine with just a hint of mellowing to the edges, the jacket likewise, solid and attractive with only the lightest amount of mellowing from time.

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minor mellowing to the spine panel, a tight and clean copy.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE RECEIVED THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, the first time is was accorded to a woman.

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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, and an early novel of Wharton.

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FIRST EDITION AND A LOVELY COPY. In the 60 odd years since its publication, CHARLOTTE’S WEB has gained a stature accorded to only a small handful of books each decade. One might fairly group it with THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS and BLACK BEAUTY as a classic of the first distinction. The first editions have become scarce, especially in such nice condition.

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