The Ancient Regime
Hippolyte Taine, the personal copy of Mark Twain
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 by Anderson Auction Company in 1911 stating "This book is from the Library of Samuel Longhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)" signed by Twain's literary executor and biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. $25,000. | More...
A Dance to the Music of Time
Inscribed in four volumes by Anthony Powell
First editions of all 12 books in Powell's vast multi-volume "A Dance to the Music of Time" novel, inscribed in the years of publication by the author to bookseller and member of the social set Powell portrays in these novels, Handasyde Buchanan, in four volumes. An excellent set. $19,500. | More...
The Left Hand of Darkness
Inscribed by Ursula K. LeGuin
First hardcover edition of LeGuin’s award-winning book, “one of the three or four most influential science fiction novels of the last half-century”—a lyrical and challenging tale of politics, gender and love on an alien world, inscribed and signed by her on the front free endpaper, "To Dave, with all good wishes, Ursula." $5600. | More...
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
Samuel Johnson
First London edition of Johnson’s celebrated Lives of the Poets—this set richly extra-illustrated with 170 engraved portraits and views, several folding—very handsomely bound. $4800. | More...
It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis
First edition of Lewis' fascinating cautionary tale about the risks of American populism—"a frightening book written for frightening times." $1850. | More...
Mike Mulligan and
His Steam Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton
Very scarce first edition of the beloved children's classic, in scarce second-issue dust jacket. $4200. | More...
Georgia O'Keeffe
Presentation/association copy,
inscribed by Georgia O'Keeffe
First trade edition of this superbly illustrated large folio collection of paintings by O’Keeffe, presentation-association copy boldly inscribed by her in the year of publication on the fly title to photographer Alan Ross, former assistant to Ansel Adams: "For Alan, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1976." $8500. | More...
Born in Captivity
Patricia Wentworth
First edition of this quasi-autobiographical novel about a young woman hitchhiking across the country and back in the 1920s, in rare original dust jacket. $1250. | More...
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
First edition of this pioneering work by Riis—"the first photographer to use the power of the image as a tool for reform"—with over 45 illustrations, including 18 halftone photographic images and numerous line drawings, most based on photographs by Riis, in original non-pictorial cloth. $3800. | More...
The Behavior of Organisms
B. F. Skinner
First edition of the foundational work in behavioral analysis and experimental analysis of behavior, in scarce original dust jacket. $4200. | More...
Cien Años de Soledad
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
First edition of "one of the preeminent literary achievements of the century," in original pictorial wrappers. Text in Spanish. $5800. | More...
Born to Run
& Chapter and Verse
Signed by Bruce Springsteen
Limited deluxe first edition, number 1275 of 1500 copies signed by Springsteen on the publisher's tipped-in leaf, issued together with the album Chapter and Verse containing 18 songs, five previously unreleased, as issued in both CD and separate LP. $2400. | More...
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