Later printing of Kennedy’s Pulitzer-winning examination of “that most admirable of human virtues,” inscribed by him, "To Florence Zaks, Best regards, John Kennedy." Recipient Zaks worked on Kennedy's presidential campaign in Maryland. $9000. | More...
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Signed by Dale Carnegie
Early printing of this wildly influential self-help book, signed by Dale Carnegie, in scarce original dust jacket. $800. | More...
The Works
William Shakespeare
Later edition of the Bard’s histories, comedies, tragedies and poems, limited to 100 sets for distribution in fine bindings by Rivière & Son. $5600. | More...
Moriae Encomium
Desiderius Erasmus
1709 edition of “In Praise of Folly” by Erasmus, hailed by many as “the father of 18th-century rationalism” (PMM), the first English edition to be illustrated with woodcuts by Hans Holbein. with woodcut engraved frontispiece and 46 wonderful woodcut engravings (many full page), most after Holbein. $3500. | More...
War Speeches
Winston Churchill
First editions of Churchill’s separately published World War II speeches. $4000. | More...
Rules For Radicals
Saul D. Alinsky
First edition of the last book by the famed Chicago activist who "influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a young [Barack[ Obama to work on Chicago's South Side in the 1980s" (ANB). $1750. | More...
Rockets
Robert H. Goddard
First edition in book form of Goddard's two seminal papers on rocket fuel, proposing that liquid-fueled rocket propulsion could be used to attain escape velocity and thereby land a projectile on the moon. With portrait frontispiece and numerous photographic plates. $1850. | More...
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius, translated by Thomas Creech
Rare 1683 3rd edition in English, first issued the previous year, of Roman poet Lucretius' On the Nature of Things, a seminal work in Western history offering "key principles of a modern understanding of the world," as well as a "crucial guide" to Thomas Jefferson, who proclaimed himself "an Epicurean" like Lucretius, owned an edition of Creech's translation, and gave the Declaration of Independence "a distinctly Lucretian turn" by naming "the pursuit of happiness" to be a pivotal American right, with copper-engraved frontispiece, handsomely bound in early paneled calf. $5200. | More...
The Spirit of Laws
Montesquieu
First American edition of Montesquieu's classic De L'Esprit Des Loix, based on the fifth London edition, an enormous influence on American and French revolutionary thought. $3200. | More...
Men From Earth
Signed by Buzz Aldrin
First edition of Aldrin’s autobiography, with 16 pages of photographic illustrations, signed on the title page by him. $800. | More...
This I Remember
Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt
Signed limited first edition, number 472 of only 1000 copies printed on special paper and signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, a beautiful copy. $2800. | More...
Emilius
J. J. Rousseau
First edition in English, published only one year after the first edition, of one of Rousseau's greatest works, with four (of six) engraved plates by Eisen, this copy extra-illustrated with 43 fine engraved plates by Ponce, Lorieux, Longueil, Marcret, Leclerc, Deveria and others—for a total of 47 engraved plates—in lovely full morocco-gilt by renowned French bookbinder Thierry sc. de Petit-Simier. $8000. | More...
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