Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
First editions of “the greatest of all English stories for children” (Muir, 139), including the first authorized and published English edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the first edition, first issue of Through the Looking-Glass. A very desirable pairing in completely unrestored original cloth in excellent condition. $47,000. | More...
Homage to John Dryden
Dedication copy, inscribed by T. S. Eliot to George Saintsbury
First edition, dedication copy, of Eliot’s attack on 19th-century poets by making “invidious comparisons” to 17th-century literature and criticism, with cover illustration by Vanessa Bell, inscribed in the year of publication to the dedicatee, Eliot's close friend and quasi-mentor, author George Saintsbury: "Homage to George Saintsbury! from his sincere admirer. T.S. Eliot 13.xi.24." $28,000. | More...
A Selection of Views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca, and Gibraltar
Cooper Willyams
First edition, scarce first issue, with 36 vividly hand-colored aquatint views depicting land- and cityscapes throughout the Mediterranean, including Cairo, Alexandria, Caiffe, Rhodes, Mount Carmel, Syracuse, Lago, Minorca, Gibraltar, Mount Pelegrino, and the Rock of Scylla. An excellent copy in contemporary straight-grain morocco-gilt. $7800. | More...
Victoria C. Woodhull
Theodore Tilton
First edition of Tilton's biography of the often infamous American suffragette, published just before Woodhull became the first woman to campaign for President of the United States, in original wrappers. $3600. | More...
I, Claudius & Claudius the God
Robert Graves
First edition of Graves' most famous novel and its excellent sequel, "two of the most resonant historical novels of the century," very nice copies in the original dust jackets. $5900. | More...
Clans of the Scottish Highlands
James Logan &
Robert Ronald McIan
First edition of the first illustrated encyclopaedia of traditional Scottish tartans, with two chromolithographic heraldic frontispieces and 72 vibrant, hand-colored lithographic plates after the celebrated paintings of Robert Ronald McIan of the great chiefs and highlanders. A beautiful copy in the publisher's elaborately gilt-decorated morocco bindings. $17,000. | More...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave
Sojourner Truth, with a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Second edition, rare early issue, of Sojourner Truth's powerful account that inspired a nation with the bold "evangelic fervor and plain wit" that characterized her moving struggle for freedom and women's rights, the first edition to contain Harriet Beecher Stowe's preface, with wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Truth. $7000. | More...
Queen Victoria
Richard Holmes
First edition of this magnificent biography of Queen Victoria, illustrated with 41 photogravure and engraved plates, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt. $1500. | 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...
The God of the Machine
Isabel Paterson
First edition of the work that placed Paterson "beside Madison and Hayek and Friedman and Rand," early praised by Ayn Rand as "the first complete statement of the philosophy of individualism as a political and economic system… a basic document of capitalism," a handsome copy. $3800. | More...
Ornamental Arts of Japan
George Ashdown Audsley
First edition, with 70 magnificent tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates, 35 black-and-white photogravures and hundreds of in-text illustrations, beautifully bound. $10,200. | More...
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