Manuscript Draft of Looking Forward
With corrections in Franklin D. Roosevelt's hand
Manuscript draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 book Looking Forward, his clarion call for a “new deal” that was published in the month of his inauguration, with Roosevelt's handwritten corrections in ink on 22 pages. $48,500. | More...
Psychology and Religion: West and East
Inscribed by Carl Jung
First edition of this collection of works by Jung focused on religion, inscribed by him to a noted German-Israeli photojournalist: "To Dr. Nahum Gidal, with many thanks. C.J. Jung." $9200. | More...
Photogravure Portrait of Thomas Edison
Signed by Thomas Edison
Scarce photogravure portrait of Edison by acclaimed New York photographer Walter Scott Shinn, inscribed and signed by him with a bold flourish on the mount to a prominent hotelier who catered to early 20th century society figures: "To Mr & Mrs Albert R Keen. Thos A Edison." $3900. | More...
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
First edition, first printing, of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, in rare first-issue dust jacket. $25,000. | More...
Photographic Lunar Atlas & Orthographic Atlas of the Moon
G.P. Kuiper
First edition, civilian issue, of the Photographic Lunar Atlas (preceded by the printing for US Armed Forces), with 281 photographs on 230 sheets (the sheets measuring 18-1/2 by 22-1/2 inches), together with the first edition of the Orthographic Atlas, with 31 atlas folio plates. $5800. | More...
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Inscribed by Siegfried Sassoon to Edith Olivier
First Blunden edition of Wilfred Owen's first book of war poems, expanded by fellow war-poet Edmund Blunden from the 1920 first edition which had been edited by Siegfried Sassoon, presentation/association copy inscribed on the half title by Sassoon to novelist and friend Edith Olivier, "Edith Olivier, from S.S. 21.3.31." $7200. | More...
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Third edition of D’Avenant and Dryden’s Restoration adaptation of The Tempest, the Bard’s bewitching tale of shipwreck and sorcery. The Foyle copy. $12,000. | More...
The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America
First English edition of the collected constitutions of the newly independent American states, issued only one year after the first American edition of 200 copies, the first collected Constitutions of the Several States to contain the constitutions of the 13 original states, the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution—"the oldest functioning written constitution in the world"—the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and key treaties, handsomely bound. $6200. | More...
Illuminated Leaf from a
Book of Hours
Paris, ca. 1440
Lovely illuminated miniature from a French Book of Hours, a beautiful hand-colored image depicting the Presentation in the Temple, with three lines of Latin text from the Hour of None in Gothic script and a three-line initial, beautifully bordered with flowers, birds, berries, and acanthus leaves. $9000. | More...
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Second edition, second issue, as always (the first issue known in only a few copies), of “certainly the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman), published less than two months after the first edition. A fresh, beautiful copy. $16,800. | More...
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