1785 Manuscript Document
Signed by George Washington
Manuscript document relating to the Potomack Company, ordering William Hartshorne, as Treasurer, to make several payments on its behalf, including advertising in Alexandria, signed by George Gilpin and John Fitzgerald, who were Directors of the Potomack Company and by Washington, its President. Handsomely matted in velvet and framed with a copy of the Columbian Centinel dated January 8, 1794, which features an article about the company, and with two portraits. $26,000. | More...
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Inscribed by Zora Neale Hurston
First edition of Hurston's first book, boldly inscribed with four lines of verse from one of her plays, Polk County: "Well, I went up on that meat-skin / And I come down on that bone / And I grabbed that piece of cornbread / And I made that biscuit groan. Zora Neale Hurston." $8500. | More...
The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes
John Gerarde
Important second edition—“in every respect immeasurably superior” to the first—of Gerarde’s esteemed Herball, skillfully edited by Thomas Johnson, boasting more than 2700 delicate in-text botanical woodcuts and elaborate engraved title page. This second edition includes the first illustration of bananas to be published in England. $11,000. | More...
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien; signed by all ten Israeli Air Force pilots who participated in the translation
First edition of the so-called "pilots' translation" of The Hobbit into Hebrew, completed while the pilots were jailed in an Egyptian prison and still considered to be the finest Hebrew translation of Tolkien's novel, signed on the half title by all ten of the Israeli Air Force pilots who participated in the translation. $3500. | More...
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Inscribed by Shel Silverstein
Rare first edition, presentation copy, of Silverstein’s first collection of witty and whimsical poetry (in a later issue dust jacket), warmly inscribed by him on the front free endpapers with ten lines of humorous verse "For Gloria," quite possibly the New York artist and Harper & Row designer Gloria Bressler, mentioned on the acknowledgements page. $6500. | More...
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
First edition of James Baldwin's influential first novel, in the original dust jacket. $6850. | More...
The Meaning of Relativity
Albert Einstein
First English edition of Einstein’s historic presentation of relativity theory, published only one year after he delivered these four lectures to an overflowing Princeton lecture hall. With scarce dust jacket. $4500. | More...
Schindler's Ark
Inscribed by Thomas Keneally
First edition of the book that inspired the 1993 Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List, inscribed on the title page to a famous Whitechapel-based Jewish wedding and celebrity photographer and his wife: "To Boris and Julia Bennett. Tom Keneally 1982." $1800. | More...
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
Inscribed by Harry Houdini
First edition of this exposé about the magician who inspired Houdini to take up magic, in itself a useful history of magic, inscribed: "To L.W. Carroll with best wishes from the author, Harry Handcuff Houdini. august 27/1917. at least browse through the introduction. H.H.H." $6000. | More...
