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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

COUSINS, Norman · 151966

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. TYPED LETTER SIGNED "Norman" on SATURDAY REVIEW stationery to Jay Richard Kennedy regarding his request for qualified people to help him with his new position with Frank Sinatra Enterprises. Cousins was editor-in-chief of the SATURDAY REVIEW from 1942 to 1972. With K...

ARCHIVE OF THREE TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)

DINGELL, John

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Washington. Three TYPED LETTERS SIGNED "John" on House of Representatives stationery to Jay Richard Kennedy. In the two later letters Dingell congratulates Kennedy and sends good wishes. The earliest letter from 1980 has more revealing content. In part: "I have two sons who ar...

ORIGINAL PEN & INK DRAWING

BLADEN, Washington Lafayette · 1845

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Philadelphia. An 8" x 10-1/4" page removed from a book featuring an ORIGINAL PEN & INK DRAWING of a bird with calligraphic writing SIGNED with "Philadelphia 1845" added.. Fraying along edges not affecting the drawing

BIOGRAPHER'S BAIT. A REMINDER OF EDMUND QUINCY

HOWE, M. A. DeWolfe · 1950

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Boston. First Edition. Printed wraps (6-1/4" x 9-1/2"); 17 pages. An offprint from the PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Volume 68, 1944-1946. Quincy, son of Harvard President Josiah Quincy, devoted himself, according to his friend, James Russell Lowell, "de...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

CARTER, Jimmy · 291976

$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.23 | ¥169,614)

Plains, GA. On personal stationery (5-1/2" x 8-1/4") SIGNED by the soon-to-be-president as "Jimmy" to Gus Bernd [Kaufman] with a postscript SIGNED as "J." In full: "I really appreciate your fine contribution to my campaign. With friends like you, we can't lose! Jimmy. ps. You ...

ROBERT GROSSETESTE AND THE JEWS

FRIEDMAN, Lee M · 1934

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

Cambridge. Harvard University Press. First Edition. Brown cloth (7-1/2" x 10"); (vi), 34 pages. Essay on the English medieval Christian Hebraist and scholastic philosopher Bishop Robert Grosseteste. Illustrated with three plates including a color facsimile of a manuscript page...

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel] · 1985

$3,125.00 (€2,835.24 | £2,365.37 | ¥498,864)

West Hatfield, MA. Pennyroyal Press. Folio (10" x 13") bound in full green morocco leather with gilt rules and lettering by Gray Parrot accompanied by a linen-covered portfolio containing an extra set of the 49 engravings, each individually SIGNED by the artist, both enclosed ...

LE GLACIER CLASSIQUE ET ARTISTIQUE EN FRANCE ET EN ITALIE

[COOKERY] LACAM, Pierre & CHARABOT, Antoine · 1893

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

Paris & Vincennes. Chez Les Auteurs. First Edition. Contemporary red morocco leather and marbled boards (5-1/4" x 8-1/2"); (iv), 374 pages with 28 illustrations in the text. One of the first thousand printed with stamped signatures of the authors on the verso of the half title...

EYES ON RUSSIA

BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret · 1931

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

New York. Simon & Schuster. First Edition. The photographer's first book, a travelogue of a trip to the Soviet Union, illustrated with photographs by Bourke-White. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.. Margaret Bourke-White. Paper splits to hinges, covers ...

SHORT CRUISES

JACOBS, W. W · 0

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

London. Methuen & Co. Ltd. Ninth Edition. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 3/4 dark blue morocco leather and marbled boards with gilt-rules and a gilt-decorated spine with matching burgundy morocco gilt-lettered labels, top edge gilt, matching marbled endpapers. A collection ...

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. A Biography

(HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr.) BENT, Silas · 1932

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

New York. The Vanguard Press. First Edition. Second printing. SIGNED on the front endpaper: "Oliver Wendell Holmes/October 22,1932." From the dustwrapper: "Here for the first time is presented a full-length, unified picture of this beloved leader of American thought.". Contemp...

LIST OF CATALOGUES OF ENGLISH BOOK SALES, 1676-1900, NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

19151995

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

(New York). (Martino Publishing). Reprint. Red cloth; xv, 523 pages. This reprint of the 1915 edition is stated to be "Strictly Limited to 100 Copies." Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. Preface by G. F. Barwick: "The collection of 8000 [auction] catalogues of English book sal...

BOOKS ABOUT THE BLIND. A Bibliographical Guide to Literature Relating to the Blind

HOLT, Winifred · 1953

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

New York. American Foundation for the Blind. Revised Edition. Cloth; vii, [iii], 357 pages. A valuable work containing much and varied information, including a list of biographies and autobiographies, many 19th century.. Owner name on front endpaper. Near Fine, lacking a dustw...

COLLECTING AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS

VRZALIK, Larry F. and MINOR, Michael · 1991

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

(Austin, TX). State House Press. First Edition. Cloth in dustwrapper (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") with many illustrations of authentic presidential autographs along with little known facts and human interest stories of each president, some previously unpublished.. Fine in a Fine dustwra...

FORGING HISTORY. The Detection of Fake Letters and Documents

RENDELL, Kenneth W · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Norman, OK & London. University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Cloth in dustwrapper (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") with many illustrations of authentic and forged autographs. "Culminates in an analysis of three major forgeries of recent times -- the Hitler diaries, the Mormon letters, ...

THE TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER, A Poem: In Six Cantos

HAYLEY, William · 1817

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Chichester. William Mason for T. Cadell and W. Davies. New Edition. Original cloth-backed boards with green printed paper spine label (4-1/4" x 7"); xii, 166 pages. Frontispiece printed in five colors. Hayley's poem was intended to teach young women the virtues of a pleasant n...

STOREY, ORMSBY, WASHOE AND LYON COUNTIES DIRECTORY, Including the Cities and Towns of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Carson City, Dayton, Silver City, Empire City, Washoe City, Reno, Wadsworth, Crystal Peak, Ophir, etc., for 1871-72, Containing the Names, Business and Location of Merchants, Miners, Farmers, Manufacturers, Professional Men, Book-keepers, Salesmen, Clerks, and all Adult Male Citizens of the County...

[NEVADA MINING DIRECTORY] · 1871

$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)

Sacramento. H. S. Crocker & Co., Stationers and Printers. First Edition. Black leather-backed printed paper boards (5-3/4" x 9"); 2-16, [25]-471 pages including ads at front and back as well as throughout the text and an engraving of the Sacramento Seminary. Rare business dire...

A GENERAL BUSINESS AND MINING DIRECTORY OF STOREY, LYON, ORMSBY, AND WASHOE COUNTIES, NEVADA, Embracing Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City, Dayton, Sutro, Empire, Carson City, Reno, Franktown, Washoe City, and Steamboat Springs

[NEVADA MINING DIRECTORY] · 1875

$6,250.00 (€5,670.48 | £4,730.74 | ¥997,727)

Virginia City. John D. Bethel & Co., Publishers. First Edition. Black leather-backed printed paper boards (5-3/4" x 9"); [iv], lxv, [1], 355 pages including ads at front and back as well as throughout the text. Rare business and mining directory of Nevada counties during the h...

A STATE OF THE EXPEDITION FROM CANADA...

BURGOYNE, Lieutenant-General · 1780

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

London. J. Almon. Second Edition. Modern 3/4 red morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine (5-1/4" x 8-1/2"), x, [ii], 191, [1], cix pages. HOWES B-968 "aa": "His chief defense against all charges"; LANDE 69; SABIN 9255. Complete with a folding letterpress table and 6 f...

THE SHORES OF LIGHT. A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties INSCRIBED to Floyd Dell

WILSON, Edmund · 0

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

New York. Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc.. First Edition. Chapters on T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, H. L. Mencken, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Virginia Woolf, and others, as well as an exp...