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KIDNAPPED. BEING MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR IN THE YEAR 1751...

STEVENSON, Robert Louis · 1938

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in full brick-colored linen, lacking the silver-stamped black leather label, as often the case. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Designed and printed by Elmer Adler at the Pynson Printers. Copy #65 of 1500 illu...

CARDINAL PÖLÄTÜO with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

THEMERSON, Stefan · 0

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

(London). Gaberbocchus. First Edition. Laid in is a one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) as "Stefan T." on his personal stationery from the author to poet Douglas Newton asking about his writing and mentioning the Gaberbocchus Press.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

WOOFF WOOFF OR WHO KILLED RICHARD WAGNER?

THEMERSON, Stefan · 0

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

London. Gaberbocchus Press. First Edition. Dustwrapper, endpapers, and text illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. . Franciszka Themerson. Slightly shaken. Very Good in a lightly soiled, Good dustwrapper with internal tape repairs along spine

THE ADVENTURES OF PEDDY BOTTOM

THEMERSON, Stefan · 0

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

London. Editions Poetry London Limited. First Edition. Dustwrapper, color frontispiece, and text illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. A children's book, of sorts, about Peddy Bottom, who "knew he was Peddy Bottom. But humans thought that there was something doggy about him, wh...

BAYAMUS

THEMERSON, Stefan · 0

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

London. Editions Poetry London. First Edition. Dustwrapper, endpapers, and text illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. A humorous novel about a three-legged man on a roller skate and the book that introduced the concept of Semantic Poetry. Quite uncommon.. Franciszka Themerson. ...

ORIGINAL CARTOON ART: “Oh--and Look Out for the Shark!”

WILSON, Gahan · 0

$2,500.00 (€2,268.19 | £1,892.30 | ¥399,091)

n.p.. Original pen, ink, watercolor, and gum arabic on paper, 9" x 12", SIGNED by the artist at the lower left and titled in pencil in the bottom margin. The cartoon depicts a man diving into a pool with the caption spoken by another man in a robe sitting at poolside. The othe...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

KELLER, Helen · 719041917

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

Wrentham [MA]. A lovely one-page letter on a sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" paper addressed to a friend named Villa and SIGNED in pencil by Keller. In full: "Teacher [Anne Sullivan] is right in the midst of pies, and she wants me to thank you for her for your gift. Dear me, at the rate...

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

O'BRIEN, Tim · 1990

$375.00 (€340.23 | £283.84 | ¥59,864)

Franklin Center, PA. Franklin Library. First Edition. Decorated leather with a gilt design of a soldier stalking through the woods on the front cover. Illustrated with a color frontispiece. Limited and true First Edition with an introduction by O'Brien not in the trade edition...

ORIGINAL SIGNED COLOR DRAWING: PUSSY IN A BOOT

SAVITSKY, Jack · 1989

$625.00 (€567.05 | £473.07 | ¥99,773)

[Lansford PA]. ORIGINAL DRAWING (10" x 13") of two cats, one in a boot, done with color pencils SIGNED, dated, and titled by the artist. On the verso is the artist's SIGNED handwritten description in pencil of the drawing. In 1959 Savitsky contracted Black Lung disease and beg...

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

EDISON, Thomas · 1906

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

A 7-1/2" x 10" black-and-white portrait printed on 11-1/2" x 14-1/2" paper with the Pach Bros. 1906 imprint at the bottom right of the image. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Thomas Neal./from Thomas A. Edison" below the image. Framed to an overall size of 12" x 15". A fine SIGNED pho...

THE POEMS OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT

BRYANT, William Cullen · 1947

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations ...

ANTHONY ADVERSE

ALLEN, Hervey · 1937

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Mt. Vernon. Limited Editions Club. Three octavo (6-1/2" x 10") volumes bound in orange linen. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #473 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9...

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D

BOSWELL, James · 1938

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

London. Limited Editions Club. First Edition. Three octavo (6-1/4" x 10") volumes bound in full Winterbottom linen buckram with red leather spine labels stamped in gold. Printed at the Curwen Press, this is an important edition of this classic in that it is the first published...

THE KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL-YEZDI

BURTON, Sir Richard (translator) · 1937

$168.80 (€153.15 | £127.77 | ¥26,947)

New Haven. Limited Editions Club. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full lavender morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and elaborate embossing on both covers. Printed on double folded Japanese Kozo paper with four color floral borders and illuminations by hand with pure...

THE INNOCENT VOYAGE

HUGHES, Richard · 1944

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2") attractively bound in full maroon sheepskin with both panels of the binding heavily gilt-decorated with repeating lines surrounding a young girl. Illustrated with ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS by Lynd Ward that beaut...

THE RED AND THE BLACK

STENDHAL (BEYLE, Marie-Henri) · 1947

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") bound in red morocco leather stamped in gold with black linen boards with a gold-stamped decoration. Designed by Richard Ellis and illustrated with lithographs by Rafaello Busoni printed from the stones by George Mil...

[WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON]

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo · 19001880

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

Boston & New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Reprint. Ten small (4-1/2" x 6-1/8") volumes bound by Stikeman & Co. for Charles Scribner's in 3/4 green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines, top edges gilt. Though not numbered on the spines, these appear t...

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

LEROUX, Gaston · 0

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

London. Mills & Boon, Limited. First British Edition. Recent full black morocco leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with onlay of mask to front cover, silver lettering to spine and front cover after the original, Japanese endpapers, and all edges silvered; housed in a felt-lined...

THE TOWN

RICHTER, Conrad · 1950

$5,625.00 (€5,103.43 | £4,257.67 | ¥897,955)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. The concluding volume in Richter's THE AWAKENING LAND trilogy about the Ohio frontier and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Autographed for/Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kirwan/and family of ...

THE NEW NATIONALISM

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (Teddy) · 1910

$5,625.00 (€5,103.43 | £4,257.67 | ¥897,955)

New York. The Outlook Company. First Edition. Original red cloth. Introduction by Ernest Hamlin Abbott. Collects speeches made by Roosevelt in August and September 1910 on his tour of the United States, in which he espoused his political platform of social welfare and oppositi...