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Beautifully Bound - Bartlett, Allom, Bentley and OthersThe Classic Work on the Area - By John Carne 1836 - 1838

[Bartlett, W. H.] Carne, John. SYRIA, THE HOLY LAND, ASIA MINOR, &c. ILLUSTRATED...BY W.H. BARTLETT,THOMAS ALLOM, & CO. (London: Fischer, Son and Co, ca. 1836-1838) 3 volumes bound in two as often. First edition. 2 engraved maps, engraved title pages, 120 engraved plates by Bartlett and others. 4to, contemporary dark green morocco gilt. Spines very hand-somely decorated with multiple fully gilt tooled wide raised bands gilt lined and decorated, separating the compartments which are fully gilt paneled and decorated, lettered in gilt in two compartments, a.e.g. A very handsome set with the typical

occasional foxing to the plates, the bindings handsome and very well preserved, strong, tight and with very little wear. FIRST EDITION WITH THE FINE PLATES BY BARTLETT, ALLOM, SALMON AND BENTLEY. With finely detailed black and white engravings. The thirteen plates not done by Bartlett were contributed by Thomas Allom, J. Salmon, and C. Bentley. Although Purser’s name appears on the title page, he contributed no designs to the book. This is an especially nice period set of this important work.

Charles Andersson - The Okavango River - 1861 - LondonAndersson, Charles John. THE OKAVANGO RIVER: A Nar-rative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861) First edition. With a steel-engraved portrait vignette title page and 16 other engraved illustrations as called for. 8vo, handsomely bound in half tan calf over boards, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, black morocco lettering label gilt. A very nice copy, with only very light mellowing to the extremities.

Item Number: 1 Price: $2850.

With Fine Engravings of Asia Minor, The Holy Land & Syria Item Number: 2 Price: $1500.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CORNERSTONE TEXT. A very scarce volume in first edition format, it was written five years after his LAKE NGAMI, and is a record of Andersson’s hunting adventures though Namaqualand and Damaraland (present day Namibia).

Fine Books and Manuscripts

“The First ‘Modern’ Southern Novel”George W. Cable - 1880His Second and Most Important Work

WORKS AND A CLASSIC OF CREOLE LITERATURE. This was only his second book, and is frequently sited as his most important. Arlin Turner has called it, “the first important work of fiction written by a Southerner... to deal honestly with the complexity of Southern racial experience.”

Item Number: 3 Price: $275. Cable, George W. THE GRANDISSIMES. A Story of Creole Life (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1880) First edition, the scarce first issue. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered and decorated in a bayou motif in gilt. A very handsome copy, near very fine and quite scarce thus. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, ONE OF CABLE’S EARLIEST

Very Rare True First Edition of a Corner-stone TextA Narrative of Travel, Exploration and Adventure


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Eight Stories for Isabel - Circa 1825 - For ChildrenA Remarkably Well-Preserved Chapbook

goods in towns and villages, and at country fairs. While chapbooks were ostensibly designed to help children learn how to read, they often broached adult subjects and were the source of entertainment in families and villages. This particular book is for a small child, describing and defining familiar objects and things such as what a chair or steamboat is.



Captain James Cook - Bound in Period Calf Gilt ‘The Voyages Around the World’

still in very good order and with only light rubbing or evidence of use. A well preserved set of this scarce book, engravings in good order and with some of the usual mellowing. A HANDSOME EARLY SET WITH ENGRAVED PLATES.These volumes provides the reader with the opportunity to examine and discover all three voyages that paved the way for circumnaviga-tion in all future years.

Item Number: 8 Price: $1150. Cook, Captain James. THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, AROUND THE WORLD, Comprehending A History of the South Sea Islands &c. &c. (London: William Wright, 1836) 2 volumes. An early octavo edition with engraved plates. Engraved frontispiece, title page and a number of full page en-gravings in each volume. 8vo, contemporary dark blue calf and marbled boards, elegantly tooled and lettered in gilt within com-partments between flat bands the spines. A very handsome set,

The Most Intimate Biography of Jefferson DavisFirst Edition - Pub-lished in New York - 1890

Item Number: 9 Price: $695. [Davis, Jefferson]. Davis, Mrs. Jefferson. JEFFERSON DAVIS EX-PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. A MEMOIR. (New York: Belford Company, 1890) 2 volumes. First Edition of this scarce book. Illustrated throughout with many plates from photographs, drawings and engravings. Por-trait frontispieces in each volume. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original buff-blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines and pictori-ally decorated and bordered in black on the spines and upper

Churchill’s History of the English Speaking PeoplesThe First Illustrated and First Chartwell Edition

Churchill, Winston. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (London: Educational Book Company, 1956-1958) 4 volumes. First Edition and the First Complete Illustrated Edi-tion and the First Chartwell Edition. With a profusion of maps and illustrations throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original blue buckram lettered and decorated in gilt on the spines and covers, red morocco lettering labels gilt. Index to each volume. A fine set. As pristine and in very pleasing condition with only very light evidence of age.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. This Chartwell edition was the first illustrated edition, issued by subscription only. It includes a pro-fusion of illustrations, maps, and genealogical tables. By the beginning of World War II, Churchill had already penned half a million words of this manuscript. Lying dormant through almost six years of war followed by an even longer period in which Churchill wrote his war memoirs, this work finally was brought to fruition in 1956.

[Chap Book]. EIGHT STORIES FOR ISABEL (Portland: Bailey and Noyes, circa 1825) First edition 15 illustrations 12 mo, publisher’s original paper wraps, illustrated, 16 pages. A very well preserved copy. This children’s book is called a chapbook, a more modern term that derives from the chapmen. Chapmen were pedlars who hawked their

covers. A very good and handsome copy, quite well preserved and a fine survival. Internal hinges strong, though free-flies and paste-downs with some separation starting, text blocks clean and sound. Withal, a well preserved and handsome set. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT. PROBABLY THE MOST SIG-NIFICANT BIOGRAPHY OF DAVIS EVER WRITTEN. These two volumes cover the entire life of Jefferson Davis from birth until his death in 1890.

Scarce Truman Capote First EditionBreakfast at Tif-fany’s


Capote, Truman. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, A Short Novel and Three Stories. (New York: Random House, 1958) First edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original yellow cloth lettered in black and gold. In the original printed dustjacket. A bright clean copy, the dustjacket just lightly aged and very nicely preserved.

FIRST EDITION OF THE NOVEL THAT GAVE US HOLLY GOLIGHTLY. Also includes the stories, A Diamond Guitar, House of Flowers, and A Christmas Memory. Probably Capote’s scarcest book and his best remembered too.

King Rat - First Edition - James Clavell - 1962The Author’s First and Most Collect-able Novel

THE AUTHOR’S DEBUT NOVEL, HIS MOST COLLECT-ABLE AND ALSO CONSIDERED BY MANY HIS BEST. KING RAT is his semi-fictional account based on his own experiences in a Japanese prison camp near Singapore during the final days of the war. The initial printing was only 7500 copies, but it soon would be an international bestseller and would in less then three years be turned into a motion picture starring George Segal. It is also the first in what would become the author’s epic decades-spanning “Asian Saga” that would include TAI-PAN, SHOGUN, NOBLE HOUSE and GAI-JIN.

Item Number: 7 Price: $650. Clavell, James. KING RAT (Boston: Little, Brown and Com-pany, 1962) First Edition, preceding the UK issue by one year. 8vo, publisher’s original cream boards lettered on the spine in dark green, in the original dustjacket. A very nice copy of this scarce debut novel, with only a bit of mellowing to the boards as can be expected due to their colour, a bit of spotting to the fore-edge and top edge, the jacket in a very pleasing state of preservation, bright and clean with only very minimal evidence of shelving.



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none of the usual toning to the plates and much, much less of the typical spotting, typical offsetting to the frontispiece and vignette title-page, the binding fine with only minor evidence of age. FINE FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS. For many lovers of the author’s works, DAVID COPPER-FIELD ranks as the finest of his writings. “Of all my books,“ Dickens wrote, “I like this the best; like many fond parents I have my favourite child, and his name is David Copperfield.”

The Classically Important Fables of La FontaineIllustrated Mag-nificently By Gustave DoréHandsomely Bound in Fine Green Mo-rocco Gilt

Item Number: 11 Price: $1650. [Doré, Illus.] La Fontaine, [Jean de]. THE FABLES OF LA FON-TAINE. Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury (London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, N.D., circa 1870) A very early printing. With 86 magnificent full page illustrations, many smaller illustrations and a portrait frontispiece all by Gustave Doré. Royal 4to, in a very handsome deluxe binding of three-quarter green morocco over matching pebbled cloth covered boards, the spine with finely gilt stippled raised bands ruled in blind and with multiple rules in gilt, the head and tail addi-tionally gilt decorated, two compartments boldly gilt lettered,

Froissart’s Chronicles Very Finely BoundWith Beautiful Il-luminated Plates in ColoursA Preferred Set with Separate Titles for the Illuminations

handsome set in a very pleasing state of preservation, a clean and well preserved set with light or minimal aging or time wear, the backs sometime replaced to sympathetic style. THE MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE HISTORY AND A COPY IN PREFERRED BINDING WITH A PROFUSION OF LITHO-GRAPHED PLATES. The set includes a beautiful collection of hand-coloured chromolithographic plates reproduced from two of the greatest of known illuminated manuscripts.

Froissart, Sir John. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES... (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868) 2 volumes. Complete with a colour lithographed titlepage, two illuminated title-pages for the il-lustrations, 116 woodcut illustrations throughout the text, and over 70 magnificent illuminated coloured plates heightened with gold after originals from the manuscript editions of Froissart in the British Museum, the Bibliotheque Royale, and other sources. Large thick 8vo, full red contemporary morocco over boards. A

Ulysses S. Grant’s ‘Memoirs of the Civil War’A Superior Set in the Publisher’s Deluxe Bindings‘The Finest Memoirs of War Ever Penned’

Item Number: 13 Price: $2850. Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885, 1886) 2 volumes. First edition in publisher’s deluxe bindings. With 49 maps and il-lustrations, including two steel-engraved frontis-portraits. Also with fold out manuscript facsimile and the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile. Tall, thick 8vo, publisher’s very scarce deluxe bindings of original three-quarter morocco over boards, gilt lettered and finely decorated with gilt emblematic decora-tions including a General’s stars in compartments of the spines separated by raised bands, each of the covers featuring large gilt

Ernest Hemingway - A Very Fine Copy in Dustjacket1954 - The Old Man and The Sea

especially clean copy. The dustjacket and book both in fine and very pleasing condition. FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE OF WHAT IS ARGUABLY, THE AUTHOR’S GREATEST WORK. Hemingway’s Nobel Prize winning novel and one of the most perfect works penned in the 20th century.

Item Number: 15 Price: $325.Hemingway, Ernest. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952 [1954]) First edition, later issue, probably printed in 1954 with dustjacket noting the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Hemingway in that year, photograph of the author on the rear panel with listing of books. 8vo, publisher’s original pale blue cloth in the illustrated dust-jacket with photograph of Hemingway. A very fine, bright and

with fine marbled endleaves and page edges. A very fine and handsome copy, very handsomely bound, solid and fresh and clean with no sign of the typical foxing associated with these printings. Only very light evidence of age to the binding. A very well preserved and quite excellent copy. A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND WELL PRESERVED COPY OF THIS MASTERPIECE BY GUSTAVE DORé. An impressive tome of some of the best loved fables, including ‘The Grasshopper and the Ant’, ‘The hen with the golden eggs’ and well over 150 more.

medallions. An especially bright and very pleasing set in the scarce publisher’s deluxe binding state. An unusually well preserved set, the text exceptionally clean and fresh, volume two with some minor rubbing on the upper cover. RARE FIRST EDITION IN PLEASING STATE OF PRESER-VATION. VERY SCARCE IN THIS FORMAT, CONDITION AND DELUXE BINDING STATE. ‘THE FINEST MEMOIRS OF WAR EVER PENNED’. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, arguably the most important, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote.


David Copperfield - A Classic of World LiteratureFirst Edition - Charles Dickens - 1850

Item Number: 10 Price: $2250. Dickens, Charles. THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COP-PERFIELD (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850) First edition, bound from the original 20 monthly parts. With 39 engraved plates and a vignette titlepage by H. K. Browne [Phiz]. 8vo, antique three-quarter brown calf over plum moire cloth covered boards, the spine with raised bands double ruled in gilt and then stippled in blind, one compartment with a red morocco label handsomely ruled and lettered in gilt, page edges marbled. A handsome copy, quite fine internally, fresh and solid with almost

A Limited Edition of this High-spot of American LiteratureUncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings

slipcase of wood-grain paper covered boards designed to look like fresh-cut Georgia barn board. A very fine copy, the book essentially pristine, the slipcase also excellent preserved with only the most minor evidence of age. A CLASSIC WORK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, here in a special limited edition designed by Robert L. Dothard and il-lustrated by Chinese-born Minnesotan artist Seong Moy, who has signed the book.

Item Number: 14 Price: $185.Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS: His Songs and Sayings. With a Foreword by Marc Connelly (New York: At the Thistle Press for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1957) LIMITED EDITION, one of only 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the il-lustrator. Illustrated throughout with large woodcuts by Seong Moy, several of which are full page. 8vo, publisher’s original binding of course-wove green and brown buckram stamped on the upper cover with one of Mr. Moy’s designs, the spine with a wood-grain paper label printed in brown. In the original



Gwynedd Hudson’s - Alice in Wonderlandwith pastedown colour plate on the upper cover. A fine copy with only mild mellowing to the spine of the dustjacket. QUITE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTJACKET. This book is a visual feast of color and decoration. Hudson’s illustrations evoke a magical world of fancy for Carroll’s classic work. Though Hudson did not stray far from the original vision of John Tenniel’s drawings, she perhaps instilled her work with a more lively spirit.

Item Number: 19 Price: $475.With Lovely Colour-plates and in the Original Dustjacket

[Hudson, G., Illustrator] Carroll, Lewis. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (Nottingham: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, for Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., [1932]) First edition with Hudson’s illustrations and the Centenary edition of Car-roll’s birth. 12 tipped in full color plates, also numerous black & orange illustrations throughout the text by Gwynned Hudson. 4to, publisher’s full red cloth with full gilt pictorial designs and lettering on the upper cover and spine, in the scarce dustjacket

By the Man Who Conceived of the First DictionaryCompiled From Original Manu-scripts by Piozzi


Johnson, Samuel; Piozzi, Hester Lynch. LETTERS TO AND FROM THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. To Which Are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed. Published from the Original MSS. in Her Possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. (London: for A. Strahan and T. Cadell , 1788) 2 volumes. First edition. 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary polished calf, expertly and sympathetically refurbished at the backs, spines with red morocco lettering labels gilt lettered and with gilt ruled

bands. A handsome and clean set. Internally crisp, unpressed and well preserved. RARE, FIRST EDITION OF THE LETTERS TO AND FROM SAMUEL JOHNSON. Letters to and from the illustrious author of the great DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE pub-lished in 1755 and of a great many other works including primary writings on Shakespeare and etc.

Letters To and From Samuel Johnson - First Edition - 1788

The Oxford Homer Iliad - Exquisitely Bound - 1743A Stunning and Excellent Copy of this MasterpieceA Brilliant Use of Greek, Roman and Italic Types

Item Number: 18 Price: $4850.Homer. Homeros. Homeri., [Greek Literature]. ILIAD. ILIAS GRAECI. Editio altera. (Oxford: University Press, 1743) First of the edition. One of the most beautiful production of the press. Greek, roman and italic type. Engraved vignette at title-page, showing the Theatrum Sheldonianum. 8vo, contemporary English red straight-grain morocco, covers within three gilt fillet borders, a small floral tool at each corner. The smooth spine is divided by Greek key-pattern tooling creating the compartments, decorated with roundels, dotted fillet lines and a small floral tool,

all in gilt. The pastedowns and endpapers are accomplished in caillouté paper, gilt board-edges, inner dentelles and gilt edges. An amazing wide-margined copy. Some pencilled notes about the excellent condition of the copy. VERY RARE AND A STUNNING AND EXCELLENT COPY of this remarkable Iliad, first published in 1714 by the Oxford University Press, established in 1585 and by 1669 set up in the Sheldonian The-atre. The edition is regarded – together with the Odyssea of 1705 – as one of the most beautiful products of this press.

Frank Herbert’s Dune - A Fine Copy Item Number: 16 Price: $595.Herbert, Frank. DUNE (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984) First Putnam edition. With the two page map of Arrakis. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth over blue boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy indeed, very bright, the jacket with virtually no wear and only trivial signs of age. FIRST EDITION AND THE FIRST BOOK IN HERBERT’S EPIC SERIES, AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS OF ALL TIME. This finely produced Putnam

Arguably the Most Famous Book of the Sci-Fi Genre

edition attests to the near cult-like popularity that Frank Herbert had found with his complex story since its original publication in 1965. The story of Paul Atreides on the desert planet Arrakis had become one of the most famous and best selling novels of the genre. In 1975, it was voted by Science Fiction readers as the greatest novel ever, over such classics as LORD OF THE RINGS, 1984, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, and etc.

To You Mr. Chips - Published London - 1938

Item Number: 17 Price: $650.Hilton, James. TO YOU MR. CHIPS (London: Hodder & Stough-ton, 1938) First edition, first printing. Illustrated throughout with drawings and decorations by Bip Pares printed in black and orange. 8vo, publisher’s original orange cloth, lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original dustjacket printed in black and orange. An unusually well preserved copy quite pleasing with just a bit of minor and even toning to the paper of the dustjacket,

the cloth binding and gilt are still very bright and unfaded and near as pristine. FIRST EDITION, and a very nice copy of this copy of this follow-up to GOODBY MR. CHIPS. It contains a chapter of autobiography and a collection of Mr. Chip stories. The illustrations are a nice touch, and were not found in the American issues of the “Mr. Chip” books.

First Edition - James Hilton - In the Original Dustjacket

The Poems of Wil-liam Shakespeare - 1893Printed in Black and Red with Elaborte Woodcut Borders


[Kelmscott Press] Shakespeare, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, PRINTED AFTER THE ORIGINAL COPIES OF VENUS AND ADONIS, 1593, THE RAPE OF LU-CRECE, 1594, SONNETS, 1609, THE LOVER’S COMPLAINT (Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1893) One of 500 copies printed in Golden type, running heads printed in red, woodcut borders and initials. Printed in black and red, with elaborate woodcut borders to the first leaft of each section. 8vo, original limp vellum gilt lettered on the spine, with the original silk ties. An especially fine copy, bright, clean and beautiful.

FIRST EDITION BY THE KELMSCOTT PRESS AND A SUPERB COPY. The first reprinting of Shakespeare’s poems to retain the original orthography. A typically beautiful book by the Kelmscott Press. Douglas Cockerell said in 1898 this was already one of the rarest books issued by the press. It has only increased in rarity since.

One of the Most Beautiful Kelmscott Press Printings



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A PLEASING FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Kipling’s tale of a spoiled youth who becomes a man at sea is one of his best loved stories. Its themes are universal and timeless. It is also an excellent portrayal of life in the Gloucester fishing fleet of Massachusetts, written while the Kiplings were living in the United States. Though Kipling lived in Vermont for several years and was married to an American this is his only novel with entirely American settings, themes and major characters.

1936 - T.E. Lawrence’s Wilderness of Zin IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Lawrence and Woolley launched their careers with this work, collaborating together and joining their knowledge and travel experiences to form a comprehensive view of the desert regions surrounding Palestine. The work was originally published as the Annual of the Palestine Exploration Fund for 1914-1915, but in view “of the subsequent careers of its two authors, and of the literary merit which adds charm to the description of a country of no little biblical and historical interest, it seems to deserve a wider publicity than the proceedings of a learned society” [preface]. An excellent copy of Lawrence’s uncommon first work.

Item Number: 25 Price: $495.Lawrence, T. E. and C. Leonard Woolley. THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN, with a chapter on the Greek inscriptions by M. N. Tod. Introduction by Sir Frederick Kenyon. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1936) First trade edition, and first edition published for the general public. Profusely illustrated with 40 full-page plates on coated paper, 58 illustrations in the text including one folding plan and 2 maps. 4to, publisher’s original crimson cloth let-tered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the scarce printed dustjacket. A fine and very bright copy, beautifully preserved, the jacket also bright and in very pleasing condition with just a bit of mellowing or age evidence.

His First Work - An Archeological Tour de ForceA Fine Copy in Dustjacket of This Uncommon Title

C.S. Lewis - The Third of the Famed ‘Narnia’ Books Item Number: 26 Price: $575.Lewis, C. S. THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (New York: Macmillan Company, 1952) First American edition, first printing. Illustrated throughout by Pauline Baynes, including the frontispiece plan of the Dawn Treader. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth decorated on the upper and lettered on the spine cover in navy, in the original dustjacket. A very good copy of the book, the textblock essentially fine, the blue cloth just lightly mellowed, the jacket handsome in spite of some typical edgewear and a few

Voyage of the Dawn Treader - First Edition

chips and wrinkles. A HANDSOME COPY IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. One of Lewis’ immensely popular books in the ‘Chronicles of Nar-nia’ series. Over the years since publication the Narnia books have joined “Oz”, “Alice” and “Winnie” and ‘Middle-Earth” as a favorite ‘holiday’ spot for imaginative children.

Kennedy, President John F. THE BURDEN AND THE GLORY. The Hopes and Purposes of President Kennedy’s Second and Third Years in Office As Revealed In His Public Statements and Addresses. Edited by Allan Nevins, Foreward by President Lyndon B. Johnson (New York: Harper & Row, 1964) First Edi-tion. 8vo, black cloth lettered in gilt, in the original handsomely printed and coloured dustjacket. A fine copy in a complete and very nice dustjacket.

Item Number: 22 Price: $295.The Burden and The Glory

“It is the fate of this generation- of you in Congress and of me as President- to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make. But the pressures of life are not always distributed by choice. And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.” - John F. Kennedy to Congress, 1962.

First Edition - John F. Kennedy - 1964

Petra: Its History & Monuments - Sir Alexander Kennedy A Bright and Fine Copy - 1925 - First EditionWith Magnificent Photographs Of The Ancient City

FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE IN SUCH UNUSUALLY PLEASING CONDITION. This book studies and visually depicts the remarkable remains of the rock-carved city of Petra in Jordan. One of the new wonders of the world, the photos show the grand scope of this archaeological monument: an ancient city carved into the slope of a mountain.

Item Number: 23 Price: $350.Kennedy, Sir Alexander B.W. PETRA ITS HISTORY AND MON-UMENTS (London: Country Life, 1925) First edition. Illustrated profusely with 211 sepia photographs, 4 full page plates, and 4 maps, including 2 folded surveys which are enclosed in a pocket at the rear of the book. 4to, publisher’s full green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, top edges gilt. A fine copy, unusually fresh and well preserved, very bright and very clean.

‘Captains Courageous’ - Kipling At His Very Best Item Number: 24 Price: $695.Kipling, Rudyard. ‘CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS’ (London: Macmillan, 1897) First edition. With 22 fine black & white illustrations on plates by I.W. Taber. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth elaborately lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on both the spine and the upper cover in a maritime motif. A very nice copy of this beloved story, the blue cloth bright and unfaded, the gilt on the front cover and spine both bright and quite perfect, the text block quite clean of the usual spotting, some light age evidence.

First Edition of His Moving Maritime Adventure - 1897

To Lhasa in Disguise - 1924 - Against All OddsWilliam Montgom-ery McGovern’s Important Work on Tibet

FIRST EDITION, EARLY IMPRESSION, OF THIS CORNER-STONE WORK. Travels in 1922 to Lhasa through Sikkim as part of the British “Buddhist Mission.” During the trip McGovern was granted a secret interview with the Dalai Lama. Lhasa, in fact all of Tibet, was at the time rigidly guarded against outside visitors. Fac-ing insurmountable obstacles (certainly not the least of which was being caught in his intrusion), McGovern refused to be turned away at the border and instead with the help of only one servant entered the country in disguise.

Item Number: 27 Price: $450.McGovern, William Montgomery. TO LHASA IN DISGUISE. A Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet (London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1924) First edition, second impression. With a portrait frontispiece and 23 illustrations from photographs on glossy plates and four maps within the text. 8vo, original publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very good and pleasing copy, the cloth well preserved though somewhat mellowed at the back as is generally the case, the text-block and hinges are in good order with a bit of the usual mellowing.



Mungo Park’s Seminal Work - Travels in the Interior Africa Item Number: 30 Price: $1350.Park, Mungo. TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797... (Lon-don: Printed for John Murray, 1817, 1816) 2 volumes. Very Early Octavo Two Volume Printing, “A New Edition”, being the second Murray enlarged edition. With a large folding engraved map to illustrate the journal, the routes shown in colour. 8vo, three-quarter contemporary calf over marbled paper-covered boards, the spines with multi-gilt ruled raised bands, two com-

The Opening of Cen-tral Africa to the West - PMM 253A Handsome Set in Original Period Calf - Two Volumes

partments lettered and ruled in gilt. A very fine, handsome and proper set, the text clean and crisp, the bindings very proper and original. A SCARCE PRINTING AND A VERY PLEASING COPY OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND SEMINAL WORK OF AFRICANA, AND A WORK WHICH IS ESPECIALLY SCARCE IN CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS.

[Military; Early English Printing; Polemon, John]. ALL THE FAMOUS BATTALS THAT HAVE BENE FOUGHT IN OUR AGE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, As Well by Sea as Lande, Set Foorth at Large...Collected Out of Sundry Good Authors (London: Henrye Bynneman & Francis Coldock, [1578]) VERY RARE First Edition. Title within elaborate historiated woodcut border of military themes, printed in black letter, large engraved historiated initials throughout, head and tail pieces. Small 4to (7.5x5.75 inches approx.), bound in contemporary limp vellum, in a cloth folding case with morocco label lettered in gilt. The original contemporary vellum binding is rather worn and the upper portion of the front cover is defective, missing a section of the vellum. The text has some expected aging, primarily at

Item Number: 28 Price: $8500.Early English Print-ing - Published London - 1578John Poleman - All the Famous Bat-tals That Have Been Fought...

the prelims, small hole in title repaired from the verso causing very slight loss to border RARE, POLEMON’S ANTHOLOGY OF EUROPEAN BATTLES ACCRUED AND TRANSLATED FROM CONTINENTAL AU-THORS SUCH AS JOVIUS, GUICCIARDINI AND NATALIS COMES. OCLC list only 8 copies in institutional holdings, we are aware of no other copy currently available. In total Polemon’s collection of descriptions from various sources covers over 40 major battles fought in Great Britain, on the Continent, and in the eastern Mediterranean, from Tarro in 1495 to Lepanto in 1572. The transla-tion from Guicciardini is the earliest of any part of his body of work to be done into English.

First Edition of this Rare and Early Work on Warfare

Florio’s Celebrated Translation of Montaigne into EnglishThe Essayes or Morall, Politike and Militarie Discourses - 1632First Edition with the Index and Droeshout Engraved Title

and well preserved copy in its original contemporary antique binding, the book crisp and clean throughout with occasional and very minor age evidence, the “To the Beholder of This Title” leaf laid down, the binding sturdy and very well pre-served, the hinges sometime refurbished incorporating all of the original materials. A CORNERSTONE WORK IN PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS, AND AN IMPOR-TANT EDITION. This is an uncommonly handsome copy of this work. This third edition was the first to include the highly useful in-dex. Florio’s was the first translation of Montaigne into English, and remains among the best-known because of its beautiful language.

Item Number: 29 Price: $5750.Montaigne, Michael de. THE ESSAYES OR MORALL, POLITIKE, AND MILITARIE DISCOURSES... [Translated by John Florio] (London: Printed by M. Flesher for Rich Royston, 1632) Early printing of this great work, the third of Florio’s translation, with the scarce A1 leaf printed on the verso only, “To the beholder of this title.” This is the First Edition to contain the “Index of the Principall Matters” and the first to contain the Droeshout engraved architectural title-page. Engraved architectural title-page by Martin Droeshout, decorative woodcut headpieces and capitals throughout. Folio, bound in contemporary paneled calf, the covers with central panel blind ruled and rolled, the spine with raised bands, tan morocco lettering label gilt. A handsome

Scarce in Original Cloth Gilt - Not in Arctic BibliographyFirst Edition - 1876 - The Arctic World


[Polar]. THE ARCTIC WORLD: Its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena, With a Historical Sketch of Arctic Discovery (Lon-don: T. Nelson and Sons, 1876) First edition. 118 illustrations in text. Folio, blue cloth lettered and finely decorated in gilt on spine and cover. A fine copy but for very light, non-obtrusive foxing at the prelims, and light wear to the binding tips.

FIRST EDITION. SCARCE. Not in the Arctic bibliography. Includes chapters on whaling and hunting in the Arctic, various scientific investigations, principal voyages and discoveries.

The Cantos of Ezra Pound - 1948 Item Number: 32 Price: $250.Pound, Ezra. THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND (New York: A New Directions Book, 1948) First edition of this first collected edition of all of the Cantos published to date. With a portrait fron-tispiece from a photograph of the author by Arnold Genthe. 8vo, original black cloth lettered on the spine in silver, in the brown paper dustjacket printed in purple. The book is essentially fine but for the lightest of rubbing along the binding edges and some

First Edition of the Complete Cantos to Date in Dustjacket

typically offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps. The jacket has a touch of edge wear and some wear along the spine top, the purple ink on the spine is somewhat faded. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION WITH A TOTAL OF 82 OF EZRA POUND’S CANTOS. It is comprised of; a draft of XXX Cantos, Eleven New Cantos, The Fifth Decad of Cantos, Cantos LII-LXXI, and the Pisan Cantos.

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow - 1973First Editions EachVery Fine Copies of the Cloth and Paper Issues

VERY FINE COPIES OF THIS IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. This, Pynchon’s third novel, was awarded the National Book Award in 1973. It was also voted the Pulitzer Prize, but the committee refused to make the award and the year passed with none given. One of the cornerstone works of modern American literature.

Item Number: 33 Price: $2750.Pynchon, Thomas. GRAVITY’S RAINBOW [with,] GRAVITY’S RAINBOW (New York: Viking Press, 1973) First Edition of this classic work. Accompanied by the first edition of the impression issued in paper wrappers. 8vo, publisher’s original orange cloth in the pictorial dustjacket; the wrappered copy in the origi-nal pictorial wrappers. Very fine copies each, of Pynchon’s most important and celebrated work. Each, essentially as pristine.



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The Personal History of David Copperfield - Illustrated Item Number: 34 Price: $295.[Reynolds, Frank illus.] Dickens, Charles. THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (London: The Westminster Press, [1911]) First edition. Illustrated with 20 mounted color plates by Frank Reynolds and a vignette titlepage. 4to, red cloth lettered in gilt on spine and cover, with gilt and black silhouette decoration on cover, in scarce dustjacket. A very handsome and fresh copy, very bright and very clean, the scarce dustjacket with a bit of edge wear and some chipping at the top, but present nevertheless and a very pleasing copy.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY PLEASING ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF CHARLES DICKENS’ CLASSIC WORK. “With many lovers of the author’s works ‘David Copperfield’ ranks as the finest of his writings. With a book which gave to the world such characters as Betsy Trotwood, Micawber, the Pegottys and Mr. Dick, to mention only a few, it would have been strange if it had been otherwise” (Eckel, p. 77). Reynolds’ fine color plates bring these characters vividly to life.

Charles Dickens and Frank ReynoldsFinely Illustrated and Complete with Dustjacket

Highly Important Artwork from Significant Early TravelsDavid Roberts - The Ruins of Luxor From the NileFrom the Great Standard Folio Edi-tion Limited to 500 Copies

Item Number: 36 Price: $2500.Roberts, David; [Egypt, Middle East, Lebanon]. GENERAL VIEW OF THE RUINS OF LUXOR FROM THE NILE [An Original Hand-Coloured Lithograph From] THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT AND NUBIA (London: F.G. Moon and Co., 1846) From the Standard Folio First Edi-tion, limited to 500 sets only. A single original hand-coloured lithographic plate drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts’ paintings done on location in 1838. Printed on a single folio sheet 23.25” x 16.25”, the captioned image, is 19.75” x 13.75”, now presented in cream mounting boards 30” x 24” glazed

behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-painted to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition, clean, fresh, beautifully preserved. FROM ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE OF ALL TRAVEL AND COLOURPLATE BOOKS. We have a good number of im-pressive images from the Standard Folio Edition of this classic work available for purchase. As well as many views of Egypt we also have available, views of Nubia, Petra, Sinai, the Jordan, Tyre, Sidon and Baalbec. Please inquire for further details.

Ivanhoe - First Edition - Full Contemporary Bindings GiltSir Walter Scott’s Most Famous Tale - PMM

Item Number: 37 Price: $2650.[Scott, Sir Walter]. IVANHOE; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820) 3 volumes. First Edition, with all half-titles present, page 159 numbered correctly. 8vo, contemporary full polished calf, the covers with gilt ornamental roll tooling at the borders, the spines with raised bands double gilt ruled, red morocco lettering labels gilt. A handsome set, well preserved in its original bindings, now with sympathetic rebacking incorporating the original morocco lettering labels, internally quite clean, fresh and unpressed, the

contemporary bindings with some light expected age or use evidence at the extremities. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE AND HIGHLY IMPOR-TANT WORK. This set with all half-titles present as is often not the case. The best of Scott’s historical novels and by far his most famous work. Scott’s romantic tale of the conflict between the Nor-mans and the Saxons is among the most highly regarded works of historical fiction.

Operation Shylock - A Beautiful Copy in DustjacketFirst Edition - Signed by Philip Roth

Item Number: 36 Price: $350.Roth, Philip. OPERATION SHYLOCK A Confession (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993) First edition, first printing, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR in the year of publication, 1993. Large 8vo, original gray boards backed in blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original publisher’s dustjacket. A very fine copy, essentially as new, the jacket likewise. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AWARD WINNING AU-

THOR. Many considered this to be Roth’s best works since ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’. Both suspenseful and hilarious it is essentially a spy story in which Roth confronts his own double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back into Europe, a “Moses in reverse” and a cunning nemesis to the real “Philip Roth.”

Adam Smith - The Wealth of NationsThe First & Greatest Classic of Modern Economic ThoughtA Beautiful Set in Contemporary Deco-rated Calf

Item Number: 38 Price: $4500.Smith, Adam. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (London: J. May-nard...Haymarket; and F. Zinke...Strand, 1811) 3 volumes. Very early printing, with an Account of the Life of the Author which has been specially drawn up for the first time, as well as stud-ies on the author and the French economists of the period, and a method of facilitating the study of the work. 8vo, bound in very handsome and well preserved three-quarter contemporary polished calf over marbled boards, compartments of the spines decorated with gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lined bordering designs, two compartments lettered in gilt, one with morocco lettering labels, marbled end-leaves. An especially bright and

fine set in very handsome and well preserved contemporary bindings. The text remains very clean, crisp and fresh. There has been no restoration work of any sort to bindings or text. Rare thus. AN UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED AND HANDSOME SET OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK. Eighteenth century editions of Smith’s magnum opus are becoming very scarce. This edition of 1811 is a very early English printing of the nineteenth century still in 18th century style. It retains Smith’s introduction and also incorporates the author’s advertisements to the third and fourth editions and a new advertisement to this edition setting out the additions made to the preliminary materials for this edition.

Jesse Wilcox Smith’s Water BabiesBeautifully Deco-rated Binding and Illustrations

Item Number: 39 Price: $425.[Smith, illus.] Kingsley, Charles. THE WATER BABIES (London: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Company, [1919]) First edition thus with Smith’s illustrations, London Hodder/Boots issue. With 12 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, green and black decorated titlepage and numerous illustrations printed in green throughout the text, all by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 4to, pub-lisher’s bright forest-green cloth with beautifully designed gilt

pictorial cover. A fine and bright copy of this beautiful book, the book is typically found with heavy foxing, this copy has only a few minor light spots along the page edges. A BEAUTIFUL COPY ILLUSTRATED BY WILCOX SMITH AND LOVINGLY PRODUCED FOR BOOTS THE CHEMIST. The imaginative range of this book with its many undersea adventures presented Jessie Willcox Smith with intense artistic challenge.



Spenser’s The Faerie Queen - First Complete EditionThe Beautiful First Illustrated Edition of 1751Printed in London - Replete with Folding Copperplates

Item Number: 40 Price: $3950.Spenser, Edmund. THE FAERIE QUEEN... (London: J. Brind-ley in New-Bond Street and S. Wright, 1751) 3 volumes. First Complete and First Illustrated Edition and the First with Birch’s Life. A fine early antiquarian printing of Spenser’s great work, adorned with engraved plates. Elegantly embellished with fine full page engraved double-page copper plates from the original drawings of W. Kent, architect and painter to his Majesty. Large 4tos, handsomely bound in full period polished calf, the covers with elaborate rolled gilt toolwork at the borders, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped and separating compartments fully gilt decorated with corner pieces, border work and central

ornamental tools, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco lettering pieces gilt. A fine set in fully original state, the bindings well preserved though with some wear or weakness at the joints. RARE IN CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS. THE FIRST IL-LUSTRATED AND FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. A BEAUTI-FUL AND EARLY PRINTED SET OF ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The text of Books I to VI of Faerie Queen from the editions of 1590 and 1596 in quarto. The fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. Included is Birch’s Life and Spenser’s letter to Sir Walter Raleigh.

The Very Rare Boke of Surveying - Circa 1560Copies Exist in Only a Very Few Places WorldwideA Contemporary Study of Feudalism in Decline

Item Number: 41 Price: $6500.[Surveying; Early Printing]; [Fitzherbert, John, Sometimes also attributed to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert]. THE BOKE OF SUR-VEYING and Improuementes Newly Corrected and Amended, Very Necessarye For All Men (London: by Thomas Marshe, [circa 1560]) VERY RARE, an early reissue, date of publication estimated by STC. The first edition was printed by Pynson in 1523. Engraved titlepage with acorn device. 8vo, , full blind paneled calf over wooden boards in period style, the spine with raised bands between compartments framed in blind. A4, B-H7,

lacking final blank leaf H8 and text leaves G8 and H1. VERY RARE, OCLC SHOWS COPIES AT THE HUNTING-TON, BRITISH LIBRARY AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ONLY. This edition has Berthelet’s verses and the prologue, but it does not name Fitzherbert as the author. From ‘The Boke of Surveying and Improvements’, may be learned a great deal about the economy of the feudal system at the time of its decline.

Tolstoy’s War and Peace in Original BindingFirst Edition of Constance Garnett’s Superb TranslationAn Unusually Well Preserved Set

Item Number: 42 Price: $1750.Tolstoy, Leo; Tolstoi, Count Lyof N. WAR AND PEACE (Lon-don: Vizetelly & Co., [n.d. ca. 1887]) 3 volumes. First English Edition, early issue. (The slug notes a “Third Edition”, but the sheets of these earliest printings were run from the original type-settings and were not changed). 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter period maroon morocco over marbled boards. A handsome copy and a very pleasing set. Rarely encountered, this is a fine early printing of the First English Edition of Tolstoy’s greatest novel.

VERY SCARCE HANDSOMELY BOUND PRINTING OF THIS GREAT CLASSIC, VERY WELL PRESERVED. Tolstoy’s epic of the Napoleonic wars has few peers in world literature; John Galsworthy described it as “the greatest novel ever written.” E. M. Forster, in his Aspects of the Novel , declared that “(N)o English novelist is as great as Tolstoy, that is to say, has given so complete a picture of man’s life, both on its domestic and heroic side.”

Life on the Mississippi - First Edition - 1883One of Mark Twain’s Best Books - A Fine CopyIn the Publisher’s Original Gilt Deco-rated Cloth

Item Number: 43 Price: $1250.Twain, Mark. LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883) First edition preceding the American issue, with very early ads dated October. Profusely illustrated throughout. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, the upper cover with a pictorial scene on the Mississippi in black and lettering in gilt, the spine lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in black. An unusually fine and very bright copy, beautifully preserved.

RARE FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN ENGLAND AND PRE-CEDING THE AMERICAN ISSUE. ONE OF TWAIN’S BEST BOOKS. Twain writes about his home and his muse -the great Mis-sissippi. “As a dwelling place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe.” (preface) In this largely autobiographical narrative, Twain gives us a vivid account of his youth on the great river.

Edith Wharton - The Fruit Of The Tree Original Cloth Gilt - 1907 - 1st Edition

Item Number: 44 Price: $450.Wharton, Edith. THE FRUIT OF THE TREE. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907) First Edition. With three full page black and white illustrations by Alonzo Kimball. 12mo, publisher’s original red cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. A lovely copy with binding cloth and gilt showing very little wear.

SCARCE AND A HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED COPY. “Her precision and directness in delineation of character are far beyond that of any of the novelists of to-day.” -Boston Advertiser. “Dramatic, absorbing, and well written.”-New York Sun.

Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days in AmericaFirst Edition in Original Cloth

Item Number: 45 Price: $295.Whitman, Walt. SPECIMEN DAYS IN AMERICA...Newly Re-vised by the Author, With Fresh Preface and Additional Note (London: Walter Scott, 1887) First English edition. 8vo, pub-lisher’s original blue-green cloth lettered in black and decorated in red on the spine label. There is some minor discoloration to the covers, and some separation of pastedowns and end-leaves, though this is a truly good and very acceptable copy of this scarce and important book.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN ENGLAND. Among the personal writings included herein are Whitman’s reminiscences upon his last visit with Emerson, a critique on the poetry of America, as well as an entire sub-section entitled “Notes Left Over.” These writings are his most famous prose considerations.

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