A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in a lightly toned jacket. The post A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth. appeared first...
View ArticleStories from the Arabian Nights.
Signed limited edition, number 309 of 350 copies numbered and signed by the artist. It was this book that first announced Dulac's status as a popular artist, confirming him as "a direct challenger in...
View ArticleZeichnung und Fotografie.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the photographer on the title page: "A Peter avec l'amitié d'Henri". This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of Cartier-Bresson's drawings...
View ArticlePhotographs of America.
Square octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and front board in black. With an original silver gelatine print to front board. Illustrated with full-page black and white photographs throughout....
View ArticleCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed grey boards, titles to spine in pink, pictorial design to front board in blue, publisher’s device to rear board in blind, grey endpapers. With the pictorial dust...
View ArticleCrusade in Europe.
First edition, deluxe issue, number 555 of 1,426 copies; bound with a leaf that prints Eisenhower's D-Day message to the troops, signed by Eisenhower. The leaf was inserted into each of the deluxe...
View ArticleLetter, Signed, to an unnamed “Monsieur”, thanking him for his good wishes...
A fine example of the famous speculator John Law's signature, appended to an autograph letter, written in a neat cursive secretarial hand, to an unknown "Monsieur", thanking him for his complimentary...
View ArticleImages à la sauvette; [together with] Les Européens.
First editions, first printings. A superb pair of presentation copies - rare in being both made out to the same recipient - inscribed by the photographer on the half-title of each work: "pour Henri...
View ArticlePhotomontagen zur Zeitgeschichte.
Octavo. Original orange paper-covered flexible boards, printed paper label to spine and front board. With the dust jacket. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 21 full-page half-tone plates. Front joint...
View ArticleHailstones.
First edition, signed limited issue. One of 250 cloth-bound copies signed by the author on the title page. There were also 500 unsigned copies, bound in paper wrappers. The post Hailstones. appeared...
View ArticleAlastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems.
First edition thus, signed by Bertram Dobell on the front free endpaper (conceivably denoting this as his retained copy), one of the scarce 50 copies on Whatman's Hand-made Paper from a limited edition...
View ArticleThe Trembling of the Veil.
Octavo. Original cream parchment half-binding, light blue paper boards, paper label to spine, light blue endpapers, untrimmed edges. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece from a picture by...
View ArticleSelected Poems. 1965-1975.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Small rust marks to gutter at front, perhaps offset from some stapled leaf once laid in but now absent, otherwise a superb copy...
View ArticleGrimms’ Other Tales.
Octavo. Original purple full morocco, titles gilt ot spine, designs gilt to sides, top edge gilt. 10 wood-engraved plates by Gwenda Morgan. Sunning to spine and faintly around board edges, very minor...
View ArticleThe Collected Works:
First collected edition of Yeats's work, signed by Yeats on the half-title of volume four (very scarce thus), one of the 250 first issue sets in the deluxe quarter vellum binding, with the publisher's...
View ArticleAutograph letter signed to T. H. Huxley (“My dear Huxley”).
Darwin writes late at night to report that "I have this minute finished your Address to Geolog. Socy. & I must just thank you for sending it me. – I have read it with uncommon interest. It is a...
View ArticleCollected Stories 1939-1976.
First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, No. 35 of 60 special copies signed by Bowles and Vidal on a tipped-in page and specially bound, from the edition of 1,110 copies. Additionally...
View ArticleAmerican Singers.
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Burt Britton, who runs a way of life, Whitney Balliett, N.Y.C. 1979". Burt Britton, the book...
View ArticleCamera, Take the Stand!
Octavo. Original grey green cloth, with lettering in red to front and spine. With the illustrated dust jacket designed by A. I. Miller. Black and white photo frontispiece, with 9 black and white plates...
View ArticleThe High History of the Holy Graal. Translated from the French.
First edition, presentation copy of the very scarce deluxe issue, both volumes number 11 of 200 copies for England from a deluxe limited edition of 250. Each volume is inscribed by the translator on...
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