New York: The Spiral Press, 1961. Limited "Pamphlet Edition" Paperback. This limited fine press edition was produced by The Spiral Press to commemorate Robert Frost’s participation in the January 20, 1961 Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Most commonly seen are the 500 hardcover copies. Far scarcer are surviving examples..... More
Fordingbridge, Hampshire: Castle Hill Press, 2010. Limited "Library Edition" Quarter goatskin. This Castle Hill Press limited edition publishes the original (1928) text of The Mint, together with a selection of Lawrence’s later writings about service life. Of a total edition of 475, 180 copies were bound thus for subscribers, in..... More
New York and elsewhere: The Robert Shalkenbach Foundation, Public Revenue Education Council, The Economics League, International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade, U.S. Department of State, John C. Lincoln, and other private publishers, c.1950s & 1960s. Various. Paperback. This unusual collection of nineteen pamphlets expounds progressive political and..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, second printing of Robert Frost’s second published book, which bolstered his newly minted literary reputation and precipitated his return to the United States from England, where his first two books were..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1949. First French trade edition, inscribed presentation service de presse copy of the first edition. Paperback. This is an uncut “service de presse” review copy of the first French trade edition of the Letters of T.E. Lawrence, inscribed by both translators and accompanied by a bibliographically significant publisher’s..... More
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1940. First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is a collection of five essays in literary criticism by T. E. Lawrence with Introduction by Arnold Walker Lawrence, the youngest brother of T. E. Lawrence, his literary executor, and a historian of classical sculpture and architecture. This is the..... More
Charing Cross, London & Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony: Edward Stanford & J.W.C. Mackay, 1877. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thomas Baines (1822 –1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Today, Baines is best known for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight..... More
Basrah: Printed by E. G. Pearson at the Times Press, Bombay, and published by the Superintendent, Government Press, Basrah, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. The Arab of Mesopotamia was published in Basrah in 1917 to inform British imperial considerations in the Middle East during and after the First World War. The..... More
Amsterdam: Adriaan Wor, en de Erve G. Onder de Linden, 1746. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Jan de Marre (1696-1763) was a commander of a Dutch East India Company ship. He first joined the company at the age of 13, and achieved the rank of commander in 1728. He retired from the..... More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1984. Signed, numbered, and finely bound first edition. Hardcover. This is a pristine, as-new copy of the strikingly beautiful signed and numbered limited first edition of President Gerald R. Ford's November 30, 1983 address to the English-Speaking Union in London. One of 100 copies issued..... More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. Second edition. Hardcover. This second edition of Gertrude Bell’s Persian Pictures, quite scarce thus in the original dust jacket, is the first edition published under her name. In 1892 Gertrude Bell, a twenty-four year old Oxford graduate, traveled to Persia with her Aunt to visit..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. This is the first edition of Sir John Smyth’s history of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, inscribed and dated by the author in the House of Commons in the year of publication. The author’s inscription, in blue ball-point in four lines on..... More
Brookline, Massachusetts: Thomas B. Hitchcock, 1937. This remarkable little item is a bookseller’s catalogue titled “SOME FIRST EDITIONS OF ROBERT FROST AND OTHER MATERIAL FOR FROST COLLECTORS”. What renders this catalogue noteworthy is the date – 1937. This was more than a quarter of a century before Frost died, in..... More
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Professional Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. This copy of the first edition is signed by the author and has a lengthy gift inscription from Navy Cross recipient General James F. Lawrence (Brigadier General, USMC, Ret), to whom the book is dedicated, to his Marine brother, Bob..... More
New Hampshire: International News Photos, Inc, 18 June 1932. Photograph. This is an original press photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Governor of New York with members of his family at the home of his son, James, on 18 June 1932, weeks before he received the Democratic presidential nomination and..... More
International News Photos, Inc., 10 June 1936. Photograph. This is an original press photograph of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 8 June 1936 at the White House preparing speeches for his Dust Bowl trip of 1936 during his first term as president. This press photo once belonged to The Cleveland News’..... More
Cape Colony, Eastern Province & Natal, South Africa: J.C.Juta & Co. Impey, Walton, & Co. P. Davis & Sons, 1892. Irving Montagu. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Irving Montagu, this volume is in near-fine condition. The publisher's original red cloth binding is clean, bright, and square with no fading, sharp..... More
Associated Press Photos, 8 May 1945. Photograph. This is an original press photograph of a portrait of FDR taken by his official 1944 campaign portrait photographer, Leon A. Perskie, at Hyde Park on 21 August 1944. This image, measuring 9 x 7.125 in (22.8 x 18.1 cm), is a silver..... More
New York: Hyperion, 2011. Troy Nixey. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition, first printing of Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is signed by del Toro and co-author Christopher Golden. This copy is as new in a near-fine dust jacket. Both signatures are inked..... More
Johannesburg: Hortors Limited Printers, July, 1923. First edition. Pamphlet. Here we offer a 1923 pamphlet concerning gold mining in South Africa. This pamphlet bound tête-bêche in English and Afrikaans is in good plus condition. The wire stitched, pale pink wraps covers are complete and free of tears and loss, with..... More
306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1843. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) produced 5 books based on his explorations and huntings in Africa. This volume is an American issue "From the tenth London edition, revised and corrected". There are 392pp plus a publisher's..... More
New York: Del Rey, 2014. Pre-publication Advance Reader's Edition. Paperback. This is a pre-publication Advance Reader’s Edition of the author’s acclaimed debut novel. Condition is better than very good plus, the wraps binding square, clean, bright, and tight with only trivial wear to extremities and no spine creasing, the contents..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American edition, second printing. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, second printing of Robert Frost’s second published book, which bolstered his newly minted literary reputation and precipitated his return to the United States from England, where his first two books were..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First English edition. Hardcover. This volume contains a series of short stories with original publication dates ranging from 1890 to early 1893. With this English first edition, “Macmillan became the sole English publisher of Kipling’s prose works for the rest of his life.” It was..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life, comprising eight mammoth main text volumes and - so far - seventeen accompanying document or "Companion"..... More