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

circa 1941. This is an original, signed, Second World War photograph of then-British General Henry Maitland Wilson inspecting the French Foreign Legion. The photograph is signed “H Maitland Wilson” across the bottom right, and measures 4.5 x 3.5 inches (11.43 x 8.89 cm). Though small, the image is crisp and..... 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

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

Egypt: 1945. First Egyptian edition. Wraps. This scarce curiosity is the first Egyptian Edition, Lurins Batal al-Jazirah, Matbaat Lajnat al Ta ‘lif Waltarjama wal Nashr, 1945, combining Winston S. Churchill’s essay on Lawrence from the 1937 edition of Great Contemporaries and W.S. Burbidge’s The Mysterious. The Arabic title translates to..... 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

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

Washington, D.C. Associated Press, 25 October 1934. Photograph. This is an original press photo of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt taken during the first of the President’s eventual four terms in office, at a Washington D.C. Justice building dedication ceremony on 25 October 1934. This image, measuring 7 x 9 in..... More

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Frederick William Fitzsimons (1870-1951) was a South African zoologist, known primarily for his knowledge of and research into snakes. He served as director of the Port Elizabeth Museum from 1906 to 1936, and wrote several books about the animals of South..... More

San Diego: Frye & Smith, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. This is an inscribed first edition of the autobiography of a major figure in the development of San Diego, California – William Kettner. This was evidently a presentation copy for a close friend. The recto of the blank leaf preceding the..... More

Washington, D.C. Acme News Pictures Inc., 20 January 1941. Photograph. This is an original press photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 20 January 1941 during the inaugural parade of his third term that made him unique among American presidents. This image, measuring 7 x 9 in (17.8 x 22.8 cm)..... More

75 Loveday Street, Johannesburg: A.P.B. Bookstore, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Sea Hath Bounds is the first work of South African author Daphne Rooke (1914-2009). This copy is near fine in a very good minus dust jacket. The brown cloth binding is clean and tight with square corners. The contents..... More

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office (H.M.S.O.), 1940. Pamphlet. This is a wartime pamphlet of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s speech on British agriculture in the first months of the Second World War. This copy is in good plus condition. This pamphlet is a single sheet folded to create four leaves including..... More