London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. This is an elusive prize - the first edition, first printing, first binding state of Robert Frost’s first published book, signed by the author. First published in England in 1913, the publication history of A Boy’s Will is complicated by the fact that the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition. Full leather. This is the first edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s chronicle of perhaps the most famous regiment in American history and the “crowded hour” during the Spanish-American War that propelled Roosevelt’s fame. Unique and compelling, this copy is signed by Roosevelt, inscribed..... More
Reform Club, Pall Mall, S.W.1., London: None, circa 1921. This truly singular item is an unpublished autograph poem by eminent First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). The poem was drafted early in his literary career, circa 1921, presuming the reference to Caruso to be contemporary (Enrico Caruso, a widely..... More
London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first printing. Quarter leather. This is the first edition, first impression of Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex – his first book to apply the term “evolution” - in a striking fine contemporary binding. The binding features quarter calf..... More
H.M.S. Duke of York: British Admiralty Press Division, 1944. This striking Second World War photograph is remarkable for location, time, subject, and signature. General Bernard Law Montgomery and Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser are captured striding on the deck of the Flagship H.M.S. Duke of York on 6 May 1944, one..... More
London: David Nutt, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition, first issue, final binding state of the author’s second published book is signed by Frost in black ink in four lines on the front free endpaper: "Robert Frost | Amherst 1924 | (Little Iddens, Leddington, | near Ledbury, England, 1914)”..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a compellingly inscribed jacketed, American first edition, first printing of the author’s first published book. On the front free endpaper, inked in black in three lines, Frost wrote: “your friend (if you will | accept..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Finely bound, limited, hand-numbered edition. Full leather. This is the finely bound issue of the first and limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text. Only 80 of the 752 sets were issued thus, in full navy morocco with a supplemental Illustrations and Introduction..... More
Salisbury, England: Castle Hill Press, 1997. Finely bound, limited, hand-numbered edition. Full leather. This is the finely bound issue of the first and limited edition of the full 1922 "Oxford" text. Only 80 of the 752 sets were issued thus, in full navy morocco with a supplemental Illustrations and Introduction..... More
London: David Nutt, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. This first edition, first issue, final binding state of the author’s second published book is inscribed by Frost in black ink in four lines on the front free endpaper recto: "To Gladys C. Combes | from | Robert Frost | Amherst April 1935”..... More
1944. Photograph. This signed Second World War image captures President Franklin D. Roosevelt at approximately 4:15 PM on 26 July 1944 aboard the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Baltimore at Honolulu, Hawaii. With a gun turret clearly visible in the upper background, FDR is seated in a chair on the deck, with..... More
London: Corvinus Press, 1937. First, finely bound, limited, and hand-numbered edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly well-preserved copy of the scarce and extraordinarily beautiful 1937 Corvinus Press limited first edition of The Diary of T. E. Lawrence, which has been called “the most ambitious and handsome volume published by the..... More
France: Printed at Base Printing Plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1918. This extraordinary map of the First World War’s first U.S.-led offensive was signed in the field by the man who commanded the victory – General John J. Pershing. “Printed at Base Printing Plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army 1918”, this map..... More
Aldershot. This archive centers on the Centenary of the British Army Physical Training Corps (A.P.T.C.) at Aldershot and one of its most famous sons, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, Corps Commandant from 1946-1960. Spanning 1958 to 1962, the archive includes: two books signed by Montgomery, two holograph, signed letters from..... More
New York: Reprinted from Foreign Affairs, 1928. Pamphlet. This humble pamphlet is a compelling artifact from the months just before Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) was propelled into the leadership roles that would limn his indelible historical presence and fundamentally reshape his country. This is a July 1928 pamphlet on Our..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. John Lockwood Kipling. First edition. Hardcover. This is a compelling set of British first editions of perhaps Kipling’s most famous works – the first and second Jungle Books. These copies were previously owned by Churchill’s friends and publishers, Frank and Nelson Doubleday, and apparently used..... More
The White House, Washington, D.C. 1909. Letter. This is a typed, hand-emended, and signed 16 February 1909 letter on White House stationery from President Theodore Roosevelt to his friend, Lawrence F. Abbott, editor of the weekly newspaper The Outlook. The letter, dated just 16 days from the end of Roosevelt’s..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First edition, first state. Hardcover. This is a jacketed first edition, first state of Frost’s third published book - Frost’s first book for which the U.S. edition takes precedence. “Mountain Interval, which appeared in November 1916, offered readers some of his finest poems..... More
Tunisia: British Eighth Army, 28 April 1943. Leaflet. This compelling Second World War artifact is an original message from General Bernard Law Montgomery to his Eighth Army troops on 28 April 1943 during the final Allied effort to expel Axis forces from North Africa. This printed message is not only..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. First edition, first printing. Full leather. This is the first edition, first printing, finely bound in full maroon Morocco goatskin, hued sympathetically to the publisher’s original dark red cloth. The fine binding features raised spine bands framed by gilt rules and decoration, twin black spine..... More
London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1785. First edition. Hardcover. Andrew Sparrman was a Swedish physician and naturalist. He arrived in South Africa on 10 January 1772. He joined Captain Cook on the Resolution on 22 November 1772. Returning in 1775, he undertook further exploration that lasted until April 1776, taking..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1974. First edition, first printing. Here is a jacketed first edition, first printing, of Michael Shaara's celebrated Civil War novel. Michael Shaara (1929-1988) began his career as a writer of short stories, primarily science fiction. As a prolific short story writer he enjoyed a...... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First edition. Hardcover. This inscribed and jacketed first edition of Bradbury’s first major work and enduring classic, The Martian Chronicles, is inked in blue in four lines on the title page: "BILL! | BEST FROM | RAY BRADBURY | OCT. 1966". First edition..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. Second, limited American edition and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. This is a particularly compelling presentation copy of a striking limited edition of the author’s second published book. This copy not only retains the original dust jacket, but is also inscribed by the illustrator..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1917. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This compelling inscribed association copy of the first edition of solider-poet Siegfried Sassoon’s (1886-1967) First World War poetry collection, The Old Huntsman, is inscribed on the front free-end paper “To Mrs. Colefax. | from the author. | June. 1917.” The front..... More