Books and Manuscripts: Summer Sale

ONE OF 50 COPIES. ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. The Modern Writer. San Francisco: The Lantern Press, 1925. Thin 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth and blue boar...

FIRST APPEARANCE OF PINOCCHIO IN ENGLISH. COLLODI, CARLO. 1826-1890. The Story of a Puppet, or the Adventures of Pinocchio. New York: Cassell Publ...

COOPER'S MOHICANS IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. 1789-1851. The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757. London: John Miller, 1826....

FEASTS OF GALA. DALÍ, SALVADOR. 1904-1989. Two works: Les Dîners de Gala. New York: Felicie, Inc, 1973. 4to. Illustrated throughout. Publisher'...

DICKENS TO JOHN PRITT HARLEY. DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870. Autograph Letter Signed ('Charles Dickens') to John Pritt Harley, 1 p, 8vo, ink on a fo...

FINE COPY OF FELIX HOLT. ELIOT, GEORGE. 1819-1880. Felix Holt: The Radical. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. 3 volumes. 8vo...

O'BRIEN, JOHN. 1960-1994. Leaving Las Vegas. Wichita, KS: Watermark Press, 1990. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth printed in silver, dust jacket. Ver...

KARA WALKER SILHOUETTES FOR TONI MORRISON. MORRISON, TONI. 1931-2019. WALKER, KARA E, artist. Five Poems. Las Vegas: Rainmaker Editions, 2002. 4t...

RAINMAKER EDITIONS. KADARE, ISMAIL. B. 1936. KOCH, PETER RUTLEDGE, artist. Coffeehouse Days. Las Vegas: Rainmaker Editions, 2004. Folio. 11 photo...

RAINMAKER EDITIONS. WOLFF, TOBIAS. B. 1945. SCHANILEC, GAYLORD, wood engraver. The Chain. Las Vegas: Rainmaker Editions, 2008. 8vo. 4 original wo...

RAINMAKER EDITIONS. A collection of 6 fine press artists books, including: 1. BANKS, RUSSELL. MOSER, BARRY, illustrator. Spirit of the River. 200...

RAND, AYN. 1905-1982. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth stamped in gold, pictorial dust jacket. Jac...

EROTIC FORE-EDGE PAINTING. TENNYSON, ALFRED. The Lover's Tale. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 12mo (175 x 105 mm). Modern red morocco gilt, ...

U.S. CONSTITUTION. The constitutions of the several independent states of America; the Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederat...

BLACK MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE. Five miscellaneous books to benefit the Black Mountain Institute: 1. BOWDLER, JOHN. 1746-1823. Memoir of the Life of Jo...

WONDERFUL OZ COLLECTION OF LITERARY CRITIC EDWARD WAGENKNECHT. BAUM, L. FRANK. 1856-1919; and JOHN R. NEILL, illustrator. Comprising 14 volumes, m...

BENCHLEY, PETER. 1940-2006. Jaws. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1974. 8vo. Original black cloth; original dust jacket (light wear at ext...

UNCUT IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. BOSWELL, JAMES. 1740-1795; JOHNSON, SAMUEL. 1709-1784. Dr. Johnson's Table-Talk: containing Aphorisms on Literature, Lif...

TWO FIRST EDITIONS WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. 1865-1933. 1. The King in Yellow. Chicago and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1...

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. 1835-1910. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 4to. Over 300 illustrations in text. Pu...

CONRAD, JOSEPH. 1857-1924. The Shadow Line, a Confession. London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1917. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth stamped in...

A SIGNED HART CRANE BROOKLYN BRIDGE POSTCARD TO EDWARD DAHLBERG. CRANE, HART. 1899-1932. Postcard Signed ('Hart Crane') featuring the Brooklyn Bri...

DONLEAVY, J.P. 1926-2017. Ginger Man. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. 8vo (175 x 110 mm). Publisher's green printed wrappers. Minor wear. FIRST E...

LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. DUMAS, ALEXANDRE. 1802-1870. The Complete Works. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1888-1891. 40 volumes. 8vo (212 x 13...

FROST ON MATTHEW ARNOLD. FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. Autograph Letter Signed ('Robert Frost'), to 'Miss [Helen] Adams' on the poetry and prose of Ma...

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. A group of approximately 100 printed Christmas cards (Christmas poem), featuring poems by Robert Frost, including: 1. N...

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. The Cow's in the Corn. Gaylordsville: The Slide Mountain Press, 1929. 12mo. Publisher's errata slip tipped-in. Publis...

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. Group of approximately 20 books and pamphlets. Including: A Masque of Reason. 1945. 644 of 800. and 108 of 800, both ...

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1939. 8vo. Publisher's cream cloth with illus...

FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. Autograph Letter Signed ('Robert Frost'), to 'My Dear Palmer,' regarding literary critic Gorham Munson, 1 p, 8vo, Amhers...

GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991. A group of 11 first editions, including: Journey Without Maps. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Publishe...

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IRVING, WASHINGTON. 1783-1859. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. London: John Murray, 1828. 4 volumes, 8vo (220 x 129 m...

JEFFERS, ROBINSON. 1887-1962. Such Counsels You Gave To Me & Other Poems New York: Random House, 1937. 8vo. Half brown morocco and boards, slipca...

LOWELL, ROBERT. 1917-1977. NOLAN, SIDNEY, illustrator. 1917-1992. The Voyage and other versions of poems by Baudelaire. London: Faber & Faber, 196...

MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. 1892-1950. Fatal Interview. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. Publisher's quarter cloth and boards, paper label on sp...

MILLER, HENRY. 1891-1980. [Untitled Portrait.] Lithograph on paper, signed in pencil and dated 1967, approximately 460 x 320 mm image size, tipped...

MYRICK, HERBERT. 1860-1927. Cache la Poudre: The Romance of a Tenderfoot in the Days of Custer. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1905. 96 Illustrat...

A GROUP OF ROBERT B. PARKER SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. PARKER, ROBERT B. 1932-2010. 16 titles, most from the 'Spenser' series: 1. The Godwulf Manusc...

PINTER, HAROLD. 1930-2008. The Homecoming. London: H. Karnac at the Curwen press, 1968. Folio. Illustrations by Harold Cohen. Publisher's green c...

POE, EDGAR ALLAN. 1809-1849. The Conchologist's First Book, or, a System of Testaceous Malacology. Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington and Haswell, ...

POUND, EZRA. 1885-1972. Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti. London: Stephen Swift and Co., 1912. 8vo. Publisher's patterned cloth stamped in...

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Of Mice and Men. A Play in Three Acts. New York: Covici Friede, 1937. 8vo. Publisher's beige cloth printed in black a...

A MODERN COMIC CLASSIC SIGNED BY WALKER PERCY. TOOLE, JOHN KENNEDY. 1937-1969. PERCY, WALKER, foreword. A Confederacy of Dunces. Baton Rouge and L...

TWO NANCY DREW MYSTERIES SIGNED BY MILDRED WIRT. KEENE, CAROLYN [PSEUD, MILDRED A. WIRT]. 1905-2002. 1. The Secret at Shadow Ranch. New York: Gro...

WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941. Flush. A Biography. London: Hogarth Press, 1933. 10 plates, including 4 after drawings by Vanessa Bell. Publisher's b...

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. 1865-1939. Packet for Ezra Pound. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1924 (but 1929). Printed in red and black. Publisher's quarter clot...

AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY. Archive of photos of 93rd Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army. Comprising 11 photographs, mainly 8 x 10, with one pan...

ETHAN ALLEN SIGNED IOU FROM THE CATAMOUNT TAVERN. ALLEN, ETHAN. 1738-1789. Manuscript Document Signed ('Ethan Allen' and 'Ebenezer Moses') being a...

ELIAS BOUDINOT'S COPY OF BARLOW'S COLUMBIAN EPIC. BARLOW, JOEL. 1754-1812. The Vision of Columbus: a Poem in Nine Books. Hartford: Hudson and Goo...

AN AUGUST BELMONT SIGNED STOCK ASSIGNMENT. BELMONT, AUGUSTUS. 1813-1890. Document Signed ('August Belmont'), assigning 50 shares of New York & Har...

RHODE ISLAND. BINNEY, BARNABAS. 1751-1787. An Oration Delivered on the late Public Commencement at Rhode-Island College in Providence. Boston: Pri...

'DIAMOND JIM' BRADY SELLS GONDOLA CARS TO THE MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD. BRADY, JIM. 1856-1917. Typed Document Signed ('J.B. Brady'), an agreement be...

CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION STOCK CERTIFICATE. Lithographic stock certificate granting to Cornelius C. Felton one share of stock in the Ce...

A PAIR OF DANIEL DREW DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE BUFFALO STATE LINE RAILROAD. DREW, DANIEL. 1798-1879. Document Signed integrally ('D. Drew'), sell...

A STOCK CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO MARSHALL FIELD. KING, RICHARD. Document Signed ('Richard King'), issuing stock in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy...

FLINT, ROYAL. 1754-1790. Letter signed ('Royal Flint'), to James Bowdoin, as Governor of Massachusetts, regarding a question of the remittance of ...

A HENRY FORD SIGNED FORD MOTOR COMPANY OF CANADA STOCK CERTIFICATE. FORD, HENRY. 1863-1947. Document Signed ('Henry Ford'), stock certificate #100...

GRANT, ULYSSES S. 1822-1885. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. 2 volumes. 8vo. Engraved portrai...

A STOCK CERTIFICATE SIGNED BY THE 'QUEEN OF WALL STREET.' GREEN, HETTY. 1834-1916. Document Signed ('Hetty H.R. Green') on verso of certificate g...