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1857. First Edition . FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Moeurs de Province. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1857. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary half brown morocco, marbled boards and endpapers. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. $9500.Rare first edition, first issue in book form, of Flaubert’s literary masterpiece, “the definitive model of the novel” (Émile Zola) and the work that “ushered the age of realism into modern European literature,” in contemporary binding.Upon publication of Madame Bovary, both Flaubert and his publisher were brought to trial on charges of immorality and narrowly escaped conviction (the same tribunal found Charles Baudelaire guilty on the same charge six months later). Although purportedly based in part on the circumstances of Flaubert's friend Louise Pradier, the author's claim that ""Madame Bovary is myself,"" with his unrelenting objectivity and deep compassion for his characters, earned him a… Leer más

1702. First Edition . MATHER, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Eccelsiastical History of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of our Lord, 1698… London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. Folio (9 by 13 inches), contemporary full dark brown paneled speckled calf rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine label. $15,000.The exceptionally rare and exceedingly significant first edition of Cotton Mather's salvation history of colonial Massachusetts, the ""most important 18th-century American book"" (Howes M391), including the earliest 18th-century general map of New England (often not present).No dispassionate chronicle, Mather's magnum opus is instead a monument of moral urgency and reforming zeal, ""a collection of essays, memorials and addresses intended to call a wayward generation back to the principles and practices upon which [New England] was founded"" (Magill, 557-58). In these pages, Mather portrays colonial… Leer más

1966. First Edition . Signed. FOWLES, John. The Magus. London: Jonathan Cape, (1966). Octavo, original half purple cloth, original dust jacket. $3500.First English edition of Fowles' second, highly acclaimed novel, signed by him on the title page.""One of the most engrossing reading experiences in modern fiction, a psychological mystery which is also a magnificent piece of story-telling"" (Pringle 29). ""Regarded by many as the English-speaking world's greatest contemporary writer and its first postmodern novelist"" (New York Times), John Fowles tells ""a modernized, worldly-wise version of The Tempest…bathed in an atmosphere of mystery, eroticism and paranoia"" (Parker, 426-27). Fowles set his story ""on a vividly evoked Greek island. In an atmosphere of mystery, fantasy, and obsession, the novel concerns an Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, who obtains a teaching post on the island, and his involvement with an enigmatic… Leer más

1864. First Edition . THOREAU, Henry David. The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Small octavo, original green cloth. $3300.First edition of Thoreau’s acclaimed account of his ascent of Mount Katahdin and related writings, in original cloth.At the end of August 1846, ""Thoreau left Walden for a two-week excursion to the Maine woods… The ascent of [Mount] Katahdin was the central experience both of the trip and of Thoreau's subsequent account of it. It was an experience of nature as vast, drear and indifferent to humankind"" (ANB). Thoreau published his essay about his excursion, ""Ktaadn,"" in the Union Magazine in 1848. ""Emerson reading over the essay decided it was the first piece of American literature he had seen in ten years that was worth binding"" (Harding). It would not, however, appear in book form until 1864 after Thoreau's death, as part of the present volume, accompanied by other accounts of two… Leer más

1901. First Edition . Signed. RIIS, Jacob. The Making of an American. New York: Macmillan, 1901. Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6500.First edition of the pioneering photographer and reformer's autobiography, published the decade after his influential work, How the Other Half Lives, with frontispiece portrait and 83 photographic illustrations, many full-page, in original bright gilt cloth, inscribed to a prominent social reformer and close friend of Jane Addams mentioned in the text: ""Mrs Emmons Blaine with the admiration and respect of the author Jacob A. Riis. New York, Dec 9, 1901.""In this profusely illustrated autobiography, Riis charts his life, from his youth in Denmark to his immigration to America and his dedication to documenting the social injustice of New York's slums, first as a police photographer and then as a newspaper photographer—""the first… Leer más

1600. ELIZABETH I. Manuscript document, with original hanging wax seal. England, 1600. Single page of vellum with usual folds and attachments, measuring approximately 14 by 5-1/2 inches, with double-sided wax seal measuring 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Housed in custom morocco case. $16,500.Rare original Elizabethan document, written entirely in a secretarial hand and dated 1600, granting the office of sheriff of the County Palatine of Chester to Thomas Aston, Esq., with Elizabeth I's hanging royal wax seal still attached.This manuscript secretarial document is a letters patent, dated December 9, 43 Elizabeth [i.e. 1600] granting the office of sheriff of the County Palatine of Chester to Thomas Aston, esq. Neatly attached is the warrant addressed to Thomas Aston, late sheriff, ordering him to hand over to his successor Richard Grosvenor, esq., all the writs, rolls, etc. pertaining to the office of sheriff dated the next year, December 15, 44 Elizabeth [1601]. The obverse of the wax seal represents a… Leer más

1974. Signed. (CERNAN, Gene). Map inscribed [Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap from the Apollo XVII landing]. Washington: Defense Mapping Agency, 1974. Single sheet, measuring 25-1/2 by 26-1/2 inches. Housed in a custom cloth portfolio. $5800.Second edition of this lunar topographic map, compiled from Apollo orbital film, boldly inscribed: “The valley of Taurus Littrow—Home of the final steps of Apollo. Dec. 11-14, 1972. Gene Cernan, CDR Apollo XVII.”Cernan ""made his third space flight as spacecraft commander of Apollo XVII—the last scheduled manned mission to the moon for the United States—which commenced at 11:33 P.M. CST, December 6, 1972, with the first manned nighttime launch, and concluded on December 19, 1972… In maneuvering [lunar module] Challenger to a landing at Taurus-Littrow, located on the southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis, Cernan and [Harrison] Schmitt activated a base of operations from which they completed three highly successful excursions to… Leer más

1939. First Edition . Signed. THOMAS, Dylan. The Map of Love. Verse and Prose. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, (1939). Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket; housed in a custom slipcase. $8800.First edition in book form, twice inscribed by Thomas, once beneath the frontispiece portrait by Augustus John: “As I was, or might have been, to Norman Unger from [line pointing at name beneath portrait],” and a second time on the front free endpaper: “ Norman Unger. Dylan Thomas 1950.”Among the works included in this collection of poems and lyrical prose, which had all appeared in periodicals and which here make up Thomas's third book, are ""When all my Five and Country Senses see,"" ""After the Funeral,"" ""Not from this Anger,"" and ""The Mouse and the Woman."" First issue, in fine-grained purple cloth with ""Dent"" blind-stamped on spine. Maud, 5. Norman Unger, the… Leer más

1814. First Edition . JENKINS, James. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. London: Js. Jenkins, [1814-15]. Folio (11 by 14 inches), contemporary full olive straight-grain morocco-gilt sympathetically rebacked, all edges gilt. $12,800.First edition, early issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British military action during Lord Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign, with hand-colored frontispiece, hand-colored dedication page not present in all copies, and 51 vividly hand-colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William Heath. A beautiful production in attractive contemporary morocco-gilt.""A brilliant and worthy record of a brilliant period in England's history"" (Hardie, English Coloured Books, 147). From the terrifying rout and retreat at Corunna to the glorious victory at Talavera, the British and their allies fought to keep Napoleon out of Spain and Portugal. In 1807 a demoralized and… Leer más

1950. First Edition . Signed. BRADBURY, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, original light green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6800.First edition of this scarce science fiction classic, Bradbury’s second book, signed by him and dated October 21, 1980.Bradbury's first novel and second book, ""which could be regarded as an episodic novel, made Bradbury's reputation… Its closely interwoven stories, linked by recurrent images and themes, tell of the repeated attempts by humans to colonize Mars… All the Bradbury themes that were later to be repeated find their earliest shapes here"" (Clute & Nicholls, 151). ""This was the book that established Bradbury's reputation… He put far more emphasis on style and mood than he did on technical detail or scientific plausibility… His reward was a stunning popular and critical success"" (Pringle, Science Fiction 100 3).… Leer más

1972. First Edition . Signed. SEUSS, Dr. Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! New York: Random House, (1972). Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. $5500.First edition of this “Bright and Early Book” for Seuss’ youngest readers, a scarce inscribed copy: “for Selwyn C. Gamble with best wishes from Dr. Seuss.”This book gained its widest recognition after Geisel gave Art Buchwald a copy with Richard Nixon's name replacing Marvin K. Mooney's throughout. Buchwald published the story in his syndicated column; Nixon's resignation soon followed (Dr. Seuss from Then to Now, 55). Younger & Hirsch 51. A bright fine copy, scarce inscribed.

1867. First Edition . Signed. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. May-Day and Other Pieces. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $16,000.First edition, presentation copy, of Emerson's second volume of poems, inscribed in the year of publication to his close friend and trusted adviser: ""Abel Adams from R.W. Emerson. 1 May, 1867.""May-Day, Emerson's second volume of poetry, followed his highly successful Poems (1946). ""The two volumes established his reputation as a major American poet"" (Britannica). ""Emerson had always thought verse to be the most perfect mode of utterance, and he had always referred to himself as a poet. Now he offered evidence whereby he might be judged. The judgement has taken some time to become mature, but it is no longer to be doubted that in a few of his pieces he reached a mark which only Whitman, Poe, and Emily Dickinson reached in… Leer más

1825. First Edition . GENLIS, Countess de. Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis, Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. London: Henry Colburn, 1825. Eight volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $6800.First edition in English of these compelling memoirs, extensively extra-illustrated with approximately 150 relevant portraits and views of France (nearly a third hand-colored), beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun.Madame de Genlis was ""a woman of encyclopedic information…. Napoleon paid her to furnish him with letters on literature, politics, etc…. She was an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment and sensation, morals and history"" (Oxford Companion to French Literature, 304). Her Memoirs, which comprise a perceptive social history of the 18th and early 19th centuries, were initially considered somewhat… Leer más

1855. First Edition . BROWNING, Robert. Men and Women. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855. Two volumes. 12mo, original blind-stamped green cloth. Housed in custom cloth chemise and morocco slipcase. $1300.First edition of the first volumes of poetry Browning published after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett, with the final poem addressed to her, in the original cloth.Men and Women is one of Browning's most important poetical works and includes ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,"" ""Fra Lippo Lippi,"" ""Andrea del Sarto"" and ""Love Among the Ruins."" The first fifty poems feature different narrators; the final poem, ""One Word More,"" is from Browning's perspective and with his voice, addressed to his new wife. Owner ink signature to front free endpapers.Interiors generally clean; cloth toned along spines and board edges, small chips to cloth at spine of Volume II, bindings sound, gilt bright.… Leer más

1978. First Edition . Signed. CLAVÉ, Antonio, FINI, Léonor, LINDNER, Richard, MARINI, Marino, MASSON, André, RIVERS, Larry, WUNDERLICH, Paul Wunderlich and WYETH, Jamie. Metropolitan Opera Fine Art. New York: Metropolitan Opera Society and Circle Gallery, 1978. Double elephant folio (23-1/2 by 31-1/2 inches), leaves laid loose in original portfolio, as issued. $28,000.Deluxe limited first edition, number IV of only 25 copies with eight enormous poster-size prints for eight different operas by eight different artists, each signed and numbered by their respective artist.The eight works, each signed and numbered ""IV"" by their respective artists, are as follows:Antonio Clavé—Carmen. A five color embossed intaglio print editioned at the atelier Maurice Rousseau in Monaco. One of 25 on hand-made Japanese paper.Léonor Fini—Tristan und Isolde. A twelve color serigraph editioned at Serigraphie Michel Caza. One of 35 on hand-made Japanese… Leer más

1632. SHAKESPEARE. A Midsommer Nights Dreame. [London: Printed for P.C., 1664]. Folio (9 by 12-3/4 inches), period-style full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; pp. 145-62. $19,500.Nine original leaves from the rare and important Third Folio, containing the complete text of Shakespeare's festive, fantasy-filled comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Splendidly bound in elaborately gilt-decorated period-style morocco.The four folios of Shakespeare are the first four editions of Shakespeare's collected plays. These were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century (a 1619 attempt at a collected edition in quarto form was never completed). The 1664 second issue of the Third Folio (from which this play was taken), is the first to include Pericles (along with six other spurious plays) and is therefore the first complete edition of Shakespeare's plays. The Third Folio is believed to be the scarcest of… Leer más

1926. First Edition . Signed. (EDISON, Thomas Alva) RAMSAYE, Terry. A Million and One Nights. A History of the Motion Picture. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original half brown pigskin and Japanese patterned paper boards, top edges gilt. Housed in two custom chemise and together in a clamshell box. $10,500.Signed limited first edition of one of the most important histories of cinema, number 8 of only 327 sets signed by Ramsaye and Thomas Edison, an exceptional association copy containing a laid-in typed letter by award-winning film scholar and author Dr. Donald Crafton, this rare copy a gift to him from ""film aficionado and collector… Spencer Berger."" With over 100 illustrations, a splendid copy in publisher’s leather and Japanese patterned paper boards.At a time when only Columbia University offered lectures on film, and when the Museum of Modern Art kept quiet plans for a film archive because it was considered ""highly… Leer más

1789. First Edition . (PENNSYLVANIA). Minutes of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which Commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the twenty-fourth Day of November. Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, 1789. WITH: Minutes of the Second Session of the Convention. [Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson], 1790. WITH: Minutes of the Grand Committee of the Whole Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, [1790]. Folio, period-style full speckled calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. $8500.First editions of the minutes of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention that met at Philadelphia in 1789-90, which created a bicameral legislature and vested strong executive power in the governor, while providing for a separation of powers modeled on the Federal Constitution. Quite rare complete in all three parts. An association copy, this was the copy of Pennsylvania lawmaker William Beale, the son of legislator Thomas Beale, who was… Leer más

1681. First Edition . MARVELL, Andrew. Miscellaneous Poems. London: Printed for Robert Boulter, 1681. Slim folio (7-1/2 by 12 inches), late 19th-century full brown morocco, gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; pp. (vi), 1-116, 131-139. $25,000.First and only collected edition of Marvell's poetry to be published in his own century, containing the first printing of many poems, including ""To His Coy Mistress,"" with scarce engraved frontispiece portrait. A wide-margined copy handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Riviere & Son.""The finest flower of secular and serious metaphysical poetry… Marvell united in himself, with an independent moderation of his own, a fresh muscular, agile, and subtle metaphysical wit and the rationality, clarity, economy, and structural sense of a genuine classic, the cultured, negligent grace of a cavalier and something of the religious and ethical seriousness of a Puritan Platonist. To this… Leer más

1843. First Edition . RICHARDSON, William. The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire. York: Robert Sunter, 1843. Elephant folio (18 by 24 inches), early cloth rebacked and recornered in later dark green morocco, all edges gilt. $12,800.First edition of this monumental production, with two hand-colored title pages, a hand-colored dedication leaf, 34 hand-colored full-page plates, 24 hand-colored half-page plates, 22 uncolored full-page plates (some tinted), and a map.The dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in the 16th century left Yorkshire with a rich collection of monastic ruins, captured here in a series of plates by artist William Richardson in a work that rivals the great Holy Land by David Roberts. Locations included here are Whitby Abbey, Kirkstall Abbey, St. Mary's York, Rievaulx and Kirkham Abbeys, Fountains, Roche Abbey, Byland and Newborough, Guisborough, Mount Grace, Selby Abbey, Bolton Priory, Bridlington Priory, Old Malton Priory, Joraulx Abbey, Sallay Abbey, Sawley Abbey, Monk… Leer más