Nine Chains to the Moon
Fuller, R. Buckminster First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original bronze cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth, light wear to spine ends, pages tanned. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling and light edge wear, slight fading to spine and a light stain to the blindside at the foot of the spine panel. A collection of Fuller's thoughts and essays, in which the title refers to the observation that, when the book was written, the world population of humans, if stood one atop another, could form chains that would reach back and forth between Earth and the Moon nine times.- $950
- $950
A Spaniard in the Works
Lennon, John; [Victor Spinetti] First edition, first printing, an association copy signed by John Lennon on the front free endpaper. From the library of Victor Spinetti, with his initials in ink to the last page. Spinetti was a Welsh actor, author, poet, and raconteur. He appeared in dozens of films and stage plays throughout his 50-year career, including the three 1960s Beatles films, A Hard Day's Night, Help!, and Magical Mystery Tour having the distinction of being hte only non-Beatle to appear in all three films. He also appeared on the Beatles' 1967 Christmas recording, released to members of their fan club. The best explanation for this long-running collaboration and friendship might have been provided by George Harrison, who told Spinetti, "You've got to be in all our films . if you're not in them me Mum won't come and see them - because she fancies you." Paul McCartney once described Spinetti as "the man who makes clouds disappear".Spinetti was particularly close to Lennon, and co-authored In His Own Write, the play adapted from a book by Lennon with the Beatle which he also directed at the National Theatre, premiering on 18 June 1968, at the Old Vic Theatre. Spinetti and Lennon appeared together in June 1968 on BBC2's Release and during the interview, Spinetti said of the play, that "it's not really John's childhood, it's all of ours really, isn't it John?" to which Lennon replied, assuming a camp voice, "It is, we're all one Victor, we're all one aren't we. I mean 'what's going on?'" Bound in publisher's original glazed illustrated boards; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, sporadic foxing and an occasional age related stain to pages, pages tanned and with an occasional crease. Lennon's second book of nonsense poems, whimsical stories and surreal cartoons; rare signed and with a close association.- $12,500
- $12,500
Farewell the Floating Cunt
Levy, D.A. First edition. One of a stated 105 copies. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Near Fine, leaves that stick out of top slightly creased, a little toned with age. Rare. Concrete poetry of bad words with prints by the author, a legendary rebel poet from Cleveland.- $1,200
- $1,200
The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
Audubon, John James First Octavo Edition. Complete in seven volumes. Bound in contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Half titles present in all volumes, lists of additional subscribers at front or rear of volumes 1, 3, 4 & 5. With 500 beautiful hand-colored lithographed plates. Very Good+ with shelf rubbing to boards and a little chipping to leather, slightly different color leather used by binder for Vol. II, Vol. I rebacked with original spine strip laid on. Contents generally bright with very little reading wear, single ink checkmark spotted in margin of one volume, occasional offsetting and foxing to the tissue guards, and just a touch of foxing some plates and text leaves. An exceptional set of the first octavo edition of Audubon's ornithological masterpiece, perhaps the paramount American color-plate book of the 19th century. This copy has an important provenance, formerly belonging to Thomas Mayo Brewer, with "T.M. Brewer, Boston" in gilt at the foot of each spine. Brewer (1814-1880) was a Boston-born naturalist, specializing in ornithology and zoology. According to the Linda Hall Library "He became a friend of John James Audubon in the 1830s, when Audubon did not have a lot of friends, and sent Audubon descriptions and specimens, usually of birds but sometimes mammals, as they came to him. Audubon rewarded Brewer with several eponyms. Brewer had sent Audubon a collection of small rodents from New England, and one, a mole from Martha's Vineyard, turned out to be a new species." Information provided to another former owner of this set is that it was presented by Audubon to Brewer, although we are unable to confirm this. For this octavo edition, the plates, accompanied for the first time by the text, were reduced and modified from the original Havell engravings for the London double-elephant folio. The plates were reduced by camera lucida and some of the backgrounds entirely changed or greatly modified. To the original plate count included in the double-elephant folio edition, the octavo edition adds 65 new images for a total of 500 plates, making it "the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time" (Reese). Included for the first time are seven new species and seventeen others, previously described in the Ornithological Biography but not illustrated, are also shown for the first time. The original compositions were altered so that only one species is depicted per plate. The text itself is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's "A Synopsis of the Birds of North America" (1839). Audubon writes in his introduction to this edition that it is his wish that a work similar to his large work should be published "at such a price, as would enable every student or lover of nature to place it in his library." Bennett p.5; Nissen IVB 51; Reese 34; Sabin 2364; McGill/Wood p.208; Ayer/Zimmer p.22.- $75,000
- $75,000
Earthlight
Clarke, Arthur C. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in darker blue. Very Good with wear to cloth at edges, bruise to head of spine. Front endsheet soiled, pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped ($2.75) dust jacket with rubbing and light wear, wear to spine ends and fading to spine panel, several tiny holes to the flap folds; foxing and a small stain to the blindside.- $1,500
- $1,500
Make Way for Ducklings
McCloskey, Robert First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in green; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to cloth, light toning to spine. Offsetting to endsheets from binder's glue, former owner name in pencil to front free end paper, owner bookplate to rear pastedown. Pages tanned with some offsetting from images onto adjacent pages. A very lovely copy.- $5,000
- $5,000
Debs and the Poets
[Debs, Eugene V.]; Le Prade, Ruth (Editor); Sinclair, Upton [Introduction] First edition, copy #174 of a limited issue of 500 copies signed by Eugene Debs on limitation mounted on rear paste down. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with oxidation to gilt stamping with some rubbing to lettering on the spine, hinge slightly over-opened at the half-title pages and pages toned, though a much nicer copy that as normally found. A rare signature from former Wobbly and Socialist Party candidate Eugene Victor Debs while in Atlanta Penitentiary, published by The Jungle author and activist Upton Sinclair.- $2,500
- $2,500
Eyeless in Gaza
Huxley, Aldous First edition, limited issue. Copy #111 of a limited 200 copies, signed by the Aldous Huxley. Bound in publisher's original patterned paper-covered boards over brown spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear, uneven toning to rear cover faint waviness to pages and slight bleeding and offsetting to author's signature. A lovely copy.- $1,200
- $1,200
America
Warhol, Andy First paperback edition, first printing. Signed by Andy Warhol in black marker on the front cover. Bound in publisher's silver, black and white wraps. Near Fine with light wear, slight water warping to the top corners of the early leaves. A photographic study of America in the eighties.- $950
- $950
The Road to Serfdom
Hayek, F. A. [Friedrich August] First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles on spine, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine with slight lean to the binding, light wear at extremities and soiling to cloth, corners bumped and pushed in. A lovely copy with gilt lettering bright and sharp. An influential exposition on classical liberalism.- $6,500
- $6,500
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
First edition. (First printing with stated "First Edition" and full number line to "2" on copyright page.) xxvi, 196 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, red lettering on front board. Slight bowing to front board, else Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. An exemplary copy-- bright, unfaded, and clean-- of Alinksy's best-known work, commonly referred to as "the bible of community organizing." Death on the Installment Plan
First American edition. [viii], 593 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, red topstain. Near Fine with former owner's name written on paste down in pencil in Very Good dust jacket with price intact ($2.75), worn and a little chipped along edges, spine panel dulled, wear spots to back panel. The French master of dark humor's second novel in its uncommon original dust jacket, featuring a blurb from none other than Leon Trotsky on the back panel. Rebecca
First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and upper board; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to binding, cloth lightly worn at the extremities and spine toned. Pages toned and heavily foxed at textblock edge, prelims and terminals and lighter-so throughout. Les Hindous, ou, Description de leurs moeurs, coutumes et ceremonies
First edition. Complete in four volumes, including all 288 colored plates, four frontispieces, and half titles. Bound in contemporary boards, sympathetically rebacked recently with gilt stamping, morocco labels, touch-ups to corners. Large folios, measuring 17.5" x 23" x 2", with wide margins. Text in French and English. Near Fine, sturdily bound and contents generally bright. Former owner's bookplates to paste downs as well as non-circulating library bookplates and deaccession stamps; limited perforation to margins of around three to four pages per volumes (always in margins of plates when applicable), small ink numbers written on first page of text. Limited foxing. Tissue guards present in Vol. I only, occasionally creased and foxed. Two plates in Vol. I have heavy foxing. A few tiny wormholes to last few dozen pages of Vol. II, mostly marginal. A lavishly illustrated look at India by a Flemish author and artist: its people, their customs, and the subcontinent's flora and fauna. The first volume is devoted to professions; the second to dance, music and customs; the third volume depicts transportation, smoking, and entertainment, and the fourth looks at native flora and fauna. Each plate is accompanied by French text, as well as an English translation by Solvyns' wife, Mary Anne Greenwood. One of the first books printed in color, supplemented by hand coloring. This copy is uncommon for having every single one of its prized plates. The Science of Being
First edition. Signed by Eugene Fersen in gold ink as "Svetozar", dated and inscribed to a former owner on the first blank sheet. Bound in publisher's dark brown faux-alligator leatherette binding over semi-flexible boards, with emblem stamped in gilt on front cover; lacking the box. Good, with wear to binding, wavienss to pages and cloth endsheets a little worn. Very uncommon signed. According to lore, Fersen's mother knew he would be a guiding light to people in the world even before he was born, and would refer to him as "Svetozar," meaning "The Lightbearer." Fersen adopted penning that name publicly when he was volunteering in the Russian Red Cross. Murder in Mesopotamia
First edition, first printing. Bound in modern full green crushed morocco by the Baker Bindery. Near Fine with light tanning to pages, a clean and sharp copy. A fantastic copy of this scarce Agathe Christie novel and one of Hercule Poirot's most famous cases in which he must solve a murder on an archaeological expedition. Hot Water
First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with former owner book plate and shelf stamp to front paste down, his name and date to title page. Creasing to rear free endpaper and hinge there slighly over-opened. In a dust jacket correctly priced 7/6 on the spine, Very Good, with several short closed tears, chipping with some loss at the base of the spine, two pencil marks to the rear panel. Scarce in the correct dust jacket. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up & Ship Me Home
First edition, first printing of the author's first published work. Signed and inscribed to a former owner by Tim O'Brien on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original green paper boards over beige spine cloth stamped in black. Good with staining to covers, small ink stain to textblock edge. Pages tanned and with a few tiny markings to text. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with staining to the blindside, tanning, creasing to the flaps. Time Must Have a Stop
First American edition, first printing. Signed by Aldous Huxley and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt with titles blocked in dark blue. Very Good with light wear and some soiling to cloth. Pages tanned, hinge at title page slightly over-opened and with some light blue smudging to the half-title page, browning from a formerly laid in clipping to several leaves of text. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and light edge wear, fading to the spine panel. Signed copies of the first edition are scarce.