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Arthur Rimbaud. Season in Hell. 1986. One of only 40 folio sets with original photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe, initialed, numbered and dated by him. $20,000.

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Kay Thompson. Eloise. 1955. First edition of the first and rarest book in the beloved Eloise series. $4000.


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Albert Einstein. The World as I See It. 1934. First edition in English, signed and inscribed in German by Einstein in the year of publication. Accompanied by a vintage snapshot of Einstein taken in the same year. $18,000.

Henry Ellis. Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China. 1817. First edition, with beautifully hand-colored plates and maps (one large folding). Quarto volume in morocco-gilt. $4500.

Jackie Robinson. Baseball Has Done It. 1964. First edition, inscribed and signed by Robinson. $5800.

 
F. Andre Michaux. North American Sylva WITH: Nuttall’s continuation. Philadelphia, 1859. Altogether, five volumes. Lovely early edition of Michaux’s landmark work and its continuation by Nuttall. $16,500.

Randolph Churchill, Martin Gilbert. Winston Churchill. 1966-88. First editions of the official biography of Winston Churchill, eight illustrated volumes handsomely bound in morocco-gilt. $4800.
Robert Frost. New Hampshire. 1923. First edition, association/presentation copy, signed by Frost and inscribed by him to a friend. $9000.

Abraham Lincoln. Proclamation on Emancipation. 1865. Original large lithographic broadside of the Emancipation Proclamation, with a portrait of Lincoln and border vignettes. $7800.

Paul Gaugin. Noa Noa, Voyage de Tahiti. 1926. Limited first edition, one of only 80 special publisher's copies bound in full morocco, lavishly illustrated with watercolors, woodcuts and photographs by Gaugin. $12,000.

Michel de Montaigne. Essays. 1613. Second edition in English of Montaigne's masterpiece, handsome folio volume in early 17th-century calf binding. $13,000.

James Joyce. Haveth Childers Everywhere. 1930. Beautiful first edition, one of only 100 copies signed by Joyce. An exceptional copy in original paper wrappers and slipcase. $23,000.

Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 1968. First edition of Clarke's science fiction classic, signed by him. $4000.

Jefferson Davis. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. 1881. First edition of Davis' important history of the Confederacy, with maps and plates. Two volumes in publisher's morocco. $2200.

Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest. 1899. Scarce first edition of Wilde's last and greatest play, one of only 1000 copies printed. $4800.

Norman Maclean. A River Runs Through It. 1976. First edition of Maclean's first book, signed by him. $6000.

Beatrix Potter. The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. 1909. First edition, wonderfully illustrated in color. $2000.