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| Antoine Saint-Exupery. Wind, Sand and Stars. 1939. First American trade edition, inscribed in French and signed by Saint-Exupery.$5600. |
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| Charles Lindbergh. Of Flight and Life. 1948. First edition, inscribed by Lindbergh. $3200. |
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| Charles Dickens. Life and Letters of Charles Dickens. 1872. First editions, with six Cosway-style portraits depicting Dickens at various ages. $30,000. |
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Adagio for Piano. 1795. First edition of Mozart’s Adagio in B minor, K. 540. Fully engraved. $12,000. |
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| George Dillaway Sawyer. George Washington. 1927. Limited edition of Sawyer's biography of Washington, one of 300 sets signed by the author. $6000. |
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| Henry David Thoreau. Writings. 1906. Manuscript Edition, handsomely bound and illustrated, one of 600 copies, with manuscript leaf from his journal, entirely in Thoreau’s hand. $22,000. |
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| Mickey Mantle. Mickey Mantle Story. 1953. Early printing of Mantle’s first autobiography, illustrated with 36 early photographs, boldly inscribed, "To Peter, Best Wishes, Mickey Mantle." $6900. |
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| Antony Wotton. Defence of M. Perkins Booke, called a Reformed Catholicke. 1606. First edition in full contemporary calf gilt by royal binder John Bateman for King James I. $7500. |
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| Eric Taverner. Trout Fishing from All Angles. 1929. Signed limited first edition, one of only 375 copies signed by the author, with 30 artificial flies mounted at rear. $5800. |
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| John Steinbeck. Grapes of Wrath. 1939. First edition, first issue, of Steinbeck’s most important novel, winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize. $7000. |
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| Rudolph Ackerman. A History of the University of Cambridge. 1815. First edition, illustrated with 95 superb hand-colored plates. Two folio volumes in morocco-gilt. $13,500. |
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| Walt Whitman. November Boughs.
1888. First edition, first issue, boldly signed by Whitman. This
copy one of only 100 copies prepared at Whitman's expense for presentation.
$9000. |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley. Prometheus Unbound. 1820. First edition, rare first issue, including "Ode to the West Wind" and "To a Skylark," among others. Handsomely bound in contemporary calf-gilt. $8800. |
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| William Shakespeare, Arthur Rackham. The Tempest. 1926. Deluxe signed limited first edition, with 21 full-page mounted color illustrations, one of 520 copies signed by Rackham. $4000. |
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| Sophocles. Electra. 1649. First edition
of the first English translation of any play by Sophocles. $4800. |
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| Edward Burne-Jones. Original Study for The Sirens. 1870. Splendid original chiaroscuro colored chalk drawing, a large preliminary compositional study for The Sirens. $22,000 |
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| Giuseppe Verdi. Il Trovatore. 1853. First authorized edition (and, according to Fuld, first edition), piano-vocal score, fully engraved. $8800. |
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| Charles Wilson. Picturesque Palestine. 1881-83. First edition, with numerous engravings, four folio volumes. $1750. |
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| Charles Darwin. The Voyage of the Beagle. 1839. The great scientist's first bookThe four-volume report of the Beagle's two expeditions, in original cloth and complete with the eight folding maps. $68,000. |
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| Emeric Essex Vidal. Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte
Video. 1820. First edition, with 24 splendid hand-colored aquatint plates. $17,500. |
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