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| Henry Chadwick. Beadle's Dime Base Ball Player. 1870. Rare 1870 edition, containing club records and statistics for 1869. $2600. |
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| James Joyce. Finnegans Wake. 1939. First edition, one of 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce, with the original slipcase. $23,000. |
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| Roald Dahl. James and the Giant Peach. 1961. Early printing, of Dahl’s classic children’s book, beautifully illustrated in color by Nancy Burkert, inscribed: "Philip. Love, Roald." $6000. |
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| Florence Nightingale. Organization of Nursing. WITH: Army Sanitary Administration. First editions of two of Florence Nightingale’s important works, one from the library of her friend, author Harriet Martineau. $5000. |
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| Sepher Mateh Aharov. 1710. Handsome Frankfort edition of the Haggadah, illustrated with 14 copperplate engravings. $6500.
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| Langston Hughes. Typed Poem Signed. 1950. Typed poem "Request for Requiems", signed by Hughes. $2300. |
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| J.D. Salinger. Catcher in the Rye. 1951. First edition of Salinger’s first book, in first-issue dust jacket with photograph of Salinger on the back panel. $8500. |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. 1925. First edition of this landmark of 20th-century fiction. $4000. |
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| Evans Walker. Message from the Interior. 1966. First edition of Evans' stirring images of life in the American heartland, inscribed by him.Includes twelve folio full-page photogravures. $12,000. |
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| Johnanna Spyri. Heidi. 1885. First American edition and the first obtainable edition in English (generally considered the first in English), later state, of this children’s classic, a copy from the files of the publisher. $4200. |
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| D. H. Lawrence. Autograph manuscript poem. Autograph manuscript of the poem "Bombardment," entirely in Lawrence's hand. $9000. |
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| Georges Bizet. Carmen. 1875. First edition, first issue of Bizet's masterpiece. $12,500. |
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| Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1876. "Author’s Edition," one of 600 copies signed in ink on the title page by Walt Whitman. $12,000. |
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| Ernest Shackleton. Check Signed. 1914. Original check signed by Shackleton, framed with a portrait. $4800. |
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| Ernest Shackleton. Photograph: 'D. Armytage & R. Priestly at Britter Point'. 1908. Splendid large original silver gelatin photograph depicting Armytage and Priestley posing before their tent at Britter Point. $7000. |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville. Democratie en Amerique. 1839. Early mixed editions of Tocqueville’s classic work, beautifully bound. $4800. |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Democratic Book 1936. 1936. Signed limited first edition, number one of an unknown limitation signed by President Roosevelt. Large folio volume. $6000. |
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| Ludwig van Beethoven. Variations Pour
le Piano-Forte [Opus 35]. 1803. First edition, fully engraved, of the
"Eroica" variations, preceding and prefiguring the finale of his
"Eroica" Symphony by one year. $15,800. |
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| Duke Ellington. Photograph Inscribed. 1943. Vintage publicity photograph of Ellington, inscribed by him. $1700. |
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| Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises. 1926. First edition, first issue, a presentation/association copy inscribed by the dedicatee, Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson. Without the very scarce dust jacket. $25,000. |
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