“THEIR ARCHITECTURE BEARS SILENT WITNESS”

BANKA, Pavel. Terezin-Mansfield / Mansfield-Terezin. Prague, 2003.

First edition of this souvenir booklet from Banka’s 2003 expedition at the National Gallery in Prague, with 25 full-page photographs, 13 in color. $125.

“AN INVALUABLE RECORD OF THE PERIOD”

EVELYN, John. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn. London, 1854. Four volumes. Mid 19th-century edition of Evelyn’s diaries and correspondence, with three engraved plates and a folding genealogical chart, handsomely bound. $450.

“OH, THIS IS HEAVINKLY, PERFECTLY HEAVINKLY!”

WOOLF, Michael Angelo. Sketches of Lowly Life in a Great City. New York and London, 1899.

First edition of a collection of Woolf’s late 19th-century cartoons, with over 150 black-and-white sketches of street urchins that inspired the first newspaper comic strips. $600.

“WARM SPRINGS IS A PLACE CLOSE TO THE HEARTS OF MANY”

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. Typed letters signed. Hyde Park and New York, Hyde Park, March 19, 1951; Hyde Park, July 8, 1952; Hyde Park, February 23, 1954; and New York, January 24, 1956.

Exceptional series of four typed letters signed by Mrs. Roosevelt to Miss Temple Williams, an African-American nurse from Alabama, turning down the offer of a ham; offering good wishes to those attending a nurses' meeting at Warm Springs; providing possible topics for a retirement speech at Warm Springs on nursing; and expressing happiness at Williams' retirement and hoping that she will be active in the future. $4200.

"THE GREAT PROBLEM POSED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION"

(CONSTITUTION) STEWART, Alvan. Legal Argument… for the Deliverance of 4,000 Slaves. New York, 1845.

First edition of Alvan Stewart's powerful Legal Argument testing slavery's persistent lawfulness in New Jersey nearly two decades before the Civil War, this very elusive work "an amazing combination of history, morality, law, politics, philosophy and constitutional analysis"—demonstrating "slavery must be understood… as a legal institution"—in original wrappers. $1800.

KNIGHT'S LONDON, SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED

(LONDON) KNIGHT, Charles. Knight's Cyclopaedia of London, 1851. London, 1851.

First edition of this encyclopedic survey of London, presumably produced to coincide with the Great Exhibition of 1851, richly illustrated and very handsomely bound in full contemporary morocco-gilt. $950.

1823 LAND INDENTURE SIGNED BY ARTIST AND NATURALIST RUBENS PEALE

PEALE, Rubens. Document signed. Philadelphia, October 13, 1823.

Original land indenture signed by naturalist and painter Rubens Peale. $350.

WITH 32 SPLENDID PHOTOGRAVURES OF CHILDREN

(WALTHER, Hedda) EIPPER, Paul. Menschenkinder. Berlin, 1930.

First edition of this lovely photobook on childhood, with text in German by Paul Eipper and 32 black-and-white photogravure plates by Hedda Walther. $300.

“THE EVENT EXCITED THE KEENEST INTEREST IN BOTH HEMISPHERES”

(BOXING). Original Boxing Lithograph. London, 1860.

Original lithograph printed in color depicting the World Championship boxing match between Tom Sayers and John Heenan held at Farnborough on April 17, 1860, one of the most exciting and famed events in the history of pugilism. $3500.

PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION COPY OF PARIS + KLEIN, INSCRIBED BY KLEIN

KLEIN, William. Paris + Klein. (Paris), 2002.

First edition, French issue, a scarce association copy inscribed on the title page to Klein’s longtime friend, Paris-based photojournalist Peter Turnley, with the inscription written as a continuation of the title Paris + Klein “+ Peter with all best & très amicalement, Bill Klein [drawn line] William Klein, Paris 2005,” featuring hundreds of full-bleed images (many double-page), a bold, colorful celebration of Paris. $850.

EXCEPTIONAL FIRST FOUR ISSUES OF VERVE, AMERICAN EDITION, 1937-1939

TÉRIADE, Efstratios (ELEFTHERIADES, Efstratios). Verve. Paris, 1938-1939.

First American editions of the second, third and fourth issues of Verve, published in Paris from 1938-39, featuring cover art by Braque, Bonnard and Rouault, original lithographs by Miró, Chagall, Matisse, Derain, Kandinsky and Klee, along with numerous héliogravure photographs (including Bill Brandt and Brassaï), first appearances of select writings by Hemingway and Joyce, and articles by Lorca, Sartre, Gide, Bataille, Malraux and Valéry. Assembled in a single folio volume with the three original lithographic front covers bound in. $2200.

FIRST EDITION OF GRISAR’S MIT KAMERA, WITH THE BAUHAUS DESIGN OF JAN TSCHICHOLD

(TSCHICHOLD, Jan) GRISAR, Erich. Mit Kamera und Schreibmaschine durch Europa. Berlin, 1932.

First edition of this first photobook by Grisar, an exceptional record of Europe at a turning point in the early 1930s, one of the first books designed by Bauhaus typographer Jan Tschichold, who soon fled Nazi German for England, where he “revolutionized typographic conventions” with his redesign of Penguin Books, featuring 101 full-bleed photogravures. $225.

"WOMEN HAVING ONCE GOTTEN THE POLLS WILL HAVE THEM TO THE END… THAT IS THE END OF OUR NEW-BORN, MORE BENEFICENT CIVILIZATION"

BUSHNELL, Horace. Women's Suffrage; The Reform Against Nature. New York, 1869.

First edition of this passionate 19th-century Christian-based argument against women's suffrage, in original cloth. $400.

"THE BEST OF ALL THE BOOKS ON WALES"

[PUGH, Edward]. Cambria Depicta. London, 1816.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated tour of North Wales, written in "a lively and entertaining style," with 71 fine hand-colored aquatints. This copy richly extra-illustrated with the inclusion of 23 hand-colored aquatints from Compton's Northern Cambrian Mountains of 1820, for a total of 94 hand-colored aquatint plates. A handsomely bound copy. $6200.

"TO MARK… WHO WAS SUCH A PLEASANT PART OF THAT LOVELY TWENTY FOUR HOURS"

STEIN, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. New York, 1934.

First edition of this collection including Stein's impressions of famous 1930s personalities, inscribed to the Virginia journalist Mark Lutz, Stein's friend and the partner of one of Stein's closest friends, Carl Van Vechten (who shot the cover photograph for this book): "To Mark, Who so pleasantly kept the numbers(?) of all these lovely photographs, and was such a pleasant part of that lovely twenty four hours. Gertrude Stein." $1800.

“A GREAT DEAL OF POLITICS AND PIETY”

(STEELE, Richard, et al.). The Guardian. London, 1804 [1814]. Two volumes.

Later edition of one of the leading series of 18th-century British periodical essays, handsomely bound by Lauriat. $600.

INSCRIBED BY RONALD REAGAN TO A DECADES-LONG PENPAL

REAGAN, Ronald and HUBLER, Richard G. Where's the Rest of Me? New York, 1965.

First edition, first printing, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ballachino In friendship and with every good wish. Sincerely Ronnie Reagan." $4600.

"THE WHIP, THE GUN, OR PISTOLS, WERE COMPANIONS OF THE OVERSEER"

CAULKINS, Nehemiah. Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins. New York, 1849.

First separate edition of Caulkins' devastating Narrative documenting slavery's unrelenting brutality on a North Carolina plantation, exceptional in original self-wrappers. $1600.

JANE AUSTEN'S LANDMARK FIRST NOVEL, IN COMIC-BOOK STYLE

BUTLER, Nancy. LIEW, Sonny, illustrator. Sense and Sensibility. New York, 2010. Five issues.

First printing of the beloved story as reimagined in graphic novel form by an award-winning writer and artist. $950.

"STRIP A MAN'S BACK AND PINCH HIS BELLY, AND YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD TEST OF HIS PATRIOTISM"

(AMERICANA). Bricktop's Comic History of America. New York, 1884.

First edition of this illustrated comic (and heavily fictionalized) history of the United States from Western discovery to the end of the Civil War, in original wrappers. $700.