Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter vellum spine and tan paper over boards with gilt lettering. 111pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with faint edgewear, rubbing and age toning to binding (only). Attractive first edition, with colophon limiting to 125 numbered..... More
Champaign: Sagamore Publishing, 1989. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xvi, 265pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition of the memoir of this famed University of Illinois basketball coach (1932-2020) -- with enormous inscription and signature in gold ink ("To Dick -- Happy Fathers /..... More
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. Hardcover. Illustrations by W.A. Dwiggins. Small 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering, rules and decorations and grey decorative paper over boards, green gilt-sprinkled paper-over-boards slipcase with paper spine label. 495pp. Top edge gilt. Full-page illustrations, decorations. Fine/very good. Volume is remarkably, uncannily bright and..... More
Sir Robert was an Irish astronomer whose lectures, articles and books such as "The Story of the Heavens" (1885), "The Story of the Sun" (1893) and "The Great Astronomers" (1895) popularized this science; he served as Royal Astronomer of Ireland from 1874 to 1892. ANS, 6¼" X 4" (lettersheet), n.p...... More
This French aristocrat was a pioneering physicist who made important contributions to quantum theory with the notion of pilot waves or De Broglie waves, later known as the De Broglie-Bohm theory; in 1924 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. ANS, 1p, heavy stock 3 3/3" X 2¼" card..... More
This "cool jazz" pioneer was a jazz pianist and jazz composer extraordinaire, classics such as the wildly popular and influential "Take Five" memorable for its unusual 5/4 time signature. PS,heavy stock glossy 10" X 8", n.p., n.y. Fine. Handsome candid head-and-shoulders shot of a smiling older Brubeck, signed large and..... More
Danish-born American tenor, known for Wagnerian roles, who also appeared in a handful of films from the late '40s and early '50s. PS, 5½" X 3½", n.p., n.y. Fine. Handsome formal head-and-shoulders portrait of a smiling older Melchoir in tux and bemedaled chest, signed large and bold in red ballpoint..... More
The third daughter of Queen Victoria married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and acted as her mother's occasional secretary; she founded the Princess Christian Nursing Home at Windsor. ALS, 2pp (lettersheet), 7" X 4½", Cumberland Lodge, 16 April 1889. Addressed to "Molly." Near fine. Mounting traces on blank fourth leaf. On..... More
Chicago: Fred Benjamin Millett, 1931. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue wrappers. (26pp). Fine. Published in December '31 and thus possibly as a Christmas keepsake, this pristine self-published pamphlet is the first separate printing of an essay originally published in "The University of Chicago Magazine." Waxing poetic on the occasion of a...... More
Amsterdam: Apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge, 1674. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full calf with gilt spine lettering and rules, compartments, inner dentelles. (20pp), 360pp, (58pp index), 328pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, numerous engravings and woodcuts (some full page), head- and tailpieces, marbled endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Very good. Binding..... More
Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Dan Muller. Small 8vo. Brown leather-pattern paper over boards with orange lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 248pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Lightly age toned pages, as usual. Tight, attractive example of Whitman #2303 -- and a remarkably unusual..... More
Chicago: Willett, Clark & Company, 1937. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with black spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 111pp. Woodblock prints, decorated endpapers. Near fine/very good. First edition. Dickinson's powerful woodblock prints illustrate this novel about four people caught up in the Mexican Revolution. Signed by author and..... More
Garden City: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1961. Paperback. Edited by Theodor H. Gaster. Small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xx, 426pp. Very good. Tight and attractive first of this revised single-volume abridgment of the influential comparison of mythology and religion by the Scottish anthropologist first published between 1890 and 1915. Two-column..... More
[New York]: Time-Life Books, [1982]. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed calf with gilt lettering. 498pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, decorations, marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Very good. Very mildest of edgewear. Tight, handsome facsimile of the scarce 1894 Pacific Tree and Vine Co. first edition. Part of this..... More
These lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters collaborated for well over half a century on numerous Broadway and Hollywood musicals and comedies, an unmatched phenomenon that earned the duo Academy Award, Grammy Awards and Tony Awards. Pair of signatures on fine, matching heavy stock 5" X 3" cards -- she signs in..... More
Television's "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-66) and then "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-77) not only earned this American actress multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, but catapulted her to fame and influence as social advocate. IPS, glossy 8" X 10", n.p.,, n.y. Fine. Lovely head-and-shoulders portrait of a...... More
The first-ever black Secretary of State (under George W. Bush, 2001-05) was a noted general in the U.S. Army and served as National Security Advisor under Reagan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H.W. Bush (1989-93). Superb color PS, glossy 8" X 10," n.p., n.y. [inked..... More
This French composer produces religious ---- and piano pieces, then transitioned to operattas; he committed suicide by jumping into the Seine River. ALS, 2pp, heavy stock 4½" X 3½" correspondence card. Addressed to Madame Comtesse de Montozon. Very good. Lightly age toned. Not translated, though clearly discussing music matters, with..... More
This conservative jurist served as 15th Chief Justice of the United States (1969-86), replacing Earl Warren. Three TNsS (each signed with a large, bold "WEB"), each 7¼" X 9½", Washington, DC, 26 November 1974 / 15 May 1975 / 14 January 1980. Addressed to Marvin S. Sadik. Fine. On "Supreme..... More
This major general of the French Revolution began as a dragoon in the King's Regiment in 1772 and by 1792 had risen through the ranks to become captain commanding the Quatre-Nations Company of Hunter Carabineers; in 1793 he was promoted to brevet major general in command of the 16th military..... More
Legendary U.S. Air Force fighter pilot of World War Two, the Korean War and Vietnam War best known as the first test pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947. Signed broadside, heavy stock 16½" X 11", Chicago, IL, n.y. [1985]. Very good. Mild overall wear. White card stock promotional..... More
Herrin, IL: Trovillion Private Press, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue paper over boards with paper labels. xii, 53pp. Frontispiece, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Paper labels lightly sunned, else tight and handsome. Beautiful copy of this slim volume of commentary and advice on sundials, lovingly printed on fine paper. Husband and..... More
The much-lauded American author and screenwriter whose genres include sci-fi, fantasy, horror, mystery and others penned such classics as "The Martian Chronicles" (1950), "Fahrenheit 451" (1953) and "I Sing the Body Electric" (1969). Color PS, heavy stock glossy 8" X 10", n.p., 21 November 1997. Fine. Handsome candid closeup of..... More
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1893. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. vi, 64pp. Top edge gilt. Single illustration. Near fine. Bright and tight, with gilt as fresh as the day published, this superb first edition about the Civil War and its aftermath in the South bears the..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan cloth with ornate gilt lettering and elaborate brown and black rules and decorations. iv, 418pp. Floral endpapers. Very good. A tight and handsome later printing (undated, but circa 1890) of this tale first published in 1863, a "New Edition" from this..... More