HELMHOLTZ, HERMANN VON. On Discontinuous Movements of Fluids

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, in original wrappers, of what is generally recognized as the earliest paper on hydrodynamic stability. Preceded by the printing in German of the same year.
$850.00    (photos & details)

 

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

RARE FIRST PRINTING of Tolkien's "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun".
$600.00    (photos & details)

 

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. The Rambler

FIRST EDITION, complete with all 208 issues, of Johnson's famous installments of wit and wisdom. With rare first issue title pages.
$5,000.00    (photos & details)

 

MOTHERWELL, ROBERT. Madrid Suite, Number 8 [H]

ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL, one of only 100 signed and numbered by Motherwell.
$3,900.00    (photos & details)

 

MOTHERWELL, ROBERT. Madrid Suite, Number 7 [G]

ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL, one of only 100 signed and numbered by Motherwell.
$3,900.00    (photos & details)

 

MOTHERWELL, ROBERT. Madrid Suite, Number 9 [I]

ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL, one of only 100 signed and numbered by Motherwell.
$3,600.00    (photos & details)

 

MOTHERWELL, ROBERT. Madrid Suite, Number 1 [A]

ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL, one of only 100 signed and numbered by Motherwell.
$2,500.00    (photos & details)

 

CATHER, WILLA. Lucy Gayheart

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WILLA CATHER, one of 749 copies printed on Croxley Rag Paper.
$500.00    (photos & details)

 

CATHER, WILLA. My Mortal Enemy

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 220 COPIES SIGNED BY WILLA CATHER.
$850.00    (photos & details)

 

GEIGER, HANS. RUTHERFORD, ERNEST. MARSDEN, ERNEST. An Electrical Method of Counting the Number of Alpha-Particles from Radio-active Substances; The Charge and Nature of the Alpha Particle; On a Diffuse Reflection of the Alpha Particles; et al.

FIRST PRINTINGS of papers by Rutherford, Geiger, and Marsden reporting the results of the famous experiments on alpha particle scattering- the basis for the discovery of the atomic nucleus and Rutherford’s model of the atom; also describing and documenting the invention and use of what would become known as the “Geiger counter” to detect atomic particles.
$2,200.00    (photos & details)

 

THOMSON, J.J. Cathode Rays

FIRST EDITION OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE ELECTRON, one of the most important events in modern physics.
$3,900.00    (photos & details)

 

BASKIN, LEONARD. Man With Clasped Hands

RARE WOODCUT by Leonard Baskin, number 7 of only 10 impressions SIGNED, NUMBERED, AND TITLED BY BASKIN.
$1,200.00    (photos & details)

 

BURTON, TIM. Martian

SIGNED COLOR LITHOGRAPH, number 84 of 100 signed and numbered by Tim Burton in pencil at the lower margin.
$1,350.00    (photos & details)

 

DICKENS, CHARLES. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS of Dickens's final work, left unfinished at the time of his death. Illustrated with 14 plates by Luke Fildes.
$1,100.00    (photos & details)

 

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. Winesburg, Ohio

FIRST EDITION of Anderson's highly influential masterpiece; one of the great highspots of American Literature.
$1,350.00    (photos & details)

 

ELIOT, T.S. Journey of the Magi

FIRST EDITION, one of only 350 deluxe copies printed on Zanders' hand-made paper and issued in stiff decorated boards, of one of Eliot’s finest and most important poems, Number 8 of The Ariel Poems series. Illustrated with two drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer (one in color). An out-of-series unnumbered copy.
$300.00    (photos & details)

 

KHAYYAM, OMAR. FITZGERALD, EDWARD. POGANY, WILLY. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

A SUPERBLY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, number 43 of 525 copies printed on Japon vellum and SIGNED BY WILLY POGANY. With 24 tipped-in color plates.
$2,800.00    (photos & details)

 

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

A LOVELY EDITION IN A FINE FULL MOROCCO BAYNTUN & RIVIERE BINDING, beautifully illustrated with tipped-in color frontispiece and 21 color plates by noted Victorian artist William Hatherell.
$800.00    (photos & details)

 

WINOGRAND, GARY. The Animals

FIRST EDITION OF WINOGRAND'S FIRST BOOK.
$450.00    (photos & details)

 

FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The Sound and the Fury

FIRST EDITION in a fine binding by Asprey, of Faulkner's first great work, one of the most original and influential novels in American literature.
$2,400.00    (photos & details)

 

GRANT, ULYSSES S. Autograph of Ulysses S. Grant

Fine signature of Ulysses S. Grant, framed and matted with engraved portrait.
$750.00    (photos & details)

 

SHANNON, CLAUDE. The Synthesis of Two-Terminal Switching Circuits

FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Claude Shannon's influential paper on computer logic and switching circuits.
$600.00    (photos & details)

 

RICHTER, GERHARD. Olympia

OFFSET COLOR LITHOGRAPH POSTER SIGNED BY GERHARD RICHTER.
$1,550.00    (photos & details)

 

WARHOL, ANDY. Liz

OFFSET COLOR LITHOGRAPH on cream wove paper. From a publicity photograph of Elizabeth Taylor, c.1960.
$2,100.00    (photos & details)

 

WARHOL, ANDY. Neuschwanstein

COLOR SCREENPRINT BY ANDY WARHOL.
$2,200.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. The Song of Songs

RARE lithograph poster, SIGNED AND DATED BY MARC CHAGALL in pencil ("Marc Chagall / 1975"). One of a small number of artist proofs printed on Arches vellum.
$3,400.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. The Four Seasons

ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH poster by Marc Chagall, created for the unveiling of a large mosaic of Chagall, The Four Seasons, commissioned for a public site in Chicago.
$2,400.00    (photos & details)

 

CHAGALL, MARC. Romeo and Juliet

STRIKING LARGE COLORFUL INTERPRETIVE LITHOGRAPH by Chagall of a detail from his ceiling for the Paris Opera.
$3,900.00    (photos & details)

 

CHURCHILL, WINSTON. The Second World War

FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, SIGNED BY WINSTON CHURCHILL.
$8,500.00    (photos & details)

 

RAND, AYN. Atlas Shrugged

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Ayn Rand's masterpiece, one of the most influential books of the century.
$2,400.00    (photos & details)

 

MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA. One Hundred Years of Solitude

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION AND FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY GARCIA MARQUEZ ON THE TITLE PAGE. First printing in the first issue dust jacket (with exclamation point on front flap).
$7,000.00    (photos & details)

 

LOWRY, MALCOLM. Under the Volcano

FIRST EDITION of Lowry's masterpiece; the basis for the 1984 John Huston film starring Albert Finney.
$3,500.00    (photos & details)

 

BARNES, JULIAN. Metroland

FIRST EDITION of Barnes's breakthrough debut work, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for a first novel. The basis for the 1997 Philip Saville film starring Emily Watson and Christian Bale.
$400.00    (photos & details)

 

MILLER, ARTHUR. A View from the Bridge

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ARTHUR MILLER on front free endpaper, "Arthur Miller / Feb. 1958".
$1,250.00    (photos & details)

 

O'BRIEN, JOHN. Leaving Las Vegas

FIRST EDITION, the basis for the 1995 Mike Figgis film starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue.
$300.00    (photos & details)

 

CARVER, RAYMOND. Cathedral

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY RAYMOND CARVER.
$550.00    (photos & details)

 

HOOKER, RICHARD. HORNBERGER, H. RICHARD. M*A*S*H

FIRST EDITION, the basis for the 1970 Robert Altman movie, with screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr., and of course, the legendary television series.
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$200.00    (photos & details)

 

ORWELL, GEORGE. Nineteen Eighty-Four

FIRST EDITION, elegantly bound, of Orwell's classic novel, of great influence on twentieth-century thought.
$1,100.00    (photos & details)

 

PIRSIG, ROBERT M. Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

FIRST EDITION of Pirsig's best-selling classic; often cited as the most widely-read philosophy book of modern times.
$350.00    (photos & details)

 

HERLIHY, JAMES LEO. Midnight Cowboy

FIRST EDITION, the basis for the classic 1969 Academy Award winning film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
$225.00    (photos & details)

 

COLLINS, BILLY. Pokerface

LIMITED FIRST EDITION, 1/400 COPIES, SIGNED BY BILLY COLLINS.
$2,600.00    (photos & details)

 

PICASSO, PABLO. Suite of 180 Drawings by Picasso

FIRST EDITION of the English language issue of the special double issue of Verve 29/30 dedicated to Picasso.
$2,500.00    (photos & details)

 

MCMURTRY, LARRY. Terms Of Endearment

FIRST EDITION, the basis for the 1983 Academy Award winning film starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson.
$250.00    (photos & details)

 

MCCARTHY, CORMAC. No Country For Old Men

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MCCARTHY. One of an unspecified (but very limited) number of first edition copies issued by Knopf with Mccarthy's signature on a special publisher's tipped-in leaf.
$1,100.00    (photos & details)

 

MORRISON, TONI. Sula

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MORRISON on half-title: "For David / Regards / Toni Morrison"; Morrison's highly acclaimed second book, a finalist for the National Book Award.
$1,850.00    (photos & details)

 

EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung [On the Quantum Theory of Radiation]

First printing in Physikalische Zeitschrift, the first formal journal publication and likely the first obtainable printing (following the very rare 1916 appearance in Mitteilungen der Physikalischen Gesellschaft Zurich) of Einstein's development of his derivation of Planck's law and the theoretical basis for the laser. Weil *91 (this printing).
$1,500.00    (photos & details)

 

KOONING, WILLEM DE. ROSENBERG, HAROLD. de Kooning

FIRST EDITON, number 56 of 100 copies SIGNED BY DE KOONING on half-title.
$3,000.00    (photos & details)

 

POE, EDGAR ALLEN. The Murders in the Rue Morgue

FIRST PRINTING OF POE'S The Murders in the Rue Morgue, along with first printings of four other stories by Edgar Allen Poe.
$1,700.00    (photos & details)

 

EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption. WITH: Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewgung und die Tragheit der Energie

FIRST EDITION of two important Einstein papers, including one of the two papers on his Noble Prize winning work on the photoelectric effect.
$2,200.00    (photos & details)

 

RUSSO, RICHARD. Empire Falls

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY RICHARD RUSSO.
$280.00    (photos & details)