Typed Letter Signed [TLS]
IMPORTANT AND REVEALING LETTER BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ON HIS LITERARY INFLUENCES AND GROWTH AS A WRITER. More about Typed Letter Signed [TLS
Price: $35,000 .
IMPORTANT AND REVEALING LETTER BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ON HIS LITERARY INFLUENCES AND GROWTH AS A WRITER. More about Typed Letter Signed [TLS
Price: $35,000 .
WONDERFUL C.S. LEWIS LETTER RESPONDING TO A YOUNG FAN ABOUT THE NARNIA SERIES. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS
Price: $7,800 .
FIRST EDITION of the famous "EPR" paper, one of the most discussed and debated papers of modern physics. WITH: Bohr's response. More about Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? [Einstein,...
Price: $8,900 .
FIRST EDITION OF THE RAREST RUSCHA BOOK; ONE OF ONLY AN ESTIMATED 200 COPIES. IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION. More about Dutch Details
Price: $20,000 .
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF ONE OF THE FOUNDATION WORKS OF POLITICAL THEORY. PMM 138. More about Leviathan, or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill
Price: $22,500 .
FIRST EDITIONS OF TWO MASTERPIECES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. More about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. WITH: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Price: $11,500 .
FIRST EDITION of Vannevar Bush's landmark paper credited for originating the idea of hypertext and, by extension, providing many of the theoretical underpinnings for the world wide web. More about As We May Think
Price: $2,900 .
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT. More about Jean-Michel Basquiat Drawings
Price: $9,500 .
A remarkably complete collection of works documenting the history of the theory of communication of information – what ‘information’ actually is, and what are the theoretical restrictions on the accurate transmission of information from source to receiver. More about Communication / Information Theory: A Collection
Price: $90,000 .
FIRST APPEARANCE OF ELIOT'S "PRUFROCK", a landmark event in modern poetry. This publication in the June 1915 issue of Poetry Magazine precedes the book edition by two years. More about The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Price: $8,500 .
– A MAJOR TOLKIEN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ON THE CENTRAL THEMES OF HIS WORK AND CONTAINING A VARIANT HISTORY OF THE FIRST AGE; LIKELY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT IN PRIVATE HANDS – A VISUALLY STUNNING HAND-DRAWN CHART, “KINSHIP OF THE HALF-ELVEN,” TRACING THE GENEALOGY FROM FËANOR TO ELROND, ARWEN, AND ARAGORN..... More about Autograph Manuscript “Concerning ‘The Hoard’". WITH: Autograph Manuscript Genealogical...
Price: $375,000 .
A REMARKABLY REVEALING LETTER: TOLKIEN DISCUSSES HIS SPECIFIC FEARS ABOUT THE TWO TOWERS AND DEFINES “THE FOUNDATION” OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND CONNECTS IT TO HIS LIFE’S WORK. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] on The Lord of the Rings
Price: $48,000 .
EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE PUBLICATION, TOLKIEN ANXIOUSLY INTRODUCES HIS MASTERPIECE, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, TO A FAN OF THE HOBBIT. More about Typed Letter Signed [TLS] introducing The Lord of the Rings
Price: $37,500 .
ORIGINAL, HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT DRAWING OF THE YOUNG VIRGINIA STEPHEN BY FRANCIS DODD. DODD’S WORK FROM HIS 1907-1908 SITTINGS WITH WOOLF ARE THE ONLY EXTANT LIKENESSES OF HER FROM THIS PERIOD. FROM THE BENJAMIN SONNENBERG COLLECTION. More about “Miss Virginia Stephen”: Large Charcoal Drawing of Virginia Woolf
Price: $80,000 .
FIRST EDITIONS, with All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing signed and inscribed by McCarthy. More about All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain [The Border Trilogy
Price: $4,900 .
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Pauli's influential paper demonstrating the superiority and validity of the new quantum mechanics. More about Über das Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik [On the Hydrogen Spectrum...
Price: $3,800 .
OVER 100 PHOTOGRAPHS (with some duplicates) from the archives of the Wide World Photos (later the Associated Press) documenting Einstein’s life. Taken together, the collection – photographs with individual explanatory captions – serves as a biography in pictures through the eyes of the press and is a valuable primary source..... More about Archive of Photographs
Price: $23,500 .
A REMARKABLY EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF A UNION SOLIDER, INCLUDING DIARIES FROM 1861-1865 SPANNING HIS ENTIRE CIVIL WAR CAREER. THE SOLDIER, CHARLES E. SMITH, PARTICIPATED IN SOME OF THE MOST CRITICAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR, INCLUDING THE SEIGE OF VICKSBURG, THE FALL OF ATLANTA, AND SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA. More about “A View from the Ranks”: The Civil War Diaries and Manuscripts of Charles E. Smith, 32nd Ohio...
Price: $95,000 .
INSCRIBED BY PICASSO IN RED AND BLUE CRAYON TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER, CECIL BEATON: “pour Cecil Beaton. Ami Picasso 9.6.65.”. More about Photograph: Self-portrait with Picasso, 1965
Price: $20,000 .
CATALOG FOR THE LANDMARK ARTISTS IN EXILE EXHIBITION, SIGNED BY ALL 14 ARTISTS, INCLUDING ANDRÉ BRETON, MARC CHAGALL, MAX ERNST, AND PIET MONDRIAN. More about Artists in Exile
Price: $14,000 .
SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Khrushchev's 'Secret Speech' Which Attacked Stalinism and Changed the Course of World History. More about O Kulcie Jednostki I Jego Nastepstwach [The Personality Cult and its Consequences
Price: $7,800 .
One-of-a-Kind Beatles Images Portend the End of an Era. More about Contact Sheet of Rare Beatles Photographs, Candlestick Park, 1966
Price: $22,000 .
THE RISE OF PHOTOJOURNALISM AND MASS-MEDIA HELP MAKE HEMINGWAY ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S FIRST AMERICAN INFLUENCERS. More about Over 100 Press Photographs that Helped Define Hemingway’s Public Image
Price: $12,500 .
A collection of unpublished letters with outstanding content and inscribed books establishing the close friendship John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine shared with theater director John Fearnley. The correspondence is lengthy, writerly, and warm, and the inscriptions humorous and joyful. The letters, largely undated, map primarily to their time in..... More about Archive Including Autograph Letters Signed; East of Eden; The Red Pony; Travels with Charley; et al
Price: $95,000 .
ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH BY YOUSUF KARSH, INSCRIBED BY KENNEDY IN INK ON THE IMAGE. More about <b>Large Format Portrait Photograph of John F. Kennedy, signed by Kennedy</b>
Price: $8,500 .