AN EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE DOCUMENTING THE CREATION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS OF JASPER JOHNS’S CAREER, INCLUDING A FINE COPY WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE OF THE COMPLETED BOOK. More about Foirades / Fizzles: The working archive of the collaboration, circa 1966–1992
Price: $145,000 .
An extensive archive of casting and production material from the files of Fred Roos, casting director and Academy Award-winning producer, spanning more than six decades of American filmmaking, 1960s to 2023. More about FRED ROOS CASTING & PRODUCTION ARCHIVE –THE DAWN OF NEW HOLLYWOOD: The Godfather Trilogy;...
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THE ORIGINAL TREATMENT FOR AN UNPRODUCED ERICH VON STROHEIM FILM, REGISTERED IN HIS NAME WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN MAY 1925, IN THE MONTHS BETWEEN GREED AND THE MERRY WIDOW. More about The Crucible: Original Typewritten Treatment, with the State of California Registration...
Price: $9,500 .
![Item #3106 Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]. GEORGE ORWELL](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3106.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1792085173)
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT DUST JACKET. More about Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984
Price: $22,000 .
AN EARLY WORKING DRAFT OF THE 1925 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, PRESERVING THE DARKER SCENARIO UNIVERSAL WROTE BEFORE ITS FRONT OFFICE ORDERED THE TERROR TONED DOWN, AND INCLUDING AN ORIGIN STORY FOR THE PHANTOM THAT NEVER REACHED THE SCREEN. More about The Phantom of the Opera: Early Working Draft Screenplay, with Contemporary Annotations
Price: $20,000 .
FIRST EDITION of Lincoln's historic Cooper Union Address, delivered on February 27, 1860 at the Cooper Institute in New York. The speech is largely credited to having launched Lincoln's Presidential bid. With silver print carte-de-visite of the Brady “Cooper Union” photograph. More about Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, Delivered at the Cooper Institute, Monday, Feb. 27, 1860...
Price: $9,500 .
![Item #3103 Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3103.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791913708)
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE REJECTS THE FIRST GENEVA CONVENTION NINE DAYS AFTER ITS SIGNING: “IT IS LIKE AN OPERA CHORUS”. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS
Price: $30,000 .
![Item #3101 Nouveau Dictionnaire Elementaire. Latin-Francais [Drawings]. HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791821965)
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC’S LATIN-FRENCH DICTIONARY, TRANSFORMED BY THE YOUNG ARTIST INTO A PRIVATE SKETCHBOOK WITH APPROXIMATELY 400 ORIGINAL PEN-AND-INK DRAWINGS. More about Nouveau Dictionnaire Elementaire. Latin-Francais [Drawings
Price: $185,000 .
![Item #3100 Autograph Letter Signed [ALS]. GEORGE WASHINGTON](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3100.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791579043)
A RARE REVOLUTIONARY WAR LETTER WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN WASHINGTON'S HAND, PERSONALLY DIRECTING THE OFFICER WHO RAN HIS SECRET INTELLIGENCE NETWORK. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS
Price: $250,000 .
AN UNPUBLISHED BEATRIX POTTER PICTURE STORY — A REAL FAMILY MISHAP TRANSFORMED INTO ARTHURIAN FARCE. More about Autograph Illustrated Manuscript: King Arthur, the Stuck Buskin, and John Joyner: An Unpublished...
Price: $80,000 .
![Item #3098 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED [ALS] ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT. BEATRIX...](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3098.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791573323)
BEATRIX POTTER ON THE PUBLICATION HISTORY OF PETER RABBIT. More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED [ALS] ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT
Price: $45,000 .
![Item #3097 Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] with Illustrations. BEATRIX POTTER](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3097.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791568165)
A DELIGHTFUL BEATRIX POTTER PICTURE LETTER — A FAMILY COMEDY STARRING HER HUSBAND WILLIAM HEELIS. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS] with Illustrations
Price: $20,000 .
EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE GREATEST WORK IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. More about Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Price: $525,000 .
FIRST ISSUES OF THE FIRST TWO JOURNALS OF CONGRESS (1774, 1775) WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. More about Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. [Bound...
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![Item #3094 Typed Letter Signed [TLS] on the Nature of God. ALBERT EINSTEIN](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3094.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791399476)
ONE OF EINSTEIN’S MOST DIRECT STATEMENTS ON GOD: A POWERFUL AND CONCISE PRECURSOR TO HIS CELEBRATED “GOD LETTER”. More about Typed Letter Signed [TLS] on the Nature of God
Price: $150,000 .
EXCEEDINGLY RARE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF KEROUAC’S MASTERPIECE. More about On the Road
Price: $145,000 .
THE RARE, STUNNING, COMPLETE PORTFOLIO OF 10 LARGE ICONIC SILVER GELATIN PRINTS OF MARILYN MONROE BY PHILIPPE HALSMAN. EXTREMELY RARE ARTIST PROOF: From the collection of John Springer, one of Monroe’s press representatives. This portfolio was given to Springer by Yvonne Halsman at the time of publication. More about Halsman/Marilyn: Portfolio of Ten Photographs of Marilyn Monroe
Price: $15,000 .
EXTRAORDINARY EINSTEIN LETTER IN ENGLISH EXPLAINING SIMULTANEITY, ONE OF THE CENTRAL TENETS OF RELATIVITY THEORY. More about Typed Letter Signed on Special and General Relativity
Price: $90,000 .
THE UNION UNDERGROUND WOMEN’S NEWSPAPER OF CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA: A remarkable Union newspaper written and edited by three young Quaker women inside Confederate Virginia — this issue prominently endorsing Abraham Lincoln for reelection. More about The Waterford News
Price: $9,500 .
AN EXTRAORDINARY PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILHELM GRIMM TO ONE OF THE WOMEN WHO CONTRIBUTED TALES. A remarkable survival connecting the published Grimm canon directly to one of the women who helped create it, this copy bears both Wilhelm Grimm's presentation inscription to Amalie Hassenpflug and her own..... More about Kinder- und Hausmärchen [Children's and Household Tales; Grimm's Fairy Tales
Price: $210,000 .
FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ALL THREE VOLUMES. More about The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. WITH: The Two Towers. WITH: The Return of the...
Price: $95,000 .
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Ernest Rutherford's announcement of the splitting of the atom and the discovery of the proton. One of the most significant papers of 20th-century science. PMM 411. More about Collision of alpha Particles with Light Atoms, Parts I-IV (complete
Price: $11,000 .
![Item #3085 Typed Letter Signed [TLS]. WALTER GROPIUS, BAUHAUS](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3085.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790704692)
WALTER GROPIUS ON THE FOUNDING OF THE BAUHAUS. More about Typed Letter Signed [TLS
Price: $20,000 .
THE SIGNED AND HEAVILY REVISED MANUSCRIPT REPORT, WORKING NOTES, AND TRACINGS THROUGH WHICH FRANCE’S MOST CREDENTIALED HANDWRITING EXPERT ATTRIBUTED THE BORDEREAU TO ALFRED DREYFUS. Working Papers of Étienne Charavay, Expert en Écriture: Charavay’s Report, Working Notes, & Traced Specimens of Dreyfus’s Own Hand (Paris, October 1894). More about THE DREYFUS AFFAIR – FORENSIC DOSSIER OF THE BORDEREAU
Price: $125,000 .
![Item #3083 Aan de Gaskamer Ontsnapt! [Escaped the Gas Chamber!]. ROSA DE WINTER-LEVY](https://manhattanrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3083.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790371717)
First edition of Rosa de Winter-Levy’s 1945 Auschwitz memoir, one of the earliest published survivor accounts, with important firsthand testimony concerning Anne Frank's family. More about Aan de Gaskamer Ontsnapt! [Escaped the Gas Chamber!
Price: $3,500 .
