FIRST EDITION. This landmark work marks the birth of the commercial software industry, a critical moment in the digital revolution. Gates’ letter is the software equivalent of Steve Jobs’ prescient insight, on the hardware side, that personal computers could be a mass market consumer product for everyday people and not..... More about An Open Letter to Hobbyists
Price: $9,500 .
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DRAMATIC NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY BERENICE ABBOTT; IN UNUSUAL AND EVOCATIVE VERTICAL FORMAT. More about View of Exchange Place from Broadway, New York [Photograph Signed
Price: $8,500 .
LARGE PORTRAIT OF WARHOL. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. NO. 24 OF 25. More about Andy Warhol (Los Angeles, 1986
Price: $8,500 .
THE FIRST LEGAL EDITION OF ULYSSES IN THE UNITED STATES. Complete with the printing of Judge Woolsey’s landmark decision legalizing the book. More about Ulysses
Price: $1,650 .
RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Arthur Conan Doyle’s second-ever Sherlock Holmes novel, from the library of Vincent Starrett, renowned Doyle biographer and charter member of the Baker Street Irregulars. Includes Starrett’s bookplate and ownership signature. More about <i>The Sign of Four</i>
Price: $12,500 .
ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH – AND RARE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH – OF JAMES JOYCE, signed by photographer Gisèle Freund. From the famous Time Magazine photoshoot. More about Photograph of James Joyce
Price: $4,900 .
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND TWICE SIGNED BY HOUDINI: “To Frederick H Young / Best wishes / Houdini / Sept 19. – 1924 / 1:30 AM.” Additionally signed “Houdini” on dedication page. More about A Magician Among the Spirits
Price: $8,900 .
FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING OF THE PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, setting a date for the freedom of more than three million enslaved in the United States and reframing the Civil War as a fight against slavery. Issued by the War Department to regimental commanders in the field during the Civil War in..... More about General Orders, Containing General Order No. 139, the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Price: $11,000 .
COMPLETE EDITION OF THOREAU’S WORKS WITH TWO-PAGE MANUSCRIPT LEAF IN THOREAU’S HAND. IN ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDINGS. More about <b><p style="color:DarkGreen;">The Writings of Henry David Thoreau</b>
Price: $16,000 .
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UNIQUE, AND IMPORTANT GARRISON ANTI-SLAVERY MANUSCRIPT. Demonstrates his poignant and steadfast commitment to the anti-slavery cause and the origin of his collaboration with British abolitionists. Precedes the critical National Anti-Slavery Convention held in Philadelphia in December 1833. APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. More about Autograph Manuscript Signed [AMS] : <i>Appeal to the Friends of Abolition in...
Price: $14,500 .
FIRST EDITION, FIRST BINDING of Stevens’ first book of poetry. More about <h1 style="color:DarkBlue;">Harmonium</h1>
Price: $2,500 .
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ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN LETTERS FROM ROOSEVELT’S TIME IN THE NY STATE ASSEMBLY. Demonstrates TR’s skill and tenacity as a Republican political organizer and civic leader. More about Autograph Letter Signed [ALS
Price: $9,800 .
A CLASS DIVIDED: A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES OF WEST POINT ALUMNI SOON TO BE DIVIDED BY THE CIVIL WAR. WITH: FINELY DRAWN INK MAP OF WEST POINT BY ALEXANDER STEWART WEBB AND ELEGANT WATERCOLOR VIEW. FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEB STUART. More about USMA West Point Class of 1854 Signatures. WITH: Original Ink-Drawn Map and Watercolor View
Price: $60,000 .
SCARCE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST STATE WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BINDING of one of the first and most influential detective novels. A beautiful copy. Note: We can find no other examples of the first issue with first state ads in public auction records. More about The Woman in White
Price: $12,500 .
UNPARALLELED COLLECTION CHARTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF GAME THEORY ACROSS THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY. Click on the PDF to view the complete list of the collection's contents. More about <p style="color:DarkGreen;"><i><b>Fighting Chances:</b> The...
Price: $90,000 .
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EXTREMELY RARE COMPLETE SUITE OF SEVEN LARGE SILVER PRINTS FROM EINSTEIN’S FAMOUS PHOTO SHOOT AT PRINCETON WITH ROMAN VISHNIAC. Each print is signed by Vishniac and dated “At Princeton 1942” in his hand below the image and numbered on the back. More about Einstein at Work [Suite of Seven Photographs
Price: $45,000 .
Mars and the Imagination: A monumental and carefully curated collection of over 900 works of both fiction and non-fiction tracing the history of our understanding and obsession with the Red Planet. To begin exploring the collection, please see our description available on this page under "View the Collection" More about <b><p style="color:FireBrick;">Mars and the Imagination:</b> A...
Price: $975,000 .
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, of Babbage’s scathing and sensational critique of the English scientific establishment. An important association copy, inscribed by Babbage to Joseph Nicolas Nicollet: “To M. Nicollet / from the Author”. More about Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes
Price: $4,500 .
FIRST EDITIONS OF MILLER’S CELEBRATED PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY OF THE CIVIL WAR. AN EXCEPTIONAL SET IN THE ORIGINAL WOODEN SHIPPING CRATE, DUST JACKETS, AND WITH ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL. More about The Photographic History of the Civil War
Price: $3,900 .
THE ULTIMATE OSCAR WILDE QUOTATION, DEFINING ART AS THE SECRET OF LIFE: “We spend our days, each of us, looking for the secret of life. Well, my friends, the secret of life is in art”. More about Autograph quotation signed
Price: $85,000 .
FIRST EDITION, A SUPERLATIVE COPY, WITH PRESENTATION CARD FROM DOYLE'S ATHENAEUM CLUB, WITH NOTE IN HIS HAND. More about The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Price: $9,500 .
THE MOST IMPORTANT OBTAINABLE COPY OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: “TO STANNIE | JIM” ONE OF THE FIRST PRESENTATION COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF ULYSSES, INSCRIBED BY JAMES JOYCE TO HIS BROTHER STANISLAUS. More about Ulysses
Price: $1,250,000 .
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Rand’s masterpiece; INSCRIBED BY RAND TO LUDWIG VON MISES: “To Dr. and Mrs. Ludwig von Mieses- / -Cordially- / Ayn Rand / 8/22/57”. A spectacular association copy linking two of the most influential economic figures of the twentieth century. More about Atlas Shrugged
Price: $145,000 .
FIRST EDITION OF BACON’S MOST REVEALING BOOK, INSCRIBED BY BACON ON HALF-TITLE: “To Carlos Peacock / with all very best wishes / Francis Bacon. / London 22/11/77”. More about Interviews with Francis Bacon
Price: $2,900 .
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF BOTH PARTS of The Faerie Queene, one of the foundational works of English Literature. More about The Faerie Queene
Price: $55,000 .
