SOLSTADEN (Sun City) - - First Printing, Hand-Signed by Tove Jansson by Jansson, Tove - 1974

Borzoi Books/ Alfred A. Knopf NY, 2004. HBDJ, 2004, Stated First Edition, 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright page, BRAND NEW, UNREAD! CONDITION: Near Mint, The dust jacket is in very fine/new condition, showing no shelf wear, not price-clipped. blue embossed Cloth with Gold Gilt Titles on Spine, The book is in very fine/new condition, very tightly bound. No writing or markings inside the book other than the autograph. No remainder. No pages are missing or bent. Not ex-library, 959 pgs, + Index. the 42nd president of the United States reveals, for the first time and in his own words, how he sees his life and career. MY LIFE is a 900+-page work that is ambitious in scope, yet very conversational in tone. Clinton speaks fondly of his early years in Hope, Arkansas, . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

(np): (np), 1973. Finished pencil drawing on 12 x 15 inch white poster board. Signed and dated "1973" and titled "Study for Tithymalian Landscape" by Moser at the bottom of the drawing. This drawing was done in preparartion for his wood engraving of the same name. Three small faint discolor spots (perhaps coffee spots) one of which is in the drawing, and faint toning along the top edge; reverse top left quarter has Moser's pencilled study-in-progress of a housefront facade. Near Fine condition.. Signed & Dated by Illustrator. Unbound.

London: John Murray, 1847. Second Edition. Complete in 3 Volumes. Published London: John Murray, 1847. x+518, xii+520, xii+552, illustrated with 600 woodcuts by Harvey and illuminated titles for each volume by Owen Jones. Bound in brown cloth with black leather spine labels. Previous owner's name emboss in tiny letters (approximately 6 point size) at bottom of half and title pages, and last sheet of each volume. A very good set. Bindings tight, unworn.. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. Signed hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1955. 8vo., xi+306pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles and designs. Inscribed by Niebuhr on the half title: "to Susan & Bob on their wedding day, Best wishes, Reinhold Niebuhr". Some rubbing to the gilt titles, offsetting from NY Times Book Review clipping on Niebuhr laid in, else very good, clean, bright in very good dust jacket with a small chip off the rear panel and wear at the extremities. . Signed by Author. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Signed first edition. 2 volumes finely bound in crimson 3/4 morocco by Stikeman with raised bands and gilt titles. Power's autograph signature bound in. Published London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Large 8vo., 6" x 9", xv+440pp.; vi+408pp., with half titles and frontispieces etched by Hervieu present. Marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Name plate of noted collector Benjamin DeForest Curtiss on front pastedown of each volume. Power was a well known Irish comedian, actor and author. He toured the Eastern U.S. extensively and was lost at sea returning home from his last tour of 1841. He was great-grandfather of the Hollywood actor of the same name. Pages clean and bright white, page block crisp. Minor rub/scuff at extremities. A fine set in an elegant binding.. Signed. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

New York: New Directions, 1955. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF- Tennessee Williams- New Directions- New York- 1955- 1st Edition-1st Printing-1st State without credit to the New York Times on verso of title page, and without credit to Jo Mielziner on xii- Hardcover:-8vo- VG++-Near FINE/VG+ dj is price clipped, original tan cloth is clean, tight and square- jacket design by Alvin Lustig has minor chipping at head and foot of spine, top edge and lower right corner, no tears, bright and clean, in mylar.- xiv, 1-197, complete, clean, no tears or writing- SEE PHOTOS- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Critics Award for best play of the 1954-55 season. This is the first issue. Made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, and Judith Anderson. The film received a host of Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Newman), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Elizabeth Taylor)- Fiction-drama-play-movie-tie-in-Americana… Read More

Grove Press, Inc. New York. 1968. LIMITED EDITION. FIRST FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.6). Copy number 61 of just 92 copies reserved for La Librairie des Éditions, out of 189 copies in the total edition. A fine copy with the page edges still uncut. Publishers white paper wraps printed in blue and black. Original glassine around the wraps. A lovely copy, and scarce in such nice condition, of the first printing of Beckett's translation. Although written during 1944, Watt wasn't published until 1953 and it was another 15 years before he completed this much anticipated French translation.

O.H. Oldroyd. . 1901. Cloth, octavo, xviii and 305 pp. Foldout map attached at rear, in good shape. This edition was limited to 250 copies . This is recorded as 175. 305 pages. Illustrated with photos. Cardstock engraved plate of Lincoln and fold-out map are present. . Limited 1st Edition. 1901. Osborn Oldroyd (1842-1930) was one of the great collectors and early researchers on Lincoln and lived in Lincoln's Springfield home for several years in the 1880s. He accumulated thousands of items related to the president, many of which are at the Ford's Theater Lincoln Museum today. As part of this account Oldroyd describes personally retracing the route of John Wilkes Booth's flight, with a folding map of the route laid in. 82 illustrations including photographs from Oldroyd's collections, with an introduction by Thomas Maley Harris, a Union general who was on the commission to try the Lincoln conspirators and also authored books on the assassination. Signed by Author .

1908 SIGNED 1ed FAUST Goethe POGANY Tragedy Devils Illustrated English Hayward

The esteemed prolific artist, Willy Pogany puts his talents on full display with his artwork in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's telling of the iconic German legend, 'Faust.' It was translated by Abraham Hayward and include all 31 full-page color plates by Willy Pogany.
Only a mere 250 copies were made of this rare, 1908 limited edition. This specific copy is hand-numbered 196 of 250 and includes Willy Pogany's signature!
Item number: #40568
Price: $750
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von; POGANY, Willy (Illus.); HAYWARD, Abraham (Transl.)
Faust by Goethe
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1908. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
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[2], xx, 209, [3]
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31 color plates (includes frontispiece)
· Provenance:
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Illustrator's Signature – Willy Pogany
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Ex-library copy
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~11.25in X 9.25in (28.5cm x 23.5cm)
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NY: Whittlesey House, 1950. First edition. Blue cloth. Good. Worn at extremities; spine ends lightly frayed, mild bump to text block. INSCRIBED TO GENERAL A.C. WEDEMEYER: " To: General A.C. Wedemeyer, USA. A colleague during the war years and an outstanding General officer of the army where the standard is of superlative quality--with affectionate regards. William D. Leahy, Fleet Admiral. June 1950." With Wedemeyer's bookplate.