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1774. First Edition . KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. Sketches of the History of Man. Edinburgh: W. Creech
W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, in London, 1774. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full tan polished calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $8800.First edition of the work that the Kames himself referred to as his ""magnum opus,"" a ""major synopsis of Enlightenment philosophical anthropology,"" two quarto volumes in contemporary polished calf.""Kames was perhaps the most complete 'Enlightenment man' among the 18th-century Scottish thinkers. In print, in conversation and in correspondence, he concerned himself with the whole spectrum of human knowledge and its applicability to his society. He wrote extensively on agricultural and horticultural matters, just as he wrote on everything else
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Sketches of the History of Man
by KAMES Henry Home, Lord
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Elements of Criticism
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1762. First Edition . KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. Elements of Criticism. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell
A. Millar, London, 1762. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine labels. $6000.First edition of Lord Kames' comprehensive philosophical and aesthetic treatise, desirable in unrestored contemporary calf.The Elements of Criticism is the most important result of the Scottish aesthetic movement, and ""the most comprehensive work on aesthetics of the 18th century since Du Bos' Réflexions critiques of 1719"" (translated from Dobai, Die Kunstliteratur des Klassizismus und der Romantik in England II, 115). ""In Elements of Criticism (1762) Kames sought to propound the fundamental principles of criticism drawn from human nature"" (ODNB), and the work ""became a textbook in rhetoric and belles-lettres for a century, not least in America"" (Yolton, et al., Dictionary of…
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Archive of offprints, speeches, and extracts, many inscribed
by POPPER Karl R.
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1947. First Edition . Signed. POPPER, Karl. Archive of offprints, speeches, and extracts, many inscribed . London, St. Albans, Oxford, Edinburgh, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Barrie & Rockliff, Fisher, Knight, Basil Blackwell, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Karl Popper, 1947-89. Seventeen offprints, lectures, and extracts. Octavo to folio, sewn and staple-bound as issued. Housed together in a custom cloth clamshell box. $17,500.Rare and exceptional archives of 17 Karl Popper offprints, lectures, and extracts spanning his career from the late 1940s through the 1980s, ten inscribed on the front wrappers by Karl Popper.This extraordinary archive comprises 17 archives, lectures, and extracts10 inscribedfrom some of the most fruitful years of Karl Popper's career: 1947 to 1989. The content touches on topics such as functional logic; the gap between ignorance and knowledge; and the search for truth as an essential part of mastery of a discipline. Karl Popper is viewed as ""one…
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1969. Signed. HEPBURN, Katharine. Autograph letter signed. [France]: July 30, [1969]. One sheet of yellow ruled paper, 8-1/2 by 14 inches, written on recto for one page. $5500.Excellent Katharine Hepburn handwritten letter with wonderful fashion content, discussing her preference for wearing pants, and meeting Coco Chanel in preparation for her Broadway role: ""She again impressed me very much and the clothes are classic & dignified & lovely materials. She loathes pants
She's a good sense of humor & lots of get up & go for 87. She's incredible. Does the whole collection herself."" Also mentions British photographer, set and costume designer Cecil Beaton: ""Beaton a pig."" Signed ""K-.""Written to her friend and faithful correspondent Meta Stern, Hepburn discusses going to Paris and meeting with clothing designer and fashion icon Coco Chanel. Hepburn was to begin rehearsal for the new…
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Bridge to Terabithia
by PATERSON Katherine
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1977. First Edition . Signed. PATERSON, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1977). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,000.Most exceptional first edition of the quintessential children's book about loss, signed by Katherine Paterson and specially annotated by her with over 1300 handwritten words describing the writing process and her experiences after publication, all intended to bolster this copy's value for a Christie's auction to benefit the PEN/American Center.""Paterson, who has already earned regard with her historical fiction set in Japan, proves to be just as eloquent and assured when dealing with contemporary American childrenand Americans of very different backgrounds at that. Jess, from an uneducated family in rural Virginia, has been practicing all summer to become the fastest runner at schoola reputation more desirable than his present image as 'that crazy little kid who…
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Porgy and Bess
by GERSHWIN George SWIFT Kay
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1935. First Edition . Signed. GERSHWIN, George. Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts. By George Gershwin. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. New York: Random House, 1935. Folio, original full red morocco, raised bands, black leather label on front cover, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $48,500.Deluxe limited edition of the piano-vocal score of Porgy and Bess, number 103 of only 250 copies signed by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and director Rouben Mamoulian, additionally inscribed by Gershwin to his lover Kay Swift, who was intimately involved in the composition of the piece: For Kay / Best / George / Nov. 1 1935. According to Ohl, best, their code word for love, allowed them to be discreet.This deluxe edition of the piano-vocal score (according to Fuld, no orchestral score has ever been published) was published in 1935, the year of Porgy and…
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Eloise (four books)
by KNIGHT Hilary THOMPSON Kay
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1955. First Edition . Signed. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. WITH: Eloise in Paris. WITH: Eloise at Christmastime. WITH: Eloise in Moscow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955-59. Together, four volumes. Slim folios, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, original dust jackets. $12,000.First editions of all four of Thompson's popular ""book for precocious grown ups"" and its sequels published in her lifetime: Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmastime and Eloise in Moscowthe rare first book inscribed on the front free endpaper, ""For Gil Golding from the authorKay Thompson."" A desirable set.""While still on tour with the Williams Brothers sometime around 1950, [singer] Thompson had arrived late to a rehearsal one night and playfully apologized to the crew in a high little girl voice, identifying herself as a six-year-old named Eloise. The character became a recurring joke, and Thompson played the part of the mischievous child
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by KESEY Ken
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1962. First Edition . Signed. KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking, (1962). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $12,500.First edition of Kesey's most ""popular and enduring"" work, a distinctive presentation copy inscribed by him in red and black ink, ""for N Ken Kesey,"" in original dust jacket, housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.""Ken Kesey's first novel remains his most popular and enduring
Cuckoo's Nest resonates with the classic theme of the individual rebelling against the controlling forces of society"" (Books of the Century, 98). On publication in 1962, ""Time magazine called Cuckoo's Nest 'a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them"" (New York Times). Adapted to the stage in 1963, with Kirk Douglas in the lead, the novel was the basis for…
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Dombey and Son
by DICKENS Charles BROWNE Hablot Knight
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1846. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original green printed paper wrappers. Housed in custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $5500.First edition, first issue in scarce original parts of Dickens' novel of ""Pride,"" with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (""Phiz""), including the famous first ""dark plate."" An excellent copy in the original parts, with all of the advertisements called for.For its inclusion of fairy-tale themes and the much discussed demise of Paul Dombey, Dombey and Son ""has a sense of the numinous, is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things, than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception, so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end, so that…
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Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by DICKENS Charles BROWNE Hablot Knight
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1838. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1838-39. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original printed green wrappers neatly respined or repaired. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell box. $7800.First edition, first issue, in original parts of one of Dickens' most popular works, illustrated with 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (""Phiz""). A nicely refurbished copy with almost all of the advertisements present.The plot, the characters, the dialogueindeed ""everything about [Nickleby] has the feel of theatre; it is as if Dickens saw human life conducted among lights of the stage, making it somehow large and brighter than the reality"" (Ackroyd, 283). Illustrated with 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (""Phiz"") and an engraved plate of Dickens after a portrait by Daniel Maclise in the final part. First issue text: Part 4 with…
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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
by DICKENS Charles BROWNE Hablot Knight
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1843. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. His Relatives, Friends, and Enemies. London: Chapman and Hall, January, 1843-July, 1844. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original pale bluish-green printed paper wrappers. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $8500.First edition in original parts of Dickens' picaresque novel of ""farce, melodrama, and social criticism,"" with 40 full-page etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (""Phiz""). An excellent copy in the scarce and desirable original partscomplete with all advertisementshandsomely boxed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.First issued in 20 numbers from January 1843 to July 1844, Martin Chuzzlewit reflects the disillusionment Dickens felt from a recent trip to the United States, his first American reading tour. As Fielding had sent his Tom Jones to London, Dickens ""adopted the same radical expedient of sending his youthful…
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Personal History of David Copperfield
by DICKENS Charles BROWNE Hablot Knight
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1849. First Edition . DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observations of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849 to November 1850. Twenty parts in nineteen. Octavo, original pale bluish-green printed paper wrappers, neatly respined. Housed in custom chemise and slipcase. $15,000.Scarce first edition in the original parts of Dickens' ""largely autobiographic"" masterpiece, with additional vignette title-page, frontispiece and 38 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne (""Phiz""). An excellent copy in the original wrappers, with most advertisements present. From the library of Danish-American actor and noted bibliophile Jean Hersholt, with his signed bookplate and shelf label.""The first of Dickens' big books to be written in the first person, and it is looked upon as being largely autobiographic. Though the original sales were comparatively smallnot exceeding 25,000the later…
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