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UPDATED:   April 20, 2013

 

Books by Tennessee Williams:

The Night  of the Iguana; 1st edition with dust jacket.  $150

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone; 1st edition with dust jacket; $60.

Period of Adjustment; 1st edition with dust jacket; $35*

The Night  of the Iguana; 3rd printing with dust jacket.  $45*

Suddenly Last Summer; 1st edition with dust jacket.  $95*

* These books are from the library of Kathleen Nolan and bear her signature on the title page.  Kathleen Nolan starred in the Real McCoys and was the first woman president of the Screen Actors Guild.

 

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TOYS IN THE ATTIC; SIGNED by Lillian Hellman; 1st edition with unclipped dust jacket.  $275.

    

To Kill A Mockingbird; Harper Lee; 7th Impression, 1960.  With 7th impression price-clipped dust jacket.  $250.  SOLD

 

JURASSIC PARK; SIGNED gift edition; 1993; with acetate cover.  $150.

   

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS; signed 1st edition with unclipped dust jacket.  $200.

JUSTINE ; Lawrence Durrell; 1st edition in unclipped dust jacket.  $200.

THE ELEPHANT MAN;  Inscribed by Ashley Montagu.  1st edition with unclipped dust jacket.  $75.00

 

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George Santayana; The Last Puritan:  A Memoir in the Form of a Novel.  New York, Scribner, 1936.  1st edition with Scribner logo and "A" on copyright page.  Unclipped dust jacket.  Has a reprint from the Book of the Month Club newsletter inserted.  $250.

 

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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE - 14 volumes, 12 titles, uniformly bound in half-morocco, with top-edges gilt, marbled end-papers.  All 1st editions.  All volumes contain the bookplate of Cornelia Otis Skinner.  

Individual titles sold separately or as a set:

Nemesis of Faith; London, John Chapman, 1849.  $175.

The Pilgrim: A Dialogue on the Life and Actions of King Henry the Eighth; London, Longmans, Green, 1861.  $125.

The English in Ireland; 3 volumes; London, Longmans, Green, 1872-1874.  $450.

Caesar; London, Longmans, Green, 1879.  $125.

Two Lectures on South Africa; London, Longmans, Green, 1880.  $75.

Oceana or England and her Colonies; Illustrated; London, Longmans, Green, 1886.  $125.

The English in the West Indies or The Bow of Ulysses; London, Longmans, Green, 1888.  $125.

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon; London, Longmans, Green, 1891.  $75.

The Spanish Story of the Armada and Other Essays; London, Longmans, Green, 1892.  $75.

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century; London, Longmans, Green, 1895.  $125.

Lectures on the Council of Trent; London, Longmans, Green, 1896.  $100.  SOLD

My Relations with Carlyle;  London, Longmans, Green, 1903.  $100.

 

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APOLLO - An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean; The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998.  1st edition. Signed by Apollo XII Astronauts Alan Bean, Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon.  Unclipped dust jacket.  $650.  Sold.

 

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VOYAGER; Jeana Yeager, Dick Rutan and Phil Paton; New York, Knopf, 1987.Unclipped dust jacket.  Signed by George Rutan, Irene Rutan, Burt Rutan, Dick Rutan and Jeanna Yeager.  $95.  Sold.

 

We also have photographs signed by Astronauts Eugene Cernan, David Scott and Frank Borman.  SOLD

 

 

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The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; William Knighton.  London, Longman, Brown, et al., 1845.  Full leather, prize binding.  

 

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Three Years in California; J.D. Borthwick.  Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1857.  Full leather, prize binding.  All 8 lithographs present.  $650.

 

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Sketches of the Religious History of the Slavonic Nations - Being a Second Edition of His Lectures on This Subject, Revised and Enlarged; Count Valery Krasinski.  Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter 1851.  Full leather, prize binding.  $150.

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Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice from St. Helena; Barry E. O'Meara.  London, SImpkin and Marshall, 1822, 4th edition.  Two volumes, leather, recently rebacked.  $175

 

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A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker; Washington Irving.  New York, C.S. Van Winkle, 1824.  4th American Edition.  Two volumes in one.  Full leather.  $250.

 

 

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M. Tulii Ciceronis Opera Ad Optima Collata Editio Accurata; Biponti, Ex Typographia Societatas, 1780.  Thirteen volumes in quater leather over marbled boards.  Inlcudes the hard to find 13th volume which includes the Clavis Ciceroniana of Ernesti.  Dibdin I, 407; Schweiger II, 109. $495.00


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Q. Horatius Flaccus cum commentarius Selectissimis variorum: & scholis integris; Ex Officina Hackiana; 1663. Full vellum.  Dibdin, II, 99.  $195.00

 

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Novels  of James Fenimore Cooper; new York, Putnam, Knickerbocker  Press.  Red Rover edition, top edges gilt; 32 volumes, green cloth.  $195.00

 

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Natural Arrangement of British Plants; Samuel F. Gray; London, Baldwin, Craddaock & Joy, 1821.  Two volumes in Publisher's Boards  All 21 color plates present (Plate XI detached).  $395.00

 

 

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Popular History of British Crustacea; Adams White.  London, Lovell, read, 1857.  green library bidning, with usual library marking including pocket in rear but no stamps or markings on the 20 color plates. $175.00 

 

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Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-1865); "Prepared in Accordance with Acts of Congress, Under the Direction of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army", Government Printing Office.  Six volumes in green cloth.  Volume I, 1870; Volume II, 2nd issue, 1879; Volume III, 1888, Volume IV, 1870; Volume V, 2nd issue, 1877; Volume Vi, 1st issue, 1883.  Volumes I through V in good condition; Volume VI (the 1st Issue) is in fair condition with some water marks to the page edges that do not affect the plates.  There are three Volumes on Medicine (Medical Volume Part First, Part Second and Part Third) and three volumes on Surgery (Surgical History, First Part, Second Part, Part Third).  $1,500

 

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Life Histories of North American Birds from the Parrots to the Grackles; Charles Bendire; Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. XXXII, Washington, DC, 1895;  "with seven lithographic plates." 

Life Histories of North American Birds with Twelve Lithographic Plates; Charles Bendire; Government Printing Office, 1892.

Both volumes have paper covers and are maintained in labeled book boxes.  $295.00