New York: William Morrow, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Beverly Cleary on the half-title. Spunky Emily Bartlett lives in an old farmhouse in Pitchfork, Oregon at a time when automobiles are brand-new inventions and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication, with original watercolor embellishments, by Leo Politi on the front flyleaf. When his family sells its California ranch..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. "At the time of his death in 1586, Sir Philip Sidney left unfinished his project of translating the Psalms of David into English verse, having..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. The present St Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Wren's masterpiece, is the fourth religious building to occupy the site. Its location in the heart of the..... More
New York: Liveright, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. The most important first-hand account of the life and character of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The great Russian novelist's second wife, Anna Dostoevsky kept a diary and notes during their..... More
New York: Samuel French, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Difficulties overtake a well-to-do New York family when they lose all their money in the Great Crash of 1929. Produced on Broadway, this play served as the..... More
Gottingen: Steidl, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Sean Scully on the front flyleaf. "Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as..... More
Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tony Cragg on the title page. The catalogue of a 2013-14 exhibition at the Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole. Cragg (b.1949) is a British..... More
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Eric Fischl on the half-title. An American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman, and educator, Fischl (b.1948) is known for his work depicting American suburbia from the..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the Russian by John Cournos. The first novel in a trilogy concerning a poet who attempts to secede..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006. Hardcover. "With large, full-color reproductions of Rousseau's paintings and many previously unpublished illustrations of his sources and influences, alongside a wealth of new research, this definitive overview provides..... More
London and New York: Merrell, 2008. Hardcover. This book publishes for the first time one of the supreme accomplishments of nineteenth century urban photography, a series of large-plate views of Reconstruction New Orleans entitled La..... More
Milano: Skira, 2004. Hardcover. The stunning photographic reportage of Father Leone Nani (1880-1935) presents early 20th century China as seen through the lens of an "outsider" who brought to life the people, places and traditions..... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Hardcover. Providing the first examination of the roots of the Neo-Dada phenomenon, this groundbreaking study significantly reassesses the histories of these three movements and offers new..... More
Praha or Prague: Ceskoslovensky Spisovatel, 1961. Hardcover. The second edition of Kundera's second book, heavily revised from the original 1955 text. Michelle Woods, in Translating Milan Kundera: Topics in Translation 30 (Multilingual Matters, 2006), says..... More
London: Phaidon, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Steve McCurry on the title page. "This is a portfolio of the best of Steve McCurry's photography - magical and powerful images from South and Southeast Asia..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1920-1977. Hardcover. Various printings, many are first editions. An unbroken run of the series hailed in 1967 as "the oldest continuous record of theatrical activity on Broadway and environs". Mantle founded..... More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. For aristocrats and gentry in 18th-century Ireland, the townhouses and country estates they resided in were carefully constructed to accommodate their cultivated lifestyles. Based..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. A novel of adventure, risk, and romantic extravagance laid in Southern France during the plague year..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the French by Mervyn Savill. A picaresque tale set in "a 'tween war Parisian society", this was the author's first full-length novel..... More
Seattle: The Calvert Company, 1897. First Edition. Wraps. An early pamphlet about the health effects of tobacco on digestion, hair, memory, as well as its impact on intemperance and business and tips on how to..... More
An archive of manuscript documents, letters, and indentures dating between 1735 and 1829 from the Alden family, descendants of a Mayflower passenger, the Hon. John Alden, who was the seventh signer of the Mayflower compact..... More
A group of 30 legal notices for bail, dated between 1798 and 1802, and signed by Jacob de la Montagnie (1765-1823), a member of the New York City Court of Aldermen and one of the..... More
Two manuscript depositions brought before the New York Mayor’s Court in 1799 providing very different accounts of a brawl aboard a boat docked at Cape Francois. A witness for the boat’s captain, George Watson, claimed..... More
Gary Snyder (b.1930) began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the Beat Generation, though he has since explored a wide range of social and spiritual matters in both poetry and prose..... More