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SIGNED by Roger Daltry, one of only 500 copies Numbered/Slipcased Limited First Edition of his memoirs in spectacular, highly collectible, unread condition. "You'll never make anything of your life, Daltrey," promises Mr. Kibblewhite, nemesis-like, as he expels 15-year-old Roger Daltrey from Acton County Grammar in West London. Sixty years later, with the title of his new memoir, Daltrey offers a tip of the hat. Or a middle finger. Same thing, at this distance" (New York Times). A beautiful copy, #71 of 500. Book #Cv2202. $600. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

"Receive these sighs to thee my soul I breathe. Fond love in dying groans is all I can bequeathe." Scarce second edition, published anonymously like the first edition, one year prior, of The Dying Negro, "the first significant piece of verse propaganda directed explicitly against the English slave systems". Using a range of rhetorical devises from elegy to prosopopoeia, the dying speaker addresses his beloved, his master, the gods of Africa, and the Christian God, in registers ranging from the sentimental to the polemical to the vengeful, inaugurating a new kind of mortuary poetics. 4to, rebound in modern paper over boards. No writings, markings or bookplates of any kind. Verso of last page with some very light soiling, overall clean. An extremely good copy of this early and important abolitionist poem. Book #Cv2327. $1298. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by DeLong on front free endpaper. An evidently unread copy in a very good jacket with some bumping, toning, and a closed tear on the back panel. Scarce signed in this condition. Book #v5a3233. $78. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history and science.

SIGNED by DeLong on front free endpaper. An evidently unread copy in a very good jacket with some bumping, toning, and a closed tear on the back panel. Scarce signed in this condition. Book #v5a3233. $78. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history and science.

Limited edition, #372 of 750 copies, numbered by the author. Leatherette, 8vo, top edge gilt, xvi, 272, [6] pp, frontispiece and 28 plates. Approximately 100 entries. Leatherette, 8vo, top edge gilt, xvi, 272, [6] pp, frontispiece and 28 plates. A revised and enlarged edition of Eckel's 1913 work "The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values." A Bibliography".v Approximately 100 entries. A Eckel provides a great deal of bibliographic detail for identification of true first editions. According to Dickens scholar Duane DeVries: "Eckel's work still stands, despite criticism of its writing style and its errors, as the standard modern bibliography of Dickens's writings, though one directed more toward collectors than scholars.One can easily see why the volume is both praised and criticized. On the one hand, it provides far more information about the works it considers than any previous bibliography had, and it covers the entire range of Dickens's works, from the major novels to… Read More

SIGNED on a laid in paper bearing only Dickens' clear signature, First Edition of his immortal Oliver Twist, the first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. First published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book on November 9, 1838 before the serialization ended. 3 vols. Volume one with the plate list inserted after title (not found in all copies); Bound in later 19th century 1/2 calf over marbled boards, with marbled page ends. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE in book form, meeting all points as per Eckel and Smith, including the later canceled "Fireside" plate in volume 3. Smith 1, 4; Eckel 59. Ownership inscription of Grace Pfeifer to front endpapers. In 2008, Christie's sold a signed first of Oliver Twist, inscribed directly to the book for $229,000. Book #Cv2105. $10,000. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by both authors, a fine First Edition pre-publication book party copy of the authors' Consultations with publisher's materials laid in. Written as a Q and Q exchange between patient and doctor, Consultation addresses common questions about procedures, costs, degree of improvement, and the possibility of psychological problems and other complications with regard to face lifts, nose, ear, eyelid, breast, and body surgery, hair transplants, and scar corrections. Offers early answers on cosmetic improvement with illustrations. Unclipped jacket has some light toning and handling. Exceptional SIGNED copy of a 45+ year old book! Book #Cv2353. $79. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

First Walter J. Black (1942) edition issued in a limited run in matching cardboard slipcase. Two volumes, both about fine, in a worn slipcase. "Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment reveals the soul of a criminal all the way down to his philosophical premises" (Ayn Rand, 1969). Book#P5b196. $100. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

First Walter J. Black (1942) edition issued in a limited run in matching cardboard slipcase. Two volumes, both about fine, in a worn slipcase. "Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment reveals the soul of a criminal all the way down to his philosophical premises" (Ayn Rand, 1969). Book#P5b196. $100. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED and Inscribed by Kirk Douglas to son Michael Douglas, Typed manuscript, Locked Doors, unbound. "Second Draft with rough changes 9-11-91" on title page. Handwritten inscription by Kirk Douglas on his personal letterhead: "Michael--This is my new novel. Maybe, up in Aspen, you'll find time to read it ---and get a good rest in Aspen. --- Love --- Dad" An extraordinary Association Copy of unpublished Kirk Douglas to his son, Michael Douglas. This is the stated second draft of Douglas's novel "Locked Doors", which was extensively edited before publication as "The Gift," Douglas's second novel, the following year (1992). Kirk Douglas was "the last living screen legend of those who vaulted to stardom at the war's end, that special breed of movie idol instantly recognizable anywhere, whose luminous on-screen characters are forever memorable" (Jack Valenti, then president of the Motion Picture Association of America). As an actor, Douglas had a most enduring career, lasting from his impressive film… Read More

Inscribed to pianist Van Cliburn on Title page. First Edition of the actress' intense personal memoir recounting her dedicated journey from the NY stage to her Oscar-winning performance in Moonstruck and beyond, punctuated with memorable bumps in the road. A beautiful UNread copy in an UNclipped jacket with minor soiling at the top of the front right panel. Book#Pv4318. $125. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Unpublished Manuscript by Alexandre Dumas pere, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, often called the greatest French Romantic novelist.. "He had great gifts of narrative and dialogue, a powerful imagination… [and] a genius for seizing the situations and characters that would best render historical atmosphere. He wrote with unflagging gusto and an instinctive conviction… that 'l'action et l'amour' were the essential things in life, hence in fiction" (Reid, 196). Dumas' reputation as France's premier adventure writer and a forefather of popular fiction is evidenced in this manuscript which makes spectacle of Nero's "taste for debauchery" and briefly recounts the story of Sporus, the teenage boy whom Nero gelded, dressed up as a female, and later married. Fascinating full-page fragment of Dumas' take on the "infamous gossips and adulterers" of Ancient Rome. A few chips and repairs. Book #Cv1111. $4500. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.