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New York: Putnam’s, 1954. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Signed by Lynch and player Bob Thorpe.

San Francisco: Beaune Press, 1964. First Edition; wrappers; one of 222 copies; inscribed by publisher Dickensheet to Nathan Bengis. Fine.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1935. First Edition; basis for the film of the same title. Presentation copy, inscribed in September, 1935, signed by the author, with a drawing of a howling dog, captioned “Bugle Ann.” Aside from some minor stains, very good in dust jacket.

New York: Putnam’s, 1937. First American Edition of this superb satire, a 20th century Gulliver’s Travels. Near fine in a very good, chipped dust jacket.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937. First English Edition of a superb, unjustly neglected satire that might deserve mention in the same sentence as Gulliver’s Travels. Nearly very good; with the small bookplate of designer/artist Rudolph Ruzicka.

Based on a Poe story. Seventeen pages, typed; contracting Karloff’s services with Amalgamated Productions, dated May 5, 1958. Signed in full on the last page and initialed “BK” at a half dozen ink changes. In excellent condition.

Two pages, initialed by Karloff on the first page and signed in full on the second. This letter relates to credit on the Universal Pictures production. Staples and punch holes at the top edge; excellent condition.

A one page agreement for a radio play, dated October 6, 1949. Signed in full by Karloff, who was paid $33.00 for his performance. Excellent condition.

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1943. “First Tower Books Edition.” (Tower was an imprint of World Publishing). Inscribed and signed in full by Karloff in 1944; pages yellowed, inevitably, otherwise very good in dust jacket. [With] an exceptional 2 1/2 page holograph letter on “Arsenic and Old Lace” letterhead. Dated May 20, 1943, Karloff writes the publisher, one Dr. Sheare, in New York. A long paragraph concerns the contents of this volume, insisting on the inclusion of some stories, but suggesting the dropping of a Dunsany tale (omitted in the published book). A second paragraph notes that the play is returning to Portland and Seattle (”Of course there is a charming interlude of ten days of one-nighters before we get to Portland which we will negotiate by means of oxcart, bus and wheelbarrow or whatever is handy...”), and that this obligation will delay the completion of his introduction. The original envelope, addressed by Karloff, with his name and address on the verso, as well as a… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First Edition. One of 32 specially bound and cased copies reserved for the artist; signed by Karsh, and including an original signed print of Pablo Casals). This copy is from the library of Carl Zahn, who was responsible for all aspects of the book’s production and design. Zahn produced the catalogue for Karsh’s first US exhibition, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1968, and so impressed Karsh that he insisted that Zahn design a number of his future projects. Laid into this copy are two letters to Zahn on Karsh’s letterhead: A single page typed letter, signed, from Karsh’s wife Estrellita, dated March 22, 1974, discusses the “fabulous KARSH Boston Museum Catalogue,” requesting more copies for themselves and the director of a gallery mounting another Karsh exhibition. A two page typed letter, signed, from Jousef Karsh, dated November 6, 1973, discusses his current project and bemoans that Zahn was not its designer. He seeks Zahn’s advice on… Read More

Undated, presumably c. 1950; approximately 11 x 13.” On the white area just below the photograph it has been signed by the photographer, and also inscribed by the subject, signing as J.H. Doolittle. In excellent condition, in a decorated metal frame; the picture is lightly tacked to the cardboard backing.

1960. With Karsh’s stamp on the verso; 8 x 10”; in the photographers’s mount (10 x 12”), signed by the subject at the lower right “E.P. Hillary.” The mountaineer is photographed in an anorak, sun-burned and wind-blown, as he must have looked after conquering Everest with Tenzing in 1953, a feat for which the New Zealander was knighted. The photograph is fine; the mat has minor creasing and spotting.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First Edition. Both the book and dust jacket are waterstained; good.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924. First Edition. Very good in a somewhat soiled dust jacket. A short typed letter signed by Huebsch, dated 1942 on Viking Press stationery is laid in.

Culver City, California: Luther Norris, 1971. First Edition. Wrappers; fine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and also by illustrator Tom Walker.

London: Cassell, 1933. First Edition. About fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips.

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1956. First English Edition. Minor foxing of the book and the dust jacket.

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1954. First English Edition. Minor foxing, else near fine in very good dust jacket with foxing and some small chips. Basis for a 1969 mini-series.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1881. First Edition. “Recently Accomplished by an Englishman Professing Mohammedanism.” Small name stamp inside the front cover; owner’s signature on the front free endpaper; minor wear; a very good, clean and solid copy. Although Burton famously visited some thirty years earlier, there were few other European accounts of travel to the holiest city of Islam.

London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First Edition; first issue (or more properly, printing?); the erratum leaf is in the first state, but it has been bound without ads in a full red crushed morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf, but which is damaged. The contents are gilt-edged; ownership inscriptions on the first blank; overall in excellent shape, in a custom clamshell box. Featuring one of the most famous lines in poetry, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever...”