• Typed Letter Signed to Gilbert Seldes

    Typed Letter Signed to Gilbert Seldes

    On his Beverly Hills letterhead, Oct. 8th, 1963, regarding the appearance of Evangelist Billy Graham on Benny’s television program, “...Am sure everyone was wondering what I was going to do with Billy Graham...” Signed “Jack.”.

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  • First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year Ending May 1, 1871

    First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of...

    New York: William C. Bryant & Co., 1871. First Edition of the comprehensive first report on New York City's public parks; with the ownership signature inside the front cover of physician and medical missionary Samuel F. Green, brother of first Park Commissioner Andrew H. Green. Profusely illustrated with two large...

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  • Two Typed Letters Signed to Gilbert Seldes

    Two Typed Letters Signed to Gilbert Seldes

    On New Yorker stationery Benchley writes on March 4th, 1935, “...The misunderstanding about the avuncular nature of my piece was natural, as Soglow drew much smaller children than I had in mind....I didn’t know that the younger ones roamed in and out of the house as ominously. Evidently Soglow did...But.....

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  • Farewell, My Lovely

    Farewell, My Lovely

    New York: Knopf, 1940. First Edition; advance reading copy in wrappers. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, and, in the opinion of many, his best book. Only minute wear; a fine copy with the review slip laid in. In a custom full morocco box.

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  • Original Folder and Display for the American Architect and Building News

    Original Folder and Display for the American Architect and Building News

    Boston: Ticknor & Co., n.d. [c.1883]. A cloth folder, approximately 10 x 14”, when open displaying a sample cover poster for the periodical (”For Sale Here”), including a mounted “gelatine” photograph detail of Richardson’s Austin Hall at Harvard (”Specimen of Gelatine Plate, Issued with the Gelatine Edition”). Opposite is a......

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  • Borstal Boy

    Borstal Boy

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips. Presentation copy to his New York publicist, “To Abner, who created the New York version of Brendan Behan 13 ix 60.” Behan, almost from his first step ashore, took to New...

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  • The Smell of Fear

    The Smell of Fear

    London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First Edition. About fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket with a tiny tear at the foot of the spine.

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  • Little Caesar

    Little Caesar

    New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial Press, 1929. First Edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some chipping, most seriously at the top of the spine, which is missing part of the title.

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  • The Eyes of Max Carrados

    The Eyes of Max Carrados

    New York: George H. Doran, 1924. First American Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with some slight wear and tiny chips.

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  • Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, Of Massachusetts, On The Cession of Russian America to the United States

    Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, Of Massachusetts, On The Cession of Russian...

    Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First Edition. Original wrappers; minor foxing and wear; an excellent copy, complete with the folding map inside the front cover (short tear at one margin). It was Sumner’s influence in the Senate that was instrumental in approving the purchase negotiated and promoted.....

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