Author Signed, THE ORCHARD KEEPER, Cormac McCarthy, Random House, New York, 1965. First Edition, stated “First Printing” on copyright page; only 4,000 printed in the first run. Presentation / association copy, inscribed on the half title page to fellow author John Egerton and his wife “For John & Ann / All best / Cormac McCarthy”. […]

Item 1: Benjamin Franklin (American, 1706-1790) chapbook consisting of one uncut, folded sheet with twelve pages including a woodcut portrait of Franklin and entitled THE WAY TO WEALTH, WRITTEN BY THE LATE DR. FRANKLIN. EXTRACTED FROM HIS POLITICAL WORKS. Printed by C. Sutton, Nottingham, c 1800. With content from Franklin’s 1758 essay initially published in […]

A unique set of four custom-bound volumes, containing the complete 275 pages of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt by Lord Byron, London: John Murray 1855, interspersed with over 350 prints, many before lettering, and collectively bound into an expanded four volumes. Prints include over twenty portraits of Byron along with Angelica Kauffmann’s portrait etching of […]

Two (2) first edition books on the exploration of Asia by Roy Andrews, and by Ellsworth Huntington. 1st item: THE NEW CONQUEST OF CENTRAL ASIA… by Roy Andrews (1884-1960). New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1932. First Edition, quarto, 678pp, 128 photographic plates, 3 folding maps, color frontispiece, in orange cloth boards, stamped […]

Archive of materials belonging to Allen and Janet Rundell, including from their ordeals in the Japanese Internment camps in Shanghai and their eventual exchange, as well as from their lives before and after. 1st Item: Large scrapbook with leather spine and a silk brocade cover adorned with a Chinese Junk fashioned from metal, wire, and […]