POEMS by Robert Browning, London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. Inscribed by William Butler Yeats to his sister Lily (Susan Mary) Yeats, "Lily Yeats from WB Yeats. Xmas. 1897." Hardcover 8vo, original green boards with blind and gilt-stamped designs; gilt top edge, deckle edge fore and bottom. With a CDV of Browning pasted on FFEP, […]

LA SUCESION PRESIDENCIAL EN 1910, Francisco I. Madero, second edition, Mexico 1909. 8vo, 308pp. Black covers w/ leather spine; gilt stamping, marbled endpapers, and decorative diamond pattern to page edges. The second edition of this important book is considered the "true" edition, as Madero made numerous edits with additional writings, catapulting Madero and his ideas […]

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, First Edition, Second Printing, by Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner''s Sons, New York, 1940. Inscribed to Hemingway''s friends on ffep "For Martha Belle and Hall with love from Ernest /" (Martha Belle (Aikins) Smith and author Walton Hall Smith). Hardcover octavo, 471pp, hardbound in publisher''s tan cloth with red […]

A collection of 10 books by or about Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar), (1915-1983), best known for his Lew Archer detective novels. 1st Item: SELF-PORTRAIT: Ceaselessly Into The Past, by Ross Macdonald, with foreword by Eudora Welty; Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1981. Hardcover limited edition, signed and numbered by both Macdonald and Welty on rear limitation […]

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">HELEN KELLER''S JOURNAL 1936-1937, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1938. Hardcover, stated First Edition. 8vo, 313pp, Inscribed on FFEP "To Pearl / With grateful memories / of her sweet hospitality / Sincerely / Helen Keller / October [24]th 1939" (possibly Pearl S. Buck, with whom Keller had an ongoing friendship). […]

THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED: WHAT IS THE SOVIET UNION AND WHERE IS IT GOING? Leon Trotsky, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. 8vo, 308 pp. First American Edition; translated by Max Eastman. Signed in the year of publication on a bound-in blank leaf "Leon Trotsky Coyoacan, 2 Apr. 1937". Black cloth with spine lettered in black […]

<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">PICASSO, THE RECENT YEARS, by Harriet and Sidney Janis; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. Hardcover limited to 350 signed copies, of which this is number 268. Signed by Picasso on the limitation page. 4to, 211pp, original cloth with gilt-stamping to spine and front cover; with 135 plates, 5 in color. […]

BARFLIES AND COCKTAILS: OVER 300 COCKTAIL RECIPES by "Harry and Wynn" with contributions from Arthur Moss. Paris: Lecram Press, 1927. 12mo. 122pp, rare First Edition of this early mixology book, in original (conserved) pictorial boards. Contains cocktail recipes amidst numerous illustrations by Wynn, with bar-related advertisements scattered throughout. "Harry and Wynn" are Harry McElhone of […]

1st-7th items: Seven (7) Eleanor Roosevelt typed signed letters written on White House stationery between November 16, 1940, and May 8, 1941. The letters, addressed to Eleanor Roosevelt''s friend Harriet Hoyt, include commentary on a wide variety of subjects including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s 1940 reelection, public criticism levied at the First Lady, the President […]