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Fine Handwritten JANE GOODALL Letter on AIDS, animal testing, etc.

1989. 2 pages on both sides of an 8" x 11-3/4" sheet. Excellent content on her work with chimpanzees. SIGNED "Love/Jane." See link for full description. Near Fine $1,500

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December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Emily Dickinson's POEMS in Attractive Riviere full morocco binding

1930. First Centenary Edition.5-1/8" x 8-1/8". With frontispiece portrait & facsimile page of her writing; xi, [v], 484 pages. Near Fine in attractive binding. (#022230) $750

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December 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Pearl Buck ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS Illustrated & SIGNED by Miguel Covarrubias

1948. Two 9-1/4" x 12-1/4" vols in Oriental bark paper in traditional stab-sewn Chinese style. Plates hand-colored. #751 of 1500. Fine with chemise but lacks slipcase. $200

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December 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hudson's THE PURPLE LAND Illustrated in Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding

1929. First Illustrated Edition. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" in full dark green morocco. Full-page plates & engravings by Keith Henderson. About Fine. (#022224) $300

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December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Franklin Roosevelt's SIGNED copy of Miniature BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

1757. Full paneled calf 2-1/4" x 4-3/8". With the paper label used in Franklin Roosevelt's miniature book collection, numbered "1028." Good or better. (#022288) $1,500

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December 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
SIGNED Limited Joseph Conrad in Fine Binding: THE SECRET AGENT

1923. Second English & First Signed Edition. Full green morocco. #912 of 1000. Conrad's theatrical adaptation of his 1907 novel. Near Fine. (#022231) $1,000

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December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Charming Collection of Drawings by Japanese Children for American Captain, 1908

Oblong (9" x 6-1/2") green floral silk cloth with matching box. 101 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, most in watercolor. Front cover detached. Still Near Fine. See link. $2,500

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December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
SIGNED Paul Auster AUGGIE WREN'S CHRISTMAS STORY

1992. First Edition. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. #96 of 100. Fine, as issued. (#014621) $250

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December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Superb SIGNED Association Copy of Theodore Roosevelt's THE ROUGH RIDERS

1899. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Anna "Nannie" Cabot Mills Davis Lodge, wife of Henry Cabot Lodge. Near Fine. Click on the link for full description. (#022297) $45,000

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December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Handsome Edition of THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE

BRILLAT-SAVARIN. MEDITATIONS ON TRANSCENDENTAL GASTRONOMY. 1949. Translated & annotated by M.F.K. Fisher. Color illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. #1037 of 1500. Fine in glassine & Near Fine slipcase $350

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December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ANNA KARENINA Illustrated & SIGNED by by Barnett Freedman

TOLSTOY, Leo. 1951. Two 5-7/8" x 8-3/4" vols with color autolithographs drawn on the stone. #751 of 1500. Near Fine, lacking the plain dustwrappers, in an intact, Very Good slipcase. $325

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December 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Jane Goodall SIGNED Letter about the death of her dog and a home break-in

1989. Two-page letter on both sides of 8" x 11-1/2" sheet to Nancy [Reynolds]. Water stain obliterating a few words on each side. Good. $350

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December 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
H. G. Wells THE WAR OF THE WORLDS and THE TIME MACHINE

1964. Two volumes in full cloth. #751 of 1500 with line drawings & 16 full-page color lithographs by Joe Mugnaini, each volume SIGNED by him. Monthly Letter. Fine in worn glassines & Fine slipcase $650

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December 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Beautifully Bound Large Paper Copy of THE COMPLETE ANGLER, 1824

WALTON, Izaak & COTTON, Charles. Second Edition. Two vols bound in one (4-7/8" x 8") by Root & Son in full morocco in cloth slipcase. Plates & 77 woodcuts in text. Close to Fine $3,000

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December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Leatherbound First Edition of Churchill's HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES

1956-1958). Four volumes in full navy polished calf. First volume is Second Edition, published a month after the First. Illustrated with maps. Close to Fine. $1,200

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December 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Extra-Illustrated Charles Dickens with ALS, Photographs, Drawings

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK. 1840. 1st Edition. Bound by Riviere & Son in morocco from the 88 weekly parts with all wrappers & ads. Last sold at auction in 1931. Near Fine. See link. $12,500

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December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
SIGNED Madame Chiang Kai-Shek SIAN: A COUP D'ETAT

1937. First Edition. SIGNED with signature & stamp. Account of the 1936 coup by mutinous troops in the city of Sian. Fine in Fair dustwrapper usually completely lacking $2,500

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December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Finely Bound William Beebe GALAPAGOS WORLD'S END

1927. Sixth printing bound by Harcourt Bindery in 3/4 blue morocco. Illustrated mostly from photographs by John Tee-Van. About Fine. $250

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December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Illustrated BHAGAVAD GITA: THE SONG CELESTIAL

1964. 7" x 10" in Indian silk hand-woven in multicolor lotus-&-mango pattern. Original Sanskrit with English translation. #751 of 1500 with 15 full-page color plates by Srimati. Fine in glassine & Near Fine case $150

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December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
9 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATIONS by V. G. Edney

10" x 15" SIGNED by the artist. Subjects mainly men working various jobs, but 3 illustrations are more dreamy. All are wrapped in clear plastic, as shown in the images. Near Fine. (#022219) $450

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December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Illustrated A CHRISTMAS CAROL in hand-made paste paper boards, each copy different

DICKENS, Charles. 1934. 7" x 10". #1374 of 1500 designed & printed by D.B. Updike & illustrated with color plates & SIGNED by Gordon Ross. About Fine, lacks slipcase $300

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December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
SIGNED Limited Margaret Thatcher STATECRAFT

2002. One of a limited edition SIGNED by the former prime minister of England, as issued. Publisher's certificate laid in. Fine. $300

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December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Superb SIGNED James Thurber & E. B. White with ORIGINAL DRAWING

IS SEX NECESSARY? 1929. Thirteenth Printing. In a cloth chemise and slipcase. Charmingly INSCRIBED to Margaret Thurlow, secretary & editor at THE NEW YORKER. Good, lacks dj, in VG slipcase $7,500

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December 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Kelliegram Binding: ENGLISH LYRICS FROM SPENSER TO MILTON

1898. New Edition. 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" by Kelly & Sons in full dark green levant morocco. #26 of 125 on Japanese vellum illustrated by Robert Anning Bell. Fine $4,500

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December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
THE SEA AND THE JUNGLE in Beautiful Riviere Binding

TOMLINSON, H.M. 1930. First Ltd Edition. Polished calf (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") with elaborate gilt decoration in sturdy paper slipcase. His first book with new foreword & woodcuts by Clare Leighton. Fine $1,000

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December 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM