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CHURCHILL, Winston L. S., Sir (1874-1965). Great Contemporaries. London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1937.8vo. Photographic plates. Original blue gilt-lettered buckram, top edge stained blue (spine discolored, a few light stains); in unrestored unclipped orange dust jacket with "21s. net" price present (chipping, soiling, a few short tears). Provenance: Hugh Rees (small label).     FIRST EDITION of Churchill's collected biographical essays on such figures as George Bernard Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, King George V, and Adolf Hitler. Later editions saw inclusions, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, and removals, including Leon Trotsky. Woods A43(a).  

CHURCHILL, Winston L. S., Sir (1874-1965). The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948-1954.    6 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 25 folding maps, 2 folding facsimile documents, other maps and illustrations. Original black gilt-lettered cloth, top edge stained red; in unrestored unclipped dust jackets (some minor discoloration and scuffing). Provenance: Alice R. Benson (ownership inscriptions); volume I contains "Crede Cornu" bookplate of Hugh Frederick Hornby (1826-1899), likely inserted later.     FIRST ENGLISH TRADE EDITION of Churchill's hugely popular account of the Second World War. Completed with a team of assistants and vetted by the Cabinet Secretary, the work omits certain facts that were still confidential at the time of publication. Nevertheless, an invaluable perspective by one of the leading participants of the War.   Woods A123(b).  

CHURCHILL, Winston L. S., Sir (1874-1965). A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and Company, 1956-1958.4 volumes, 8vo. Maps. Original red cloth; original illustrated dust jackets (minor discoloration to spine panels).    FIRST EDITION of Churchill's monumental history which he began in 1937 but was delayed continuously due to the war and other projects. The work begins with Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain (55 BCE) and concludes at the Second Boer War (1902).  

CHURCHILL, Winston L. S., Sir (1874-1965). A group of 5 works and letter referencing Churchill during the Second Boer War, comprising:Savrola A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. Contemporary green morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Churchill's only novel. Woods A3(b). -- Ian Hamilton's March. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. With frontispiece and folding map. FIRST EDITION. Woods A5. -- My African Journey. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. 3 maps and 47 photographic plates including frontispiece. (Heavy vertical crease to front board, small stains, spine darkened). FIRST EDITION. Woods A12. -- Marlborough His Life and Times. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1933-1938. 4 volumes. (Some discoloration to cloth). FIRST TRADE EDITION. Woods A40(a). -- EADE, Charles (1903-1964), compiler. Victory War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1946. In unrestored and unclipped dust jacket (fading as typical, light creasing). FIRST EDITION with page 177 misprinted as 77. Woods A112. -- Together, 5 works in 8 volumes, 8vo, all in publisher's bindings except where noted, all in very good to fine condition except where noted.   [With:] EATON, William Arnold (1870-?). Autograph letter signed ("Eaton"). Durban, Natal, South Africa, 22 March 1900. 4 pages, 8vo, on Durban Club letterhead, light creasing. Captain Eaton served in South Africa 1900-1902, and in this letter to his mother, he mentions Churchill who had returned to South Africa in January to take Pretoria and relieve the Siege of Ladysmith: "Churchill has promised me in this case to get me some job with the troops at the front, he is joining to ask Lord Dundonald to take me temporary as his staff as an extra...galloper."[Also with:] The Sinews of Peace. N.p., 1995. Reprint of Churchill's speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 5 March 1946.

[CIVIL WAR]. GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886.  2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispieces, folding facsimile letter in vol. 1; folding map and facsimile document in vol. 2; numerous maps and wood engravings throughout. Original illustrated dark green cloth gilt (minor wear to extremities). Provenance: R.B. Fast, Bairdstown, Ohio, 30 June 1894 (ownership inscriptions). FIRST EDITION of Grant's classic memoirs written on his death bed. [With:] FOOTE, Shelby (1916-2005). The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random House, 1956-1974. 3 volumes, 8vo. Maps. Original grey cloth; pictorial dust jackets (minor toning). FIRST EDITION of Foote's seminal history of the American Civil War.  

CUSTER, George Armstrong. (1839-1876). My Life on the Plains. Or, Personal Experiences with Indians. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874.  8vo. Illustrated plates. Original cloth decorated in gilt and black (spine faded, some light rubbing). FIRST EDITION of Custer's "classic account of military operations against various tribes of Plains Indians in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas" (Encyclopedia of American War Literature, p.84). Graff 961; Howes C-981.

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Whoroscope. Paris: The Hours Press, 1930.8vo. (A few tiny pale spots.) Original printed red wrappers, stapled as issued (some fading to outer margins, some staining, rust stains from staples). FIRST EDITION OF BECKETT'S FIRST BOOK,   LIMITED ISSUE, number 213 of 300 numbered copies (100 signed, this copy being unsigned). WITH ONE HOLOGRAPH CORRECTION BY BECKETT ON PAGE 2. Whoroscope was entered into a competition for the best poem on Time organized by Nancy Cunard's The Hours Press, where it was awarded the £10 prize.   Beckett later recalls in a letter to Cunard: "Whoroscope was indeed entered for your competition and the prize of I think 1000 francs. I knew nothing about it till afternoon of last day of entry, wrote first half before dinner, had a guzzle of salad and Chambertin at the Cochon de Lait, went back to the Ecole and finished it about three in the morning. Then I walked down to the Rue Guenegaud [the office of The Hours Press] and put it in your box. That's how it was and them were the days" (Lake, Eichhorn and Leach No Symbols Where None Intended, Austin, 1984). Federman & Fletcher 5; Published in Paris p.411.

EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969).  Report by The Supreme Commander of the combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force 1944 June 6 - 1945 May 8. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, [1945].Folio (220 x 303 mm). Maps. (Occasional creasing.) One-half morocco with blue cloth, spine 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in 2, others gilt decorated, original illustrated wrappers bound in (front board detached, light wear to extremities). Provenance: Arthur Leonard Ross (d. 1975, bookplate to inside front wrapper).     FIRST EDITION. WITH DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S SIGNATURE on a bookplate laid in. Eisenhower's detailed report of D-Day illustrated with maps.  

EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (1890-1969). The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956-1961. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965.  8vo. Photographic plates. Original oatmeal cloth; board slipcase.    FIRST EDITION. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 496 of 1500 copies. SIGNED BY DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Eisenhower's memoirs regarding his late presidency.  

FORD, Gerald (1913-2006). A group of 7 signed books, including:  FORD, Gerald R. and John R. Stiles. Portrait of the Assassin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. -- A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. [New York]: Harper & Row and The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1979. -- A Vision for America. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 247 of 500 copies. -- Churchill Lecture: An Address by Gerald R. Ford at the English-Speaking Union London, England. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1984. -- The Tenth Convention: A Speech by Gerald R. Ford to the Republican National Convention at New Orleans, Louisiana on August 16, 1988. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. 64mo (66 x 51 mm). -- And 2 others. Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, all FIRST EDITION, all SIGNED BY GERALD FORD, several with FORD'S SIGNATURE on a slip additionally laid in, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.  

JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973). A group of 3 books, comprising:  HILLMAN, William. Mr. President. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. -- WHITE, William S. The Professional: Lyndon B. Johnson. Boston and Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company and The Riverside Press, 1964. -- JOHNSON, Lyndon B. This America. New York: Random House, 1966. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, all in original bindings, ALL FIRST EDITION, all SIGNED BY LYNDON B. JOHNSON, condition generally fine.      [With:] Portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson. 8 x 10 black and white photograph. SIGNED BY LYNDON BY JOHNSON in lower margin.  

KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963). A group of 9 works, including:  Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940. -- Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. Two additional copies: Young Readers Edition and Inaugural Edition, both 1961. -- The Strategy of Peace. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. -- To Turn the Tide.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. -- The Burden and the Glory. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1964. -- And 2 others. Together, 9 works in 9 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, most FIRST EDITION condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press, 1935.  8vo. Original printed buff wrappers with flaps over pp. [1-2] and [43-44] (some toning to upper and spine margins of upper cover). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 239 of 250 unsigned copies (with tag laid in), of Beckett's early collection, "the best of his erudite but highly personal poems" (James Knowlson). Federman & Fletcher 22; Grolier Irish, p.30.

[KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994), her copies]. A group of 7 works relating to history and culture from her library, including:  HORNE, Charles F., editor. Great Men and Famous Women. New York: Selmar Hess, 1894. 7 volumes (of 8, lacking vol. I). -- BURCKHARDT, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York: The Modern Library, 1954. First Modern Library edition. --BROOKS, Polly Schoyer and Nancy Zinsser WALWORTH. The World Awakes: The Renaissance in Western Europe. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. -- ELDAD, Israel, editor. Chronicles: News of the Past. Volume III: The Dawn of Redemption. Jerusalem: Reubeni Foundation, 1972. -- ONASSIS, Jacqueline, editor. In the Russian Style. New York: The Viking Press, 1976. SIGNED BY JACQUELINE ONASSIS on front free endpaper (without Sotheby's bookplate). -- And 2 others. Together, 8 works in 13 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, most FIRST EDITIONS, 4to and 8vo, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Sold Sotheby's New York, 23-26 April 1996, The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with bookplates).  

[KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994), her copies]. A group of 8 works of poetry and literature from her library, including:NORTON, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877). The Poems of the Hon. Mrs. Norton. New York: Geo. A. Leavitt, [1857]. (Spine separation, front board partially detached). Later edition. Ownership inscription of Mary F. Norton to front free endpaper. -- ALDAN, Daisy, editor. A New Folder. Americans: Poems and Drawings.  New York: Folder Editions, 1959. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY. -- The Paris Review. 4 issues (incomplete run),   bound in 2 volumes. New York: The Paris Review, 1963-1964. 4 issues numbering nos. 29-32. Contemporary red calf, spines with gilt lettering and initials "J.K." -- ALLEN, Terry, editor. The Whispering Wind: Poetry by Young American Indians. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. SIGNED BY ONASSIS. -- SHATTUCK, Roger. The Innocent Eye on Modern Literature & the Arts. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. SIGNED BY ONASSIS. -- And 3 others. Together, 8 works in 9 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, most in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. Provenance for the lot: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (sold Sotheby's New York, 23-26 April 1996, The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with bookplates).

KENNEDY, Robert F. (1925-1968).   To Seek a Newer World. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967.8vo. Half-title. Original dark blue cloth (very minor wear at corners).    FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROBERT KENNEDY on the half-title. The last of Kennedy's books to be published in his lifetime, a collection of essays outlining his vision for American society and politics.  

[THE KENNEDYS]. A group of 7 works relating to the Kennedy family, including:KENNEDY, Joseph P. (1888-1969). I'm for Roosevelt. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. -- KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1964). As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1945. -- KENNEDY, Robert F. (1925-1968). The Enemy Within. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. -- KENNEDY, Robert F. Just Friends and Brave Enemies. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1962. -- KENNEDY, Edward M. (1932-2009).   Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1968. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. -- And 2 others. Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, all FIRST EDITION, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.  [With:] Kennedy Kards. N.p.: Humor House Inc., 1963. 57 x 88 mm printed playing cards. Original illustrated box (light discoloration). A deck of 54 cards with 1 joker and 1 informational card. Face cards feature Kennedys and allies.  

[LINCOLN, Abraham]. SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967). Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939.4 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated. Original brown cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (light scuffing to spine labels).  FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 183 of 500 copies SIGNED BY SANDBURG.

MacARTHUR, Douglas (1880-1964).  Reminiscences. New York, Toronto, and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.8vo. Illustrated. Original illustrated oatmeal cloth (minor spotting); board   slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, numbered 83 of 1750 copies SIGNED BY DOUGLAS MacARTHUR.  [With:] WHITNEY, Courtney (1897-1969). MacArthur: His Rendezvous with History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 8vo. Maps. (Light toning.) Original brick orange cloth.  

MONROE, James (1758-1831). A View of the Conduct of the Executive, in the Foreign Affairs of the United States... Philadelphia: Benj. Franklin Bache, 1797.8vo. Half-title. (Some toning and spotting.) Contemporary boards (losses to spine, overall wear).    FIRST EDITION of Monroe's defensive response to criticism of his French Mission. With the [4]+66pp. of preliminaries called for by Evans and Sabin, rather than the 60pp. called for by Howes. Evans, 32491; Howes M-727 [incorrect collation]; Sabin 50020.  

NIXON, Richard M. (1913-1994). Typed letter signed ("Richard Nixon") to Miss Gwenn M. Davis. New York, 15 September 1964.1 page, 4to, on Richard Nixon letterhead, with envelope, old creases. Nixon thanks a supporter for her condolences sent upon the death of his beloved dog Checkers.  [With:] NIXON. 1999: Victory without War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 113 of 600 copies. -- NIXON. The Real War. New York: Warner Books, 1980. -- Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, 8vo, original bindings, FIRST or LIMITED EDITIONS SIGNED BY RICHARD M. NIXON, Condition generally fine.  

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. ARMSTRONG, Louis (1901-1971). Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954.8vo. Photographic plates. Original boards; in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, minor toning, small chips or tears at edges). Provenance: Josh (presentation inscription).   FIRST EDITION, second printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LOUIS ARMSTRONG on half-title: "To Josh, The old Dixie jazz-band from New Orleans!! Your friend Louis Armstrong ("Satchmo").  

NIXON, Richard M. (1913-1994). A group of 12 works, most signed, including:  Setting the Course: The First Year. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970. With typed letter signed ("RN") to Ambassador John D.J. Moore laid-in. Washington, The White House, 5 December 1970. On White House letterhead, with envelope. -- Six Crises. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. -- The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. -- Real Peace: A Strategy for the West. New York: Privately printed, 1983. -- No More Vietnams. New York: Arbor House, 1985. -- And 6 others. Together, 12 works in 12 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, most FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY RICHARD NIXON condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.  

[POLITICIANS]. A group of political biographies and books, many signed, including:  BUCKLEY, William F., Jr. (1925-2008). Up From Liberalism. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. FIRST PRINTING. Provenance: Karl August Wittfogel (bookplate). SIGNED BY BUCKLEY. -- KHRUSHCHEV, Nikita S. (1894-1971). For Victory in Peaceful Competition with Capitalism. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1960. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Provenance: Zbigniew Brzezinski (ownership inscription). -- AGNEW, Spiro T. (1918-1996). Go Quietly...Or Else. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. SIGNED BY AGNEW. -- KISSINGER, Henry (b. 1923). Years of Upheaval. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 104 of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY KISSINGER. -- GOLDWATER, Barry (1909-1998) and Jack CASSERLY. Goldwater. New York: Doubleday, 1988. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY GOLDWATER. -- And 6 others. Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, 8vo, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.  [With:] MacLEISH, Archibald (1892-1982). Declaration of Faith. New York: The Council for Democracy, ca 1944. 100 x 234 mm pamphlet. -- Lincoln in This Day. Ottawa: Canadian club, 1941. 126 x 202 mm brochure. -- Together, 2 items of ephemera, both in very fine condition.

REAGAN, Nancy Davis (1921-2016). A group of 4 signed works, comprising:  REAGAN, Nancy and Bill LIBBY (1927-1984). Nancy. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. -- Another copy. -- REAGAN, Nancy and William NOVAK (b. 1948). My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Regan. New York: Random House, 1989. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 263 of 300. - Another copy. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings,   FIRST or LIMITED EDITIONS SIGNED BY NANCY REAGAN, condition generally fine.  

ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (1882-1945). The Democratic Book 1936. N.p: N.p., 1936.Folio. Gilt and illustrated title page with extensive illustrations throughout. (Small dampstain at top edge of later pages.) Original morocco gilt (small separation at upper spine cap, front hinge loose).    LIMITED EDITION, number 2130, SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT under a watercolor vignette of the White House. The first issue "yearbook" was an extravagant publication that drew connections between FDR and Thomas Jefferson. The work was printed with lavish advertisements, the inclusion of which was deemed controversial at the time.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Watt. Paris: Collected Merlin, Olympia Press, 1953.  8vo. Original printed plum wrappers (a few soft creases to covers, corners very slightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 368 of 1,100 copies. Beckett wrote the majority of Watt, his second novel published in English, from the south of France during the Second World War.   Narrated in four parts, the novel describes Watt's journey to and within Mr. Knott's house; the novel concludes with a fifth section of unincorporated addenda, which Beckett apparently intended for the novel, but never included.   Federman & Fletcher 32.  

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor (1884-1962). This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.8vo. Photographic plates. Original blue cloth with paper spine label; original slipcase (some discoloration). FIRST LIMITED EDITION, number 428 of 1,000 copies SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT to the limitation page.

ROOSEVELT, Eleanor (1884-1962). A group of 7 memoirs, essays, and stories, several signed, including: On My Own. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. -- This is My Story. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937. SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. -- Christmas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. -- This I Remember. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. SIGNED BY JAMES ROOSEVELT. -- India and the Awakening East. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. Provenance: Emerson J. Griffith (presentation inscription, bookplate). INSCRIBED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. -- And 2 others. Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, various 8vo sizes, in original bindings, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.  

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919). Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail. New York: The Century Co., [1888].  Folio. Illustrations by Frederic Remington. Original gilt and illustrated brown cloth (minor rubbing at extremities). Provenance: William A. Vawter II Collection, William Clements Library, University of Michigan (bookplate, withdrawal note).     FIRST EDITION of Roosevelt's memoirs of life on the ranch and recollections of hunting adventures. Howes R-432.  

ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919). A group of 3 works, comprising:  The Wilderness Hunter. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- The Rough Riders. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. -- The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses. New York: The Century Co., 1900. FIRST PRINTING. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, all in original bindings, condition generally fine.  

THATCHER, Margaret (1925-2013). A group of 4 memoirs and collections of speeches, comprising:  In Defence of Freedom: Speeches on Britain's Relations with the World, 1973-1986. London: Aurum Press, 1986. Special Conservative Party Conference edition. -- The Downing Street Years. London: HarperCollins, 1993. -- The Path to Power. London: HarperCollins, 1995. -- HARRIS, Robin, editor. The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher. London: HarperCollins, 1997. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, ALL FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED BY MARGARET THATCHER, condition generally fine.  

TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972). A group of signed books, letters, and a photograph, comprising:  Typed letter signed ("Harry Truman") to Floyd Clymer. Independence, MO, 13 May 1964. 1 page, 4to, on Harry S. Truman letterhead, with free franked envelope with facsimile signature. -- Typed letter signed ("Harry Truman") to Earl H. "Shack" Shackleford. Independence, MO, 2 June 1965. 1 page, 4to, on Harry S. Truman letterhead, with free franked envelope with facsimile signature. -- Candid portrait of Harry and Bess Truman. 181 x 239 mm photograph. INSCRIBED BY TRUMAN. -- Autograph note signed ("Harry Truman") to Jas. E. Jones. U.S.S. Missouri, n.d. 1 page, 133 x 83 mm, clipped, minor staining. -- Together, 4 items signed by Truman, all in very fine condition except as noted.  [With:] Memoirs. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955-1956. 2 volumes. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TRUMAN to half-title of Volume I. -- Mr. Citizen. New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1960. LIMITED EDITION, numbered 280 of 1000. SIGNED BY TRUMAN. -- Together, 2 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, all in publisher's bindings, condition generally fine.  

TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972). HILLMAN, William.  Mr. President. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, [1952].4to. Photographic illustrations. Original   blue simulated morocco gilt (very minor discoloration to spine).    FIRST LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies, INSCRIBED to Donald S. Dawson, U.S. Air Force general, lawyer, and political aid instrumental in Truman's 1948 presidential campaign.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). En attendant Godot. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1952.  8vo. Original wrappers printed in blue and black, uncut (a few tiny pinholes, spine toned, slightly leaned, tiny separation to foot of lower joint). Provenance: Leidsche Straat (small bookseller's label lower cover).FIRST TRADE EDITION OF BECKETT'S FIRST-PUBLISHED AND MOST FAMOUS PLAY.   One of 2,500 copies printed of Beckett's tragicomedy, a post-World War II existential play belonging solidly to the tradition of the "Theatre of the Absurd."   Federman & Fletcher 259.  

WILSON, Woodrow (1856-1924). A document signed and a group of 7 works, including:  Partly printed document signed. "Schedule for Academic Special Students." [Princeton University], 1904-1905. 139 x 150 mm partly printed document (minor toning), SIGNED BY WOODROW WILSON as a Princeton professor.    [With:] The State. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1889. -- George Washington. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. -- On Being Human. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1916. -- Why We Are at War. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1917. -- A History of the American People. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. 5 volumes. Later edition. -- And 2 others. Together, 7 works in 11 volumes, 8vo, in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Waiting for Godot. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1956.  8vo. Publisher's note tipped in. Original mustard cloth lettered in red on spine; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (slight wear to corners, a few short tears). Provenance: Ed Cox (signature on flyleaf).FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceded by an edition in French, and an edition published in New York.   Beckett's play was first performed in London at the Arts Theater Club on 3 August 1955, and was later transferred to the Criterion Theatre after a few small textual deletions were made "to satisfy the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain. The text printed here is that used in the Criterion Theatre production" (publisher's note tipped in). Federman & Fletcher 373.1.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Comment c'est. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1961.    8vo. Original wrappers printed in black and blue, uncut and unopened; glassine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED "CLUB DE L'EDITION" ISSUE, number 32 of 100 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT and printed on Alfa Mousse Navarre paper, and with a blank back cover except for "Édition Originale" printed in lower right corner. The total edition comprised 3,197 copies, including 197 limited or hors commerce copies. The novel is a monologue from an unnamed narrator divided into three parts; before Pim, with Pim, and after Pim.   Federman & Fletcher 268. A VERY FINE COPY.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Poems in English. London: John Calder, 1961.  8vo. Original teal cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (slight toning and rubbing to spine, a few small stains). Provenance: George and Jean (presentation inscription from the author).FIRST TRADE EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BECKETT on title-page: "For George and Jean, affectionately from Sam, Paris June 1962." Poems in English includes "those poems written in the English language which the author is willing to have preserved," as well as poems written in French and translated by Beckett himself "together with the original texts" (front flap).   The work includes: "Whoroscope," "Echo's Bones," "Two Poems," and "Quatre Poemes."  Federman & Fletcher 40.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). Come and Go. Dramaticule. London: Calder & Boyars, 1967.  8vo. Photographic illustrations. Original gilt-lettered buckram; original board slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 77 of 100 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT.   Beckett's Come and Go, considered to be one of his most "perfect" plays, varies between 121 and 127 words, and is accompanied by exacting and precise stage directions.   The photographs were taken by Ilse Buhs of Deryk Mendel's Berlin production featuring Lieselotte Rau, Charlotte Foeres, and Sibylle Gilles, as staged at the Schiller Theater, January 1966.  See Federman & Fletcher 46 (the present copy with a slight variation to the wording in the colophon and in a variant binding, both unrecorded).

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  No's Knife. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967.  8vo. Half-title. Original cream gilt-lettered calf, edges gilt; original flexible cloth slipcase (some minor soiling). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 73 of 100 "Series A" copies SIGNED BY BECKETT, and printed in advance of the first trade edition. No's Knife comprises a collection of 20 of Beckett's prose works, including 19 which were originally written in French. The translations are by Beckett, occasionally in collaboration with Richard Seaver. In a variant full calf binding not called for in the publisher's limitation statement. Federman & Fletcher 386.1.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). More Pricks than Kicks. London: Calder & Boyars, 1970.  8vo. Original calf-backed cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and spine; original cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 80 of 100 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. First published in 1934, More Pricks than Kicks is a compilation of short stories that follow the life of main character Belacqua Shuah from his school days through to his accidental death.   Beckett wrote an additional story for the work, "Echo's Bones," at the suggestion of his Chatto editor Charles Prentice; in it, Belacqua returns from the dead.   Prentice ultimately rejected the story which remained unpublished until 2014.   See Federman & Fletcher 16 (note).  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). The Lost Ones. London: Calder & Boyars, 1971.  8vo. Original calf-backed buckram, gilt-lettered (spine slightly browned); original buckram slipcase. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, LIMITED ISSUE, number 91 of 100 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT and printed in advance of the first trade edition.   Beckett's English translation of his Le Depeupleur, published in French in 1970. Written during a period when Beckett was implementing Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Loos' anti-ornamental architectural theories to his prose, The Lost Ones employs no traditional plot, and is set in "abode [i.e. flattened cylinder] where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one." Not in Federman & Fletcher.  

[AFRICAN AMERICANA - SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol. I, for 1835. New York: R.G. Williams, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835.12mo (105 x 179 mm), 12 issues: Nos. I-XII (January-December 1835), most with engravings on first page. (Some dampstaining, toning and spotting.) Contemporary green cloth gilt (soiling with slight wear, spine slightly leaned).    FIRST EDITION of nos. 1-9, 12, and second edition of nos. 10-11 of this abolitionist periodical with engravings and articles illustrating the brutality of enslavement. Includes articles, essays, and poems, and a biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture and slave narratives. Sabin 81862.  

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989).  Ill Seen Ill Said. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982.  8vo. Designed and printed in blue and black by Henry Morris on mouldmade paper. Original blue morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine, by Bela Blau. LIMITED EDITION, number 140 of 299 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT on the half-title.   Beckett's short novel was first published as Mal vu mal dit in 1981, and was translated into English by the author in 1982. Not in Federman & Fletcher.    

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). A group of 36 works by or about Beckett, including signed copies and French editions, including:Murphy. Paris: Bordas, 1947 [but 1954]. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. --Molloy Malone Dies the Unnamable. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. The Traveller's Companion series. -- Proust. London, 1931. -- Imagination Dead Imagine. London, 1965. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, unnumbered one of 100 copies, SIGNED BY BECKETT. -- Eh Joe and Other Writings. London, 1967. (Clipped.) SIGNED BY BECKETT. --Not I. London, 1973. SIGNED BY BECKETT. -- Mercier and Camier. Paris, 1970. In original glassine. LIMITED EDITION, number 82 of 92 copies. -- Another copy. London, 1974. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BECKETT. --Lessness. London, 1970. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BECKETT. -- Fin de partie. Paris, 1957. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- Nouvelles et Textes pour rien. Paris, 1958. LIMITED EDITION, number 179 of 2000 copies. -- And 25 others. Together, 36 works in 36 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, all in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). A group of 27 works published by Grove Press, including:Proust. 1931. -- Waiting for Godot. 1954. -- Molloy. 1955. (Clipped.) [With:] Another copy. -- Malone Dies. 1956. (Lacking dust jacket.) LIMITED EDITION, number 127 of 500 hard bound copies. -- Another copy. Fifth issue. -- All that Fall. 1957. -- Murphy. [ca 1957]. -- The Unnamable. 1958. -- Another copy. -- Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. 1959. (Clipped.) -- Watt. 1959. -- Krapp’s Last Tape.1960. -- Happy Days. 1961. -- Poems in English. 1963. -- How it is. 1964. -- Stories and Texts for Nothing. 1967. -- Cascando. [1969.] -- Film. 1969. -- Mercier and Camier. 1974. -- Ends and Odds. 1976. -- Fizzles. 1976. -- Company. 1980. -- Rockaby. 1981. -- Ill Seen, Ill Said. 1981. -- Westward Ho. 1983. -- Disjecta. 1984. -- Together, 27 works in 27 volumes, all published in New York by Grove Press, various 8vo sizes, all in original bindings, most FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.

BECKETT, Samuel (1906-1989). A group of 22 Limited and English editions, including:Endgame. Faber and Faber, 1958. -- From an Abandoned Work. Faber and Faber, 1958. -- Another copy. -- Imagination Dead Imagine. Calder and Boyars, 1965. --For to End Yet Again and Other Fizzles. John Calder, 1976. -- Beckett, translator. Drunken Boat A Translation of Arthur Rimbaud's poem Le Bateau ivre. Reading: Whiteknights Press, 1976. LIMITED EDITION, number 128 of 300 copies. -- All Strange Away. John Calder, 1979. -- As the Story was Told Uncollected and Late Prose. John Calder et al, 1990. -- Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1992. -- Eleutheria. NY: Foxrock, Inc., 1995. -- KNOWLSON, James. Samuel Beckett: An Exhibition held at Reading University Library. Turret Books, 1971. LIMITED ISSUE, number 49 of 100 copies. SIGNED BY BECKETT. -- And 11 others. Together, 22 works in 22 volumes, most published in London, various folio and 8vo sizes, most in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS or FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.

BELLOW, Saul (1915-2005). Dangling Man. New York: Vanguard, 1944.8vo. Original green-gray cloth; in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some light rubbing to extremities, tiny hole to spine-panel touching one letter).  FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. "Today, when the war serves as a common excuse for hasty writing, it is more than ever exciting to come across a new author who has preserved his integrity. For this reason the Vanguard Press is especially proud to publish the first novel of a writer who, we predict, will take his place among the most distinguished novelists of our time" (front flap). Bellow would ultimately win 3 National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.  

BLOCH, ROBERT (1917-1994) Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.8vo. (Some light overall browning as usual.) Original cloth-backed boards; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (minor toning, very slight rubbing to extremities).  FIRST EDITION, WITH BLOCH'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in, and with the iconic just jacket designed by Tony Palladino. Bloch's thriller was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1960 into a feature film of the same name, written by Joseph Stefano and starring Anthony Perkins as Bates and Janet Leigh. Currey p.46.  

BURROUGHS, William (1914-1997). The Naked Lunch. Paris: Olympia Press, 1959.  8vo. Publisher's green printed wrappers ("New Price NF 18" stamped on lower cover); original lacquered dust-jacket with design by Brion Gysin (small chip to top edge of front panel). FIRST EDITION, second issue, "Francs: 1500" on lower wrapper and title with green typographic border, but with "New Price" inkstamp on lower wrapper. Five-thousand copies of The Naked Lunch were published by Olympia in Paris, but the dust jacket was not issued until some months after the work was first published; due to obscenity laws, Burroughs' work would not be published in the United States until 1962. Maynard & Miles A2a.

CAIN, James Mallahan (1892-1977). The Postman Always Rings Twice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.8vo. Original orange cloth, top edge stained blue (spine very slightly darkened); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (soiling, rubbing, tears and a few small losses). Provenance: Marjorie and Russell Collins (bookplate).     FIRST EDITION OF CAIN'S FIRST NOVEL, one of the most important crime novels of the 20th century, adapted for film twice: in 1946 starring Lana Turner and John Garfield, and in 1976, with a David Mamet screenplay featuring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange.

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). Tobacco Road. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.8vo. Half-title. Original russet cloth decorated in gilt and blind; in unclipped dust jacket (reinforced on verso along flap folds and edges, very slight chipping to spine ends, spine panel darkened). Provenance: Ralph D. Hartman, president of the Cleveland Photographic Society (presentation inscription, bookplate).     FIRST EDITION, with "A" on copyright page. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CALDWELL: "To Ralph D. Hartman with all the good wishes of Erskine Caldwell." Caldwell's novel, set in Augusta, Georgia, depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers during the height of the Great Depression. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and the Modern Library ranked it among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.  

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. BALDWIN. Go Tell it on the Mountain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.  8vo. Original orange cloth gilt, top edge stained blue; in unrestored pictorial dust jacket (spine panel faded, a few small chips or tears to extremities, price-clipped).      FIRST EDITION of Baldwin's first semi-autobiographical novel focusing on the role of the Pentecostal Church in African-American communities.  

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987). God's Little Acre. New York: The Viking Press, 1933.8vo. Half-title; title printed in brown and black. Original cloth stamped in orange and green, top edge stained orange; in unclipped dust jacket (a few small neat repairs along top edge verso, some minor soiling along flap folds). Provenance: John B. Sanford (blindstamp on flyleaf).  FIRST EDITION of Caldwell's novel which was influenced, in part, by textile mill strikes in Gastonia, North Carolina, focusing on the plight of workers who are without Union protection. The novel's sexual themes lead the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice to ask a New York court to censor it, but the court ruled in Caldwell's favor. It was Caldwell's most popular novel, and was adapted to film in 1958, starting Robert Ryan.  

CAMUS, Albert (1913-1960). La Peste. Paris: Gallimard, 1947.  8vo. Half-title. Original wrappers; original glassine.  FIRST EDITION, one of 215 copies on velin pur fil des Papeteries Lafuma-Navarre, this being one of 15 hors commerce copies labeled "i", of a total edition of 2355. "La Peste represents the liberation of Camus from existentialism into something nearer the collective revolutionary heroism of La Condition Humaine. It is an allegory of the German Occupation, transposed as an outbreak of the plague in Oran" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 95).  

CAMUS, Albert (1913-1960). Two PRESENTATION COPIES inscribed to Belgian writer and painter Jean de Bosschere, comprising:L'État de siege. Spectacle en trois parties. Paris: Gallimard, 1948. 8vo. Half-title. (Browning as usual.) Original printed wrappers (spine panel darkened); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: A. M. Antomin (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CAMUS on half-title: "A Jean de Bosschere assiege sure anso mars insoumais [L'Etat de Siege] are Esperes a plus cordials Albert Camus." Critics and the public expected a dramatization of Camus' La Peste (1947), but L'État de siege was different in tone, and was initially poorly received. Despite this, the work has remained almost constantly in print in French since its first publication.Les Justes. Paris: Gallimard, 1950. 8vo. Half-title. Original wrappers; original glassine (small sticker on spine of glassine). FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CAMUS on half-title: "A Jean de Bosschere [crossing through "Les"] an nom des que vous no sommes sens tes cordialement Albert Camus." Camus' play is based on the true story of a group of Russian Socialist-Revolutionaries who assassinated the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905.  De Bosschere lived for most of the 20th century between London and France, and illustrated his own works as well as the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, and the classical works of Aristophanes, Ovid, Strato and Apuleius. He published his own works of poetry, and in 1952 was awarded the Prix de la Mediterranee and in November the Mandat des Poetes.  

CAMUS, Albert, (1913-1960). L'Homme Revolte. Paris: Gallimard, 1951.  8vo. Half-title. (Some overall browning, minor chipping to a few brittle edges.) Original wrappers (some soiling). Provenance: Yvon Belaval (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. REVIEW COPY marked "S.P." on title-page and lower wrappers. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CAMUS: "A Yvon Belaval en souvenir des Portiques d'Alger, amicalement Albert Camus."   Philosopher and literary scholar Yvon Belaval was a Diderot specialist. He helped edit an edition of Denis Diderot's works with Jean Grenier, who taught in Algiers where he was hugely influential on Camus. L'Homme Revolte, an expansion of his earlier views expressed in l'Etranger and Le Mythe de Sisyphe, provoked a bitter controversy between Sartre and Camus, resulting in the end of their relationship.

CAMUS, Albert, (1913-1960). Group of 4 FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED OR INSCRIBED, comprising:  Actuelles II. Chroniques 1948-1953. 1953. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. INSCRIBED BY CAMUS on half-title to Natacha and Brice Parain. Parain was a French philosopher and essayist. -- L'Exil et le Royaume. 1957. FIRST EDITION, number 146 of 200 copies on Lafuma-Navarre. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CAMUS on half-title to writer Gianfranco Zaffrani. -- Discours de SueÌ€de. 1958. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. INSCRIBED BY CAMUS on half-title to an unnamed recipient. -- Les Possedes. 1959. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. INSCRIBED BY CAMUS on half-title to "Nathalie." --  Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo, all published in Paris by Gallimard, all in original wrappers with glassines (all with a small label on spine of glassine). All FIRST EDITION, SIGNED OR INSCRIBED.   Condition generally fine.  

CAMUS, Albert, (1913-1960). Group of 6 works in French, comprising:  Actuelles. Chroniques 1944-1948. 1950. FIRST EDITION, one of 260 copies on alfa mousse Navarre, this copy hors commerce labeled "H.C." -- Actuelles II. Chroniques 1948-1953. 1953. FIRST EDITION, number 217 of 260 copies on alfa mousse Navarre. -- Actuelles, III. Chronique Algerienne 1939-1958. FIRST EDITION, number 307 of 260 copies on alfa mousse Navarre. -- Le Malentendu; Caligula. 1944. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. -- Carnets. Janvier 1942-Mars 1951. 1964. FIRST EDITION, number 185 of 310 copies on Lafuma-Navarre. -- Promethee aux enfers. Paris: Palimugre, n.d. LIMITED EDITION, number 182 of 250 copies. -- Together 6 works in 6 volumes, all published in Paris by Gallimard (except where indicated), all 8vo, all in original wrappers, most with original glassines, condition generally fine.