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Georgia, 1935. SARAZEN, Gene. Georgia: 1935. Black and white photograph signed "Gene Sarazen" in black ink on bottom. (Measures 9 3/4 x 7 1/2"). Photograph of Sarazen alone on the course, dropping one of his putts that leads him to the Masters in Augusta, Georgia on April 9th, 1935. He is surrounded by elegantly dressed spectators as he sinks his putt into the 9th green during his thirty-six hole play off. Catching up to Craig Wood who wholed a 4-wood second shot on the par-5 15th for a double eagle. Sarazen parred in from there then beat Craig Wood in a playoff the following day. The double eagle is "the shot that was heard around the world" and is one of the most famous single golf shots in history. Score card (measures 12 x 5") is also signed by Sarazen on signature line. 18 x 21 inches framed. Beautifully matted and framed. HBS 67680. $500.

[Washington D.C.]: [printed at the Pentagon], 1945. FISKE, Milan D.. for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940 -1945 ... Written at the request of Major General L.R. Groves United States Army. [Washington D.C.: printed at the Pentagon, 1945]. First edition, advance publication copy for press use. One of 1,000 copies. Cyclostyled pages, stapled (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 264 x 200 mm.). [8], 19, [1, blank], 10, 7, [1, blank], 15, [1, blank], 9, [1, blank], 14, 15, [1, blank],17, [1, blank], 13, [1, blank], 10, 13, [1, blank], 12, 3, [1, blank], 6, 2, 3, [1, blank], 5, [1, blank], 1, [1, blank] pp. With intertextual diagrams and "Released for Publication on ____" lithographed on lower inner corner of front wrapper. With duplicate extra leaf "x-5." Complete. Original textured cream wrappers stapled in three places along inner edge. Wrappers slightly soiled. Spine with a small dampstain. Internally very clean. About fine. This is the first edition of the first… Read More

London: Printed for D. Henry, 1787. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION; URBAN, Sylvanus. One of The First Means by Which The British People Learned of The Enactment of The Constitution of The United States of America [UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION], subject. URBAN, Sylvanus, [editor]. The Gentleman's Magazine ["New Constitution of the United States of America"]. Printed by John Nichols for D. Henry, November [December], 1787. First edition of these [November and December, 1787] issues. Two small octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 215 x 130 mm). [941]-1035, [1]; [1037]-1131, [1] pp. With woodcut text illustration on front wrapper of each volume. November issue with one fold-out plate, and lacking plate I, entitled "S.W. View of Aconbury Chapel 5 Miles from Here." The December issue with two plates (plate II and Supp.), but lacking plate I, Illustrations of the Royal Charter School Near Dublin, Clontarfe Castle Dublin, and others. Text of American Constitution on pp. 1008-1011; 1110-1112. Self-wrappered.… Read More

1821. GEORGE IV, King of England. England]: July 19, 1821, the day of his coronation. Document states that Mayor General Christopher Jefferson is now a Lieutenant in the army. Signed by Wellington and three other Lords. Affixed with 2 seals on the left hand side. One is a red circular wax seal and the other is a blue paper seal. Written on vellum, three creases from folds. (Measures 390 x 300 mm; 580 x 500 framed). Beautifully matted and framed. "George the Fourth by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and, Ireland; King, Defender of the Faith & Trusty and well Beloved Mayor General Christopher Jefferson. Greeting: We reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct Do by these Presents, constitute and appoint You to be Lieutenant General in Our Army {and?] to take Rank from 19th July, 1821 and We do, hereby give and Grant you Full Power and Authority to Command and take your Rank accordingly; You are therefore carefully and diligently to… Read More

London: Published by C. Baldwyn, 1823. CRUIKSHANK, George. . GRIMM, Wilhelm. ZAEHNSDORF, [binder]. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, Collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. London: Published by C. Baldwyn, 1823. Full description: GRIMM, [Jacob and Wilhelm]. CRUIKSHANK, George, [illustrator]. German Popular Stories, Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, Collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. London: Published by C. Baldwyn, 1823; James Robins & Co., London, and Joseph Robins Junr. & Co., Dublin, 1826. First English edition, with the second issue title-page for Volume I, with an umlaut over the "a" in "Märchen" in the title. "A few copies of the engraved title were printed off before the umlaut was added in 'Märchen'" Otherwise with the following first issue points: With a list of plates on page 218; the title to the tale of "The Travelling Musicians" on p. 9 has no additional words; in the "Notes" at the end of the volume, the note referring… Read More

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1928. BAUM, L. Frank; NEILL, John R.. First Edition, In Dust Jacket [BAUM, L. Frank]. THOMPSON, Ruth Plumly. The Giant Horse of Oz. By Ruth Plumly Thompson. Founded and Continuing the Famous Oz Stories By L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz". Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1928. First edition with "Oniberon" on the frontispiece and color illustrations coated on one side only. In dust jacket. Complete with twelve color plates. Octavo (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 226 x 170 mm)). [5]-[15], 16-283, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's original rust cloth. Spine stamped and lettered in black. Front board with color pictorial label. Illustrated endpapers. All edges yellow. In the publisher's pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with some wear to spine extremities and along edges. A small chip from bottom edge of front panel. Some minor repairs to inside of jacket along edges and at top of spine. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Overall a near fine copy in a very good… Read More

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. ARION PRESS; WILEY, William T.. One of 300 Numbered Copies, Signed by the Artist [ARION PRESS]. WILEY, William T.,[artist]. Godot. An Imaginary Staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this being number 168. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Folio (15 x 10 inches; 381 x 255 mm). 68 pp. With fifty color illustrations by Wiley in black, blue and yellow, and two black and while illustrations including a frontispiece portrait and a tailpiece. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over printed pictorial yellow paper boards. Yellow paper spine label, lettered in black. Housed in a cloth and paper pictorial slipcase. Mint. With prospectus laid in. "This book is published in 2006 in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel Beckett. It is not the play Waiting for Godot. It is a book about the play: a critic's appreciation, a synopsis of the drama, and artist's… Read More

Placer County, California, 1852. GOLD RUSH. [Gold Rush Map Manuscript. Being a Survey for the adjoining plots of land belonging to H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. Placer County, California: 1852]. Two pages on a single sheet (17 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.; 438 x 275 mm). Manuscript document with map, dated variously between 4-24 September 1852, and signed by H.H. Watson, A.J. Polhill, and others. Sheet with some mild staining and ink blots. Some minor chipping at edges and some separations at the creases. Creases reinforced with nearly invisible tape. Overall a very interesting piece of gold rush history. We could not find any other California mine surveys at auction in the past 50 years. "Survey for H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. A Tract of land laying near [?ville] bounded as described in the annex plot commencing point as the S.W. corner of J.H. Hancock survey..." "Survey made by N.O. Hinman [?], County Surveyor..." "In the present survey, the tracts of land being issued to Watson and Polhill are bounded on… Read More

1880. GREENAWAY, Kate. Good Old Times No. 2". [N.p., ca. 1880]. Original pen, ink, and watercolor drawing for a greeting card. [N.p.: N.d., ca. 1880]. (Image size 4 3/16 x 2 15/16 inches; 107 x 74 mm.; 9 1/2 x 11 1/4 framed). Depicting a girl in white with a parasol and a boy with a green crop. Signed with initials at lower left corner. The card was issued as Good Old Times No. 2 (Horizontal Edition) (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1880. The verses were written by G.P. Meade. Matted, framed and glazed. "With Best Wishes [G]ood old Times! They told us you had passed away; Who are these ye send us? What have they to say? Just the good old greeting "Friend, good day!" Bring what may the future, Bring it smile or sigh; surely we "Good-morrow" will reply." Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Born in London to an engraver father and a seamstress mother, Kate Greenaway's drawings were to capture forever an idealized image of Regency in childhood and rural life. From the age of twelve, Greenaway studied her craft,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First edition. Octavo. Orange cloth backstrip over black paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. An old light ink price on the bottom corner of the front flap. Still, near fine. HBS 67419. $300.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1759. Full Description: BLACKSTONE, Sir William. The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest with other Authentic Instruments. To Which is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse, Containing the History of the Charters. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1759. First edition. Folio (12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 322 x 235 mm). [4], lxxvi, [4], 86 pp. With engraved dedication page and numerous engraved vignette tail-pieces and engraved historiated initials illustrating buildings at Oxford. With a separate half-title for the "Magna Carta" and table of contents (Tabula) bound between pp lxxvi and 1. Full 19th Century tan paneled calf. Boards ruled in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red. Some rubbing to extremities and corners a bit bumped. Free endpapers reinforced at the front and back. Some light toning to a few pages. The first seven leaves (title, dedication and pages i-x) with repairs to… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. PAILTHORPE, F.W.. First edition in book form, first issue according to Smith. Three octavo volumes. [4], 344; [2], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [2], 344 pp. plus 32 pp. advertisements, dated May, 1861. With the first issue title-pages and with all the internal flaws for the first issue called for by Smith, except page 173 in volume III has an apostrophe in "there's." There are a four more points however that Smith notes which do not occur in every copy. Our set does not have the two points in Volume III that Smith notes only appeared in Sadleir's copy ("3" missing in page number on p. 103, and first "i" missing in "inflexible" on p. 193, four lines up). However, our set does have the two other points which are that there is a period after the headline on page 236 in volume III and also a dot over the 'i" on page 278, volume II. However, according to Clarendon, we have some points of the first issue, but most are second. Original moderate violet wavy-grain cloth with… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. First edition in book form, first issue. Three octavo volumes (7 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 115 mm). [2], 344; [2], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [2], 344 pp. With all first issue title-pages and all the internal flaws for the first issue called for by Smith, except for the two points in Volume III that Smith notes only appeared in Sadleir's copy ("3" missing in page number on p. 103, and first "i" missing in "inflexible" on p. 193, four lines up). More impressively, besides these two previous mentioned points, this set has all first issue points called for by Clarendon except volume III, page 220, line 16, the end of line hyphen is not faint. So 116 of 119 of Clarendon 's points, of which two are only in some copies. Bound without half-titles or advertisements. Three volumes uniformly bound by Bayntun in full red morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some light… Read More

Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1541. Greek Title] Opus Utrumque Homeri Iliados Et Odysseae, Diligenti per Iacobi Micylli & Ioachimi Camerarii recognitum. [Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1541]. Second Herwagen edition, but first edition edited by Micyllus and Camerarius, improving the text from Hervagius' 1535 edition. Two folio volumes in one. Folio in sixes. [24], 394 [i.e.410], [2]; [1]-237 [i.e.307], [1, printer's device] pp. Text in Greek with commentaries surrounding text. Preliminaries in Latin. Title-pages are in Greek and Latin. Title-pages and final leaf of both volumes with engraved printer's device. Engraved initials. Full contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Boards elaborately stamped in blind. Cover with the stamped initials GWH and the date 1550. Spine with "Homer" in old ink manuscript. Beveled boards. Boards with two brass clasps. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. With library stamp on lower margin of main title-page "By Bibliotheca Gymnas?" with a deacquisition stamp over it.… Read More