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Description:
SUN PICTURES OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCENERY,
With a Description of the Geographical and Geological Features, and Some Account of the Resources
Of The GREAT WEST; Containing Thirty Photographic Views Along the Line of The Pacific Railroad, from Omaha to Sacramento By F. V. HAYDEN, M.D., U. S. Geologist,
Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in the University of Pennsylvania
New York: Julius Bien, 1870
Book dimensions: 10-1/2 inches by 12-1/2 inches
150 pages of text
30 thick-card leaves with original mounted photographs;
each mounted photograph 6 inches by 8 inches
Original marbled endpapers
Original gold-imprinted binding and covers
Condition: Very good plus: clean, bright, exceptional; exterior green leather binding in very good condition, however, shows some wear on covers and on hinges; interior original
marbled endpapers, hinges strong; all 30 Russell photographic images exhibit strong tones and contrasts and fine detail; some waving to thick photographic mounts, as is
often seen in this volume; gold leaf edges. This superb and historical F. V. Hayden / A. J. Russell volume of Sun Pictures and text is exhibited by Colorado Artifactual & Mt.
Gothic Tomes
Genre: Hayden Surveys, United States Geological Survey, Western American Exploration, Early Western
American landscape photography
Price $11,000.00
Description:
THE GREAT GATSBY, first edition, first printing, in original 3rd state dust jacket. Scribners: New York, 1925. Dust jacket is first edition, third state.
A helpful bit of actual facts: first state (April 1925) has the lower case "j" in Jay Gatsby on back of jacket; second state (April 1925) has the hand-corrected or printed upper
case "J" in Jay Gatsby on back of jacket; and, the third state (August 1925) has book reviews on back of dust jacket, as well as on both inner flaps. Otherwise, all three
dust jackets have the same iconic Francis Cugat (brother of bandleader, Xavier) front panel.
While there were 20,870 copies of the first edition book printed, as well as 20,870 first and second states of the dust jacket, there were only 3,000 third state jackets
printed. And therefore, a first edition (first printing or second printing) with a third state dust jacket is definitely exceedingly difficult to acquire.
Reviewers: H. L. Mencken, Herschel Brickell, Joseph Hergesheimer, Carl Van Vechten, Laurence Stallings, William Curtis, Llewellyn Jones, Edwin Clark, Isabel Paterson,
Fanny Butcher, Phil A. Kingsley, and Alexander Woollcott.
A first edition, second printing of, THE GREAT GATSBY -- without dust jacket -- is also being offered with this book.
Condition: Dust jacket condition: very good with several evident flaws. First: the chips. All four corners of front panel have chips of varying dimensions, the most significant being that
over the "T" in "The." Upper left corner has a small chip at gutter which extends over top of head of dust jacket spine. Upper right corner of front panel has tiny chip. Lower
right corner of front panel has a noticeable chip of about a half-inch. Lower left corner of front panel has a sliver of a chip. Dust jacket spine has chips on head and toe,
both being noticeable. The back panel has a noticeable chip in upper right corner. Dust jacket has light residue from damp-staining to lower left-hand of dust jacket's front
panel. Several closed-ended tears have been conserved on back of dust jacket with neutral pH, acid-free, removable tape. Okay, that's the negative. Otherwise, dust
jacket still retains deep colors and bright, haunting imagery.
Book is first edition, first printing with bright and generally clean cloth covers and spine. Front cover shows just a faint shade of damp-staining in the lower left-hand area,
matching the original dust jacket. Gold-stamped spine is still brilliant. Binding, as noted by Bruccoli A II.1.a, is dark bluish green B cloth (linen-like grain). Lower right-hand
corner of front cover bumped. Otherwise, exquisite. Cloth spine shows only a dash of wear on the "Scribners" gold-stamp. No fraying at head or tow; however, the spine is
just a tad slip-cocked.
Back cover is near fine to fine condition, except for a miniscule dump to lower left-hand corner. Spine is tight. Pages bright and clean. No signs of foxing, tears, chips or
other such damage. White woven endpapers of sized stock, as noted by Professor Bruccoli. Also, top and bottom edges trimmed.
Genre: Literature, first edition, dust jacket, Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Price $150,000.00
Description:
THE GREAT GATSBY, first edition, first printing, in original 3rd state dust jacket. Scribners: New York, 1925. Dust jacket is first edition, third state.
AUS MEINEN SPATEN JAHREN - first German edition of Albert Einstein's book SIGNED and dated by Einstein on the title page. This truly is an exceptional book. It
appears to have been specially bound, either by the publisher or by the person -- Herr. J. Geiser -- to whom the book is inscribed. Book has a gold-imprinted blue leather
spine and marbled boards with gold leaf on top of pages. Book also includes the original first German dust jacket. The book is in fine condition. The dust jacket is in very
good plus condition with some tanning on front cover: light edgewear and tiny chipping on head, toe and corners of dust jacket. PROVENANCE on the Albert Einstein
signature comes from the letter included with book, written in German, dated December 9, 1952, to Herr J. Geiser and signed by Einstein's secretary, Helen Dukas. Letter
is imprinted, "Albert Einstein, 112, Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A." This book appears quite scarce in the first German edition, and especially in this binding.
Included with this book is a first American edition in first issue dust jacket of Albert Einstein's OUT OF MY LATER YEARS, in English, and published by the Philosophical
Library, New York, 1952. Book is in very good plus condition; dust jacket, very good condition.
Condition: The book is in fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good plus condition with some tanning on front cover: light edgewear and tiny chipping on head, toe and corners of
dust jacket. PROVENANCE on the Albert Einstein signature comes from the letter included with book, written in German, dated December 9, 1952, to Herr J. Geiser and
signed by Einstein's secretary, Helen Dukas. This book appears quite scarce in the first German edition, and especially in this binding.
Pagination: 278 pages, German edition. 279. American edition
Genre: Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein signed book, Albert Einstein signature
Price $12,000.00
Description:
ULYSSES By James Joyce and Illustrated by Henri Matisse, 1935. 1 of only 250 signed by both Joyce and Matisse. Total limited edition: 1,500, all of which were signed by
Henri Matisse. Book #1142. Book is in fine condition. Original publisher's slipcase in very good condition with signs of wear on top and bottom. Also included: Limited
Editions Club literature; however,
most significant is the postcard from dated October 22, 1935 to the previous owner, stating that the copies signed by James Joyce and Henri Matisse were oversubscribed
(over 500 Limited Editions members sought ownership of one of the copies of this book signed by Joyce and Matisse).
26 Henri Matisse prints published with book:
20 drawings; 6 hand-printed etchings
Book is a large square octavo: 9 inches by 11-1/2 inches
420 pages
Type: linotype Scotch Roman
Embellished with more than 40 chapter openings drawn by hand, printed
throughout in red and black.
Paper made by Worthy Paper Company; studies printed on thin
colored papers; and etchings on Canson Gravure.
Binding of full brown Bancroft buckram with a design by
Leroy Appleton embossed in bas-relief, in gold.
A beautiful and superb book production for one of the most
important books published in English in the 20th Century.
Pagination: 420 pages
Condition: Book is in fine condition. Original publisher's slipcase in very good condition with signs of wear on top and bottom. Also included: Limited Editions Club literature; however,
most significant is the postcard from dated October 22, 1935 to the previous owner, stating that the copies signed by James Joyce and Henri Matisse were oversubscribed
(over 500 Limited Editions members sought ownership of one of the copies of this book signed by Joyce and Matisse).
Genre: ULYSSES by JAMES JOYCE, James Joyce signed book, Henri Matisse illustrated, limited illustrated
signed edition
Price $27,500.00
Description:
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway, first edition, first printing, in original first printing dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are in near fine condition:
BRIGHT, CLEAN, FRESH. Book is inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to geologist, Arthur David Howard, in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 14, 1946. Included with this
beautiful first edition of FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS are two publication by geologist, ARTHUR HOWARD: History of The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1937; abd,
Cenzoic History of Northeastern Montana and Northwestern North Dakota with Emphasis on the Pleistocene, USGS Professional Paper 326, published 1960. Hemingway
and Howard most likely met during one of Hemingway's trips to his home in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Hemingway inscription on first front endpaper.
Pagination: 471 pages
Condition: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS in near fine condition with some age-flaking to book's spine title. No sunning. Dust jacket remarkably bright, clean and with little wear.
Inscription is clean and exceptional.
Two publications by Arthur Howard 471 pagesare in very good plus to near fine condition and are complete.
Genre: Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway inscribed book, Ernest Hemingway inscribed first edition, For
Whom the Bell Tolls first edition
Price $22,500.00