“SHINED A SEARCHLIGHT INTO EVERY MURKY CORNER OF WALL STREET”

PECORA, Ferdinand. Wall Street Under Oath. New York, 1939.

First edition of Pecora's electrifying account of his key role as chief counsel in the dramatic 1930s Senate hearings on Wall Street's role in the 1929 Stock Market Crash, hearings that, in Pecora's own words, "cast a vivid light upon the uninhabited mores and methods of Wall Street," ranked with Watergate in their impact, laying the groundwork for long term financial reform and prompting FDR to name Pecora a commissioner of the newly formed SEC. $3800.

RUSSIAN CHESS CHAMPION GARRY KASPAROV’S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED BY HIM

KASPAROV, Garry. Russian Test of Time. Baku, 1985.

First edition of the Russian chess champion’s first book, a combination of game analysis and autobiography, signed by Kasparov in Cyrillic on the title page and dated 12/03/2006. $450.

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED ALDINE EDITION OF SPENSER'S POEMS, EXQUISITELY BOUND

SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works. New York and London, 1891. Five volumes.

Later Aldine edition of the poems of Spenser, including The Faerie Queene, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with 25 window-mounted engravings, ten hand-colored, splendidly bound in full morocco-gilt with multi-colored morocco inlays in floral designs. $4800.

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED TRIAL SHEETS FOR COCTEAU’S PORTRAIT DE MOUNET-SULLY, 1945, ONCE BELONGING TO GLENWAY WESCOTT

COCTEAU, Jean. Portrait de Mounet-Sully. Paris, 1945.

Original pre-publication sheets of line cuts by Cocteau, most before letters, four hand-colored in gouache by Cocteau, stamped number “16” and inscribed by "Cyril" to a member of the Shakespeare and Company literary circle: “Glenway [Wescott], in memory of Villefranche 1929, our 1st meeting and 40 years of enjoyment since. London 1970.” $1500.

“PROFOUND OBSERVATION OF HUMAN NATURE IN ITS COMPLEXITY AND IN ITS FOIBLES”

MOLIERE. Oeuvres Completes. Paris, 1863. Seven volumes.

“Nouvelle édition,” with frontispiece portrait in Volume I and numerous fine steel-engraved plates throughout, very handsomely bound. $2800.

"MODERN MERCHANDISING BEGINS WITH A MODERN STORE"

THE KAWNEER COMPANY. Machines for Selling. Niles, Michigan, circa 1948.

First edition of this early guide to modernist architecture and design for retail, profusely illustrated with drawings and diagrams. $2500.

BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF EIGHT INTERWAR-ERA VIENNESE MEN'S SHOE DESIGNS, DRAWN BY HAND FOR ATELIER MODELL MAYER

(MAYER, Robert) ATELIER MODELL MAYER. Men's shoe design drawings. Vienna, circa 1930.

Fascinating collection of Viennese men's shoe designs from the interwar period—six hand-drawn in pencil and colored on special onionskin design stationery and two drawn in pencil on plain onionskin. $650.

"THE MOST NOTORIOUS OF BRITISH PRISON SHIPS" IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (ANDROS, Thomas). Old Jersey Captive. Boston, 1833.

First edition of an extraordinary account of "death and despair that reigned" on the infamous British prison ship stationed in New York's harbor, where captured Revolutionary soldiers such as Andros were brutalized and viewed by the English "as rebels and traitors… in an unjust and wanton civil war," rare in original boards. $2500.

"THE TREACHERY AND VIOLENCE OF REVOLUTION"

CONRAD, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. London, 1911.

First edition of Conrad’s political novel, “set in Switzerland and Russia and centered on the tragedy of student Razumov, caught up in the treachery and violence of revolution” (Drabble, 225). $750.

SIGNED BY THE PILOT, NAVIGATOR, AND BOMBARDIER OF THE ENOLA GAY

(TIBBETS, Paul W.). Photograph signed. No place, image circa February 1946; signed at a later date.

Photographic print of "Enola Gay" Pilot Paul Tibbets, Bombardier Tom Ferebee, and Navigator Theodore Van Kirk, signed by each on his image. $1100.

“IF I COLLAPSE, IT WILL BE FOR ETERNITY”

HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. Bright Shawl. New York, 1922.

First edition of Joseph Hergesheimer’s romantic novel of the Cuban revolt. $400.

“GOODBYE, TOBY… WE ARE SORRY YOUR LINE IS CLOSING DOWN”

AWDRY, Wilbert. Toby the Tram Engine. Leicester, England, 1952.

First edition of the scarce 7th book in the Railway Series, with 30 vibrant color illustrations. $850.

INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH OF NAT “KING” COLE

COLE, Nathaniel Adams. Photograph inscribed. New York, 1945.

Publicity photograph of a youthful and sharply dressed Cole holding a microphone, inscribed: “To Macie, Best Wishes, Nat King Cole.” $1200.

"THE REBELS, THE GANGSTERS, THE BOHEMIANS, THE ARTISTS"

VAN DER ELSKEN, Ed. Parijs, Fotos 1950-1954. Amsterdam, 1981.

First edition of this revealing photo-essay on Parisian life in the early 1950s, illustrated with 172 pages of finely screened halftones, with a special segment on Australian “femme fatale” Vali Myers, featured in his first photobook, Love on the Left Bank. $1500.

“THEIR ARCHITECTURE BEARS SILENT WITNESS”

BANKA, Pavel. Terezin-Mansfield / Mansfield-Terezin. Prague, 2003.

First edition of this souvenir booklet from Banka’s 2003 expedition at the National Gallery in Prague, with 25 full-page photographs, 13 in color. $125.

LAVISH TRIANON PRESS LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE OF ALTERNATIVE COLORED VERSIONS OF THE FIRST 25 PLATES OF BLAKE'S JERUSALEM

BLAKE, William. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion [facsimile]. London, 1974.

Fine Trianon Press limited edition facsimile, number 199 of only 500 copies (from a total edition of only 558), of alternative colored versions of the first 25 plates of Blake's Jerusalem. A fine copy, with publisher's prospectus (two copies) laid in. $1500.

SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER PAOLO GASPARINI

GASPARINI, Paolo. Megalopolis. (Gradisca d’Isonzo, Italy), 2000.

First edition of Gasparini’s innovative urban photobook, boldly signed in silver felt pen by the award-winning photographer, featuring over 275 color and black-and-white photogravures. $950.

"THIS ABSOLUTELY DARLING LITTLE SWEETNIK"

THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise in Moscow. New York, 2000.

Signed limited edition of Kay Thompson's fourth Eloise book, number 36 of 300 copies signed by illustrator Hilary Knight. $950.

"HE THAT COMPLIES AGAINST HIS WILL IS OF HIS OWN OPINION STILL"

BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras, a Poem. London, 1822. Two volumes.

Later edition of this bitingly humorous 17th-century poem dealing with scholastic pedantry, Aristotelian logic, theological controversy, witchcraft, alchemy, astrology and war, with 12 striking hand-colored aquatints by John Heaviside Clark. $750.

INSCRIBED BY INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIST JOHN MAURICE CLARK TO HIS FRIENDS, WELL-KNOWN SCIENTISTS CARYL AND EDNA HASKINS

CLARK, John Maurice. Competition As A Dynamic Process. Washington, 1961.

First edition of this influential economics work framing labor as an overhead cost, inscribed to his friends, prominent scientists Caryl and Edna Haskins: “To Caryl and Edna Haskins with best wishes: J.M. Clark.” $850.