My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. SIGNED by King, Coretta Scott - 1969

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1957. Presumed First printing. HC w DJ. PC Good+/Good. SIGNED BY ARNOLD PALMER & JACK NICKLAUS. Presumed 1st/1st (Barnes was notoriously inconsistent on printing statements, and did not explicitly state first editions). Cream & green quarter cloth, shelfwear, scuffs/marks with some soiling to boards, fraying corners. Autographed FFEP (signed to verso & recto) was torn out, folded, creased, and poorly taped in, otherwise unmarked, binding sound. Clipped DJ heavily edgeworn w nicks/chips, open tears, some soiling, now in Brodart. Illustrations by Anthony Ravielli. This is a very rare, utterly unique copy signed by two of the game's all-time greatest golfers and ambassadors. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

Text and instructions in Japanese and English. Dramatic color and black and white photo illustrations and diagrams, followed by pattern pages that can be copied or used as is. 79 pages. Published in Tokyo in 1987. First edition, signed by author.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Times Books, 1997. Signed on the front-free end-paper by President Carter with his full name: Jimmy Carter. First edition / First printing. Tan paper spine, light beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.

Washington: James B. Steedman, Printer, 1858. Volume I only. Near Very Good condition (see photos). A square, reasonably tight copy. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. Wear to the corners and spine ends, with one small chip at the rear hinge (see photo). Bound in the original brown cloth, with decorative blind stamping to the spine and boards, both front and rear. The spine is gilt-stamped "Message and Documents 1858-9, Part 1." Below the spine is blind-stamped "House Document." NOT a library discard. Previous owner's name on endpaper. NO underlining. NO margin notes. A small percentage of pages are age-toned or show light foxing. However the vast majority are clean with NO foxing. This is the House of Representatives version, 35th Congress, 2d session, Ex. Doc. No. 2. Altogether there are 750 pages (see photo #5). It begins with President James Buchanan's State of the Union message (pp. 1-72) followed by reports from the Secretary of the Interior Jacob… Read More

Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

First English edition. Henry Colburn. London. 1828. 8vo. Title, xii, 428pp. Full marbled paper covered boards, 19th Century pseudo tree calf papier croisé pattern. Red spine label with gilt lettering and edge rules. Blue endpapers. Title page slightly toned. Lacking half-title. Rubbing to spine edges. A crisp copy of the rarer London first edition.
In making a Papier Croisé, the final step required that the paper be lifted up and carefully moved while still wet. This caused the characteristic knotting in the design.
John Ledyard (1751-1789) American explorer and adventurer. Ledyard accompanied Cook on the third and final voyage 1776-1780. Visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Prince Edward Islands off South Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and then Hawaii. It continued to the northwest coast of North America, making Ledyard perhaps the first U.S. citizen to touch its western coast, along the Aleutian islands and Alaska into the… Read More

Phila. David McKay, 1940. HBDJ, 1940, 1st Edition, VG-/GOOD-, A Very Good- Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Spine Binding wobbly & edges scuffed rubbed, Sm 4to. DJ light Fade Wear & tiny Chips Scuff marks here & There at Edges but Illustration ON Front & Back DJ Nice Condition, Spine Ends DJ small chips fox, Blue Boards with Color Illustration Duplicates DJ has Black cloth spine, Cvr lite wear, Interior nice tight light Wear FOXing to few pgs Inner Margins, Small chips to spine DJ TOP edge & EXTREMITIES DJ various chips Light CREASES, UNPAGINATED ,, An amusing story about a faun who plays a prank on the birds of the forests by switching around all of their eggs. Pogany's style is very different for this book, more cartoon-like than we are used to seeing.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Willy Pogany,.

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1957. Presumed First printing. HC w DJ. PC Good+/Good. SIGNED BY ARNOLD PALMER & JACK NICKLAUS. Presumed 1st/1st (Barnes was notoriously inconsistent on printing statements, and did not explicitly state first editions). Cream & green quarter cloth, shelfwear, scuffs/marks with some soiling to boards, fraying corners. Autographed FFEP (signed to verso & recto) was torn out, folded, creased, and poorly taped in, otherwise unmarked, binding sound. Clipped DJ heavily edgeworn w nicks/chips, open tears, some soiling, now in Brodart. Illustrations by Anthony Ravielli. This is a very rare, utterly unique copy signed by two of the game's all-time greatest golfers and ambassadors. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.