Recent Arrivals from Pen Ultimate Rare Books

SIGNED First American Edition The Path to Power. Special first U.S. edition, limited to 175 numbered copies for sale, and 26 lettered copies for private distribution [this example unnumbered and unlettered]. NY: Harper Collins 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket [no slipcase], 6.5 x 9.5, 656 pages. Boldly signed on the colophon in blue felt tip by Margaret Thatcher. Also includes… Read more about this item

"My First Life," inscribed and SIGNED by Langston Hughes in this First Edition of Hughes' first autobiography. In The Big Sea, the first of an eventual two autobiographical volumes, Hughes recounts the period from his youth in Kansas and Mexico through the publication of his award-winning debut novel Not Without Laughter in 1930. (Hughes' second autobio, I Wonder as I… Read more about this item

SIGNED/Handwritten by Harper Lee, "I'm not a collector (of anything) but I have, as you may guess, great interest in books. Firsts is absolutely first-rate!" Scarce ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, January 1, 1997. Handwritten letter to Robin Smiley, offering thanks for an issue of Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine which featured a cover story on To Kill a… Read more about this item

First Edition of this scarce schoolbook. "This is a history book about us. It is about a history that has been denied us by lies about what we are and what we have been." A painfully vivid and lavishly illustrated volume, written by two Civil Rights activists, offering raw, powerful sketches of select figures and events in African-American history, including… Read more about this item

"His works prepared the ground for action as well as thought." LOCKE, John. The Works of John Locke. London: Edmund Parker, et al., 1740. Three volumes. Folio (14"H x 9"W). Antique-style gilt-and blind-tooled paneled calf, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Fourth edition of John Locke's collected works, formally attaching Locke's name to important… Read more about this item

F. Scott Fitzgerald Typed Letter Signed with handwritten addendum, December 26th, 1939, one year almost to the day before his death. F. Scott Fitzgerald, cash-strapped near the end of his life, pleads with his landlord "with somewhat bowed shoulders" for a reduction in rent, expressing hope that a Hollywood studio will employ him soon. "Things look a little brighter. My… Read more about this item

"Mar-a-Lago -- there's no place like it." A Rare TLS With Bold Full Name Signature. SIGNED Typed Letter on "The Trump Organization" letterhead, New York, NY, dated "May 13, 2009," written to Mr. Jerry Camarillo Dunn Jr., a longtime writer for National Geographic who sent Trump a copy of his signed book "My Favorite Place on Earth." Signed as "Donald… Read more about this item

First Edition, first book printing of this 1968 scarcity by one of the godmothers of what would become the early feminist movement, mainstreaming into "Women's Lib" in the 1970's. SOLANAS, Valerie's S.C.U.M. Manifesto. [Society for Cutting Up Men.] Bound in publisher's original printed wraps. Near Fine with light foxing and light wear to wraps, light sunning to spine and pages… Read more about this item

SIGNED and Inscribed on the title page by the author, a first edition copy of Fischer's lavishly illustrated history, which "proposes to trace the different but increasingly entwined meanings of liberty and freedom through the images and artifacts of four centuries of American history. At its best, his book leads readers into the rich material culture of colonial and early… Read more about this item

March 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Playboy's Interview with Ayn Rand. To commemorate this significant event, one of the earliest mass-market publications to offer Ayn Rand a public forum, Pen Ultimate Rare Books is offering a bibliophile-worthy copy of the original Playboy issue (March, 1964), with its cover touting a pictorial essay, "Girls of Russia and the Iron Curtain… Read more about this item

First Edition/First Printing of Hazlitt's great novel, originally published as "The Great Idea" by Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951 (New York, NY). In Time Will Run Back, Hazlitt envisions a future in which the communists won and have been in power for more than 100 years. All traces and artifacts of the ancient capitalist world have been wiped out. Hazlitt himself acknowledged his… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Ayn Rand. Missing from most Rand collections, one of only 300 copies! New American Library, New York, 1966. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Rare and Fine copy of the UNnumbered Limited Edition of Capitalism, issued immediately after (November, 1966) the original Signed, Numbered 700 copies sold. Erratum slip which itself contains an error! Most unusual Rand, missing… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Ayn Rand. A bibliophile's copy in every way! The largest selection of rare, signed and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet! UNMATCHED, UNREAD copy of Rand's Limited Edition of Capitalism, issued simultaneously with the first printing, in a limited run of 700 copies signed and numbered by Rand. Book is STUNNING. In original publisher's slipcase with light toning… Read more about this item

SIGNED and Numbered by Ayn Rand, presented is copy #1920, one of 2000 Tenth Anniversary Signed Limited Edition copies. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's magnum opus, her celebration of the value of individual life and productive achievement, is the one novel which, she once announced with unblinking immodesty, is "completely my sense of life, without reservations." (Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's… Read more about this item

SIGNED and Numbered by Ayn Rand, presented is copy #1963, one of 2000 Tenth Anniversary Signed Limited Edition copies. Atlas Shrugged, Rand's magnum opus, her celebration of the value of individual life and productive achievement, is the one novel which is "completely my sense of life, without reservations." (Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged). "Man's life is not… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Thomas Jefferson. "Upon the whole, I consider the fisheries of the utmost importance to America, and her natural right thereto so clear and evident, that it does not admit of a debate, and to surrender them is a species of treason for which no punishment is too severe" (Thomas Paine, 1779). SIGNED by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of… Read more about this item

UNMATCHED AYN RAND VALUE! Beautiful FIRST PRINTING, what Rand called the "definitive edition" of her courtroom drama, Night of January 16. SIGNED and dated by Rand on the half-title. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Library-quality at an unbeatable price. Book #P1451. $1950. The largest selection of rare, signed and manuscript Ayn Rand on the planet!

SIGNED by Langston Hughes. "Dream on, dreamer, dream on." First edition of the final volume in his "Simple" series featuring Jesse B. Semple, known as Simple, often called "The most famous character in black fiction." A fine, tight copy, signed by Hughes without personalization, in a just about fine unclipped jacket. No writings or markings in the book save for… Read more about this item

SIGNED and inscribed on front paste-down by Booker T Washington in the year of publication. "It is only as the black man produces something that makes markets of the world dependent on him for something will he find his rightful place": RARE SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BINDING OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S BLACK-BELT DIAMONDS, 1898, INSCRIBED, AND DATED BY HIM.… Read more about this item

First Walter J. Black (1942) edition issued in a limited run in matching cardboard slipcase. Two volumes, both about fine, in a worn slipcase. "Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment reveals the soul of a criminal all the way down to his philosophical premises" (Ayn Rand, 1969). Book#P5b196. $100. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.