Savannah / Atlanta / Denver: c. 1972 - 1980. Four densely written letters, two-sided, three are full manuscript and one is typed with a manuscript closing. Includes four Air Mail envelopes, two with legible dates. Flattened, very good with mailing folds and some edge tear where extricated from original wiriting..... More

Montauban, France: Self-published, September 1, 1839. Quarter brown leather with marbled paper over boards. The title in gilt on the spine indicates an intentional preservation of this work. 4.5" x 7", 237 pp. of manuscript copy of "Murat", a short book by Alexandre Dumas, origninally published as part of his..... More

Toronto, Canada: The Coach House Press, 1972. True First Edition. Metallic card cover of a speeding train, giving a blurred perspective of motion. The pages are all of a monotone light sepia, each page a sequential graphic of a passing train in background of the text. 8" x 5.5", 52..... More

Palace of the Tuileries, Paris, France: April 29, 1861. 18" x 15.5", partially printed on vellum. Signed by then Emperor of France, Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. In December 1851 he staged a coup d'etat and one year later proclaimed himself Emperor. While the counter signature of the Grand..... More

Paris: March 28, 1872. Complete translation of the Sonnets available upon request. Two apparently unpublished Sonnets and a personal letter from the young age of 22. While the recipient is not identified, this small collectin indicates that de Montesquiou was a well practiced poet and communicator at a relatively young..... More

Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First Edition. Blue cloth over boards. 5" x 7.5", pp. vi, [3] 4-319. This book was first intended as an opportunity for Einstein to financially aid his friend, Infeld. Though it soon became a joy for him to share physics in near layman's words..... More

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1934. First Edition. Red cloth with titling on spine in gilt. 4,75" x 7.25", pp. xii, 1 - 197. Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) ushered in a new era of modernism in poetry. He was to the poetry movement what Picasso, Rodin, and Hemingway were..... More

Kilburn, N. W. August 11,, 1898. Exellent content from one of the most active minds of turn-of-the-century Britain. Israel Zingwell (1864 - 1926) expounds on Tolstoy's "What is Art" which was first published in English in 1898, the same year as this letter. He chastises Tolystoy's "christianise" of art and..... More

London: Rodwell and Martin, 1819 - 1823. First Edition, Printed for the Author by Henry Hughes, Brecknock. Provenance: All volumes have a bookplate on FE, "Rousdon / Devon" which is from the library of Sir Henry William Peek, 1st Baronet [1825-1898], who was a Conservative MP and in the business..... More

Rome: The Vatican, April 3, 1654. The lead seal has "Pape Innocentus X" on the reverse and as is traditional, the profiles of Sts. Peter and Paul, unevenly worn in favor of Paul, on the obverse. It is still tied to the document through two holes and connected with a...... More

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1987 - 1988. First Edition. All volumes are inscribed to the same person; Mahmoud Abd El Moem Morad. Morad was a minor Egyptian poet in the later half of the 20th Century. Much of his history has been erased as his political affiliations were not necessarily..... More

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1985. First Edition. Signed: “Naguib Mahfouz” Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 - 2006) has been the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1988). He spent most all of his life in Cairo, where he published his first novel in 1939 and ten more were written..... More

Cairo, Egypt: Maktbit Misr, 1995. Prof. Moustafa Gouda. First Edition. Egypt, Inscribed to anonymous “my book”. /s/ Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz was suffering great difficulty which prevented him to write due to his injury from attempted assassination by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in October 1995. Naguib Mahfouz, (1911 -..... More