"The recognition of the oneness of humanity and the need of an active brotherly concern for the welfare of others is the breadth of man's life."
 --Martin Luther King, Jr.

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First edition, first issue in rare publisher's sheep binding. A remarkable copy in fine condition. Sold

A page from the world's most famous book: the first book ever printed from moveable type. Sold

Literature:

Anton Chekhov: Several Volumes of Short Stories
First and early editions.  $32,000.

Conrad's Lord Jim
First edition.  $2500.

Dostoyevsky's The Devils
First edition.  $8,400.

William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying^new
First edition, first issue.  $8500.

Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night
First edition, in first issue dust jacket, signed by Fitzgerald. Sold

Heller's Catch-22
First edition, inscribed by Heller.  Sold

Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls  
First edition, later printing, signed by Hemingway. Sold

Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea
First edition.  $1400.

Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poemsnew
First edition, 1 of 750 copies. $3600.

Hugo's Les Miserables
First edition.  $6500.

James Joyce's Ulysses  
First English (Egoist Press) edition. $2800.

C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
First edition, beautifully bound. $1850.

Nabokov's Lolita^new
Rare first edition, first issue. $7500.

Orwell's Animal Farm
First edition.  $3600.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
First Edition.  $1300

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Remarkable letter to his wife.  Price on request.

Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
First edition. $10,500.

Shakespeare's Fourth Folio
Magnificent 1685 Fourth Folio. $85,000.

Steinbeck's East of Eden
Signed limited first edition, 1 of 1500.  $3200.

Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath 
First edition, first issue. Sold

Science, History and Philosophy:

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Acts of Parliament: The Stamp Act
A remarkable run including nearly all of the major acts leading to the American Revolution. $26,500.

The Works of Abraham Lincoln
Eight volumes. A superb set, beautifully bound and illustrated. $4800.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
First edition of this Civil War classic, handsomely bound. $1100.

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
First edition, with large folding map, handsomely bound. $950.

Milestones in the History of the Computer (1826-1950), featuring:

          Charles Babbage (1826)
          "The Father of the Computer": $1400.

          W.S. Jevons (1870) 
          The "logical piano": $2200.

          The ENIAC (1946) 
          World's first electronic digital computer:
           $2600. 

        Turing on Artificial Intelligence (1950)
          In original printed wrappers: $2000

Michael Faraday's "A Speculation Touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter" (1844)  
First printing in original wrappers of Faraday's mid-19th century speculations on one of the fundamental problems in 20th century physics.  $1350.

Millikan's Oil-Drop Experiment,
1910 First printing in original wrappers of Millikan's famous experiment to determine electron charge. $1500.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
First printing, in original printed wrappers.  $8800.

Euclid's Elements: First Hebrew translation.
The first published translation of a classical science text into the holy language.  $1100.

Henry Cavendish: The Discovery of Hydrogen (1766)
First printing, $1600.

Henry Cavendish: The Cavendish Experiment (1798)^new
First printing, a remarkable copy in original wrappers. $4000.

Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873),  
Fine first edition in original cloth. $10,500.

Rousseau's Social Contract
1762 Early pirated edition, published the same year as the extraordinary rare first edition. $2000.

Alexander Graham Bell's Researches in Telephony
First printing. $5200.

Winston Churchill's War Speeches^new
First editions, very handsomely bound. $3200.

Winston Churchill's History of the Second World War
First editions.  $1800.

Winston Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples
First editions.  $1450.

Limited edition mezzotint of Winston Churchill
1 of 500.  $1600. 

Churchill: Complete Works
Limited Centenary edition. $7600.

Churchill: Historic 1940 Speech
First edition. $1100.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: First editions^new
First editions of King's four full-length works, uniformly bound in full morocco bindings. $1650.

John Locke's Collected Works, 1714 First edition
First edition.  $6500.   
 
John Locke's Collected Works, 1727 Third edition
Third edition.  $3200.