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  • SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

    Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent.. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson, 1640

    First collected edition of Shakespeare’s poems and the earliest obtainable edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

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  • [HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, JAMES MADISON, & JOHN JAY.]

    The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution.. New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788

    George Washington family copy of the first edition. This is an important association copy of the central book of American political philosophy, signed and dated June 10, 1788 in the first volume by Dr. David Stuart, George Washington’s relation and political confidante.

    $550,000

  • [BROWNING,] ELIZABETH B. BARRETT.

    Autograph manuscript notebook, the working notebook for the verses later published in The Seraphim, and Other Poems.. No Place, 1835-1837

    This extraordinary manuscript is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s heavily revised autograph working notebook for The Seraphim, and Other Poems, the book that first brought her fame.

    $550,000

  • JOYCE, JAMES

    Ulysses.. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922

    First edition. Number 44 of 100 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder paper and signed by James Joyce.

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  • SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

    Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies … the Second Impression. London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632

    This is an excellent example of the Second Folio, the second edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays. This is “incomparably the most important work in the English language” (Jackson, Pforzheimer Catalogue).

    $475,000

  • BIBLE

    The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated. London: by Robert Barker, 1613-1611

    The Great “She” Bible, the “authorized version” or King James Bible, one of the greatest monuments of English literature.

    $270,000

  • PAINE, THOMAS

    Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America . . . the third edition [bound with:] Large Additions to Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776

    FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING sheets of Common Sense, here with the third edition title page and prefatory leaf. “It is not too much to say that the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, was due more to Paine’s Common Sense than to any other single piece of writing” (Streeter).

    $250,000

  • Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America, … the city of New York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, in the year M,DCC,LXXXIX.. New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, Printers to the United States, 1789

    $200,000

  • MILTON, JOHN

    Paradise Lost. London: Printed by S. Simmons, and to be sold by S. Thomson, H. Mortlack, M. Walker, and R. Boulter, 1668

    First edition, the first complete issue, comprising the 1668 title page and the added preliminary matter. These preliminaries include “The Printer to the Reader,” a page of errata, “The Argument” (a book-by-book synopsis), and “The Verse,” in which Milton argues against the English practice of rhyming line endings in favor of blank verse, “Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in. longer works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter.” Milton’s defense of his use of unrhymed iambic pentameter prompted Samuel Johnson to write, “finding blank verse easier than rhyme, [Milton] was desirous of persuading himself that it is better.”

    $170,000

  • WHITMAN, WALT

    Leaves of Grass [with] Whitman’s own copy of his 1860 portrait. Brooklyn, New York, 1855

    First edition, first issue, one of only 337 copies of the first issue, distinguished by its elaborately gilt-stamped cloth binding prepared in June/July 1855. Whitman reported that only 800 copies were printed; this copy is from the first group to be bound. The copies bound later did not have the extensive gilt stamping. Whitman paid for the book, supervised its production, and even set a number of pages in type.

    two items: $160,000