Tender is the Night. New York: Scribner’s, 1934

FIRST EDITION, the extremely rare advance issue in wrappers.

$47,500

Magnificent Beecher Family Photograph Collection. Various places, 1850s-1880s

The collection: $42,000

“Democracy” Autograph Manuscript. No place, [c. 1867-70]

Walt Whitman on “the great height & beauty & practical fibre of American Democracy.” Whitman likely wrote this unpublished manuscript during the composition of his Democratic Vistas (1871).

$37,500

Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing, 1876

$35,000

Tales. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845

FIRST EDITION, ENGLISH ISSUE with the cancel London title page. This is an excellent copy of one of the rarest forms of Poe’s tales, issued in the original cloth from the American sheets with a London title page.

$35,000

A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859

FIRST EDITION, FIRST BINDING, FIRST PRINTING (with page 213 mis-numbered 113 and sig. b present on the list of illustrations, points that were corrected in later copies of this edition).

$35,000

Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922

FIRST EDITION. This is one of 750 numbered copies (from an edition of 1000) of the most sought-after book of 20th-century literature.

$35,000

Ulysses in The Little Review. Part of a near-complete run of the journal, Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. XII, No. 2. Chicago, New York, and Paris, 1914-1929

A VIRTUALLY COMPLETE RUN OF ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL JOURNALS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

THE FIRST PRINTING of Ulysses appears in The Little Review. The 23 installments comprise the first 13 and part of the 14th of the novel’s 18 episodes.

$28,000

Two autograph manuscripts: Autograph manuscript on the American individual beginning “Or are you one ambitious of great deeds” [and] Autograph manuscript poem fragment signed “Kentucky”. No place, c. 1862

This leaf contains two wonderful Whitman manuscripts. The first is an unpublished manuscript in which Whitman discusses two of the great themes of his writing: the work of strengthening, purifying, and completing oneself and the place of the individual in American democracy. The second, written on the verso of “Or are you ambitious” manuscript, is an unpublished working manuscript from Whitman’s Civil War poem “Kentucky.”

$28,000

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Webster, 1885

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION in the publisher’s deluxe binding. This copy has the rare first state of the illustration on p. 283, as well as the other earliest points described in BAL.

$27,500