How to Form a Mark Twain Club. [Mayfield, California or Webster Groves, Missouri: Mark Twain Society], no year

First and only edition. This document provides guidance for forming local Mark Twain clubs from the Mark Twain Society, founded by Cyril Clemens in 1930.

Scarce: WorldCat locates only the copy at University of Virginia.

$200

Printing and the Mind of Man: a descriptive catalogue illustrating the impact of print on the evolution of western civilization during five centuries. Munich: Pressler, 1983

SECOND EDITION, revised and enlarged.

$175

The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography. Foreword by Phillip Prodger.. New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016

First edition, one of 100 copies of the Deluxe Estate Edition, signed and numbered by the author and accompanied by your choice of one of four 8 x 10 inch archival pigment photographs (Einstein, Freud, Shaw, or Kahlo).

$165

The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A fine presentation copy inscribed by Longfellow on the day of publication: “Mrs. Palfrey with best regards of the Author.  October 16. 1858.”

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Pardes Shoshanim … Asirei ha-Tikvah (Garden of Roses … Prisoners of Hope). Amsterdam: Joseph Athias, 1673

First edition of Asirei ha-Tikvah which, apart from Purim Spiels, was “the first Hebrew-language drama to be printed” (Davidi).

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Marian Seldes’s personal correspondence, comprising mainly letters and notes to Seldes, with some photographs and other objects inscribed to her. Various places, 1940s-1990s

“All I’ve done is live my life in the theater and loved it … If you can get an award for being happy, that’s what I’ve got.”

– Marian Seldes on receiving the 2010 Tony Lifetime Achievement Award

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From My Arm-Chair. [Boston], [1879]

FIRST EDITION. Signed by Longfellow. When the “spreading chestnut tree” referred to in Longfellow’s “The Village Blacksmith” was felled for the widening of Brattle Street, the children of Cambridge paid to have a chair made from its wood for the now elderly poet.

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