“AMONG THE TRUE HIGH POINTS OF MAN’S EFFORTS TO BRING REASON AND DIGNITY TO HIS WORLD”
PLATO. Republic. Glasgow, 1763.
First edition in English of the greatest of Plato's dialogues, printed at the Foulis Press by Glasgow's renowned Foulis brothers, in contemporary calf boards. $26,000.
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RARE AND DESIRABLE TYPED PAGE FROM AN EARLY DRAFT OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, WITH A THREE-WORD AUTOGRAPH ADDITION IN MALCOLM X’S HAND AND 125 AUTOGRAPH EDITS BY ALEX HALEY, HANDSOMELY FRAMED
MALCOLM X and HALEY, Alex. Typed draft page annotated. No place, circa 1963.
Exceptionally rare typed page from an early draft of The Autobiography of Malcolm X with a three-word autograph addition by Malcolm X and 125 autograph edits by Alex Haley, handsomely matted and framed with photographic portraits of the authors. $12,000.
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"THE GREATEST MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH 18TH-CENTURY CRITICISM"
JOHNSON, Samuel. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London, 1783. Four volumes.
1783 edition of Johnson's celebrated Lives of the Poets—"the only edition of importance after the first. It is the only edition which Johnson revised, and the last he lived to see"—with engraved frontispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, a splendid four-volumes in scarce contemporary polished calf. $1750.
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