"THE CAPSTONE TO SCHUMPETER'S SYSTEM"

SCHUMPETER, Joseph. Imperialism and Social Classes. Oxford, 1951.

First English edition of two seminal essays by the founder of evolutionary economics, issued the year after Schumpeter's death, a handsome copy. $650.

"HE THAT COMPLIES AGAINST HIS WILL IS OF HIS OWN OPINION STILL"

BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras, a Poem. London, 1822. Two volumes.

Later edition of this bitingly humorous 17th-century poem dealing with scholastic pedantry, Aristotelian logic, theological controversy, witchcraft, alchemy, astrology and war, with 12 striking hand-colored aquatints by John Heaviside Clark. $750.

“SHINED A SEARCHLIGHT INTO EVERY MURKY CORNER OF WALL STREET”

PECORA, Ferdinand. Wall Street Under Oath. New York, 1939.

First edition of Pecora's electrifying account of his key role as chief counsel in the dramatic 1930s Senate hearings on Wall Street's role in the 1929 Stock Market Crash, hearings that, in Pecora's own words, "cast a vivid light upon the uninhabited mores and methods of Wall Street," ranked with Watergate in their impact, laying the groundwork for long term financial reform and prompting FDR to name Pecora a commissioner of the newly formed SEC. $3800.

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED TRIAL SHEETS FOR COCTEAU’S PORTRAIT DE MOUNET-SULLY, 1945, ONCE BELONGING TO GLENWAY WESCOTT

COCTEAU, Jean. Portrait de Mounet-Sully. Paris, 1945.

Original pre-publication sheets of line cuts by Cocteau, most before letters, four hand-colored in gouache by Cocteau, stamped number “16” and inscribed by "Cyril" to a member of the Shakespeare and Company literary circle: “Glenway [Wescott], in memory of Villefranche 1929, our 1st meeting and 40 years of enjoyment since. London 1970.” $1500.

“CAN YOU AVOID SUBURBIA?”

OWENS, Bill. Suburbia. (San Francisco), 1973.

Early edition of the pioneering photobook, boldly inscribed on the half-title, “Pat, Can you avoid suburbia? Bill Owens,” with 96 pages of black-and-white halftones, many paired with captioned quotes that add to the book’s “indelible poignancy” (New York Times). $1700.

“YOU CAN’T ALWAYS EXPLAIN MYSTIQUE”

TAPPLY, William G. The Dutch Blue Error. New York, 1984. First edition of the second Brady Coyne mystery, a tale of fatal intrigue among philatelists, boldly signed by the author on the title page. $200.

"THE REBELS, THE GANGSTERS, THE BOHEMIANS, THE ARTISTS"

VAN DER ELSKEN, Ed. Parijs, Fotos 1950-1954. Amsterdam, 1981.

First edition of this revealing photo-essay on Parisian life in the early 1950s, illustrated with 172 pages of finely screened halftones, with a special segment on Australian “femme fatale” Vali Myers, featured in his first photobook, Love on the Left Bank. $1500.

BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF EIGHT INTERWAR-ERA VIENNESE MEN'S SHOE DESIGNS, DRAWN BY HAND FOR ATELIER MODELL MAYER

(MAYER, Robert) ATELIER MODELL MAYER. Men's shoe design drawings. Vienna, circa 1930.

Fascinating collection of Viennese men's shoe designs from the interwar period—six hand-drawn in pencil and colored on special onionskin design stationery and two drawn in pencil on plain onionskin. $650.

SIGNED BY THE PILOT, NAVIGATOR, AND BOMBARDIER OF THE ENOLA GAY

(TIBBETS, Paul W.). Photograph signed. No place, image circa February 1946; signed at a later date.

Photographic print of "Enola Gay" Pilot Paul Tibbets, Bombardier Tom Ferebee, and Navigator Theodore Van Kirk, signed by each on his image. $1100.

INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH OF NAT “KING” COLE

COLE, Nathaniel Adams. Photograph inscribed. New York, 1945.

Publicity photograph of a youthful and sharply dressed Cole holding a microphone, inscribed: “To Macie, Best Wishes, Nat King Cole.” $1200.

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED ALDINE EDITION OF SPENSER'S POEMS, EXQUISITELY BOUND

SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works. New York and London, 1891. Five volumes.

Later Aldine edition of the poems of Spenser, including The Faerie Queene, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with 25 window-mounted engravings, ten hand-colored, splendidly bound in full morocco-gilt with multi-colored morocco inlays in floral designs. $4800.

SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER PAOLO GASPARINI

GASPARINI, Paolo. Megalopolis. (Gradisca d’Isonzo, Italy), 2000.

First edition of Gasparini’s innovative urban photobook, boldly signed in silver felt pen by the award-winning photographer, featuring over 275 color and black-and-white photogravures. $950.

“IF I COLLAPSE, IT WILL BE FOR ETERNITY”

HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. Bright Shawl. New York, 1922.

First edition of Joseph Hergesheimer’s romantic novel of the Cuban revolt. $400.

“PROFOUND OBSERVATION OF HUMAN NATURE IN ITS COMPLEXITY AND IN ITS FOIBLES”

MOLIERE. Oeuvres Completes. Paris, 1863. Seven volumes.

“Nouvelle édition,” with frontispiece portrait in Volume I and numerous fine steel-engraved plates throughout, very handsomely bound. $2800.

LAVISH TRIANON PRESS LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILE OF ALTERNATIVE COLORED VERSIONS OF THE FIRST 25 PLATES OF BLAKE'S JERUSALEM

BLAKE, William. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion [facsimile]. London, 1974.

Fine Trianon Press limited edition facsimile, number 199 of only 500 copies (from a total edition of only 558), of alternative colored versions of the first 25 plates of Blake's Jerusalem. A fine copy, with publisher's prospectus (two copies) laid in. $1500.

"THIS ABSOLUTELY DARLING LITTLE SWEETNIK"

THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise in Moscow. New York, 2000.

Signed limited edition of Kay Thompson's fourth Eloise book, number 36 of 300 copies signed by illustrator Hilary Knight. $950.

"THE TREACHERY AND VIOLENCE OF REVOLUTION"

CONRAD, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. London, 1911.

First edition of Conrad’s political novel, “set in Switzerland and Russia and centered on the tragedy of student Razumov, caught up in the treachery and violence of revolution” (Drabble, 225). $750.

BOLDLY SIGNED BY ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

RAUSCHENBERG, Robert. Photograph signed. No place, 1985.

Original color photograph of Robert Rauschenberg standing next to a friend, boldly signed by Rauschenberg along the side of the image. $600.

"MODERN MERCHANDISING BEGINS WITH A MODERN STORE"

THE KAWNEER COMPANY. Machines for Selling. Niles, Michigan, circa 1948.

First edition of this early guide to modernist architecture and design for retail, profusely illustrated with drawings and diagrams. $2500.

INSCRIBED BY INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIST JOHN MAURICE CLARK TO HIS FRIENDS, WELL-KNOWN SCIENTISTS CARYL AND EDNA HASKINS

CLARK, John Maurice. Competition As A Dynamic Process. Washington, 1961.

First edition of this influential economics work framing labor as an overhead cost, inscribed to his friends, prominent scientists Caryl and Edna Haskins: “To Caryl and Edna Haskins with best wishes: J.M. Clark.” $850.