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Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. was formerly known as M. Benjamin Katz, Fine Books/Rare Manuscripts. We are based in both Ontario and Alberta, Canada. We do business by appointment, and have had an online presence selling rare books and manuscripts since 1999, successfully completing well over 7,000 transactions . Specializing in handwritten, historically significant books, manuscripts, diaries, documents and ephemera. A member of The Manuscript Society each treasure on offer is guaranteed authentic and as represented for life. Worldwide clientele includes esteemed collections and public, private and university libraries on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. Always buying collections and estates.
Illustrated by W. H. BARTLETT. Very Good with no dust jacket. THE FAMOUS BLACKMER COPY OF THE BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED 'CHRISTIAN IN PALESTINE. WITH 80 Fine Plates in 4to. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY! The Book: Henry STEBBING: The Christian in Palestine or Scenes of Sacred History, Illustrated by W. H. Bartlett. Published by George Virtue. London. [1873]. Printed by Joseph Rickery of Sherbourn Lane, London. 4to, Full bright red morocco with gilt rule and heavy gilt spine. Vignette Title. 1 Map. 1 Plan. ...
Very Good. On offer is a true first English edition [1898] of Edmond Rostand's brilliant 'Cyrano de Bergerac' published by Lamson, Wollfe, London. This book is from the library of Edmond Rostand, signed & inscribed to him in French by the translator Howard Thayer Kingsbury. Extraordinary opportunity to own this rare first edition of the true first translation from the library of the author and dated in his own hand. Condition: Slight chipping to head of spine. Some light rubbing otherwise VG.; ...
Very Good. On offer is a super, autographed copy of the First Edition of the first book in the immortal Horatio Hornblower series: The Happy Return by C.S. Forester, signed on the fep, some light book dealer's pencil notes on another endpaper. Only 12, 000 copies were printed of the First Edition thusly, signed, makes for an inordinately scarce title. This a VG copy, lacking the dustjacket, London green, silver gilt, crisp and save for a very slight cocking, very light sunning to the spine it ...
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: J. CORREARD, France
Date published: 1845
Description: Fair. French. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Uncut copy of this very, very scarce 1845 exposition on canons and canon powder. Save for some chipping and rubbing this copy would be in good condition. Read More
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: WM. BLACKWOOD & SONS, London
Date published: 1862
Description: Fine+ with no dust jacket. 1862. First Edition. Bound in full calf, spine title treatment in gilt, five bands and six compartments, a very fine copy. Scottish historian John Hill Burton (1809-1881) writes a series of essays; "A Vision of Mighty Book Hunters", "The Prowler and the Auction-Haunter" and others on book-buying and 'book hunters'. This edition features an ornate gilt vignette on the cover showing a scholarly individual scanning a book and shelves. Some scuffs and edgewear, the tips ... Read More
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date published: 1944
Description: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. Super copy, of Gide's comments and observations of France immediately after the country's fall to the German Army. Unclipped, would be very fine save for the lightest of pencil notes in a small area at the rear endpapers. D/j is the lesser with some chipping to the extremities but professionally under mylar now. Scarce title with scarcer autograph. Translated by Malcolm Cowley. Signed on first title page by the author.; 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; LITERATURE, DRAMA, ... Read More
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ADAMS PRESS PRINT, New York NY
Date published: 1920
Description: Very Good. On offer is a very good edition of the book "HIGHER MAGIC-Magic for the Artist", by Oscar S. Teale an architect, friend of Houdini, President of Society of American Magicians. Published by Adams Press Print, 240 Broadway, New York, New York 1920, [1920]. Rarely available this copy is signed and inscribed on the first fly leaf by Oscar S Teale to William E. Locke, Aug 4 1920. Teale has also handwritten "Serial No. 83". The chapters in this book pertain to bizarre magic (including s ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Washington General Printing Office 1939, WASHINGTON [DC]
Date published: 1938
Description: Very Good. On offer: AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR H.O. No 9 Bowditch, United States Navy Department Revised Edition of 1938 US Hydro-graphic Office. Published: 'Washington General Printing Office 1939'. This navigation and nautical astronomy book, [text pages (391pp) and table pages (387pp), 778pp total, 8vo beige cloth hardback] with illustrations, diagrams, formulas, tables, photograph depictions of marine navigation instruments and tools plus 13 pieces of old 1942 and assumed earlier ... Read More
Edition: Third Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Tinsley Brothers, London
Date published: 1863
Description: Good. On offer interesting book with lots of intrigue and special atributes. Titled "Border and Bastille" it is written by the English journalist/author George Alfred Lawrence and it is the story of his life from the time he left England and attempted to join the Confederate Army because he sympathized with the Southern cause and wished to experience and write about the War. He appears to have spent more time as a prisoner than on the battlefield as he was captured quite soon upon arrival in ... Read More
Edition: Uncorrected Proof
Binding: Original Wraps
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London
Date published: 1971
Description: Good. Uncorrected proof copy, very scarce as such, of Le Carre's first novel departing from his famed espionage novels. The original cover is in somewhat poorer shape than the interior pages but overall good.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; NOVEL, SPY, SPYCRAFT, MYSTERY, LE CARRE, UNCORRECTED PROOF, ESPIONAGE, ROMANCE, FICTION, LITERATURE, Read More
Binding: Leatherette
Publisher: THE Hotel Monthly Press, Chicago, Illinois
Date published: 1915
Description: Fine+ with no dust jacket. An outstanding, and scarce volume, by the author of Practical Gastronomy, that contains recipes that have taken years of research to collect: Also many new recipes. Includes the history and development of sauces. This fine vintage book is from The Hotel Monthly Press 1915. Leatherette covers with stamped lettering. The book is in excellent condition, with moderate signs of age, use, and shelfwear. It measures approx 6-1/2 X 3-1/2 with 128 pages, plus book list.; ... Read More
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