Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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The true first edition of Henry George's Progress and Poverty, an inscribed copy
GEORGE, HENRY
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco: Wm. M. Hinton & Company for the author, 1879. One of 200 copies printed for the author in San Francisco ("author's edition"), the true first edition, with the rare inserted slip reading "This edition is issued by the author in advance of publication. He requests that no notice be made of it, and no copy be sent to the East or Europe until after publication in New York or London is announced." This copy with a presentation on the front free endpaper to David Norris. Publisher's purple cloth, covers in blind, lettered in gilt, salmon endpapers. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches (31.75 x 13.5 cm); [viii], 512 pp. Light binding wear, small white spot (paint?) at foot flower cover, the spine faded, occasional internally generally a clean, fresh copy.
Grolier American: "the most influential of American works on economics." This was printed for the author in San Francisco before the Appleton trade edition of 1880. "The single tax theory is only incidental in this significant American contribution to economic and sociological thought" (Howes). George's impact on several generations of economic and social thinkers is hard to overstate. This publication (especially rare in this, the true first edition) ushered in an era of social progressivism, without which (for example) the New Deal could not have existed. Tellingly, Einstein was an admirer: "Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation." Grolier American 81; Howes G-106.
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GEORGE, HENRY
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco: Wm. M. Hinton & Company for the author, 1879. One of 200 copies printed for the author in San Francisco ("author's edition"), the true first edition, with the rare inserted slip reading "This edition is issued by the author in advance of publication. He requests that no notice be made of it, and no copy be sent to the East or Europe until after publication in New York or London is announced." This copy with a presentation on the front free endpaper to David Norris. Publisher's purple cloth, covers in blind, lettered in gilt, salmon endpapers. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches (31.75 x 13.5 cm); [viii], 512 pp. Light binding wear, small white spot (paint?) at foot flower cover, the spine faded, occasional internally generally a clean, fresh copy.
Grolier American: "the most influential of American works on economics." This was printed for the author in San Francisco before the Appleton trade edition of 1880. "The single tax theory is only incidental in this significant American contribution to economic and sociological thought" (Howes). George's impact on several generations of economic and social thinkers is hard to overstate. This publication (especially rare in this, the true first edition) ushered in an era of social progressivism, without which (for example) the New Deal could not have existed. Tellingly, Einstein was an admirer: "Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation." Grolier American 81; Howes G-106.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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