Price: $10,000 Polish-born French chemist who, with her husband Pierre, discovered radium and polonium; awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Signed Book. Pierre Curie. Marie Curie’s biography of her husband. Signed, “M. Curie” on the limitation page. Limited edition, #70 of 100 copies. New York: Macmillan Co., 1923. Original blue paper covers. Enclosed in … [ Read More ]
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Dali, Salvador
Price: $5,750 Spanish surrealist painter. Signed Book. “Dali…Dali…Dali…” by Max Gerard. Signed, inscribed and dated on the first page of the text, A Richman, Dali, 1979. The painter has elaborated his initial D with a drawing of a snail on a leaf, from which three drops of liquid fall from its point. New York, Harry … [ Read More ]
Perón, Eva
Price: $3,750 Wife of Argentine President Juan Perón, who, during her husband’s first term as president, became a powerful though unofficial political leader, revered by the lower economic classes. Signed Book. “Eva Perón and Her Social Work”. Signed and inscribed on the front cover, “a Jouhn Walcot / Eva Perón / 1950”. [Buenos Aires]: Subsecretariat … [ Read More ]
Picasso, Pablo
Price: $4,750 Spanish painter and engraver. Signed Book. “Picasso, The Recent Years”. Signed, “Picasso”, in pencil on the limitation page. Limited edition, #24 of 350 copies. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company,1947. Quarto; 211 pages. Original tan cloth covers. Contained in a quarter black morocco clamshell box. This item is associated with the following … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $1,750 “Knights of the Air” by Lester J. Maitland, New York, 1929. A heavily illustrated history of the development of early airplanes. The book is signed on the endpaper by Maitland, and below that Franklin D Roosevelt has written “given me by Peter Brady / October 1929 / Franklin D. Roosevelt”. There is slight … [ Read More ]
Victoria, Queen
Price: $6,500 Signed Books. “Life of the Prince Consort”. Set of five volumes. Signed by Queen Victoria in volume I and in volume III. Inscribed in volume I on a front blank page, “To The Hon: Mary Pitt from VR & I Windsor Castle Jan.17, 1877”. Inscribed in volume III on a front blank page, … [ Read More ]