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Vintage Holiday Shopping Guide: Top 10 Photobook and Rare Book Gifts

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A selection of rare, first edition, photobook and rare book gifts from The Manhattan Art & Antique Center's Manhattan Rare Book Co. [Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

A selection of first edition, photobook and rare book gifts from The Manhattan Art & Antique Center’s Manhattan Rare Book Co. [Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

Our Vintage Holiday Shopping Guide series continues with our top 10 Rare Books gifts. There’s nothing like a good book for winter and we’ve chosen the very best. These first edition books and limited edition photobooks would be ideal additions to any bibliophile’s collection. See full collection of Vintage Holiday Gifts for more exquisite gifts for people with exquisite taste.

Photobooks

1.First Edition Signed Alexander Calder, Stabiles: Derriere le Miroir 141

Alexander Calder, Stabiles: Derriere le Miroir 141

Signed limited first edition one of only 150 copies signed by Calder. Complete with eight Calder lithographs. Lithographs on paper, Paris, France, 1963. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

2. First Edition Signed Joan Miro, Peintures sur Cartons

Signed Joan Miro, Peintures sur Cartons

Signed limited first edition, one of only 150 copies signed by Miro. Complete with 22 Miro lithographs. Lithograph on paper, Paris, France, 1965. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

3. First Edition Signed Joan Miro, L’Oiseau Solaire, L’Oiseau Lunaire, Etincelles

Signed Joan Miro, L’Oiseau Solaire, L’Oiseau Lunaire, Etincelles

Signed limited first edition, one of only 150 copies signed by Miro. Complete with eight original Miro lithographs. Lithograph on paper, Paris, France, 1967. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

4. First Edition Signed Marc Chigall The Jerusalem Windows

First Edition Marc Chigall The Jerusalem Windows

First edition, signed and inscribed by Marc Chigall. A fine, pristine copy with the scarce publisher’s slipcase and shipping box. With text and notes by Jean Leymarie. Original red cloth, original pictorial dust jacket, original acetate, original slipcase and shipping box. A magnificent, fine copy, almost as new. Extremely rare signed and in such outstanding condition. New York: George Braziller, (1962). Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

5. First Edition Ansel Adams, Images 1923-1974

First Edition Ansel Adams, Images 1923-1974

First edition, deluxe issue one of 1000 copies signed by Ansel Adams and with additional silver print signed by Adams. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

Novels

6. Early Edition Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Early Edition Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth and first binding, with early custom box. Signed on front free end paper. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

7. Collector’s Edition of The Collected Novels of Jane Austen

Collector's Edition of The Collected Novels of Jane Austen

12 volumes exquisitely bound set of Jane Austen’s work. Bound in contemporary three quater calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated spines with leather labels, top edges gilt. American, 1899. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

8. The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare

The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare

Beautiful, complete 8-volume set of Shakespeare’s works bound in stunning contemporary calf bindings. Calf and paper, London, United Kingdom, 1839. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

Poetry

9. First Published Edition Poems, W. H. Auden

First Published Edition Poems, W. H. Auden

First published edition of Auden’s first book, signed by Auden on title page, one of only 1000 copies printed. London: Faber & Faber, 1930. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

History

10. First Edition Winston Churchill: A Speech by the Prime Minister in The House of Commons

First Edition Winston Churchill: A Speech by the Prime Minister in The House of Commons

First Edition of Churchill’s historic speech before The House of Commons: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Paper, United Kingdom, 1940. Click image for detail views [Manhattan Rare Book Co. | Gallery 90 | 212.326.8907]

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