JAMES CUMMINS Bookseller Catalogue 125

JAMES CUMMINS bookseller catalogue 125

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front cover: item 64 inside front cover: item 18 inside rear cover: item 39 rear cover: item 8 photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. An Early Anti-Absinthe Work (ABSINTHE) Balesta, Henri. Absinthe et Absintheurs. 94 pp. 12mo, Paris: Lucien Marpon, 1860. Yellow printed wrappers. Spine toned and with a few small splits, dampstain at gutter to frst few leaves. “Il va boire. Il boit. Il a bu. Le désir est satisfait, le rêve réalise” (p. 14). An early work on the ravages of absinthe, from a period when the drink was just becoming popular among the lower classes in France. “One of the frst people to get on the absinthe case was Henri Balesta, in his 1860 book Absinthe et Absintheurs. For the most part Balesta’s sensationalistic and cautionary work is taken up with case histories that might have come from nineteenth-century engravings and temperance tracts. A father introduces his little six year old daughter — who is already grieving for the death of her mother — to absinthe in order to comfort her, and inadvertently makes her an addict. After she dies from ab- sinthism, he hangs himself. Another absinthe drinker brings misery on his whole family, and fnally encounters a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter” (Baker, The Book of Absinthe). A scarce work, OCLC locating just two copies, both at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. $750 the redwood empire association images ADAMS, Ansel. Archive of correspondence to various recipi- ents relating to his work for the Redwood Empire Associa- tion. Five typed letters, signed (“Ansel” or “Ansel Adams”), on personal letterhead, 4 to Stuart Nixon of the Redwood Empire Association, 1 to Raymond Peterson of the Walter Mann Com- pany, 8 pp. total; 3 typed notes, signed, to Stuart Nixon; 1 p. typed rough draft, signed, of “statement on photography.” 3-¼ x 5-½ in. to 14 x 8-½ in, Carmel, California: September 10, 1964 – August 10, 1965. Near fne. An archive of signed letters and notes by Ansel Adams to Stuart Nixon of the Redwood Empire Association, regarding the planning of an exhibit of Adam’s northern California images as well as the production of books, brochures, and prints. In 1964, the Redwood Empire Association, “a chamber-of-commerce-type group that encouraged tourism in northwestern California, commissioned an extensive portrait of that area with its majestic redwoods” (Alinder, Ansel Adams, p. 271). This archive traces the entire arc of the project, including the photographing of the Redwood Empire, planning of the exhibition and related printed matter, the making and marketing of edition prints (available at $7.50-$10 apiece!) copyright and usage of the prints, and plans for a book of the Redwood Empire images. Some highlights from the correspondence: Oct 24, 1964: “In spite of fog and smoke I am sure I secured some good images. Friday AM we spent at Bull Creek Flat, and yhen [sic] came on to Burney (Hat Creek). After a couple of days here we are returning to the coast and will work a bit north of Eureka, then porceed [sic] south… I hope for some really good results. In some way pictures appear …” May 29, 1965: “The fne prints are all fnished and will go out by Grayhound [sic] from Monterey Today or tomorrow …” July 24, 1965, to Raymond Peterson of the Walter Mann Company: “The picture of the Mendonico [sic] Temple Carving should be very rich and brilliant. The print, as usual, is as rich as I can make it, and you are requested to improve on it (as usual), but retain details in the high values … I have told [Mr. Nixon] that you have done so much of my work that we understand each other and the problems. Another engraver might tend to make this Carving plate too heavy …” July 26, 1965, Adams’ “rough draft of statement on photography”: “This exhibit represents part of a collection of photographs made over a number of years. The borders of the Redwood Empire reach from the Golden Gate to beyond the Oregon Line, and from the Pacifc to the eastern slope of the Coast Ranges, including the Sonoma and Napa areas. It is one of the beautiful and exciting regions of the West; certainly one of the dominant areas of California. In these photographs I have concentrated chiefy upon the Natural Scene. I would like to remind all photographers and artists that this area ofers an unlimited opportu- nity for creative interpretation in many directions …” July 28, 1965: “This exhibit IS going to be an event!! It will be really a BEAUT!!” August 8, 1965, “the exhibit turned out a fne and (I think) poetic statement about the country. I felt that you all wanted an expression of intrinsic beauty and interest — avoiding clichés and obvious ‘attractions.’ Such would not function well in an art exhibit — but not too many people are aware of this …” $3,500

2 | james cummins bookseller (ANTICOLONIALISM) “Bust the Cabora Bassa Dam. Support the Dam Busters Commit- tee.” Color printed poster. 22-½ x 32 in., Ladbrooke Grove, London: [n.d., early 1970s]. Mi- nor edgewear, very good plus overall. Hoover Institute Political Poster Database UK 3824; cf. Yale, Wallerstein collection, MS 1865 Box 2, for issue with ANC imprint. A striking image of the anti-colonial struggle in southern Africa, with an armed soldier and a map of Mozambique showing the transmission lines to South Africa and the routes of in- fltration from Zaire. The Cabora Bassa dam, designed to supply power to South Africa and built while Mozambique was still a Portuguese colony, was controversial from the outset and the project was condemned by repeated UN resolutions in 1969-71. This poster, with slogans in French and German, was produced for the Dam Busters Com- mittee; in institutional holdings, only the Hoover Institute reports a copy; an issue with the London address of the African National Council is recorded at Yale. $750

catalogue 125 | 3 BARGAGLI, Girolamo. Dialogo de Givochi che Nelle Veghie Sanesi si usano di fare. Del Materiale Intronato. Allillv Strissima, et Eccellentissima Signora Donna Isabella de’ Medici Orsina Duchessa di Bracciano. 288 pp. 8vo, Venice: Appresso Alessan- dro Gardane, 1581. Third edition. 18th-century vellum over boards with leather spine label stamped in gold, fore-edges decorated. Van der Linde II, p. 57; Brunet II, 666; Grasse II, 376. The third edition of Bargagli’s popular game book, with editions in Sienne in 1572 and Venice in 1574 preceding this. $1,100

(BINDING, Bartlett, Roger) The Holy Bible … 8vo, Oxford: Tho[mas] Guy, [1682]. Contemporary full black morocco, covers tooled in gilt to a cottage roof design with onlays of citron and red morocco, a.e.g., with visible fore-edge painting of fowers. ESTC R218545; cf. Nixon, Oldaker Collection, no. 6; Weber, Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting, pp. 50-2. Provenance: Ann Bartlett (“her Book, 1699”), with another inscription, dated 1750. An English Restoration binding by the Oxford binder Roger Bartlett, with a visible painted fore-edge. The book was owned by one Ann Bartlett, perhaps a relation of the binder, who signed her name in 1699. It is interesting to note that at least two Bartlett bindings — A Companion to the Temple, 1676 (Doheny Sale, lot 1290) and The Occasional Ofces of Matrimony, 1679 (Oldaker Collection) — display painted fore-edges with the initials A.B., perhaps this same Ann Bartlett. $18,750

4 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 125 | 5 (BINDING, Cathedral) Histoire de la vie et passion de nostre sauueur Jesus Christ avec les fgures et quelques refections sur le prin- cipaux mysteres. Vol. 1: title page, 74 engraved leaves; vol. 2: title page, 57 engraved leaves. 2 vols. Folio, Paris: Jean Baptiste Loison, [c.1660]. Bound in 1823 in full black calf cathedral binding tooled in blind with roll border surrounding central blind- stamped cathedral motif, fat spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, stamped in blind in the rest, a.e.g., by T. Cunning- ham, Ashton-under-Lyne (his ticket on verso of fep), marbled endpapers. Slightest rubbing to the joints, near fne. Ramsden UK, p. 58. Provenance: John Lowe, Shepley Hall (bookplate in both volumes). The original work by Loison consisted of engravings printed on rectos only, and these have been mounted to larger sheets, and a letterpress title page has been added that reads thus: “This Work, of the Life, Miracles, and Passion, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Was Published in Paris about the year 1630, by Monsieur Jean Baptiste Loison; in two vols. was engraved by Monsieur Mathius, Michael Natalis, and Others; the most able engravers in France at that period, from the paintings of Martin de Voss; it was brought from Paris in 1802, by an English Connoisseur, was mounted on coloured paper and bound by order of John Lowe, of Shepley-Hall, Lancashire, 1823.” The BNF gives the date as c.1660. The catalogue of John Lowe’s collection of engravings and books of prints was printed by Thomas Cunningham (the binder of this volume) of Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1829. $9,500

6 | james cummins bookseller (BINDING, Edwards of Halifax) The Book of Common Prayer … with the Psalter or Psalms of David. 12mo, Paris: Printed by P. Didot, Sen. and sold by W. Edwards and Sons, Halifax, 1791. Contemporary Etruscan calf by Edwards of Halifax, a.e.g, with fore-edge painting under gilt of river scene with church and buildings in background, in original green morocco concertina slipcase. Recased, with near invisible repairs to joints. Contem- porary gift inscription, “Anne Bowler. The gift of her dear sister, Lady Armytage, 1794.” In custom black cloth clamshell box. ESTC T196712. $7,500

(BINDING, Embroidered) The Whole Book of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternhold, F. Hopkins, and others. [1], 64, 64-94, 96-173, [18] ll. Collation: A-2A8. 32mo, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1641. Contemporary English embroidered binding of white satin embroidered on covers with silver and colored silks showing foral heart-shaped tendrils, each tendril terminating in one of 8 multi-colored fowers, front cover with central dafodil, rear cover with central rose, small silver spangles, fat spine divided in three compartments, each compartment with fower of red, white, pink and yellow thread, covers bordered in canvas, silver clasps engraved with geomet- ric pattern, a.e.g., red satin pastedowns. Some slight fraying to silver thread, loss of a few spangles, but generally in exceptional condition, in a custom folding box. ESTC R175309. A beautiful example of the art of embroidered binding, in stun- ning condition. $9,000

catalogue 125 | 7 (BINDING, Fore-edge, Dover Painter) The Book of Common Prayer … together with the Psalter or Psalms of David … [Bound with:] The Whole Book of Psalmes (Oxford: Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, 1812). 8vo, London: Published for John Reeves, 1812. Full crimson straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, a.e.g., by Taylor & Hessey with their name stamped in gilt on the binding fore-edges. Fore-edge painting under gilt of Durham Cathedral by the Dover painter. Rebacked preserving the original spine, some wear to corners. Weber, Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting, pp. 98-103. Fore-edge painted with a view of Durham Cathedral by the Dover painter, an artist of uncommon ability commissioned to paint fore-edges by Marks & Co. in the 1920s. $3,250

with a fore-edge by the dover painter (BINDING, Fore-edge, Dover Painter) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ … Frontispiece, ornamental title page, more than 50 wood engravings after Italian masters, and ornamental borders and decorations throughout. xvi, 540 pp. 4to, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. Contemporary full red morocco, tooled in gilt and blind to a panel design, with central gilt-stamped circular ornament, spine in 6 compartments, raised bands, a.e.g., by Rivière (not signed, but matching known signed copies), with a fore-edge painting under the gilt of York Minster by the Dover Painter. Her- bert 1951; cf. Weber, Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting, pp. 98-103; Weber, 1001 Fore-edge Paintings, no. 23. A fne binding by Rivère, who executed several such bindings on this work in various colored moroccos. With a fore-edge by the Dover Painter, with the artist’s distinctive cursive label identifying the scene on the verso of the fep. The Dover Painter was active in the 1920’s, painting fore-edges for London booksellers Marks & Co. $3,125

8 | james cummins bookseller (BINDING, Fore-edge, Martin Frost) Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. Shelley … [bound with:] Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Frontispiece portrait, engraved title page. xvi, 363; xiv, [2], 164 pp. 8vo, London: Edward Moxon, 1847. Contemporary full dark green morocco, gilt, a.e.g. Fore-edge painting under gilt by Martin Frost with bust of Shelley fanked by the Thames at Eton on one side and Florence on the other. Some rubbing to the boards and bumping to the corners, but a solid, near fne copy. Bookseller’s ticket of Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow, on front pastedown. Cf. Weber, Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting, pp. 151-3. With a fne fore-edge painting of Shelley by Martin Frost, the contemporary master of the genre, with his initalled signature. $2,500

(BINDING, Fore-edge) Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Ofciis ad Marcum flium. 346 pp. 32mo, Lutetiæ [Paris]: Jos. Barbou, 1773. Contemporary full red morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped arms and motto of Lord Stuart de Rothesay, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, lettered in one, tooled in gilt in the rest, a.e.g., with fore-edge painting under gilt of Cicero declaim- ing to two listeners. Bookplate of Stanley Marcus and another unidentifed. Early library shelfmark label to fep. Spielmann 94. A fne wide-margined copy printed on blue paper, with a fore-edge painting. $1,750

catalogue 125 | 9 (BINDING, Fore-edge) Jephson, Robert. Roman Portraits, a Poem in Heroic Verse, with Historical remarks and illustrations, by Robert Jephson. [iv], xxxiv, [2], 277 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 19 engraved plates (mostly full-page). 4to, London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco, covers tooled in gilt and blind with outer rolls and center stamped square and diamond in gilt, elaborate gilt spine compartments, brown endleaves, black leather hinges, a.e.g.; extremities worn, repair to front hinge, upper corner bumped. Early ownership signature of T. Drayson. With a very unusual fore-edge painting of a foral decoration with two cherubs, a pair of red dragons bordering a center vignette of a cherub riding a horse either in the clouds or on the sea. $3,250

(BINDING, Fore-edge) Macpherson, James. The Poems of Ossian: with dissertations on the era and poems of Ossian, and a life of the translator, James Macpherson, Esq. 14 engraved plates. 2 vols. 12mo, Glasgow: Richard Grifn, 1824. Bound in full black straight-grained morocco, covers tooled with rolls in gilt and blind, with gilt pallets, ornaments and lettering on spine panels and raised bands, gilt rolls on board edges and turn-ins, a.e.g. Each volume decorated with a fne fore-edge painting under gilt depicting a rural or village scene. Lovely copy with fore-edge paintings of this famous literary forgery. Some of the poems were frst published as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated [by James Macpherson] from the Gaelic or Erse Language (Edin- burgh: 1760). Soon after this frst appearance in print, Ossian became a literary sensation; “the greatest poet since Homer.” It is now believed that the poetry contained herein was written primarily, if not wholly, by James Macpherson (1736-1796), the work’s “editor” and “translator.” $2,500 10 | james cummins bookseller (BINDING, Fore-edge) Ovid. The Art of Love, in Three Books. The Remedy of Love, the Art of Beauty, and Amours. Frontispiece and 5 engravings by Hopwood. xxiv, [ii], 308 pp. 8vo, London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co, 1809. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers tooled in gilt with outer Greek key and foral rolls, fat spine in six compartments, lettered in one, richly gilt with small tools in the rest, dated 1808 at foot, by Bartholomew Frye, Halifax (ticket on verso of fep). With fore-edge painting under gilt of English estate with shooting scene in foreground. Fine. Bookticket of Ramon Cueva, Mexico, on front pastedown, early 20th-century gift inscription in Spanish on frst blank. In custom black cloth box. Ramsden, p. 76; Spawn & Kinsella 30. A fne example of a Frye of Halifax binding with fore-edge painting. $4,500

(BINDING, French) Ofce de la Quinzaine de Pâque, en Latin et en François, Extrait du Breviaire et du Missel de Paris. xxxii, 664 pp., parallel text in Latin and French. 12mo, Paris: Les Libraires Associés, 1786. First edition. Contemporary French “reliure de deuil” of black morocco, covers stamped in blind with arms of Louis-Philippe, duc d’Orleans (variant of Olivier 2577, fer 7), fat spine in six compartments, titled in gilt in one compartment, the rest with repeat tooling centering on a large cross tool, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, pink pastepaper endsheets. Fine. Provenance: Louis-Philippe II, duc d’Orleans (1747-1793, aka Philippe Egalité); Louis Philippe, king of the French (1773-1850, Bibliothèque du Chateau d’Eu stamp to title). First edition of this version of the Ofce for the two weeks preceding Easter, with portions of the Paris Missal and Breviary, beautifully bound for the duc d’Orleans. Louis Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, better known as Philippe Egalité, was a member of the main cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, and one of the richest men in France. Despite his outspoken support for the revolution (he voted in favour of guillotining his cousin, Louis XVI) he was himself guillotined during the Reign of Terror. His eldest son, Louis Philippe, after a series of adventures and re- versals of fortune worthy of a Dumas novel, was crowned King of the French in 1830. He used the Chateau d’Eu as a summer residence, until his abdication in 1848. He spent the rest of his life in exile in England. $1,500

catalogue 125 | 11 (BINDING, Pillone) Amman, Jost. Insignia Sacrae. Woodcut illustrations throughout. 116 (of 144) leaves. 4to, Frankfurt: G. Corvinus for S. Feyerabendt, 1579. Contemporary vellum, covers decorated with fne pen-and-ink drawings by Cesare Vecellio for Odorico Pillone (coat-of-arms on upper cover, emblematic or costume fgure of woman on lower cover), remnants of vellum ties. Recased, with new endsheets, front upper corner repaired, some scufng and staining to covers. Berès 131; Provenance: Odorico Pillone (cover drawings); Sir Thomas Brooks (bookplate). One of the few volumes with decorated vellum covers from the remarkable Renaissance library of Odorico Pillone. Of the 172 volumes with fore-edge or binding decorations by Cesare Vecellio in the Pillone library, only 21 were so bound in plain vellum and adorned with ink drawings. Vecellio (1530-1600) was commissioned in the 1580s by Odorico Pillone to decorate the books of his library — the majority were given visible fore-edge paintings. The library remained intact until the 1950s when it was purchased by Pierre Berès from the heirs of Sir Thomas Brooks and subsequently dis- persed. The drawing on the back cover of the present volume is similar in composition to Vecellio’s costume drawings in his famous work, Degli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (1590). $45,000

12 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 125 | 13 14 | james cummins bookseller bound by queen’s binder b, with contemporary painted fore-edge (BINDING, Queen’s Binder B) The Book of Common Prayer … Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David … [Bound with:] The Holy Bible … [And:] The Whole Book of Psalms … [144]; [888]; [2], 84, [10] pp., ruled in red throughout. 12mo, London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker …; Printed by J[ohn] M[ackock] for the Company of Stationers, 1675; 1677. Contemporary full black morocco, covers stamped in gilt and painted silver all over with foral tools, each cover with four red and three citron quatrefoil morocco onlays (two of the red onlays replaced), fat spine in 6 compartments, tooled in gilt and painted silver, all edges gilt, gaufered, and painted with colored fowers, by Queen’s Binder B. Expertly rebacked, preserving original covers and spine panels. In custom cloth box. Cf. Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings, no. 69 & Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, no. 42; ESTC R33243, R33159 & R474723; Herbert 737. From the workshop of the Queen’s Binder B, active in the 1670s and known for the excellence of his tooling and the decoration of the fore-edge with painted fowers and birds visible when the book is closed. $12,500

catalogue 125 | 15 (BINDING) TASSO, Torquato. La Gerusalemme Liberata. Half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one. 2 vols. 8vo, Florence: Giuseppe Molini, 1824. Contemporary vellum, covers painted on the vellum, vol I: the Trojan column and basilica and the ruins of the Temple of Castor, vol II: the Domo D’Ossola and the Square Church of Ste. Marie del Popolo, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 with green morocco gilt lettering-pieces, the others with ornamental gilt, a.e.g., with fore-edge paintings under gilt of Tritons Fountain and ancient ruins and a bridge. Some light soiling and staining to covers, else fne. In blue cloth slipcase. Provenance: Raikes Currie (1801-1881) Member of Parliament, Northampton (armorial bookplate); Dorothy Shea (bookplate). $5,000

16 | james cummins bookseller (CHINESE FORE-EDGE) Three volumes decorated with Chinese fore-edge paintings. 3 vols. 8vo, China. In custom brocade box, split at hinges. Weber pp. 161-6. A set of three Chinese fore-edge paintings, one of which shows a watercolor of Madonna and child under a bamboo tree. An excellent example of the art which fourished briefy between the years 1936-1942, as described by Carl Weber in his book, Fore-Edge Painting (pp. 161-6). Typically, the Chinese watercolorists soon abandoned the gilding of fore- edges, and often painted a vertical scene (often around a Christian theme) on Chinese-style butterfy bindings. Weber, in fact, mentions two fore-edge paintings which he refers to as the Madonna of the Bamboo: one in the library of St. John’s Seminary (this copy) and the other, in a private library in Massachusetts, which is part of a set containing one fore-edge painting signed by the artist Lu Hung Nien — the only example known to Weber of a signed Chi- nese fore-edge. $18,750

catalogue 125 | 17 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. A History of the English- CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Ian Hamilton’s March. Speaking Peoples. Vol I: The Birth of Britain; Vol. II: The New Illustrated with a portrait, maps and plans, 409, [6], 32 pp. World; Vol. III: The Age of Revolution; Vol. IV: The Great Democ- 8vo, London: Longman’s, 1900. First edition. Original pub- racies. 4 vols. 8vo, London: Cassell, 1956-58. First editions. lisher’s red cloth. Spine soiled, and a stain to lower corner Bound in three quarter crimson morocco and matching of upper board; former owner’s signature, “Philip Merivale, cloth, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutclife. Fine. Bookplate. 30th September 1937, London” to the half title, and subse- Woods 138(a). quent owner’s bookplate. A very good copy. Cohen A8.1.a; Originally begun in the early 1930s, this work remained Woods A5. unfnished until Churchill, after WWII, had completed his Essentially a continuation of London to Ladysmith via Pre- monumental The Second World War, at which time he was toria. This copy contains four pages of ads for Churchill’s able to see it to completion. A best seller, it has been trans- previous works, and 32 pages of Longman’s ads bound in at lated into nine languages. the back of the book, as called for by Cohen. $1,500 $1,200

18 | james cummins bookseller CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Irish Home Rule, A speech delivered by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P. … at Belfast on February 8th, 1912. 16 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal Publica- tion Department, 1912. First edition. Printed wrappers, in a clamshell box with bookplate. Fine. Cohen A35.1; Woods A20(a). $1,250 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. India Speeches and an Introduction. 144 pp. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1931. First edition, variant cloth binding, with the title reading down the spine. Orange cloth. Spine slightly faded, and one CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The Liberal Government small stain on the lower edge of the upper board, some fox- and Naval Policy, A speech delivered by the Rt. Hon. W. Churchill ing to the text, small closed tear to margin of contents leaf. … in Introducing the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons, Bookplate, ownership signature of Ellen Constance Kotzé. on March 18th, 1912. 24 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal Publica- Cohen A92.1.b; Woods/ICS A38(a); Langworth, p.150. tion Department, 1912. First edition. Printed wrappers, in This is a collection of 10 speeches by Churchill as part of a clamshell box with bookplate. Fine. Cohen A37; Woods his campaign against the India Bill over which he broke A21. with his party leadership. Though his cause was lost, these $1,000 speeches are considered to contain some of the fnest ex- amples of Churchill’s rhetorical brilliance. The frst edition is most commonly found in orange paper wraps. A much rarer variant was issued in a hardcover binding seen in two versions — one with the spine title reading across the spine and one with the spine title reading vertically as it does here and on the wraps issues. The hardcover editions are keenly sought, but the coarse orange cloth proved highly suscep- tible to sunning, soiling, and wear. $1,500

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CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. [“The Aliens Bill,” in:] The Liberal Magazine, a periodical for Liberal Speakers and Canvassers, [661]-720 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal Publication Department, December, 1904. First edition. Near fne. In a custom red half morocco clamshell box and chemise, with bookplate. Woods D(b)24; Cohen G76c. The magazine reprints Churchill’s letter, known as “The Aliens Bill.” According to Woods, the letter was initially published in the Manchester Guardian, May 31, 1904, not a letter to the editor, but a private letter to Nathan Laski (1863-1941), of Manchester. The letter was later reprinted as a leafet (cf. Woods A7 & Cohen A13). $1,000

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Liberalism and the Social Problem. xxiii, [i], 414 pp. 8vo, London: Hodder and Stough- ton, 1909. First edition. Publisher’s maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Spine slightly darkened. Bookplates. Cohen A29.1.a; Woods A15. $600

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Lord Randolph Churchill. Illustrated. xvi, 564; viii, 531, [1] pp. 2 vols. 4to, London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth gilt. Spine slightly faded, some light foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves. Cohen A17.1; Woods A8(a). The frst edition of Churchill’s biography of his father. $500

20 | james cummins bookseller signed and dated by churchill CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Marlborough: His Life and Times. Frontispice, plates, maps, and facsimiles; 612; 651; 608; 671 pp. 4 vols. 8vo, London: Harrap, 1933-1938. First edition, frst issue of all volumes. Publisher’s purple cloth stamped with gold crest on the upper board, author, title, volume number on the spine. Errata slip tipped in between pages 16-17 of volume one. A fne set with minor shelf rubbing on the bottom edge and slightly faded spines. Former ownership inscription of Timothy Torat Fitch, bookplate. Cohen A97.2; Woods A40(a). A nice set of Churchill’s massive biography of his ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), signed by the author on the front endpaper of volume one, “Inscribed by Winston Churchill. January 1935.” Churchill initially began the work in 1929, after his defeat in the general election, and the four volumes were published over a period of fve years. One of England’s most signifcant military commanders and statesmen, Marlborough had an extraordinary life and career during the reigns of Charles II and James II. Churchill’s account of his forebear’s career refutes Lord Macaulay’s version in History of England (1848). $5,000

catalogue 125 | 21 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Mr. Churchill on the Peers, from a Letter to His Constituents, November 14th, 1910. 2 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal Publica- tion Department, 1910. First edition. Single leaf, in a clamshell box with bookplate. Fine. Cohen A33; Woods A18. $750

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. My African Journey. 61 photographic illustrations and three maps. xiii, [i], 226, [18, catalogue] pp. 8vo, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Publisher’s red pictorial cloth. Spine darkened, front hinge tender. Bookplate. Cohen A27.1; Woods A12. Churchill’s collection of essays on travel and big game hunting in Africa — much of the book had been serialized in the Strand Magazine. $700

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. National Demonstration in Favour of Land & Housing Reform Held in London, on April 20th, 1907. Report of speeches by … Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman … Earl Carrington … Winston Churchill. 20 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal Publication Department, 1907. First edition. Printed wrappers, in clamshell box with bookplate. Near fne. Woods A10. $900

22 | james cummins bookseller CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The People’s Rights … Selected from His Lancashire and Other Recent Speeches. [viii], 152 pp. 8vo, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. First edition, frst wrappered issue, frst state. Publisher’s printed and photo-illustrated wrappers. Covers chipped and worn, margins of frst few leaves brittle and chipped. Bookplate. In a custom red cloth clamshell box. Cohen A.31.2.a; Woods A16. A collection of Churchill’s speeches hurried to print during the run-up to the general election of 1910. One of Churchill’s scarc- est works, this is the frst wrappered issue (with Index and Appendix), frst state (with p. 71 mispaginated). $3,000

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. [viii], 345, [1], [24, catalogue] pp. 8vo, New York, London and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition. Original blue cloth. Light rubbing to extremities, fraying to head of spine, previous owner’s inscription to front pastedown. Bookplate. Woods A3(a); Cohen A3.1.a. Churchill’s frst and only novel. $550

catalogue 125 | 23 inscribed by churchill CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The Story of My Early Life. A Roving Commission. [xiv], 370 pp. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945. Third American issue, fourth printing. Publisher’s grey cloth. Very good in worn and tape-repaired dust-jacket with loss to spine and front panel. Bookplate. Cohen A91.7.c. Inscribed by the author, “Inscribed by Winston Churchill, 1946.“ $1,000

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The Story of the Malakand Field Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 4 plates. xiv, [ii], 336 pp., + 32 pp. catalogue dated 3/98. 8vo, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898. First edition, home issue, second state (with errata slip). Publisher’s green cloth, stamped in gilt. Spine darkened, some staining to covers. Bookplate. Cohen A1.1.b. Churchill’s frst book, a record of his stint as journalist-soldier in the Mal- akand Field Force on the northwest frontier of India in 1897. $2,500

24 | james cummins bookseller inscribed to churchill’s cousin lord londonderry CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Thoughts and Adventures. Frontispiece photograph, some illustrations to text. 319, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited 15 Bedford Street, [1932]. First edition. Publisher’s olive cloth, titled in gilt. Rubbing to cloth along joints, small gouge to fore-edge of text at last few leaves. Bookplates. Cohen A95.1.a. Provenance: Charles Vane- Tempest-Stewart 7th Marquess of Londonderry (his bookplate and inscription from Churchill). Inscribed to Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, “To Charlie, Winston 1932.” Lord Londonderry, Churchill’s second cousin, was a member of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for Air in the 1930s. He advocated the Appeasement policy towards Hitler and did not fnd favor in Churchill’s government. $3,500

catalogue 125 | 25 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The World Crisis. Il- lustrated with maps, charts and photographs. Errata slip in vol. IV. 6 vols. 8vo, London: Thornton Butterworth, [1923- 1931]. First English edition. Publisher’s blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. A very good set, light edgewear, vol. V shaken. Bookplates. Cohen A69.2(I-V).a. Churchill’s magisterial history of the First World War. $1,500

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The World Crisis: The Aftermath. Folding maps. 474 pp. This volume only. 8vo, London: Thornton Butterworth, [1929]. First edition, frst state. Publisher’s blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Light foxing to fore-edge of textblock, else near fne. Bookplate. Cohen A69.2(IV).a. The ffth volume of Churchill’s history of World War I, inscribed on the fyleaf by the author on March 1, 1929. $1,500

26 | james cummins bookseller clara clemens’ copy, “from mama & papa” (CLEMENS, Clara) Bryant, William Cullen. A Popular His- tory of the United States from the First Discovery. 4 vols. Thick 4to, New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1876. Bound in contemporary half pebbled full green morocco, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Spines and corners rubbed. Prov- enance: Clara Langdon Clemens (her inscription to each volume and bookplate from her sale, Los Angeles, April Clemens hands the letter of to his wife, who, in a short 10-14, 1951). signed postscript, echoes her husband’s sentiments. Inscribed in each volume by Clara Clemens, “Clara Lang- Clemens began work on Huckleberry Finn, following the don Clemens, from Mama & Papa. June 8, 1884.” Clara publication of Tom Sawyer, during the summer of 1876. (1874-1962) was 10 in 1884, the year her father was fnishing Dr. Brown (1810-1882) was the author of the cherished dog Huckleberry Finn. She was Samuel Clemens’ only daughter to story, Rab and His Friends, as well as several volumes of survive well into adulthood and in later years she managed medical essays. his estate. $5,500 $1,250

CLEMENS, Samuel L. Autograph Letter, signed (“Samuel L. Clemens”), to Dr. John Brown, in Edinburgh, with postscript by Livy Clemens. 4 pp. pen-and-ink on two 8vo sheets. Elmira, New York: June 22, 1876. Creased from prior folds, slight browning at margins. Mounted and framed with photograph, displaying pp. 1 & 3 of letter. Paine, Let- ters of Mark Twain, I, p. 280. A warm and personal letter to the Clemens’ close friend Dr. John Brown, imploring him to visit their summer idyll. “I wish you were here to spend the summer with us. We are perched on a hill-top that overlooks a little world of green valleys, shining rivers, sumptuous forests and billowy up- lands veiled in the haze of distance. We have no neighbors. It is the quietest of all the quiet places, and we are hermits that eschew caves and live in the sun. Doctor, if you’d only come!”

catalogue 125 | 27 [CLEMENS, Samuel L.] Life on the Mississippi. Illustrated. 624 pp. 8vo, New York: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition, frst state of p. 441 (tail piece depicting an urn, fames and the head of Mark Twain) and p. 443 (caption reads “The St. Louis Hotel”). Publisher’s brown cloth with gray-tan endpapers. The slightest wear to spine ends, some wear to top corner of front cover, a beautiful copy. BAL 3411. $3,125

inscribed in berlin to mathematician kurt hensel [CLEMENS, Samuel L.] Life on the Mississippi. By Mark Twain [With:] Seven other Tauchnitz editions of Clemens titles. 11 vols. 12mo, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883. First Tauchnitz edition, frst issue with 7 titles listed on verso of half-title. Quarter black pebbled cloth and marbled boards. Light shelfwear, some foxing to preliminaries. Todd & Bowden 2143a (noting that the Tauchnitz edition precedes the American edition), BAL 3411n (noting both Leipzig and Boston editions were published May, 1883). Provenance: Kurt Hensel (his bookplate in each volume, his inscription to half-title of Selections from American Humour). Inscribed on the fep of vol. I of Life on the Mississippi, “Im- promptu Sprüchwort: [Never attempt one & then you will not have a miscarriage of regret.] Mark Twain. Decb. 28/91.” As if to underscore his point (“Sprüschwort” is the German for prov- erb or saying), Clemens has heavily crossed out and revised his inscription. Clemens’ struggles with the German language were memorably recounted in his 1880 essay, “The Awful German Language.” Facing fnancial hardships at home, Clemens spent the winter of 1891-2 in Berlin, where the cost of living was less. Although the inscription is not explicitly addressed to anyone, we can assume it was done for the German mathematician Kurt Hensel (1861- 1941), whose bookplate appears in each volume. The other titles, all Tauchnitz editions, are Sketches (1883) Todd & Bowden 2162b, BAL 3632; Innocents Abroad (1879) Todd & Bowden 1812d, BAL 3381; Innocents at Home (1881) Todd & Bowden 1948; Selections from American Humor (1888) Todd & Bowden 2529a, BAL 3646; Yankee at the Court of King Arthur (1890) Todd & Bowden 2638a, BAL 3648; A Tramp Abroad (1880) Todd & Bowden 1899d; The Stolen White Elephant (1882) Todd & Bowden 2077. $3,000

28 | james cummins bookseller commonplace book of quaker gulielma maria townsend (COMMONPLACE BOOK) Hoopes, Gulielma Maria Townsend. Manuscript commonplace book. [174] pp. (52 pp. with entries), on wove paper watermarked “Rockville,” entries signed “Gulielma M. Townsend, Kimberton B. School,” or some variation thereof. 4to, V.p., including Kim- berton, PA & Washington, D.C: 1833-1843. Contemporary American red morocco, covers tooled in gilt to panel design, gilt roll borders, fat spine, titled “Album” in gilt, the rest richly tooled all over, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Circular stain to front board. A beautifully executed manuscript commonplace book begun by a fourteen-year-old Quaker, Gulielma Maria Townsend, then a student at the French Creek Boarding School in Kimberton, PA. The entries continue over the course of the next ten years, ending in 1843. The following year she wed Edward Hoopes, with whom she would have three children. The early entries are all in Gulielma’s fne hand, and may have been exercises in penmanship connect- ed to her studies at Kimberton. Some of the later entries are contributed by family and friends. Townsend’s penmanship is elegant and accomplished, and the volume was compiled with great care. Entries include folklore, poems, and extracts from William Cullen Bryant, Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Walter Scott, and pieces under various headings: Memory, Friendship, Home, Sympathy, etc. The fnal leaf bears the signatures of various famous fgures — Andrew Jackson, Hannah More, Lafayette, George Washington, George Gordon Byron, Ben Franklin, and others. Each signature is in a diferent hands and looks very much like an attempt to replicate the authentic signatures of each. After her death in 1861, Gulielma’s family privately published the Memoir and Letters of Gulielma Hoopes (1862), which collects her letters and diaries written while traveling in the American South and Cuba in the hopes of restoring her health. $1,500

catalogue 125 | 29 [COOK, Clarence]. Description of the New York Central Park. More than 100 wood- engraved illustrations, including a Plan of The Park at the front. x, 206 pp. Small 4to, New York: F. J. Huntington and Co. 459 Broome Street, 1869. First edition. In publisher’s purple morocco gilt extra with the initials “CP” intertwined as central motif on both covers, with raised bands and 6 compartments on spine, a.e.g. Slight sunning to spine, sporadic foxing to preliminaries, a beautiful, near fne copy. $1,500

(DANCE) Cahusac, Louis de. La Danse Ancienne et Moderne, ou traité Historique de la Danse. [ii], xxxii, [4], 168, 16; [iv], 180; [ii], 168, [28] pp. 3 volumes in one. 12mo, A La Haye [i.e. Paris]: Chez J. Neaulme, 1754. First edition. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, and marbled endpapers. Minor chip- ping to spine ends and rubbing to joints and edges, otherwise a fne and pretty copy. Brunet VI, 10374; Cicognara, 1609; Magriel 29. Provenance: from the estate of Huguette Clark. A history of dance, describing its development from ancient civilizations to Louis XIV and the establishment of French opera. “One of the most important histories of the danse, quoted by Noverre and many danse histories” (Derra de Moroda 515). Tipped to the front pastedown is a manuscript note in ink providing biographical information on Cahusac. $1,750

30 | james cummins bookseller DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. viii, 423, [1]; viii, [ii], 475, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, frst issue. Near contemporary full calf, contrasting morocco labels, marbled edges. Foxing to front blanks and half-titles, else fne. Freeman 937. Darwin’s Descent of Man created an uproar second only to his Origin of the Species; however, “contrary to popular error, prevalent now as well as then, Darwin never said that man was descended from apes, let alone monkeys; what he claimed was that man’s ancestors if alive today would have to be classifed among the Primates” (De Beer, Charles Darwin, pp. 210-1). $5,750

DE KOONING, Willem. Drawings. 24 charcoal drawings by the artist. 4to, New York: Walker and Company [in association with M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., 1967]. No. 14 of 100 copies signed by de Kooning. Publisher’s cloth. Fine in glassine. In a printed note at the end of the book de Kooning explains, “I am the source of a rumor concerning these drawings, and it is true that I made them with my closed eyes.” $1,000

catalogue 125 | 31 the great chef ESCOFFIER, Georges Auguste. Portrait photograph, inscribed. Oval image. Signed and inscribed on the mat. 23 x 15-½ in. (image), Lon- don: 1909. Framed. Georges Auguste Escofer, the famed chef and culinary author, from 1884 associated with hotel impresario César Ritz at the Grand Hotel in Mon- te Carlo, and later the Savoy, Ritz, and Carlton Hotels. After Ritz sufered a nervous breakdown in 1902, Escofer “took over from Ritz as the fgurehead of the Carlton and became an interna- tional celebrity in his own right, the leading chef of his time, continuing to design kitchens and to tackle such challenges as catering for the new ocean-liners For his work in promoting France through its cuisine during these years President Poincaré personally presented him with the cross of the Légion d’honneur in 1919. Escofer retired in 1920. In his menus, his cooking, and his writing, Escofer was the leading exponent of the idea that haute cuisine should also be light and healthy. He advocated simplicity” (ODNB). A fne contemplative portrait, inscribed: “à Monsieur S. Neumann. Témoignage de sincere sympathie. A. Escofer. Londres 23 octobre 1909.” $1,400

original illustrations to faulkner’s big woods (FAULKNER, William) Shenton, Edward. Group of 6 original ink drawings on 3 sheets to illustrate William Faulkner’s Big Woods (1955). Pen and ink, highlighted in white, on artist’s board, most signed or initialled, docketing on rear. Vari- ous sizes, 2 x 2 in. to 9 x 7-½ in., [West Chester, PA: ca. 1955]. Matted, some wear to mats and deterioration to tape. A group of ink drawings by Edward Shenton to illustrate the frst edition of Faulkner’s Big Woods (1955). Illustrations include the section title to “A Bear Hunt” and vignettes used on the front cover, half-titles and interchapters to “The Bear,” “The Old People” and “A Bear Hunt.” Edward Shenton (1895-1977) was a prolifc commercial illustrator, contributing to over 130 books, including The Yearling, Tender Is the Night and Green Hills of Africa. $1,500

32 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 125 | 33 illustration to the first print appearance of faulkner’s “the bear” (FAULKNER, William) Shenton, Edward. Original ink drawing for The Saturday Evening Post appearance of William Faulkner’s “The Bear,” May 9, 1942. Pen and ink on artist’s board, signed lower left, docketed on rear. 11-½ x 11 in, [West Ches- ter, PA: ca. 1942]. Matted, with clippings from the The Saturday Evening Post afxed to mat. Petersen B64a; Brodsky & Hamlin 554 (for The Saturday Evening Post appearance). An original drawing to illustrate The Saturday Evening Post appearance of Faulkner’s “The Bear,” showing the main character inspecting bear tracks, with Sam and two mules looking on. The illustration accompanies the text, “Then he understood why Sam had made him ride the one-eyed mule which would not spook at the smell of blood, of wild animals.” Edward Shenton (1895-1977) was a prolifc commercial illustrator, contributing to over 130 books, including The Yearling, Tender Is the Night and Green Hills of Africa. $1,500

34 | james cummins bookseller FOTHERGILL, John. The Fothergill Omnibus for which Seven- teen Eminent Authors Have Written Short Stories Upon One and the Same Plot. [i], xxiv, [25]-398 pp. 8vo, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1931. Limited signed edition, no. 119 of 250 copies signed by the contributors. Full green leather, plain dust-jacket. Fine, in original green card box with printed label. A very fne copy of the frst edition – a limited edition, one of 250 copies, this copy numbered 119, in a full leather binding, printed on special paper, and signed by all the authors on the limitation leaf facing the title. The authors include Martin Armstrong, H.R. Barbour, Elizabeth Bowen, Gerald Bullett, Thomas Burke, G.K. Chesterton, A.E. Coppard, E.M. Delafeld, L.P. Hartley, Storm Jameson, Margaret Kennedy, Edward Shanks, Helen Simpson, J.C. Squire, L.A.G. Strong, Frank Swinnerton, Rebecca West, and John Fothergill. $1,250

FROST, Robert. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. 8vo, New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First edition, no. 79 of 350 copies signed by the poet. Recent quarter evergreen morocco and marbled boards. Crane A6. Limited, signed edition of this excellent collection (awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1924), including Frost’s most famous poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” $1,500

catalogue 125 | 35 GERSHWIN, George. George Gershwin’s Song-book. Illustrated throughout by Constantin Alajalov. xi, 167 pp. 4to, New York: Random House, 1932. First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Gershwin and Alajalov. Original full dark blue publisher’s morocco decorated with Art-Deco style gilt stamped rules. A bit dark, some rubbing to the front joint. Bookplate. A very good copy lacking (as often) the card slipcase and additional separately printed sheet music. Containing the words and music to some of the best known American music ever written: “Lady be Good,” “I Got Rhythm,” “Swanee.” The list goes on and on. The whole book is further enhanced by the charming Art-Deco illustrations by Alajalov. The deluxe edition is signed by the composer and the artist. $6,500

36 | james cummins bookseller author’s first book, inscribed GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Madman. His Parables and Poems. Frontispiece and two plates by the author. 8vo, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [September], 1918. First edition. Publisher’s quarter black cloth and paper boards, titled in gilt. Covers lightly shelfworn. With a review of the book from the Liberator of Jan. 1919 laid in. Inscribed to playwright Percy MacKaye, “With love, To Percy, from Kahlil. Nov 19th, 1918.” Gibran did at least one drawing portrait of McKaye which was shown as number 35 at the Montross Gallery Exhibition of Pictures of Kahlil Gibran in De- cember 1914. MacKaye used the portrait for the frontispiece of a special edition of his St. Louis: A Civic Masque. With a 2-page autograph letter, signed (“Kahlil Gibran”), to Percy MacKaye’s daughter Miss Christy MacKaye, Feb. 21, 1926, with envelope. Reading in part, “I am indeed delighted that a daughter of my dear, gifted friend, Percy MacKaye, should read and fnd a refec- tion of her youthful self in my books. It is a pleasure unlike any other pleasure …” with an initialled postscript apologizing for the delay in responding. $8,500

catalogue 125 | 37 HEINZ, Drue. “… SELFPORTRAITOFMAYBEDHFOR- HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Fifth Column and the First Forty- BURTONTHESTRAND …” Autograph manuscript “self Nine Stories. x, 597 pp. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s portrait.” 1 p. pen-and-ink on paper. 4to, N.p: n.d. Crease Sons, 1938. First edition. Publisher’s cloth in a dust-jacket. along left margin. Spine slightly faded, endpapers foxed, otherwise fne. Self-portrait of Drue Heinz in the form of a stream-of- Hannemen 16; Grissom A.16.1.a. consciousness letter, done for collector and bookseller Burt Includes the short stories originally appearing in In Our Britton. With a 1 p. ALS to Britton giving him permission Time, Men Without Women, and Winner Take Nothing, and the to use the letter for “your marvellous book.” frst printing of the play The Fifth Column, written in Spain $450 during the Civil War. $1,500

38 | james cummins bookseller HITLER, Adolf. Mein Kampf. xi, [i], 354, [2, ads] pp. Vol. II (of II) only. 8vo, Munich: Franz Eber Nachfolger, 1929. Second edition. Pub- lisher’s red cloth, titled in white. Near fne. In custom black cloth clamshell box. PMM 415 (for frst edition). Inscribed by Hitler on the fep as a birthday present to Herr Anzinger, July 30, 1930. $18,750

catalogue 125 | 39 HOCKNEY, David. Hockney’s Alphabet. Drawings by David Hockney & written contributions (by 26 authors) edited by Stephen Spender. 4to, London: Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, [1991]. One of 250 numbered copies signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. Gray paper over boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Fine in slipcase. The Hockney drawings illustrate each of the 27 contributions by various authors on a letter of the alphabet (a T.S Eliot piece is included for “Q” along with that of Anthony Burgess), with a fnal piece by John Julius Norwich. 22 of these have also signed the book: Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, John Julius Norwich, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and Ian McEwan. (Not signing were Burgess and Eliot, of course, and Ted Hughes and Gore Vidal). Published by the Aids Crisis Trust to raise money for AIDS victims. $2,250

A Complete Set, Finely Bound HOOD, Thomas, Esq. The Comic Annual. Illustrated throughout by F. Branston, J.H. Reynolds, G. Cruikshank, etc. 10 vols. 12mo (6 ¼ x 3 ¾ in., London: Hurst, Chance and Co; A. H. Baily; Charles Tilt; Henry Colburn, 1830-1836, 1838-1841. First editions. Bound in full crushed red morocco, gilt spines, with original covers bound in at back, a.e.g.. by Riviere. Fine. Bookplate of Mrs. L. Batten. The complete run of Thomas Hood’s Comic Annual. Hood (1799-1845), poet, journalist and humorist, was an important transi- tional fgure between the Romantic and Victorian eras. He “took tea with Wordsworth, dined with Dickens” (ODNB) and was later admired by Auden. His comic verse is characterized by “boisterous fun and terse puns” and “provides insight into domes- tic reading and the development of periodical publishing in the frst half of the nineteenth century” (ibid). A beautiful set, bound by Rivière. $2,500

40 | james cummins bookseller HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the Years 1799-1804 by Alexander de Humboldt, and André Bonpland … Translated into English by Helen Maria Williams from the French edition. 7 volumes in 8. 8vo, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818-1829. First edition, except for vol. III which is a second (1822). Bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, marbled edges, by C. H. Pittman, Binder, Salisbury. Vol. VII bound later to style. Bookplate of Edward Duke, Antiquary (1779-1852). Hill 848; Sabin 3377; Coates, The Plant Hunter, pp. 337-41. The frst English edition (vol. III is a second edition) of this classic of scientifc exploration, based on the researches of Hum- boldt and his companion, Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858), during their fve-year excursion in South and Central America from 1799 to 1804. There are variant printing dates recorded for the frst two volumes, and the present set conforms to that of Hill, with the frst and second volumes bound together with the title page dated 1818. The volumes describe the voyage from Spain and the stop in the Canaries; Tobago and the frst steps in South America; explorations along the Orinoco; Colombia and the area around Caracas; explorations in the northern Andes; and a visit to Cuba. “Humboldt and Bonpland traveled widely through South and Central America, studying meteorological phenom- ena and exploring wild and uninhabited country. At Callao, Humboldt measured the temperatures of the ocean current which came to bear his name” (Hill). $3,000

catalogue 124 | 41 royal navy logbook: a cadet’s account (JAPAN) Sayce, Herbert C. Logbook of the H.M.S. Leopard: Royal Naval Journals, China and Japan. Vol. 1: Eight maps, one watercolor and six line drawings, 119 leaves; vol. 2: Color frontispiece, 6 maps, 10 drawings, 117 leaves, laid in photograph and watercolor. 2 vols. Folio, Sept. 20, 1862-Sept. 28, 1866. Vol. 1: Bound in sailcloth over boards with marbled endpapers. Cloth soiled with some minor rubbing at corners, but in excellent repair, the lower portion of the text block stained from water only partially fading the text, much of which is still legible; vol. 2: quarter leather over cloth stamped in gold on the front cover, “H.M.S. Leopard / Log Book.” Cloth loose in a few places, with some soiling and dampstaining, bottom edge of the front board damaged, but a solid volume with only some browning and soiling from life at sea. Very good copies. Herbert Sayce (1847-1915) was a naval cadet not quite 15 years old when he compiled these logbooks on voyages to the Far East — he inscribed the verso of the front free endpaper “H. Sayce, Naval Cadet HMS Leopard,” and his name appears on both the front cover and the back cover. The volume begins “Log of H.M.S. Victory Portsmouth, 20 Sept. 1862” for nine pages of entries, running through Oct. 25, 1862. The subsequent entry begins the log of the H.M.S. Leopard, Oct. 26, 1862. The entries are made at noon and midnight and record wind conditions and summary of activities on the ship, as well as longitude, latitude, bearing, and distance. Destinations named in the log include Madeira, St. Paul’s Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Shanghai. The logs includes many seafaring adventures — sailors overboard, exotic ports-of-call, and the occasional funeral at sea (marked entries in black borders). In one case Sayce relates an account of a battle between the English, Dutch, and French against a Japanese fort at Simonosaki, Sept. 5-6, 1864; several British vessels are men- tioned: the Tartar, Argus, and Perseus. A drawing of the coastline and the rendezvous point for the allied forces accompanies this entry. Date range of Vol. 1: Sept. 20, 1862 – Oct. 1, 1864. Volume 2 begins with a watercolor frontispiece of the ship fanked by a geisha and a samurai, emblematic of his Asian travel. Volume 2 commences Oct. 2, 1864 “H.M.S. Leopard at Anchor and Yokohama Bay” and is laid out like as volume 1, with columns and entries for individual days indicating wind conditions and details of the activity aboard ship. Six maps show a circular route of the ship through Asian waters and there are additionally ten sketches of horizon views. Other pages include “Anchoring in Nagasaki Harbor,” “Hiogo,” “Port Louis,” “Madeira,” “St. Helena” and more. Laid in are a watercolor of a sailor dated “March 17, 1861” by G. Izac, and a photograph bearing the manuscript caption “June 2 1861 Britannia,” which was Sayce’s frst ship, recording a large group of cadets aboard ship, no doubt Sayce among them. Date range of Vol. 2: Oct. 2, 1864 – Sept. 28, 1866. $7,500

42 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 124 | 43 an EyeWitnesses Account of the assassination of lincoln (LINCOLN ASSASSINATION) Todd, George B., M.D. Auto- graph Letter, signed (“George”), to his brother, giving his eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14th, 1865. 4 pp. 8vo, Montauk, Montauk Navy Yard, Washington D.C. 34: written on “April 15th, 1865, 9 P.M.”; with a Postscript dated “April 24”; and docketed with a later posting of “April 30.” Slight soiling and minor tears along old folds, otherwise in very good condition. Published (from a copy in the State Historical Library of Wisconsin) in Timothy S. Good, We Saw Lincoln Shot (U. of Miss., 1995; with the mistaken date of April 30, 1865). “…About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side …” A remarkably clear and dramatic eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln from a naval surgeon who was close to the President’s box at Ford’s theater on that fateful night of April 14, 1865. In this letter to his brother written the night after the assassination, while the details were still fresh in his memory, Dr. George B. Todd, surgeon aboard the U.S. Montauk at anchor in the Navy Yard that day, recounts the terrible event with a clar- ity of observation one might expect of his profession — a rarity among confused eyewitness accounts. The text of Todd’s letter — one of only 7 eyewitness accounts written within 24 hours of the assassination — reads: “The few hours that have intervened since that most terrible tragedy of last night have served to give me a little clearer brain, and I believe I am now able to give you a clear account up to this hour. Yesterday about 3 P.M. the President and wife drove down to the navy yard and paid our ship a visit, going all over her, accompanied by us all. Both seemed very happy, and so expressed themselves, — glad that this war was over, or so near its end, and then drove back to the White House. In the evening nearly all of us went to the Ford’s Theatre. I was very early and got a seat near the President’s private box, as we heard he was to be there. About half past nine he came in with his wife, a Miss Harris and Major Rathburn and was cheered by every one. As soon as there was a silence the play went on, and I could see that the ‘pres.’ seemed to enjoy it very much. About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side on which the ‘pres.’ box was and I heard a man say ‘there’s Booth’ and I turned my head to look at him. He was still walking very slow, and was near the box door, when he stopped, took a card from his pocket, wrote something on it, and gave it to the usher, who took it to the box. In a minute the door was opened and he walked in. No sooner had the door closed, then I heard the report of a pistol and on the instant, Booth jumped out of the box onto the stage, holding in his hand a large knife, and shouted so as to be heard all over the house —‘Sic Sem- per Tyrannis’ (‘so always with tyrants’) and fed behind the scenes — I attempted to get to the box but I could not and in an instant the cry was raised ‘The President is Assassinated.’ “Such a scene I never saw before. The cry spread to the street, only to be met by another, ‘So is Mr. Seward.’ Soldiers had gone. Some General handed me a note and bid me go to the nearest telegraph ofce and arouse the nation. I ran with all my speed and 44 | james cummins bookseller in ten minutes the sad news was all over the country. Today all the city is in mourning, nearly every house being in black and I have not seen a smile. No business and many a strong man I have seen in tears. “Some reports say Booth is a prisoner, others that he has made his escape, but from orders received here, I believe he is taken as a mob once raised now would know no end. I will not seal this until morning and I may have some more news. “April 24th. I have had no time to write until now, as I have been a detective. We have now 7 that are implicated. Why don’t you write? Love to all, George.” Several important facts regarding the movements of both the President and John Wilkes Booth are recorded here: (1) This appears to be the only eyewitness account of the President’s inspection of the Montauk earlier that afternoon. (2) Todd’s account of Booth’s interaction with the “usher” sitting outside the President’s box (“took a card from his pocket, wrote something on it, and gave it to the usher”) is especially intriguing, and reveals not only something of Todd’s powers of observations, but also his proximity to the assassin immediately before the shooting. Todd alone among eyewitnesses notes that the “usher” frst took the card from Booth, then went into the box, and that a short time later the door opened, and Booth went in. In fact, Good fnds only 7 other eyewitness accounts of the Lincoln assassination as early as April 15 — most of these witnesses record little or nothing regarding the events before hearing the shot itself, and none of them noticed Booth’s interchange with the usher (who was, in fact, Lincoln’s valet, Charles Forbes). There are three other accounts by eyewitnesses which partially corrob- orate Todd’s observation of the Forbes and Booth interchange — but they were written much later than Todd’s. (3) Todd’s observation of the time he spotted Booth moving toward the box (“about 10:25”) corresponds to Good’s own conclusion that Booth fred the fatal shot close to 10:30 PM. According to James Swanson (Manhunt, p. 419) “the exact time of Booth’s shot can- not be fxed … Booth may have shot Lincoln as early as 10:13 or as late as 10:30.” Todd’s account — again, one of the freshest and most reliable, weighs heavily in favor of Good. (4) Todd, by his own account, played a role in alerting the nation by telegraph. (5) Although he doesn’t mention it, as a surgeon of the ironclad Montauk, Todd was also probably present at the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth on Thursday, April 27 in the gun room of his ship. Indeed, in an article in the February issue of the Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, 1926, where the letter was frst published and reproduced, Todd is reported to have been “one of the surgeons who performed the autopsy.” That, as well as the fact that the other prisoners were being held on board the ironclad Montauk and Saugus, may explain his cryptic remark near the end (“… I have been a detective …”). Todd actually mailed the letter on April 30, 3 days after the autopsy, and may very well have participated in the actual investigation of the captives aboard the Montauk. An extraordinary and unique record of one of the nation’s great tragedies. $65,000

catalogue 124 | 45 eleven mezzotints by john martin from paradise lost MARTIN, John. A selection of illustrations to the Prowett 1827 edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost. 11 (of 24) mezzotint plates after letters designed and engraved by John Martin. 4to (image size: 8 x 11-½ in.), London: Septimus Prowett 23 Old Bond Street, [1827]. Ex-libris marks to verso of one plate (not showing through or afecting image on recto), else fne. Ray, England 69. A group of eleven mezzotint plates by John Martin for the 1827 illustrated edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, printed by Septimus Prowett. There were eight diferent formats issued, in an array of print and paper sizes — these are the large-format prints, the images measuring 8 x 11-½ inches on paper measuring 10-½ x 14-½ inches. “The apocalyptic romanticism of his conceptions had many sources: the monumental buildings of London, the engravings of Piranesi, published volumes of eastern views, even incandescent gas, coalpit accidents, and Brunel’s new Thames Tunnel. The resulting illustrations may be heteroge- neous, but they are also unforgettable” (Ray). $1,000

46 | james cummins bookseller [MILTON, John]. Paradise Lost. Title-page with hand-paint- MOODY, Rick & Fred Tomaselli. Phrase Book. Frontispiece ed title and foral border and hand-calligraphed imprint. etching printed by Harlan and Weaver, two relief prints Hand-colored engraved portrait of Milton by Alexandre printed by the Grenfell Press, and six ofset lithographs, one Vincent Sixdeniers, and 22 mounted hand-colored pho- double-page, printed by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. With tographic plates from engravings by Richard Edmond prospectus. Folio, New York: The Whitney Museum, 1990. Flatters, Jules Richomme, et al, each with gilt frame border, First edition, no. 72 of 150 copies signed by Tomaselli & calligraphed caption and tissue guard. 4to, New York: Moody. Black cloth, with some sunning to spine and upper London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co, n.d. [ca. 1868]. cover, without wooden box. Publisher’s brown morocco, titled in gilt on front cover The eighteenth publication of Whitney’s Artists and Writers (“Milton’s Paradise Lost. Published by London Stereoscopic Series, pairing writing by Rick Moody about an LSD casu- and Photographic Co.”), a.e.g. Extremities rubbed, some alty with the art of Fred Tomaselli. sporadic foxing to mounts, images fne. $1,000 An album of 23 fnely hand-colored photographs of engravings illustrating Milton’s Paradise Lost, published by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co, the leading 19th-century London purveyor of stereoscopic views. The photographed engravings include a portrait of Milton by Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers and scenes illustrating Paradise Lost by Flatters, Richomme and others taken from Le Paradis Perdu (Paris, 1868), translated by Chateaubriand. We fnd no copies of this curious production in OCLC or in auction records — it is perhaps a maquette for an unrealized publication. $1,250

catalogue 125 | 47 NABOKOV, Vladimir. Zashchita Luzhina. Roman [The Luzhin Defence. A Novel]. 234 pp., lacking half-title. 8vo, Berlin: Slovo, 1930. First edition. Blue cloth spine and patterned blue paper boards. Binding loose, boards worn, spine label chipped, manuscript note scratched away from title page, portion of lower margin of page 5 excised, page 15-6 detached, some sporadic soiling to text, marginal marks and under- lining in pencil throughout. The rare frst edition of Nabokov’s early novel on chess. In the fore- word to his 1964 English translation, Nabokov wrote “of all my Rus- sian books, The Defense contains and difuses the greatest ‘warmth,’ which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is sup- posed to be.” $3,125

the suppressed passages from her diary NIN, Anaïs. Substantial collection of editor John Ferrone’s photocop- ies of manuscripts and typescripts of The Diary of Anaïs Nin, including expurgated material. Upwards of approximately 2,000 pages, some with publisher’s ms. annotations and indications for deletion. 4to, Various places: Feb. 9, 1923-May, 1931; and 1931-1934 (“unpublished Diary deletions”). Published as The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923-1927 (vols. 3 & 4), New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1983] and [1985]. Contained in 12 orange binders with paper labels on upper covers reading “Volume 19,” through “Volume 30”; with separate manila folder captioned in pencil, “Unpublished Diary deletions” (approximately 200 pages) which are heavily marked by the publisher. Digital output typescript of In Search of Lost Joy. Overall, very good condition. Provenance: from the estate of John Ferrone, editor for Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. The monumental task of publishing the Diary of Anais Nin — who began keeping a journal from the age of 11 until her death in 1977 — fell to the New York publisher Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. In 1966, HBJ began publishing the so-called “expurgated” editions, beginning with Volume I (1931-1934), which covered the critical period when Anaïs Nin was living just outside of Paris with her husband, banker Hugh Parker Guiler, during which time she began her relationship with Henry Miller and Miller’s wife, June, underwent psychoanaly- sis, and began her study of D.H. Lawrence. Volume I was greatly expurgated, and the extent to which it was so may be seen in the manila folder herein, containing the “Unpublished Diary deletions” carefully preserved of John Ferrone, HBJ’s editor. These deleted passages also contain autograph (not photocopied) corrections, presumably in Fer- rone’s hand — and as such constitute the earliest direct evidence of the publisher’s intentions for this portion of Nin’s diary. It wasn’t until 1986 that HBJ published this portion of the unexpurgated diary as Henry and June. The bulk of the other material, all to be found in the orange binders, consists of the Diary of the Early Years, also published in the 1980s by HBJ. A collection which tells an important part of the publication history of a landmark work in the history of women’s literature. $1,500

48 | james cummins bookseller Tucker, descended from the Roosevelt clan (and thus a cousin of both presidents) and the Tuckers of Virginia, was (PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH) Kurzgefasstes Weiber-Büchlein. the daughter of a Wisconsin state senator. An acclaimed Enthält Aristotels und Alberti Magni Hebammen-Kunst mit den soprano, she sang with the D’Oyly Carte Opera in London darzu gehörigen Recepten. 64 pp. 24mo, (4-½ x 3 in.), [Har- and in New York performances of H.M.S. Pinafore and The risburg, Pa: Benjamin Mayer], 1799. “Die zehente Aufage” Pirates of Penzance. She retired from the stage and wrote an (tenth edition). Lovely contemporary quarter calf and acclaimed biography of Gustave Doré and several novels marbled boards. ESTC W41569; Bristol, B10844; Austin, R.B. “of To-day” — dealing with Americans in Europe and the Early Amer. medical imprints, 1109; Bötte G.J., German musical stage — including Marked “In Haste” (1883), Stage- printing, 1173; Shipton & Mooney, 48918; Arndt and Eck, Struck; or, She would be an Opera Singer (1884), Hazel Fane The First Century of German Printing in the United States (1891), and The Copper Queen. Beginning in 1884, she was of America (1989), 1173. one of Maupassant’s mistresses, when he was at the height of his literary powers. She died in London in 1898 following A rare printing of folk remedies and superstitions in the a carriage accident in Monte Carlo. Pennsylvania-German “Pow-Wow” or “Powwow” tradition. Attributed to the press of Benjamin Mayer in Harris- The Copper Queen begins with a high stakes poker game in burg. a thunderstorm on a westbound Union Pacifc train from Chicago, introducing Ythan Florestan (who donates his $1,500 winnings to a hospital at San Francisco), before returning to Chicago, where Wyoming heiress Enilda Rozen is being educated at the Well-born Seminary, a fnishing school. The action ranges from Laramie to London by way of the ROOSEVELT, Blanche. The Copper Queen: A Romance of Chicago trading foor, a charming old house on West Tenth To-day and Yesterday. [vi], 288; [iv], 271, [1]; [iv], 288 pp. 3 vols. Street in New York City, Ascot, and Covent Garden, with 8vo, London: Ward and Downey, 1886. First edition, with a loyal and spunky servant girl, English and European half-titles. Bound in full blue morocco, covers with ruled aristocrats, an air of money and ease against the backdrop border in blind, the author and title lettered in gilt at the of newly-created western mineral fortunes — and a scandal- center of each upper cover, spines tooled in gilt and blind, ous murder trial. Uncommon and fnely bound. gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. by Blunson & Co. $2,000 Spines lightly toned, near fne. Wolf 5954; Not in Sadleir or Wright. Blanche Roosevelt (1853-1898), née Blanche Roosevelt catalogue 125 | 49 Inscribed by FDR to His Son John ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. D- Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House. June 6, 1944. Here printed for his friends at Christmastide 1944. Text in black, red and blue. 8vo, Wash- ington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Ofce, December 1944. Limited edition, no. 45 of 100 copies. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, black morocco spine label, t.e.g., others uncut. Light toning to spine, else fne. In a custom chemise and morocco- backed slipcase. Halter, pp. 193-4. Presentation copy, inscribed by FDR to his youngest son and daughter-in-law on the front free endpaper, “For Johnny and Anne, with love from Pa, Christmastide 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt.” FDR delivered this prayer on the evening of June 6, 1944, after Allied forces began their invasion of German-occupied Normandy. The President had 100 copies printed and bound at his own expense to distribute to close friends and family at Christmas — continuing a tradition of book- giving that he had begun in 1935 (see Halter, pp. 193-4). “Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Repub- lic, our religion, and our civiliza- tion, and to set free a sufering humanity …” $25,000

50 | james cummins bookseller (RUTH, Babe) Portrait of Babe Ruth. Pencil, pen and ink on artist’s board, signed lower right by the artist (“Slanuzto”?). 15-¾ x 17-½ in. (irregular), [New York?]: ca. 1932. Framed. The cartoon depicts the head of Babe Ruth descending from a cloud, with ticker-tape machine spitting out Ruth’s yearly bat- ting averages, beside a “Gus Hemmingway Fan” reading the May 19th quotations at lower right. Beside his portrait is the ink inscription, “To my Pal Hal Stevens, Sincerely Babe Ruth.” Caterer Harry M. Stevens, born in Derby, England in 1855, emigrated to the United States in the 1880s, and introduced the hot dog at a baseball game at the Polo Grounds in 1907. Clearly his relationship with Babe Ruth — a legendary lover of hot dogs — was close. After a long and successful career as a concessionaire, Stevens died in 1934, and in 1996, 166 items of his baseball memorabilia were auctioned of in New York. Among these was a photograph of Babe Ruth, estranged from his parents from childhood, hitting his 60th home run. The photo was inscribed, “To my second dad, Harry M Stevens, from Babe Ruth, De- cember 25th 1927.” A magnifcent — and quintessentially American — association item. $37,500

catalogue 125 | 51 “One of the most important early works on the North American Indian” SAGARD [THEODAT], Gabriel. Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons, situé en l’Amérique vers la Mer douce, és derniers confns de la nouvelle France, dite Canada Avec un dictionaire de la langue Huronne. [bound with:] Dictionaire de la Langue Huronne. Extra engraved title; [22], 380, [2]; 12, [146], [14] pp. (a8, e8, A-Z8, a-k8). 8vo (6-9/16 x 4-¼ in.), Paris: Chez Denys Moreau, ruë St. Jacques, à la Salamandre s’Argent, 1632. First edition. Modern crushed red morocco by Palomino, in blue morocco chemise and marbled slipcase. Sabin 74881 & 74883; European Americana 632/86; Arents 181; Bell S33; Church 421; Field 1341 & 1342; Harrisse (Nouvelle France) 52 & 53; JCB II: 243-44; Lande S2012; Pilling, Iroquoian, p.147; Streeter I, 93; Vlach 661; TPL 6305; Greenly, Michigan 10; 100 Michigan Rarities 1. This “work of great interest and importance” (Sabin), an account of Récollet lay-brother Sagard’s missionary work in Huronia, contains the FIRST PRINTED DICTIONARY OF THE HURON LANGUAGE and is the primary non-Jesuit source on Huron life and life on the Récollet mission to Canada from 1615 to 1629 (Streeter). Sagard was a missionary to the Huron nation from 1623-24, and this work is based on his time in Huronia as well as the accounts, documents, and letters of his contemporaries. It is an engaging, sympathetic portrayal of Huron life and an exhaustive document of Huron culture. Sagard’s tenure was brief — according to Field he was “worn down by the privations and sufer- ings of a missionary life,” though by other accounts he achieved some success in his work — and he returned to France to write his Grand Voyage. A work of immense importance and scarcity, rarely found complete and “One of the most important early works on the North American Indian” (Church). $32,500

52 | james cummins bookseller SAYERS, Dorothy. Galley sheets for the “Gaudy Night” chapter of Titles to Fame. 5 p. printed on long galleys sheets, various small corrections in ink, initialled and dated “6.8.37” by Sayers. Folio, [London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1937]. Foxing, light creasing. Laid into blue chemise with ties. Corrected galleys for Sayers’ contribution to Titles to Fame, a collection of essays by popular authors on writing. Sayers wrote “Gaudy Night” on the writing of her novel of the same name. $1,250

SAYERS, Dorothy. Typed Letter, signed (“Dorothy L. Sayers”), to Kilham Roberts. 1 p. typed on stationery, with one correc- tion in ink. 4to, Witham, Essex: 27 October 1937. Creased from prior folding. Framed (not examined out of frame). Roberts, of The Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers, was the editor of Titles to Fame, to which Sayers contributed “Gaudy Night,” her essay about writing the novel of the same name. Sayers corrects the credit line for her photo, noting it was taken in her fat, not in the Detection Club. “Anyway it is a horrid photograph, and there are better ones going about; besides it is a pity to fasten more inaccuracies on a writer of detective fction than are absolutely inevitable!” $1,000

catalogue 125 | 53 SELENUS, Gustavus [pseud. of Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg]. Das Schach-oder Koenig-Spiel. Von Gustavo Seleno. 5 parts in one, with general engraved title and engraved title to each part, letterpress folding table, 3 engraved folding plates (one split at fold), numerous engraved illustrations in the text. [xii], 495, [3] pp. Collation: ()4, ):(4, (?)4, A4-3H4, 3I6, 3K4-3Q4. 4to, Leipzig: [Lorentz Kober … Henning Grosz], 1616. First edition. Later, 18th century, vellum, remnants of ties. Some staining and wear to covers, text browned throughout, small dampstain to fore-margin of frst few leaves, old paper repair to margin of general title, 2 preliminary leaves on stubs, faded contemporary inscription at head of title. In custom burgundy cloth clamshell box. Van der Linde I, 350; Niemeijeriana 364; Schmid 118; Brunet V, 270. An important early book on chess, the frst book of its kind in German, and still an important source for the history of the game and for several of its derivatives. “This work is a translation of Tarsia’s Italian version of Ruy Lopez, but the Duke has made large additions of an historical character, which make his book of value.” (Murray, A History of Chess, p. 852). Inscribed by the author (as Augusts) on the verso of the title-page, dated Lunaeburgo, 6 February 1617. $11,250

54 | james cummins bookseller inscribed to dean inge of st. pauls SHAW, George Bernard. Everybody’s Political What’s What. Frontispiece portrait of Shaw. 8vo, London: Constable, [1944]. First edition. Publisher’s rose cloth. Near fne in chipped dust- jacket with loss to head of spine. Laurence A246. Inscribed, pre-publication, on the half title, “to Catharine & Ralph Inge, G. Bernard Shaw. Ayot Saint Lawrence. 3rd Septem- ber 1944,” with a postscript, “Dear Catharine, You will see by the index that I could not keep Ralph out of it. G.B.S.” William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) was an Anglican priest, author, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. His name appears three times in the index to Everybody’s Political What’s What? and is quoted in reference to his views on education and music. Inge has tipped in a note on the title-page, which reads “This volume I lent to the Exhibition of G.B.S.’s 90th Birthday … July 26, 1946.” With additional inscriptions and notes, including a tipped-in card, printed “With Bernard [crossed out and replaced with “old”] Shaw’s compliments …” followed by an autograph note, “This Unintelligent Man’s Guide would be reviewed by W.R.I. and Bertrand Russell if editors had any fair for the right man. It will not be published until the 15th. 3rd Sept. 1944”; two reproduc- tions of photographic portraits by Karsh, annotated on the versos, “H.G. Wells writes ‘your wicked old face is a triumph of photographic artistry.’ So I send you a more saintly version,” and “This is Saint Bernard of Argot Saint Lawrence,” both cards tipped-in; one additional tipped-in compliments card with an autograph note, “I believe W.R.I. could obtain a personal allow- ance of paper to supplement his publisher’s and printer’s quote. My printers get one for me. They have printed 85,000 copies already ordered by the too sanguine booksellers. 10/9/1944.” $2,750

SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. [Works] The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck. 10 vols. 8vo (9-3/8 x 6-1/8 in.), London: Published For The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927. One of 780 sets. Bound in three quarters purple morocco, t.e.g. Fine. $4,500

catalogue 125 | 55 manuscript album with pencil sketches of travels around france and great britain in the 1860s [SKINNER, William R.] “Recollections of My Wanderings.” Title-page in decorative capitals with four pencil costume sketches at corners, 2 full-page and 13 half-page pencil drawings of travel scenes, 8 smaller pencil drawings in text, a few tenta- tive sketches to front blanks. [114] pp. pen-and-ink manuscript account of travels in France and Great Britain. 12mo, [London: ca. 1866]. Original quarter purple morocco and green paper boards. Binding rubbed and worn, front hinge cracked, contents in very good condition without smudging to pencil sketches. With early ownership inscription of Thomas Rapson, “Mount Hope, Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey, North America.” A manuscript album of the travels of one William R. Skinner in France and Great Britain in the 1860s, accompanied by fnely drawn pencil sketches of scenery, architecture and costume. Skinner, who is presumably English and living in London, nar- rates a six-day stay in Paris, with visits to Versaille and Normandy; a walking tour of the English lake district, including a visit to Rydal Mount; a tour through Wales en route to Dublin; and a tour of Scotland, each signed “Wm R. Skinner.” He adds short illustrated descriptions of visits to Hastings, Dover, Rouen, Virginia Water, Conway Castle (Wales), Dumbarton Castle (Scot- land), the Platts Hill rock salt mine, among other sites. A highly readable account of Skinner’s travels with his accomplished pencil sketches. $1,250

inscribed by swinburne to his cousin (SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles) Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author, wood-engraved illustrations by F. Armstrong, W. Small, and W.H.J. Boot. xvi; 527, [1] pp. 4to, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, n.d., ca. 1900. Lynton Edition. Contemporary vellum, upper cover and spine blocked in red and dark brown, t.e.g. Light soiling, two marks to spine. Provenance: Algernon Charles Swinburne (gift inscription to cousin Mary Charlotte Julia Leith). Inscribed on the front free endpaper, “Mary C.J. Leith, from her afectionate cousin, A.C. Swinburne. April 1908.” An evocative association copy — Mary C. J. Leith (ca. 1840-1926, née Gordon) was Swinburne’s cousin and they were close during their childhood. Swinburne was apparently devastated when it was announced that Gordon was to marry Robert W. Disney Leith, which she did in 1865. The enduring relationship between John Ridd and Lorna Doone, established when the former was 12, would have resonated with Swinburne, and perhaps he hoped to remind his cousin of their own shared childhood with the gift of this book. $1,000

56 | james cummins bookseller THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Collection of frst editions of his 6 Christmas books, as described below, uniformly bound in tan calf. 6 vols. 8vo, London: Chap- man & Hall, 1847-1855. All frst editions. Uniformly bound in tan calf, gilt-ruled borders, spines gilt, a.e.g., dentelles. A few scratches on one, else fne. Bookplate of Malvern Bryan Clopton in each. Mrs. Perkins’s Ball. London: Chapman & Hall, [1847]. 8vo. Half-title, pictorial, 21 engraved plates including frontispiece hand-colored by the author; a few spots, some marginal soiling. Van Duzer 140. Our Street. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. Frontis- piece, pictorial title, 14 engraved plates all hand-colored, 1-leaf publisher’s advertisement. Van Duzer 157. Doctor Birch and his Young Friends. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1849. Frontispiece, pictorial title, letterpress title, 14 engraved plates all hand-colored. Scattered spotting, preliminaries and plates reinforced on stubs. Van Duzer 51. The Kickleburys on the Rhine. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. Half-title, frontispiece, pictorial title, 13 engraved plates all hand-colored; occasional spotting. Van Duzer 104. Rebecca and Rowena. A Romance upon Romance. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. Half-title, frontispiece, 7 engraved plates all hand-colored, 1-leaf publisher’s advertisement. Preliminaries mended at gutter margin, mended tear in lower outer corner of frst three leaves. Van Duzer 181. The Rose and the Ring. 8vo, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. Frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, 48 text woodcuts. Van Duzer 185. $3,500

catalogue 125 | 57 (VIOLINS) A collection of violin books. v.p: v.d., 1723-1976. Very good or better. A large and useful collection of violin books for the connoisseur of rare and important violins. With over 115 titles ranging from the 18th to the 20th century, the collection includes works of reference and scholarship, biographies and memoirs of famous luthiers and violin- ists, catalogues of notable collections of rare violins, rare violin dealer catalogues, violin method books, the iconography of the violin, and works on the construction and maintenance of violins. Some notable titles include: Deluxe copy of Henry, Arthur and Alfred Hill’s study of the Guarneri family The Hill’s study of Stradivari, signed by Kreisler, Menuhin and others Antoine Vidal’s classic work, Les Instruments à Archet, one of 500 frst edition copies Walter Hamma’s Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst Karel Jalovec’s Encyclopedia of Violin-Makers The complete suite of engraved plates from the “Lutherie” entry of Diderot’s Encyclopédie Early 20th-century catalogues by Hill & Sons, Lyon and Healy, and other rare violin dealers A complete cataloging of the collection is available on request. $30,000

58 | james cummins bookseller WEBSTER, John. A Monumental Columne, Erected to the living Memory of the ever- glorious Henry, late Prince of Wales. Virgil Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata … By Iohn Webster. A-C4, lacking C3 and C4, mourning leaves printed in solid black recto and verso; [20] pp. 4to, London: Printed by N. O[kes] for William Welby, dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Swan, 1613. First edition. Blue morocco by Mathews. Inscribed on fep Richard Grant White with the best wishes of R[ichard] H[enry] Stoddard. A1 (mourning leaf, printed in solid black recto and verso) bound between leaves A3 and A4; C1 with some repair to the lower corner, C2 (text recto; mourning verso) with small inlay and repair to lower corner. STC (2nd ed.), 25174; ESTC S101831; Grolier III, no. 888. Webster’s elegy for Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of James I, who died in November 1612. The tribute was simultaneously issued as the second part of Three elegies on the most lamented death of Prince Henrie, with contributions by Thomas Heywood and Cyril Tourneur (STC 24151). One of Webster’s earliest published works and only the second work published entirely under his name (preceded by his frst tragedy, The White Devil in 1612). This copy inscribed by the American poet and critic Richard Henry Stoddard (1825- 1903) to Richard Grant White (1822-1885), an acute student of Shakespeare’s works, and a well-recognized scholar. White edited two editions of Shakespeare’s works and wrote several critical studies. Our copy appeared as lot 1625 in the Bangs, Merwin & Co. sale, Catalogue of a collection of books … forming the library of Richard Grant White: to be sold by auction … on the 24th of October, and following evenings … 1870. $7,500

catalogue 125 | 59 artist’s proof copy WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. De- signed and illustrated by Barry Moser. [viii], 135 pp. 8vo, West Hatfeld, Mass: Pennyroyal Press, 1987. An artist’s proof, signed by the author and the illustrator, from an edition of 150 copies. Full red morocco with a blind-stamped border, and a Moser drawing stamped in black to the upper board, spine with gilt author and title. Fine. Provenance: John Ferrone, Welty’s long- time editor. A fawless copy of the Pennyroyal Press edition of Welty’s frst novel and her second book with 28 woodcuts by Moser. Presentation inscription to Welty’s editor John Ferrone with an original drawing of a crow’s head by Barry Moser similar in nature to those that illustrate the book. Laid in is List X, Christmas 1988, sales brochure from Lemuria Book Store, Jackson, Miss., ad- vertising the book for sale. $800

WINDSOR, David, Duke of. A King’s Story: The Memoirs of The Duke of Windsor. Illustrated. xvi, 440 pp. 8vo, London: Cassell, [1951]. First edition, deluxe issue, no. 239 of 250 copies, signed “Edward.” Publisher’s deluxe navy blue morocco binding, bearing the coat-of-arms of the author, panelled spine, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, faint rubbing to upper joint, else fne in slipcase. Bookplate. $1,500

60 | james cummins bookseller early work by zagar ZAGAR, Isaiah. Hey! Diddle Diddle. Artist book in folding concertina format: double-page manuscript colored title; 5 double- page manuscript colored text openings each with a colored etching accompanying text. Oblong folio, [Brooklyn]: Zagar Press, [1960]. One of 4 copies, signed and dated “I. Zagar 1960” on last leaf. Exceedingly rare early work by Isaiah Zagar (b. 1939), visionary vernacular artist, who is most widely known for his mosaic installation, the Magic Gardens site on South Street in Philadelphia. One of four copies of illustrations to the familiar nursery rhyme, a work produced while the artist studied under Fritz Eichenberg at Pratt. Visual elements expressed during his later career can be discerned here at the outset. From the artist’s mission statement: “It is true to a certain extent; I have been copying Clarence [Schmidt] my whole career, trying to make a total encyclopedic vision that has no parameters and no end. My work is marked by events and is a mirror of the mind that is building and falling apart, having a logic but close to chaos, refusing to stay still for the camera, and giving one a sense of heaven and hell simultaneously.” Rare. $7,500

catalogue 125 | 61 first printing, colored & signed by the artist ZILLE, Heinrich. Die Landpartie. Aus meiner Jungszeit. 8 lithographic plates (containing 11 images and handwritten text), printed rectos only, colored by the artist. Manuscript statement of limitation on verso of title leaf. Folio, [Berlin: H. Birkholz Druck-Werkstätte, 1920]. First edition, no. 92 of 100 numbered copies, signed in ink by the artist: “Dieses Exemplar hat die Nummer 92 und is von mir koloriert, H. Zille.” Drab wrappers, stitched. Some toning of paper stock, small marginal faws, otherwise clean and fresh. Near fne. Oschilewski 12; Rosenbach, 109-116b (noting this copy). Provenance: Hauswedell Auktion 58 (1954), lot 2630; American private collection. Heinrich Zille (1858-1929), known as the Rafael der Hinterhöfe (the Rafael of the back tenements), was an enormously popular German artist whose work chronicling Berlin life was most commonly reproduced for mass distribution in periodicals. He was a member of the Berlin Secession and a friend of Max Liebermann, Kathe Kollwitz, and Hans Baluschek. Zille also produced a few series of erotic drawings for limited, private circulation, including Zwanglose Geschichten und Bilder (Gurlitt, 1919), Die Land- partie (1920) and Hurengespräche (privately printed in 1921 under the pseudonym W. Pfeifer, with a false date of 1913). Zille was prosecuted for obscenity for his 1925 lithograph “Modellpause” in the periodical Simplicissimus, (depicting 8 models in various stages of undress). Die Landpartie, “a little humoresque,” produced by Zille himself, demonstrates his eye for ordinary life and his erotic fair. Rosenbach identifes two issues in the frst edition of 100 copies, issue A on white Werkdruckpapier, with lithographic limitation statement on the verso of the frst leaf and a ruled square for numbering; and issue B (as here), on yellowish laid paper stock (auf gelblichem, geripptem Bütten), with a diferent formulation of the limitation statement, entirely in the artist’s hand, concluding with these words: “Dieses Exemplar hat die Nummer 92 und is von mir koloriert, H. Zille.” Rosenbach states that copies of issue A numbered higher than 58 are not known (with one exception, a copy of issue B numbered 20); other known copies of issue B are numbered 78 to 99. The present copy was sold at auction in 1954 and is noted by Rosenbach; since then it has been in an American private collection. Rare and unusual. $5,000

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