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Artwork by Tom Bloom. © 2010 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. www.betweenthecovers.com Art: Items 1...10 Children’s Books: Items 11...16 Literature & Miscellaneous: Items 17...78 1 Robert W. CHAMBERS. Sketchbook of original pen- cil drawings. (1885). $3000 Oblong octavo. Quarter leather and cloth, in slipcase. Some wear to the spine, but still a very good copy in worn slipcase. There are about 45 sketches, many Initialed and dated by Chambers, who has Signed his full name to the first and last pages of the book. Chambers has sketched various subjects: ducks flying over swampland, figures (mostly women), portraits, studies of other artwork. Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was both an artist and writer, though he is better known for his nov- els than his art. Born in Brooklyn to wealthy parents, Chambers studied art in Paris, exhibiting at the Salon as early as 1889. Upon his return to New York, he made his living selling illustrations to magazines, before devot- ing himself to writing full-time. His first book, In the Quarter, was published in 1894. His most famous work, The King in Yellow, an influential horror story collection, followed in 1895. Though Chambers wrote a few more books in the supernatural/horror genre, he made a successful career out of writing romantic and historical fiction. [BTC #98889] Art 2 Timothy COLE. Old English Masters Engraved by Timothy Cole, Japan Proofs. New York: Century Company 1902. $3500 Limited edition. Number 71 of 150 copies. Two Elephant portfolios (46 cm.) containing 48 wood-engravings by Timothy Cole printed from the original wood blocks by J.C. Bauer. Each proof is printed on Japan silk tissue paper, which is in turn mounted on heavy Japan paper with a gold-lined frame, and surmounted by a cover of Imperial Irish linen paper bearing the number and title of each proof in letterpress. All plates are in fine condition in very good portfolio boxes with some soiling and tears in the cloth along the gutters. Timothy Cole was the acclaimed last master of interpre- tive wood- engraving, and he flourished at a time when photographic illustrations supplanted the widespread use of wood engrav- ings. His work was famous for its vibrating and singing quality, which is particularly evident in the proofs, and for his ability to translate the particular characteristics and sentiment of each painting into black and white lines on a small block of boxwood. He was sent to Europe in 1883 to engrave the old master paintings and devoted the next 27 years going from gallery to gallery to complete his magnum opus. According to OCLC only one U.S. institution, the Huntington in California, owns a set of the Old English Masters Japan proofs. Each proof is Signed in pencil by Timothy Cole and J.C. Bauer. (Also see larger image on rear cover.) [BTC #326578] Original Artworks 3 E.E. CUMMINGS. Pencil Sketch: Portrait of Unidentified Woman. $3000 Original pencil drawing. Single sheet, 11" x 14". Portrait of a woman with shoulder-length wavy hair, wearing a necklace, shown up to the lapels of her blouse. Identity of subject unknown, though the initials “D C” lightly pencilled at bottom of page . LPC #517. Lopez #530. Some stains, not affecting drawing, some light wear along extremities, else in fine condition. [BTC #72300] 4 —. Portrait of Marion Morehouse with Upraised Arms. $6000 Original oil painting. Oil on canvasboard, 10" x 14". Portrait of Marion Morehouse, Cummings’s third wife; she is nude to the waist and posed with her arms raised with her hands behind her neck. LPC #731. Lopez #561. Fine condition. [BTC #72305] 5 —. Sketch of Dancing Nude. $4500 Original oil sketch. Oil on canvasboard, 8" x 10". Light brushed sketch of dancing nude woman, using mostly purple paint. LPC #785. Lopez #880. A little bit of wear to the corners, else fine condition. [BTC #72329] 6 Luis Miguel DOMINGUIN and Pablo PICASSO. Toros y Toreros. (New York): Harry N. Abrams (1961). $600 First edition. Introduction by Georges Boudaille. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso. Text in English and Spanish. Folio. Illustrated cloth boards. Spine a bit tanned else near fine in worn, fair only cloth and illustrated cardboard slipcase lacking one side panel, and with a good printed acetate wraparound band with some rubbing and tears. [BTC #326352] 7 Diego RIVERA. Acuarelas [1935-1945]: Colleccion Frieda Kahlo. Mexico City: Editorial Atlante 1948. $4500 First edition. Text in sewn wrappers, laid, along with 25 loose plates (4 in color), into a cloth portfolio gilt. One of 1000 copies. Crease on the margin on one plate, tiny nicks and tears in the margins, and some modest wear to the edges of the portfolio, near fine. [BTC #326565] 8 Phyllis JOHNSON, editor. Aspen: The Magazine in a Box, Vol. 1, No. 2. (New York: Aspen 1966). $650 Issue 2, “The White Box.” Designed by Frank Kirk, with Tony Angotti. Contains the following items: 1. “Farewell to a Canyon” by an unnamed author, 14 loose pages in card folder. 2. “Ski Racing / Edging the Possible” by Martin Luray, single page accordion- folded into card folder. 3. “Scriabin Again and Again…” by Faubion Bowers, small booklet. 4. “The Adaptable House” by Peggy Clifford, large poster folded into small card folder. 5. “The Young Out’s VS the Establishment,” small booklet with short essays by Lionel Trilling, Stanley Hirsin, Abby Mann, Norman Corwin, Robert Blumofe, Arthur Knight, John Burchard, David T. Bazelon, Robert Osborn, Albert and David Maysles, Jean Renoir, Carroll Baker, Eva Marie Saint, Dr. Karl Menninger, Jack Garfein, and Richard Dyer MacCann. 6. Music by Alexander Scriabin played by Daniel Kunin, original 331/3 acetate flexi-disc recording. Some wear and soiling to the white box, otherwise all items in fine condition. Aspen was a multi- media “magazine” about the arts published by Phyllis Johnson, a former editor for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age, from 1965 to 1971. Each issue was a custom-made box containing separate booklets, pamphlets, records, posters, and in one issue, a Super-8 movie reel – each item representing what would have been an article in a traditional printed magazine. Each issue had its own editor and designer, which provided unprecedented artistic originality. However, not surprisingly, its avant-garde format made it impractical, if not downright impossible, for the magazine to support itself. Advertising was supposed to help pay for the costs of production, but the ads, which were contained in a folder at the bottom of the box, were easily ignored. Furthermore, it proved difficult to adhere to the publication schedule of four issues a year. In the end, only ten issues were published. As the poetry and art website www.ubu.com notes: “Perhaps Aspen was a folly, but it was a vastly pleasurable one, with a significant place in art history. The list of contributors included some of the most interesting artists of the 20th Century. And as an exemplar of creative publishing, Aspen was a wonder. Its contents, however, are all but lost: few copies of Aspen have survived.” [BTC #96052] 9 Norman ROCKWELL. Paintings by Norman Rockwell to Illustrate “Tom Sawyer.” New York: The Heritage Press [1936?]. $850 First edition. Three facsimile “paintings” on thick artist board, laid into an illustrated cardstock portfolio. A small stain on the front of the portfolio else very near fine; “paintings” are fine. Individual “paintings” turn up but the set is very scarce. OCLC locates only two sets. [BTC #326567] 10 John SLOAN. [Signed etching]: Serenade (aka: The Laggard in Love). [No place: no publisher] 1912. $1500 Etching on thin laid paper. Image size 3" x 5¼" on 8" x 10½" sheet. Plate mark. Pinholes around outer edges of sheet, else fine. An etching by John Sloan from a projected edition of 100, of which only 90 were printed (Morse 159). Signed in pencil in the lower right corner by Sloan. An estimated 3500 impressions of this etching were used as the frontispiece to Thomas A. Daly’s book Madrigali (Philadelphia, 1912), a collection of Italian dialect verse. This particular etching is from the per- sonal collection of the artist’s widow, Helen Farr Sloan. [BTC #281979] Children’s Books 11 L. Frank BAUM. Father Goose’s Year Book. Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. (1907). $350 First edition. Tall octavo. Cloth with applied paper illustration. Small contemporary gift inscription, spine lettering a little dull, cloth a little faded, and a bit of light overall wear, but still a tight, very good copy. [BTC #330192] 12 Elizabeth BISHOP. The Ballad of the Burglar of Babylon. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1968).