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. ASBURY, Herbert . Typescript of “An Infernal Triangle: A Travesty in One Act ”. Typescript with some autograph cor - rections in ink and stage directions in pencil; 20 ff. 4to, [New York]: 1917. Maroon wrappers, yapp edges worn; two brass fasteners; vertical crease through all leaves. $500 A very early, unpublished drama by Asbury (1889-1963), author of Gangs of New York (1928) and other popular true-crime histories. An Infernal Triangle was written when Asbury was a staff reporter for the New York Sun , and pre - cedes his first published book, Up From Methodism (1926), by nine years. An Infernal Triangle has many of the elements that Asbury would explore in his mature work — corruption, vice, hypocrisy, greed, gambling — but is styl - istically afield from his later work. Cuckold Aloysius H. McSweeney, catching his wife in the arms of another man, Ambrose Klutz, the Duke de Hangdog, attempts to take his revenge with an air rifle. His wife protests that she will consent to murder only if a suitable undertaker is engaged, and suggests her brother Cecil (from whom Mrs. McSweeney will receive a kickback). Along with the absurdist touch - es — including a failed venture to export suspenders to Africa (where pants aren’t worn), and an inheritance of three potatoes — are the petty bicker - ings and pointed barbs of a very real dysfunctional marriage. A curious and unique item.
. BALDWIN, James . If Beale Street Could talk . 197 pp. 8vo, New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Third Printing. Orange cloth; shaken and soiled, good. $750 on the dedication page to the author’s nephew, also James Baldwin: “For my very much beloved nephew, James with all my love Uncle James.” Baldwin’s essay, “My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” which formed half of his ground- breaking work on race in America, The Fire Next Time , was addressed to 14- year-old James. An important and deeply personal association.
. BECKETT, Samuel . Molloy . 8vo, Paris: Les editions de Minuit, [1951]. First edition, trade issue. White wrappers printed in black and blue. Spine faintly toned, text block with usual browning, otherwise fine. Unopened. With publicity slip and publishers’ printed card “Hommage de l’Editeur”. $500 James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101
Choice example of Beckett’s darkly comic novel, the first of his classic trilo - gy, originally composed and published in French, and published in English translation in 1955.
. (BECKETT, Samuel) Knowlson, James . Samuel Beckett: an exhibition … foreword by A.J. Leventhal . Photographic plates and reproductions; 123 pp. 8vo, London: Turret Books, [1971]. Limited signed edition, one of 100 signed by Beckett. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver on spine, in clear plas - tic dust jacket. Fine. $750 Catalogue to an exhibition that gathered nearly 400 items — manuscripts, first editions, photographs, etc. — pertaining to Beckett’s work.
. BIGGERS, Earl Derr . Charlie Chan Carries On . 334 pp. 8vo, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. First edition. Yellow cloth rubbed at margins of covers. Some foxing to endpapers. Chipping and rubbing to dust jacket with some closed tears. Very good. $500 In rare dust jacket.
. BRESLIN, Jimmy . The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight . 249 pp. 8vo, New York: The Viking Press, [1969]. First edi - tion. Yellow cloth and blue boards, fine in almost fine dust jacket with slight tear at head of spine, designed by Seymour Chwast. $500 , “Nelson Algren — with deep respect, Jimmy Breslin”; and dated November 1969. A fascinating association between two writers who shared an interest in the hidden, darker side of American city life.
. CAIN, James M . Serenade . Title page vignette by W.A. Dwiggins. 314, [2] pp. 8vo, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1937. First edition. Black cloth, silver gilt decoration by W.A. Dwiggins. Fine in near fine dust jacket designed by Dwiggins as well (spine panel slightly faded with stain at head). Bookplate. $750
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, . . CAMPBELL, John W. et. al . Science-fiction correspon - dence of John R. Pierce with Robert A. Heinlein , Arthur C. Clarke , and John W. Campbell , Jr. V.p., 1943-1957. $4,750 Small and interesting archive of science fiction correspondence of physicist John R. Pierce (1910-2002), inventor of the word “transistor,” director of research at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, and science fiction author, compris - ing:
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1) Typed Letter, Signed, dated October 29, 1957, one-page, single spaced, asking for advice on technical matters concerning radio in Have Space Suit, Will Travel (published September 1958) and mention - ing Pierce’s earlier suggestions. 2) Typed Postcard, Signed, dated June 30, 1947, replying to an inquiry from Pierce concerning agent Lou Schor, who was trying to start a sci - ence fiction radio series. With Pierce’s retained carbons of his letters.
Clarke, Arthur C.
Typed Letter, Signed, dated 2 March, 1952, one-page, on his sta - tionery as Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, compli - menting Pierce on his article about communications satellites in Astounding, and referring to Clarke’s pioneering article in Wireless World for October 1945 “suggesting the use of satellites for TV relay - ing.”
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1) Typed Letter, Signed, 1 p., Dec. 17, 1943, discussing Pierce’s article on heat rays, and a radio Campbell is building. 2) Typed Letter, Signed, 1 p., Feb. 2, 1944, discussing an article by Ehrenhaft in Astounding, with the quote, “I am, in brief, firmly con - vinced that thuroughly [sic] unscientific, illogical and fundamentally mistaken people can make basic discoveries of the first magnitude by mistake.” 3) Typed Letter, Signed 3 p., Oct. 24, 1944, discussing an oscilloscope Campbell is building, and discussing a story idea from Murray Leinster.
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4) Typed Letter, Signed, 2 p., Dec. 27 [1944?], about an oscillator cir - cuit. 5) Autograph note forwarding a Feb. 2, 1949 letter inquiring about television tubes to Pierce, with a carbon of Pierce’s reply. 6) Carbon of letter from Pierce to Campbell, April 2, 1949. 7) Typed Letter, Signed, 3 p., Feb. 21, 1950, about Pierce’s article on perfect thinking mechanisms. 8) Typed Letter, Signed, 3 p., April 5, 1950, about the development of Dianetics and how he had used it. With a carbon of Pierce’s reply, April 12, 1950. 9) Undated, unsigned, typed letter to Pierce about an article on elec - tron multipliers. 10) Group of letters, November-December, 1950, starting with a carbon of a reply to Campbell about a letter from an inventor that Campbell had forwarded, and including a suggestion that Campbell have the inventor, Allan Rader, work up an article. A letter from Rader and correspondence to him is included.
’ , . CATHER, Willa . Sapphira and the Slave Girl . 8vo, New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1940. 8vo, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition, one of 520 copies on Rives Liampre all- rag paper signed by the author. Gilt cloth and boards, t.e.g. Near fine copy (faint scattered foxing), lacking the dust jacket and slipcase. Crane A22. $750
, . CONNELLY, Marc . The Green Pastures . xvi, 173 pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1929]. First trade edition. Original green cloth, near fine in unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine. $2,500 on the flyleaf, “To John Farrar, my friend, Marc Connelly. New York, March 21, 1930.” An early Farrar imprint, based on Roark Bradford’s stories Ol’ Man Adam An’ His Chillun — this amusing, touching play won the Pulitzer Prize.
, . CONRAD, Joseph . Almayer’s Folly A Story of an Eastern River . 8vo, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, first issue, with type dropped in bottom two lines on p. 110.
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Original olive green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Slightest toning of spine, endpapers with a few spots. Bookplate. Near fine, attractive copy. Smith 1. $2,500 Joseph Conrad’s first book.
. CROSBY, Caresse . Graven Images . ix, 101 pp. 8vo, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press, 1926. First edition. Blue paper over boards. Neat ownership signature to flyleaf, otherwise as new. $750 Stunning copy of a fragile book, not even a hint of the usual discoloration.
. DICK, Philip K . A Maze of Death . 8vo, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1970. First edition. Blue cloth. Fine copy. Stamped 13 times with SFWA inkstamp throughout. In, fine fresh pictorial dust jacket. $750
. _____ . Time out of Joint . 8vo, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1959]. First edition. Orange boards. Slightly rubbed along bottom edges, spotting along gutter of paste - downs. Very good in very good dust jacket (faded, tape ghost on inside of spine panel). Uncommon. $550
. DOS PASSOS, John . Autograph Note, signed (“John Dos Passos”) to Alfred Eisenstaedt: “To Alfred Eisenstaedt in mem - ory of a week in the dark green corn of Iowa and Nebraska. All sorts of good wishes. ” Leaf from Eisenstaedt’s notebook, recto only. 8vo (8 ¾ x 6 ¼ in.), Omaha: July 17, 1948. Fine. $750
. DURRELL, Lawrence . The Alexandria Quartet . 884 pp. 8vo, London: Faber & Faber, 1962. First collected edition, number 24 of 500 copies, signed by the author. Orange cloth, beveled boards, stamped in gilt and black, t.e.g., with original acetate dust jacket. Fine in slightly worn slipcase. $1,100
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. FAULKNER, William . Pylon . 315 pp. 8vo, New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc, 1935. First edition. Black cloth. Very good with some loss to gilt lettering. In very good dust jacket with faded spine and edgewear. $500 Faulkner’s novel about an airplane contest in New Orleans during Mardis Gras.
. [FLECKER, James Elroy] . The Best Man . 16, [2] pp. 4to, [Oxford: Holywell Press], 1906. First edition of the author’s first book. Red pictorial wrappers, minor wear. Bookplate of Oliver Brett and H.Bradley Martin. Laid in brown cloth chemise. $500
. FROST, Robert . A Boy’s Will . ix, [i], 11-63 pp. 8vo, New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1915]. Later printing of the first American edition. Publisher’s blue gilt-stamped cloth; near fine. Cf. Crane A2.1. $1,500 to Harold Bailey with a line from “Mowinig”: “The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. Robert Frost.” The recipient is likely Harold J. Bailey, a noted collector of inscribed Frost.
“ , , ” . _____ . A Boy’s Will . Title page woodcut by Thomas W. Nason; 56 pp. 8vo, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934. Second American edition (“First 1934 edition”). Tan cloth, spine darkened, in edgeworn dust jacket lacking 2-inch piece from spine, verso tape-repaired, in custom green, moroc - co-backed case. Crane A2.2. $6,000 to Richard Ely Morse with the entire 16-line poem (one of Frost’s most terrifying) “Desert Places”, from A Further Range .
’ , - . _____ . Collected Poems . Frontispiece photograph after Doris Ulmann; [ix], 349 pp. 8vo, New York: Henry Holt and
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Company, [1936]. First edition, sixth printing. Gilt-stamped tan cloth, extremities rubbed, pencil annotations throughout, in custom half morocco clamshell box. Crane C38 (for poem) & cf. A14.1 (for book). $5,000 With a 24-line poem in the poet’s hand, “Happiness Makes Up in Height for What it Lacks in Length”. beneath, “ Robert Frost / For John Ciardi / July 1938 / South Shaftsbury Vermont.” The poem would first appear in print two months later in The Atlantic Monthly (Sept. 1938) and in book form in A Witness Tree (1942). It differs here from its published version in two lines (l. 16, “went” for “swept” and l. 23, “passed” for “went”). In addition, Ciardi has his name on the front pastedown. Frost’s inscription suggests that the two poets met at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in Vermont. Ciardi, only 22 at the time, had just graduated from Tufts and was still several years away from publishing his first volume of verse. Frost and Ciardi shared a spare formalist style, both achieved a level of fame unusual in modern poetry, and both were, as this vol - ume demonstrates, associated with Bread Loaf, where for many years Ciardi was director.
, “ ” . _____ . North of Boston . Small 8vo, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914 (but “July, 1922”). Second edition, later printing. Gray-green cloth with dark green spine. Very good, in custom green, morocco-backed slipcase. $3,000 by Frost to an old Harvard classmate of 1901: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall “saith “Robert Frost “to his classmate “John Hallowell”
“ ” . _____ . Selected Poems . 8vo, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923 (actually January, 1924). First edition, second printing. Cloth and boards. Very good, in custom green, morocco-backed slipcase. Crane A5 (first printing). $3,250 on the flyleaf by Frost, to John Hallowell, a classmate of Harvard, 1901.
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“My dear Hallowell “There should be a poem somewhere in this about how we Harvard class - mates often don’t find each other till years after graduation. There should be? Nay there is, if you can but locate it. I trust it glows with the proper sentiment. “Ever yours “Robert Frost Amherst December 1924”
. GRAVES, Robert . Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography . Frontispiece. Illustrated. 8vo, London: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition, first state, unexpurgated, with the poem by Siegfried Sassoon on pp. 341-343. Original salmon cloth. Near fine copy in very good plus dust jacket (price clipped, some soiling, ⅛-inch chip from top margin of back panel). Higginson & Williams A32a. $2,000 With the fine poem by Sassoon, transcribed from a letter written to Graves. The story of the poem’s suppression in later issues is well known.
’ . [GREENE, Graham, editor ]. Night and Day [26 issues, all published ]. Illustrated. 2 vols. 4to, London: Night and Day Magazines Ltd, July 1, 1937 — December 23, 1937. Complete file of the short-lived periodical edited by Greene. Modern blue buckram, maroon spine labels, with original pic - torial wrappers bound in. Pp. 30-31 of issue for 28 October pasted together in bound volume. Accompanied by an unex - purgated copy of that issue in wrappers. $3,000 This London magazine, edited by Graham Greene, aimed to establish itself as an illustrated literary weekly similar in style and tone to the New Yorker . Greene wrote a film column and other contributors included Evelyn Waugh as books columnist, Osbert Lancaster, John Betjeman, Constant Lambert, Alistair Cooke, Anthony Powell, Malcolm Muggeridge, Stevie Smith, Louis MacNeice, V.S Pritchett, Hugh Casson, Christopher Isherwood and A.J.A. Symons. Illustrators included Feliks Topolski, John Nash, Nicholas Bentley and Paul Crum. Greene’s film column for 28 October, on Miss Shirley Temple, prompted an action for libel from Twentieth Century Fox that helped kill the maga - zine. Norman Sherry writes: “Greene later recalled that he kept on his bathroom wall, until a bomb removed the wall, the statement of claim, ‘that I had accused Twentieth Century Fox of “procuring” Miss Temple “for immoral purposes”’”(p. 622). Complete runs are uncommon to find.
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. GREY, Zane . The Last of the Plainsmen . Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. 374, [6, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1908. First edition. Original decorated green cloth. Some rubbing and soiling to cloth, inner hinge strengthened. In slipcase. Grubu, p. 255. $600 Signed on flyleaf “C.J. Jones”. C. J. “Buffalo” Jones was devoted to the preservation of wild animals and spent his life in the American West capturing animals alive and protecting them. His nickname came from the many years he spent capturing and tam - ing buffalo; later, he moved to Arizona, where he continued protecting his buffalo, mustang, and deer on an isolated plateau overlooking the Grand Canyon. This story is a reminiscence about the author’s visit with Jones.
, . _____. Tales of Lonely Trails . With many illustrations from photographs. 394 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, [1922]. First edition, G-W (July 1922) on copyright page. Publisher’s presentation three quarter green morocco and green cloth, t.e.g. Some slight traces of rubbing, else Fine. $3,750 Tales of outdoor travel and hunting in the West: Colorado, Arizona, and California. Inscribed by the author on first blank, in his characteristic purple ink, “To Edna from Zane Grey Christmas 1923”
‘ ’ — . HEINLEIN, Robert A . The Moon is a Harsh Mistress . 8vo, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1966]. First edition. Terracotta cloth. Slightest traces of spotting to top and fore edges, else a fine copy in near fine, fresh and bright dust jack - et (14 mm. closed snag at center of front fold). Currey p. 233; Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-204; Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1439-43. $5,500 Heinlein’s classic story of the revolt of the colony of Luna against the Earth, in superior condition. Winner of the 1967 Hugo Award for best novel.
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. HEINLEIN, Robert A . Podkayne of Mars. Her Life and Times . 8vo, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1963]. First edi - tion. Black cloth titled in green. A fine copy in a about fine dust jacket, touch of rubbing to corners and spine ends, small rub mark at upper front panel/spine fold, some mild age ton - ing to rear panel. An attractive copy. Currey p. 233. $2,750 Heinlein’s last juvenile novel, in superior condition.
. HELLER, Joseph . Autograph Note Signed (“Joseph Heller”) to Alfred Eisenstaedt: “For ‘the’ Alfred Eisenstaedt, What an honor and a pleasure to be invited to join your col - lection! (And someday I will be sorry I did not let you bury me in the sand for that picture you wanted to take with the oth - ers).” Leaf from Eisenstaedt’s notebook, recto only. 8vo (8 ¾ x 6¼ in.), East Hampton, New York: April 27, 1979. Fine. $750
, . HORGAN, Paul . Songs after Lincoln . 74 pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1965]. Limited signed edition, no. 1 of 15 author’s presentation copies specially bound. Bound in quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine in marbled board slipcase. $750 Inscribed on colophon page by the author below his signature, “Margaret & John Farrar, my friends, with devoted respect 1965.”
. HOWARD, Robert E . Conan The Conqueror; The Sword Of Conan; King Conan; The Coming of Conan; Conan The Barbarian; Tales Of Conan; The Return of Conan. 7 vols. 8vo, New York: The Gnome Press, 1950-1957. First editions. Fine in unclipped, very good or better dust jackets. $3,500 The complete Gnome Press Conan.
, . (HUGHES, Langston) Underwood & Underwood, photographer. Portrait photograph of Langston Hughes at
20th-Century Literature work as a busboy in Washington, D.C. Vintage Gelatin silver print. Full-length frontal portrait of Hughes in his white uni - form, holding a tray. 215 x 164 mm. (8 ½ x 6 ½ in.), [Washington, D.C.: 1925]. 3/4-inch tear at top edge, a few minor creases. With the studio’s stamp on verso “Underwood Photo Archives” and a typed paper news release affixed to verso, dated Dec. 5, 1925. $750 A rare and important photo of the 23-year-old poet, at a time when he was first gaining recognition as a poet. The news caption on the verso reads: “One night he was just one of the Negro boys scurrying here and there with empty dishes … and the next day he was Langston Hughes, prize winner of a poetry competition conducted by a magazine of national circulation. Here’s a photo of Langston Hughes, bus boy at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington whose poem ‘Weary Blues,’ won the poetry prize and whose other verse has won the admiration of Vachel Lindsay and other outstand - ing American writers.” Hughes’ first book, Weary Blues , was published by Knopf in 1926. (See illus - tration, p. 26)
. HUGHES, Ted . Remains of Elmet . With 4 black and white photos by Fay Godwin. Printed on Barcham Green Charing hand-made paper by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lion Press. 87, [1] pp. 4to, [London]: Rainbow Press, 1979. First edition, number 27 of 70 copies (of a total edition of 170) signed by Hughes and Godwin on the colophon page. Bound in full tree calf, t.e.g., rest uncut, by W.T. Morrell. Fine in slip - case. Rampant Lion Press 78: “Sometimes poem suggested photograph, sometimes photograph poem … The Charing hand-made of the specials was some lovely old stock kept by Olwyn Hughes.” $1,250 Contains a poem which does not appear in the trade edition.
“ ” . JAMES, Norah C . Sleeveless Errand . Dust jacket by Maurice Kahane. [viii] 217 [3] pp. 8vo, Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1929. First Paris edition, with English text. Half cream cloth over boards; sprinkled edges. Paris book - seller’s label to front pastedown. In rubbed pictorial dust jack -
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 et with a few closed tears; remnants of price sticker on spine. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Cf. Ford, Published in Paris . $500 Sleeveless Errand was banned and confiscated in the U.K. soon after publica - tion but was immediately re-published in Paris by Jack Kahane, founder of the Obelisk Press. British censors objected to the book’s language and its depiction of immoral and decadent youth. As Arnold Bennet (who approved of the novel) wrote in the Evening Standard , “it records the chatter of a familiar type of persons who cannot express themselves at any time on any subject without employing words beginning with ‘b’.”
This edition of Sleeveless Errand sold briskly and, as the first book he pub - lished in Paris, “set Kahane’s publishing enterprise on the course it would fol - low until its dissolution in 1939” (Ford). The book precedes the creation of the Obelisk Press by two years .
. JOYCE, James . Ulysses . 4to, Paris: Shakespeare and Co, 1922. First edition, no. 339 of 750 copies on handmade paper. Full dark green oasis morocco, triple gilt fillet borders, spine gilt, edges uncut. Closed tear across half title profession - ally repaired. Fine. Slocum A17, Connolly Modern Movement, 42. $17,500
. LAWRENCE, D.H . An Excerpt from Lady Chatterley’s Lover . Headpiece is an unpublished illustration by R.K. [Rockwell Kent]. 4 pp. on single folded sheet. 4to, [n.p: February 1930]. Privately printed, limited numbered edition, no. 34 of 50 copies. Fine. Provenance: George Macy. Roberts, Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence (Third edition), Appendix I, B, # V. p. 754. Not in Zigrosser, Rockwellkentiana , nor Johnson, Rockwell Kent . $950 Roberts, quoting Black Sun Books Catalogue 94, item 77, notes that Kent wrote a letter on March 10, 1930 to the Excerpt’ s publisher that they had not had permission to use his drawing; but therein he gives that permission.
. LAWRENCE, T.E . T.E. Lawrence to His Biographer Robert Graves [and:] T.H. Lawrence to his Biographer Liddell Hart . Frontispiece in each Volume. viii, [ii], 187; viii, [ii], 233 pp. 2 20th-Century Literature vols. 8vo, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1938. First American editions, each no. 429 one of 500 copies signed by Graves and Liddell-Hart. Original cloth. Very good set, toning to spines. O’Brien A214 & A215. $500
. [LEGMAN, Gershon] . The Passionate Pedant. Being a New Oxford Thesis on Love, Wherein L. Erectus Mentulus, Late of Oxford Establishes Incontrovertably That the Sexual Enjoyment of Women of Divers Races is Evocative of Distinctly Different Types and Degrees of Pleasure, Through Narratives of his Own Experience, with Particular Emphasis Upon Psycho-Physiological Adumbrations et cetera, For the Entertainment as Well as the Enlightenment of His Friends. “In Cunnis Diversis - Voluptates Diversae” . 104 leaves, mimeographed recto only. 4to, Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Done by the Hand of the Author into a manuscript, 1939. First edition. Stiff wrappers, with hand-colored vignette of naked woman on upper cover by Emil Ganso. Almost fine. Legman, “The Horn Book,” p.36; Brulotte & Phillips, “Encycolpedia of Erotic Literature I,” p.741; “Private Case,” pp. 52-3. $700 The fourth volume in a series of mimeographed stories commissioned by a wealthy Oklahoman, Roy Johnson. The fourth title in the series, The Passionate Pedant , continues the adventures of Oxford Professor L. Erectus Mentulus as he travels the world investigating the varieties of sexual expe - rience. It is attributed to the erotica scholar Gershon Legman, who “paro - dies his own knowledge of cultural variations” and uses the main charac - ter’s wanderings “to criticize Western imperialism” (Brulotte & Phillips). The scarcest title in the L. Erectus Mentulus series; no copies in the Kinsey Institute Library or Worldcat.
. LEWIS, Sinclair . Main Street . 8vo, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition, second issue. Original orange-stamped blue cloth. Spine a trifle dulled, light spotting to covers. A very good plus copy, with bookplate of Barton Currie. $750
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. LEWIS, Wyndham . The Wild Body . viii, 294, [2] pp. 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. First edition, no. 34 of 79 copies of the “Special edition”. Quarter pink cloth and mar - bled paper boards, t.e.g. Edges a trifle rubbed, spine slightly faded, endpapers front and rear show spotting — but a good copy otherwise of a genuinely scarce book. $1,000
. LONDON, Jack . The Call of the Wild . Frontispiece and 8 color plates after illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorated by Charles Edward Hooper. 231, [1], [2, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition (“July, 1903”) on copyright page. Original green pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Very slight rubbing to edges, owner’s neat stamp on front pastedown, oth - erwise a sharp, bright copy of an American classic. BAL 11876. $1,500
. MAUGHAM, William Somerset . Cakes and Ale: Or The Skeleton in the Cupboard . With an original lithograph portrait frontispiece of Maugham and decorations by Graham Sutherland. With 4 pages of the author’s holograph in facsim - ile, alterations in red. xii, 255 pp. 8vo, London: Heinemann, [1954]. Number 58 of 1000 copies signed by Maugham and Sutherland. Bound in original three quarter crushed green morocco and cloth, gilt spine, t.e.g., raised bands, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Fine in slipcase. Stott A40c. $750 Fine edition of one of Maugham’s finest novels, and certainly one of his most popular. Of it, Maugham wrote “The book I like best is Cakes and Ale . It was an amusing book to write.” It is published here on the occasion of Maugham’s 80th birthday, with the wonderful art work of Graham Sutherland, signed by both author and artist. The publisher’s binding on the copy is an unrecorded variant (not in Stott or Rothschild) in morocco; the usual binding is in “mushroom calf and navy blue boards” (Stott).
. _____ . The Razor’s Edge . 8vo, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1944. First edition, no. 195 of 750 copies
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. _____ . Strictly Personal . 8vo, Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. First and Limited edition, no. 257 of 515 numbered copies by Maugham. Original plum buckram boards with beveled edges, black leather spine label, t.e.g. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a fine copy, in a cus - tom vellum-tipped slipcase. Stott A60a. $750
. _____ . The Vagrant Mood . 8vo, London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1952]. First and Limited edition, no. 461 of 500 copies, by Maugham. Half cream calf and navy- blue calf boards, gilt-lettered spine label, t.e.g. Very minor scuffing to spine, otherwise a fine copy, in a custom vellum- tipped slipcase of marbled paper boards. Stott A74a. $600
. _____ . A Writer’s Notebook . xvi, 367 pp. 8vo, London: Heinemann, 1949. Limited edition (“published simultaneous - ly with the ordinary trade edition, but in printing followed the trade edition” — Stott), no. 428 of 1,000 copies by Maugham. Original blue cloth, vellum spine with leather label, t.e.g. Slight bubbling to cloth on upper cover at juncture with vellum, otherwise a fine copy, in a custom vellum-tipped slipcase of marbled paper boards. Stott A70c. $750 Extracts from the writer’s voluminous notebooks, arranged chronologically, and selected for their relevance to Maugham’s technique of literary produc - tion and process of creation.
. McCARTHY, Cormac . Outer Dark . 242, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition. Blue cloth and black paper over boards. Fine in almost fine clipped dust- jacket marked “9/68” with some rubbing at head and tail of spine. $1,500 McCarthy’s second novel, a chilling tale of incest and appalling violence. James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101
‘ ’ . MIRRLEES, Hope . Paris a Poem . 23, [1] pp. 12mo, London: Printed by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1919 [i.e., 1920]. First edition, one of 175 copies. Two corrections in manuscript as per Woolmer, “most copies.” Original wrappers with gold, red, and blue diamond pattern. White label printed in red. Very good (some rubbing to edges, minor toning, touch of foxing to first blank). Woolmer 5; for Mirrlees, cf. Swanwick, Hope-in-the-Mist, Foundation 87 (2003). $8,000 Virginia Woolf described Mirrlees as “her own heroine — capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed” ( Letters 3:200). “Hope had met Virginia and Leonard Woolf the previous year, when they invited her to write for the Hogarth Press: Paris (1920) became their fifth publication (T. S. Eliot’s Poems was the fourth). It was hand set by Virginia herself in an edition of 175 copies — only the smallness of the edition can explain the subsequent neglect of this extraordinarily daring and brilliant poem, which was arguably her greatest achievement. A 600-line modernist poem, it describes the city recovering from the First World War, haunted by its dead, yet springing back to life as it hosts President Wilson and the peace conference delegates. Paris is written partly in English, partly in French, cit - ing or reciting Métro station names, posters, shop signs, and memorial plaques. Highly allusive and typographically original, it has claims to be the missing link between French avant-garde poetry and Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’” (ONDB). The Eliot connection is also of interest because Mirrlees and Eliot remained friends for many years. He wrote portions of the Four Quartets in her country house. “During the London blitz Eliot served as an air raid warden, but spent long weekends as a guest of his friend Hope Mirrlees in Shamley Green near Guildford. In these circumstances he wrote three more poems, each more somber than the last, patterned on the voice and five-part structure of ‘Burnt Norton’” (ODNB). There are two corrections in manuscript as noted by Woolmer in “most copies”: p. 1 l. 13 begins “St.” John; p. 22, at end, the printed 6 is corrected to 9 in Spring 1919). (See note inside front cover and illustration inside rear cover)
. ONIONS, Oliver . The Collected Ghost Stories of … . xi, [i], 689 pp. Thick 8vo, London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited, 1935. First edition. Midnight blue cloth stamped in white. Slight spotting to fore edge, else fine in very good plus dust jacket (unclipped, spine panel and upper edge of front
20th-Century Literature and back panels somewhat darkened). Signed R.L.H. Lloyd, Oxford 1935. Tymn, Horror Literature 3-187. $500
. PAUL, Dhirenda Nath . The Mysteries of Calcutta … edited by M. Sen . ii, 966 pp. 3 vols. Calcutta: Datta Bosse & Co, n.d. [ca. 1923, date of Foreword]. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth. Very good. SOLD “… depicts in bold color the picture of a pampered aristocracy, ready to pledge their souls for the flesh pots of Egypt; of queenly beauties, whose swimming eyes languish voluptuously with the pride of conquest; of artless maidens, and unsuspecting youths, seduced and sacrificed on the altar of lust” (editor’s preface). A curious example of the “city mystery” genre that flourished in the Victorian era.
. [PORTER, William Sidney (“O. Henry”)] . Collection of 13 first editions in 13 volumes., 8vo, New York or Garden City, NY, 1904. First editions. Original cloth. Laid into half red morocco slipcases and chemises. Wear to slipcas - es, several cracking at head. Most volumes carry bookplate of Joseph Fisher Loewi and book label of Bernie Hutne. $1,000 Comprising: The Four Million . 1904. BAL 16271 • The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of The Four Million . 1907. BAL 16273 • Heart of the West . Spine lettering rubbed off, covers worn and faded, shaken, hinges cracked, free front endpa - per detached but present. 1907. BAL 16274 • The Voice of The City . Small por - tion cut from foot of page 243 not affecting text. 1908. First printing, first binding. BAL 16275 • The Gentle Grafter . 1908. First printing, binding A. BAL 16276 • Roads of Destiny . Covers worn with some fading. 1909. First printing with missing “h” supplied in ink, page 9, line 6. BAL 16277 • Options . Spine lightly faded. 1910. BAL 16292 • Whirligigs . Covers rubbed and front cover heavily spotted, back hinge cracked. 1910. BAL 16295 • Let Me Feel Your Pulse . Front spine cracked, covers heavily worn, chipped and soiled. 1910. BAL 16296 • Sixes and Sevens . Hinges cracked. 1911. BAL 16298 • Rolling Stones . Front hinge cracked, one plate detached but present. Typed book label of Wayne V. Myers. 1912. BAL 16299 • O. Henryana. Seven Odds and End s. Hinges cracked, spine faded and soiled, chipped at head and foot. 1920. One of 377 copies. BAL 16302 • Postscripts . Cover lettering faded. 1923. Binding A. BAL 16304
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’ . RAND, Ayn . The Fountainhead . 753, [1] pp. 8vo, [New York]: Charter Books, [1962]. First Charter edition. Original pictorial wraps; tail of spine bumped, a few light creases, else fine. Provenance: from the library of Ayn Rand, with a letter from Paolo Alto Book Service stating that this book was obtained directly from the executor of Rand’s estate. $1,500
“ , , ” . RILKE, Rainer Maria . Duineser Elegien . 52, [2] pp. Small folio (290 x 187 mm.), Leipzig: Insel-Verlag [printed by Gebr. Klingspor], 1923. First edition, number 6 of 300 copies on Tiemann-Antiqua paper (approximately 100 copies were bound in full morocco). Deluxe issue binding of full green morocco by the Wiener Werkstatt, with red morocco lettering piece, five raised bands, covers gilt-ruled and with red moroc - co inlays at center quartered by gilt-stamped stars, red painted endpapers, t.e.g. Slightest traces of rubbing to extremities. Fine. Sarkowski 1338; Ritzer E9. $15,000 Rilke’s masterpiece, a cycle of ten elegies begun in 1912 in a burst of inspi - ration while wintering by the Adriatic at Duino Castle as a guest of the book’s eventual dedicatee, Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis- Hohenlohe, and completed ten years later in 1922. A choice copy of the deluxe full-morocco issue (the other 200 copies of the limited edition were bound in boards or three-quarter morocco).
. ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington . Collected Poems . 5 vols. Small 8vo, New York: Macmillan, 1927. First edition, num - ber 264 of 300 signed, by the author in each volume of this Large Paper edition. Bound in full blue morocco, with a 5- rose design in gilt on each front cover and a smaller gilt floral decoration at the corners of upper and lower covers of each volume, t.e.g., by (Whitman) Bennett, N.Y. Slight wear. $750
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. ROTH, Henry . Call It Sleep . with 48 photographs of New York City during the period of the story. Designed by Andrew Hoyem. Printed in Monotype Bulmer and handset Kabel Condensed on German mould-made Zerkall paper. 429, [1] pp. 4to, San Francisco: Arion Press. Limited edition, copy “U’ hors commerce of 26 copies of total edition 326 copies, signed by the author in pencil on limitation page. Bound in quarter green goatskin and gray-green cloth over boards, the cloth printed with a depiction of a tenement wall, in matching slip - case. Fine. $750
. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita . Sissinghurst . [12] pp. Square 8vo, London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition, no. 463 of 500 copies signed by Sackville-West. Printed boards. A fragile book, this copy a little worn at spine, internally fine. $1,250
. _____ . The Edwardians . 349, [1] pp. 8voi, London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, Tavistock Square, 1930. First edition, limited to 125 copies. This copies marked out of series in purple ink, signed below by Vita Sackville-West. Quarter vellum and cloth. Corners bumped, light edge wear, slightly scuffed. Cross & Ravencroft- Hulme A20b. $1,250 Additionally inscribed to Dorothy Black (1899-1985), dated, “in memory of Croydon, Sept. 1932,” & signed V. Sackville-West on front free endpaper. Dorothy Black was a leading actress who was instrumental in the novel’s adaptation for the stage.
’ . SALINGER, J.D . The Catcher in the Rye . 8vo, Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. First edition. Original black cloth, spine titled in gilt. Top edge a trifle dusty, else a near fine fresh copy. Unclipped, first issue dust jacket (supplied) with portrait by Lotte Jacobi on back panel, very good plus with small traces of
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 rubbing at head of spine, some minor toning, one closed tear at head of back panel. Custom red morocco backed slipcase. Provenance: Lotte Jacobi; her daughter-in-law, Beatrice Trum Hunter. $22,500 Photographer Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) is renowned for her photographs of Berlin notables before the advent of the Nazis, and for her iconic portrait of fellow émigré Albert Einstein. After the war, she took portraits of a num - ber of intellectual celebrities, including the young J.D. Salinger for The Catcher in the Rye — a photograph that was subsequently suppressed from the dust jackets of later editions of the novel. Signed at head of title (“Lotte Jacobi-Reiss”) and with her photographic New Year’s card for 1950 loosely inserted, signed by her at bottom “Greetings! L.J. and E. R.” Her husband, Ernst Reiss, was a publisher in Berlin; he died in 1951. of this landmark American novel.
. SANDBURG, Carl . Abraham Lincoln: The War Years . Illustrated. 4 vols. 4to, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. First trade edition. Blue cloth, titled in gilt, Neil & Roger Barret bookplate; near fine. $2,500 to legendary Lincoln collector Oliver Barret’s son, Roger: “…when I wrote The Prarie Years you were a child & I so thought of you -— now — now you are a young giant and I think of you as a friend. Carl Sandburg, Christmas 1939.” With a typed letter to Sandburg from a reader requesting information about the provenance of a certain Lincoln letter in the Barrett collection, with an Autograph Note, signed (“Carl”) on the verso, “Dear Roger - Greetings -don’t give this anxiety overmuch of your time. Loving regard to you & all under your roof.”
. _____ . The American Songbag . xxiii, 495 pp. 4to, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1927]. First edition. Publisher’s orange-stamped black cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, spine faded; with prospectus laid-in. $750 , “For Oliver [Barrett], as always, Carl” with envelope from Sandburg laid-in (return “C. Sandburg, Harbert Michigan”) containing two stereographs of the author in suit and bowtie, smoking and playing his gui - tar.
’ , . _____ . Chicago Poems . xi, [i], 183 pp., + 2 pp. ads dated “(3’16)”. 8vo, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. 20th-Century Literature
First edition, first state. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt; spine dulled, light edgewear and soiling, faint dampstaining to bottom fore-edge; very good. $600 on verso of blank facing title-page, “For Roger Barrett, with all good wishes, Carl Sandburg.” Roger was the son of Oliver Barret, noted Lincoln collector and close friend of Sandburg (cf. Sandburg, Lincoln Collector , 1950).
. SAROYAN, William . 5 Typed Letters Signed (“Bill Saroyan” and “Bill”) to his agent H.N. Swanson (“Swanie” ). 5 pp in all, typed rectos only. 4to (11 x 8 ½ inches); two sheets cropped, Fresno, Califronia: May 5, 1965 - January 19, 1966. Faint creases; secretarial marks in red ink. Corrections, cancel - lations, and annotations in Saroyan’s hand. $1,500 Saroyan, still bitter about the treatment he received from MGM during the production of his screenplay The Human Comedy , warily discusses the possi - bility of working in Hollywood again on new works Pointy Shoes and Mama Girl , I Love You : Now, Metro phoned me and wanted to make a deal but I drove them off, because Mayer cheated me on The Human Comedy , and because the new mob there refused to release TV rights in the book to me, and so on and so forth. Drove them off by saying I wanted a percentage and a quarter of a million dollars. O.K., the hell with it: now, though, may just be the time to make a deal on this novel. Unfortunately, the project stalls. From a later letter, included here: “… I am presuming Pointy Shoes is dead, and good enough.” In other letters, Saroyan investigates the logistics of making a film docu - menting his native town: I have got to make me a little 5-hour movie about Fresno before the best part of it is torn down and forgotten, and that’s happening right now.” He dis - cusses current and upcomming projects, mulls over various film and TV possibilities, but is still rankled by his old troubles with MGM … that stu - pid MGM somehow legally got its sticky fingers on The Human Comedy TV rights, too, and has prevented me from making all kind of excellent deals on the property. Written in an easy, chatty style, these letters reveal a writer frustrated by past injustice but one nevertheless determined to maintain his prodigious output while pushing for a new break.
. SMITH, Clark Ashton . Lost Worlds . 8vo, Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1944. First edition, one of 2043
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 copies printed. Black cloth. Some minor shelfwear, near fine in very good dust jacket illustrated with photos of Smith’s sculpture by E. Burt Trimpey (unclipped, some rubbing to edges of front panel, spine panel with small scuffs at ends, yel - lowing at folds). Currey 2002 p. 368; Jaffrey, The Arkham House Companion 7; Tymn, Horror Literature 4-202. $550 Classic collection of Smith’s science fiction and fantasy, including tales of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Atlantis, and more. The companion to his 1942 Arkham House collection, Out of Space and Time. Clark’s story, “The Plutonian Drug,” first published in Amazing Stories in 1934, is notable for employing the name “plutonium” for an imaginary drug from Pluto of startling effects, several years in advance of the discov - ery of the radioactive element that now bears the name. Attractive copy of a cornerstone work.
. (STEVENS, Wallace) Stebbins, Charles Livingstone, editor. Harvard Lyrics and Other Verses . Frontispiece. x, 13-153 pp. 8vo, Boston: Brown and Company 144 Purchase Street, 1899. First edition. Crimson gilt stamped cloth, t.e.g. In custom cloth dust jacket. laid into cloth chemise and slipcase. Edelstein, B1; Morse B1. $750 Contains Wallace Stevens’ first appearance in a book, “Vita Mea” (at page 28), first printed in the Harvard Advocate
. STOUT, Rex . Murder in Style . 192pp. 12mo, London: The Crime Club, [1960]. First edition. Red cloth. Very good in slightly worn dust jacket. $500 on the flyleaf: June 10 - 1963 For Clarice Stein Smithline with best wishes Rex Stout
. TEVIS, Walter . The Hustler . 214, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Harper Brothers, [1959]. First edition. Red cloth and boards. Fine in near fine unclipped dust jacket by Nancy Etheredge (spine panel slightly sunned). $750
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, ... . WELLS, H.G . Experiment in Autobiography. Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Human Brain (since 1866) . Portrait frontispiece from the photo by Foucard. xii, 718 pp. 8vo, New York: Macmillan, 1934. First American edition. White linen cloth, printed in black. Near fine copy in very good dust jack - et with slight wear at edges. $1,000 Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes (1877 - 1949), lawyer, author of over 30 books, advocate of divorce law reform and defender of personal liberty, was a loyal and dear friend to Wells over many years. They shared many an interest in a wide variety of issues; prominent among them, no doubt, was the subject of divorce law reform, and one can well imagine that the marital and extra-marital woes of Wells were not infrequently touched upon at Haynes’ dinners, where “Haynes’s immutable routine allowed him to savour the pleasures of the table and of conversation in full measure. His conversation and idiosyncratic hospitality (dispensed from a table described by his daughter as embowered in bottles of wine, Worcester sauce, garlic, vinegar, and a variety of patent medicines) inspired — notwithstanding moments of terrifying anger — affectionate friendship with men and women of all ages, including G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, John Buchan, Charles Scott-Moncrieff, H. G. Wells, and E. J. Dent” (ODNB). This copy of his autobiography is inscribed by Wells: “To / E.S.P. Haynes / the flower of Lincoln’s Inn / H.G. / as ever.” Haynes’s own memoir The Last Notebook of a Lawyer , was published in the same year.
. WELTY, Eudora . The Robber Bridegroom . Designed and illustrated with 28 wood engravings by Barry Moser. 134, [4] pp. 8vo, West Hatfield, Ma: Pennyroyal Press, 1942. Number 119 of 150 copies, signed by Welty and Moser on the colophon page. Publisher’s full crimson morocco with blind- stamped bird on upper cover. Laid into original cloth box. Very fine. $850 Inscribed by Moser on the title-page in pencil.
. WEST, Mae . Diamond Lil. A Powerful New Novel of the Underworld . 256 pp. 8vo, New York: Macaulay, [1932]. First edition of the novelization of West’s play. Purple cloth. Fine in chipped pictorial dust jacket by Polly Hill, with piece from lower corner of front panel and head of spine, closed tear across front panel. $750
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Mae West’s play, produced on Broadway in 1928, was the basis for her sec - ond Hollywood film and her first in a starring role, under the title, She Done Him Wrong , co-starring Cary Grant and Noah Beery (Paramount 1933). The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, and in 1996 was inducted into the National Film Registry. This novelization was published by Macaulay in anticipation of the release of the film in 1932.
’ - . WILLIAMS, Tennessee . Battle of Angels. A Play by Tennessee Williams. With a note on the play by Margaret Webster and an account of its production in the City of Boston by the author, This publication being the first number of Pharos. Pharos Number 1 & 2 . 122 pp. 8vo, [Murray, Utah]: Pharos, [Spring, 1945]. First appearance of the author’s first full-length play. Gray printed wrappers. Fine. Crandell C67. $800 Later revised as Orpheus Descending and published by New Directions, 1958.
. _____ . The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone . 148, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: New Directions, [1950]. First edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author on colophon page. Quarter vel - lum and decorated boards, in slipcase. Crandell A9.1.a. $650 on the title-page “To Bill, a lot of good wine — well deserved! Tennessee Williams.”
’ . WILSON, Edmund . Five Autograph Letters and one Postcard, signed, to Evelyn Moore Moise of New York City, regarding the apartment Wilson was subletting from her; with 2 Typed letters from Moise to Wilson. Four of the letters on New Yorker stationery, the last on letterhead of “Mrs. Edmund Wilson” of Red Bank, New Jersey; each of the 5 let - ters is one page. 8vo & 12mo, New York: January 17 - June 26, 1951. Very good, in a custom blue cloth folder with leather label. $750 Interesting group of letters written to Wilson’s landlady, from whom he was subletting an apartment at 11 East 87th, during a period when his play A Little Blue Light was in rehearsal, and shortly before the death of his mother later that year. Discussions of the mundane issues (rent, gas, electricity and tele - phone bills) predominate, along with the usual NYC complaint: “the heating
20th-Century Literature and hot water are not as strong as they ought to be … we have only short spurts of heat and I don’t find it helps much to speak to the janitor”). In his letter of April 17, Wilson requests a brief extension of his stay in order to attend the opening of his play.
. WISTER, Owen . The Virginian. A Horseman of the Plains . Illustrations by Arthur Keller. 8vo, New York: Macmillan, 1902. First edition. Original tan pictorial cloth. Slightest soil - ing and traces of edge wear. Near fine copy, lacking the rare dust jacket. Dobie p. 124; Reese Six Score 116; Graff 4725. $1,600
. YEATS, William Butler . The Trembling of the Veil . Photogravure frontispiece portait after Charles Shannon. Printed by the Dunedin Press, Edinburgh. 247, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, 1922. First edition, copy no. 302 of 1000 signed by the Yeats. Original grey boards, vellum paper spine. Almost fine copy, with small snag at top of spine in very good dust jacket with closed tears and chipping, and darkening to spine panel. Wade 133. $1,500
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. ALLEN, Mrs. [Brasseya] . Pastorals, Elegies, Odes, Epistles and Other Poems . [ii], 163, [1] pp. 12mo, Abingdon, (Md.): Printed by Daniel P. Ruff, 1806. First edition. Bound in con - temporary mottled sheep, red morocco spine label. Scuffed, joints & extremities occasionally rubbed, front joint starting with some loss, spine ends slightly chipped. Some internal smudging. Contemporary ink signature of Edward A. Howard on front free endpaper & head of title. Shaw & Shoemaker 9820. $550 The first published collection of poetry by a Maryland woman. Dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, includes an ode “On General Washington’s Accepting the Command of the Army 1798.”
. (ANDERSEN, Hans Christian) Unna, Moritz, pho - tographer. Carte-de-visite of Hans Christian Andersen. Albumen print on card. Image: 3 ¼ x 2 ⅛ in, Kiöbenhavn: Strieglers Atelier, [1861]. Fine. $850 A rare and relatively early portrait of Andersen, a full-length image, the author with a book in hand and his arm resting on a side table. Andersen sat for many portraits, mostly for G.E. Hansen, but this image by the painter and photographer Moritz Unna (1811-1871) is rarely encountered.
. (ARABIAN NIGHTS) The Arabian Nights Entertainment: or, The Thousand and One Nights. Accurately describing the Manners, Customs, Laws, and Religion, of the Eastern Nations, Translated from the French of M. Galland, By G.S. Beaumont . With engraved fron - tispieces and one other plate in each volume. With Binder’s Instructions at end of Volume 4. 4 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for Mathews and Leigh, Strand, by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, 1811. First edition. Later tan boards. Fine. $500
. (ARABIAN NIGHTS) Lane, Edward William (trans.). The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 with Copious Notes . Illustrations in text after William Harvey; xxxii, 618, [2] pp. + 4 pp. ads; xii, 643 [1] pp.; xii, 763, [1] pp. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Charles Knight and Co. Ludgate Street, 1839 - 1841. First edition of this translation, bound from parts, with engraved and printed general titles in each vol. Green morocco richly gilt, covers with arabesque vines and flowers around central panel, spines in six compartments, t.e.g., silk endpapers, by Zaehnsdorf, 1897; original blue print - ed wrappers from parts bound in at rear; red morocco bookla - bel and paper library label of Bernie Hutner in each vol. Re- hinged, some rubbing to extremities, chip to tail of vol. III. $1,500 The first English translation of the Nights directly from the Arabic (previous translators had worked from Galland’s French translation). “It reigned as the leading English translation of the Nights for decades, and its copious notes are stimulating micro-essays of enduring value” (ODNB).
. ARIOSTO, Ludovico . The Orlando Furioso Translated into English Verse from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto with Notes by William Stewart Rose . 4 vols. 8vo, London: John Murray Albemarle Street, 1823-31. First edition by Rose. Full polished tan con - temporary mottled calf, gilt spines, red and black morocco spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers. Fine. Lowndes p. 64. $900
. (ARNE, Thomas) [Miller, James] and Thomas ARNE . An Hospital for Fools. A Dramatic Fable. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty’s Servants. To which is added the Songs. with their Basses and Symphonies, and Transposed for the Flute. The Musick by Mr. Arne. Sung by Mrs. Clive . [10], [5]-28, [8]pp. Several pages with printed music. 8vo, London: printed for J. Watts at the Printing - Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln’s-Inn Fields, 1739. First edition; without half-title. 19th-century speckled calf, leather spine label, a.e.g. Joints slightly rubbed. ESTCT36691. $750 First performed on November 15, 1739 at Drury Lane, where Arne was house
18th- & 19th-C. Literature composer. A relatively early operetta by Arne (1710-1788), who is often cred - ited with the revival of the English opera, influenced Handel, and will for - ever be remembered as the composer of “Rule, Britannia.”
. ASCHAM, Roger . The Scholemaster, shewing a Plain and Perfect Way of Teaching the Learned languages . xxii, 274, [16, ads] pp. 8vo, London: W. Innys at West End of St. Paul’s; and S. Birt, n Ave Mary lane, 1743. Now revised a second time, and much improved by James Upton. Contemporary calf, covers detached, new endpapers. Printing and The Mind of Man (first edition) 90. $500 “In 1553 he began the work which has made him famous, the Scholemaster. The book was occasioned by a debate at dinner with Sir William Cecil and others on the pros and cons of flogging in schools, with Ascham the protag - onist of the anti-floggers … It is not for use in schools.. nor was it really an original or revolutionary work, for the famous plea for gentle persuasion, as opposed to flogging, had been anticipated at Winchester, and had already found support in England. The expression of this humane spirit, however, and the lively defense of the vernacular in the Scholemaster … and perhaps the touching description of Lady Jane Gray reading the Phaedo while every - one else was out hunting … have made it famous” (PMM). “A book that will be always useful, and is everlastingly esteemed … ” (Lowndes I, p 87).
. BARROWCLIFFE, A.J. [ pseudonym of Albert Mott] . Amberhill . [4], 328; [4], 277, [3] pp. + 24 pp publisher’s cata - logue dated March 1856. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Smith, Elder, 1856. First edition. Original blind-stamped green cloth. Heads chipped, with loss; a few gatherings slightly darkened (but see Sadleir’s comments below). Sadleir 172; not in Wolff; OCLC 35574056 (2 copies). $500 The first of three novels by this author, and quite rare. “It is a curious fact that this novel is printed (in London) partly on white, partly on dusky cream paper, the latter of poor quality … ” (Sadleir).
. _____ . Trust for Trust . Engraved frontispiece. [4], 280; [4], 261, [1]; [2], 262 +2 pp ads. Thick 8vo, London: Smith, Elder, 1859. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth (possibly remainder binding), covers blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt with title, author , and “ ⁄ -
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⁄ ⁄ .” Hinges cracked, shaken, text, however, clean and crisp. Not in Sadleir; Wolff 344 (rebound). $500 The second of three novels by this author — and the only one which eluded Sadleir.
’ , . BEERBOHM, Max . The Works of Max Beerbohm. With a Bibliography by John Lane . [10], 3-178, [2], [16, ads] pp. 12mo, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. First English edition (preceded by the American). Red cloth , with paper label, extra labels in rear, new endpapers. Spine slightly faded, label a bit chafed. Gallatin and Oliver 1b. $500 Inscribed on the flyleaf: “Presented by John Lane “to H.H. Robinson June 8/96” Hunter H. Robinson, who co-authored The Life of Robert Coates (1891), is mentioned by Beerbohm on p. 134 in his delicious essay on the foppish actor, “Poor Romeo.”
. [BRADDON, Mary Elizabeth] . Charlotte’s Inheritance. A Novel . iv, 336 pp. 8vol, London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, n.d. Stereotyped edition. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, edges red. Very good. This edition is not in Wolff nor Sadleir. $650
. BRYANT, William Cullen . Poems . 44 pp. 8vo, Cambridge: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821. First edi - tion of author’s first published book. Original brown printed wrappers, some foxing and mild staining at end, laid in half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. BAL 1587; American Imprints 4861. $2,000 “Bryant’s manuscript was edited anonymously for publication by [Richard Henry] Dana, [Sr.] and by E.T. Channing” (BAL p. 332). Among the eight poems which make their first collected appearances here are two of Bryant’s most famous, “Thanatopsis” (here first printed in its substantially revised form from its first publication in the North American Review in 1817,
18th- & 19th-C. Literature with the addition of 31 lines) and “To a Water Fowl.” 750 copies were printed, according to Blanck. Of these, 350 were bound for 5¢ each and 200 were bound at 3¢ each. The assumption is that the 200 were bound in wrappers. Inscribed on front cover “J.C. Brigham to the Columbia — Semy.”
. (BURTON, Sir Richard) Letchford, Albert . A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations for Captain R.F. Burton’s “Arabian Nights” (Including a Portrait of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton) … Price to Subscribers. Twenty Six Guineas . 70 illustrations and a portrait. xii pages of text. Folio, London: Choice Deluxe edition. One of 250 copies. Proof before letters. Original blue cloth port - folio with printed label, with ties. Some foxing. $3,000
’ , . BURTON, Sir Richard , translator A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [With:] Supplemental Nights . [xxviii], 362; [viii], 343; viii, 356; [x], 308; [xii], 406; viii, 303; viii, 382; [viii], 359; viii, 359; [viii], 532; [xii], 370; [x], 392; xvi, 661; [xvi], 381; [xviii], 515; viii, [xiv], 500 pp. 16 vols. Tall 8vo (253 x 158 mm.), Benares [i.e.: London]: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885- 1888. First edition, including the Supplemental Nights, the rare unexpurgated edition. Volumes 3 & 4 with the copyright notice changed from Ellis Spear to Philip Justice. Original black cloth (chosen by Burton as representing the color of the Abbaside banners and dress) with gilt or silver decorations. First ten volumes unusually bright (vol. 4 of the Nights with small professional repair to spine); silver stamping to spines of Supplemental Nights dull as usual (vols. 3 and 4 rebacked pre - serving original spine). A very good set, generally fresh condi - tion. Penzer 114-116; Casada 74; Spink 73. $7,500 First edition of Burton’s translation, which has been variously assailed since its publication by prudes and pettifoggers and has weathered the storms of criticism. It remains the only translation of the complete Nights , and Burton’s magnum opus contributed to the twentieth-century recognition of the Nights as one of the world’s literary masterpieces.
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. CADDELL, Cecilia Mary . Home & The Homeless. A Novel … in Three Volumes . 359, [1]; 340; 333, [3] pp., including final blank. Thick 8vo, London: T. Cautley Newby, Publisher, 30, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, 1858. First edition. Original blue pebbled cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine let - tered in gilt. Upper edge of binding and text block bowed downwards, front free endpaper missing, owner’s ticket affixed to lower margin of title-page. Not in Sadleir or Wolff; OCLC 55575354 (2 copies). $750 Stephen Brown in Ireland in Fiction (1919), calls Caddell, of Harbourstown, County Meath, a “daughter of an ‘old’ Catholic family which retained estates,” and whose writings illustrate Catholic piety and history. Allibone, Supplement lists 9 titles, beginning with her History of the Missions in Japan and Paraguay (1856), and Brown adds a few others; but no source seems to be aware of this very rare triple decker. OCLC locates two copies (Cambridge University and the Universty of Illinois).
. CASTLEHAVEN, James Touchet, Earl. The Earl of Castlehaven’s Review; Or, His Memoirs of His Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars. with Lord Anglesey’s Letter Containing Observations and Reflexions Thereon Or His Memoirs of His Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars : with Lord Anglesey’s Letter, Containing Observations . Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 10, Back-lane. xv, [i], 143, [1], 41, [3] pp. Paper: watermarked: CMD 1814. 8vo (9 ⅛ x 6 ½ inches), Dublin: Printed for George Mullens, Temple-Bar, 1815. Large paper copy. “The present very limited impression of Lord Castlehaven’s Memoirs is taken from the edition of 1684.” Green morocco, with gilt- three leaf clover cornerpieces and acorn and three-leaf clover vine outer border, interior blind-stamped arabesque geometric panel, gilt spine, pink silk doublures, gilt dentelles, a.e.g., signed on fore-edge, “Bound by Geo. Mullen, Dublin.” Bookplate of A.H. Smith Barry. In custom green half-moroc - co slipcase and chemise. $4,500
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. CENTLIVRE, [Susannah] . The Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre. In Three Volumes … With a New Account of her Life . Engraved portrait by J. Taylor after D. Fermin. 3 vols. 12mo, London: Printed for J. Knapton, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, 1761; 1760; 1760. First collected edition. Bound in full 19th- c. polished mottled brown calf, gilt spines, edges yellow, by Tout. Bindings a bit dry, joints slighty rubbed but sound. New CBEL II 781. $850 First edition of the collected plays of the actress and playwright Susanna Centlivre (1669-1723), whose “plays remained firmly in the repertory for 150 years” (ODNB), for reasons quickly summarized by Hazlitt: “Her plays have a provoking spirit and volatile salt in them, which still pre - serves them from decay … their interest depends chiefly on the intricate involution and artful denouement of the plot, which has a strong tincture of mischief in it, and the wit is seasoned by the archness of the humour and sly allusion to the most delicate points” (Hazlitt, 314). The plays gathered here are: v. 1. Perjur’d Husband. Beaux’s Duel. Gamester. Basset Table. Love at a Venture. Stolen Heiress . v. 2. Love’s Contrivance. Busy Body. Marplot in Lisbon. Platonic Lady. Perplexed Lovers . Cruel Gift . v. 3. The Wonder. The Man Bewitch’d. Gotham Election. Wife Well Managed. Bickerstaff’s Burial. Bold Stroke for a Wife. Artifice .
. CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René, Viscount de. The Natchez; an Indian Tale … xl, 299, [1]; [ii], 335, [1, ad]; [ii], 412 pp. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition in English. Original boards, printed paper spine labels, unopened. Boards scuffed and slightly stained; very good. $1,250
’ . CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of. Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with several other pieces on various Subjects . Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the
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Originals now in her Possession . Frontispiece Portrait in volume one. [4], vii, [1, blank], 568; [4], 606, [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. 2 vols. 4to (287 x 225 mm.), London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. First edition, with half-titles in each volume. Gulick’s state B with the third item in the list of errata (II,607) corrected to “qui auroit” from “qui uroit.” Contemporary full calf. Rebacked with orignal gilt spines laid-down, red leather title-pieces, marbled endpapers, joints cracked or starting. Bookplate of Henry Fowler Broadwood. In half calf slipcase and chemises. Rothschild 596; Gulick 2. $2,000
. CLEMENS, Samuel L . Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) … by Mark Twain . Illustrations by E. W. Kemble. xvi, 438, [439, printer’s device (verso blank)] pp., 32 pp. ads dated January 1885. 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First edition, preceding the American edition. Publisher’s red cloth stamped in black, titled in gilt. Some rub - bing to extremities, minor soiling, joints tender. Very good copy in custom cloth slipcase. BAL 3414 (state A, sewn gath - erings). $2,000 Published several months in advance of the New York edition, which appeared in March 1885. The present copy bears ads dated January 1885 (BAL records a date of October 1884) Attractive copy of this great American clas - sic.
. CODRINGTON, Robert . The Life and Death, of the illus - trious Robert Earle of Essex, &c. Containing at large the wars he man - aged, and the Commands he had in Holland, the Palatinate, and in England. Together with some wonderfull observations both of himselfe, and his Predecessors, and many more remarkable Passages from his Infancie, unto the day of his Death . Engraved frontispiece. [4], 50 pp. 4to, London: printed by F. Leach, for L. Chapman, 1646. First edition. Nineteenth-century half red morocco, engrav - ing and text interleaved with blanks. Frontispiece cut a bit close, no loss. Bookplates of Henry Cunliffe, H. P. Kraus. Clean, complete copy. Wing C4877. $750
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. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor . Autograph Manuscript Poem, “A naughty Graff? … ” signed “S.T. Coleridge, Esqre, Grove Highgate” in the poem, and dated 19 April 1832. [With a copy of:] The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Vale Press, 189 9. Pen and ink on laid paper. 12 lines (8 of verse). 8vo, Highgate, London: 19 April 1832. Autograph leaf with old fold. Fine. Book bound in terra cotta morocco gilt. Front board detached. Provenance: Louis I. Haber (sale, Anderson Galleries, December 1909, lot 422); William Forbes Morgan (uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt), his bibliophile bookplate; Herbert Carlebach (morocco ex-libris). $7,500 A whimsical poem on the occasion of the “Confab. between the Poet and Harriet, the House-maid, who had brought up a Message that ‘A Lady, below, Sir! would be much obliged to You for a Nautigraft.’” The poem, eight lines in iambic pentameter, rhyming , follows beneath, and concludes, “Author of Works, whereof, tho’ not in Dutch / The Public lit - tle knows, the Publisher too much.” The last two lines are recorded as the conclusion of an undated quatrain verse scrap “written in an album” ( Poetical Works , 1836, II:145; 1912 ed.: II:972); and as a four-line epigram “from Mr. Upcott’s MSS.,” dated Grove, Highgate, 28 Sept. 1827, and published in the Court Journal (1835); and in Coleridge’s Notebooks for 24 May 1828 (with “Tomes” in place of “Works”). The poem in the present manuscript is unpublished and has been in private hands for the past century. A fine Coleridge autograph with distinguished provenance. (See illustration, p. 76)
. [COOPER, James Fenimore] . The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. A Tale. By the Author of “The Last of the Mohicans” … 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. First edition. Purple muslin, printed paper labels on spine. Spines faded to brown, labels somewhat scuffed, each with a small chip in margins, but legible, covers with a little spotting and minor wear. Owner signature in light pencil on endpapers. Front hinge of vol. I broken (one cord holding), else a very good copy in the publisher’s binding. Custom red morocco backed slipcase and cloth wrapper. BAL 3895; Spiller and Blackburn 32; Wright I 601. $1,750
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The last of Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales” and Natty Bumpo in the American wilderness, although it is the first in terms of sequence — Natty Bumpo is here depicted as a young man. An unsophisticated copy of this classic of American fiction.
. COOPER, James Fenimore . Eve Effingham; or, Home. [Volume II only]. 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First English edition (published in Philadelphia as “Home as Found by the Author of Homeward Bound”). Blue cloth-backed boards. Later ink label on spine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “Mrs Fenimore Cooper from the Author.”. BAL 3885. $1,000
, . _____ . Ned Myers; or, A Life before the Mast. Edited by … [i, title], [ii, copyright page], 9-232 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843. First American edition, marked for typesetting of re-issue as vol. 33 of Mohawk edition of Cooper’s works (1900). Later half chestnut morocco and mar - bled boards. Owner signature of Cooper descendant G. Pomeroy Keese on title page. Title page marked, with some traces of wear, verso backed with tissue, some soiling throu - ughout. Spiller and Blackburn pp. 128, 173; BAL 3908; Sabin 16484. $750 Cooper’s classic novel of the sea, with family provenance: the signature of George Pomeroy Keese (1828-1910), a great-nephew of the author. Keese, grandson of Cooper’s sister Ann, was a historian of Cooperstown and wrote a new preface for the 1900 reprint of Ned Myers in the Mohawk edi - tion, set from the present copy (thus explaining the omission of the original preface). It was subsequently rebound for another Cooper descendant in whose library it remained until now.
. _____ . The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea . [1]-3, iv, 13-240; [1]-233 pp. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. First American edition, preceded by the London edition of the same year. First issue, BAL state 2. Original purple
18th- & 19th-C. Literature muslin, printed paper spine labels. Contemporary gift inscrip - tion “S.B.C. Rogers from her father E. Cowen” in each vol - ume. Moderate wear, spine labels mostly perished, front inner hinge of vol. II open at title page. Good plus. Custom moroc - co backed slipcase and chemise. Spiller and blackburn p. 107; Wright I 656; BAL 3892. $1,000
. _____ . The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale . Half titles present. 8vo, New York: Charles Wiley, 1823. First edition, BAL second printing of volume I (J. Seymour, Printer); vol. II in variant state (folio 329 at left, no Note at <332>). Contemporary tree calf, red spine labels. Some browning, joints rubbed, front board of vol. II detached. Red half morocco slipcase and chemise. BAL 3829; Sabin 16502; Spiller and Blackburn pp. 27-8. $1,000
. CORTES, José Domingo . Parnaso Peruano . [2] ff., iii, [iv, blank], 814 pp. 8vo, Valparaiso: Imprenta Albion de Cox y Taylor, 1871. First edition. Contemporary blue morocco and marbled boards, binder’s ticket of Juan Francisco Aries, Santiago. Edges rubbed. Contemporary owner inscription. Very good. $500 Anthology of nineteenth-century Peruvian poetry, with biographical notices. Uncommon.
. (CRUIKSHANK, George) Reach, Angus B[ethune] . Clement Lorimer; Or, The Book with the Iron Clasps . With 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank. [i]-vi, [vi-viii], 280 pp. 12mo, London: David Bogue, 1849. First edition. Original cream fine-grained cloth, spine tooled in gilt, upper boards with borders tooled in blind. Very good, spine sunned with some rubbing at head and tail. Block, p. 194; Cohn 687; Hubin, p. 339; Sadleir 1995; Wolff 5698. $850
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A quick moving tale of poisons, murders and a vendetta stretching across the centuries. A good read. Reach’s experience as a crime reporter on the “Morning Chronicle” is evident in his characters of Mr. Spiffler, Mr. Trotter, Mr. Sharpe and Mr. O’Keene, investigative reporters for “The Flail.” The first full-length detective novel in England. Uncommon in the original cloth, here in a variant to those described by Sadleir or Wolff (without the gilt vignette of an urn on upper cover).
. DANTE ALIGHIERI . The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. Translated by The Rev.Henry Francis Cary, A.M. With the Life of Dante, additional notes, and an index . 3 vols. 8vo, London: Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1819. Second edition, cor - rected. Bound in full morocco by Chambolle-Duru, a.e.g. Bookplate of Lowell M. Palmer. Fine. $2,500 First published in 1814, Cary’s acclaimed translation was critical to the redis - covery of Dante’s masterpiece among the British of the Romantic era. Not only was it praised by Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth and Coleridge, but it became the popular standard translation throughout the 19th century. This is a particularly beautiful copy of the second edition, incorporating Cary’s revi - sions, in an elegant binding by Chambolle-Duru.
. [DAVISON, Francis] . Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody. Edited by A. H. Bullen . lxxxvii, 139; ix, 207 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: George Bell, 1891. No. 38 of 250 large paper copies. Contemporary full brown morocco, t.e.g. by Bickers & Son. Keynes p. 63. $500 Finely bound copy of this classic compendium of early seventeenth-centu - ry English verse. Bullen observes, “In some respects ‘Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody’ is the most valuable of our old anthologies … it was in great part compiled from unpub - lished writings.”
. DEFOE, Daniel . A New Voyage round the World, by a Course never sailed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders . Illustrated with 4 engravings (frontispiece map of the globe and three plates). Pp. [2], [1]-208; [1]-205, [206, blank]. 8vo, London: A. Bettesworth … and W. Mears, 1725 [for 1724]. First edition. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with
18th- & 19th-C. Literature black morocco label, edges stained red. Bookplate. Contemporary owner signature on title. Joints starting, hinges sound. Very good. Moore 469; Furbank & Owens 221; Peter Earle, The World of Defoe , 1976, pp. 54-5; Esdaile, p. 209; Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Fiction , pp. 241-2; Sabin 19291. $2,000 Fine imaginary voyage by the author of Robinson Crusoe .
. DICKENS, Charles . Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles Dickens”) to Thomas Noon Talfourd. 1 ½ pp on a single folded sheet. Devonshire Terrace: March 18, 1851. Old folds, a few small marginal stains, but very good. $2,500 Dickens writes to his close friend, Thomas Noon Talfourd, to whom he dedicated his first novel, Pickwick Papers : “… Will you kindly read the enclosed letter, which comes from the very best man in America — the Greek Professor at their Cambridge University — and write me a word or two in reply? My address is Knotsford Lodge, Great Malvern — for Mrs Dickens is there for her health, and I am with her, except for one day in the week. “As I remember — but not distinctly — this same notorious gentleman gave someone a letter of introduction to me sometime since. To whom I plainly said that I knew no such person. In the same dim manner I remember the same thing happening with Carlyle …” The “Professor of Greek at their Cambridge University” to whom Dickens refers is most probably Cornelius Felton, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1834 to 1860, and thereafter, President of Harvard until his death in 1862. Dickens met Felton during his tour of America, and the two subse - quently kept up a warm correspondence. Dickens referred to Felton in American Notes as “the heartiest of Greek professors.”
: . DICKENS, Charles. David Copperfield. A Reading. In Five Chapters. Pp. [1, title], [2, Clowes imprint], [3]-104 (text, with Clowes imprint at foot of last page). 8vo (222 x 148 mm), [London]: Privately Printed [by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street], n.d., [ca. 1866]. ONE OF TWO KNOWN COPIES of Dickens’ private edition, the present copy in earliest state and printed on thin proofing paper. Bound in twentieth-century red morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Henderson & Bisset. With a few repairs to the title page at margins and along gutter, a few paper flaws. Fine. Provenance: Herman LeRoy James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101
Edgar (his sale, 19 April 1944, $875); with leather bookplate of great Lebanese-American collector Francis Kettaneh; Kenyon Starling; Wm. Self. $50,000 Dickens’ public readings were among the legendary performances of the middle nineteenth century. “Dickens poured all his resources of his art and personality into these readings (his favourite always remained the adapta - tion from David Copperfield)” (Ackroyd, p. 902). He condensed the novel himself and selected passages relating to Dora Spenlow, whom he mod - elled upon Maria Beadnell, the love of his youth. The present copy, from the library of distinguished Dickensian Herman LeRoy Edgar, is one of two known copies of the private printing ordered by Dickens. Dickens’ own extensively marked and rewritten copy, from the library of Cortlandt F. Bishop (lot 566, $4100 in 1938), is now in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. The title page is identical in both copies, with the subheadings “A Reading” and “In Five Chapters” on separate lines. The present copy is untrimmed; the text begins at page [3], “Chapter the First.”, and bears pencil correc - tions in the margins of page 11, one correcting the spelling of the word “his” and the other noting an extra space within the word “am” (both are corrected in the Dickens copy at the Berg). Examination of the copy at the Berg reveals that it is printed on thicker wove paper stock, and that the sheets were trimmed by the binder; it contains an additional “Introduction” of twenty pages, numbered [i]-xx. The opening of this section is clearly derived from, and in fact partly printed from, the setting of type of the original Chapter the First, at pp. [3]-5, where large portions of text used in the “Introduction” are struck through. On p. [i] Dickens has writ - ten “in all, six chapters” and has corrected the chapter numbering through - out, so that the heading in type on page [3], “Chapter the First.” is corrected by hand to Chapter “II”. The present copy contains the earliest setting of Dickens’ selection from David Copperfield . In the Ticknor & Fields authorized edition of the Readings, published in the autumn of 1867 (though dated 1868), David Copperfield follows Dickens’ revised structure in six chapters. Unique in this state, and with distinguished provenance.
. _____. Household Words (19 volumes ), with a last volume Selection from Household Words (last issue dated May, 28, 1859 ). In all, 20 vols. 8vo, New York: 1850-1859. American edition. Original green blind-stamped cloth. One volume slightly split, rest very fresh. Bookplate of St. Paul’s School, ex dono plate of Mr. Francis F. Randolph, small unobstrusive blind stamp on title pages. $3,000 Household Words was considerably more popular in England than America
18th- & 19th-C. Literature and its publishing history in America is “almost absolutely dark, as is the whole subject of periodical printing and ‘arrangements’ … The 1850’s were years of copyright agitation in America, and certainly no legally protective arrangements were possible to the English publishers before the journal was discontinued in 1859. And it is not surprising that the course of Household Words was not so brilliant in America as was that of its successor All the Year Round … It was partially a local work and not quite so interesting to an American as to an English reader; it had changed publishers too often; there was no legitimate arrangement between the English proprietors and the American publishers; it was sold at too high a price; it had been published by inexperienced people and therefore had not received proper publicity and promotion; and its lack of pictorial illustration made it unpopular with the masses” (Buckler, William E., “ Household Words in America,” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , vol. 45, pp. 160-66).
. _____. The Mystery of Edwin Drood . Engraved portrait fron - tispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 13 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes. [viii], 190, [2] pp + 32 pp. publisher’s cat - alogue dated Aug., 31, 1870. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt and black, front cover with sawtooth border (first binding). Spine tips very slightly rubbed; slight occasional foxing, other - wise very attractive copy. Smith 16; Podeschi, Gimbel Collection A155. $1,000 Dickens’ final, unfinished novel, interrupted by his death on the 9th of June, 1870.
. DICKENS, Charles . Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every- Day Life and Every-Day People. Being a Continuation of “Watkins Tottle, and other sketches.” Pp. [i-iii], iv-v, [vi-vii], viii, [9], 10-203, [204]. 8vo, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837. First American edition of the Second Series, published only two months after the London edition. Original quarter rose muslin and boards., printed spine label. Spine label rubbed (text mostly faded), else a fine, fresh copy as issued. Bookplates of G. A. James, K. Starling, W. Self. Custom half morocco box. Podeschi, Gimbel collection, A9. $1,750
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. _____. A Tale of Two Cities . In the original 8/7 parts. 16 plates by H.K. Browne (“Phiz”). 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition in parts, first issue, with page 213 misnumbered “113”. Original printed blue wrappers, some minor repair to spines and slight soiling to wrappers, internal - ly quite clean, in custom pull-off box, lacking top. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 333-342. $7,500 An excellent set of this rare and desirable Dickens item, with the following variations from Hatton & Cleaver: Part 3 — rear wrapper corresponds to wrapper for Part 1; Part 5 — without the inserted yellow slip following the plates ; Part 6 — 4pp. ad for “Thomas de law Rue” is absent, although it is present in the rear of Part 7/8; Part 7/8 — lacks the ‘Tales of Two Cities Advertiser” at front, and the rare “Cornhill Magazine” ad in rear. . Along with Sketches by Boz , and Pickwick Papers , Dickens’ classic tale of the French Revolution is one of the most difficult of Dickens’ novels to find in parts.
. DICKENS, Charles & Charles DICKENS, Jr., edi - tors. All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens, With which is incorporated Household Words. New Series Volume 1-27, Volume 1 of the Third Series (1889) . 28 vols. Royal 8vo (9 ½ x 6 ⅛ inches), London: Published at 26 Wellington Street, Strand, December 5, 1868-1881 & June 25, 1889. First editions. Bound in contemporary three quarter green calf, gilt spine and leather title labels, (one missing) and marbled boards and edges. About fine. $1,750 Charles Dickens owned All The Year Round with W.H. Wills, his former assis - tant at Household Words and was its editor until his death in 1870. His son, Charles Dickens Jr., inherited his father’s 75 percent of the business and, in January 1871, bought out Wills’s share, following the latter’s understand - able objection to Charles’ decision to give himself both the editor’s and sub-editor’s salary. The journal continued under Charles Dickens Jr.’s edi - torship until 1888 and ceased in 1895. It published three of Anthony Trollope’s best late works: Two are found here - in: Is He Popenjoy? (starting in Number 463, Oct. 13, 1877-no. 502, Saturday 13, 1878, complete), The Duke’s Children (starting no. 566, Saturday October 4, 1879-no. 608, Saturday July 24, 1880, complete).
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. (DICKENSIANA) [Morford, Henry] . John Jasper’s Secret: Being a narrative of certain events following and explaining “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” With 20 illustrations. [iv], 252 pp. 8vo, New York: Publishing Offices [Wyman and Sons, Printers], 1872. First edition, volume issue. Original dark green sand-grained cloth. Some rubbing, slightly shaken. Very good. Sadleir 705a; not in Wolff. $500
. (DICKENSIANA) Nicholson, Renton . Dombey and Daughter: A Moral Fiction . With 12 woodcut illustrations. [2], 94 pp. 8vo, London: Thomas Farris, [1847]. Bound from the original 12 illustrated parts. Contemporary half dark blue calf, marbled boards. Some rubbing. Very good. Sadleir 1827; Wolff 5101; Gimbel H-338; Kitton 540; Miller, p. 249; NCBEL 3:798. $750
. DICKINSON, Emily . Letters … Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd . Engraved frontispiece portrait, 2 facsimile letters; [iv], xii, 228 pp., . Small 8vo, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. First edition. Original green buckram, covers and spines stamped in gilt with Indian pipes motif (BAL’s vari - ant 1), spine darkened with some loss of gilt, light shelfwear; very good. BAL 4660; Meyerson A3.1.a (notes only three copies inscribed by Todd). Provenance: A.J. Lyman (his own - ership inscription to flyleaf, “A.J. Lyman / Brooklyn New York,” and gift inscription). $15,000 Volume I to Mabel Loomis Todd’s confidant and perhaps the first independent reader of the proofs of the Letters , Albert Josiah Lyman: “To Dr. Lyman / from /Mabel Loomis Todd / Amherst, / 17 Dec 1894.” Todd met Lyman, minister of the South Congregational Church of Brooklyn, in February of 1894 while on a lecture tour. In a letter, dated 13 February 1894, to her ailing lover Austin Dickinson, Todd mentions with delight that “I have had an independent literary judgement on the proof of the Letters this morning which fills me with joy.” The favorable judge - ment was pronounced by Lyman, who has been described as “Handsome, James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 sympathetic, liberal in his views, and a clergyman of great pastoral power …” (Longsworth, Austin and Mabel , NY, 1984, p. 380n). After Austin Dickinson’s death, “Dr. Lyman was the one [Todd] confided in and from whom she received remarkable and unorthodox consolation” ( ibid ). In January, 1894, Todd sent proofs of the Letters to every correspondent who allowed letters from Dickinson to be published (Meyerson, p. 34), and it is likely that Lyman was the first independent critic of the work. No one played a more crucial part in the early acceptance of Dickinson as a major American poet than Mabel Loomis Todd. She was the first posthu - mous steward of Dickinson’s work, seeing the poems and letters into print for the first time. Meyerson notes only three copies of the Letters inscribed by Todd, all dated December, 1894. No significant inscribed copies of the Letters have appeared at auction in the last 30 years.
’ , . [ DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] . Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland … [and] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll . Illustrated by John Tenniel. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932; 1935. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies, both volumes out-of-series, marked “ ” and with “Presentation Copy / Out- of-Series” blind stamp, both volumes signed by Alice Hargreaves ( the Alice), the first also signed by Frederic Warde, typographer and designer of the binding. Full morocco, ornately gilt, a.e.g. Spine ends rubbed, Looking-Glass with chips from spine ends and crack along rear joint, in original cloth slipcases. Provenance: George Macy estate. $4,500 A fine pair of limited editions, signed by the original Alice.
: . _____ . Autograph Letter, signed (“C.L. Dodgson”), to the mother of his child-friend, Gladys Baly (“Dear Mrs Baly”), proposing to give her a copy of Little Thumb . One page, on sin - gle folded sheet of blank stationery. 12mo, Eastbourne: 7 August, 1893. Fine. Not in Cohen, The Letters of Lewis Carroll . $4,000 Dodgson had met Mrs. Bayly and her little daughter Gladys [b. 1884]
18th- & 19th-C. Literature when they were lodgers in Eastbourne in October, 1891. Gladys had a pen - chant for drawing — especially horses; Dodgson encouraged her with gifts of books with pictures, and wrote her a charming, slightly teasing, two- stanza poem about her equine art (v. Cohen, pp. 866-67). In this unpublished letter to Gladys’s mother, Dodgson writes: “… Does Gladys possess ‘Little Thumb’ [by Charles Perrault]? If not, let me give it her. The pictures (of children) are lovely, & would be good for her to copy — they differ from ‘Fairies’ in being all draped [underlined]. So she will have both varieties to draw from. Love to her …” Years later, Gladys wrote an account of her friendship with Dodgson (see Cohen, pp. 866-67): “… Happy engrossing hours were those I spent with Mr. Dodgson, when he showed me tricks and puzzles and showed me how to make a paper pistol that would go off with a bang … I quite clearly recollect him taking Through the Looking-Glass out of a box of new books and giving it to me with his name written inside. He wrote to me many times after I left Eastbourne, although I never saw him again. In return I sent him drawings of ships and horses which, at that time, I was fond of making. …” Only one let - ter to Glady herself has survived; this is the only known surviving letter to her mother, and is apparently unpublished.
. _____ . The Game of Logic. By Lewis Carroll . Small 8vo, London: Macmillan, 1887. Second (First Published) Edition. Original red cloth, gilt, back inner hinge just splitting, fron - tispiece and title foxed from tissue guard, else fine. COMPLETE WITH THE LETTERED ENVELOPE DATED 1886 CONTAINING THE CARD DIAGRAM and five of the set of nine counters (two gray and three red). Nice copy. Williams 54; Williams and Madan, Lewis Carroll Handbook p. 138 (no. 196/170). $750 An uncommon item. There was a previous edition printed by an Oxford printer which 'seems to have failed to reach Dodgson's standard, and was apparently condemmed by him before public issue" (Handbook, p.131).
. DRYDEN, John . The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas … Now first Collected together, and Corrected from the Originals . Engraved portrait frontispiece by Edelinck after Keller, and extra-illus - trated with later full-page frontispiece for the second volume. [6], 618; 558 pp. 2 vols. Folio (336 x 196 mm.), London: Tonson, Thomas Bennet and Richard Wellington, 1701. First folio edition. Bound in modern half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Brief margin - James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 al repairs to both title-pages, folding portrait backed, first few leaves in first volume partially disbound, pp. 119/120 with tear from corner, some stray marks and minor toning throughout, upper cover to first volume mostly detached, upper joint to second volume with flaking, corners rubbed, head and tail of spine of both volumes rubbed, bookplates of Julius Joleson and Paul Buchet. MacDonald 107 a i. $1,250 Dryden’s plays were first collected as early as 1682 and many times subse - quently, though these early editions were simply quarto editions of his plays bound together with a new general title, and erratic in terms of quality and completeness. This noble 1701 Tonson folio is not only the the first in this for - mat, but the first to aim at comprehensiveness and accuracy.
. [EVANS, The Reverend Albert Eubule] . Prince Maskiloff: A Romance of Modern Oxford. By Roy Tellett . [iv], 294 pp., + 32 pp. publisher’s catalog dated September, 1888, as in Wolff. 8vo, London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. First edition. Bright red cloth, stamped in black and gilt, front patterned flyleaf excised, else near fine. Wolff 2103; OCLC locates one copy (HRC). $600
’ --, . FARJEON, Benjamin Leopold . The House of White Shadows. A Novel. [with:] Great Porter Square: A Mystery Seventh edi - tion. [with:] In a Silver Sea. New edition. [with:] The Mystery of M. Felix. A Novel. [with:] The Nine of Hearts. [with] Miser Farebrother. A Novel. New edition. [With:] The Sacred Nugget. An Australian Story. Sixth edition. [with:] A Strange Enchantment . 8 vols. 8vo, London: Ward and Downey, later & Ward, Lock & Co, vd. Later edi - tions. Bound in uniform contemporary red polished calf and pebbled boards, marbled edges. Very good. $1,750 Each volume , with some variation, “To Joe W. Jefferson [or, ‘Josie’] / With the author’s love / Ben. L. Farjeon.”
Farjeon married Margaret Jane Jefferson, daughter of Joe Jefferson III, one of the greatest American actors of the 19th century and the archetypal Rip Van Winkle.
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. FORRESTER, Andrew , Jun. The Revelations of a Private Detective. [Bound with:] The Streets of London founded upon Dion Boucicault’s Popular Drama now performing at the Princess’s Theatre . 320; [iii]-vi, 342 pp. 12mo, London: Ward and Lock, 158 Fleet Street; David Bryce, 44, Paternoster Row, 1863; n.d. [1864]. First editions. Contemporary half purple calf and marbled boards, edges marbled. Spine toned, some rubbing. Very good. First title: Sadleir 3529, Hubin p. 153; Second title: not in BL; only 1 copy in OCLC (UCLA). $1,000 Forrester’s Revelations of a Private Detective was originally issued in yellow- backed pictorial boards (Sadleir illustrates the front cover). An early and popular work, the title was re-issued in 1868. The Streets of Londo n is an anonymous novelization of a popular play, which the playwright, actor, and theatrical entrepreneur Dion Boucicault opened at the Princess’s Theatre on 1 August 1864. “It was his part in the collaborative composition of The Poor of New York , which opened at Wallack’s to ecstatic notices on 8 December 1857, that alerted Boucicault not only to the capital to be made out of vividly staged sensation scenes in melodrama, but also to the marketability of contemporary events” (ODNB). Back in England in 1863 and facing bankruptcy, Boucicault adapted his New York play to draw large audiences in Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, and finally, London.
. [GALLARDO, Bartolomé José] . Diccionario Crítico- Burlesco; del que se Titula “Diccionario Razanado Manual para Inteligencia de Ciertos Escritores que por Equivocación han Nacido en España.” . xvi, 138 pp. 12mo, Madrid: En la Imprenta de Repullés, 1812. First (?) Madrid edition (first published in Cadiz, 1811). Mottled Spanish calf, rubbed at extremities. $750 From librarian, book thief, staunch republican, anti-cleric, and Spanish Romantic, Bartolomé José Gallardo (1776-1852), this irreverent swipe at ruling taste and power landed the author in jail and eventually precipitat - ed his exile to London. An early edition, probably the first printed in Madrid. “Posiblemente uno de los libros más malditos de la historia de la literatura española” (from preface to 1995 reprint).
. GODWIN, William . Mandeville. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England . xii, 306; [iv], 316; [iv], 367, [1] pp. 3 vols.
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12mo, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Hunt, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition, with half-titles. New boards, ex-lib stamp to verso of title pages, some light foxing throughout; near fine. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1817: 29; Tinker 1084; Wolff 2588; Summers, p. 398. $1,000 Godwin’s Gothic novel, inspired partly by Wieland by Charles Brockdon Brown, and by Joanna Baillie. “Written like all his novels in the first person the book attempts to show how obsession leads to madness. Godwin sought to trace the breakdown of personality from within … [ Mandeville ] is an open - ly avowed exploration of the subconscious mind which gradually overrides and destroys conscious rationality … Mandeville … is an essay in one of the great themes of romanticism” — St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelley s, p. 440.
. GOLDENSKY, E[lias] , photographer. Portrait photo - graph of author Ian Maclaren, three-quarter length seated, in jacket with top hat in hand. Gelatin silver print, triple mount - ed, with C. Houston Goudis blind stamp and Goldensky blind stamp on mount, by Maclaren beneath image (“Yours Faithfully, Ian Maclaren”). Image: 6 ¼ x 4 ½ in, Philadelphia, C. Houstin Goudiss, 1907. Fine, with some ton - ing and edgewear to mount. $500 Maclaren was the pseudonym of Presbyterian pastor and Scotsman John Watson (1850-1907). He earned popular (but decidedly not critical) success in 1894 with Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush — “The combination of sentimen - tality, humour, and religion in a rural Scottish setting proved a successful formula both in Britain and North America and Watson achieved instant fame” (ODNB). Maclaren also enjoyed great popularity in the United States as a lecturer. This photograph, by the prominent Philadelphia portrait photographer Elias Goldensky captures Maclaren during his third and final American lecture tour. Often in ill-health, he would suffer a fatal case of tonsilitis during the tour and die unexpectedly in Iowa.
. GRAY, Thomas . Designs by Mr. R. Bently, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray . Title vignette, 6 engraved plates, 12 engraved head- and tail-pieces and 6 engraved initials in text; 35, [1] ff. + [4] pp. “Explanation of the Prints” [by Horace Walpole] bound at rear. Folio, London: Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall- mall, 1753. First edition, first printing, with “Drawings, &c.”
18th- & 19th-C. Literature on half-title. Contemporary calf gilt, covers with roll-tooled dogtooth and floral border, spine in seven compartments, rich - ly gilt, red morocco lettering piece, marbled edges and endpa - pers, bookplates; joints cracked, extremities worn and rubbed, closed horizontal tear across f. 6 repaired on verso, scattered faint foxing to text, in all a very good plus copy. Northrup 178; Stokes, p. 43; Hazen (w) 42; Rothschild 1061. $1,000 The curious title, which places the emphasis on the “Designs” rather than the “Poems” was done at Gray’s insistence, as he was wary of advertising this miscellaneous volume as a new collection. Most of the poems had appeared first elsewhere, though the delighful illustrations are new, as is “A Long Story.”
. [GRENVILLE-MURRAY, Reginald Temple Strange Clare Nugent] . Prince Roderick. By James Brinsley- Richards [pseud.]. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1889. First edition. Original red cloth, spines gilt, gilt coronet on upper boards. Spines slightly faded, small tear at top of one joint, hinges cracked but firm. Very good. Not in Sadleir or Wolff (but cf. Wolff 5789, note). $1,250 Novel based upon the extraordinary career of the mad king of Bavaria. The author was the Times correspondent in Vienna and Berlin. He “changed his name from Reginald Temple S. C. Nugent Grenville-Murray; he was the son of [novelist] Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, illegitimate son of the 2d Duke of Buckingham and Chandos … Both father and son were obviously infatuated with Dukes” (Wolff). His other books include Seven Years at Eton, 1857-1864 and The Duke’s Marriage .
. HAGGARD, H. Rider . She. A History of Adventure . With 32 illustrations by Maurice Griffenhagen and H.M. Kerr. 8vo, New York: Longman, Green and Co, 1896. “New edition” (first published 1887). Original gray linen decorated in red and lettered in black. Spine a bit darkened, endpapers with residue of cellotape. $850 boldly by Haggard on the flyleaf, in ink: “H. Rider Haggard.”
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. HARRIS, Joel Chandler . Uncle Remus His Songs and Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation . With illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 291, [1] + 8 pp. (ads). 8vo, New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1881. First edition, first issue with “presumptive” for “presumptuous” in the last line, page 9, and with no mention of this book in the ads at the back of the book. Original green pictorial cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt and black. Beautiful copy, in a quarter green morocco slipcase with chemise. BAL 7100; Grolier One Hundred 83. $8,500 Unusually lovely copy of this American classic. “The instant success of this first Uncle Remus book caused the greatest flood of dialect literature the country had known …” (Grolier 100).
.. - . _____ . Uncle Remus: His Songs And His Sayings . 112 illustra - tions by A.B. Frost. xxi, 265 (+6 ads) pp. 8vo, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. New and revised edition, with a new Preface by Harris, and the first edition with A.B. Frost’s illustrations. . , . Full gilt-stamped vellum. Fine copy. BAL 7131. $3,250 One of the wonderful books of American illustration, in its rarest and most desirable state. Frost’s pictures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, Brer Fox, and friends, have stamped themselves so indelibly into the collective uncon - scious of the nation that it is impossible to imagine Harris’s tales without evoking those images. Harris saw this from the beginning, and acknowl - edges it in his “Preface and Dedication to the New edition,” printed here for the first time (and signed by Harris in this large paper issue): “…it would be no mystery at all if this new edition were to be more pop - ular than the old one. Do you know why? Because you have taken it under your hand and made it yours. Because you have breathed the breath of life into these amiable brethren of wood and field. Because, by a stroke here and a touch there, you have conveyed into their quaint antics the illumina - tion of your own inimitable humor, which is as true to our sun and soil as it is to the spirit and essence of the matter set forth.” “The book was mine, but now you have made it yours, sap and pith. Take it, my dear Frost, and believe me, faithfully yours, “[signed in ink] Joel Chandler Harris .”
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. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel . Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Works [spine title ]. Frontispiece and title-page vignettes to some vols. 14 vols. 8vo, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First collect - ed edition, 1868 third printing, of the “Tinted edition”; 280 copies of each volume printed. Publisher’s green blind - stamped cloth, spines gilt with decorative floral motif around spine title (Ticknor format D) Light rubbing to a few vols., con - temporary owner’s signature to brown endpapers, else a fine set. Clark B1. $4,000 A pretty set — the first collected edition of Hawthorne’s works, first issued in October 1864 in an edition of 500 copies; in September, 1865, 288 copies; and here, July, 1868, in 280 copies. It was initially advertised as the “Tinted Edition” from the parchment tint of the laid paper.
. [HAYWOOD, Mrs. Eliza Fowler] . The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania . [1] f. (blank), [vi], 348 pp. 8vo, London: Printed: And Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1727. The second edition, cor - rected (with a 2 pp. key). Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked. Joints slightly rubbed. Fine. McBurney 213a. $500 Satire of the court of the Prince of Wales (later George II) by Eliza Haywood (?1693-1756), author and actress, whose “best-known political writings are her scandalous memoirs” (ODNB).
. HEINE, Heinrich . The Prose and Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland . With plates in two states. 20 vols. 8vo, New York: Croscup and Sterling Company, 1902. Düsseldorf edition, number 15 of 250 copies printed on Holland Paper. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco with gilt stamping and red morocco floral onlays. Some rubbing, especially at heads of spines. $2,250
. HODGSON, William Hope . Captain Gault. Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain . [i]-xi, [xii, blank], 13-303 pp. 8vo, London: Eveleigh Nash Company Limited, 1917. First edition. Red cloth, spine and upper board titled in black.
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Text block somewhat toned. Very good. Hubin, p. 207; Currey, p. 242. $2,250 Collection of crime stories, narrated by the scrupulous smuggler and ladies’ man, Captain Gault. Scarce.
. _____ . The House on the Borderland and other novels . Tall 8vo, Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. First Arkham House edition. Black cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Fine in fine, fresh dust jacket with illustration by Hannes Bok. Currey p. 242; Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy. The 100 Best Books (for 1908 ed.). $1,000 Beautiful copy of the Arkham House edition, which collects The House on the Borderland (1908) as well as The Boats of the ‘Glen Carrig’ (1907), The Ghost Pirates (1909), and The Night Land (1912).
. HOLCROFT, Thomas . The Adventures of Hugh Trevor . 4 vols. 12mo, Dublin: Printed for H. Colbert, 1795-1798. First Irish edition. Contemporary calf. ESTC N29516. $1,250
. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell . Our Hundred Days in Europe . 8vo, Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1887. First American edition following very shortly after the English edition. BAL binding B, priority undeter - mined. Original dark green,cloth, beveled edges, winged urn in gilt on upper cover, in blind on lower, top edge gilt, blue- black coated endpapers, 14 pages publisher’s advertisements at back. Slightest rubbing of cloth, one leaf with minute tear in margin (carelessly opened). Near fine. BAL 9006. $1,000 with the concluding stanzas of The Broken Circle (at p. 172 in the present volume): Cold is the Druid’s altar-stone, Its vanished flame no more returns, But ours no chilling damp has known, Unchanged, unchanging still it burns
So let our broken circle stand A wreck, a remnant, yet the same
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While one last, loving, faithful hand Still lives to feed its altar flame
Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston, March 17th 1888
Tipped in at the back is a leaf in the author’s hand: “J.R. Kendall Esq, 29 Pemberton Square, With the thanks of O. W. Holmes”.
. HOUGHTON, Miss Mary [Arnald] . The Mysteries of the Forest . iv, 284; [ii], 326; [ii], 324 pp. 3 vols. 12mo, London: Printed and Published by T. Gillet, Crown-Court, Fleet-Street, 1810. First edition. Contemporary quarter red morocco and boards. Gift inscription dated 1834 on flyleaf. Boards detached. Small paper flaw at last leaf of vol. I (old adhesion masking a few letters), old paper repair to title of vol. III, else very good. Garside et al 1810:56 ( ; citing publisher as A.K. Newman?, from Summers); Summers, p. 434 (citing pub - lisher as Minerva-Press: A. K. Newman). Not in BL; OCLC 65621839 (one copy: Univ. of Alberta). $4,000 Garside records this as published by Newman on the basis of the citation in Summers, while noting the presence of the Gillett printer’s imprint in each volume of the 1822 second edition. Very rare.
. HUGO, Victor . Autograph Document, signed (“Victor Hugo”) being a promissory note for 1,000 francs, to be col - lected from his publisher (“M. Renduel, 22, r. des grands augustins”). Black and red ink on a single sheet. 4 ½ x 8 ½ inches, N.p. [Paris?]: 16 novembre 1835. Matted and framed with portrait. Fine, compact example - with his bold signature - of the great French playwright-poet-novelist’s handwriting, at age 33. $600
. HUNT, Leigh . Collection of 35 first and early editions of his works, in 47 vols. 8vo & 12mo, all published in London (except as noted below), 1801-1870. Uniformly bound in turn-of-the-century full green crushed morocco, spines elabo -
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 rately gilt in compartments, by Rivière & Son. A few volumes with mild foxing at ends, spines evenly toned to brown and some sunning to covers, a few covers with little nicks or scrapes, but generally quite free from shelfwear, and as a whole very attractive. $9,500 Comprising: Juvenilia . J. Whiting, 1801. Frontispiece. Half-title. • Criticial Essays . John Hunt, 1807. Half-title. With prospectus for The Examiner , 1 ad pp. • The Descent of Liberty, A Mas k. Gale, Curtis & Fenner, 1815. Half-title. • The Story of Rimini, A Poem . Murray, et al., 1816. Half-title. • Foliage . C & J Ollier, 1818. • Amyntas, A Tale of the Woods . T & J Allman, 1820. Frontispiece. Half-title. • The Months descriptive of the Successive Beauties of the Year . C & J Ollier, 1821. Half-title. • Ultra-Crepidarius; a Satire . John Hunt, 1823. Half-title. 2 ad pp. • Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries . Colburn, 1828. 2 volumes. Frontispieces. 2d edition. • Bacchus in Tuscany . Hunt, 1825. Half-title. 2 ad pp. • The Poetical Work s. Moxon, 1832. Half-title. 2 ad pp. • Sir Ralph Eshe r. Colburn & Bentley, 1832. 3 volumes. • The Seer; or Common- Places Refreshed . Moxon, 1840. • A Legend of Florence . Moxon, 1840. • The Palfrey; A Love Story of Old Times . How & Parsons, 1842. • Imagination and Fancy . Smith, Elder, 1844. • The Poetical Works . Moxon, 1844. • Stories from the Italian Poets . Chapman & Hall, 1846. 2 volumes. • Wit and Humour . Smith, Elder, 1846. Half-title. • Men, Women, and Books . Smith, Elder, 1847. 2 vol - umes. Frontispiece. • A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla . Smith, Elder, 1848. Illus. by Richard Doyle including additional engraved title-page. 12 ad pp. • The Town . Smith, Elder, 1848. 2 volumes. Half-titles. 4 ad pp. (Vol 2 with narrow stain to top margin.) • Readings for Railways . Gilpin, 1849. Publisher’s catalogue present. • A Book for a Corner . Chapman & Hall, 1849. 2 volumes. • The Autobiography . Smith, Elder, 1850. 3 volumes. Frontispieces in each volume (one detached, one a little chipped). Half-titles. • Table-Talk . Smith, Elder, 1851. Half-title. • The Religion of the Heart . Chapman, 1853. Half-title. • Stories in Verse . Routledge, 1855. Frontispiece. Half-title. • The Old Court Suburb . Hurst & Blackett, 1855. 2 volumes. • A Saunter through the West End . Hurst & Blackett, 1861. • The Correspondence . Smith, Elder, 1852. 2 volumes. Photographic frontispiece. • The Book of the Sonnet . Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867. 2 volumes. With two etched portraits by William Evarts Benjamin. Edited with S. Adams Lee. Limited edition, 1 of 100 copies. • A Tale for a Chimney Corner . Hotten, [1867]. • A Day by the Fire . Sampson, Low, 1870. • Essays . Scott, 1887. Later ed. Substantial collection of the works of a writer who, as “Hazlitt said in The Spirit of the Age (1825)… ‘improves upon acquaintance’; everyone can gain from knowing him better” (Nicholas Roe, ODNB).
. JEFFERIES, Richard . Jack Brass, Emperor of England . 12 pp. 8vo, London: T. Pettit And Co, 1873. First edition of the
18th- & 19th-C. Literature author’s first separately published work of fiction. Brown wrappers, printed on front. Some wear to spine. Sadleir 1310; NCBEL 3:1061. $1,500
. _____ . Suez-Cide!! Or, How Miss Britannia Bought a Dirty Puddle and Lost Her Sugar-Plums . 20 pp. 12mo, London: John Snow, 1876. First edition. Magenta wrappers, printed in black on front. Some toning, else fine. Sadleir 1316. $1,250
. KIPLING, Rudyard . ‘Captains Courageous’ . With illustra - tions by I.W. Taber. viii, 245, [1], [2, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Macmillan, 1897. First edition. Original blue gilt-pictorial cloth. Brilliant copy, in a blue cloth sliding case, with chemise. Stewart 163; Livingston 137. $2,500
. [LAMB, Lady Caroline] . Glenarvon . [ii], 295; [ii], 390; [ii], 322 pp., lacking half-titles 3 vols. 12mo, London: Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine of vol. I defective (missing top half); vol II neatly rebacked; endsheets of all three volumes slightly spot - ted. A good copy, however, with a contemporary provenance: from the libraries of “Dowager Lady Vernon, with her signa - ture, dated 1816, on each title page; and Edward Lord Suffield, with his bookplate (both likely acquaintances of Lamb and Byron). Wolff 3938 (lacking half-titles). $1,500 Lady Caroline Lamb’s notorious and deliriously written roman à clé , to exact her revenge on Byron for her seduction and abandonment. When our pro - tagonist Calantha encounters Ruthven Glenarvon (i.e., Byron), her help - lessness is described thus: “The eye of the rattle-snake, it has been said, once fixed upon its victim, over - powers it with terror and alarm: the bird, thus charmed, dares not attempt its escape; it sings its last sweet lay; flutters its little pinions in the air, then falls like a shot before its destroyer, unable to fly from his fascination. Calantha
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“ , , ” . LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth . Autograph Manuscript, fair copy, of “The Children’s Hour,” signed (“Henry W. Longfellow”). 4 pp. manuscript inlaid to size, extra-illustrated with 2 engraved portraits, an engraved view of Longfellow’s Cambridge home, and a letterpress printed edi - tion of the poem. 4to, n.p: March 10, 1864. Full red moroc - co gilt, front cover with triple gilt rule border with decorative floral cornerpieces around central gilt title, spine titled in gilt, silk moiré endpapers, a.e.g. by C. Walters. Joints lightly rubbed, faint traces of dampstain to inner hinges (bottom two inches only, not affecting contents), small repaired tear on one mount. Provenance: Estate of Katherine Graham. $12,500 Beautiful presentation of this fair copy by Longfellow of one of his most delightful poems, “The Children’s Hour”
[ … ] Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. [ … ] I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. [ … ].
. _____ . The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems . 215 pp. + [12] pp. publisher’s catalogue dated October, 1858. 12mo, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First American edi -
18th- & 19th-C. Literature tion. Original brown cloth, slight fraying to spine ends; Waverley Novel s ad tipped in front, two contemporary newspa - per clippings laid in and another pasted on verso of front free endpaper, small puncture marks to preliminaries from removal of staple, contemporary signatures in pencil to title page; in brown morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. BAL 12122. $750
. _____ . The Song of Hiawatha . 316 pp., + 12 pp. ads, dated November 1855. 8vo, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition, first printing, with the points as per Blanck. Brown cloth, gilt lettered spine. Superb copy, clean and tight. BAL 12112. $750 Influenced by Schoolcraft and other writers of Indian folk-lore and legends, Longfellow created his poem based upon the legendary Hiawatha.
. MADOX-BROWN, Oliver . The Dwale Bluth Hebditch’s Legacy and Other Literary Remains. Edited by William M. Rossetti and F. Hueffer . With a Memoir and Two Portraits by Ford Madox Brown. 296; 308 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition. Cloth. Wolff 880; Wolff, Strange Stories , pp. 37-44; not in Sadleir. $650 [Bound with:] [ RYMER, James Malcolm ]. The First False Step. A Novel . London: Edward Lloyd, 1846. 22 wood-engraved illustrations to text; [ii], 174 pp. First edition, bound from 22 penny parts. Ono 122; James & Smith 551; Summers, p. 325; Medcraft 98. Summers and Medcraft attribute the second work to Thomas Peckett Prest. The section title ascribes the work to the author of Varney, The Vampyre , now generally attributed to Rymer.
. [MATHEWS, Eliza Kirkham?] . What Has Been. A Novel. By Mrs. Mathews … Two volumes in one . 312 pp. 12mo, Alexandria, [D.C.]: Printed by Cotton and Stewart, 1803. First American edition. Early 19th-century blue cloth (possi - bly remainder binding, ca. 1830?), with printed paper label on spine. Early owner’s inscription of Charles James Grant,
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Palmyra, New York, on the front free endpaper. Binding a bit shaken, text occasionally spotted or stained; overall, however, very good. Shaw & Shoemaker 4622; Garside & Shöwerling 1802:48 (First English edition); Summers, p. 554 (“The first lit - erary attempt of a lady”). $750 First published anonymously by the Minerva Press in 1801, it has been attributed to Eliza Kirkham Mathews (1772-1802) solely on the basis of this American edition of 1803, whose title-page reads “by Mrs. Mathews.” According to the ODNB, “Her most important work during this period is the novel What has been (1801), a realistic treatment of the vicissitudes of a woman writer, the sole support of a husband and baby, as she peddles to pub - lishers her ‘found’ manuscript about a doomed female forebear. In a reversal of the male Bildungsroman this novel features the motif of women wanderers coming of age as they starve and narrate their lives to other women … Several novels, thematically similar, appeared posthumously: Ellinor, or, The Young Governess (1809); Griffith Abbey, or, Memoirs of Eugenia (1808); and Adelaide, or, Trials of Fortitud e (1813)” (ODNB).
. MAUPASSANT, Guy de . Notre Cœur . [4], 300 pp. 12mo, Paris: Paul Ollendorf, 1890. First edition. Quarter blue cloth and marbled paper boards. Binding slightly rubbed, but sound, text block quite clean; with the original yellow wrap - pers bound in, in custom clamshell box. Vicaire V, p. 622; Carteret II, p. 122. $8,500 Magnificent association copy, inscribed simply on the half-title: “José Maria de Hérédia “son ami “Guy de Maupassant” It was to Hérédia that Maupassant famously said, “I entered this literary life like a meteor and will leave it like a bolt of lighting.” The Parnassien poet Hérédia, master of the French sonnet, was one of Maupassant’s clos - est literary friends and correspondents, and Hérédia witnessed that mete - oric decade (1880-1890) of Maupassant’s creative energy, as well as his tragic demise. Already, in 1884, Maupassant had dedicated his story “Garçon, un bock!” to his friend; and here, at the peak of his creative pow - ers, he inscribes this copy of his penultimate book and his last novel, to his old friend. Less than a year later Maupassant was considered insane, and he died in 1893 from complications of the syphilis he had contracted in his early days. Seven years after his death, it was his friend José Maria de Hérédia who
18th- & 19th-C. Literature delivered the commemorative oration in Rouen, at the unveiling of a memorial bust to the great Normand writer. A superb and moving association.
. MERRICK, Leonard . Violet Moses . [iv], 284; [iv], 272; [iv], 236 pp., + [4] pp. catalog. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891. First edition, with half-titles. Covers of light blue cloth lettered in dark blue, dark blue spine let - tered in gilt, edges marbled blue and white. Slight soiling visi - ble to the light blue covers, minimal shelf wear to extremities. Very good. Wolff 4755; Sadleir 1712. $750 Merrick (1864-1939) turned to writing after an unsuccessful attempt at mak - ing a living on the stage. His second novel, Violet Moses , “satirically draws upon the Anglo-Jewish background of the St John’s Wood and Maida Vale areas of late Victorian London” (ODNB). His writing never achieved much favor with the public though it was highly esteemed by other writers — Sadleir called him an “author’s author.”
. MORGAN, Lady, [Sydney Owenson] . France . xvi, [iv], 416; vii, [i], 413, [1], clxxx pp., + [4] pp. ads. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1817. Second edition, with half-titles. Bound in half brown contemporary polished calf. Fine. Wolff 4910 (2nd ed. only); Sadleir 1771 (for 1st ed., published the same year). $500
. (PENNY DREADFUL) [A nonymous ]. The Wild Boys of Paris; or, the Mysteries of the Vaults of Death. Translated from the Records of the French Police . Illustrated with 23 wood-engravings. [ii, general title and specimen page], 182 pp. 8vo, London: Newsagents’ Publishing Company, 147, Fleet Street, E.C, 1866. First edition, from 23 penny parts. Contemporary green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, light soiling to boards, else near fine. Ono 363; James & Smith 688; Summers, p. 557. $600
. RACINE, Jean . Œuvres complètes … nouvelle édition . Portrait by Santerre engraved by Gaucher, plus 12 engraved James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 plates after drawings by Lebarbier. 4 vols. 8vo, Paris: Didot jeune, 1796. , with plates before letters and legends printed on tissue. Full red straight-grained morocco, gilt-lettered spines, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Cohen-De Ricci 849. $1,250
. ROGERS, Lieut-Col. Ebenezer . A Modern Sphinx. A Novel . With 7 plates (2 of James Barry.) xvi, [8], 319, [1]; [4], 292; [4], 314, [3] pp. Printed by A. Schulze 13, Poland Street. Thick 8vo, [London: The Author, 1895]. Edition deluxe, bound from the sheets of the original edition with Maxwell 1881 title pages retained for vols. I & II. Limited to 250 copies according to p. xii of the Introduction. With errata. Original red cloth, spine faded and edgeworn, rear cover chewed at bottom edge, front hinge repaired. Very good. Not in Sadleir or Wolff. $500 Uncommon deluxe edition, bound from the first edition sheets. Rogers served with Dr. James Barry, a male impersonator who served in the British Army, rising to the appointment of Inspector-General of Hospitals, and serv - ing under Wellington at Waterloo, without ever revealing her true identity. The new preface contains reminiscenes about her from other officers with whom she served.
. ROSSETTI, Christina . Speaking Likenesses. With Pictures thereof by Arthur Hughes . Frontispiece, title page vignette, ten illustrations. viii, 96 pp. 8vo, London: Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition, later state of binding, with rare dust jack - et. Original blue cloth, spine titled in gilt original pale blue pictorial dust jacket. Some minor soiling to board edges and bottom edge of endsheets, else very good in professionally con - served dust jacket with archival tissue support at folds and edges (small marginal losses supplied). Ashley 4:102; Colbeck, Christina Rossetti, 15; Osborne 386 (“both the plot and the illustrations bear a strong resemblance to ‘Alice in Wonderland’”); Ray 181. $2,500 A rare and early dust jacket. The first state of the binding had a gilt vignette by Hughes on the upper board, here the cover is blank.
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. [RUSSELL, William] . Leaves from the Diary of a Law- Clerk. By the Author of ‘Recollections of a Detective Police Officer, &c . 12mo, London: J. & C. Brown, Ave-Maria Lane, [1857]. First edition. Contemporary mulberry cloth, leather spine label. Spine faded, slightly cocked, else fine. Sadleir 3525; Glover/Green 455 (pp. 116-7). $500
. [RUSSELL, William] . The Recollections of a Policeman. By Thomas Waters, an Inspector of the London Detective Corps . 238 pp. 12mo, New York: Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers, no. 8, Park Place, 1852. First edition (preceding the London edition by four years). Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards. Extremities slightly rubbed. Very good. Queen’s Quorum 2; for London ed., cf. Sadleir 3509. $750 Pirated collection — from “some of our American magazines” — of these detective stories by Russell, preceding the London edition by four years.
, . SAND, George . Elle et Lui . [vi], 310 pp. 8vo, Paris: Michael Lévy Frères, 1869. “Sixième édition,” from Michael Lévy Frères edition of the Oeuvres de George Sand . Quarter green morocco and boards. Rebacked preserving backstrip. With the bookplate of Henry Harrisse. Fine (occasional spotting). $2,750 Inscribed on the half-title, “A mon ami / Henry Harrisse / George Sand / Juin 72.” A remarkablee association copy of Sand’s book, which deals with her famous affair with Alfred de Musset. The great collector of Americana, Henry Harrisse, was introduced to Sand by Flaubert, whom Harrisse greatly admired. In a letter of 4 March, 1867 (Letter 50 in the Sand- Flaubert Letters, trans. by A.L. McKenzie) she writes that “The AMERI - CAN [i.e., Henry Harrisse.] in question is charming. He has, literally speaking, a passion for you, and he writes me that after seeing you he likes you even more, which doesn’t surprise me …” Sand and Harrisse became close friends, as her inscription and his annotations in this very copy make clear. Tipped to the front of the book are 4pp. of extremely interesting notes of biographical import in Harrisse’s hand regarding Sand’s concern for the James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 disposition of her correspondence with Alfred de Musset, Alexandre Dumas, and Sainte Beuve. In a note initialed “H.H.” and dated “9 janvier 1881,” Harrisse writes [tranlated from his French]: “When George Sand sold her little house in Palaiseau, she asked me to go with her to help gather up the papers and letters she had left behind there in a closet in a back room. We went, I helped her put all the papers in order, and we brought them back to Paris. On the way back on the train she spoke a good deal about Alfred de Musset [Sand’s famous lover] . “She was afraid that her correspondence with him would, after her death, fall into the hands of Solange [Sand’s estranged daughter] , and that the latter would exercise a control over it in a way which would tarnish her future reputation …” Harrisse continues with fascinating accounts of Sand’s remarks on Dumas, Dumas’ remarks to Harrisse concerning Sand, Sainte-Beuve’s remarks to him concerning his correspondence with her, etc., etc. Tipped to the final leaf are three newspaper clippings from January, 1881, printing letters from Maurice Sand [her son] and others regarding George Sand’s letters. Likewise, on the verso of the front free endpaper and on both sides of the flyleaf, Harrisse has written several notes, dating from 1873, regarding her affair with Musset; and another newspaper clipping regarding the death of Sand’s private secretary, Emile Aucante, to whom Sand left the correspon - dence from Musset. Also tipped in to the rear of the volume: a 2pp. ALS from Solange Sand (1828- 1899), 16 January, 1881, to Harrisse, thanking him for the information, and inviting him to spend an evening at her house; an ANS from Arnèd Bareme presenting “ce précieux volume,” thanking him, and inquiring “do you know who has the letter from George Sand to Paiello, in Italian, in which she talks about Musset’s disease?”; a clipped auction description of the Paiello letter from a sale catalogue; and the bookplate of Edward Wasserman, designed by Marie Laurencin.
. SAVAGE, Timothy [pseudonym]. The Amazonian Republic, Recently Discovered in the Interior of Peru … 177 pp. 12mo, New York: Published by Samuel Colman, (for the Author.), 1842. First edition. Recent quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Stamp of the Manhattan Library on title-page and p. 103, occasional light staining to coner of text block. Very good plus. Wright I, 2315; Bleiler (1978), p. 175; Reginald 12713; Negley, Utopian Literature 1001. $800 Savage was supposedly a Member of the Philosophical Society of Williamsburgh and the Antiquarian Academy of Staten Island. This satire is considered by some researchers to be the first American feminist fantasy.
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— ’ . [SCOTT, Sir Walter] . Ivanhoe; A Romance . [vi], xxxiii, [i], 298; [iv], 327, [1]; [iv], 371. [1] pp., + 3 pp. catalogue. With half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. … and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, London, 1820. First edition, first issue. Original boards and paper labels, joints cracked, spines creased and chipped, labels darkened and chipped, internally very clean. In custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Worthington 8; Van Antwerp 9; Todd & Bowden 140Aa. Provenance: Fifth Duke of Buccleuch, (“Duke of Buccleuch / Lagholin Lodge”) to front boards and pastedowns. $6,000 First edition in original publisher’s boards, belonging to the young Fifth Duke of Buccleuch, Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott (1806-1884). His father, Charles Montagu-Scott (1772-1819), was a close friend and patron of Scott’s, to whom the author dedicated his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . The Fourth Duke of Buccleuch helped Scott to his post of sheriff- depute of Selkirkshire and guaranteed a loan of £4000 which Scott used to “repurchase the copyright of ‘The Lady of the Lake’ and ‘Rokeby’ from John Ballantyne & Co., thus putting £4000 into the business to keep it sol - vent” (ODNB). Of his friend, Scott wrote “we had many feelings and pur - suits in common and perhaps it is uncommon for two men so different in rank to have lived more intimately and familiarly” (letter to Lady Abercorn, Nov. 1819). Scott purchased land abutting the Buccleuch estate and upon the death of his friend the Duke became involved in preserving the inter - ests of the family and in overseeing the education of his late friend’s son. “The little Buccleuch turns out a goodly youth with fine points of sense and generosity about him. A better selected course of reading & still more of conversation will do very much for him” (letter to Lady Louisa Stuart, Feb. 1825). Scott was himself a descendant of the Lords of Buccleuch and explored his family lineage in “The Lay of the Last Minstrel.” A superb association, in original condition.
. _____. Redgauntlet. A Tale of the Eighteenth Century. By the Author of “Waverley.” Half-titles present in all volumes, vol. I P 4 & P 8 are cancels; undated four-page Constable catalogue at end of the third volume. 3 vols. 8vo, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1824. First edition. Original drab boards, paper James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 spine labels, uncut. Slightly rubbed (vol. I spine label with some splitting). In black half morocco slipcase. Todd 178Aa; Worthington 17. $650
. _____ . St. Ronan’s Well . Half-titles present in all volumes, terminal blanks in vols. I & II, with 4 pp. publisher’s advertise - ments at end of Vol. III. 3 vols. 8vo, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.], 1824. First edition. Original drab boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut. Spine labels a bit dull, short split at head of vol. I, else fine. In black morocco slipcase and chemis - es. Todd 171Aa; Worthington 16. $550
165 a. STERNE, Laurence . The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman … Vol I, E5 printed black on bth sides, l6 a cancel; Vol. III with engraved frontispiece by Ravel after Hogarth, captioned “Vol. 4 page 112”, inserted leaf with mar - bling on both sides between L4 and 5; Vol. IV L1v paginated 146, L2r paginated 156 and so on, so that for the remainder of the volumes even numbers are on rectos and odd numbers on versos; Vol. V with A1 blank; Vol. VI with L2r (p. 147) left blank for the reader’s imaginary portrait of widow Wadman; Vol. VII, with 3-line errata printed on verso of titl; Vol IX dedication pages in setting A. 9 vols. 12mo, London: Printed for J. Dodsley [T. Becket and J.A. Dehondt], 1760 (Vols. I and II); 1761 (III and IV); 1762 (V and VI); 1765 (VII and VIII); and 1767 (IX). First edition. Variously bound in four con - temporary bindings: Vols. I and II in polished calf with red let - tering-pieces and gilt-numbered spines; Vol. III in marbled paper boards, calf spine with red and green lettering-pieces (joints rubbed); Vols. IV-VIII in speckled calf, gilt spine with red and green lettering-pieces; and Vol. IX in contemporary calf, floral gilt spines with olive-green lettering pieces (joints rubbed), with supra-libros on upper cover. Bookplate of John Mill of Old Montrose in Vols. IV-VIII; printed label of B. and M. Leslie (Vol. VIII); and bookplate of Samuel Ireland, 18th- & 19th-C. Literature engraver, author and father of forger William Henry Ireland (Vol. IX). A mixed set from various sources, internally fresh, crisp, and clean, with all half-titles present as called for (Vols. IV, V, VI, and IX). Rothschild 1970; Tinker 1973. $7,000 A very desirable copy — increasingly difficult to find — of the first edition of this jewel of English (and world) literature, SIGNED by Sterne on the first pages of Vols. V, VII and IX. . STEVENSON, Robert Louis . The Body-Snatcher . Illustrated. 16mo, New York: The Merriam Company, 1895. First edition. Violet cloth. Fine copy, signed by the poet, “Eugene Field, Chicago Sept. 14, 1895.” Custom morocco backed slipcase and chemise. McKay (Beinecke collection) 608. $2,250 First separate publication of this Stevenson novella. Handsome copy with good provenance.
’ , : . (STOWE, Harriet Beecher) Allen, Georgiana May (Stowe) . Archive of over 40 Autograph Letters, signed, to her husband Rev. Henry Freeman Allen, with 2 cartes-de-visite and other pieces of family ephemera. Mostly in ink, a few in pencil. Mostly 8vo & 12mo, Hartford, Conn. and Stockbridge, Mass: 1865-1887. Several with envelopes, most - ly in very good condition. Provenance: by descent within the Stowe family. $3,000 Georgiana May Stowe (1843-1887), usually known “Georgie,” was the fifth child of Harriet Beecher and Calvin Stowe. Georgiana was beautiful, witty, playful, occasionally mischievous, but her mood swings were worrisome to Harriet, who wrote that Georgie “ ‘… seems to turn out under excitement like phosphorous’ and … was given to manic-depressive turns, ‘a poor drooping bird half the time and too excited and frolicsome the rest’” (quot - ed by Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe , pp. 307-308). Indeed, Georgiana’s high-strung nature was part of the inspiration for the character of Topsey, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin . But her adult life was difficult, and tragic; Georgiana suffered continually from a variety of of illnesses and depression In June, 1865, she married Henry Allen, an Episcopal priest. After the birth of their son, Freeman Allen in 1870, she was given morphine as an anaesthetic and became addicted to it for the rest of her life, dying an invalid at the age of 44. James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101
The current archive is a moving series of letters written over a period of two decades to her beloved “Hennie” during his occasional absences, and, with frequent references to her famous mother and members of the Beecher family, they paint a portrait of the excited, frolicsome, phospho - rescent Georgiana Stowe, as well as the darker, moodier, alter ego; and finally, with the last letters written in a faint hand in pencil, that of the help - less invalid fighting the depression and addiction which plagued her until the end. Harriet was at her bedside then, and while there, she transcribed a poem she had written a few years earlier. “The last two lines expressed her wish for her daughter,” according to Hedrick: “‘Your joy be the reality / Our suffering life the dream.’ She carefully dated the transcription, ‘August 5, 1887. The daugh - ter’s room’” (quoted by Hedrick, p. 397).
. (SWINBURNE, A.C.) Adams, Estelle Davenport . Sea Song and River Rhyme from Chaucer to Tennyson. Selected and Edited by … With a new poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne . With twelve etchings by Nelson Dawson and W. E. Mackaness. xxxii, 324 pp. 8vo, London: George Redway, 1887. First edi - tion. Full sea-green morocco, extra gilt, t.e.g. by Stikeman. Fine, beautiful condition. In full burgundy morocco pull-off case (superficial rubbing to case). $500 Redway purchased from Charles Augustus Howell a bundle of Swinburne manuscripts and letters, and in exchange for returning to Swinburne cer - tain particularly indiscreet letters, Redway extracted the manuscript and copyright for the poem “A Word for the Navy,” published separately in 1886 and here in Sea Song and River Rhyme . Wise subsequently forged an edi - tion, supposed to have been printed by Ottley, and fabricated a biblio - graphic history for “A Word for the Navy” in his 1927 volume on Swinburne. A beautifully produced volume.
. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord . Poems . [8], 164 pp. 12mo, London: Edward Moxon, 1833. First edition. Original boards and paper label. Front cover detached, left half of label lacking. In full brown morocco slipcase and chemise. Sterling 915; Tinker 2061; Wise 7. $750
. _____ . Poems . 8 pp. catalogue (dated Jan. 1, 1845), vii, [i], 233, [3]; vii, [i], 231, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1845. Third edition. Original dark
18th- & 19th-C. Literature green cloth, paper labels “price 12s.” Light scuffing to labels, else fine. Laid into a half crimson morocco slipcase and chemise. Wise 14. $800
“ ” . _____ . Becket: A Dramatic Poem . [viii], 213, [1] pp. 12mo, London: Macmillan and Co, 1884. Proof copy, with printer’s corrections p. 127. Original drab wrappers, light wear, in cus - tom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Lewis, Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy , p. 98 (“Proof copy before December 1884”); cf. Wise I, 133; Provenance: Thomas Ogden Amelia (sold Anderson Galleries, 1930). $750 The Amelia sale catalogue refers to this as a “trial issue,” a dubious term popularized by T.J. Wise. It is in fact a proof copy, with several differences between it and the first edition of 1884, including the later suppressed sub - title, “A Dramatic Poem.” Henry Irving premiered the part of Becket.
“ ” . _____ . The Cup [drop title]. [ii], 50 pp. 12mo, [London: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co, n.d., ca.1881]. Proof. Original wrappers, fine, in custom cloth clamshell box by Rivière, titled in gilt, with “First Proof Copy / (1881).” Lewis, Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy , p. 98 (locating a proof, late 1880, HRC); cf. Wise I, 142. $1,000 The pagination differs from the Wise forgery dated 1881, the privately published “trial edition” of 1882, and the first published edition of 1884. Tennyson preferred to revise from printed proofs rather than manuscript, and he had the means to keep standing type to print multiple drafts as he worked. The present proof differs quite significantly from the trial and published editions, most noticeable in its truncated final scene, in which Camma doesn’t die but lingers to the close, at which point Antonius deliv - ers a soliloquy removed from later editions. We can locate only one other proof of The Cup — at the Harry Ransom Center.
. _____ . In Memoriam . 8, ads, viii, 210 pp. 12mo, London: Edward Moxon, 1850. First edition, first issue “baseness” for “bareness” in line 3 on p. 198. Ads dated Feb. 1850. Original James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 dark purple cloth, spine sunned, spot on lower right front bor - der, else, at least, a very good unsophisticated copy. Laid into blue cloth drop box. Signed Alfred Ellis on half-title. Wise, p. 108-111. $750 One of the great elegies in the language, Tennyson’s meditations prompted by the death of Arthur Hallam.
. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord . The New Timon and the Poets … with Other Omitted Poems . 30, [2] pp. 12mo, n.p: Privately Printed [by Herne Shepherd], 1876. Pirated edition. Two sewn gatherings, unbound; near fine, in custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Wise III, 10; OCLC: 54179815 (5 copies). $1,250 A piracy by Herne Shepherd, reprinting the Miscellaneous Poems appended to the fifth and sixth editions of his Lover’s Tale piracy. Wise notes that this vol - ume should “possess far more interest and importance to collectors and stu - dents of the writings of Alfred Tennyson than can usually be claimed for any pirated book” as it collects for the first time much of the poet’s suppressed writing. The Buxton Forman copy brought $410 in 1920 (De Ricci).
. _____ . Poems, Chiefly Lyrical . [4], 154, [2, ads] pp. 12mo, London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition, first state of page 91 as “19.” Original drab boards, printed label. - . In full morocco pull-off case. Signed by John Frere 45 Bedford Square (possibly John Hookham Frere, diplo - mat and author.). Bookplate of John A. Spoor (from his sale). Wise 6. $6,000 This is really Tennyson’s first regularly published book under his own name, preceded only by the anonymous collaboration with his brother, Poems, by Two Brothers (L, 1827), and by Timbuctoo , his Cambridge prize poem included in Prolusiones Academicæ (Cambridge, 1829). An excellent copy, thus, in origi - nal boards.
. _____ . The Silent Voices . [4] pp. 12mo, London: Macmillan, 1892. Copyright edition. Bound in full maroon morocco, by Zaehnsdorf. Fine. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold. Wise 163. $750
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Published the day before Tennyson’s funeral to secure copyright, “very few examples produced” (Wise).
. TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord . The Window; or, the Loves of the Wrens MDCCCLXVI [drop title]. 16 pp. 12mo, [London: Herne Shepherd, c. 1876]. Pirated edition. Stitched and unopened. Custom cloth chemise and morocco-backed slip - case. Wise III, 2; OCLC 24323879 (locating one copy, UVA). $1,000 According to Wise, this pirated edition was published by Herne Shepherd and appeared before the first published edition. It is based on the text, some of which was later suppressed, of the privately printed folio edition of 1876 (“…this pamphlet is therefore of much interest” — Wise).
. TENNYSON, [Emily] Mrs. Alfred . The Song of the Alma River . Piano and vocal score; 8 pp. 12mo, [London: R. Clay, Son, and, Taylor, Printers, 1864]. Proof, with MS note on final page, “One of my thirty for private circulation,” and correction of two incorrect notes on p. 7. Unbound, in cus - tom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Thomas Ogden Amelia (sold Anderson Galleries, 1930). $500 OCLC locates one copy of a 5 p. folio edition, published in 1864 by Cramer & Co. , . TENNYSON, Charles . Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces . [iv], 83, [1] pp. 12mo, Cambridge: Published by B. Bridges, Market Hill, And sold ry [sic] John Richardson, 91, Royal Exchange, London, 1830. First edition, Wise’s “First Issue.” Original boards, uncut, paper label on spine, reading “Sonnets.” Laid into red cloth clamshell box. Spine bumped, gift inscription on half-title. Provenance: Elkin Mathews Catalogue 35 #629. Wise, Ashley Library , X, p. 211. $950 With “Ry” in imprint instead of “BY.”
. ______. Another copy of the above, Wise’s “Second Issue.” Original cloth. Custom crimson cloth clamshell box. Minor rubbing, else fine, gift inscription on pastedown James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101
“Sophia Noyes from her affect. Sister Julia Campbell March 25th, 1849.” Stamp of Shipton, Bookseller, Cheltenham. Wise, Ashley Library VII, p. 166, and X, p. 211. $500
. [THACKERAY, William Makepeace] . The Kickleburys on the Rhine. By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh . 15 handcolored plates by Thackeray including the vignette title and frontispiece. [iv], 87, [1, blank], [2, ads] pp. Sm. 4to, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1850. First edition. Original pale pink glazed boards printed in red, and red morocco shelf back, a.e.g. Owner sig - nature of W. Mitchie, bookplate of John Kermack, morocco label of Blairhame. Some scuffing of spine and soiling to bind - ing, else near fine in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Van Duzer 104. $500 The fourth of Thackeray’s “Christmas Books,” here in the uncommon col - ored state.
. THOREAU, Henry David . Cape Cod . viii, 252 pp., + 24 pp. publisher’s catalogue, dated December 1964. 12mo, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Original light brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Beautiful copy, crisp and immaculate. Previous owner’s bookplate on front paste - down, and discreet embossed stamp on title-page. Borst 5.1a. $1,750 “2,000 sets of sheets were printed and royalty paid only on 1,750, possibly 200 copies or more were sent to England to be bound and sold under an English imprint” (Borst).
. _____ . The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau. Lately Discovered among his Unpublished Journals and Manuscripts. edited by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn . 4 facsimiles of Thoreau’s manu - scripts tipped-in. 146; 134 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905. First edition. One of 489 copies. Bound in three quarter purple calf and boards (BAL Binding A). In original slipcase. Fine. BAL 20143. $550 A previously unrecorded essay by Thoreau.
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. _____ . Letters to Various Persons . Small 8vo, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Original plum pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine slightly faded, otherwise a crisp, immaculate copy. Owner’s bookplate on front pastedown, and discreet embossed stamp on the title-page. Borst A6.1.a; BAL 20116. $1,750 Thoreau’s letters to friends, edited by Emerson. Also included are nine poems gathered and printed here for the first time.
. _____. The Maine Woods . [viii], 328 pp., + 23 pp. publish - er’s catalogue, dated April 1864. 8vo, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First edition. Original purple cloth, spine slight - ly faded. Lovely copy. Borst A4.1a; BAL 20113. $1,750 Thoreau’s splendid account of his walks and rambles in the Maine wilder - ness. , . TOLSTOY, Count Leo . The Complete Works of Count (Lev) Tolstoy. Translated from the original Russian and edited by Leo Wiener Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University . Illustrated with each plate in two states, on paper and on Japan paper. 24 vols. Royal 8vo, Boston: Dana & Company Publishers, [1904-1905]. Connoisseur edition, number 48 of 150 copies. Original blue buckram, title labels, some fading, t.e.g. With bookplate of St. Paul’s School and small blind stamp on title pages. $3,000 Another 4 volumes came out later, the last in 1912.
. TROLLOPE, Anthony . The Bertrams . iv, 528 pp. 12mo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. First American edition. Bound in publisher’s pebbled morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges. Almost fine. Wolff 6768; Smith, Anthony Trollope, a Bibliography of His First American editions , 2. $500 Trollope’s second novel printed in America, preceded by Doctor Thorne printed the previous year.
. _____ . Cousin Henry. A Novel . 2 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition with half titles and ads
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 as called for. Original sky blue ribbed cloth, blocked in black, spines are a little dull and rubbed at top, slightly cocked, lend - ing library labels removed from upper covers. A very good copy of an unusual title. Sadleir 56. $2,500
. _____ . Doctor Thorne . 520, [4, ads] pp. 12mo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. First American edition. Bound in publisher’s pebbled morocco and marbled boards, marbled edges. Almost fine. Smith 1. $500 Doctor Thorne is Trollope’s first book published in America.
. _____ . An Editor’s Tales . [viii], 375, [1, ad] pp. 8vo, London: Strahan and Co, 1870. First edition. Original rust cloth, blocked in black on upper cover with blind rule on rear, spine lettered in gilt, spine faded, hinges starting, bookseller’s blind stamp to flyleaf. Very good. Sadleir 34. $650
. _____ . Collection of 22 first editions, uniformly bound in 51 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1860-1884. All first editions. Uniformly bound in later three-quarter polished red calf and marbled boards, by J. Larkins. Spine ends rubbed and soiled on a few volumes, Marion Fay vol. 1 bumped and damaged at head of spine. Bookplate. Overall, very good. Sadleir 10, 13, 18, 19, 21, 38, 41, 44, 45, 48, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 & 69. $6,500 The collection comprises: Castle Richmond ,1860, three vols. • Orley Farm , 1862, two vols. • The Small House at Allington , 1864, two vols. • Can You Forgive Her? , 1864, two vols. • Hunting Sketches , 1865, one vol. • The Golden Lion of Granpere , 1872, one vol. • Phineas Redux , 1874, two vols. • The Way We Live Now , 1875, two vols. • The Prime Minister , 1876, four vols. • South Africa , 1878, two vols. • John Caldigate , 1879, three vols. • The Duke’s Children , 1880, three vols. • The Life of Cicero , 1880, two vols. • Dr.Wortle’s School ,1881, two vols. • Ayala’s Angel , l881, three vols. • The Fixed Period , 1882, two vols. • Marion Fay , 1882, three vols. • Kept in the Dark , 1882, two vols. • Mr. Scarborough’s Family , 1883, three vols. • An Autobiography , 1883, two vols.; • The Landleaguers , l883, three vols.; • An Old Man’s Love , 1884, two vols. 18th- & 19th-C. Literature
. TROLLOPE, [Frances] . Charles Chesterfield, or the Adventures of a Youth of Genius. By Mrs. Trollope . Etched fron - tispiece and 3 plates by Phiz in each volume (12 in all). iv, 324; [ii], 324; [ii], 340 pp. Without the 8 pp. inserted publisher’s catalogue present in Sadleir’s copy. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Henry Colburn, 1841. First edition. Bound in later red morocco and marbled baords, a.e.g. Minor rubbing to joints and edges, slight darkening to edges of plates and text. Bookplate in each volume. Very good. Sadleir 3217; Wolff 6808. $750
. VERNE, Jules . Around the World in Eighty Days. Translated by Geo. Towle . Engraved frontispiece and 53 engraved plates. xvi, 315 pp. 8vo, Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1874. Second American edition (and first illustrated edition, second issue, with 1874 imprint). Orange pictorial cloth, gilt; light edgewear and scuffing, spine dulled but gilt bright; contempo - rary gift inscription to flyleaf; very good. Myers 54. $750
. (WHARTON, Edith) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth . The Poetical Works . 630 pp. 8vo, London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1893. “Reprinted from the Revised American edition, Including Recent Poems.” Original gilt-let - tered red morocco, a.e.g., remnant of spine laid-in, front board and flyleaf detached, worn and rubbed. $5,500 Inscribed by Edith Wharton on the half title with a short poem incorpo - rating Gertrude’s farewell to Ophelia. It reads in full:
“Sweets to the sweet & luck to the fair / are applicable both, — / to the girls with the ondule hair, / from her loving cousin / Edith Wharton / July 3rd 1894.”
Longfellow was an early admirer of Wharton; he arranged to have one of her adolescent poems published in the Atlantic Monthly .
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: . [WILDE, Oscar] . The Ballad of Reading Gaol by “C.3.3.” [4], 31 ff. Printed on rectos only. 8vo, London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition, one of 800 copies on handmade paper of an edition of 830 copies. Full red morocco gilt, t.e.g. by Maurin. Slightest traces of rubbing to extremities else near fine. Mason 371. $2,500 “It is sweet to dance to violins / When Love and Life are fair : / To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes / Is delicate and rare : / But it is not sweet with nimble feet / To dance upon the air !”
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. (AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY) Ambrotype of a black woman. Cased quarter-plate ambrotype, three-quarter length portrait, heightened in gilt and tinted. 2 ¾ x 2 in. (sight), [ca. 1855]. In embossed wood and paper case with floral design, original clasp, elaborate gilt protector and oval mat; fine. $1,750 A stunning image with exceptional clarity and detail, depicting an antebel - lum black woman of some means, in fine dress and with gold pendant ear - rings, rings and brooch (all heightened in gilt). She gazes directly at the lens her left arm resting on a shawl . “ … , …” , . (AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY) Turner, William . Manuscript Deed of Sale, signed (“William Turner”) of 5 acres of land in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, [Massachusetts Colony], to “Scippio, Free Negro Man”, acknowledging full payment of “Seven Pounds, Ten Shillings”. Witnessed by George Turner and by Plymouth County Justice of the Peace, David Johnson. [Bridgewater], Plymouth County: September 26, 1743. Separation at the center fold, a few stains, but quite readable, and overall, an impressive doc - ument. $2,250 “I, William Turner of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth In New England … in the consideration of a sum of Seven Pounds & Ten Shillings delivered to me in hand by Scippio, Free Negro Man of the same Town & County well & truly paid … do by these parts grant bargain sell convey & confirm unto him the said Scippio … five acres of undivided land within the eight mile grant of the Township of Bridgewater of George Turner, purchased … in the year 1702 …”
. (AMERICAN FRONTIER) Levinge, Sir Richard G.A., Bart. M.P. Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life . Illustrated with lithographic frontispieces after the author & 4 other plates. xvi, 293; v, 258 pp. 2 vols. 8vo,
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London: Henry Colburn, Publishers, 1846. First edition. Original green cloth. Spines toned slightly, else fine. Howes L303a ; Sabin 40757; Lande 536; TPL 2290. $1,400 The author served in Canada in the suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837-8. In this work, Levinge describes his military service, impressions of the wildlife and sporting of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, “A Race Through the United States” south to New Orleans, and a meeting with Cherokee Indians.
. AMES, Mary . From a New England Woman’s Diary in Dixie in 1865 . Photo frontispiece. 8vo, Springfield, (Mass): [Printed by the Plimpton Press], 1906. First edition. “Made and sold for the scholarship founded by the Springfield Hampton Club in honor of Elizabeth Mitchell Ames.” Original blue cloth, with white paper label. Near fine. $350 In 1865 Ames and her friend Emily Bliss were employed by the Freedman’s Bureau to establish a school for recently freed and relocated slaves in Edisto Island, South Carolina. They spent a difficult year, fighting red tape, uncer - tain funding, primitive living conditions, illness and unfriendly wildlife. Signed by Mary Ames on the title-page and by C.D. Hoar, of the promi - nent Hoar family of Massachusetts, on the flyleaf.
. BACKUS, Isaac . An Abridgement of the Church History of New-England from 1602 to 1804 … with a Concise Account of the Baptists in the Southern Parts of America . 271, [1] pp. 8vo, Boston: printed for the Author, by E. Lincoln, 1804. First edition. Contemporary calf, title label. Slight toning to text, but over - all very good. Howes B14. $300 An important source on late 18th-century churches in Virginia based on the author’s travels in the South in 1789.
. [BALLANTINE, George] . Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army . 306; 313 pp. 8vo, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1853. First edition. Original red cloth, chip out of upper spine, some small stains on upper cover, else very good. $300
. BALL, Nicholas . The Pioneers of ‘49. A History of the Excursion of the Society of California Pioneers of New England from Americana
Boston to the Leading Cities of the Golden State April 10-May 17, 1890 Reminiscences and Descriptions . Illustrated with over 100 engravings. 288 pp. 4to, Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1891. First edition. Original blue pictorial cloth. Small stain at bot - tom of spine, but an unusually fine copy. Bookplate, with advertisement for book laid in. Howes B67; Flake 362; Mintz 20. $300
. BAYLIES, Francis . A Narrative of Major General Wool’s Campaign in Mexico in the Years 1846, 1847 & 1848 . Frontispiece portrait. 78 pp. 8vo, Albany, New York: Little & Company, 53 State Street. [Joel Munsell, Printer], 1851. First edition. Later red cloth. Howes B262; Sabin 4066; Muns 512 (5000 copies); Ramos 394. $300 The march by General John Wool (1784-1869) from San Antonio to Saltillo in 1846 has been described as that of a military genius, and “for sheer audacity and control [it] ranks with that of Xenophon” (DAB). Wool was largely responsible for the American victory at Buena Vista, and was one of the great heroes of the Mexican War. Baylies (1783-1852) was a distinguished congressman from New York, a statesman, diplomat, and historian of considerable note. This Narrative con - tains only a portion of his projected biography of Wool, who was a per - sonal friend of long standing, and in spite of an appeal from numerous cit - izens of Albany that he complete the manuscript for publication, this was the only part that was ever printed.
. (BROWN UNIVERSITY) Guild, Rueben Aldridge . History of Brown University, with Illustrative Documents . 12 engrav - ings; xv, [1], 443 pp. 4to, Providence, R.I: [Providence press company, printers], 1867. First edition, one of 300 copies. Original red half morocco and marbled boards. Head of spine slightly nicked, extremities rubbed, else very good. $350 Guild (1822-1899) was a graduate of Brown University, and became Librarian from 1848 to 1893, as a writer and historian.
. BROWN, Henry Collins . Glimpses of Old New York . Illustrated. xix, 381, [1] pp. Folio, New York: Privately Printed for the Subscribers Anderson Galleries Building 15
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East 40th Street, 1917. Bound in full red morocco, city seal in gilt and color onlays on upper cover, t.e.g. About fine. $750
. (BURR, Aaron) [Cheetham, James] . An Antidote to John Wood’s Poison. By Warren . 63pp. 8vo, New-York: Printed by Southwick and Crooker, 354, Waterstreet, for Denniston and Cheetham, 1802. First edition. Removed from bound collection, old stab-marks visible. Title-page stained, scattered foxing. Shaw & Showmaker 2019 ; Sabin 1237 4. $325 Part of a pamphlet war between factions of the republicans. Cheetham, a republican spokesman for the Clinton faction, intent on bringing down Aaron Burr, had previously accused Burr of conspiring to seize power and suppressing Wood’s book History of the Administration of John Adams . Wood countered Cheetham with a “ a Correct Statement of … the Motives for its Suppression by Col. Burr ” (NY, 1802). Here, Cheetham responds to Wood with his customary vitriol, and in so doing, compares Burr to Napoleon: “I perceive in the character of the Vice-President [Burr] … all his [i.e., Napoleon’s] cunning, his wiles, his intrigue, his unprincipled ambition. Give him power and he will abuse it. Place him in the same circumstances and he will treat in the footsteps of the Corsican. He is brave, artful, dar - ing as Bonaparte, and in circumstances as desperate as Catiline” (p. 6).
. (BURR, Aaron) [_____] . A Narrative of the Suppression by Col. Burr, of the History of the Administration of John Adams, Late President of the United States, Written by John Wood, To Which is Added A Biography of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States; and of General C.C. Pinckney. By a Citizen of New-York . 72pp. 8vo, New-York: Printed by Denniston and Cheetham, No. 142 Pearl-Street, 1802. First edition. Disbound. Old stab-marks, some early dampstaining to first and final few leaves, final three leaves a bit chipped at outer edge. Shaw & Shoemaker 2021; Howes C337; Sabin 12380. $300 Part of an ongoing attack on Burr by Cheetham, whose newspaper The American Citizen had become a mouthpiece for the Clinton faction of the Republican party. “Cheetham’s attack on Burr was based partly on Burr’s suppression of “a libelous and anti-Federalist work by one John Wood, called ‘A History of the Administration of John Adams’” — DAB.
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. (BURR, Aaron) [_____] . Nine letters on the Subject of Aaron Burr’s Political Defection,with an Appendix . 139pp. 8vo, New-York: Printed by Denniston & Cheetham, No. 142, Pearl Street, 1803. First edition. Disbound and gatherings loose, old stab marks; original plain blue upper wrapper present. Some browning, a few chips and tears at outer margins. Shaw & Shoemaker 3958; Sabin 12381. $350 Continuing the attack on Vice-President Burr, and repeating the allega - tions brought by Cheetham and the Dewitt Clinton republicans that Burr had conspired with the federalists to defeat Jefferson and effect his own election. - . (BURR, Aaron) [_____] . A Reply to Aristides . 134pp. 8vo, New-York: Printed for James Cheetham, No. 136, Pearl- street. H.C. Southwick, printer, 1803. First editiom. Disbound, old stab marks. Shaw & Shoemaker 6006; Tompkins 26. $350 Cheetham’s attack on Aaron Burr in A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr (1802; see below), drew a reply from William Peter Van Ness in 1803, entitled An Examination of the Various Charges Exhibited against Aaron Burr . Van Ness was a devoted protégé of Burr and was one of his seconds at the duel with Alexander Hamilton. Cheetham was editor of the newspaper The American Citizen, and a follower of the rival Clinton faction of New York republicans. This is Cheetham’s response to Van Ness.
. (BURR, Aaron) [_____] . A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, Esq., Vice-President of the United States . 120pp. 8vo, New-York: Printed by Denniston & Cheetham, 1802. First edition. Disbound. Title a bit darkened and slightly stained, occasional spotting to text. Shaw & Shoemaker 2024; Howes C-340. $325 An all-out attack on Burr by this Republican journalist and newspaper - man, alleging Burr’s treacherous defection to the Federalists and an attempt to steal the Presidency in 1801. Cheetham owned the newspaper The American Citizen in partnership with a cousin of DeWitt Clinton (D. Denniston, who shared the imprint with Cheetham), and in spite of Cheetham’s initial support from Burr, “… the breach between the Burr and Clinton factions of the party made it necessary for Cheetham to choose whom he would serve … and [he] became Burr’s bitter enemy …” — DAB. James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101
“ ” or “ ”? . (CALLIGRAPHY) [Davis, George F.] . Eastman Business College calligraphy collection . [v.p., chiefly Poughkeepsie, NY]: [ca. 1860-1912]. All items generally near fine; detailed condition reports and catalog descriptions available on request. cf. Nash, American Penmanship : 1800-1850 . $12,500 An extensive collection of correspondence, notebooks, calligraphic art, books, ephemera, and writing equipment from the desk of Professor of Ornamental Penmanship at Eastman Business College, George Fred Davis . Eastman Business College was “The first Commercial or Business College in this Country, of any prominence” ( A Brief History of Eastman Business College ). Founded in 1859 by Harvey G. Eastman in Poughkeepsie, NY (his uncle, George Washington Eastman was a penman of some note who ran a commercial school in Rochester, NY and was father to George Eastman of Eastman-Kodak), the college later established branches in St. Louis, Atlanta and other cities. It quickly became the leading school of its kind, pioneering the use of model economies, while offering courses in banking, accounting, shorthand, typewriting, penmanship, and telegraphy, as well as academic and preparatory classes, to both men and women. This collection is especially notable for the wealth of material relating to the “Spencerian” method of calligraphy instruction, developed by Platt Rogers Spencer (1800-1864). “By the mid-nineteenth century, Spencer emerged as the most popular synthesizer of the various techniques and theories [i.e. Pestalozzi’s theories and the Carstairs Method]. He adopted an elliptical style, which he attributed to the windblown flora he observed along the shores of Lake Erie in his youth” (ANB). Included are: •Four letters from Spencer to Davis concerning Davis’s visit to Ohio to receive instruction from the master calligrapher, full of Spencer’s graceful and poetic exhortations (“I bid you success in disseminating this ‘Beautiful and Indispensable Art’ which leads all others in its train and without which we are in part dumb”) ; •A letter of recommendation (“[Davis’s] knowledge of the theory of, joined to his proficiency in, this ‘Indispensable Art’ qualifies him to be eminently useful in disseminating it among the inquiring and ambitious youth of our Country ...”); •A calligraphically rendered diploma, executed by Spencer and presented to Davis upon completion of his course; and four letters from James Lusk — himself a prominent Spencerian calligrapher (“James W. Lusk was near
Americana the top of the Spencerian hierarchy” (Nash, p. 60n) — concerning Spencer.
In addition, the collection includes ample proof of Davis’s skill in the calligraphic arts, including: •Two large framed pieces: a commemoration of George Washington and an advertisement for Eastman Business College, elaborately lettered and flourished in the copperplate style; •Two notebooks filled with diverse calligraphic renderings of birds, scripts, and portraits of Davis, Spencer, Eastman, and others; •Davis’s portable writing box, with nibs, script ruler, and other writing supplies and personal effects. •Material related to the Eastman Business College itself, illustrated catalogs, literature, advertisements, circulars, and examples of the currency issued for use in the college’s model economy. While it may be true, as the American National Biography has it, that “Technology has relegated Spencer and his fellow chirographers to the position of practitioners of a quaint form of communication from a less- hurried time. Today, speed and content have become paramount; form has become standardized and purely mechanical”; this is nevertheless an important collection both for its beauty and its historical interest, not only as a as a record of a nearly lost art , but also of the of rise of practical, business-oriented, middle-class higher education in America. . [CAPEN, Nahum] . The Republic of the United States of America: Its Duties to Itself and Its Responsible Relations to Other Countries. Embracing also a Review of the Last War between the United States and Mexico . xii, 322 pp. 12mo, New York: D. Appleton, 1848. First edition. Publisher’s gilt extra cloth, a.e.g. Bookplate. Small abrasion on upper cover, some foxing, else fine. $300 on the title page “Presented to R. J. Walker by the Author.”
- . Collection of 51 American and Irish political pamphlets. Bound in 5 vols. Thick 8vo, vp [America, England Ireland], vd [1792-1811]. Contemporary American half calf and marbled boards, red leather labels titled “Politics” and “American Papers.” Spines cracked and worn, boards loose or detached,
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 text generally very good, however, albeit with foxing. Provenance: Alexander McKim (his signature and notes to fly - leaf of each volume); John Campbell White and Campbell P. White (their signatures). $20,000 Alexander McKim (1748-1832) fought in the Continental Army, serving under Lafayette. He was elected to the Maryland Senate and the United States Congress as a Republican in the 11th through 13th Congresses (1809-1815). Irish-born Campbell P. White (1787-1859) was elected to rep - resent New York in the 21st through 24th Congresses. He is most likely related to the Irish-born John Campbell White (1757-1847) a successful Baltimore banker whose signature also appears in some volumes. Contains, among many others, the following selection (a full list is available upon request): Neilson, Samuel (1761-1803). Brief Statement of a Negotiation between Certain United Irishmen and the Irish Government in July, 1798 . New York: Printed for the Author, 1802. 41 pp. Shaw & Shoemaker 2727. OCLC: 3 copies. Trial of Mr. Peter Finerty, Late Printer of the Press, for a Libel against His Excellency Earl Camden, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, In a Letter signed Marcus, in that Paper . Dublin: J. Stockdale, 1798. 62 pp. McCoy, Freedom of the Press F114 (“The publisher of the Dublin Press was found guilty of a seditious libel, pilloried, and given two-years’ imprisonment for criticizing the trial of William Orr, Court of King’s Bench”). Grattan, Henry . The Speech of Henry Grattan, Esq. on the Subject of a Legislative Union with Great Britain. The Resolutions of the Roman Catholics of the City of Dublin; The Guild of Merchants; the Freemen and Freeholders of the City of Dublin, at a Aggregate Meeting held on the 16th of January last; the Celebrated Speech delivered on that Occasion by John Philpot Curran, Esq … Dublin, Stockdale, 1800. 32 pp. Signed “G. Douglas Philadelphia” on title page. [Parnell, William] . An Inquiry into the Causes of Popular Discontent in Ireland. By an Irish Country Gentleman. Second edition, with alterations and a Preface . London Printed, and Dublin Re-Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, No. 4, Capel- Street, 1805. xvi, 72 pp, with half-title. First Irish edition. Keogh, John . Sketch of a Speech delivered by John Keogh, Esq. at the Meeting of the Catholics of Dublin … Reported by Edward Hay, Esq . Dublin, H. Fitzpatrick, 1807. 15 pp. [Tone, Theobald Wolfe , 1763-1798] An Address to the People of Ireland on the Present Important Crisis . Belfast, 1796. iv, 28 pp.
. COLTON, Walter . Deck and Port; or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California, with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco . Frontispiece, map & 4 tinted plates lithographed by Sarony & Major. 408
Americana pp. + [20] pp. ads. 12mo, New York: A.S. Barnes, 1850. First edition, second issue, with the addition of the map. Original blue cloth, gilt & blind stamped. Top and bottom of spine slightly worn, else very vood. Howes C624; Cowan, p. 237; Sabin 14799; Forbes 1769; Hill, p. 58; Smith C-99. $400
. (COLUMBUS, Christopher) Bossi, Luigi . Vita di Christoforo Colombo scritta e corredata di nuove osservazioni di note stori - co-critiche e di un’ appendice di documenti rari o inediti dal cavaliere Luigi Bossi … Con tavole incise in rame . Portrait and 5 plates (4 of the plates are facsimile reproductions of the woodcut illustrations which accompanied the original letters). 255, [1] pp. 8vo, Milan: Dalla Tipografia di Vincenzo Ferrario, 1818. First edition. Bound in polished blue calf, a.e.g. Very good. Sanz 95; Sabin 6463. $600 The first modern biography of Columbus, text includes Columbus’s letter to Sanchez regarding his first voyage, and his letter to King Ferdinand of Spain concerning the fourth voyage. “Primera reproducción facsimilar de la Epstola de çolón, seguin la edición de Bailea, con grabados” (Sanz).
. (COLUMBUS, Christopher) [Harrisse, Henri] . Qui a imprimé la première lettre de Christophe Colomb? . 20 pp. 8vo, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1892. First separate edition. Extrait du “Centralbatt für Bibliothekswesen” 1892. III. Quarter green cloth, with original wrappers bound in. $300
— . COOLIDGE, Cassius M[arcellus] . Collection of 10 artist sketchbooks . 6 large (6 ¼ x 9 ¼ in.) and 4 small (3 ½ x 5 ¼ in.) notebooks, each containing approximately 65 to 75 pages of pencil sketches, many finished and finely detailed. In all, 10 vols. Oblong 12mo and 8vo, v.p. [New York, the Midwest, Scotland, England, ca.1870’s]. Leather-backed pebbled cloth with pencil sheaths (one original pencil remains), save for one notebook in wrappers, most with “Private Library of Cassius M. Coolidge” label; bindings rubbed and some soiling to contents but generally in near fine condition. Provenance: James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101
Marcella Coolidge, daughter of the artist, by descent from the estate of the artist . $10,000 A fine collection of artist sketchbooks belonging to Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844-1934). He is remembered for one of modern advertising’s most iconic images — dogs playing poker, in a series of nine paintings for the firm Brown and Bigelow; though, as seen here, his artistic gifts extended to a wide variety of subjects. Includes sketches from travels abroad in England, Scotland, Ireland, and France; scenes along the Hudson River; boating on the Great Lakes with views of Mackinack Island (while on assignment for The Watertown Times ); sporting scenes, including fishing, hunting with hounds, the Wesleyan rowing team, and regatta sketches; Coolidge’s copies of works by Bierstadt, Landseer and others; genre scenes of peasants, southern blacks, soldiers, and exotic costume; character sketches of people met during the artist’s travels; approx. 35 finished and captioned sketches of humorous and sentimental scenes of home life, school children, street scenes, and animals, likely studies for published illustrations, including some studies for his series of five advertisement cards for Jaques, Atwood & Co in Chicago, “Before and After Marriage: in Five Acts”; and, most interestingly, an album titled, “My Dogs,” containing captioned portraits of dogs (“A quiet afternoon at home,” “On guard,” “Great responsibility — folks away from home”) including several sketches painted in July, 1875 (“A healthy appetite, or Plunder?”) and one titled “Grandfather,” depicting a dog with reading glasses and pipe, with the inscription “Painted July 29 1875” — a precursor to the anthropomorphism of Coolidge’s best-known work. An amusing and skillfuly executed collection, demonstrating the variety of the artist’s interests, broadly concerning the leisure and amusements of late 19th-century Americans, and showing the genesis of the conceit — anthropomorphized dogs — that would make him famous. . COOLIDGE, Cassius M[arcellus] . Collection of photographs of Coolidge and others demonstrating his Comic Foregrounds . 2 tintypes (“Off for Cuba” and “When I Joined the Masons”) in original paper cases; albumen print (“Off for Coney Island”) on card; approx. 20 half-tone paper cards (“Have a Smoke With Me”), one signed by Coolidge. n.d. [ca. 1860’s-1900]. Tintypes fine with strong contrast, paper cases with some damage; postcard soiled; else fine . $850 American artist Coolidge (1844-1934), best-known for his series of paintings for Brown and Bigelow depicting dogs playing poker, was also an inventor, illustrator, eductator, newspaperman, and business owner. He
Americana invented Comic Foregrounds-life sized cutouts into which one placed one’s head to create a comic scene — popular in carnivals, fairs, and boardwalks. Coolidge sold his Cutouts by mail-order, employing students from Eastman college to help paint and letter the boards, and at the age of 64 he married one of these students, Gertrude Kimmell (the two are pictured on the postcard in a Cutout entitled “Off To Coney Island,” with a handwritten note, “on their wedding tour”). An interesting collection of American amusement history. [with:] Coolidge’s autograph book, [ca.1860’s] with pen and ink and watercolor title page; [and] inscribed cabinet card from dancer Loie Fuller, to Coolidge.
. [DANA, Samuel Whittelsey] . Yale-College Subject to the General Assembly. [Caption title:] The right of the General Assembly to inspect, regulate and reform the corporation of Yale-College in New- Haven, considered on principles of law and equity . 44 pp. 8vo, New Haven: Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1784. First edition. Later blue boards. Fine, pages uncut. Bookplate. Evans 18434; Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 555; III Jenkins 331; Pequot Library 195. BEAL 4808. $300
. DUVAL, J.C . Early Times in Texas . 135; 253 pp. 8vo, Austin, Texas: Gammel, 1892. First edition. Original green cloth. Text toned, small snag on upper cover, else fine. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. Graff 1188; Howes D603; Jenkins 51. $450 “The first section comprises ‘Early Times in Texas, or the Adventures of Jack Dobell’ while the second part consists of ‘The Young Explorers’ and an appendix. The first section is the story of Duval’s adventures during the Goliad Massacre and his escape from the Mexicans” (Graff).
. ENTICK, John . The General History of the Late War; Containing Its Rise, Progress and Event, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America . With 41 portraits and 8 folding maps. [iv], 495; 464; 480; 470, [26, Index] pp. 5 vols. 8vo, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1766. Third edition, revised and corrected. Bound in contemporary reversed calf, blind-stamped cover, leather title labels. Front hinge of volume I starting. Howes E165a. SOLD
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. GARRISON, William Lloyd , editor. The Liberator, Vol. XXXV. No. 52. Whole No. 1803. Friday, December 29, 1865 . 4 pages, numbered pp. [205]-208. Boston: J. B Yerrinton & Son, Printers, December 29, 1865. Some very minor foxing and soiling. $1,000 The last issue of this important thirty-five-year abolitionist newspaper, edit - ed by William Lloyd Garrison, who contributes his valedictory article. It also contains a discussion of the actual pending constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, as well as suffrage. And on the last page is a long "farewell to the Liberator," written by Afro-American abolitionist, lecturer and historian, William Cooper Nell. (See Logan and Winston, Dictionary of American Negro Biography , pp. 472-730)
. GERSTAECKER, F . Narrative of a Journey Round the World, Comprising a Winter Passage across the Andes to Chili, with a Visit to the Gold Regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &c . 3 vols. 8vo, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1853. First edition. Original brown cloth stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt. Name excised from top margin of title page of vol. I, some rubbing to spine ends and lower joint of vol. I, inner hinge of vol. III tender. Very good. Hill 694. $650 First edition in English of the travels of German novelist and travel writer, Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872). “In this edition, half of the first volume and part of the second volume relate to California” (Hill).
. GILLIAM, Albert M . Travels over the Table Lands and Cordilleras of Mexico. During the Years 1843 and 44 . 10 litho - graphed plates including frontispiece portrait, 3 folding maps, appendix. xvi, [17]-455 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: John W. Moore, 138 Chestnut Street. London: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. First edition. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt- stamped spine. Some foxing as usual, and a 3 inch loss of top of spine, else fine. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. Wagner- Camp 120c:1; Howes G-179. Hill 433: “One of the principal travel books on Mexico in the 19th century. Two of the three maps cover United States territory, including what is now Northern California, Oregon, and other portions of the Pacific Northwest”; Sabin 27412; Wheat Transmississippi 510,
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. GOUGE, William M . The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the Commencement of the Revolution in 1834 to 1851-52. With Remarks on American Debt . 327 pp. + 32 pp. of ads, 1-20 and 23-34 as issued. 8vo, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852. First edition, second issue. Original blind-stamped cloth. Spine sunned slightly, spine ends bumped and frayed, lightly foxed throughout, bibliographical notes tipped onto rear free endpaper. Very good. Sabin 28071; Basic Texas Books 77A; Rader 1634; Raines, p. 96. $600 “The standard account of the financial history of the Texas Revolution, this book is much more interesting reading than the title suggests, mixing humor, anecdotes, and historical sidelights with statistics, finance, and fis - cal theory … Although the Texans did not understand currency and bond trading, Gouge remarks, they were masters at land trading. They financed their revolution and populated their republic with land” (Jenkins).
. GRISCOM, John . Monitorial Instruction. An Address, Pronounced at the Opening of the New-York High-School . One plate. 216 pp. 8vo, New York: Mahlon Day, 1825. First edition. Original boards, uncut, with label; some soiling and wear to binding, bookplate, very attractive. American Imprints 20765. $300 Griscom (1774-1852) opened a school for boys in New York City in 1807 and advocated the monitorial system of instruction, in which more advanced students help teach the less advanced. .. ’ . (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) [Warren, George Kendall, photographer ]. Harvard Class of 1859 Photographic Yearbook . 93 oval albumen bust portraits (5 ¾ x 4 ½ in.) of class of 1859 and selected faculty and administration, most signed in ink by sitter beneath image with date and place of birth. Some portraits second generation. Folio, [Cambridge:
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University Press, 1859]. Full gilt-paneled black morocoo; a.e.g. Titled in gilt to spine “Harvard College. James Schouler” and front cover, “Class of 1859.” Spine chipped with loss to title, covers detached. $5,000 George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and Harvard. Notables included here are US Congressman William H. Perry; and archi - tect Henry Hubson Richardson, all of whom signed have signed their por - traits. The faculty portraits include professor of zoology and geology Louis Agassiz, who also signed. Probably the most notable graduate of the class of 1859, though, from a modern perspective, was the philosopher and mathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), who has been called the founder of American pragmatism. It is a rare image of the thinker of whom Paul Weiss wrote in the DAB: “This much is now certain; he is the most original and versa - tile of America’s philosophers and America’s greatest logician.”
. [HILEMAN, T.J.] . Glacier National Park. Scenic Marvel of America . 12 hand-colored tipped in views, each signed in plate lower right. Oblong 4to, [Brooklyn, New York: Published for Glacier Park Hotel by the Albertype Co, nd. c. 1920 ]. Bound in tan printed wrappers, ties. Very fine. $350 With two 10 x 6 inch hand-colored plates by Hileman laid in, identified in pencil on rear as Heaven’s Peak & Lake Josephine.
. HITCHCOCK, Reuben . A Funeral Oration on the Death of Mr. Elizur Belden, of Wethersfield. A Senior Sophister, in Yale- College: who died April 8th, 1786, aetat. 23. Delivered in the College- Chapel, June 8th, 1786. By Reuben Hitchcock, fellow-student of the deceased . 22 pp. 8vo, New Haven: Daniel Bowen, 1786. First edition. Sewn, with some wear at edges. Very good. Evans 19714; Trumbull 833. $300
“… ” . HODGE, Frederick Webb . Autograph Letter, signed (“F.W. Hodge”) to a friend and colleague regarding his forth -
Americana coming “sojourn in Arizona and New Mexico this summer.” One page, on letterhead of the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology. 8vo, Washington, D.C: June 8, 1899. Fine. $300 A fine letter from this distinguished American anthropologist, who was involved in one the most widely publicized scholarly controversies of his day: whether the summit of the famous and practically unscalable Enchanted Mesa of New Mexico had ever been the site of the original vil - lage of the Acoma indians. Local traditions supported that view, but Professor W.A. Libbey of Princeton announced his skepticism and his intention to scale the mesa and demonstrate the falsity of the myth. In the summer of 1897, he and a reporter climbed to the summit, where they spent three hours looking for pottery and utensils, and found none. “Romantic Indian legend can never stand the acid test of scientific investi - gation,” Libbey proclaimed. When Hodge read of Libbey’s expedition, he organized one of his own, and after scaling the Mesa, he and a crew spent 24 hours scouring the area and found their first pottery shard within 5 min - utes, as well as, utensils, arrowpoints, etc., all of which had been entirely overlooked by Libbey in his haste to establish his own theory. Hodge was to write later: “The Indian lore of a thousand years cannot be undone by a few hours of careless investigation.” Hodge writes here: “Dear Professor, I am glad to have your card and to learn that you are prospering. I have been very busy during the last couple of years, and am preparing for a sojourn in Arizona and New Mexico this summer” , . HOOVER, Herbert . The Challenge to Liberty . 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934. First edition. Blue cloth. About Fine in blue quarter blue morocco drop box. $450 on flyleaf “To C.E. Hughes Jr with the kindest Regards of Herbert Hoover.” Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. (November 30 ,1889-January 21, 1950) was the United States Solicitor General in 1929-1930 and son of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. Appointed Solicitor General by Herbert Hoover, Hughes was compelled to resign when Hoover nominat - ed Hughes’ father to be Chief Justice of the United States, in order to avoid conflict of interest.
. ______. The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson . Illustrated. xii, [iii], 318 pp. 8vo, New York: McGraw Hill, [1958]. First edition, number 492 of 500, signed. Cloth, fine in glassine and slip - case. $1,250
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. HOOVER, Herbert . The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson . Illustrated. xii, [iii], 318 pp. 8vo, New York: McGraw Hill, [1958]. First trade edition. Cloth, fine in almost fine dj, with cello-tape residue on endpapers. $450 , “The good wishes of Herbert Hoover to Claire J. Lundall (?).”
. HOOVER, Herbert & Hugh Gibson . The Problems of Lasting Peace . 295 pp. 8vo, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1942. Fourth printing of first edi - tion. Blue cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with statement of printing. $550 “To Mrs Cara Hofnagel with the kind regards of Herbert Hoover.” With a TLS to Mrs Hofnagel declining invitation.
. HOWELL, George Rogers . Autograph Manuscript, signed (“Geo Rogers Howell”) of his The Early History of Southampton, L.I ., New York . Lithograph (“Presbyterian Church Southampton L.I. built 1707) affixed to front free endpaper; 218 pp. (erratic pagination) on ruled notepaper. Working man - uscript, with numerous corrections and deletions, and with 8 pp. of related notes and material loosely laid-in. 4to (10 x 8 inches), [Published New York: J.N. Hallock, 1866]. Bound in half black morocco with gilt-stamped title. Binding rubbed with loss to spine ends, author’s bookplate. $3,500 Howell’s (1833-1899) working manuscript of , with additional genealogical data and tables not included in the 1866 first edition, and a variant set of appen dices. A groundbreaking history by this native son, who later became head librarian of the State University of New York. An expanded second edition of his book was published in 1887 by Munsell.
. HUGHES, John Taylor . Doniphan’s Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney’s Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan’s Campaign against the Navajos; His Unparalleled March upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the Operations of General Price at Santa Fe. With a Sketch of the Life of Col. Doniphan . Frontispiece illustration of “The Volunteer,” with “List of Embellishments” on verso of title page (12 others,
Americana including “Plan of Santa Fe and Its Environs,” “Plan of the Battle of Brazito,” “Plan of the Battle of Sacramento”). viii, [9]-144 pp. 8vo, Cincinnati: Published by J[ames] A. & U[riah] P. James, Walnut St., Between Fourth & Fifth, 1849 (on title-page). Cheap edition printed on upper wrapper, no footnote on p. 25. Green cloth, with original brown printed wrappers bound in (without date but with “Cheap edition” printed on upper cover). Howes H769; Wagner-Camp 134:4. $800 “Doniphan’s and Kearney’s conquests gave the United States its claim to New Mexico and Arizona, finally acquired by the Gadsen Purchase” — Howes.
. HUTCHINSON, Thomas . The History of Massachusetts, from the First Settlement thereof in 1628, Until the Year 1750. [With:] The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, from the Year 1750, until June, 1774 . viii, [9]-478 + index [10] pp.; viii, [9]-452; iv, 551 pp. 3 vols. 8vo, Boston, Salem: By Manning and Loring for Thomas and Andrews; London: John Murray, 1795 & 1828. Third edition “with additional Notes and Corrections of the first title,” and first edition of the second title. Bound in modern quarter brown calf, red leather title labels and cloth. Bookplates, contemporary marginalia pp. 165-6, vol. I, vols. I & II with sporadic foxing, else fine. Howes H853; Sabin 34080, 34081. $1,250 The classic history of Massachusetts, by Governor Hutchinson.
. IRVING, Washington . Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains . Engraved folding map (11 ¼ x 18 ¾ in.). [1]-6, [vii]-xii, [13]-285; viii, [9]-279 pp., + [viii] pp. ads. 2 vols. 8vo, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836. First edition, second state. In later three- quarter tan calf and marbled boards, joints rubbed, map and contents lightly foxed, contemporary owner’s signature on first blank. Very good. BAL 10148; Wagner-Camp 61:1; Howes I81; Field 760; Sabin 35129; Streeter 3347. $500
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. JEFFERSON, Thomas . Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia; with the Appendixes-Complete. To which is subjoined, a sub - lime and argumentative dissertation on Mr. Jefferson’s religious principles. [With separate title:] A Vindication of the Religion of Mr. Jefferson, and a Statement of His Services in the Cause of Religious Liberty. [Attributed to Samuel Knox]. With folding table. 194, 53, [3], 21, [1] pp. 8vo, Baltimore: Printed for W. Pechin, corner of Water & Gay-Streets, 1800. Second (?) Baltimore edition (or rather, first Baltimore edition, third issue?). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt ruled, red morocco label. Some early but unobtrusive dampstaining throughout. Evans 37703; Howes J78; Clark I: 262; Minick, Maryland, 588. $2,500 The Baltimore edition of 1800 was the first to be issued in the South, pre - ceded by the early European editions and four editions published in Philadelphia in 1788-94. This edition has all the appendices, including Charles Thomson’s notes on Jefferson’s original text, the Draught of a Fundamental Constitution for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Act for establishing religious freedom, and the story of the “Murder of Logan.” Evans (3702 & 3703) sees two editions which are virtually indistinguishable except for the wording of the two title-pages: the earlier of the two reads simply Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia; with the Appendixes-Complete ; the second, as above, announcing the 21-page “Vindication” by Samuel Knox. The problem, here, is that “most copies” of 3702, according to Evans him - self, also contain the 21-page “Vindication”. Collations are otherwise the same, and there seems to be no evidence of any re-setting of the text. A possible conclusion is that instead of two “editions,” there are more likely three issues within the same first edition: 1st issue: Title page as 3702, without the 21-page “Vindication”; 2nd issue: Title page as 3702, with the 21-page “Vindication”; 3rd issue: Title page as 3703, with the 21-page “Vindication”
. KEATING, William H . Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter’s River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods … Performed in the Year 1823, by the Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Under the Command of Stephen H. Long, Major U.S.T.E. Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating and Calhoun . Folding engraved map, 8 engraved plates includ - ing frontispieces, 3 folding letterpress tables. xiii, [iii], 458; vi, 248, 156 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Geo. Whitaker, Ave-Maria- Americana
Lane, 1825. First London edition. Modern three quarter calf in period style, retaining old marbled boards. Fine. Sabin 3173; Peel 82; Lande 1260; TPL 1284; Howes K20; Wagner- Camp 26. $1,750
. LAWRENCE, Richard Hoe, assisted by Harris COLT and I.N. Phelps STOKES . History of The Society of Iconophiles of the City of New York: 1895-1930 and Catalogue of Its Publications with Historical and Biographical Notes, Etc. [Biographical Notes by William Loring Andrews]. Frontispiece hand-colored and signed. (xiv), 290, [2] pp. Typography by Frederic Warde and printed by William Edwin Rudge. Illustrations in black and white. 4to, New York: 1930. First edition, one of the 186 copies printed. Bound in quarter brown morocco and boards, t.e.g.. Fine in dust jacket and slip - case. $550 In 1895, the Society of Iconophiles was formed for the purpose of issuing a series of engraved views of New York. Publications of the Society began with a series of 12 engravings by E.D. French. This catalog has a listing of all titles of the 119 prints issued by the Society at the time of this publica - tion.
. (LEWIS AND CLARK) Fisher, William, Esq. An Interesting Account of the Voyages and Travels of Captains Lewis and Clarke, in the years 1804-5 & 6: giving a faithful description of the River Missouri and its source-of various Tribes of Indians through which they passed … to which is added a complete Dictionary of the Indian Tongue . 2 portraits (Lewis and Clark), and 3 plates (“The Bear Pursuing His Assailant,” “A View of the Washita,” “An Indian destined to Death”). 266 pp. 16mo, Baltimore: Printed and Published by P. Mauro, No. 10, North Howard St, 1813. Reprint of 1812 edition. Disbound. Wagner-Camp 8:7; Sabin 24508; Graff 1331; Rader 1397. Howes F153a . $2,500 This copy has 2 portraits and 3 plates, as called for by Wagner-Camp; whereas Howes calls for 2 portraits and 4 plates, noting that “some copies” have only 3.
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’ . (LINCOLN, Abraham) Leale, Charles A[gustus], M.D . Lincoln’s Last Hours. [With:] Collection of photograph and print portraits of Leale and inscribed books relating to Lincoln and Beale (full list available on request ). [iv],16 pp. 8vo, [New York: Privately printed, 1909]. First edition. Loose as issued, in plain outer wrapper; fine. Provenance: the Estate of Helen Leale Harper. $2,000 “I had been the means, in God’s hand, of prolonging the life of the President Abraham Lincoln for nine hours.” Leale’s first published account of the nine hours he spent at Lincoln’s side, from the moments following the President’s shooting to his death the next morning. Delivered as a speech to mark the centennial of Lincoln’s birth, and written years after the events described, Lincoln’s Last Hours presents a vivid and remarkably unsentimental account of Leale’s attempts to comfort the dying President. He based the speech on notes written on April 15 and expanded in a letter sent to General Benjamin Butler, Chairman of the Assassination Investigating Committee, in 1867. Leale’s is generally con - sidered one of the most trustworthy and accurate of the 100 or so eyewit - ness accounts of Lincoln’s assassination and aftermath. Twenty-three year old Charles Augustus Leale (1842-1932) was an army surgeon, attending Ford’s Theater on Aril 14 in the hopes of seeing Lincoln. He was the first to enter Lincoln’s box after Booth fled the theater, and though others would claim the credit, Leale was the first to locate the gunshot wound behind the President’s left ear. He removed the clotted blood in the wound, relieving pressure on the brain. He administered arti - ficial respiration, restoring Lincoln’s heartbeat and pulse, though he knew the wound was mortal and was the first to say so. He helped transport Lincoln’s body to a house across the street from the theater and ministered to Lincoln until his death the next morning. A fascinating and important piece of Lincolniana, one of the most detailed eyewitness accounts, written by a key actor in the tragic day’s events. With an interesting collection of images of Leale, all from the estate of his granddaughter, Helen Leale Harper. ’ . LINN, William . Discourses on the Signs of the Times by … one of the Ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church, in the City of New York . iv, [5]-200 pp. 8vo, New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf, 1794. First edition. Contemporary sheep with red morocco spine label, worn, front board detached, hinges shel -
Americana lacked, bookplate, signed “Henry Rutgers” on the front paste - down, light foxing throughout. Evans 27224; Sabin 41344. $350 Col. Henry Rutgers’ copy, signed by him on the front pastedown. Rutgers was a prominent New York landowner and philanthropist. In 1798 he donated land in lower Manhattan to the Dutch Reformed Church, which became the site of the Collegiate Presbyterian Church (now the Rutgers Presbyterian Church). The author of these sermons, William Linn, served briefly as interim president of Queen’s College. The college was forced to close due to financial difficulties and remained closed until Rutgers donat - ed money to re-open the school. It was re-named in his honor in 1825. A fine association between two key members of the Dutch Reformed Church and Rutgers University.
. THE LONDON CHRONICLE: or Universal Evening Post for the Year 1763 From Tuesday, July 12, to Tuesday December 15th Issue no 1022-1083 . 41-572 pp. 4to, London: 1763. Some heads trimmed into running heads. Bound in pebbled 19th century cloth. Joints worn, rear cover. $750
. (MAINE, Mt. Desert) Martin, Clara Barnes . Mount Desert, on the Coast of Maine . Engraved folding map by Enthoffer (dated 1875), and 5 mounted albumen prints from photographs of the region; 115 pp., + 7 pp. ads. 12mo, Portland: Loring, Short and Harmon, 1885. “Sixth edition.” Original green cloth. Rubbed, small stain to front cover, hinges cracked; flyleaf and frontispiece loose, contents and map fine. $600 Extremely scarce little guide book, first published in 1867 without the pho - tos, which didn’t appear until the 3rd edition of 1874.
. MARRYAT, Frank . Mountains and Molehills or Recollections of a Burnt Journal . Wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and other wood engravings (some full page) in the text, by the author. 393 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1855. First American edition. Original pebbled blind-stamped cloth. Bookplate. Almost fine.
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Signed on flyleaf by O.M. Platt. Kurutz 429b; Adams (Rampaging Herd) 1445; Cowan, p. 416; Zamorano Eighty 52; Howes M299. $350 The author’s experiences in the Rockies and in the gold rush areas of California.
. MARSHALL, John . The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces … and First President of the United States … [with:] ATLAS to Marshall’s Life of Washington . Engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington in volume one. iv, 460, 42 viii; 448, 32, v pp. Atlas with engraved vignette title + 10 double-page maps, all but one hand-colored in outline. 3 vols. 8vo, Philadelphia: James Crissy, 1832. Second edition. Contemporary sheep, black leather spine labels, marbled end - papers and edges; Atlas bound in half cloth and boards, with printed pink paper label on upper cover. Some scuffing to text volumes, but both are sturdy and intact.. Some waterstains to endpapers of Atlas, maps mostly unaffected. Edward Naret’s signature in both volumes of text and booklabel on title-page of volume 2. Howes M317. $1,350 The great Supreme Court Justice’s classic biography of the first President. , . (MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY) Osgood, William . Manuscript Indenture, selling his water rights on the Powow River, Salisbury (“Salsbury”), in the “Province of the Massachusetts Bay,” to four parties. Copy, signed by “Robt. Pike, J.P. & one of the Council”; all other signatures, including Osgood’s and witnesses are secretarial. Single sheet, written both sides. 42 lines recto, 21 lines verso, plus various legal appurtenances at the foot, all written in black ink (now faded to brown). 13 x 8 ¼ inches (33 x 22 cm), Salsbury, [Massachusetts]: 7th July, 1693. Minor soiling, slight losses at edges of folds, but an interesting Colonial document from a prominent colonial family. $1,500 William Osgood of Shipton, England was a Pilgrim who arrived in America at the age of 29, in 1638, settling at first in Newbury, then finally settllng in the new community of Salisbury, along the Powow River, in
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1641. “He was granted a ‘goodly’ piece of land on the east side of the Powow River. The Town granted him this land on the proviso that he con - struct a saw mill within six months ‘that may be sufficient for the use of the Town.’ He completed this mill which became only the second such mill in New England. He later constructed a grist mill along the Powow River … William prospered in the mill business and his descendents tended to clus - ter in the Salisbury/Amesbury area to be around the business of the “Osgood Mills.” Because of its location along the Powow River, Salisbury became an important source of lumber for the shipbuilding industry, and the Osgoods prospered. (cf. “Osgood Ancestry” at www.osgood- ancestry.org/emigrants). Here, in his old age, Osgood begins to divest his holdings: “Know ye that I, William Osgood, for and in consideration of the Sum of Ten Pounds … fully clearly & absolutely give grant bargain sell … to them one quarter part apiece of all my rights & Interest of the water courses privileges … that I now have outright or could have upon the Northern side of the Potow River at the falls there or below the falls & below the Sawmill now standing upon Salsbury …” A fascinating glimpse into the business history of colonial Massachusetts.
. MAYER, Brantz . Mexico as It Was and as It Is: by … Secretary of the U.S. Legation to that Country in 1841 and 1842 . Frontispiece, vignette title page, 28 steel-engraved plates and numerous text woodcuts. xii, 290, [10, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: J. Winchester, New World Press and Wiley Putnam, London and Paris, 1844. First edition. Original brown ribbed cloth, gilt spine. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. Fine. Sabin 47099; Pilling 2524; Palau 158997. $350
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Alcaraz, Don Rámon, et al . The Other Side: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States. Written in Mexico, Translated from the Spanish, and Edited, with Notes, by Albert C. Ramsey, Colonel of the Eleventh United States Infantry during the Mexican-American War . 10 portraits and 14 maps and plans. xv, [i], 458 pp. 8vo, New York: John Wiley, 1850. First edition in English. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. Minor wear at head of spine, minor foxing, else fine. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer, with collation tipped in at front. Sabin 67723; Howes
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A105; Garrett, Mexican-American War , pp. 3-4: “An excellent source of material for the Mexican side of the War”; Haferkorn, p. 8. $750 “The original Spanish edition was suppressed by Santa Anna” (Howes).
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Clark, Francis D., editor. The First Regiment of New York Volunteers commanded by Col. Jonathan D. Stevenson, in the Mexican War. Names of the members of the Regiment during its term of service in upper and lower California, 1847-1848, with a record of all known survivors on the 15th day of April, 1882, and those known to have deceased, with other matters of interest pertaining to the organization and service of the Regiment . 2 por - traits. 94 + 16 pp. ads (dated August 1, 1883). 8vo, New York: Geo. Evans, 1882. First edition. Original cloth, a.e.g. Fine. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. Howes C432; Barrett 520; Cowan, p. 126; Graff 733; Tutorow 3523. $500 “Stephen Massett from his old friend the Author Apl. 20/86.” . (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Frost, John . Pictorial History of Mexico and the Mexican war; comprising an account of the ancient Aztec empire, the conquest by Cortes, Mexico under the Spaniards, the Mexican revolution, the republic, the Texan war, and the recent war with the United States . 500 engravings, designed by W. Croome and other artists including 6 chromolithographic plates. xii, 640 pp. Thick 8vo, Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1856. Later edition (first published 1848). Contemporary half morocco. Some rubbing to binding, but very good; and inter - nally, fine,. Bookplate. Sabin 26048 (citing editions of 1848, ‘49, and ‘52). $300
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Henry, W[illiam] S[eaton] . Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico . With wood- engraved frontispiece of Corpus Christi & 7 full-page engraved plates; 4 double-page battle plans. vi, [7]-331 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First edition.
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. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Mansfield, Edward Deering . The Mexican War: A History of Its Origin, and a Detailed Account of the Victories Which Terminated in the Surrender of the Capital; With the Official Despatches of the Generals . With 12 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece, and 5 woodcut maps. 323, [12, ads] pp. 8vo, New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., No 51 John-Street, 1848. First edition. Original brown cloth. Minor wear at head of spine, spot on upper cover, else fine. Bookplate. Sabin 44370; Haferkorn, p.15; Tutorow, 3225. $300
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Reid, Samuel C[hester] . The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch’s Texas Rangers; or, the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico — 1846; Including Skirmishes with the Mexicans and an Accurate Detail of the Storming of Monterey; also, the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista . 12 illustrations, double-page map opposite p. 144, by Lieut George Meade. 251, [1], 10 (ads) pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 48 North Fourth St, 1859. Third edition. Original brown pebbled cloth, gilt spine with a gilt- stamped rider. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. Nice copy. Howes R175. $450
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Ripley, Roswell Sabine . The War With Mexico . Illustrated. 524, 650pp. 2 vols. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First edition. Original ribbed blind-stamped publisher’s cloth. Bookplate. Minor wear at head and tail of spines, minor foxing, else fine. Sabin 71530; Howes R311. $350 Ripley was an officer on the staffs of Gen. Zachary Taylor and Gen.
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Gideon Pillow during the Mexican War, and saw action at the battles of Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec, and the capture of Mexico City. (See Stevens , below)
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Semmes, Lieut . Raphael, U.S.N .. Service Afloat and Ashore during the Mexican War . Folding map and plates. xii, 479, [1] pp. Cincinnati: Wm. H. Moore & Co., Publishers, 118 Main Street, 1851. First edition. Bound in original blind-stamped red cloth, mar - bled edges, spine ends slightly rubbed, else very good. Sabin 79083; Howes S28 8. $400 During the Mexican-American War, Semmes (1809-1877) commanded the brig USS Somers in the Gulf of Mexico. During the blockade of Vera Cruz, Semmes narrowly escaped drowning when the Somers capsized and sank in a heavy storm. Later, he joined the Confederate Navy in 1861, and com - manded the commerce raiders CSS Sumter & the famous Alabama , which was sunk by the Kearsarge in 1864. He was Rear-Admiral in command of the James River squadron (1865).
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR). Stevens, Isaac I[ngalls] . Campaigns of the Rio Grande and of Mexico; with notices of the recent work of Major Ripley . 108 [4] pp. 8vo, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 200 Broadway, 1851. First edition. Later cloth, with printed wrappers bound in, some staining on front wrapper and title page. Sabin 91522; Raines, p. 195; Tuturow 3445; Palau 322428; Ramos 4224. $500 Stevens wrote this work to correct what he considered to be the errors of judgment and misconceptions made by Major Roswell Ripley in his The War with Mexico (see above). He challenged Ripley’s account of the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca, Churubusco, and Chapultepec, and the capitulation of Monterrey, as well as his characterizations of many of the American officers, including Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. Curiously, he praised Santa Anna for his military and administrative capabilities, observ - ing that the Mexican leader was “deserving the gratitude of his country - men,” a portrayal that history has hardly supported.
. (MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR) Wise, Lieut. [Henry Augustus] . Los Gringos: or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia . xvi, 453 pp. 12mo, New York Baker and Scribner, 143 Nassau Street and 36 Park Row, 1849. First edition. Original blind-stamped Americana brown cloth. News clipping at back, flyleaf partially torn away, else a very nice copy. Howes W593; Sabin 104892; Cowan, p. 252. $300 Wise was a U.S. Naval officer, who, “During the Mexican War, 1846-1848, was with the Independent on the Pacific Station, participating in naval war - fare in the Gulf of California, at Mazatlán, and at La Paz. On 25 February 1847 he was promoted to lieutenant. Because he had learned Spanish at some time during his career, he was chosen to carry crucial messages from Mazatlán to Mexico City on one important occasion.” (ANB) Los Gringo s relates some of his experiences during the Mexican-American War . . MINOT, George Richards . Continuation of the History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay . viii, [9]-304 pp; vii, [i], [9]-222 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1798, 1803. First editions. Original boards, some wear and foxing, vol I backstrip slightly split, vol II uncut; bookplates. Evans 34118; Sabin 49321; Howes M650; Church 1282 (“His Continuation is a creditable piece of work”). $600 Intended as a continuation of Thomas Hutchinson’s History of the Colony of Massachusets-Bay (Evans) Minot’s is a history of Massachusetts from 1748 to 1765, here in boards.
. (NEW ENGLAND) The New England Historical & Genealogical Register . Illustrated with engarvings. 22 vols. 8vo, Boston: Samuel Drake and The New England Historic, Genealogical Society, 1847-68. First edition. Contemporary publisher’s straight-grained black cloth, blind-stamped designs on covers, richly gilt backstrips in 6 circular compartments; with monthly printed paper wrappers bound in at end of each volume. Corners and spine ends bumped, signatures on front free endpapers, tipped in note in last volume, else very good. Sabin 52688. $1,000 Tipped into second volume: Prospectus for the periodical with an Autograph Note Signed by Samuel Drake to Jacob Wendell sending the prospectus; volume one signed by Wendell. There is an article on Wendell in Volume XXII at p. 420.
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. NORTH, Thomas . Five Years in Texas or What You Did Not Hear During the War From January 1861 to January 1866 A Narrative of His Travels, Experiences, and Observations in Texas and Mexico . viii, [9]-231 pp. 8vo, Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Co, 1871. Second edition. Original beveled cloth. Front hinge started. Rader 2490; Howes N193. $300
: .. . (NORTHWEST TERRITORY) Treaty of amity, com - merce, and navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, : by their president, with the advice and consent of their Senate. : Conditionally ratified on the part of the United States, at Philadelphia, June 24, 1795. : To which is annexed, a letter from Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Hammond, alluded to in the seventh article of said treaty . 72 pp. 12mo, Philadelphia: Printed by Neale and Kammerer: Sold No. 24, North Third Street, 1795. Contemporary wrap - pers. Evans 29754; Howes T341; Sabin 96579. $750 An important publication, giving the text of Jay’s Treaty of 1794. “Although the 1783 peace treaty gave the Northwest Territory to the United States, actual possession of strategic posts was not relinquished until after this treaty [Jay’s] of 1794” (Howes). The book includes in the “copi - ous Appendix” the Constitution of the U.S., a “Vindication of the Treaty” by “Curtius” [i.e., Noah Webster and the jurist James Kent], “Features of Mr. Jay’s treaty,” written by Alexander James Dallas, etc. Five editions appeared in 1795.
. PALLISER, John . Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies . Frontispiece, pictorial half-title, and 6 plates. [6], 326 [1, ads] pp. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1853. First edition. Original cloth. Previous owner’s signature in pencil on title-page, “R.C. Brown St. George’s Hall,” and with his bookplate on front pastedown. Slight wear at head and tail of spine, else fine. Howes P43; Smith 7856; Graff 3168; Sabin 3168; Wagner-Camp 228; Phillips, p. 284-285; Henderson, Early American Sport , (third edition, revised), pp. 191-192 (later editions); Lande 1375; Rader 257 8. $1,000 “This is one of the best books of the period on Western hunting” (Phillips). Palliser (1817-1887) went on a hunting tour of the American West in 1847;
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. PARKER, A[mos] A[ndrew] . Trip to the West and Texas. Comprising a Journey of Eight Thousand Miles, through New-York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, in the Autumn and Winter of 1834-1835. Interspersed with Anecdotes, Incidents and Observations. With a Brief Sketch of the Texan War . Without the map (not found in all copies), and lacking the frontispiece; 2 full-page wood-engravings (p. 172 and p. 178 of shooting deer). iv, [5]-380pp. 12mo, Concord, N.H.: William White. Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1836. Second (and best) edition. Original cloth, title “Texas” in gilt on spine beneath a design of Texas flag, stamped with motto “Independence,” printed upside down. Occasional stains to text, overall very good. Signed Nicholas Lincoln on the flyleaf. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. Howes P74; Graff 3183; Phillips, Sporting Books , p. 286; Sabin 58643; Jenkins, Basic Texas 159; Streeter Texas 1172a. $750 Written on the eve of the Texas Revolution, Parker’s account of his travels there is greatly valued as one of the earliest accounts of Texas written in English. The son of a prominent New Hampshire Senator, Parker was 43 when he set out on his journey, and spent over a month in Texas, visiting San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Hall’s Ferry on the Brazos River, San Antonio (“like all Spanish towns, is composed of houses built of logs and mud, and makes a squalid appearance”) San Felipe, Columbia, Brazoria, and Velasco. He is particularly observant of the land and its qualities (and abundance!), the peculiar fauna, the people, and the prospects there for emigrants, particularly Northern emigrants; e.g., “neither Galveston Bay nor the flat country all along the seacoast, is the place for a northern man. It is too much infested with alligators, mocassan [sic] snakes, and moschetoes.” The author’s intelligent remarks on slavery, and his prescient observations on the growing conflict between the Anglo and Spanish her - itage of the state have been remarked by others. Further, this second edi - tion is extremely important, as it is the first to contain an additional chap - ter on the “Texian Revolution.”
. PERRY, Rufus Lewis . The Cushite: or, The Descendants of Ham as found in the Sacred Scriptures and in the Writings of Ancient
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Historians and poets from Noah to the Christian Age. [Introduction by T. McCants Stewart, Esq., President of the Brooklyn Literary Union]. x, [11]-175 pp. 8vo, Springfiled, Mass: Willey & Co, 1893. First edition. Original green cloth. Fine. $750 Rufus Lewis Perry (1834-1895) was a Baptist minister and editor, born into slavery. He edited various Baptist publications, including American Baptist and The National Monitor , was secretary of the Consolidated American Baptist Missionary Convention, and founded the Messiah Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where he lived most of his life. In Perry’s only book, The Cushite , “… he drew upon his interest in African history, classics, and black Masonry to produce a defense of black cultural nationalism, arguing that the ancient Ethiopians and Egyptians were the black descendants of Ham and destined for ‘a return of racial celebrity, when in the light of a Christian civilization, Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands unto God’ (p. x). This book along with his other writings and his leadership among Baptists earned for Perry a place as one of the most articulate religious spokesper - sons for African-American causes in the second half of the nineteenth cen - tury” (ANB). Perry, along with George Washington Williams and others now referred to as “early Black historians” (many of whom were from outside academia), was part of a late 19-century movement that challenged Eurocentric histo - ries that neglected or misrepresented Black history. These authors laid the foundation for Du Bois’ incomplete Encyclopaedia Africana and mid-20th cen - tury Afrocentricism.
. PIKE, Z[ebulon] M . An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kansas, La Platte, and Pierre Juan, Rivers … During the Years 1805, 1806, and 1807. And a Tour Through the Interior Parts of New Spain … In the Year 1807 . Frontispiece portrait, 3 folding tables, a chart and 6 maps, five folding, one on two joined sheets. 5, [3], 277, [5]; 65, [1]; 52; 87, [1] pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: John Binns for C.&A. Conrad; Petersburgh: Somervell & Conrad; Norfolk: Bonsal, Conrad & Co.; and Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, Jr, 1810. First edition. Nineteenth-century half black calf and marbled boards, for E. Evans. Spine label renewed. Some browning, else fine. Howes P373, “b”; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Graff 3290; Wheat Transmississippi 297, 298, 299; Field 1217; Streeter Texas 1047C; Bradford 4415; Rittenhouse 467; Sabin 62936; Jones 743; Braislin 1474; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 163; Hill 1357.
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Provenance: E. Evans (at foot of spine); James Wickersham with his Alaska bookplate; Charles Eberstadt (his pencil note “collated OK CE”). $25,000 The report of the first, and certainly one of the most important explo - ration narratives of the Southwest. Pike’s narrative includes his account of his travels to explore the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, as well as his earlier journey to the sources of the Mississippi River. He also relates his visit to the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. Along with the writings of Lewis & Clark, Pike’s Account must stand as the most important early work on western exploration. The maps, which Wheat considers “milestones in the mapping of the American west,” are the first to show geographic knowledge of the area based upon first-hand explorations. Streeter refers to the description of Texas as “excellent.” (See illustration, p. 112)
. PRIEST, William . Travels in the United States of America; Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author’s Journals of His Two Voyages Across the Atlantic . Hand-colored cop - perplate frontispiece. [x], 214 pp. 8vo, London: Printed for J. Johnson, no. 72, St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1802. First edition. Bound in blind-stamped polished contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. Sabin 65498; Howes P603. $500 The author was a theatrical musician, and this work contains a rare collec - tion of anecdotes relating to the early days of the United States. The fron - tispiece is a curious representation which a Philadelphia blacksmith, Peter Brown, caused to be placed on the panels of his carriage. . ROBBINS, Thomas . Autograph Letter, signed, to the bookseller Hezekiah Howe & Co., of New Haven. 2 ½ pages. 4to, Mattapoisett, Mass: Sept. 8, 1834. Fine. Everett Wilkie’s article in Libraries & Culture , vol. 32, no. 4 (Fall 1997). $400 Robbins (1777-1856) was a bachelor Congregationalist Minister whose library was considered the most valuable in the state of Massachusetts. Unfortunately, Robbins got into trouble over an innocent kiss which neces - sitated a change of careers and his removal from Mattapoisett to Hartford, where he became the Librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society. At the time, Robbins possessed a substantial library of about 3,600 volumes concerning history and theology, and about as many pamphlets. In 1855, at his death, the library went to the Connecticut Historical Society. Robbins writes to his bookseller in New Haven:
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“Yours of the 2d inst. I received on Saturday after my return from Providence Commencement … Dr Wayland [Francis Wayland (1796- 1865), fourth president of Brown University] is deficient in Presidential dignity … I shall be glad to receive Hakluyt (?) & Edwards Works [cf. Wilkie article] . I am glad to hear of the copy of Owen’s works. As I should have to get it bound I could wish to get it a little lower than 1.50 per vol. I wish you could make an offer of 1.25, if you think it proper. It will probably not be very likely to be taken up. If you can get no deduction you may let it lie for the moment, but I shall be sorry to lose it … I still sus - pect that your old Bible is the Geneva Bible. I have no less than three copies of that, two in black letter & one in Roman”
. ROBINSON, Fayette . An Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States; With Biographies of Distinguished Officers of All Grades . Frontispieces. 352; 333, [1], 8, ads pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Philadelphia: Published by E.H. Butler, 1848. First edition. Original cloth. Very good. $350
, . ROCKWOOD, George, photographer. Portrait photo - graph of James Harper, seated in profile. Vintage albumen print. 8 ½ x 6 ½ inches (image size), New York: Rockwood, “889 Broadway, N.Y.” n.d. [March 1869]. Original gilt frame, in the original Rockwood matte, with his studio imprint and address. $750 Superb Rockwood portrait of James Harper (1795-1869), co-founder of the great New York publishing house, and reform-minded Mayor of New York from 1844 to 1845. According to the American National Biography , in the Spring of 1869, only a few days after this photo was taken, “James Harper and his daughter were driving down Fifth Avenue near Central Park when their carriage pole broke, the horses bolted, and he was thrown to the street and fatally injured.” Provenance: from the estate of Helen Leale Harper.
’ . ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano . Block of uncanceled stamps, by President Roosevelt (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”) and Treasury Secretary Morgenthau (“Henry
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Morganthau, Jr.”) in the sheet margin. Sheet of 100 Presidential Issue four-and-a-half cent “White House” stamps. 10-1/8 x 9 in, [Washington, D.C: United States Postal Service, 1938]. Printing plate serial # 21972. Fine. Provenance: Franklin D. Roosevelt (his sale, H.R. Harmer, 1946). Scott 809. $1,350 A fine sheet of four-and-a-half cent Presidential Issue White House stamps from FDR’s private collection, sold at auction after his death by H.R. Harmer. FDR, the “Philatelic President” was an avid stamp collector from youth; he oversaw the design and production of stamps during his presi - dency and did much to encourage collecting.
. SCHAEFFER, Luther Melancthon . Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California . 247 pp. 12mo, New York: James Egbert, Printer, 321 Pearl Street, 1860. First edition. Original cloth. Fine. Bookplate. Cowan, p. 570; Hill 1535; Wheat, Gold Rush 176; Sabin 77485. $400
. [STARKWEATHER, Joseph B. , photographer ]. Daguerreotype of man with cigar and hat. Ninth-plate daguerreotype, cheeks and lips lightly rouged and cigar smoke painted on, in hinged union case (by A.P. Critchlow & Co., with ad affixed to inside of case), with clipping from Washington Daguerrean Saloon laid-in beneath image. 2 x 2- ½ in, [631 Washington St, Boston: Washington Daguerrean Saloon], n.d. [ca. 1856-1860]. Some burnishing visible at edges of oval frame, faint stain on left margin, else near fine in fine case. $800 An appealing portrait of a sporting gentleman, in silk cravat, brocade vest and overcoat, casually smoking a cigar and wearing an unusual felt hat fes - tooned with ribbon. The photographer, Joseph Starkweather, advertised his Washington Daguerrean Saloon at 631 Washington St, Boston, from 1854-1860 (cf. Craig's Daguerreian Registry ). The case is by A.P. Critchlow & Co. of Northampton, MA, the first to manufacture union cases with rivetted hinges (cf. Newhall, The Daguerreotype in America , pp. 131-2). (See front cover)
. SMITH, William . A Sermon preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, [for the benefit of the POOR] by appointment of and before James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 101 the general communication of Free and Accepted MASONS of the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday December 28, 1778. Celebrated, agreeable to their Constitution, as the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist. By William Smith, D.D. Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia . 35, [1] pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1779. First edition. Removed, title-page toned with tape-repair to verso, light foxing throughout, deaccession stamp to last page. Evans 16526. $350
. TOWNSEND, John Kirk . Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c . 352 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1839. First edition. Original blind-stamped cloth. Some wear at front hinge. Wagner-Camp 79:1; Sabin 96381; Howes T319; Field 1558; Forbes 1183; Graff 4173; Hill 1211; Streeter 2094; Smith 10282; Tweney 77. $600 Narrative of the Wyeth expedition of 1834. ’ . . WEBSTER, Daniel . Letter from Citizens of Newburyport, Mass., to Mr. Webster, in relation to his Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States on the 7th March, 1850, and Mr. Webster’s Reply Here with just Mr. Webster’s Reply pp. 7-20 . 20 pp. (pp. 3-5, “Letter from Citizens…”; pp. 6-20, “Reply”). 8vo, Washington, D.C: Gideon & Co, 1850. First edition. Later half black morocco and marbled boards. Repair to lower margin of title leaf, final page soiled and repaired, with a few letters obscured. $350 On March 7, Daniel Webster delivered his famous “Seventh of March Speech” in the Senate, in support of the bundle of bills comprising the Compromise of 1850, speaking “not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man but as an American …” His efforts helped win passage of the bills, which included the notorious Fugitive Slave Law, but it also turned New England abolitionists bitterly against him. Some of Webster’s supporters wrote a supporting letter, printed here, “to make known the satisfaction we have derived from the perusal of the speech recently delivered by you … on the great topic of the day.” This copy of Webster’s “Reply” contains several ink markings, one textual inser - tion, and one marginal note.
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. WORTLEY, Lady Emmeline Stuart . Travels in the United States, etc. during 1849 and 1850 . xv, [i], 307, [1] (p. xiii misprinted “xii” in vol. I); xi, [1], 351, [1];vii, [i], 316 pp. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1851. First edition. Original blue blind-stamped cloth, book - plate of James Torr Harmer. A very pretty set. Howes W687; Sabin 93220; Clark III:419. $1,600 Wortley was a prolific poet and an intrepid traveller, who, after the death of her husband and youngest son, embarked on “increasingly punishing” journeys , according to J. Robinson in Wayward women: a guide to women trav - elers , p.122 (quoted in ODNB). “In 1849-50 she visited America with her daughter and published Travels in the United States (1851) and Sketches of Travel in America (1853). During this trip, she and the twelve-year-old Victoria did not confine themselves to the eastern United States, but made their way to Mexico, across Panama, and into Peru …While riding in the neighbour - hood of Jerusalem on 1 May 1855 Lady Emmeline was kicked by a mule and fractured her leg. She was not in good health at the time, yet persisted in journeying without a guide from Beirut to Aleppo, and returned by an unfrequented road across Lebanon. Afflicted with dysentery and sunstroke, she died at Beirut on 30 October, 1855” (ODNB).
. (YALE) Catalogus senatus academici, et eorum qui munera et offi - cia academica gesserunt, quique aliquovis gradu exornati fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi, quod est in Novo Portu reipublicae Connecticuttensis in Nov-Anglia . 32 pp., including hallf title. 8vo, Novi-Portus: Excudebat Josias Meigis, academiae typographus, 1787. Sewn, with several stab holes. About fine. “Yale College Catalogue 1787” in ink on half-title. Evans 20901; Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1726. $350
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