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William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT. 06511 USA Phone: 203.789.8081 Fax: 203.865.7653 e-mail: [email protected] Members ABAA and ILAB 1. Abbey, Edward: BEYOND THE WALL ESSAYS FROM THE OUTSIDE. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1984]. Cloth and boards. First , clothbound issue. Inscribed on the front free endsheet: “To the James S. Copley Edward Abbey La Jolla 1984.” on front pastedown, otherwise fine in (state with the spelling error on the front panel). $375.

2. Abbey, Edward: VOX CLAMANTIS SOME NOTES FROM A SECRET JOURNAL. Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, 1989. Cloth and boards, paper spine label. Portrait. First edition. One of 225 numbered copies (of 250). Bookplate tipped to front pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase (small label residue in corner of upper panel). $125.

3. Abbey, J. R.: SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 – 1860 ... A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE. : Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1952. xx,399,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty-three fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good , without dust jacket.

First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies. Among the most comprehensive works in its field, carefully describing over 550 plate , depicting British and Irish views in aquatint and lithography. With the ownership signature of noted specialist antiquarian bookseller, Ben Weinreb. $550.

4. Abbey, J. R.: LIFE IN IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 – 1860 ... A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket.

First edition. One of four hundred numbered copies. Among the most comprehensive works in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals, and the like, depicting British life in aquatint and lithography. With the ownership signature of noted specialist antiquarian bookseller, Ben Weinreb. $550.

5. [Abbott, Mary]: A WOMAN’S A HANDBOOK FOR EVERY-DAY LIVING IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., [1900]. Small octavo. Gilt cloth. Frontis and plates. First edition of this charming guide for the visitor or English-speaking resident. The authorship attribution is based on the Yale catalogue. Minor rubbing to tips, otherwise near fine. $45.

6. Alarcon, D. Pedro Antonio de: DIARIO DE UN TESTIGO DE LA GUERRA DE AFRICA ... CON VISTAS DE BATALLAS, DE CIUDADES Y PAISAJES, TIPOS, TRAJES Y MONUMENTOS, CON EL RETRATO E DEL AUTOR Y DE LOS PRINCIPALES PERSONAJES COPIADOS DE FOTOGRAFIAS Y CROQUIS EJECUTADOS EN EL MEMO TEATRO DE LA GUERRA. Madrid: Imprenta y Libreria de Gaspar y Roig, 1860 317,[3]pp. Quarto. Quarter Spanish calf and marbled boards. Engraved portrait. Text in double columns. Copiously illustrated with steel-engravings. A bit of occasional tanning or foxing, but a very good copy.

An early edition. The failure of his play, “El hijo pródigo” in 1857 led Alcaron to enlist in the Morocco campaign of 1859-60. As a consequence of that action, he wrote this important work of war reportage, first published late in 1859 (the is dated 2 December). Its success led to his enlarged public reputation. Among English audiences, he is most likely remembered for The Three-Cornered Hat. $150. 7. Alcott, Louisa M.: LITTLE MEN: LIFE AT PLUMFIELD WITH JO’S BOYS. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1871. [8],376pp. Small octavo. Forest green cloth, lettered in gilt. Frontis and three plates. Two corner creases to free endsheets, spine extremities and fore-tips a bit frayed, one signature starting very slightly; a few stray marks to cloth, but a good copy.

First U.S. edition, preceded by the London edition published a few weeks earlier. This copy has signature mark 1 (no priority), and four pages of preliminary adverts, with Pink and White Tyranny noted as ‘nearly ready.’ PW reported the first US edition consisted of 10,000 copies. BAL 167. $350.

8. Alcott, Louisa M.: AUNT JO’S SCRAP-BAG. MY BOYS, ETC. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1872. [8],215pp. Bright blue cloth, spine decorated in gilt. Inserted double-spread frontis. Light rubbing at extremities, bit of white smudging in lower fore-quadrant of upper cover, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First U.S. edition, just possibly preceded by the London edition. The first installment in the series that would eventually extend to six volumes. BAL 168. $350.

9. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey: WYNDHAM TOWERS. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1889. Vellum backed gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g. Some darkening to spine, cloth a little rubbed at tips, but a good copy.

First edition. A decent association copy, inscribed by the on the front free endsheet: “To R.W. Gilder, With the warmest regards of T.B. Aldrich. Nov 19th \89.” The recipient, Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909) was both a poet, and editor-in-chief of the Century Monthly Magazine. BAL 350. $350.

10. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey: JUDITH OF BETHULIA A TRAGEDY. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1904. Original cloth with small pictorial onlaid cover illustration (portrait of Judith printed in color), t.e.g. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Miss O’Neil as Judith. Extremities of spine a trifle worn, and spine gilding slightly dull, otherwise a very good copy.

First trade edition. A decent association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “R.W. Gilder, With the constant affection of T.B. Aldrich Dec. 7 1904.” Below the presentation, the recipient has inscribed: “Thanks Aldrich! R.W.G. --”. The recipient, Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909) was both a poet, and editor-in-chief of the Century Monthly Magazine. BAL 394. $350.

11. Algren, Nelson: A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endsheet in a relatively early hand. Board edges a trace sunned, a few finger smudges to fore-edge, else a very nice copy in dust jacket (faint darkening to white portions of lower panel). $200.

12. Angelou, Maya: OUR GRANDMOTHERS. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1994]. Large (56 x 44cm). Burgundy cloth, stamped in black. Fine in folding cloth clamshell box (the latter with a few minor hand smudges).

First edition in this format, illustrated with five original full-page lithographs by muralist and printmaker John T. Biggers. One of an edition of four hundred numbered copies printed on specially formulated handmade paper (composed of rags and cotton) by Dan Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press, and signed by the author and the artist. The lithographs were printed from the stone on Arches at Trestle Editions. A copy of the original newsletter is laid in. Angelou specifically requested that Biggers be awarded the commission for the illustrations to accompany her text. $2500.

13. [Anonymous Verse]: D’Espi ***, M.: COUP D’ESSAI D’UN ÉCOLIER, OU POE’SIES [sic] .... A Londres. Se vend à Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy, 1786. xvi,184pp. Contemporary calf and boards, spine gilt extra. Light scattered foxing and occasional mild spotting, a few rubs and light stains to boards, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this substantial of verse, epigrams, translations, and letters in verse. The identity of the author seems only thinly veiled at first glance, but the screen has been sufficiently impenetrable that authorship for the copies in the BM Lyon and BL remains unattributed, and Barbier comes up short. The London aspect of the imprint is curious, as it is an entirely French production, but may just possibly point to a French national posted to London in some business or governmental capacity. The of the collection is to M. Deprats, who is also identified as the recipient of several of the letters in verse. $250.

14. Anstey, F. [pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie]: THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS A STORY IN SCENES [REPRINTED FROM “PUNCH”]. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. Original pictorial three piece cloth. With twenty-six illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. Spine slightly darkened, trace of rubbing to tips, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free : “To Julian Pym from his affectionate friend the Author. May 1892.” Tipped-in is an autograph letter, signed, (2pp., 12mo, 16, Duke Street Mansions, Grosvenor Square, W., 23:May:1892) from Guthrie to Julian Pym, sending this copy of “my ‘Travelling Companions’ which I know you liked when they were coming out in ‘Punch’ & which I hope you will accept with my love ....’’ With the recipient’s bookplate. TURNER 13. SADLEIR 55. WOLFF 168. $350.

15. Anstey, F. [pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie]: BABOO JABBERJEE B.A. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1897. Original gilt pictorial slate blue cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. With illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. A little foxed and spine a trifle cocked, but a good copy.

First edition in form. Originally published as a series in Punch under the “Jottings and Tittlings by Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee.” With a presentation inscription from the author on the half title: “To Mrs. Horace Pym from her very sincere friend Anstey Guthrie Jan: 1898.” TURNER 20. SADLEIR 43. $250.

16. [Arion Press]: Dobie, J. Frank: CORONADO’S CHILDREN TALES OF LOST MINES & BURIED TREASURES OF THE SOUTHWEST. Dallas: Neiman-Marcus, 1980. Folio (33 x 26cm). Quarter morocco and Mexican bark paper over boards. Folding map, illustrations and in-text map. Printed in red and black, with gilt decorative initials. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in faintly marked slipcase.

First fine press edition. One of three hundred copies printed at the Arion Press on handmade Italian Fabriano Roma, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. This imposing edition of Dobie’s most interesting text for general readers was commissioned by Neiman-Marcus for sale via their catalogue and through their retail outlets. Consequently, a considerable portion of the edition saw distribution outside the usual constituency for such undertakings. $1000.

17. [Arion Press]: Thoreau, Henry D., et al: CAPTIVITY OF HANNAH DUSTON RELATED BY COTTON MATHER, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND HENRY DAVID THOREAU, FOUR VERSIONS OF EVENTS IN 1697 .... San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1987. Folio (43/5 x 32/5 cm). Cloth backed paper over boards. Illustrated. Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise about fine.

First in this format, illustrated with thirty-five woodblock prints by Richard Bosman. by Glenn Todd. One of 425 copies (400 for sale) printed on Rives heavyweight by Andrew Hoyem and associates, and signed by the artist. The extensive introduction discusses the dissemination of Mather’s text and its revisions (the earliest account), through the general historians of the 18th and 19th century, up through the use of the narrative by Whittier, Thoreau and Hawthorne. $450.

18. [Arion Press]: Stevenson, Robert L.: THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Small quarto. Cloth and cork over boards. Illustrated with 16 duotone photographs. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine

First printing in this format. Illustrated with photographs by Michael Kenna, and with an Introduction by Oscar Lewis. One of 250 numbered copies (of 276) printed by Andrew Hoyem and associates on Zerkall mouldmade paper, and signed by the photographer. $675.

19. [Arion Press]: Milton, John, and William Blake [illustrator]: PARADISE LOST A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS [with:] THIRTEEN WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS BY WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATING PARADISE LOST .... San Francisco: Printed by Andrew Hoyem at The Arion Press, 2002 & 2004. Two volumes. Small quarto, and large folio (57 x 43 cm). Cloth, gilt leather label, in slipcase, and loose sheets, laid into cloth folding portfolio, printed label. Bookplate on front pastedowns, a few stray rubs to portfolio, otherwise fine.

First printing in this format of the text, the text edited by John T. Shawcross, with an introduction by Helen Vendler. One of 400 numbered copies (of 426). The portfolio reproduces the watercolors at full scale and in full color from the originals at the Huntington Library, with descriptions and commentaries by Robert N. Essick and John T. Shawcross, and the edition “will not exceed the limitation of the book.” Currently in print at $2500. $2200.

20. [Arion Press]: Einstein, Albert: CENTENNIAL EDITION THE THEORY OF REALTIVITY ... TWO PAPERS PUBLISHED IN 1905 ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES AND DOES THE INERTIA OF A BODY DEPEND ON ITS ENERGY-CONTENT? .... San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2005. Quarto. Cloth, with decorated paper onlay. Portrait. Printed in black and blue. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine.

First printing in this format. , notes and by Richard A. Muller. One of four hundred numbered copies for sale, from a total edition of 426 copies printed on Schiller mouldmade paper after a design by Andrew Hoyem, et al. According to the publisher’s : “The mathematical formulas were set by hand, as was the display type, with text composed and cast in Monotype. The types are Modern, Egyptian, and Lining Gothic ... A pixelated portrait of Einstein is the frontispiece. This image, based on a photograph, is handset in units of six-point type: three sizes of solid squares and one centered dot. Over 4,000 pieces of type make up the picture.” $450.

21. [Arion Press]: Franklin, Benjamin: THE MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. Large octavo. Full brown morocco, lettered in gilt. Portrait. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase.

First printing in this format, the text edited from Franklin’s at the Huntington Library. One of 400 numbered copies (of 426) printed by Andrew Hoyem and associates in a new recreation of Aitken type on Somerset paper. Accompanied by the separate pamphlet, Franklin’s Memoirs Lost and Found, as issued. $550.

22. [Arion Press]: De Maistre, Xavier: JOURNEY ROUND MY ROOM. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2007. Vertically striped cloth. Illustrated with sixteen photographs by Ross Anderson. A fine copy, in specially constructed publisher’s box, the latter with a small smudge on one panel. Prospectus laid in.

First printing in this format, the text based on the translations by Henry Attwell and Edmund Goldsmid. From an edition of 326 copies printed on Arches Text under the direction of Andrew Hoyem, this is one of 40 copies (30 for sale) enclosed in a special box designed by Anderson with special compartment through which may be viewed an ambient light chiaroscuro rendering of the room from different angles. The box is specially numbered and signed by Anderson. In this configuration, with the box, published at: $1200.

23. [Arion Press]: Dickinson, Emily: SAMPLER .... San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Small quarto. Quarter morocco and embroidery decorated cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in near fine slipcase with small smudge and label shadow at lower edge of one panel.

First edition in this format. Frontis and illustrations by Kiki Smith. One of 400 numbered copies (of 426), printed on Twinrocker paper, and signed by the artist. Foreword by Andrew Hoyem. Smith’s illustrations are etchings creating images in the mode of traditional sewn samplers. In print at $1200. $1000.

24. [Armitage, Merle]: Boyd, E.: SAINTS & SAINT MAKERS OF NEW MEXICO. Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology, [1946]. Cloth. Photographs by various hands. Drawings by P.G. Napolitano. Two on front pastedown, small tape mark on rear pastedown, otherwise very good in dust jacket.

First edition of this substantial monograph on santo making. Characteristic design by Merle Armitage. $100.

25. Ashbee, C.R.: AN ENDEAVOUR TOWARD THE TEACHING OF JOHN RUSKIN AND WILLIAM MORRIS BEING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE WORK, THE AIMS, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT.... [caption title]. [London: Edward Arnold / Essex House Press, 1901]. Stiff vellum. Pictorial title and initials by George Thomson. Vellum slightly bowed and faintly handsoiled, very slight tanning at edges, else a very good or better copy.

First edition of the first book printed at the Essex House Press in the ‘Endeavour’ type. Copy #348 of 350 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Such was the demand for this title that a stereotype edition for the impecunious was printed the same year. RANSOM 16. TOMKINSON 16. $750.

26. [Association Bibliophilomutique]: Pissin-Sicard, et al: QUELQUES MOTS EN FAVEUR DES SOURDS-MUETS ET DANS L’INTÉRÊT DES ENFANS QUI ENTENDENT ET PARLENT [wrapper title]. Marseille: Imprimerie de Marius Olive, 1835. 26pp. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper creased at corners, 5 cm long, narrow discoloration in lower spine corner of upper wrapper faintly offset to next leaf, a bit dusty at edges, original sewing broken, otherwise a very good, untrimmed copy.

First edition. The association was formed to propagate books specifically for the hearing and speech-impaired, and here advocates specifically for aid to those among them who are children or impoverished. OCLC /Worldcat locates a single copy, at Manchester. $125.

27. Atherton, Gertrude: BEFORE THE GRINGO CAME. New York: J. Selwyn Tait & Sons, [1894]. Pictorial olive green cloth. Extremities of spine lightly frayed, cloth a little hand soiled and edgeworn, otherwise a good, sound copy.

First edition of Atherton’s most famous collection of short stories, comprising eleven tales “of old California” commemorating life there before the discovery of gold and statehood. This collection was revised and enlarged, and published in 1902 as The Splendid Idle Forties, and under that title included in the Zamorano 80. This title is as uncommon as its 1902 incarnation is ubiquitous. GREENWOOD 100. WRIGHT III:153. $750.

Burdened with Inserted Manuscript Bits

28. Austin, Alfred: DAYS OF THE YEAR: A POETIC CALENDAR FROM THE WORKS OF ALFRED AUSTIN. London: , Ltd., 1896. 12mo. Original cloth, paper spine label. Introduction by William Sharp. Label chipped, darkened and rubbed, a number of leaves carelessly opened and others torn; a rather tired copy, but the vehicle for some interesting additions by a noted collector, as below.

First edition. With the pencil ownership signature of collector “John S. Mayfield. Washington, D.C.” on the title-page, and with his pencil notes on the rear endsheets: “The nine autographic pieces in this were inserted by me -- JSM -- 2 June 1942,” and “Bought today at Lowdermilk’s Book Store -- Washington D.C. -- JSM.” The insertions are as follow: a) autograph postcard signed (initials, one page, oblong 12mo, with printed return address and picture of the Grand Hotel, A Valesgure (VAR), pres St. Raphael, 16 Feb. 1902) from Austin to the Editor of the Independent in New York, requesting that “should you have an offer for the copyright, will you kindly ‘telegraph it, at my expense. . . .”; b) autograph letter signed (one page, oblong 8vo, on printed stationery of Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, Kent, 15 [?] Dec. 1902, marked “Private”) from Austin to R.P. Downer [?], thanking him for “. . . the copy of ‘Great Thoughts’ & the Almanac you have kindly sent me,” but stating: “I am afraid I must not do what you suggest, for I have refused so many requests of a like kind, & should both expose myself to reproach, & to a fresh flood of applications.”; c) autograph letter signed (2pp, 8vo, on printed stationery of Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, Kent, 17 April 1907) from Austin to Hamilton Holt (“If I am not sending you another Poem too soon, I hope you will like the enclosed [not present]. I will own I rather do. If you care to have it, I should, if I may, recommend its insertion on the 30th of this month, for I think your publishing day is Tuesday; since it may appear in England a few days later. . . . I thank you for sending so many reproductions of ‘Monastery Bells’. They show that one has gradually obtained a wide hearing in the States; & I trust they serve in some degree to advertise your already widely read Review.”); d) autograph letter signed (one page, 8vo, on printed stationery of Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, Kent, 17 Aug. 1909) from Austin to “Dear Sir,” sending thanks for “the cheque for 10 pounds. . . for ‘The Adamantine Mind’” and [in a ] “also, for the interesting number of ‘The Independent’ which reached me yesterday.”; e) autograph letter signed (2pp, 8vo, on embossed printed stationery of Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, 3 May 1901, headed “Private”) from Austin to Hamilton Holt, explaining that he has just returned from Italy “after a three months’ sojourn there,” and replying: “I enclose you a Poem that was born of the ‘fair Land’ referred to in its opening line, & has not before been published. You can publish it at once . . . but please let it be understood that, while the American copyright, after the usual honorarium, will remain with you, I shall be at liberty to republish it in this country, if I wish to do so, in a Substantive volume. . . . P.S. I could not send you the Poem on the Queen’s death in time for publication, having written it under the emotion of the sad hour.”; f) autograph letter signed (one page, 8vo, on embossed printed stationery of Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, 27 Nov. 1901, headed “Private”) from Austin to Hamilton Holt, enclosing [not present] “a Poem you can have for the ‘Independent’ on the usual conditions between us. It has been offered to, & will be published in, no other Quarter …”; g) autograph letter signed (3pp, 8vo, on printed letterhead of Swinford House, Ashford, Kent, 25 March 1869). To “Mr. Pennell,” thanking him for “the “unmerited gift of your sumptuous volume ... ‘Puck’ now lies -- an anomalous position for so merry & frisky a creature -- but not undisturbed, in a place of honour in the drawing room; since I am not permitted to carry him off to my own studio & den. Your reference to ‘The Age of Little Men’ piques my curiosity. . . . What is that Work? And who wrote it? I assure you I did not ...”; and h) autograph letter signed (2 1/2pp, 8vo, on embossed printed stationery of Swinford Old Manor, Ashford, 29 Jan. 1902, with envelope) from Austin to the American (Minnesota) book collector, James Carleton Young (1856-1918), reading in part: “I return the little volume, having written in it according to your wish. May I say that when I am asked for my Autograph on yr. side of the Ocean, I ask my correspondents to send me half a dollar for my ‘Literary Benevolent Fund’. I conclude you are sufficiently well endowed with ‘the world’s goods’, to comply with the spirit of this condition. But be it as you will.” The letters exhibit the usual folds (some splitting); occasional staining and wear; one with upper (blank) margin of one leaf detached (no text missing); overall they are in good condition. Among the recipients, Hamilton Holt (1872-1951), an American educator, editor, author and politician, was editor of the liberal weekly, The Independent, from 1897-1921. $575.

29. Austin, Mary: THE FLOCK. Boston: Houghton, 1906. Large octavo. Olive green cloth, stamped in gilt, white and cream, t.e.g. Frontis and illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. First edition. Bookplate on front pastedown, a few small, isolated spots of flecking to the cloth sizing on lower board, otherwise a very good, or better, bright, tight copy. DYKES (SMITH) 30. $125.

30. Austin, Mary: CALIFORNIA THE LAND OF THE SUN. London: Adams and Charles Black, [1914]. viii,178,[2]pp. Small thick quarto. Gilt olive-green cloth, pictorial landscape design in blue, green, orange and gilt on upper board and backstrip, top edge gilt. Color frontis. Thirty-two tipped-in color plates, each protected by captioned tissue guard. Folding map. Bookplate on front pastedown, light rubbing at extremities, small tape shadow and stray pen strike on rear pastedown, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition, preceding the American issue, which consisted of imported sheets from this printing. Profusely illustrated with paintings by the British watercolorist Harry Sutton- Palmer. $150.

31. Baillie, Joanna [ed & contrib]: A COLLECTION OF , CHIEFLY MANUSCRIPT, AND FROM LIVING . EDITED FOR THE BENEFIT OF A FRIEND .... London: Printed for Longman [et al], 1823. xliv,330pp. Octavo. Old calf, a bit rubbed and marked, neatly rebacked to style, gilt label. Bookplate on pastedown, some foxing to endsheets, but a very good copy.

First edition of this notable anthology, printing poems by Baillie’s friends and contemporaries, including Scott, Crabbe, Wordsworth, Southey, Hemans and others, along with a generous number of her own poems. Scott’s “Mac Duff’s Cross” opens the collection -- and he subscribed for ten copies. NCBEL III:364. TODD & BOWDEN 166A. CORNELL WORDSWORTH COLLECTION 492. $225.

32. [Bakst, Leon]: Levinson, André: THE STORY OF LEON BAKST’S LIFE. New York: Brentano’s, [1922]. Folio. Full vellum over boards, lettered in brown. Illustrated with sixty-eight plates (52 of them colored), and numerous illustrations in text, colored and monochrome. Vellum somewhat bowed, as usual, ink name on pastedown, bookplates (including that of one Margaret Sanger appearing on each pastedown), lower board spotted and soiled, with a few patches of surface erosion to vellum; internally, apart from a few occasional marginal smudges and a couple of light splashmarks on the first prelim, a very good copy.

First edition of the English text, American issue. One of 250 numbered copies with the Brentano’s imprint, in addition to 310 copies issued in London, bound up from sheets printed in Germany by DR. Selle & Co. for Alexander Kogan Publishing Co. Accompanying the superb retrospective of Bakst’s costume and theatre designs is a color portrait of the artist by Modigliani. $4000.

33. Bard, Joseph: CONSIDÉRATIONS POUR SERVIR À L’HISTOIRE DU DÉVELOPPEMENT MORAL ET LITTÉRAIRE DES NATIONS. Paris: N. Pichard & Ch. Gosselin, 1826. 276pp. plus errata leaf. Large octavo (23.8 x 16cm). Original printed wrappers, untrimmed, sewn into protective 20th century pastepaper boards. Wrappers slightly frayed and smudged, with repaired tear/chip at lower edge, occasional minor foxing, but a very good copy.

First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies printed on large, thick paper. This copy the author’s presentation inscription on the half-title to “Mr Edouard.” Joseph Bard (1803-1861) published several collections of verse, as well as works in the fields of antiquities, archaeology and travel. This would appear to be, if not his earliest, certainly among his earliest book publications. OCLC/Worldcat reports four locations, none of them in North America. In his subnote to the entry on Les Mélancoliques (1832) Vicaire records other early titles, but not this work. VICAIRE I:317 (ref). $325.

34. Bazin, A[naïs] [a.k.a. Anaïs de Raucou]: L’ÉPOQUE SANS NOM ESQUISSES DE PARIS 1830 – 1833. Paris: Alexandre Mesnier, 1833. Two volumes. [6],vi,307;[4],323pp. Mid 19th century mottled calf and boards, spines gilt extra, half-titles bound in. Some modest foxing, bindings lightly rubbed at edges, with small scuff to one joint; a good set, in an interesting binding.

First edition. Bazin (1797–1850), left the practice of law for historical pursuits, and this work is highly regarded for the portrait it provides of the “Monarchie de Juillet.” Of special note is the essay describing the cholera outbreak in Paris. $375.

35. [Beardsley, Aubrey]: [Lane, John]: AUBREY BEARDSLEY & THE YELLOW BOOK [wrapper title]. London & New York: John Lane, 1903. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Very near fine.

First edition of this uncommon promotional, printing an essay signed by Lane at the end, eight of Beardsley’s drawings, two previously published letters by him, as well as adverts for Lane’s Beardsley publications. LASNER 142. $375.

36. Beaumarchais, M. [Pierre Augustin Caron] de: LA FOLLE JOURNEÉ, OU LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO, COMÉDIE EN CINQ ACTES, EN PROSE .... Au Palais-Royal [Paris]: Chez Ruault, Libraire, 1785. [4],xlii,[2],178pp. Octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra, gilt red morocco label. Minor foxing, front free endsheet neatly excised, otherwise a very good copy.

One of several of this celebrated from Paris and elsewhere dated within the year of first authorized publication, and like the proper first impression, published without the plates. It is, however, possible that this printing is a contrefaçon, as the collation and ornaments differ from Ruault’s editions reproduced in Tchemerzine or noted in Cordier. However, the extended and approbations that were often omitted from the pirated editions are here present, as are the imprint of Ph.-D. Pierres and the assertion “Achevé d’imprimer pour la premiere fois, le 28 Fevrier 1785,” and it is not among those piracies recorded by either Cordier or Tchemerzine. One of the most influential of 18th century French plays both at home and abroad -- after its first performance in April 1784, it was promptly translated and/or produced in Stockholm, , Lisbon, Madrid, London, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and Budapest. An attractive copy. CORDIER, pp. 31ff. TCHEMERZINE II:14-23. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 230. $650.

37. Beckett, Samuel: WAITING FOR GODOT A TRAGICOMEDY IN TWO ACTS. London: Faber and Faber, [1956]. Cloth. Tipped-in publisher’s note. Some tan offsetting and foxing to endleaves, otherwise a very good copy in modestly rubbed dust jacket with 2 cm wide surface abrasion across the spine panel.

First British edition. Laid in is a copy of the program for Peter Hall’s production of the play at the Criterion Theatre on 12 September 1955 – it first appeared at the Arts Theatre on 3 August and then moved to the Criterion, necessitating the concessions to the Lord Chamberlain reflected in this text and as announced in the publisher’s note. F&F 373.1. $750.

38. [Bedford, John Thomas]: ROBERT; OR, NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF A CITY WAITER. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [c. 1885]. Pictorial drab wrappers, printed in red and black. Illustrations by Charles Keene. Scattered foxing early and late, small chip and mend at toe of spine, light offsetting to upper wrapper, with some small ink splashed at lower edge; actually, for this book, a very good copy.

First edition in book form, wrapperbound issue, of these sketches from Punch. Forrest Reid’s copy, with his ownership signature on the title-page. Reid singled out Keene for extensive treatment in his Illustrators of the Eighteen Sixties (pp. 111-133). $125.

39. [Beecher, Henry Ward]: BEECHER’S SERMONS. THE PUBLISHERS OF THE BOSTON DAILY TRAVELLER .... [caption title]. Boston: C.C. P. Moody, Printer, [nd but ca.1850s – 1860s]. Small folio broadside (31.5 x 26.4 cm). Printed on recto only of yellow paper. Quarter-sized patch of small spots, faint diagonal offset shadow, horizontal fold, otherwise a very good copy of a perishable item.

A promotional broadside announcing the arrangement between Henry W. Beecher, the prominent Congregationalist minister, novelist, and abolitionist, and the Boston Daily Traveler (published by Worthington, Flanders & Co), whereby revised texts of Beecher’s “Evening Discourses” will appear exclusively, every Saturday, in the Traveller and its associated semi-weekly and weekly offshoots. Two paragraphs about other features, as well as subscription and single copy rates, follow. An attractive ephemeron. $100.

40. Bentham, Jeremy: CODIFICATION PROPOSAL, ADDRESS ... TO ALL NATIONS PROFESSING LIBERAL OPINIONS; OR IDEA OF A PROPOSED ALL-COMPREHENSIVE BODY OF LAW, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT OF REASONS, APPLYING ALL ALONG TO THE SEVERAL PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS .... London: Printed by J. M’Creery, 1822. 106,[2],[107] -118pp. Octavo. Contemporary (original?) polished green muslin over boards, edges rough-trimmed. Cloth lightly rubbed, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

An interesting copy, representing an intermediate issue of the first edition, with the title- leaf and list of Bentham’s publications characteristic of the first issue of the first edition, but also containing the two supplements that usually appear in the later issue, conjoined with the first edition sheets with a new 1830 title-leaf bearing the imprint of Reynell as printer and Robert Howard as publisher. Bentham here optimistically proposes a simplified system of easily understood and administered laws in order to get rid of the legal profession and what he describes as the “demon of chicane.” The supplements consist largely of responses in the form of correspondence from abroad to Bentham’s proposal. Not in Goldsmiths or Kress. OCLC/Worldcat locates four copies of this configuration, nine with the 1830 second issue title leaf and supplements; and eight of the 1822 first issue without the supplements. NCBEL II:1883. $1500.

41. Berni, Francesco, and: William Stewart Rose [trans]: THE . TRANSLATED INTO PROSE FROM THE ITALIAN . . . AND INTERSPERSED WITH EXTRACTS IN THE SAME STANZA AS THE ORIGINAL .... & London: W. Blackwood / T. Cadell, 1823. lviii,279pp. plus tipped-in errata slip. Octavo. Early 20th century cloth. Hinges cracking, bookseller’s description affixed to pastedown, edges rubbed, some occasional spotting and finger smudging; just a good, sound copy.

First edition of these translations and original snippets by the prolific translator/poet, Italophile, and intimate of . Ostensibly from the library of Eugene Field, with his bookplate on the front pastedown, but subject to the inevitable caveats attending such provenance unaccompanied by presentation inscriptions. $150.

42. Biasi, Guido: ORIGINAL UNTITLED MONOCHROME ETCHING. [Milan: Galerie Schwarz, 1962]. Plate size 15 x 11.5 cm, on 26.5 x 19.5cm sheet. Mounted in stiff board and acetate mat, with printed caption on verso. Fine.

One of sixty numbered copies, in addition to twenty-five copies numbered in Roman, signed in the plate, and signed and dated in the margin by the artist. Printed in Paris in the Atelier of Georges Leblanc on handmade paper from Papeteries de Rives. Biasi (1933-1983) was born in Naples, and was associated with Gruppo 58. In 1960 he moved to Paris, and also participated in the New York International Exhibition of Surrealism. Published as an element of Galerie Schwarz’s series, L’Avanguardia Internazionale. $150.

43. [Bieler Press]: THE LETTER OF COLUMBUS ON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD. : USC Fine Arts Press, 1989. Quarter morocco and paper over boards. Facsimiles. Bookplate on front pastedown, spine faintly sunned, otherwise fine.

One of 300 numbered copies (of 326) designed by Gerald Lange handset in Monotype Poliphilus and Forum Titling (display) and printed in two colors on Frankfurt Cream mouldmade paper by Robin Price. A facsimile of the 1493 edition printed by Plannck, accompanied by Morison’s translation and a Bibliographic Afterword by Lynn F. Sipe. The recipient of the first annual Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in . The first book under the imprint, coproduced and distributed by the principals of the Bieler Press. $350.

44. [Bieler Press]: Kipling, Rudyard: THE NEOLITHIC ADVENTURES OF TAFFI-MAI METALLU-MAI HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN AND HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE JUST SO STORIES .... Marina Del Rey, CA: The Bieler Press, 1997. Oblong small quarto. Open sewn board-backed wrappers, with pictorial label. Fine.

First edition in this format. Prefatory note by Gerald Lange. One of an edition of only 150 copies, of which 79 copies were bound at the time of publication. According to the publisher’s blurb: “The text sheets were individually water colored in the ancient urazaiskiki manner and printed damp. Kipling’s drawings (cumbersomely executed in previous editions) were printed on separate sheets and inserted between the folded leaves of the edge-sewn binding, subtlely revealing themselves in the background of the story. Letterpress printed from handset Monotype Pastonchi and a digitally altered version of Berthold Post Antiqua, the book was hand bound with hinged covers, tortoise shell pattern stitching and hardwood spine. A number of exotic Asian handmade papers were used in the production: Kitakata for text, Gampi for inserts, Kasuiri and Chirizome for end sheets, Cogan Grass for covers.” $600.

45. [Bieler Press]: [Lange, Gerald, and Robert (“Jiggs”) Dansby (illustrator)]: WILD PARROTS AND THE KING OF LA BREA. Marina Del Rey: The Bieler Press, 1998. Small quarto. Bound in open-sewn “ink-stained Honduras Mahogany quarter-inch plank.” Illustrated. Bookplate residue inside front board, otherwise about fine.

First edition. From a total edition of 135 numbered copies printed on Usuzumi Japanese paper, highlighted with alcohol based staining, and signed by “Jiggs” and “The King,” this is one of only 65 copies issued in the binding as intended. $600.

46. Bierce, Ambrose: ONE OF THE MISSING TALES OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. [Covelo, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1991]. Folio (36 x 26cm). Full black publisher’s calf. Illustrated with full-page linocuts. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine. Accompanied by an extra suite, enclosed in cloth folder with printed label, the whole enclosed in the publisher’s folding cloth clamshell box with printed label (small label shadow in corner of upper panel).

First edition in this format, deluxe issue. Introduction by Page Smith, and illustrated with original linocuts by David Page. One of thirty copies, specially bound, and accompanied by a suite of the thirteen plates (plus one present in duplicate), each signed by the artist in margin, from a total edition of 120 copies printed in Oldstyle and Caslon types on Lana Gravure paper, and signed by the artist and by Page Smith. $1200.

47. [Bird & Bull Press]: THREE ERFURT TALES 1497-1498. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY DR. ARNOLD H. PRICE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LESSING J. ROSENWALD. [North Hills]: Bird & Bull Press, 1962. Gilt cloth. Woodcut illustrations. Bit of “shiny” offset to cloth from former plastic wrapper, slight darkening to fore- edges, otherwise a very good copy, with the prospectus laid in.

One of 310 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris in Post Roman Bold Types on handmade paper. TAYLOR A3. $400.

48. [Bird & Bull Press]: Weimann, Christopher: MARBLED PAPERS BEING A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO CONTEMPORARY HAND-MARBLED PAPERS, SHOWING A VARIETY OF PATTERNS AND SPECIAL TECHNIQUES. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1978. Large quarto. Three quarter morocco and boards by G. Parrot. illustrations and tipped-in specimens. About fine, with prospectus laid in.

First edition. One of two hundred numbered copies printed in Van Dijck types on Ingres- Büttenpapier by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, and signed by Weimann. Illustrated with twenty-two specimens of original hand-marbled papers by Weimann, researched over two years and perfected by him for inclusion here as examples of the craft. TAYLOR & MORRIS B11. $650.

49. [Bird & Bull Press]: Wilson, Alexander: A POETIC ACCOUNT OF A WALKING JOURNEY TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA IN THE AUTUMN OF 1804. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2000. Quarter morocco and gilt cloth, gilt label. Illustrations. Very fine in slipcase, with prospectus laid in.

First edition in this format of this extended narrative by the poet/ornithologist, illustrated with thirteen full-page wood-engravings by Weskey W. Bates. One of 150 numbered copies printed on Arches. Published at: $400.

50. [Birdman of Alcatraz]: Trosper, Guy: BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ SCREENPLAY BY ... FROM THE BIOGRAPHY BY THOMAS E. GADDIS. [Np]: Harold Hecht Productions, Inc., [earlier than July 1962]. [1],180 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, bradbound in printed wrappers. Title lettered on lower edge, wrappers somewhat worn and marked, modest use; a good copy.

An unspecified, but likely quite early, draft of this adaptation to the screen of Gaddis’s biography of Robert Stroud. The 3 July 1962 release, directed by John Frankenheimer, starred Burt Lancaster as Stroud, and a release running time of 147 minutes suggests that portions of this draft were cut in the revision process. An uncommon script for the multiple award-nominated . $750.

Presentation Copy

51. Blackmore, R.D.: CHRISTOWELL A DARTMOOR TALE. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Original decorated red cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Inner hinges faintly cracked (and possibly very neatly recased), spine a trifle faded and with extremities a little frayed. Despite the defects noted, a good, bright copy.

First single-volume edition, preceded by the uncommon three-decker issued by the same publisher earlier in 1882. With a presentation inscription from Blackmore on the half-title: “’Squire Dicky’ Armstrong. With the deep respect & best wishes of the Writer. October 1882.” It seems likely that the recipient of this book may be associated with the artist, Francis A.W.T. Armstrong, who in 1880 “came forward with the gift to Blackmore of a series of beautiful water-colours of places in Devon and Somerset mentioned in Lorna Doone, many of which were engraved for use in the illustrated edition of 1882 … Not only the artist, but Mrs. Armstrong and the children, especially Lorna Melanter, became firm friends of the Blackmore’s and of Mrs. Blackmore’s nieces.” When Lorna Melanter was born on 29 November 1882 (co-incidentally on John Ridd’s birthday, 221 years after him), “the child was promptly called Lorna Blackmore Armstrong, and the author was invited to attend her christening … An interesting correspondence followed in regard to the little one’s name. ‘As to the little stranger’s names,’ he wrote, ‘I would suggest, if allowable, that my prosaic and dingy surname (although it has been borne by good people) does not sound well in that apposition, and a name should run melodiously. Therefore why not adopt -- if you so far honour me -- my first nom de plume, “Melanter,” which is “Blackmore” Grecised. “Lorna Melanter Armstrong” sounds very well, and a trifle romantic. At any rate it will be distinctive, if not distinguished’ … Throughout the remainder of his life Blackmore followed the fortunes of Lorna Melanter Armstrong with all the solicitude and affection of the father.” See Waldo Hilary Dunn, R.D. Blackmore A Biography (London, 1956, p. 178). $750.

52. [Blue Sky Press]: Noble, Alden Charles: SCOTT WHO WAS NINE A TALE OF THE JOYOUS UNIVERSE. Chicago: The Blue Sky Press, 1901. Small octavo. Cloth and pictorial boards. Faint bleedthrough of limitation numbering to recto of title, but a fine copy.

First edition. One of two hundred copies on handmade paper, from a total edition of 215. Stevens was one of the principals of the press. RANSOM (BLUE SKY) 13. $150.

53. [Book Club of Texas]: Marcus, Stanley: THE BOOK CLUB OF TEXAS. Dallas: DeGolyer Library / SMU, 1989. Small quarto. Cloth and marbled boards, paper spine label. Facsimiles. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition, deluxe issue. From an edition of 850 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor, this is one of one hundred copies specially bound and signed by the author. A sketch of the history of the original incarnation (1930 – 1937), with descriptions of the publications. $150.

54. [Bookplates]: Brettschneider, Rudolf: CHECKLIST OF THE BOOKPLATE DESIGNS OF FRANZ VON BAYROS. EXTRACTED, WITH ADDITIONS, FROM THE PRODUCED BY .... Berkhamsted & London: The Bookplate Society, [nd. but ca. 1980]. 63pp. Quarto. Cloth. Plates. Upper fore-corners slightly bumped, else fine in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear and smudges).

First edition in English, translated by W.M. Schwab, and edited by W.E. Butler and J.L. Wilson. One of twenty-five deluxe copies, specially bound, with an original bookplate tipped-in as the frontispiece, from a total edition of 600 copies. $175.

55. Boswell, James: AN ACCOUNT OF CORSICA, THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THAT ISLAND; AND MEMOIRS OF PASCAL PAOLI...ILLUSTRATED WITH A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP OF CORSICA. Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. xxiv,382pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands, gilt label. Bound with the half-title, but without the terminal blank. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves, map a bit offset to A1, with minor scattered foxing elsewhere, forecorners worn, small ink name on pastedown, but a good copy.

First edition, first form of the map (as appropriate to the first edition) without scale or marginal divisions, E2 and Z3 cancels, as usual, with the former in the ‘Istria’ form; D2r is in the uncorrected state. One of 3500 copies printed. With the bookplates of Thomas Arnold, MD (1742–1816) and a descendant. “At the height of his power [Thomas] Arnold held a monopoly not only on the lunacy trade in Leicestershire, but also, together with his sons, of the post of physician at Leicester Infirmary. A supporter of radical causes, Arnold’s career in Leicester was marked by his involvement in struggles for social status and political influence ... Arnold’s principal medical work is the two-volume Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness (1782, 1786), which ran to two editions and a German translation. In it he abandoned the traditional humoral theories, basing his classification on the ideas of Locke and separating disordered sensations from disordered reasoning. He helped to pioneer a new approach to insanity based on observed symptoms, but his classification was too detailed to be practical and it never became popular. Arnold is representative of a shift towards the ‘moral’ treatment of the insane” – DNB. POTTLE 24. ROTHSCHILD 442. GASKELL, FOULIS PRESS, 473. $1450.

56. Boswell, James: AN ACCOUNT OF CORSICA, THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THAT ISLAND; AND MEMOIRS OF PASCAL PAOLI ... ILLUSTRATED WITH A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP OF CORSICA. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, 1768. xxii,[2],384pp. plus folding map. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and recornered to style in brown morocco, gilt label. Bound with the half-title. Typical offsetting from binding to edges of endleaves, map a bit foxed and offset to A1 and blank recto of B8, slight tear to map at tab, but a very good copy. Small early ink name on free endsheet, and engraved bookplate of Sir George Shiffner on pastedown. Second edition, but first with the London imprint, and with some minor authorial tinkerings with the text. The map is in the proper form for this edition, with the added scale and division of degrees to the border. POTTLE 25. $850.

57. Boswell, James: BOSWELL’S LONDON JOURNAL 1762 – 1763 TOGETHER WITH JOURNAL OF MY JAUNT HARVEST 1762. London: Heinemann, 1951. Large octavo. Half vellum, gilt label, t.e.g. Portrait and plates. Small, tasteful collector’s bookplate on pastedown, a few spots of foxing to endsheets, else very good to near fine, without slipcase.

First British edition, limited issue. One of 1050 numbered copies, specially printed and bound. Edited by F.A. Pottle. $125.

58. Boswell, James: BOSWELL ON THE GRAND TOUR: GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND 1764. London: Heinemann, 1953. Large octavo. Half vellum and gilt cloth, t.e.g., gilt label. Facsimile and plates. Small tasteful bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine, without slipcase.

First British edition, limited issue. One of 1000 numbered copies, specially printed and bound. Edited by F.A. Pottle. $150.

59. [Bradley, Will]: Waterloo, Stanley: THE STORY OF AB A TALE OF THE TIME OF THE CAVE MAN. Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Black cloth, with the binding typographically decorated in yellow and red, with saber-tooth in yellow, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis map and plates. An unusually nice copy, very good or better.

First edition, probable second impression (or issue) of this popular novel of prehistoric life by the Chicago editor/novelist, illustrated with plates by Simon Harmon Vedder, and with the frontispiece integral. The binding design is by Will Bradley. Kraus indicates that the plates first appeared in the November 1897 London edition published by A. and C. Black, and were included only in the later printings in the U.S. However, the imprint on p.[352] of this copy indicates it was printed in August 1897; publication took place in late October. BAMBACE A31. BLEILER, p. 203 KRAUS 44. WRIGHT III:5819. $175.

First Realistically Obtainable Edition of His First Book

60. Bryant, William Cullen: THE EMBARGO; OR, SKETCHES OF THE TIMES. A SATIRE ... TOGETHER WITH THE SPANISH REVOLUTION, AND OTHER POEMS. Boston: Printed for the Author, By E.G. House, 1809. 35,[1]pp. Printed self wrapper, bound up in late 19th century full calf, gilt, t.e.g., by Stikeman. Binding a bit rubbed and darkened at spine and extremities; internally a very good or better, partially untrimmed copy.

Second edition, enlarged, of Bryant’s first book. The first edition, printing the title poem only, appeared in June of 1808, attributed only “To a Youth of Thirteen,” and this edition, bearing the author’s name for the first time, appeared in February of 1809. Both were printed at Bryant’s father’s expense, and the author declined to reprint the title poem in his lifetime, partially due to an energetic assault on the of Thomas Jefferson contained therein. The scarcity of the first edition is such that this edition has played proxy for this title in a number of notable assemblages of authors’ first books.BAL 1583. $1250. 61. Bryant, William Cullen: LETTERS OF A TRAVELLER SECOND SERIES, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1859. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind. Some foxing to endsheets and half-title, otherwise about fine.

First edition, first state, BAL’s binding B. A presentation copy from the author’s wife, inscribed on the front free endsheet: “To C.F. Henderson from her affectionate sister F.F. [Frances Fairchild] Bryant. New York. May 15th 1859.” BAL 1665. $350.

62. Bryant, William Cullen: HYMNS. [New York. nd. but 1864]. Original brown-orange cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, white moiré endsheets. Some surface splitting along the upper joint with signs of careful repair to the split, archival paper repair to front inner hinge, modest foxing to endsheets, otherwise a good copy.

First edition, BAL’s binding A. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “Charles Nordhoff Esq. with the kind regards of Wm. Cullen Bryant. December 1864.--” Bryant has also written “New York 1864” on the title-page. The recipient, Charles Nordhoff (1830- 1901), the Prussian-born journalist and author, wrote several works based on his youthful experiences as an American sailor, as well as guidebooks and the pioneering work, The Communistic Societies of the United States. He was a close friend of Bryant and served with him on the editorial staff of the New York Evening Post. BAL 1686. $1250.

63. Bryant, William Cullen: THIRTY POEMS. New York: Appleton, 1864. Cloth. Brown cloth, ruled and decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Crown and toe of spine very slightly frayed but an unusually nice copy.

First edition, BAL’s state 1 of page [213], state A of the binding. Inscribed on the front free endsheet: “To The Rev. Dr. Sam’l Osgood with the kind regards of the Author. December 1863.” Samuel Osgood was a Unitarian minister who edited the influential Transcendental periodical, the Messenger, and belonged to the Transcendental Club and the Town and Country Club. With the Osgood bookplate on the front pastedown, and another. BAL 1683. $1250.

64. Bryant, William Cullen: LETTERS FROM THE EAST. New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1869. Original purple cloth, beveled edges. A bit rubbed and worn, three very small holes in front free endsheet, one inch clean tear to the first blank (extending into Bryant’s last name in the presentation inscription, but with no loss), else a good copy.

First “cheap” edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank: “James Lawson Esq. with the kind regards of William Cullen Bryant. November 4th, 1869-- .” The recipient, James Lawson (1799-1880), was a Glasgow-born American author, editor, and insurance expert. In late 1815 he emigrated to New York and, having as a young man acquired an interest in literature, “... in 1821 he selected American writers for representation in John Mennons’ ‘Literary Coronal’ and, later, for similar miscellanies. Duyckinck credits him with the introduction of the best American authors to the British public ... He was one of the committee with Bryant, Halleck, and others, which selected John Augustus Stone’s ‘Metamora’ as the prize play for Forrest in 1829, and helped in a similar way to bring James K. Paulding’s ‘The Lion of the West’, with its leading character, Nimrod Wildfire, to Hackett in 1831. One of his intimate friends was William Gillmore Simms whom he introduced to the Harpers and assisted in many literary and personal matters ... Poe was also a friend and frequent visitor in Lawson’s home ... “ – DAB. BAL 1707. $2000.

Association Copy

65. Cabell, James Branch: GALLANTRY DIZAIN DES FETES GALANTES. INTRODUCTION BY LOUIS UNTERMEYER. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1922. Brown cloth. Two bookplates of Louis Untermeyer (one laid in), spine dull, a little worn, some discoloration to endsheets from bookplates, abrasions on rear paste-down where a glued-on letter has been removed. Despite the defects noted, a good, sound copy.

First revised edition of Cabell’s fourth book, and the first to contain Untermeyer’s introduction. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Cabell on the front free endsheet: “Inscribed for Louis Untermeyer with the best wishes of James Branch Cabell 13 June 1922.” $450.

66. Cable, George W.: MADAME DELPHINE. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881. Olive cloth, stamped in black and red. Binding a bit rubbed and lightly handsoiled, but a very good copy.

First edition of the author’s third American book. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “To Eugene Field, the warmest wishes of G.W. Cable.” With Field’s bookplate on the front paste-down and his signature (“Eugene Field 1892”) on the free endsheet. BAL 2333. WRIGHT III:870. $750.

67. [Carlyle, Thomas]: GERMAN ROMANCE: SPECIMENS OF ITS CHIEF AUTHORS; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES. By the Translator of Wilhelm Meister, and Author of The Life of Schiller. Edinburgh & London: William Tait ... and Charles Tait, 1827. Four volumes. xv,[1],337,[1]; [4],352; [4],309,[1]; [34],317,[1]pp. Octavo. Original publisher’s purple cloth, printed spine labels, edges untrimmed (Tarr’s binding C, of six variants). Engraved pictorial extra-title in each volume. Spines sunned, with modest fraying at crowns and toes, some minor soiling to the cloth, some foxing to prelims and terminal leaves, labels a bit rubbed, but actually, a very good set, considerably above the norm.

First edition of Carlyle’s fourth book, like two of its predecessors, preoccupied with the translation and criticism of German literature for the English reading public. The edition consisted of a single printing, clothed in six binding styles and variants. It is now uncommon in any of the publisher’s bindings. Seven years later, Carlyle would publish the private edition of Sartor Resartus. “... One of the key books in the transmission of the German Romantics to England” – Wolff (his set was rebound). TARR A4.I.I-IV. WOLFF 1131. $950.

68. Chatwin, Bruce: IN PATAGONIA. London: Jonathan Cape, [1977]. Gilt cloth boards. Map endsheets. Photographs. First edition of the author’s first book, a substantial addition to the field of . Edges a bit tanned, spine slightly cocked, but a very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket. $950.

69. Chatwin, Bruce: ON THE BLACK HILL. London: Jonathan Cape, [1982]. Gilt cloth boards. First edition. Top edge faintly dusty, else a nice copy in dust jacket, with the publisher’s £10.95 net label on front flap. $125. 70. Chatwin, Bruce: THE SONGLINES. London: Jonathan Cape, [1987]. Gilt cloth boards. First edition. Textblock slightly tanned, as often, otherwise a bright, very good copy in first state dust jacket with short internal mend at toe of one flap fold and a trace of trivial foxing to the flaps. $150.

71. [Chax Press]: Evers, Larry, and Felipe S. Molina [translators]: WO’I BWIKAM COYOTE SONGS FROM THE YAQUI BOW LEADERS’ SOCIETY RECORDED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNOTATED BY .... Tucson: Chax Press, 1990. Narrow folio (41.3 x 19cm). Cloth- backed decorated paper over boards. Illustrations by Cynthia Miller. Fine, in lightly used stiff paper wrapper. First edition. One of one hundred numbered copies printed by hand in red, black and blue, in Garamond, Palatino and Spectrum types on a variety of papers. $300.

72. Cheever, John: HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE. Stevenson, CT: Country Squires Books, [1965]. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket, the latter faintly sunned at the edges, and showing the usual slight ‘puckering’ around the label on the upper panel.

First separate edition in book form. Copy #7 of one hundred and fifty numbered copies (and some out-of-series copies), signed by the author. $250.

73. [Cheloniidae Press]: Robinson, Alan James: CETACEA THE GREAT WHALES. [Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1982]. Oblong folio (37.5 x 55.8 cm). Loose sheets, laid into morocco and cloth folder with bas-relief head of a whale on the upper panel. The whole enclosed in quarter morocco tray-case. Bookplate on front pastedown of folder, otherwise fine; the cloth panels of the tray-case are modestly scuffed and rubbed

First edition. One of 100 numbered portfolios (of 110), signed by Alan James Robinson (the artist), David Bourbeau (the binder), Gray Parrot (maker of the tray-case), and Harold McGrath (the printer). A portfolio of seven aquatint etchings by Robinson depicting the major species of whales, with interleaves of captions and explanatory text. The images were printed by the artist, and he has signed and captioned each in pencil. $1500.

74. Chen Chi: PAINTINGS. [Vevey, Switz.: Printed by Säuberlin & Pfeiffer, 1965]. Folio (56 x 38 cm). Loose sheets and bifolia, laid into lithographed decorated wrappers. Fine, in vellum backed grass-cloth chemise, and grass cloth slipcase (the latter split at one joint). Bookplate inside chemise.

First edition. Copy #84 of 250 numbered copies (plus 12 lettered copies), signed by the artist. Reproductions in collotype or offset lithography of 23 color paintings, with English and Chinese texts, the latter printed as original lithographs on Vélin d’Arches. Chen Chi (1912-2005) relocated from Shanghai to New York in 1947, but appreciation for his work continued unabated in his homeland. In 1999, the Chen Chi Museum opened in Shanghai. Substantial extra postage. $650.

75. Chernikhov, Yakov G.: [In Russian:] KONSTRUKTSIYA ARKHITEKTURNYKH I MASHINYKH FORM [Constructions of the Architectural Forms and Forms of Machines]. Leningrad: Society of Architects, 1931. 232pp., 40 numbered plates, plus leaf of adverts. Quarto. Original printed green paper boards. Over 300 illustrations in text. Boards a bit rubbed, with characteristic edge and corner wear, a few pencil notes, but a very good copy of a perishable book, with the fragile backstrip intact. First edition of the second of Chernikov’s monumental works on architectural design. Chernikhov (1889 – 1951) joined the architecture department of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1916. After graduating in 1925, he was occupied with production and project work in Leningrad throughout the 1920s and 30s. In 1927 he organized in Leningrad his own Science and Research Laboratory for Architectural Shapes and Graphical Studies, where with a group of students and assistants he became actively involved in experimental and design work. He was both influenced by and a participant in the innovations surrounding the later years of constructivism and suprematism, and in a series of four major published works, concluding with 101 Architectural (1933), he left a legacy of inspiration for future generations of designers, architects and typographers. $4500.

76. Christo, and Jeanne-Claude: WRAPPED REICHSTAG 1971 – 95. [Köln]: Taschen, [1996]. Oblong thick quarto. Cloth. Profusely illustrated with photographs and facsimiles, the majority in color. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine in pictorial slipcase.

First edition, limited issue. German and English texts printed in parallel. Copy #29 of 5000 numbered copies (and 700 hors commerce), signed by Christo, Jean-Claude and Wolfgang Volz, the photographer, with a 22.5 x 22.5 cm swatch of the original fabric inset into a frame in the rear of the book. Picture notes by David Bourdon. In print at $700. $600.

Sadleir Copy of an American Plug

77. Churchill, Winston: THE CRISIS ... WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY . New York: Macmillan, 1901. Gilt lettered plum cloth, t.e.g.. Frontis and seven plates. Light rubbing at edges, 1901 gift inscription on verso of front free endsheet, otherwise a very good copy, in the uncommon printed dust jacket (a bit tanned, shallow losses at crown and toe of spine, partial split up rear flap fold, but very good).

First edition of this popular novel of the Civil War, a plug understandably overlooked by antiquarians except on those occasions when it turns up in dust jacket. In this case, it caught the notice of an eminent antiquarian: with the bookplate of Michael Sadleir on the front pastedown. SMITH C-410. $150.

78. Cleary, Jon: THE SUNDOWNERS. New York: Scribner, 1952. Cloth. Extreme lower edge of upper board a trace spotted, otherwise a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket with some erosion to the lower joint.

First U.S. edition of this novel set in the sheep ranching country of Australia, the source novel for the multi-award shortlisted 1960 film adaptation starring Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov. $250.

79. [Clemens, Samuel L.]: Twain, Mark [pseud]: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER ... ILLUSTRATED BY WORTH BREHM. New York & London: Harper & Bros., 1910. Original cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. A fine, bright copy. First edition with Brehm’s iconic illustrations. With the bookplate, signed in pencil by its designer, George Wharton Edwards, of The Authors Club library tipped to the front pastedown. Also signed by the author on a sheet of fine paper tipped to the front free endsheet: “S.L. Clemens / .” Slight offsetting from Edwards’ bookplate faintly shadows Twain’s signatures. The Authors Club of New York was organized in 1882. Its membership included virtually every notable American literary figure of the day and several honorary members from England (Thomas Hardy, for example). According to the constitution as printed in its manual for 1910, an object of was “the acquisition and maintenance of an appropriate library.” Edwards designed the Club’s bookplate in 1896. Clemens was a “regular member” from 1885-1906 and an honorary member from 1906 until his death on April 21, 1910. $4500.

80. [Clemens, Samuel L.]: Weaver, John V.A. [screenwriter]: SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS “THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER” SCREEN PLAY BY ... [wrapper title]. [Culver City]: Selznick International, 16 July 1937 [but likely later, ca 1960s]. [1],98 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow typescript wrappers. Light use to wrappers, otherwise near fine.

Denoted the “Final Shooting Script” for this adaptation to the screen of Clemens’ novel. The February 1938 release was directed by (with uncredited retakes by , and others), and starred , , May Robson, Walter Brennan, Victor Jory, et al. The physical aspect of this script suggests it was rerun from new stencils at a later date, and in support of that inference, it is accompanied by a Combined Cutting & Dialogue Continuity Script, based on a 1957 print (82 leaves, legal format), and the same for a 1961 16mm re-release (82 leaves, legal format), for a total of three volumes. This was at least the fourth adaptation of the novel to the screen, the earliest having appeared in 1907. $650.

81. [Clément, Jean-Marie-Bernard]: SATIRES. Par M. C***. Amsterdam et se trouvant à Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1786. [4],xxxvi,175,[1]pp. Octavo. Contemporary quarter calf and pastepaper boards. Pictorial title vignette and decorative headpieces. Binding extremities a bit shelfworn, some worming to spine joints (but still intact and sound), half-title creased, with author attribution in 19th century hand on verso, very light foxing and occasional minor spots, otherwise a good, crisp copy.

First edition. Clément (1742–1812) taught philosophy at Dijon, and entered into correspondence with Voltaire (published 1773-6). He moved to Paris, with a letter of introduction to La Harpe from Voltaire in hand, turning his efforts toward , criticism and translation, and eventually, to a protracted feud with Voltaire, the subject of one of the satires in this collection. The whole is introduced by a substantial “Discourse sur la Satire,” and includes the drama, “Les Persifleurs Persiflés.” $250.

82. Cole, Lester, and Thomas Lennon [screenwriters]: ... “SECRETS OF A NURSE” .... [Los Angeles: ], 4 November 1938. [1],21,15,16,19,15,22,10 leaves plus blanks. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Punched and bradbound at top margins. A few nicks and light use; very good.

A continuity and dialogue script for this film, adapted from a story by Quentin Reynolds. Arthur Lubin directed the December 1938 release, starring Edmund Lowe, Helen Mack and Dick Foran. The concerns a nurse whose duties lead her to evidence of corruption in professional prize-fighting. Cole was one of the cofounders of the Screen Writers Guild, and in 1934 joined the CPA. Like his other colleagues known as the “Hollywood Ten,” Cole refused to cooperate with the HUAC in 1947, was sentenced to a year in prison and a fine, and was placed on the Blacklist. He continued to work sporadically under pennames, and his last major film, Born Free, was so credited. $175. 83. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottel, Bookseller, Bristol, 1796. xvi,188,[4]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt extra, marbled endleaves. Joints neatly restored, spine ends a bit worn, spine gilding (including title) rubbed, internally a very good, crisp copy, with the half-title, errata and leaf of adverts.

First edition of Coleridge’s first published collection of poetry, preceded by the rare verse-play, The Fall of Robespierre, several prose tracts, and The Watchman. With the booklabel of collector Abel Berland on the front pastedown. HAYWARD 206. WISE (COLERIDGE) 8. TINKER 678. ESTC T125613. NCBEL III:215. $5500.

84. [Coley, Louis B. (illus)]: Fitzgerald, Edward (trans)]: THE RUBÁIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM. New York: Godfrey A.S. Wieners, 1902. Quarto. Linen backed gilt lettered boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Fine and unopened, in tissue wrapper and original box with printed pictorial label (box edgeworn, with cracks at joints, but whole).

First printing in this format, with decorative borders and initials by Louis B. Coley. From a total edition of three hundred numbered copies, this is one of 250 copies on handmade paper. An imposing and somewhat uncommon example of American arts & crafts book design, seldom found with the box intact. $1000.

85. CONTACT. New York. Spring 1921. Whole number three (of five published). Small quarto. Pictorial self wrappers. Illustrations. Small, early glassine-type mend to the spine at one staple, else a near fine copy.

Edited by William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon. A significant and genuinely uncommon American periodical of short lifespan, founded by Williams as an expression of his “faith in the existence of native artists who are capable of having, comprehending, and recording extraordinary experience.” Contributors to this issue include the editors, H.D., Kenneth Burke, Marsden Hartley, H.D., Bryher, Wallace Stevens, and Rex Slikard. The five issues varied in format (including crude mimeograph) and runs have long been very, very difficult to assemble. HOFFMAN, et al, pp. 258-9. WALLACE C60-2. EDELSTEIN C68. BOUGHN C52. $350. 86. [Cooper, James F.]: LIONEL LINCOLN; OR, THE LEAGUE OF BOSTON.... New York: Published by Charles , 1825 [II: 1824]. Two volumes. xii,263;270pp. Octavo. Original boards, paper spine labels, untrimmed. Bit of foxing at edges (but much less than the norm), early restorations to spines and spine ends, and rear free endsheet replaced in volume one early on, but a really nice, untrimmed set, with the bookplates of Arthur Swann. Half morocco slipcase and inserts.

A pedigreed copy of the first edition of Cooper’s fifth novel. The half-titles the series title, “Legends of the Thirteen Republics,” of which this was to be the first installment. However, its reception was tepid, and he turned in another direction, with The Last of the Mohicans published the following year. In this set, the signature mark ‘11’ is intact in volume two. Arthur Swann’s descriptive slip is laid in, and the free endsheets bear some of his notes, including observations on the superiority of this copy over a copy Rosenbach showed him in 1928. BAL 3832. WRIGHT I:631. SPILLER & BLACKBURN 6. $1250.

87. Courier, Paul-Louis: COLLECTION COMPLÈTE DES PAMPHLETS POLITIQUES ET OPUSCULES LITTERAIRES .... Bruxelles: Chez tous les Libraires, 1827. xv,[1],462pp. Large octavo. Early 20th century three-quarter medium brown crushed levant, spine gilt extra, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portrait. Moderate foxing, faint old tide mark affecting a few lower margins in the first two gatherings, otherwise a very good, large copy, with the half-title bound in.

Although not denoted as such, the second edition (or, more likely) impression, first published in 1826, the year after Courier’s murder. In addition to his political essays, this collection includes an unsigned essay on Courier’s life and works, and a substantial selection (barring his translations) of his Hellenist writings. VICAIRE II:1041. $300.

88. Cowen, Ron, and [screenwriters]: AN EARLY FROST. [New York: NBC Productions], 21 February 1985. [1],138 leaves. Quarto. Photoduplicated typescript, bradbound in plain wrappers. Title hand lettered on spine, otherwise very good.

A “revised final draft” of this teleplay for the 11 November release, directed by John Eman, starring Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazara, Sylvia Sidney, Aidan Quinn, D.W. Moffett, et al. Based on a story by Sherman Yellen, the script won all three an Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or Special, and the film won several technical awards and Sidney won a Golden Globe for her role. One of the earliest television dramatic treatments of the effects of AIDS on personal and family levels. $225.

89. Cowper, William: POEMS BY ... OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ. [with:] THE TASK, A POEM IN SIX BOOKS ... TO WHICH ARE ADDED ... AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ. TIROCINIUM, OR A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS, AND THE HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1782 & 1785. Two volumes. [4],367,[errata];[8],359,[1]pp. Uniformly bound in full aqua blue straight grain morocco, raised bands, spines gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., by Riviere. Spine extremities a bit rubbed, but a very good set, with the half-title in the second volume.

First editions of Cowper’s first and second collections of poems. While the second work is in many ways an independent collection, the half-title affirms the publisher’s intention that it be identified as the second, companion volume to the first. As usual, John Newton’s eight-page Preface is not present in the first volume – the decision to cancel it was made within a week of publication, and it was included in only a few special copies, and after the success of The Task, distributed on demand or separately to earlier purchasers. It did not appear as an integral part of the book until the fifth edition (1793). As usual, leaves E6 and I6 are in their canceled state. In the present copy of the second work, the on p. 304 is incorrect, but that on p. 306 is correct. RUSSELL 68 & 69. HAYWARD 191. ROTHSCHILD 681. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 60. $850. 90. Crane, Hart, et al: 1924 A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS. Woodstock, NY. July through December 1924. Whole numbers 1-4 (all published). Printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned at edges, some chipping to extremities and overlap edges, a few splashmarks to wrappers, but good, internally very good.

Edited by Edwin Seaver and A. Vera Bass. An important and uncommon periodical, including contributions by Hart Crane (“Sunday Morning Apples,” “Interludium,” and “Voyages”), Seaver, Yvor Winters, William Gropper, e.e. cummings, Gorham Munson and Ezra Pound (feuding about the intelligibility of Eliot’s “The Waste Land”), W.C. Williams, Cowley, Burke, Frank, et al. The December issue invites subscription to the forthcoming continuation, 1925, which never appeared. HOFFMAN, et al, p.274. $200.

91. Crowley, Aleister: MOONCHILD A PROLOGUE. London: The Mandrake Press, 1929. Large octavo. Gilt green cloth. Light rubbing to lower edges, trace of usual tan offset to endsheets delimited by the jacket flaps, otherwise a near fine, bright copy, in the pictorial Beresford Egan dust jacket, which betrays a trace of sunning to the spine panel, and some thin old internal tape reinforcement along the crown and at the tips of the flap folds.

First edition. One of 2500 copies printed. Crowley’s quite readable roman a clef, written ca. 1917, and fueling some of its fire with idealized fictionalizations of incidents and venom associated with Crowley’s feud with MacGregor Mathers. NCBEL IV:1036. BLEILER, p.53. 2850.

92. Davenport, Guy: WO ES WAR, SOLL ICH WERDEN. Champaign, IL: The Finial Press, 2004. Large octavo. Cloth and boards, lettered in black and stamped in gilt, two ribbon markers. Fine, in acetate dust jacket.

First edition of the restored, original text. One of one hundred numbered copies printed on Frankfurt paper (the total edition), signed by the author. Designed and printed by A. Doyle Moore, bound by Christopher Hohn, et al. Accompanied by a copy of the “circumspectus” (1/100 copies) printing a [6]pp. author’s note not carried over to the published work and a “cadenza” to the text, (small folio sheet folded to three panels, text on recto only), extracted from a letter by the author. $900.

93. DeAndrea, William L.: Editorial and Setting Typescript for THE HOG MURDERS. [Np: The Author], 1979. Ca. 265 leaves. Quarto. Photographically reproduced typescript, with original corrections and annotations in ink scattered throughout. Somewhat used from intended use, but generally good to very good.

The editorial and setting typescript of the author’s 1979 Edgar Award winning novel, The Hog Murders, published by Avon as a original. Accompanied by a one page autograph statement, signed by the author, dated 11/25/80, describing the typescript, detailing its history of rejections (“about a dozen”), the loss of the original typescript by Harper & Row, and the nature of the corrections and revisions. He identifies his annotations (black ink), and those in red and green as editorial. The first leaf of the typescript is signed in full, and the whole is accompanied by fine copy of the book, inscribed and signed by the author to an omnivorous collector in 1979. $750. Thank Goodness It’s Friday

94. [Defoe, Daniel]: THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER: WHO LIVED EIGHT AND TWENTY YEARS ALL ALONE IN AN UN-INHABITED ISLAND ON THE COAST OF AMERICA, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT RIVER OROONOQUE; HAVING BEEN CAST ON SHORE BY SHIPWRECK, WHEREIN ALL THE MEN PERISHED BUT HIMSELF. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HOW HE WAS AT LAST AS STRANGELY DELIVER’D BY PYRATES ... [with:] THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE; BEING THE SECOND AND LAST PART OF HIS LIFE, AND OF THE STRANGE SURPRIZING ACCOUNTS OF HIS TRAVELS ROUND THREE PARTS OF THE GLOBE [with:] SERIOUS REFLECTIONS DURING THE LIFE AND SUPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE: WITH HIS VISION OF THE ANGELICK WORLD. London: Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship and Black-Swan ..., 1719 – 1720. Three volumes. [4],364pp.plus engraved frontis; [8],373,[11]pp. plus engraved folding frontis map; [16],270,84,[2]pp. plus engraved folding frontis. Octavos. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked and recornered to style, with the original gilt backstrips laid down, marbled edges and endsheets. Two tasteful bookplates in each volume on front pastedown, pencil notes erased from one terminal binder’s blank, expert reinforcement on verso of one fold to frontis map in second volume, some faint spots to B1-2 in the second volume and one small spot on title of same volume, affecting one letter, but a very good set.

Third edition of the first work, Hutchins’ issue 3c; first edition 2nd state (with

advert on A4v) of the second work; and first edition of the third (state with catchword ‘The’ on p. 270). A quite respectable set of one of the most celebrated of all 18th century English novels and an essential text in the literature of the imaginary voyage, including the two supplementary . The first work was immediately popular and went through four editions within the four months after publication; the second also struck a chord with the public, with a second edition appearing the same year. The third part, however, languished and was not reprinted by Taylor, and its appearance in the subsequent, often abridged, editions of the full narrative is generally fragmentary. Crusoe’s Adventures was both pirated in its time and imitated, serving as the progenitor of the subset of imaginary voyages christened “Robinsonades.” It established the relative fortune of its publisher, though not of its author, who sold his interests outright to Taylor. HUTCHINS, pp. 74-8; 97-112; and 122- 8. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 41. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 180. $16,500.

95. Delafaye, Theodore: AN ESSAY ON VIRGIL’S CELEBRATED GATES OF SLEEP. CONTAINING BESIDES A VERY PARTICULAR ENQUIRY INTO THIS INTRICATE SUBJECT, AS WELL AS INTO HOMER’S SIMILAR GATES .... London: Printed for J. Robinson ..., 1743. [2],105,[1]pp. Octavo. Modern three quarter unlettered calf and boards. A couple marginal smudges to title-page, a bit of foxing to last few leaves, but a very good copy.

First edition. The earliest work by Delafaye (1703/4 –1772) reported by ESTC. He went on to an appointment as Rector of the united Parishes of St. Mildred’s and All-Saints, in the City of Canterbury. He published a sermon against small pox inoculation in 1753, along with some uncommon works of Apocalyptic interpretation of Revelations. Perhaps his judgment was on a sounder footing in this work of classical criticism. ESTC T4346. $175.

96. Delille, Jacques LES JARDINS, POËME ... Paris: Chez Levrault, Freres, Libraires. De L’Imprimerie de P. Didot L’Aïné, An IX. – 1801. xxxi,[1],166pp. Large octavo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt extra, gilt label, marbled edges. Frontis. Extremities and fore-tips a bit worn, some surface scarring and small nicks to lower board, large bookplate on front pastedown, a few minor marginal smudges, otherwise a very good copy, the text bright, crisp and fresh.

Denoted a New Edition, considerably augmented. The fine engraved frontis is by Choffard after Monciau. Delille’s most popular work of original poetry, first published in a preliminary form in 1782. The author’s notes for the poem occupy the last forty pages of the text. Delille was an accomplished translator, notably of Virgil and Milton. His descriptive poem on the formal garden was popular as well in England, encompassing as it does descriptions of several of distinguished gardens across the channel, and this expanded text saw London printings almost immediately, and a number of deluxe/illustrated editions in the following decades. Brunet notes this edition adds 1100 lines to the poem. BRUNET II:576. VICAIRE III:122. $500.

97. Demoustier, C.-A. [Charles-Albert]: LETTRES À ÉMILE SUR LA MYTHOLOGIE. Paris: Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809. viii,143,[1],128 ,104;107,[1],116,148pp. Six parts bound in two volumes. Octavo. Full crimson crushed levant, spines gilt extra, a.e.g., by Cuzin. Joints rubbed, with faint old ink drip marks on lower board of one volume, light occasional foxing, otherwise a very good set.

First illustrated Renouard edition, featuring a portrait engraved by Gaucher after Ducreaux, and thirty-six plates engraved by various hands (Delvaux, de Ghendt, Roger, Simonet, Thomas and Triere) after drawings by Moreau le Jeune. This is a special copy, with the plates present in three states, before and after letters. Cohen – De Ricci devote over a column to this edition, as well as to special copies such as this, which was bound for Léon Mercier, with his printed bookleaf in the first volume. COHEN – DE RICCI, pp. 283ff. RAY, p.88. $1250.

Copy #1 of Twenty

98. Dickens, Charles: TO JOHN LEECH CORRESPONDENCE NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. [Np]: Privately Printed by Walter Dexter, December 1938. 45pp. Original printed green wrappers, bound up in three quarter vellum and marbled boards, t.e.g., by Asper of Geneva. Slight foxing to preliminary blank, endleaf and top margins of first few leaves, vellum a trifle soiled, else a very good copy.

First edition. One of twenty copies printed. The first appearance in print of 85 letters from Dickens to Leech (the illustrator of the first edition of A Christmas Carol), all from the de Suzannet collection. This is an important presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher: “Number One, to the ‘ever best of friends,’ A de Suzannet with best good wishes. Walter Dexter 21 Dec. 1938.” With Alain de Suzannet’s bookplate on the front pastedown. $575.

99. Dodge, Mary Mapes: DONALD AND DOROTHY. New York: The Century Co., 1893. Thick octavo. Blue-green cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt and silver. Illustrations and plates. Light rubbing at extremities, fore-tips slightly bumped, a few corners creased, scattered marginal smudging and a few minor spots, slight cracking after free endsheet and along gutter of blank, but otherwise a good, bright copy.

First New York edition (preceded by the first edition published by Roberts Bros. of Boston in 1883). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first blank “To Eugene Field. With the Sincere Compliments of his admirer -- Mary Mapes Dodge November 29 -- 1893,” followed by a quotation: “... a book ‘Whereon, when other men shall look, They’ll wail to know you got it cheap.’” With Field’s bookplate on the front pastedown. $450.

100. Dos Passos, John, and Reginald Marsh [illustrator]: U.S.A. THE 42ND PARALLEL [with:] NINETEEN NINETEEN [with:] THE BIG MONEY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Three volumes. Large octavo. Cream polished buckram, stamped in gilt, gilt leather labels, t.e.g. Illustrations. Pictorial color endsheets. An unusually fine set, in the original plain paper wrappers with diecut spines with film overlays. The box is complete, but worn, with old tape mends to two joints.

First illustrated edition, limited issue. Illustrations by Reginald Marsh. One of 365 numbered sets, specially bound, and signed by Dos Passos and Marsh. $750.

101. Douglas, Frederick Sylvester North: AN ESSAY ON CERTAIN POINTS OF RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN GREEKS. London: Printed for John Murray, 1813. vi,[2],198,[2]pp. Large octavo. Original boards, printed spine label, untrimmed. Spine extremities chipped, fore-tips of boards bruised, a few minor stains to boards, year of publication ownership inscription on free endsheet, a few minor spots to endsheets and half-title, but a very good copy.

First edition. Douglas (1791-1819) was the precocious son of Baron Glenbervie and this appears to have been his earliest publication, based on his two year tour of Greece and the Near East beginning in 1810. Second and third corrected editions appeared the same year. Douglas embarked on a promising career in politics, entering parliament in late 1812, but he died of jaundice just months after his marriage in 1819. $375.

102. Dulac, Edmund [illustrator]: RUBÁYÁT DE OMAR KHÁYYÁM. Paris: L’Édition d’Art H. Piazza et Cie., [1910]. Quarto. Three quarter deep red morocco and gilt marbled boards, raised bands, t.e.g., by Levitzky. Illustrated with twenty-full color plates within gilt frames and floral borders. Spine a shade darkened, with a few minor rubs, otherwise a fine copy in matching fleece-lined morocco faced slipcase (some wear to protruding head and toe pieces).

First French edition in this format, illustrated with twenty fine color plates by Edmund Dulac. From a total edition of seven hundred copies, this is one of 300 copies on Japon, signed by Dulac. However, it is not numbered, as often. $1200.

103. Dwight, Timothy: THE CONQUEST OF CANÄAN; A POEM IN ELEVEN BOOKS. Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1785. [8],304pp. Small octavo (signed in 4s). Contemporary, if not original unlettered sheep. Some small nicks to the spine, early ownership signature on endsheet, some foxing to later gatherings, with an intermittent tide mark along the lower edge, tip of old bookseller’s description affixed to free endsheet, but an unusually good copy. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition of the first native epic poem published in the U.S., dedicated by Dwight to George Washington. This copy does not include the errata leaf and signature mark ‘L’ is present (not assigned priority by BAL). BAL 5040. WEGELIN, p.31. EVANS 18996. ESTC W30488. $350.

104. Eisenhauer, Lette: [CROSSWORD PUZZLE] ORIGINAL UNTITLED MONOCHROME ETCHING. [Milan: Galerie Schwarz, 1962]. Plate size 10 x 15 cm, on 26 x 19cm sheet. Mounted in stiff board and acetate mat, with printed caption on verso. Fine. One of sixty numbered copies, in addition to twenty-five copies numbered in Roman, signed and dated in the margin by the artist. Printed in Paris in the Atelier of Georges Leblanc on handmade paper from Papeteries de Rives. Lette (or Letty) Eisenhauer was born in Brooklyn in 1935, and in the 1960s rose to prominence as a performance artist associated with Fluxus. Published as an element of Galerie Schwarz’s series, L’Avanguardia Internazionale. $275.

105. Eliot, T. S.: THE WASTE LAND. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2007. Large, oblong quarto. Color plates. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine, with prospectus laid in.

First printing in this format, illustrated with R.B. Kitaj’s painting, If Not, Not. With an essay on Eliot’s poem by Helen Vendler, and an essay on Kitaj’s painting by Marco Livingstone. One of 300 numbered copies (of 326) printed at the Arion Press in Bodoni Book on mouldmade paper. Published at: $600.

106. [Ellroy, James]: Helgeland, Brian: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL. Burbank: New Regency/The Wolper Organization/Warner Bros., 12 February – 6 May 1996. [1],130 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Studio generated, photographically reproduced typescript, Printed on rectos only of multi-colored papers. Brad-bound. Ink initials on title leaf, light use, else very good.

An interim “revised draft” of Helgeland’s adaptation of Ellroy’s novel, predating the involvement of director Curtis Hanson as co-writer. Dated revises on six different colored stocks trace the still on-going revision process. The 1997 release starred Kim Basinger, who won an Academy Award for her role, and Kevin Spacey, Russel Crowe, Danny DeVito, et al. Helgeland and Hanson won an Oscar for best screenplay adapted from another medium. The film was nominated for an additional seven Academy Awards. The definitive treatment of Ellroy’s dark vision of Los Angeles. $250.

First Clothbound Book

107. [Emerson, Ralph W.]: NATURE. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. 95,[1] pp. Octavo. Publisher’s dark brown diaper grain cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt (Myerson’s cloth 3, stamping B). Shallow losses from crown and toe of spine, almost imperceptible signs of free endsheets having been neatly excised, fore-tips worn, text and endsheets foxed, with a few creases, pencil 1841 ownership signature; still a good, above average copy.

First edition of Emerson’s first clothbound publication, published anonymously in an edition likely consisting of a single printing of 1500 copies. Copies remained in the publisher’s inventory as late as 1844. This copy exhibits the corrected state of p. 94. Preceded by two pamphlets (the first quite rare), and a silk broadside printing of the text of the first. MYERSON A3.1.a. BAL 5181. $2750.

108. Emerson, Ralph W.: THE METHOD OF NATURE. AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF THE ADELPHI, IN WATERVILLE , IN MAINE, AUGUST 11, 1841. Boston: Samuel G. Simpkins, 1841. 30pp. Octavo. Original printed medium brown wrappers. Small, shallow discoloration at top edge, faint historical society blindstamp in title and upper wrapper, narrow partial split to spine, soft vertical crease and occasional light marginal foxing; a good copy.

First edition of this significant lecture, which, by its injection of the element of ecstasy as “the law and call of nature,” marked a turning point in Emerson’s thought on the relationship between man and nature. Myerson suggests the edition may have consisted of as few as 500 copies. This copy bears a presentation inscription on the upper wrapper: “Dr Pennington with the regards of C.E. Park[?]” (the donor’s name is obscured a bit by the type decoration in the corner of the frame). One could not be blamed for hoping, though without definitive proof, that the recipient might have been African American abolitionist Rev. James W.C. Pennington. A notation in another hand appears above the inscription: “Main Pamp. Vol. 2.” MYERSON 11A.1. BAL 5190. $1250.

109. Emerson, Ralph W.: ESSAYS [with:] ESSAYS: SECOND SERIES. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841 & 1844. Two volumes. [8],303,[1]; [6],[3]-313,[3]pp. Original publisher’s blind decorated brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Some foxing to endleaves and edges of first volume (but far, far less than usually seen to the textblock), with the common oxidation patches to the coated endsheets, otherwise an unusually nice, bright copy; crown and toe of spine of second volume slightly frayed, early ink name and erasure on front free endsheet, very slight uniform tanning to text block, a few pencil notes and underscores, otherwise a very good copy. Housed together in gilt half morocco slipcase and inserts.

First editions, the former in one of the earlier forms of the binding (Myerson’s binding E, with no mention of ‘First Series’ on spine), the latter in Myerson’s binding C. As usual, the second volume sheets exhibit characteristic of both the first and second printings identified by Myerson (but not by BAL). Emerson underwrote the publication of the first volume, and 1500 copies were printed. Of the second series, 2000 copies were printed. “...These essays are as readable, and to a considerable extent as much read, today as a hundred years ago ... their individualistic idealism, which stirred renascent Yankee New England to its depths, speaks with the same simple power and force in the midst of modern complexities” – Grolier American Hundred. A quite agreeable set of two titles more often than not seen rebacked, rebound or otherwise fussed with. MYERSON A10.1.a & A16.A.a-b. BAL 5189 & 5198. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 47. $5500.

110. Emerson, Ralph W.: POEMS. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847. [4],251,[1] pp. Original glazed yellow boards, sympathetically rebacked with most of the original backstrip (darkened) and the printed label laid down. Boards somewhat soiled, some careful pencil notes in the text (see below), internally very good. Half morocco slipcase.

First U.S. edition, preceded by the British edition. Though this copy corresponds to BAL’s collation, it is actually Myerson’s second issue, with the preliminary catalogue inserted rather than integral, and without a half-title (a distinction not made by BAL). Myerson records that the first edition encompassed three separate printings prior to a specifically denoted “Fourth Edition.” With the pencil acquisition notes and ownership signature of American collector Alfred T. White, who notes the pencil revisions in the text “are those made by Emerson in later editions.” MYERSON A18.2.a. BAL 5211. $650.

111. Enslin, Theodore: FORMS PART I ... [through] CODA. New Rochelle: Elizabeth, [1970–1974]. Five volumes. Large octavo. Cloth. Top edges of boards of volume four and lower edges of volume two show some abrasions, otherwise a very good to fine set in dust jackets.

First editions of the constituent volumes of the poet’s magnum opus, each printed in an edition of three hundred copies only. $225. 112. Ernst, Max: LE MUSEE DE L’HOMME SUVI DE LA PÊCHE AU SOLEIL LEVANT. [Paris]: Galerie Alexandre Iolas, [1965]. Large octavo. Printed pictorial wrappers over stiff wrappers. Copiously illustrated with color tipped-in plates. Fine in cloth slipcase and chemise.

First edition, limited issue. One of 201 numbered copies (of 333 copies on pur fil) with an original monochrome etching by Ernst bound in, initialed in pencil by him in the margin. The wrapper illustration is by Dorthea Tanning. $1250.

113. [Erté (pseud. of Romain de Tirtoff)]: Barthes, Roland: ERTÉ (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF) ... WITH AN EXTRACT FROM ERTÉ’S MEMOIRS. Parma, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci, 1972. Large quarto. Gilt decorated black silk, full color pictorial vignette on upper board, decorative . Illustrated with 80 tipped-in color plates. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in near fine publisher’s black linen slipcase.

First edition, U.S. issue, of William Weaver’s translation of Barthes’ text. One of 1500 copies bound thus, from a total edition of 2000 copies printed on untrimmed Fabriano handmade paper. $300.

114. [Essex House Press]: Gray, Thomas: [GRAY’S ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD...]. [Campden, Gloucestershire: Edward Arnold / Essex House Press, 1901]. Octavo. Publisher’s vellum over boards, upper board decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Frontis by George Thomson. Near fine.

One of 150 numbered copies printed in Caslon type on real vellum. The frontis, initials, vignette and tailpiece are colored by hand, and the capitals in the text highlighted in red. The 3rd of Ashbee’s “Great Poems” series. TOMKINSON (ESSEX) 35. RANSOM (ESSEX) 14. $1000.

115. Everson, William: THE BLOWING OF THE SEED. New Haven: Henry Wenning, 1966. Small quarto. Calf backed decorated paper over boards. Extreme crown of spine darkened, a few minor foxmarks, otherwise a near fine copy.

First edition. One of 215 numbered copies, from a total edition of 218 copies printed at the Banyan Press on Japanese Kochi paper and signed by the author. This copy bears the publisher’s warm gift inscription. $175.

116. Everson, William, and Leigh Wiener [photographer]: THE HIGH EMBRACE. [Los Angeles]: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1986. Small folio (35.5 x 28.5 cm). Loose sheets laid into folding cloth case, printed labels. Illustrated with five original mounted photographs. Case faintly sunned, with small label shadow at lower corner of upper panel, otherwise about fine.

First edition, comprised of the title poem and a note by Everson, accompanied by the original photographs and brief commentary by the photographer. One of one hundred numbered copies printed by Patrick Reagh, signed by him and by Everson and Wiener on the colophon. Additionally, each photograph is numbered and signed by the photographer on the mount. $250.

117. Field, Eugene: WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892. Three piece white and blue cloth, t.e.g. Cloth a little hand soiled and faintly edgeworn, a bit of top edge gilding seepage at extreme upper fore-tips, but a very good copy.

First trade edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “Very cordially yours, Dear Barrett, Eugene Field. New Orleans, March. 1894.” Further inscribed by the recipient (in purple ink): “Passed on in revenge for this seizure of another’s gift to me -- to Gertrude Hall / Wilson Barrett”. Field has made one tiny revision in ink in the text on p. 45. Wilson Barrett (1846-1904), was an English , dramatist, and theatrical manager, and Gertrude Hall, an American poet and translator of Rostand and Verlaine; her 1890 collection, Verses, was favorably reviewed in the Atlantic by William Dean Howells. BAL 5750. $475.

118. Field, Roswell Martin: IN SUNFLOWER LAND STORIES OF GOD’S OWN COUNTRY. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. Decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Binding a little handsoiled, bumped and faintly edgeworn, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this early collection of stories by Eugene Field’s brother. With a verse inscription by the author on the front free endsheet: “To Francis Wilson: [followed by a poem of three six-line stanzas beginning] To you my No. 1 I bring / With pleasure compromised by doubt [and ending] ... I ask / No honor for such tales as these; / Merely accept the bashful token / Of warm regard, of thanks unspoken. / Roswell Martin Field / New York. / Nov. 1892.” Francis Wilson (1854-1935), an American actor and a close friend of Eugene Field, became a passionate book collector, especially of items connected with the Booth family. In 1898 his book, The Eugene Field I Knew, was published, and from 1914 to 1920 he lectured frequently on Field. WRIGHT III:1862. $350.

119. Fielding, Henry: THE MISER. A COMEDY TAKEN FROM AND MOLIERE, AS IT IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL IN DRURY-LANE.... London: Printed for J. Watts..., 1733. [12],87,[1]pp. Octavo. Three quarter crushed levant and marbled boards by Bennett. Small ink blot on pp. 46 and 47 slightly obscuring three letters, light foxing, a few small rubs to spine, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of Fielding’s adaptation to the English stage of Moliere’s L’avare, which was in turn derived from Plautus. The play met with some success, and Colley Cibber contributed an , and “A Friend” contributed a Prologue. The prelims include a particularly detailed advertisement for an edition of English adaptations of Moliere’s . As noted in ESTC, G2 is incorrectly signed G3, and like the Hyde copy described in Ximenes’ Fielding Catalogue (list 92), the last two leaves of the prelims are unsigned. CROSS III:297. ESTC N4473. $650.

120. [Fielding, Henry]: THE HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH ANDREWS, AND OF HIS FRIEND MR. ABRAHAM ADAMS. WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF THE MANNER OF CERVANTES.... London: Printed for A. Millar, 1742. xix,[1],306;[4],312,[2]pp. Two volumes. 12mo. One preliminary page and two terminal pages of ads in volume two, but bound without the terminal adverts in volume one. Early 20th century speckled calf, spines gilt extra, gilt labels, a.e.g. Minuscule loss at corner of crown of one spine, joints faintly rubbed, first title slightly dust darkened, otherwise a very good, or somewhat better, set.

First edition of the author’s first novel, printed in an edition of only 1500 sets. Although a self-proclaimed “imitation” of Cervantes, Richardson’s Pamela was the actual target of Fielding’s attention. CROSS III:305. ROTHSCHILD 844. BLOCK 77. $3000.

121. Fielding, Henry: THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. Six volumes. lxii,[2(errata)],214; [2],324; [2],370,[blank]; [2],312; [2],294; [2],304pp. 12mo. Early 20th century speckled calf, spines gilt extra, gilt labels, a.e.g. Joints a trifle rubbed, but sound, bookplate tipped in first volume, small marginal adhesion flaw to III:G12 and natural paper flaw affecting a couple letters to III:H6; small marginal spot to three leaves in vol. VI, otherwise a very good, or better, set.

First edition of Fielding’s masterpiece, and one of the key 18th century novels. The first edition consisted of 2000 copies, and these were virtually all spoken for prior to the formal day of publication. The copies of the first edition are distinguished, as here, by the presence of the page of errata following the in the first volume. The errata were corrected and the page taken over by the enlargement of the contents in the unmarked second edition of 1500 copies, which was ordered after the first edition was exhausted. Both editions were in circulation on the formal publication day of 28 February.

This set exhibits the usual cancels and B5 in volume VI is unsigned. CROSS III:317. ROTHSCHILD 850-1. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 48. $9500.

A Distinctly French Copy

122. Fielding, Henry: THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. Four volumes. xx,304; viii,330; x,288; xii,347pp. Full green crushed levant, raised bands, t.e.g., richly gilt red morocco doublures, silk and marbled endsheets, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Binding extremities sunned to tan, otherwise a fine, tall (18 cm) set, though most likely washed when bound.

Although not so identified, the third edition, and the first in four volumes. Cross asserts that this edition prints Fielding’s final revisions, although other informed sources assert they first appeared in the fourth edition. The edition consisted of 3000 sets, and the text was set up from a corrected copy of the first edition and cast in a smaller font. This is an interesting set (apart from being untrimmed), elegantly bound by Chambolle-Duru, and extra-illustrated with the following material a) twelve engraved plates (each in two states, uncolored before letters and hand-colored) by Moreau the Younger; b) ten impressions before captions of plates engraved by Hubert and others after drawings by Borel; and c) eight original watercolors, in sepia, white and black, captioned in pencil and signed “Levasseur.” The edition illustrated by Moreau appeared in Paris in 1833, and that by Borel in “Londres” in 1801 (see Vicaire III:703). Benezit offers several possible identifications for Levasseur, though none particularly conclusive. However, 19th century auction records report editions of the French translations of this text extra-illustrated with original drawings or watercolors with the same attribution. CROSS III:317. $2750.

123. Fielding, Henry: AMELIA. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752. Four volumes. 12mo. Contemporary unlettered sheep and boards. Bindings rubbed and worn at fore-tips, five hinges cracking (but sound), early ink name or initials in each volume, some occasional modest soiling and two signatures starting in fourth volume, shallow chips to three spine ends; still, a good set, in slightly rubbed half morocco slipcase and individual inserts.

First edition of Fielding’s last and most common novel; the first printing consisted of five thousand sets, and an additional impression of 3000 copies was quickly ordered. According to Cross, they are indistinguishable. The “Universal Register Office” advert leaf is present in volume II, and the second state of p. 191 appears in volume III. ROTHSCHILD 853. CROSS III:321. ESTC T89846. $1250.

124. Fielding, Henry: THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO LISBON. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1755. [4],iv,xvii,[1],[19]-240,193-228pp. 12mo. Full mottled calf, gilt extra, gilt labels, a.e.g., by Bayntun. Half-title bound in. Small marginal mend to A3, otherwise about fine, in fleece-lined clamshell case.

First published edition of Fielding’s last book, published shortly after his premature death. Two editions were printed, both under Millar’s imprint. The first actually printed (referred to as the ‘Francis’ version) included certain passages Fielding’s heirs considered offensive. An altered version of the text (referred to as the ‘Humphreys’ text) was quickly prepared, and was actually the first version published, in January. This copy conforms to the ‘Humphrey’s’ text, as characterized by the different collations of the two versions. Due to an increased demand for copies after the Lisbon earthquake, Millar went ahead in November and distributed the copies with the unrevised text. CROSS III:326-7 ROTHSCHILD 857. $1250.

125. [Fine Binding]: Tennyson, Alfred Lord: IN MEMORIAM A.H.H. New York: M.F. Mansfield at the Sign of the , [1900]. Large octavo. Full medium brown morocco, raised bands, covers embellished with an intricate overall design of entwined flowers, stems and leaves, t.e.g., bound by Riviere for Sotheran. Signs of removal of early gift inscription from binder’s blank, otherwise a fine copy.

First edition in this format, with decorative initials designed by Blanche Macmanus, printed in orange. Noted in manuscript on the colophon: “This is No 8 of 100 copies reserved for Great Britain,” from a total edition of five hundred copies printed at the Bankside Press. $1500.

126. Flandrau, Charles Macomb: HARVARD EPISODES. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897. Red cloth, elaborately decorated in blind, lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Spine faded, 1898 gift inscription on endsheet, else about very good.

First edition of the first book by F.S. Fitzgerald’s early friend and occasional literary sounding board (see L.P. Haeg, In The Shadow of Gatsby The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau, Univ. of Iowa Press, 2004). Many critics regard it one of the earliest, if not the earliest, realistic depictions of American college life. 3500 copies were printed, and it was quickly reprinted. KRAUS 78. WRIGHT III:1893. $75.

127. Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris de: ESTELLA: A PASTORAL ROMANCE, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, 1804. [4],xxvii,[1],195,[1] pp. 12mo. Modern calf and marbled boards, earlier gilt label laid down. A very good copy, bound with the half-title.

First printing of this unidentified translation, coupled with twenty pages of unsigned “Historical Notes,” dated at the end: “London, December 3, 1803.” Florian’s Estelle Et Némorin first appeared in English in Elizabeth Morgan’s translation of 1791. Parks & Temple cite a 1798 two volume translation by Susanna Cummyng, printed for the translator in London, but ESTC does not record such a work. Copac locates only the BL copy of this edition, and like the copy cited there, this copy has p.xxvii misnumbered xvii. OCLC/Worldcat locates four copies, two in North America, without identification of the translator. $185.

128. Foa, Eugénie [née Esther-Eugenie Rodrigues-Henriques]: LES PETITS MARINS. Paris: Louis Janet, [nd. but ca. 1836]. vii[1],216pp. Small octavo. 19th century English polished calf and marbled boards. Engraved frontis and five plates. Binding faintly rubbed, trace of foxing, otherwise a very good copy.

First (?) edition. Gumuchian assigns the date above and ascribes the illustrations to Lassalle, but notes only five and describes them as lithographs. The five stories include accounts for children of Columbus and Cartier, as well as an account of a 17th century child castaway. Born of a family of Sephardi Jews, Foa (1796–1852) turned to writing shortly after the dissolution of her early marriage. Many of her works were intended for children, often in the form of historical anecdotes made digestible for young readers. GUMUCHIAN 2574. $175.

129. [Ford], Ford Madox Hueffer: ON HEAVEN AND POEMS WRITTEN ON ACTIVE SERVICE. London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head / John Lane Company, 1918. Gilt light blue cloth, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Spine a bit sunned and rubbed, a few stray marks to lower board, about very good.

First edition, British issue (sets of British sheets were exported to the U.S. and bound there, with a U.S. dust jacket). An , with the publisher’s review blindstamp in the title. The half-title in this copy is a cancel, on a stub, which is not dealt with in Harvey. The majority of the poems in this collection were written while Ford was on active service. “On Heaven” was to have been published in the Fortnightly Review in 1913, but was withdrawn due to the Home Secretary’s assertion that it was blasphemous. According to Ford, “during the late war it was circulated by H.M. Department of Propaganda as being likely to make soldiers take a cheerful view of death.” HARVEY A50. REILLY, p.129. BLUNDEN, et al, p.9. $175.

130. Ford, Paul Leicester: [A Fine Collection of Twenty-Five Works, Nearly All First Editions, from the Collection of the Author’s Friend, James Hale Bates]. Various places. various dates [as below]. Large and small octavo, and 12mo. Uniformly bound in 3/4 crimson morocco, gilt, t.e.g. Save for the defects noted below, bindings a little rubbed especially along the joints and at the corners on a few titles, some splitting at the gutters of a few prelims (in two cases on pages bearing Ford’s inscriptions), overall a very good set, attractively bound. The collection includes a number of presentation copies, and scarce pamphlets, the latter generally printed in small editions, as follow: [1] Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana. A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Alexander Hamilton. New York, 1886, one of 500 copies, original plain wrappers preserved, BAL 6148; [2] A List of Editions of The Federalist. Brooklyn, 1886, No. 41 of 50 copies, initialed by Ford, original plain wrappers preserved, BAL 6149; [3] Franklin Bibliography. A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Benjamin Franklin. Brooklyn, 1889, No. 31 of 500 copies, bound without original covers, front board detached, BAL 6172; [4] Check List of , Catalogues, Reference-Lists, and Lists of Authorities of American Books and Subjects. Brooklyn, 1889, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6173; [5] List of Some Briefs In Appeal Causes Which Related to America Tried Before The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Privy Council, 1736-1758. Brooklyn, 1889, one of 250 copies, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6177; [6] Who Was the Mother of Franklin’s Son? An Historical Conundrum, Hitherto Given Up – Now Partly Answered. Brooklyn, 1889, One of 100 copies, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6178; [7] The , Proverbs, and Poems Of Benjamin Franklin Originally Printed in Poor Richard’s Almanacs for 1733-1758. Collected and Edited by Ford, New York, 1890, first trade edition, rebound without original covers, presentation copy to “Mr. and Mrs. Bates,” BAL 6179; [8] An Account of a Plan for Civilizing the North American Indians, Proposed in The Eighteenth Century. By John Daniel Hammerer. Edited by Ford, Brooklyn, 1890, No. 58 of 250 copies, bound without wrappers, BAL 6181; [9] Condition of the Indian Trade In North America, 1767, as Described in a Letter to Sir William Johnson. By Sir Guy Carleton, Governor of Canada. Edited by Ford, Brooklyn, 1890, bound without wrappers, No. 141 of 250 copies, BAL 6183; [10] A Hand Bill Advocating American Independence, Inspired by the English Ministry, and Written and Published at London in March, 1778. By Israel Mauduit. Edited by Ford, Brooklyn, 1890, No. 24 of 250 copies, bound without wrappers, BAL 6184; [11] A Letter to Albert Gallatin, on the French Claims to the Newfoundland Fisheries, Written Oct. 1, 1822. By Richard Rush. Edited by Ford, Brooklyn, 1890, No. 3 of 250 copies, bound without wrappers, BAL 6185; [12] The Origin, Purpose and Result of the Harrisburg Convention of 1788. A Study in Popular Government. Brooklyn, 1890, No. 35 of 250 copies, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6189; [13] Proceedings of a Council of War Held at Burke Jail, Georgia, January 14th, 1779, with a Narrative of the Subsequent Proceedings, and the Proclamation Issued. By Lieut. Col. James Ingram. Edited by Ford, Brooklyn, 1890, No. 13 of 250 copies, second state of the title-page, bound without wrappers, BAL 6190; [14] Orderly Book of the ‘Maryland Loyalists Regiment,’ June 18th, 1778, to October 12th, 1778. Including General Orders Issued by Sir Henry Clinton ... Kept by Captain Caleb Jones. Edited by Ford, Brooklyn, 1891, No. 10 of 250 copies, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6193); [15] An Address to the Good People of Ireland, on Behalf of America, October 4th, 1778. By Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Ford, Brooklyn, 1891, No. 226 of 250 copies, bound without wrappers, BAL 6194); [16] Some Notes Towards an Essay on the Beginnings of American Dramatic Literature, 1606- 1789. n.p., 1893, one of 25 copies “printed as Manuscript for suggestion and revision”, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6203); [17] James Lorimer Graham, Jr. January 17th, 1894. [New York], 1894, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6204; [18] Joseph Tucker and His Writings. An Eighteenth Century Pamphleteer on America. Chicago, 1894, original wrappers preserved, BAL 6205); [19] The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him. New York, 1894, bound without original covers, with slip inserted, inscribed by the author, “To my dear friends of Brook Farm Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bates from Paul Leicester Ford Day of publication Oct. 25/94” [the printed dedication reads, “To those dear to me, at Stoney Wolde, Turners, New York; Pinehurst, Norwich, Connecticut; Brook Farm, Proctorsville, Vermont, and Duneside, Easthampton, New York, this book written while among them, is dedicated”], BAL 6206; [20] The True George Washington. Second edition, Philadelphia, 1896, bound without original covers; [21] A Catalogue of the James Lorimer Graham Library. Compiled by Ford, New York, 1896, bound without the original covers, BAL 6212; [22] The Great K. & A. Robbery. New York, 1897, first printing, bound without original covers, inscribed by the author, “With affectionate regards ... Day of Publication April 10th 1897.” BAL 6213; [23] The Story of an Untold Love. Boston, 1897, bound without the original covers, presentation copy from the author to “Mr. and Mrs. James H. Bates.” BAL 6215; [24] Washington and the Theatre New York, 1899, one of 265 copies, original wrappers preserved, presentation copy to “James H. Bates, Esq.”, BAL 6221; and [25] Janice Meredith. A Story of the American Revolution. With a Miniature by Lillie V. O’Ryan and Illustrations by and His Pupils, 2 vols., New York, 1899, bound without the original covers, printing E, presentation copy to “Mr. and Mrs. Bates”, BAL 6224. Also bound into one of the volumes is a copy of A Fragment on the Pistole Fee, Claimed by the Governor Of Virginia, 1753. By Richard Bland. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Brooklyn, 1891, No. 183 of 250 copies, first edition. Shipping extra. $3500.

131. Ford, Richard: MY MOTHER, IN MEMORY. Elmwood, CT: Raven Editions, 1988. Japanese paper over wrappers, printed spine label. Original linecut by Russell Chatham. Trace of sunning at edges, otherwise about fine. Prospectus laid in.

First edition in this format. In addition to a total public edition of 140 numbered copies in three different issues, this is an out-of-series copy, denoted as a “Printers Copy.” Signed by the author and artist. Printed by Carol Blinn at the Warwick Press. $600.

132. [Fothergill, Jessie]: THE FIRST VIOLIN. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1878. Three volumes. Original publisher’s medium violet cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in black. Spines faded and cocked, a couple of inner hinges strained but sound, cloth a bit darkened and soiled, crowns and toes of spines somewhat frayed; a sound set.

First edition, second (first published) issue, preceded by at least nine copies with the author identified on integral title leaves dated 1877. The title leaves in this set are cancels. Bentley informed Sadleir that the author’s father demanded that the novel be published anonymously, and that only nine copies (including the five statutory copies) with the title leaf in its first state were bound (Worldcat/OCLC locates five of them). Sadleir’s entry for this title includes that preliminary unpublished issue, and what he describes as the “Second (Published) Edition,” which exhibits alterations (in fact a nearly complete resetting) far beyond the simple amending of the title leaves with cancels, and none of which are characteristic of this set. Consequently, it would appear that Sadleir’s account, based on the Bentley Private Catalogue and Bentley’s memory, is incomplete, and that sheets of the first edition (and perhaps sets already bound), were simply, and for the sake of economy understandably, equipped with cancel title leaves and distributed. The author’s third novel, and her first popular success. It was frequently reprinted in the following decades both in Britain and abroad. Not in Wolff and uncommon – OCLC/Worldcat locates only five copies of Bentley edition(s) dated 1878 – though the records are unclear which of these copies are the second issue of the first edition, and which might be Sadleir’s “second (published) edition” (except, presumably, for Sadleir’s copy of the latter at UCLA). SADLEIR 891 (reference). $850.

133. Frasconi, Antonio: A VISION OF THOREAU WITH HIS 1849 ESSAY: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. [New York: The Spiral Press, 1965]. Octavo. Pictorial boards. Extensively illustrated throughout. Some darkening at lower endsheet gutters, occasional light foxing along lower edge, otherwise near fine in chipped glassine.

First edition. In addition to 530 numbered copies, signed by the artist, this is one of an unspecified number of copies noted as an “author’s copy.” The text and facsimiles are joined with a dozen original woodcuts by Frasconi, printed from the original blocks on handmade Japanese Goyu paper. $400.

134. Fuentes, Carlos: ON HUMAN RIGHTS A SPEECH .... Dallas: The Somesuch Press, 1984. Miniature (7.6 x 6 cm). Cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine, in oversize folding cloth clamshell box with inset.

First edition in this format. Introduction by Henry Ramont. Illustrated with six original postage stamps designed by F. Hundertwasser for the United Nations. One of 395 numbered copies printed by Darrell Hyder, and signed by Fuentes. Perhaps because of its larger than normal constituency, one of the least common and most desirable of the Somesuch miniatures. $275. 135. Gaffarel, Paul: L’ALGÉRIE. HISTOIRE, CONQUÈTE ET COLONISATION. Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1883. [8],708pp. Thick quarto. Publisher’s heavily gilt decorated quarter morocco and cloth, a.e.g. Illustrated with four chromolithographed plates, three color folding maps, twenty-two wood engraved plates, and numerous engravings in text. Fore-corners a bit worn, inner hinges cracking (but sound), moderate marginal foxing (and foxing to edge gilding), small patch of adhesion to one chromo from now absent tissue guard, but a good, bright copy.

First edition of this substantial work, in the most lavish form of the available publisher’s bindings. The chromos were executed by Nordmann after paintings by Legrand based on designs by Waret and Garcia. The engravings are from a variety of sources. Gaffarel was on faculty of Letters at Dijon, and wrote a number of works on French interests, including those in the Americas. VICAIRE III:846. $450.

136. Gauthier, Jules: LES FUGITIVES POÉSIES. Paris: Librairie d’Amyot, 1847. 371pp. Large octavo. Quarter red morocco and decorated boards, t.e.g. Very minor foxing, otherwise about fine.

First (and only) edition. With an authorial presentation inscription across the upper portion of the half-title. OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy of this collection, but there ascribes it to the Jules Gauthier born the year after its publication. The Jules Gauthier born in 1818, and author of the frequently reprinted Histoire De Marie Stuart (1869), is a considerably more likely candidate. $225.

137. Gawsworth, John: [pseud. of Fytton Armstrong]: TWILIGHT [wrapper title]. [London: Blue Moon Poem for Christmas 1931]. Large octavo folded leaflet. Pictorial vignette. First edition. One of one hundred numbered copies, signed by the author. Bookplate, otherwise fine. Folding cloth case. $75.

138. [Gehenna Press]: Bresdin, Rodolphe: BRESDIN TO REDON SIX LETTERS 1870 TO 1881. [Northampton]: The Gehenna Press, 1969. Large octavo. Full morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, by Arno Werner. Etched portrait by Leonard Baskin. Fine in matching half morocco and marbled boards clamshell box.

First edition. Edited by Roseline Baker, translated by Seymour S. Weiner. Copy #6 of one hundred deluxe copies, specially bound, and including a separate signed and numbered impression of the frontis etching, from a total edition of four hundred numbered copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Japanese paper by Harold P. McGrath, and signed by Baskin. According to the bibliographer, a number of the deluxe copies were damaged by water in 1970 ... this copy was not among them. BASKIN 61. $1000.

139. [Gehenna Press]: Woolman, John: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE KEEPING OF NEGROES ... Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, “1970” [i.e. 1975]. Octavo. Quarter morocco and marbled boards. Portrait. Bookplate on front pastedown, bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown, fore-corners rubbed; a very good copy.

First edition in this format, as “Gehenna Tracts #2.” One of 250 numbered copies, printed on blue and white Fabriano in Centaur and Arrighi types. Although this is denoted copy ‘9’, it is not accompanied by the extra portrait assigned to the first twenty copies in the limitation statement. BASKIN 78. $150.

140. Gershwin, George: PORGY AND BESS AN OPERA IN THREE ACTS. LIBRETTO BY DUBOSE HEYWARD. LYRICS BY DUBOSE HEYWARD AND IRA GERSHWIN. PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY ROUBEN MAMOULIAN. New York: Random House, 1935. Large, thick quarto. Publisher’s red morocco, spine stamped in blind, gilt labels, top edge silvered, Japanese paper endsheets. Spine darkened, with a bit of fraying to the extreme crown and toe, a couple of spots at top blank margin of half-title, otherwise very good or somewhat better, in straw-cloth covered slipcase (worn at edges, with small patches of surface loss there).

First edition, limited issue. Double-page color pictorial title by George Biddle. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by George and Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward, and Rouben Mamoulian. A decent copy of a book noted for the vulnerability of the spine. $13,875.

141. Gessner, Salomon: LA MORT D’ABEL; POËME EN CINQ CHANTS .... Paris: Chez Hardy ..., 1760. xxxiv,344,[4]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt, marbled endsheets. Extremities a bit worn, very minor occasional foxing, but a very good copy.

First edition in French, translated from the German by M. Huber. Gessner’s widely popular idyllic prose pastoral was first published in 1758, and Huber’s translation became the standard French text, utilized for the richly illustrated edition of 1793. $450.

142. Gessner, Salomon: LE PREMIER MARIN, POËME EN TROIS CHANTS ... TRADUIT DE L’ALLEMAND PAR M. ***. Amsterdam: Chez J.H. Schneider, 1764. viii,9-60pp. Small octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra. Ornamented headpieces and initials. Early gift inscription across top margin of preliminary blank, else a crisp, attractive copy.

An uncommon Amsterdam printing of the anonymous translation into French published by the Brothers Jacquemart, in Selan, the same year. The collations of the two printings differ, so they are distinct editions. A printed Dedication to Gessner, signed by the Jacquemarts, precedes a 4pp. Note by them. OCLC/Worldcat reports two locations for this edition (none in North America); the Jacquemart edition is uncommon as well. $275.

143. Gibbon, Edward: GIBBON’S JOURNEY FROM GENEVA TO HIS JOURNAL FROM 20 APRIL TO 2 OCTOBER 1764. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., [1961]. Quarto. Publisher’s stiff vellum over boards, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portrait and plates. Small, tasteful collector’s bookplate on pastedown, hint of faint foxing to endleaves, otherwise fine, partially unopened.

First edition, limited issue. Edited by Georges A. Bonnard. One of 105 numbered copies, specially printed on Millbourn handmade paper, and specially bound. The journal is in French. $225.

144. Ginguené, Pierre Louis: FABLES NOUVELLES [with:] FABLES INÉDITES ... SERVANT DE SUPPLÉMENT A SON RECUEIL, PUBLIÉ EN 1810; ET SUIVIES DES QUELQUES AUTRES POÉSIES DU MÊME AUTEUR. Paris: Michaud, 1810 & 1814. Two volumes. 247;306pp. 12mo. Mid 19th century gilt calf and boards. Half-titles and plain front wrapper to second volume bound in. Occasional foxing and some offsetting from binding to end leaves at corners, small spot on one title, otherwise a very good, untrimmed set.

First edition of each volume, with the author’s presentation inscription (name of recipient effaced in an early hand) in each volume (on the preliminary blank verso in the first volume, and on the retained plain wrapper of the second volume). Ginguené (1748-1815) led an active political and editorial life through the volatile years leading up to his being expelled from his last appointment by Napoleon. He was actively engaged in the compilation of the first nine volumes of the Histoire Littéraire D’italie (14 volumes, 1811-35) at the time of his death. $350.

145. Gisborne, Thomas: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE DUTIES OF THE FEMALE SEX. London: Printed by A. Strahan ... for T. Cadell Jun and W. Davies, 1801. viii,448pp. Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Female ownership signature in upper margin of title, dated 1805, minor foxing early and late, but a very good, rather attractive copy in contemporary state.

Fifth edition, “corrected.” The first edition was published in 1797, with Dublin and Philadelphia reprints following shortly thereafter. Gisborne (1758–1846) was a moderately prolific Anglican priest, poet, naturalist and abolitionist. He wrote an analogous work on the duties of men, published in 1794, and his criticism of Paley is acknowledged as the most reasoned to arise from the ranks of theologians. “His Enquiry into the Duties of Men (1795) and Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797) were written for the educated classes and focused on the Christian subject’s duties rather than his or her rights. They not only stressed subordination and acceptance of the divinely imposed social hierarchy at a time of potential unrest, but also recognized that most people did not believe wholeheartedly the Christian revelation and so were not bound by its strictures” – DNB. The text also extends to include the topics of amusements (including gaming, cards, theatre, etc), dress, courtesy, etc. $300.

146. Gissing, Algernon: THE WEALTH OF MALLERSTANG AN UPLAND TALE. London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. Pictorial dark blue cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Light foxing, with some offsetting to the endsheets, cloth lightly worn, but a very good copy.

First edition of this novel by George Gissing’s younger brother. $475.

147. [Goldsmith, Oliver]: THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD; OR LETTERS FROM A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, RESIDING IN LONDON, TO HIS FRIENDS IN THE EAST. London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1762. Two volumes. v, [ie vii],[1],286;[2],238,[16]pp. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt, gilt labels. Bookplate and early ink paraph on second binder’s blank in first volume, spine extremities a bit worn, with minute chip at crown of one joint and slight cracking to joints, a few small patches of rubbing to one spine, otherwise a very good copy, wanting the final blanks, but internally bright and near fine.

First edition, the issue with the integral title – another issue features cancel titles with ‘Printed for the Author’ in the imprint. As usual, page vii in the first volume is numbered ‘v’. The ‘i’ in the catchword on II:11 is out of alignment, not dropped. Goldsmith’s letters appeared anonymously in The Public Ledger beginning in late January of 1760, and concluded in August of the following year. Their considerable popularity, and their publication in book form, were significant elements in Goldsmith’s early ascent from Grub Street to what Scott describes as “the freedom of the precincts of the inner sanctuary of letters.” ROTHSCHILD 1021. SCOTT, pp. 71-4. WILLIAMS, p.123. ESTC T146035. $1750.

148. Goldsmith, Oliver: THE TRAVELLER, OR A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY. A POEM. INSCRIBED TO THE REV. MR. HENRY GOLDSMITH. London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1765. [4],iv,22,[2]pp. Quarto. Full green crushed levant, gilt extra, by Riviere, a.e.g.. Upper joint a bit weak, otherwise a very good copy, with the bookplate of N.F. Brady and the gilt label of the Brick Row Bookshop.

First edition of Goldsmith’s first separately published poem, Todd’s fourth state, with the price on the half-title in square brackets, the comma after ‘Traveller’ on the title etc. The first two “states” are known only in unique exemplars. contributed nine lines to this poem, and praised it highly. ROTHSCHILD 1024. COURTNEY & SMITH, p.113. FLEEMAN 64.12GT/1d. ESTC T146158. TINKER 1101. Todd, “Quadruple Imposition,” in STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY VII (1955), pp. 103ff. $850.

A French Copy

149. [Goldsmith, Oliver]: THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD: A TALE. SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1766. Two volumes. [8],214;[4],223,[1]pp. 12mo. Somewhat later calf, rebacked to contemporary style, raised bands, gilt labels, t.e.g. Extremities a bit shelfworn, a few small surface scrapes, copiously annotated in a small, contemporary hand (see below), bound without terminal blanks in first volume, but a near very good set, from the collection of Lucius Wilmerding, with his bookplate in each volume.

The second edition, but the first edition printed in London; the first edition was printed in Salisbury on March 27th and this edition on 31 May. Goldsmith took the opportunity to make some very minor changes in this new edition. This is a very interesting set, as it bears minute and very neat contemporary ink marginal annotations in French, and in the first volume four densely written pages in the same hand, on two leaves, are bound in. When this set appeared as lot 311 in the first part of the sale of Wilmerding’s library (Parke Bernet, NY, Nov. 1950), the annotations and manuscript were noted without speculation. As a selective survey of the marginalia shows it to be largely translations into French of certain expressions or words in the text (particularly colloquialisms), it is quite possible that this set was either utilized by a careful adult French reader intent on perfecting reading skills in English, or, just perhaps, may have played a role in the preparation of one or the other of the two early French translations that appeared in 1767 and 1796. SCOTT, pp. 175-186. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 53. BLOCK, p.89. NCBEL II:1197. $1250.

150. Goldsmith, Oliver: THE GOOD NATUR’D MAN: A COMEDY. AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL IN COVENT GARDEN. London: Printed for W. , 1768. vi,[2],74,[2]pp. Octavo. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Half-title bound in. Some foxing and modest tanning, surface scrape across spine; a good copy.

First edition, Todd’s ‘2d’ impression, with ‘spake’ at 12:36; the catchword ‘His’ on p. [75]; 8 lines of Epilogue and ‘Finis’ on p. [76], and the footnote placed on p. [75]. The Prologue on p.[1] is by Dr. Johnson. SCOTT, pp.211-14. ESTC N49112. ROTHSCHILD 1031. WILLIAMS, p. 141. COURTNEY & SMITH, p.113. Todd, “The First Editions of The Good Natur’d Man and She Stoops to Conquer,” STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY XI (1958), pp.133-142. FLEEMAN 68.1GGM/1. $550.

Now Just a Bibliographic Curiosity

151. Goldsmith, Oliver: THE DESERTED VILLAGE. “London: Printed for W. Griffin ... 1770” [sic]. vi,[7]-24pp. 12mo. Full red-brown morocco, a.e.g. Modest foxing, joints rubbed, and lower joint cracked at crown, otherwise a very good copy, and a good association copy, with the bookplates of Ralph Isham and George Clinton Ward.

One of three pirated printings (conforming to Scott’s printing ‘c’), considered by some in earlier generations, without sound basis, to be “trial” printings, ostensibly preceding the legitimate quarto first edition. William Todd investigated these piracies, as well as their progeny, and published his findings in Studies in Bibliography VI (1953), where this particular printing conforms to his printing ‘A’, which he suggests was printed in Edinburgh before 19 July 1770, probably by Walter Ruddiman, printer and publisher of the Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement. The printing in hand is described in the Rothschild catalogue, quoting from Todd’s then unpublished notes, as “the first of a series of pirated editions possibly originating in Edinburgh, beyond the reach of the law on copyright, and thereafter reprinted in one shop after another across the country.” It’s likely that those pirates would have rolled over in their graves had they lived to see the prices realized by copies prior to the conclusive exposure of their true nature: Kern copy $3900 (1929) and the Bishop copy of another printing (Scott A) $2100 (later the Rothschild copy, exhibited at the Hayward exhibition). HAYWARD 184 (Scott’s variant A). Todd, “The ‘Private Issues’ of The Deserted Village,” STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, vi, 1954, pp. 25 - 44. ROTHSCHILD 1033. SCOTT, pp. 242ff. $600.

152. [Grabhorn Press]: Harlan, Robert D. [comp]: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GRABHORN PRESS 1957 – 1966 & GRABHORN-HOYEM 1966 – 1973.... San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. Folio. Quarter gilt morocco and decorated cloth over boards. Bookplate on front pastedown, trace of faint foxing along margins of pastedowns, spine a bit sun-faded, but a very good or better copy, internally fine.

First edition. One of 225 copies printed in Franciscan types on Barcham Green handmade paper by Andrew Hoyem and associates. Illustrated with fifteen specimen leaves, and including a complete specimen of the Grabhorn types and a checklist of the Grabhorn imprint from 1916-1956. $850.

153. Grahame, Kenneth: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. London: Methuen and Co., [1908]. Original publisher’s medium blue-green pictorial cloth, spine and upper cover elaborately decorated in gilt, t.e.g. Frontispiece by Graham Robertson. Tiny pictorial bookplate on front pastedown (Mary Elizabeth Hudson), pencil note on front free endsheet, two leaves opened with less than complete care, resulting in purely marginal shallow irregularities, otherwise an unusually nice, virtually fine copy, though wanting the dust jacket. Cloth solander case with chemise and gilt label.

First edition of Grahame’s enduring contribution to the shared literature of young and old, composed originally as a sequence of letters to his son, and as a consequence of its popularity, the key to Grahame’s freedom from clerkdrudgery. $12,500.

154. [Greene, Graham (his copy)]: Reid, B.L.: THE MAN FROM NEW YORK JOHN QUINN AND HIS FRIENDS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. Thick octavo. Cloth. Frontis, photographs, plates. A well-read copy, in shelfworn dust jacket.

An association copy of the first edition of the landmark biography of the attorney/collector who found, or placed, himself in the middle of much that was great in early 20th century art and letters. Formerly Graham Greene’s copy, with his ownership signature on the free endsheet, ca. 25 words of ink notes on the rear pastedown, and marginal highlight in the text. Later, from the library of novelist/ poet/bookseller George Sims, with his two variant bookplates on the pastedown. $450.

155. []: CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF EARLY AMERICAN ENGRAVING UPON COPPER 1727 – 1850 .... New York: The Grolier Club, 1908. viii,100pp. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Portrait. First edition. 296 examples by 147 different engravers. Modest use along overlap edges, otherwise a very good copy. $100.

156. [Grolier Club]: Henderson, Robert W. [comp]: EARLY AMERICAN SPORT A CHRONOLOGICAL CHECK-LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED PRIOR TO 1860 BASED ON AN EXHIBITION.... New York: The Grolier Club, 1937. Cloth, gilt leather label. Pictorial title and facsimile plates. Old paper adhesion to rear pastedown, otherwise about fine.

First edition in this format. One of four hundred copies only, printed on Arches. Introduction by Harry T. Peters. $175.

157. Guizot, Francois, and Charles de Rémusat [editors]: REVUE FRANCAISE. Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie. [later:] Alexandre Mesnier, January 1828 through July 1830. Sixteen numbers, bound in eight volumes. Octavo. 19th century three quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt extra, with crowned “A.O.” initials in gilt in lower spine compartments, a.e. marbled. Extremities a bit rubbed and shelfworn, short, closed cracks to a couple of joints, sporadic foxing and browning of text, sometimes heavy depending on the varying paper stock between issues or gatherings, otherwise a very good set.

A complete run of this distinguished bi-monthly, each number running close to 300 pages. Subject matter encompassed a wide span of literature, the sciences, politics, antiquarian studies and the arts, and both original articles and reviews of new publications (and often excerpts) appear in abundance, touching on matters on the continent, in the UK, and occasionally, in North America. Shipping extra. $750.

158. Gumuchian and Co.: LES LIVRES DE L’ENFANCE DU XVe AU XIXe SIÈCLE.. London: Holland Press, [1979]. Two volumes. Quarto. Gilt green cloth. About fine in dust jackets.

Preface by Paul Gavault. Photo-offset reprint of 1930 edition, limited to 600 numbered sets. This is copy #40 of the first 75 copies, with hand-tinted facsimiles of the original pictorial title pages bound in. A monumental bookseller’s catalogue including bibliographical descriptions of, and annotations and notes about, select children’s books in several languages, chiefly of the 18th and 19th centuries. The second volume reproduces the plates and facsimiles from the original edition. $325.

159. Hale, Sarah J.: AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. Boston. 6 March 1841. One-half page, on quarto lettersheet, with conjugate, in ink. Very good.

To Mrs. A.V. Griswold, of Boston, addressed as “My Dear Madam.” A characteristic response from the editor of Godey’s and author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” responding to a request for her autograph: “I send you a few autographs for your friend, as you requested – When I have leisure to look over my papers I may find some others. May your journey be pleasant and your return to your dear family safe is the sincere wish of your affectionate friend ....” Signed in full, and with the recipient’s address on the conjugate. $200.

160. Haller, [Albrecht von]: POESIES DE MONSIEUR DE HALLER TRADUITES DE L’ALLEMAND. Zurich: Chez Heidegger & Compagnie, 1752. [4],226,[2]pp. Small octavo. Original mottled calf, rebacked, with most of the original gilt backstrip laid down, marbled endleaves. Interesting inscription on front endsheet and occasional marginal annotations, foretips worn, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this collection of translations of selections by the Swiss physiologist and poet, unsigned, but attributed to Vincenz Bernhard von Tscharner. This copy bears an inscription on the front endsheet in a contemporary hand (the recipient’s): “The Gift of Prince Lewis of Wirtemberg to J. [?] Duncan in July 1756 Sent with an obliging Note from Toulon to Marseilles ....” The author of the inscription continues further to comment on omissions in the translations, at least two of which he has noted in the text. $375.

161. Halliday, Andrew: TOWN AND COUNTRY SKETCHES. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1866. Original cherry red cloth, heavily decorated in gilt. Spine just a trifle faded and a touch rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition, consisting of prose sketches reprinted from All The Year Round, with permission from Charles Dickens. A presentation copy from the publisher, inscribed at the top of the title-page: “Mrs. Pemberton from Wm. Tinsley. 23rd October 1866.’’ The binding conforms to the presentation binding described by Wolff, with the exception of the plain edges rather than gilt. Not in Sadleir. WOLFF 2935. $250.

162. Harrison, [Constance Cary] Mrs. Burton: THE CARCELLINI EMERALD WITH OTHER TALES. Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. Plum cloth, decorated in white and green, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and plates. Light rubbing to spine extremities, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this collection by the prolific and popular Virginia native, later New York resident, who achieved fame in another field by having, with her cousins, sewn the prototype of the Confederate battle flag. WRIGHT III:2505. KRAMER 202. $95.

163. Harrison, Jim: WALKING. Cambridge: The Pym-Randall Press, [1967]. Oblong quarto. Sewn printed wrappers. Upper fore-corner bumped, with resultant soft crease, otherwise a near fine copy.

First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author, from a total edition of 126. $850.

164. Harrison, Jim: LETTERS TO YESENIN. Fremont, MI: Sumac Press, [1973]. Gilt black cloth. Cloth a bit dust smudged, faint foxing to edges and to a couple margins, but a very good copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with one tiny nick.

First edition, limited issue. Copy #3 of 100 numbered copies (of 126), specially bound and signed by the author, in addition to 1000 copies in wrappers. In spite of the generous limitation, an uncommon book in this issue. $1000.

165. Hawthorne, Julian: HAWTHORNE READING AN ESSAY. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1902. Small octavo. Ribbed blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Minor rubbing from the slipcase, otherwise fine and bright in matching slipcase (a bit soiled).

First edition. One of 140 copies privately printed for the members of the Rowfant Club. Accompanied by a printed facsimile of a letter from the author praising the forthcoming book. $175. 166. Item sold.

167. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: TWICE-TOLD TALES. Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837. [4],[6],334,[2],[16]pp. Original black cloth, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Fore-tips and top edge of upper board worn, rebacked at an early date, with the original backstrip laid down and inner hinges reinforced, usual foxing, portion of July 18th 1837 inscription at top of page [12] clipped away, with loss of running head and page number on p.13. Because of these detractions (notably the latter), a just short of good copy. Cloth slipcase, with leather label and chemise.

First edition of Hawthorne’s first collection of short stories, and his first book to bear his name as author, Fanshawe (1828) having appeared anonymously. The edition consisted of only one thousand copies. CLARK A2.1. BAL 7581. BLEILER (SUPERNATURAL) 776. WRIGHT I:1149. $1000.

168. [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]: A VISIT TO THE CELESTIAL CITY .... Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [ca. 1844 or later, but prior to 1857]. 54pp. Small octavo. Publisher’s quarter gilt calf and marbled boards. Lithographed frontis and three plates. Binding extremities a bit worn, some foxing, small paper flaw in blank area of margin of one plate, still a good, sound copy. Cloth slipcase and chemise.

A reprinting of Hawthorne’s The Celestial Railroad (1843), “revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-School Union,” chiefly in the omission of a brief anecdote about Beelzebub’s purchase of a miser’s soul for sixpence. The Wakeman collection included a copy of this title inscribed to Hawthorne by Rev. William B. Tappan, poet and principal of the American Sunday-School Union. BAL notes this title was issued both in cloth and in the present binding, identifies four printings, and ascribes no priority to any of them: this is printing C. Clark, on the other hand, calls for the first printing to bear the imprint of King & Baird on the verso of the title. It is not present here. This copy exhibits the earlier forms of the frontis and the plate facing page 43. BAL 7655a. CLARK A13.3.a. $375. 169. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Two volumes. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, lettered in gilt. Light occasional foxing to prelims and terminal leaves, neat, early ink name in top margin of each title, tiny snag and discoloration at top of one upper joint, pencil erasures from rear endsheets of first volume, otherwise a very good, unusually nice set. Cloth slipcase and chemise.

First edition, preceding the much more common U.S. edition by at least a week. Chapman & Hall adverts appear on the front endsheets of each volume; the inserted Chapman & Hall catalogue does not occur in this set, but its presence or absence is capricious and of no bibliographic import. CLARK A20.1. BAL 7610. $1000.

170. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 144pp. Octavo. Original printed buff wrappers. Engraved portrait. Trace of minor foxing at edges, portrait and endleaves, crown of spine slightly bumped, faint old tide-mark in upper fore-corner of front wrapper, otherwise an unusually nice copy, very good or better. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition, wrapperbound issue, BAL’s and Clark’s wrapper A, with price in upper fore corner. The first edition encompassed three separate undifferentiated printings, with copies bound in wrappers and various types of cloth. According to the Ticknor Cost Books, 3,110 copies were bound in cloth, and 9,790 copies bound in wrappers. The cloth copies were often equipped with varying forms of inserted ads; the copies in wrappers bear ads for Hawthorne’s works on all but the upper panel. As an exercise in political hagiography written by Hawthorne for his friend from college days, copies were both sold and distributed freely as part of Pierce’s campaign. While fewer copies were issued in cloth, they are relatively common -- decent copies in wrappers, as here, are not. CLARK A21.1.a.b.c. BAL 7612. $950.

171. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: THE SNOW-IMAGE AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. 19th century typographic bookplate on pastedown, spine a bit nicked, with short snag at crown of lower joint, one foretip worn, a few tiny spots to prelims, otherwise a bright, tight, very good copy.

First (U.S.) edition, probably preceding the British edition according to Clark, or possibly simultaneous with it, according to BAL. This is one of the copies with the inserted 4pp. of ads in front (no priority) – in this case, dated January 1852. A total of 2425 copies were printed. CLARK A19.1.a. BAL 7607. WRIGHT II:1140. BLEILER (SUPERNATURAL) 778. $350.

172. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. vi,[7]-256pp, plus inserted frontis and six plates. Blue-green cloth, spine stamped in gilt, covers decorated in blind. Front free endsheet neatly excised, a couple signatures starting, otherwise a very good, unusually bright copy. Cloth slipcase and chemise.

First edition. One of 3067 copies printed and published in November of 1851. The first of Hawthorne’s collections of adaptations of themes and characters from classical for young readers. Many members of its intended audience ran roughshod over their copies, and consequently sound, bright copies are the exception. BAL 7606. CLARK A18.1.a. PETER PARLEY TO PENROD, p.6. $3000.

173. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: TANGLEWOOD TALES, FOR GIRLS AND BOYS; A SECOND WONDER-BOOK. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. 336pp. plus vignette title and six inserted plates. 8pp. inserted catalogue dated “July, 1853.” Blue cloth, spine elaborately decorated in gilt, covers elaborately decorated in blind. Cloth very slightly hand soiled, inserted catalogue a bit tanned, some occasional minor spotting and foxing to some margins, otherwise a very good copy, the binding in unusually nice state. Half morocco slipcase and chemise (incorrectly denoting it the blue “gift” binding).

First U.S. edition, first printing, with Boston Stereotype Foundry imprint (only) on verso of title. The first printing consisted of 3000 copies, and was preceded by perhaps a few days by the London edition. BAL 7614. CLARK A22.2.a. $2500.

174. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: THE MARBLE FAUN: OR, THE ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Two volumes. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Patch of dulling in corner of lower cover of first volume, minute nicks at spine ends, otherwise an unusually tight, bright set. Half morocco slipcase and cloth inserts.

First U.S. edition, first printing (signed as 12s, but gathered as 8s). Inserted catalogue dated March. BAL 7621. CLARK A.23.3.a. WRIGHT II:1136. BLEILER, p.96. $450.

To His Publisher

175. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, TO JAMES T. FIELDS. Concord. 16 September 1863. One page, in ink, on octavo lettersheet. Ca. 100 words. Old fold from mailing, a few small smudges, otherwise very good or better.

To his publisher, James T. Fields, written on the occasion of the publication of his latest book, Our Old Home, sending on a list of individuals [not present] to receive complimentary copies: “Dear Fields, On the other page is the list of presentation people; and (with four [altered from three] copies bestowed when I saw you) it amounts to twenty-four, which your liberality and kindness allow me ... I held my pen suspended over one or two of the names, doubting whether they deserved of me so especial a favor as a portion of my heart and brain. I have few friends. Some authors, I should think, would require half the edition for private distribution ....” Signed: “Your friend, Nathl Hawthorne.” Accompanied by the clipped envelope address to Fields, in Hawthorne’s hand. Published in Volume XVIII of the Centenary Edition, letter 1278, based on a transcript in the Hawthorne-Fields Letter Book at Harvard. $13,500.

176. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: DOCTOR GRIMSHAWE’S SECRET A ROMANCE ... EDITED, WITH PREFACE AND NOTES BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. xiii,[1],368pp. Gray cloth, with elaborate pictorial design in black, lettered in gilt. Early gift inscription on endsheet, cloth very faintly handsoiled, a couple signatures starting very slightly, else an unusually nice copy

First edition, trade issue, of Hawthorne’s posthumously published, unfinished fictional tussle with the specters of his childhood. With an 1882 Christmas gift inscription (a week or so after publication). One of 5000 copies printed. The large-paper printing appeared some ten months after the appearance of the first printing. BAL 7642. CLARK A31.1.a WRIGHT III:2606. $300. 177. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and [illustrator]: A WONDER BOOK. London, New York & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [1922]. Large quarto. Gilt pictorial white linen, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Illustrated with 24 color plates (including frontis) and twenty black and white drawings. Lower fore-corners slightly bumped, otherwise a fine, clean copy in cloth clamshell box.

First Rackham edition, limited issue. One of 600 numbered copies specially printed and bound, and signed by the artist. CLARK A18.29. $3000.

178. Hazenplug, Frank [illustrator]: Pictorial Advertising Broadsheet for INLAND PRINTER. New York & Chicago. ca. June 1898. Pictorial and typographic broadsheet (43 x 26 cm; pictorial inset 25 x 19.5cm). Printed in dark green and pink on gray-green stock. Barely visible minor creasing, but very good or better. Shrink-wrapped to board.

A handsome display broadsheet promoting the June 1898 issue (“June Number Ready!) of the Inland Printer (XXI:3), replicating Frank Hazenplug’s cover design for the issue. Though the periodical was published from Chicago, this broadsheet bears the address of the “Eastern Offices” in a cutline below the pictorial inset. Inland Printer is justly famous for having inaugurated in 1883 the custom of featuring a different cover design for each issue. At the time, Hazenplug was one of the leading designers for Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone’s publications. $375.

179. Heerup, Henry: “KVINDE OG HEST” [Original two color blockprint]. [Denmark: The Artist, nd]. Oblong folio. Image 40 x 44.5 cm, plus full margins. Fine.

Impression number 35 of 45 numbered copies, titled in pencil and signed by the artist in the lower margin. A fanciful depiction in red, white and black of a woman hand-feeding a horse. Heerup (1907–1993), Danish painter, sculptor and printmaker, jointed Cobra in 1949 and through their exhibitions connected with European and North American audiences. Heerup was recipient of a number of honors, and his distinctive imagery is bold and colorful, often encompassing elements. $375.

180. Item sold. 181. Item sold.

182. [Hemingway, Ernest]: Original Studio Publicity Campaign Pressbook for A FAREWELL TO ARMS. [Hollywood]: The Selznick Studio/20th Century-Fox, [1958]. 24pp. Folio (45.8 x 35.5cm). Highly pictorial self wrappers. Heavily illustrated. Very minor use at extremities, but near fine.

An elaborate and visually attractive pressbook for the second film adaptation of Hemingway’s novel, based on a screenplay by Ben Hecht, and starring and Jennifer Jones under Charles Vidor’s direction. The pressbook, as usual, reproduces stills and campaign materials, and includes articles on Hemingway, the directors and stars, etc. Scarce, and an attractive display piece. $225.

183. Herbert of Cherbury, Lord Edward: DE RELIGIONE GENTILIVM, ERRORUMQUE APUD EOS CAUSIS .... Amsterdam: Typis Blaeviorvm, 1663. [4],231,[9]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript. Early ink inscription on title, scattered foxing, O3v a bit soiled in lower fore-quadrant, occasional thin worm tracks in gutter or margin (touching just a couple of letters), faint old tidemark in lower fore-corner of text block and occasionally along top edge; still, a good, crisp copy.

First edition. Posthumously published after being seen through the press by Isaak Vos. An English translation by William Lewis (The Antient Religion of the Gentiles and Causes of Their Errors Consider’d) appeared in 1705. “In this work Herbert attempts to show that the evidence of actual religions, which he takes mainly from classical authors, confirms his thesis that the five common notions of religion are universally acknowledged. Data that seem to contradict this thesis are dismissed as arising either from priestly corruptions or from a failure to recognize symbolic usage” – DNB. $1000.

Two Good Association Copies

184. Herford, Oliver: OVERHEARD IN A GARDEN ET CAETERA ... WITH SOME PICTURES BY THE AUTHOR. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1900]. Pictorial boards, stamped in colors, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and illustrations. A few small rubs to spine, with 8mm. closed snag at crown, otherwise an unusually nice copy.

First edition. A good period association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “To H.I.K.! from OK!” The inscription is followed by a quick ink sketch. The recipient, Hannibal Ingalls Kimball, was one of the principals of Stone & Kimball $250.

185. Herford, Oliver: THE FAIRY GODMOTHER-IN-LAW ... WITH SOME PICTURES BY THE AUTHOR. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1905]. Pictorial boards, stamped in colors, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and illustrations. Just a trace of tanning and edgewear to the boards, otherwise an unusually nice copy, near fine.

First edition. A good period association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “For Ingalls Kimball because I know he believes in Fairies from Oliver Hereford.” The inscription is followed by two quick ink sketches, one of them the head of a witch. Kimball was one of the principals of Stone & Kimball $225.

186. Herriot, James [pseud of James A. Wright]: THE ORIGIN OF ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. [Wichita, KS: All Creatures Great and Small Society, Inc. / Kida Press], 1988. [22]pp. Small quarto (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Loose sheets, laid into folding clamshell box. Illustrated with four original lithographs with colored highlights. Bookplate on front pastedown of case, small label shadow in lower corner of upper panel of case, else fine.

First edition in this format. Illustrated with original lithographs by DeLoss McGraw. Copy #2 of thirty numbered copies (with proofs), printed at the School of Art & Design at Wichita State, signed by the author and the artist. By virtue of the limitation, most likely Herriot’s scarcest publication. $450.

187. Hiro [pseud. of Yasuhiro Wakabayashi]: HIRO PHOTOGRAPHS. Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Co., [1999]. Large quarto. Gray cloth, stamped in silver. 37 color, 33 duotone illustrations. Fine in lightly rubbed and faintly edgeworn dust jacket.

First US edition. Edited by Richard Avedon, afterword by Mark Holborn. Inscribed by Hiro: “For Charles [–] Hiro.” The recipient was poet/novelist and proto-surrealist, Charles Henri Ford. After assisting his mentor Richard Avedon in the late 1950s, Hiro distinguished himself as one of the most original of post-WWII photographers. $125.

188. Holmes, Oliver Wendell: THE IRON GATE, AND OTHER POEMS. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881. Gilt black cloth, t.e.g. Portrait. Decorated endsheets a bit tanned at gutters, crown and toe of spine frayed otherwise a good, bright copy. Bookplate of Frank Fletcher, Calvin Bullock and Edmund Routledge.

First edition, second impression (1012 copies printed). Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “Mr. Edmund Routledge With the compliments of Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston, March 1st 1881 written with the gold pen with wh. the Autocrat was written.” The recipient was a member of the Routledge publishing family (who brought out collections of Holmes’ poetry in England) and editor of Every Boy’s Magazine. BAL 8949. CURRIER & TILTON, pp.177-8. $1250. 189. Horgan, Paul: THE SAINTMAKER’S CHRISTMAS EVE. [Dallas: The Somesuch Press, 1987]. Miniature (6.6 x 7.6 cm). Gilt lettered cloth. Illustrations by the author. Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine. Oversize collector’s half morocco folding case with inset (label mark in lower corner of upper panel).

First printing in this format. One of 250 numbered copies printed at the Meridan-Stinehour Press, signed by the author and by Steve Stinehour. $100.

190. Huart, Louis: PHYSIOLOGIE DU FLANEUR .... Paris: Aubert et Cie / Lavigne, 1841. 126,[1]pp. 12mo. Later quarter calf and marbled boards, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Illustrations. A fine copy.

First edition. Illustrated with vignettes by Honoré Daumier, Menut Alophe, and Maurisset. One of the elements in Huart’s highly popular series of satirical sketches of Parisian life (1841–2). $175.

191. Hudson, W. H.: OSPREY; OR, EGRETS AND AIGRETTES. London: Society for the Protection of Birds, 1896. 10,[1]pp. Pictorial self-wrappers. A couple faint old folds, light tanning and dust soiling, but a very good copy.

The second edition of Hudson’s fourth book, the first of 1891 being described by the bibliographer, who located only the Martin (now in a private collection) and the Bodleian copies, as “without a question the rarest of all Hudson’s writings.” This edition, denoted as comprising the “6th to 10th thousand,” adds a new postscript by Hudson. Issued as publication #3 of the Society for the Protection of Birds. PAYNE A4b. $125.

192. Hudson, W. H.: BIRDS AND MAN. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. Light rubbing at spine tips and bottom edges, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition. Inscribed and signed on the first blank: “Yours sincerely W.H. Hudson.” One of Hudson’s most popular collections of essays and papers on the subject. PAYNE A20a. $500.

193. Hudson, W. H.: A LITTLE BOY LOST. London: Duckworth, 1905. Beige pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Frontis, plates and illustrations by A.D. M’Cormick. Cloth very faintly darkened at edges, otherwise a near fine, uncommonly bright copy.

First edition of this children’s book little favored by its author. He did not agree to its republication until the New York edition of 1918. PAYNE A25a. $225.

194. Hugo, Victor: ODES ET BALLADES. Paris: Ladvocat, Libraire, 1826. xx,[2],238pp. 12mo. Full late 19th or early 20th century straight grain black morocco, raised bands, side panels elaborately decorated in blind and gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Engraved frontis (with letters) engraved by Mauduit after Devéria. Scattered foxing, modest offset from frontis to title, joints lightly rubbed, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition thus. Tipped in after the title-leaf is a brief, half-page autograph note, signed with initials, by Hugo, Np., “Dimanch 31 Mars,” no year, to “Mon cher Paul ...,” ca. 35 words, on half-sheet of plain paper, with blank conjugate. Talvart & Place indicate that the ordinary edition consisted of 1000 copies on vélin; some copies on vélin fort appeared, with the frontis in proof state before letters. The binder’s stamp is partially illegible, but appears to be “Bonaventure [/] New York.” TALVART & PLACE (Hugo) 14. VICAIRE IV:232-3. CATERET I:392. $1250. 195. Hylen, Arnold [photographer]: THE VANISHING FACE OF LOS ANGELES. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1968. 8,[2]pp. text. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Accompanied by 15 mounted original borderless silver prints of photographs (various sizes, each signed on the mount). The whole enclosed in folding cloth portfolio with gilt label.

First edition. One of 100 numbered portfolios, with letterpress by Grant Dahlstrom, signed by the photographer on the colophon as well. Portfolio by Bela Blau. A selection of photographs of LA buildings and features originally taken in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with commentary and a key. Swedish-born photographer Arthur Hylen settled in Los Angeles in the late 1920s. After studying at Chouinards and Pasadena Art Institute, he was art director for the Fluor Corporation. $850.

196. Ibsen, Henrik: POEMS. New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Company, 1987. Quarto. Full handwoven decorative cloth over boards. Illustrated with original colored etchings and a four panel gatefold three-color lithograph. Faint bookplate shadow on front pastedown, otherwise fine in silk-covered gilt-stamped folding clamshell box (lower fore-tip rubbed, small sticker shadow in lower corner of upper panel).

First edition of these translations by Michael Feingold, accompanied by a translator’s Foreword, illustrated with five colored etchings and a lithograph by Neil Welliver. One of seventy-five numbered copies, from an edition of ninety-five copies printed by Daniel Keleher of Wild Carrot Letterpress on handmade Dieu Donné paper. The etchings were printed by Shigemiotsu Tsukaguchi, and the lithograph at Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. The handwoven fabric for the cover was made by Sara Dochow. $6000.

197. [Irving, Washington]: THE SKETCH BOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT. NO. 1 [through:] NO. VII. New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1819–1820. Seven volumes. Bound in early 20th century three quarter crimson morocco, spines quite elaborately gilt, raised bands, a.e.g., bound without wrappers. Inserted in each volume is a 19th century engraved or mezzotint frontis portrait of Irving from various sources. Minor scuff to one side panel, early ink name eradicated from top margin of title of No. VII, a few professional marginal repairs, but a very good set, attractively bound (see below).

First editions of each part of Irving’s second major sequence publication. The first part is BAL’s second printing, parts II through V and VII are the first printings. Part VI, however, has been sophisticated in an obvious fashion: the title-leaf is from another part (perhaps part III), with the serial number altered in ms. to VI, and the text begins after the title with the sectional title for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and the story, omitting pp. [1]-48. However, the sheets that are present are from the first printing. An attractive, if flawed, set, packaged very much in the style of an earlier generation of binders and collectors. Among Irving’s masterworks, printing for the first time in book form “Rip Van Winkle” (Pt. I), “Old Christmas” (Pt. V), and as mentioned above, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Proper sets in original wrappers are now uncommon and beyond the means of many collectors. The present set, despite its issues, presents well and, from an admittedly perverse point of view, saves one flipping through the early pages of part VI to get to the good part. BAL 10106. JOHNSON HIGH SPOT. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 31. PETER PARLEY TO PENROD, p.143. $6500.

Association Set

198. [James, Henry]: Burton, Richard F.: PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL-MEDINAH AND MECCAH .... London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855–6. Three volumes. xiv,[2],388,[24]pp. plus tinted frontis, folding map, and two colored plates; iv,426pp. plus two plans (one folding), a color frontis, and three tinted plates; x,[2],448pp. plus color frontis and plate, five plain plates (four tinted), and a folding plan. Large octavo. Deep blue cloth, decorated in black, lettered in gilt, edges rough trimmed. A somewhat weary set, the first volume rebacked with the original backstrip laid down, the second and third with wear and fraying to spine extremities and somewhat shaken; internally the first two volumes are rather sporadically foxed, the third somewhat less so; the margins of the plates are tanned; an early ink name appears on a prelim or the title of each volume, and a somewhat later, larger ownership inscription appears on the verso of the front free endsheet of the first volume. An unlovely, but sound set, with interesting association import (see below).

First edition of Burton’s most famous early travel narrative, based on his own visits, in disguise, to the Arab holy cities. A second edition followed in 1857, and it assumed some stature as one of the most considerable works of travel literature of the latter half of the 19th century. This is a rather interesting association copy, bearing in the first volume, on the verso of the free endsheet, the ownership signature of Henry James, dated 1903. It is unclear what, if any, impression reading Burton’s narrative might have had on James, and it seems unlikely, at best, that their paths ever crossed in Italy or elsewhere during Burton’s later years. Edel and Tintner record James’ ownership of this book -- the only title by Burton they record in James’ library -- noting its existence based on the Hodgson list and Fabes catalogues, but it is among those titles that were, at the time of their work (preceding 1987), “whereabouts unknown.” EDEL & TINTNER (JAMES LIBRARY), p.24. PENZER, p.49 ff. $9500.

199. James, Henry: THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. Three volumes. Small octavo. Gilt lettered medium blue cloth. Ink gift inscription in first volume (1908), small bookseller’s sticker on pastedown, tips slightly worn, very minor foxing to endleaves, but a very good, bright set.

Third (?) British edition, still in three-volume format (though reduced). An interesting configuration beyond the first and second editions detailed in Edel & Laurence. $175. 200. Janvier, Thomas A.: IN GREAT WATERS FOUR STORIES. New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1901. Green cloth, decorated in gilt. Frontis and plates by Lucius Hitchcock. Small label in corner of front pastedown, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet with a long quotation from page 65: “For: James C. Young Esq. ‘Jutting out from the rocky coast, a sand-spit nearly seven miles long, Minnesota Point is as a strong arm stretched forth to defend the harbour of Duluth against the storms which breed in the frozen north and come roaring down Lake Superior’ Thomas A. Janvier New York April 28, 1903.” BAL 10857. SMITH J-58. $250.

201. Jephson, Robert: THE COUNT OF NARBONNE, A TRAGEDY. AS IT IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN COVENT GARDEN. Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, for the Company of Booksellers, 1781. [10],57,[4]pp. 12mo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume and inserted into modern plain wrapper. Some scattered foxing, but a good copy.

First Irish edition, published in the same year as the London edition. Dedicated to Horace Walpole, upon whose Castle of Otranto it was based. Regarded by some as one of the best tragedies of the late 18th century. ESTC locates 4 copies in North America. ESTC T28326. $125.

202. Johnson, Samuel: : A TRAGEDY. AS IT IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN DRURY LANE. London: Printed for R. Dodsley ... and Sold by M. Cooper ..., 1749. [8],86,[2]pp. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume. T.e.g., a few small smudges to half-title, otherwise a very good copy, with the advert leaf.

First edition of Johnson’s only play, published a dozen years after its completion as a consequence of Garrick’s offer to stage it when he took over Drury Lane. It was first performed on 6 February 1748. Fleeman speculates that the edition may have been reasonably large, on the order of one thousand copies. Although he attributes little significance to them, the following variations are present in this copy: there is no semi-colon in the imprint; the catchword ‘CENE’ appears on pages 14 and 23 (rather than ‘SCENE’), and no catchword is present on page 60. COURTNEY & SMITH, p.24. FLEEMAN 49.21/1a. ROTHSCHILD 1231. $1850.

203. [Johnson, Samuel]: A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1775. [2],384pp. (errata bound after title). Octavo. Full 20th century unsigned polished calf, spine gilt extra, raised bands, gilt labels. A few rubs to binding along joints and isolated small marks on lower board, minor foxing to foremargins of a couple of signatures, otherwise a very good, reasonably tall copy, internally fresh and bright..

With the six-line errata, and hence properly the second edition, as much (but not all) of the text was reset for corrections and final revisions. COURTNEY & SMITH, p.122-3. FLEEMAN 75.1J/2a. CHAPMAN & HAZEN, p.151. ESTC T147766. $750. Second American Edition

204. [Johnson, Samuel]: THE PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. A TALE ... THE TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE IN ONE. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey ... and T. Lang, 1791. viii,[9]- 191,[1]pp. 12mo. Extracted from old binding, moderate foxing and occasional spotting, a few fore-corner chips (not affecting text), three upper fore-corners affected by fire (again, not approaching or affecting text); a sound, complete copy.

Second Philadelphia edition, following up on the famous 1768 first American edition printed by Robert Bell, and the second of only three known 18th century American printings. In 1795, an edition conjoined with Knight’s Dinarbas appeared in Greenfield, Mass., and after the turn of the next century American readers could avail themselves of a virtual deluge of American editions. However, the two Philadelphia pioneers are uncommon, or in the case of the 1768 edition, of some rarity outside institutional holdings. ESTC locates 12 copies of this edition, with only the Bodleian copy residing outside North America. Like the Greenfield edition, not noted by Courtney & Smith, though they cite several of the later, 19th century North American printings. ESTC W19899. EVANS 23473. FLEEMAN 59.4R/19. $850.

205. Johnson, Samuel: SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS. [London: Privately Printed for Clement Shorter, nd. but ca. 1915]. Quarto. Printed brown wrappers. Sewing absent, with narrow split to wrapper spine fold toward toe, otherwise a nice, crisp copy, with the bookplate of Robert W. Rogers.

First edition. Prints for the first time the text of seven letters, including his “Last Letter written December 7, 1774,” sent by Johnson to William Strahan. Ostensibly one of twenty copies “privately printed by Clement Shorter for distribution among his friends.” Signed by Shorter and with a small manuscript correction in the Foreword. $750.

206. [Johnson, Samuel]: Stockdale, Percival: AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR. JOHNSON’S FAVOURITE CAT ... WITH A NOTE ON DR. JOHNSON’S CATS [caption title]. New Haven: At the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press, 1949. Quarto. French-fold leaflet. Fine.

First edition in this format. One of 100 copies printed on handmade paper, with a substantial explanatory note by Herman W. Liebert. Now somewhat uncommon. $95.

207. Jones, Henry Arthur: MICHAEL AND HIS LOST ANGEL A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS. London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1895. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers worn and a bit soiled, backstrip chipped, upper corner of front wrapper and half-title creased; a reasonably good copy of a fragile book. Folding cloth slipcase.

First edition, “privately printed and not for circulation.” An interesting association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “Dear Bret Harte faithfully yours Henry Arthur Jones.” This was considered “Jones’s most ambitious play. Into it he put his deepest convictions, and succeeded in producing a tragic drama of passion which may well hold its own with the finest plays of the time” (see The British and American Drama of Today [1915], pp. 40-43).” The play, not produced until 1896, was not a success, running for only eleven performances. It caused considerable debate because of its use of sin in the form of an adulterous clergyman. Critics, including G.B. Shaw, have agreed with its author that it is his masterpiece. NCBEL III:1165. $375.

208. [Jortin, John]: LUSUS POETICI. EDITIO TERTIA, EMENDATIOR. London: Excudit Gulielmus Bowyer, 1748. [4],56pp. Quarto. Modern three quarter unlettered calf and marbled boards, bound with the half-title. A few minor smudges early and late, otherwise a very good copy.

Third edition, expanded, of Jortin’s Latin and English verse, including among the latter, “An Hymn to Harmony. In the Manner of Spenser.” Foxon reports the edition consisted of 250 copies only. The first edition appeared ca. 1722 (ESTC locates two copies only), and the second ca. 1724 (ESTC locates 5 copies only). Jortin is most widely known for his exhaustive Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, which earned Gibbon’s respect, and his biography of Erasmus. But he was as well a gifted musician, poet, and critic/editor. He greatly admired Milton and Spenser, and the small circle of contemporary readers who were privy to his own poetry held it in high regard. FOXON J100a. ESTC T38782. $450.

209. Joyce, James: CHAMBER MUSIC. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907. Green cloth, lettered in gilt. Ornamental title border. Spine faintly sunned, endsheets a bit tanned, with faint binding adhesive discoloration along gutter, otherwise a near fine, bright copy.

First edition, second binding, thin wove endsheet variant, of Joyce’s first clothbound book. The entire first printing consisted, according to early sources, of five hundred and nine sets of sheets. The first lot of sheets were bound for publication in May of 1907; a second binding lot was ordered at an unknown, but significantly later date. The copy in hand has the thin wove endsheets, as opposed to thicker wove endsheets that appear in other copies of the second binding lot (priority undetermined, and likely nonexistent). SLOCUM & CAHOON A3. $4500.

One of 100 Signed Copies

210. Joyce, James: HAVETH CHILDERS EVERYWHERE. FRAGMENT FROM WORK IN PROGRESS. Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. Quarto. Printed wrappers. A fine copy in glassine, the latter with some tanning to the spine, in edgeworn and slightly marked slipcase with cracks at the front portions of the top and bottom panel joints.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies on “Imperial hand-made iridescent Japan,” signed by the author, from a total edition of 685 copies. SLOCUM & CAHOON A41. $17,500.

211. [Joyce, James]: JAMES JOYCE SA VIE SON OEUVRE SON RAYONNEMENT OCTOBRE – NOVEMBRE 1949. Paris: La Hune, 1949. Pictorial wrappers. Plates and facsimiles. About fine in glassine with short tear at toe of spine.

First edition of this glorious exhibition catalogue, including some material published here for the first time. One of 1500 copies. Recently uncommon in this condition (only). SLOCUM & CAHOON B29. $85.

212. Keats, John: THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS. WITH A MEMOIR BY RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES .... London: Edward Moxon, 1854. xl,375, Large, thick octavo. Full ruby-red crushed levant, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., by Bayntun. Portrait and illustrations. Joints cracking towards crowns, otherwise a fine copy.

First collective edition thus, with the memoir, and with wood engravings throughout by George Scharf. An inscribed presentation copy from Monckton Milnes: “John Simeon – with the best regards of Rich. M. Milnes ... May 15, 1856.” It seems likely that the recipient was Sir John Simeon, 3rd Baronet, Tennyson’s friend and neighbor, and member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight from 1847 to 1851, and again between 1865 and 1870. Letters from Milnes to Simeon are preserved in the latter’s papers. NCBEL III:344. $650.

213. Kimura, Risaburo: CITY 126 [Original silkscreen]. [New York]: The Artist, 1970. Folio (68 x 54.5 cm, plus margins). Original multi-color silkscreen. About fine.

Impression #4 of an edition of twenty numbered copies, titled, signed and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Born in Yokusaka Japan in 1924, Risaburo Kimura moved to New York in the 1960s. One of his most widely known series is the 1970s “Great Cities of the World” sequence combining silkscreen, serigraph and lithography. $350.

With Two Typed Letters, Signed

214. Kipling, Rudyard: FROM SEA TO SEA LETTERS OF TRAVEL. New York: Doubleday & McClure Company, 1899. Two volumes. Green cloth, stamped in blind, lettered in gilt. Extremities a bit rubbed and bumped, erasures and old bookseller description stain on front pastedown, otherwise a good set. Half morocco slipcase (sunned and rubbed).

First authorized edition of this material, the text heavily revised by Kipling. The second volume exhibits the earliest readings on p.90 and p. 153. With the following items tipped into the first volume: a) at the front, a typed letter signed (one page, 8vo, on printed stationery of the Regina Hotel Bernascon & Villa Regina, Aix-les-Bains, 8 May 1923, headed “Private,” with front panel of mailing envelope) from Kipling to American novelist and travel-writer Julian Street, in Princeton, New Jersey, sending thanks for his “kind letter” and the “book that you have been good enough to forward” and promising to read it “as soon as I get back,” adding “I fancy that the non-committal giggle of the East when questions of an intimate nature are asked is part of the protective armour of the people themselves. One meets it all the way from Port Said to Yokohama. Japan, of course, must have changed enormously from what it was when I first saw it ...”; and b) (at p. 320) a typed letter signed (one page, 12mo, on printed letterhead of Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex, 26 May 1923, marked “Private,” with mailing envelope) also from Kipling to Street, written after the former’s return from France “to find your ‘Mysterious Japan’,” and thanking the author for it. Kipling comments: “I am glad to find that, after more years than I care to think about, the land you describe keeps so much of its old beauty ... I see what you say about the ‘chuckle of politeness’, which is a tribute to the General Decencies of Society in the East, no matter how great one’s private sorrow may be. It is like self-expression turned inside out -- Society, that is to say, imposing its own convention on the individua[l].” Both letters in very good condition and not in The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, ed. by Thomas Pinney. Two small slips, printed in Japanese, are tipped to the first blank in the first volume. STEWART 198. RICHARDS A131. $1750.

215. Kipling, Rudyard: PUTNAM. [New York: Max Hartzof, ca. 1923?]. 12mo. White crepe two-ply tissue paper, two leaves, deckled edges. Some browning and dark residue from two small cellophane tape tabs, otherwise in good state. A very fragile publication, accompanied by -- but glued to as a consequence of the flap adhesive -- the original mailing envelope “with typed description.”

First facsimile edition of this “savage, 135-word attack on the antecedents, character and commercial ethics of George Haven Putnam, son of the founder of the American publisher G.P. Putnam.” Richards records that fifty copies were produced “in the early 1920s” by Max Hartzof (1875-1942), owner of the G.A. Baker & Company antiquarian bookshop and auction house of , and provides context: “At the beginning of 1899 Putnam had published the so-called ‘Brushwood Edition’ of Kipling’s works ... made up of unbound sheets of American editions already widely circulated throughout the United States by Kipling’s various authorized publishers. Although Putnam paid them the market price and so provided a royalty to the author (the edition was thus not a piracy, and its promotion was well within customary commercial limits), Kipling sued Putnam in Federal circuit court to enjoin its publication, viewing its appearance as an attack on the prospects of the Kipling-authorized, Scribner-published ‘Outward Bound Edition’ ... The Putnam suit, one of several that the writer commenced in those years in the United States to stop the unauthorized republication of this work, was decided against him in May 1901.” During the course of these proceedings, the exceedingly rare (1900) first edition of Putnam was produced, purportedly printed by Kipling on a small hand press (“on a shiny brown transparent paper, not the soft cottony paper which Hartzoff [sic] used” for his facsimile), and sent to a few [two?] friends, including the American publisher, S.S. McClure. The sole surviving copy of the first edition is now at Harvard. The text begins: “George Haven Putnam was born of poor but most disreputable parents. This was done in the Retail Department ... At the age of ten he announced his intention to become that thing called a Publisher.” RICHARDS A132. $400.

216. Kosinski, Jerzy: THE PAINTED BIRD. London: Allen, 1966. Cloth. First U.K. edition of the author’s first novel. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket with just a few faint traces of dust offset in corners of white portions. $85.

217. Kosinski, Jerzy: LES PAS. Paris: Flammarion, [1969]. Printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, in publisher’s glassine.

First edition in French of Steps, translated by Paule Gertrand. Copy ‘III” of five copies numbered in Roman and hors commerce, from a total of twenty-five copies printed on Vélin d’Alfa (and an unknown number of unnumbered out-of-series copies). $65.

218. Kosinski, Jerzy: LA PRÉSENCE. Paris: Flammarion, [1971]. Printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, in publisher’s glassine.

First edition in French of Being There, translated by Paule Gertrand. Copy ‘V’ of five copies numbered in Roman, hors commerce, from a total of twenty-five copies printed on Vélin d’Alfa (and an unknown number of unnumbered out-of-series copies). $65.

219. Kosinski, Jerzy: COCKPIT. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. Two volumes. Printed orange-brown wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition, here present in both variants, 253pp (paginated in manuscript) and 248pp. (paginated in type). The later form has the ink denotation ‘II’ on spine, otherwise about fine. $40.

220. Langhorne, John [trans], and Denina, Carlo: A DISSERTATION HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL, ON THE ANCIENT REPUBLICS OF ITALY: FROM THE ITALIAN OF ... WITH ORIGINAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS .... London: Printed for T. Becket, and Co., 1773. xi,[1],228pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Spine and extremities a bit worn, early mend to marginal tear in I3, light foxing, two ownership signatures on the front free endsheet (one 20th century), but a very good, large copy.

First edition of this annotated translation by the prolific versifier, novelist and translator (most notably of Plutarch). His Fables of Flora was exceedingly popular (though now somewhat faded), but this is the sole 18th century edition of this work located in ESTC, and only ten copies are located in North America. Becket did not cut corners in the production of this work, wrapping the text in margins of considerable generosity. NCBEL II:667. $450.

221. [Laurentian Press]: Browning, Robert: IN A BALCONY A DRAMA IN VERSE. [New York]: The Laurentian Press, 1902. Grey boards, very elaborately decorated in gilt and black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Tips rubbed, faint foxing to endsheets, otherwise a very good, or perhaps better, copy.

One of 265 numbered copies on Van Gelder, from a total edition of three hundred copies designed by, and printed under the direction of, Arthur Hahlo and George Hellman. Hahlo and Hellman’s venture seems to have sputtered to a close after a small handful of publications, but Hahlo, at least, carried on as a publisher of prints and gallery owner. $125. 222. Lavater, Johann Caspar: PHYSIOGNOMY: OR THE CORRESPONDING ANALOGY BETWEEN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FEATURES. AND THE RULING PASSIONS OF THE MIND ... [with:] ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY; FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE LOVE OF MANKIND .... London: Printed for H.D. Symonds [and:] Printed for G.G. J & J. Robinson, [nd. but ca. 1793 (?) or 1800]. Two volumes. [8],280pp. plus five plates and engraved title; [8],288,269-275,[1]pp, plus engraved title and seven plates. Uniformly bound in contemporary dyed calf, spines gilt extra, marbled endsheets. Early ownership signature in each volume, small tidemark at extreme fore-corner of prelims of first volume, some foxing or tanning to some of the plates, otherwise a very good set.

Two contemporary abridgements of Lavater’s work, the first evidently a piracy translated by Samuel Shaw, the second under the imprint of the publisher of the original edition, abridged from Thomas Holcroft’s translation. There is some controversy about the ascription of date to the second work; ESTC dates it 1800, but an announcement in The Monthly Review for June 1793 quoted by Colby announces its publication in order to combat piracies (such as its companion here), a topic dealt with at length in the publisher’s advertisement in this copy. COLBY, p.61. ESTC T137194 and T146421. $300.

223. [Lawrence, D.H.]: Clarke, Thomas E. B.: D.H. LAWRENCE’S “THE LOST GIRL” SCREENPLAY BY .... [Hollywood]: Jerry Wald Productions, 18 July 1961. [2],163 leaves, with ten noncontiguous leaves of revises on colored paper appended at end. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Plain flexible plastic wrapper. Lower wrapper creased, otherwise very good or better.

Denoted a “Final” draft of this unproduced screen adaptation of Lawrence’s novel. Clarke had shared an Oscar with Gavin Lambert for the screenplay for the 1960 adaptation (also produced by Wald) of Sons and Lovers, but it seems the momentum from that success was not sufficient to carry this project beyond script development. An extra prelim stresses confidentiality of circulation. $350.

224. Lawrence, D.H.: TORTOISES SIX POEMS.... [Williamsburg, MA]: Cheloniidae Press, 1983. Quarto. Quarter vellum and boards. Etched portrait. Wood engravings. Fine, with accompaniments as below, enclosed in faintly dusty quarter vellum and cloth clamshell box.

First edition in this format, illustrated with wood-engravings by Alan James Robinson, and with an Introduction by Jefferson Hunter. One of ninety numbered deluxe copies printed on Fabriano Perusia, from a total edition of three hundred copies. Accompanied by an extra suite of the seven wood- engravings and the portrait etching, each numbered and signed by the artist, and by a copy of the original prospectus. $750.

225. [Lawrence, ]: Hersey, John: HIROSHIMA ... WITH A NEW POEM BY ROBERT PENN WARREN. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Large quarto. Full black aniline calf, lettered in blind. Illustrated with eight original silkscreens printed in eleven colors. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine in modestly rubbed black silk over boards slipcase.

First edition in this format, the text accompanied by eight original full-page color silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence resulting in a haunting conjunction of text and image. One of 1500 numbered copies printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress, with the silkscreens printed at Studio Heinrici Ltd. Each copy is signed by Hersey, Warren and Lawrence. One of the most heralded of the Club’s publications of the 1980s, and justly so. $1500.

226. Lawrence, Jerome, and Robert E. Lee: “THE FURY”... (FREELY BASED ON A STORY BY PAUL HEYSE). Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs, Inc., 8 December 1952. [2],48 leaves, plus revised inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in mimeographed wrappers. Extensively annotated throughout and on wrappers in pencil and colored pencils (see below), ink name on front wrapper, but a very good copy.

A “Final Master Script” of this adaptation of Heyse’s story, prepared by Lawrence, Lee and Wald as #6b of the television series, Favorite Story. This script was utilized in the production, and is very, very extensively annotated throughout with camera angles, revisions in dialogue and stage directions, etc. The versos of the majority of leaves bear annotations pertaining to camera p.o.v. and similar data keyed to the facing recto. A most significant copy of this script, probably unique in this form. $300.

227. Lawrence, T.E.: T.E. LAWRENCE: LETTERS TO E.T. LEEDS WITH COMMENTARY BY E.T. LEEDS. [Andoversford, Gloucestershire]: The Whittington Press, [1988]. Quarto. Linen and boards. Frontis photograph. Illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy and with photographs. As new in slipcase.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 650 numbered copies bound thus, from a total edition of 750 copies printed in Caslon type on Zerkell mould-made paper. Edited, with an introduction, by J.M. Wilson, and with a memoir of Leeds by D.B. Harden. A sequence of fifty-two letters, most previously unpublished, chiefly from the time of Lawrence’s Carchemish expedition. $250.

228. Leavitt, Nancy: FLOATING THROUGH THE DESERT. [Np: The Author/Artist, 1988]. Original calligraphic manuscript with watercolor vignettes, on rectos only of 14 leaves (25.5 x 18cm). Enclosed in custom made folding cloth-covered box with thread ornaments, malachite clasp and acrylic pastepaper lining. Very faint bookplate shadow on front pastedown of box, otherwise fine.

Copy #1 of seven copies executed in watercolor and gouache on BFK Rives, signed and dated by the author/ artist. According to the colophon, “This story was written and illustrated on the highways of Arizona February 1988.” A relatively early production by Leavitt, who is among the leading American practitioners of calligraphic art and whose productions under the imprint of the Tomato Press meld with calligraphy. She began producing illuminated/calligraphic works in 1985, and is the Calligraphy Correspondent for the Guild of Book Workers. Her work is found in public and private collections including the Houghton Library at Harvard, the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and the Victoria Albert Museum in London. $750. 229. Lebrun, Pierre [-Antoine]: LE VOYAGE DE GRÈCE. POÈME .... Paris & Leipzig: Ponthieu etc Cie., 1828. xx,[2],[23]-279pp. Octavo. Handsome contemporary green calf and marbled boards, spine gilt extra, with crowned initials ‘A.O.’ in gilt at toe. Scattered light foxing, a few rubs to fore-tips, otherwise very good copy.

First edition of the author’s most celebrated work, a poem in nine cantos, with a prologue and over one hundred pages of appended notes, based on his 1820 travels in Greece, and published coincident with his election to the Academy. “Although Lebrun’s philhellenic poem is rather late, he was among the earliest of French phihellenes and exercised considerable influence on his colleagues” – Blackmer Catalogue. BLACKMER COLLECTION 992. $450.

230. Lewis, Sinclair: BABBITT. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922]. Blue cloth, stamped in orange. Very minor rubbing at shelf edges, otherwise a near fine copy, in slightly tanned, near very good dust jacket with shallow losses at crown and toe of spine (not affecting letterpress), a few small nicks along top edge of lower panel, and short, creased tears near the lower fore-corner of upper panel and at toe of flap fold.

First edition, first state of p. 49 (one of ca. 9500 copies thus). Signed by Lewis on the front free endsheet in fountain pen (a couple small smudges). TAYLOR VIII. PASTORE 8. $3750.

231. Lopez, Barry: COYOTE LOVE NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKTALES ADAPTED BY .... Portland, ME: Coyote Love Press, [1989]. Open sewn quarter vellum and Mexican bark paper over boards. Illustrated with color blockprints by Gary Buch. Bookplate tipped to front pastedown, otherwise a fine copy.

First edition. One of 99 copies set in Goudy Thirty, Kennerly (sic) and Neuland types, printed on Ingres paper by George Bennington, and with hand illuminated initials by Allen Q. Wong. Signed by the author and illustrator. $350.

232. [Lumiere Press]: Goldchain, Rafael [photographer]: NOSTALGIA FOR AN UNKNOWN LAND. [Toronto]: Lumiere Press, 1989. Cloth and boards. Twelve tipped-in color plates from photographs. Bookplate, otherwise fine.

First edition. Introduction by Alberto Manguel. Essay by Michael Torosian. One of 170 numbered copies printed by hand on Frankfurt mould-made paper, and signed by Goldchain and the authors. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of Goldchain’s thematically related photographs from Central America at the Art Gallery of Windsor. $500.

233. MacArthur, Arthur: AFTER THE AFTERNOON. New York: Appleton, 1941. Sewn signatures, perfectbound in the striking pictorial dust jacket by New Orleans artist, C.W. Durieux. Minuscule nicks at three tips of spine folds, otherwise fine.

An advance reading copy of the first edition of the New Orleans-born author’s first novel, a fantasy published while he was associated with the Federal Writers Project for the state of Louisiana. Uncommon (only) in this format. BLEILER, p.128. $100.

234. Malet, Lucas [pseud. of Mary St. Leger Harrison]: ADRIAN SAVAGE A NOVEL. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1911. Navy blue cloth, decorated in gilt. A few faint small splashmarks to upper board toward fore-edge, light foxing to edges, otherwise a good, bright copy.

First edition. A good, family presentation copy, inscribed on the front pastedown: “To my beloved and only Sister from Lucas Malet Oct. 7. 1911 The Orchard Eversley.” Mrs. Harrison (1852-1931) was Charles Kingsley’s younger daughter and, like her father and uncle, became a famous best-selling novelist. She published her many novels, as well as collections of short stories, under a nom de plume (created by combining names from each of her parents’ families) to avoid trading on her father’s reputation. The recipient of this presentation copy was the author’s only sister, Rose (1845-1925), the eldest of the four Kingsley children. NCBEL III:1066. $450.

235. Man Ray: ALPHABET FOR ADULTS. Beverly Hills, CA: Copley Galleries, [1948]. Quarto. Cloth-backed pictorial paper boards. Illustrations by the author. Some minor spots to endsheets, some old humidity spotting to cloth around crown of spine, pencil-erasure size frayed nick toward top of one joint, lower fore-tips bumped; otherwise, externally a good copy, internally about fine.

First edition. One of five hundred copies printed by Lynton R. Kistler. With Man Ray’s late inscription in the upper margin of the title leaf: “for Gabriel, for when he grows up – or now. Man Ray 1970.” $1250.

Superb in Original Boards -- As Usual

236. Manners, [Catherine Rebecca], Lady: POEMS BY LADY MANNERS. London: Printed for John Booth ... [et al], 1794. [6],152pp. Octavo. Original paper boards, untrimmed. Usual modest foxing, otherwise a fine, largely unopened copy in original state.

First octavo edition, following the two editions in quarto published the previous year. With an added poem, “On Reading the Verses of Lady Manners, in Solitude,” by Mrs. Cowley. O’Donghue notes Lady Manners was the daughter of Thaddeus Gray, of Lehina, Co. Cork, and wife of Sir William Manners. One of her poems is entitled, “On Leaving Lehena, In Ireland, In October, MDCCLXXXXVIII.” While the marvelous condition of the present copy might impress on first being encountered, a learned colleague has noted that a remainder of this title, in this condition, entered the trade in the years after WWII. O’DONOGHUE, p. 158. ESTC T96366. $150.

237. [Marin, John]: Reich, Sheldon: JOHN MARIN A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS AND CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, [1970]. Two volumes. Small quartos. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. First edition. Frontis portrait. 209 illustrations in the first volume (a few in color). Bookplates on front pastedowns. Fine in near fine dust jackets. Lacks the slipcase.

First edition. The catalogue raisonné occupies the second volume, and records (often with b&w illustrations) Marin’s oil and watercolor paintings, arranged chronologically, from 1888 to 1953. $300.

238. [Marryat, Frederick]: NEWTON FORSTER; OR, THE MERCHANT SERVICE. London: James Cochrane and Co, 1832. Three volumes. Mid 19th century three quarter gilt calf and moiré cloth over boards. Bound without the half-titles and the adverts in volume three. Light rubbing, but a handsome set.

First edition of Marryat’s third novel, ranked third (although in original binding only) in Sadleir’s consideration of the relative scarcity of Marryat’s fiction. SADLEIR 1588. WOLFF 4527. NCBEL III:705. SADLEIR (EXCURSIONS), p.83. $300.

239. [Marryat, Frederick]: THE PACHA OF MANY TALES. London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. Three volumes. Later 19th century full gilt armorial (“Hostis Honori Invidia”) morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., ribbon markers. A few modest bits of rubbing, otherwise an attractive set.

First edition of this collection of tales, many with exotic themes or settings, first published in Metropolitan Magazine 1831-5. Bound without half-titles and the adverts in the first volume. With the 1886 bookplate of Stuart Rendel (likely 1st Baron Rendel, 1834-1913, British industrialist and philanthropist, and Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire). SADLEIR 1590. WOLFF 4529. NCBEL III:705. SADLEIR (EXCURSIONS), p.85. $300. 240. [Marryat, Frederick]: JAPHET, IN SEARCH OF A FATHER. London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. Three volumes. Mid 19th century three quarter gilt calf and moiré cloth over boards. Bound without half-title in volume one and adverts in volume three. Light rubbing, but a handsome set.

First edition in book form. This novel first appeared as a serial in Metropolitan Magazine, October 1834 – January 1836. SADLEIR 1579. WOLFF 4518. NCBEL III:705. SADLEIR (EXCURSIONS), p.87. $250.

241. [Marryat, Frederick]: MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY. London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. Three volumes. 19th century calf and marbled boards, spines decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. Bookplates, some foxing and edgewear, bound without half-titles and adverts. A good, sound set.

First edition. The serialization in Metropolitan Magazine was aborted after one installment (July 1836). SADLEIR 1585. WOLFF 4524. NCBEL III:705. SADLEIR (EXCURSIONS), p.88. $300.

242. [McBaine, Susan S. “Swin” (artist)], and Nichols, William Ford: EARTHQUAKE & FIRE DAYS OF 1906. [Berkeley: Wild Pig Press, 1998]. Oblong quarto (22 x 28.5 cm). Cloth and decorated paper over boards. Full-page color plates with translucent interleaves bearing descriptive text. Bookplate laid in (once tipped to verso of free endsheet with tiny adhesion marks), small pencil erasure in lower corner of first blank, otherwise fine in slipcase.

First edition in this format, with Nichols’s text reprinted from Days of My Age (1923), accompanied by watercolor interpretations of photographs by McBaine (a.k.a. “Swin”). One of fifty numbered copies, signed by the artist. The colophon: “The text ... is printed in Sihclear Cloud Grey paper and set in Kepler, a multiple master typeface by Adobe Systems. The printing is by Wild Pig Press. The watercolors are by Swin (Susan McBaine) after photographs of the 1906 earthquake and fire. The images and watercolor washes are Iris prints on Somerset 330 archival paper by Urban Digital Color, Inc. The lettering on the is by Julie Chang. The bookbinder is John DeMerritt (Emeryville, California) ... This is copy number 27/50.” A trade edition, reproduced by offset, has recently been issued. $650.

243. [McCarthy, Joseph]: Slate, Lane [screenwriter]: TAIL GUNNER JOE (THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY). [Np: Universal Television], 20 November 1975. [5],157 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in plain wrappers. Title-leaf punched slightly askew, with some modest creasing, two ink strikes across lower edge, otherwise very good or better.

An unspecified draft of this Emmy Award winning original dramatization of the rise and downfall of Joseph McCarthy. Jud Taylor directed the February 1977 release, which starred Peter Boyle, Burgess Meredith, , Patricia Neal, et al. Slate won an Emmy for his teleplay, and Meredith won an Emmy as best supporting actor for his role as Joseph Welch. $125.

244. Melville, Herman: ISRAEL POTTER: HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855. Original plum cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Head and toe of spine a bit frayed, with some shelfwear to lower edge of one board, usual sunning to cloth, ink ownership initials in lower margin of title leaf, rear endsheets slightly tanned and a bit foxed, a few spots to fore-edge, a good, sound copy. Folding cloth clamshell box.

First edition, first printing, with the requisite readings on pp. 141 and 237-9, in the first binding, with ornamented pendants in the spine lettering. BAL 13667. WRIGHT II:1700. $1800. 245. Melville, Herman: THE ENCANTADAS OR, ENCHANTED ISLES ... WITH AN INTRODUCTION, CRITICAL EPILOGUE & BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY VICTOR WOLFGANG VON HAGEN. Burlingame, CA: William P. Wreden, 1940. Quarto. Linen and decorated boards, paper spine label. Color frontis, vignettes and initials by Mallette Dean. Upper portion of spine label tanned, otherwise about fine, in remnants of original plain shipping wrapper.

First printing in this format. One of 550 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. A good association copy, with the 1949 calligraphic ownership inscription on the front free endsheet of Robert Chapman, co-author of the successful 1951 dramatic adaptation of Billy Budd. Chapman has also lettered the title and author on the upper panel of the wrapper. BAL 13729. GRABHORN 331. $175.

246. [Melville, Herman]: Original Studio Lobby Cards for BILLY BUDD. [New York]: Allied Artists, [1962]. Nearly complete set of seven original 11 x 14” pictorial color lobby cards (lacking only #8 for completeness). Light use and staple holes at extreme corners, otherwise very good and bright.

Peter Ustinov’s film adaptation of Melville’s novella was based on a screenplay by Ustinov and De Witt Bodeen, and starred Robert Ryan, Ustinov, Terence Stamp and David McCallum. $175.

247. Mencken, H. L.: TYPED LETTER, SIGNED, TO ARMINE HEMBERGER. Baltimore. 12 January 1929. Twelve lines, on half-sheet of quarto personal letterhead. Folded for mailing, a couple nicks and short tears at edges, else about very good.

Addressed “Dear Armin: Unluckily, my contacts with art dealers are very slight, and I don’t know one that would be likely to handle etchings effectively. My guess is that it will pay to tackle the largest of them. They are always more generous than the little fellows and they have contact with more customers. You must be having a roaring time with all those processes....” Hemberger (1896–1974) pursued an accomplished path as both a medical illustrator and a pictorial artist. $275.

248. Mencken, H. L.: TYPED LETTER, SIGNED WITH INITIALS. Baltimore. 7 December [possibly 1928]. Six lines, on half-sheet of quarto personal letterhead. Folded for mailing, a couple nicks and short tears at edges, else about very good.

Addressed to “My dear Irene – Thanks very much for the tip. I’ll certainly drop in to see Armin Hemberger’s etchings. I have known him since he was in knee breeches. I kiss your hand. Yours ....” Hemberger (1896–1974) pursued an accomplished path as both a medical illustrator and a pictorial artist, and Mencken wrote him on 12 January 1929 about marketing his etchings. $175.

249. Meredith, George: POEMS AND LYRICS OF THE JOY OF EARTH. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Front inner hinge cracking, spine extremities a bit worn, edges a bit darkened, but a good copy.

Second edition. With the author’s presentation inscription at the top of the title-page in blue ink: “A.H. Gilkes, with more heart in the gift than matter in the book, from George Meredith.” This copy is at slight variance from the collation recorded by Collie: the leaf of advertisements between the endsheets and [i] is integral, not inserted, and lists The Shaving of Shagpat as the first title of “Works by the Same Author,” not The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. Collie notes that the first edition, printed the same year, by R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, contained, much to Meredith’s annoyance, a number of misprints. Attempts were made to correct the errors by inserting new leaves in the text, but the results were unsatisfactory, and it was decided to print the book again, this time using the printers, R. & R. Clark, of Edinburgh. Collie states: “By 20 July 1883 Macmillan had agreed to have the volume re-printed at his own expense, presumably after a wrangle about the responsibility for the error. The result is described here as the second edition, though textually it is the same as a corrected version of the first edition. Macmillan must have forgotten what happened since in 1892 Meredith had to explain why he still had on hand copies of the book as printed by Clay. ‘The cause for the rejection of Clay’s printing is at pages 49-50, where you find the leaf omitted in the copy you sent and I return. The printers put two lines out of place, destroying the sense in two places. The pages were recast, and the leaf stuck in, but it had a slovenly effect, and it was decided to send the book to Clark. I fear that nothing can be done with the 250, except to sell them in America at I / -- if Americans will buy.’ (Letters II, 1062-3).” The recipient of this presentation copy was Arthur Herman Gilkes (1885-1914), assistant master at Shrewsbury, 1873-85, and Headmaster at Dulwich College, 1885-1914. He was ordained in 1915 and became curate of St. James’s Church, Bermondsey. Gilkes was well acquainted with Meredith’s good friends, the Misses Lawrence, and in 1881 was apparently giving instruction to Meredith’s son, Will. COLLIE XXXVIIIb. $750.

250. Merrit, A.: DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE. New York: Liveright, [1932]. Gilt cloth. Very slight dulling to the spine gilding, bookplate on pastedown, otherwise a very good or better copy in faintly darkened pictorial dust jacket with very shallow loss along the crown of the spine (ca. 4mm at its deepest).

First edition of one of the chief exemplars of Lost Race Fiction of its decade, regarded by many as Merritt’s most important work. BLEILER, p.138. $750.

251. Merton, Thomas [trans]: THE SOLITARY LIFE A LETTER OF GUIGO INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY .... Worcester: [Stanbrook Abbey Press, December] 1963. 12mo. Decorated green wrapper over stiff wrapper, lettered in gilt. Colophon in green and red. First edition. Printed in Spectrum and Romulus types. Outer green wrapper faded to tan at extremities, as usual, otherwise near fine. DELL’ISOLA D6. BURTON & ROMKEMA, p.93. $250.

252. Merton, Thomas: [trans]: A PRAYER OF CASSIODORUS FROM THE TREATISE DE ANIMA. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1967. Narrow quarto. Quarter vellum and marbled boards. Printed in red and black. Fine.

First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies (but ca. 300) printed in Monotype Spectrum on August Badger handmade paper, and bound by George Percival. DELL’ISOLA D7. BURTON & ROMKEMA, p.93. $600.

253. Michener, James, and Jack Levine [illustrator]: FACING EAST. New York: Maecenas Press / Random House, 1970. Folio (48 x 31 cm). Two volumes. Loose sheets and bifolia, laid into cloth and leatherette folders, both enclosed in folding cloth base with vinyl strap. Outer case faintly smudged, with small sticker residue in corner of upper panel, internally fine.

First edition. One of 2500 numbered copies for sale, from an edition of 2516, plus hors commerce sets. Signed by the author and the artist on the justification leaf, and with facsimile signatures inside the upper lid of the case. Michener’s text accompanies Levine’s artwork and reproductions from his sketchbook (54 watercolors, gouaches and drawings printed by phototypie and pochoir on Ingres paper). Additionally, there are four original lithographs, signed in the stone, printed on Rives, original woodcuts printed on Arches, and a special woodcut, hors-text, printed on Kawanka Japanese vellum. $450.

254. Miller, Henry, and Robert Snyder THIS IS HENRY, HENRY MILLER FROM BROOKLYN. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE AUTHOR FROM THE HENRY MILLER ODYSSEY BY ROBERT SNYDER. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, [1974]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Photographs. Bookplate on front pastedown, cloth along fore-edges of boards a bit mottled, otherwise a very good copy in faintly edgeworn pictorial tissue dust jacket (with two short edge tears), the whole enclosed in the publisher’s lettered Plexiglass sleeve.

First edition, limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, signed by Miller and Snyder, and equipped with the somewhat eccentric Plexi sleeve. A derivative of Snyder’s 1969 biographical documentary, The Henry Miller Odyssey. S&J A194a. $375.

255. Milne, A.A.: [with:] WINNIE-THE-POOH [with:] NOW WE ARE SIX [with]: . London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1924–1928]. Four volumes. Gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

First trade editions of the constituent volumes of Milne’s durable chronicle of the adventures of , with the circle widening to include Pooh, , , , et al. The first volume is the second state, with page ‘ix’ numbered. It bears a small ink 1924 gift inscription in the upper corner of the free endsheet, has a bit of the usual offsetting to the endsheet gutters, and bears the tiny bookplate of Mary Elisabeth Hudson on the pastedown. It is otherwise very good and bright, in lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, with a few small nicks and faint spots. The second volume is fine and bright, in near fine dust jacket with a couple finger smudges on the front panel, a trace of tanning and a few faint spots to the spine panel, and a short, closed tear at the top edge of the front panel. The third volume is fine and bright in very good dust jacket with trace of tanning to spine and edges, and a few faint spots to the spine. The final volume is fine and bright, in a near fine dust jacket with a few faint spots on the spine panel. Withal, while not a perfect set, this a very, very respectable one. $15,000.

256. Milne, A.A.: TOAD OF TOAD HALL. A PLAY FROM KENNETH GRAHAME’S BOOK “THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS.” London: Methuen & Co., [1929]. Gilt pictorial cloth, t.e.g. First edition, trade issue. Usual darkening to endsheets, else about fine in faintly used dust jacket, with one small nick at top edge. $250.

257. Milosz, Czeslaw: SWIAT / THE WORLD A SEQUENCE OF TWENTY POEMS IN POLISH, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY THE POET .... San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1989. Folio (35 x 26 cm). Cloth backed printed boards. Portrait frontis. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine, with the prospectus laid in.

First edition in this format. Introduction by Helen Vendler. Original dry-point engraved portrait by Jim Dine. One of 275 copies designed and printed under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem, and signed by Dine opposite the portrait beneath the printed Artist’s Statement, and by Milosz on the half-title. $500.

258. Milton, John: LA PARADIS PERDU, POËME ... TRADUIT EN VERS FRANCOIS. Paris: Chez J.-Fr. Bastien, 1779. xii,243,[1]; [4],251,[1],[4]pp. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo. Handsome contemporary brown calf, spine gilt extra, gilt label. Small early bookseller’s stamp on first title, small ink paraph on title, manuscript identification of the translator at the end of the preface, boards very slightly bowed, otherwise a near fine, large copy.

An elegant edition of this translation in verse, attributed by an early note to Abbé Henri- Martin Le Roy. There were a number of 18th century translations into French of Milton’s epics, both in prose and in verse, beginning with that by Dupré de Saint-Maur in 1729. The approbation in this edition is dated 30 Janvier 1777. Barbier’s entries of translators do not encompass this edition. Without identifying the translator, OCLC locates three copies of this edition, only one of them in North America. $375.

259. [Miniature]: Mamet, David: THE NEW HOUSE. [Np]: Rebecca Press, 1989. Miniature (7 x 5.7 cm). Morocco backed wood boards with die-cut window and small replica door handle and key. Illustrations. Fine in oversize custom cloth clamshell case with inset. Bookplate inside folding case, else fine. First printing in this format. One of two hundred ordinary copies from an edition of 250 numbered copies, illustrated with wood engravings by Sarah Chamberlain, signed by Rebecca Birmingham, and printed by Cheryl Parker at the Hummingbird Press. $500.

260. [Miniature]: [Clemens, Samuel L.]: Twain, Mark [pseud]: NICODEMUS DODGE. San Diego: The Ash Ranch Press, 1989. Miniature. 2 5/16 x 1 7/8 inches. Quarter calf and typographically decorated boards, pictorial label. Miniature bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in matching slipcase.

First edition in this format, deluxe issue. From an edition of 52 copies printed on handmade paper by Don Hildreth, this is copy ‘c’ of 26 “deluxe” copies bound thus. The text is reprinted from A Tramp Abroad, 1880. Accompanied by the prospectus. BRADBURY 2970. $300.

261. Momaday, N. Scott: THE WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN. [Albuquerque]: Univ. of New Mexico Press, [1969]. Large octavo. Pictorial cloth. Illustrations by Al Momaday. First edition. Pencil erasure from corner of free endsheet, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket. $100.

262. [Moonkosh Press & Ragpicker Press]: Napora, Joe: THE JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH JENNINGS WILSON 1853 – 1867. Madison, WI: Moonkosh Press & Ragpicker Press, 1987. Small octavo. Open sewn vellum backed decorated wrappers. Imaginative maps and ornaments. Fine in custom-made folding cloth clamshell box with inset.

First edition. A poetic distillation of portions of the actual journal kept by Wilson. One of 160 numbered copies printed on Japanese Ogawa paper. $150.

Presentation Copy

263. Moore, George: IMPRESSIONS AND OPINIONS. London: David Nutt, 1891. Red cloth, decorated in gilt. Spine extremities and joints a bit frayed, cloth a bit soiled, rear board creased (with narrow crack in pastedown), endsheets a bit darkened, with a few spots; just a sound copy, with the bookplate of Lena Milman, and the small book label of Herbert Boyce Satcher.

First edition, first state. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title-page: “To Miss Milman with the author’s best regards. June 6, 1891.” Only one thousand copies were printed. Lena Milman (English author) translated Poor Folk by Fedor Dostoievsky (London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane / Boston: Roberts Bros.,1894), to which George Moore contributed an introduction. Over ninety of Moore’s letters to her were published in George Moore in Transition (1968). GILCHER A15a. $375.

With Manuscript Revisions

264. Moore, George: HELOISE AND ABELARD. New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Boni and Liveright, 1921. Two volumes. Large octavo. Publisher’s parchment and paper over boards, leather labels. Spines rather rubbed and darkened, labels worn, some foxing throughout volume one, small tear at top edge of pp. 101-110 in volume two, otherwise a good set in a half-morocco folding box.

First U.S. limited edition. One of 1250 sets, this one unnumbered. With marks, revisions and annotations (in pencil and ink) in the text and margins of 41 pages of the first volume. The pencil annotations are in an unidentified hand (but see below); the ink revisions, deletions and corrections are by Moore, and are, in many instances, written over the penciled emendations. In addition, on pp. 51 and 69, sections of the text are crossed out, and typescript revisions are mounted onto the margin beneath. Loosely inserted in the first volume is a typed letter, signed (one page, quarto, 121, Ebury Street, London, 2 June 1922) from Moore to “My dear MacColl,” concerning the possibility of revising the book: “I shall be very glad to hear if you have finished reading ‘Heloise and Abelard.’ I hope you have not made many corrections on the margin, for I cannot rewrite the book. All I can do is to avail myself of your taste in correcting a few expressions that are not part of the key that I have chosen to write in ....” Letter a bit soiled and worn, creased at center fold, torn at upper edge. The recipient of Moore’s letter (and perhaps the reader responsible for the pencil annotations in the first volume), may have been Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859-1948), English painter and art critic. He served as keeper of the Tate Gallery from 1906-1911 and keeper of the Wallace Collection 1911-1924. He and Moore had known each other since at least the 1890s when the two men were concurrently art critics, the former for The Spectator, the latter for The Speaker. MacColl and Moore “... together may be said to have conducted the propaganda of the ‘nineties’ for the work of the French Impressionists in England.” See Joseph Hone, The Life of George Moore, New York, 1936, p.178). GILCHER A40b. $1250.

265. Moore, Marianne: POEMS. London: The Egoist Press, 1921. Decorated paper over stiff wrappers, printed paper label. Trace of tanning to printed label, otherwise a fine copy.

First edition of the poet’s first collection, brought together from the poems’ earlier appearances in The Egoist, The Dial, Others and Contact, and sent to the press by Bryher, H.D., and Robert McAlmon ABBOTT A1. $1250.

266. Moore, Marianne: MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE MOVIES SIX LETTERS TO RALPH BLOCK AND HIS ARTICLE. [Np]: The Press at Colorado College, [1988]. Quarto. Quarter skiver and marbled paper over boards, paper spine label. Errata slip laid in. Bookplate tipped to front pastedown, otherwise fine.

First edition. Edited, with an introduction, by Ernest Kroll. One of one hundred numbered copies, printed on Arches text, as one long accordian fold. $150.

267. [Morris, William]: Forman, H. Buxton: THE BOOKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS DESCRIBED WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS DOINGS IN LITERATURE AND IN THE ALLIED CRAFTS. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. 224pp. Large octavo. Gilt polished buckram, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and plates. Spine faded, front endsheets browned, small ink gift inscription in margin of title; a good, sound copy.

First edition, U.S. issue, bound up from the sheets of the U.K. edition published by Fred Hollings. Somewhat less common than the U.K. issue. KRAUS 61. $250.

268. Morrison, Arthur: CHRONICLES OF MARTIN HEWITT. New York: D. Appleton Company, 1896. Publisher’s elaborately gilt three-quarter roan and marbled boards, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Short marginal tear in front free endsheet fore-edge, small private ownership stamp on prelims and terminal leaf, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First U.S. edition of the second collection of exploits by Hewitt, one of the most successful of the contemporaries of Sherlock Holmes. Published in Appleton’s semi-monthly “Town and Country Library,” this copy is in the publisher’s deluxe format. Titles in the series also appeared in cloth and printed wrappers; whether or not all titles were also available in this format is open to question, but a number were, and occasionally, such as in the case of Conrad’s An Outcast of the Islands, were printed on better paper than their cloth or wrappered counterparts. Uncommon in decent condition. $350.

269. Mortimer, Alfred: S. MARK’S CHURCH PHILADELPHIA AND ITS LADY CHAPEL WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS HISTORY AND TREASURES. New York: Privately Printed, 1909. [2],71,[1]pp. plus frontis and 127 plates with interleaved captions. Large, thick quarto. Elegantly bound in full black morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., with blind-stamped pictorial panels on upper and lower boards, by Zaehnsdorf. Minor rubbing at tips, otherwise a fine copy.

First edition. One of four hundred copies printed on French handmade paper at the De Vinne Press (this copy not numbered). A lavish pictorial record of the Neo-Gothic structure designed by John Notman, and finished in 1849. The Lady Chapel was consecrated in 1902. The plates include photogravures as well as color images of the structure, vestments, fixtures and treasures. An elegant production. $500.

270. Moulton, Louise Chandler: ARTHUR O’SHAUGHNESSY HIS LIFE AND HIS WORK WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS POEMS. Cambridge and Chicago / London: Stone & Kimball / Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894. Small octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis portrait. Bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing to endsheets, otherwise near fine.

First edition, U.S. issue. One of five hundred small paper copies, from a total printing for the U.S. of 560 copies, plus export copies. KRAMER 21. BAL 14683. $100.

271. Muir, John: MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA. [Covela, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1988]. Small folio (35.5 x 25 cm). Handwoven linen over boards, with handmade Mexican barkpaper endsheets. Illustrated with twelve wood engravings. Bookplate tipped to front pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase with small label scar in corner of one panel.

First printing in this format, illustrated with original wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, and with a Foreword and note on the text by Frederick Turner. From a total edition of 155 copies printed on Italian mouldmade paper and signed by the artist, this is one of 110 numbered copies for sale. Laid in front is the press’ printed sheet denoting the original subscriber to this copy. The ninth publication of the press. $1000.

272. [Mycology]: Heim, Roger: LES CHAMPIGNONS D’. Paris: Éditions N. Boubee & Cie., 1957. Two volumes. Octavo. Tan cloth, stamped in darker brown. Plates and illustrations. Endsheets and top edge faintly dust marked, small bookplate shadow on each free endsheet, otherwise near fine in very good pictorial dust jackets (one small chip, minor rubbing and offsetting).

First edition of this substantial study by the renowned mycologist, featuring fifty-six color plates after paintings by A. Bessin and Michelle Bory. Heim endeared himself to a generation or two of students with his multi-volume treatise on Les Champignons Hallucinogenes du Mexique. $100. 273. [Mythology]: [Schisling, Franz]: DIE HAUPTGÖTTER DER KUPFERN, MIT IHRER GESCHICHTE UND URSPRÜLICHEN BEDEUTUNG. Vienna: Herausgegeben von den Unternehmern von Ovids Verwandlungen [i.e. Schaumburg], 1793. 125,[1]pp. plus engraved title and 24 plates. Small quarto. Contemporary calf and boards, raised bands, gilt labels. Binding extremities shelfworn, small nick at crown of lower joint, the engravings exhibit varying amounts of sporadic light foxing, else a very good, crisp copy.

Second (?) edition. An ambitious pictorial representation of the pantheon of the gods of mythology, accompanied by relevant quotations in classical languages, with German translations and commentary. The copperplate engravings bear cutlines attributing them to J.G. Mansfield, J. Stöber, J. Gerstner, et al. OCLC/Worldcat locates a 1790 edition, and reprintings continued to appear into the 1820s. $350.

274. Neal, Avon, and Ann Parker [photographer]: LOS AMBULANTES THE ITINERANT PHOTOGRAPHERS OF GUATEMALA. North Brookfield & Cambridge, MA: Thistle Hill Press / MIT Press, 1982. Oblong small quarto. Rough-woven decorative cloth. Photographs (including color). Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise fine, enclosed in folding cloth clamshell box with printed labels (small smudge in one corner of upper panel).

First edition, deluxe issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the author and the photographer, and accompanied by a separate matted selenium-toned silver print of “Two Brothers from Nahuala,” numbered and signed by the photographer. A captivating photo-essay on the itinerant photographers who practice a traditional vocation following religious and secular holidays from marketplace to marketplace, hauling ancient view cameras and painted backdrops, and photographing semi-formal portraits of the villagers in their holiday best. $750.

275. [Newton Sale]: RARE BOOKS ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND COLLECTED BY THE LATE A. EDWARD NEWTON REMOVED FROM HIS HOME OAK KNOLL DAYLESFORD, PA. New York: Parke-Bernet, 1941. Three volumes. Small quarto. Printed boards. Portrait, illustrations and facsimiles. A nice set, though the jackets for the second and third volumes are a bit shelfworn.

The complete sale catalogue of Newton’s well-known and extensively promoted collection, most notable for its extensive holdings of William Blake. $100.

276. Norris, Frank: COLLECTED LETTERS. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986. Quarto. Cloth and decorated boards. Plates, photographs, facsimiles. Woodcut portrait by Rik Olson. Bookplate, otherwise about fine, without the unprinted shipping wrapper.

First revised and substantially expanded edition, edited, with an introduction, by Jesse S. Crisler, superseding Franklin Walker’s edition of 1956. One of five hundred copies printed by Wesley Tanner and Will Powers. Foreword by James B. Hart. Includes locations (where possible) and a supplement of transcriptions of Norris presentation inscriptions. $100.

277. Item sold.

278. [O’Keeffe, Georgia]: Webb, Todd: GEORGIA O’KEEFFE THE ARTIST’S LANDSCAPE. [Pasadena]: Twelvetrees Press, [1984]. Quarto. White cloth, lettered in black. Photographs. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in lightly smudged slipcase.

First edition, ordinary issue. Preface by the editor, Jack Woody. One of 5000 copies. Webb’s photographs are printed as sheet-fed gravures on uncoated stock. Fifty deluxe copies were accompanied by an original print. A selection of photographs at Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, and environs 1955–1981, with a chronology of Webb’s career, bibliography, etc. $150.

279. [Oldmixon, John]: MEMOIRS OF IRELAND FROM THE RESTORATION, TO THE PRESENT TIMES ... By The Author Of The Secret History Of Europe. London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1716. [2],vi,264pp. Octavo. Modern calf and marbled boards. Tanned, with early ownership signature at top margin of title, marginal chipping to final leaf (last leaf of ). Generally a good copy, handsomely bound.

First edition. Although occasionally attributed erroneously to Thomas Salmon, this work’s attribution to Oldmixon, the extremely prolific Whig poet and political writer, is now accepted. Oldmixon’s political bias earned him a place in Pope’s Dunciad, and Johnson referred to him in as one of the “lowest of human beings -- a scribbler for a party.” Not in Bradshaw, and though not a fine copy, somewhat uncommon in the market ESTC NI0546. NCBEL II:1709. $650.

280. [Oldys, William (attributed compiler)]: A COLLECTION OF EPIGRAMS. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A CRITICAL DISSERTATION ON THIS SPECIES OF POETRY. London: Printed for J. Walthoe ... and Sold by J. Osborn, 1735. xii,[264]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt label. Decorative headlines and tailpieces. Joints cracking slightly, but sound, binding a bit worn at tips, but a very good copy, with the 1738 ownership signature of Thomas Powys, Lord Lilford, and the Lilford bookplates.

Second edition, “with additions.” Case describes two issues of this edition, differentiated by publisher’s catalogues. Like three of the four copies Case records, this copy does not include the catalogue. The first edition appeared in 1727, and in 1737, the collection was expanded with a second volume. While attribution to the noted antiquary is not definitive, it is customary, and Oldys’s biographical sketch in the DNB follows suit. CASE 341(b). ESTC T130692. $250.

281. Osborne, John: THE ENTERTAINER A PLAY. London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. Gilt cloth. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a trace of tanning along top edge of rear panel.

First edition of Osborne’s second published play, and the source work for the 1960 film co-adaptation by Osborne and Nigel Keale, and later for Elliott Baker’s 1976 television adaptation. $100.

282. [Osborne, John]: Baker, Elliott [screenwriter]: THE ENTERTAINER TELEPLAY BY ... FROM THE PLAY BY JOHN OSBORNE. Los Angeles: Robert Stigwood Organization, 23 – 30 June 1975. [1],102 leaves (altered by lettered inserts). Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only of a rainbow of colored stocks. Bradbound in titled wrappers. Leaves on white stock toward end show a marginal discoloration, others unaffected, ms. query on one leaf, otherwise very good.

A revised draft of this adaptation for television of Osborne’s play, undertaken by the novelist/screenwriter. The March 1976 broadcast starred , , et al, under the direction of Donald Wyre, and was nominated for five Emmy Awards, including one for Baker’s script. $175.

283. [Papermaking]: Hughes, Sukey: WASHI THE WORLD OF JAPANESE PAPER. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, [1978]. 452pp. Large, thick quarto. Cloth and Japanese paper over boards. Photographs (some in color) and illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown, wrinkle in front pastedown near gutter (incurred in binding?), otherwise fine, in publisher’s silk covered clamshell box, with paper label.

First edition, limited issue. One of one thousand numbered copies, specially bound, and equipped with over one hundred tipped-in samples of plain and decorated Japanese papers. $450.

284. Parker, Gilbert: PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE TALES OF THE FAR NORTH. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. Small octavo. Gilt blue-green cloth, untrimmed. First edition under the Stone & Kimball imprint of the author’s first collection, preceded by editions from London and New York. Pencil ownership inscription, otherwise fine and bright. KRAMER 28. WATTERS, p.260. $60. 285. [Parley Vale Press]: Weldon, Fay: THE DAY THE WORLD BEGAN. [Np]: Parley Vale Press, 1989. Small quarto. Open sewn handmade paper wrappers. Tinted title vignette and stencil decorations. Decorated endsheets. One corner bumped, else fine.

First edition in this format. From a total edition of sixty copies printed on Frankfurt Cream paper by Jean Buescher, this is one of forty copies bound in Kakali handmade paper. A lovely and uncommon book under the imprint of the precursor to Buescher’s Bloodroot Press, produced contemporary with her association with the Yolla Bolly Press. $225.

286. Parsons, Thomas Williams: POEMS. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Original brown straight-grain cloth, lettered in gilt, ruled in blind. Bookplates of Jacob Chester Chamberlain and Frederic Sherman, the former designed by J.W. Spenceley. Spine ends very slightly frayed, spine gilding slightly patinated, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition, second (but first published) issue of the author’s first original collection, preceded by his 1840 translation of the first ten cantos of Dante’s Inferno. BAL reports the first issue only in examples of unbound sheets. The edition consisted of one thousand copies, including three issues. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “to Henry W. Wales, with the love and kindly remembrances of his sincere friend, T.W. Parsons. September, 1854.” Parsons (1819-1892), a Boston-born dentist, was the first American translator of Dante. He practiced dentistry in Boston and, in the early 1850s, in London, and was commonly called “Dr. Parsons.” Reserved, sensitive, and deeply religious, Parsons was Longfellow’s model for the poet in Tales of a Wayside Inn. BAL 15521. $375.

287. [Payson, George]: THE NEW AGE OF GOLD; OR THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBERT DEXTER ROMAINE. Written By Himself. Boston: Phillps, Sampson and Company, 1856. xii,[13]-403,[5]pp. Red cloth, decorated in blind, spine stamped in gilt. A few scattered smudges, front free endsheet neatly excised, 3.5 cm closed tear to margin of first blank, cloth a bit soiled, with some wear to tips and shallow loss at toe of spine; still, a good, sound copy.

First edition of this pseudonymously published “Robinsonade” about a couple shipwrecked on a Pacific island who prosper there, raise a family, and discover gold. They leave their island and sail to San Francisco in order to sell the gold, where civilization takes its toll, the wife and two children die, and the protagonist sets sail again to rediscover his former island paradise. WRIGHT II:1853. BAIRD & GREENWOOD 1987. HOWES P154. $85.

One of Ten Deluxe Copies

288. Paz, Octavio: STANZAS FOR AN IMAGINARY GARDEN. Tuscaloosa, AL: Parallel Editions / Univ. of Alabama, 1990. Narrow octavo. Morocco backed decorated paper over boards, with morocco fore-edges. Illustrated with two-color woodcut and woodcut colophon by John DePol. Bookplate affixed along top edge to front pastedown, otherwise fine in plain wrapper and printed slipcase, the latter with small label shadow in corner of upper panel.

First edition, deluxe issue, of this translation by Eliot Weinberger. From a total edition of seventy-five copies printed by Steve Miller in Bembo types on Frankfurt mouldmade paper, this is one of only ten copies specially bound by Paula Marie Gourley. Signed by the poet, the translator and the artist. By virtue of the limitation, an uncommon issue of this attractive production. $1250.

289. Pestalozzi, [Johann Heinrich]: LEONARD AND GERTRUDE OR A BOOK FOR THE PEOPLE. London: J. Mawman, 1825. Two volumes. xvi,223,[1]; viii,241,[3]pp. Octavo. Original drab paper boards, with vestiges of printed spine labels, edges untrimmed. Spine surface and label of first volume eroded; a few small surface chips to spine of second volume, and spine label perhaps 40% present, some foxing and occasional marginal dust soiling, 1830 gift inscription on front pastedown, but a good, untrimmed set, with the half-titles, etc.

Second edition of this anonymous translation into English, first published in Bath in 1800. Another translation, attributed to Eliza Shepherd in Kunitz & Colby, appeared in 1824. Pestalozzi’s “Preface to the Second Edition” of 1803 is included. One of the Swiss reformer and pedagogue’s most widely known works, first published in 1781. In Kunitz & Colby, Harry Zohn remarks that it is “the first social Erziehungsroman. It describes how a good, humble, pious woman effects the regeneration of her household and an entire small community. Pestalozzi’s ideal of home education is effectively presented.” OCLC locates eight sets, and one odd volume, but copies in this condition are uncommon. $900.

290. Petrie, W.M. Flinders: THE PYRAMIDS AND TEMPLES OF GIZEH. London & New York: Field & Tuer, et al / Scribner & Welford, [nd. but ca. 1883]. xvi,250pp. plus frontis and sixteen plates (most folding). Quarto. Contemporary medium brown cloth, lettered in darker brown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Fore-margin of last two leaves of index and of first three folding plates somewhat rumpled, with short tears, scattered foxing at edges and endsheets, but a good, sound copy.

First edition of one of the earliest substantial works by the eminent Egyptologist. “Two winter seasons of single-handed, strenuous, and often dangerous labour resulted in an authoritative publication sponsored by the Royal Society, whose grant was Petrie’s first official recognition ... The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh disproved once and for all the eschatological theories which had prompted the expedition. At Gizeh, Petrie observed and deplored the methods then employed by excavators – ‘a radical change is required in the way of doing all such things’ he declared ... and when in 1883 he became joint secretary (unpaid) of the recently formed Egypt Exploration Fund (later Society) he defined explicitly the beliefs which separated him from the old school of excavators. ‘The true line’, he wrote, ‘lies as much in the careful noting and comparison of small details as in more wholesale and off-hand clearances’” – DNB. $650.

291. [Picasso, Pablo]: Bloch, Georges: PABLO PICASSO ... VOLUME II CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTED GRAPHIC WORK 1966-1969. Berne, Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein, [1971]. Large quarto. Rough woven cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Picasso, four hundred plus black & white plates of graphic print works, both published and unpublished. Bookplate on front pastedown, else about fine in near fine dust jacket with minor use at edges.

First edition. The second volume of the four volume catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s graphic works. Introductory text in French, English and German, descriptive text in French. $400.

292. Pincus, Robert [intro to]: FOUR A COLLECTION OF SEQUENCES ON THE NUMBER FOUR. [San Diego, CA. 2000]. Quarto (28 x 22cm). Loose sheets and bifolia, laid into folding cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with sixteen original etchings. Small label shadow in lower corner of upper panel of case, otherwise fine.

First edition of this collection of poetic texts and original etchings by Derli Romero, Sonya Devine, Melissa Smedley, and Ante Marinovic. Introduction by Robert Pincus. Copy #5 of 17 copies (the entire edition), signed by the artists on the colophon, and with each etching signed in pencil in the margin. “Four is a collaboration which began as a meeting of four artist friends whose work varies widely. A conversation in prints. The etchings were created by the artists and printed by Derli Romero at Tuhana Press in La Mesa, California. The texts, written by the artists, were typeset in Centaur Monotype and letterpress printed by Hal Truschke at Isleta Press, in San Diego, California ...”-- Colophon. $600.

293. Piper, John: JOHN PIPER’S STOWE. [Kent & London]: Hurtwood Press / Tate Gallery, [1983]. Folio (50 x 40 cm). Decorated cloth. Illustrated (largely in color). About fine, without slipcase.

First edition. With a Foreword by the artist and Commentary by Mark Girouard. One of 250 numbered copies (of 300), signed by Piper. Piper’s visual recreation of Stowe and its grounds based on regular visits beginning in the 1930s. $1250.

294. [Plancher de Valcour, Philippe Aristide Louis Pierre]: LE CONSISTOIRE, OU, L’ESPRIT DE L’EGLISE, POËME HÉROI-COMIQUE, EN SIX CHANTS. Paris: Chez Lemaire, Rouxel, et al, L’an VII [i.e. 1799]. 101pp. Quarter gilt calf and faux treed paper boards, spine gilt extra. Chip from extreme crown of spine, a trace of scattered foxing, but a very good copy.

First edition. An anonymously published extended poem by the prolific dramatist, founder of the Theatre Comique Delassements, then, in 1792, director of the short-lived Théâtre Molière. “Ouvrage commandé à l’auteur par le Directoire” – Barbier. OCLC/Worldcat reports three locations (plus a duplicate entry), none in North America. BARBIER I:726. $250.

295. Poe, Edgar Allan: EUREKA A PROSE POEM AN ESSAY ON THE MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1991. Large quarto. Printed cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine.

First edition in this format, illustrated with photo-engravings after drawings against typographic backgrounds by Arakawa. Introduction by Glenn Ray Todd. One of 250 numbered copies, from a total edition of 276 copies printed by Hoyem and associates. $450.

296. Pollock, Jackson: THE LAST SKETCHBOOK. [New York]: Johnson Reprint Corp. / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1982]. Open sewn oblong quarto. Pictorial self wrappers. Facsimile illustrations throughout. Accompanied by 20pp. separate booklet of commentary. The whole enclosed in publisher’s cloth covered folding case with printed labels. Bookplate inside upper wrapper of text volume, otherwise fine.

First edition. Introduction by William S. Lieberman. One of 500 numbered copies (of 525) for world distribution. $300.

297. [Pope, Alexander]: AN ESSAY ON MAN. IN EPISTLES TO A FRIEND. EPISTLE II. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, behind the -House, St. Paul’s, [1733]. [6],[5]-18pp. Folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm). Disbound. Large ornamental headpiece of King David on p. [5]. Pencil erasures from half-title, tear in from fore-edge in final leaf touching four letters and with repair by unknown hands, shorter tear in margin of penultimate leaf also repaired; some foxing and soft creases, just a good copy.

“First (?) edition” by Griffith’s criteria, with lines numbered, and with rules on the half-title (about 16cm apart) rather than ornaments. GRIFFITH 300. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 43. FOXON P833. HAYWARD 148. $500.

298. [Pope, Alexander]: AN ESSAY ON MAN. IN EPISTLES TO A FRIEND. EPISTLE III. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, behind the Chapter-House, St. Paul’s, [1733]. [4],[5]-20pp. Folio (34.3 x 22 cm). Disbound. Large ornamental headpiece on p. [5]. Pencil erasures from half-title, old horizontal crease, gutter of terminal leaf a bit ragged, and with some soiling on verso; just a good copy.

“First (?) edition” by Griffith’s criteria, with lines misnumbered at [323], and with the advert on p. 20 in two lines. GRIFFITH 308. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 43. FOXON P840. HAYWARD 148. $500. 299. Pope, Alexander: [OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN] AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD LORD VISCT. COBHAM. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, 1733. [4],13,[3]pp. Folio. Bound up in 20th century boards, paper spine label. Small ink spot on half-title (touching one letter), a few smudges, but a very good copy, with the advert leaf.

First (and sole folio) edition. FOXON P920. GRIFFITH 329. ROTHSCHILD 1611-12. $500.

300. [Pope, Alexander]: AN ESSAY ON MAN. IN EPISTLES TO A FRIEND. EPISTLE IV. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, behind the Chapter-House, St. Paul’s, [1734]. [4],18,[2]pp. Folio (34.5 x 22.3 cm). Disbound. Minor foxing toward edges of a few leaves, a couple old soft creases, otherwise a very good copy, with the advert leaf. Half morocco folding case.

First edition. The only folio printing, issued without a half-title, but with a terminal leaf of ads, present here. Griffith asserts some copies were issued on fine paper, but Foxon was unable to distinguish one. GRIFFITH 331. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 43. FOXON P845. HAYWARD 148. $750.

301. Pope, Alexander: THE FIRST SATIRE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE, IMITATED IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN ... AND HIS LEARNED COUNCIL. TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE SECOND SATIRE OF THE SAME BOOK ... NEVER BEFORE PRINTED. London: Printed for L.G. in Fleetstreet, 1734. [4],[3]-17,[3],[21]-36pp. Folio. Modern three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Title a bit dusty, with old ink smudge near imprint, tiny paper flaw in top margin, a few other minor marginal smudges, otherwise a very good copy, partially untrimmed at the lower edges.

First regular folio printing of this combined format, adding the “Second Satire” (there is also a rather rare printing in large folio with decorations, and a printing in quarto). Griffith posits this format “may be the real first edition.” GRIFFITH 343. FOXON P894. ROTHSCHILD 1620 (4to edition). $375.

302. Pope, Alexander: THE SIXTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED. London: Printed for L. Gilliver, “1737” [i.e. 1738]. [4],[1]-15,[1]pp. Folio. Extracted. First edition. Verso of terminal leaf a bit dust soiled, with small type hole, a few other minor smudges, otherwise a very good, reasonably tall (32.5 cm) copy, with the half-title. FOXON P965. ROTHSCHILD 1638-9. GRIFFITH 476. $350.

303. [Powell, Lawrence Clark]: Dickinson, Donald C., et al [eds]: VOICES FROM THE SOUTHWEST A GATHERING IN HONOR OF LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1976. Large octavo. Publisher’s half calf and cloth. Portrait. Plate and photograph. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise about fine, without slipcase.

First edition, limited issue, of this festschrift, concluding with a bibliography of Powell’s keepsakes. One of seventy-five numbered copies, specially bound, and with a leaf signed by the contributors bound in, including , William Everson, Frank Waters, Jose Cisneros, Paul Horgan, Ward Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin, et al. $400.

304. Powell, Lawrence Clark: LANDSCAPE AND LITERATURE THE ESSAYS OF ... IN THE SOUTHWEST REVIEW. Dallas: DeGolyer Library / SMU, 1990. Cloth, paper label. Bookplate, otherwise fine, without dust jacket.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 750 copies (of 850) designed and printed by Tom Taylor. The essays include “Landscape with Books,” “The Double Marriage of Robinson Jeffers,” “Bookman in Seven League Boots,” “In Search of Spring,” and “Remembering Henry Miller.” $35. 305. Priestley, Joseph: LETTERS TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, OCCASIONED BY HIS REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. Dublin: Printed for J. Sheppard [et al], 1791. x,[2],123,[1]pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Offset at gutter of title and terminal leaf from earlier binding, otherwise very good and crisp.

First Dublin edition, published in the same year as the Birmingham editions, the New York reprinting, and the Paris edition. Priestley’s spirited defense of the Revolution against Burke’s criticism won him considerable renown in France and brickbats at home, and the original edition of this pamphlet played a part in the context leading up to the Birmingham Riots of July. ESTC T38567. BRADSHAW 1939. $225.

306. [Quail Press]: Killion, Tom: WALLS A JOURNEY ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS. Santa Cruz: The Quail Press, 1990. Small folio. Half morocco and linen. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in matching linen slipcase.

First edition. One of one hundred numbered copies, from a total edition of 131, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on handmade Japanese Torinoko paper, signed by the author/artist/printer. Killion’s illustrated journal spanning a decade of travels in North America, Europe and Africa, accompanied by his distinctive woodcuts, many of them printed in multiple colors. According to the colophon, each copy involved 199 pulls on Killion’s Ashbern proof press. $1000.

307. [Rackham, Arthur]: Barrie, J. M.: PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS ... (FROM ‘THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD’). London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906. Quarto. Publisher’s full stiff vellum over boards, with pictorial stamping and lettering in gilt, t.e.g. Endpaper maps. Fifty color plates including frontis, the remainder tipped to heavy stock bound at rear. A few minor bits of foxing to edges and to half-title and terminal text leaf, spine faintly dusty at crown and toe, otherwise a fine copy, with the original silk ties intact.

First illustrated edition, limited issue. One of five hundred numbered copies, printed on handmade paper, specially bound and signed by the artist. Posterity regards this as among Rackham’s most popular undertakings, although remaining sheets of the original trade issue were reissued in later years with cancel prelims. GARLAND 33. CUTLER 57. $6750.

308. [Rackham, Arthur]: Wagner, Richard: THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIE. London & New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910. Quarto. Publisher’s gilt decorated stiff vellum over boards, t.e.g., ribbon ties (one detached and laid in). Frontis and 34 tipped-in color plates, title vignette in black & white. Light foxing to endleaves, morocco bookplate on pastedown offset opposite, the dark paper mounts for the plates have offset to adjacent leaves (as often), vellum a bit mellowed and rubbed; still, a good copy, with an invitation to an exhibition of the original drawings laid in.

First Rackham edition, limited issue. One of 1150 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by Arthur Rackham. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. A second volume in the same format, devoted to Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, appeared the next year. The American issue of 150 copies sported a much more pedestrian binding than did those for the UK, as here. $1500.

309. [Rackham, Arthur]: Evans, C.S.: CINDERELLA. London & Philadelphia: William Heinemann / J.P. Lippincott Co., [1919]. Quarto. Quarter vellum and gilt decorated vegetable parchment boards, t.e.g. Tipped-in color frontis, numerous silhouette illustrations and decorations in black, and several in black and second or third colors. Boards a bit tanned and edgeworn, else a very good copy.

First edition, limited Japan vellum issue. One of 325 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum, in addition to 525 numbered copies on handmade paper, specially bound and signed by Arthur Rackham. $1500.

310. [Radical Theatre]: Tank, Herb: LONGITUDE 49. New York: New , Inc. / [Auvergne Publishers], [1952]. Gray boards, stamped in red. Pictorial endsheets. Top edge dusty, otherwise near fine, in a good example of the pictorial Rockwell Kent dust jacket (small patch of surface loss in upper corner of front panel, a couple small nicks and shallow chips).

First edition. Introduction by Michael Gold. The front endsheets include a stage design, and the rear endsheets bear stills from London and New York performances (the latter starring ). Tank’s play about racial tensions on board a tanker anchored off Iran was the first production of the New Playwrights, and Gold’s Introduction details the stormy history of the group’s predecessors and asserts their commitment to Socialist Realism. Tank had earlier written about Trotskyite infiltration of the seamen’s unions. $55.

311. Ransom, John Crowe: CHILLS AND FEVER POEMS. New York: Knopf, 1924. Vertically striped cloth, paper spine label. About fine in very good dust jacket marred only by a very shallow loss around the extreme crown of the spine panel (above the line of typographic ornaments).

First edition of the author’s second formally published book, in the second issue (of at least three) binding, and first state of the dust jacket. $350.

312. [Ray, John]: R., J.: A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH PROVERBS DIGESTED INTO A CONVENIENT METHOD FOR THE SPEEDY FINDING ANY ONE UPON OCCASION; WITH SHORT ANNOTATIONS .... Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, 1670. [8],296pp. Octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in plain calf in a pedestrian but somewhat sound fashion at some point in the later 20th century, original label retained. Several early and occasionally ribald proverbs recorded in ink by a former (perhaps the original) owner on free endsheet, a few bits of scattered marginalia and smudges, but a good, crisp copy.

First edition. One of the naturalist and theologian’s most significant out-of-genre works, assembled over a span of at least a decade, and drawing upon his own observations, the works of Fuller, Howell, Camden, Herbert and others, as well as oral and unpublished sources to compile as comprehensive as possible a collection of “short Sentence[s] or Phrase[s] in common use containing some Trope, Figure, Homonymy, Rhythme, or other novity of expression” – Preface. Its publication raised considerable interest, and submissions from readers and friends swelled the second edition of 1678 by “some hundreds” of additions. However, from the second edition he omitted a significant number of proverbs that proved offensive to “sober and pious persons....” The manuscript proverbs on the front endsheet are of the sort: “For Hell is not so bad as a scold” or “Once a whore ever a whore,” etc. KEYNES 10. ESTC R13689. WING R386. $1100.

313. Reavey, George: THE COLOURS OF MEMORY. New York: Grove Press, [1955]. Cloth and boards. Fine in slightly spine tanned dust jacket with short edge tear.

First U.S. edition, limited issue, of this collection by the Irish poet/publisher. Copy ‘x’ of twenty-six lettered copies, specially printed on Arches, and signed by the author, and by his wife, I. Rice Pereira, who contributes an original drawing as the frontispiece to these deluxe copies, signed by her in the lower margin. The glue utilized to affix the original drawing has darkened somewhat, as often. $1000.

Cornerstone of California Science Fiction

314. Rhodes, W.H.: CAXTON’S BOOK: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POEMS, TALES AND SKETCHES. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Co., 1876. 300pp. Original bright blue cloth, decorated in gilt and blind. Spine a bit sunned and rubbed at the extremities, original binder’s crease in rear pastedown, but a very good, unusually bright copy.

First edition. Edited by Daniel O’Connell. A key work in the small renaissance in the writing of science fiction which took place in the Bay Area in the last three decades of the 19th century. Included here is the minor classic, “The Case of Summerfield,” along with most of Rhodes’s literary remains. “Plots of the stories range from one in which a photographer using an amputated eye discovers the secrets of color photography, to another where a group of amphibious creatures, strangely man-like, engage in a ferocious death struggle on the shores of Lake Tahoe” – B&G. WRIGHT III:4525. BAIRD & GREENWOOD 2094. BLEILER, p.166. $150.

315. Robinson, Edwin A.: CAPTAIN CRAIG A BOOK OF POEMS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. Original green cloth, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. A couple of stray white smudges to cloth, spine label a shade tanned, a couple of minor spots to endsheets, otherwise about very good. Half morocco slipcase (a few rubs at edges).

First edition, limited issue, of the author’s third book. Although originally 125 copies were specially “printed and bound entirely uncut with paper label,” Hogan reports that 67 of those copies were rebound with a cancel title leaf, t.e.g., and distributed as ordinary copies, leaving only 58 copies in this original format. HOGAN, pp. 4-5. $450.

316. Robinson, Mary: LYRICAL TALES. London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees ..., 1800. [4],218,[2]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, gilt label. Early bookplate and ink ownership signature on pastedown, binding a bit rubbed at edges, but a very good, fresh copy.

First edition of the poet, novelist and actress’ last collection, published the year of her death. In the context of a colorful and occasionally scandalous life, Robinson’s best poems are now read as significant contributions to Romanticism. This collection in particular shows the influence of the declaration of the new marked by Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge called her a “’woman of undoubted Genius. ... I never knew a human Being with so full a mind,’ he wrote to Southey some seven months before she died” - DNB. ESTC calls for a portrait in this edition; however, OCLC’s most detailed collation does not. NCBEL II:680. $275.

317. Rothenstein, William Michael [illustrator], and Eleanor Farjeon: THE COUNTRY CHILD’S ALMANAC. London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1924. Small quarto. Color pictorial boards. Illustrated. Modest foxing to lower board, otherwise an unusually nice copy, about fine.

First edition, boardbound issue. Copies were also issued in wrappers, at a reduced price. William M. Rothenstein’s first commission as a book illustrator, accomplished at the age of sixteen. Uncommon in this condition. WOOLMER A39. $500.

318. Rumi, Jalaluddin Mohammed, and Mark Beard [illustrator]: MOSES AND THE SHEPHERD. New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Company, 1987. Quarto. Cloth, paper label. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in folding case with paper label.

First edition in this format. Translated by Zahra Partovi and David Rattray. Illustrated with ten drypoint etchings by Mark Beard. Presented in accordion-fold format, ca. ten feet in length, with the etchings placed as a continuous running head the length of the work. One of one hundred numbered copies printed by Daniel Keleher of Wild Carrot Letterpress on Moulin du Gue paper, with the etchings editioned at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. Signed by Beard and by Partovi. $2000.

319. [Ruzicka, Rudolph]: [Colt, H.D., et al]: THE ENGRAVED TYPOGRAPHIC WORK OF RUDOLPH RUZICKA AN EXHIBITION. New York: Grolier Club, 1948. Printed paste-paper wrappers. Modest rubbing to extremities, internally fine.

First edition, limited to 500 copies printed at the George Grady Press. Inscribed and signed by Ruzicka on the front free endpaper. Catalogue and type designed by Rudolph Ruzicka; cover paper designed and executed by Veronica Ruzicka. A vignette and an engraving in three colors were printed from the original blocks, the remaining illustrations, including the title-page decoration, from line cut reproductions. $85.

320. Saint-Maurice, M. [Charles R.-E. de]: GILBERT. CHRONIQUE DE L’HOTEL-DIEU (1780). [Paris]: A.-J. Dénain, 1832. Two volumes. [4],366; [4],371pp. 19th century calf and boards, half-titles and ads bound in. Spines a bit rubbed, a few minor incidents of foxing/spotting, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

First edition. Each title bears a vignette by Henri Monnier, engraved by Ferjeux. A collection of short fictional sketches set within the context of the hospital, at Charenton, etc., by the prolific historian and critic VICAIRE VII:30. $350.

321. Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de: PAUL AND VIRGINIA. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH ... BY HELENA MARIA WILLIAMS. No place [but Paris?]. “1795.” viii,274pp. Large octavo (signed in 4s). Old (likely contemporary) calf and boards. Six mezzotint plates. Boards somewhat worn, but sound, rebacked to style with most of the original backstrip laid down, some occasional light foxing or spotting; generally a near very good copy.

An interesting edition of Williams’s translation of Saint-Pierre’s 1787 novel, a signal fictional reflection of Enlightenment values, a prelude to Romanticism, and an important fictional argument for the emancipation of slaves. At times it has been suggested that this edition, sans imprint, is the first edition in English, but others suggest that Williams’s translation first appeared in 1795 in the form of a scarce 12mo printing in London under the imprint of the Robinsons. This printing may very well have appeared from an English language press in Paris at a slightly later point. Boston and Dublin printings appeared in 1796. While most of the plates are unsigned, that facing p. 63 bears a printed attribution to Clément after Dutailly. ESTC locates fifteen copies of this edition, but only six with the London imprint. ESTC T131741. NCBEL II:693. $450. 322. [San Francisco Oracle]: Cohen, Allen [ed]: THE SAN FRANCISCO ORACLE FACSIMILE EDITION THE PSYCHEDELIC NEWSPAPER OF THE HAIGHT-ASHBURY 1966 – 1968. Berkeley: Regent Press, 1991. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Heavily illustrated throughout, with frequent use of color. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in cloth slipcase, with a separate portfolio of facsimiles, also with a bookplate. Small label residue in corner of one panel of the slipcase.

First edition. A history and approximate facsimile of the twelve issues of the original Oracle, accompanied by historical material by Cohen, Peter Montgomery, J.M. Jamil Brownson, et al. This is the deluxe issue, one of two hundred numbered copies, specially bound, signed by Cohen, and by artist Rick Griffin in the lower corner of the frontispiece. This is one of 64 copies with marbled endsheets in the rear by Daniel Kottke (a bit of marbling bleed along edges of blank verso). The separate portfolio consists of quality reproductions on stiff card of the covers of the twelve numbers of SFO, and one number of P.O. Frisco. One the most inspired and visually exciting of the counter-cultural periodicals of the era, with contributors including Ginsberg, Creeley, Mailer, Kesey, Watts, Krassner, Leary, Snyder, Grossinger, Lamantia, Welch, Burroughs, et al. Edited by various hands, The Oracle is a document of great immediacy, chronicling an important chapter in American political, social and religious history, and this edition serves as a durable substitute for the now uncommon original issues. While formally out of print, the publisher still offers remaining copies of this deluxe edition online at $1800. $1250.

323. Sassoon, Siegfried: COMMON CHORDS. Stanford Dingley: The Mill House Press, 1950. Large octavo. Gilt red cloth. First edition. One of one hundred copies printed on handmade paper (of 107) by Robert Gathorne Hardy and Kyre Leng. A couple of small, faint smudges to cloth, minor rubbing to tips, otherwise near fine. KEYNES A54. $325.

324. Sassoon, Siegfried: THE PATH TO PEACE SELECTED POEMS.... Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960. Quarto. Quarter vellum and decorated paper over boards. Very slight tanning at edges of pastedowns due to binder’s glue utilized, but a fine copy.

First edition of this selection, ordinary issue. One of 480 numbered copies (of five hundred), printed by hand in Romulus Cancelleresca Bastarda, with handlettered initials by the Benedictines of Stanbrook, gilt decoration by Margaret Adams, bound by George Percival and Rigby Graham. As often, the loose leaf printing “Awaitment” is no longer laid into this copy. KEYNES A62a. $400. Fine Association Copy

325. Schultz, James Willard: THE QUEST OF THE FISH-DOG SKIN. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Cloth, pictorial vignette. Frontis and plates by George Varian. A very good or better copy, without dust jacket.

First edition. An excellent association copy, inscribed by the novelist: “To Doctor George Bird Grinnell, (Pinutöyi Istsimokan.) from Jas. Willard Schultz. (Äpikuni.) Greer, Arizona. February, 1914.” Schultz and Grinnell had connected as early as 1885, when, after reading some of Schultz’s contributions to Field and Stream, Grinnell requested that Schultz accompany him on his first exploratory climbs in the Rockies. Schultz’s autobiographical work, My Life as an Indian, was illustrated with photographs by Grinnell. SMITH S-163. $750.

Bound in Copper from the Capitol Dome

326. Scott, Arlis [compiler]: TO CALIFORNIA WITH LOVE. Sacramento: Developmental Disabilities Service Organization, Inc., [1982]. iii,16,[1]pp. Large octavo (23.5 x 15 cm). Loose sheets, punched and wirebound into oxidized copper sheeting. Photographs. Decorative title-page with handcolored ornaments. Bookplate on free endsheet, otherwise about fine.

First edition, limited issue. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, who also, with Margaret Gorman, was responsible for calligraphy, design and artwork. The binding materials for this special issue are from the copper dome of the California Capitol Building, replaced during the 1976-1982 restoration project, which this book commemorates, and the binding was fashioned by “persons with developmental disabilities.” The final leaf bears an example of the Great of California, and is signed in ink by the then Secretary of State. The text and photographs relate to the history and renovation of the State Capitol Building. An interesting undertaking, and rather uncommon. No copies are located in OCLC/Worldcat. $350.

327. [Scripps College Press]: Kaufman, Donielle, et al: HABITUÉ. [Claremont, CA]: Scripps College Press, 2007. [96]pp. Small octavo. Sewn gatherings, attached in such a fashion as to create a long accordion-style foldout. Illustrated with color linocuts. Mounted into lime-green blind-decorated silk over board folder. Faint bookplate shadow on inner panel of folder, otherwise fine.

First edition of this collaborative exploration of repetition by the Fall 2007 class in typography and book arts. One of one hundred numbered copies, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Somerset paper, signed by the collaborators, and by their overseer, Kitty Maryatt. $150.

328. Shaw, George B.: ...PYGMALION A ROMANCE IN FIVE ACTS [caption title]. New York: Everybody’s Magazine, November 1914. Small quarto. Publisher’s limp leather, lettered in gilt, a.e.g. Illustrated. Tips rubbed, small patch of surface loss at toe of spine, but a very good copy.

First separate American issue (unauthorized) and first separate issue in English, comprised of sheets from the periodical publication, specially bound up and distributed by Putnam. When advised by Shaw’s agent that they had acquired serial rights only, distribution in this format was halted. Some copies were also bound in cheaper mauve cloth. Formal book publication in English finally took place in 1916. LAURENCE A124d. $950.

329. Shelley, Percy B.: THE REVOLT OF ISLAM; A POEM IN TWELVE CANTOS. London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1818. xxxii,[2],270pp. plus errata. Large octavo. Full ruby-red morocco, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g., by Riviere. Some rubs to joints and tips, faint signs of ownership stamp in lower margin of title, occasional small marginal spots and tanning; generally a very good copy, though wanting the half-title.

First edition, second issue, comprised of sheets from Laon and Cythna, equipped with a cancel title, and considerably revised via some 26 cancel leaves. A few copies appeared with title-leaves dated 1817. TINKER 1895. GRANNISS, P.50. WISE (SHELLEY LIBRARY), p.50. $1250.

330. Shelley, Percy B.: ADONAIS. AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION, ETC. Cambridge: Printed by W. Metcalfe, and Sold by Messrs. Gee & Bridges, Market Hill, 1829. viii,28pp. Octavo. Full crimson morocco, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Some foxing early and late, a few small patches of surface rubbing to joints, otherwise a very good copy.

First U.K. edition, preceded by the 1821 edition printed in Pisa, and an incomplete printing in the 1 December 1821 number of The Literary Chronicle. This edition was overseen by Monckton Milnes and , based on a copy of the Pisa edition in Hallam’s possession. To this edition, Ruth Grannis ascribes “the first general enthusiasm over Shelley.” With the bookplate of Conte Ernesto Vitetti. GRANNIS, pp.72-3. TINKER 1902. NCBEL III:315. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 73n. WISE (SHELLEY), p.61. $3500.

331. Shelley, Percy B.: IN MEMORIAM ADONAIS AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS ... IN COMMEMORATION OF THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF THE POET. San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, 1922. Two volumes. Large quarto, quarter vellum and boards, and small quarto, printed wrappers. Portrait. Near fine in slipcase with slight sunning at edges.

One of one hundred and fifty numbered copies printed on handmade paper by John Henry Nash for private distribution. Introduction by William Andrews Clark to the larger volume, which is a new typographic rendering of the poem. The smaller volume is a photofacsimile of the Pisa edition. $300.

332. Shelley, Percy Bysshe: ADONAIS AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS. London: [Printed for the Reed Pale Press by the Chiswick Press], 1935. Small quarto. Limp vellum silk ties. Two ties separated (but laid in), otherwise fine in cloth slipcase.

One of 220 numbered copies on handmade paper bound thus, from a total edition of 250 copies printed at the Chiswick Press for the Reed Pale Press. $150.

333. [Sheridan, Richard Brinsley]: THE RIVALS, A COMEDY. AS IT IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL IN COVENT-GARDEN. London: Printed for John Wilkie, 1775. x,[6],100pp. Octavo. Three quarter green calf, spine gilt extra, a.e.g., by Riviere. Half-title bound in. Printed bookplate on front pastedown, as well as the small gilt morocco bookplate of Chauncey B. Tinker. Fore-tips rubbed, a couple small scrapes to side panels and one to lower fore-piece, otherwise a very good, attractive copy.

First edition. Although there is a catchword on p.100 implying the Epilogue was to follow, the Epilogue appears on pp. [xiii-iv], as published, followed by the leaf bearing the errata and Dramatis Personae. WILLIAMS, pp. 212-3. ESTC T45136. $750. 334. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: PIZARRO A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS; AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN DRURY-LANE: TAKEN FROM THE GERMAN DRAMA OF KOTZEBUE; AND ADAPTED TO THE ENGLISH STAGE BY .... London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1799. [8],76,[8]pp. Octavo. Full red crushed levant, gilt extra, t.e.g., others untrimmed, by Riviere. Light rubbing to joints, some discoloration from gilding in a few top margins, verso of last leaf and adverts a bit dust darkened and creased but a very good copy. With the bookplate of William H. Woodin (FDR’s Secretary of the Treasury) and another.

First edition, the issue on wove paper, with the paper watermarked 1796. A line below the imprint on the title-leaf calls for both a regular edition, 2s 6d, and “A superior Edition, on fine wove Paper, hot-pressed, Price 5s.” Williams does not treat any differentiation between them, though ESTC notes a variant that may or may not have relevance. The variant reading in the final sentence of Act 4, “No living -- thought and memory are my hell,” appears in this copy, and the ‘p’ in ‘hot-pressed’ shows signs of batter. The terminal adverts are dated 25 June 1799. A remarkably popular play – by 1800 Ridgway had issued a self-proclaimed 25th edition. WILLIAMS, p.234. ESTC T58786. $450.

Formerly Lauded as the First Edition

335. [Sheridan, Richard Brinsley]: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. A COMEDY. Dublin: Printed for J. Ewling, [nd]. [6],93,[3]pp. Crown octavo. Beautifully bound in full deep green crushed levant, triple gilt fillet border, raised bands with gilt compartments, gilt inner dentelles, by Riviere. Repaired tear in margin of F1, title remargined at gutter, otherwise a handsome copy, likely washed at the time of binding, enclosed in morocco faced marbled paper slipcase.

Prologue by Garrick, and Epilogue by Colman. The edition regarded by several decades of collectors and bibliographers as the actual first edition of Sheridan’s play, conjecturally dated by Williams and others as published ca. 1778. Sheridan’s disinclination to publish the play until he had revised it sufficiently gave birth to a number of piracies, some of which, including this edition, claimed textual authority based on an acting script given by Sheridan to his sister. However, later bibliographic scholarship and textual analysis identified an edition printed in Dublin, and dated 1780, as the actual first edition, and this printing is now thought to have been printed as late as 1795. Nonetheless, this edition does have a significant history as an artifact, having been the edition exhibited for, and described in, the Grolier English Hundred, etc. Laid in is an early bookseller’s description, detailing at length the earlier accepted wisdom about this edition, and describing it as “excessively rare.” ESTC locates over thirty copies. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 59. ESTC T762. WILLIAMS, pp.216-7. $550.

336. Sigourney, Lydia H. [ed]: SELECTIONS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Worcester: John H. Turner, 1863. 240pp. Publisher’s pale violet cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, lettered in gilt. Spine and edges faded to tan, as usual, some foxing (again, as usual), four pin holes in upper joint, otherwise a good, sound copy.

First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “Dear Julia Seymour with best New-Year’s wishes from her early & attached friend Mrs. Sigourney. January 1st 1864.” With a pencil inscription the following year from the recipient to her niece. “The ensuing pages consist of miscellaneous extracts from a voluminous mass of manuscripts which owe their existence to the ancient adage of reading with a pen or pencil in the hand” – from the editor’s Preface. BAL 17948. $450.

337. Sitwell, Edith: THE SONG OF THE COLD. New York: Vanguard, [1948]. Cloth boards. About fine in somewhat darkened, nicked and frayed dust jacket (a few short, closed edge tears).

First edition (the contents differing substantially from the 1945 London volume under the same title). Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “For my dear John with the dedication of ‘Now that Fate is dead and gone’ and with love from Edith.” Sitwell’s inscription refers to her poem, “Song” [p. 97] which begins with the line, “Now that Fate ...,” and is dedicated “To John and Alexandrine Russell.” FIFOOT EA42. $350.

America’s Milton? ....

338. [Smith, Elbert H.]: MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK; OR, BLACK HAWK, AND SCENES IN THE WEST. A NATIONAL POEM: IN SIX CANTOS ... BY A WESTERN TOURIST. New York: Edward Kearney, 1848. viii,[9]-299pp. Decorated cloth, spine gilt extra. Lithographed frontis and title vignette. Endsheets slightly darkened, toe of spine frayed, a few spots to top and fore-edges, lower fore-tips a bit worn, otherwise a very good, uncommonly bright copy. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition. The author, perhaps feeling his part-prose, part-verse work The History of Black Hawk (Milwaukee, 1846) not sufficient, elected, for reasons undoubtedly tied to commerce, to retread much of the same ground here completely in verse, resulting in a moderately popular contribution to that rather limp field -- American epic poetry. In its defense, in the June 1854 issue of Putnam’s Monthly (pp.639-648), Smith’s poem was the subject of a stunningly laudatory (but unsigned) reevaluation that concluded thus: Smith will in ...” all probability achieve no work which is superior to Black Hawk. If we wished to draw any parallel at all it would be between Elbert H. Smith and Milton. Here too there is considerable dissimilarity which could be proved if we had time to collate and place in juxtaposition distinct passages from their works. If Milton is more sublime musical and sonorous, Elbert H. Smith is more ragged, varied and irregular. If Milton is more governed by fixed laws, Elbert H. Smith exhibits a more discursive freedom. If Milton has the advantage of a splendid knowledge and all the rich exhaustless treasury whence the poet draws for illustration, Elbert H. Smith is not without ambitious imagery. We are more raised and elevated by Milton, but we are more amused with Smith. We have no idea that such a man should be left to grope in obscurity, and lest posterity should not do him justice, we have taken the matter in hand to set forth his merits as one who has written what in many respects may be the most remarkable poem of the age.” SABIN 82461. $150.

339. [Smith, James and Horatio]: HORACE IN LONDON: CONSISTING OF IMITATIONS OF THE FIRST TWO BOOKS OF THE ODES OF HORACE .... London: Printed for John Miller ..., 1813. viii,[2],173,[1],[4]pp. 12mo. Paper boards, rebacked to contemporary style, with paper label, wholly untrimmed. A few smudges, small brown spot in lower gutter of a few leaves, same in fore-margin of three prelims, otherwise a nice, bright copy.

Second edition, collating the same as the first edition published the same year. The second collaboration between the two brothers, following on the tremendous success of Rejected Addresses (1812). Although the text concludes “End op Vol. I [sic],” no further volume was published. Horatio’s career as a moderately successful novelist lay ahead, NCBEL III:400. SADLEIR 3101 (1st. ed). $150.

340. [Smyth, William (1765-1849)]: ENGLISH LYRICKS. Liverpool: Printed by J. M’Creery and Sold by Cadell and Davies, London, and Crane and Jones, Liverpool, 1797. 60pp. Octavo. Modern unlettered calf and marbled boards. Half-title and verso of last leaf somewhat dust-soiled, some foxing to title and half-title, but a good copy, neatly bound.

First edition. This modest anonymously published collection saw publication of a second edition in 1798 that bears Smyth’s name as author, as well as his credential as a Fellow of St. Peters College, Cambridge. (1765-1849). ESTC locates ten copies in North America. ESTC T116968 . $150. 341. Soane, George: THE FALLS OF CLYDE; A MELO-DRAMA, IN TWO ACTS ... AS IT IS PERFOMED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. London: Published by Richard White, 1817. [5],iii,[5]-56pp.. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volumes. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Some foxing at edges, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Inscribed on the title in an unknown hand: “From the Author.” A relatively early work by Soane, the prolific and ungrateful son of Sir John Soane, the architect. NCBEL III:1139. $125.

342. [Société Anonyme]: Herbert, Robert L.; Eleanor S. Apterd, and Elise K. Kenney: THE SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME AND THE DREIER BEQUEST AT YALE UNIVERSITY A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. New Haven: Yale University Press, [1984]. Large, thick quarto. Cloth. 52 color plates, over 800 black and white illustrations. About fine in dust jacket with slight crease at toe of spine. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown.

First edition. Founded in 1920, the Société Anonyme was responsible for introducing contemporary European art to the American public. Donated by Dreier and Marcel Duchamp to Yale in 1941, the collection was augmented by Dreier during the last years of her life and by works from her estate upon her death in 1952. This catalogue records the history of the Société Anonyme and reproduces the entire collection, and associated works from the Dreier estate, a total of 1020 items, including works by 180 artists. Capsule biographies of and bibliographical references for the artists are included. $175.

343. Somerville, Edith Œ: THE STATES THROUGH IRISH EYES. London: Heinemann, [1931]. Large octavo. Gilt slate cloth. Frontis, plates and illustrations by the author. Binding a bit dull and rubbed, light foxing to endsheets, otherwise about very good, in slightly darkened, lightly foxed, modestly edgeworn dust jacket.

First British edition -- the U.S. edition preceded by six months, but contained fewer illustrations. Presentation copy signed by the author on the title-page and inscribed by her on the front free endsheet: “To H.R.H. [Henrietta R. Haythornton (?)] with love from E.OE.S. May. 1931.” Pasted-in on the verso of the plate between pp. 146-7 (“The Fairy Shoe”) is an original black-and-white photograph depicting a small overcoat. Beneath the photograph, in Haythornton’s hand (in faded black ink), is the story of how this garment was discovered under a stone in Ireland, named the “Fairy Coat” and shown at a party in 1923. The tale is reminiscent of Somerville’s fairy shoe story that appears on pp 144- 148 of this book. HUDSON, p.49. $750.

344. : THE TRAGEDIES OF SOPHOCLES, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK. (WITH A DISSERTATION ON ANTIENT TRAGEDY.) ... A NEW EDITION, CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED. London: Printed for T. Davies ..., [ca. 1766]. Two volumes. lxxii,[2],256;[4],344pp. Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt extra, raised bands, gilt red and green labels, gilt griffin device on each board. Engraved title vignettes. Engraved plate in 1st volume (opposite B1). Two bookplates in each volume (one of them of Francis Longe, of Spixworth Park), some old splash spots to three boards, otherwise a rather handsome set.

One of two forms of this new edition recorded in ESTC, following the first edition of 1758-9. This is the variant with the titles undated, and without the horizontal rules on the titles. ESTC locates four sets of this variant (one in North America), and an abundance of the other. Francklin (1721-84) supplemented his modest income as a member of the clergy by writing for the press and the stage, the latter with modest success. His works of classical scholarship were of more lasting import, and these translations enjoyed long standing as the best available to English readers. The Plan in volume one, of a Greek Theatre, sometimes appears as a frontispiece. ESTC T230607. $350. 345. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. Richmond, VA: MacFarlane & Fergusson. December 1851. XVII:12. Large octavo. Original printed (upper) wrapper, untrimmed. Slightly dusty at edges, lower wrapper absent, otherwise uncommonly fine.

Edited by J.R. Thompson. Apart from the (nearly) exemplary condition, this copy is distinguished by a presentation inscription from the editor on the upper wrapper: “Miss Sarah Kimball from the Editor.” Kimball does not appear as an identified contributor in this issue, nor is she specifically indexed in Jackson, but there are anonymous contributions, as usual, and the indexing for a poem on the front wrapper, entitled “ Panes at B----n. By S” is circled in the same ink and may be her work. Uncommon thus. $175.

346. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. Richmond, VA: MacFarlane & Fergusson. January 1852. XVIII:1. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, untrimmed. Slightly dusty at edges, otherwise uncommonly fine.

Edited by J.R. Thompson. Apart from the exemplary condition, this copy is distinguished by a presentation inscription from the editor on the upper wrapper: “Miss Sarah Kimball from the Editor.” Kimball does not appear as an identified contributor in this issue, nor is she specifically indexed in Jackson, but there are anonymous contributions, as usual, and the second prose contribution, a long review of new books by and R.H. Stoddard, “A Pair of Poets,” is bracketed in matching ink on the front wrapper and may be her work. Uncommon thus. $175.

Printed on Silk

347. [Spiegle, Frederick M.]: JUST PUBLISHED A BEAUTIFUL AND ORIGINAL ETCHING CHORISTER BOYS .... [New York]: C. Klackner, [nd. but ca. 1886]. Pictorial printed silk advertising ribbon, 7.7 x 33.5 cm, including fringed lower and top edges. Very good or better.

An interesting promotional piece, ornately printed entirely on silk, promoting the publication of Spiegle’s etching, “To Be Obtained of All Art Dealers or Publisher C. Klackner 17 West 17 Street NY.” A vignette from the etching occupies the upper third of the printed area, and its is described as “size exclusive of margin 19 x 28.” Klackner was Spiegle’s primary publisher for his separate etchings, and they enjoyed some vogue, particularly his renderings of Little Lord Fauntleroy. $100.

348. Springs, Elliot White: CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN. [New York: Spring Mills, 1949]. Pictorial cloth. Black and white illustrations and photographs. Fine in slightly tanned and lightly frayed pictorial dust jacket representing various interpretations of “Miss Springmaid” by the artists Rockwell Kent and Arthur William Brown, among others.

First edition of this business history: a cheesecake-riddled romp through the sheet business, drawing on newsletters and correspondence from 1926 through 1949, and including renderings in the text of “Miss Springmaid” by James M. Flagg. Springs is far better known for his several fiction and non-fiction works drawing on his experiences as a crack WWI flying ace. $65.

349. [Stanbrook Abbey Press]: Kendall, Katherine: THE INTERIOR CASTLE. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1968. Full burgundy silk over boards, lettered in gilt. Very slight bubbling to the silk in a few places, otherwise fine. Folding board box, with paper label (split along one joint).

First edition in this format. From an edition of 350 copies printed in Cancelleresca Bastarda on Hodgkinson handmade paper with hand-lettered initials by Margaret Alexander, this is one of forty copies specially bound, with one burnished gold initial and two in colour. $450. 350. Stein, Gertrude: HOW TO WRITE. Paris: Plain Edition, [1931]. 12mo. Paper and boards, printed label. First edition (1000 copies printed). Some foxing early and late as usual, otherwise a nice copy. WILSON A17a. $275.

351. Stein, Gertrude: OPERAS AND PLAYS. Paris: Plain Edition, [1932]. Printed tan wrappers. Modest darkening to spine, upper fore-tip slightly bumped, but a very good, or better, copy, in faintly dust-soiled slipcase with corresponding bump at crown of spine panel.

First edition. One of five hundred copies printed by Darantiere. WILSON A18a. $400.

352. Stein, Gertrude: IDA A NOVEL. New York: Random House, [1941]. Large octavo. Beige cloth, printed in black and gilt. First edition (2000 copies printed). Small shadow from absent bookseller’s ticket in lower corner of front endsheet, otherwise about fine in unusually nice dust jacket with modest use along top edge, a short closed edge tear, and a short scratch. Half morocco folding case (the white cloth panels are a bit soiled). WILSON A36a. $300.

353. Steinbeck, John: FLIGHT A STORY .... [Covela, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1984]. Quarto. Decorated cloth, paper spine label. Illustrated. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in very good slipcase with two small sticker scars on one panel.

First edition in this format, illustrated with six color woodblock illustrations and five wood engraved page decorations by Karin Wikström, and with an Afterword to this edition by Wallace Stegner. One of 250 numbered copies (of 260), signed by Stegner and by Wikström, published as the second of the press’ “California Writers of the Land” series. $475.

354. [Student Printing]: Lienhard, Heinrich: I KNEW SUTTER. Sacramento: The Nugget Press, 1939. Small octavo. Cloth. Lino-cut portrait frontis. Decorative initials. Ink name, bookplate on front pastedown, paperclip mark at top edge of prelims, a bit of rubbing at tips, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition in this format. One of 285 numbered copies printed as a class project by the students of C.K. McClatchy High School. Presentation card tipped in. A of acknowledgements at the end lists the students involved, ranging from the translating and of the text to , printing and binding. Evidently the first production by the endeavor. $175.

355. [Student Printing]: Students of C.K. McClatchy Senior High School: JUAN RODRIQUEZ CABRILLO. Sacramento: The Nugget Press, 1947. Octavo. Cloth. Portrait frontis and map. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. One of 180 numbered copies printed as a class project by the students of C.K. McClatchy High School. A section of acknowledgements at the end lists the students involved, ranging from the researching and writing of the text to typesetting, printing and binding. $125.

356. Susman, Margarete: VOM SINN DER LIEBE. Jena: Verlegt Bei Eugen Diederichs, 1912. [4],142,[2]pp. Octavo. Original publishers medium blue pebbled morocco, stamped in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, Marbled endsheets. Offsetting from endsheets to facing blanks, otherwise near fine.

First edition, limited issue. One of twenty numbered copies, specially printed on fine paper, and specially bound. An uncommon issue of this relatively early work by the poet/theorist/ polymath. $375. 357. [Swift, Jonathan]: TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN FOUR PARTS. BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, FIRST A SURGEON, AND THEN A CAPTAIN OF SEVERAL SHIPS. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726 [with:] TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. BY CAPT. LEMUEL GULLIVER. VOL. III. [&] ... VOL. III. PART II. A VOYAGE TO SEVARAMBIA &C. London: Printed in the Year 1727. Two volumes, with uniform third volume. viii,[4],310; [6],353pp. [with:] Two parts bound in one volume [8],118, [8],159pp. Octavo. Uniform contemporary paneled calf, gilt labels. Frontis portrait, 4 maps & two plans in the first two volumes; half-title and engraved frontis in the third volume. Old small manuscript shelf-label on each spine, engraved bookplate of Ricasoli Firidolfi in each volume on prelim, some wear to spine extremities and minor cracking to joints, some foxing and occasionally pronounced tanning (often varying between signatures), small wax drop in one blank margin, but a good set in a moderately well-preserved contemporary binding.

First edition, Teerink’s “B” edition (i.e. the third octavo edition), with the frontis portrait in the first volume in the second state, with the inscription within the oval frame rather than on a tablet below it, accompanied by the first edition of the spurious continuation. The ‘A’ edition appeared on 28 October 1726, the ‘AA” edition in mid-November, and this ‘B’ edition, which was set up from the AA edition, was published in December. This, Swift’s best known work, was published anonymously. Written in Dublin between about 1720 and 1725, the finished manuscript was brought to England by Swift when he left Ireland for London in March 1726. During his visit he stayed with friends, including Alexander Pope. Pope, along with John Gay and John Arbuthnot, helped Swift arrange for the publication of the book. Even after its publication Swift kept up the public pretense of having had no hand in it, but the immediate popularity of the work can be gauged from the fact that there were four printings within a year, translations into French, German, and Dutch, and the spurious continuation and other pastiches. The second part of the continuation was adapted from Siden’s The History of the Sevarites (1675-9), but the first part is an original imitation. During the 18th century, it was often included in translations of the genuine work. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 185. ROTHSCHILD 2108. TEERINK 291-2. BLEILER, p. 190. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 42. SARGENT, p.10. GOVE, pp. 254-58. $9500.

358. [Swift, Jonathan, et al]: MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE. THE FIRST VOLUME [with:] MISCELLANIES. THE SECOND VOLUME [with:] MISCELLANIES. THE LAST VOLUME. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1727. Three volumes. 16,[4],408;[14],358;92[6],8,17-64,313,[1],[4]pp. plus errata leaf. Large octavo. Contemporary polished gilt paneled calf, spines gilt extra, gilt labels, marbled endsheets. Bookplate of the Bibliothèque de Champvieux in corner of each front pastedown, early ink name on each title in upper margin, occasional smudges or minor foxing, with modest tanning to isolated gatherings, otherwise a very pretty set, very good or better.

First edition of this iteration of the evolving Swift – Pope – Gay – Arbuthnot Miscellanies. The first volume features the canceled forms of K7-8 and L6-7 and the third volume is the state noted by Teerink as 3b, but also includes the errata leaf characteristic of 3d. The reading at II:292:8 is the correct form: ‘port’. TEERINK 25 (1b, 2a & 3b-d). GRIFFIN 184, 185 & 197. ROTHSCHILD 1421. $950.

359. Symons, Arthur: SILHOUETTES. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Original cloth, untrimmed. Covers moderately rubbed. with some spotted dulling to the sizing from some old spills and splashmarks; small, shallow discoloration to extreme fore-edge of a few leaves; just a sound copy. Bookplate of Rudolf Dircks and the small book label of Herbert Boyce Satcher

Second edition, “Revised and Enlarged” (the first edition appeared in 1892). One of 400 small paper copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. With the author’s presentation inscription on the front free endsheet: “To Rudolf Dircks from Arthur Symons April 2nd 1896.” Rudolf Dircks (1865[?]-1936), English author, editor and Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, like Symons was a contributor to the first number of The Savoy (Jan. 1896). NCBEL III:649. $450.

First Book

360. [Tennyson, Alfred, and Charles Tennyson]: POEMS, BY TWO BROTHERS. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1827. xii,228pp. Handsomely bound in unsigned full red late 19th century morocco, heavily gilt ornamental corner pieces, raised bands, with compartments gilt extra, gilt morocco labels, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Engraved pictorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford on pastedown, very minor foxing to endleaves, but a very good copy, or better.

First edition of the first published collection of poems by Tennyson, in company with his brothers. During Lord Tennyson’s lifetime, no authorship was assigned to the individual poems, but after his death, Hallam and Frederick Tennyson succeeded in ascribing 42 poems to Alfred, 48 to Charles, and 3 to Frederick. Another ten poems were not definitively attributed. During his lifetime, Tennyson elected not to republish any of his youthful efforts (“... written from the ages of fifteen to eighteen”). With the pencil ownership signature and acquisition note (Sotheby’s, April 1890) of collector Alfred T. White. HAYWARD 244. TINKER 2059. $3500. Items 360 & 363

361. Tennyson, Alfred: TIMBUCTOO. A POEM, WHICH OBTAINED THE CHANCELLOR’S MEDAL AT THE CAMBRIDGE COMMENCEMENT, M.DCCC.XXIX [contained in:] PROLUSIONES ACADEMICAE PRAEMIIS ANNUIS DIGNATE.... Cantabrigiae: Typis Academicis Excudit Joannes Smith, 1829. 41,[1]pp. Octavo. Unprinted aqua blue wrappers, bound up in later quarter calf and marbled boards by Stikeman. Spine extremities rubbed, ink date (1829) and partially effaced ownership signature on front wrapper, otherwise a very good or better copy.

First edition of Tennyson’s second published work, presented in company with the other Chancellor’s prize-winners of the year (poems by Charles Merivale and C.R. Kennedy, in Latin, Greek and English). This copy has the preferred reading, “cones,” on page 10. Copies also appear in dark blue wrappers, and in drab wrappers (which Wise denotes a “remainder”). Arthur Hallam was also a competitor in the competition, but did not place, and Thackeray, then also at Trinity, ridiculed the choice of subject. HAYWARD 245. TINKER 2059. WISE 3. $1250.

362. Tennyson, Alfred: POEMS. London: Edward Moxon, 1833. [8],163,[1]pp. Small octavo. Original boards, backed with paper, printed spine label. Shallow chips at crown and toe of spine, a bit of edgewear and shallow loss to label, signs of possible early deft restoration of the spine paper, a few small spots to boards, but a very good copy. Cloth slipcase and chemise. Pencil note on front endsheet (“From Gilbert 1833”), and 1890 pencil name and acquisition note of American collector Alfred T. White.

First edition of Tennyson’s second solo collection. “Both in quantity and quality this surpasses its predecessor of 1830, [and] is of much rarer occurrence, especially in original boards ... many of the poems were omitted altogether in later editions and never restored or reinstated ...” – Shepherd. The edition was actually published in late 1833, and included such well-known works as “The Lady of Shallot.” The edition consisted of only 450 copies, and the critical reception was so dismal, that Tennyson didn’t publish another substantial collection until 1842. TINKER 2061. SHEPHERD, pp.11-12. WISE 7. $950.

363. Tennyson, Alfred: POEMS. London: Edward Moxon, 1842. Two volumes. vii,[1],233,[1]; vii,[1],231,[1]pp. Small octavo. Handsomely bound in full forest green straight grain morocco, spines gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., by Wallis & Lloyd. Modest rubbing to spine extremities, but a very good set, bound with the half-titles, but without the terminal ad leaf in volume one.

First edition of Tennyson’s most substantial collective edition of his work to date, with significant new material appearing for the first time, as well as revisions to poems published earlier in book form. TINKER 2064. $1250.

364. [Tennyson, Alfred]: IN MEMORIAM. London: Edward Moxon, 1850. vii,[1],210pp. Small octavo. Original brown cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Pencil 1888 ownership signature of American collector Alfred T. White, spine extremities frayed, with some surface splitting along the upper joint; internally a very good copy. Cloth slipcase and chemise.

First public edition (i.e. the second edition, after the privately circulated edition) of one of the most popular poems of its era, here with the earliest readings on pp. 2 and 198. An interesting association copy, bearing the bookplate of Royal Society historian and author, and Tennyson’s brother-in-law, Charles Richard Weld (1813-1869), and bearing an inscription on the half-title: “The Countess of Rose In memoriam of great kindness received by C.R.W. Sepr. 1850.” The recipient just may have been the 19th century Irish astronomer, Mary, Countess of Rose. HAYWARD 246. TINKER 2066. $950.

365. Tennyson, Alfred: ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. London: Edward Moxon, 1852. Full polished calf (unsigned), spine richly gilt extra, t.e.g., others untrimmed, original printed wrappers bound in. A very good copy.

First edition. Hastily composed for publication on the morning of the Duke’s funeral, this poem saw significant textual alterations made in the second edition of 1853, and again when included in Maude in 1855. HAYWARD 247. $175.

Half a League Onward ....

366. Tennyson, Alfred: MAUD, AND OTHER POEMS. London: Edward Moxon, 1855. [8],154,[2]pp. Small octavo. Full medium brown morocco, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. Bound without the 8pp of inserted ads, but with the terminal ad leaf. Trace of faded 1855 ownership signature on half-title, else a fine copy.

First edition. Among the “other poems” appears, for the first time in book form, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” revised from its periodical appearance. HAYWARD 248. TINKER 2080. $500.

367. Tennyson, Alfred: POEMS. London: Edward Moxon, 1857. xiii,[3],375,[1]pp. Small quarto. Portrait and 54 woodcut vignettes. Full crimson morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, a.e.g., by Hayday. 1862 ownership inscription in top margin of title (with owner’s bookplate on pastedown, offset to free endsheet), some foxing early and late, as usual, particularly to the tissue guard and portrait, some old streaks of discoloration to binder’s terminal endleaves and faintly to last two printed leaves, small ink drop on front free endsheet, minor rubbing at spine tips, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition thus. The now celebrated illustrated edition published by Moxon to some controversy and only marginal economic success, commingling work by traditional illustrators with work by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Millais, Rossetti, Hunt and Stanfield, engraved by the Dalziel Bros., William Linton, and others. RAY (ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND), 148. TINKER 2076. ASHLEY VII:114. FREDEMAN 90.3. $1250.

368. Tennyson, Alfred: THE HOLY GRAIL AND OTHER POEMS. London: Strahan and Co., 1870. [8],[3]-222,[2]pp. Full red crushed levant, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. First edition. A fine copy. TINKER 2088. $150.

369. Tennyson, Alfred: QUEEN MARY A DRAMA. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875. viii,278,[10]pp. Forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Binding rubbed at extremities and slightly bubbled, inner hinges cracking (with signs of repair to front inner hinge), scattered foxing, otherwise a good copy. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition. With misprint ‘behled’ at 126:1. A good association copy, inscribed by Tennyson to his friend and neighbor, novelist Mary Brotherton: “Mary Brotherton from A. Tennyson.” Laid in (and once affixed to the half-title) are some pressed flowers, captioned on the half-title: “Pink ay Brought me from Farringford May 30 1890 by Lord Tennyson. M.B.” Laid in is one page, octavo, of manuscript, unsigned, but by Brotherton, of a verse play, captioned at the : “I hope you can read it – The blotchiness of the ink had made it difficult writing ....” The content is a death scene for Queen Mary, and does not readily connect with Tennyson’s text. Brotherton wrote several novels, among them Arthur Brandon (1856), Respectable Sinners (1863), and Old Acquaintance (1874). TINKER 2090. WISE 129. $2250.

Robert Browning’s Copy

370. Tennyson, Alfred: BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS. London: Strahan and Co., 1880. Forest green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Small spot on upper board, otherwise near fine. Full morocco pull-off case.

An association copy of the first order, bearing on the first blank, in the distinctive hand of the recipient: “ from Alfred Tennyson. Dec. ‘80.” In spite of their temperamental and artistic differences, at the time of this inscription Tennyson and Browning were both secure in the front rank of Britain’s public poets. In 1885, Tennyson dedicated Tiresias and Other Poems to Browning. TINKER 2093. NCBEL III:415. $4500. Item 370

371. Tennyson, Alfred Lord: HAROLD A DRAMA. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1877. [10],161,[1],[4],30pp. Forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Binding rubbed at extremities and a bit frayed at spine crown, small ink spot on upper board, otherwise a very good copy. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition. A good association copy, inscribed by Tennyson to his friend and neighbor, novelist Mary Brotherton: “Mary Brotherton from A. Tennyson.” Brotherton wrote several novels, among them Arthur Brandon (1856), Respectable Sinners (1863), and Old Acquaintance (1874). TINKER 2091. WISE 131. $2250.

372. Thomas, Dylan: NEW POEMS. Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [1943]. Violet boards. Fine in price-clipped, faintly spine sunned dust jacket with light soiling along spine and a couple of small chips along the fold.

First edition, published printing, issue in boards. One of 1000 copies thus, from a total edition of 2500. Due to an error in format, the first printing was destroyed by the printer while still in sheets and a corrected second printing was prepared for publication. ROLPH B9. $450.

373. Thoreau, Henry D.: WHERE I LIVED & WHAT I LIVED FOR. Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. 12mo. Half vellum and batik paper over boards. Boards a bit rubbed at tips and slightly sunned, but a very good or better copy.

One of three hundred and fifty numbered copies (of 380), illustrated with six wood- engravings by Robert Gibbings. KIRKUS 25. BORST A2.18a. $250.

374. Thoreau, Henry David: THE WINGED LIFE THE POETIC VOICE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. [Covela, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1986]. Folio (36 x 26.5 cm). Cloth, paper labels. Illustrated with original wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in matching cloth slipcase.

First edition of this selection, edited with commentary by Robert Bly and illustrated with six full-page wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. One of 85 numbered copies, from a total edition of 112 copies printed in Van Dijck and Caslon type on Arches, signed by Bly and by the artist. $1000. 375. [Turkey Press]: Hannon, Michael: FABLES POEMS ... DRAWINGS BY WILLIAM T. WILEY. [Isla Vista, CA]: Turkey Press. 1988. Small folio (32.7 x 22.3 cm). Cloth backed boards, lettered in blind. Fine in lightly rubbed cloth clamshell box, with bookplate on pastedown of box.

First edition. One of 125 numbered copies printed in Spectrum, Neuland and Albertus types on handmade Japanese kozo paper. $350.

With the Scarce Second Part

376. [Uranian Verse]: [Cory, William Johnson]: IONICA [bound with:] IONICA II. London & Cambridge: Smith, Elder [&] Privately printed, 1858 & 1877. iv,116,[52]pp. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one. 19th century green morocco, t.e.g., by Riviere. Binding somewhat sunned and rubbed, with small chip at crown, foxing early and late, early gift inscription on front binder’s blank, but a good copy.

First edition of each part, the latter privately printed for the author at the Cambridge University Press. The chief poetical works by one of the literary precursors of the Uranians, and the actual mentor to several of its chief representatives. The relative scarcity of the second part exceeds that of the first part by several orders of magnitude. The gift inscription reads: “E.L. Sanderson from E.H.D. with best love Feb. 1st 1888.” D’ARCH SMITH, LOVE IN EARNEST, passim. HAYWARD 275. $1200.

377. Vassos, John, and Ruth Vassos: ULTIMO AN IMAGINATIVE NARRATION OF LIFE UNDER THE EARTH WITH PROJECTIONS.... New York: Dutton, 1930. Quarto. Half gilt lettered parchment and gold-finish foil over boards. Frontis and plates. Spine slightly darkened, boards a bit rubbed, as usual, some marginal smudges to a few terminal leaves, otherwise a very good copy, internally largely unopened, in somewhat battered gilt lettered board slipcase and remnants of the glassine wrapper.

First edition, limited issue. One of 115 numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by John and Ruth Vassos. Illustrated with twenty-two of Vassos’s plates depicting a highly Art Deco influenced vision of the future attending Ruth Vassos’s text. One of the artist’s most significant works, and rather uncommon in this limited issue. $600.

378. [Verne, Jules]: Bennett, Charles, et al [adap]: FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON BASED UPON THE NOVEL BY JULES VERNE SCREENPLAY BY.... [Np]: Cambridge Productions, Inc., 29 January 1962. [2],133 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only of rose stock. Bradbound in silk screened highly pictorial production company wrappers. Wrapper somewhat worn and abused at extremities, internally fine.

Denoted the “Final Shooting Script” for this adaptation of Verne’s novel, directed by Irwin Allen (who also cowrote the script with Bennett and Albert Gail), and starring Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke, et al. Bennett was a prolific screenwriter, with stage credits extending back into the 1920s, and beginning in the 1930s he worked with Alfred Hitchcock (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Blackmail, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent and Foreign Correspondent -- for which he was nominated by the Academy). He seems to have found a niche in his later years, adapting properties such as the one in hand, beginning with Night of the Demon and The Lost World, and later contributing scripts to several of Allen’s television series. In spite of the several factors marshaled against it, and perhaps due to his talents, this remains one of the most successful treatments of a Verne property by Hollywood. $400.

379. [Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de]: CANDIDE, OU L’OPTIMISME. TRADUIT DE L’ALLEMAND DE MR. DOCTEUR RALPH. Np [but London: possibly printed by J. Nourse], 1759. [2],[3]-299,[1]pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra, gilt crimson label. Free endsheets neatly excised, joints cracking slightly (but sound), armorial bookplate of William Foster Stearns, and 1803 ownership signature of one Chas. Horlick in upper margin of title, some foxing early and late, short tear in fore-edge of F3, with no loss, else a very good copy.

One of two genuine 1759 London printings of the original French text of Candide, set from an advance copy of the Geneva first edition, and preserving an early form of the text, including passages eventually canceled in the Geneva printing. Of the eighteen known 1759 editions, the unaltered text is preserved in only one other London edition, and in an edition printed in Italy. Its London origin is betrayed by the press figure on p.218, and the typically English binding. ESTC T140380. XIMENES 87:253. BARBER 299La. PMM 204. $2750.

380. [Wall, Bernhardt]: Weber, Francis J.: FOLLOWING BERNHARDT WALL 1872 – 1956 ... BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. Austin: The Book Club of Texas, 1994. Quarto. Linen and boards, paper label (in imitation of Wall’s characteristic binding style). Portrait and tipped-in color facsimiles. Fine in dust jacket and slipcase.

First edition. One of 100 ordinary copies, from a total edition of 195 copies printed at the Castle Press, and bound by BookLab. The facsimiles were produced via photogravure at the Flatbed Press. Based in large part on his own remarkable collection, Fr. Weber here presents the most accessible overview of Wall’s production. $300.

381. [Ward, Nathaniel]: A RELIGIOUS DEMURRER, CONCERNING SUBMISSION TO THE PRESENT POWER: CONTAINED IN A LETTER WRITTEN TO SOME RELIGIOUS GENTLEMEN, AND REVEREND DIVINES IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF LONDON; FROM SOME PEACEABLE AND TRUTH-SEEKING GENTLEMEN IN THE COUNTREY. REQUESTING AS SPEEDY AND SATISFACTORY AN ANSWER AS THEY PLEASE TO AFFORD [caption title]. [London: Printed for Thomas Underhill, 1649]. 8pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Early index number in top margin of first leaf, otherwise near fine.

First edition. A late publication by Ward, published after his return to England from the Massachusetts-Bay Colony, and two years after the publication of his most widely known work, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam. A second part, not attributed to Ward and signed by “A Lover of Truth and Liberty,” subsequently appeared in the same format. ESTC locates 9 copies in North America. ESTC R203432. WING W781a. THOMASON E.530 $750.

382. [Warton, Thomas (ed)]: THE UNION: OR SELECT SCOTS AND ENGLISH POEMS. Edinburgh [i.e. Oxford]: Printed for Archibald Monro & David Murray [by William Jackson], 1753 [8],144pp. Octavo. Neatly bound in modern calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Early ink name in margin of title and on preserved old binder’s blank, light offsetting to corners of prelims from earlier binding, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this miscellany, the customarily accepted first issue, with ‘Centle’ on the contents leaf at line 23, for the poem on p.81. A notable miscellany, including poems by Warton, Gray, Collins, and Johnson’s “On a Lady Presenting a Sprig of Myrtle to a Gentleman,” published as by “Mr. Hammond,” here in its first anthology appearance. NCBEL II:690. TINKER 2283. ESTC T8389. NORTHUP 504. FLEEMAN 46.DM/U/1. $500.

383. [Weather Bird Press]: Powell, Lawrence Clark: MADELEINE. Pasadena: Weather Bird Press, 1990. Large octavo. Japanese paper wrapper over stiff wrappers, printed label. Illustrations. Bookplate tipped inside front wrapper, else fine in dust jacket with trace of use along top edge where oversize.

First separate, illustrated edition of this excerpt from The Blue Train. Illustrated with colored stencil drawings by Vance Gerry. One of only 125 numbered copies, designed and printed by Pat Reagh, and signed by the author and by Gerry $200. 384. [Weather Bird Press]: Richardson, Charles Leland: SELECTED SHORE PLANTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Pasadena: The Weather Bird Press, 1992. Small quarto. Full natural linen, with printed label. Illustrated with sixteen full-page color linocuts. Fine, accompanied by portfolio, enclosed in matching folding clamshell box. Bookplate on pastedown of box.

First edition. Copy #1 of the édition de tête of twenty numbered copies specially bound, signed by the author, Vance Gerry, the illustrator and printer, and Allwyn O’Mara, the binder. Accompanied by a separate suite of the linocuts, each numbered, titled and signed by Gerry in the margin, as well as by an original pencil and watercolor preliminary drawing for the New Zealand Spinach plate. $1750.

385. Welch, Denton: A LUNCH APPOINTMENT. [North Pomfret]: Elysium Press, [1993]. Cloth, paper spine label. Foreword by Edmund White. Illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in publisher’s folding clamshell box.

First edition, deluxe issue. One of twenty deluxe copies, numbered in Roman, from a total edition of 170, printed by hand on Arches at the Dartmouth College Graphic Arts Workshop, from a total edition of 170. Signed by Edmund White, and with an original etching by Pierre Le-Tan, numbered and signed in the margin, inserted in a folder in the back of the book. $650.

Presentation Copy

386. Wells, H.G.: AFTER DEMOCRACY ADDRESSES AND PAPERS ON THE PRESENT WORLD SITUATION. London: Watts & Co., [1932]. Gilt plum cloth. Light rubbing at corners, old crease in front endsheet, else a very good copy, without dust jacket.

First edition. With Wells’s presentation inscription on the half title: “To Lord Melchett the only half Socialist Peer from H.G. Wells.” He has enhanced the half-title itself with a flourish and underscore. $900.

387. [Whitman, Walt]: DEMOCRATIC VISTAS. Washington, D.C. & New York: J.S. Redfield, 1871. 84pp. Original printed pale green stiff wrappers. Spine covering chipped away, wrappers lightly handsoiled with soft vertical crease, lower corner of rear wrapper creased, with short creased tear at bottom gutter of terminal leaf associated with that crease; just a good copy of this extremely fragile book.

First edition of what some regard as a work second only to Leaves Of Grass in importance in Whitman’s canon, published without his name on the title-page. However, initial sales were poor – Myerson records the edition consisted of “at least 500 copies,” a number of which were bound up in the collective Centennial Edition of TWO RIVULETS (1876). MYERSON A4.I.a. BAL 21402. $3000.

388. Whitman, Walt: SPECIMEN DAYS & COLLECT. Philadelphia: Rees Welch & Co., 1882 – ‘83. vi,[7]-376pp. Mustard yellow cloth, stamped in gilt. Portrait from photograph facing p. 122. Spine slightly darkened, with some faint flecking to upper cover, crown of spine a bit frayed, front inner hinge cracking slightly, small mend to top edge of rear free endsheet, but a good copy, in a somewhat clunky half calf clamshell box.

First edition, first printing, Myerson’s binding B, sequence A of the portrait (though without signs of a tissue guard), and BAL’s binding C (no priority established). The publisher’s accounting to Whitman indicated that one thousand copies were printed. In November 1882, David McKay bought out the publisher, and produced the second printing under his imprint. MYSERSON A11.1.a. $400.

389. Wilbur, Richard [compiler], and Alexander Calder [illustrator]: A BESTIARY. New York: Printed at the Spiral Press for Pantheon Books, [1955]. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown, a couple faint, small smudges to free endsheet, spine lettering a bit rubbed (as often), otherwise about fine in corner worn slipcase with split along one joint.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of 750 numbered copies on Curtis Rag paper, from a total edition of 825 copies designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal, and signed by Wilbur and Calder. $650.

390. [Wilde, Oscar]: Saltus, Edgar: OSCAR WILDE AN IDLER’S IMPRESSION. ARRANGED IN THIS FORM BY LAURENCE C. WOODWORTH, SCRIVENER. Chicago: Brothers of the Book, 1917. Publisher’s full “sheepskin parchment,” untrimmed. Parchment a bit soiled and slightly bowed, spine dull, otherwise a good copy. With the bookplates of Dr. Noel J. Cortes and of Carson Brevoort (loose).

First edition. No. 46 of 49 copies on Inomachi vellum, in full binding, each copy signed and numbered by the author (from a total edition of 474 copies). Mounted to the front free endsheet is a printed note from Laurence C. Woodworth (“Scrivener” of the Brothers of the Book) to the subscribers of this edition, apologizing for a delay in producing the book and stating: “The autographed edition of the Wilde was limited to the number of advance subscriptions, plus one copy for the author and one copy for the archives of the brotherhood, making forty-nine in all.” BAL 17172 (ref). $350.

391. [Williams, Helen Maria]: RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, DURING THE YEARS 1792, 1793, 1794 AND 1795; DESCRIBED IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM AN ENGLISH LADY: WITH GENERAL AND INCIDENTAL REMARKS ON THE FRENCH CHARACTER AND MANNERS .... London: Printed for J. Plymell for T.N. Longman, 1797. Two volumes. xxxiv,448;464pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. 1813/1819 ownership inscriptions in top margins of each title, two leaves starting slightly in second volume, modest wear to spine crowns, otherwise a very good or better set.

First edition, edited, with “Preliminary Remarks,” by John Gifford. With Williams’ extended dedication (in print) to Edmund Burke. Novelist/ poet Williams (1762-1827) found a second home in France, and wrote passionately, but ignorantly about the French Revolution. “The honesty with which she wrote carried conviction to many of her readers; and there can be little doubt that her works were the source of many erroneous opinions as to facts ... “ – DNB. She began to publish her sequence of Letters in 1790, and concluded post the Restoration. $950.

392. Williams, Helen Maria: A NARRATIVE OF THE EVENTS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN FRANCE, FROM THE LANDING OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ON THE 1ST OF MARCH, 1815, TILL THE RESTORATION OF LOUIS XVIII. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF SOCIETY AND PUBLIC OPINION. London: Printed for John Murray, 1815.. [4],390pp. Large octavo. Original paper and boards, printed spine label, untrimmed. Early engraved bookplate on front pastedown, surface loss at crown and toe of spine, fore-tips bumped and surface splits along joints, occasional modest foxing or spotting; despite these issues, a rather nice copy, and very scarce in this original; state.

First edition, Novelist/poet Williams (1762-1827) found a second home in France, and wrote passionately, but ignorantly about the French Revolution, most often, as here in the form of “Letters.” “The honesty with which she wrote carried conviction to many of her readers; and there can be little doubt that her works were the source of many erroneous opinions as to facts ... “ – DNB. She began to publish her sequence of Letters in 1790, and concluded just prior to her death with an account of France post the Restoration. She was widely read abroad, and printers in the U.S. were quick to publish their own editions. NCBEL II:694. $950.

393. Williams, Tennessee: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Quarto. Quater calf and decorated cloth over boards. Illustrated by , including an original lithogarph as the frontis. Introduction by the author. Foreword by Jessica Tandy. One of 2000 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise near fine in slipcase, with small label shadow in corner of one panel. Newsletter laid in.. $350.

394. [Wise Forgery]: [Tennyson, Alfred]: THE CUP. “ London: Printed for the Author, 1881.” 48pp. Handsome full red crushed levant, gilt, t.e.g., by Roger de Coverly, original upper wrapper bound in. Slight dust smudging to upper wrapper, otherwise a fine copy.

Condemned by Carter and Pollard as a Wise forgery. This pamphlet was put forth by Wise (and Forman) as privately printed for the use of in learning their parts, and predating the actual trial book. It was one of five such imprints of plays they produced in the late 1890s, and is subject to special analysis in Lewis’s, Thomas J. Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy (1995). TODD 399f. CARTER & POLLARD, p. 327. LEWIS, pp. 74-85, 98-101. $550.

395. [Wise Forgery – Probable]: Tennyson, Alfred: ODE ON THE OPENING OF THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION ... TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1886. “ London: William Clowes and Sons, 1886.” [4]pp. Quarto. Full red crushed levant, gilt, t.e.g., gilt inner dentelles, by Riviere. With the bookplate of Oliver Brett, Lord Esher. Joints rubbed, with minute surface chip at crown of spine, extreme tip of upper fore-corner of last leaf chipped away, otherwise very good.

Ostensibly the first separate edition, but labeled by Carter and Pollard as a “probable” forgery. In the 1967 sale of the Pariser collection of Wise pamphlets and associated, this particular imprint was denoted as ‘rare’ – it was also, coincidentally, Esher’s other copy, not in binding, subsequently resold at Sotheby’s London, 1985. TODD 402f. CARTER & POLLARD, p. 342.. $450.

396. Wolff, Tobias: THE LIAR. [Vineburg, CA]: Engdahl Typography, 1989. Quarto. Cloth, paper label, marbled endsheets. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket.

First edition in this format. Copy #17 from an edition of 200 copies, the first fifty being signed by the author and equipped with the marbled endsheets. $400.

397. Wright, Frank Lloyd: THE JAPANESE PRINT AN INTERPRETATION. Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912. Tan Japanese paper over boards, lettered in dark blue, with abstract Crane device stamped in olive green. Fibrous Japanese paper endsheets. Neatly rebacked in tan paper board. Boards slightly smudged and lightly edgeworn, attractive period bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a good copy, in oversize folding clamshell box.

First published printing of the first edition, preceded by another printing which Wright disliked and destroyed (but for an alleged ‘few’). This is one of the copies printed Japan vellum, of which, depending on the reference, there were either thirty-five or fifty copies. Inscribed by Wright in 1915 at the lower edge of the first blank, and signed with initials. This was Wright’s first book for which he was the sole author of the text, and is the most substantive of his publications devoted to his pioneering passion for this subject. SWEENEY 109. $5850.

398. Yeats, William Butler: THE POEMS OF W. B. YEATS. London: Macmillan and Co., 1949. Two volumes. Large octavo. Green cloth, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Portrait. Fine in torn glassine and modestly cracked and battered slipcase.

First “definitive” edition. Copy #48 of 375 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author. For its time, the “definitive” collected edition. Yeats had worked on the revisions, corrected the proofs, and signed the limitation leaves prior to his death. The edition’s publication was then delayed by the constraints imposed by the war and its aftermath. WADE 209 & 210. $4000.

399. [Yolla Bolly Press]: Kroeber, Theodora: THE INLAND WHALE. [Covelo, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1987]. Oblong folio (30.5 x 35 cm). Open-sewn Belgian linen over boards. Illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in slipcase with small patch of label residue at corner of one panel.

First edition in this format, with a Foreword by Ursula K. Leguin, and illustrated with color woodblocks by Karen Wikström. One of 115 numbered copies (of 135), printed on Rives BFK Cream, with the woodcuts printed from the blocks and colored with gouache paints applied by hand from stencils cut by the artist. Signed by the artist. With a printed slip prepared by the press for the original subscriber to this copy laid in. A superb edition of this collection of Pacific Coast Native American tales, first published in 1959 by Indiana University Press, with an introduction by Oliver LaFarge. $650.

400. Zola, Emile: JACQUES DAMOUR MADAME NEIGEON – NANTAS HOW WE DIE – THE COQUEVILLE SPREE THE ATTACK ON THE MILL. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. Yellow cloth, printed in black (in the style of French publisher’s wrappers of the period), fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. A bit of wear at the tips, a few smudges to cloth, but an unusually nice copy.

First U.S. edition of these translations by William Foster Apthorp, ordinary issue. There were also twenty copies on China paper. KRAUS 28. $100.

Addenda 401. Confucius: THE WORKS OF CONFUCIUS; CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL TEXT, WITH A TRANSLATION ... TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A DISSERTATION ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1809. iv,[2],cxiii,[1],725pp. plus four folding plates and loose errata slip. Large, thick quarto. Contemporary (original?) boards, manuscript spine label. Spine covering substantially chipped, boards, front endsheet, title and 1st leaf of text neatly detached, short tear at mounting tab of one folding plate, early ink name on title, otherwise internally, apart from some very minor and very scattered light foxing, marginal spots or dust marking, an excellent copy, wholly untrimmed and unpressed. 1879 library bookplate on pastedown.

First edition of Volume One (all published). Edited, with the prefatory essay, by Joshua Marshman (1768 - 1837). Marshman and three associates left England for India in 1799, and established the Baptist Mission Press at Serampore, under the protection of the Danish Colonial authorities. There, he set about translating the Bible into several of the local languages, as well as preparing the first complete edition in Chinese, and undertook their printing and distribution. As their publication program grew, they began the manufacture of their own paper, as well as the casting of necessary type fonts for the various languages. In 1818, Marshman established the first newspaper in a western language to be published in India. He “was undoubtedly one of the ablest orientalists and most earnest missionaries that worked in India” - DNB. The work in hand was a monumental undertaking, and Marshman’s “Dissertation ...” also saw distribution as a separate publication, followed up, in 1814, by his Chinese Grammar. The Chinese type cast for this edition was a significant technical advance over the traditional woodblock characters. While not the first edition in English of Confucius, this is indeed an important edition from the standpoint of linguistics, and it also enjoys the appeal and romance of its imprint. While not uncommon in terms of institutional locations, complete copies of this work appear for sale infrequently. The last complete copy recorded at auction in ABPC appeared in 1990, selling for the equivalent of $3,380. $6500.

402. [Defoe, Daniel]: THE LIFE, ADVENTURES, AND PYRACIES, OF THE FAMOUS CAPTAIN SINGLETON: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS BEING SET ON SHORE IN THE ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR, HIS SETTLEMENT THERE, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLACE AND INHABITANTS: OF HIS PASSAGE FROM THENCE, IN A PARAGUAY, TO THE MAIN LAND OF AFRICA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THE PEOPLE: HIS GREAT DELIVERANCES FROM THE BARBAROUS NATIVES AND WILD BEASTS: OF HIS MEETING WITH AN ENGLISHMAN, A CITIZEN OF LONDON, AMONG THE INDIANS, THE GREAT RICHES HE ACQUIRED, AND HIS VOYAGE HOME TO ENGLAND: AS ALSO CAPTAIN SINGLETON’S RETURN TO SEA, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS MANY ADVENTURES AND PYRACIES WITH THE FAMOUS CAPTAIN AVERY AND OTHERS. London: Printed for J. Brotherton [et al], 1720. [2],344 [i.e. 360]pp. with page numbers 209-224 repeated. Octavo. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked to style, raised bands, gilt label. Early bookplate on pastedown, endsheets tanned, with occasional modest foxing, but a very good copy. First edition of Defoe’s fictional account of the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well- to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies. Eventually, after he makes his way to a life on the sea, he is marooned on the island of Madagascar, and travels thence to Africa. Defoe drew on contemporary sources for his description of the manners and customs of the Africans Singleton encounters. “One of Defoe’s greatest works, first published the year after Robinson Crusoe. Captain Singleton’s career was partly based on the adventures of the celebrated pirate Avery, one account of whose life, The King of Pirates... (1720), has been attributed to Defoe. Certainly another rich source of original material for Defoe was provided by Dampier’s famous A New Voyage Round the World... (1699)” - NMM. MOORE 435. NCBEL II:901. NMM Catalogue 4:136 (ref). ESTC T69688. $3250.

A Gill Masterpiece

403. [Golden Cockerel Press]: THE FOUR GOSPELS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORIZED VERSION OF KING JAMES I.... [Waltham St. Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Small folio. Three quarter white pigskin and tan polished buckram, raised bands, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A few scattered spots of the almost inevitable foxing to the polished buckram side panels, a couple of short, thin surface scratches to the lower side panel, just a trace of slight darkening and rubbing to the spine, otherwise a fine copy, internally quite fine.

One of 488 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper, from a total edition of five hundred copies. One of Eric Gill’s masterpieces as an illustrator, embellished with sixty-four wood-engraved illustrations and initials printed from the blocks. “Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator ... the book among all books in which the Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustration” - Chanticleer. GILL 285. CHANTICLEER 78. ARTIST & THE BOOK 122. $15,000.