Catalogue: $10 112 Nicholson Rd BETWEEN THE COVERS Gloucester City NJ 08030 (856) 456-8008 www.betweenthecovers.com Rare Books, Inc. [email protected] 1 John FANTE. Ask the Dust. New York: Stackpole Sons (1939). First edition. A dampstain along the top of the boards, thus good in a good dustwrapper with a corresponding stain which is most visible on the rear panel, and with several small nicks. A flawed but presentable copy of a rare title. Basis for the 2006 film directed by Robert Towne, featuring Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, and Donald Sutherland. 2 F. Scott FITZGERALD. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1922. First edition. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, (“Linda Cleveland Iraughler 1922”), a couple of light spots on the front board, but the spine let- tering bright, a sound, very good copy without the uncommon dustwrapper. Inscribed by Fitzgerald in pencil above the owner’s name: “For Linda. Sincerely, F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Genuine Fitzgerald signatures have become very scarce. 3 (Photography). Chief Two Guns White Calf. Signed Photograph of Chief Two Guns White Calf. Glacier National Park: Hileman (no date - circa 1925). Cabinet photographic postcard. Approximately 2¾" x 4¼". Very light edgewear, an owner name and neat note identifying the Chief on the verso, just about fine. Signed by the subject with his usual pictograph of two rifles and a calf. The ink has run a little from the bottom of each rifle stock. Two Guns White Calf was the Blackfoot chief whose visage provided one of the most recognizable images of a Native American after his portrait appeared on 4 (Comic books). Fredric WERTHAM. the Indian head nickel in 1913. The Seduction of the Innocent. New York: Rinehart and sculptor claimed it was a composite Company (1954). image of several Native Americans, but First edition, first issue. Fine in the general consensus is that Two Guns a spine-faded, very good or bet- White Calf was the model. One theory ter dustwrapper that is unusu- was that the government wanted to deni- grate the Chief’s influence because he ally fresh. A report by a noted headed the Mad Dog Society, which was psychiatrist about the pernicious attempting to preserve Blackfoot culture, influence of comic books on and he might prevail on his tribesman to youth. This copy has the rare revolt. He became an attraction at Glacier bibliographical section listing the National Park where he posed with comic book publishers that had tourists and signed images; and became incurred Dr. Wertham’s ire. A a spokesman for the Northern Pacific threatened lawsuit resulted in the Railroad. He died of pneumonia in 1934. bibliography being excised by the His face also currently appears on the publisher from almost all copies. only pure gold one ounce coin issued by the U.S. government, beginning in 2005. Between the Covers ~2~ Catalogue 142 Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. All items subject to prior sale. Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept checks, VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER, and PayPal. Gift certificates available. Domestic orders please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Member ABAA, ILAB. Artwork by Tom Bloom. 5 Ilse AICHINGER. The Bound Man and Other 6 (Anthology). Eugene Stories. New York: Noonday Press JOLAS and Robert (1956). SAGE, editors. Tran- First American edition. Translated from sition Stories. New York: the German by Eric Mosbacher. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a Walter V. McKee 1929. small internal repair, and a faint erasure First edition. A little sunning at the on the front panel. Stories by a cel- spine ends, else near fine in very ebrated Austrian author born to a Jewish good, Politzer-illustrated dustwrap- father and a Christian mother, who per with some modest chipping. An often wrote about the persecution of her attractive copy of an important and family by the Nazis. In 2001, along with very scarce anthology of contribu- W.G. Sebald, she received the Joseph- tions from the magazine Transition. Breitbach-Preis. Very scarce title. Includes works by Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Robert Desnos, Kurt Schwitters, Robert M. Coates, Peter Neagoe, and others. Editor’s Own Copy? 7 (Anthology). Eda Lou 9 (Anthology, Sixties). Edward LUCIE-SMITH, edited by. The WALTON, editor. Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live The City Day: An Along the Mersey Beat. London: Donald Anthology of Recent American Poetry. New Carroll (1967). York: The Ronald Press First edition. Laminated pictorial boards. One corner very slightly bumped, still easily fine. Company (1929). One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the First edition. Modest wear editor. Sixties poetry (the book is dedicated to to the edges of the boards, The Beatles) with photographs of and contri- and the spine slightly butions by Mike Evans, Henry Graham, Spike darkened, a very good Hawkins, Adrian Henri, Heather Holden, copy lacking the dustwrapper. Important anthology featur- Roger McGough, Brian Patten, and Pete Brown ing most of the more avant-garde American poets. Signed (who wrote lyrics for Cream). by the editor with her address on the front fly, quite pos- sibly an ownership signature. The text contains several small notes, underlinings, and check marks, which appear to be 10 (Architecture). Edward Durell STONE. The in Walton’s own hand. Walton was a New Mexico-born Ph.D. Evolution of an Architect. New York: Horizon Press 1962. who taught anthropology at NYU, and who was the “older woman” and muse of novelist First edition. Quarto. Fine in a modestly Henry Roth when he began his age-toned, near fine dustwrapper with great novel Call It Sleep. a short tear. Inscribed by the author and architect: “To my friend Lyda Nelson with love, Ed.” 8 (Architecture). LE Laid in is a typed note signed CORBUSIER. When the by a secretary on Stone’s let- Cathedrals Were White. New York: terhead, sending the book with Stone’s compliments. Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. Nelson was involved with First American edition. A little light offset- The Architect’s Emergency ting to the preliminary pages from a clipping, Committee in New York. else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very short tears. Modern First Editions ~3~ New Arrivals 11 (Architecture). Frank Lloyd WRIGHT. A New House by Frank Lloyd Wright on Bear Run, Penn. New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1938. First edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. (20)pp. Fine in wrappers and fine, printed wraparound band. One of 3000 copies printed at the Spiral Press, 1250 were reserved for members of the Museum. A beautiful copy of this catalogue illustrated with drawings and photos of Fallingwater. 12 (Art). Paul CADMUS. Prints and Drawings 1922-1967. New York: The Brooklyn Museum 1968. First edition. Illustrated papercovered boards. 66pp. Spine a little tanned, and rubbed at the extremities, else near fine. Signed by the artist on the titlepage. An illustrated hardcover exhibition catalogue. 13 W.H. AUDEN and Louis MacNEICE. Letters from Iceland. New York: Random House (1937). First edition. Rear endpapers offset from a clipping else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of 15 Djuna BARNES. small tape repairs. Signed by Auden on the title page. Auden’s celebrated “travel Spillway and Other book” of Iceland, which through prose, Stories. London: Faber and verse, and letters, captured the essence Faber (1962). of the remote land and in many ways Uncorrected proof. First edition foreshadowed the narrative, multi-fac- with this title and in this exact eted approach of John McPhee, Bruce form. Slightly sunned, else fine in wrappers. Chatwin, and others decades later. 14 — and Christopher ISHERWOOD. Journey Beckett’s First American to a War. New York: Random House Book Appearance (1939). 16 (Samuel BECKETT). Samuel PUTNAM, Maida Castelhun Darnton, George REAVEY and J. Bronowski, edited by. European Caravan: An Anthology of the New Spirit First American edition, first issue bind- in European Literature. New ing. Rear endpapers and jacket flap York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam offset from clippings, else near fine in a 1931. lovely, near fine dustwrapper with a tiny First edition. Introductions by tear, and very slight toning at the spine. André Berge, Massimo Bontempelli, Signed by Auden on the title page. Jean Cassou, and E. Giménez Cabellero. Light foxing, near fine in a slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrap- per with a couple of tears and tiny nicks. Contains the first book appearance of Samuel Beckett in the United States. Additional contributors include W.H. Auden, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, William Empson, Nancy Cunard, Hugh MacDiarmid, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Robert Desnos, Blaise Cendrars, and others. Stated as Part I, this was the only volume published. An attractive copy of an important anthology. 17 Samuel BECKETT. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press 1935. First edition. Self-wrappers. Very good or better with a bit of off-setting to the wrappers, and the bottom corner a trifle bumped. Of a total of 327 copies, this is one of 250 numbered copies on alfa paper. A nice copy of an early and scarce title.