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Catalogue: $10 112 Nicholson Rd BETWEEN THE COVERS Gloucester City NJ 08030 (856) 456-8008 www.betweenthecovers.com Rare Books, Inc. mail@betweenthecovers.com 1 Peter STONE and Sherman EDWARDS. Dickinson’s Only Lifetime Book Appearance 1776: A Musical Play. New York: 2 (Anthology). (Emily DICKINSON). A Viking Press (1970). Masque of Poets. Boston: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper Roberts Brothers 1878. with just a touch of age-toning. A very First edition. Edited by George nice copy of a deceptively scarce first Parsons Lothrop. A couple of small edition, a long-running (1217 perfor- scrapes to the boards, else a nice, near mances) Broadway hit that won a slew fine copy. Emily Dickinson’s only of Tony Awards including Best Musical. lifetime book publication, the poem It was translated into an enjoyable musi- “Success,” appears on page 174. John cal film, directed by Peter Hunt and Trowbridge’s copy, with his pencil with most of the original Broadway cast annotations on the table of contents returning, led by William Daniels (who identifying most of the contributors was ineligible for a Best Actor Tony (including himself and Dickinson) who Award due to a technicality), Howard are identified in the contents only with Da Silva, and Ken Howard. Prior to the initials. A much nicer than usual copy. show Edwards had been a successful pop-song writer. Stone was both a playwright and a screenwriter – he won an Edgar for his original screenplay for the film Charade. The Dedicatee’s Copy of Blume’s First Book 4 Judy BLUME. Iggie’s House. Scars- 3 (Catherine Drinker BOWEN). dale, New York: Bradbury Press (1974). National Book Award New York: Medallic First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s Art Co. 1957. first book. Laid into the book is a Christmas card from Wooden plaque with medallion. 9" x 7". Some mod- Blume, as well as a two page Typed Letter Signed, est rubbing to the finish on the wood, near fine. The with holograph corrections to Lee Wyndham, enclos- wooden plaque has beveled edges, and a medallion of ing The New York Times’ book review for the book a man reading a book with the legend “National Book (review present), and discussing her next two manu- Award,” below which is a name plaque that reads scripts. The recipi- “Nonfiction / Catherine Drinker Bowen / 1957.” ent is Jane Andrews Bowen won the award Lee Hyndman, for the book The Lion who under the and the Throne: The pseudonym Lee Life and Times of Sir Wyndham wrote over sixty children’s books, and Edward Coke (1552- was an important reviewer of children’s books. 1634), a biography She conducted writing seminars and had several of the prominent notable students including Blume, who dedicated lawyer of Elizabethan this book to Wyndham. The printed dedication England. We’ve never reads: “For Lee Wyndham.” While we would seen another National hesitate to call it the “dedication copy,” it is Book Award offered clearly the “dedicatee’s copy” and for sale. Provenance came directly from her library. An available on request. exceptionally scarce title, with a notable association. Between the Covers ~2~ Catalogue 146 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 from this catalog will be shipped gratis via UPS Ground or USPS Priority Mail; expedited and overseas orders will be sent at cost. All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Member ABAA, ILAB. Artwork by Tom Bloom. © 2009 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. So how’d that work out? 8 W.H. 5 [Peace Broadside]: General AUDEN and Pact for the Renunciation Chester of War; Signed at Paris, August KALLMAN. 27, 1928 Proclaiming a Binding Delia or A Agreement at Washington July 24, Masque of 1929…. Washington: National Council for Night. Rome: Prevention of War 1929. Botteghe Oscure Large broadside. Approximately 26¾" x 1953. 44". Printed in blue and red. Old fold First edition. marks, but still fine. Currently shrink- Wrappers. A trifle wrapped onto foam core. A scarce poster age-toned, still easily issued by a pacifist organization, promoting fine. Very scarce. adherence to the Kellogg-Briand Pact. The pact was signed by many nations including the United States, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and pretty much everyone 9 (Anthology). else who would be killing each other little Genevieve more than a decade later. TAGGARD. May Days: An Anthology of Verse “Unhand that dog, you cur!” from Masses- Liberator. New York: 6 (Animal Cruelty). First Report of Boni & Liveright 1925. the Brooklyn Agency of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty First edition. Illustrated to Animals. Brooklyn, N.Y.: A.S.P.C.A. 1882. by J.J. Lankes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Verse First edition. Octavo. Self-wrappers. (12)pp. Illustrated. by Max Eastman, John Two horizontal folds. Some folds and modest soiling, Reed, E.E. Cummings, a very good copy. Includes an introduction by Henry Claude McKay, C.E.S. Bergh, founder of the ASPCA. Wood, Louis Ginsberg, Arturo Giovannitti, Louise Bogan, Charles Ashleigh, Elsa Gidlow, Floyd Dell, Ralph Chaplin, Michael Gold, 7 George BORROW. English Gypsy Word Harry Kemp, Gelett Burgess, and others. Book; Being George Borrow’s Romany A beautiful copy. Vocabulary Transposed. [London]: Printed for Private Circulation by Taylor and Francis 1889. 10 Elizabeth BISHOP. First edition. Quarter red leather, with yellow and blue cloth, with applied title piece gilt; page edges (includ- North and South. Boston: ing, somewhat unusually, the bottom edge and foredge) Houghton Mifflin Company 1946. dyed red, yellow, and blue in repetition First edition. Fine in an attractive, of the board design. very good dustwrapper. The author’s Modest rubbing, very first book, winner of a Houghton good or better. OCLC Mifflin Poetry Award, and one of locates three copies. the 20th Century’s defining books of poetry. Modern First Editions ~3~ New Arrivals 11 Willa CATHER. Shadows 13 Rachel CARSON. on the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf The Edge of the Sea. 1931. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Advance Reading Copy. Stated second edition. 1955. According to Crane A17: “In all review copies First edition. Small owner’s examined, the copyright notice is ‘SECOND label on the front fly, else fine EDITION’, and this statement is seen in no in a price-clipped, just about other printing. This was an error, rectified by a fine dustwrapper with one tiny stop-press correction, early in the pressrun. It tape repair on the inside of the may be argued that the advance review copy, jacket. Signed by the author. A therefore, is the true first issue.” Small gift very nice copy of this explora- inscription on first leaf, small chips and tears, tion of the Atlantic coastline of but an essentially sound, about very good copy America with particular empha- in wrappers of this uncommon issue. sis on the rocky shores north of Cape Cod, the sandy beaches from 12 (Business). H.G.S. NOBLE. Cape Cod and south, and the coral reefs of Florida. The Stock Exchange: Its Economic Function. New York: Harper & Brothers 1933. First edition. Papercovered boards with applied (Business). paper title labels. A touch of tanning at the very 14 edges of the boards else fine in fine dustwrapper. Anonymous. Watch Something of a classic, an overview of the stock Your Margin: An market and its workings by a former President Insider Looks at Wall of the New York Stock Exchange. Noble also Street. New York: Horace wrote about other stock crises including a book Liveright 1930. length study of the Crisis of 1914. Very scarce First edition. Introduction in jacket. by W.E. Woodward. A tiny owner’s stamp on the front fly, else fine in a modestly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with tiny 15 (Sarah Ventia d’AVIGDOR- nicks and tears, and jacket art by Sugar. Epistolary and practi- GOLDSMID). Sarah: By Her cal advice on the stock market, delivered in a series of letters Friends and For Them. (Cambridge): Pri- between an uncle and nephew. Very scarce in jacket. vately Printed (by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press) 1965. First edition. Photographs by Cecil Beaton. Quarter morocco with overlaid morocco label and marbled paper boards, fine in a lightly worn, about fine slipcase. One of 300 copies. Memorial publication for the beautiful young British aristocrat who drowned in the English Channel at age 21 with her screenwriter fiancé David Winn. Includes contributions by Cyril Connolly, Sacheverell Sitwell, Edward Cazalet, Gerard Bauer, and others. Autograph note from Harry d’Avigdor-Goldsmid on d’Avigdor-Goldsmid stationery laid in. 16 Robert BROWNING. The Ring and the Book. London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1868, 1869. First edition, first state bindings (Spines numbered I, 2, III, 4). Four volumes. Publisher’s green cloth with beveled boards, titled in gilt, ruled in black. A scrape on the spine of Volume Two else an especially fine and bright set. Browning’s greatest work, based on a 1698 trial in Rome of an elderly count who had his unhappy young wife assassinated after she left him and returned to her parents’ home. Upon publication it was enthusiastically received and established Browning’s importance as a literary figure.