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THE 38TH ANNUAL BOSTON INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR 14-16 november 2014 booth 209

The Redwood Empire Association Images to the eastern slope of the Coast Ranges, including the Sonoma and Napa areas. It is one of the beautiful and exciting regions of 1 the West; certainly one of the dominant areas of California. In these ADAMS, Ansel. Archive of correspondence to various recipients photographs I have concentrated chiefly upon the Natural Scene. relating to his work for the Redwood Empire Association. Five typed I would like to remind all photographers and artists that this area letters, signed (“Ansel” or “Ansel Adams”), on personal letterhead, 4 offers an unlimited opportunity for creative interpretation in many to Stuart Nixon of the Redwood Empire Association, 1 to Raymond directions …” July 28, 1965: “This exhibit IS going to be an event!! It Peterson of the Walter Mann Company, 8 pp. total; 3 typed notes, will be really a BEAUT!!” August 8, 1965, “the exhibit turned out a signed, to Stuart Nixon; 1 p. typed rough draft, signed, of “statement fine and (I think) poetic statement about the country. I felt that you on photography”. 3-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. to 14 x 8-1/2 in, Carmel, California: all wanted an expression of intrinsic beauty and interest — avoiding September 10, 1964 - August 10, 1965. Near fine. clichés and obvious ‘attractions.’ Such would not function well in an art exhibit — but not too many people are aware of this …” An archive of signed letters and notes by Ansel Adams to Stuart Nixon of the Redwood Empire Association, regarding the planning $3,500 267144 of an exhibit of Adam’s northern California images as well as the production of books, brochures, and prints. In 1964, the Redwood Empire Association, “a chamber-of-commerce-type group that encouraged tourism in northwestern California, commissioned an Origins of Arabic Typography in Germany extensive portrait of that area with its majestic redwoods” (Alinder, Ansel Adams, p. 271). This archive traces the entire arc of the project, 2 including the photographing of the Redwood Empire, planning of (ARABIC LANGUAGE) Kirsten, Peter. Grammatices Arabicae. [I. the exhibition and related printed matter, the making and marketing Orthographica et prosodia arabica. II. Etymologica arabica. III. Syntaxis of edition prints (available at $7.50-$10 apiece!) copyright and arabica.] [Bound with:] Tria specimina characterum arabicorum. [And:] usage of the prints, and plans for a book of the Redwood Empire AVICENNA. [Kitab al-thani min Qanun al-Qanun l’Ibn Sina] id est, images. In 1995 Butterfield & Butterfield auctioned off the 69 prints Liber secundus De canone canonis a filio Sina. [And:] Vitae evangelistarum commissioned and retained by the Redwood Empire Association. quatuor. [And:] Notae in Evangelium S. Matthaei … Three engraved Some highlights from the correspondence: Oct 24, 1964: “In spite titles. [1] leaf, pp. 1-18, [1] leaf presenting Arabic alphabet, pp. 19- of fog and smoke I am sure I secured some good images. Friday AM 105; [1] leaf, pp. -41; [1] leaf, pp. 1-38, [2] Synopsis, [14] index; [1] leaf, we spent at Bull Creek Flat, and yhen [sic] came on to Burney (Hat pp. [1]-10; pp. [2], [20] Arabic index; [8] Latin index & prefatories, Creek). After a couple of days here we are returning to the coast 1-132; [1] leaf, [1] Privilegium, pp. 1-55, [4] index; [8], pp. 1-140; [1] and will work a bit north of Eureka, then porceed [sic] south… I leaf, pp. 1-17; [11] pp. Folio, Breslau; Leipzig (last title): 1608-1611. hope for some really good results. In some way pictures appear First editions. Contemporary vellum, ink title at head of spine. …” May 29, 1965: “The fine prints are all finished and will go out Ex-library, perforation in title margin of last work, two bookplates. by Grayhound [sic] from Monterey Today or tomorrow … July 24, Engraved title of Avicenna bound before type specimen. Some 1965, to Raymond Peterson of the Walter Mann Company: “The browning, marginal worming in six leaves, else a fine, complete and picture of the Mendonico [sic] Temple Carving should be very rich unsophisticated copy of these rare works. Brunet III, 670 & I, 586 and brilliant. The print, as usual, is as rich as I can make it, and you (for Avicenna, citing Ebert 1443); Schnurrer 45; Smitkamp PO 110-113 are requested to improve on it (as usual), but retain details in the (describing rebound or defective copies); ADB 16, 34-35; Roper, Early high values … I have told [Mr. Nixon] that you have done so much of Arabic Printing in Europe, in: Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die my work that we understand each other and the problems. Another Druckrevolution, p. 143 (illustrated 72a & 72c); Zenker BO II, 1237. engraver might tend to make this Carving plate too heavy …” July 26, 1965, Adams’ “rough draft of statement on photography”: “This An outstanding Sammelband of works by pioneering Arabist and exhibit represents part of a collection of photographs made over a physician Peter Kirsten (1577-1640), who started a private press in number of years. The borders of the Redwood Empire reach from Breslau (Wroclaw) in 1607. His Arabic type, which shows the influence the Golden Gate to beyond the Oregon Line, and from the Pacific of the Medicean types, was cut by Petrus von Seelau. He published the type specimen, Tria specimina characterum arabicorum, and 35; Franklin, The Ashendene Press, pp. 124 et seq.; Ransom, Private then a three-part Arabic grammar. These are the first books printed Presses, p. 206, No. 34; Tomkinson, p. 7, No. 34. in Germany from Arabic type. Roper notes that Kirsten “created a The complete set of 53 woodcuts illustrating the life of St. Francis of superior type-face, with some calligraphic qualities, which he not Assisi, the last Ashendene to be printed in Italian, and the last (apart only used for his own letter specimens and Arabic grammar ... but from two contributions to the Press Bibliography) to contain Charles later took to Sweden, where he inaugurated Arabic typography Gere’s work. The book itself was published in an edition of 240 under royal patronage.” Kirsten emphasized the usefulness of copies on Batchelor paper and 12 copies on vellum, and it is possible Arabic for the study of medicine, and prepared a bilingual text of that these japon paper proofs were pulled to test the designs and Liber II of Avicenna; curiously, however, the balance of his work inking on a vellum-like surface. RARE, AND QUITE PROBABLY UNIQUE. was on religious themes, and after 1611 he published nothing further. Individual titles by Kirsten are quite uncommon in institutional $2,500 14621 holdings and the few that have appeared at auction have often been rebound: a sound, contemporary copy of his major works such as this is a genuine rarity. 5 $30,000 100081 BARGAGLI, Girolamo. Dialogo de Givochi che Nelle Vegghie Sanesi si usano di fare. Del Materiale Intronato. Allillv Strissima, et Eccellentissima Signora Donna Isabella de’ Medici Orsina Duchessa di Bracciano. 288 pp. 8vo, Venice: Appresso Alessandro Gardane, 1581. Third edition. 18th-century vellum over boards with leather spine label stamped in 3 gold, fore-edges decorated. Van der Linde II, p. 57; Brunet II, 666; ARNOLD, Benedict. Autograph Letter, signed (“B Arnold”), to the Grasse II, 376. Adjutant Quartermaster General, requesting fresh horses. [1] p. pen The third edition of Bargagli’s popular game book, with editions in and ink on paper. Folio, Headquarters, Robinson House [Garrison, Sienne in 1572 and Venice in 1574 preceding this. N.Y.]: Sept. 1, 1780. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiiling, some separation starting at folds. About very good. $1,100 267288 A letter written by General Benedict Arnold the day after receiving word that British General Henry Clinton had agreed to his price for Early Baseball Guides turning his coat. In his letter, Arnold requests fresh horses to run express courier routes - some of which surely carried treasonous 6 information to the British. He writes:”Sir, I have sent the brave (BASEBALL) Chadwick, Henry. Collection of 8 De Witt’s Base- Sergeant Pike for six or eight of the best horses you have in pasture Ball Guides. Frontispiece woodcut of ballfield in each number and for the purpose of relieving the light horse employed here to go illustrated with woodcuts throughout; 1877 number with handcolored express. With hard service and want of forage they are worn down ads for Peck & Snyder uniform hats, socks, and belts. 8 vols. 12mo, & unfit for use. You will please to deliver him eight of the best horses New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1874-1883. First edition. Original you have if we can find so many that will answer. Also, a pair of the illustrated orange wrappers with portrait of pitcher throwing best waggon horses you have in lieu of two which were sent to me underhand, some chipping and edgewear, 1875 number lacking rear by Col. Hay who will not draw.” The letter was clearly drawn up in wrapper, generally very good, in custom morocco-backed slipcase some haste, as there are several words stricken through where Arnold and chemise. Grobani 3-4 (for entire run, 1868-85). has changed his mind about phrasing or information. A wonderful letter, hastily written and clearly showing Arnold’s agitation as he Partial run of this early baseball guide, the official publication of the slid deeper into infamy.. Amateur and Professional Association, written by one of the fathers of the game, Henry Chadwick. Contains rules, instructions on how $20,000 100630 to score a game, player stats and league leaders, team rosters, and match scores. With ads at the rear of each number. $10,000 247015 The 53 Ashendene St. Francis Proofs on Japon Vellum 4 7 (ASHENDENE PRESS) I Fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. BEARD, James A. The Fireside Cook Book. Illustration by Alice and Francesco Di Assisi. Japon paper proofs of the 53 illustrations in the Martin Provensen. 322, [1] pp. 4to, New York: Simon and Schuster, book, drawn by Charles M. Gere and cut on wood by J.B. Swain. [1949]. Second printing. Publisher’s cloth. Very good in creased and 8vo, London: The Ashendene Press, 1922. The 53 individual proofs edgeworn dust-jacket. Provenance: John Ferrone. are tipped into a blank book (some leaves of which have been Inscribed by Beard to his editor and friend John Ferrone, “For John & excised) bound in tan morocco, upper cover elaborately tooled in gilt [—], who love to cook and can, with affection, Jim.” and blue, lower cover in blind, a.e.g., probably Italian, 19th century, some foxing to a few blank pages, the proofs, except for a faint rust $750 266473 stain in the corner of two, are in fine condition, with about one-inch lower blank margins. Ashendene Bibliography XXXI and pp. 133- james cummins bookseller booth 209 2 8 in 1699. It is interesting to note that at least two Bartlett bindings — A Companion to the Temple, 1676 (Doheny Sale, lot 1290) and BEECHEY, Frederick W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and The Occasional Offices of Matrimony, 1679 (Oldaker Collection) — Beering’s Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions … in the Years display painted fore-edges with the intials A.B., perhaps this same 1825, 26, 27, 28 … 14 plates and three maps (2 folding) in Vol.I; 9 plates Ann Bartlett. (lacks the plate “View of Napa-King”, but has a duplicate of plate “Californians Throwing the Lasso”) in Vol.II. xxi,[3], 392 & vii, [1], $18,750 267280 [393]-742, [2] pp. 2 volumes in one4to, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. The coveted “Admiralty” edition, printed on Large Paper. Mid-nineteenth century three quarter calf and marbled 12 boards by Sargent, Woburn stamp on fly leaf. Plates slightly darkened (BINDING, Cathedral) Histoire de la vie et passion de nostre sauueur at edges. Very good. Hill p. 19; Smith 704; Pilling 328; Lada-Mocarski; Jesus Christ avec les figures et quelques reflections sur le principaux mysteres. Wickersham 6541; Howes B309 (“b”). Vol. 1: title page, 74 engraved leaves; vol. 2: title page, 57 engraved This work is “one of the most valuable of modern voyages” (Hill), leaves. 2 vols. Folio, Paris: Jean Baptiste Loison, [c.1660]. Bound and incorporates accounts of visits to Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Alaska, in 1823 in full black calf cathedral binding tooled in blind with roll Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California. border surrounding central blind-stamped cathedral motif, flat spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, stamped in blind in the rest, $6,750 30847 a.e.g., by T. Cunningham, Ashton-under-line (his ticket on verso of ffep), marbled endpapers. Slightest rubbing to the joints, near fine. Exlibris of John Lowe, Shepley Hall in both volumes. Ramsden UK, p. 58. Provenance: John Lowe, Shepley Hall (bookplate in both 9 volumes). BEERBOHM, Max. Thomas Hardy (“Standing, hands in trouser The original work by Loison consisted of engravings printed on the pockets, in front of bookcase”). Gouache and wash over pencil, titled recto, verso blank, and these have been mounted to larger sheets, and and signed “Max 1926” (lower right). 12-1/4 x 6-1/4 in, 1926. Matted a letterpress title page has been added that reads thus: “This Work, and framed. Provenance: Sir Hugh Walpole (1945 exhibition label); of the Life, Miracles, and Passion, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus W.J. Armytage; John Arlott Esq. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, 1928; Christ, Was Published in Paris about the year 1630, by Monsieur Jean Sotheby’s 15 December 1971; Piccadilly Gallery, September 1972. Baptiste Loison; in two vols. was engraved by Monsieur Mathius, Literature: Hart-Davis, no. 704. Michael Natalis, and Others; the most able engravers in France at that period, from the paintings of Martin de Voss; it was brought $16,500 100469 from Paris in 1802, by an English Connoisseur, was mounted on coloured paper and bound by order of John Lowe, of Shepley-Hall, Lancashire, 1823”. The BNF gives the date as c.1660. The catalogue of John Lowe’s collection of engravings and books of prints was 10 printed by Thomas Cunningham (the binder of this volume) of Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1829. BEERBOHM, Max. Zuleika Dobson or, An Oxford Love Story. [viii], 350. 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition. Brown cloth, $9,500 267347 paper label. In buff dust-jacket with price “7/6”. Joints show minor cracking. In custom half calf slipcase. 13 The first edition of Beerbohm’s only novel in a later dust jacket, priced 7/6 (the first jacket was priced 6 shillings). (BINDING, Edwards of Halifax) The Book of Common Prayer … with the Psalter or Psalms of David. 12mo, Paris: Printed by P.Didot, Sen. $1,250 264923 and sold by W. Edwards and Sons, Halifax, 1791. Contemporary Etruscan calf by Edwards of Halifax, a.e.g, with contemporary fore- edge painting under gilt of river scene with church and buildings in background, in original green morocco concertina slipcase. Recased, 11 with near invisible repairs to joints. Contemporary gift inscription, “Anne Bowler. The gift of her dear sister, Lady Armytage, 1794.” In (BINDING, Bartlett, Roger) The Holy Bible … 8vo, Oxford: Tho[mas] custom black cloth clamshell box. ESTC T196712. Guy, [1682]. Contemporary full black morocco, covers tooled in gilt to a cottage roof design with onlays of citron and red morocco, $7,500 267279 a.e.g., with visible fore-edge painting of flowers. ESTC R218545; Nixon, Oldaker Collection, no. 6; Weber, Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting, pp. 50-2. Provenance: Ann Bartlett (“her Book, 1699”), with 14 another inscription, dated 1750. (BINDING, Embroidered) The Whole Book of Psalmes. Collected An English restoration binding by the Oxford binder Roger Bartlett, into English Meeter by T. Sternhold, F. Hopkins, and others. [1], 64, 64- with a visible painted fore-edge. The book was owned by one Ann 94, 96-173, [18] ll. Collation: A-2A8. 32mo, London: Printed for the Bartlett, perhaps a relation of the binder, who signed her name Company of Stationers, 1641. Contemporary English embroidered

3 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair binding of white satin embroidered on covers with silver and colored Baldwin, for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794. Contemporary full red silks showing floral heart-shaped tendrils, each tendril terminating in straight-grained morocco, covers tooled in gilt and blind with outer one of 8 multi-colored and diverse flowers, front cover with central rolls and center stamped square and diamond in gilt, elaborate gilt daffodil, rear cover with central rose, small silver spangles, flat spine spine compartments, brown endleaves, black leather hinges, a.e.g.; divided in three compartments, each compartment with flower of extremities worn, repair to front hinge, upper corner bumped. Early red, white, pink and yellow thread, covers bordered in canvas, silver ownership signature of T. Drayson. clasps engraved with geometric pattern, a.e.g., red satin pastedowns. With a very unusual fore-edge painting of a floral decoration with Some slight fraying to silver thread, loss of a few spangles, but two cherubs, a pair of red dragons bordering a center vignette of a generally in exceptional condition, in a custom folding box. ESTC cherub riding a horse either in the clouds or on the sea. R175309. $3,250 267318 A beautiful example of the art of embroidered binding, in stunning condition. $9,000 267270 18 With a Fore-edge by the Dover Painter (BINDING, Fore-edge) Macpherson, James. The Poems of Ossian: with dissertations on the era and poems of Ossian, and a life of the 15 translator, James Macpherson, Esq. 14 engraved plates. 2 vols. 12mo, (BINDING, Fore-edge) The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Glasgow: Richard Griffin, 1824. Bound in full black straight-grained Jesus Christ … Frontispiece, ornamental title page, more than 50 morocco, covers tooled with rolls in gilt and blind, with gilt pallets, wood engravings after Italian masters, and ornamental borders ornaments and lettering on spine panels and raised bands, gilt rolls and decorations throughout. xvi, 540 pp. 4to, London: Longman, on board edges and turn-ins, a.e.g. Each volume decorated with a Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865. Contemporary full fine FORE-EDGE PAINTING depicting a rural/village scene. red morocco, tooled in gilt and blind to a panel design, with central Lovely copy with fore-edge paintings of this famous literary forgery. gilt-stamped circular ornament, spine in 6 compartments, raised Some of the poems were first published as Fragments of Ancient bands, a.e.g., by Rivière (not signed, but matching known signed Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated [by copies), with a fore-edge painting under the gilt of York Minster by James Macpherson] from the Gaelic or Erse Language (Edinburgh: the “Dover Painter”. Herbert 1951; Weber, Dictionary of Fore-edge 1760). Soon after this first appearance in print, Ossian became Painting, pp. 98-103; Weber, 1001 Fore-edge Paintings, no. 23. a literary sensation; “the greatest poet since Homer.” It is now A fine binding by Rivère, who executed several such bindings on this believed that the poetry contained herein was written primarily, if work in different colored morocco. With a fore-edge by the “Dover not wholly, by James Macpherson (1736-1796), the work’s “editor” and Painter,” with the artist’s distinctive cursive label identifying the “translator.” scene on the verso of the ffep. The “Dover Painter” was active in the $2,500 267296 1920’s, painting fore-edges for London booksellers Marks & Co. $3,125 267316 19 (BINDING, Fore-edge) Ovid. The Art of Love, in Three Books. The 16 Remedy of Love, the Art of Beauty, and Amours. Frontispiece and 5 (BINDING, Fore-edge) Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Officiis ad engravings by Hopwood. xxiv, [ii], 308 pp. 8vo, London: Printed for B. Marcum filium. 346 pp. 32mo, Lutetiæ [Paris]: Jos. Barbou, 1773. Crosby and Co, 1809. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, Contemporary full red morocco, front cover with gilt-stamped arms covers tooled in gilt with outer Greek key and floral rolls, flat spine and motto of Lord Stuart de Rothesay, spine in 6 compartments with in six compartments, lettered in one, richly gilt with small tools in 5 raised bands, lettered in one, tooled in gilt in the rest, a.e.g., with the rest, dated 1808 at foot, by Bartholomew Frye, Halifax (ticket fore-edge painting under gilt of Cicero declaiming to two listeners. on verso of ffep). With fore-edge painting of English estate with Bookplate of Stanley Marcus and another unidentified. Early library shooting scene in foreground. Fine. Bookticket of Ramon Cueva, shelfmark label to ffep. Spielmann 94. Mexico, on front pastedown, early 20th century gift inscription in Spanish on first blank. In custom black cloth box. Ramsden, p. 76; A fine wide-margined copy printed on blue paper, with a fore-edge Spawn & Kinsella 30. painting. A fine example of a Frye of Halifax binding with fore-edge painting. $1,750 267289 $4,500 267273

17 (BINDING, Fore-edge) Jephson, Robert. Roman Portraits, a Poem in Heroic Verse, with Historical remarks and illustrations, by Robert Jephson. [iv], xxxiv, [2], 277 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 19 engraved plates (mostly full-page). 4to, London: Printed by Henry james cummins bookseller booth 209 4 20 with onlayed gilt-tooled green, brown, and tan morocco, all edges gilt and gauffred, by Gregory, Bath. Bookseller’s ticket to pastedown, (BINDING, Pillone) Amman, Jost. Insignia Sacrae. Woodcut small contemporary owner’s inscription to letterpress title-page. illustrations throughout. 116 (of 144) leaves. 4to, Frankfurt: G. Corvinus for S. Feyerabendt, 1579. Contemporary vellum, covers $950 267339 decorated with fine pen-and-ink drawings by Cesare Vecellio for Odorico Pillone (coat-of-arms on upper cover, emblematic figure of woman, perhaps the goddess Ceres, on lower cover), remnants of vellum ties. Recased, with new endsheets, front upper corner 23 repaired, some scuffing and staining to covers. Berès 131; Provenance: Odorico Pillone (cover drawings); Sir Thomas Brooks (bookplate). (CHINESE FORE-EDGE) Three volumes decorated with Chinese fore-edge paintings. 3 vols. 8vo, China China: In custom brocade One of the few volumes with decorated vellum covers from the box, split at hinges. Weber pp. 161-6. Pillone library. Of the 172 volumes with fore-edge or binding decorations by Cesare Vecellio in the Pillone library, only 21 were so The fore-edge is decorated with a watercolor of Madonna and bound in plain vellum and adorned with ink drawings. Vecellio (1530- child under a bamboo tree. An excellent example of the art which 1600), a cousin of Titian and author of the famour costume book flourished briefly between the years 1936-1942, as described by Carl Degli habiti antichi et moderni, was commissioned in the 1580s by Weber in his book, Fore-Edge Painting (pp. 161 - 166). Typically, the Odorico Pillone to decorate the books of his library — the majority Chinese watercolorists soon abandoned the gilding of fore-edges, were given visible fore-edge paintings. The library remained intact and often painted a vertical scene (often around a Christian theme) until the 1950s when it was purchased by Pierre Berès from the heirs on Chinese-style ‘butterfly bindings’. Weber, in fact, mentions of Sir Thomas Brooks and subsequently dispersed. two fore-edge paintings which he refers to as the Madonna of the Bamboo: one in the library of St. John’s Seminary (this copy) and $45,000 267272 the other, in a private library in Massachusetts, which is part of a set containing one fore-edge painting signed by the artist Lu Hung Nien -- the only example known to Weber of a signed Chinese fore-edge. $18,750 267282 Bound by Queen’s Binder B, with Contemporary Painted Fore-Edge 21 (BINDING, Queen’s Binder B) The Book of Common Prayer … Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David … [Bound with:] The Holy 24 Bible … [And:] The Whole Book of Psalms … [144]; [888]; [2], 84, [10] pp., CHURCHILL, Winston. The People’s Rights … Selected from His ruled in red throughout. 12mo, London: Printed by the Assigns of Lancashire and Other Recent Speeches. [viii], 152 pp. 8vo, London: John Bill and Christopher Barker …; Printed by J[ohn]. M[ackock]. Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. First edition, first wrappered issue, first for the Company of Stationers, 1675; 1677. Contemporary full black state. Publisher’s printed and photo-illustrated wrappers. Covers morocco, covers stamped in gilt and painted silver all over with floral chipped and worn, margins of first few leaves brittle and chipped. tools, each cover with four red and three citron quatrefoil morocco Bookplate. In a custom red cloth clamshell box. Cohen A.31.2.a; onlays (two of the red onlays replaced), flat spine in 6 compartments, Woods A16. tooled in gilt and painted silver, all edges gilt, gauffered, and painted with colored flowers, by Queen’s Binder B. Expertly rebacked, A collection of Churchill’s speeches hurried to print during the run- preserving original covers and spine panels. In custom cloth box. up to the general election of 1910. One of Churchill’s scarcest works, Nixon, English Restoration Bookbindings, no. 69; Nixon, Five this is the first wrappered issue (with Index and Appendix), first state Centuries of English Bookbinding, no. 42; ESTC R33243, R33159 & (with p. 71 mispaginated). R474723; Herbert 737. $3,000 265562 From the workshop of the Queen’s Binder B, active in the 1670s and known for the excellence of his tooling and the decoration of the fore-edge with painted flowers and birds visible when the book is closed. Inscribed by Churchill to Count Metternich $12,500 267269 25 CHURCHILL, Winston. The World Crisis. 1911-1914. [vi], 536 pp. Volume I only. Annotated in pencil throughout by Count Metternich, with a manuscript note listing page numbers where annotations and 22 underlining occur. 8vo, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, CATTERMOLE, Rev. Richard. The Great Civil War of the Times of (1923). Second printing. Publisher’s blue cloth. Light shelf wear to Charles I and Cromwell. Portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page with covers. In custom blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. Bookplate. vignette and 28 engraved plates after George Cattermole. [iv], 279 Cohen A69.2(I).d. Provenance: Count Metternich (presentation pp. 8vo, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Red morocco over beveled inscription from Churchill, his notes throughout). boards, covers with recessed central diamond and corner triangles

5 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair Inscribed on the first blank, “To Count Metternich, from Winston 30 S. Churchill, June 1. 1923.” Paul Wolff Metternich (1853-1934) was CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. [“The Aliens Bill”, in:] The Liberal the German ambassador to England during the lead-up to the First Magazine, a periodical for Liberal Speakers and Canvassers. [661]-720 pp. World War, serving from 1901-1912. Metternich read this volume 8vo, London: Liberal Publication Department, December, 1904. closely and annotated it at length throughout in English, making First edition. Near fine, in a red half morocco clamshell box and more than 75 notes in pencil in the margins, some of the notes quite chemise. Bookplate on chemise. Woods D(b)24; Cohen G76c. lengthy and filling the entire margin of a page. A full description and complete list of annotations are available on request. The magazine reprints Churchill’s letter, known as, “The Aliens Bill.” According to Woods, the letter was initially published in the $30,000 265598 Manchester Guardian, May 31, 1904, not a letter to the editor, but a private letter to Nathan Laski (1863-1941), of Manchester. The letter was later reprinted as a leaflet (cf. Woods A7 & Cohen A13). $1,000 265547 26 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Navy Estimates in the Great War. A Speech delivered by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, M.P. … in the House of Commons, on February 15th, 1915. 20 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal 31 Publications Department, 1915. First edition. Printed wrappers. Fine. In custom red half-morocco clamshell box and chemise. Cohen CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. National demonstration in favour A45, Woods A24. of land & housing reform held in London, on April 20th, 1907. Report of speeches by ... Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ... Earl Carrington $350 265540 ... Winston Churchill. 20 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal Publication Department, 1907. First edition. Printed wrappers, in clamshell box with bookplate. Near fine. Woods A10. $900 265548 27 CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The Liberal Government and Naval Policy, A speech delivered by the Rt. Hon. W. Churchill ... in introducing the navy estimates in the House of Commons, on March 18th, 1912. 24 pp. Signed and dated by Churchill 8vo, London: Liberal Publication Department, 1912. First edition. Printed wrappers, in a clamshell box with bookplate. Fine. Cohen 32 A37; Woods A21. CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Marlborough: His Life and Times. $1,000 265544 Frontispiece, plates, maps, and facsimiles; 612; 651; 608; 671 pp. 4 vols. 8vo, London: Harrap, 1933-1938. First edition, first issue of all volumes. Publisher’s purple cloth stamped with gold crest on the upper board, author, title, volume number on the spine. Errata slip tipped in between pages 16-17, volume one. A fine set with minor 28 shelf rubbing on the bottom edge and slightly faded spines. Former CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Irish Home Rule, A speech delivered ownership inscription of Timothy Torat Fitch, bookplate. Cohen by the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P.… at Belfast on February 8th, A97.2; Woods A40(a). 1912. 16 pp. 8vo, London: Liberal Publication Department, 1912. A nice set of Churchill’s massive biography of his ancestor John First edition. Printed wrappers, in a clamshell box with bookplate. Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), signed by the author Fine. Cohen A35.1; Woods A20(a). on the front endpaper of volume one: “Inscribed by / Winston $1,250 265545 Churchill / January 1935”. Churchill initially began the work in 1929, after his defeat in the general election, and the four volumes were published over a period of five years. One of England’s most significant military commanders and statesmen, Marlborough had an extraordinary life and career during the reigns of James II and 29 Charles II. Churchill’s account of his forbear’s career refutes Lord CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Mr. Churchill on the Peers, from Macaulay’s version in “History of England” (1848). a letter to his constituents, November 14th, 1910. 2 pp. 8vo, London: $5,000 265549 Liberal Publication Department, 1910. First edition. Single leaf, in a clamshell box with bookplate. Fine. Cohen A33; Woods A18. $750 265546

james cummins bookseller booth 209 6 33 wove paper watermarked “Rockville,” entries signed “Gulielma M. Townsend, Kimberton B. School,” or some variation thereof. CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. Political Warfare Executive 4to, V.p., including Kimberton, PA & Washington, D.C: 1833-1843. Pamphlets: French and German Language, 1940-1943. 12 pamplets, Contemporary American red morocco, covers tooled in gilt to panel with illustrations. Leaflets and pamphlets, Various places: 1940-1943. design, gilt roll borders, flat spine, titled “Album” in gilt, the rest Some minor soiling, old folds to several items, but overall very good richly tooled all over, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Circular to near fine condition. In custom red half morocco folding box. stain to front board. A rich collection of wartime addresses made by or related to A beautifully executed manuscript commonplace book begun by a Churchill during World War II, including speeches made in French. fourteen-year-old Quaker Gulielma Maria Townsend, then a student There are two issues of “Le Courrier de l’Air,” which was airdropped at the French Creek Boarding School in Kimberton, PA. The entries by the allies over France and Belgium during the war. Some of the continue over the course of the next ten years, ending in 1843. The pamphlets include speeches made by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The following year she wed Edward Hoopes, with whom she would have pamphlets are as follows: M. Churchill Parle aux Francais, 1940, 2 pp three children. The early entries are all in Gulielma’s fine hand, and (Woods D17); Quatorze Juillet a Londres, 1941, 4 pp (Woods D25); may have been exercises in penmanship connected to her studies at Les Otages, 1941, 2 pp (Woods D26); Les Otages: declaration de M. Kimberton. Some of the later entries are contributed by family and Churchill sur les executions d’otages en France, 1941, 2 pp (Woods friends. Townsend’s penmanship is elegant and accomplished, and D27); Extraits du Discours de M. Churchill devant le Congres des the volume was compiled with great care. Entries include folklore, Etats-Unis, 1942, 2 pp (Woods D37); M. Churchill esquisse l’offensive poems, and extracts from William Cullen Bryant, Lord Byron, generale des Nations Unies, 29 Novembre 1942, 2 pp (Woods D42); Felicia Hemans, Walter Scott, and pieces under various headings: Seance Historique au Parlement Americain, “Le Courrier de l’Air”, Memory, Friendship, Home, Sympathy, etc. The final leaf bears the No. 1, 1942 (Woods D56); Declaration de Winston Churchill: Bilan et signatures of various famous figures — Andrew Jackson, Hannah Previsions, “Le Courrier de l’Air”, No. 7, 1942 (Woods D56); Churchill More, Lafayette, George Washington, George Gordon Byron, Ben Uber den Wiederauf bau Europas / Churchill sur la Reconstruction Franklin, and others. Each signature is in a different hands and looks de l’Europe, 1943, 4 pp (Woods D72); Erklarung Churchill / Erklarung very much like an attempt to replicate the authentic signatures of Roosevelts, 1943, 2 pp (Woods D73); London Fordert Hitler heraus! each. After her death in 1861, Gulielma’s family privately published Luftpost, no. 9, 15 Juli 1941, 4 pp (Woods D77); Der Europaische Rat, the “Memoir and Letters of Gulielma Hoopes” (1862), which collects “Die Andere Seite”, (1943), 32 pp (Woods D79). her letters and diaries written while traveling in the American South $1,250 265571 and Cuba in the hopes of restoring her health. $1,500 267080

34 [CLEMENS, Samuel L.] The American Claimant, by Mark Twain. INSCRIBED BY CONNETT TO FRANK LOWE xvi, 17-277, [11] pp. 8vo, New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892. First 37 edition. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Bright, solid, fine copy. BAL 3434. CONNETT, Eugene V. Fishing a Trout Stream. Vignette title, frontispiece, and 93 plates after photos by Lawrence B. Smith. 138 pp. $950 267290 8vo, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First Edition, Number 7 of 950 copies. Original blue pictorial cloth, Fine copy, in openfaced slipcase. With the small bookplate of Eugene Connett tipped on to the front pastedown. Siegel 77; Frazier C-12-a. 35 Inscribed on the ffep “To Frank Lowe who plays such an important [CLEMENS, Samuel L.] Life on the Mississippi. Illustrated. 624 pp. part in making it possible to publishe Derrydale Books. Eugene V. 8vo, New York: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition, first state of p. Connett 3rd. Oct. 18, 1934. “ A wonderful assocation copy. 441 (tail piece depicting an urn, flames and the head of Mark Twain) $1,250 267531 and p. 443 (caption reads “The St. Louis Hotel”). Publisher’s brown cloth with gray-tan endpapers. The slightest wear to spine ends, some wear to top corner of front cover, a beautiful copy. BAL 3411. $3,125 267312 Sherwin Copy of a Rare and Beautiful Book 38 [CRAWHALL, Joseph]. The Compleatest Angling Booke, That Ever Was Commonplace Book of Quaker Gulielma Maria Townsend Writ. Engraved title page, 32 engraved plates (most on india-proof paper, several hand-colored), other wood-engraved plates, music and 36 illustrations, many hand-colored, original double-page watercolor of (COMMONPLACE BOOK) Hoopes, Gulielma Maria Townsend. a trout, woodcut device at end. 4to, [Newcastle: Joseph Crawhall, Manuscript commonplace book. [174] pp. (52 pp. with entries), on 1859]. First edition, limited to 40 copies. Contemporary green half

7 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair morocco gilt, titled on the spine Angling, t.e.g. Minor rubbing, else cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Wear to covers, with some loss to tail fine. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin. Westwood and Satchell, p. end of spine, dampstain to top margin of first few leaves, including 69-70. title. With chop in red ink to ffep. Wilkins, pp. 19-20; Gimbel A63. “A very curious and original work and one of the chief rarities of the Dickens, on his first American tour, inscribes his most recent work angling bibliophile’s collection. It was both printed and illustrated by to William Cullen Bryant. Inscribed at the head of the title-page, the author ... only forty copies were struck off for private circulation” “William Cullen Bryant. From his friend and admirer, Charles (Westwood & Satchell). Dickens [flourish].” Dickens correspondend with Bryant during his first American speaking tour in 1842. In a pair of letters written in $10,000 240232 New York in February 1842 Dickens attempts to arrange a meeting with the American poet and expresses his admiration for Bryant’s work: “With one exception (and that’s Irving) you are the man I most wanted to see in America … I have a thumbed book at home, so well 39 now that it has nothing of you on the back, but one gilt ‘B,’ and the remotest possible traces of a ‘y.’ My credentials are in my earnest (CUALA PRESS) Yeats, Jack. A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala admiration of its beautiful contents.” In the second letter, Dickens Press Broadsides. First Series]. Illustrations after drawings by Jack B. makes a gift of American editions of Pickwick Papers, The Old Yeats. Printed on cartridge paper made at Saggart Mill in County Curiosity Shop, and the present first American edition of Barnaby Dublin, text in handset Caslon type. Lacking No. 10, Second Year, for Rudge, “If I had any control over the accompanying books, they March 1910. 83 [of 84] partsSmall folio (11 x 7-1/2 inches), Churchtown should be unillustrated, and in outward appearance more worthy & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. your acceptance.” Condition generally fine. A few numbers with repairs to margins on blank verso (one part with a corner supplied, not touching image). $35,000 267668 Cloth portfolio, upper cover with pictorial label after design by Jack B. Yeats, recent black morocco spine, to house the entire series. In half blue morocco slipcase. Miller pp. 120-121. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala The “Trial Issue” Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also 42 contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. The present set lacks one number. The second DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of and third series date from 1935-1937. Extensive runs are uncommon. Christmas. Title-page printed in red and green with wood-engraved holly vignette, half-title printed in green, handcolored etched $12,500 265275 frontispiece and 3 handcolored etched plates after and by John Leech, 4 wood-engraved text illustrations after Leech by W. J. Linton, integral terminal leaf of publisher’s ads (“Works of Mr. Charles Dickens”). 12mo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition, first issue, 40 third state, with all of Smith’s points, save the dubious period on page 21, line 22. Also known as the “Trial issue,” and championed by DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation Richard Gimbel, among others, as the true first state of the book. to Sex. viii, 423, [1]; viii, [ii], 475, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: John Publisher’s cinnamon-brown rib-grain cloth, covers blocked in blind Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue. Near contemporary full calf, with decorative holly and ivy border, front cover and spine gilt with contrasting morocco labels, marbled edges. Foxing to front blanks author and title with a holly wreath, green-coated endpapers, gilt and half-titles, else fine. Freeman 937. edges (Todd’s first impression, first issue of cover stamp); spine worn Darwin’s Descent of Man created an uproar second only to his with some minor repair, extremities rubbed, inner hinges starting. Origin of the Species; however, “contrary to popular error, prevalent Red half morocco slipcase and chemise. Contemporary owner’s now as well as then, Darwin never said that man was descended from signature of James R. Gurnock on verso of front free endpaper; apes, let alone monkeys; what he claimed was that man’s ancestors bookplate of author George Barr McCutcheon (AAA, 21 April 1926, if alive today would have to be classified among the Primates” (De lot 68); and signature of Alice W. Hayden on front free endpaper. Beer, Charles Darwin, pp. 210-1). Grolier/Elliott 80; Smith, Dickens in the Original Cloth 2:4; Todd, “A Christmas Carol,” in The Book Collector 10:449–54; Gimbel/ $5,750 267298 Podeschi A79 (copy 1). While this issue of A Christmas Carol was not the one first distributed, it did reflect the initial conception of the author. In “A Ha! Christmas!,” Jock Elliott gives a more cogent explanation Inscribed from Dickens to William Cullen Bryant of the publication history of the Carol than most of Dickens’s 41 bibliographers: “Dickens wanted to produce a little gift book that would be perfect in every respect. For example, not only would it DICKENS, Charles. Barnaby Rudge. Wood-engraved illustrations by be illustrated, but four of the illustrations would be in color. (In a Cattermole, Browne and Sibson. Tall 8vo, Philadelphia: Lea and first edition of 6,000, this meant the immediate hand-coloring of Blanchard, 1842. First American edition. Publisher’s brown embossed 24,000 engravings!) And Dickens experimented with the format of james cummins bookseller booth 209 8 the book. Here is the sequence of events as I see it: “First, Dickens One of 100 copies had the title page printed in red and green, with green endpapers 44 to match. (Red and green were nice Christmassy colors.) But the green type did not look too good — too drab. And the green of the (EARL, Maud) Smith, A. Croxton. The Power of the Dog. Twenty endpapers tended to smudge and rub off. So he switched to red and Plates in Colour by Maud Earl. Described by A. Croxton Smith. blue title page and yellow endpapers. And he changed the date from Twenty-one tipped-in color plates after paintings by Maud Earl 1844 to 1843, as being more appropriate for a book printed for the 1843 (the frontispiece repeats the Pekingese). 4to, London: Hodder and Christmas season. “All the copies delivered to Dickens on December Stoughton, [1911]. Edition de Luxe, number 90 of 100 copies, signed 17 incorporated these changes. I am quite sure that if Dickens had by the artist. Publisher’s full brown pigskin, t.e.g. Spine with minor been asked what he considered the true first edition, he would have soiling and toning. A rare book. Jones 1818. said, ‘Why these, of course.’” Although the “Trial issue” is not the Rare deluxe edition of this early work by the highly regarded animal first published of the several variant states of the first edition, first artist Maud Earl, who exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy from issue of A Christmas Carol, it is indisputably the scarcest. 1894. Her metier was dogs, and this volume includes paintings of the $25,000 100520 Foxhound, Bloodhound, Pointer, Greyhound, Pyrenean Mountain Dog, Welsh Terrier, Scottish Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Fox Terrier, West Highland White Terrier, Miniature Bulldog, Bull Terrier, Chow Chow, Pekingese, Miniature Pomeranian, English Springer, Boston Terrier, Griffon Bruxellois, Miniature Poodle, and Pekingese Puppy. 43 $1,500 266787 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri Louis. Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c. Frontispiece engraved by N. de Launay after Jacques de Sève + 180 engraved plates (62 in Vol. I; 118 in Vol. II) after drawings by Claude Aubriet, Madeleine Basseporte, and René Le Berryais. [4], xxxii, 338, [2] pp. 118 45 engraved plates. [4], 280 pp. 2 vols. Large 4to (13 x 9-3/4 inches; 332 x EDWARDS, George. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of 250 mm), Paris: Saillant Desaint, 1768. First Edition. Contemporary Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, full red morocco, gilt fillet borders, spines gilt, a.e.g. With shelfmark Insects, etc., Exhibited in Two Hundred and Ten Copper-Plates. [With:] “K | 2 | 142” stamped in gilt at foot of spine, and the early purchase Gleanings of Natural History, Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, notation “CP - WB -1792 / bt of T. Payne” in each volume. Spines Insects, Plants. etc … 362 hand-colored engravings, sequentially lightly toned, very light rubbing at extremities. A fine set. Nissen numbered across both works, each engraving with facing letterpress BBI 550; Arnold Arboretum, p. 215; De Belder II, 265; Dunthorne 100; description. Text in English and French. 7 vols. 4to, London: Printed Pritzell 2466; Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, pp. 71-81; DSB IV, pp. for the Author, at the Royal College of Physicians, 1743; 1747; 1750; 223-225; Bunyard p. 442; Great Flower Books, p. 55; Plesch 228; Stafleu 1751; 1758; 1760; 1764. First edition. Full late 18th-century blue crushed TL2 1546. morocco gilt. Occasional light offsetting of plates to text, plates Duhamel du Monceau, polymath and prolific author, became one of generally quite clean, some scattered light foxing to text, overall a the outstanding botanists of the 18th century and made significant beautiful set in this fine near-contemporary binding. Nissen 286-88; contributions to French agronomy with his Traité de la Culture des Wood, p. 329; Sitwell, p. 93. Terres and other studies. All of his works included “ideas as well as “Though issued separately, they [Natural History and Gleanings] simple techniques” (DSB), and the present book embodies Duhamel are considered as one and either must rank as imperfect without the du Monceau’s practical knowledge and theory of fruit trees. He other … At its date of issue the Natural History and Gleanings was opens with general instructions on the cultivation of fruit trees and one of the most important of all bird Books, both as a Fine Bird Book other fruit plants, and discusses suitable plots, the work for each and a work of Ornithology. It is still high on each list …” (Sitwell). season, grafting, trelliswork, pruning, illnesses, natural enemies, and Of these 362 exquisitely colored plates, 318 are of birds, whith a few the preservation of fruit. There are 2 engraved plates on grafting and of insects, mammals, plants, etc. A BEAUTIFUL SET OF ONE OF THE pruning. He then proceeds with a chapter on each of the following GREAT BIRD BOOKS. species: almond, illustrated with 4 engraved plates; apricot, 6 plates; one plate depicting common barberry; cherry shown on 16 plates; $45,000 262107 one plate again for the peachlike Cydonia; 2 plates depicting fig; strawberry illustrated on 9 plates; red currant and gooseberry shown on 2 plates; apple, 14 plates; medlar, 4 plates; and one plate depicting blackberry. The second volume deals with the peach, (32 plates), the Officina Bodoni Waste Land, One of 300 Copies Signed by Eliot plum (20 plates), the pear (58 plates), one plate depicting the raspberry, and 7 for the grape. The books opens with a full-page engraved 46 frontispiece depicting a man and a woman harvesting Duhamel du ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. 4to (11-1/4 x 8 inches), London: Faber Monceau’s favorite, the pear. A superb copy of this classic work, and Faber, 1961. First deluxe edition. One of 300 numbered copies purchased from one of England’s most distinguished booksellers, printed by at the Officina Bodoni in Dante types on Pescia paper “honest Tom” Payne, in an elegant binding of the period. by Hans Mardersteig. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarter gilt $45,000 100050 vellum and marbled paper over boards, t.e.g. Faintest shadow of

9 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair absent bookplate on front pastedown, else fine in matching slipcase Inscribed with the Early Poem “Forest Flowers” (very slightly edgeworn). A superior copy. Custom cloth slipcase and 49 chemise. Gallup A6d. FROST, Robert. Collected Poems. Frontispiece portrait photograph of $5,500 221306 the author by Doris Ulmann. [xviii], 453, [1] pp. 8vo, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing, [1942]. Later edition. Publisher’s blue cloth. Head of spine browned, else near fine in chipped dust-jacket 47 with loss along top edge. Crane A23 (for first edition). ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraphrases Des. Erasmi Roterodami in Inscribed by Frost to Reginald Cook with the 8-line poem “Forest epistolas Pauli ad Rhomanos, Corinthios & Galatas … [bound with] … Flowers.” Reginald “Doc” Cook was a Middlebury professor and ad Ephesios, Philippenses, & Colossenses, & in duas ad Thessalonicenses… friend of Frost’s. He was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of [bound with] ad Timotheum duas, ad Titum unam, & ad Philemonem Frost’s wife Elinor, and Cook would visit Frost during the poet’s unam … Titles within ornamental woodcut border, initials, printer’s summer stays in Ripton, VT. The early poem “Forest Flowers,” device in colophon. 465 [i.e. 495], [1]; 167, [1]; and 141, [3] pp. 3 works which opens with the lines “Some flowers take station close to where bound in one volume8vo, Basel: Johann Froben, January; March; and we stay, And some draw up on either side of the way,” was originally March, 1520. First collected editions. Contemporary blindstamped published in 1917 in The Pinkerton Annual, the literary magazine pigskin. Covers somewhat soiled, one brass clasp missing, lower of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire, where Frost taught joint just starting but quite firm; internally a SUPERB, near flawless from 1906 to 1911. The poem did not appear in any of Frost’s lifetime copy. Bookplate of scholar and author Nathan Comfort Starr. Adams editions, though a ten-line variant titled “Tutelary Elves” was E790; E792; E791. published in 1966. The original poem was separately published in First collected editions of these “Paraphrases” of the letters of Paul, 1978 as Forest Flowers: An Early Poem Recovered by the Friends of which were undertaken shortly after Erasmus’s revolutionary edition the Amherst College Library. Frost has added a note beneath his of the Greek New Testament of 1516. As part of that monumental transcription of the poem, “This was written almost earlier than reconstuction of the New Testament, Erasmus’ intention was to anything else in this book.” This volume is a later printing of the 1939 “retell” the books of the New Testament in one, uninterruptred Collected Poems and includes the 1942 collection A Witness Tree. voice, without the clutter of textual commentary or critical $5,000 265590 interruption. It was a bold undertaking, and, in 1517, Erasmus began with the letters of Paul. They were first issued separately, starting with Romans in 1517; and editions appeared in Louvain (Thierry Martens), Leipzig (Valentin Schumann), and Basel (Johann Froben). The collected issues — such as the three which are bound together The Father of the Superhero Comics in this exquisite volume — began to be issued in Basel by Froben in 50 1519; and finally, in 1521, Froben issued a collected edition of all of the Pauline letters. All of the lifetime editions, both separate and (GAINES, M.C.) [Bookplate of M.C. Gaines. Engraved Copper collected, are rare on the market: the last copy of any of the above plate, the Winged Victory of Samothrace surmounted by the Sun, collected Pauline paraphrases to appear at auction was in 1977. with an Airplane in Flight at top corner]. Steelfaced copper printing plate, image size 5-1/2 x 3 inches. 6 x 4 inches (plate size), [N.p.: n.d., $12,500 253908 ca. 1930s]. Fine. Printing plate for the bookplate of Max Gaines (1894-1947), who put IN ORIGINAL BOARDS together the first comic books in the 1930s and was one of the founders of the superhero comics publishers All-American Publications and 48 DC Comics. After he sold his interest in DC, Gaines founded EC FERGUSON, James. An Introduction to Electricity. In six sections. I. Comics. He died untimely, in a boating accident in 1947. Under the Of Electricity in general. II. A Description of the Electrical Machine. III. direction of his son Bill Gaines (1922-1992), EC Comics expanded and A Description of the Apparatus (belonging to the Machine) for making provoked cultural panic and Senate hearings in 1954. Bill Gaines also Electrical Experiments. IV. How to know if the Machine be in good Order for started Mad magazine. performing the Experiment, and how to put it in order if it be not. V. How $1,250 264668 to make the Electrical Experiments, and to preserve Buildings from Damage by Lightning. VI. Medical Electricity. Illustrated with copper-plates. By James Ferguson, F. R. S. 3 folding plates. [iv], 140 pp. 8vo, London: Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, (successor to Mr. Millar,) in the Strand, 1770. First Edition. Original boards, spine chipped, but 51 boards are fine. Bookplate. ESTC T53441: Wheeler Gift #429. GERSHWIN, George. George Gershwin’s Song-book. Illustrated Experiments illustrating phenomena in electrostatics. The work throughout by Constantin Alajalov. xi, 167 pp. 4to, New York: closes with a chapter on the medical uses of electricity. This is one of Random House, 1932. First edition. One of 300 copies signed by the best early treatises on electricity.” Wheeler Gift. Gershwin and Alajalov. Original full dark blue publisher’s morocco decorated with Art-Deco style gilt stamped rules. A bit dark, some $1,500 267243 rubbing to the front joint. Bookplate. A very good copy lacking (as james cummins bookseller booth 209 10 often) the card slipcase and additional separately printed sheet music. Rare Letter from the “Father of American Fly Fishing” Containing the words and music to some of the best known American 54 music ever written: “Lady be Good”, “I Got Rhythm”, “Swanee.” GORDON, Theodore. Autograph Letter, signed (“Theodore The list goes on and on. The whole book is further enhanced by the Gordon”), to Guy Jenkins, forwarding a shipment of flies and charming Art-Deco illustrations by Alajalov. The Deluxe Edition is commenting on summer fishing. 3pp., about 300 words. 8vo, N.p.: signed by the composer and the artist. Wednesday 9 July 1912. Somewhat soiled, small tears at folds. Very $6,500 267414 good. Letters by Gordon are uncommon on the market. Here, the father of American fly fishing writes: “Dear Mr. Jenkins: The heat has been very great and has ruined the day fishing for the time being: - and I Author’s First Book, Inscribed do not care to fish at night. Like to see my fly. We had a good rain last night and I should be out. In fact, should have gone early and 52 fished until 10 or 11 am, but I wanted to finish up these flies, 3-1/2 GIBRAN, Kahlil. The Madman. His Parables and Poems. Frontispiece dozen I am sending you. I intended to add a number of small flies on and two plates by the author. 8vo, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 12 & 14 hooks, but it seems scarcely worth while until the weather [September], 1918. First edition. Publisher’s quarter black cloth and is cooler and there is more doing all through the day. Let me know paper boards, titled in gilt. Covers lightly shelfworn. With a review if you need some of the small chaps. I followed the naturals pretty of the book from the Liberator of Jan. 1919 laid in. well this year in spite of rather poor opportunities, and this is a great help in coloration, size, etc. There was a fine range of caddis. I send Inscribed to playwright Percy MacKaye, “With love, To Percy, from you half a dozen purely night flies. You may need them but in the Kahlil. Nov 19th, 1918.” Gibran did at least one drawing portrait of early part of the evening up to black dark. I would prefer the no 10s McKaye which was shown as number 35 at the Montross Gallery the medium while the light is good and the long heavy hackles as it “Exhibition of Pictures of Kahlil Gibran” in December 1914. gets dusky ... [Six lines describe 3 1/2 dozen flies of various types for MacKaye used the portrait for the frontispiece of a special edition a total of $4.50] ... I hoped for a cool summer this year and the sort of his St. Louis: A Civic Masque. With a 2 page autograph letter, of low water fishing I am fond of. Does the line work well with your signed (“Kahlil Gibran”), to Percy MacKaye’s daughter Miss Christy dry fly rod? I have a fine D double taper on hand. Have been using an MacKaye, Feb. 21, 1926, with envelope. Reading in part, “I am indeed E on my tournament rod but fancy that in ordinary stream fishing delighted that a daughter of my dear, gifted friend, Percy MacKaye, a size smaller would answer. The heavy lines must gradually tell on should read and find a reflection of her youthful self in my books. It the spirit of a fine rod. Sincerely yours, Theodore Gordon. P.S. I have is a pleasure unlike any other pleasure …” with an initialled postscript been working steadily every day and have used up a lot of paper. Am apologizing for the delay in responding. not sure as to exactly what is wanted, and it is a tough job.” See The $8,500 267241 Complete Fly Fisherman: Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon, edited by John McDonald (NY, 1947) for other letters to Jenkins. $2,500 42306

53 GOODEN, Stephen. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A suite of proofs of the eight line engravings by Stephen Gooden for this book. Four The First Book of the Fantod Press, Inscribed proofs measure 6 x 4 inches, four are various smaller sizes; all have 55 generous margins, London: Done for the George G. Harrap Co. limited edition of 125 copies, 1940. Fine condition. All eight proofs [GOREY, Edward]. The Beastly Baby. Ogdred Weary. Small 8vo, New are signed and dated in pencil, lower right margin. Campbell York: Fantod Press, 1962. First edition, one of 500 unnumbered Dodgson 121-128. copies. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Covers lightly browned. Toledano A9a. Stephen Gooden (1892-1955) was the most accomplished line engraver of his time. He illustrated a number of books, among them The first book of Gorey’s Fantod Press, published under the the Nonesuch Press Bible, the Rubaiyat, the Fables of La Fontaine, pseudonymous anagram Ogdred Weary. The eponymous character George Moore’s The Brook Kerith, and Aesop’s Fables. In addition, is so revolting and meets such a terrible end, that no publisher would he produced a notable series of bookplates, including a number take the book on. Inscribed, “21 May 1964. For Bob [Wilson]. Ogdred for The Royal Family, and was the official designer to the Bank of Weary.” Wilson was the proprietor of the Phoenix Bookshop in New England. Because his work invariably appeared in limited editions, York. One of Gorey’s scarcest titles. which restricted the public’s access to his work, he is not as well $1,500 265155 known--particularly in America--as he deserves to be, but his work is unsurpassed. $4,500 237159

11 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair 56 Bound for Glory publisher, which “they cut down to four hundred and forty eight pages,” and asks for “permission to publish all or any GREGG, Josiah. Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fé part of your letter”—a request she seems to have resisted in their Trader, during Eight Expeditions Across the Great Western Prairies, and continuing and intimate correspondence. A highly desirable letter in a Residence of Nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico. 2 steel-engraved about-fine condition. frontispieces, 4 wood-engraved plates, and 2 engraved maps (one folding). Small tear to upper right margin of folding map, with loss $11,800 100273 of 3 x 1 inches piece of map; 3 text vignettes. 320; 318 pp. 2 vols. 12mo, New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. First edition, second issue, with a dual New York and London imprint in volume one. Original gilt cloth. Both volumes rebacked, preserving original spines. Volume Presidents of the Republic of Haiti — A Collection two binding without gilt pictorial stamp, thus probably a married set. Overall a good set. Wagner-Camp 108:1; Howes G401; Graff 1659; 58 Sabin 28712; Streeter 378; Wheat (Transmississippi) 482; Streeter (HAITI) Collection of Haitian Presidential autographs, comprising Texas 1502a; Dobie p.76; Flake 3716; Rader 1684; Rittenhouse 255. autograph and partly printed documents on executive stationery, A cornerstone account of the Sante Fe trail, and often reprinted. The signed by eleven Presidents of the Republic of Haiti from Alexandre folding map “Indian Territory, Northern Texas, and New Mexico” Pétion to Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave. 20 items, single sheet printed has been called by Wheat “a cartographic landmark.”. letterhead or partly printed documents, accomplished in ink dated and signed, with two printed broadsides. Chiefly 4to, one broadside $4,500 30849 folio, Most Port-au-Prince: 1812-1916. Some toning or soiling and marginal chipping (large broadside split along fold), overall very good. An outstanding collection of Haitian material comprising items 57 signed by 11 presidents: GUTHRIE, Woody. Autograph letter signed. Six pages on three 1) ALEXANDRE PETION, president of Haiti 1807-1818. Autograph sheets of lined paper (measuring 8 by 10-1/2 inches), neat cursive document signed “Pétion” as president, 6 April 1812, a laissez passer on recto and verso, bound with single staple at upper corner. Scott for Mr Douglass, on government business, and noting his white horse Field, Illinois: October 29, 1945. Text fresh and clean, faint creases “which it is forbidden for whomsoever to touch under any pretext.” at foldlines. New Grove, 856. From the estate of Charlotte Strauss, whose revealing and often passionate correspondence with Guthrie 2) JEAN-PIERRE BOYER, president of Haiti 1818-1843. Autograph began in 1945, intensified as he completed his tour with the Army, financial document signed “Boyer” as Commander-in-Chief of Port- and continued over several years. au-Prince, 30 November 1817, a receipt for 185 gourdes. “Your letter about my book (Bound for Glory) got down here today 3) FABRE GEFFRARD, president of Haiti 1859-1867. Manuscript … you have taken me back over my old tracks”: important 1945 letter signed “Geffrard” as President, 3 December 1860, ordering his autograph letter signed by guthrie, the first in his long and often secretary of state to pay General Simon Sam (see no. 7 below) the intimate correspondence with Charlotte Strauss, discussing Bound sum of 2,165 gourdes. for Glory. 4) NISSAGE SAGET, president of Haiti 1870-1874. Manuscript letter Original signed autograph letter, this six-page letter written entirely signed “Nissage Saget” as President, 11 October 1870, requesting a in Woody Guthrie’s penciled cursive, twice signed by him and dated report on the state of the Arsenal at Cap-Haitien (cellophane tape October 29th, 1945, is the first in his largely unpublicized and deeply repair to verso at signature). meaningful correspondence with a woman named Charlotte Strauss. 5) MICHEL DOMINGUE, president of Haiti 1874-1878. a) Manuscript Here Guthrie talks of the 1,200-page manuscript for Bound for Glory letter signed “Domingue” as general and provisional commander that was “cut down to four hundred and forty eight pages,” and slyly of the département du Sud, 14 September 1868, promoting second confesses that “I like to hear people talk about me and my works.” lieutenant Hyppolite (see no. 6 below) to full lieutenant; Partly In 1946 Woody Guthrie was drafted into the army and was soon sent printed document, signed “Domingue” as president of the Etat to Scott Field in Illinois where he often suffered deep loneliness offset Meridional d’Haiti, 25 January 1869, promoting Prosper Faure to the only by writing extraordinarily rich and complex letters to his future rank of générale de division; Manuscript letter, signed “Domingue” wife Marjorie and, as he would later confess, “love letters to other as president of Haiti, 11 December 1874, acknowledging receipt of women” (Klein, 316). Among these was a long, passionate and largely dispatches from the interim secretary of war. unpublished correspondence with this letter’s recipient Charlotte Strauss. In this October letter, his first to Strauss, Guthrie tells her 6) FLORVIL HIPPOLYTE, president of Haiti 1889-1896. Manuscript that “your letter about my book (Bound for Glory) got down here letter signed “F Hyppolite” as générale de division, 14 July 1875, today. Marjorie read it [the letter] at home and then mailed it on… concerning troop inspections; Manuscript letter signed “F Hyppolite” Your letter gets me to feel just like my book made you feel… You as president, 27 January 1896, concerning an appointment to the local have taken me back over my old tracks again and showed me twelve police. thousand more stories and places to write about… You won’t feel 7) TIRESIAS AUGUSTIN SIMON SAM, president of Haiti 1896-1902. bad if I tell you plain that I like to hear people talk about me and my Manuscript letter, signed “T A S Sam” as president, 12 August 1898, works.” Guthrie talks of submitting a 1200-page manuscript to his to the secretary of the interior, endorsing a recommendation for a james cummins bookseller booth 209 12 police appointment. morocco, spine titled in gilt, sporting vignette on upper cover, gilt rule borders, t.e.g., turn-in with gilt horse head, stamped Bound 8) FRANÇOIS ANTOINE SIMON, president of Haiti 1908-1911. in England. Bookplate. Spine toned, else fine. Van Winkle pp. 13- Manuscript letter signed “F.A. Simon” as générale de division, 14; Phillips, p. 175; Gee “Sportsman’s Library” 75; BAL 8085; Grolier honorary aide de camp to the President, etc., 16 July 1896, to President American, 54; Wright I, 1181; White pp. 52-53; Bruns H-167: “Rare”. Tiresias Augustin Simon Sam, concerning a recommendation for Camille Jean-François, acting police commissioner in the Cayes The book that established English expatriate H.W. Herbert as “Frank district; Typewritten letter, Signed “F.A. Simon” as president, 15 Forester”, the pre-eminent American sporting and outdoors writer. March 1909, conveying a military commission. A rare book, and a cornerstone to any nineteenth-century sporting collection. 9) CINCINNATUS LECONTE, president of Haiti 1911-1912. Manuscript letter, Signed “Ctus Leconte” as president, 13 June 1912, $2,500 261268 concerning a request for police officers’ uniforms; Printed broadside, presidential decree dated 16 August 1911, naming the members of his cabinet. 10) MICHEL ORESTE, president of Haiti 1913-1914. Typewritten 61 letter, Signed “Michel Oreste” as president, 4 July 1913, concerning a HOCKNEY, David. Hockney’s Alphabet. Drawings by David Hockney commercial license for the representative of the Hamburg America & written contributions (by 26 authors) edited by Stephen Spender. 4to, Line. London: Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, [1991]. One of 250 11) PHILIPPE SUDRE DARTIGUENAVE, president of Haiti 1915- numbered copies signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. 1922. Typewritten letter, signed “Dartiguenave” as president, 1 April Grey paper over boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Fine in slipcase. 1916, concerning a widow’s pension. With four additional Haitian The Hockney drawings illustrate each of the 27 contributions items: Partly printed receipt for import duties paid by Capt Taylor by various authors on a letter of the alphabet (a T.S Eliot piece is of the American brig Pegasus, 6 November 1827, signed Lavartida, included for ‘Q’, along with that of Anthony Burgess), with a final on letterhead of the National Treasury of Santo-Domingo; Printed piece by John Julius Norwich. 22 of these have also signed the book: broadside with vignette headed “Liberté ou la Mort”, decree of the Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, provisional government concerning the rental of properties held William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus by the nation, 10 May 1843, following the overthrow of president Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Boyer; Autograph letter from générale de division Antoine Jeanty Iris Murdoch, V.S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, John Julius 27 November 1880, to the secretary of war; Partly printed consular Norwich, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman document, Amsterdam, 16 December 1929, concerning bills and Mailer, and Ian McEwan. (Not signing were Burgess and Eliot, of manifests for a cargo ship. course, Ted Hughes, and Gore Vidal). Published by the Aids Crisis An impressive and representative collection of Haitian leadership Trust to raise money for AIDS victims. from the earliest years of the Republic’s independence through the $2,250 100019 U.S. invasion of 1915. $5,000 57435

62 IRVING, John. The World According to Garp. 8vo, New York: A Henry 59 Robbins Book. E.P. Dutton, [1978]. First edition. Yellow boards, HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine black cloth spine. Very fine copy in fine dust jacket. Beautiful copy of Stories. x, 597 pp. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. the author’s most famous book, made into a movie in 1982. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth in a dust-jacket. Spine slightly faded, $750 266292 endpapers foxed, otherwise fine. Hannemen 16; Grissom A.16.1.a. Includes the short stories originally appearing in In Our Time, Men Without Women, and Winner Take Nothing; and the first printing of the play “The Fifth Column,” written in Spain during the Civil Smoking & Hawking in Persia War. 63 $1,500 267284 (ISLAMIC MINIATURES) Hafiz. [Bound volume containing 22 mounted leaves of Islamic illuminations and miniatures]. Polychrome gouache gilt on paper, trimmed and laid down. Some rubbing to miniatures, occasional areas of loss. 4to, [N.p., Turkey 60 or Persia: n.d.,19th century]. Late nineteenth century red leather HERBERT, Henry William. The Warwick Woodlands, or Things as leporello album, borders ruled in blind. Some flaws at folds of leaves. They Were There, Ten Years Ago. By Frank Forester. [i]-iv, [5]-168 pp. Bookplate of Lewis Einstein. 12mo, Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co, 1845. First edition. Green

13 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair Provenance: from the estate of Lewis Einstein (1877-1967), American when he compiled these logbooks on voyages to the Far East--he diplomat and historian, whose posts included a long residence in inscribed the verso of the front free endpaper “H. Sayce, Naval Cadet Ottoman Turkey at the turn of the twentieth century. Beautiful HMS Leopard”, and his name appears on both the front cover and the selection of leaves from an illuminated manuscript book of Persian back cover. The volume begins “Log of H.M.S. Victory Portsmouth, verse. The illuminations are in a provincial Shirazi style with some 20 Sept. 1862” for nine pages of entries, running through Oct. 25, later retouching) and the calligraphy is accomplished and graceful. 1862. The subsequent entry begins the log of the H.M.S. Leopard, Two leaves are the heavily gilt opening panels of a selections from Oct. 26, 1862. The entries are made at noon and midnight and record Hafiz, with two additional leaves of gilt text illumination. The other wind conditions and summary of activities on the ship, as well as leaves comprise a variety of scenes, including: a seated horseman longitude, latitude, bearing, and distance. Destinations named in the with a hawk at his arm, surrounded by attendants, with wild beasts log include Madeira, St. Paul’s Rock, Rio de Janeirio, Cape of Good in the background; a reclining man smoking a water-pipe; domestic Hope, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Shanghai. and garden scenes of pleasure; a group of pious men gathered at the The logs includes many seafaring adventures--sailors overboard, mihrab or prayer alcove. exotic ports-of-call, and the occasional funeral at sea (marked entries in black borders). In one case Sayce relates an account of a battle $9,500 257123 between the English, Dutch, and French against a Japanese fort at Simonosaki, Sept. 5-6, 1864; several British vessels are mentioned: the Tartar, Argus, and Perseus. A drawing of the coastline and the rendezvous point for the allied forces accompanies this entry. Date 64 range of Vol. 1: Sept. 20, 1862 - Oct. 1, 1864. Volume 2 begins with a watercolor frontispiece of the ship flanked by a geisha and a (JAMAICA) Browne, Patrick. The Civil and Natural History of samurai, emblematic of his Asain travel. Volume 2 commences Oct. Jamaica. Containing 1. An accurate Description of that Island, its 2, 1864 “H.M.S. Leopard at Anchor and Yokohama Bay” and is laid Situation, and Soil; with a brief Account of its former and present State, out like as volume 1, with columns and entries for individual days Government, Revenues, Produce, and Trade. 2. An History of the Natural indicating wind conditions and details of the activity aboard ship. Productions, including the various Sorts of Native Fossils; Perfect and Six maps show a circular route of the ship through Asian waters and Imperfect Vegetables; Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects; with there are additionally ten sketches of horizon views. Other pages their Properties and Uses in Mechanics, Diet, and Physic … There are now include “Anchoring in Nagasaki Harbor”, “Hiogo”, “Port Louis”, added Complete Linnaean Indices and a Large and Accurate Map of the “Madeira”, “St. Helena” and more. Laid in are a watercolor of a Island. 49 copper-engraved plates by George Dionysius Ehret. viii, sailor dated “March 17, 1861” by G. Izac, and a photograph bearing 503, [646, Index] pp. Folio, London: Sold by B. White and Son, 1789. the manuscript caption “June 2 1861 Britannia”, which was Sayce’s Third edition (first edition was 1756). Bound in contemporary diced first ship, recording a large group of cadets aboard ship, no doubt calf, rebacked. Bookplate of Clarence Dillon, Dunwalke Library, and Sayce among them. Date range of Vol. 2: Oct. 2, 1864 - Sept. 28, 1866. with a note that it comes from the Library of Owen D. Young, Esq. Sabin 8671; Nissen BBl 255; Cundal Bibliographia Jamaicensis 416. $7,500 267089 Browne was an Irish physician who lived for several years in the West Indies and settled in Jamaica in 1746. This is his major work, particularly valuable for its contribution to botany. The National Anthem’s First Magazine Appearance $7,500 227355 66 KEY, Francis Scott. “The Defence of Fort McHenry” [later known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”] in The Analectic Magazine of ROYAL NAVY LOGBOOK: A CADET’S ACCOUNT November, 1814. In Volume Four of The Analectic Magazine, July- December, 1814. Engraved general title, and 4 frontispiece portraits 65 for Aug., Sept., Nov. and Dec. issues. 524 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Moses (JAPAN) Sayce, Herbert C. Logbook of the H.M.S. Leopard: Royal Thomas, 1814. The first appearance in magazine or book form of the Naval Journals, China and Japan. Vol. 1: Eight maps, one watercolor “Star-Spangled Banner” (entitled “The Defense of Fort M’Henry”). and six line drawings, 119 leaves; vol. 2: Color frontis., 6 maps, 10 Contemporary sheep with red lettering piece, worn and scuffed. drawings, 117 leaves, laid in photograph and watercolor. 2 vols. Folio, Lacking blank end papers and pp 317-18. Contemporary notes on Sept. 20, 1862 - Sept. 28, 1866. Vol. 1: Bound in Sailcloth over boards pastedowns, and an amateur pen-and-ink caricature of Sir George with marbled endpapers. Cloth soiled with some minor rubbing at Lyttelton. Closed tear across p. 421, with no loss. Contents foxed and corners, but in excellent repair, the lower portion of the text block browned, with some marginal chipping. Pp. 433-4, in which “Fort stained from water only partially fading the text, much of which is M’Henry” appears, are lightly foxed. Three relatively insignificant still legible; vol. 2: quarter leather over cloth stamped in gold on the words cancelled in a contemporary hand (to better fit the meter of front cover, “H.M.S. Leopard / Log Book”. Cloth loose in a few the tune, “To Anacreon in Heaven”?). places, with some soiling and damp staining, bottom edge of the Penned on the occasion of the successful defense of Fort McHenry front board damaged, but a solid volume with only some browning against the British in September, 1814, Key’s lyrics - set to the tune and soiling from life at sea. Very good copies. of an old British drinking song known as “To Anacreon in Heaven” Herbert Sayce (1847-1915) was a naval cadet not quite 15 years old - were initially published as a broadside, only two copies of which james cummins bookseller booth 209 14 have survived. It appeared in newspapers that same month, and was Presentation Copy to Louis Untermeyer first published here in magazine form in November of that year, 69 because, as the editors of the Analectic put it their introduction, the song’s “merit entitles [it] to preservation in some more permanent LOWELL, Robert. Lord Weary’s Castle. 69 pp. 8vo, New York: form than the columns of a daily paper.” Key’ poem was collected Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1946]. First edition of the author’s in two anthologies later in 1814 (THE NATIONAL SONGSTER, and first regularly published book. Black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. THE AMERICAN MUSE), but this is its very first appearance in “a Near fine copy in dust jacket with some light dampstaining; in more permanent form.” Indeed, here’s one copy which has survived black morocco-backed drop box. Provenance: Louis Untermeyer of what ultimately became known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”, (presentation inscription, bookplate). adopted as the official national anthem of the United States in 1931. A An important association copy of the first edition. Presentation copy, landmark piece of American mythmaking. inscribed by Lowell to Louis Untermeyer on the front free endpaper: $1,750 233886 “Louis: from Cal.” Untermeyer nominated the book — Lowell’s first — for the Pulitzer Prize, which it won partly due to Untermeyer’s advocacy. $3,500 225615 67 LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. Raphael. With 10 etched plates by Champolion after drawings by A. Sandoz. 8vo, Philadelphia: Printed Only for Subscribers by George Barrie & Son, [ca. 1900]. Édition 70 Magnifique, Number * of 5 copies printed, identified with one to five MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. asterisks, and with each plate in four states: one in bistre on Japanese Frontispiece portraits to each vol., and 2 portrait plates (Paracelsus etching-paper, remarqué; one on papier-de-Chine, tipped onto a leaf & John Dee) in vol. III. Pp. [iv]-[viii], 400; [vi], 406; [vi], 404. Half title of plate paper; one on India paper, mounted on Japanese vellum; not present in vol. I (retained in vols. II & III). 3 vols. 8vo, London: and one on Dutch handmade paper, in colors. Full cream morocco, Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition. Contemporary half red calf gilt covers with elaborate gilt floral borders, spine gilt with leafy tendrils and marbled boards, marbled edges. Spine a bit dark (joints lightly and green onlays for leaves, brown morocco spine label, gilt dentelles, rubbed), frontispieces lightly foxed, title leaves faintly toned. Very satin endpapers, gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Spine slightly darkened, else a good. Handsome copy. Kress C5560. fine copy in satin-covered slipcase. Attractive first edition of this perennial favorite, on a wide variety With a fore-edge painting showing a detail from the frontispiece of frauds and follies including alchemy, the South Sea bubble, the etching, illustrating Chapter XXI: the boatman, standing in the rear Mississippi scheme, and Tulipomania. of the boat, shades his eyes with one hand as he gazes on the horizon. $1,500 266123 $1,875 267302

71 Clouds Hill Bookplate MARET, Russell. Interstices & Intersections or, An Autodidact 68 Comprehends a Cube. 13 color illustrations. Folio, New York: Russell (LAWRENCE, T.E.) Scott, Geoffrey. Poems. [viii], 45, [1] pp. 8vo, Maret, 2014. First edition, one of seventy-one copies of which this is London: Oxford University Press. Humphrey Milford, 1931. Blue copy 55. Double-sided leperello accordion binding, housed in a cloth- cloth. Spine titled in gilt. Clouds Hill bookplate. Small stain at fore covered clamshell box. Fine. edge of flyleaf and half title, else fine. The book was designed, illustrated, and printed by the author “The literary remains of Geoffrey Scott are so scanty and so precious and printer Russell Maret, including five original typefaces: that no apology is needed” (from the foreword). Scott (1884-1929), Gremolata, Cancellaresca Milanese, Saturn, Saturn Shadow, and architect and author of The Architecture of Humanism (1914) and Texto Portuguez. The text and the images were printed from The Portrait of Zélide (1924), “was a polymath whose interests photopolymer plates on a Vandercook Universal III proof press, extended beyond his success as a biographer, aesthetician, architect, and Daniel Kelm bound and boxed the book at the Wide Awake and editor” (ODNB). He was renowned for his conviviality and Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts. There are three editions: “not only for his witty conversation and erudition but also for his Seventy-five copies, numbered 1-71 and AP 1-AP 4, are printed on temperamental behaviour and his snobbery” (ODNB). His life and mouldmade Zerkall Litho 270gm paper. They are bound in goatskin work was the subject of Richard M. Dunn’s Geoffrey Scott and & UICB handmade paper, and housed in a cloth covered clamshell the Berenson Circle (1998). An unusual volume of poetry from the box. Sixteen copies, numbered I-XIII and AP I-AP III, are printed library of T.E. Lawrence, with the Clouds Hill bookplate. on a specially devised cotton and abaca Twinrocker Handmade Paper made by Travis Becker. They are bound in full leather with $2,000 265814 seven color leather inlays, and accompanied by a second volume of state and progressive proofs of the proposition matching the book’s

15 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair number. Both volumes are housed in a leather and cloth covered 75 clamshell box. One copy, lettered E, is printed, bound, and boxed MELVILLE, Herman. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South in the manner of the above-mentioned sixteen, but, rather than the Seas. Frontispiece chart. xv, [i], [17]-389, [1]; [xv]-xxiii, [i] (ads); 16 second volume, it is accompanied by a complete, unbound set of (ads) pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American state and progressive proofs which are housed in three cloth covered edition. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover clamshell boxes. with gilt vignette of ship, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends $6,800 264791 with closed tear to head of spine, corners worn, light foxing to text throughout. BAL 13656. The first American edition of Melville’s second novel, in the publisher’s cloth binding. 72 $1,250 263731 MELVILLE, Herman. Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor- boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service. xi, [i], [13]-390, [4, ads], 14 [i.e. 12] (ads dated October 1849), 2 (ads) pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, On India Paper 1849. First American edition, second printing (with advertisements extended). Publisher’s blue blindstamped cloth. Light wear to 76 bidning extremities, foxing to text throughout. BAL 13660; Wright MILTON, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton … 120 engravings by Fiction 1866. John Thompson, S. and T. Williams, O. Smith, J. Linton, and others, $1,200 261569 after William Harvey. [iv], lii, 378; viii, 341, [1] pp., printed entirely on INDIA PAPER. 2 vols. London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1843. One of ?2 copies on India paper. Full crimson morocco, gilt, a.e.g., by F. Bedford. With two bookplates, CCK and John Delaware Lewis. Some waterstaining to bottom of margins of vol. II. Lowndes, p. 73 1557. MELVILLE, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four According to Lowndes this is one of only two copies of this William Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. Frontispiece map. xv, Harvey illustrated edition of Milton on India paper. [i], 325 pp., bound without vol. I half-title and vol. II title page. 2 voumes bound in one8vo, New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First $2,000 257913 American edition. Bound in near contemporary quarter brown calf and marbled boards. Light rubbing to binding. Bookplate of Charles Burrall Hoffman and his monogram stamped in gilt to spine. BAL 13653. 77 First American edition of Melville’s first book. [MILTON, John]. Paradise Lost. Title-page with hand-painted title $850 261633 and floral border and hand-calligraphed imprint. Hand-colored engraved portrait of Milton by Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers, and 22 mounted hand-colored photographic plates from engravings by Richard Edmond Flatters, Jules Richomme, et al, each with gilt frame border, calligraphed caption and tissue guard. 4rto, New York: 74 London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co, nd [ca. 1868]. Publisher’s MELVILLE, Herman. [Typee] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence brown morocco, titled in gilt on front cover (“Milton’s Paradise Lost. Among the Native of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Published by London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co.”), a.e.g. Polynesian Life. Map at p. [xvii]. [iii]-xvi, [ii], 285, [1] pp., terminal Extremities rubbed, some sporadic foxing to mounts, images fine. catalogue not present (no priority given by BAL), lacking half-title. An album of 23 finely hand-colored photographs of engravings 8vo, London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, first issue (p. 19, l. illustrating Milton’s Paradise Lost, published by the London 1 reads “Pomarea”). Rebound in contemporary blue cloth, leather Stereoscopic and Photographic Co, the leading 19th-century London label. Spine faded and worn along ends and rear joint. BAL 13652. purveyor of stereoscopic views. The photographed engravings First edition of Melville’s first work. include a portrait of Milton by Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers and scenes illustrating Paradise Lost by Flatters, Richomme and $850 261634 others taken from the Le Paradis Perdu (Paris, 1868), translated by Chateaubriand. We find no copies of this curious production in OCLC or in auction records — it is perhaps a maquette for an unrealized publication. $1,250 265570

james cummins bookseller booth 209 16 78 UNCUT [MOETJENS, Adrian]. Divertissemens Innocens Contenant les Règles du 81 Jeu d’échets, du Billard, de la Paume, du Palle-Mail, et du Trictrac. Frontis. PARK, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under by A. Schoonebeek and title page in red and black, (22), 476, (6) pp. the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, *12 A-X12 (collates complete including the final blank X12). 12mo, La 1796, and 1797 … With an Appendix containing geographical illustrations Haye: chez Adrian Moetjens, 1696. First edition. Contemporary of Africa by Major Rennell. 3 folding engraved maps, colored in outline, calf, spine in gilt. Boards and spine rubbed, joints cracked, but 6 engraved plates, 2 leaves of engraved music. xxviii, 372, [4pp. boards firmly holding, internally fine and overall a very good to near Music]; xcii pp. 4to, London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the fine copy. Racket & Tennis Club Library p. 166.2. Author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, The volume is predominately concerned with the game of chess Pall-Mall, 1799. First edition. Uncut, Bound in period style boards. (p. 1-323) and backgammon (p. 370-476), but also covers billards (p. Some toning and light spotting, some offsetting from portrait onto 324-332), tennis (p. 333-359), palle-mail (p. 360-369), the later being a title leaf. PMM 253; Howgego P21; Cox I pp. 394-95; Hosken p. 154; precursor to golf and croquet, and a game that Louis XIV greatly Ibrahim-Hilmy II 93. preferred over tennis. Includes a four page “Catalogue des livres qui The classic of African exploration. se trouvent chez Adrian Moetjens.” An uncommon title. $3,000 265061 $1,500 267446

The Lexicographer turns his Hand to another Task 82 79 [PARTRIDGE, Eric]. Chronicle. By David Onslow. 225 pp. 8vo, [Paris]: NIN, Anais. The Novel of the Future. [x], 214 pp. 8vo, New York: Privately printed, [1932]. No. 156 of 300 copies printed. Grey boards, Macmillan, 1968. First edition. Publisher’s cloth maroon cloth. printed labels on spine and upper cover. Fine copy, without dust Some shelf rubbing and a few pencil notes from a previous reader, jacket. OCLC: 5347502 (Lilly, attributing authorship to Partridge); but otherwise a near fine copy in dust-jacket, lightly smudged and OCLC: 38262712 as by David Onslow (Lilly, Univ. of Penna., Penn creased. State, Nat’l Library of New Zealand). Inscribed by Nin to her longtime friend and collaborator, Daisy Erotic memoirs of “Wilfrid Manning,” New Zealand-born Aldan: “For Daisy, who created, taught, defended, and represented journalist and novelist, whose novel Darkness was written during poetry in all its forms and manifestations, with love, Anais.” his imprisonment for murder committed while sleepwalking and $850 2 67295 published clandestinely with the help of a friend. Eric Partridge (1894- 1979), New Zealand-born lexicographer, served in the Australian infantry in Egypt, Gallipoli, and on the western front. He studied at Queensland and Oxford and founded Scholartis Press in 1927. His preoccupation with slang and language can be seen in its list and after 80 the firm went bankrupt in 1931, Partridge began to publish books on NORTHUP, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. Wood-engraved lexicology and slang. “Like any modern slang lexicographer, he was frontispiece portrait of the author and 6 wood-engraved plates. [iv, essentially a linguistic voyeur — kneeling at the keyhole to scribble ads], xiv, [17]-336 pp. 8vo, Auburn: Derby and Miller. Buffalo: Derby, down the vocabularies of worlds in which he would take no active Orton and Mulligan. Cincinnati: Henry W. Derby, 1853. First edition. part — but his eyesight was surpassing in its clarity and breadth of Publisher’s embossed brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. vision” (ODNB). Uncommon. Recased, with lower portion of spine replaced, original endpapers $300 266000 and ads preserved, some foxing throughout. Drummond, p. 86. The first edition of Northup’s account of his kidnapping and enslavement. Northup (1808-1863?), a free man living in New York 83 with his family, was promised employment by two con men who PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle drugged and kidnapped him, selling him into slavery in Louisiana. Johnson. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates (of which 12 are in color) His book recounts the remarkable series of events that lead to his on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white eventual freedom and was the source for the Oscar-winning film of throughout the text. xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to, New York: Harper & the same name. “His narrative, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Brothers, 1921. First edition. No. 44 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum Solomon Northup, far more than just a personal memoir, provides stock the first printing from new plates, signed by Merle Johnson on a detailed and fascinating portrait of the people, circumstances, and the limitation page. Cloth spine and boards. Very good copy (light social practices he encountered. His account of the slave market, rubbing to extremities, endsheets toned). Rare. Custom morocco his fellow captives, and how they were all treated is especially vivid” backed folding box. (ANB). $4,000 266028 $4,000 265806

17 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair 84 which he had corrected in his own hand (cf. Halter). All subsequent printed copies incorporate FDR’s changes, making this advance copy ROOSEVELT, Blanche. The Copper Queen: A Romance of To-day and bibliographically significant, as well as rare — only one copy of the Yesterday. [i-vi], [1]-288; [i-iv], [1]-271[-272]; [i-iv], [1]-288 pp. 3 vols. 8vo, address has appeared at auction in the last 30 years. An incredibly London: Ward and Downey, 1886. First edition, with half-titles. important piece of Presidential Americana, marking the start of one Bound in full blue morocco, covers with ruled border in blind, the of the nation’s greatest presidencies and the country’s rise from the author and title lettered in gilt at the center of each upper cover, depths of the Great Depression. spines tooled in gilt and blind, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. by Blunson & Co. Spines lightly toned, near fine. Wolff 5954; $22,500 100809 Not in Sadleir or Wright. Blanche Roosevelt (1853-1898), née Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, descended from the Roosevelt clan (and thus a cousin of both presidents) and the Tuckers of Virginia, was the daughter of a RARE FDR Cruise to the Bahamas, 1941, Inscribed Wisconsin state senator. An acclaimed soprano, she sang with the 86 D’Oyly Carte Opera in London and New York performances of H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance. She retired from the (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) Log of the President’s Inspection Trip and stage and wrote an acclaimed biography of Gustave Doré and several Cruise on Board U.S.S. Potomac, 19 March - 1 April 1941. With frontispiece novels “of To-day” — dealing with Americans in Europe and the group photo of Harry Hopkins, Attorney General Jackson, President musical stage — including Marked “In Haste” (1883), Stage-Struck; Roosevelt, Major General Watson, Secretary Ickes, and Rear Admiral or, She would be an Opera Singer (1884), Hazel Fane (1891), and The McIntire, captioned “Port Everglades, Florida Sunday, 30 March Copper Queen. Beginning in 1884, she was one of Maupassant’s 1941”); [8], 20 pp. Text planographed from typewritten copy. 4to (11 x mistresses, when he was at the height of his literary powers. She 8-1/2 inches), n.p. [Washington D.C.?]: n.d. [1941]. Original stapled died in London in 1898 following a carriage accident in Monte blue wrappers, with crossed fishing poles on upper cover, light Carlo. The Copper Queen begins with a high stakes poker game in sunning at spots to covers, mention of Durno’s name on p. 4 circled a thunderstorm on a westbound Union Pacific train from Chicago, in pen, else fine. Preserved in custom blue morocco-backed folder. introducing Ythan Florestan (who donates his winnings to a hospital Halter, p. 192. at San Francisco), before returning to Chicago, where Wyoming Rare log of the Presidential cruise from Port Everglades to the heiress Enilda Rozen is being educated at the Well-born Seminary, a Bahamas, in 1941. “Having had a desire for some time to get away finishing school. The action ranges from Laramie to London by way from Washington for a few days of restful diversion, including some of the Chicago trading floor, a charming old house on West Tenth hoped for fishing in southern waters. the President had instructed Street in New York City, Ascot, and Covent Garden, with a loyal Captain Callahan, his naval aide, to have the POTOMAC available at and spunky servant girl, English and European aristocrats, an air Port Everglades, Florida, for a projected cruise to the Bahamas ... “ of money and ease against the backdrop of newly-created western INSCRIBED to a reporter on board the cruise, “For George Durno / mineral fortunes — and a scandalous murder trial. Uncommon and from / Franklin D Roosevelt.” From p. 4 of the Log, “Messrs. Durno, finely bound. Reynolds and Cornell had transferred from the train to the BENSON. $2,000 267141 These three were the only gentlemen of the fourth estate who were with the President during the cruise.” Durno, of the International News Service, was a favorite of Roosevelt’s and apparently was used to plant questions at press conferences (Winfield, “FDR and the News Media,” p. 30). FIRST INAUGURAL: “The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself.” $7,500 239269 85 ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States. Delivered at the Capital, Washington, D.C. March 4, 1933. 9 pp. Small 4to (7 x 10; 177.8 x 254 mm), Washington, 87 D.C: Government Printing Office, 1933. Advance copy, printed on large paper. “Only a very few copies of the address were published in ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. Illustrated this format” (Halter). Bound in full blue cloth by the GPO. Signed by Frederic Remington. [iv], 186, [1] pp. Small folio (12 x 9-3/4 inches), on the ffep by Eleanor [Hall] R[oosevelt] Roach (Mrs. George Roach, New York: The Century Co, [1888]. First edition. Pictorial brown daughter of G. Hall Roosevelt). ONLY COPY SEEN IN CLOTH. In a bevelled cloth stamped in brown and gold on upper cover, a.e.g. custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Halter T544. Light wear to spine ends, small bump to edge of lower cover, elese near fine. Dykes 956; Howes R432; Adams, Herd 1951. An advance copy of FDR’s first inaugural address printed on large paper, likely issued just the day before his swearing-in, and intended $2,000 263611 as a reading copy. FDR’s 20-minute speech, delivered on March 4, 1933 and broadcast to the nation over radio, was eagerly awaited by an electorate in the grips of the Great Depression. FDR had intended to read his address from a printed advance copy — at the last minute he changed his mind and instead read from his typescript james cummins bookseller booth 209 18 Signed by Rushdie on the title-page stamped in black and gilt on the front board, blind stamped on the back, with the spine in gilt, patterned endpapers, and a lovely fore- 88 edge painting. Discreet tape repair to front free endpaper, otherwise RUSHDIE, Salman. Midnight’s Children. 446 pp. 8vo, New York: a fine copy. Knopf, 1981. First American edition, preceding the British edition. Two stamps on rear endpaper from the music-publishing business of Publisher’s boards in a dust jacket. Spine slightly faded, small creasing Augener & Co., 86 Newgate Street, London, dated 29.OCT.90 and of the jacket at the head of the spine, and minor rub along on the 10.JUL.90. Large gift label to the front pastedown presenting the back panel. Otherwise a fine copy. volume to Miss A.M. Lee, by the members of the All Saints Choir, An exceptional signed copy of Rushdie’s second novel, considered November 1890. to be his best work. Awarded the Booker Prize in the year of its $950 267319 publication, Midnight’s Children was also awarded the Booker of Booker Prizes in 1993, which honored the best of the original 25 winners of the prize. $725 265689 91 [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. Waverley; or, ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. 2 vols. 8vo, Boston: Wells and Lilly and Bradford and Read, 1815. First American edition, second issue. Original printed boards, uncut. Absolutely “important early works on the North American Indian” untouched. In blue cloth slipcase and chemise. PMM 273; Shaw & 89 Shoemaker 35879 (2 locations); Todd & Bowden 77Rb. SAGARD [THEODAT], Gabriel. Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons, This first of the famous Waverley Novels was published anonymously, situé en l’Amérique vers la Mer douce, és derniers confins de la nouvelle and Scott did not officially acknowledge writing it until the 1820’s. France, dite Canada … Avec un dictionaire de la langue Huronne. [Bound With this novel, Scott virtually invented a new literary form, leaving with:] Dictionaire de la Langue Huronne. Extra engraved title; [22], 380, behind the extreme artificiality of the Gothic novel and rooting [2]; 12, [146], [14] pp. (a8, e8, A-Z8, a-k8). 8vo (6-9/16 x 4-1/4 in.), Paris: his fiction in fact. As PMM summarizes, “Walter Scott became the Chez Denys Moreau, ruë St. Jacques, à la Salamandre s’Argent, creator of the historical novel almost by accident.” The first English 1632. First edition. Modern crushed red morocco by Palomino, in edition of “Waverley” (1814) is known in its original boards in a very blue morocco chemise and marbled slipcase. Sabin 74881 & 74883; small number. The American may even be scarcer. European Americana 632/86; Arents 181; Bell S33; Church 421; Field $5,000 267067 1341 & 1342; Harrisse (Nouvelle France) 52 & 53; JCB II: 243-44; Lande S2012; Pilling, Iroquoian, p.147; Streeter I, 93; Vlach 661; TPL 6305; Greenly, Michigan 10; 100 Michigan Rarities 1. This “work of great interest and importance” (Sabin), an account 92 of Récollet lay-brother Sagard’s missionary work in Huronia, contains the FIRST PRINTED DICTIONARY OF THE HURON SELDEN, John. Mare clausem seu de Dominio Maris Libri Duo. Primo, LANGUAGE and is the primary non-Jesuit source on Huron life and Mare, ex Jure Naturae seu Gentium, omnium hominum non esse Commune, life on the Récollet mission to Canada from 1615 to 1629 (Streeter). sed Dominii privati seu Proprietatis capax, pariter ac Tellurem, esse Sagard was a missionary to the Huron nation from 1623-24, and demonstratur. Secundo, Serenissimum Magnae Britanniae Regem Maris this work is based on his time in Huronia as well as the accounts, circumflui, ut individuae atque perpetuae Imperii Britannici appendicis, documents, and letters of his contemporaries. It is an engaging, Dominum esse, asseritur. With 2 maps in the text and 6 woodcut sympathetic portrayal of Huron life and an exhaustive document of illustrations in text. [26], 304, [14] pp. 4to, London: Will Stansby, for Huron culture. Sagard’s tenure was brief--according to Field he was Richardo Meighen, 1635. First edition. New quarter calf preserving “worn down by the privations and sufferings of a missionary life,” early nineteenth-century boards. Early oval bookplate of James V. though by other accounts he achieved some success in his work--and Campbell. Dampstaining to gutter of title and two prelim leaves, he returned to France to write his GRAND VOYAGE. A work of some old paper repairs to pastedowns, else a very good, clean copy. immense importance and scarcity, rarely found complete and “One Ter Meulen & Diermanse, Ecrits sur Grotius, 55; STC 22175. of the most important early works on the North American Indian” In refutation of Grotius’ plea for open and free seas, Mare liberum, (Church). Selden (1548-1654) argues that the sea might be controlled by one $32,500 100203 nation to the exclusion of others. An English jurist of great erudition, Selden is viewed as the founder of international law in England. A cornerstone of international and maritime law. $2,500 53246 90 SCHUBERT, Franz, and Louis Koehler. Berühmte Klavier. Compositionen von Franz Schubert, mit Fingersatz verschen von Louis Koehler. Folio, Leipzig: C.F. Peters, [1890]. Publisher’s red cloth

19 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair 93 by James Shirley” (ESTC). The Arden edition traces its origins to the lost play The History of Cardenio based on an episode in volume SELENUS, Gustavus [pseud. of Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick- 1 of Cervantes’s Don Quixote written c. 1611/12 and performed in Luneburg]. Das Schach-oder Koenig-Spiel. Von Gustavo Seleno. 5 parts the events surrounding the death of Prince Henry of Wales and in one, with general engraved title and engraved title to each part, the marriage of his sister Princess Elizabeth to Frederick V, Count letterpress folding table, 3 engraved folding plates (one split at fold), Palatine of The Rhine. The Royal Licence (printed on the verso of numerous engraved illustrations in the text. [xii], 495, [3] pp. Collation: the half-title) granting Theobald rights to the play for 14 years claims ()4, ):(4, (?)4, A4-3H4, 3I6, 3K4-3Q4. 4to, Leipzig: [Lorentz Kober … that he had “at considerable expense purchased the manuscript copy Henning Grosz], 1616. First edition. Later, 18th century, vellum, of an original play of William Shakespeare”. Theobald realised that remnants of ties. Some staining and wear to covers, text browned he did not possess Shakespeare‘s original autograph manuscript but throughout, small dampstain to fore-margin of first few leaves, old rather, as he explained in the preface, three later copies, the oldest of paper repair to margin of general title, 2 preliminary leaves on stubs, which was about 60 years old and he believed to be by John Downes faded contemporary inscription at head of title. In custom burgundy (d. ?1712), a comedian, prompter and theatre historian. Hammond cloth clamshell box. Van der Linde I, 350; Niemeijeriana 364; Schmid believes that Theobald owned a Restoration adaptation of a earlier 118; Brunet V, 270. play, such as William Davenant’s The Rivals , an adaptation of The An important early book on chess, the first book of its kind in Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, which he in German, and still an important source for the history of the game turn then extensively revised himself. Thus the play as published in and for several of its derivatives. “This work is a translation of Tarsia’s 1728 is “a palimpsest that contains elements dating back to c. 1611-12, Italian version of Ruy Lopez, but the Duke has made large additions elements dating to the mid-1660s, and elements first introduced in of an historical character, which make his book of value.” (Murray, A the mid-to-late 1720s” (p. 55). In the first issue of Double Falshood HIstory of Chess, p. 852). Inscribed by the author (as Augusts) on the Theobald makes little attempt to justify his claim on the title-page that verso of the title-page, dated Lunaeburgo, 6 February 1617. he has “revised and adapted” a play solely written by Shakespeare. In a “second edition”, actually a second issue, some two months after $11,250 267277 the first, Theobald revised the preface to note the suggestion of some that “the colouring, diction and characters come nearer to the style of Fletcher”, a claim he believes “is far from deserving any answer. I submit it to the determination of better judgements.” It is indeed With the half title explaining the play’s origins this view that is proposed by Hammond in the Arden edition: “My view, ... is that Theobald did have a literary property that he at first 94 considered to be a play composed solely by Shakespeare, but that he SHAKESPEARE, William, John Fletcher, and Lewis Theobald. lost faith in it very soon after it was published, because he came to be Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers. A Play, as it is Acted at the convinced that it was, after all, far more likely to be a Shakespeare- Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Written Originally by W. Shakespeare; Fletcher collaboration than pure Shakespeare.” (p. 75/6). As and now Revised and Adapted to the State by Mr. Theobald, the Author Hammond states, this is the ground for his “own editorial conviction of Shakespeare Restor’d. [16], 64 pp. 8vo, London: J. Watts, at the that Double Falsehood is a further redaction [by Theobald] of an Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincolns-Inn Fields, 1728. First adaptation made in the Restoration of a collaborative play called edition. Disbound from a large volume, partial remains of a calf The History of Cardenio by Shakespeare and Fletcher.” (p. 96). spine. Half-title and verso of final leaf a little dusty and with some Copies of this first issue of Double Falshood are fairly common very light staining, half-title a little creased first two leaves slightly in institutional libraries, the second issue is notably scarcer as is coming away from the rest of the block in the upper margin but still the 1728 Dublin reprint of the second issue and there were further very firmly attached and the final leaf coming away slightly near the reprints in London (1767) and Dublin (1769). The Arden edition is lower inner margin, a little closely shaved near the beginning (just the first to be thoroughly edited, addressing the various questions touching a headpiece and a couple of running-titles), evenly browned raised by the state of the text, by documentary evidence bearing on throughout. An excellent copy in a clamshell box. Provenance: A the issue of authorship and by recent scholarship in the field. The very old faint pencil cost code of five shillings – possibly a bookseller’s commentary represents a full attempt to assess the range and scale code- on the verso of the final leaf. of Shakepearean and Fletcherian allusion, as well as to gloss lexical and other difficulties.” (pp. 147-8). In conclusion, Double Falshood A play newly attributed to Shakespeare: long believed to be a forgery can no longer be ignored by Shakespeare scholars and collectors. by Lewis Theobald once rejected by Alexander Pope and questioned ABPC records only two copies of Double Falshood, neither of which by Edmond Malone. The play has now been traced back to the lost is attributed to Shakespeare, at Swann auctions in October 1983 (lot play The History of Cardenio and – since 2010 – said to have been 298, $175) and Bloomsbury October 1994 (lot 156, $177). A copy was written, probably in collaboration, by Shakespeare. In 2010 Brean sold by Maggs in 1993 very few copies have appeared on the market Hammond edited Double Falshood for The Arden Shakespeare since the Arden attribution. establishing it for the first time as part of Shakespeare‘s canon. The play has long been shrouded in mystery and thought to be a forgery $5,750 267407 by Lewis Theobald (1688-1744), a lawyer, miscellaneous writer, translator and literary editor (as insinuated by Alexander Pope in 1729) or, as Edmond Malone believed later in the 18th century, an attempt by Theobald “to pass off a play, possibly by Philip Massinger, as Shakespeare’s” (Hammond, p. 323) or “probably written originally james cummins bookseller booth 209 20 Inscribed to Dean Inge of St. Pauls Soane’s Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings with 47 Plates 95 98 SHAW, George Bernard. Everybody’s Political What’s What. SOANE, John. Plans, Elevations and Sections of Buildings Executed in Frontispiece portrait of Shaw. 8vo, London: Constable, [1944]. First the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, edition. Publisher’s rose cloth. Near fine in chipped dust-jacket with Hertfordshire et caetera. With 47 engraved plates. [viii], 11, [1], [32] pp. loss to head of spine. Laurence A246. Folio, London: Messrs. Taylor, 1788. First edition of Soane’s second book. Bound in modern half crushed tan morocco, with elaborately Inscribed, pre-publication, on the half title, “to Catharine & Ralph gilt spine, some occassional light spotting, still a very handsome Inge, G. Bernard Shaw. Ayot Saint Lawrence. 3rd September 1944,” copy. Harris 842; BAL Early Printed Books 3098. with a postscript, “Dear Catharine, You will see by the index that I could not keep Ralph out of it. G.B.S.” Wiliam Ralph Inge (1860-1954) Soane (1753-1837) was an architect working in the neo-Classical style was an Anglican priest, author, and Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. who is best-known today for his work on the Bank of England. His name appears three times in the index to Everybody’s Political He developed an idiosyncratic, poetic, and pared-down style What’s What? and is quoted in reference to his views on education — subsequently dubbed protomodernist — that has remained and music. Inge has tipped in a note on the title-page, which reads influential into the 20th century. “Plans” is his second book and “This volume I lent to the Exhibition of G.B.S.’s 90th Birthday … features 47 plates with designs for 18 buildings. July 26, 1946.” With additional inscriptions and notes, including $7,500 100571 a tipped-in card, printed “With Bernard [crossed out and replaced with “old”] Shaw’s compliments …” followed by an autograph note, “This Unintelligent Man’s Guide would be reviewed by W.R.I. and Bertrand Russell if editors had any flair for the right man. It will not be published until the 15th. 3rd Sept. 1944”; two reproductions Original Drawings for Till Death Do Us Part of photographic portraits by Karsh, annotated on the versos, “H.G. 99 Wells writes ‘your wicked old face is a triumph of photographic artistry.’ So I send you a more saintly version,” and “This is Saint STEIG, William. Collection of finished drawings for Till Death Do Bernard of Argot Saint Lawrence,” both cards tipped-in; one Us Part. 53 pen-and-ink drawings, all but one mounted on color paper additional tipped-in compliments card with an autograph note, and signed (“Wm. Steig”), captioned on the mount, some docketting “I believe W.R.I. could obtain a personal allowance of paper to in pencil, one image inscribed “William Steig, RD 2, Cream Ridge, supplement his publisher’s and printer’s quote. My printers get one NJ” on verso of mount. Images approx. 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 in , [Cream for me. They have printed 85,000 copies already ordered by the too Ridge, NJ]: ca. 1947. Damge to a few mounts, generally near fine. sanguine booksellers. 10/9/1944.” A collection of 53 original drawings to Steig’s look at the life cycle of $2,750 266714 a marriage, from first encounter to divorce and old age. $17,500 265011

One of 3 Copies on Vellum — Buxton Forman’s Copy 96 Steinbeck to Harold Guinzburg of The Viking Press SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion … A Type Fac-Simile Reprint 100 of the Original Edition First Published in 1821. With an Introduction by STEINBECK, John. Autograph Letter, signed (“John”), to Harold the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke and a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Guinzburg. Pen and blue ink on yellow legal paper. 11 x 8 in, Jan 9, Edited by Robert Alfred Potts. lxvi, 31, [3] pp. 8vo, London: For the [19]57. Faint crease from prior folding. Shelley Society, 1887. One of 3 copies printed on vellum. Original boards. Fine. With the bookplate of H. Buxton-Forman, President Steinbeck writes to Harold Guinzburg, President and co-founder of the Shelley Society (which published the book). Graniss, pp. 66-67. of The Viking Press, and a close friend, concerning his projected retelling of the Authurian legends and galleys of his recent work, $3,000 4014 The Short Reign of Pipin IV. Reading in part, “Out here doing a lot of reading, sustained and directional reading for the Malory job. It’s a lonely experience. Almost impossible to do in town with my so easily interruptable [sic] mind. “Just finished signing galleys for booksellers 97 on whom I have used worse than a ‘soft sell.’ It is my own invention and I think I will call it the ‘no sell.’ While I am on the subject, don’t SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. [Works] The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe you think it would be nice if you sent a set of galleys to George Shelley, Newly Edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck. 10 vols. 8vo Stacey? He very courteously gave me permission to use his chateau (9-3/8 x 6-1/8 inches), London: Published For The Julian Editions … he was dying to see what use I had made of it …” The “Malory by Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927. One of 780 sets. Bound in three quarters job” was left unfinished at Steinbeck’s death and was published as The purple morocco, t.e.g. Fine. Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights in 1976. Steinbeck had a $4,500 264922 long relationship with Guinzburg and Viking, who first published

21 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair his 1938 novel The Long Valley followed by the best-selling Grapes 102 of Wrath in 1939. Guinzburg hosted Steinbeck’s second wedding, to no item Elaine Anderson. With a typed note giving the chain of provenance from Guinzburg to Morton L. Levin, Vice President of Viking Press, and a first day issue of the 15 cent Steinbeck stamp, Salinas, CA, Feb. Walden in the Original Cloth 27, 1979. 103 $1,750 267667 THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Illustrated with a title vignette of Thoreau’s cabin in the woods and a engraved With Contemporary Illumination and Marginalia plan of Walden Pond. 357, [1, blank] pp. 12mo (7-1/4 x 4-3/8 inches), Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Original brown 101 vertical ribbed cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind THEOCRITUS. [Idyllia] [and other texts]. Title in Greek and Roman, and spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated introduction by Aldus in Latin;, text entirely in Greek. Woodcut endpapers, with 8-page publisher’s advertisements dated April 1854 decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces, ILLUMINATED bound in between rear endpapers (no priority established among THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. [140] the catalogues), some wear to spine extremities and corners, gilt leaves. Folio, (315 x 210 mm.), [Venice: Aldus Manutius, February on spine very slightly darkened, bookplate on front pastedown, a 1495/96]. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of few small ink marks on Contents page, upper corner of text mildly Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first dampstained throughout, some intermittent light soiling in text, edition of HESIOD’S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; small portion of lower corner of pp. 117-8 missing, overall, a very and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated good copy, housed in green cloth clamshell case. Allen, pp. 8-10; below); and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Bound Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier, American 63. in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with Nice unsophisticated copy. citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge, extensive neatly penned $12,000 222962 marginalia in Greek and Latin, in two different hands; gilt edges, gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus, Scotland. Renouard, page 5(3); New UCLA 7; Hoffmann III, 473-74; HC 15477*; 104 BMC V, 554-55; Goff T144; ISTC it00144000. TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace: An Historical Novel … Translated into First Aldine and first complete edition of the Idylls of Theocritus, French by a Russian Lady and from the French by Clara Bell … 6 vols. of which 12 appear here for the first time, also including the first 8vo, New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886-1887. Second American edition in the original Greek of Hesiod’s Theogony and Shield of edition of vols. I-II, first editions of vols. III-VI. Publisher’s brown Hercules and the elegies of Theognis, as well as the second edition cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Light wear to spine ends and tips, Hesiod’s Works and Days, which were first printed in Milan circa faint dampstain to outer top corner of Tilsit vols., only visible at 1480. This is the first setting of gatherings [zeta].F and [theta].G, textblock edge, text otherwise clean. Bookplate. with the text uncorrected. Not only is this copy beautifully colored in a contemporary hand (none such appear in ABPC for the last This translation by Clara Bell is the first appearance of Tolstoy’s 35 years, and we are unable to find any primarily to institutional great novel in the United States; the London edition had omitted all copies with coloring), but the copy is notable as well for profuse, the philosophical passages and the second epilogue — here restored neat contemporary marginalia, mostly in Latin, but often in Greek, for the American edition. [With:] Additional copy of The Invasion. 2 which fill the book. The marginal annotations are particularly vols. 1886. With Porcellian Library bookplates. extensive in the first two Idylls, where, typically underscored words $3,000 264626 are explained in the margins; occasionally, an interlinear Latin word is provided beneath the Greek in an even smaller, but always clear, hand. The notes themselves are mostly philological in scope, with notations on unusual Doric (Theocritus’s dialect) forms (e.g., the Doric preposition form for the preposition ‘πpòs’ being ‘πotì’, the WITH EROTIC DRAWING identification of parts of speech, and grammatical forms, poetic 105 usage, etc. Especially notable, too, are frequent comparisons and cross references to passages from Vergil’s Eclogues. In the famous Idyll 2 VERLAINE, Paul. Oeuvres libres. Les Amies. - Femmes. - Hombres. (“Pharmaceutria”), where a spurned maiden utters incantations to Original erotic watercolor drawing (folding) at p. 81. 134, [4] pp. 8vo, bring her man back home, there now seem to be two distinct hands, A. Eleuthéropolis [but Paris?]: 19… {i.e., ca. 1914]. One of 250 copies, and the notes are particularly frequent and copious. The first note this being no. 155. Printed paper wrappers, untrimmed. Tail of spine reads: “Unde sumpta est Verg. Pharmaceutria” [whence Vergil got panelchipped, covers dusty, internally near fine. Not in Pia or Private his Pharmaceutria] A beautiful copy of a rare and important book, Case. with fascinating early annotations. Containing the famous “Sonnet du Trou du Cul” (Verlaine and $65,000 259147 Rimbaud). Although this edition does not appear in Pia’s “Les Livres james cummins bookseller booth 209 22 de l‘Enfer du XVIeme siecle a nos jours” it is related to Pia 967, and the 109 first section bears the following false imprint: “Les Amies : sonnets WEBSTER, John. A Monumental Columne, Erected to the living Memory / par le licencié Pablo de Herlagnez. Ségovie, 1868.” The limitation of the ever-glorious Henry, late Prince of Wales. Virgil Ostendent terris hunc statement notes that “cette édition a été tirée à deux cent cinquante tantum fata… By Iohn Webster. A-C4, lacking C3 and C4, mourning exemplaires pour les souscripteurs et non mise dans le commerce.” leaves printed in solid black recto and verso; [20] pp. 4to, London: A contemporary originial drawing of a couple at the moment of Printed by N. O[kes] for William Welby, dwelling in Pauls Church- embrace unfolds in the oversize margin at page 81 (7 x 6-1/2 inches). yard at the signe of the Swan, 1613. First edition. Blue morocco An uncommon edition, provocatively extra-illustrated. by Mathews. Inscribed on ffep Richard Grant White with the best $965 266051 wishes of R[ichard] H[enry] Stoddard. A1 (mourning leaf, printed in solid black recto and verso) bound between leaves A3 and A4; C1 with some repair to the lower corner, C2 (text recto; mourning verso) with small inlay and repair to lower corner. STC (2nd ed.), 25174; ESTC S101831; Grolier III, no 888. ONE OF 26 COPIES Webster’s elegy for Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales, the 106 eldest son of James I, who died in November 1612. The tribute (WALTON, Izaak) Coigney, Rodolphe. A Bibliography of Izaak was simultaneously issued as the second part of “Three elegies on Walton. Illustrated. xix, [1], 434 pp. 8vo, New York: James Cummins the most lamented death of Prince Henrie,” with contributions by Bookseller, 1989. Copy “F” of 26 copies, with leaf from the 1653 Thomas Heywood and Cyril Tourneur (STC 24151). One of Webster’s first edition of The Compleat Angler tipped in. Signed by Rodolphe earliest published works and only the second work published entirely Coigney. Bound in original full pebbled red morocco. Very fine in under his name (preceded by his first tragedy, The White Devil in open-faced matching cloth slipcase. 1612). The book is inscribed by the American poet and critic Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) to Richard Grant White (1822-1885), an $2,250 249366 acute student of Shakespeare’s works, and a well-recognized scholar. White edited two editions of Shakespeare’s works and wrote several critical studies. Our copy appeared as lot 1625 in the Bangs, Merwin & Co. sale, “Catalogue of a collection of books … forming the One of 33 copies library of Richard Grant White: to be sold by auction ... on the 24th 107 of October, and following evenings … 1870.” (WALTONIANA) Rules and Regulations of Walton and Cotton Club; $7,500 266713 Instituted 19th March 1817. Revised 8th April 1840. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Decorative borders printed in red, historiated initial letters. [24] pp. 12mo, London: Privately Printed by [C. Whittingham, Printer for William Pickering], 1840. First Edition. One of only 33 copies. Red Inscribed by Welty morocco-backed boards. Owner signature of J.W. Rivington Wilson. Bates bookplate. Some external wear, loose in binding, internally 110 very good. Westwood & Satchell, pp. 180; Coigney, p. 402; Keynes 95. WELTY, Eudora. One Time, One Place: a Mississippi Album. The Joseph Bates copy, from his sale lot 231. With his bookplate. Photographs by Eudora Welty, xiv, 114 pp. 4to, New York: Random House, 1971. Later printing of the first edition. Publisher’s cloth $3,000 37897 with illustration in black, representing the photographic image on the dust jacket. Fine. Polk A18.1a. Provenance: John Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. An album of black and white photographs taken by Miss Welty Rare and Important Early Baseball Book when she was working at her first job for the WPA. Presentation 108 copy, inscribed by Welty to her editor: “For John (Ferrone), With the wish that the reproductions were better — but anyway with love, WARD, John Montgomery. Base-Ball: How to Become a Player; With the from Eudora 1985.” Origin, History, and Expansion of the Game. Frontispiece portrait. viii, [9]-149 pp. 12mo, Philadelphia: The Athletic Publishing Company $400 266422 No. 1124 Arch Street, 1888. First edition. Original tan cloth, stamped in gold and black. Fine. With contemporary inscription “Beverley & Sherman Robinson Newport August-1888”; in brown morocco- backed drop box. Smith 7017 (dated 1889). Signed by the author and the illustrator Smith, “Booklet of history and technique by a noted player and 111 force behind the formation of ‘The Brotherhood.’ “ He was the first President of the Brotherhood of Professional Base ball Players which WELTY, Eudora. Morgana, Two Stories from ‘The Golden Apples.’ 19 was the first players’ Union. illustrations within the text, viii, 152 pp. 4to, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, [1988]. First edition. Publisher’s $7,500 63024

23 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair cloth backed boards in a dust jacket illustrated by Mildred Nungester to bibliographer Noel Polk (p. 190), this is one of 20 copies designated Wolfe. Provenance: John Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. as a printer’s “presentation copy” on the colophon. Elegantly printed by Pat Reagh. Presentation copy, from Welty: “Dear John (Ferrone), I wanted you to have one of these for the house, and I hope you’ll like the drawings, $350 266436 as I do — with love, Eudora, Thanksgiving, 1988.” The drawings are by the renowned Mississippi artist Mildred Nungester Wolfe whose portrait of Welty hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. $300 266423 Limited edition signed by Welty 115 WELTY, Eudora. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. xvi, 622 pp. 8vo, New York: Random House, [1980]. Limited Autograph edition, one 112 of 500 copies signed by the author, this being number 90. Original WELTY, Eudora. Bye-Bye Brevoort. 20 pp. 8vo, Jackson, Mississippi: burgundy cloth and red endpapers. Fine in near fine publisher’s Published for the New Stage Theatre, [1980]. Marbled boards. Fine. slipcase with printed paper label. Polk A27:2C. Provenance: John Provenance: John Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. Presented to the author’s editor, John Ferrone, “Dear John, A bit of Welty’s Collected Stories appeared on the New York Times best seller frivolity out of my New York days to say Merry Christmas to you, list for six weeks in 1981, and she wrote her editor, John Ferrone: “I’m Eudora, December 5, 1980.” sure we both felt how good but how amazing it was! And even if the book just stays for 15 minutes, the Best Seller list is a nice place to $400 266433 visit, isn’t it?” (January 24, 1981). $500 266438

Artist’s Proof with a presentation drawing from the illustrator 113 Harvard’s first entry on the New York Times Best Seller List WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. Designed and illustrated by 116 Barry Moser. [viii], 135 pp. 8vo, West Hatfield, Mass: Pennyroyal Press, 1987. An artist’s proof A/P, signed by the author and the WELTY, Eudora. One Writer’s Beginnings. Illustrations. [xii], 104 pp. illustrator, from an edition of 150 copies. Full red morocco with a 8vo, Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1984. Frist blind stamped border, and a Moser drawing stamped in black to the edition. Publisher’s cloth in a very nearly fine dust jacket. Polk A31:1. upper board, spine with gilt author and title. Fine. Provenance: John Provenance: John Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. Inscribed by Welty to her editor, “For John [Ferrone], with love, A flawless copy of the Pennyroyal Press edition of Welty’s first novel Eudora. February 1984.” and her second book with 28 woodcuts by Moser. Presentation $250 266455 inscription to Welty’s editor John Ferrone and an original drawing of a crow’s head by Barry Moser similar in nature to those that illustrate the book. Laid in is List X, Christmas 1988, sales brochure from Lemuria Book Store, Jackson, Miss., advertising the book for sale. 117 $800 266435 WELTY, Eudora. “My Introduction to Katherine Anne Porter,” an offprint from theGeorgia Review, vol. 44, nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1990). 16 pp. 8vo, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia, 1990. Limited edition of 150 copies, this being copy 150. In wrappers with a slight curve to the lower corner of the front cover, otherwise fine. Double presentation copy Provenance: John Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. 114 Inscribed by Welty to her editor John Ferrone, “For John, As ever, WELTY, Eudora. Acrobats in a Park. [10], 13, [2] pp. 8vo, Northridge, with love, and in the pleasure of a visit to the farm on Halloween California: Lord John Press, 1980. “This is a presentation copy”, from 1990, Eudora.” the colophon, signed by the author. Full green cloth with decorative $325 266456 stamping on front board and green marbled endpapers. Fine. Polk A26:1c. Provenance: John Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. Short story written in 1935 and first published in 1977. Presented by the author to her editor: “Dear John [Ferrone], / This is a reject making a late bow in / fine clothes -- / but with my best, Eudora”. According james cummins bookseller booth 209 24 118 121 WELTY, Eudora. The First Story. Frontis., 44, [4] pp. 8vo, Jackson, [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. Tinted frontispiece portrait Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1999. One of 500 copies after Hine by Schoff (BAL state 1). iv, 456 pp. 8vo, Boston: Thayer of the limited edition, this being copy 9. Publisher’s cloth in a fine & Eldridge, 1860-61. Third edition, first printing. Publisher’s orange dust jacket illustrated with a photograph by Welty. Provenance: John pebbled cloth, bevelled covers, covers stamped in blind with title and Ferrone, Welty’s longtime editor. illustrations of earth and clouds and sunset, spine stamped in gilt with title and butterfly alighting on a hand (BAL binding B). Some Contains Welty’s essay from the Georgia Review (Winter 1979), light rubbing and soiling to covers, heavy offsetting at gutter to pp. “Looking Back at the First Story,” and the story, “Death of a 404-5, a handsome copy. BAL 21397; Myerson A2.3.a1. Traveling Salesman” from Welty’s first book. This copy inscribed by the author to her editor, “For John Ferrone, with all best wishes, The first printing of the third edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Eudora Welty. May 20, 1999.” Includes a commemorative bookmark — BAL records four distinct printings of this edition. for Welty’s 90th birthday, which the volume celebrates. $1,500 267231 $250 266457

The Glory of the English Bow 119 122 WESSELLS, Henry. The Private Life of Books. Photographs by WOOD, William. The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an Paul Schütze. With eight tipped-in duotone photographs. [24] pp. account of the many signal favours vouchsafed to Archers and Archery by Designed by Jerry Kelly. Text printed on Mohawk Via Vellum Jute. 7 those renowned monarchs, King Henry VIII. James, and Charles I. As by x 10 in., [Upper Montclair, N.J.]: Temporary Culture, 2014. One of their several gracious Commissions here recited may appear. With a brief 200 copies (edition of 226 copies). Hand sewn in black card covers. account of the Manner of the Archers marching on several days of Solemnity. As new in pictorial dust jacket with duotone photos. [xvi], 78, [2] pp. A-F8. 2 parts in one volume, with second title page Six poems by Henry Wessells on reading, memory, books, and the to second part (continuously paginated): “A Remembrance of the second law of thermodynamics. Photographs by Paul Schütze. Worthy Shooting by the Duke of Shoreditch and His Associates the Worshipful Citizens of London upon Tuesday the 17th of September, $150 267076 1583, by W.M.”. 12mo, London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. Period black morocco, boards with gilt fillet borders and central panel formed of a double rule and roll-tool of flowers, cornerpieces “I celebrate myself …” the Second Edition of Leaves of Grass of gilt flowers, richly gilt spine with floral motifs, board edges gilt, a.e.g. Title page with paper repair in gutter. Wing W3416; Lake & 120 Wright p. 318. [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. Frontispiece portrait. [1] One of the more important archery books of the period after f. (blank), pp. [i]-iv, [5]-384, [1, advertisement (verso blank)], [1] f. Ascham’s TOXOPHILUS (1545), written by Wood who was (blank). 12mo, Brooklyn, New York: [Fowler and Wells], 1856. “Marshall to the Regiment of Archers.” It is dedicated to Charles Second edition, with an additional 20 poems not published in 1855 II and begins with a poem “In Praise of Archery,” followed by the edition. Original green cloth, spine stamped with leafy title and the royal patents granting rights to archers - printed in black letter here. celebrated Emerson quote in gilt, upper board titled in gilt within After the description of the 1583 tournament, there follows “A Brief ornamental border in blind, lower board in blind. Fine, fresh copy, Relation of the Several Appearances of Archers since His Majesties with just a few minute spots of rubbing at corners. In a custom green Restauration.” Wood was for many years Marshal of the Finsbury half morocco clamshell box. Wells & Goldsmith, pp. 5-6; BAL 21396; Archers. He died on September 4, 1691, and at his burial three flights Myerson A2.2. Provenance: John Stuart Groves (his morocco book of whistling arrows, archer’s honors, were discharged over his grave. label). $4,000 239705 A fine copy of the second edition of Leaves of Grass. As wellas the additional poems, Whitman has included a final section of Correspondence and Review, called “Leaves-Droppings,” beginning with the famous letter from Emerson containing the salutation “I greet you at the beginning of a great career ...” which Whitman Early Work by Zagar had rather boldly stamped on the spine of the original binding. 123 The Christian Examiner of November, 1856 was not amused, and wrote: “... Thus the honored name of Emerson, which has never ZAGAR, Isaiah. Hey! Diddle Diddle. Artist book in folding concertina before been associated with anything save refinement and delicacy format: double-page manuscript coloured title; 5 double-page in speech and writing, is made to indorse a work that teems with manuscript coloured text openings each with a colored etching abominations.” accompanying text. Oblong folio, [Brooklyn]: ‘Zagar Press’, [1960]. One of 4 copies, signed and dated “I. Zagar 1960” on last leaf. $30,000 265831

25 2014 boston international antiquarian book fair Original decorated cloth over boards, endpapers with decorated crayon images of fish, trees etc. Fine. Not in OCLC. Exceedingly rare early work by Isaiah Zagar (b. 1939), visionary vernacular artist, who is most widely known for his mosaic installation, the Magic Gardens site on South Street in Philadelphia. One of four copies of illustrations to the familiar nursery rhyme, a work produced while the artist studied under Fritz Eichenberg at Pratt. Visual elements expressed during his later career can be discerned here at the outset. From the artist’s mission statement : “It is true to a certain extent; I have been copying Clarence [Schmidt] my whole career, trying to make a total encyclopedic vision that has no parameters and no end. My work is marked by events and is a mirror of the mind that is building and falling apart, having a logic but close to chaos, refusing to stay still for the camera, and giving one a sense of heaven and hell simultaneously.” RARE. $7,500 265014

First Printing, Colored & Signed by the Artist 124 ZILLE, Heinrich. Die Landpartie. Aus meiner Jungszeit. 8 lithographic plates (containing 11 images and handwritten text), printed rectos only, colored by the artist. Manuscript statement of limitation on verso of title leaf. Folio, [Berlin: H Birkholz Druck-Werkstätte, 1920]. First edition, no. 92 of 100 numbered copies, signed in ink by the artist: “Dieses Exemplar hat die Nummer 92 und is von mir koloriert, H. Zille”. Drab wrappers, stitched. Some toning of paper stock, small marginal flaws, otherwise clean and fresh. Near fine. Oschilewski 12; Rosenbach, 109-116b (noting this copy). Provenance: Hauswedell Auktion 58 (1954), lot 2630; American private collection. Heinrich Zille (1858-1929), known as the Raffael der Hinterhöfe (the Rafael of the back tenements), was an enormously popular German artist whose work chronicling Berlin life was most commonly reproduced for mass distribution in periodicals. He was a member of the Berlin Secession and a friend of Max Liebermann, Kathe Kollwitz, and Hans Baluschek. Zille also produced a few series of erotic drawings for limited, private circulation, including Zwanglose Geschichten und Bilder (Gurlitt, 1919), Die Landpartie (1920) and Hurengespräche (privately printed in 1921 under the pseudonym W. Pfeifer, with a false date of 1913). Zille was prosecuted for obscenity for his 1925 lithograph Modellpause in the periodical Simplicissimus, (depicting 8 models in various stages of undress). Die Landpartie, “a little humoresque”, produced by ZIlle himself, demonstrates his eye for ordinary life and his erotic flair. Rosenbach identifies two issues in the first edition of 100 copies, issue A on white Werkdruckpapier, with lithographic limitation statement on the verso of the first leaf and a ruled square for numbering; and issue B (as here), on yellowish laid paper stock (auf gelblichem, geripptem Bütten), with a different formulation of the limitation statement, entirely in the artist’s hand. Rosenbach states that copies of issue A numbered higher than 58 are not known (with one exception, a copy of issue B numbered 20); other known copies of issue B are numbered 78 to 99. The present copy was sold at auction in 1954 and is noted by Rosenbach; since then it has been in an American private collection. Rare and unusual. $5,000 266107

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