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1 Carroll GRAHAM Border Town. : Vanguard Press 1934.

First edition. Very modest wear on boards, near fine in very good or better dustwrapper. Nice lurid (unsigned) jacket art. The publisher liked the jacket enough to reproduce it on glossy paper for use as the front fly, something we’ve only seen once before, on the titleKings Back to Back (by the same author). Murder becomes the leading citizen in a sleazy border town. Basis for the 1935 filmBordertown directed by Archie Mayo, and featuring and . By the co- author of Queer People, one of the quintessential Hollywood novels. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. [BTC #374859]

2 Mr. & Mrs. HALDEMAN- JULIUS Dust. New York: Brentano’s (1921).

First edition. Edges of the boards a little sunned else fine in attractive, very good dustwrapper with some shallow chipping at the upper extremities and an internally repaired tear along the rear flap. A novel of drought and suffering in the Midwest. The Haldeman-Juliuses were publishers and occasional authors of the “Little Blue Books” – small stapled pamphlets, mostly on progressive social and political themes. The jacket on this book is impossibly fragile, and rarely survived. [BTC #36735]

3 (Victor VASARELY) Az Athenaeum Almanachja 1930 [The Athenaeum Almanac 1930]. Budapest: Athenaeum 1930.

First edition. Small octavo. Text in Hungarian. Wrappers illustrated with a snowman by the Hungarian born Victor Vasarely (signed in print as “Vásárhelyi”). Nominal wear, about fine. A very early image by Vasarely, he left Hungary for Paris that same year, just after leaving Sándor Bortnyik’s workshop, then widely recognized as the center of Bauhaus studies in Budapest. Very scarce. [BTC #382576] Between the Covers Catalog 183 New Arrivals 112 Nicholson Rd. (856) 456-8008 Gloucester City, NJ 08030 [email protected] Terms of Sale: Images are not to scale. Dimensions of items, including artwork, are given width first. All items are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Orders may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. All items subject to prior sale. Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept checks, VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER, and PayPal. Gift certificates available. Domestic orders from this catalog will be shipped gratis for orders of $200 or more via UPS Ground or USPS Priority Mail; expedited and overseas orders will be sent at cost. All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Member ABAA, ILAB. Artwork by Tom Bloom. © 2013 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. www.betweenthecovers.com

Inscribed by Kiki of Montparnasse 4 Conrad AIKEN John Deth and Other Poems. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1930.

First edition. Bookplate of Georges Carousso with his ownership signature, boards soiled, a good plus copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the Jazz Age artist, actress, artist’s model, and muse, Kiki of Montparnasse, in her minute hand: “Aimez moi, toujours Kiki 2/23/31.” Kiki modeled for Tsuguharu Foujita, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, and many others. Her companion for most of the 1920s was Man Ray, who made hundreds of portraits of her. She is the subject of some of his best-known images. wrote the introduction to her Memoirs. Carousso was a prolific author in both non-fiction genres (especially sporting, hunting, and fishing) and various genres of fiction including mysteries, horror, suspense, and outdoor adventure. His work appeared frequently in The Saturday Evening Post as well as in Sports Illustrated, Outdoor Life, Dime Detective, Terror Tales, Alfred Hitchcock, Reader’s Digest, etc. Much of his work was anthologized. One of his stories, “The Weapon,” was adapted for the screen by and Howard Hawks for their aborted WWII film,Battle Cry. [BTC #380198]

5 Edward ALBEE [Playscript]: Tiny Alice. New York: 1965.

Very good in Acco binder. Typewritten copy of the script. Signed by Albee and dated 1979. A six time Tony-nominated play starring John Gielgud, Irene Worth, William Hutt, Eric Berry, and John Heffernan. Worth won the play’s lone Tony for best actress. [BTC #302443] 6 Martin AMIS Two Stories: Denton’s Death & Let Me Count the Times. (London): Moorhouse & Sorensen (1994).

First edition. Quarter Japanese stitched silk and printed aluminum boards. Fine in very good unprinted cloth dustwrapper that is modestly dampstained. One of 26 lettered copies bound thus and Signed by the author. [BTC #350269]

7 P.T. BARNUM Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P.T. Barnum written by himself. Buffalo: The Courier Company 1879.

Later edition, possibly revised, with advertisements from the publisher dated in 1879; first published in 1876. Pebble-grained cloth gilt. Slightly worn at the extremities, front hinge a little split, still a nice, very good or better copy. Inscribed in a secretarial hand: “To Mr. F.C. Penfield, Hartford Port with compliments of –” and Signed below this by the author (“P.T. Barnum”) in his own hand. [BTC #45361]

8 (Anthology) Obsession. (Rockville, Maryland): Quill & Brush 1994.

First edition. Fine in full gray calf, in folding cloth box. Fifteen original essays on the title subject read at the annual PEN/Faulkner gala. Letter G of 26 lettered copies Signed by each of the contributors: Louis Begley, David Bradley, , Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer, and Scott Spencer; and with an original Signed and numbered silkscreen print by Lou Stovall mounted with ribbons on the front pastedown. [BTC #306715] 9 (Baseball) Ted SULLIVAN History of World’s Tour. Chicago White Sox [and] New York Giants. (Chicago): Ted Sullivan / (M.A. Donohue) 1914.

First edition. Octavo. 89, [7] ads pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Illustrated wrappers. Small chips at the extremities of the wrappers, split a little along the spine fold, a good copy. Signed by author Ted Sullivan, a journalist- turned-scout for the White Sox. The two teams circled the globe in the off-season of 1913-14, visiting Australia, Japan, China, India, Egypt, the Philippines, Italy, France, Belgium, England, Ireland, and Scotland, returning on the Lusitania in of 1914. The tour included John McGraw, Charles Comiskey, Fred Merkle, Sam Crawford, Larry Doyle, Tris Speaker, Jim Thorpe, Buck Weaver, Urban “Red” Faber, Mike Donlin, Bill Klem, and many others. Rare. OCLC locates six copies. [BTC #342452]

10 (Baseball) “Jack” REGAN and Will E. Stahl Around the World with the Base Ball Bugs [cover title]: On with the Base Ball Bugs. Chicago, Ill.: J. Regan & Co. (1910).

First edition. 93pp. Illustrated wrappers. Pages a bit browned with small nicks and tears at the extremities, an attractive, very good copy of a fairly fragile volume. A children’s book on baseball containing various poems, songs, anecdotes, and other material. McCue pg.82. [BTC #329434]

11 Henderson the Rain King. (London): Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1959).

First English edition. Somewhat cocked, a bit of foxing on the preliminaries, and some sunning at the foot, very good in near fine dustwrapper, with a tear corresponding at the foot.S igned by the author on the title page. Bellow’s seriocomic novel of an eccentric American millionaire on a quest in Africa. [BTC #374847] 12 Samuel BECKETT Watt. New York: Grove Press (1959).

Uncorrected proof of the first American edition, in sewn but unbound folded and gathered sheets. Several old ink and pencil notes (possibly used to correct a later edition), and small nicks and tears on first and last leaf, very good. Rare in this format.[BTC #380024]

13 Samuel BECKETT [Program for]: Happy Days. London: Royal Court Theatre 1962.

Program. Octavo. 20pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine with gold “First Night” sticker on front wrap. Program for the opening night (1 November 1962) of the play. Inscribed by Beckett, “for Edwin Erbe cordially, Samuel Beckett Nov. 1962.” Erbe was the Director of Publicity for New Directions. Scarce. [BTC #343513]

14 E.F. BENSON Paul: A Modern Love Story. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1906.

First American edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a number of tiny chips. A splendid copy of this romance by the creator of the incomparable Lucia and Mapp. Rare in the fragile jacket. [BTC #36780]

15 Carol BERGÉ Rituals & Gargoyles. Black Book. Number 2. Bowling Green: Black Book 1976.

First edition. Printed wrappers. About fine. Signed by the poet. [BTC #379960] 16 Karen BLIXEN [Isak Dinesen] Out of Africa. London: Putnam (1937).

First edition, preceding the American edition. Slightly cocked, very near fine in near fine price- clipped, assumed second-issue dustwrapper, with light age-toning. The author’s best-known work, a fond evocation of Kenya and its wildlife suggested by her experience running a coffee plantation. Sydney Pollack directed the Oscar-winning 1985 film version starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. [BTC #380161]

Early Bowles Appearance 17 (Paul BOWLES, Kenneth REXROTH, and Charles Henri FORD) Norman MACLEOD, edited by The Morada – Number 1. Albuquerque, New Mexico: [no publisher] 1929.

First edition. Small quarto. Printed paper wrappers, with some partially unopened pages. A little worn at the extremities with some sunning at the very edge, near fine. An obscure little magazine that mixed American expatriate contributors with local Southwestern writers and was once believed, according to Ezra Pound, to be the next Little Review. Features very early appearances of Paul Bowles (“The Church”), Kenneth Rexroth (a two-page story, “She Left Him”), and Charles Henri Ford (“Short Poem About a Gunman”). [BTC #342736]

18 (Cocktails) KAPPA Bartender’s Guide to the Best Mixed Drinks. Tokyo: Kasuga Boeki K.K. (1953).

Stated “Revised Edition” (but we can find no record of an earlier edition). 12mo. 143, 7 (index)pp. Inserted unpaginated ads. Illustrated orange cloth. Bilingual text in English and Japanese. Near fine. Rare bartender’s guide, apparently prepared in order to capitalize on the influx of thirsty American business and service people. OCLC locates a single copy of this edition, and no earlier editions. [BTC #344332] 19 (Children) Virginia PARKINSON “Manners,” “Safety,” and “Cleanliness.” New York: J.L. Schilling (1943).

First editions. Three volumes. Thin folios. Fine in fine dustwrappers with nominal rubbing and wear to the thin spine ends. Illustrated with both drawings and photographs of “Claytoons” by Lowell Grant of the Sass-Dorne Studio in Southern California, whose principle business was preparing clay models for films. Children’s books preaching good manners and hygiene. Seldom found together in jackets, and is then usually found well-worn; this is a beautiful set. [BTC #33823]

20 (Children) Louise REDFIELD [Peattie] Fancies in Verse. [Chicago]: The Print Shop [at] The School of Education 1913.

First edition. 12mo. 12pp. Printed gray self-wrappers with applied bluebird label. Some foxing on the wrappers, near fine. Inscribed by the author as “Bluebird.” Interesting and handsome volume of poetry “written and printed by Louise Redfield, Seventh Grade U.E.S.” Author’s rare first book, a volume of poetry published and printed when the author was 13 years old. Redfield went on to marry noted author Donald Culross Peattie, best known for his bestselling Almanac for Moderns. She and Peattie met at the high school of the University of Chicago and together printed his first book there in 1916. Redfield published several popular novels, achieving fame with her 1936 novel American Acres. OCLC locates just two copies of this title. [BTC #373315] 21 , edited by Black Mountain Review 2. Black Mountain, : Black Mountain College 1954.

First edition. Octavo. Perfectbound decorated wrappers. Corners bumped and a little worn, a small stain on the front wrap and first couple of leaves, very good. The second issue of this important progressive literary and art journal with contributions by , Irving Layton, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Creeley, Paul Blackburn, Toda Tomoya, Irving Layton, Douglas Woolf, Kizu Toyotaro, Lucy Lapp, and Ronald Mason. Scarce. [BTC #337536]

22 Holiday Greetings from Gregory Corso / [caption title]: The night last night was at its nightest. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ferguson Press 1972.

First edition. A single card leaf folded in half. Fine. A four-line poem issued as a greeting by the poet and publisher. [BTC #379943]

23 Andrei CODRESCU The History of the Growth of Heaven. New York: George Braziller (1973).

First trade edition. Fine in price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper. Complimentary slip from the author and publisher laid in, along with a flyer for the publication party for this book at Cody’s Bookstore in Berkeley. [BTC #380142]

24 Guy DAVENPORT The Geography of the Imagination. Forty Essays. Berkeley: North Point Press 1981.

Uncorrected long galley proofs, velobound at the top. Small stains on the first leaf, thus very good. Davenport’s brilliant first collection of essays. Rare in this format.[BTC #308337] 25 (Guy DAVENPORT, translator) SAPPHO Poems and Fragments. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan (1965).

First edition. Fine in modestly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper.Inscribed by Davenport to Barry Alpert. Crane A3. [BTC #307122]

26 Mountolive. New York: E.P. Dutton 1959.

Uncorrected proof, consisting of unbound folded and gathered sheets, with the first and last leaves stapled into the finished dustwrapper. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with small tears. Scarce format. [BTC #380060]

27 Theodore DREISER Autograph Letter Signed (“Theodore Dreiser”).

Single sheet of Dreiser’s stationery, written on both sides, dated 16 October 1928 from to Jean Hull. Folded as mailed, some foxing and light soiling, presentable and very good. “Didn’t I write & say that I enjoy your Australian notes so much. Though life there appears to be much the same as here still the points of difference – and especially the right-now-ness of them have an appetizing flavor for me. Again you have a graphic pen – swiftly illuminating. And how thoroughly you keep away from yourself. But you need not. Your personal reactions… should come in. After all you are writing in part about yourself.” An interesting letter, with more content than the usually perfunctory Dreiser correspondence. [BTC #37601]

28 Joseph A. FIELDS and : Based on the Stories by Ruth McKenney. New York: Random House (1941).

First edition. Fine in slightly age-toned, near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears. Debuted on stage in 1942 at the Theatre starring Effie Afton, Michael Ames, and Shirley Booth. NicelyInscribed by both authors: “To Larry: we’ll write ‘em, if you have the heart to sell ‘em. , Jerry Chodorov.” Presumably the recipient was either an agent or a bookseller. Basis for 1942 film directed by Alexander Hall, and featuring and Brian Aherne, as well as the 1955 film directed by , and featuring and . [BTC #380213] 29 F. Scott FITZGERALD En Man Utan Skrupler [The Great Gatsby]. Stockholm: Wahlstrom & Widstrand (1928).

First Swedish edition. Translated by Siri Thorngren-Olin. Small octavo. 248pp. Illustrated wrappers. Small chip on the rear wrap, and some small tears, very good or better. A rare edition. Only three foreign translations of The Great Gatsby (French, German, and Swedish) were published in the author’s lifetime. Rare. OCLC locates two copies of this edition, at the National Library of and the University of South Carolina. [BTC #374683]

30 [William Justin HARSHA] [Broadside or poster]: The Great Indian Novel! Ploughed Under. The Story of an Indian Chief. Told by Himself. With an Introduction about Indians by Inshta Theamba, “Bright Eyes,” of the Poncas. 16mo, Cloth, - $1.00. Uniform with “A Fool’s Errand.” [New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert 1881].

Approximately 11" x 15¾". Illustrated with the image of an Indian chief which was used on the front board of the book. Old folds, small chips and tears, still a pleasing, very good example. Broadside for an anonymous first person account attributed to Harsha, who was not an Indian chief as indicated but rather a Presbyterian pastor. The introduction was written by Inshta Theamba, or “Bright Eyes,” an Omaha Indian whose English married name was Susette La Flesche Tibbles. Tibbles contributed much of the information used to create the story, and this is one of the earliest, or earliest novels to have a major contribution by a Native American woman. We’ve never seen another example of the poster. Wright III 2522 (for the book). [BTC #333044] 31 Ernest HEMINGWAY . New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1952.

First edition. A couple of spots of foxing on the endpapers else fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the and one of Hemingway’s most books, seen by many as a late-career return to form. The title which cinched the Nobel Prize for the author. Basis for the John Sturges film with Spencer Tracy. A pretty copy.Burgess 99. [BTC #364651]

32 Ford Madox FORD New York Essays. New York: William Edwin Rudge 1927.

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 750 copies Signed by Ford. A very nice copy, and very uncommon in jacket. [BTC #99986]

33 Ford Madox FORD The March of Literature: From Confucius’ Day to Our Own. New York: The Dial Press 1938.

First edition. Near fine in a badly chipped, good only dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author in New York in January of the year of publication. [BTC #279217] 34 Oliver Wendell HOLMES (John Greenleaf WHITTIER) Soundings From The Atlantic. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1864.

First edition. Publisher’s green cloth, title page printed in black and red, with a 22-page publisher’s catalog dated November 1863 at the rear. Fading to the gilt spine lettering, light scattered foxing mostly at the margins, about near fine. Presentation copyInscribed by John Greenleaf Whittier to: “Lydia Maria Parrington, with the best wishes, of J.G. & Elizabeth Whittier.” John and his sister Elizabeth H. Whittier had maintained a close relationship until her death in 1864, thus making this one of the last of his inscriptions with her name. A handsome, well-preserved copy. BAL 8829. [BTC #365641]

Blurbing “In Sicily” 35 Christopher ISHERWOOD Autograph Postcard Signed to the Publicity Director at New Directions.

Autograph Postcard Signed to David McDowell of New Directions. Postmarked 29 November 1949 from Santa Monica providing a blurb for the American edition of Elio Vittorini’s In Sicily (which was not used on the first American edition). Fine. Good content, in full: “Dear Mr. McDowell, Thank you so much for sending me the books. I greatly enjoyed both of them. Laughlin says you’d like a ‘quote’ on ‘In Sicily’ - so here’s one: Elio Vittorini is certainly one of the best writers of his generation in Europe. Sincerely Christopher Isherwood.” McDowell had a long and distinguished career in American publishing, working at New Directions, Random House, and Crown. For a short period in the late 1950s he and Ivan Obolensky published under their own imprint, most famously issuing the Pulitzer Prize-winning posthumous novel by his good friend , . [BTC #282246]

36 (Robert F. KENNEDY, Jr.) Paris. (Paris): Flammerion (1967).

Reprint. Quarto. Fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears. Ownership signature of Eunice Shriver in pencil (“Shriver”). Touchingly Inscribed by a little French girl to Bobby Kennedy’s then 14-year-old son, Robert Kennedy, Jr. in French, 22 days after his father’s assassination: “à Robert Kennedy Jr. en mèmoire de son père et en souvenir d’amitié pour Etats Unis d’une petite fille française. Paris le 28 juin 1968. Isabelle Turpin de Grissé. 7 ans.” (“Robert Kennedy Jr. in memory of his father and in memory of friendship for the from a little French girl. Paris June 28, 1968. Isabelle Turpin Grisse. seven years.”) [BTC #371347] 37 (Bruce LEE) Stirling SILLIPHANT [Screenplay]: The Silent Flute [Circle of Iron]. Pingree- Panpiper Productions 1970.

Screenplay, “October 19, 1970.” Foreword by Bruce Lee. Quarto. 70pp. Bradbound in printed blue wrappers. Near fine with some toning on the front wrap, some bumping on a couple corners, and the title written in the lower page ends as typical. The screenplay for the unrealized Lee film that was shelved after his untimely death in 1973. The film, about a martial arts expert, played by James Coburn, who must pass three trials to obtain a book containing martial art secrets, was to costar Lee playing different roles along the fighter’s journey. The story was a joint effort by Lee, Coburn, and his longtime friend, Stirling Silliphant, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter (In The Heat of the Night) who penned the screenplay in a “European” form that reads like a treatment without scene breakdowns or camera directions. Lee hoped the picture would bring Eastern Philosophy to a Western audience, as he states in the script’s two-page foreword. The film was rewritten as the abysmal 1978Circle of Iron starring Jeff Cooper in the Coburn role with David Carradine stepping in for Lee, along with Eli Wallach, Christopher Lee, and Roddy McDowall. Rare. [BTC #382126]

38 Robert LOWELL Phaedra. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1961).

First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. Probably an advance copy of Lowell’s translation, with rubberstamped copyright statement. Near fine in wrappers. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. Inscribed by Lowell using his nickname: “For Eleanor and Peter with love from Cal. Robert Lowell. New Years 1962.” Lowell and Taylor were very close friends and colleagues and were influential on each other’s careers. They both attended Kenyon College where they were roommates and studied under Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. [BTC #355710] 39 Norman LINDSAY Madam Life’s Lovers: A Human Narrative Embodying a Philosophy of the Artist in Dialogue Form. London: Fanfrolico Press (1929).

First edition. Small quarto. Frontispiece gravure by the author. Cloth decorated and titled in gilt. Scattered foxing and some sunning on the boards, as seems usual with this title, a very good copy in modestly age-toned, very good dustwrapper with tiny tears and a spot on the spine. [BTC #376956]

40 Autograph Note Signed (“Sinclair Lewis”).

A brief Autograph Note Signed, one page dated 20 August 1937 on his Stockbridge, Massachusetts stationery to Willis Birchman, who was attempting to compile a biography of illustrator Ralph Barton. With original envelope. In full: “Dear Mr. Birchman: I really knew Ralph Barton only as a friend of George Jean Nathan. Sincerely yours, Sinclair Lewis.” [BTC #40405]

41 Clive MATSON [Broadside]: The Here World Balancing. Pleasant Valley, New York: Kriya Press of Sri Ram Ashrama 1968.

Broadside. Measuring 12¼" x 17". Fine. One of 100 numbered copies. Matson was part of the New York poetry scene in the early 1960s and his first book was published by ’s Poets Press in 1966. [BTC #375826] 42 W. Somerset MAUGHAM The Gentleman in the Parlour. London: William Heinemann (1930).

Uncorrected proof. Unprinted wrappers with author and title supplied in ink. Slight soiling, corners of wrappers and pages a little worn, very good. An account of Maugham’s travels through the Orient, from Rangoon to Haiphong. Scarce in this format. [BTC #367096]

43 James MERRILL Nights and Days. New York: Atheneum 1966.

First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of this National Book Award winner. [BTC #307587]

44 James MERRILL From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976. New York: Atheneum 1982.

First edition. Foxing on the boards else near fine in fine dustwrapper. This copy is from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award- nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. Inscribed by the author: “Years & years of rhyme & meter, with love to Eleanor and Peter. Jimmy. Oct 1982.” [BTC #354919] on Dylan Thomas 45 Arthur MILLER Autograph Letter Signed.

One page Autograph Letter Signed and dated 4 January 1964. Folded as mailed, else fine, with original envelope. An excellent letter, responding to a query about Dylan Thomas: “I hardly knew Thomas, not in any case to answer your questions. All I could see was a man obviously miserable, totally disorganized, the lion of people he had little use for. A writer lives most intensely when he is writing and Thomas, for whatever reasons, was not writing, so life was turning into a mockery – he knew that everything – people, lecturing, drinking – was a poor shadow of his rightful work, his destiny which he could no longer lay his hand on. But beware of ‘interpreting’ a man like this. Finally, it is never true.” [BTC #315405]

46 Michael McCLURE For Artaud. (New York: Totem Press 1959).

First edition. Stapled wrappers. Slight age-toning else fine. Second volume of poems from the famed Beat poet. [BTC #377867]

47 George Barr McCUTCHEON The Purple Parasol. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1905.

First edition. Illustrated by Harrison Fisher. Decorations by Chas. B. Falls. Neat, contemporary owner’s name else fine in near fine pictorial dustwrapper with a modest chip at the crown (just touching the edge of one letter in the title) and a couple of small nicks. Little known romance by the author of the bestsellers Brewster’s Millions and Graustark. A very attractive volume and rare in jacket. [BTC #33151]

48 Harold MONRO Elm Angel. London: Faber & Faber Ltd 1930.

First edition. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Near fine with some light toning at the extremities. Copy 30 of 250 numbered and Signed large paper editions printed at the Curwen Press. [BTC #375974] 49 (Music) Glenn MILLER Glenn Miller’s Method for Orchestral Arranging. New York: Mutual Music Society (1943).

First edition. Red cloth gilt. Two stapled Glenn Miller musical scores (“I’m Thrilled” and “Song of the Volga Boatmen”) laid in as issued. Spine cocked (because of the scores), and dampstaining along the bottom edge, a good copy. The scores are usually lacking. Very uncommon. [BTC #376097]

50 (Music) [Broadside]: Come to the Hootenanny Sponsored by Friends of the Children’s Theater Workshop. Saturday Oct. 9 2:00 P.P. Kulp Aud. [Ithaca, New York]: The Children’s Theater Workshop [1965].

Large illustrated broadside on cardstock. Image of a guitar and banjo surrounded by text. Approximately 14" x 22½". Some age-toning and spotting, one corner creased and bumped, a handsome, about very good example. Interesting example of the use of folk culture in entertaining and educating children. [BTC #375089]

51 (Mystery) E.W. HORNUNG The Thousandth Woman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1913).

First American edition. Endpapers a little foxed and the edges of the boards just a touch rubbed, a fine copy in very near fine dustwrapper with slight wear at the crown. A mystery by the creator of the detective hero Raffles. Rare in jacket.[BTC #44615] 52 (Mystery) Charlotte ARMSTRONG The Albatross. New York: Coward-McCann (1957).

First edition. Ownership signature on the foredge and corners bumped, thus very good in very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears. Warmly Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. A reasonably nice copy of a book notorious for its poor condition. A classic collection that includes a novelette and nine stories. Very uncommon signed. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC #379507]

53 Flannery O’CONNOR Home of the Brave. New York: Albondocani Press 1981.

First edition. Fine in self-wrappers as issued. Publisher’s prospectus laid in. One of 26 lettered copies (of a total edition of 226). This is copy letter W. [BTC #307482]

54 Edgar [Allan] POE (Charles BAUDELAIRE) Aventures D’Arthur Gordon Pym. Paris: Michel Levy Freres 1858.

First French edition and first edition of the Charles Baudelaire translation. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers professionally re-attached at front hinge, very good in unprinted tissue dustwrapper. [BTC #375759]

55 Dawn POWELL [Dust Jacket Proof]: She Walks in Beauty. New York: Brentano’s 1928.

Three vertical folds, near where the rear flap fold and flap folds should be, another crease on front flap, else near fine. A proof or trial dustwrapper for the author’s exceptionally uncommon second book (and in practice the first, after she repudiated her first novel Whither), a novel set in the Midwest chronicled by Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, and Edgar Lee Masters, but wittier and more ironic. This jacket is identical to the jacket that adorned the first edition but is untrimmed and perhaps 3/4" taller than the finished jacket. Provenance available upon request. [BTC #343308] 56 Harold PINTER [Playscript]: No- Man’s Land. [No place: no publisher circa 1975].

Playscript. 56; 53 photomechanically duplicated leaves printed rectos only (each act paginated separately) brad-bound into unprinted blue card covers. Small tear on front wrap and first leaf, some smudging and stains on wrappers and last few leaves, else very good. Inscribed by Pinter to fellow playwright, poet, and ‘60s English gadabout Heathcote Williams: “To Heathcote from Harold.” Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Pinter on his 7 Hanover Terrace stationary: “Oct 7. Dear Heathcote: How are you? I’m very sorry I’ve never written to you about your last piece. I found it difficult to write & still do. However, I send you this. How are you? Love, Harold.” Also laid in is a photocopy of a “letter to the editor” by one D.A. Cairns (apparently sent along by Pinter to Williams), that claims that all the character names in the play are based on famous English cricketers. [BTC #373024]

57 Frederic PROKOSCH Fable. New York: (Frederic Prokosch) 1944.

First edition. Marbled self-wrappers with red printed label. 24mo. Fine. Out of a total edition of 44 copies, this appears to be one of the 22 copies on airmail paper for Europe; there were also 22 copies on Utopian Text paper for the U.S. Inscribed by the author: “For Emerald from Frederic with love.” A brief poem, one of the author’s rare “butterfly books,” this one issued as a Christmas Greeting. Prokosch was an American of remarkable promise who later fell under a cloud for manufacturing some spurious “rare first editions,” which he did while experimenting with the handpress he used to manufacture the butterfly books. While he did reprint some of the butterfly books between 1978-1980, the provenance of this copy and the owner’s notes that accompany it indicate that it was obtained in the 1950s. His reputation has suffered despite the fact that his books were both a critical and popular success at the time of publication. Rare. OCLC locates five copies (of the total edition) in institutions. [BTC #278642] 58 (Photography) Thomas PORTELLI Photographs by Ronald ODDO, Vincent FONTANA, and Louis BIANCHI. Hellevator. Brooklyn: Gold & Maestro 1978.

First edition. Small quarto. [64]pp. Photographic wrappers. Rubbing on the wrappers, otherwise near fine. Interesting and very uncommon title: dark urban-type poetry by Portello, written when he was serving a seven-year sentence at Auburn Prison in 1974, and illustrated with gritty urban photography. OCLC locates two copies. [BTC #379385]

59 (Photography) Danny LYON The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. New York: Macmillan (1969).

First edition. Quarto. Penciled ownership signature of distinguished architect Richard Kelly, pages a bit wavy, very good in rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Lyon’s second book, invariably found in poor condition, this is a reasonably nice copy. [BTC #312946]

60 (Photography) Josef SUDEK Josef Sudek Fotografie.Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury, Hudby a Umeni 1956.

First edition. Cloth boards. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A nice copy of an uncommon title. Hasselblad, The Open Book, pp. 166-167; Roth, The Book of 101 Books, pp. 144-145. [BTC #375287] 61 Ezra POUND Provença. Poems Selected From Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere. Boston: Small Maynard & Company (1910).

First edition, first impression. 12mo. Original printed tan boards. Faint tape marks on the free endpapers, bookseller’s discreet label on rear pastedown, boards slightly soiled with a little bit of wear to the edges, otherwise a near fine copy. Scarce in this condition. Pound’s first book of poetry published in America. It contains the best work of two earlier volumes, Personae and Exhultations, with the addition of several new poems. Separately issued in England under the title of Canzoni. One of approximately 200 copies printed. Gallup A6a. [BTC #311598]

62 Late Warning. New York: Albondocani Press 1968.

First edition. Fine in self-wrappers. Copy letter N of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. Additionally Inscribed to New York literary figure Ray Roberts. Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, , and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. [BTC #298018]

Early Richard Prince Contribution 63 (Richard PRINCE) Whitewalls: A Magazine of Writings by Artists #4. Summer 1980. (Chicago: White Walls) 1980.

First edition. Octavo. 62pp. Photographic wrappers. Slight sticker shadow on front wrap, else near fine. Featuring Richard Prince’s text piece, “from Moving by Wading More than Swimming.” Additional contributors include Michael Hurson, Keith Rahmmings, John Perreault, Michael Tracy, Dick Higgins, Cindy Shearer, Mitchell Kane, and Ascher/ Straus. Very uncommon. [BTC #379304]

64 James PURDY Sunshine is an Only Child. New York: Aloe Editions 1973.

First edition. Self-wrappers. Fine. One of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #380512] Pynchon’s Editor’s Copy 65 Thomas PYNCHON Slow Learner: Early Stories. Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1984).

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the foot. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Pynchon’s editor Ray Roberts’s copy, with his book label on the front pastedown. Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Thomas Pynchon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. He began editing Pynchon when the latter went to Little, Brown, starting with this book, Slow Learner. [BTC #342478]

66 Thomas PYNCHON Against the Day. London: Jonathan Cape (2006).

First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Pynchon’s editor Ray Roberts’s copy, with his book label on the front pastedown. [BTC #342467]

67 William H. RIDEING The Captured Cunarder: An Episode of the Atlantic. Boston: Copeland and Day 1896.

First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated paper over boards. Stamp on front fly, pencil owner’s name, tiny splits at the bottom of the spine folds, and a small bump on to the front board, but overall very near fine. Beautiful cover art by Elisha Brown Bird. Very scarce, apparently one of only 358 copies. Wright III 4543. [BTC #376396]

68 Larry RIVERS with Arnold WEINSTEIN What Did I Do? The Unauthorized Autobiography. (New York): HarperCollins / Aaron Asher Books (1992).

First edition. Illustrated. Slight rubbing and waviness to the spine, else fine in fine slipcase. Copy 49 of 151 numbered copies Signed by the author/artist. A memoir. [BTC #306806] 69 Шота РУСТАВЕп И (Chota ROUSTAVELI) Носящий барсову шкуру: Грузинская поэма XII века (The Knight in the Panther Skin: Georgian Poem of the XII century). Paris: D. Kheladze 1933.

First edition. Large quarto. Publisher’s wrappers. LIV, [2], 236pp. Text in Russian. Illustrated. Very good plus copy with light soiling, slight nicks and tears. One of 800 copies. The first complete translation of this poem in Russian written by the famous 12th Century Georgian poet, Shota Rustaveli. Graceful and flexible verse remarkably reproduced in this publication in a magnificent translation by Constantine Balmont (1867-1942, in exile since 1920). The publication has two additional titles in French and English, as well as articles on Rustaveli and summaries of the poem in these languages. Publisher’s note: “Illustrations attached to this Russian edition by the famous artist, academician Zichy. Curbs, caps and ending showing samples of decorations of old Georgian architecture are taken from the most luxurious Georgian edition of the poem of 1888.” [BTC #378634]

70 (Sexuality) Joseph HÉMARD La Géographie Commentée par Jos. Hémard et Illustrée par lui. Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux 1928.

Tall octavo. Very nicely rebound with original wrappers bound in full light blue morocco gilt, with red and brown inset design. Spine slightly toned and with a handsome engraved bookplate, else about fine. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box with leather spine label gilt. One of 600 copies on Lafuma paper, from a total edition of 790. Illustrated with numerous colored images by the author, largely of an erotic nature - the geography of the female body seemed to be the true subject of the book. [BTC #343281] One of 50 Copies 71 George Bernard SHAW Press Cuttings: A Topical Sketch. New York: Brentano’s 1909.

First American edition. Copyright printing, one of 50 copies printed simultaneously with the English edition to establish copyright in the U.S. Faint crease to the front wrap, still a fine copy in wrappers. A lovely copy, purchased by us directly from a member of the Brentano family. [BTC #40498]

72 Ahab SALEM [pseudonym of James MURRAY] The New Maid of the Oaks: A Tragedy, as Lately acted near Saratoga, By a Company of Tragedians; Under the Direction of the Author of The Maid of the Oaks. London: Printed for The Author 1778.

First edition. Small octavo. 64pp. Modern unprinted wrappers. Final leaf a trifle soiled, else near fine. A satire on the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga. OCLC locates a copy in the British Library. ESTC T126746; Sabin 51508. [BTC #347534]

73 Irwin SHAW The Young Lions. New York: Random House (1948).

First edition. Modest wear, very good in very good dustwrapper with some shallow chips. Inscribed by the author. The exceptionally thin jacket is almost always found well-worn. This is a nice copy of a novel that is increasingly accepted as one of the major fictional works of the Second World War. Basis for the 1958 film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Dean Martin. [BTC #351053] 74 (South Carolina) The Address of the People of South Carolina Assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States. Printed by Order of the Convention. Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention 1860.

First edition. 16pp. Printed yellow wrappers. Small chip on the front wrap, but still very near fine. Important and early pamphlet espousing the Confederate cause. Housed in a slipcase. Scarce in wrappers. No printed copies located by OCLC. [BTC #351895]

75 (South Carolina) Alvin C. VORIS Charleston in the Rebellion: A Paper Read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States March 7, 1888. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co. 1888.

First edition. Turquoise printed wrappers. [2], 49pp., with a frontispiece map. Very good with some modest soiling and one short tear on the wrappers. A handsome copy, scarce in the trade. [BTC #351876]

76 Tom STOPPARD Enter a Free Man. London: Faber and Faber (1968).

First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in very slightly spine-toned, near fine dustwrapper, with the bottom of the front flap clipped, but retaining the publisher’s printed price, over which appears a light sticker shadow. Signed by the author. The hardcover issue is very uncommon. [BTC #351571] 77 . New York: The Viking Press (1939).

First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear and a little rubbing. A nice, bright copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of an Oklahoma family’s migration to California during the Depression. Basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and supporting actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards; Fonda was nominated but lost to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips! Steinbeck’s masterpiece and literature’s lasting testament to the Great Depression, it was singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later. [BTC #364654]

78 John STEINBECK Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form. New York: Viking Press 1950.

First edition. Top edge a little soiled, still fine in very slightly soiled, else fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy. [BTC #293535] 79 (Saul STEINBERG) H.L. MENCKEN Newspaper Days: 1899-1906. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1945.

Third printing. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. The artist Saul Steinberg has drawn a full-page cartoon illustration on the front free endpaper, unsigned, in ink. The illustration appears to be a standing woman with one arm resting on a three legged table with a vase and flower on it, and wearing what appears to be a cap with bunny ears. The breasts are somewhat pronounced, drawn as an infinity symbol. Whether this is meant to represent a Playboy Bunny or not we do not know. [BTC #297044]

80 () Freshman Writing: Essays by Students in English 1 and 2 at 1958-1959. [Durham, North Carolina: English Department, Duke University 1959].

First edition. Stapled printed self-wrappers. 29, [1]pp. Fine. “The themes in this volume were written in 1958-59 as regular course assignments by students in English 1 and 2. These essays and sketches are a selection by a committee of judges from a larger group of themes offered by various instructors as a representation of the best writing done in their classes.” Contains a three page essay by Anne Tyler, “The Galax,” an episode from when she and her three brothers lived with their idealistic parents in a quasi-pacifist community called Celo deep in the North Carolina mountains. Surely one of her earliest published pieces, written at age 16 in what was the first freshman English course taught by her mentor, Reynolds Price. This piece, and Tyler’s ability so struck Price that he wrote about it at length in his 2009 book Ardent Spirits. A fragile pamphlet, presumably produced in very small numbers. Rare, we’ve not seen it before (including in our former iteration as private collectors of Anne Tyler). OCLC locates three copies under two different entries. [BTC #369528]

81 Theodore STURGEON The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Volumes 1-8). Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books 1994-2002.

First editions. With forewords by Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene Wolfe, Samuel R. Delaney, and others. The first eight volumes (I-VIII) – the series continued afterwards in fits and starts. Fine in fine duswrappers. A collection of all of his shorter fiction in any form smaller than a novel. As each volume was published separately, and in fairly small print runs, obtaining a set of the first eight volumes is difficult. [BTC #327545] Trial Jacket 82 Roger’s Version. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1986.

First trade edition. Fine in a fine example of the rare trial dustwrapper, as well as a somewhat spine-faded, near fine example of the trade dustwrapper. The trial dustwrapper is on a darker, coarse speckled gray paper, has some slightly variant text imposition, and does not credit George Disario for the rear panel photograph. We do not know if this omission, or the texture of the paper itself caused this design to be rejected. We are aware of only one other example of this trial dustwrapper. [BTC #342857]

83 (John UPDIKE) Howard B. KREITSEK [Screenplay]: Rabbit, Run. [No place]: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. 1969.

Quarto. Typed sheets bradbound in printed yellow studio wrappers. Original screenplay, marked “final” draft. Interspersed leaves in various colors with revisions. Tiny tears to the edges of the wrappers, else very near fine. A very uncommon screenplay.[BTC #312827]

Wightman and von Neumann 84 J[ohn].v[on]. NEUMANN On infinite direct products.[Cambridge]: Compositio Mathematica 1939.

Von Neumann’s contribution removed from the journal and bound in gray cloth, titled on the front board in gilt. Octavo. 77, [1]pp. Author and title written on the spine, one corner of the text block a little bumped, else very near fine. An article discussing infinite tensor products of Hilbert spaces and the algebras acting on them. Arthur S. Wightman’s copy with his ownership signature (“A.S. Wightman”) and his notations to the formulae on four pages. Wightman was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. His work, including such titles as PCT, Spin and Statistics and All That, frequently cites the work of von Neumann. Although we wouldn’t claim to understand the writings of either mathematician, we know an important association when we see one. [BTC #338936] 85 Kaiser WILHELM II Illustrated Card of Kaiser Wilhelm II Signed. Doorn [The Netherlands]: 1924.

Illustrated card. Measuring 3½" x 5½". A touch of wear at the corners, else fine. A card featuring a painting of Kaiser Wilhem II by German artist Alfred Schwartz and Signed by Wilhem II in 1924 with a brief sentiment. [BTC #342917]

86 Music From Spain. Greenville, Mississippi: The Levee Press 1948.

First edition. Papercovered boards. Small spot on the front board and a little rubbing, a very good copy. Copy number 334 of 750 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #369473]

87 Eudora WELTY, Anne TYLER, James DICKEY, and For Reynolds Price 1 February 1983. [Winston-Salem]: Privately Printed [for Stuart Wright] 1983.

First edition. Fine in fine gold-foil dustwrapper with a single miniscule tear. Copy number 27 of 150 numbered copies of this festschrift for Reynolds Price on his fiftieth birthday. Signed by the four contributors: Anne Tyler, Eudora Welty, James Dickey, and Fred Chappell. [BTC #298032] 88 Tennessee WILLIAMS and Donald WINDHAM You Touched Me! A Romantic Comedy in Three Acts. London: Samuel French (1947).

First edition, hardcover issue. A trifle rubbed, fine in fine dustwrapper with a very faint crease on the spine. Easily Williams’s scarcest play, co-written with Windham and based on a short story by D.H. Lawrence. A lovely copy. [BTC #297579]

89 Tennessee WILLIAMS In the Winter of Cities. New York: New Directions (1956).

First edition. White parchment boards in labeled slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 100 copies Signed by author. A beautiful copy. [BTC #298210]

90 Tennessee WILLIAMS Le Cri du Phoenix [I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix: A Play About D.H. Lawrence]. [Paris]: La Licorne 1960.

First edition. Text in French. Two full-page black and white drawings by Arthur Secunda. Fine unbound signature laid into a fine portfolio with near fine unprinted glassine dustwrapper, the whole laid into a fine chemise and slightly soiled near fine slipcase. Copy 18 of 230 copies. This copy Signed by the author. [BTC #297810] 91 Tennessee WILLIAMS Night of the Iguana. New York: New Directions 1962.

Long galleys. A bit of wear to the last sheet with a short ink notation and some dampstaining to the last few leaves but not affecting the text, near fine. Presumably only a handful of copies would have been prepared for the use of the author and publisher. From the library of Edwin Erbe, Director of Publicity for New Directions. [BTC #346092]

Galleys of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of Poetry 92 William Carlos WILLIAMS Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems. New York: New Directions 1962.

Unbound galleys. Long sheets printed rectos only. Cheap proofing paper quite browned, modest chips and tears on first and last couple of leaves, about very good. Advance state of this collection of poetry, undoubtedly produced in extremely small numbers exclusively for publisher’s in-house use. From the library of Edwin Erbe, Director of Publicity for New Directions. This title was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry only two months after William Carlos Williams’s death on March 4, 1963. [BTC #380035] 93 Howard WILSON An Apple a Day: The Story of a Hollywood Doctor. Hollywood, California: George Palmer Putnam, Inc. 1939.

First edition. About fine in very near fine dustwrapper with slight wear at the extremities. Wonderfully Inscribed by the author to Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr: “To Jimmy Starr - As you may guess the characters in this book are fictitious - except those who like what is said about them. Regards, Howard Wilson Oct. 6 - 1939.” Very thinly veiled autobiographical novel: love of a good woman keeps a Hollywood doctor on course. Very scarce in jacket. OCLC locates seven copies, all but two in California. [BTC #343615]

94 P.G. WODEHOUSE [Signed Typescript]: Shaking a Head at New York.

Typescript or fair copy. Nine pages. Two light and neat horizontal creases, else fine. Signed by Wodehouse at the conclusion. No corrections or evidence of other work, possibly prepared for signing by a collector. Takes the form of the response to a questionnaire, this appeared as Chapter XIII in his 1957 book Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions. [BTC #284309]

George Meredith’s Copy with a Line of Verse 95 Walter WHITE Holidays in Tyrol: Klobenstein, Paneveggio and Obladis. London: Chapman & Hall 1876.

First edition. 361, [5] ads pp. Folding map. Rebound with original cloth laid down on buckram. Very good. Ownership signature of George Meredith on the title page, and with a line of verse from Meredith’s A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt, in his hand (which differs somewhat from the published version) tipped to the front blank: “VIII. The manners of the market, honest sirs, ‘Tis hard to cast off when you spy the wares: you flatter.”A Ballad… was published in 1876 in New Quarterly Magazine, and it presented two ways in which men might respond to women’s “revolt” against Victorian sexism. [BTC #376144]