1. ABBOT, Gorham D . Mexico, and the United States; Their Mutual Relations and Common Interests . Illustrated with two steel- engraved portraits and one folding, colored map by Colton of Mexico and much of Texas and the Southwest. 8vo, New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1869. First edition. Original green cloth gilt. An impeccable, fresh copy, inscribed by the author on the title page. Bookplate adhering to flyleaf. $1,500 A key early work on the history of U.S.-Mexican relations, with portraits of Juarez and Romero, and a detailed and beautifully colored map of Mexico (17 ½ x 25 ¾ inches). Inscribed on the title page, “J W Hamersley Esq | with the respects of | Gorham D. Abbot.”
’ 2. ANDREWS, Roy Chapman . The New Conquest of Central Asia. A Narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia and China, 1921-1930 . The Natural History of Central Asia vol. I, Chester A. Reed, editor. With chapters by Walter Granger … Clifford H. Pope … Nels C. Nelson … with 128 plates and 12 illustrations in the text and 3 maps at end. lx, 678pp. 4to, New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1932. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth stamped in black. Minor wear at extremities. Archival repair to pp. 335-6. An attractive and extremely desirable copy. In custom black morocco-backed slipcase with inner wrapper. Yakushi A 223. $4,500 The New Conquest of Central Asia is a lavishly produced volume that stands as one of the landmarks of twentieth-century exploration. This copy is from the library of the author, Roy Chapman Andrews. Loosely inserted are four TLs to Andrews and/or his colleague and co-author Walter Grainger from recipients of presentation copies of this book: Kermit Roosevel t, T[homas] W. Lamont , Child s Frick , and C. V. Whitne y (variously dated from January to April , 1933). Andrews, adventurer, explorer and naturalist, was subse - quently the model for the character of ‘Indiana Jones.’ Provenance: personal library of Roy Chapman Andrews; presented by Chapman’s second wife, Wilhemina “Billie” Andrews (later Mrs. Robert A. Street) to Charles Gallenkamp, author of Dragon Hunter. Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions (Viking, 2001). A matchless associ - ation. James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102
3. (ANTHONY, Susan B) Harper, Ida Husted . The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and many from her contemporaries during Fifty Years . Frontispiece, xxiv, 513 pp; frontispiece, xi, [514]-1070 pp., with plates after photographs throughout. 2 vols. 8vo, Indianapolis & Kansas City: Boen & Merrill Co, 1898. First edition. Bound in original publisher’s green cloth with gilt-stamped medallion of Susan B. Anthony. Cloth faded, worn and a bit soiled, a few minor evidences of damp on the lower margin of the second volume, but overall sound copies. $6,500 Presentation copies of the authorized biography of the great suffragette, Susan B. Anthony, with whom Ida Harper collaborated on The History of Woman Suffrag e. Both volumes are fully inscribed in Rochester, New York in the year of publication, to Miss Charlotte A. Thomas of Portland, Maine. Volume one reads, in part, ““With A Happy New Year from her sincere friend & co-worker, Susan B. Anthony;”” volume two is inscribed, ““With the love and admiration of her sincere friend & co-worker, Susan B. Anthony”.” A third volume was published posthumously in 1908 and is not present here. The recipient, Charlotte A. Thomas, was a noted suffragette in Maine.
4. ARAGON, Louis . Henri Matisse, roman . Profusely illustrated with photographs and with color and black-and-white reproduc - tions of Matisse’s painting, drawings, etc. 2 vols. 4to, Paris: Gallimard, [1971]. First edition. White linen. Fine set, in very good pictorial jackets (reproducing Matisse paintings) with minor wear and soiling. In the publisher’s red cloth slipcase. $750 A presentation copy to the great linguist and scholar, , inscribed on the flyleaf: “à Christine et Roman, leur ami fidèle, pour qu’ils le connaissent mieux. Louis” A major association copy, linking one of France’s pre-eminent men of letters with the great modern linguist. Aragon’s “novel” is a massive and sumptu - ously illustrated homage to Matisse in the guise of fiction, mixing personal confidences with theoretical flights. Aragon had dedicated his earlier l’Apologie du luxe (1947) to Matisse.
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5. (ARGENTINA) Portrait photograph of President Juan Péron in his first term of office. Three-quarter-length frontal pose in tuxedo with presidential sash and necktie. Gelatin silver print. Image 28.5 x 20 cm. (11 ¼ x 8 inches); approximately 16 ½ x 12 ½ inches overall, [Buenos Aires, 1948]. With embossed stamp “Sub secretaria de informacione ” lower right. Tipped to larger sheet and mounted. Small tear in margin of mount, image fine. $1,000 Inscribed on the mount by Perón in Spanish, on December 23, 1948, to the internationally renowned dentist, Dr. Stanley D. Tylman, “in gratitude for his services to Argentina and the friendliness he has shown me with his exquisite delicacy … ” “Born in 1893, dentist Stanley D. Tylman not only taught more than 1,000 students at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry in his long career as a Professor of Dentistry (1920-1962) and head of the Department of Fixed Partial Prosthodontics, but he influenced countless den - tists internationally as well. “Tylman was particularly effective as a global educational force because he spoke four languages. His international lecture schedule took him to Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and South America—including Argentina, where he performed dental work for President Juan Peron and First Lady Evita Peron. Dentists worldwide traveled to Chicago for personal consultations with Dr. Tylman … Tylman died in 1982.” ( Wikipedia , 8/3/06).
6. ARISTOTLE . Aristotelis eorum quae physica sequuntur, sive Metaphysicorum, ut vocant, libri tredecim . 160 leaves. 4to, Paris: Dionysius à Prato, 1568. Contemporary calf with large gilt arabesque centerpiece on both upper and lower covers, addi - tionally stamped in gilt (front cover) and (lower cover). Rebacked preserving original spine. Fresh, fine copy. Not in Adams; not in RLIN or OCLC; one copy in Bibliothèque Nationale (FRBNF30027525). $2,000 Rare Latin translation of the Metaphysics by a French Benedictine Scholar, Joachim Perion, (1499-1599), first published in 1554. An interesting copy, with ownership inscription on title of “Philiberti Amadeo Machet”, and the very unusual covers, gilt-stamped with the owner’s name in gilt. Amédée Philibert Machet was the canon & dean of Notre-Dame in Annecy, and librarian to the Duke of Savoy in Turin in the late 17th century . James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102
7. AUDEN, W.H . Poems . 89 pp. 8vo, London: Faber & Faber, 1933. Second edition, revised and expanded by the addition of 7 new poems, of the author’s first published book. Brown buck - ram. Spine and edges of boards darkened and slightly soiled, endpapers with some spotting; text somewhat clumsily opened, with a few ragged edges. Bloomfield A2b. $1,250 Inscribed by Auden on the flyleaf: “To Elinor Loring |with best wishes | from |Wysten Auden | Nov. 1933” Unusual thus — a difficult title to find inscribed.
8. AURELIUS, Marcus . The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Emperor. Translated by George Long . Frontispiece. 122 pp. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, nd. Bound in full blue morocco with elaborate gilt stamping and inlaid leather strap - work, floral silk endpapers, a.e.g., front hinge and extremities rubbed. $2,500 Inscribed on front end paper: “To Ronald Colman on his birthday. The meditation of ‘a Christian without know - ing it.’ Ramon Novarro” Colman (1891-1958) and Novarro (1899-1968) were friends, and their film careers ran along similar lines. Both had come to Hollywood at the start of the 1920s, and by the mid-decade had triumphed in perhaps their most famous roles: Novarro as Ben Hur (1925) and Colman as Beau Geste (1926). They went on to play numerous romantic leads. By the end of the 1930s Novarro’s star had waned, but Colman’s blazed on until his death. In the 1950s he played a college president in the TV series The Halls of Ivy. A fine association piece. 9. BARRYMORE, L[ionel] . Autograph music manuscript, “Ossity Hongroise, op. trente ”. 3 pp. pen and ink, 68 bars, piano score on printed music staff paper. 4to, n.p. [Paris?], n.d. [ca. 1920-1954]. Toned, small closed tears and edgewear; still a playable fair copy. $2,000 A lyrical piece in A minor, with a central section in A major, composed for
“From the Author” the piano and inscribed by Lionel Barrymore to his sister: “Dédieé à Mlle. Ethel Barrymore.” Barrymore composed a variety of music, from solo pieces to large orchestral works, and received performances by the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The meaning of the title (“Eccentric Hungarian”?) is not clear to us, but in any case this is a wonderful association between two of the greatest American actors of the first half of the 20th century.
10 . (BELL, Alexander Graham) Clifton, E.C., & Adrien Grimaux . Nouveau Dictionnaire Anglais-Français et Français- Anglais . Nouvelle Édition Revue et Corrigée. 2 vols. Tall 8vo, Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. Quarter red leather and pebbled cloth, gilt spines. Preliminaries a little foxed, mild scuff - ing here and there, otherwise very good. $750 A fascinating association copy, inscribed on the flyleaf of each volume: “Alexander Graham Bell | from George Kennan | August 9, 1919.” Kennan’s early employment with the Western Union Telegraph Company, laying cable from Alaska through Siberia all the way to St. Petersburg, adds an uncanny resonance to this association with the great experimenter with telegraphy and inventor of the telephone. At the time of the inscription, Kennan was 74 years old; Bell was 72. (See also No. 136).
11 . BERTRAM, Ernst . Collection of six books inscribed to the author’s brother Hans Georg, includin g: Deutsche Gestalten. Fest- und Gedenkreden, 1934. The dedication copy . [with:] Wartburg. Spruchgedichte, 1933. “Exemplar Nr. 2’, additionally inscribed, “Ohne Gefahr keine Rettung” . [And] Griecheneiland, 1934 . [And] Das weiße Pferd. No. 8 of 120 copies , [1936]. [And] Straßburg. Ein Gedichtkreis, 1928. [And] Nietzsche. Versuch eine Mythologie, 1929 . 7 vols. 8vo, Leipzig, Berlin: Insel-Verlag, etc, 1928-1936. First edi - tions of the first four titles, later editions of the last two titles. Original publishers’ bindings (cloth or paper over boards). Four titles in dust jacket and/or publisher’s box. Buchner 18, 39, 58, 61; Sarkowski 142, 144, 153, 155. $3,000 Ernst Bertram (1884-1957), Germanist and poet, was appointed professor of
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German literature and philology at the University of Cologne in 1921. His friends included Stefan George, Friedrich Gundolf and Thomas Mann; he was among Mann’s closest personal friends during the war years and the 1920s. Bertram and Mann were among the co-editors of Ariadne , the 1925 Jahrbuch der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft; Mann’s correspondence with Bertram has been published as Th. Mann an E. Bertram. Briefe aus den Jahren 1910-1955 , ed. Inge Jens (1960). It was Bertram’s study of Nietzsche that laid the ground - work for the philosopher’s ascent into the Nazi pantheon. Bertram’s partner was calligrapher and Germanist Ernst Glöckner, in mem - ory of whom Das weiße Pferd was printed; their unpublished correspondence from 1906 until Glöckner’s death in 1934 amounts to some 5000 love letters and cards. From the 1920s on, Bertram’s poetry became increasingly mythological in its concern with the “ nordische Seele des Rheinlands. ” He was ultimately unable to resist the Nazi movement, though he protested the destruction of the writ - ings of Mann and Gundolf. Because of his close links to the Nazis, Bertram was dismissed from his academic post in 1946. A selection of Bertram’s works with an outstanding association, each of the six volumes bearing a dated inscription to his brother Hans Georg: Deutsche Gestalten , a collection of cultural and literary essays, is the Dedication copy, inscribed “in recollection of the love of Ernst Glöckner” in June 1934, just after Glöckner’s death (cloth, in dust jacket and publisher’s slipcase). Das weiße Pferd , [Leipzig, 1936]. No. 8 of 120 copies privately printed as a memorial to Ernst Glöckner (parchment-backed green boards, printed labels, in printed dust jacket). Wartburg , 1933. Additionally inscribed on the half-title, “Ohne Gefahr keine Rettung” (without danger no salvation) and on the imprint, “Exemplar Nr. 2” (brown boards, printed labels). Griecheneiland , 1934 (parchment-backed blue boards, printed labels). Straßburg is present in the third, enlarged ed., 1928 (marbled boards, dust jack - et printed on spine only); Bertram’s profoundly influential work on Nietzsche, in the seventh, corrected ed., 1929, 18th-21st Thousand (gilt- stamped blue cloth, printed dust jacket and slipcase). Also accompanying these volumes is Gedichte , 4th, enlarged ed., 1924 (parchment-backed marbled boards, printed dust jacket).
12 . BILLINGER, Karl . Fatherland. With a Foreword by Lincoln Steffens . 270 pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, [1935]. First edition. Cloth. Fine. $750 “From the Author”
Inscribed to the famous American muckraker: “To Lincoln Steffens Karl Billinger March 1935” Billinger was the pseudonym of Paul Wilhelm Massing (30 August 1902 - 30 April 1979) a German sociologist. When he returned to Germany, Massing was active from 1931 to 1933 with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Berlin. In 1933 Massing was arrested by the National Socialists under the Enabling Act. After five-months of solitary confinement in Oranienburg, Massing wrote his autobiographical novel Schutzhäftling 880 , published in 1935 under his pseudonym Karl Billinger, dedicated to all comrades in concentration camps.
13 . BLACK, Hugo , U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Portrait photo - graph, inscribed to legal scholar Beryl H. Levy. 10 x 10 inches (Image), April 11, 1941. Fine. Framed. $1,250 Inscribed below on mount: “To Beryl H. Levy, with admiration and good wishes — Hugo L Black April, 11, 1941.” With a TLS from Black tipped to the back of the frame, dated January 22, 1941, concerning Levy’s book Our Constitution , and inviting him to visit A very interesting legal association. Levy (1929-1995) was a legal scholar and teacher whose speciality was constitutional law and the U.S. Supreme Court. He was also great admirer of, and expert on, the decisions of Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who served from 1932-1938. Black, nominated to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971. Cardozo and Black differed famously over the issue of whether the 14th Amendment “incorporated” the Bill of Rights and made it binding upon the states.
: 14 . BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien . Specchio comparativo delle ornitologie di Roma e di Filadelfia . 80pp. 8vo, Pisa: Dalla Tipgrafia Nistri. Estratto dal No. XXXIII. del Nuovo Giornale de’ Letterati, 1827. First edition. Three quarter red morocco and boards, with the original wrappers bound in. Fine. Bookplates of Colonel John Eliot Thayer (1862-1933) and Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 65-66. $2,000 A wonderful association copy of a rare book by one of the founders of
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American ornithology, inscribed on the front wrapper to the Philadelphia malacologist Isaac Lea, father of Mathew Carey Lea, and one of the greatest experts on mollusks of his time (see DAB). Bonaparte’s book, originally published as an article in the Nuovo giornale de’ letterati, consists of “a list in parallel columns, of 247 species of birds of Rome and 281 of Philadelphia, arranged under their respective genera and families” - Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 65-66. For Bonaparte’s role in American ornithology and in nineteenth-century sci - entific thought, see The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World by Patricia Tyson Stroud (2000) . 15 . BRISTED, John . Hints on the National Bankruptcy of Britain and on Her Resources to Maintain the Present Contest with France . Pp. [vi]-ix, [x]-xxi, [xxii, blank], [1]-688. Thick 8vo, New York: Published by Ezra Sargeant, Broadway, opposite Trinity Church, 1809. First edition. New half calf spine and original boards. Shaw & Shoemaker 17085; Kress B 5486; Sabin 8049; Goldsmith 19765; DAB III, 54. $1,000 Inscribed on title page (part of top line lost to binder) “To the Honorable George Cabot | with the author’s compliments. ” John Bristed (1778-1855) was an English-born lawyer and author who later in life became an Episcopal clergyman. Long resident in New York, he also had extensive dealings with New England. George Cabot (1752-1823), was a seafaring merchant, a successful privateer during the Revolution, and later “Federalist sage” of Boston. He “was one of those rare men, who, almost without ambition, without effort, almost with - out the consciousness of admitted superiority, control, and become the ora - cles of communities” (DAB). In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Cabot was influential in Massachusetts politics and was named president of the Hartford Convention in 1814. 16 . BURGOYNE, John . A State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by Evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents and an Addition of many Circumstances which were prevented from appearing before the House by the Prorogation of Parliament. Written and Collected by Himself, and dedicated to the Officers of the Army he commanded . 5 (of 6) folding, hand-colored plans (two with over - lays), one folding table. pp. ix, [2], 191, Appendix, cix. 8vo, London: Printed for J. Almon, Opposite Burlington-House,
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Piccadilly, 1780. Second edition. Original boards, detached and worn, spine mostly perished, some gatherings loosened. An uncut copy with some foxing internally, maps crisp and bright. Lacking the general map of Lake Champlain and district. Custom morocco-backed folding box. Sabin 9255; Streeter 794 (for first edition); Howes B-968. $3,500 Burgoyne’s well-written account of the disastrous military expedition from Canada in 1777, in which he proves that his army was ill-equipped and out - numbered. “One of the best sources on the campaign” - Streeter catalogue. This copy bears interesting traces of its provenance. One early ink inscription notes “cost 10/ Mar 3, 1785”; a later inscription reads “The property of James H. Phelps, … Feb 14, 1849 $1.50.” Phelps, of Townshend, Vt, served as State Senator in 1854 and 1856.
, ’ . BURNEY, Charles . A General History of Music, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period . [Bound with:] An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey... in Commemoration of Handel (1785). Engraved frontispiece to each volume and 9 other plates, engraved music throughout. 4 vols. 4to (285 x 230), London: Printed for the Author, 1782-1789. Second edition of vol. I, first edition of vols. II-IV. Contemporary full calf with early rebacking ,re-hinged, some foxing and offsetting to text. For Johnson’s dedication see Hazen, pp. 23-40 & Chapman & Hazen, 153. Provenance: Johannis Poynder (bookplate); from Totteridge, October 1978 ($450). $3,500 The great eighteenth-century encyclopedic classic, awesome in the range of its learning and unsurpassed in its scope. With an autograph note, written in Fanny Burney’s hand, affixed to the front blank, presenting this set to Thomas Warton.
“Dr. Burney presents his respects to Dr. Warton, & begs he will do him the honour of admitting into his library the book which accompanies this note, as a small testi - mony of his esteem, & reverence for his character. “He hopes that Dr. Warton will pardon his vanity in the liberty he has taken of inserting his name in the list of his friends.” Warton, like Burney, is best remembered for a multi-volume survey, his History of English Poetry , and both were members of Dr. Johnson’s Literary Club. James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102
Also in Fanny’s hand is the following note written on the recto and verso of the final dedication leaf: “This dedication was written by Dr. Johnson. Of this - says Dr. Parr, there is internal evidence, but I know the fact - Boswell ought to have known it. ‘There - he adds - is the true refinement of compliment, without adulation. In the short compass of a few lines are comprised no small defence of the force & nearly all the graces & the harmonies of the English language.’ Dr. Parr’s Life & Works, edited by Dr. John Johnstone.” Dr. Parr’s remarks were offered to John Northcote. Parr is correct in his attribution; Dr. Johnson also wrote the dedication to Burney’s Handel commemoration volume, bound with this set.” No presentation copies have appeared at auction in the last 30 years.
. 18 . (BURTON, Sir Richard F.) Burton, Isabel . The Life of Captain Richard F. Burton … With numerous portraits, illustrations, and maps. In Two Volumes . 2 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. First edition. Original black cloth, spine titles gilt, gilt vignettes on boards and spines. Inscribed card from Isabel Burton presenting the work to the wife of publisher Frederic Chapman tipped in at pastedown of Vol. 1. Loosely inserted is a contemporary advertisement for a bronze medallion of R. F. Burton by Henry Page. Light rubbing to volumes, faint sunning to spines and wear at ends. $2,500 Highly desirable presentation set of Lady Burton’s biography of her husband, the famed explorer and linguist. The inscription reads “To Mrs. Frederic Chapman, With Isabel Burton’s best regards. 1893”. 19 . BURTON, Richard F . Autograph Letter Signed (“R.F.B”) from Richard Burton to Leonard Smithers concerning their col - laboration on Catullus. 3 ½ pp on a single folded leaf. 8vo, Maloja, Upper Engadine, [Switzerland]: August 18, [1890]. Two small tears at old folds, else near fine and bright, with original mailing envelope. Laid in an half blue morocco and cloth slip - case. Nelson, Publishers to the Decadents , pp. 17-23, et passim; Penzer pp. 156-167. $7,000 An interesting literary letter that documents the association between Burton
“From the Author” and Smithers, who collaborated on an edition of the Priapeia published in 1890. Burton is known to have been working obsessively on his translation of Catullus at this time, and this letter to his friend and collaborator Smithers covers progress to date, as well as news of travels in and around Swiss spas, and of acquaintances they have made. Written on stationery of a Zurich hotel with the address struck through and Maloja, Upper Engadine, substi - tuted in Burton’s hand. “Of course, at the time when the work on Priapeia was completed, only months before his death, Burton, having no knowledge of its future fortunes, counted his first collaborative effort with Smithers a success. Consequently he had gone to work together with Smithers on another volume of Latin erotica, Catullus’s Carmina … So caught up was Burton in this publishing agenda that he seriously considered during the last months of his life giving up his diplomatic duties and devoting himself entirely to the project that he and Smithers envisioned” (Nelson, p. 18). Burton died in October 1890, and the joint translation was not issued until 1894. It remains one of the major works of late Victorian erotica issued through the Erotika Biblion Society. [With a copy of the posthumously published volume:] The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton , … and the Prose Portion, Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers. London: 1894: Printed for the Translators: In One Volume: For Private Subscribers Only. Out-of-series copy of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. Original art vellum backed sage green boards, spine sunned, minor wear, internally crisp. (See inside rear cover) . 20 . BURTON, Isabel . A E I : Arabia Egypt India. A Narrative of Travel . With 15 illustrations and two maps (one folding). 8vo, London: William Mullan, 1879. First edition. Original brown cloth, decorations in gold and silver. Headcap chipped with loss, else fine, internally clean, with original binder’s ticket on rear pastedown. $2,750 Considered to be chiefly the work of her husband, Sir Richard Francis Burton (this is particularly to be noted in the discussions of the Ottoman Empire and India). Presentation copy, inscribed “H Van Laun | with Isabel Burton’s | kind compliments | 21 Feb 1879.”
21 . CABLE, George Washington . Old Creole Days. [First Series]. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. Later printing.
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Original blue cloth with light wear, but very good overall; with the morocco ex-libris of Estelle Doheny. BAL 2330 (note). $3,000 A remarkable Twain association, inscribed by Cable on the half-title: “To Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens | from G.W. Cable | Hartford, Nov 20, 1883.” This is a tremendous association copy, as Clemens and Cable were fast friends and mutual admirers, and Olivia Clemens was the frequent host of Cable when he was in Hartford. The two toured the country together twice on reading tours, the first of which being right around the time of this inscrip - tion. Furthermore, Clemens, in the winter of 1883-84, according to Paine’s biography, “took Cable’s fortunes in hand … invited him to his home, and undertook to open negotiations with the American Publishing Company, of which Frank Bliss was now the manager, for the improvement of his for - tunes.” Cable was staying with the Clemens family in Hartford, recovering from an illness, when he inscribed this to Livy, on the same day that a copy was deposited in the Library of Congress A superb association copy. (See also No. 31)
22 . (CALDER, Alexander) Miró, Joan . Calder [Exhibition cata - logue, Sala Pelaires, September-October 1972]. Introductory poem by Miró reproduced in color from his decorated manu - script. Portrait of Calder as frontispiece, [16] pp. Miro facsimile, [24] pp. black and white plates, [8] pp. Oblong 8vo, [Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Sala Pelaires, September, 1972]. First edition. Loose sheets in pictorial wrappers as issued. Some minor stains. Fine. $1,500 Inscribed by Alexander Calder on the front cover: “To Barbara & Lloyd Westcott AC”. Catalogue of an exhibition of Sandy Calder’s late work held at the Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, during the fall of 1972. The poem by Miro, scrawling and colorful and kinetic in form, is nostalgic in tone, looking back over a long friendship. “Calder holds art historical significance as the first American modernist to receive international acclaim and the first to create a major, wholly original mode of modern art” (ADNB) Barbara Harrison was founder of the avant-garde literary press Harrison of Paris with Monroe Wheeler and published Calder’s illustrations of the Fables
“From the Author” of Aesop (1931). She married Lloyd Westcott, brother of Wheeler’s partner Glenway Westcott, and was a lifelong patron of the arts A fine association, spanning the decades of Calder’s career.
23 . CAPOTE, Truman. Portrait photograph of Capote as a young man. Color gelatin print. Full-length frontal view of the author, relaxed and smiling in a pinstriped suit and bow tie. 8 ½ x 7 inches, N.p. [Alabama?], n.d. [ca. 1945]. Matted, in the orig - inal folder. Slight soiling to folder. $1,500 Inscribed on the mat in ink: “For Seabon and Addie | With Love from | Truman” When Capote’s mother and father divorced, four-year-old Truman was sen t to Monroeville, Alabama to live with his mother’s siblings, Seabon and Addie Faulk, where he made friends with his neighbor, Harper Lee. A fine associa - tion. 24 . CAPOTE, Truman . Truman Capote Reading His A CHRIST - MAS MEMORY from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” [cover title]. Vinyl record. New York: United Artists Records, 1959. In original pic - torial folding sleeve with printed text on inside. $1,250 Inscribed on the front cover of the sleeve, to the publisher of the Washington Post , Katharine Graham: “For Kay, with love from Truman, who wishes you a good Christmas in Dec. 1965” A year later, in November of 1966, Capote hosted the legendary “Black & White Ball” at the Plaza Hotel in New Yor k, in honor of his friend, Katharine Graham. 25 . CARR, Sir John (1772-1832). A Tour through Holland along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, in the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 . With map and 20 aquatints. xvi, 468 pp. 4to, London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1807. First edi - tion. Contemporary tree calf. In modern presentation cloth box. $1,000 Inscribed on the front free-endpaper from Konrad Adenauer to “his Friend the Famous American Industrialist Dannie Heineman, Bonn November, 1952.”
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Carr was a notorious writer, poet and illustrator, best known for his series of aquatint plate travel books depicting British and Continental views, such as this one of the Rhine. He was Knighted in 1805 and satirized by Walter Scott and others. Byron begged to be omitted from his Descriptive Travels in Spain (1811) and pilloried Carr in a cancelled passage of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809). His work is in the British Museum.
26 . CATHER, Willa . The Troll Garden . 253 pp. Printed by the McClure Press. 12mo, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905. First edition. Original red cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Good copy. Crane A4. $5,500 Inscribed: “To Judge James S. Young. Willa Sibert Cather, Pittsburgh November 13, 1910” A rare inscription of this vintage on Cather’s important fourth book, her first with publisher McClure. Young (1848-1914) was the U.S. Judge of the Western District of Pennsylvania. Cather had been living in Pittsburgh with Isabelle McClung, the daughter of a prominent Pittsburgh judge.
’ 27 . (CHILLIAT BINDING) Horatius Flaccus, Quintus . Carmina. edition Stereotypa Herhan . [4], xi, [1], 353 pp. 12mo, Paris: E prelis fratrum Mame, 1808. Full contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with ornamental gilt- rolled borders, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt- stamped in 5 and lettered in one, gilt turn-ins, pale blue coated endpapers, all edge gilt, with the binder’s name stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine: “ .. ”. Bookplate on first pastedown. Fine. Ramsden, French Bookbinders 1789-1848, p. 55. $1,250 Lovely example of the work of the Parisian bookbinder, mentioned in con - temporary almanachs only for the years 1815 and 1816. This copy is from the library of the Marquis de Ormonde, and is signed by him neatly on the title page: “Ossory Feb. 29, 1826”; and beneath his signature, the inscription “R. Butler | Kill kenny. Sept. | 37.”
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28 . CHODZKO, Alexander Edmund . Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia, as found in the Adventures and Improvisations of Kurroglou, the Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Persia; and in the Songs of the People inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea. Orally collected and translated, with philological and Historical Notes . x, 592 pp. 8vo, London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; and sold by W.H. Allen and Co. [Harrison and Co., Printers], 1842. First edition. Bound in con - temporary half calf and marbled boards. Rubbed a t sp ine and ends. Not in Ghani. $950 With leaf tipped in before half-title, inscribed and signed: “ To Sir George Thomas Staunton Brt. & & & with the compliments of his obliged Servant Alex. Chodzko 29 July 1842 London” Chodzko, a Foreign Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, spent 11 years in Northern Iran (now Iraq) and the Coasts of the Caspian Sea, gathering Persian, Mazandarani, Talishi, Turkic (Tuka-Turkman) and Gilaki songs and stories and popular songs from Astrakan to the north of the Caspian Sea. “Sir George Thomas Staunton, second baronet (1781-1859), Sinologist and politician, was born on 26 May 1781 at Milford House, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, only surviving child of Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801), diplomatist … He was instructed in Chinese by two native missionaries, these lessons continuing on his voyage with his father later in 1792 as part of Lord Macartney’s diplomatic mission to China. Staunton, who was nominal - ly a page to the ambassador, was able to write Chinese characters, and was the only member of the embassy who could speak Chinese to the emperor … .bought Leigh Park in Hampshire in 1819. He added a ‘gothick’ library to the house, and constructed hothouses for his rare flowers and exotic fruits” (ODNB). On page ix of the Preface Chodzko states “I feel it a duty to return my cor - dial thanks to Sir George Thomas Staunton, Esq., M.P … .who … opened their libraries to my inspection … “ “ ” 29 . CHRISTY, Howard Chandler . The Christy Book of Drawings. [together with:] the artists’ own palette; [with:] two original photographs of Christie. 12 x 17 inches (book); 11 x 16 inches (palette ); 4 x 6 and 5 x 7 inches (photos ). New York: Moffit, Yard, 1908. First edition. Book in original colored pictorial boards, brown cloth spine, titled in gilt, cover stained, two pages loose but present, else very good. The palette has sustained a
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 horizontal split, but is imperceptibly repaired, and the photos are in fine condition. Reed, The Illustrator in America , pp. 94, 112. $2,500 Inscribed on the title page: “Gr [Gertrude] Murray| With the warmest and best friendship of | Howard Chandler Christy | Jan. 20th 1910”. Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) had a long and colorful career, not unlike that of his contemporary Charles Dana Gibson, creator of “The Gibson Girl.” Christy was also famous for depicting women (his expertise brought him the pleasant task of judging the Miss America beauty contests at Atlantic City), and, in addition to his Christy Girl, he created the Christy Man, utilizing as his model Joseph E. Murray. Murray, tall, square-jawed, handsome, was also a fine athlete and had taught boxing at Princeton and Annapolis; he subsequently ran the gym of the famed New York Athletic Club. Murray’s daughter Gertrude was 16 in 1910, when Christy inscribed his book of drawings to her. In January, 1910, he also presented her with two pho - tographs of himself (each inscribed, “with the friendship of Howard Chandler Christy”), one of which shows him sitting next to a painting posed by her father. Around that time he also gave Murray or his daughter his palette, the dried oil paint displaying his characteristic range of colors, most - ly mid-range tones. In addition there is a photograph (with some losses) of a Christy painting of a Civil War scene featuring a Southern Colonel-type, pre - sumably modeled by Joseph Murray A fine collection of memorabilia of great association interest.
30 . (CHURCHILL, Winston) [Bartol, Cyrus A. (text) and Joseph FAGNANI (artist) ]. American Beauty Personified as The Nine Muses . Frontispiece portrait photograph (albumen print) of artist Joseph Fagnani, and 9 albumen prints from portraits of American women by Fagnani, each sitter identified by an ink caption by a previous owner’s hand. [56] pp. 6 ⅝ x 5 ¾ inches (16.8 x 14.5 cm), N.p. [New York?]: n.d. [ca. 1869]. Contemporary limp burgundy morocco, with a handwritten paper label affixed to the upper cover, reading: “American Beauties as Muses 1860-1870 (with names written by Leonie Jerome)”, and gilt-lettered spine. Some wrinkling to mounts , small dampstain to lower part of gutter margins, but overall a
“From the Author” good copy. With the bookplate of [ ] on the front pastedown, and that of her sister, [ ] on the rear flyleaf. $7,500 In 1869, the Italian-American painter Joseph Fagnani’s exhibition of the “Nine Muses” was held at the Somerville Art Gallery . A review of the show by the New York Times (Nov. 22, 1869) reads: “As just recognition rather than a flattering compliment of America female beauty, these pictures, apart from the strict consideration of their artistic merits, are full of interest, and, wherever they are taken, will be sure to attract much attention. We learn the muses are loudly called for in other quarter; and those who have not worshipped at their shrine, should, like good patriots, make haste to do so.” Here, in this remarkable little album, Fagnani aims to highlight and empha - size the varying beauty of American women, at a time when the European ideal served as the sole model for American standards. All the more remark - able is this copy’s extraordinary association with two of the most celebrated American beauties of its period, the Jerome sisters, Jennie (1854 - 1921) and Leonie (1859 -1943). Daughters of New York financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie and Leonie would have been teenagers at the time of the Fagnani exhi - bition after the Civil War. The two were to become among the most famous beauties of their day and the toast of England: Jennie, when she married Lord Randolph Churchill, younger son of the Duke of Marlborough, in 1874; and Leonie, ten years later, when she married the baronet Sir John Leslie. Jennie, of course, soon became the mother of Winston Churchill; and Leonie was the mother of Shane Leslie. This album, with the actual identities of the sit - ters revealed by Leonie, represents perhaps the teenage aspirations of the two sisters, soon to be realized in high society. The original portraits are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (See illustration, p. 87) ’ .. 31 . (CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne) Stowe, Harriet Beecher . My Wife and I: or. Harry Henderson’s History . With 4 wood- engraved plates. viii, 474 pp. 8vo, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1871]. Publisher’s half calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and edges, spine lettered in gilt; joints a little dry and starting. Gribben 2:671. $1,500 From the Library of Samuel L. Clemens and his daughter Clara Clemens Samossoud (with shelfmark F/Ls28 and auction bookplate, “ Mark Twain Library Auction, Hollywood, 10 April 1951”, although book does not appear in the auction checklist, presumably because the book was neither annotated or signed by Clemens)
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Clemens’ library contained many works by Harriett Beecher Stowe, who was Clemens’s next-door neighbor in Hartford. A fine association between two of America’s most important writers from the 19th century. (See also No. 160) . 32 . CODY, William F . An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) . Photo frontispiece, and illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 8vo, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1923. Later printing. Publisher’s brown pictorial cloth, upper cover and spine titled “Buffalo Bill’s Life Story | An Autography”, near fine. $750 Inscribed to the artist Edward Borein: “1872 | 1924 To Ed. from his loving Mother, Annie B. Borein” John Edward Borein (1872-1945), son of a California deputy sheriff, was sketching Western subjects at the age of five. Encouraged by his family to become an artist, he matriculated at a San Francisco art school, but left after a month to work as a cowboy. In this pursuit he became highly proficient, although, encouraged by his awed fellow cowhands, he continued to draw and sketch in his spare time and, in 1896, began to see his work in print. He eventually developed an enviable competence as a watercolorist, but gave up painting in oils when he compared his work - unfavorably - with that of his friend Charles M. Russell In 1906 Borein moved to New York to work as an illustrator, and studied etch - ing - which would become a specialty - at the Art Students’ League. It was this which set him apart from his peers in Western art, and nearly 400 of his etch - ings are recorded. Seeped in the history and allurements of the West, he returned to California permanently in 1919, and it is to his native state that much of his work relates. By the 1930s his watercolors, produced with sparkling, vivid colors and conveying a flavor of authenticity without preten - sion, were enormously popular; they number over 1,000 examples. He is known as an artist “who got the details right” and his readily identifiable per - sonal style sets him apart from others who depict the landscapes, the inhabi - tants, the history, and the sun-drenched aridity of the American West. (See also No. 75). 33 . COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor . Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from our Elder Divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton . 4045, [4, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825. First edition. Bound in 19th- century half black morocco, t.e.g. Provenance: “From the Author”
R.S. Jameson: William W. Gay (bookplate). Tinker 705; NCBEL 3:220. $2,500 One of Coleridge’s notable philosophical works, with the following publish - er’s presentation inscription on first blank: “R.S. Jameson from the Author. Linc[oln’s] Inn 1825” Robert Sympson Jameson (1798-1854) “ … was the boyhood friend of Hartley Coleridge and had excellent literary connections, at one stage acting as legal agent for Charles Lamb … ” (Oxford DNB).
.. 34 . COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor . The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Collected and Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge. [Vols. I & II only]. 8 pages of ads at front of Volume One, xix, 395; viii, 416, [corrigenda] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: William Pickering, 1836. First edition. Original green cloth, paper spine labels. Volume one recased, labels rubbed. Early bookseller’s catalogue description affixed to front pastedown. Vol. I. rebacked with spine laid down. Wise 87. $1,000 A touching association copy, inscribed on the flyleaf: “H.F. Cary | From the Editor” H.F. Cary is now most remembered as the translator and scholar of Dante. He was also a longtime friend of S.T. Coleridge, whom Cary met one day while vacationing in Sussex. The two had dinner together, Coleridge discov - ered Dante through Cary’s translation, and afterwards lectured on it with readings from his friend’s translation. Cary’s reputation was made, and his Dante saw 27 editions before 1900. With lengthy note in pencil on Shakespeare and Plautus beneath the inscription. 35 . COOLIDGE, Dane . The Man-Killers . [viii], 243 pp. 8vo, New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1921]. Second printing. Tan buckram. Slight spotting to fore-edge. Very good. Bookplate of Edward Borein, reproducing one of his drawings. $750 Flyleaf inscribed: “To Ed Borein, | Merry Christmas - | Happy New Years | Your joke is on page 14. | Dane Coolidge | Dec. 22, 1921 | Berkeley, California” Dane Coolidge (1873-1940), was a prolific writer of westerns, as well as a nat - uralist, field collector of mammals and reptiles, and student of the Southwest. (See also No. 32) James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102
, 36 . (COWARD, Noel) Tappe, Horst . Portrait photograph of Noel Coward seated in his living room, framed by angel’s wings. Black and white gelatin silver print. 11 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches, [Montreux, Switzerland: ca. 1965]. Matted and framed. $750 A famous image of the playwright in his Swiss chalet, taken by the celebrat - ed Swiss photographer Horst Tappe, inscribed to the novelist (aka “Patrick Quentin”) and librettist , who wrote the book for musicals Sweeney Todd , A Little Night Music , and Candide : “For Hugh | with my lov e | Noël”
, 37 . CRANDALL, Rand Percy, Dr. Album of his tours in the U. S. Navy, including Havana during the Spanish American War; Manilla, Guam, Savannah, Newport, San Francisco in 1899, and China In 1904. He was aboard the USS Iowa, USS Constellation, USS Oregon, USS Collier Justin, USS New Orleans, USS Georgia, USAT Kilpatrick, USAT Thomas and USS General Alava. Approximately 123 leaves, with numerous drawings and autographs. 4to, Various places, 1899-1932. Black roan. Rebacked and repaired, scuffed, lower corners broken on most sheets, some chipping and marginal browning, some leaves loose, several repaired along gutter with tape; nonetheless quite good, in a brown morocco-backed slipcase. $2,500 A remarkable album by this prominent Naval surgeon, which includes: Frederic Remington . Original pen sketch signed “Frederic Remington,” (card broken through signature, repaired in tape, some soiling and wear along fore-edge), captioned “Iowa-Havana waiting for the Ravishing to Begin,” 8 x 10 inches, Remington was covering the Spanish-American War for Hearst (P. 50) . Julian Rix . Original watercolor inscribed “Dear Doctor, it is a poor heart that never rejoices-keep it up. Julian Rix, Nov 19th “[board broken in lower corner losing date, separated along gutter, chipping of fore-edge), the watercolor is of a submarine made from a syringe, 8 x 10 inches (p. 99). E. W. Kemble . Original pen sketch inscribed “To my dear little boy Doc from E. W. Kemble, Dec. 22, 1899” a sketch of a smiling black face (break in board in upper margin and lower corner with loss of blank area) on 8 x 10 sheet, sketch about 4 x 4 inches.
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Original drawings and sketches by Henry Stall, E. Garcia, “Jolly,” S. Montgomery Roosevelt, Sam Powel, Horatio R. Harper, R. P. Smith, George M. Stellner, J. Oliver Spurr, H. B. Quinan, Bobbie Aitkey, Robert William Henderson, “Lafe,” Raphael A. Weed (including an original etching inscribed to Crandall), Charles Rollo Peters, Hy Mayer and p. Nelson. Many are pencil or pen and ink, some are watercolors, and most are caricatures of Crandall. There are also several leaves of autographs and signatures of notables of the day, including Yates Stirling, Lloyd Osbourne, George Barnett, David Belasco, Stanford White, Stewart Brice, Arthur Weld, George Broadhurst, George Ade, and Frederick Warde; a few leaves are signed by members of “The Lambs” and The Bohemian Club of San Francisco; and illuminated quotes by Frank Unger, Crandall and W. Spence Wright. There is an autograph note from Mason Mitchell of the Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, thanking the doctor for his help the 2nd July ‘98 at Sibonay Cuba (Mitchell was injured and is mentioned in Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders”; an introduction by Clay M. Greene, a poem by Charles G. Yale, music by A. B. Sloane a group of Chinese watercolors from Canton, Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1904 (rice paper cracked, drawings laid down or taped).
38 . CRAWFORD, Francis Marion . Selected works. Includes : Khaled; Children of the King; Sant’ Ilario; With the Immortals; A Cigarette Maker’s Romance; Marion Darche; Zoroaster; To Leeward; Saracinesca; Doctor Claudius; The Ralstons (2 volumes ); and Casa Braccio (2 volumes). In all, 16 vols. 8vo, New York: Macmillan & Co., 1891-1895. Matching publisher’s brown cloth (except for The Ralstons in tan cloth and Casa Braccio in green cloth). Each with bookplate of Major James B. Pond. Fine. $1,500 Each title is signed by the author. Children of the King is inscribed to Pond from Crawford. Casa Braccio has two inscriptions: “To my old Friend Major Pond with a happy New Year from F. Marion Crawford.” and “1896 — In pres - ence of Hamilton W. Mabie/ W. M. Payne of Chicgo [sic] Died/ Mr. Bert/ J. B. Pond.” Crawford was born in Italy of American parents and spent much of his life there. According to Fullerton’s Selective Bibliography of American Literature , he was “the most cosmopolitan of American novelists.” The four titles of the Saracinesca series (all of which are represented here) are his best known. Hamilton Mabie was a well known editor and critic. Fullerton, pp. 73-4, 189.
’ 39 . CULLEN, Countee . Copper Sun . 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. Original marbled boards, black James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 cloth spine with paper spine label. Spine ends a little rubbed and chipped, corners slightly worn, otherwise very good. Bookplate of Carroll Atwood Wilson. $1,500 Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: “Author’s Copy - Countee Cullen | New York.”
40 . CUTTING, Helen, F.R.G.S. I have been to Lhasa . 12mo, [New York]: Harper’s Bazaar, [April 1938]. Specially gotten up edition With design designation on verso of title page “G. Alan Chidsey, Great Neck, NY.” A very few copies done for her friends. Tan buckram, printed in red. $750 Inscribed on flyleaf: “To Fanny (Fanny Hanna Moore) from H.C. 1938.” Mrs. Cutting was the first American woman ever to set foot in Lhasa, tradi - tional seat of the Dalai Lama and capital of Tibet.
, 41 . DAHLBERG, Edward . Bottom Dogs . With an Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. 269, [3] pp. 8vo, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. First American edition. Blue cloth lettered in white and red, designed by Andor Braun. Near fine copy in spine faded unclipped blue printed dust jacket. $850 Inscribed on flyleaf: “For Constant Huntington - With sincere affection, friendship - this as a memento Edmund Dahlberg. New York City. Feb. 17, 1930.” Huntington was the head of Putnam’s in London, which first published Bottom Dogs in 1929 in an edition of 500 copies. Dahlberg’s first book, set in Kansas City where his mother had her beauty parlor. “The shop, the cowboys and politicians and big horse and mule traders that came to it, are the basis of my first novel … “ - quoted in Kunitz & Haycraft.
’ 42 . DAVENPORT, Marcia . Collection of five books, inscribed by the author to Otto Kraus, her Czech language teacher, com -
“From the Author” prising: Mozart; [and:] Of Lena Geyer; [and:] The Valley of Decision; [and:] East Side, West Side; [and:] Too Strong for Fantasy . 5 vols. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936-1967. First edi - tions. Original cloth. Two titles with some minor rubbing, else near fine. $1,250 Marcia Davenport (1903-1996), daughter of soprano Alma Gluck (and the step-daughter of violinist Efrem Zimbalist) was raised in cosmopolitan circles and educated at Wellesley and in France. She was an early staff writer at The New Yorker , and in the Thirties was a music critic. At Scribner’s her editor was Maxwell Perkins and her first book was a well-received biography of Mozart, familiar to all lovers of the composer . Her novel The Valley of Decision was a best-seller and was made into a film . During World War II she worked for the Czechoslovak cause and from 1945 she divided her time between New York and Prague until the Communist coup d’ état in 1948. Marcia Davenport began to learn Czech during the war; her teacher was Otto Kraus, attached to the Czechoslovak consulate in New York (and later com - mercial attaché during the brief postwar government of Masaryk). A firm friendship arose, as the inscriptions on these books document. In 1946 Davenport was witness to Kraus’s wedding in New York City and thereafter inscribed books to the couple. Mozart is inscribed “To Otto Kraus With appreciation for your beautiful Praha, which I first learned to love through working on this book; and in the certainty that we will all meet there in freedom and happiness again. Marcia Davenport New York November 1941.” Davenport’s autobiography, Too Strong for Fantasy (1967), is inscribed “To Vlasta and Otto Kraus in old friendship, Marcia Davenport, New York, September 1967.” Davenport, who never wrote about her connections with Czechoslovakia before this autobiography, briefly recalls her efforts to learn Czech at p. 292.
, 43 . DE BLAINVILLE, H.M.Ducrotay . Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchyliologie . 109 engraved plates (planches vol.); viii, 664 pp. with 2 folded tables (text vol.). 2 vols. 8vo, Paris: 1825-1827. First edition. Publisher’s printed purple boards, spines sunned and lightly edgeworn, some foxing, heavy at preliminaries, ex- Bowdoin College Library, early call-number labels to spines, withdrawn plates to front paste-downs, small blind stamp on title pages, withal an attractive set in original boards. Nissen ZBI, 391. $1,500
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Inscribed on the flyleaf: “David H. Storer from his friend J. Mason Warren” David Humphreys Storer was a zoologist and physician. He was a graduate of Bowdoin in 1822 and Harvard Medical School in 1825. He specialized in obstetrics and was a professor at both the Tremont Street Medical School and Harvard Medical School, where he also served as dean. He actively pursued his interest in natural history, publishing several reports on fish in Massachusetts. J. Mason Warren (1811-1867) in 1835 assumed his father’s medical practice, specializing in plastic surgery in Boston and performed the first rhinoplasty in America. (See also No. 64).
, 44 . DELVIGNE, Cassimir . Marino Faliero … représenté pour la première fois sur le Théatre de la Porte Saint-Martin, le 30 mai 1829 . pp. [i-iv], [9]-188. 8vo, Paris: Ladvocat, 1829. First edition. Contemporary quarter green calf and marbled paper over boards. Very good. $750 Inscribed on the half-title: “A son altesse Royale | Madame la Duchesse d’Orleans | hommage de respect | Casimir Delavigne.” A remarkable association copy, as Delavigne was a follower and supporter of Louis-Phillipe, Duc d’Orléans. Shortly after this play was produced, Louis- Phillippe acceded to the throne in 1830 (the”July Revolution”). During his reign, from 1830-1848, he appointed Delavigne to the post of Librarian of the Royal Palace. ‒ 45 . DICKENS, Charles . Autograph letter signed (“Charles Dickens” with paraph) to Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu acknowl - edging receipt of Le Fanu’s manuscript of “Green Tea” but regrets that he was unable to decipher the handwriting. One page in blue ink on letterhead of All The Year Round . (197 x 123 mm; 7 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches), London: September 29, 1869. Creased with faint offsetting from previous fold, a few light surface abra - sions and spots of soil, in all near fine. $7,500 Dickens’ letter reads: “I had best let you know that I have safely received your MS and have sent it
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to the printer. I tried to read it in your writing, but could not succeed without devoting more time to the task than I could spare.” Dickens admired Le Fanu and, as alluded to in this letter, published “Green Tea” in his periodical All The Year Round in 1869. It is arguably Le Fanu’s great - est work of short fiction and draws on his interest in spiritualism and Swedenborgian mysticism. During the correspondence between the two authors leading up to the publication of “Green Tea,” Dickens asked that Le Fanu use his knowledge of the occult to help a friend, Madame de la Rue, who had been suffering from spectral hauntings (Gates, Victorian Suicide ). A fine association and an interesting piece of Dickensiana, written a year before the author’s death, showing him in his capacity as publisher. (See also Nos. 89 & 162, and see rear cover for illustration).
46 . DIONNE, Charles Eusèbe . Les Oiseaux du Canada . 35 plates in the text. xliii, 284 pp. 12mo, Québec: Imprimérie de P.-G. Delisle, 1883. First edition. Half modern calf and marbled boards. Fine. Wood p.319; Ayer p. 172. $1,000 Dionne was born in 1846 and died in 1918. This copy is particularily nice for its inscription: “Presenté à J M LeMoine, Esq. Avocat par l’Auteur.” LeMoine was the author of Ornithologie du Canada . “Annotated, systematic catalogue of the birds of Canada.”(Wood).
47 . DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge . Sylvie and Bruno. [with] Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. By Lewis Carroll . With 46 illustrations by Harry Furness. 2 vols. 8vo (184 x 126mm), London: Macmillan, 1889; 1893. First editions. Original red cloth, gilt, a.e.g. Light scattered spotting on first and last few leaves. Front hinge of vol. I split, a few small spots on the front cover and end - paper of vol. I, light soiling. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 217, 250; Williams 56 & 66; Dodgson at Auction 1377. Provenance: Edith Stevens (née Headland, 1841-1919) - Maggs (sale, Sotheby’s, 11-14 February 1929, lot 757). $3,000 , , - : “Mrs. Stevens, from the Author. Feb. 28, 1891” and
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“Mrs. Stevens, with sincere regards, from the Author. Dec. 27, 1893” Dodgson, on the day of the first inscription, wrote to Mrs. Stevens: “I have lost a considerable fraction (say .25) of my heart to your little daughter: and I hope you will allow me further opportunities of trying whether or no we can become real friends. She would be about my only child-friend in Oxford” (Letters , p. 825). Enid’s friendship with Dodgson during his last years “was most gratifying to him, and her reminiscences of him are among the best. ‘We were the very greatest friends,’ she wrote. ‘I don’t think anybody else ever had so much of him as I had … I was the last child-friend’” (i bid ). 48 . [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge] . Through the Looking- Glass, and What Alice Found There . Illustrations by John Tenniel. 8vo, London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. First edition, first issue with “wade” on page 21. Original red cloth gilt by Burn with his label on the lower pastedown, with all edges gilt, and dark blue endpapers. Professionally rebacked preserving original spine. In a full red morocco pull-off case by Rivière and Son. Williams, Madan and Green 84; Pierpont Morgan 215; not in Carlson & Eger. $15,000 A wonderful copy, with this presentation inscription from Dodgson on the half-title, in his characteristic purple ink, to a little girl: “Margaret Lilias Godfrey Fausset.| From the Author. | Christmas, 1871” Just as with Alice in Wonderland a few years before, Dodgson gave away some one hundred copies of the first edition of Through the Looking-Glass to friends and associates, including many of his favorite little girls. Many are dated, as is this, “Christmas, 1871,” and indeed Williams and Madan quote Dodgson’s diary of Dec. 8: “‘Received from Macmillan three Looking-glasses in moroc - co, and a hundred in cloth,’” all of which, evidently, he inscribed and sent off that day. This is a particularly striking example, in that it contains (laid in) a revealing note from its original recipient, written many years later, explaining the cir - cumstances of her gift. She remembers: “When I was a little girl my father*, who was a fellow student of Ch. Ch. with Mr. Dodgson, took me up with him to his rooms. I well remember the room, at the corner of Tom Quad with the charming little turret chambers opening off it. Alice in Wonderland was then already published & Mr. Dodgson proceeded to tell me the story of Through the Looking Glass which he had finished writing but for which only half the illustrations were ready. I remember he told us the artist [John Tenniel] had gone to Egypt & so the book must wait. As he told me the story he showed me each picture in turn, & when it came to Alice going through the glass he took
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the two pictures & held them back to back, explaining that they would be one on each side of a page in the book. “When at last it was published he sent me this copy.” “M.LG.R.” *According to Cohen in The Letters of Lewis Carroll (p. 20, note): “Robert Godfrey Faussett, sometimes Godfrey-Faussett (1827-1908), became one of Dodgson’s close associates. He entered Christ Church in 1845, five years before Dodgson, took a First in mathematics, became Mathematical Lecturer and later Treasurer and Steward. From 1875 he was also Vicar of Cassington, Oxfordshire. Dodgson’s Diaries record many occasions, through the years, when he and Faussett met, dined, worked and travelled together. Dodgson frequently asked Faussett’s advice, not only on mathematical matters but on literary ones as well; together they visited the courts, went to the House of Commons, the theatre and art galleries. Dodgson defended Faussett’s perfor - mance as Treasurer in 1880 ( Diaries , April 14) and in 1886, when he again came under attack. On March 8 of that year Dodgson “Stood at desk from 9 to 6, writing paper on Report of the Finance Committee (which is a covert attack on Faussett) ( Diaries , p. 440). In that paper Dodgson warmly defended Faussett: “In the name of Common Sense let us know a good work man when we have got him. And having got him, let us not begin asking whether we have screwed down his pay to the lowest possible figure “ (Christ Church MS Estates 134, If. 34-42, March 15, 1886, p. 6). Nonetheless on March 23 “the Governing Body resolved unanimously that Faussett was incapacitated from the proper performance of his duties as Treasurer” (private letter from the Librarian of Christ Church). Dodgson and Faussett remained on good per - sonal terms and, after the latter retired to Cassington, Dodgson visited him from time to time. In 1893, when Dodgson presented Faussett with a copy of his Curiosa Mathematica (part II), he inscribed it “ with sincere regards of his old pupil” (Princeton). For a Dodgson photograph of Faussett, see facing p. 477, below (see also Handbook , p. 28).” A presentation copy of Fausset’s own book The Symmetry of Time (1881) was in Dodgson’s library (see Carlson & Eger 747). The book comes to us direct - ly from the family. (See front cover)
49 . DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred . Sonnets . 8vo, London: The Academy Publishing Company, 1909. First edition. Original paper-covered boards. Some soiling to boards, but still an inter - nally bright copy preserved in an elaborate half green morocco clamshell box. NCBEL III:623. $1,250 Inscribed on the verso of the half-title:
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“Mrs. White | With the best wishes |& kind remembrances |of the author./ Alfred Bruce Douglas.| July 1917.” With a privately printed Christmas greeting (poem) entitled “On a Showing of the Nativity,” inscribed by Douglas: “With good Xmas wishes to you both/from Alfred Douglas. 1917.” ’ 50 . DUGANNE, Augustine Josephs Hickey . Autograph Manuscript signed (“A.J.H. Duganne”) of his poem “Sheridan’s Harvesting”. Written on four preliminary blank leaves of a copy of Duganne’s Poetical Works , Autograph Edition [Phila: Carey & Hart], 1865. 8vo, n.p., [1865]. One of 75 copies comprising sheets from the 1855 edition, with new title-page, some with sheets of manuscript bound in. Original green cloth gilt, t.e.g, board edges bevelled, minor stains slight rubbing. BAL 4900. $1,250 Major-General Sheridan’s copy, with his name stamped in gilt on front cover within a gilt laurel wreath topped by an American Eagle. Duganne was a Boston author whose verse and prose won great acclaim in his day from con - temporary critics such as William H. Burleigh: “Mr. Duganne’s lyrical pow - ers are characterized by a nervous energy, a generous sympathy with human - ity, a wonderful command of language, and an ardent hatred of wrong and oppression in all their forms … “ (Quoted by Allibone). ’ : .. 51 . DUHAMEL, Georges . Scènes de la Vie Future . 8vo, Paris: Mercure de France, 1930. First edition, one of 1625 numbered copies (this being no. 1739), of a total edition of 1969. Contemporary half red calf and marbled boards, with original wrappers bound in, t.e.g., by Bayntun of Bath for Sotherans. Booklabel of H.G. Wells on verso of original front wrapper. Fine. $750 Classic expression of a European unease at the spread of modern, industrial - ized society, particularly as represented by American “civilization”, Duhamel’s work was translated into English as America the Menace , 1931. This copy is inscribed by Duhamel on the flyleaf to a another famous futurist who shared Duhamel’s concerns about American society (e.g. in The Future in America , 1906): “A H.G. Wells | honneur des lettres | son fidèle | G Duhamel | Juillet 30” (See also No. 170).
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’ 52 . (EDGEWORTH, Maria) Everest, Rev. Robert . A Journey through Norway, Lapland, and part of Sweden; with some Remarks on the Geology of the Country; its Climate and Scenery; the Ascent of some of its principal Mountains - the present Political Relations of the two Countries - Statistical Tables, Meteorological Observations, &c . With engraved frontispiece, engraved graph, and six folding engraved colored maps and plans. 8vo, London: Thomas & George Underwood, 1829. First edition. Recent half calf over marbled boards, uncut. $1,000 Presentation copy with this inscription on the first blank: “Miss Maria Edgeworth with the profound esteem and sincere regard of the Author’s brother.” The donor is military engineer Sir George Everest, whose name Mount Everest bears. 53 . (EDISON, Thomas Alva) Shinn, Walter Scott , photogra - pher. Photogravure portrait of Thomas Edison. 7 x 9 inches, New York, n.d. [c. 1920]. In the original studio mat and folder. $2,500 Inscribed beneath the photo, “In memory 1847-1937 | To Mr. Ludwig F. Ott | from | Mina M. Edison Hughes. [Edison’ daughter]. Ludwig Ott was a lifelong employee of Thomas Edison. . EISENHOWER, Dwight D . The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-1956 . Illustrated, and with endpaper maps. xviii, [ii], 650 pp. 8vo, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. Limited edition but without signed and numbered limitation leaf. Original beige cloth, fine in original publisher’s slipcase. $2,500 Inscribed on the half-title to Eisenhower’s friend and financial advisor and co- founder of the Augusta National Golf Club: “For Cliff Roberts with the warm regards of his devoted friend Ike Eisenhower 1963.” Eisenhower’s love and support of the game of golf is legendary. He installed a putting green the White House lawn, and he was the first U.S. President to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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55 . (EISENHOWER, Dwight D.) Bachrach, photographer. Portrait photograph signed (“Ike Eisenhower”). Gelatin silver print. Image, 8 x 10 inches, nd. In original frame, mild fading to ink and toning to margins, matted and framed to 12 ½ by 16 ¾ inches. $2,500 Eisenhower in uniform, post-war but pre-White House. Inscribed to Cliff Roberts (see above item) of the Augusta National: “For Cliff Roberts | with best wishes and warm regard s from his devoted friend …” 56 . ELIOT, T.S . The Cocktail Party. A Comedy . 190, [2] pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1959]. First American edition. Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, fine in slightly chipped dust jacket, In quarter blue morocco drop box. Gallup A70b. $1,500 Inscribed to New York theater critic Leonard Lyons on title page: “Inscribed for/ Leonard Lyons Esq./ by T.S. Eliot.” “Leonard Lyons was in a class by himself. If he didn’t use material you sent him, he would send it back. A lawyer by education, Lyons was a celebrity lover. He’d start his day around noon at Sardi’s. Then he’d go to 21, the Four Seasons, looking for people. Those were his lunchtime rounds. He would go down to the Post on West Street and begin to put his column together and then go to his fabulous apartment on Central Park West. About six o’clock he’d come out again, go to the screening of a movie, a premiere of a play. And then the rounds again: back to Sardi’s, Arthur’s [a popular disco for a while in the 1960’s], and P. J. Clark[e]’s, which was the last stop for him and Earl Wilson [the Post’s main gossip columnist in the 1950’s and 1960’s]. They used to write until three, four in the morning.” ( It Happened on Broadway. An Oral History of the Great White Way ). Lyons had a large library of inscribed books from theatre greats. 57 . ELIOT, T.S . The Confidential Clerk . 136 pp. 8vo, London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1953]. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In red cloth slipcase and chemise. Gallup A64. $2,500 Presentation copy, inscribed by Eliot on the front free endpaper: “To Ronnie Duncan from T.S.E. 23.iii.54” Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was a poet and playwright, also published by Faber and Faber.
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58 . (ELZEVIR) Terence, Publius . Pub. Terentii Comœdiæ Sex ex recensione Heinsiana . [24] leaves, including engraved title page; 304 pp., [4] leaves (Index). 24mo, Lugdunum Batavorum [Leiden]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635. First Elzevir edition, first printing (“et la plus belle”) with all points as enumerated by Willems. Full 17th-century red morocco, covers decorated with wide gilt-rolled borders and with central gilt lozenge device of intricate design, spine in six panels, gilt-stamped with repeated device in five , lettered in one, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing at extremities, joints starting but sound, and over - all a very good, bright copy; with the morocco ex-libris of - . on the front pastedown. Willems, p. 107. $750 Superb little binding from the Herschel Jones collection, and an intriguing inscription on the flyleaf: “ex dono Dr. Dowden” (possibly Edward Dowden, the scholar, of Trinity College, Dublin?) “ ” 59 . [EVERETT, Alexander Hill] . Europe: or a General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principle Powers; With Conjectures on Their Future Prospects: By a Citizen of the United States [With:] Typed Letter Signed (Jan. 20, 1903) from nephew Edward Everett Hale stating “Alexander Hill Everett is the author of Europe ” [And]: Autograph Letter Signed (Feb. 7 1903) from E.H. Davies to General Brown concerning book’s provenanc e. [ii], 451 pp. 8vo (9 ½ x 5 ⅞ inches), Boston: Published by Oliver Everett, No. 6 Court Street, and Cummings and Hilliard, No. 1 Cornhill. Hilliard & Metcalf, printers, 1822. Later presentation binding of full brown morocco over flexible boards with gilt title to back and front cover; marbled endpapers; totally uncut. Signed book - plate of General John Marshall Brown from his Maine home, “Thornhurst.” Flap from envelope containing letters detached and pasted to flyleaf form previous tipping. Sabin 23230; American Imprints 8863. $750 Presentation copy from Edward Everett on behalf of his brother Alexander, the book’s author, inscribed to C. Davies in the year of publication. The book then passed to Davies’ son E.H. Davies, who presented it to General John
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Marshall Brown: ‘Your Eloquent remarks at the meeting of the Historical Societies at Mr. Gordon’s reception, relating to my father’s service in connec - tion with the N.E. Boundary dispute, deserve recognition, and I send you a copy of Everett’s Europe, which he valued.” Davies additionally inscribed the book to General Brown. Alexander Hill Everett (1792-1847), “an American Renaissance man” (ANB) was a lifelong public servant and man of letters. Among many distinctions, he was private secretary to John Quincy Adams, U.S. ambassador to Spain, first American minister to China, and the editor of Boston’s North American Review . “Everett’s articles and books on political economy, diplomacy, and lit - erary criticism established him as one of the United States’s leading men of letters. In Europe (1822), Everett argued that Europe would remain at the center of the world economy for decades to come” (ANB). His brother Edward Everett (1794-1865), who Emerson termed “our Cicero,” was a member of the House and Senate from Massachusetts, President of Harvard, and man of letters. General John Marshall Brown served in the Civil War, was a trustee of Bo wdoin College, and active in the Maine Historical Society. An uncut copy, having passed through many notable hands, of a work from one of 19th-century America’s great figures. 60 . FIELD, Eugene . With Trumpet and Drum . xi, 126, [1] pp. Printed by the De Vinne Press. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892. First edition, number 5 of 12 Presentation Copies printed for the Author upon Imperial Japanese paper, signed by the Publisher. Unbound sheet laid into Japan vellum boards, with ties. Inside a later blue cloth chemise. With the bookplate of Dunwalke Library. $750 Inscribed on the flyleaf: “To Mary H. Willard,/ with the affectionate and grateful regards of/ her cousin, Eugene Field/ Greenfield, Nov. 28, 1892.”
61 . FROST, Robert . Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939 . Frontispiece portrait. 436 pp. 8vo, New York: Henry Holt and Company, “July, 1945” (copyright page). Later printing. Original beige cloth. Minor soiling, small stain on upper cover. Crane A23 (first edition); Lathem 46. $1,250 Inscribed by the author:
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“To Bob Scheel/ from/ Robert Frost/ Kenyon Oct 6 1946.” For this edition Frost wrote a preface, “The Figure a Poem Makes,” an essay which is surely his best-known prose composition.
62 . FROST, Robert . Robert Frost: A Chronological Survey . 8vo, Middletown, CT: 1936. First edition. Quarter green cloth and boards. Fine in chipped glassine. $950 Inscribed on flyleaf “Robert Frost/ 1939/ for Fred Rosenstock.” Rosenstock was a famous Denver bookman.
- 63 . GENTHE, Arnold . Old Chinatown … with Text by Will Irwin . Illustrated with 91 photographs by Arnold Genthe, print - ed at the Plimpton Press; ix, [1], 208, [2] pp. 8vo, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Second edition, enlarged. Original gilt-stamped black cloth, fraying to cloth at extremities, nick to spine; very good. cf. Parr/Badger I, p. 75 (for first ed.). $1,500 An important work of documentary and ethnographic photography, “ … one of the first and most important examples of the candid-camera approach to documentary photography” (Parr/Badger I). Inscribed to Edward Epstean, “whose knowledge and patience are responsible for the excellent reproductions of my Chinatown pictures Arnold Genthe, December 1912”. Epstean (1868-1945) was a pioneering photo-engraver and collector who assembled one of the greatest libraries on the history and science of photog - raphy. Though not formally credited in this book, it must be assumed by Genthe’s inscription that Epstean was responsible for the book’s stunning half-tone reproductions — so rich in tone and detail that they approach the quality of photogravures.
64 . GIBBES, Robert Wilson (1809-1866). Monograph of the Fossil Squalidae of the United States. Parts I & II [bound with:] Memoir on the Fossil Genus Basilosaurus; with a Notice of Specimens from the Eocene Green Sand of South Carolina . With 7, 3, and 5 lithograph plates, respectively. 3 volumes in one volume. Tall 4to,
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Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, Printers, No. 7 Carter’s Alley, 1848; 1849; 1847. First separate editions, each off-printed from the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . Bound in red later cloth, original front wrappers bound in; mod - erate wear, ex-library (Bowdoin College Library), with small sticker to spine, withdrawn bookplate, and small blind stamp on title pages. $750 Presentation copies, each inscribed by “the author” to Dr. D.H. Storer. (See also No. 43).
’ 65 . (GORILLAS) Du Chaillu, Paul B . Exploration and Adventures in Equatorial Africa. With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals . Illustrated with 71 plates, including folding frontispiece of Gorilla and folding map at back. xviii, 479 pp. 8vo, New York: Harper Brothers, 1861. First American edition from the sheets of the second London edition. Full black pebbled morocco, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Invisibly rebacked preserving original spine, corners repaired. Title page browned. The blank verso of the original marbled fly - leaf bears Du Chaillu’s ownership notation in ink. $2,500 A superb association copy of the most celebrated work by Paul Du Chaillu (1835-1903), the explorer whose travels in Central Africa documented the existence of the “Monstrous and ferocious ape, the gorilla.” This first expe - dition into Central Africa, supported by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, commenced in 1856 and lasted close to four years and covered 8,000 miles. He amassed an amazing collection of rare birds and animals, and made several important discoveries about the rivers of the region. His Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa (1861) was initially greeted with ridicule, but his discoveries were confirmed and he was established as an expert on the region. After another expedition in 1863, he settled in America to lecture and write about Africa. All of his books “are very readable and con - tain interesting, lively descriptions which indicate a keen sense of observation on the part of the author” (DAB). , . GODWIN, William . Essay on Sepulchres: or, a Proposal for Erecting some Memorial of the Illustrious Dead of All Ages, on the Spot where Their Remains have been Interred . Engraved frontispiece
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“Life in the Desert and the Solitude” by Hopwood after Hilton. xii, 116pp. 8vo, London: Printed for W. Miller, 1809. First edi - tion. Full olive-green pebbled morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Bookplates of Henry Reeve and Frank M. Elliot. Neatly rebacked, internally fine copy. Tinker 1083. $2,000 Presentation copy, inscribed on the title page in Godwin's unmistakable hand: "From the Author"'; with the bookplates of Henry Reeve, and (later) of Frank M. Elliot. Godwin's curious book, partly inspired by his reading Sir Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial and Blair's The Grave , proposes a new system of permanently marking the graves of the eminent and deserving dead. He suggests a sub - scription be taken up to maintain and replace when necessary, "a very slight and cheap memorial, a white cross of wood, with a wooden slab at the foot of it." The idea did not arouse tremendous enthusiasm. As Charles Lamb remarked, “I don't want the Public to prescribe me my admiration." And as William St. Clair notes, "Like virtually every book that Godwin wrote, it is an extended footnote to Political Justice ." - St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys , p. 307.
67 . GREY, Zane . Tappan’s Burro . Illustrated with 7 color plates by Charles S. Chapman and Frank Street. Square 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, [1923]. First edition (so stated on copyright page, and with code “I-X” beneath). Black cloth let - tered and blocked in gilt, with mounted color illustration on upper cover. Fine copy in bright, near fine pictorial dust jacket with very slight chipping along top edge. Overall a beautiful copy. $1,250 Inscribed boldly in purple ink on the flyleaf: “To J. Stuart Groves from Zane Grey.” A fine, early collection of five stories of adventure and endurance, set in the American West, Northern Mexico, and in the Peruvian jungle.
, . GREY, Zane . The Wolf-Tracke r. With illustrations by Kurt Wiese. 12mo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First edi - tion. Original yellow cloth, lettered and stamped in black, pic - torial endpapers. $1,250 Presentation copy, inscribed to Zane Grey’s son, Romer (1909-1976) on the front free endpaper: “To Romer from Zane Grey” James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102
. 69 . GRISWOLD, F. Gray . Collection of 45 works by F. Gray Griswold, most signed or inscribed by the author to Thomas B. Clarke, including: El Greco, specially bound; The Tarpon (red morocco bind - ing); Reddy and Dan; The Cascapedia Club; and A Salmon River . 45 vols. 8vo, New York: privately printed for the author, 1913-1936. Variously bound, limp red or green morocco, a few titles in red cloth, El Greco in full blue levant extra gilt. Condition generally very good to fine, all but one work in custom slipcase. Cf. Higginson, pp. 264, 415; Bruns, pp. 193-4. $7,500 Higginson writes, “Few men stand out in the history of American field sports more than Frank Gray Griswold.” A comprehensive collection of Griswold’s privately printed and regularly published works, most inscribed to Thomas B. Clarke (1848-1931), foremost collector and patron of American art of his day and a contemporary of Griswold. The copy of El Greco , bound in full levant extra gilt with Griswold’s device, is unique; The Tarpon is in the very rare red morocco binding; and Reddy and Dan is a presentation offprint from Sport on Land and Water V , 1920, never seen before. Also notable are the copies of The Cascapedia Club (1920) and A Salmon River (1928). A complete list of titles is available upon request.
70 . HARBORD, James G ., General. Typescript of America in the World War . With numerous deletions and corrections. 64pp. 4to, n.p.: 1933. Bound in three quarter blue morocco. Front board detached. $1,000 A lecture at the Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation, May 26, 1932. Inscribed on the flyleaf: “This final copy, in the rough, of my Memorial address at the Milton Academy, deliv - ered on May 26, 1932, is inscribed to my friend Leroy M. Norr, to whom my obliga - tions for wise counsel, in more than one field, are great. J.G. Harbord Major General, USA, Retired New York City, July 28, 1932.” General Harbord served as Chief of Staff to Pershing, as commander of the Marine Brigade at Château Thierry, as Commander of the Second Division in the Soissons Offensive, and as commander of the Service of Supply. “In this book he presents a concise and brilliant summary of America’s part in the conflict, including a spirited description of the battles in which we participat - ed, and sums up the lessons that the War taught us” (dust jacket blurb). “From the Author”
71 . HARRIS, Nick . Famous Crimes . 95 pp. 8vo, Los Angeles: Publisher Arthur Vernon Agency, 1933. First edition. Tan cloth. Worn and stained. Provenance: Estate of Ronald Colman. $750 Inscribed on flyleaf: “To Mr. Irving G. Thalberg may you find time to read & enjoy these stories of me as Your Detective friend Nick B. Harris May 3rd 1934.” A fascinating association from this famous California Gumshoe to Hollywood’s most famous producer. , 72 . H[ARRIS], James . Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concern - ing Language and Universal Grammar . Inserted frontispiece of the Author after Bartolozzi. 8vo, London: by H. Woodfall, 1741. First edition. In presentation binding of contemporary red morocco gilt, all edges gilt. O’Neil H-14; Allston III 812. $2,000 Inscribed on the flyleaf: “J. Shaftesbury | Given me by James Harris 1751.” James Harris (1709-1780) was the eldest son of James Harris by his second wife Lady Elizabeth Ashley Cooper, third daughter of the second Lord Shaftsbury (died 1699), and sister of the third Lord Shaftsbury (1671-1713); the fourth earl, Anthony Ashley Cooper, lived from 1711 - 1771. The inscrip - tion of 1751 would therefore most probably be to the fourth Earl, Harris’s cousin. Splendid copy of this ground-breaking early work on the theory of language and grammar: the notion of a “universal grammar,” in fact, has now become the standard thinking among post-Chomskyian linguists. 73 . HEIDEGGER, Martin . Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens . 32pp. 8vo, Stuttgart: Neske, [1965]. Second edition. Original wrap - pers, with light wear. Previous owner’s annotations and transla - tions in light pencil throughout. $750 Inscribed by Heidegger “as a souvenir of the visit” on the title page: “Für - H- zur Errinerung an der Besuch in Freiburg am 27 Mai 1969”
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74 . HERFORD, Oliver . Artful Antics . Illustrations by the author. x, [2], 100 pp. Sm. 4to, New York: The Century Co, 1901. First edition. Yellow pictorial cloth in black, with image of a reclining lion and playful kitten on front cover. Slight soiling to upper cover. Merle Johnson p. 243. $750 Inscribed on flyleaf in pencil: “To Will Bradley — With affectionate regards from the pestiferous Oliver Herford.” With Herford’s sketch of a lion beneath. A fine association.
75 . HERRICK, Robert . Selections from the Hesperides . With drawings by Edwin A. Abbey. 4to, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. First edition thus. Original yellow stamped cloth, a.e.g. Spine rubbed and soiled, else very good. $2,500 Inscribed from artist William Merritt Chase to his wife-to-be Alice “Pansy” Gerson on Xmas 1884. The two were family friends and eventually were mar - ried in 1886. The choice of Robert Herrick for his young fiancée could not have been a happier one, and Chase and Gerson had 8 children together. Provenance: Directly from the Chase family. 76 . (HISTORY OF PRINTING) Laire, Francois Xavier . Specimen historicum typographiae romanae xv. saeculi . Title in red and black with engraved vignette, 1 folding plate. 8vo, Brussels: Mnoaldini, 1778. First edition. Contemporary half vellum and decorated paper boards. Lovely copy (one small paper flaw on p. 269) of a beautifully printed book. Bigmore & Wyman I 416; Brunet III 774-75. $750 “Laire was one of the most learned bibliographers of France during the 18th century … At one time he was librarian of Cardinal Brienne; subsequently he became librarian at the Ecole centrale de l’Yonne, where he remained to his death” (Bigmore & Wyman). Presentation copy, inscribed by the recipient, “Auctor dono dedit Ludov. Hubert Zeloso — 1778” (the year of publication).
(“ ”) , 77 . (HOLT, Nora) Van Vechten, Carl . Portrait photograph of Nora Holt. Half-length, in profile. Gelatin silver print. 35.2 x “From the Author”
27.5 cm. (13 ⅞ x 10 ⅞), [New York: October 26, 1934]. Van Vechten’s blind stamp at lower right, his atelier stamp on rear with Holt’s named jotted in ink, and the print reference noted in pencil. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber, Van Vechten’s assistant and executor of Van Vechten’s photography estate and the compiler of Portraits: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). $3,000 Superb, large, inscribed portrait by Van Vechten of one of his oldest, closest, and most important friends from the days of the Harlem Renaissance until the end of his life. Perhaps as much as any single person can, Nora Holt embodies the spirit of “The Irreverant Years” of the Harlem Renaissance. Van Vechten first met her in a speakeasy in Harlem in the early 20s. “Holt had already become the first African American in the United States to earn a mas - ter of music degree (from Chicago Music College) and she had been the music critic for the Chicago Defender for several years. By the 1920s, she had also helped to found the National Association of Negro Musicians, and she had published a magazine entitled Music and Poetry” (Nancy Kuhl, “Extravagant Women”, Beinecke Library Exhibition Catalogue). She was also famous for performing bawdy songs at society parties (e.g., “My Daddy Rocks Me with One Steady Roll”), her many marriages and love affairs, her platinum blonde hair, and a high-profile divorce from Joseph Ray in 1923 which was the subject of endless gossip in the press Van Vechten was so taken with Holt that he modeled the character of Lasca Sartoris on her in his famous and controversial novel, Nigger Heaven (1923). Holt is pictured here in the session Van Vechten had with her in 1934. The image (not, apparently, in the Library of Congress) is inscribed top left: “You dear | With Love | Nora Holt | April ’44”
“ ” 78 . (HOOVER, J. Edgar) Whitehead, Don . The FBI Story. A Report to the People … with a Preface by J. Edgar Hoover . 8vo, New York: Random House, [1956]. First edition. Pale gray cloth and black boards. $750 A remarkable association, inscribed by the head of the FBI, notorious for his obsession with Communist conspiracies, to the federal judge who presided over the famous 1949 trial of 11 members of the American Communist Party on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government. “To Honorable Harold R. Medina With deep respect & admiration J. Edgar Hoover 11.15.56” The trial, the culmination of several years of FBI investigation of Communist
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 activities, ran for nine contentious months and garnered worldwide publicity, in a climate of acrimonious exchanges between Judge Medina and the defense attorneys. Medina charged the defense with delaying tactics, trifling, unnecessary jury challenges, and contempt; the defense attorneys claimed judicial bias, racism in the jury selection, and infringements upon the free - dom of the press. In the end, the defendants were found guilty by the jurors, and Medina sentenced them to prison. He also sent 5 of the defense attorneys to prison on charges of contempt. , 79 . HORGAN, Paul . Songs after Lincoln . 74 pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1965]. Limited signed edition, copy no. 1 of 15 author’s presentation copies, specially bound. Original quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine in marbled board slipcase. $750 Inscribed on the colophon page by the author below his signature: “Margaret & John Farrar, my friends, with devoted respect 1965.” 80 . HUGHES, Ted . Selected Poems 1957-1967 . Drawings by Leonard Baskin. Designed by Gloria Adelson. 8vo, New York: Harper & Row, [1971]. First American edition. Cream cloth. Near fine in black and white pictorial dust jacket with Baskin’s “beast” on the upper cover. $850 Inscribed, rather flirtatiously to the designer of the book, Gloria Adelson: “For the bête noire | of this cover | who | mustn’t take no note | of Leonard (Baskin) | only | of Ted | 12 July 1977.” . 81 . [HUGHES, Thomas] . Tom Brown at Oxford. By the author of “Tom Brown’s School Days.” In Three Volumes . With contemporary oval albumen portrait photograph of the author inserted as frontispiece in first volume. 3 vols. 8vo, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1861. First English edition, without ads in Vol. I. Presentation binding in full pebbled green morocco in the same style as the publisher’s blue morocco cloth, with gilt-stamped triple rule instead of the blind on both covers; purple watered silk endpapers with gilt filet, spine titled the same as the trade edition without publisher and date at foot of spine, a.e.g. Rebacked, original spines neatly laid down, minor wear to extremities. Parrish pp. 120-121; Sadleir 1234; Wolff 3331. $2,500 “From the Author”
Inscribed on the front endpaper: “To Mrs. Thomas Hughes with the kindest regards from A.M … , Nov. 20, 1861.” A.M. was one of the Macmillan brothers. The date of the presentation is sig - nificant, for in the ads this title is described as “being ready in October.” , 82 . HUXLEY, Aldous . The Discovery. A Comedy in Five Acts. Written by Mrs. Frances Sheridan. Adapted for the Modern Stage by . . . . 121 pp. 8vo, London: Printed and bound at the Curwen Press for Chatto and Windus, 1924. Limited edition, number 16 of 200 copies for sale (of an entire edition of 210 copies), on Italian hand-made paper. Unopened. Original printed paper boards, black cloth spine, ivory printed paper lettering-piece, original pink dust jacket; some fading and wear to jacket, oth - erwise a mint copy. Housed in half green morocco slipcase. $950 Inscribed by Huxley to the publisher Crosby Gaige: “Crosby Gaige his book. If the truth must be told, the best things in this book are by Frances Sheridan. | Aldous Huxley. New York, 1926.” 83 . ISHERWOOD, Christopher . The Berlin Stories . 8vo, New York: New Directions, [1945]. First edition. Cloth. Very good in chipped and worn jacket. $750 Inscribed by Isherwood, “Affectionately, from Chris.” Signed on endpaper “Harry Brown, Hollywood, 1952” 84 . JAMES, Henry . The Finer Grain . 8vo, London: Methuen, [1910]. First English Edition, with catalogue at end dated “September 1910” (one of three variants, priority unknown). Rust-brown cloth, lettered and stamped in gilt. Superb, bright copy, in a quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. From the library of Hugh Walpole, with his Brackenburn bookplate; and from James Gilvarry (his sale Christie’s New York, 7 February 1986, lot 108). Edel A68b. $1,250 Inscribed by Walpole on the flyleaf: “From Henry James to ME. November 1910.” The young Walpole first visited James at Lamb House in 1909. According to Edel, “At the end of the decade [1901-1910] he formed a friendship with the James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 young Hugh Walpole, whose work he criticized but for whom he showed a marked affection.” ( Letters , IV, pp. 363-4). 85 . JARRELL, Randall . The Woman at the Washington Zoo Poems & Translations . 8vo, New York: Atheneum, 1960. First edition. Blue grey cloth. Fine copy in dust jacket with slight rubbing to upper panel, tiny chip from head. With publisher’s 6pp “Life Story of Randall Jarrell” laid in. $750 Inscribed on the flyleaf by Jarrell to the translator (notably of Kazantzakis’ The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel ), Kimon Friar: “To Kimon Friar “with all best wishes “from Randall and Mary Jarrell. “who hope to see him next on his Greek island” Jarrell inscriptions are relatively uncommon; this is a particularly fine literary association. 86 . JOHNSON, Lady Bird . A White House Diary . Illustrated with photographs. x, 806 pp. 8vo, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First edition. Bound in full blue morocco, gilt dentelles, gilt spine. In leather tipped slipcase of marbled boards. Very fine. $1,500 With an inscription from the author Lady Bird Johnson on the half-title: “For Jane (Engelhard) with love and so many happy memories Lady Bird May 14, 1972.” 87 . (JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines) Tributes to the President and Mrs Lyndon Baines Johnson in the Congress of the United States . 185 pp. 8vo, Washington, D.C: GPO, 1969. First edition. Blue print - ed wrappers. Fine in fine half blue morocco slipcase and chemise. $1,500 Inscribed on endpaper: “To Jane and Charles [Engelhard] with appreciation for your - - and help Lyndon B. Johnson.” Jane and Charles Engelhard of Far Hills, New Jersey, were steadfast friends of the Johnsons and prominent donors of furniture and expertise to the White House restoration projects.
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88 . (JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines) White, William S . The Professional. Lyndon B. Johnson . [viii], 273 pp. 8vo, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [c. 1964]. Fourth printing. Orange cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. In half orange morocco slipcase and chemise. $1,000 Inscribed by the President: “To Charles Engelhard - with best wishes, Lyndon B. Johnson.” 89 . JOHNSON, Samuel . Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets … With notes corrective and explanatory by Peter Cunningham . 3 vols. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1854. Publisher’s purple cloth, rebacked, with the original spine (head chipped) laid down, orig - inal endpapers preserved. Volume I with the armorial bookplate of on the front pastedown, and each volume bearing the bookticket “From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870”. $4,500 Presentation copy to Charles Dickens, inscribed on the half-title: “To Charles Dickens | with the Editor’s kind regards. | 4 January 1855.” A marvelous association. (See also Nos. 45 & 162) . 90 . JOHNSON, James Weldon (ed.). The Second Book of American Negro Spirituals. Edited with an introduction by James Weldon Johnson. Musical arrangements by J. Rosamond Johnson . Tall 8vo, New York: The Viking Press, 1926. First edition. Original cloth, a very good plus copy in worn dust jacket. $1,750 A major association copy, inscribed to the Afro-American poet and antholo - gist William Stanley Braithwaite on the front flyleaf,: “For Stanley from Jim”
91 . KAHN, Ely Jacques . Design in Art and Industry . Illustrated. 204 pp. Small 4to, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First edition. Original blue cloth. Rebacked, preserving original spine. Two preliminary leaves chipped at outer margin. Very scarce. Provenance: From the Estate of Ely Jacques Kahn. $1,000
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Inscribed on the flyleaf by the author and famous New York architect (1884- 1972) to his wife, Beatrice [Sulzberger] Kahn: “To Beatrice - a fine desig n | Ely Kahn” A unique association copy of an important — and very personal — book on design, by one of New York’s City’s most influential architects. The origin of Kahn’s book is told in the extensive chapter on his career in Steern, Gilmartin, and Mellins’ New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism between the Two World Wars (NY, Rizzoli, pp. 550-563): “In 1933, with unemployment among designers so universal that the American Institute of Architects pondered whether to recom - mend the closing of art and architecture schools, Kahn argued … for a return to craft as a method for solving unemployment. He obtained a grant from the Carnegie Foundation to travel around the world investigating the artist’s role in society … much of his time was spent in the Far East in a last fling with exoticism … Kahn’s report on his trip [was] a book called Design in Art And Industry ; its exoticism, its picturesque local color, its concern with the individual craftsman and the handing down of vernacular traditions from father to son - all of these seemed irrelevant in a world that had turned its attention to encouraging the utmost efficiency and stan - dardization in industry.” (See also No. 125) 92 . KENT, Rockwell . A Northern Christmas Being the Story of a Peaceful Christmas in the Remote and Peaceful Wilderness of an Alaskan Island . Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. 12mo, New York: American Artists Group, [1941]. Most of this appeared in “Wilderness”. Original decorated paper boards, slightly dark - ened at edges, else fine. $1,000 Book Number One in the series of the American Artists Group Gift Books, inscribed by Kent on the flyleaf to his friends, Jessie and Norman Barr: “To Jessie and Norman [pen-and-ink drawing of a bar] [pen-and-ink drawing of candlelight] for a Merry Christmas [drawing of V - for Victory] for a Happy New Year from the Kents 1941” Norman Barr (1908-1992) was an artist and friend of the Rockwell Kents. ’ 93 . KOVACS, Janos, editor. Documents on the Mindszenty Case [with:] SWIFT , Stephen K . The Cardinal’s Story . 96 pp. 8vo,
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Budapest: January 1949; and New York, 1949 . First editions. Documents in yellow cloth-backed boards, with yellow printed dust jacket. Very good in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. The Cardinal’s Story in full leather presentation binding and custom slipcase; fine. $1,250 This copy of the “yellow book” was presented to Chapin by his Hungarian embassy co-workers upon leaving his post. It is signed by 63 people, many of whom were presumably involved in the anti-communist politics of that peri - od. The second title is inscribed by the author to Chapin on a tipped-in leaf, “in appreciation of the [part] you took in the actual making of history.” , 94 . L’AMOUR, Louis . Smoke from This Altar . 62 pp. 8vo, Oklahoma City, Okla: Lusk Publishing Company 217 North Harvey, [1939]. First edition of the author’s first book. Gray cloth. About fine. Laid into quarter purple morocco slipcase and chemise. $1,250 The author’s legendary first book, a collection of verse, and his most souight- after title among collectors. Inscribed on flyleaf: “To my very good friend George Sadler — with best wishes, Louis L’Amour” 95 . [LAING, David, editor ]. Early Metrical Tales; including The History of Egeir, Sir Gryme, and Sir Gray-Steill . Engraved fron - tispiece by W.H. Lizars after drawing by C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe, one other engraved plate, and one text engraving, each on mounted India paper; and with reproductions of original title pages. pp. [i-iv], [i]-lxi, [lxii-lxiv]; 1-310. 8vo, Edinburgh: Printed for W. & D. Laing; and J. Duncan, London, 1826. First edition, one of 12 copies on thick paper. Printed by James Clarke & Co. Bound in three quarter crimson morocco and Scottish plaid, with unusual and intricate braid work with multi-colored leather onlays on leather spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. With the red morocco ex-libris of on front pastedown. $1,500 Inscribed: “To Robert Balmanno Esq./With the Editor’s/ best regards” and below on the same page: “Rec’d from David Laing Esq. editor 10 March 1829/being one of the 12 thick paper copies. R.B.” James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102
An unusual book in an unusual binding, with a very distinguished prove - nance. The book is a Supplement to the editor’s “select remains of the ancient popular and romance poetry of Scotland.”
96 . LALLY-TOLENDAL, Le Comte [Trophime-Gérard, mar - quis de]. Essai sur la Vie de T. Wentworth, Comte de Strafford, Principal Ministre du Roi Charles I er et sur l’Histoire Genérale d’Angleterre, d’Écosse et d’Irlande à cette Époque . [ii], xxxii, 486 pp. 8vo, Paris: H. Nicolle, 1814. Nouvelle édition revue par L’Auteur. Bound in full green contemporary morocco, a.e.g. Inscribed in gilt on the upper cover “A Miss Edgeworth/ de la Part de Son Amie La Princesse de Craon/ 1820”. $1,000 Inscribed: “Offert par l’amitié à Miss Edgeworth | en y joignant la prière de conserver/ la sienne | à Princesse de Craon/ Paris 30 9 [September] 1820.” Edgeworth mentions her meeting the Princesse de Craon during her stay in Paris, in a July 1820 letter to Mrs. Ruxton: “Pray tell Mrs. General Dillon I thank her for making us acquainted with the amiable family of the Creeds, who have been exceedingly kind, and who, I hope, like us as much as we like them. The Princess de Craon, too, I like in another way … ”
, 97 . [LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan] . The Cock and Anchor, being a Chronicle of Old Dublin City . 347; 327; 346 pp. 3 vols. 8vo, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. Fraser and Co. Edinburgh, 1845. First edition. Printed by J.S. Folds and Sons, 6, Bachelor’s walk, Dublin. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Some rubbing. Spotting to title leaf and foxing. Inscribed to his wife on the title. Sadleir 1373; Wolff 4010: Brown, A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction , p. 23. $7,500 Inscribed on the title page: “to Mrs. Le Fanu with the author’s love” Lefanu’s “story of the conspiracy of a number of preternaturally wicked and
“From the Author” inhuman villains to ruin a young spendthrift baronet, and compel his sister to marry one of themselves. The threads of the story are woven with consider - able skill. The tale, a gloomy one throughout, reaches its climax in a scene of intense and concentrated excitement. The time is the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Wharton, the story ending in 1710, but, except for the incidental intro - duction of Addison, Swift, and the Viceroy himself, the events or personages of the time are not touched upon” (Brown). (See also No. 45) .
98 . LEECH, John . Pictures of Life And Character from the Collection of “Mr. Punch” . Fully illustrated. 3 vols. 4to, London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, 1886. Bound from the issue in parts, preserving original wrappers, in three quarter red morocco, spine gilt, a.e.g., for Charles Lauriat, by William and Herbert Root of the famous London bindery Root & Son, with their inscription on the occasion of Lauriat’s wedding in 1912. Spine mellowed, faintest traces of rubbing. Fine in cloth slipcase. Ray 139; Houfe, John Leech and the Victorian Scene , pp. 151, 157, etc. $1,000 Collects the best of Leech’s work for Punch . This set was beautifully bound for and inscribed to Charles Lauriat, Jr., the famous Boston bookseller: “Bound for Mr. Charles E. Lauriat [Jr.] in 1912 [his wedding year] by W. Root & Son. With their heartiest congratulations and best wishes for the happiness and pros - perity of himself and his wife. William Root. Herbert E. Root.”
99 . LEWIS, Sinclair . Ann Vickers . 562 pp. 8vo, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. First edition, one of 350 copies printed on rag paper. Blue cloth. Spine faded, extremities rubbed. Very good, in like dust jacket, with small hole in spine panel. $1,250 Flyleaf inscribed: “To Joseph Marks with the greetings of Sinclair Lewis, N.Y. | March 16. 1933” “ ” 100 . LEWIS, Sinclair . It Can’t Happen Here. A Novel . 8vo, Garden City, New York : Doubleday Doran & Co, 1935. First edition. Original black cloth. Touch of wear at head of spine, very good plus. $1,500
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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: “To Bob Kriendler with Christmas greetings from Sinclair Lewis, Dec. 23, 1937” Beginning as a speakeasy in 1925, and preceded by the Club Fronton in Greenwich Village, “21”, the creation of Jack Kriendler and his boyhood chum Charles Berns, has long been the archetypal New York upscale water - ing hole. Famed in song and story, its devoted patrons list has, for almost eighty years, contained a multitude of celebrities of every possible descrip - tion, as well as the rich, well-born and able and others for whom a twenty- dollar hamburger poses no impediment. A book celebrating its founding appeared in 1936, and “Red” Lewis’s novel, presented to Jack’s brother Bob, may have been in return for a copy. Lewis may safely be counted among “21” alumni, and this book is a pleasing association with an institution far removed from Main Street. 101 . LEWIS, Sinclair . Our Mr. Wrenn. The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man . Frontispiece. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914. First edition. Original grey cloth gilt, rubbed, some browning and spotting of text, generally light, in custom clamshell box. Merle Johnson p 311. $1,250 Inscribed twice by Lewis to Mary Vorse O’Brien and Joseph O’Brien, the first signed only with initials, the other with an inscription: “To Joe, & to Mary, (who used to make me ‘write some more Mr. Wrenn’) from their friend & adorer, Sinclair Lewis” Mary Vorse wrote The Prestons , Passaic , Second Cabin and Strike. She spent most of her life in Provincetown. A very nice association copy of his second book.
. , “ ” 102 . LOENING, Grover C[leveland] . Military Aeroplanes Simplified - An Explanatory Consideration of Their Characteristics, Performances, Construction, Maintenance and Operation for the Use of Aviators . Illustrations. (iv), 182 pp., blank leaf. 8vo, [San Diego, California]: Prepared for the Signal Corps Aviation School San Diego California, [1915]. First edition. Original green cloth. Fine. $900 Inscribed: “At Dayton, Ohio, in 1914, this young man wanted to fly at the Wright School and Mr. Wright had told us to be so careful about who we enrolled but he argued his way
“From the Author” in — young as he was — Best regards, Grover Loening.” Beneath is the ownership signature Curtis La O. Day F.A.I. 302, with facsim - ile flyer laid in for C.L. (Satan) Day Aeroplane Flights “Distinguished as ‘The Boy Aviator’, youngest licensed pilot in America To-day.”
“ … ” 103 . LOWRY, Malcolm . Under Der Vulkan [Under the Volcano] . 8vo, Stuttgart: Ernest Klett, [1947]. First German edition. Orange cloth. Near fine copy in very good dust jacket with small waterstain at foot of spine. In cloth slipcase with chemise. $2,500 Inscribed by Lowry to his sister-in-law, her husband Dr. Bert Woolfan (“broth - er”) and their mother: “Zu meinem hubschen schwestern Priscilla y distinguado brotherin Bert y gnaidiges Mutter Ich kann nicht deutsch sprechen, but love anyhow from Malcolm.” 104 . LUMHOLTZ, Carl . Among Cannibals. An Account of Four years’ Travels in Australia and of camp life with the Aborigines of Queensland. Translated by Rasmus B. Anderson . 28 plates (4 col - ored), and 2 folding maps. 395 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1889. First American edition. Gray pic - torial cloth. Bookplate of American Geographical Society on front pastedown (docketed “Dupl Disc”), and small stamp on the title page. Front hinge cracked, spine a bit dull. Ferguson 11770; Casey Wood p. 443. $1,000 A marvelous asssociation copy of Lumholtz’ ground-breaking first book, with this presentation inscription on the first blank: “Judge Chas. P Daly, President of the American Geographical Society, with the sin - cere regards of Carl Lumholtz” The recipient, Charles P. Daly (1816 –1899), jurist, New York State Assemblyman, champion of Central Park, author, and President of the American Georaphical Society from 1864 until his death in 1899. Daly was also a consummate bibliophile, and donated 700 geographical works from his collection to the AGS.
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, 105 . MALRAUX, André . Days of Wrath … Translated by Haakon Chevalier . 8vo, New York: Random House, 1936. First edition in English. $750 Malraux’s novel of a communist prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, inscribed by Malraux on the half title: “For Spain | André Malraux | 27/2/37.” , 106 . (MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS) [Pitcairn, Robert, editor ]. Collections relative to the Funerals of Mary Queen of Scots . With sup - pressed frontispiece with note to that effect tipped in and ini - tialed R. P[itcairn], xxi, [i], 80 pp. 8vo, Edinburgh: printed for W. and D. Laing, 1822. One of 125 copies printed by Balfour and Clarke. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, gilt spine. About fine. Not in Martin, Privately Printed Books. $750 Inscribed: “To John Elder from his friend Rob. Pitcairn Edin. Sept 1822.” Pitcairn was a Writer to the Signet, antiquary and a friend of Sir Walter Scott. “In January 1823 Scott had sent Pitcairn early news of the formation of a ‘Bibliomaniacal Society … for the prosecution of the important task of pub - lishing dilettante editions of our National Literary Curiosities’ ( Letters , 7.315). This became the Bannatyne Club, which in 1833 issued the three volumes of Pitcairn’s Trials and other Proceedings, in Matters Criminal, before the High Court of Justiciary ” (ODNB). 107 . MAUGHAM, William Somerset . Christmas Holiday . 8vo, London: Heinemann, [1939]. First edition. Blue cloth. Fine copy in a near fine good dust jacket with tiny chip at top of spine, minor fading. With the etched Marie Laurencin bookplate of Edward Wasserman (Marchesseau 173, 4th state) on front pastedown. Stott A55. $1,000 Inscribed on the flyleaf: “For Eddie | his friend | William S. | New York 25 Feb. 1939” Maugham has also signed the title page beneath his printed name, which he has struck through. A fine, early inscription, as the book was published in February 1939.
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, 108 . MAUGHAM, William Somerset . Of Human Bondage . [8], 648, [16] pp. (ads). 8vo, London: William Heinemann, 1915. First English edition. Original blue cloth, a little rubbed. spine slightly dulled, inner hinges cracked and gutters of first two pre - liminary leaves reinforced by tape. In quarter blue morocco clamshell box. Stott A21b. $3,500 Maugham’s masterpiece, one of the most important novels of the 20th cen - tury. Inscribed by Maugham on the front free endpaper: “For James Spencer “This by way of being an autobiographical novel, but it IS a novel & fiction has as great a place in it as fact “W. Somerset Maugham” Of this book, with its strong autobiographical focus, Maugham wrote: “I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work. It is the kind of book that an author can write only once. After all, he has only one life to live.” The book has become a classic, gone into innumerable editions, translated into almost every civilized tongue and been the source of numerous drama - tizations, perhaps most notably the film starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis. A umique presentation copy of one of the great modern novels in the English language. 109 . METCHNIKOFF, Elie . L’immunité dans les maladies infec - tieuses [title in Russian]. Text in Russian, translated from the orig - inal French. 8vo, St. Petersburg: 1903. First edition in Russian. Original wrapper spine and rear cover present, front wrapper perished. $2,000 First Russian edition of a classic of immunology, for which the author won a Nobel Prize in 1908, sharing it with Paul Ehrlich. This copy is inscribed (in Russian): To Joseph Mankovich Krauzman in fond remembrance from Eli e M. Paris 1903.” According to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography , Metchnikoff, while in Paris in 1900, “began to write a large and comprehensive book, L’immunité dans les maladies infectieuses (1901). This book was a magnificent review of the entire field of both comparative and human immunology. The work was also, of course, a defense of the theory of phagocytosis, which the humoral theory of immunity seriously challenged. The work of the German bacteriologists, especially Emil Behring, Paul Ehrlich, and Robert Koch, which led to discov - ery of many new bacteria, toxins, and antitoxins, strengthened the beliefs of James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 those who held to a noncellular theory of immunity … In 1908 Metchnikoff and Ehrlich shared the Nobel Prize for their researches illuminating the understanding of immunity …” (DSB). 110 . MOORE, George . Esther Waters. A Novel . 375, [1], [14, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Walter Scott, 1894. First edition. Original green cloth, hinges cracked, spine a little faded and covers slight - ly rubbed. Gilcher A19. $1,500 Esther Waters established Moore’s reputation as a novelist: 24,000 copies were sold within the year, and many still regard Moore’s Zolaesque tale of a ser - vant girl to be his finest and most characteristic novel. Inscribed presentation copies are rare, but the title page of this copy bears the following inscription: “To Evelyn Marshall Field | with many | kind wishes | George Moore | 1915.” Evelyn Field was the wife of Marshal Field, 3rd, grandson of the famous Chicago merchant. 111 . MOORE, Marianne . Letters From And To The Ford Motor Company . Original wood engraving, printed in green from the block, by Leonard Baskin. 8vo, London: Faber and Faber, [1964]. First edition, one of 550 copies, printed at the Spiral Press. Red cloth backed boards. In quarter navy blue morocco slipcase with chemise. Fine. Abbott A16. $950 Ford asked the poet for help in naming what ultimately became the Edsel (that it did was not her fault), and this sprightly, sometimes hilarious, corre - spondence was the result. It is also a lovely example of fine bookmaking from Joe Blumenthal’s Spiral Press, and this particular copy bears the following inscription on the flyleaf from the poet to editor, publisher, bibliophile, and collector, William Targ: “This copy of Letters From and To “The Ford Motor Company belongs to “Mr. William Targ “printed by Joseph Blumenthal’s Spiral Press “for David Playdell-Bouverie and Lincoln Kirstein “fellows of The Pierpont Morgan Library “by permission of Frederick B. Adams, Director “of the Library N. York 1938 “the above inscription penned with ardor by “Marianne Moore January 23 1968 “originally published by The New Yorker Department of “Amplification”
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112 . [MORIER, James] . An Oriental Tale, by the Author of ‘Hajji Baba’ &c. &c. Printed for Sale in aid of the Funds of the Sussex County Hospital . 8vo, Brighton: Printed (not published) by W. Leppard, [1839]. First edition. Half morocco, rebacked, without the frontispiece described in Sadleir. Some browning to text, mostly light, and to endpapers. Sadleir 1800; Wolff 4931. $750 Inscribed: “Sir W. Parish from the Author Jas. Morier.” This would be Sir Woodbine Parish (1796-1882), a career diplomat and long - time minister at Buenos A ires. Morier, too, was a career diplomat was recog - nized for his excellent and amusing character descriptions and situational humor. 113 . MORIN, Louis . Vieille Idylle . Hand-tinted title page, 12 dry - point plates and 20 ornaments by the author. 51, [3] pp. 12mo, Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1891. First edition, presentation issue on papier velin , signed by the publisher. Full pink morocco, sides elaborately gilt, spine in six compartments, lettered on one, raised bands, gilt turn-ins, satin endpapers with embroi - dered roses a.e.g. Fine. $1,250 With a charming original watercolor and pen-and-ink drawing of 9 charac - ters from the book by the author/artist on the recto of the half-title, inscribed beneath: “à mon ami Pelletan, Louis Morin” Probably the politician, Eugène Pelletan (1813 – 1884) French writer and politician. ’ 114 . (MORLAND, George) Dawe, George . The Life of George Morland. With Remarks on his Works . Engraved frontispiece por - trait by Charles Picart after portrait by J.R. Smith, engraved title page with vignette; viii, 239, [2] pp. Lacking the 3 plates called for on final leaf, but - with 4 lithographed plates after drawings by Morland, and 6 other inserted plates. 8vo, London: Printed for Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1807. First edition. Full later dark brown calf, gilt-rolled border, gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Spine label missing. $750 This copy belonged to a subsequent Morland biographer,
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, and is signed by him on the verso of the flyleaf, with the date “1890.” Richardson was the author of George Morland, Painter, London, and the extra engravings inserted in the rear are doubtless from his own col - lection. Several clippings affixed to rear endpapers, with Richardson’s notes, and one autograph transcription by Richardson from The Farrington Diary , regarding Dawe. Nice association copy.
.. ’ 115 . NEWMAN, John Henry . Parochial and Plain Sermons . 8 vols. 8vo, London, Oxford and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1868. New edition. Bound in full green polished calf, gilt spines, Prize binding with emblem of school on upper cover, marbled edges, spines toned, else very nice. $750 An important association copy of the works of Newman, the moving sprit of the Oxford Movement, inscribed: “St Peter’s College Westminster To C.C. J. Webb Greek Testament Prize Michaelmas 1883 W. Gunion Rutherford Headmaster .” Webb was later to become Oriel Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, and in 1928, some 45 years after receiving this prize, published his Religious Thought in the Oxford Movement .
116 . (NIMITZ, Admiral) Black and white photograph of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in uniform, addressing another sol - dier, inscribed to . 5 x 7 inches, N.p., ca. 1943]. In frame. Inscription a bit faded. $900 A marvelous association inscription, inscribed during the war, reading: “Dec. 13, 1943. To. Lt. Comdr. S.E. Morison, USNR with kindest regards and best wishes, CW Nimitz, Admiral USN.” Morison was the official US Navy Historian of World War II, and author of the massive History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II ; and Nimitz was the top admiral during the war.
117 . OSBORN, Fairfield . The Limits of the Earth . x, 238 pp (rec - tos only). 8vo, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. “From the Author”
Uncorrected Advance Proof. Plain wraps, bound at top margin with string through two punch holes, publisher’s review slip affixed to front wrap, lightly thumbed, else fine. $750 Inscribed on the front wrap to Childs Frick, signed (“Fair”) and dated August 9, 1953: “To Childs - The first friend who *made* me try to write a book!” “(Note: the more the people, the less the animals!)” Childs Frick (1883-1965), the son of Henry Clay Frick, was a noted paleon - tologist and supporter of the American Museum of Natural History. As a trustee of the Museum, for which he collected hundreds of thousands of mammal fossil specimens, he would have worked with Osborn’s father, Museum President and former head of its Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. The inscription must refer to Osborn’s first book, Our Plundered Planet (1948), a classic of environmental literature. (See also No. 2). , 118 . PARKER, Mrs K. Langloh . Australian Legendary Tales. Folk- Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to Piccaninnies. [with :] More Australian Legendary Tales. Collected from Various Tribes. With an Introduction to each volume by Andrew Lang. With “illustra - tions by a native artist [Tommy Macrae], and a specimen of the native text.” vi, 132, 12 (illustrated catalogue) and xxiv, 104, 16 (illustrated catalogue) pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: David Nutt, 1897 & 1898. Second edition of the first title and first edition of the second title. Original green cloth. $1,250 The first volume is inscribed: “To Mrs Campbell Praed In recognition of her appreciation of the race to whom these legends belon g K. Langloh Parker Oct 1905.” The second volume is signed “ R. W. Praed ”. Rosa Campbell Praed (1851-1931) was a prolific Australian-born novelist and spiritualist, whose fantastic novels and works on Australian subjects remain of enduring interest. (v. Patricia Clarke, Rosa! Rosa! A life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist , Melbourne University Press, 1999). From the library of anthropologist Ashley Montagu. A classic work with an outstanding Australian literary association.
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, 119 . PARRY, William Edward . Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; per - formed in the years 1821-22-23 … . With 30 plates (4 folding) and 9 maps (4 folding). 4to, London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Contemporary half tan calf and marbled boards, rebacked pre - serving gilt spine (some rubbing), modern endpapers, hinges reinforced with cloth, internally fine, crisp and attractive. Hill 225; Sabin 58864; TPL 1295; Field 1184. $7,500 The account of Parry’s second expedition, this time through Hudson Strait into Hudson Bay and beyond. The book is largely concerned with the abo - riginal life of the Eskimos, and contains accounts of various scientific dis - coveries. In 1824-25 the indomitable Parry made a third, unsuccessful, voy - age. In 1827 he set out in an attempt to reach the North Pole, setting a record for northernmost travel which stood until 1876. He was promoted to Admiral in 1852. Inscribed by Parry to one of his officers: “Lieut. J. Bushnan RN with the author’s best regards” John Bushnan was the assistant surveyor on board the Fury . Bushnan was to have joined the Franklin expedition to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, but as Franklin wrote, “Lieut. Bushnan, who had served under Captains Ross and Parry, was appointed to accompany me but, long before the party was to leave England, I had to lament the death of that excellent young officer.” An excellent association copy of a classic, substantial work of Arctic explo - ration.
. 120 . PHIPPS, Constantine John, later Baron Mulgrave. A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by his Majesty’s Command 1773 . 3 folding maps and 12 folding views and diagrams and 11 letterpress folding tables. viii, 253, [2] pp. 4to (284 x 223 mm), London: Printed by W. Boyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. First edition. Contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco label, spine gilt, edges blue. Frontispiece map loose, small tear neatly repaired without loss. A beautiful copy. Hill p. 207; Sabin 62572; NMM 805; Lande Supplement S 1788. Provenance: Mrs Howe (presentation inscription); with Westport House (County, Mayo, Ireland) bookplate Case E Shelf 3. Bookplate of Marvyn Carton. $15,000 “From the Author”
The Phipps-Lutwidge expedition of the “Racehorse” and “Carcass” was to try and determine how far navigation towards the North Pole was possible. They sailed as far north as 80°48°N and journeyed along the ice barrier from Spitsbergen to Novaya Zemlya without finding further northern passage through the ice. While not attaining as much as they had hoped, Phipps did include important details of Spitsberg’s natural history and resources. It is an “important addition to early nautical science” (Hill). Horatio Nelson, at four - teen, was Captain Lutwidge’s coxswain on the “Carcass” during this voyage. Nelson and another slipped out one night to shoot a bear for the skin - Nelson wanted to give it to his father - they ran out of ammunition and were only rescued from their difficulties when the “Carcass” fired its gun and scared the bear away. Richard Westall’s painting of Nelson attacking the bear is in the National Maritime Museum A superb contemporary binding, with a significant presentation, inscribed on half-title: “To the Honble Mrs. Howe | from her obedient servant | The Author.” Mrs Howe was wife of Richard Howe, British naval officer and politician. Westport, the Howe residence, is one of the great houses of western Ireland. Howe, whose ship the Dunkirk fired the first shots of the Seven Years’ War, was MP for Dartmouth for 30 years, and in the late 1760s a member of the Board of Admiralty (hence the connection with Phipps, whose uncle Augustus Hervey was also a member). The early period of the “American War of Independence when Howe was commander-in-chief in North America, was then and is still the most controversial of his long career. For most of his command his younger brother Major-General Sir William Howe commanded the army in the colonies. Much has been written of their com - bined approach to hostilities, torn between conciliation and aggression, and the extent to which they exceeded or ignored instructions” (DNB). Phipps was later a member of the Admiralty board and a key adviser to Sandwich in the unsuccessful British strategy to retain the American colonies A beautiful copy. (See illustration, p. 90)
, - 121 . (PHOTOGRAPHY) Ayer, Emma Burbank . A Motor Flight through Algeria and Tunisia . Profusely illustrated from pho - tographs by the author. 2 vols. 8vo, Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1914. Second edition. Bound in full brown morocco, t.e.g. $1,500 A special presentation copy, inscribed on the flyleaf by the author and her husband, on Christmas, 1914:
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“To our Dear Friends Martin & Carrie Ryerson with our sincere wishes for their happiness always. Emma Burbank Ayer …” - by the author, with over 130 mounted silverprints from photographs taken by her on the automobile tour.
, 122 . PLEISSNER, Ogden . Pencil sketch of two airplanes on a landing field. Pencil on paper, inscribed and signed. 7 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches, N.p., Dated “March 1945”. Very good. $1,750 Inscribed “To Alfred [Eisenstaedt] with best wishes | Ogden Pleissner.”
123 . (PORCELAIN) Tuck, Edward . Some Works of Art Belonging to Edward Tuck in Paris . Illustrations of Tapestries, Furniture, Bibliots, Primitive Paintings, and Porcelains: Oriental, Sevres, Meissen, and Battersea (most porcelains illustrated with tipped- in color plates or black and white). 4to, London: Privately print - ed, by J.M. Dent, 1910. One of 50 copies. Full red morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., by Durvand, fine in matching slipcase. With the bookplate of “Tuck’s Eden” Tuxedo Park, NY. $1,700 Tipped in is an inscription on the owner’s letterhead: “Amos Tuck French | from his affectionate uncle | Edward French | Dec. 10, 1915” 124 . PRÉVOST, Marcel . Le Moulin de Nazareth . Illustrations de Myrbach. Gravée part F. Horrie. 12mo, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Editeur, 1894. First edition. Bound in ¾ blue calf and marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. $750 Inscribed on front wrapper, “a Emile Zola/hommage cordial/M. Prévost.” ’ 125 . RAND, Ayn . Anthem . 98 pp. 12mo, Los Angeles: Pamphleteers, Inc. 725 Venice Boulevard, 1946. First American edition, first issue. Original wrappers, printed in black. Fine. Perinn A2b. Provenance: from the Estate of New York architect, . $3,500 Rand’s anti-Collectivist novella was first printed in London in 1938; she
“From the Author” revised it for the first American edition (1946), which comprised the entire issue (2000 copies) of “The Freeman” , vol. III, No. 1. The second issue com - prised 1500 copies, with covers printed in red and the publisher’s address changed to “725 Venice Blvd.” This copy has an especially important provenance, being from the library of the famous New York architect , in whose office Rand worked during 1937 while researching the profession of architect for her novel, The Fountainhead (1943). It was there that that Rand developed the plot of her most famous novel. Laid into this copy is an early piece of ephemera bearing on Kahn’s career: loosely inserted is the printed page from the 1909 exhibition catalogue of his two architectural drawings for the Salon. He was 23 years old at the time, and would later build over 30 major buildings in New York City. For a stunning illustrated list of his achievements, see Ely Jacques Kahn, New York Architect (NY, Acanthus Press, 1995). (See also No. 91). ’ 126 . REMINGTON, Frederic . “Miners Prospecting for Gold”. Artist’s proof of the illustration for John Muir’s Picturesque California (1888) . Image 7 ½ x 10 ¼ inches, matted to 14 x 18 inch - es overall, San Francisco: J. Dewing, 1888. Mat with light dust- staining, else fine. Chillman, Frederic Remington, p. 151. $1,250 Inscribed in pencil on verso: “Artists proof from Picturesque California | Merle Johnson” . Johnson was the author of American First Editions , High Spots in American Literature , You Know These Lines! , and similar works.
, , 127 . (REMINGTON, Frederic) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth . The Song of Hiawatha . With portrait frontispiece , Title in red and black and illustrations throughout from designs by Remington including 22 photogravures executed by A. W. Elson of Boston. xviii, 242 pp. Crown 8vo, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. First Remington Edition. Bound in original gilt stamped pictorial suede, which is remarkable condi - tion (which has been restored at the folds, but is complete and very hand - some.). BAL 12720; Dykes, Remington 786; McCracken, pp.149- 151. $1,750
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With a Xmas 1890 inscription on flyleaf: “To Betsy from Freddy/ Christmas 1890”
. . RILEY, James Whitcomb . The Poems and Prose Sketches of James Whitcomb Riley: Early Poems [Vol. XV]. Hand-illuminated with original watercolor illustrations throughout, frontispiece. [iii]-xi, [i], 227, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1914. Limited edition, one of 204 copies of the Homestead Edition, printed on Japan paper. Rebound in half red morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut, red silk marker. Russo, pp. 72 (for note on limited edition) & 223; BAL 16831. Provenance: Mrs. Eugene Field (signature and printed note), Eugene Field (armorial bookplate tipped-in and signed), and by descent to Eugene Field II (note tipped-in at rear). $1,000 A lavish presentation copy, with original artwork throughout. With printed note bound in at the front, stating “This special hand bound edition is print - ed on Japan paper. It has been hand illuminated and hand colored by various English and American artists. Illustrated by the author and is an autographed copy, dedicated to Mrs. Eugene Field of America.” Signed above the note, “Julia S. Field | (Mrs. Eugene Field)” and below, “Rudyard Kipling” (likely forgery). With a note bound-in at the rear, “This set came from the library of my father, Eugene Field and was presented to my mother by James Whitcomb Riley, the author. Nov 1 — 1931. Eugene Field II.” The artwork, clearly executed by one artist, is signed with various pseudo - nyms.
129 . REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua . A Discourse, Delivered to Students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the Prizes, Dec. 10, 1774 . [iv], 36 pp. 4to (12 x 9 ½ inches), London : Printed for Thomas Davies, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1775. First edition. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Fine, uncut. Laid into a half blue morocco slipcase. Very fine. Not in Rothschild (but cf. Rothschild 1736-1739). $7,500 Presentation copy, inscribed by Reynolds to actor David Garrick on the Flyleaf:
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“To Mr. Garrick from the author.” As the first president of the Royal Academy, Reynolds delivered a series of annual discourses, on the occasion of the awarding of prizes, that touched on his ideas of art theory and practice . When writing these addresses, he would often seek the opinions of other members of the Literary Club, whose mem - bers included his friend Garrick, as well as Samuel Johnson at its center, Edmund Burke, James Boswell, and Oliver Goldsmith. It was Reynolds’ cus - tom, as the discourses were published, to give a copy to each member of The Club — this copy being the one he gave to his friend Garrick, whose fame is due in no small part to the indelible portraits Reynolds painted of the great actor, director, and theater manager A magnificent association copy. ’, , 130 . RILKE, Rainer Maria . Holding Out. Poems Rendered from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rika Lesser. With a Note by Richard Howard . Large initial capitals printed in red. 80 pp. Folio, Omaha, Neb.: Abattoir editions, the University of Nebraska, 1975. First edition, No. 116 of 225 copies. White linen with paper spine label. Covers slightly soiled and ever so slightly bowed, internally about fine. $1,250 Uniquely desirable copy of this rich and lovely book, produced for the Rilke centennial, inscribed on the title page by Rika Lesser to author | poet , on March 29, 1982: “ … a little late, but I don’t think the language has changed too drastically … With love, Rika.” Laid in as well, is a fine large portrait photograph of by Thomas Victor, inscribed by Howard to Disch and companion; “For Tom and Charles “image to semblance “figure to emblem “lovingly, “ Richard “’82”
131 . (ROBESON, Paul) [Busch, Ernst] . 6 Songs for Democracy: Discos de las Brigadas Internacionales [The Music Room’s International Series: Set 101] . Three 10 inch 78 rpm records
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 housed in card sleeves. Oblong 4to, New York: The Music Room [Keynote Recordings, Inc.], [c. 1940]. Red suede cloth stamped in guilt on spine over illustrated front board. Spine sep - arating, wear to extremities. Lacking booklet containing pro - gram notes and libretto. Discs fine. $1,000 Before it became a noted jazz label, Eric Bernay’s Keynote Recordings released the left-wing folk of performers like the Almanac Singers and Pete Seeger. This album contains songs written by Ernst Busch (1900-1980), recorded in Barcelona in 1938 and accompanied by the choir and orchestra of the 11th Brigade. This copy is inscribed and signed on the front pastedown by Paul Robeson, who supplied the masters for this release: “These songs of the Spanish struggle Deeply reflect the spirit of Democracy. That spirit like Joe Hill ‘never died,’ This album is a ‘must.’“ Joe Hill, a rabble-rousing Wobblie executed for murder (most certainly a mis - carriage of justice) became a folk-hero after his death. Robeson was known for singing “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night,” with its lyric, referenced in his inscription: I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alive as you and me. Says I “But Joe, you’re ten years dead” “I never died” said he, “I never died” said he Despite its length and revealing reference to Joe Hill, this inscription is gener - ic. The Yale University copy, and at least two other copies at one time or another on the market, contain the exact inscription, and it is probable that Robeson signed a quantity at the publisher’s. Still, a rare and interesting item.
132 . ROMAINS, Jules . Les Hommes de Bonne Volonté . 20 vols. 8vo, New York: [1941]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. In indi - vidual half red morocco and cloth slipcases and chemises, by James MacDonald Co, NYC. $1,500 Inscribed: “à Madame Jane Engelhard, en souvenir d’une brilliante soirée newyorkaise … Jules Romains New York, Novembre 1960.”
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133 . (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D) Starling, Edmund W . Starling of the White House. The Story of the Man whose Secret Service Detail Guarded Five Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, as told to Thomas Segrue . Photographic frontispiece por - trait. 8vo, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition, second printing. Original blue cloth. Very good. $1,750 Presentation copy, inscribed to Eleanor Roosevelt by David Kahn and Thomas Segrue on the flyleaf. Segrue writes: “I dared not inject my own opinions into this record of Colonel Starling, but I was happy to tug at the historical garment hem of the only President I rank with my greatest hero - Jefferson - your husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt - Sincerely, Thomas Segrue 3/9/46.” Kahn, who was a mutual friend of Roosevelt and Segrue, and who encour - aged the book’s production, writes: “To Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: - The story of a faithful follower of your ‘sainted’ husband - to which I add my appreciation to you for your confidence and friendship. - David E. Kahn.”
, .. . ROOSEVELT, Theodore . African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist . Illustrated with photographs and drawings. xxiii, 583 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910. First edition. Original publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Spine faded and chipped at head, boards tender, sporadic dampstain throughout at top margin, still a nice, sturdy copy. laid into a half green morocco slipcase and green cloth chemise. Czech (Africa) pp. 138-9. $7,500 Roosevelt’s highly interesting account of his travels through British East Africa, the Congo, and the Sudan in pursuit of all manner of big game. The narrative is gripping and the scientific content of enduring significance. This copy inscribed on the front flyleaf: “To O[scar] K[ing] Davis / with the esteem and / regard of his friend / Theodore Roosevelt / Sept 22d 1910” King (1866-1932) was a journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Tribune and had a long association with Roosevelt as reporter, aide, collaborator, and James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 friend. Roosevelt contributed a chapter to King’s 1908 biography of Taft, and King later became an aide to Roosevelt during his 1912 Bull Moose campaign. In 1925 King published Released for Publication: Some Inside Political History of Theodore Roosevelt and his Times 1898-1918. A choice association in a book rarely found inscribed, especially in the year of publication. (See illustration, p. 89) ’ 135 . ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel . Ballads and Sonnets . 335, [1], [1, ad] pp. 8vo, London: Ellis and White, 1881. First edition. Original blue cloth, stamped in gold Rossetti design, fine. Cloth open-faced slipcase. $2,250 Inscribed to Algernon Charles Swinburne’s mother, Lady Jane Henrietta Swinburne (1809-1896): “To The Lady Jane Swinburne With the most sincere and heart- felt regards of Theodore Watts.” Watts was the dedicatee of this book and Algernon Charles Swinburne’s companion. Fine association. (See also Nos. 161-164).
. (RUSSIA) Tyrell, Henry . History of the Russian Empire: from its Foundation , by Ruric the Pirate . Engraved vignette title, fron - tispiece, 3 maps (colored in outline), and 29 steel-engraved plates. Tall 8vo, London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, [1859]. Bound in later half green morocco and cloth. Some minor waterstaining affecting the final six plates at outer margin. Attractive copy. $950 Explorer, journalist, and author George Kennan’s (1845-1924) copy, signed by him on the flyleaf and title page in pencil. The association is particularly interesting, as Kennan was a lifelong student of Russia whose books, articles and lectures were among the most admired and widely respected of his time. “Kennan became an accomplished Russian scholar and spoke and read Russian fluently. His study of Russian affairs and his contributions to world knowledge on the subject constituted his greatest achievement … “ (DAB). (See also No. 10).
, .. 137 . [ RYAN, John Barry] . The Secret of the Serdab. An Incident of the Mutiny of the Egyptian Army against the Khedive . [4], 19pp. 8vo, New York: The Scribner Press, 1908. First edition, Copy No. 3
“From the Author” of only 20 printed. Half cloth and blue boards. Slight rubbing at spine tips, else fine. $1,250 Inscribed on the flyleaf from the author / financier, Ryan: “To John Pierpont Morgan, Esq. | With sincerest regards | & compliments of the Author | John Barry Ryan | July 5th 1918 | (Confidential until produced.)”
, 138 . SANTAYANA, George . The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress. Reason in Art . 12mo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906. First edition. Plum buckram, spine a lit - tle faded, one corner dinged. $750 Wonderful copy of the philosopher/poet’s book on the function of reason in Art. on the recto and verso of the flyleaf and onto the half-title Santayana has written a lengthy inscription which he entitles, “Reply to a Criticism.” Santayana begins: “Some of my friends have kindly observed that when I was younger I used to be more idealistic and more a friend of the arts. To explain this deterioration in my genius I transcribe the fol - lowing verses, addressed by Apollo to Venus in an unpublished play of mine called The Marriage of Aphrodit e … “ There follows the full manuscript text of the 7 stanzas of his poem, which he calls “Apollo in Love or the poet lost in the Platonist,” which he signs at the end, “George Santayana, April 18, 1907.” 139 . SCHWEITZER, Albert . Aus Meinem Leben und Denken . Illustrated. 8vo, Leipzig: Felix Meiner Verlag, [1935]. 31.-35. Tausend. Tan linen. Spine a bit darkened, else fine. Autograph inscription by the author inserted on title page. $1,000 Writing from his hospital in Africa, Schweitzer has penned a note for his Czechoslovak correspondent to place in his book: “Herrn Otto Kraus | mit besten Gedanken | Lambarene 8.11.37 Albert Schweitzer” A nice early inscription from the great doctor and humanitarian.
140 . SERLING, Rod . Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Revisited. Adapted by Walter B. Gibson . Illustrated by Earl E. Mayan. 208 pp. Large 8vo, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1964]. First edition.
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Illustrated purple glazed paper over boards. Fine in almost fine dust jackey duplicating design on binding. $1,250 Inscribed on verso of title page: “For John Kendig/ Rod Serling” Here are 13 new stories from the Twilight Zone including “Two Live Ghosts”, “The Edge of Doom”, The Fiery Spell”, “The Ghost of the Dixie Belle”. 141 . SHAKESPEARE, William . The Merchant of Venice, as Performed at the Winter Garden Theatre of New York, January 1867, by Edwin Booth. A New Adaptation to the Stage … by Henry L. Hinton . Illustrated with wood engravings. 46 pp., text double- columned. Tall 8vo, New York: Printed by C.A. Alvord, 1867. First edition thus. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, in blind on rear. Upper joint starting but sound, foot of spine a bit rubbed copy, but overall a nice, brigh t copy, with the bookplate of Coman Leavenworth on the front pastedown, and another owner’s signature on the title page. $750 Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the great actor: “Mrs. Charles K. Tuckerman | with compliments of | Edwin Booth | July 2d - 1867.” Charles K. Tuckerman (1827-1896) was an author of several books and arti - cles on Greece, a poet, and served as U.S. Consul to Greece from 1868-1871. Ironically, he was also a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln, who was, of course, assassinated by Edwin’s brother, John Wilkes Booth. Edwin was forced into temporary retirement after the assassination. 142 . SHAPIRO, Karl . The Place of Love . 8vo, [Malvern, Victoria: Bradley Printers, 1942]. First edition. Original printed wrap - pers. Fine copy in quarter green morocco slipcase with chemise. Bruccoli-Clark, p. 321. $900 Inscribed on the title-page: “Karl Shapiro - | for the collection of | Charles Feinberg. | March 31, 1962 | Lincoln, Nebraska | (exactly 20 years since | the writing of this book)!” ’ , 143 . (SHAW, George Bernard) Coster, Howard . Portrait pho - tograph of George Bernard Shaw, signed and inscribed by both
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Shaw and Coste r. Bust portrait in black and white. . 11 ½ x 8 inches, N.p.: [c. 1935]. Matted and framed. $2,000 One of the most famous and quintessential images of the Irish playwright, taken by famous photographer Howard Coster. Signed by Shaw in the image in the upper left corner, and further inscribed by him on the matte: “To Mary Lawton | G. Bernard Shaw 13/11/’36.” The matte is signed also by photographer, Howard Coster, who set up his stu - dio in London in 1926 as a self-styled “photographer of men”, and provided the world with some of the finest and most indelible images of literary fig - ures of the 20th century — including this superb study of Shaw, which is all the more unusual as it is printed on cloth. Mary Lawton was an American author whose biography of the contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heinz ( The Last of the Titans , N.Y., 1928) no doubt gained the respect of the music-critic in Shaw; and there is evidence that they corresponded (the HRC has one Shaw letter to her). 144 . SHAW, George Bernard . Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch . 8vo, London: Constable & Co, 1921. First English edition. Original pale green cloth, spine slightly darkened, copious pencilled notes by previous owner on endpa - pers, stamp of “Lillah McCarthy Productions Ltd.” on flyleaf, and McCarthy’s signature as “Lady Keeble”, of Oxford. Laurence A161b. $1,500 Inscribed on the flyleaf to Lillah McCarthy, the prominent English actress of the 20’s: “To Lillah | from G.B.S.” Shaw was close personal and professional friend of McCarthy’s and con - tributed a Foreword to her memoirs, Myself And My Friends (1933). . SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe . Autograph Check, signed (“Percy Bysshe Shelley”), payable to his doctor George Furnivall, for 13 pounds, 15 shillings drawn on account with Messrs Brookes & Co of Chancery Lane. 1 p., brown ink on paper. 4 ½ x 7 ½ in, London: July 30, 1817. Signature cancelled but very leg - ible, docketed across vertical central fold, ink smudge in upper cancelling one word. Matted and framed with engraved portrait. Furnivall, Frederick James Furnivall, a volume of personal record
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(Oxford U, 1911). Bieri, Percy Bysshe Shelley … 1792-1816 (Newark, 2004). $4,500 Dr. Furnivall, an old acquaintance from Shelley’s days at Bishopgate, attend - ed Percy and Mary at Marlow. “George Furnivall was a surgeon, and Shelley, who loved the river, used to pull up to old Windsor, put his boat up, and walk across Runnymede to the surgeon’s house, where he would sit on the counter and chat, while the Doctor’s father made up his pills” (Furnivall, p. 17). Dr. Furnivall worried that Shelley’s vegetarianism was sapping the young poet of strength and would prescribe mutton chops in jest. He was particularly disapproving of Mary’s domination of Shelley. “According to Furnivall’s daughter, he ‘was very indig - nant’ at Mary’s ‘dictatorial ways with Shelley, ordering him about as if he had been a dog’” (Bieri, p. 41). Interestingly, in light of the present check, Bieri, citing Furnivall’s daughter, claims that Shelley paid only one of seven guineas he owed to his doctor. Furnivall’s son, Frederick James Furnivall, founded the Shelley Society, and was a notable collector and scholar of English literature. ’ 146 . SIMENON, Georges . Je me souviens . 8vo, Paris: Les Presses de la Cité, 1945. First edition, No. 138 of 1100 copies. Original sheets, unbound (as issued) and laid into printed gray wrapper and wraparound chemise (title printed on spine). Lacking the slipcase. $1,000 Presentation copy, inscribed twice to the new-born son of .. and wife, at Sharon Hospital in Connecticut, on March 8, 1953. At the end of World War II, Georges Simenon spent several years in the United States where he met his French-Canadian lover, Denyse Ouimet. In 1949, the two moved to a farm outside of Lakeville, Connecticut, where Simenon lived and worked for 5 years, producing 26 novels. In 1953, doubt - less at Sharon Hospital, Simenon’s daughter Marie-George was born; and it was doubtless in Lakeville that Simenon met the author ( The American Dream , 1963), editor ( Ernest Hemingway, The Man and His Work , 1950), and literate TV Host (“One Minute Please”) in the early days of television, John K.M. McCaffery. So that his children might know something of his own childhood Simenon wrote his first memoir, Je me souviens , during the war, after being (mistaken - ly) told by a physician that he had only two years to live; he wanted his chil - dren to know something of his own childhood. In this copy, inscribed at Sharon Hospital for the new-born son of his friends the McCafferys, Simenon pens this very interesting inscription on the title page (in translation): “From the Author”
“to Padraic McCaffery - who was born right around the same time as my daughter Marie-George - this book, written when I had my first son, so that my children might know a little about their father’s childhood. Wishing him a long and ___ (?) very productive life filled with joyful moments. “A friend of his father and mother, “Sharon Hospital, March 8, 1953.” On the very next page, Simenon, a notorious womanizer, writes this intriguing note; “Padraic, your mother may neglect to tell you how pretty she was in her yellow dressing gown, that she was always surrounded by lots of flowers, that she was gay (except when one of your frowns set off her maternal alarm); and that your father, in between two television shows in New York, raced onto the high - way and sped here as fast as he could to gaze at you through a window. No doubt you’ll know all this in your o wn time, when Sharon Hospital, which right now is very new and modern, will doubtless be looked upon as a curious old relic of the past. I can tell you that being a father is almost as good as being a son. GS” ‘ ’: 147 . SOMERVILLE, E. OE. and Martin ROSS . In Mr. Knox’s Country . With 8 illustrations by E. OE. Somerville. [viii], 312 pp. 8vo, London: Longmans, Green, 1915. First edition. Original green cloth, spine a little faded, ends slightly rubbed. Hudson p. 30; Sadleir 3121. $750 The final volume of the authors’ three popular “Irish R.M.” books, with an interesting gift inscription from the great English novelist Ford Madox Ford: “To Molly Brown, on the occasion of her being 26 years & 364 days younger than her devoted Ford Madox Hueffer 16 Dec MCMXV” - - - 148 . SOPHOCLES . Sophoclis tragoediæ VII. In quibus præter multa menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus obscurior, nunc apertior proditur: opera Gulielmi Canteri Vltraiectini` . Text in Greek. 431, [17] pp. Printer’s device on ti tle-page. 16mo, Antuerpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1579 [t.p.]; 1580 [colophon]. 18th-century tan polished calf, gilt spine, leather label (slightly chipped); head slightly rubbed, upper joint
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 cracked but holding, some light waterstainining to lower margin of last few leaves. Early gift inscriptions of front endpapers (see below). Adams S1449; Voet, L. Plantin Press, no. 2224; Hoffman III. PP. 414-5. $2,000 One of the landmark 16th-century editions of the Greek tragedian, published by the press of Christopher Plantin in Antwerp, and edited with notes by the young Dutch scholar Willian Canter, whose earlier edition of Euripides “established a new era” (Sandys) in the printing of the Greek tragic poets. It was Canter, in his earlier edition of Euripides, who first established the arrangement of the choral odes in enumerated lines of Strophe and Antistrophe - a practice continued here and in his subsequent Aeschylus and which continues today. Canter’s edition of Sopholes, with his corrections to the text of Turnebus presented in his Latin Notes (pp. 429-436), remained in use for 200 years (cf. Jebb in his Introduction to his edition of 1887). This particular copy has a fascinating provenance, with historic associations from . The flyleaf bears the ink inscription: “Wm. Cole | E dono J. Foster, eruditissimi Scholae Etonensis Archididascali. 1772” [“Given to W. Cole by John Foster, learned Headmaster of Eton College. 1772.”] On the facing endpaper, in later hand, is the ink inscription: “Henricus Lee | E Dono M. Cole, uxoris Gulielmio Cole, Prebendarii Westmensteriensii Cathedrae. 1812.” [Given to Henry Lee by Mary Cole, wife of William Cole, Prebendary of Westmenster Cathedral. 1812.”] John Foster (1731-1774), classical scholar, was Headmaster at Eton from 1765 to 1773. According to the DNB, “Foster was not successful in his administra - tion of the school, ‘his government was defective, his authority insufficient,’“ Foster retired from Eton in July 0f 1773, “in hope of recruiting his health, which had been sadly shattered by his efforts to cope with the difficulties of his headship.” William Cole (1753-1806), also a classical scholar with close ties to Eton. According to the DNB, “In 1766 he was admitted at Eton and in 1773 was made scholar of King’s College, Cambridge … In 1777 he returned from Cambridge to Eton as a master, but, having ruptured a blood-vessel while an undergraduate, found himself not strong enough for the post, and resigned it in 1780.” Under the patronage of the Duke of Marlborough his career advanced and he was eventually appointed prebendary of Westminster by the Archbishop of Canterbury. “In 1795 he married Mary [Blackstone] , the sec - ond daughter of Sir William Blackstone, but left no issue … ” (DNB). Mary Blackstone Cole (ca. 1773) was 2nd daughter of William Blackstone (1723-1780). “From the Author”
Henry Lee (1765 - 1838) was husband of Philippa Blackston e (b. ca. 1775), 3rd daughter of William Blackstone. ’ 149 . SOUTHEY, Robert . The Poetical Works of … . Each volume with frontispiece and title page engravings. 10 vols. 8vo, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1837- 38. Original green blind-stamped cloth. Some spines lightly chipped, hinges cracked, else fine. $950 Volume one flyleaf is inscribed: “With the author’s compts [compliments] |Anna Eliza Bray/ Ded. 1837.” A complimentary copy sent by the publisher to Anna Eliza Bray (1790-1883), novelist and friend of Southey. Southey carried on an extensive correspon - dence (now in the University of Rochester archives) with her, visited her home, and encouraged her republication of her husband’s Dartmoor researches. - 150 . SPENDER, Stephen . Collected Poems 1928-1953 . 8vo, London: Faber & Faber, 1955. First edition. Cloth. Fine in dust jacket with small chip at head. Kulkarni A32. $750 A fine association copy, inscribed on the half-title to composer Samuel Barber: “To dear Sam (see p 100) with love from Stephen Feb 3 1955” At p. 100 is Spender’s poem “A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map”, which is dedicated to Barber. Spender’s poem, which treats the death of a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, first appeared in 1939 in The Still Centre . His friend Samuel Barber set the words to music, and the composition received its pre - miere in 1940 in New York. 151 . SPIKER, S.H . Berlin vor Hundert Jahren. Berlin und Seine Umgebungen in Neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Eine Sammlung in Stahl Gestochener Anischten von den Augezeichnetsten Kunstlern Englands . Illustrated. 4to, Berlin: Deutsche verlagsgellschaft fur Politik und Geshichte, 1928. Facsimile of the 1833 first edition. Full
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 mottled tree calf, gilt stamped, a.e.g. In modern presentation cloth box. Fine. $900 Inscribed on the front free-endpaper from Konrad Adenaur: “to his Friend the Famous American Industrialist Dannie Heineman, Bonn November, 1952. “ … … “ - 152 . STEIN, Gertrude . Picasso . 63 full-page reproductions of which 8 are in color. 8vo, Paris: Librairie Floury, 1938. First edi - tion, No 13 in the publisher’s series “Anciens et Modernes”. Original wrappers, torn and stained, an inch missing head and foot of spine, wrappers extensively repaired with cellotape, internally very good, however. Wilson A30. $2,000 Wonderful association copy, inscribed by Stein to her friend, the art critic , fellow champion of Picasso and modernism: “My dear Henri | I did write it in French | yes I did, corrected if you | like but I did lots of love | Gtde.” According to biographer James Mellow, Henry McBride, along with Carl van Vechten, was one of Stein’s most important friends in the building of her American reputation. McBride was an art critic for the New York Sun whom Mellow calls “the most astute and entertaining art critic of his generation.” From the time that they met in 1913, McBride became a powerful promoter of Stein’s work in the States, “he mentioned her frequently and favorably in his columns for the Sun, often quoting her at length. His promotion of her work and her her reputation during the years of World War I kept her name before the public … ” 153 . STEIN, Gertrude . Dix Portraits . 86 pp. 9 x 6 ¾ inches, Paris: Éditions de la Montagne, [1930]. First trade edition, one of 400 copies on Alpha Paper, numbered from, 101 to 500, this being No. 101. Stiff manila wrappers with black triangular design and black lettering. Wrappers detached but present, two small closed tears on front cover, minor soiling and marginal toning to text. Wilson A15d. $1,500 With a wonderful presentation inscription from Gertrude Stein on the front pastedown: “To my dear Henry and the | seeds they are doing just what | you said they could which is very | well I thank you.”
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154 . STEIN, Gertrude . Have they attacked Mary. He giggled. (A Political caricature), by … . [2], 14 pp., including one full-page woodcut portrait of Henry McBride, by Jules Pascin. 8 x 7 inch - es, New York: [Printed by Horace F. Temple, West Chester, Pa.], [1917]. Copy No. 3 of 200 printed. Stiff red wrappers printed in black. Upper wrapper detached and slightly faded at edges, else very good. With a book ticket on the inside front wrapper which reads: “From the Collection of Henry McBride Art Critic.” Wilson A4. $2,500 Very scarce and early Stein pamphlet, published in the June, 1917 issue of Vanity Fair, and reprinted separately here in an edition of 200 copies. This copy has an important provenance, as it comes from the library of her friend, the art critic . Not only is McBride the subject of this play - ful “portrait” by Stein with her text and by Pascin with his woodcut, but it was McBride himself who interceded with Vanity Fair to get the piece pub - lished in the first place. , 155 . STEIN, Gertrude . Lucy Church Amiably . Small 8vo, Paris: Imprimerie “Union”, 1930. First edition (“The plain edition an edition of first editions of all the work not yet Printed of Gertrude Stein.”). Original blue paper boards, printed in black. Worn copy, spine defective (faded, detached with half-inch loss from head), lower board detached, internally very good. In cus - tom morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Wilson A14. $1,750 A fine association copy of this book (published by Stein and Toklas under their “Plain edition” imprint), inscribed by Stein on the flyleaf to her friend and champion, the American art critic Henry McBride: “To Henry dear | from Gertrude” ’ 156 . (STEVENSON, Robert Louis) Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland, from Queen Anne’s Accession to the Throne to the Commencement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms … . 8vo, London: J. Baker, 1714. Contemporary calf, front hinge cracked but hold - ing, lower cover detached, internally fine. - ’ , with his printed skerryvore bookplate on front paste - down. $2,500 An interesting history, made especially so by an appendix which gives the names of those who are identified only by initials in the text. James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102
157 . STEVENSON, James . Arts and Industries of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. By James Stevenson. 1879-’80 . Illustrated with nine chromolithographs by Bien and one chro - molithograph by Sinclair, folding map, numerous engraved plates and figures in text. [4], 307-422, [2], 423-465 pp. 4to, Washington: 1885. First separate edition. Three quarter brown morocco and brown cloth, marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplate of J. W. Hamersley. Rubbing to extremities, rear joint tender, internally an immaculate copy, inscribed by the author. Wolf and Folk 3476. $1,250 This is the first separate edition of Stevenson’s work documenting the life and culture of the Zuñi, Wolpi, Shinumo, and others. The volume was prepared from the sheets of the Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879 and … in 1880, originally intended for the first Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology but not actually published until the second Annual Report (G.P.O., 1883). An impor - tant and early work based on field study in the Southwest. This copy is inscribed on the first blank leaf, “For Hon. John W. Hamersley | with best wishes from his friend | James Stevenson” 158 . STONE, Irving . Lust for Life. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1934. First edition and an Advance Proof Copy. The former in publisher’s brown cloth, the latter in original printed wrappers, announcing publication for “Fall of 1934”. The one a very good copy in dust jacket with a few inter - nal cellotape repairs; the other fine, immaculate and crisp. The two housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase. $1,250 A marvellous pair of Stone’s now-classic novel based on the life of Vincent van Gogh. Each volume is inscribed twice by Stone to Baltimore collector A.B. Hanson, Jr: the first, inscribed at Hanson’s request in 1937 (“with the friendliest of feelings, to A.B. Hanson, Jr. of Baltimore, by Irving Stone, Hollywood, Feb. 23, 1937”), and with a letter to Hanson from Stone agree - ing to autograph the book tipped in; then later: “Dear Hansons: My heartfelt thanks for your many kindnesses during my stay in Baltimore. You are even nicer than we had dared to hope. Irving. Jan 29, 1943.” The advanced proof is first inscribed Jan 25, 1938: “Dear Aquilla B. Hanson, Friendships based on correspondence are sometimes the best of all. May ours last the full thirty years. Irving Stone”; then again later: “But friendships in the flesh are even better! Jan 29, 1943.”
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159 . STOREY, David . The Sporting Life . 243 pp. 8vo, New York: Macmillan, 1960. First American edition. Green cloth. Fine in fine green dust jacket by Gilbert Etheredge, pages browned, small chip to title-page. $750 Inscribed on flyleaf: “For Burt Britton (now is this going back a long time) with best wishes David Storey 16th October 1976.” 160 . STOWE, Harriet Beecher . Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly . Title page vignettes, six plates (three plates in each volume). 2 vols. 8vo, Boston and Cleveland, OH: John P. Jewett & Co. and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. First edition. Half-leather, marbled boards, a.e.g., hinges cracked, top of spine vol. 1 missing, foxed throughout. Bookplate. Inscribed. BAL 19343. $3,500 Pasted down on front endpaper of volume 1, small card inscribed thus: “The Lord is nigh unto all that call on Him. From your unknown but sincere friend Harriet Beecher Stowe June 7, 1889.” (See also No. 31). : - 161 . (SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles) Dumas, Alexander . Les Trois Mousquetaires . 2 vols. 4to, Paris: Calman Lévy, 1894.Three quarter morocco and cloth, marbled endpapers. $1,500 Inscribed on the flyleaf to Swinburne’s friend, guardian, watchdog, and care - taker, Theodore Watts-Dunton: “Walter Theodore Watts | from his friend | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Christimas Day | 1898.” Alexandre Dumas was an author dear to Swinburne’s heart, and in this Christmas presentation there is a particularly fine and close association involving Watts, Swinburne and the French novelist. Philip Henderson, in his biography, Swinburne (New York, 1974) describes Watts’ efforts to wean the poet from his heavy drinking habit by gradually first substituting port for Swinburne’s habitual brandy, then, after a while, burgundy for port, then claret for burgundy, etc., etc., until, by declension, Watts had succeeded in reducing Swinburne’s consumption to one glass of British ale per day - and
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 all this with a literary finesse which inspired Swinburne to believe that he himself was making the choice. When the time to switch from port to bur - gundy had arrived, a close friend, Coulson Kernahan observed that Watts would exclaim: “ … there is nothing so fine as good, generous old Burgundy. It’s blood-making, nerve-strengthening, body-building, brain-firing. It’s the wine that our Dumas’ immortal Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Artemis, not forgetting the finest fellow of them all, D’Artagnan, thrived on, made love on, fought on; and most of all - you are half a Frenchman, you tell me - it is the wine of your own La Belle France. I picked up a case the other day, and I propose we sample a bottle at lunch, if only to drink to Dumas and the immortal three.” (Henderson, p. 231). Adding to the interest here, is a tipped-in quotation from an author even dear - er to Swinburne, Victor Hugo, in Swinburne’s hand: “(Hugo on parting from Dumas) “Tu rentras dans ton œuvre éclatante, innombrable, “Multiple, éblouissante, heureuse, où le jour luit, “Et moi, dans l’unité sinistre de la nuit.” 162 . (SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles) Dickens, Charles . Bleak House . With 40 etched plates after H.K. Browne. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1890. Later edition. Original pur - ple cloth. Front inner hinge repaired, slightly worn & faded. $800 Inscribed on the first blank in Swinburne’s hand: “W.T. Watts Dunton from AC Swinburne.” Swinburne, who called Dickens “the greatest Englishman of his generation,” was a staunch champion of the author’s genius when Dickens’ reputation ebbed in the first decades after his death. A remarkable association copy.
’ 163 . SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles . Atalanta in Calydon. A Tragedy . 111 pp. 4to, London: Edward Moxon, 1865. First edi - tion. Original cream-colored buckram. Covers stamped in gold designs. Very nice copy With the Buxton Forman bookplate. Wise 9. $2,250 Wise states that only 100 copies of this, the true first edition; were printed. Yet no fewer than 101 copies now in Syracuse University were assembled by a single private collector. “From the Author”
This copy is signed the front free-endpaper, “H. Buxton Forman/13 May, 1865.” A very nice association, as Buxton Forman was Wise’s partner in many of the fake Victorian pamphlets. He, like Wise, was a bibliographer and avid book collector. 164 . SWINBURNE, Algernon . Songs of Springtide . 135, [32, ads, dated April. 1880] pp. 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. First edition. Original blue cloth. A very good copy. $1,500 Inscribed “To the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart with the best regards of/Algernon Swinburne/ May 1880.” “Grosart, Alexander Balloch (1827-1899), literary scholar and theologian … Grosart’s reputation was as a great Elizabethan and Jacobean scholar. He reprinted thirty-nine volumes under the general title of the Fuller Worthies Library (1868-76), including authors such as Donne, Herbert, and Crashaw. This was followed by eighteen volumes of another series entitled Occasional Issues of Unique and Very Rare Books (1875-83), which was privately printed. This series, like the others, included a list of the subscribers to each volume, alphabetically and democratically arranged, and found among these lists were such well-known names as Edmund Gosse, George Saintsbury, A. C. Swinburne, H. H. Furness, F. S. Palgrave, and Henry Morley … Grosart reprinted and edited volumes for the Chetham Society, for the Roxburghe Club, and for the Camden Society, in addition to a number of volumes not associated with any series or society. One estimate puts the total number of volumes he reprinted and/or edited at 300. He also added to his editions of the works of the puritan divines a small number of religious publications. And he was himself the author of hymns and religious poems which were collected and published in 1890 as Songs of the Day and Night, or, Three Centuries of Original Hymns . Possibly his proudest moment was when he was thanked by Tennyson for his dedication to the poet of his edition of Spenser (Letters of … Tennyson , 3.298, 301-3)” (DNB).
165 . TARKINGTON, Booth . Penrod and Sam . Illustrated by Worth Brehm. 8vo, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1916. First edition, first state. Publisher’s light-green cloth, some rub - bing to illustration on front cover, ex-library with bookplate and blind stamp on title-page. $750 Inscribed on the flyleaf to Dr. Charles D. Hart and dated July 15, 1929: “Inscribed, with great pleasure, to Dr. Hart, by his ancient friend and fellow stu - dent, Booth Tarkington”
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, 166 . TENNYSON, Alfred . Ballads and Other Poems . vi. 184 pp. 8vo, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1880. First edition. Bound in full green morocco with repeating small floral designs on cov - ers and spine, a.e.g. by Ramage. Somewhat faded, minor rub - bing at extremities. Wise 138. $1,500 Inscribed on title page: “H.R.H. Princess Frederica from Hallam Tennyson With his affectionate duty April 24th 1880.” Hallam is Lord Alfred’s son, named after his close friend in his youth, Henry Arthur Hallam. At page 182 appears the quatrain,“To Princess Frederica on Her Marriage”: “O You that were eyes and light to the king till he past away From the darkness of life – He saw not his daughter - he blest her: the blind King sees you today, He blesses the wife.” Princess Frederica (1848-1926) was the daughter of George V (1819-78), the last king of Hanover (1851-1866), who was blind after 1833. He lost his throne upon the victory of Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War and subsequently styled himself Duke of Cumberland. Frederica was married to Baron Alfons von Pawel-Rammingen on April 24, 1880, the day Hallam inscribed this copy.
16 7 THURBER, James . Thurber Country. A New Collection of Pieces about Males and Females, mainly of Our own Species . Illustrated by Thurber. 276, [1] pp. 8vo, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. Original linen-backed mauve boards. Fine in fine original yellow illustrated dust jacket. $2,500 Inscribed by the author and from the estate of fellow New Yorker Cartoonist Claude Smith, with a note laid in on how he got this inscribed copy from James Geraghty.
168 . THURBER, James . Thurber’s Dogs. A Collection of the Master’s Dogs, Written and Drawn, Real and Imaginary, Living and Long Ago . Illustrated by James Thurber. 8vo, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Original cloth-backed boards, original illus - trated dust jacket. Fine. $2,000 Inscribed, “ Happy Days! James Thurber.” “From the Author”
169 . VOGEL, Lucien . Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt in French. 24, November, 1935. [With two further inscriptions]. Pen and ink on paper. 5 ½ x 4 ½ inches, [Paris: November 1935]. Fine. $900 From the influential French publisher and photographer Lucien Vogel: “En toute jalousie un confrère admiratif Lucien Vogel. 24 Novembre 1935 La Faisanderie [Acheis?] Vogel (1886-1954) is renowned as founder of the Gazette du Bon Ton (in 1912) and the pioneering large-format weekly photojournal Vu (in 1928), as well as countless art and illustrated books. It was Vogel who discovered Robert Capa (André Friedmann) and sent him on assignment to Spain, where Capa earned his reputation as a war photographer. And it was, of course, the American counterpart to Vu , LIFE Magazine , where Eisenstaedt was to make his name not long after this meeting. An important association in the history of pho - tojournalism. With the signature of “Robert Pisuet(?), Paris, 26 novembre 1935,” and, on verso, an inscription, “Toute mon admiration pour les si belles photos Agnès 1935 Paris novembre”
170 . WELLS, H.G . All Aboard for Ararat . v, [i], 105, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Secker & Warburg, 1940. First edition. Orange boards, lightly soiled. In dust jacket, chipped and browned, with blank portion of front panel lacking. In custom clamshell box. $900 Inscribed: “One single cabin ticket for Mrs. Wollcombe, 3 Weymouth Mews, to Ararat, H.G. Wells May.12.41” (See also No. 51). 171 . WESTON, Edward and Charis WILSON . California and the West . A U.S. Camera Book with 96 half-tone reproductions of photographs by Edward Weston., printed on rectos and versos of 48 leaves of glossy stock, one full-page map in the text; 127 pp. 4to, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940]. First edi - tion. Black cloth lettered in white on spine and upper cover. without the dust jacket, previous owner’s signature in ink on
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 endpaper, slight toning to edges of text leaves, overall a very good copy. $800 A classic compilation of images by the great photographer of the American West, inscribed on the dedication leaf: “To Sigmund | my best | Edward Weston” 172 . WEYMAN, Stanley John . Group of 13 novels, most with gift inscriptions to HRH Edward, Prince of Wales, from Viscount Esher. Some illustrated. 13 vols. 8vo, London: Various publishers, Ca. 1900-1920. Later editions. Uniformly bound in three quarter green calf, panelled spines gilt, t.e.g., by Hatchards. Leather a little rubbed, internally fine. Formerly the possession of HRH Edward, Duke of Windsor. James Lees- Milne: The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald 2nd Viscount Esher. $5,000 Best known for his novel, Under the Red Robe , Weyman, after an unsuccessful career as a lawyer, turned out a number of action-filled popular historical novels, of the sort that boys like the Prince would be apt to enjoy. The titles, most inscribed (to “Prince Edward”) by Lord Esher on the flyleaves, to com - memorate Christmas and birthdays are: A Minister of France ; The Castle Inn; In Kings’ Byways; A Gentleman of France ; The Red Cockade ; The House of the Wolf ; Under the Red Robe ; The Man in Black ; Francis Cludde; Shrewsbury ; Sophia ; The Abbess of Vlaye ; The Long Night . Inscribed or not, these were all presumably presented by Lord Esher, and subsequently rebound in matching style Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (1852-1930) was, in retrospect, one of the most fascinating individuals in early 20th-century English public life — although his own career was anything but public. After reaching his mid-for - ties, “without much to show for his life” he was offered - and turned down - the offices of permanent under-secretary at the Colonial and War Offices, Governor of the Cape Colony, Secretary of State for War, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to Paris, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He became, instead, a notable éminence grise , a power behind the scenes to such a degree that he was caricaturized by Max Beerbohm as a frock-coated figure pointing at Britannia and saying, “Never mind who I am. Just go and do what I tell you.” It was only in 1986, with the publication of the Lees-Milne biography, that the reason for his reluctance to accept conspicuous office — an incestu - ous passion for his younger son (“Molly”) — became evident. In spite of this departure from convention, his talents as courtier and counselor were note - worthy, and were gratefully accepted at face value by his peers, and — as least so far as his distinguished public activities are concerned — by history, and by a Britannia who, by and large, did what she was told.
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173 . (WHITE HOUSE) The White House Library. A Short-Title List. [Foreword by James T. Babb]. Published with a Grant from the Sperry and Hutchinson Foundation. 219 pp. 8vo, Washington, D.C: The White House Historical Association, 1967. First edition. Blue cloth. Fine in tan dust jacket. Quarter green morocco slipcase and chemise. $1,250 Inscribed: “For Jane - with so much appeciation for all you have done to enhance the beauty of this house Lady Bird Johnson.” Jane Engelhard, cosmopolitan book collector and philanthropist of Cragwood, Far Hills, New Jersey, and her husband, Charles Engelhard, chair - man of the multi-national minerals conglomerate Engelhard Industries and the model for Ian Fleming’s tycoon Goldfinger, were close friends of the Johnsons and prominent supporters of White House restoration campaigns. ’ 174 . WILLIAMS, William Carlos . A Book of Poems | Al Que Quiere! . 12mo, Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1917. First edi - tion. Original pictorial boards (with author’s name misspelled “Willams” on spine). Small chip from head, joints starting, stain on lower corner of front cover. A worn copy of this fragile book, with a wonderful provenance, however. Wallace A3. $750 Signed by the American composer on the flyleaf. A remark - able association copy, linking the names of two great American artists.
175 . WOLFE, Thomas . Of Time and the River. A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth . [xii], 912 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First printing. Dark blue cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket with fold down middle of front panel, spine very slightly sunned. Johnston A3.I.a. $4,500 Inscribed on the flyleaf: “For Hazel Abrams/ Sincerely/ Thomas Wolfe/ Hollywood. — -Sept. 3, 1935.” ’ , “ ’ ” 176 . WREN, Percival Christopher . Beau Geste . Photograph portrait of the author; illustrated by Helen McKie. 2 vols. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1927. Edition Deluxe; No. 180 of 1000
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 copies, signed by the author. Original red and blue cloth, print - ed spine label, t.e.g., others uncut, label a little browned, slight staining to foot of spine. [With a copy in dust jacket of the pho - toplay edition illustrated with stills from the film]. $7,500 With the author’s bookplate, inscribed: “To Ronald Colman, Esq with the author’s homage PC Wren.” Loosely inserted are an ALS from Wren’s wife and TLS from the author to Colman. Ronald Colman’s starring role in Beau Geste , filmed in the Arizona desert in 1926, caught the fancy of millions. The film was one of the most profitable pictures of the silent era and paved the way for the actor’s memo - rable successes of the 1930s. An outstanding association. The autograph letter, dated Feb 7 [1929] reads: Dear Mr. Colman, Your letter of 13 January to Mr. Robb Lawson has reached my husband, Major Wren, by way of Mr. Farquharson of John Murray. My husband is seri - ously ill and I am doing all his correspondence, so I hope you will not mind my writing to you on his behalf. He would have written to you long, long ago - and always intended to do so - but his health has been truly dreadful for years now. I did not write because we were hoping he would soon be well enough to do so himself. We hope this last attack will end it for we think now that the mischief has been traced to its source! I cannot tell you adequately the joy and pleasure your characterisation of Beau gave him - and me. We were enthralled by it, and you will always remain Beau Geste to us. It was a magnificent film. Everybody was so excel - lent, and the photography was superb. It must have been a wonderful expe - rience to have lived it all, as you did, in those strenuous desert months. [ … ] I am sending the photograph and also a signed copy of the book with my hus - band’s compliments. Yours Sincerely, Isabel Wren P.S. I have now forgotten the most important point of my letter. We should very much value a photograph of yourself inscribed to us, and if you have one to spare - as Beau Geste, we should rejoice still more [ … ] In the T.L.S., dated 12th May 1929, Wren acknowledges receipt of the pho - tographs and remarks “My wife has of course taken the large one of you, in mufti, for a prominent place in her drawing room. I cannot say how greatly it pleased me that you should have expressed a wish for my photograph - but nearly as much as it did to discover that a man so great and famous as your - self should also be so modest as to say that I have done anything for him, the precise opposite being the fact. [ … ]. (See also No. 8).
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177 . WRIGHT, Richard . How “Bigger” Was Born . 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, [1940]. First edition. Yellow printed wrappers, somewhat soiled and darkened at edges, but sound. In cloth clamshell box. $5,000 With a wonderful inscription from Wright to his close personal friend, Abe Aaron: “To Abe, in memory of the Old John Reed Club days. Dick. 10/11/40 Brooklyn.” Wright met Abe Aaron in 1930 in Chicago, where both were working in the Chicago Post office, nicknamed “The university.” Aaron helped introduce Wright to the circle of intellectuals and radicals in the area. In 1934, Aaron helped promote Wright’s poems into publication, writing to his friend Jack Conroy, publisher of Anvil : “Isn’t he swell? And he is absolutely self-educated … He also writes short stories. On that score he considers me as a kingpin compared to himself. He sees what luck I’m having. So he never submits … ” Conroy, impressed with Wright’s work, published a poem in Anvil and referred both Aaron and Wright to the John Reed Club. Named for the author of Ten Days That Shook the World , a history of the communist revolution in Russia, the clubs were founded nationwide in 1931, lasting only until 1934. During his brief membership before the clubs were dissolved, Wright became an officer of the chapter. The disbanded groups of artists and intellectuals fed the ranks of the League of American Writers, of which Aaron and Wright became prominent members. A wonderful association copy. 178 . (WYETH, Andrew) Collection of 9 books (see below), each inscribed by Andrew, Bestsy, or Jamie Wyeth to Lincoln Kirstein. Meryman, Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life (1998). In all, 9 volumes . $5,000 An extraordinary collection, marking the extremely close and significant rela - tionship between Lincoln Kirstein and two generations of Wyeths. Kirstein, who was on the board of MoMA, met Andrew Wyeth after the museum acquired Christina’s World in 1948. Wyeth was still largely unknown at that time, and he quickly came to rely on Kirstein for support and honest criticism of his work. “Kirstein appointed himself Wyeth’s friend, admirer, mentor, and stern critic - in essence a supersuccessor to NC. [ … ] Wyeth thinks that in the 1950s he needed Kirstein to push him toward more form in his work, more solidity” (Meryman, pp. 239, 243). Kirstein, who disdained most abstract art, was essential in providing Wyeth the confidence he need - ed to continue work in the face of hostile critics who derided his art as senti -
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 mental and unsophisticated. Wyeth was fond of quoting Kirstein’s dismissive opinion of the critics, “Why do you want approval from those horses’ asses?” (ibid , p. 390). Kirstein was a father-figure to two generations of Wyeth artists, and as Andrew’s son Jamie developed his own artistic gifts, Kirstein began to trans - fer his attention to the younger Wyeth. “After posing for nineteen-year-old Jamie, Kirstein more or less shifted his allegiance from Andrew and became Jamie’s friend and mentor. Kirstein told Betsy, ‘You gave me the only son I ever had’” ( ibid , p. 275). Collection comprises: •CORN, Wanda M . The Art of Andrew Wyeth . With Contributions by Brian O’Doherty, Richard Meryman, E.P. Richardson. Illustrated. 176 pp. Oblong 4to, Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society Ltd, [1973]. First edition. Beige cloth, soiled, in yellowed and edgeworn dust jacket. Inscribed to Lincoln Kirstein, “Dear Lincoln | Look at page 145 | much love | Andy” Page 145 contains a reproduction of Wyeth’s portrait of an American Indian, Nogeeshik . •MERYMAN, Richard . Andrew Wyeth . With numerous full-color plates (some double-spread) of Wyeth’s paintings. Oblong folio, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. First edition. Original tan cloth with brown cloth spine. Almost fine. Inscribed on the half-title by the artist : “To Lincoln & Fido | Betsy & Andy.” A very difficult book to find inscribed, especially to one so close. •WYETH, Andrew . Andrew Wyeth . Illustrated. 4to, [Japan: Mitsukoshi, 1978]. First edition. Publisher’s wrappers, lightly soiled. Inscribed by the artist and his wife to Lincoln Kirstein and his wife, “ For | Fido & Lincoln | with love | Andy & Betsy | This exhibition just ended | in Japan -” The inscription is in the artist’s hand •WYETH, Andrew . Andrew Wyeth . Introduction by David McCord. Selection by Frederick A. Sweet. Illustrated. 224 pp. Oblong 4to, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, [1970]. First edition. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers, soiled and thumbed. Very good. Inscribed by the artist to Lincoln Kirstein, “For Lincoln | with love | Andy” and with a post-script, “ The Finnish Virgin | is still hanging in the Mill House | - A. ” Wyeth is likely referring to The Virgin (1970), his celebrated nude portrait of Siri Erickson. This work is part of large series of paintings of Siri, her family, and the Finnish community around Cushing, Maine. The Mill was Wyeth’s home in Chadds Ford. The date of the publication of this catalogue and the completion of The Virgin suggest Kirstein was an early admirer (or critic) of the painting. “From the Author”
•WYETH, Andrew . Andrew Wyeth: Tempuras, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 into 1966 . Illustrated. 111, [1] pp. 4to, [Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1966]. First edition. Publisher’s wrappers, soiled. Very good. Inscribed to Lincoln Kirstein, “ For Lincoln | with love | Andy ” •WYETH, Andrew . The Helga Pictures . Text by John Wilmerding. 4to, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1987]. First edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket. Fine. Inscribed to Lincoln Kirstein in the artist’s hand, “ For Lincoln | with love | Andy & Betsy ” •[ WYETH, Andrew ]. Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Aquarelles, Dry Brush, Dessins. Illustrated, captioned tissue guards. Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, [1980]. First edition. Illustrated wrappers, scuffed, with coaster ring on front cover. Inscribed, “For Lincoln | With love | Andy -” •WYETH, Betsy James . Wyeth at Kuerners . Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. Oblong 4to, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition. Olive buckram. Fine, in very good dust jacket. Inscribed on half-title to Lincoln Kirstein, “ For Lincoln with love - | Betsy ” •WYETH, James. Oils, Watercolors, Drawings . Illustrated. Oblong 8vo, Rockland, Maine: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, [1969]. First edition. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers, scuffed and lightly soiled. Very good. Inscribed by the artist to Lincoln Kirstein, “To Lincoln - Jamie Wyeth.” Wyeth painted Kirstein’s portrait in 1965. (See page 92). ’ 179 . YEATS, William Butler . Poems, 1899-1905. [with:] Poems: Second Series . Second title with photogravure frontispiece after Coburn. 2 vols. 8vo, London: A.H. Bullen, 1906; 1909. First edi - tions. Each in the publisher’s uniform blue cloth with elaborate gilt design on spines, designed by Althea Gyles. The first title has the bookplate of John Masefield, as poet laureate and a tipped- on slip with the inscription “With W.B. Yeats’ Compliments”. (The second title is in the first issue binding). Both are excep - tionally bright and beautiful copies. Wade 64 & 83. $1,500 A lovely association, as Masefield was an early associate of Yeats’ inner circle (Lady Gregory, Arthur Symons, J.M. Synge, Laurence Binyon, Jack Yeats); he became poet laureate in 1930.
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180 . YEATS, William Butler . Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems . xvi, 48 pp. “Sword of light” device by AE on p. iii. 8vo, Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1932. First edition, one of 450 copies printed. Blue paper boards, linen spine, with printed paper label. Mint copy. With the John Farleigh wood-engraved bookplate of . In blue cloth clamshell box. Wade 168. $900 A beautiful copy of this important Yeats compilation, with some of his great - est mature poems: (“Byzantium”. “Coole Park 1929”, “Coole Park and Ballylee”, the Crazy Jane series, etc A particularly touching and important association copy. William Maxwell, novelist and fiction editor for The New Yorker for 40 years, took the title and epigraph for his 1937 novel, They Came Like Swallows , from Yeats’ “Coole Park, 1929”, first printed in this collection: “They came like swallows and like swallows went, “And yet a woman’s powerful character “Could keep a Swallow to its first intent … ” 181 . YOURCENAR, Marguerite . Souvenirs Pieux suivi de l’Album de Fernande . Illustrated from photographs. Tall 8vo (9 ½ x 7 inch - es), Monaco: Éditions Alphée, 1973. No. “H.C. 26” of 45 num - bered copies (total edition of 550) on Vélin de Lana. Original cream-colored wrappers, printed in black. Fine copy in the pub - lisher’s original colored-printed slipcase with chemise. $750 Presentation copy of Yourcenar’s family memoirs, with an autograph pre - sentation card laid in, inscribed to the editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux: “à Harold Vursell | en remerciement pour |sa longue patience et | sa longue compréhension,|hommage de l’auteur | Marguerite Yourcenar Oct., 1973” Souvenirs Pieux was translated as Dear Departed by Maria Louise Ascher, and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1991). .. 182 . (ZIEGFELD, Florenz) Rice, Mary Alice . A theatrical archive of Mary Alice Rice, Ziegfeld girl, actress, cabaret per - former, featured player for Universal Pictures, and fashion fig - ure. Photographs, press clippings, memorabilia, ca. 1930-1970. A wonderful archive of a diminutive, star-struck young lady from “From the Author”
Temple, Texas, who, through a diverse career, was featured in the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies (later becoming a founder of the Ziegfeld Club and its first president); appeared in other shows with the headliners of the day; was linked romantically with William Guggenheim and other gentlemen of note; did radio and cabaret work; became a John Powers model; went to Hollywood and worked for Universal; and turned in later years to fashion, becoming a noted consultant and commentator. $3,000 Of special interest in this collection are inscribed photos from W.C. Fields, Bert Lahr, Ruth Etting, Harry Richmond, and Conrad NageL, as well as Billy Guggenheim, Joseph Urban (Ziegfeld’s set designer and prominent architect), and about a dozen other Ziegfeld entertainers and chorus girls; Miss Rice’s scrapbook, itself a time-capsule of the Broadway columnists of the 1940s, together with programs of her shows, telegrams and letters from well-wish - ers; advertisements for which she modeled, and programs of the fashion events she subsequently produced; approximately 100 vintage photographs of Miss Rice; and much other material documenting a long and glamorous life. ADDENDUM
, “ ” KNOWLES , John . A Separate Peace. A Novel . 8vo, London : Secker & Warburg , 1959. First edition . Orignal green boards, spine lettered in silver. Spine lightly bumped, textblock faintly toned. Very good plus copy . $4,500 John Knowles (1926-2001) was born in West Virginia and educated at Phillips Exeter and Yale. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer, then as asso - ciate editor at Holiday magazine from 1956. A Separate Peace , published in 1959 and set in a boarding school based closely upon Phillips Exeter, became a publishing success and Knowles resigned from Holiday to follow the writing life. Jonathan Yardley, writing in the New Republic in 1971, called it “a minor but very nearly perfect piece of work; a tight, cohesive account of the cor - ruption of innocence that is not merely the finest ‘prep school novel’ but a genuine work of art.” Inscribed on the title page, “To Arnold — who shared both my cell block and street during this book’s composition — with affection, Jack Knowles, August 1959.” A superb association, inscribed to his editor at Holiday magazine, Arnold Ehrlich (1923-1989), later editor of Publishers Weekly and Town & Country. (See page 91). James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 102 N o . 3 0
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