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Fredric Brown

Ackerman’s Microcosm of London In the Detective Pulps 104 aquatint plates Item 10 Item 136 Rare Algren proof, Item 1 Man with the Golden Arm

The third Sherlock First Canadian Edition, preceding A nearly complete, signed collection A Haycroft-Queen Conerstone the British – 1st appearance of of the winner’s books Poirot, Item 21 Item 29 Item 28

Dick Francis Collection Inscribed proof Thirty-six in all Signed on the title page Item 43 Most signed or inscribed And Inscribed on the endpaper Item 37 Item 44

First printing in first-issue dust Inscribed by jacket, signed by Mitchell Later printing Item 86 Rare signed copy Item 77 Item 153

First editions E. B. White’s An attractive set Elusive First Book Item 109 Association copy, Inscribed First & only edition

Item 155 Plus Nonfiction Items 124 – 171 Item 115 RARE PROOF in fine dust jacket with the barest wear 1. Algren, Nelson. and local DC bookstore (Saville) sticker THE MAN WITH THE over price. A very good shop in GOLDEN ARM. Garden Georgetown, unfortunately out of City: Doubleday & Co., business for years. A nice copy. $250. 1949. First edition. Winner of the first 8. Biggers, Earl Derr. LOVE and INSURANCE. New Y ork: Grosset & made into the movie that Dunlap [circa 1919]. First of this resurrected Frank Sinatra's Photoplay edition, which we assume was career. "Unrevised proofs" in tall, plain blue wraps with light- issued about 1919, or later, as that is the blue label printed in black. Measures 6 7/8 x 11 3/4"; last page year the first movie, with Ralph Denny, number is "122" but pagination is double in that the pages are was made. Another movie, starring numbered "1A," "1B," and so on. A RARE ITEM, we know of Abbott and Costello and with Robert only one other copy, which is in a University collection. Few Cummings, was made in 1940 under the minor scuffs & creases, otherwise near fine. Housed in custom title "One Night in the Tropics." Old clamshell case. $4500. insect damage on bottom of covers, otherwise very good in chipped but still very good dust jacket. 2. Algren, Nelson. A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. NY: An early photoplay jacket. $250. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1956). First edition. "This is a story that tries to tell something about the natural toughness of women 9. Brodsky, Joseph. A PART OF SPEECH. New York: and men, in that order. Although it is for the most part about New Farrar Straus Giroux (1980). First U.S. edition and first edition Orleans in the 1930's, I like to think it is really about any street of in English. INSCRIBED to the Boston architect Tony Hsiao: any big town in the country" (Algren). Near fine in very good or "For Tony from Joseph Brodsky / to an architect from a ruin." better dust jacket with spine ends a little nicked and rubbed and His second major collection of poems published in English. one small chip from base of spine. Having been a fan of Algren Expelled from the Soviet Union, Brodsky moved to America in our youth we always thought this was a rewrite of his first with the help of W. H. Auden and other literary supporters and book, SOMEBODY IN BOOTS. $75. was eventually appointed Poet Laureate. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Tony Hsiao work includes the 3. Baldwin, James. ONE DAY WHEN I WAS LOST. performing arts center at Bryn Mawr College, the new Trial London: Michael Joseph (1972). True first Courthouse at Fall River, Museum Towers in Taipei, and new edition. Baldwin's film script for The religious buildings across the country. Hsaio's small name label Autobiography of Malcolm X. Near fine in on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket. $250. bright, near fine dust jacket. $125. 4. Baldwin, James. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK. New York: Dial Press, 1974. First edition. One of 350 SIGNED numbered copies. A story of Harlem in the 1970's. Fine in slipcase, without dust jacket, as issued. $350. 5. Banks, Iain. THE WASP FACTORY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. First U. S. edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK-- SIGNED. Writ-ten from the first-person 10. Brown, Fredric. FREDRIC BROWN IN THE perspective of a sixteen-year- DETECTIVE PULPS: Homicide Sanitarium, Before She old describing his childhood, Kills, Madman's Holiday, Case of the Dancing Sandwiches, which included deaths within Freak Show Murders, and more. Tucson, et al: Dennis . Fine in dust jacket McMillan Publ., 1984-1991. First editions. All 19 volumes in with only the barest wear on the Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series plus THE the spine ends. $450. OFFICE--a total of 20 volumes, all limited editions (only 300 6. Banville, John, as Benjamin Black. VENGEANCE. to 450 copies were printed of each). All copies are first edition (London): Mantle (2012). First edition, preceding the U.S. hard covers numbered and SIGNED BY THE Number 68 of 300 SIGNED numbered copies. Sixth book by INTRODUCTION WRITERS where called for (marked with an asterisk*). All are in fine condition in their original Banville writing as Benjamin Black. Fine in dust jacket. $75. illustrated dust jackets. The set includes: 7. Bellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: • HOMICIDE SANITARIUM (v.1, ‘84), Bill Pronzini* Viking (1970). First edition of this National Book Award #25/300 • BEFORE SHE KILLS (v.2, ‘84), William F. Nolan*, winner. INSCRIBED, "To --- best wishes. ." Fine #205/350 • MADMAN'S HOLIDAY (v.3, ‘85), Newton Baird*, copies. An early novella. Fine in original glassine wrapper and #317/350 very tight slipcase with some minor wear. $100. • THE CASE OF THE DANCING SANDWICHES (v.4, 14. Callaghan, Morley, (). THAT ‘85), Lawrence Block*, #165/400 SUMMER IN PARIS Memories of Tangled Friendships with • THE FREAK SHOW MURDERS (v.5, ‘85) Richard Hemingway, Fitz-gerald, and Some Lupoff*, #177/350 Others. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, • THIRTY CORPSES EVERY THURSDAY (v.6, ‘86), 1963. First edition. SIGNED by the William Campbell Gault*, #158/375 author. Callaghan was born and raised • PARDON MY GOULISH LAUGHTER (v.7, ‘86), Donald in Toronto and became friends in the Westlake*, #142 of 400 1920s with fellow-reporter Ernest • RED IS THE HUE OF HELL (v.8, ‘86), Walt Sheldon*, Hemingway while working at the #218/400 Toronto Daily Star. He was recognized • BROTHER MONSTER (v.9, ‘87), Harry Altshuler*, as one of the best short story writers of #88/400 his day, sharing Hemingway and F. • SEX LIFE ON THE PLANET MARS (v.10, ‘86), Charles Scott Fitzgerald's editor, Maxwell Willeford*, #292/400 Perkins, who published nine • NIGHTMARE IN DARKNESS (v.11, ‘87), Linn Brown*, of his books. This book is #260/425 based on Callaghan's 1929 • WHO WAS THAT BLONDE I SAW YOU KILL LAST summer in Paris, where he NIGHT (v.12, ‘88), Alan E. Nourse*, #116/450 was part of the great • THREE-CORPSE PARLAY (v.13, ‘88), Max Allan gathering of writers in Collins*, #31/450 Montparnasse that included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, • SELLING DEATH SHORT (v.14, ‘88), Francis M.Nevins, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. It Jr.*, #227/450 includes the infamous boxing match between Callaghan and Hemingway during which Callaghan knocked Hemingway to • WHISPERING DEATH (v.15, ‘89), [no intro, so unsigned], the mat. (Hemingway blamed referee Fitzgerald for letting the #84/450 boxing round go past its regulation three minutes, which he was • HAPPY ENDING (v.16, ‘90), [no intro, so unsigned], convinced was in order see him humiliated.) Illustrated with #99/450 photographs of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, , Ezra • THE WATER WALKER (v.17, ‘90) , [no intro, so Pound et al. Minor wear on corners and spine ends of book and unsigned], #105/425 dust jacket, still near fine condition and scarce signed. We • THE GIBBERING NIGHT (v.18, ‘91), Joe Lansdale*, understand this Canadian edition precedes all others, but it was #331/425 printed in th U.S. so perhaps issued simultaneously with the • THE PICKLED PUNKS (v.19, ‘91), [no intro, so unsigned], Coward-McCann edition? $350. #38/450 • Plus THE OFFICE (1987), Philip Jose Farmer*, #91/425. 15. Capote, Truman. MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS: New A fine set. $3600. Writing. New York: Random House (1980). First edition. 11. Brown, Sterling A. SOUTHERN ROAD. NY: Harcourt, Number 80 of 350 SIGNED copies. Fourteen new, at the time, Brace and Co. (1932). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST pieces including one story and thirteen essays. Issued without BOOK. Cloth spine and patterned boards. Wear on corners of dust jacket in slipcase. Cloth spine has an almost imperceptible boards and spine ends rubbed; bookplate and name and address small darker spot, otherwise almost new in plain reddish brown of former owner on front endpaper. Still, a good to very good paper-covered slipcase. $350. copy of a scarce book. Lacking the rare dust jacket. $150. BEAUTIFUL BINDING 16. Child, Lee. KILLING FLOOR. NY: Putnam’s (1997). First edition of the author's first book, preceded by the British 12. Burton, Sir Richard. THE edition of the same year. Winner of the Anthony Award, and a KASIDAH OF HAJI ABDU EL- good read. One we enjoyed very much when it came out. Very YEZDI. London: Philip Allan & Co., good with white boards faintly foxed and subtle damp stains to 1926. Second impression; the first was in page fore edges, which is too bad as it 1925. Brown, full-leather Sangorski & presents well otherwise. In bright, near Sutcliffe binding. All edges gilt, fine dust jacket. $75. additional gilt blocking; spine in six decorated compartments; patterned 17. (Children's Books). [Bannerman, endpapers. Illustrated with twelve full- Helen] Nina R. Jordan. LITTLE page black-and-white drawings by John Kettelwell. A fine, BLACK SAMBO; (and "A New Story very attractive copy with only the slightest of wear and spine of Little Black Sambo"). Racine, just slightly sunned. $300. Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co. 13. Callaghan, Morley. NO MAN'S MEAT. Paris: Edward (1932). Presumed first (or very early W. Titus, 1931. First edition. One of 500 SIGNED numbered printing) of this edition with illustrations by Nina R. Jordan and 22. Clancy, Tom. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. "A New Story" (by Jordan) added. Pictorial covers edge worn Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press (1984). First edition of rear signatures loosely inserted. Still a good copy of a scarce the author's first book. Inspired by the failed mutiny aboard the book. $100. Storozhevoy by Valery Sablin in 1975. SIGNED BY Clancy on 18. (Children's Books). Bannerman, Helen, Gustaf Tenggren. a small plain bookplate laid in the LITTLE BLACK SAMBO. NY: Simon and Schuster (1948). book (not glued in). This hardback Presumed second printing of the "Little Golden Book" edition edition is the first novel published by with "B" in gutter of last page. Pictorial paperboards. Very good the Naval Institute Press. Clancy had not been able to place the novel with to near fine with only light wear to corners and spine ends. $100. any traditional publishers but had a 19. (Children's Books). Bishop, good relationship with the press from Claire Huchet; Georges Schreiber. writing articles in their Proceedings of PANCAKES - PARIS. New York: the Naval Institute. One of the The Viking Press, 1947. First edition. publisher's most successful books, 1948 Newbery Honor Book illustrated published in an edition of 30,000 by Georges Schreiber. Young Charles copies. However, as the Press had finds a way to make french crepes with standing orders for 15,000 copies of everything they published, pancake mix given to him by an only 15,000 went to commercial stores. After the book received American GI in post-war unexpected praise from President Reagan, the book became a France. INSCRIBED by bestseller. Near fine with small, light stain on front page edges, Bishop on half-title the corners barely rubbed and one just lightly bumped; in very page in 1948. Near good or better dust jacket a little creased on portion of top edge fine in very good or and flap edge and with a tiny closed tear on bottom of back better dust jacket with cover. $750. rubbing to corners and spine ends just shallowly chipped. $150. 23. Cline, Edward. THE SPARROWHAWK SERIES: San 20. (Children's Books). Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2001 - 2006. First Sendak, Maurice. IN THE editions. Books one through six, two of which are SIGNED (as NIGHT KITCHEN. (NY): noted with *), plus the uncommon hardcover issue of the Harper & Row (1970). First companion volume. All 7 volumes are fine in fine dust jackets. edition. Two volumes, the Includes JACK FRAKE (2001); HUGH KENRICK* (2002); book, INSCRIBED, "For--- CAXTON* (2004); EMPIRE (2004); REVOLUTION (2005); With best wishes Maurice WAR (2006); THE SPARROWHAWK COMPANION, with Sendak Feb. 1971" (meets Jena Trammell (2007). A fine, hardcover set. $150. all of Hanrahan's points) and a SIGNED copy of the Coloring Book with $1.95 sticker on top right corner of front cover. Both are in overall fine condition with the dust jacket on vthe book showing only minor wear on the corners and spine ends. The book's release in the United States sparked debate due to the inclusion of child nudity which is frequently noted as morally problematic. This "Banned Book" is ranked 25th by the American Library Association on its "100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000" list. $1500.

FIRST APPEARANCE OF HERCULE POIROT 24. Coel, Margaret; (Tony Hillerman, Nancy Pickard, T. 21. Christie, Agatha. THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES. New York/Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1920. First Jefferson Parker, et al). ARAPAHO TEN Canadian edition of her first book. Published using the sheets COMMANDMENT SERIES: Stolen Smoke; My Last of the first U.S edition (published by John Lane) and preceding Goodbye, Bad Heart; Day of Rest; Honor; Dead End; Hole in the British first edition, published in 1921. The first appearance of Hercule the Wall; and more. Royal Oaks, MI / Mission Viejo, CA: Poirot. The book has an integral A.S.A.P. Publishing, 1996 - 2007. First editions. 10 volumes in Ryerson title page; we assume it was a all. Illustrated, SIGNED, LIMITED editions of these short small printing. It appears to us that it was rebacked and has new endpapers. stories, each based on one of the ten Arapaho commandments The rebacking was a pretty good job and (which are handwritten in each book by Coel in the Arapaho not obvious. Internally clean with no language). Illustrated by Phil Parks and with introductions by foxing. In a specially made clamshell various mystery writers. Each book is SIGNED BY COEL, box printed in black lettering on spine and front. $5000. PARKS, and the AUTHOR OF THE INTRODUCTION. All Trucking. Best, Harry Crews." Bartel is best known for such volumes are in fine condition without dust jackets, as issued. cult classics as "Eating Raoul and "Scenes from the Class • STOLEN SMOKE (First commandment: I am the Lord thy Struggle in Beverly Hills." Both book and dust jacket are about God. Thou shalt not have strange Gods before me), fine with only the barest wear. $350. introduction by Marcia Muller*, (#19/250, 2000) 27. Dos Passos, John. NUMBER ONE. Boston: Houghton • MY LAST GOODBYE (Second commandment: Thou shall Mifflin, 1943. First edition. Bright and fine in near fine dust not make to thyself any graven image . . .), introduction by jacket with rubbing to edges and folds and few tiny nicks. $75. Nancy Pickard*, (#19/300, 2002) • BAD HEART (Third commandment: Thou shall not take my name in vain.), introduction by T. Jefferson Parker*, (#19/300, 2004) • DAY OF REST (Fourth commandment: Remember to keep holy the Sabbath Day), introduction by C.J. Box*, (#19/300, 2005) • HONOR (Fifth commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother), introduction by Jan Burke*, (#19/225, 1999) • DEAD END (Sixth commandment: Thou shalt not kill), introduction by James Doss*, (#19/150, 1997) • HOLE IN THE WALL (Seventh commandment: Thou shalt not commit adultery), introduction by Ed Hoch*, (#19/200, 1998) • NOBODY'S GOING TO CRY (Eighth commandment: 28. Dove, Rita. TEN POEMS / THE ONLY DARK SPOT Thou shalt not steal), Introduction by Craig Johnson*, IN THE SKY /THE YELLOW HOUSE ON THE CORNER (#19/300, 2006) / MUSEUM / FIFTH SUNDAY / THOMAS AND BEULAH /

• THE WOMAN WHO CLIMBED TO THE SKY (Ninth GRACE NOTES /THROUGH THE IVORY GATE... 1977 - commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife), 2004. First editions. A nearly complete collection, 19 items in introduction by Tony Hillerman*, (#19/300, 2001) all, fine as issued in dust jackets or paperwraps (as noted), 16 • WHIRLWIND WOMAN (Tenth commandment: Thou Shalt of which are signed and/or inscribed. Including her first three Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods), includes general books, which are scare, signed or otherwise; the hardcover introduction to the series by Coel, (#1/300, 2007). issue of her Pulitzer Prize winner,THOMAS AND BEULAH, A fine set. $1250. inscribed and in the first-state dust jacket; one of only 100 copies of an elaborately produced art book, LADY FREEDOM 25. Crews, Harry. NAKED IN GARDEN HILLS. New York: William Morrow & Co., AMONG US; and an elusive broadside, EVENING 1969. First edition of his second PRIMROSE. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove served as book. INSCRIBED to director Poet Laureate of the United States (1993-1995) and of the Paul Bartel, "Paul, take care--read Commonwealth of Virginia (2004-2006) and has been the in good health. Harry Crews / recipient of numerous literary and academic awards and 23 '80 / Gainesville, Fla." honors. In 2011, President Obama presented Dove with the Bartel is best known for cult National Medal of Arts, making her the only poet to be classics "Eating Raoul" and "Scenes awarded both the National Humanities Medal and the National from the Class Struggle in Beverly Medal of Arts. Hills." This copy in light-green • TEN POEMS, Lisbon: Penumbra Press, 1977, Number 126 simulated cloth boards. The book was of only 200 copies, the entire edition. In the publisher's also issued in medium to dark-green printed envelope. This copy inscribed, "for Jeff, with cloth boards. No known priority. [We had assumed the warm wishes / from one book lover to another - Rita Dove simulated cloth binding was a later state because it is not as / 10 Feb 90." Scare signed or inscribed. nice, but several citings of simulated cloth boards in first-issue • THE ONLY DARK SPOT IN THE SKY (Tempe): Inland dust jackets casts doubt on that assumption.] In first-issue Boat / Porch Publications, 1980, Stapled paperwraps (no dustwrapper with reviews of GOSPEL hardcover edition), not signed. Very scarce. SINGER. One corner just barely • THE YELLOW HOUSE ON THE CORNER, Pittsburgh: bumped, short split to front inner hinge Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1980, First paperback paper, otherwise about fine in fine dust edition (the copyright page notes a hardcover issue, which jacket with the barest wear. $450. must have been quite small, as there are no other copies 26. Crews, Harry. THIS THING presently offered online. Inscribed, "for Jeff - Best wishes DON'T LEAD TO HEAVEN. - Rita Dove / 10 Feb 90." New York: William Morrow, 1970. • MUSEUM, Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, First edition. INSCRIBED to 1983, not signed. director Paul Bartel, "Paul, Keep on • FIFTH SUNDAY, Lexington: University of Kentucky, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Featuring the first 1985, Pictorial paperwraps (no hardcover edition). appearance of Holmes since his intended death in "The Final Inscribed, "for Jeff - These stories from the heart - Rita Problem," The Hound of the Baskervilles' success led to the Dove / 10 Feb 90." Touch of light edge rubbing, still fine. character's eventual revival. In 2003, the book was listed on the • THOMAS AND BEULAH, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon BBC's "The Big Read" poll of the UK's "best-loved novels." 16 University Press, 1986, Signed on the title page and full-page illustrations. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. The inscribed on the half-title, "Thank you for your continued pictorial cover is bright with only the barest fading on the support of quality television - Rita Dove." First state dust spine. Faint offsets and a few tiny foxed spots on endpapers, jacket, without the Pulitzer Prize band on top corner. • THOMAS AND BEULAH, Carnegie-Mellon University none on other pages. A very nice copy in specially made Press, 1986, First paperback edition, inscribed, "for Jeff, leather case with five raised bands and six compartments on In the spirit - Rita Dove /Philly 10 Feb 90." Second state, spine by H. Zucker, Phila. $5000. with Pulitzer Prize band on top corner. 30. Doyle, Roddy. A STAR CALLED HENRY. London: • GRACE NOTES, New York: W.W. Norton, 1989, Jonathan Cape (1999). First edition. SIGNED by Doyle on the Inscribed, "for Jeff - Thank you for reading! Rita Dove / title page. The first volume in his series "The Last Roundup." 10 Feb 90." Fine in dust jacket. $75. • THROUGH THE IVORY GATE, New York: Pantheon, (1992), signed. 31. Dreiser, Theodore. AN • SELECTED POEMS, New York: Pantheon, (1993), signed AMERICAN TRAGEDY. New York: and dated "1.27.94." Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition. Two volumes. The trade edition, which • LADY FREEDOM AMONG US, (West Burke: Janus preceded the limited edition by a year. Press, 1994), Number 58 of 100 copies signed Dove and One of Dreiser's most acclaimed books: book artist, Claire Van Vliet, an elaborately produced art a Haycraft-Queen title; on the Time book in plastic chemise and cloth covered slipcase with 100 list; and made into a film in 1931 professional repair to one edge. under this title and again in 1951 as "A • THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH, (Brownsville): Place in the Sun" with Montgomery Story Line Press, 1994, letter K of 26 lettered copies Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley signed by Dove and the illustrator, Mark Woolley. (There Winters. Gold stamped spine lettering a were an additional 250 hardcover numbered copies signed little dull, large but attractive by Dove only). bookplates on front pastedowns, • THE DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH, (Brownsville): otherwise both books are in very good Story Line Press, 1994, One of 4,000 unnumbered copies condition; in dust jackets badly in paperwraps, not signed. browned on the fragile spines but with • MOTHER LOVE, New York: W.W. Norton, 1995, signed. panels very good. Both jackets have • THE POET'S WORLD, Washington: , been reinforced with archival tape on 1995, signed. verso of spines and volume 1 is • EVENING PRIMROSE, Minneapolis: Tunheim Santrizos missing large chips on each end. Still, scarce in any jackets. In Company, 1998, Number 155 of 660 signed copies, in a facsimile of the original slipcase and printed label. marbled boards with plain, blue cloth spine, without dust Provenance: Clive Hirschhorn's name inside each book (dated jacket, as issued, unaccountably scarce. June 1986). Hirschhorn is a South African writer and critic who • EVENING PRIMROSE, No-place: Aralia Press, no-date moved to London in 1963. He is known for his long tenure as [presume circa 1998], Broadside, limited to 120 copies, film and theater critic for the British Sunday Express this copy signed (assume all were). Scarce. newspaper and as the author of several well-received books • ON THE BUS WITH ROSA PARKS, New York: W.W. about the film industry and its stars. He was also a serious book Norton, 1999, signed. collector whose highspots were auctioned in 2012. $750. • AMERICAN SMOOTH, New York: W.W. Norton, 2004, VOLUME ONE ONLY signed. For the collection $5800. 32. Dreiser, Theodore. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition.Volume one of the 29. Doyle, A. Conan. THE HOUND two-volume trade edition, which OF THE BASKERVILLES: Another preceded the limited edition by a year. Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. One of Dreiser's most acclaimed books, made into a film in 1931 under London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1902. this title and in 1951 as "A Place in the First edition. This is the third of Sun" with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Doyle's crime novels featuring Taylor and Shelley Wintrers. A Sherlock Holmes. Set largely on Haycraft-Queen title and on the Time Dartmoor in Devon in England's West 100 list. Gold stamped spine lettering a Country, it tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, little dull, otherwise very good condition, in a really nice dust miles from Caracas and had a strong presence of US citizens jacket with just a little soiling on front upper corner. Have had due to the factories being installed there, but the main offices this for years hoping to find a similarly nice volume two. I give were in Caracas. Mr. Faulkner stayed during his visit with up. Perhaps you have one? $300. William and Victoria Fielden in Caracas, but they also had a 33. Dunning, John. THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE A Cliff residence in La Victoria Janeway Mystery. New York: Scribner (1995). First edition. (adjacent to Maracay) because SIGNED by Dunning on title page. Advance reading copy in Philip Morris had their pictorial paperwraps. The first issue, one of about 600 copies manufacturing plant there. Some with rare-book design wrapping completely around the book. biographers say that Mr. Fielden Very minor rubbing on front corners otherwise fine. $150. worked with a petroleum 34. Dunning, John. DEADLINE. Huntington Beach, CA: company, but nope [Philip Morris is a tobacco company]. All James Cahill Publishing, 1995. First American hardback US citizens including my mother stuck together, and they all edition, preceded by the 1982 Gollancz edition and the first, a knew who was who, so when they found out that Mr. Faulkner paperback original in 1981. One of 200 SIGNED numbered was coming, they arranged this 'out of protocol' event. I copies. Together with a copy of the pamphlet "The Torch remember my mother telling me of how much Mr. Faulkner Passes," also signed by Dunning. Published simultaneously enjoyed this particular visit." Old tape shadows to pastedowns with both having the same number, "115." Both are in fine and rear endpaper where card was removed; offsetting from condition in publisher's slipcase with tiny abrasion. $100. book club lending-library stamps on dust jacket flaps to free 35. Faulkner, William. COLLECTED endpapers, affecting Faulkner’s inscription on front endpaper STORIES OF . (which is nonetheless as legible as one could hope from NY: Random House, 1950. First edition. Faulkner); otherwise would be about very good in edge worn First issue gray cloth with title page but still good dust jacket with label on spine, presumably from printed in blue and black; top edge the lending library. OFFERED TOGETHER WITH A SMALL stained blue; and spine reading "The ARCHIVE of materials from Faulkner's 1955 State Department Collected Stories of William Faulkner." trips to Japan, Paris, Italy, and a 1954 trip to Lima, Near fine with top of spine a bit faded and very faint offset on inner hinge paper; in dust jacket with discoloration to edges from old jacket protector. Still, a presentable copy at a reasonable price. $275. 36. Faulkner, William. COLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER. New York: Random House, 1950. First edition. The first issue in gray cloth with title page printed in blue and black, top page edge stained blue, and spine reading "The Collected Stories of William Faulkner." Newspaper clippings about Faulkner pasted to pastedowns and back Peru, made while in route to Paulo, Brazil, for an International endpaper, otherwise would be fine. Lacking dust jacket. $100. Writers Conference: 9-page embassy despatch from Japan INSCRIBED BY FAULKNER ["This is the first time that a single individual of such stature 37. Faulkner, Wm. THE and appeal has been sent, through the Exchange Program, to FAULKNER READER: Tokyo"]; 3-page typescript of article by Madeleine Chapsal for Selections from the Works The Reporter about his Paris visit ["His most grueling ordeal of William Faulkner. New was the Gallimard cocktail party"]; 5-page embassy despatch York: Modern Library from Italy ["Apropos of USIS Tokyo’s observations ... on Mr. (1959). A Modern Library Faulkner's drinking habits...."]; typescript of one-page letter Giant, first edition thus. from Faulkner to Muna Lee, who had requested Faulkner Originally published by attend the Writer’s conference in Peru ["Can there be more than Random House in 1954. one Muna Lee? More than the one whose verse I have known INSCRIBED on the front since a long time?"]; and 13 pages of translations of articles in endpaper "To The Maracay the local Lima papers about Faulkner's visit there. Altogether Book Club / with gratitude and best wishes / William Faulkner an interesting glimpse into the State Department travels of the / [illegible, though possibly "Caracas"] / 20 April 1961" and Nobel Prize-winning author. $6000. signed on the title page "William Faulkner / Maracay / 10 April 38. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. FLAPPERS AND 1961." As is well known, Faulkner visited Venezuela on a State PHILOSOPHERS. NY: Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Department trip in April 1961; perhaps not known before was edition, second printing, published the same month as that during his travels he made a side trip to Maracay, about 50 the first. His second book, with 8 short stories. The miles outside of the capital, Caracas, to visit a book club first printing was 5000 copies and this scarce second founded in his honor by a former fellow Mississippian, Vivian printing was only 3000 copies. Bright and nearly fine Ray. According to Ray's son, "Maracay is located about 50 with just light offset to the front endpaper from item previously pages. Clive Hirschhorn is a South laid in. Lacking dust jacket $250. African writer and critic who moved to London in 1963. He 39. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. FLAPPERS AND is known for his long PHILOSOPHERS. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1920. First tenure as film and edition. His second book, with 8 short stories. One of only theater critic for the 5000 copies in the first printing. A good copy which would be British Sunday Express so much better if it weren't for the loss of cloth at the head of newspaper and as the the spine (about 1/4"). Spine lettering fading but readable. author of several well- Ownership signature of the author Henry Milner Rideout on received books about the film industry front endpaper. Lacking dust jacket $125. and its stars. He was also a serious 40. Flavin, Martin. MR. LITTL- book collector whose highspots were put at auction in 2012, EJOHN: A Romantic Novel. New York: including this one. And someone we always enjoyed having Harper & Bros. (1940). First edition. drinks or dinner with when we were in London. Light green Flavin, a playwright and paperwraps with the Cape-logo design. About fine in a novelist, won a Pulitzer specially made clamshell box. $3500. for his novel, Journey in THIRTY-SIX BOOKS IN ALL the Dark. INSCRIBED, "Autographed for Gretta 44. Francis, Dick. A COLLECTION OF HIS BOOKS: with my love Feb. 6th Sport of Queens, Nerve, For Kicks, Odds Against, Flying 1941 [7 more lines] Martin." Bright and fine Finish, and more. London: Michael Joseph 1957 to 1996. First except for the barest rubbing to corners; in worn editions, all published in London by Michael Joseph from 1957 but still good or better dust jacket. Inscribed to 1996. Thirty-six books in all; the collection is missing only copies of Flavin's books are not common. $250. Dead Cert. SIGNED or INSCRIBED by Francis unless otherwise noted. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Sport of Queens 41. Flavin, Martin. JOURNEY IN • Nerve (not signed) THE DARK. New York: Harper & Bros. (1943). First edition. Flavin, a • For Kicks playwright and novelist, won a Pulitzer • Odds Against Prize for this novel. The story of Sam • Flying Finish Braden, from his humble origins in • Blood Sport Wyattville, Iowa, to life as a successful • Forfeit Chicagoan businessman. Also the • Enquiry Harper Prize Novel for 1943-44. • Rat Race Bookplate under front flap, but bright and fine except for the • Bonecrack barest rubing on the corners; in a very good dust jacket with • Smokescreen some edge wear and two tears backed with old tape showing • Slayride faint shadows. But, in our experience, this is a hard book to • Knockdown find in a decent jacket. $450. • High Stakes (not signed) 42. Flavin, Martin. THE ENCHANTED. • In the Frame New York: Harper & Bros. (1947). First • Risk edition. Flavin, a playwright and • Trial Run novelist, won a Pulitzer for his novel, • Whip Hand . • Reflex INSCRIBED, "For Eugene R • Twice Shy McCracken with my best wishes • Banker Martin Flavin June 10th '47." • The Danger Bright and fine except for the • Proof (not signed) barest rubbing to corners and • Break In bookplate on pastedown (under flap); in slightly worn but still very good dust jacket. Inscribed • Bolt copies of Flavin's books are not common. $200. • Hot Money • Lester, The Official Biography 43. Fowles, John. THE COLLECTOR. London: Jonathan (not signed) Cape (1963). First edition of his first book. An uncorrected • The Edge proof copy. INSCRIBED to "Clive Hirschhorn / With best • Straight wishes. John Fowles." A story of the abduction and • Longshot imprisonment of a woman, told first from the abductor's • Comeback viewpoint, then from hers, and then back to him in the last few • Driving Force • Decider (not signed) 55. Francis, Dick. REFLEX. New York: Putnam (1981). • Wild Horses First U. S. edition. SIGNED by author. Fine in dust jacket with • Come to Grief a tiny closed tear. $75. • To the Hilt (not signed) 56. Grass, Gunter. THE TIN DRUM. All are in dust jackets with the earlier titles--other than Nerve, New York: Pantheon Books (1962). which is very fine--a little aged and one, Flying Finish, First American edition. The first book than very good due to edge wear and a damp stain on the rear by this Nobel Prize-winning author. cover. But otherwise they are all very good to fine copies. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Made into a German film, For the collection $6500. which won the Oscar for Best Foreign 45. Francis, Dick. ODDS AGAINST. Language Film in 1980. Crisp, near fine NY: Harper & Row (1965). First U.S. copy in fine white dust jacket with only edition. Author's third mystery. Very the barest aging on edges. A nice copy good or better with corners and spine of this classic. $300. ends a little bumped, lower edges lightly . Graves, Robert. ON ENGLISH rubbed, bookplate on rear endpaper 57 ("From the library of" with nice map POETRY. London: Wm. Heinemann, design but no name filled in, so it's ready 1922. First edition, first issue in yellow to go); in bright, price-clipped dust jacket cloth. Unavoidable offset to endpapers, with inconspicuous tears along top spine page edges very faintly foxed, rear cover lightly soiled and spine ends just slightly folds (otherwise near fine). $100. darkened, still very good or better in very 46. Francis, Dick. FLYING FINISH. New York: Harper & good, tanned dust jacket with shallow Row (1966). First U.S. edition. His fifth mystery. Fine in fine chipping, few inconspicuous tears and dust jacket with barest wear. $400. spine extremities chipped away (not 47. Francis, Dick. RAT RACE. New York: Harper & Row affecting any lettering). $300. (1971). First U. S. edition. About fine in dust jacket with the 58. Graves, Robert. ON ENGLISH POETRY. London: barest wear. $75. Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Second issue. 61 essays and an 48. Francis, Dick. SMOKE- appendix. Covers lightly soiled and offsets on endpapers, SCREEN. London: Michael otherwise very good in about very good, tanned dust jacket Joseph (1972). First edition. with label over price on spine, corners and spine ends chipped SIGNED by author. Near fine in (about 3/4 inch at bottom), and spine a little darkened. $75. like dust jacket. $100. 59. Hamid, Mohsin. HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN 49. Francis, Dick. SMOKESCREEN. RISING ASIA. (London): Hamish Hamilton (2013). First New York: Harper & Row (1972). First British edition. [Not sure which is the true first--the copyright U. S. edition. Fine in dust jacket with the page sort of indicates New York, but we have been told the barest wear. $75. London edition came out a week before.] SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. His previous book, The Reluctant 50. Francis, Dick. ACROSS THE Fundamentalist, was short-listed for the Man-Booker Award. BOARD: FLYING FINISH, BLOOD SPORT, AND ENQUIRY Fine in dust jacket. $75. New York: Harper & Row (1975). First of this edition. Near fine in dust jacket with light soiling on folds. $75. 60. Hammett, Dashiell. RED HARVEST. NY: Knopf, 1929. 51. Francis, Dick. HIGH STAKES. First edition of his first book, a New York: Harper & Row (1975). First U.S. edition. SIGNED by author. Fine in story narrated by "The Continental dust jacket with minor wear on bottom Op." Hammett based the story on corners and spine end. $100. his own experiences in Butte, Montana, as an operative of the 52. Francis, Dick. IN THE FRAME. Pinkerton Detective Agency (here, (New York): Harper & Row (1976). First U.S. edition. SIGNED by author. the Continental Detective Fine in fine dust jacket. $100. Agency); the labor dispute in the novel was inspired by Butte's Anaconda Road Massacre. 53. Francis, Dick. TRIAL RUN. New Time included Red Harvest in its 100 Best English-language York: Harper & Row (1978). First U.S. edition. SIGNED by Novels from 1923 to 2005. Nobel Prize-winning French author. Fine in fine dust jacket with the barest wear. $100. author André Gide called the book "a remarkable 54. Francis, Dick. WHIP HAND. New York: Harper & Row achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror." (1979). First U.S. edition. SIGNED by author. Fine in near fine (Wikipedia) Red cloth and black-and-yellow details are dust jacket with spine slightly faded. $75. unfaded, with very minor wear on corners and spine ends, a light crease on spine, and front inner hinge paper just starting at 66. James, P. D. AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A the top, otherwise very good or better, lacking the rare dust WOMAN. London: Faber and Faber (1972). First edition. jacket. $1500. SIGNED by the author. Made into a 1982 movie, which was a 61. (Hammett, Dashiell, Ellery Queen). rather loose adaptation. Cordelia Gray, surviving partner in a detective agency, THE CONTINENTAL OP. New York: is asked by James Callendar's Lawrence E. Spivak, 1948. First edition. A assistant to investigate the suicide paperback original. Stories from "Black of his son, Mark. Cordelia Mask" magazine with an introduction by becomes smitten with the dead Ellery Queen. Near fine. $175. son, obsessed with his memory, and increasingly suspicious he 62. Harrison, Harry. has been murdered. Dark gray A TRANSATLAN- cloth shows a hint of damp stain on TIC TUNNEL, HURRAH! London: front bottom board but is still bright and Faber and Faber (1972). First British ed- very good or better. In a good-only dust ition. SIGNED by the author on half-title jacket which doesn't look too bad on the front and back panels page. Published in the States as TUNNEL but is tanned at spine and flap folds; badly repaired with tape THROUGH THE DEEPS. An alternate on verso at front fold, head of spine and rear corner; and shows history story set in (an alternate) 1973-- evidence of old damp staining internally. $150. George Washington lost the Battle of . James, P. D. DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS. Lexington, and was executed as a traitor, 67 and as a result America has remained a London: Faber and Faber (1977). First editon. SIGNED on the British colony which still dreams of title page. Fine in near fine dust jacket, showing only the barest independence. One corner lightly bumped, otherwise fine in rubbing on corners and spine ends. $175. bright, near fine dust jacket with inconspicuous tear. $250. 68. Jones, Raymond F. THIS PULITZER IN HISTORY ISLAND EARTH. : Shasta Publishers (1952). First edition. His best 63. Horgan, Paul. LAMY OF known work, adapted into the 1955 film SANTE FE: His Life and Times. of the same name. INSCRIBED on the New York: Farrar, Straus (1975). front endpaper simply "Kindest regards - First edition. SIGNED by Horgan. - Raymond F. Jones." Bright and fine, The story of Juan Bautista Lamy, with only a touch of faint foxing; in a first archbishop of Santa Fe. Fine in near fine, very lightly foxed dust jacket black cloth in dust jacket, both with the barest of wear. Winner with spine subtly toned, few of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1976. $150. small rubs and tiny tears, and inner flap folds a little edge HER FIRST BOOK, SIGNED darkened. $600. James, P. D. COVER HER FACE. NY: Scribner’s Sons (1966). First U.S. 69. Kantor, MacKinley. . New York: edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. World Publishing Company (1955). First edition. One of 1,000 SIGNED on title page. Introducing numbered copies SIGNED by the author on limitation sheet Adam Dalgliesh. Red cloth boards stating of the 1000 copies printed, 500 were for private show barest edge rubbing, otherwise a distribution. Book, with dark blue cloth spine and crème crisp, fine copy in bright, nearly fine buckram boards, is very good with very faint offset on dust jacket with the tiniest of nicks and endpapers and very minor soiling. just two small closed tears. A We understand it was issued remarkably nice copy. $1250. without dust jacket in a slipcase, but this copy is in the trade jacket 65. James, P.D. UNNATURAL with a little wear on corners and CAUSES. New York: Scribner's Sons spine ends and small pieces of old (1967). First U. S. edition of her third tape on verso of spine ends. $300. book, an Adam Dalgliesh mystery. 70. Kelley, William Melvin. A SIGNED on the title page. DIFFERENT DRUMMER. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Bookplate under flap on front 1962. First edition. His first book, a novel set in a mythical southern pastedown, touch of minor state where a man destroys his own home and livelihood and heads rubbing otherwise a bright, fine out, setting in motion a mass exodus of the entire black population copy in fine dust jacket with just of the state. Presumed publisher's copy with "Doubleday & Co." the barest edge wear. $350. stamped on front endpaper. Very minor offsets on endpapers, book slightly cocked, cloth spine a little soiled, and a few small spots on internal pages, otherwise very good in two dust jackets: one with a write-up • THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE (1994) about the book on the back cover; the other with 7 reviews of the • A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN (1995, Nero book. We assume the one with the reviews is the later jacket. Both Award) jackets have minor edge wear but are still very good or better. $150. • A LETTER OF MARY (1997) • THE MOOR* (1998) 71. Kerouac, [Jack]. & • O JERUSALEM *(1999) THE CITY. NY: Harcourt, Brace • JUSTICE HALL (2002) (1950). First edition. Author's first book, Non-series books: and the only one written under the name • A DARKER PLACE* (1999) John. Very good in dust jacket with • FOLLY* (2001, Macavity Award) extensive professional repair but still a * Inscribed "for Warren" on the title or dedication page. nice copy of this book, which we rarely For the collection $1250. see in perfect shape anymore. $600. AN ANGLING NARRATIVE BIGGEST SURPRISE HIT OF THE WARTIME YEARS-- 74. Kipling, Rudyard. ON DRY-COW 1444 PERFORMANCES ON BROADWAY FISHING AS A FINE ART. Cleveland: 72. Kesselring, Joseph. ARSENIC The Rowfant Club, 1926. First separate AND OLD LACE. NY: Random book edition of this fishing story which House (1941). First edition. Illustrated previously appeared in a magazine. with photographs of the stage Number 85 of 176 copies printed for The production, produced by Howard Rowfant Club by Bruce Rogers. Marbled Lindsay and Russell Crouse, and boards with printed label. Faint shadow featuring Boris Karloff. Later made into where bookplate was removed from the Frank Capra movie classic starring pastedown, otherwise fine. In original Cary Grant. Minor offsets to endpapers dark-blue paper chemise and matching and minor aging to the tan cloth, slipcase with printed label. Slipcase shows wear to corners and otherwise about very good in dust jacket edges, tiny portion of spine label is missing affecting "g" in with a few tiny closed tears and chip on corners and at top of spine "fishing," and small piece missing from bottom edge (still quite and two stains on verso which do show through somewhat to presentable). $850. front, but are not as obtrusive as one might think. $350. 75. Lardner, Ring W. MY FOUR WEEKS IN FRANCE. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company (1918). First edition. Minor wear on corners and spine ends, slight discoloration on free endpaper and title-page, front cover bright but spine completely faded, so good or better. Lacking dust jacket. $75.

76. Laumer, Keith. WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM. London: Dennis Dobson (1962). First British (and first 73. King, Laurie R. A COLLECTION OF HER EARLIER hardcover) edition. SIGNED by Laumer. WORKS: Grave Talent; To Play the Fool; Beekeeper's The author's first book. Near fine in like Apprentice; Monstrous Regiment of Women, and more. New dust jacket with some dust soiling, mostly York: St. Martin's Press/Bantam (1993 - 2002). First editions. to rear panel. Uncommon signed. $200. All fine in dust jackets and all SIGNED BY KING. The collection includes the first four titles in her Kate Martinelli CONTEMPORARY INSCRIPTION series, featuring Martinelli, a lesbian, police 77. Lee, Harper. . officer; the first six titles in her Mary Russell series, featuring Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (1960). Fourth Sherlock Holmes as mentor and later partner; and her first two printing/impression in twenty-eighth printing dust jacket. Her non-series books. From the fine book collection of Warren first book, a Pulitzer Prize Lasko, who passed away in 2003. winner that was made into an Kate Martinelli Series: award-winning movie. CON- • A GRAVE TALENT (1993, Edgar Award) TEMPORARY (1960) IN- • TO PLAY THE FOOL (1995) SCRIPTION BY HARPER LEE • WITH CHILD (1996) on the front endpaper, "TO --- / • NIGHT WORK (2000) WITH THE BEST WISHES OF Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes Series: / HARPER LEE / SEPTEMBER 4, 1960." Longish non-authorial gift note beneath Lee's minor cover wear. We assume it was issued without a dust signature ["*with birthday love from the Alabama Wilsons who jacket, as none is mentioned in either Toole or the Rothchild have found the story very true - very moving - Note especially Collection. $250. p.228. Miss Lee must have labored over & over this book - My 82. McCarry, Charles. THE Southern friends agree"] MIERNIK DOSSIER. NY: Saturday and few non-authorial Review Press (1973). First edition. marginal notes (as indicated SIGNED by author on title page. in the gift inscription) International espionage featuring foreign pointing out the "baby- agents acting as if they are playing a step[s]" being made toward game, for the pleasure of matching wits, equality for blacks and the with a deadly sense of fun. Author's lack of equality for women second book and first thriller. Also when it came to voting included is the publisher's original rights in the south in the wraparound band with Eric Ambler's 1960s. Perhaps not the most endorsement "This is the most intelligent and enthralling piece lovely of copies, good only in good plus dust jacket. But of work I have read for a very long time." Fine in near fine dust contemporary inscriptions are becoming quite scarce. $3500. jacket with the only flaws bing a few "rubbed" lines on front 78. Lowenfels, Walter. FOUND POEMS & OTHERS. New cover edges which appear to be a production flaw. $1000. York: Barlenmir House (1972). First edition. INSCRIBED, 83. McEwan, Ian. ATONEMENT. London: Jonathan Cape "Dear Charles - Now you can give your own poetry readings (2001). First edition. Shortlisted for the Booker and winner of (see page 25)/ Best, Walt Lowenfels/ Peekskill 1973." Bonner the National Book Critics Circle Award. Fine in fine dust was a noted Philadelphia pastor and the poem Lowenfels refers jacket. $75. to on page 25 is called "Christmas" and appears with the printed heading "from a letter by Rev. Charles Bonner." About 84. McMurtry, Larry. BUFFALO GIRLS. New York: fine in very good or better dust jacket with light chipping on Simon & Schuster (1990). First edition. INSCRIBED by the corners and spine ends. $75. author on front endpaper. Tiny crimp at base of spine still fine in fine dust jacket. $75. 79. Malamud, Bernard. . New York: The Jewish 85. Michener, James A. THE Publication Society of America, 1958. FLOATING WORLD. New York: First edition. His third book, a book of Random House (1954). First edition. short stories which won the 1959 SIGNED by Michener on the endpaper. National Book Award. Tiny indent on An account of the Japanese print top edge, otherwise fine in bright, near makers of the great age, from 1660 to fine dust jacket with light soiling on back 1860. Sixty-five illustrations, with 40 in cover. $200. full color. Very faint offset on endpapers and top front corner a little 80. Mason, A. E. W. THE FOUR bumped, otherwise very good to fine with strong black topstain, FEATHERS. London: Smith, Elder & in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with some rubbing to Co., 1902. First edition. One of Mason's folds, tiny chipping to corners and spine ends, and old tape on more famous novels that has inspired verso of spine ends which did its job. An attractive copy. $300. many films of the same title. Against the background of the Mahdist War, the "coward," young Feversham, disgraces SIGNED FIRST PRINTING, IN THE himself by quitting the army but FIRST-ISSUE DUSTWRAPPER redeems himself, feather by feather, 86. Mitchell, Margaret. GONE WITH with acts of physical courage to win back the heart of the THE WIND. New York: Macmillan Co., woman he loves. Overall wear with inner hinges starting and 1936. First edition, SIGNED BY bookplate removed from front pastedown leaving a stain. Still, MITCHELL on the front endpaper. First a good or better copy of a book seemingly very hard to find in printing with "Published May, 1936" on decent shape. Lacking dust jacket. $350. copyright page; in 81. Maugham, W. Somerset. first-issue dust jacket CAESAR'S WIFE. London: Wm. with this title in the Heinemann Ltd. (1938). First edition second column of the of this play, a comedy in three acts. "Macmillan Spring Simultaneously issued in hardback Novels" list on rear and paperwraps, and presume panel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and therefore a relatively small quantity basis for the 1939 David Selznick movie of the hardbacks were issued. This starring Clark Gable and Vivian copy in hardback. Name on front Leigh. The movie endpaper otherwise very good condition in red cloth with very received ten Academy Awards from thirteen nominations, • JACK & JILL* (1996, third Alex Cross) including wins for Best Picture; Best Actress (Leigh); and Best • CAT & MOUSE* (1997, fourth Alex Cross) Supporting Actress, Hattie McDaniel, the first African- • WHEN THE WIND BLOWS* (1998) American to win an Academy Award. Covers and endpapers • POP GOES THE WEASEL* (1999, fifth Alex Cross) slightly darkened, name and date on endpaper, otherwise near • ROSES ARE RED* (2000, sixth Alex Cross) fine in very good or better, lightly soiled dust jacket with Thirteen books in all. $1500. professional repair to edges. Quite attractive. $8500. 87. Morris, William. THE AENEIDS OF VIRGIL: Done 92. Percy, Walker. SIGNPOSTS IN A STRANGE LAND. into English Verse. London: Ellis and White, 1876. First NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1991). First edition. Edited and with edition. Good in rubbed, gray-blue cloth boards with spine an introduction by Patrick Samway. Essays published label chipped and worn, boards visible at corners, and front posthumously, with four never before published. Scare uncorrected hinge starting. [Forman 41]. Scarce. $125. proof with bottom rear spine corner trimmed off (presume a production error), otherwise would be near fine in blue, printed 88. O'Brien, Tim. GOING AFTER paperwraps. Edgeworn publisher's promo laid in. $75. CACCIATO. (New York): Delacorte Press (1978). First edition of his National Book 93. Phillips, Watts. THE WILD Award winner. His acclaimed third novel, TRIBES OF LONDON. And Two considered one of the best of Vietnam War Other Books. London: Ward and Lock, fiction. Cloth spine a little faded, otherwise 1855. First edition. An account of very good or better in a near fine, London slums and their inhabitants that wraparound illustrated dust jacket with the was also made into a play appearing at barest wear. $200. the City of London Theatre. Phillips, a 89. O'Hara, John. BUTTERFIELD 8. New York: Harcourt, dramatist and designer of Irish Brace (1935). First edition. Very good or better with minor extraction, wanted to be a stage actor but wear to black cover but lettering bright and inner hinges a little had a talent for caricature and became a pupil (it is said the darkend as usual. Lacking dust jacket. $75. only pupil) of George Cruikshank. He was best known for his play "The Dead Heart" which served as a model for Charles 90. O'Neill, Eugene G. BEYOND THE HORIZON: A Play Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities." This volume also includes in Three Acts. New York: Boni and Liveright (1920). First two other books, "Love Affairs: How a Flirt was Caught in his edition. Minor wear on corners and spine ends, spine a little own Trap," by Mrs. Caustic (London: James Blackwood, rumpled and mottled, bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise 1854); and James Weir's "Sharp-Eye; The Scout's Revenge about very good. Lacking dust jacket. $75. (London: Ward and Lock, 1855). Separate half titles, title pages and frontispieces for the first two. Bound in marbled boards with leather spine. Worn on edges but still good. $600. 94. Plath, Sylvia. THE BELL JAR. New York: Harper & Row (1971). First U. S. edition of her one and only novel, originally published in London in 1963 under the name Victoria Lucas. Drawings by Plath and biographical notes by Lois Ames. Near fine with tips rubbed; in near fine to fine, bright dust jacket with just a touch of minor wear. $200.

95. Pound, Ezra. THE PISAN CANTOS. (NY): New 91. Patterson, James. A COLLECTION OF HIS Directions (1948). First edition. Ten EARLIER BOOKS: Thomas Berryman Number, Jericho Cantos composed during his incarceration Commandment, Cradle and All, Black Market, Midnight in a prison camp near Pisa, Italy, prior to Club, Along Came a Spider, and more. Boston, et al: Little, his lengthy sojourn at St. Elizabeth's. Brown & Co, et al 1976 -2000. First editions. All are near fine Endpaper edges lightly foxed, spine ends to fine in like dust jackets and most are SIGNED (as noted with and corners lightly bumped, otherwise an asterisk*): near fine in fine dust jacket with just one • THE THOMAS BERRYMAN NUMBER* (1976, Edgar short, closed tear mended with archival Award) tape on verso. None of the usual • THE JERICHO COMMANDMENT* (1979, later re-published darkening and chipping usually seen with as See How They Run) this brittle jacket. $600. • CRADLE AND ALL* (2000 re-publication, originally published in 1980 as Virgin) 96. Pound, Ezra. THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND. (NY): • BLACK MARKET (1986, later re-published as Black Friday) New Directions (1970). Third overall edition, but first complete • THE MIDNIGHT CLUB (1989) US edition through Canto 117. Pound's magnum-opus and the • ALONG CAME A SPIDER (1993, First book in the Alex one for which The Cantos are perhaps best known in this Cross series) country. A very fine copy, close to new. $200. • KISS THE GIRLS (1995, second Alex Cross) • HIDE AND SEEK* (1996) 97. Powys, John Cowper. WOOD AND STONE: A and India. He translated his experiences and observations from Romance. New York: G. Arnold Shaw, 1915. First American travel in those places so well--skillfully writing on locales such edition Wear on corners and spine ends and spine faded but as Bangkok or Canton--that readers assumed he had traveled lettering still discernable. Bookplate on front pastedown. Good more widely. He earned readership in not only the United or better. Lacking dust jacket. $100. States, but Canada and Great Britain. His eminence was such that when he died while on a family trip to Europe, the San 98. Priest, Christopher. THE INVERTED WORLD. New Francisco Chronicle ran a banner headline announcing his York: Harper & Row (1974). First edition. A city on tracks, sudden death. interesting. Small light spot at bottom of cloth spine, otherwise about fine in like dust jacket. $125. 99. Rackham, Arthur; Sir Thomas Malory; THE ROMANCE OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. NY: Macmillan Company, 1917. First edition. Abridged from Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR by Alfred W. Pollard and illustrated by Rackham. Near fine in dark green cloth boards with one tiny skinned spot on front board, otherwise tight and bright. $350. The collection consists of eight books without dust jackets in overall very good condition, all but one of which are first NICE ASSOCIATION printings/impressions and six of which are INSCRIBED to his 100. Rideout, Henry Milner. A COLLECTION OF EIGHT aunt. Most are spine faded but otherwise very good (as noted OF HIS BOOKS. New York / Boston: Various publishers below): 1907 – 1921. • THE SIAMESE CAT. NY: McClure, Phillips, 1907. General Eight books, all but one first printings, six INSCRIBED and wear but still good, not signed or inscribed. three with LETTERS SIGNED to his aunt, MRS. J. B. • DRAGON'S BLOOD. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. RIDEOUT—author of CAMPING OUT IN — Second impression. Spine barely faded on this one. Better than very good. Not signed or inscribed but with ownership laid in. signature of Mrs. Rideout on endpaper. • WILLIAM JONES. NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1912. A biography. Spine unfaded but corners and spine ends show some wear (still very good). Inscribed. • WHITE TIGER. NY: Duffield, 1915. 2-page ALS to his aunt (both sides of single sheet) laid in. Foxing to edges of frontis and title page. Inscribed. • THE FAR CRY. NY: Duffield, 1916. Lettering on front board rubbed but readable. Inscribed. • THE KEY OF THE FIELDS and BOLDERO. NY: Duffield, 1918. Front hinge cracked but tight. Rideout’s obituary with dateline Antwerp, Belgium, pasted to front endpaper. Inscribed. • FERN SEED. NY: Duffield 1921. TLS written in 1925, laid Henry Milner Rideout (1877-1927), a native of Calais, Maine, in, as well as "With the Compliments of the Author" card. was author of 16 novels, 23 short stories & novellas (many of Handwritten note on title page, presumably by his aunt, about which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post), and a his death (mistakes the year) and this being his last book biographical memoir. His early writing abilities where such that (also a mistake). Inscribed. they spurred his high school English • BARBRY. NY: Duffield, 1923. TLS with handwritten notes, teacher, Laura Burns and her cousin, laid in. Inscribed. distinguished Harvard English professor For the collection $1250. Charles Townsend Copeland, to motivate local townspeople to lend 101. Roethke, Theodore. THE Rideout the funds necessary to attend FAR FIELD. Garden City: Harvard. He graduated in 1899 and was Doubleday & Company, an instructor in the English department Inc., 1964. First edition. for four years--until his college debts The last poems of a were paid off. After The Atlantic major American poet, Monthly accepted two of his short stories, he decided to earn a published posthumously. living by writing. He set off from San Francisco for six months Winner of the National of travel in the Far East under contract to the American Woolen Company, reporting on jute mills in the , Indonesia, Book Award. About fine with only the barest wear to corners. the box Steinbeck carved to house the manuscript for EAST OF In two dust jackets--one with photo on rear panel of author EDEN, the book which contains the full dedication to Pascal indoors and facing the camera; and the other with him seated Covici, his old friend and editor, as a postscript of sorts. The outdoors in profile. We had another copy of the book in the text of the "journal" is comprised of letters Steinbeck wrote to second jacket with a National Book Award sticker, so assume it Covici while writing East of Eden. A fine, almost new copy, is the later issue. First jacket a little faded on spine and second with just a hint of darkening to spine of plain glassine dust jacket about fine, both with the barest wear on corners and jacket. In original slipcase, also fine. $500. spine ends. $135. "IT'S SO NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK 102. Schulberg, Budd. WHAT WHERE YOU BELONG" MAKES SAMMY RUN? New 107. Stewart, Michael, (Thornton York: Random House (1941). First Wilder, Jerry Herman). HELLO, edition of his first and most DOLLY! (New York): DBS famous book; and one of the Publications, Inc. (1964 [1975?]). First best on Hollywood. SIGNED edition. Based on "" by by Schulberg. Minor glue Thorton Wilder. Libretto by Michael bleed-through on inner hinges Stewart and lyrics by Jerry Herman's which is normal, cloth on top inch lyrics. Illustrated with photographs of spine and front cover a little from the stage productions starring soiled or sunned, and small, faint Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Mary stain on front page edges, otherwise Martin, , very good in dust jacket with some old professional repair on and Martha Raye. A very fine copy with just a hint of a shadow spine ends and corners. $2750. to the front endpaper in equally nice dust jacket with the barest 103. Segal, Erich. LOVE STORY. NY: wear. Copyrighted 1964 as an unpublished work, but Pearl Harper & Row (1970). First edition, later Bailey's stint as Dolly was in 1975. A scarce book. $750. printing. INSCRIBED, "To Fred with 108. Tevis, Walter. FAR FROM HOME. Garden City: gratitude and good wishes -- Erich Segal 7 Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1981. First edition. Remainder spray to July 1970." Basis for the movie. Fine in bottom page edge extending very slightly to boards, otherwise near fine dust jacket with only slight wear bright and fine in bright, fine dust jacket with just a touch of to the edges and corners. $100. wear. $75. 104. Steinbeck, John. . New York: The Viking Press (1939). First edition. About very good ONE RING TO RULE ALL, ONE RING TO FIND in pictorial cloth boards with minor wear on corners and spine THEM, ONE RING TO BRING THEM ALL AND IN THE ends, minor soiling, and tape marks on endpapers. Lacking dust DARKNESS BIND THEM jacket. $100. 105. [Steinbeck, John] Henry Goodman; Philip Reisman. "PHILIP REISMAN": In A-D, An Intimate Journal for Art Directors. (NY: A-D Publ. Co., 1940). First edition. 20-page essay by Goodman on Reisman and his work in the Oct.-Nov., 1940, issue of "A-D," An Intimate Journal for Art Directors, Production Managers, and their Associates. Essay illustrated with 8 full- page drawings (3 in color) and 10 half-page illustrations; both 109. Tolkien, J. R. R. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The covers feature color reproductions of Reisman's work. Includes Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the a few from GRAPES OF WRATH. Also includes "Ballet of the King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1954-1955. A B Cs," a "typographic keepsake" illustrated by Emery I. First editions, three volumes. A lovely set overall. The first Gondor; a Hubert Davis portfolio; and several ads. Near fine in volume shows a little darkening to the endpapers along the pictorial paperwraps measuring 5 1/2 x 8". hinge, but is otherwise fine in dust jacket very slightly tanned Interesting little item. $75. at spine with just a touch of light soiling and very faint 106. Steinbeck, John. JOURNAL OF A staining. The second volume is bright and fine in a dust jacket NOVEL: The East of Eden Letters. New showing only very light soiling and a very slight tanning to the York: Viking Press (1969). First edition. spine. The third volume is the first state (Hammond and One of 600 copies, published a year after Anderson A.5iii) and is near fine to fine in bright dust jacket Steinbeck's death. An oversized volume, with a few light pen marks, faint staining to rear panel, and specially bound with seven folding plates shallow chipping to base of spine. Quite an attractive set. that are facsimiles of pages from the original manuscript and frontis photo of $12500. 113. Welty, Eudora. LOSING BATTLES. 110. Tolkien, J. R. R. THE FATHER CHRISTMAS NY: Random House (1970). First edition. LETTERS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First U. S. INSCRIBED, "For Thomas L. Carney, with edition. Slender quarto. "In America, children write letters to gratitude for his interest and with my very Santa Claus; in England, to Father Christmas . . . not many get good wishes, November 29, letters from him." But the Tolkien children did. Gift inscription 1977." Spine sloped from reading, otherwise would be on endpaper, otherwise bright and near fine in near fine, price- fine in bright, near fine dust clipped dust jacket with few small chips and tears. $75. jacket with spine title toned COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE from orange to yellow, as MEXICAN-AMERICAN POET, NOVELIST, sometimes seen. $250. AND ESSAYIST'S BOOKS 114. Westlake, Donald E. THE MERCENARIES. NY: Random House (1960). First edition. His first novel. A thriller that many feel is one of best. Very good to fine in near fine dust jacket with only the barest wear and light sunning on spine. $300.

E. B. WHITE’S RARE FIRST BOOK 115. (White, E. B.) LESS THAN 111. Urrea, Luis Alberto. 13 volumes. First editions. ALL NOTHING - OR THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STERLING SIGNED BY URREA, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist and FINNEY. [New York: The New Yorker, 1927]. First and only member of the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. Complete edition of E. B. White's first book. Illustrated with photographs collection of the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and of posed manikins. There is no author, publisher or date noted essayist's books. 13 titles, all as issued--paperback originals (as in the book but Katherine Romans Hall, noted) or in boards and dust jacket: in her bibliography of White's works, • ACROSS THE WIRE (1993, non-fiction, paperwraps) notes that White indicated "These • THE FEVER OF BEING (1994, poetry, paperwraps) Sterling Finney advertisements were • BY THE LAKE OF SLEEPING CHILDREN (1996, non- written by me. They ran in the magazine fiction, paperwraps) in the early years when it was trying to • GHOST SICKNESS (1997, poetry, paperwraps) promote its circulation. I posed the • WANDERING TIME (1999, memoirs) dummies—figures I found in • IN SEARCH OF SNOW (1999, novel) Wanamake's department store. The ads, • VATOS (2000, poetry, paperwraps) • NOBODY’S SON (2002, memoirs) of course, were parodies of a certain • SIX KINDS OF SKY (2002, short stories, in paperwraps) kind of 'culture- • THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY (2004, non-fiction) made-easy'—Ross was delighted with • THE HUMMINGBIRD’S DAUGHTER (2005, novel) them and they caused quite a lot of talk." • INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH (2009, novel) Of course, the implication of each very • QUEEN OF AMERICA (2011, novel). amusing essay was that reading the New All 13 volumes in fine to new condition and signed by Urrea. Yorker puts you well on to For the collection $650. wealth and social success. The book was printed and published by the New 112. Walling, R.A.J. THE Yorker advertising department and sent BACHELOR FLAT MYSTERY. to agents and customers for goodwill New York: William Morrow & Co., purposes. Issued without dust jacket. The corners of the boards 1934. First edition. Name stamps are a little rubbed, otherwise very good or better; and very (two) on front pastedown, small address label on rear pastedown; book scarce to rare. No copy at auction in the last 38 years. $4500. shop label and old catalog entry 116. Whitman, Walt. LEAVES OF GRASS. pasted to front endpaper. Book a little Brooklyn: No-publ, 1855 [1992]. Facsimile of cocked but otherwise good to very the first edition of Whitman's first book. One of good in good dust jacket with shallow 2,500 copies published by the Collectors edge chipping, V-shaped chip to top edge front pannel and long Reprints. One of the acknowledged American skinned portion on spine taking off most of author's name. The classics. As new. All edges gilt. Nice only thing it really has going for it is that at present there are no production. $125. firsts in dust jacket on line. $100. 117. Whitman, Walt. SPECIMEN DAYS IN AMERICA: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED Newly Revised by the Author, with Fresh Preface and 123. Wyndham, John. THE MID- Additional Note. London: Walter Scott, 1887. First British WICH CUCKOOS. London: Michael edition, first issue, in Myerson binding "B," a blackish blue Joseph (1957). First edition. The author's linen [A.11.2.a1]. Whitman's reworking of SPECIMEN DAYS fourth book, later filmed as "Village of & COLLECT with an added preface and note not in the the Damned." Light offset on endpapers American edition. In the "Camelot Series," edited by Ernest and minor damp stains to top corners of Rhys. Good only with binding a little shaken, hinges just pastedowns (under the flaps), otherwise starting, spine label darkened and chipped (about 1/3 missing), very good to near fine in a nice, bright, shallow chip and tear to top edge of half-title page. $100. unchipped dust jacket with lower spine 118. Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T. ZERUB THROOP'S and rear cover slightly tanned. $350. EXPERIMENT. Boston: Loring, Publisher (1871). First edition. Good or better in plum cloth boards with covers a little mottled and spine slightly cocked and somewhat faded. $100. EVEN NEWER ARRIVALS NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 119. Wilder, Thornton. THE EIGHTH DAY. James, P. D. THE BLACK TOWER: NY: Harper & Row (1967). First edition. One An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery.. London: of 500 SIGNED numbered copies. Winner of Faber & Faber (1975). First edition. the National Book Award. In 1962 and 1963, SIGNED title page. Gray cloth Wilder spent nearly two years in hibernation in boards show a touch of minor soiling, the Rio Grande border town of Douglas, otherwise near fine in very good dust Arizona, where he started this story set in a jacket with lightly rubbed creasing along top mining town in southern Illinois about two edge of spine and rear panel, rubbing to folds, families blasted apart by the apparent murder and head of spine nicked at corners. $350. of one father by the other. A fine copy of the book with top edge gilt, in the original heavy acetate wrapper which is a little Little, Arthur W. FROM HARLEM TO wrinkled on spine which has caused a few minor wrinkles on THE RHINE: The Story of New York's spine label. In original slipcase with sunning on edges. $200. Colored Volunteers. NY: Covici Friede 120. Williams, Tennessee. THE MUTIL- (1936). First edition. INSCRIBED in 1939 by the author on half-title page. The complete ATED. (New York): Dramatists Play story of the famous African-American Service (1967). First and only separate regiment, the 15th Infantry, from their edition. SIGNED on cover. Fine in olive- recruitment in Harlem to their triumphant Victory parade. 382 pages; illustrated with green printed paperwraps with frontis photo over 30 photographs. Light offset to half-title page of setting for the New York production of from newsclipping of Little's 1943 obituary, which the play. Scarce signed. $750. is laid in, and to few text pages where small pieces of newsprint were evidently used for bookmarks. 121. Williams, Tennessee. MEMOIRS. New York: Cover edges slightly faded, otherwise very good or Doubleday & Co., 1975. First edition. One of 400 SIGNED better. In better than good, slightly darkened and numbered copies.Though long self- edgeworn dust jacket with rubbed edge creasing and identified as a gay man, Williams' few tears, including a closed tear to head of spine affecting "F" in candor about his love life, sexual "From." $150. encounters and drug use was found shocking at the time. Still, what has IN THE SCARCE TO RARE DUST JACKET endured are his rememberances of Rivers, Elizabeth. INITIUM S. EVANGELII SECUNDUM friends from the worlds of stage, screen and literature including S. JOANNEM. (Dublin): Dolmen Press, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, (1953). First edition. The first of the Dolmen Vivian Leigh, Carson McCullers, Anna Magnani, Greta Garbo, Press Chrismas booklets, limited to 500 Elizabeth Taylor, and Tallulah Bankhead--to name a few. Fine copies. Illustrated with wood engravings by as issued, without dust jacket in slipcase. $500. Elizabeth Rivers. Tan card covers, lettered and 122. Wroblewski, David. THE STORY OF EDGAR with small woodcut on front printed in black and framed by vertical red rules. In dust jacket SAWTELLE: A Novel. (New York): printed in red and black and featuring a HarperCollins (2008). First edition. different woodcut by Rivers. 8 pages plus SIGNED by author. Fine in first-issue endpapers; unopened. Fine in near fine dust dust jacket with barest wear. $100. jacket--scarce to rare in dust jacket. $1,250.

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124. (Advertising). Dwiggings, W. A. tisements from the period. Good, soiled wrap-around printed LAYOUT IN ADVERTISING. NY: paperwraps with previous owners name and small stain on front Harper and Bros, 1928. First cover; interior pages fine. $100. edition. Illustrated with line 128. (Aluminum). Hobbs, Douglas B. drawings throughout. Very ALUMINUM: Its History, Metallurgy, and good in patterned pictorial Uses, with Projects for the School and Home paper boards with gilt- Shop. Milwaukee: Bruce Publ. Co., (1938). lettered black cloth spine. First edition. Well-illustrated with photos and Corners rubbed, small drawings. "Prepared to serve as a reference dampstain on front cover, spine sunned text for high-school and vocational-school but still legible, pencilled name on front endpaper. Lacking chemistry classes and for the industrial-arts dust jacket. The first edition seems to be scarce. $300. departments of elementary, and junior and senior high schools" 125. (Advertising). Hobart, P. G., H. D. (from the foreword). Near fine in bright, silver boards with Ingalls, and F. W. Bond. ADVERTISING - spine slightly sunned and light foxing to prelims. Still, a nice SELLING: With a Budget Plan. Chicago: looking copy. Lacking dust jacket if issued in one. $75. The F. W. Bond Company, 1925. First 129. (Architecture and Design). Bayer, Herbert, editor. edition. An elaborate advertisement for BAUHAUS 1919-1928. NY: Museum of advertising in general and for direct- Modern Art, 1938. First edition. Edited mail advertising specifically, with by Bayer and Walter & Ise Gropius. "Presented with the compliments of the Profusely illustrated. "The Proclamation F.W. Bond Company"-label on front of the Bauhaus (1919) described a pastedown. Illustrated with charts, utopian craft guild combining architec- photographs of campaigns and a fold- ture, sculpture, and painting into a single out photo showing further examples of direct-mail ads. Appears creative expression" (Metropolitan the spine label is gone from the cloth spine, if it had one, and Museum website). Near fine with light corners are worn, still good or better in rubbed/soiled foxing on boards and endpapers, and goldenrod boards. $100. perhaps a light damp stain on top edges covers. In about very good, scarce dust jacket with 1-inch chip on spine affecting EARLY NEW YORKER "BAU" in title and few closed tears and chips to corners. $350. 126. (Advertising). The New Yorker. "SOMETHING DIFFERENT": An 130. (Architecture and Design). Hopkins, Alfred. PLANNING Exhibit of 80 Advertisements which have FOR SUNSHINE AND FRESH AIR. New York: appeared from time to time in The New Architectural Book Publ. Co., Inc. (1931). First edition. Well Yorker. NY: The New Yorker, 1927. First illustrated with designs and photographs, many of which are edition. Large, quarto (10 x 13") volume. full page. Very good with pencilled name on front endpaper Includes two short, introductory essays and and title page, small faint glass ring on front cover, spine a little 80 full-page advertisements that had dulled, and edges of frontis and title page foxed. Lacking dust appeared from time to time in THE NEW jacket. $75. YORKER, each with a facing page 131. (Architecture and Design). Teague, providing pithy commentary. Plain, black Walter Dorwin. DESIGN THIS DAY: The cloth spine; gold foil rear board; patterned paper front board Technique of Order in the Machine Age. with printed "label" ("Our New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., object all sublime, we shall (1940). First edition. INSCRIBED by achieve in time, to let the author in 1944. Very good with lightly punishment fit the crime, the sunned spine and board edges and corners punishment fit the crime.") Rear and spine ends showing some wear. board a bit scratched, edges Lacking dust jacket. $100. rubbed, front board seems to 132. (Biography). Semmes, John E. JOHN H. B. LATROBE have been over-printed in areas, AND HIS TIMES 1803-1891. still about very good. $200. Baltimore, MD: The Norman, 127. (Advertising). Windisch, Albert; Remington Co. (1917). First edition, Konrad F. Bauer. GRAPHISCHE WER- limited issue -- so stated but without any BEKUNST [Graphicwratisal Advertising quantity noted. With thirty-eight Art]: Aus Dem Rhein-Main-Gebiet 1929 illustrations in color, and black and [From the Rhein-Man Area in 1929]. white, including a colored portrait of Frankfurt: 1929. First edition. Introduction John H. B. Latrobe painted by Thomas by Konrad F. Bauer. Illustrated with Sully. Bound in green cloth pictorial approximately 70 full-page color adver- Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction boards with bright, gold design. Detailed description of the English life at the turn of the symbolic representation of the cover design laid in. Front top century. Three large quarto cover edge is slightly bumped, otherwise fine. Lacking dust volumes bound in three-quarter jacket, if issued in one. $100. red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, 133. (Books on Books). McMurtrie, Douglas C. THE GOLDEN BOOK: with all edges gilt. Well- The Story of Fine Books and illustrated with 104 aquatint Bookmaking - Past & Present. plates by Bluck, Stadler, Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. First Sutherland Hill and Harraden, edition. One of only 2000 copies. after Rowlandson and Pugin, This one INSCRIBED by author. Intricate, gilt-stamped binding. Spine depicting the exteriors and dulled otherwise would be near fine. interiors of public buildings in London and of Londoners of the Lacking dust jacket. $150. time. Text watermarked "1807," and plates watermarked 134. (Bridges). WASHINGTON'S BRIDGES: Historic and "1808." Contents leaf in Volume 1 headed "Contents" as called Modern. Washington, DC: Dept. of for (Abbey Scenery 212) and all the erratta are uncorrected Highways/Federal Works Agency, 1948. except for "Coustom" corrected to "Custom" on page 218 of Presumed first edition. A pictorial report Volume 1, which, per Abbey, indicates the book was bound on highway bridges and structures in the District of Columbia. Well-illustrated with from parts. However, most of the plates are not in the first photographs, 8.5 x 11", 90 pages, spiral issues described by Abbey. Three large quarto volumes bound bound. Minor wear to cover edges, in three-quarter red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with all edges gilt. otherwise near fine. $100. Spine with 5 raised bands, gilt tooled with title, volume number (1808, 1808-1809, and 1809), floral designs in gilt. Woodcut 135. (China). Lanning, G., & S. Couling. title and engraved dedication leaf in each volume. Pages THE HISTORY OF SHANGHAI: Part I. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh Limited, trimmed to 10 1/8 x 12 3/8th inches. No tissues guards present 1921. First edition. Illustrated with a resulting in the light offset of coloration of plates to opposing foldout panaramic frontispiece, "The pages of text. All three volumes are tight and square with some Bund"; 5 full-page plates; and 5 fold-out wear on corners and spine ends. Minor foxing on a few pages, maps or sketches. 504 pages with index, but overall a very nice set. $9500. notes and appendices. This is Part 1 only-- the second part is rare. Lanning was 137. (Cookbooks). THE PICAYUNE'S commissioned by the Municipal Council in 1906 to undertake this compilation in order to CREOLE COOK BOOK. New Orleans: The comprehensively deal Picayune, 1906. Third edition. Binders tag of with the historical, "T. Fitzwilliam & Co." Lacking front free political and com- endpaper, otherwise good or better in lightly mercial aspects of the soiled dark blue boards with hinges cracked area. He worked for over thirteen years, but holding and evidence of item removed completing a great deal from front pastedown. $150. of the work necessary before dying in 1920, at which point Couling continued and completed the work (from the foreword by N.O. Liddell, 138. (Economics). Myrdal, Gunnar. Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Council). Original cloth CHALLENGE TO AFFLUENCE. worn on edges and a little soiled and loose, but still a good or London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. First better, sturdy copy which is internally clean. $850. edition. Gunnar Myrdal won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1974 and his wife, Alva, 104 AQUATINT PLATES won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. They 136. (Colour-plate Books). must have been a fascinating couple. 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PUBLISHER'S GIFT BINDING HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA 141. (Hollywood). Menjou, Adolphe, and M. M. Musselman. . (Fine Bindings). Walker, 139 IT TOOK NINE TAILORS. New York James P. THE ORIENTAL & Toronto: McGraw - Hill (1948). First ANNUAL. New York: Leavitt and edition. Photo illustrated. Allen, no-date[circa late 1800s]. Menjou's autobiography, Original black lacquered covers with a foreword by Clark hand-painted with a bird and floral Gable. INSCRIBED and/or motif, inlaid with mother-of-pearl; SIGNED on front endpaper cloth spine; all edges gilt. Nine full- by MENJOU and page plates and a pictorial title Hollywood luminaries such page. Undated, but the publisher as FRED ASTAIRE, was established in 1851, so we GINGER ROGERS, presume circa late 1800s. Title page RANDOLPH SCOTT, shows a few small foxed or soiled spots, one short closed tear HOAGY CARMICHAEL, REGINALD on bottom edge of cloth spine, bottom corners and back top OWEN, M. M. Musselman, George Folsey, et corner with edges chipped off. Still quite attractive. $1000. al. Dust jacket caricature of Menjou is by ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES Xavier Cugat. An obviously well-loved books 140. (Hawaii). Foster, Hugh W. THE DILLINGHAMS OF with covers worn--good at best, in like dust HAWAI'I: Links in an Island Chain. (San jacket which is nonetheless intact. A very Francisco): Norfolk Press (2011). First nice piece of Hollywood memorabilia. $750. edition. One of 100 copies published 142. (Marylandiana). Wright, C. Milton. OUR HARFORD primarily for the family. SIGNED by the author. Foster, a member of the family, HERITAGE: A History of Harford County, Maryland. No writes a history of Walter Dillingham place: No publisher, (1967). First edition. SIGNED by author (1875-1963) who was born in Honolulu and dated 1968 on front endpaper. Near fine in blue cloth with during the Kingdom of Hawaii. Walter's gilt stamped front and spine. Rear dust jacket flap laid in but father, Benjamin Dillingham, founded the Oahu Railway and Land Company. His lacking the rest of the jacket. $100. mother was Emma Louise Smith, daughter of missionary Lowell Smith, who arrived in Hawaii in 1830. Walter first 143. (Mathematics). Baker, H. F. worked as a clerk for his father, then managed the Dowsett PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY [All Company and founded Hawaiian Dredging Company. In 1904, six volumes]. Cambridge: University while his father was hospitalized, he managed the company. In Press, 1925-1934. A mixed set, with one 1909, he constructed a dry dock at Pearl Harbor which presumed first edition. Volumes I eventually became part of the US Navy base. He also enlarged the ports of Kahului and Hilo; drained the wetlands of Waikiki through 6, as follows: Foundations (2nd in the early 1920s; and created the Ala Wai Canal on whose ed., 1929); Plane Geometry (2nd ed., banks the Hawaii Convention Center was built. In 1948, 1930); Solid Geometry (reprinted, 1934); Dillingham Airfield, a small Air Force Higher Geometry (presumed 1st ed., 1925); Theory of Curves base near Mokuleia, Hawaii was (1933); and Algebraic Surfaces (1933). Uniformly bound in named for Walter's son, Captain Henry Gaylord Dillingham, a B-29 blue cloth with gilt stamped spines. Spines unevenly toned, pilot who was killed in action over some cover soiling, altogether good to about very good. $300. Kawasaki, Japan, on July 25, 1945. In 144. (Medical Books). Parrish, Joseph. 1961, his son Lowell Smith Dillingham (1911-1987) merged the remains of the Oahu PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON Railway and Land Company and the Hawaiian Dredging and STRANGULATED HERNIA: And Construction Company to form the Dillingham Corporation. It Some of the Diseases of the Urinary was sold to private investors in 1983. The book, for the first Organs. Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, time, tells the story of this complex man, his forbearers and his 1836. First edition. Four full-page plates family. Quoting such primary sources as his own letters and speches, the memories of others and the opinion of those who with descriptions. In a very good binding of are still alive and knew him best. The history of the Dillingham speckled leather boards with gilt-stamped family in many ways reflects the history of Hawaii. 405 pages, leather spine label. Old damp stain darkening upper half of including 11 pages of notes to the text; a bibliography; list of pages throughout. $200. personal interviews; and a chronology. Illustrated with family photographs. New in dust jacket. $150. Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction

145. (Music). Handy, W. C., editor; Miguel Covarrubias, Tony Flanagan / Every good wish. Henry illustrator. A TREASURY OF THE BLUES: Complete Kissinger." The last two volumes are each Words and Music of 67 Great Songs From Memphis Blues to SIGNED by Kissinger on the title page. the Present Day. (New York): Charles Boni, (1949). First 1519, 1283 and 1151 pages respectively, edition. Historical and critical text by Abbe Niles, pictures by including indices. Heavily illustrated with Miguel Covarrubias. INSCRIBED BY HANDY on front maps and photographs. The first volume has endpaper, "To - - with affection / W.C. Handy / New York a little lean to spine and the second has a 1950." Large, folio volume, very good to near fine in black small 1/2-inch area of crimping to rear spine paper boards with red cloth spine. In good or better, somewhat edge but otherwise all three volumes are near tattered dust jacket with old tape repair to verso. SOLD. fine in dust jackets with only minor wear on edges. 750. 146. (Music). Kaufmann, Helen L. 151. (Politics). (Lincoln, FROM JEHOVAH TO JAZZ. NY: Abraham), Earl Schenck Miers, Dodd, Mead, 1937. First edition. "Music William E. Baringer. in America for psalmody to the present LINCOLN DAY BY DAY: A day, with illustrations by Alajalov." Chronology 1809-1865. Wash- Spine and edges sunned a bit but ington: Lincoln Sesqui- lettering readable; in a very good dust centennial Commission, 1960. jacket with some edgewear and a few First edition. Three volumes. light foxed spots on back panel. $100. Edited by Miers, Baringer, and C. Percy Powell. A chronology 147. (Pigeons, or perhaps Cookbook?). Levi, Wendell of Lincoln's day-to-day whereabouts and activities. Vol. I Mitchell. MAKING PIGEONS PAY: A Manual of Practical covering 1809-1848; vol. II, 1849-1860; and vol. III, 1861-1865; Information on the Management, Selection, Breeding, Feeding plus a comprehensive index. Volume one a little faded, still a and Marketing of Pigeons. New York: near fine set. Presumed as issued, without dust jackets. $250. Orange Judd, 1946. First edition. How-to manual on raising pigeons for food. 152. (Politics). Reagan, Nancy. MY TURN. Profusely illustrated with photographs and NY: Random House (1989). First edition. drawings. Includes recipes (Jellied Pigeons; INSCRIBED "To Tony Flanagan / Best Creamed Pigeon with Celery on Toast; wishes / Nancy Reagan." About fine in red Roasted Old Pigeon; Ella's Pigeon Stew; cloth and boards in fine dust jacket. and more.) Near fine in about very good dust Flanagan was a Secret Service agent. $100. jacket with chipping & closed tears. $75. 148. (Politics). Johnson, Lady Bird. A WHITE HOUSE SCARCE TO RARE SIGNED DIARY. New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston (1970). First 153. (Politics). Reagan, Ronald. edition. INSCRIBED, "For Tony Flanagan, I hope you will RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY. enjoy your retirement years! Lady Bird Johnson." Near fine Salt Lake City: Osmond Publishing copy in dust jacket with minor wear. Flanagan was a member Company (1981). First edition. of the Secret Service. SOLD. SIGNED by President Reagan. Includes a tribute to Reagan given by Charlton 149. (Politics). (Kennedy John F.) By Theodore Heston at the gala prior to the Sorensen. KENNEDY. New York: Harper & Row Inauguration; "A Time for Choosing," (1965). First edition. Still considered one of the best the TV speech given in October 1964 biographies of JFK. Number 1161 of 1,963 copies which launched Reagan's political SIGNED by Sorensen. Spine subtly toned, still a career: Reagan's Jan. 20 1981 Inaugural bright, fine copy in original, unchipped acetate and Speech; an Address to a Joint Session of Congress on a very good or better slipcase, which is lightly scuffed, Program for Economic Recovery; another address to a joint faded on edges, and shows two areas of creasing session on April 28,1981. The where bumped. $250. title comes at the end of that first speech in 1964 - "You 150. (Politics). Kissinger, and I have a rendezvous with Henry. WHITE HOUSE destiny." Reagan was the Co- YEARS, YEARS OF Chairman of the California UPHEAVAL & YEARS OF Citizens for Goldwater at the RENEWAL. Boston/New time. No record of signed copies at auction in the last 35 years York: Little, Brown/Simon & and we contacted a few prominent dealers and they have not Schuster (1979/82/99). First had a copy. Just signed, not dated, but signed as President with editions. Three massive a solid provenance. Fine in a price clipped dust jacket. $6000. volumes of his memoirs. The first volume INSCRIBED, "To Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction

154. (Politics). Reagan, Ronald. AN Alleg-hanies. Edited by his daughter, AMERICAN LIFE. NY: Simon and Grace. Illustrated with numerous Schuster (1990). First edition. INSCRIBED, photographs and a map. Very good to "To Tony Flanagan, with best wishes. near fine in green cloth boards with gilt Ronald Reagan." Bright and near fine to lettering on front and spine. Minor wear fine, in like dust jacket. to spine ends and corners, tiny damp stain Proven-ance: Flanagan to top corner of first few pages, spine lettering somewhat dulled was a member of the though readable. Lacking dust jacket. $100. Secret Service and this THE JEFFERSON BIBLE book was puchased from 159. (Religion). Jefferson, Thomas. THE his widow. $2750. LIFE AND MORALS OF JESUS OF NICE ASSOCIATION NAZARETH: Extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English 155. (Politics). (Roosevelt, Franklin D.), by Thomas Jefferson. Chicago: Manz Ernest K. Linley. FRANKLIN D. Engraving, no-date. First of this edition ROOSEVELT: A CAREER IN "reproduced from the original volume by PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY. (NY): photographic process." Introduction by Bobb-Merrill Co., (1931). First edition. Cyrus Adler. A reproduction from the original volume prepared by Jefferson. A nice production in red INSCRIBED, "To W.W. How(e)s / pebbled cloth with gilt decorations on spine and board edges. Regards of Franklin D. Roosevelt." A Inconspicuous dark spot on fore-edge of front and rear board, nice association as William Washington otherwise bright and near fine. $150. Howes served under Roosevelt as Second 160. (Religion). MacGuinness, Joanne and First Assistant Postmaster General from 1933 to 1940. M. COMMENTARII: DE DEO Howes brought airmail service to the Midwest. Previously, he TRINO, DE VERBO INCARNATO, was a member of the South DE DEO CONSUMMATORE; DE Dakota Senate, Chairman of RELIGIONE REVELATA EJUSQUE FONTIBUS AC DE ECCLESIA the South Dakota Democratic CHRISTI and DOGMATICI DE Party and a member of the SACRAMENTIS IN SPECIE. Parisiis: Democratic National Com- Typis Pauli Bousrez, 1899, 1900, 1902. mittee. He is reported to have Three volumes. Written in Latin. been very influential in helping FDR win the midwest. Near Commentaries on the Trinity, the Word Incarnate, etc. All three volumes finely bound in quarter green fine with minor professional restoration at spine; in very morocco with matching green pebble-cloth boards; marbled attractive, about very good dust jacket with light edge rubbing, endpapers; spines with raised bands and gilt-decorated panels touch of light soiling, and few tears (internally mended with and lettering. Only the barest wear and otherwise fine. $450. archival tape). $4000. 161. (Science). Eddington, Sir Arthur. RELATIVITY 156. (Pottery). Knowles, W. Pitcairn. DUTCH POTTERY THEORY OF PROTONS AND ELECTRONS. Cambridge: AND PORCELAIN. London: B. T. Batsford [circa 1913] A University Press, 1936. First edition. Small name on front reissue of the 1905 Newnes edition. 122 pages with index and endpaper. Light wear otherwise about very good with light offset 54 plates, most full page. A good, edge worn copy with spine a to endpapers. Lacking dust jacket, if issued with one. $100. little faded and inner hinges cracked but holding. Light foxing NOBEL PRIZE WINNER throughout. $75. 162. (Science). Watson, James D. THE 157. (Religion). (Anonymous) "A Friend to DOUBLE HELIX: A Personal Account St. Peter". THE TRIAL OF THE POPE OF of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. ROME: The Antichrist, or Man of Sin. New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1844. Second edition. The author's classic, American edition, with an appendix. Old controversial, and best-selling work paper boards and cloth spine with paper label regarding the events surrounding the on spine. Names, etc., on front pastedown; discovery of DNA in 1953, for which he, some foxing, primarily on first and last few Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were pages. Good, sturdy binding. $75. awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962, "for their discoveries 158. (Religion). Guerrant, Edward O. THE GALAX GATHERERS: The Gospel Among the Highlanders. Richmond: Onward Press (1910). First edition. Proselytizing in the Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its barest wear to red cloth boards and gold lettering on front and significance for information transfer in living material." Board spine. $450. edges lightly sunned, otherwise fine in bright, near fine dust 167. (Travel). Ess, Jay. ESS'S AMERICAN'S GUIDE TO jacket with subtle spine toning and few closed tears. $750. LONDON AND ITS SUBURBS: Containing Full and Concise 163. (Scottish Humor). Junior, Allan; Gregor McGregor, illustrator. Information of What to See, and How to See It, Where to Go, and MAIR CANNY TALES FAE ABERDEEN. Dundee and London: What to Do. London & NY: Wyman & Sons / Lockwood & Co. Valentine & Sons, 1926. First edition. Scottish jokes and tales with (1872). Assume a first or early edition. Folding map before title illustrations my McGregor. Near fine in stiff page has a small tear backed with clear archival tape. Good to printed cardboard covers and tartan dust jacket very good in royal blue cloth boards with small piece missing which is chipped on bottom front cover and along from head of spine, and rubbing at corners. $100. upper edges but still a very good example of this 168. (Travel). Thomson, J. THE fragile production. $75. STRAITS OF MALACCA, INDO- 164. (Space CHINA, AND CHINA: Or Ten Years' Exploration). Collins, Travels, Adventures, and Residence Michael; Charles A. Abroad. New York: Harper & Brothers, Lindbergh, foreword. 1875. First edition. CARRY-ING THE FIRE: Illustrated with "up- An Astronaut's Journeys. ward of sixty" wood NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux engravings by J. D. (1974). First edition. Cooper from the author's own sketches and INSCRIBED by Collins, the photographs. Rust-colored bevelled boards Gemini and Apollo stamped in black and gilt. Spine mis-prints the astronaut, "All the best to John and author's name as "W. Thomson." Good with Cindy/ Michael Collins." Illustrated with black-and-white name plate on top edge of spine (a first for us), photos. Minor fading on edges of blue cloth, subtle abrasion on boards rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped endpaper, otherwise very good to near fine in near fine dust and frayed, crease along the hinge of front endpages. $300. jacket with minor wear on corners and spine ends and light 169. (Travel). White, Trumbull. OUR NEW crease to rear panel. $750. POSSESSIONS: Four Books In One. Chicago: Monarch Book Co. (1898). First edition. Includes “The Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, Cuba and The Hawaiian Islands.” Numerous illustrations. Corners a little worn and spine ends frayed on edges, but still about very good. $100.

170. (Travel). Wratislaw, A(lbert) H(enry). 165. (Travel). A WEEK'S VISIT TO JERSEY. Jersey: ADVENTURES OF BARON WENCESLAS British Press Office, [1844]. First edition. Anonymous travel WRATISLAW OF MITROWITZ: What he guide for Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Illustrated saw in the Turkish Metropolis, Constantinople: with a frontis folding map dated 1844 and four full-page experienced in his captivity, and, after his happy illustrations, including two on colored tissue paper (green and return to his country, committed to writing in the blue). 16mo., three-quarter leather with 4 raised spine bands, year of our Lord 1599. London: Bell and Daldy, gilt-lettered spine label; marbled boards. Leather scuffed still 1862. First edition. "Literally translated from the good or better with tight and sturdy binding. 243 pages with Bohemian" by Wratislaw from a work first text clean. $200. published from the original manuscript by Pelzel in 1777; prefaced by a brief sketch of Bohemian history. 211pp. Gilt- lettered, red leather spine with four raised bands; red pebble-cloth boards; marbled endpapers. Very good. $500. 171. (Women). (Starling, Elizabeth). NOBLE DEEDS OF WOMAN. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1836. First edition. Two volumes in original cloth with paper spine labels. First volume 166. (Travel). Baedeker, Karl. THE UNITED STATES: With has some damage to its spine and corners and spine an Excursion into Mexico Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1899. ends show wear and some foxing on endpapers, Second revised edition. This title -- the first Baedeker otherwise in good or better condition. originally written in English -- was first published in 1893. $200. Includes nineteen colored maps and twenty-four plans (many folding and two-page). In near fine condition with only the