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Literature And Book Arts Catalogue 335 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 TEMPLE STREET NEW HAVEN, CT. 06511 USA 203.789.8081 FAX: 203.865.7653 [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com TERMS Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described, but are considered to be sent subject to approval unless otherwise noted. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made prior to shipment. All returns must be made conscientiously and expediently. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance are billed to all non-prepaid domestic orders. Orders shipped outside of the United States are sent by air or courier, unless otherwise requested, with full charges billed at our discretion. The usual courtesy discount is extended only to recognized booksellers who offer reciprocal opportunities from their catalogues or stock. We have 24 hour telephone answering and a Fax machine for receipt of orders or messages. 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Images associated with many items from this catalogue are also posted on our web site, and significant new acquisitions are posted there long before they appear on any of the collective databases. Those wishing to receive e-mail notification of the posting of new catalogues and lists to our website may request same by forwarding expressions of interest to [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________ William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT. 06511 USA Phone: 203.789.8081 Fax: 203.865.7653 email: [email protected] Members ABAA and ILAB Cover Illustration: Modified from Item No. 171 1. [African American Film]: Jordan, Louis [star]: [Four Original Color Pictorial Lobby Cards for:] BEWARE! [New York]: Astor Pictures / Louis Jordan Productions, [1946]. Four 11 x 14” color studio lobby cards (including title card). Pinholes in corners from display use, a few finger smudges in blank margins, but in all, very good or better. Four lobby cards issued to promote the 1946 African American film featuring Louis Jordan (“King of the Bobby Sox Brigade”) and his Tympany Five, and Valerie Black, Frank Wil- son, Milton Woods, and Emory Richardson. The 54 minute release follows the return of a successful alumnus to a troubled school where his charisma as a performer helps relieve its financial woes and his principles as a man weed out corruption -- interspersed, of course, with an abundance of musical numbers. Jordan’s immense crossover popularity was promoted by his many appearances in mainstream films, as well as in films intended for African American audiences, such as Beware! A squib labels this “The First truly great All Colored musical feature.” Uncommon. $500. 2. Agate, James: HERE’S RICHNESS! AN ANTHOLOGY OF AND BY ... WITH A FORE- WORD BY OSBERT SITWELL. London: Harrap & Co., [1942]. Publisher’s three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, raised bands, t.e.g. Traces of foxing, some light rubbing to side panels, but a very good or better copy. First edition, limited issue. One of one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by Agate and Sitwell. FIFOOT OB27b. $125. 3. [Alembic Press]: Bolton, Claire: AWA GAMI JAPANESE HANDMADE PAPERS FROM FUJI MILLS, TOKUSHIMA. Oxford: The Alembic Press, 1991. 60pp. Large octavo (24 x 15.5 cm). Open sewn decorated handmade paper wrappers, paper label. Illustrated. Fine in folding shito-chitsu box with faux ivory closures. First edition, deluxe issue. Illustrated by Yasusuke Nyuko. Copy #12 of fifty numbered deluxe copies, printed on pure handmade kozo paper, with extra samples of “main paper fibres,” from a total edition of 320 copies. The paper specimens are either tipped or bound in, with captions, and include natural as well as colored papers. Includes a brief history of the Fuji Mills and the Fujimori family, as well as descriptions of processes, raw materials and finished papers. $375. 4. [Allen Press]: Robbe-Grillet, Alain: JEALOUSY RHYTHMIC THEMES BY.... [Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1971]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Illustrations. Fine. One of 140 copies set and printed by hand in Univers and Garamond types on Wookey Hole handmade paper. Illustrated with drawings by Michéle Forgeois, and with an introduction by Francis Carmody. The translation is by Richard Howard. ALLEN PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY 36. $450. 5. [Anonymous Verse]: D’Espi ***, M.: COUP D’ESSAI D’UN ÉCOLIER, OU POE’SIES [sic] .... A Londres. Se vend à Marseille: Chez Jean Mossy, 1786. xvi,184pp. Contemporary calf and boards, spine gilt extra. Light scattered foxing and occasional mild spotting, a few rubs and light stains to boards, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of this substantial collection of verse, epigrams, translations, and letters in verse. The identity of the author seems only thinly veiled at first glance, but the screen has been sufficiently impenetrable that authorship for the copies in the BM Lyon and BL remains unattributed, and Barbier comes up short. The London aspect of the imprint is curious, as it is an entirely French production, but may just possibly point to a French national posted to London in some business or governmental capacity. The dedication of the collection is to M. Deprats, who is also identified as the recipient of several of the letters in verse. $250. Rare Triple-Decker 6. Anstey, F. [pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie]: THE PARIAH. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889. Three volumes. Original slate cloth, decorated and lettered in red. Cloth a little soiled and bubbled; inner hinges cracked in volume two, with evidence of neat repair, spines a bit cocked, newscutting tipped to front pastedown of first volume, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of Guthrie’s only triple-decker, signed by him on a prelim in volume one. From the library of Guthrie’s friend, Horace N. Pym. A very rare book, of which Sadleir wrote “I am not conscious of having seen another copy outside a library.” The set in Wolff’s collection was presented by the author to his sister. This novel, Guthrie’s second attempt at “serious” fiction, is markedly different from his humorous writings, and though promoted on the spines as ‘By the Author of Vice Versa,’ it was not well received. The Times critic advised Guthrie “to return to the kind of work which was more within his range.” TURNER 7. SADLEIR 50. WOLFF 164. $1750. 7. Anstey, F. [pseud. of Thomas Anstey Guthrie]: THE PARIAH. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1890. Original brown cloth, decorated in black, lettered in gilt. Spine faintly cocked, one signature starting slightly, otherwise a very good copy. First one-volume edition, preceded by the very rare triple-decker of 1889. With Guthrie’s presentation inscription on the verso of the flyleaf: “To Horace N. Pym from his very sincere friend the Author. March. 1890.” With Pym’s bookplate. TURNER 7a. $125. With Original Lithographs by Hans Falk 8. Apollinaire, Guillaume: ... ZART WIE DEIN BILD. Zurich: Alpha-Presse, [1965]. 81,[3]pp. plus laid in lithographs. Large quarto (31 x 24.5 cm). Loose gath- erings laid into pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers, untrimmed. Minute nick in crown of spine, else fine in glassine wrapper (a bit darkened at spine) and lightly corner-worn slipcase. First printing in this format of the German translations of Apollinaire’s letters and poems to Madeleine Pagès, written largely from the Front. Illustrated with thirteen original erotic lithographs by Hans Falk, hors texte and printed on China paper, and ten lithographed designs as backgrounds for selected sections of text, the latter printed on Rives-Büttenpapier. From an edition of 151 copies, this is one of sixty copies (1-60) with three of the lithographs with highlights colored by hand. The thirteen lithographs are each signed by the artist, as is the justification. Elisabeth Brock-Sulzer’s commentary on the text is appended. A lovely production. $800. 9. [Arion Press]: Dobie, J. Frank: CORONADO’S CHILDREN TALES OF LOST MINES & BURIED TREASURES OF THE SOUTHWEST. Dallas: Neiman-Marcus, 1980. Folio (33 x 26 cm). Quarter morocco and Mexican bark paper over boards. Folding map, illustrations and in-text map. Printed in red and black, with gilt decorative initials. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in faintly marked slipcase. First fine press edition. One of three hundred copies printed at the Arion Press on handmade Italian Fabriano Roma, bound by the Schuberth Bindery. This imposing edition of Dobie’s most interesting text for general readers was commissioned by Neiman-Marcus for sale via their catalogue and through their retail outlets. Consequently, a considerable portion of the edition saw distribution outside the usual constituency for such undertakings. $1000. 10. [Artists’ Book - Collaborative]: [Untitled Tunnel Book]. [Possibly Deer Isle, ME: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1998]. Sixteen panel accordion-fold tunnel book (25 x 23 x 2 cm collapsed), handcut and decorated, including collaged paper, and printed, stenciled and otherwise duplicated text and images. Some minor creasing, else near fine.