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Catalogue: $10 112 Nicholson Rd Between the Covers Gloucester City NJ 08030 (856) 456-8008 www.betweenthecovers.com Rare Books, Inc. [email protected] Inscribed to Terry Southern 1 Jack KEROUAC. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press 1958. First edition. A worn, fair only copy, heavily rubbed and frayed at the extremities, in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper that is almost certainly married to the book (but which came to us thus), in a fine custom made quarter morocco clamshell case. Kerouac’s follow- up to On the Road, a thinly-veiled account of his spiritual growth and friendship with poet Gary Snyder. Inscribed by Jack Kerouac to Terry Southern: “To my lovely tortured Terry, Jack XXX. To Terry who is Terry.” Kerouac and Southern met through Southern’s Candy co-author Mason Hoffenberg, when Southern returned to New York and settled in Greenwich Village. Southern was notorious for the usage of his books and this copy is no exception, not particularly pretty, but a spectacular association linking two iconic counterculture figures in what is often considered the scarcest of Kerouac’s books to find signed. [BTC #346433]

2 Vladimir NABOKOV. Look at the Harlequins! New York: McGraw-Hill (1974). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Gordon Lish, who published some of Nabokov’s sto- 3 Dawn ries when he was fiction editor at Esquire: POWELL. Turn, “for Gordon Lish with best regards from Vladimir Nabokov who has corrected sever- New Magic Wheel. al misprints in this copy. 6-ix-74. York: Farrar & Rinehart Montreux.” Nabokov has made corrections (1936). to pages 8, 90, and 116, including crossing through two whole sentences. Housed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. [BTC #346457]

First edition. A couple of pages a little roughly opened with corresponding small tears, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper with a very short tear. By con- sensus the best novel on New York’s bohemian life by this satirical, proto-feminist novelist who has recently been rediscovered. Gore Vidal, whose critical essay helped restore her fame, called her a better satirist than Twain and said she was “our best comic novelist.” Ernest Hemingway once told her she was his “favorite living novelist” – although she was not averse to poking fun at Hemingway himself, which she did in her novel, The Wicked Pavilion. Novelist Lisa Zeidner, in a review of the Tim Page biography of Powell in The New York Times Book Review, said that “she is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland and has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh, the writer to whom she’s most often compared.” Powell was an archetypal free spirit, living much of her life in Greenwich Village, taking – and flaunting – lovers frequently although she was married, and merci- lessly skewering the postures and foibles of an array of New York types, from bohemian artists to wealthy tycoons. Probably the nicest copy we’ve seen of an exceptionally scarce book. [BTC #342146] Between the Covers ~2~ Catalog 169 Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. Dimensions for all items, including artwork, are given width first. All items are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. All items subject to prior sale. Payment should accom- pany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept checks, VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER, and PayPal. Gift certificates available. Domestic orders from this catalog will be shipped gratis via UPS Ground or USPS Priority mail; expedited and overseas orders will be sent at cost (unless other arrange- ments are requested). All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Member ABAA, ILAB. Artwork by Tom Bloom. © 2011 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.

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4 Franklin P. ADAMS. Something 5 Samuel Hopkins ADAMS. Our Square and the Else Again. Garden City: People In It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Doubleday, Page 1920. Company 1917.

First edition. A small stain at the bottom of the spine, and some offsetting on the First edition. Bookplate and facing front end- ownership signature of Lewis E. papers, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Gensler, boards a little soiled, Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To Martha Mc. very good in very good dust- J. Biddle, the best golf partner I ever had, this wrapper with some shallow book is appreciatively inscribed by the author, chipping around the crown. Samuel Hopkins Adams. Hibernia, Fla. Mar. 21st Inscribed by F.P.A. to Gensler. 1920.” A collection of stories about New York City. The story “Orpheus, Who Humorous doggerel from the author’s popular column. Made Music in Our Square” was the basis for the 1917 Tod Browning film A Scarce in jacket. [BTC #347699] Love Sublime with Wilfred Lucas and Carmel Myers. [BTC #84202]

Agee at Harvard 6 (James AGEE). Harvard Class Album 1932. Cambridge: Harvard University Class of 1932 1932. First edition. Folio. 291pp. Embossed leather grained cloth gilt. Spine gilt a little dull but easily readable, near fine. Among the graduating seniors is James Rufus Agee, who is pictured in two group photos on page 170 of the Advocate Board; his senior photo with biographical information and activities appears on page 210. He is also noted as the “Class Odist” on page 199 in the list of Class Officers; and finally, all of page 204 is devoted to his Class Ode. [BTC #344074]

8 John ASHBERY. Rivers and Mountains. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1966). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper 7 Cyril ALINGTON. with the slightest of wear, and the Eton Fables. London: Longmans, spine-lettering unfaded. Advance Green and Co. 1921. Review Copy with slip, photo, and pro- First edition. Fine in very good plus motional material laid in. Nominated dustwrapper with slight chipping at the for a National Book Award. [BTC spine ends, and other light wear. Stories #99726] by the Head Master of Eton College. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #84358] Modern First Editions ~3~ New Arrivals

9 (Anthology). John HELD, Jr., Dorothy PARKER, Ben HECHT, Heywood BROUN, Alexander WOOLLCOTT, George S. CHAPPELL, and sev eral others. Nonsenseorship: Sundry Obser– vations Concerning Prohibitions, Inhibitions and Illegalities. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1922. First edition. Gilt lettering a little dull but readable, a little rubbed, a modest tear on the last endpaper, a very good copy. The dustwrapper, lacking the flaps, is folded and laid into the book. Literary spoof of the bluenoses of the era with contributions by Dorothy Parker, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, and several others. Amusing illustrations by Ralph Barton of the contributors at battle with the forces of prudery. This copy Signed or Inscribed by several contributors and other literary luminaries including George S. Chappell, George P. Putnam, Charles Hanson Towne, traveler Frederick O’Brien, Charles Furlong, Hubbard Hutchinson, and Philip Ashton Rollins. Perhaps the most important contribution is an original drawing by Held of the blonde lady who was the recipient of the book. With a clipping laid in recounting the signing event. [BTC #344259]

First American Yiddish Women’s Poetry Anthology 10 (Anthology). Ezra KORMAN, editor. Yidishe Dikhterins: Antologye [Yiddish Women Poets: Anthology. Collected, Arranged, and Published with a Foreword, Bibliographic Notes, and Photographs of the Poets]. Chicago: L.M. Stein 1928. First edition. Large, thick octavo. Lavish woodcut illustrations, tipped-in photographs of the authors, and facsimiles of important title pages throughout; dark blue pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt. One of 1500 copies, the entire edition. Spine gilt a little darkened, else just about fine. First edition of the first collection of Yiddish poetry by women, with selections from over seventy poets between 1586 and 1927. Until recently, there has been almost no treat- ment of female Yiddish poets. Women were included sporadically, if at all, in Yiddish literary anthologies, an ironic state of affairs considering that more women expressed themselves in Yiddish than in Hebrew, which was taught only to men. Korman, a Detroit teacher and literary critic, included four women whom Howe, Wisse and Shmeruk would include sixty years later in The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse: Kadia Molodowsky (who explored women’s themes); Anna Margolin, Rachel Korn, and Celia Dropkin (who pioneered eroticism in Yiddish poetry). Also includes a 232 title bibliography. Scarce, we have never seen another copy in the trade. [BTC #341119] 13 Saul BELLOW. 11 Philip BARRY. Hotel Universe. New York: 12 Brendan BEHAN. Seize the Day. New York: Samuel French 1930. Confessions of an Irish Viking Press 1956. First edition. Slight sunning at the Rebel. London: Hutchinson extremities, top corners a tad bumped, of London 1965. very good or better without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “To Adèle and Bob with love from Phil, 12 June 1930.” Adèle Lovett was a glamorous socialite, a B player in the Algonquin Round Table, a friend of Dorothy Parker’s, and reportedly the lover of Robert Benchley; her husband Bob was a businessman and later Secretary of Defense in the 1950s, succeeding George Marshall, and directing the Korean War in that capacity. A moderate commercial success, First edition. Fine in near fine, some critics and scholars consider this Barry’s best work. Set in a price-clipped dustwrapper with a locale based on the Murphy’s Villa America, and peopled with an little rubbing, but the spine less Uncorrected proof. Orange urbane and attractive dramatis personae, the cast grapples with exis- faded than usual. The author’s printed wrappers. A trifle tential despair and tries to fathom meaning in their lives or, failing increasingly uncommon fourth soiled, a very near fine copy. that, in the universe. A nice association. [BTC #347387] book. [BTC #279057] [BTC #99793] Between the Covers ~4~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9 She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie... 14 Fritz BAUER (editor) and Stefan EGGLER (artist). Kokain. Eine Moderne Revue (Heft 2 and 4, 1925). Wein: Kokain 1925.

First edition. Two issues (2 and 4). Quarto. Issue two: [3]-73, [1]pp. Issue four irregularly bound and paginated: [3]-18, 51-66, 35-73, [1]pp. Both in illustrated wrappers. 24 cm. Text in German. With numerous black and white and color lithographs by Stefan Eggler. Library of Congress duplicate stamp, with a few small and very faint location and date stamps on the front wraps and title pages, else very good or better with slight soiling to the wraps. An unusual literary journal published in a run of five issues only from 1915 to 1925. Based in Vienna, it featured many contributions by women, and the graphic design and erotic lithog- raphy of Eggler. Issue 3 was confiscated by the authorities because of the descrip- tion of a sexual act in the story “Im Kellerloch” by Erwin Stranik. The story was republished in Issue 4, along with an essay by Stranik commenting on the incident, “Was ist Kunst und was ist Pornographie?” A very scarce survival of two issues from the run. OCLC locates only 2 copies of any issues, in Germany. [BTC #342330]

Programs for the American premiere and 18 Henry Ward BEECHER [false author name]. First Broadway Performance [Broadside music]: O How I Would Like To Do It 15 Samuel BECKETT. Again. [No place: no publisher circa 1875]. [Program for]: Waiting for Broadside. Godot. Coconut Grove, Florida: Approximately 5" x 11". Coconut Grove Playhouse 1956. One old fold and three old paper repairs on the Program. Octavo. 23, [1]pp. Stapled verso, small tears and printed wrappers. Tiny library duplicate some age-toning, still stamp on the rear wrap, an ink number very good. Song sheet and small stain on the front wrap, still with 18 stanzas each near fine. Program for the opening night ending with the word (3 January 1956) of the American pro- “Brooklyn,” to be sung duction of the play. From the library of to the tune of “Jinks.” Edwin Purportedly by, and in Erbe, the voice of Henry Director of Publicity for New Ward Beecher, this little Directions. Scarce. [BTC #343514] ditty was apparently precipitated by the con- 16 —. [Program for]: Waiting temporary scandal of for Godot. New York: The John Beecher’s alleged infidel- Golden Theatre / The Playbill April ity with Mrs. Theodore Tilton. The song covers 19, 1956. Beecher’s career history, Program. Octavo. 20pp. Stapled but gets down to brass printed wrappers. A small ink date on tacks in several stanzas, the last leaf, near fine. Program for first relating his record the first Broadway performance, the as an abolitionist, and first to then: “As soon as that include both Bert Lahr and E.G. began to grow stale, I Marshall in the roles they made famous. took up the woman suf- From the library of Edwin Erbe, Director frage tale; O Lord! of Publicity for New Directions. Scarce. Didn’t I rant and rail [BTC #346416] ‘Bout woman’s wrongs 17 —. From an Abandoned in Brooklyn!” and then Work. London: Faber and Faber “Now comes along this devilish row About me, and Tilton, and Bowen, and Co.; Fact is, I (1958). hardly know what to do, It’s getting so hot in Brooklyn.” Eventually First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers as “Beecher” announces that he’ll get a fixed jury, and some would issued. A beautiful copy. [BTC #99776] argue that is precisely what he did. Scarce. We cannot find any mention in OCLC or any other source. [BTC #341558] Modern First Editions ~5~ New Arrivals

19 Ludwig BEMELMANS. Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. New York: Viking Press 1945. First edition, presentation issue. Green cloth with applied illustration and cloth spine label. Slight edgewear, front hinge a little tender, else near fine. One of a very few copies prepared in this binding for the author’s use (not to be confused with the limited and slipcased edition). This copy wonderfully Inscribed by the author to Elsie de Wolfe: “The first copy of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep – hot off the Press – for my beloved Elsie with devotion with affection – oh – with all my love, Ludwig, King of Bavaria.” De Wolfe was an American actress, interior decorator, and author of the influential 1913 book The House in Good Taste. According to The New Yorker, “Interior Design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe.” Apparently one other copy in this presentation binding is known. [BTC #343521]

21 Henry BESTON. The Outermost House: A 20 Robert BENCHLEY. Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. New York: No Poems or Around the Rinehart & Co. (1949). World Backwards and Sideways. Twelfth printing. New introduction by the New York: Harper 1932. author. Illustrated with photographs by William A. Bradford and others. Corners a bit bumped, near fine in an about fine dustwrapper with a very short tear. Warmly Inscribed by the author: “For George Swetman Esq. with First edition. Illustrated by Gluyas the pro- Williams. Modest age-toning on the found spine and edge of the rear board, tiny affection of tears at the crown, very good without his old friend and col- the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “Dear league. Henry Beston.” A nature clas- Adèle: This is for you. Bobby. November 15, 1932.” Adèle Lovett sic that captures the essence of was a glamorous socialite, a B player in the Algonquin Round Table, place and that continues to a friend of Dorothy Parker’s, and reportedly the lover of Robert endure, this copy comes with a Benchley. The intimacy of the inscription is telling; we’ve never wonderful eight page (both sides of before seen Benchley inscribe a book as “Bobby.” [BTC #347389] four octavo leaves) Autograph (also see item 11) Letter Signed twice by Beston on his Chimney Farm stationery to 22 (Book Collecting). Karl W. Mrs. Swetman send- HIERSEMANN. The Americana ing the book, and explaining the creation of the Catalogues: 41, 51, 60, book. In small part: “I wrote it 70, 119, 143, 156-158, 166, a few years after I had emerged from War I. Being still 179-180, 137, and Periodicals sick at heart with this vast political massacre of the Catalogue. Leipzig: Karl W. young by the young, I went as far as I could go to the Hiersemann 1890-1897. world of nature and wonder, and just sat quiet awhile Fourteen bookseller catalogs bound like the Bhudda under the Bo tree. After a while a reli- in one volume, all with the original gious sense of acceptance and peace possessed me, a sense printed wrappers. Modern period- I have never lost. After marriage, I bought from relatives style dark quarter calf with marbled the farm we now occupy, where I live very happily with boards, dark red morocco spine my attendant bears, the chief of whom is my famous label with the title in gilt, gilt tool- ‘Oswald’, an enchanting bear who on autumn nights is ing. The catalogs are very good, given permission to sleep by the open fire.” Beston goes untrimmed, with the edges stained on to describe his life in Maine, and his upcoming trip red, and the usual browning to the to stay on a Maine island with a friend whose “occupa- text pages. Numerous catalogs and catalog supplements from a late 19th Century tion is the collaring of poor, innocent lobsters. I weep for German bookseller, devoted to Americana, Central and South America, Voyages, them as the walrus wept for the oyster.” With original German-Americana, Bibliography, and Scientific Periodicals. Over 800 pages of envelope. A wonderful letter. [BTC #347882] catalogs total. Very scarce. [BTC #340569] Between the Covers ~6~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

23 William R. BOOTHBY. The Olive: Its Culture and Products in the South of France 24 Jenny and Italy. Adelaide: W.C. Cox, Government Printer 1878. BOSTANA. First edition. Octavo. Sonnets for a 42pp., frontispiece, plus Negro Lover and 11 additional lithographic Other Poems. New plates bound at rear, 5 York: Vantage Press mounted albumen photographs. Publisher’s quarter (1971). morocco and cloth gilt. Bookplate and remnant of a small bookseller’s ticket, both on the front pastedown, part of an inscription has been excised from the title-page affecting no printing, one signature a little loose, some rubbing and small stains to the boards, a handsome, very good or better copy. The author, the Sheriff of South Australia, studied and wrote on the olive culture of southern Europe in order to promote cultiva- tion in Australia, with a particular interest in growing olives and making oil in the prison precincts. OCLC locates 11 copies; 10 in Australia and one in New Zealand, some apparently lack the photographs. [BTC #334035]

25 Jane BOWLES. Original Small Photo Portrait. 1935. A small arcade-style black-and-white snapshot portrait of a young Jane First edition. 45pp. Bowles. Approximately 1½" by 2". Very near fine, and archivally Light wear to the edges mounted in a wood and UV plexiglass frame (framed to approxi of the boards, else near mately 6" x 6½"). Some years ago we handled a remarkable 1935 let- fine, lacking the dust- ter from Bowles to George McMillan, a dashing Greenwich Village wrapper. A vanity press bartender and ladies’ man with whom Bowles shared an off-again, on- volume of poetry, most- again relationship, and this photograph accompanied it, every indica- ly taken up by a long tion being that it was taken at the same time that she wrote the letter. suite of “Sonnets for a Apparently this photo was parted from the letter after we sold them Negro Lover” that the and has now made its way back to us. In Millecent Bell’s definitive presumably white author biography of Bowles, A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane describes as “juvenilia” Bowles, this original photograph is reproduced (with the credit that she wrote in the “Courtesy of George McMillan”). [BTC #346507] 1940s. Even in 1971 these might have been considered socially dar- 27 John BURTON and Ansel ADAMS. ing. Scarce. OCLC Trackless Wind. San Francisco: Johnck & Seeger 1930. locates three copies. 26 Claude BRAGDON. [BTC #343173] Merely Players. New York: Alfred A. First edition, possibly a Knopf 1929. presentation issue (also 28 Albert CAMUS. The issued in cloth). First edition. Frontispiece photogra- Myth of Sisyphus. London: Spine lettering vure portrait by Hamish slightly oxi- Ansel Adams. Tall Hamilton dized, still octavo. (1955). about fine in a Papercovered nice, very near boards gilt. A little First English fine dustwrap- foxing to the edition. Fine per with a boards and endpa- in very near very slightly pers, near fine. fine dustwrap- tanned spine. Nicely Inscribed per with very An interesting by the poet, as slight tanning collection of well as Signed by at the spine. essays on the author’s acquaintances among Adams under- The English the famous, an eclectic group that includes neath the portrait. edition is very Louis H. Sullivan, Harvey Ellis, Kahlil [BTC #342179] scarce. [BTC Gibran, and many others. [BTC #91296] #342128] Modern First Editions ~7~ New Arrivals

29 Truman CAPOTE. Les Domaines Hantés [Other Voices, Other Rooms]. Paris: Gallimard 1949. First French edition of the author’s first book. Translated by M.E. Coindreau. Printed wrappers. Unopened, about fine. Roman numeral copy II (2) of 200 copies on sur velin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre paper (additionally there were 5 lettered copies hors de commerce). [BTC #337617]

30 —. Document Signed for rights to republish his story “Miriam.” Two page Document Signed by Capote with Doubleday & Company in 1970 extending permission to reprint his story “Miriam” in a “treasury” of stories that were drawn from the first fifty years of the O. Henry Prize Stories. “Miriam” was published originally in Mademoiselle in 1945, then in the Prize Stories volume for 1946 (his first book appearance), and eventually in his collection A Tree of Night and Other Stories. [BTC #343522]

31 (Truman CAPOTE). Kenward ELMSLIE (text) and Claibe RICHARDSON (music). Yellow Drum: A Musical Play Based on “The Grass Harp” by Truman Capote. New York: Kermit Bloomgarten [1971]. Playscript. Mimeographed sheets screwbound in printed Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. A few tiny tears and bumps, near fine. Handnumbered “14” on the title page. Finally produced on Broadway as The Grass Harp, the play ran for only seven performances. Very scarce, presumably this was an early version with a working title. [BTC #331196]

32 Pat CONROY. The Great Santini. Boston: 34 Paddy CHAYEFSKY. Houghton Mifflin Company Television Plays. New York: 1976. Simon & Schuster 1955. First edition. Fine in fine dust- First edition. Spine lettering dull as wrapper. Signed by the author, as usual, else well as Signed by the author’s near fine in father, Don Conroy, who was the a slightly inspiration for the character of The rubbed, just about Great Santini. The author’s splen- fine dustwrapper. A did first novel, basis for the excel- curious double- lent film with Robert Duvall in the inscribed copy, first title role. Increasingly scarce first Inscribed, apparently edition. As nice a copy as we’ve to a family member: seen – the “To a Chayefsky jacket lends from The itself to foxing, something this copy has Chayefsky,” which almost entirely avoided. [BTC #343183] has then been crossed out and re-Inscribed “To Dr. Gilbert from Paddy Chayefsky.” Chayefsky’s first book, a collection of six plays including Marty, an excellent character study that was the basis for the film which won deserved Oscars for Chayefsky, Ernest Borgnine, director Delbert Mann, and Best Picture. Not 33 —. The Prince of often found inscribed. [BTC #347426] Tides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1986. First edition. A little foxing on the 35 John CHEEVER. The Day page edges else fine in fine dust- the Pig Fell in the Well. wrapper. Signed by the author. Northridge: Lord John Press 1978. Conroy co-scripted the film adapta- First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards tion featuring Nick Nolte and as issued. Fine. One of 275 numbered copies Barbra Streisand, who also produced and directed the film. [BTC (of a total edition of 301) Signed by the #343210] author. A short story. [BTC #99728] Between the Covers ~8~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

36 (Jean COCTEAU, Ezra POUND, Maxwell BODENHEIM, Richard THOMA, George ANTHEIL, et al). Samuel PUTNAM, edited by. The New Review – Volume 1, Number 1. Paris: (no publisher) 1931. Magazine. Small quarto. 69pp. Paper wrappers with unopened pages. Sunned with some wear to the spine and bumping to the corners, very good. The first of a five-issue literary magazine published between 1930-1932 that devoted itself to “the modern arts, such as photography, the cinema, sound and talking films, phonograph records, radio, etc.” It was edited by the American author and translator Samuel Putnam, along with help from Ezra Pound, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Richard Thoma. This issue features several contributions from Jean Cocteau, including a five-page poem (“Angel Wuthercut”), an illustration, a photograph of Cocteau, and a still from his first film, La Vie d’un Poete, the first film of The Orphic Trilogy. It also includes an early poem from Richard Eberhart and contributions from Pound, Bodenheim, Massimo Bontempelli, E. Giménez Caballero, George Reavey, H.R. Hays, Richard Thoma, V.F. Calverton, Wambly Bald, George Antheil, Willard Widney, Ian Mackay, Francis Musgrave, and Horace Bevans. [BTC #334184]

37 James Fenimore COOPER. Leatherstocking Tales (Volume 1. The 38 COLETTE. Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path; Volume 2. The Chéri. New York: Albert Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea; Volume 3. The Last & Charles Boni 1929. of the Mohicans; Volume 4. The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; Volume 5. The Prairie). Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1848, 1848, 1849, 1848, 1849 (but maybe all 1848?). Early reprint of the first collected edition. Five volumes. Publisher’s uniform brown cloth stamped in blind and titled in gilt. Each title is two volumes in one. Three volumes have the ownership signature of Thos. Sackett dated in 1848 (including one of the 1849 volumes), corners bumped and worn, some erosion to the cloth on the spine with minor loss at the spine ends, considerable foxing, but a handsome, about very good set, and very uncommon. OCLC locates three different printings of sets of The Leatherstocking Tales published before 1850, all by this publisher, and each set in five volumes: First American edition. Translated by 1843, 1846, 1849. Each set is held in only one Janet Flanner. Fine in a very attractive, just about fine location (all three at the American Antiquarian dustwrapper. Seldom found in this condition. [BTC Society). At any rate a scarce early collected set. #342985] [BTC #340833]

39 Gregory CORSO and Walter HÖLLERER. Junge Amerikanische Lyrik. Munich: Carl Hanser (1961). First edition. Octavo. 277, [1]pp. Text in English and German. A fine copy in wrappers, in the original slipcase, and with the 45 rpm record also fine in the original plastic and paper sleeve. The recording features Gregory Corso reading “Bomb,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading “Dog,” and Allen Ginsberg reading “Sunflower Suite.” An anthology of poems by the leading American poets of the day with the English and German translations printed side by side, including Corso’s “Bomb” with both versions neatly folded. Scarce. [BTC #337515]

40 Martha Ann DAVIS. Poems of Laura; An Original American Work. Peters burg, [Virginia]: (Whitworth and Yancey, Printers) 1818. First edition. 12mo. 106, iv pp. Contemporary calf, red morocco spine label. Early owner’s name, label largely chipped away, an attractive, very good copy. A handsome copy of this collection of poetry by a Virginia woman. [BTC #342592] Modern First Editions ~9~ New Arrivals

41 Clarence DAY. Life with 42 Peter DE VRIES. The Blood of the Father. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1935. Lamb. Boston: Little, Brown and Company First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good or (1961). better, price-clipped dustwrapper with a faint Third printing. Near fine in stain on the front panel, and a little nicking at very good dustwrapper with the crown. Small, elegant bookplate of the noted a couple of tears and rub- collector Frank Hogan on the front pastedown, bing. Laid in is a 1960 and a small pencil note on the rear pastedown Autograph Letter Signed by that a previous owner bought this at the Hogan De Vries to “Bill,” appar- sale in 1945. Basis for the excellent 1947 Michael ently in response to a con- Curtiz-directed film featuring William Powell, dolence letter about the Irene Dunne, Ed Gwynne, and Elizabeth Taylor. death of his child, an event [BTC #344723] that became the subject of this book: “Dear Bill, Thank you for your kind note. There is something in the death of 43 Theodore DREISER. The Financier. New York: Boni & a child that makes it Liveright 1927. the world’s loss, and while nothing can Revised edition, and first help us bear ours, edition issued by this there is some comfort publisher. Spine soiled and some instruction and a bit darkened, good in seeing how much plus without dustwrap- the world cares. per. Important editor Sincerely, Peter De and critic Dwight Vries.” A touching Macdonald’s copy with letter. [BTC his book- #344099] plate (“Dwight Macdonald 44 Robert Junior”). Macdonald has made a number DUNCAN and of slightly insouciant marginal critical Jess COLLINS. notations in pencil in the text. The origi- Signed Christmas nal edition was rushed into print in 1912 to fulfill Dreiser’s contractual obligations. Card. When he signed on with this publisher he Handmade Christmas insisted on completely rewriting the novel. [BTC #335183] card for 1963. 5½" x 7¾". Older lithographed illustration of a rose affixed onto folded card, inside has a printed “Merry Christmas” with a handwritten greeting: “and a Happy New Year 1963-1964 from Robert Duncan and Jess Collins,” with a hand-drawn ornament and star surrounding the printed “Merry Christmas.” [BTC #344045]

45 —. [Handmade Christmas Card to Diane Di Prima and Alan Helms]: Earth’s Winter Song. Oblong octavo. Handmade Christmas card for 1965 with an original cover by Jess and a handwritten poem by Duncan. Three unbound leaves folded to make 12 pages handwritten on rectos. Front cover is a pastel drawing by Jess of a winter sun, followed by a Christmas greeting from Jess and Robert Duncan to Diane Di Prima and Alan Marlowe, which in turn is followed by a five page handwritten poem, “Earth’s Winter Song” by Duncan. Fine. In original envelope. Lovely and unique. [BTC #343517] Between the Covers ~10~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9 It may shock you but it’s TRUE! 46 (Drugs). [Matchbook]: “Assassin of Youth” Daring Marihuana Exposé. Martinsburg, WV: State Theatre [1935]. Matchbook. A fine and vibrant example. The outside cover features a finely printed color advertisement for the Assassin of Youth, a wonderfully campy 1935 exploitation film about the evils of marihuana use among American youth. The inside cover gives the name of the theater and screening times: “State Theatre, Martinsburg, W. Va, Mon.-Tue.-Wed., March 4-5-6.” All fifteen extra wide match sticks are present, with the front row printed in color, depicting a young woman with her breasts flashing in the grip of the hand of the devil. Other warnings on the outside cover exclaim, “Marihuana Deals Wild, Mad Thrills at a Price. Reefer. A Puff .. A Party …. A Tragedy.” A perfect piece of Americana. [BTC #343683]

47 (Economics). Henry GEORGE. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1880. First trade edition, after an 1879 self-published edition. Brown cloth gilt. Paper over rear hinge cracked, but still a tight and bright, near fine copy with a tiny tear at the crown. Contemporary ownership stamp and signature of Charles G. Dale, Jr. of Brooklyn. An important American economic work. Dale was a naval officer who became the Chief Cashier of the New York County Bank, and who committed suicide in 1902. [BTC #340118]

48 (Economics). Guenter REIMANN. The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism. New York: Vanguard Press (1939). First edition. Near fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a little toning of the spine. Scarce study of German and Italian economies under the Nazi and Fascist governments. Very uncommon in jacket. [BTC #339649]

49 (Wall Street fiction). Frederick Orin BARTLETT. The Wall Street Girl. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1916.

First edition. Owner’s name on the front pastedown, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with several small chips at the extremities but affecting no lettering. Young man of Wall Street and his relationships with two women: his $10 a week secretary and his $10,000 a year fiancée. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #337164]

50 (Erotica). [Book catalogue]: Livres Erotiques. Paris: Bibliothèque des Passions Sexuelles / Librairie de la Madeleine [circa 1932].

12mo. Stapled illustrated wrappers. [36]pp., perforated order form. Copiously illustrated, mostly from photographs, a few from illustrations. A tiny tear on the front wrap, near fine. A list of 135 different erotic books, heavily weighted towards masochism, spanking, and allied proclivities. Undated, but a random search of titles offered would seem to indicate a date in the early 1930s. Very scarce. We could find no listings for this catalogue. [BTC #331464] Modern First Editions ~11~ New Arrivals

51 (Erotica). Paula ST. CLAIR. An Artist’s Affaire: The Amorous Confessions of a Model whose Shape was her Meal Ticket. A True Story. London: Erotic Pub. Co. [circa 1925]. Edition unknown. Multi-lith printed wrappers, bound in early and perhaps contemporary, half orange, half blue cloth. 93pp., illustrated with both vignettes and full page plates. Lacks pp. 29-30 (probably a single sided illustration as no text is obviously lacking). Short tear on one page, chip on rear wrap affecting no printing, well-thumbed but very good. From a noted erotic collection. OCLC locates no copies; a 1994 reprint exists. [BTC #339241]

52 Max EWING. Going Somewhere. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1926. First edition. Some very light chipping to the cloth at the crown, some dampstaining to both the boards and the bottom margins of the pages, a sound, fair only copy lacking the dustwrapper. This copy Inscribed to Dorothy Peterson: “For Dorothy Peterson this book of caricature of scenes with which she is familiar, Max Ewing. New York. January 5 - 1933.” Peterson was the model for the female heroine of Carl Van Vechten’s novel Nigger Heaven. According to Notable Black American Women (p.842-4), “Van Vechten… modeled the heroine of the novel, Mary Love – the beautiful librarian concerned with her racial heritage, after Dorothy Peterson.” He also modeled the home of another character on her home, which was one of Harlem’s most important and well-attended literary salons. Peterson, who co- founded both the Harlem Experimental Theatre and the Harlem Suitcase Theatre, also devoted herself to collecting manuscripts of Harlem Renaissance notables, and eventually helped Van Vechten donate the material that was the basis for the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters at Yale University. She was a sponsor of the short-lived but influential peri- odical Fire!!, and was also reputed to be “the one Afro-American woman [Jean] Toomer [who soon after married a white woman] was once thought to care about.” (Langston Hughes, before and beyond Harlem, p.214). The inscription in this book would indicate that Ewing was apparently familiar with the literary party scene of which Peterson was the center. Not surprisingly, Ewing’s papers also went to Yale, whether through Peterson’s intercession is not known to us. [BTC #76850] 54 (Film). (Harry AIKEN). Mexican War Film 53 W.D. FELLOWES. A Corporation Stock Book. New York: W.N. Perrin Visit to the Monastery & Company [1918]. of La Trappe, in 1817: With Film corporation stock book. Oblong octavo. Green boards Notes, taken during a Tour with red canvas spine and gilt lettering. Wear to the spine through Le Perce, Nor ends, writing on the cover, and with 22 of the 50 stock mandy, Bretagne, Poitou, certificates still attached, an additional six present but loose, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, and eight certificate receipts removed, very good or better. A Orleanois, and The environs stock book for the Mexican War Film Corporation, one of of Paris. London: Thomas several motion picture production companies owned and M’Lean operated by Harry Aiken, who has Signed two of the stock 1820. receipts. Aiken was an early film producer best known for his role in bringing D.W. Grif fith’s to the Third Birth of a Nation screen. The Mexican War Film edition. Corporation only produced one Quarto. picture, the lost 1914 silent Later The , a feature- green half Life of General Villa length mixture of documentary morocco and dramatic recreations starring gilt and Pancho Villa (who used his cloth. advance and share of the profits 188pp., to help fund the Mexican Revo 15 plates (12 lution). The events surrounding of which are hand- the production of the film were coloured aquatints). Very made into the 2003 television slight foxing, else fine. A handsome movie with Antonio Banderas in the title role and Jim Broadbent copy. [BTC #342280] And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself as Aiken. A rare surviving document from a notable lost film. [BTC #341676] Between the Covers ~12~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

55 (Film). Nunnally JOHNSON (based on 56 (Film). Grace KELLY the novel by Nevil Shute). [Screenplay]: The and Prince RAINIER. Pied Piper. [No place]: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Signed Photograph. Corporation March 18, 1942. Revised Final Script. Framed photograph. Image 5½" x Mimeographed sheets brad- 4", framed to 7½" by 9½". Printed bound in red studio wrappers name of photographer F. Picedi. with interleaved revisions on red Unexamined out of the frame, but sheets. Near fine. The 1942 every indication is that it is fine. film, based on the Nevil Shute Signed by both Grace Kelly (“Pcsse novel, was directed by Irving Grace de Monaco”) and Prince Pichel, and featured Monty Rainer (“Rainer Prince Monaco”). Woolley, Roddy McDowall, [BTC #346653] Anne Baxter, and Otto Preminger. Very scarce. Ex- Carter Burden. [BTC #81530] 57 (Film). (William WHARTON). Sandy KROOPF and Jack 58 (Film). King VIDOR BEHR. [Screenplay]: Birdy. Los and Kate FINLEY. Angeles: Tristar Pictures, Inc. 1984. [Screenplay]: The Actor (A Story that Screenplay. Spiral bound mimeographed Actually Happened). sheets in unprinted red card wrappers. A Beverly Hills, California: small stain on the edge of the first few [no publisher 1979?]. pages, very good or better. Stated “A.P.’s Final Draft March 5, 1984” indicating the director of the film, Alan Parker, who won Quarto. 149pp. the Grand Jury Prize for the film at Bradbound in blue wrappers. Some Cannes. The 1984 film, based on the wear to the yapped edges with interior novel by William Wharton, featured pages bright and fresh, near fine plus. Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. Laid in is a photo of Vidor. This is the [BTC #93357] unproduced screenplay based on the true life tale of actor James Murray, who was discovered by Vidor on the lot of MGM, and picked to star in the silent film 59 (Film). Alice WILLIAMSON. classic The Crowd in 1928. Soon after Murray succumbed to Alice in Movieland. New York: D. alcoholism, which ruined his career and likely contributed to his drowning death eight years later at the age of 35. Vidor ran Appleton & Company 1928. into Murray a few years before the latter’s death, when the actor First edition. Illustrated with photographs of was begging in the streets, and offered him a role in his newest Hollywood celebrities. Slight soiling at the film, but Murray refused. The memory of Murray’s reversal of base of the spine, foxing at the topedge, else fortune haunted Vidor for the rest of his life and prompted him fine in an internally reinforced, else near fine to dramatize the sad story. [BTC #340016] dustwrapper. Insight into Hollywood and its denizens. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #347379] 60 F. Scott FITZGERALD. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1922.

First edition, first state. Contemporary pencil owner’s name on the front fly, corners a little bumped, a near fine copy with the spine easily readable, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A nice copy of Fitzgerald’s second novel. [BTC #343942]

61 —. The Great Gatsby. New York: Editions for the Armed Services [1945]. Armed Services Edition (and according to Bruccoli, the third edition). Oblong 12mo. Pages browned, tiny nicks to some corners, a near very good copy. Bruccoli A.11.3. Scarce. [BTC #331297] Modern First Editions ~13~ New Arrivals

62 Shelby FOOTE. 63 Ford Madox FORD. A Mirror to France. New Shiloh. New York: The Dial Press York: Albert & Charles Boni (1926). 1952. First American First edition. Map endpapers. Corners edition. Boards slightly bumped, else fine in near fine quite soiled, a dustwrapper with some small chips at good only copy the foot of the spine and none of the in good dust- usual spine-fading. The author’s wrapper with fourth and scarcest novel. In the chips and inter- course of doing research for the novel, nal repairs, Foote’s interest was piqued, and it housed in a helped lead to the creation of his custom cloth authoritative three volume history of clamshell case. the Civil War. This novel intrigued Inscribed by William Faulkner to the degree that Foote was the author to called upon to take Faulkner on a bourbon-enhanced, day-long Caroline Gordon: th tour of the Shiloh battlefield. [BTC #342108] “Carolyn [sic] Gordon from Ford Madox Ford. New York. 14 Jan 1927. ‘But above all remains the olive tree – the symbol of thought, of passion- less contemplation, of the agony of God, of Pallas Athene, of peace, of 64 Brian FRIEL. Philadelphia, Here I the Arts – the one symbol of permanence, perhaps because it asks so little.’ p. Come! London: Faber & Faber 266.” A superb association copy. According to Close Connections: Caroline (1965). Gordon and the Southern Renaissance by Anne Waldron, Ford had been half in love with Caroline when she had worked as his secretary in New York, starting in 1927. “He had helped her write her first novel, and then, reviewing it, had placed her among the best writers in America.” This inscription marks the very beginning of the relationship, apparently so early that he hadn’t even memorized the spelling of her first name! [BTC #346459]

65 William Stephen GILLY. Narrative of an Excur sion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches among the Vaudois, or First edition. Slightest of sunning Waldenses, Protestant to the edges of the boards, still Inhabitants of the fine in a rubbed, near fine dust- Cottian Alps. London: C. wrapper with a very faint stain on and J. Rivington 1824. the rear panel. Inscribed by the author: “Derry, 8/3/’66. To Fred – with gratitude. Brian (Friel).” First and probably First edition. Quarto. xx, best-known play by the distinguished Irish dramatist. The [2], 279, [1], ccxxiv pp. play was a turning point in Irish drama and one of the most With 10 lithographic plates, important plays of the 1960s. Basis for the 1975 film 2 folded maps, and 3 fac- directed by John Quested and featuring Donal McCann, simile plates. Modern peri- Des Cave, and Siobhan McKenna. Very scarce, especially od-style half calf and mar- inscribed. [BTC #342142] bled papercovered boards,

66 Ellen GLASGOW. all edges marbled. The text pages are clean The Deliverance: A and tight, with a few tiny repaired tears. A Romance of the Virginia very handsome copy. [BTC #340932] Tobacco Fields. New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1904. 67 Bob GORDON. The First edition. Illustrated by Divorced Man’s Guide to Girl Frank Schoonover. Red cloth manship and the Single Life. Waltham, gilt. Fine. Signed by the author. Mass.: American Publishing Corporation 1973. [BTC #347224] Second printing. 124, [2]pp. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Quarto. Fine. Handy advice generously illustrated with photos of the author (with great ’70s hair) interacting with various naked ladies; apparently the guide is primarily intended to promote access to same. [BTC #343168] Between the Covers ~14~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

68 Caroline GORDON. The Women on the Porch. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1940.

First edition. Pencil ownership signature of James Meriwether, the noted collector of Faulkner and Southern Literature, fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight age-toning. Author’s sixth book. Gordon’s reputation as the “den mother” for the Southern Literary Renaissance has overshadowed the excellence and enduring qualities of her own work, which are certain to be better appreciated by future generations of critics. Scarce in this condition. [BTC #347211]

69 —. Green Centuries. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1941.

First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-faded, else fine dustwrapper. A presentation copy, Inscribed by Gordon to her literary agent, Nannine Joseph: “For Nannine, with love – and hope, Always, Caroline.” A very nice copy of the author’s fifth book, with a nice association. [BTC #347215]

70 Shirley Ann GRAU. Evidence of From Halsey to Tunney Love. Franklin Station, PA: 71 William F. HALSEY, Fleet Admiral and Lt. Comdr. J. Franklin Library 1977. BRYAN. Admiral Halsey’s Story. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. (1947). First edition, preceding the trade edition and with a special Second printing. Just about fine in very good or better author’s message to subscribers dustwrapper with parallel short tears and creasing on not found in the trade edition. the front panel. Inscribed by the author to the great Illustrated by Howard Rogers. boxing champion: “To Polly & Gene Tunney – with All edges gilt. Full beige cloth eternal gratitude for your generosity in lending your stamped “RECORD AND home on Hobe Sound. This book was born on that REFERENCE COPY” on the spot, so for good or for evil – a part of the responsibili- front board. A bit of soiling ty is yours. My obligation to you both is great and my and foxing on the spine, near thanks fine. The publisher’s file copy of bound- the true first edition. [BTC #93421] less. God bless you. Inscribed to Nathanial Benchley W.F. 72 Thomas HEGGEN. Mister Halsey.” In the printed Roberts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company foreword, (1946). Halsey Second printing. A bit soiled, a very good copy with- thanks out dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Nathaniel “Capt. Benchley and his wife : “To Nat and Marge Benchley, Gene in a double Hemingway phase, Thomas (Two-Fuck) Tunney, Heggen.” Heggen committed suicide in 1949 at age USNR and 30, perhaps due to embarrassment over his nickname. Mrs. His inscriptions are seldom seen. Nathaniel Benchley Tunney, for graciously was the son of writer lending me their house Robert Benchley, and at Hobe Sound, Florida, the father of writer in which delightful Peter Benchley. His atmosphere most of my 1961 novel The Off- preliminary work was Islanders was made into done.” [BTC #342374] the film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. [BTC #347225]

73 Joseph HENDRYX (copyrighted in the name Joseph Hendryx Skrocki). Off the Streets. New York: Comet Press Books (1955). First edition. Slight spotting to the boards, else near fine in a modestly age-toned, fine dustwrapper. Pseudonymous, supposedly autobiographical, and probably self-published juvenile delinquency novel, by a Jersey City-born soldier. Very scarce. OCLC locates a single copy, at Yeshiva University. [BTC #88001] Modern First Editions ~15~ New Arrivals Galley Proof 74 Ernest HEMINGWAY. A Moveable Feast. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1964). Uncorrected long galley proof. Folded leaves printed rectos only. Publisher’s label covers the first few lines of text, else just about fine. Vignettes inspired by the author’s profound nostalgia for the halcyon days of his early career. Rare in this format. [BTC #334028] The Publisher’s File Copy 75 —. The First Forty-Nine Stories. Franklin Station, PA: Franklin Library 1977. First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated by Bernard Fuchs. Full gray cloth. The publisher’s file copy, unstamped but bound in the manner of other Franklin Library “record and reference” copies that we’ve encoun- tered. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. Very slight wear, near fine. Presumably one of very few, or perhaps the only copy bound thus (as opposed to the thousands of leather bound copies of the publisher’s “limited edition”). [BTC #335536]

Hilton’s First Book 76 James HILTON. Catherine Herself. London: T. Fisher Unwin (1920). First edition. Endpapers a little toned, light wear on the boards, a very good copy without the rare dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the half-title, his first book. Very scarce. [BTC #347538]

77 —. Storm Passage. London: T. Fisher Unwin (1922). First edition. Owner’s and neat bookshop names on the front fly, slight puckering to the cloth, else near fine lacking the rare dustwrapper. Very scarce. [BTC #347278]

78 —. Contango. London: Ernest Benn (1932).

First edition, published in the U.S. as Ill Wind. Fine in a very good or better, spine-faded dustwrapper with a Arthur S. modest chip at the crown. Signed by the Wightman’s Copy author. Very scarce. 79 J.O. HIRSCH [BTC #347276] FELDER and others. The Effects of Atomic Weapons. Washington, D.C.: The Combat Forces Press 1950. First edition. Slight wear at the spine ends else near fine in a fair dustwrapper lacking the top inch or so of the spine and split at the spine- fold. Arthur S. Wightman’s copy with his ownership Signature (“A.S. Wightman”) and Princeton address, as well as his notes on one page. Wightman was one of the founders of the axiomatic approach to quantum field theory, and originated the set of Wightman axioms. [BTC #340930] Between the Covers ~16~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

80 Ted HUGHES. Crow Wakes. 81 Pat JORDAN. After the Sundown. New York: Dodd, Mead & Woodford Green: Company (1979). Poet and Printer First edition. Very slight 1971. wear, near fine in a lightly First edition. Quarter rubbed, very good plus dust- Japanese vellum and wrapper with a tear on the papercovered boards. front panel, and light wear Fine. According to at the extremities. Inscribed the bibliographer, by the author to his wife: one of 200 copies “For Susan; Yours, Pat.” A (about 30 additional notable association in an copies were printed). interesting collection of essays about the memories of vari- [BTC #99797] ous retired sports figures and how they adjusted to their retirements. [BTC #84343]

82 Franz KAFKA. Metamorphosis. (New Trial issue in a rare proof dustwrapper York): Vanguard Press (1946). 84 Jack KEROUAC. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press 1958. First American edition. First edition, early or trial copy in proof dustwrap- Drawings by Leslie Sherman. per. Fine (but without the green topstain that Owner’s small stamped initials appeared on the first edition) in a just about fine on the half-title and copyright example of the rare proof dustwrapper with a couple pages, else fine in a bright, near of tiny tears and just a touch of the usual rubbing. fine dustwrapper with two The jacket uses the same Bill English jacket art as small chips near the crown and the finished book, but has unprinted flaps, and a little rubbing. A very nice prints a summary of the book on the rear panel. A copy of one of the classic novel- similar, but different summary appears on the jacket las of 20th Century literature. of the published first edition, while a photo of Scarce. [BTC #343215] Kerouac appears on the rear panel. Kerouac’s follow- up to On the Road, a thinly-veiled account of his spiritual growth and friendship 83 Anne KOEDT [and] Nancy MANN. The Myth of the with poet Gary Vaginal Orgasm [with] Fucked-Up in America: a response to “The Snyder. While we’ve seen the promotional Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.” Boston: New England Free Press [circa 1970]. jacket for On the Road on a number of occa- sions, we’ve never seen this proof jacket for Dharma Bums. As a bonus, this is as about as First separate edition of nice a copy as we’ve seen. [BTC #342412] “Myth” and the first edition of “Fucked-Up.” 85 —, Robert FRANK, and Octavos. “Myth” is two Alfred LESLIE. Pull My Daisy: bi-folium sheets, one Text by Jack inside the other, making Kerouac for eight pages. “Fucked-Up” the Film by is a single sheet printed Robert Frank both sides, with a line at and Alfred the bottom of the first Leslie. New page partially obscure yet York: Grove still readable. Both have a Press (1961). bit of wear to the edges and the corners, about near fine. Koedt’s famous essay, which some have called the most influential writing of the women’s liberation movement. The original short version was published in 1968 in Notes from the First Year, a 29-page journal released First edition. by New York Radical Feminists, a group co-founded by Koedt. It was later expanded in Paperback origi- 1970’s Notes from the Second Year. This separate edition was published by the New England nal. With stills Free Press, along with a series of other articles of women’s liberation. “Fucked-Up” is a from the film by response to “Myth,” refuting the article’s findings and ending with: “If you can’t get along Robert Frank with your lover you can get out of bed. But what do you do when your country is fucking and Alfred Leslie. Wrappers a trifle soiled, you over?” While the separate edition of “Myth” is uncommon, “Fucked-Up” is particularly near fine. [BTC #99737] rare with OCLC listing only two copies, at Duke and Michigan. [BTC #338620] Modern First Editions ~17~ New Arrivals The Dedication Copy 86 Manuel KOMROFF. The Magic Bow: A Romance of Paganini. New York: Harper & Brothers (1940). First edition. A little rubbing at the extremities, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Basis for the 1946 film The Magic Bow directed by Bernard Knowles, and featuring Stewart Granger as Paganini. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed by Komroff to publisher Thomas R. Coward: “This copy (and all other copies) is for Thomas R. Coward in friendship. Sincerely, Manuel Komroff.” The printed dedication reads: “For Thomas R. Coward, Publisher and Friend.” [BTC #338044] Miger’s Menagerie in Miniature 88 LACÉPÈDE (Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville 87 Stanley KUNITZ. de Lacépède), Georges CUVIER, Simon Charles The Testing-Tree. Boston: MIGER. La Ménagerie du Muséum National Little, Brown (1971). d’Histoire naturelle, ou Les Animaux Vivants. Volume 1. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine Paris: Patris et Gilbert [circa 1801]. in fine dustwrapper with a touch First duodecimo edition. 17 cm. [2], 353, [3]pp. With 22 copperplate of rubbing at the front flap fold. A engravings designed by Nicolas Marechal and engraved by Simon Charles superior copy of a volume usually Miger. Rebound in period-style full calf with the found well-worn. [BTC #99847] original red morocco spine label, text pages and plates are clean and tight, a near fine copy. A rare, possibly unique duodecimo edition of the famous folio edition of the same title. French naturalist Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville From Lindsay to Tunney de Lacépède was a professor of zoology at the Museum of 89 (Vachel LINDSAY). Stephen GRAHAM. The Natural History in Paris. In 1800, he published the first Gentle Art of Tramping. New (folio) edition of La Ménagerie York: D. Appleton and Company du Muséum National d’Histoire 1926. Naturelle, which documented First edition. Spine lettering mostly quadrupeds, reptiles, and worn away, very faint dampstains in amphibians in the museum’s the margins of several pages, a good menagerie collection. The text plus copy without dustwrapper. A was written by Lacépède and memoir of poet Vachel Lindsay. This copy with an effusive two-page his colleague Baron Georges Inscription by Lindsay to the great boxing champion Gene Tunney, Cuvier, who established the extinction of past animal and plant species with an additional two pages of drawings by Lindsay of flowers and and contributed research in vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and butterflies. [BTC #342559] paleontology. The celebrat- ed copper plate engravings by Simon Charles Miger are from illustrations by Nicolas Marechal, one of the most emi- nent natural history artists of the period. The plates for this duodecimo edition were re-engraved in reverse by Miger, and it includes one new plate: “Les jeunes Lion.” Very scarce. OCLC and the KVK locate no copies of this edition. The French Union Catalog has one old minimal-level record of a 92 page copy of this title in duodecimo format published by Patris et Gilbert in 1801, which does not include any information about the illustrations. [BTC #334253] Between the Covers ~18~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

90 Katherine MANSFIELD. The 91 W. Somerset MAUGHAM. Of Human Bondage. New Garden Party and York: Doubleday, Doran 1936. Other Stories. London: First illustrated edition. The Verona Press (1939) / Illustrated by Randolph [really 1947]. Schwabe. Small quarto. First illus- Bound in full dark blue trated edi- morocco with raised bands, tion, with and heavily stamped in gilt. colored lith- Just about fine. One of 751 ographs by numbered copies Signed by Marie the author and illustrator, Laurencin. this is copy number 4, and Tall octavo. Original green additionally Inscribed by pastepaper over boards Maugham to Doubleday with printed red paper spine editor Malcolm Johnson, label gilt. Slight foxing on the front who apparently was involved in the fly, still easily fine. One of 1200 numbered copies creation of this illustrated edition, beneath the printed (the first 30 were signed) designed by Hans half-title “Of Human Bondage” with the words “which Mardersteig of the Officina Bodoni. This copy is was written with blood and tears, for Malcolm from nicely Inscribed by Laurencin in French in 1949, WM.” Laid in is a 1936 letter from the illustrator with an elaborate filigree decoration surrounding Schwabe in his calligraphic hand (about 60 words) in the inscription. [BTC #343218] which he states “All the drawings for Human Bondage have now left my hands … I should have noted the captions on the drawings. Having omitted to do this, I Inscribed by James Alan McPherson enclose a list of them.” The handwritten list is included to Peter Taylor and comprises twenty-four quotations from the text of 92 (James Alan McPHERSON the novel. A splendid presentation. [BTC #346497] and Peter TAYLOR). Ann JONES. Women Who Kill. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1980). First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper, with a half-inch tear on the front panel. A presentation copy, Inscribed by James Alan McPherson: “For Peter Taylor, Some bedside reading that may make you feel mean enough to get up out of bed and write. Merry Christmas, Jim McPherson.” McPherson and Taylor both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (in 1978 and 1987 respectively), as well as numerous other prestigious awards. They were good friends and often joked that they should co-author a book to be entitled Upstairs, Downstairs in the Old South because in his youth Taylor’s family employed several African-American servants, while McPherson’s mother was a maid and cook in Savannah. An excellent association. [BTC #336596]

93 Thomas MERTON. The Sign of Jonas. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1953). First edition. Octavo. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of old tape repairs on the verso at the spine ends. In a specially made cloth slipcase. A presentation copy, Inscribed in French by Thomas Merton (as Father Louis) on the second endpaper to Dom Preome of the Oka- La Trappe, in Quebec: “mon cher Rev. Pere Dom Preome, hommage religieux et filial en N.S. / Fr. Louis OSCO.” Further Inscribed by Father James Fox, Merton’s abbot (superior) at Gethsemani at the time: “to dear Dom Preome, with gratitude, affection, and an assurance of our continued prayers, [with blue stamp: All for Jesus thru Mary with a smile] Fr. James Fox / OSCO / Abbott.” Both Merton and Fox use the traditional “tau” cross of the Cistercian brother- hood in addition to their inscriptions. With a monastery stamp, though somewhat blurred, from Oka-La Trappe on the title page. It is interesting to note that Merton and Father James Fox were not on the best of terms during their lives at the Abbey of Gethsemani but are laid side by side in the monastery cemetery. Dell’Isola A17. [BTC #342154] Modern First Editions ~19~ New Arrivals

94 Henry MILLER. Tropic 95 Yukio MISHIMA. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. New York: of Cancer. Paris: The Obelisk Press Alfred A. Knopf 1959. (1939). First American edition. Translated by Fifth printing. Printed self-wrappers. Ivan Morris. Drawings by Fumi Pages browned, a modest tear on the front Komatsu. Introduction by Nancy wrap and Wilson Ross. Fine in just about fine first leaf, dustwrapper with a touch of rub- a nice bing. Inscribed by the author: “For and the Arthurs – dear friends of S. & F. pleasing, and therefore of mine. Yukio Mishima. Xmas 1961.” Mishima vis- very good ited New York in 1961. A very nice copy of the author’s third book copy with to be published in the United States. Winner of the Yomiuri Prize no resto- for best novel of 1957. Mishima’s inscriptions, in either Japanese or ration. English, are uncommon. [BTC #342430] Miller’s best known 96 (Music). Glenn MILLER. Signed Portrait work, Photograph. detailing Signed portrait Photograph in tuxedo with trombone. Image with then-unprecedented sexual candor matted to 7" x 8½", in a frame measuring 11¾" x 13¾". his expatriate experience in Paris. It was Unexamined out of the frame. Photo has a couple of smudges banned for decades in the United States. on the right side not affecting the image and is slightly oxi- The first edition consisted of 1000 copies, dized. Chip on the frame. Undated, but probably circa 1938- the next four printings were 500 copies 9. Signed: “Sincerely, Glenn Miller.” Miller was lost over the each, so this is one of the first 3000 cop- English Channel at age 40 while on tour to entertain the ies of an acknowledged classic. Because of troops during the War. Signed photographs are uncommon. the fragile binding, early editions are usu- [BTC #340170] ally found in poor condition. Very scarce. [BTC #342980] 97 (Music). Bernard SHAW. The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring. London: Grant Richards 1898.

First edition. Quarter cloth and silk or linen over boards. Sizing under the silk a little toned, and silk worn through a little on the edges, a very good copy. Small leather bookplate of composer Jerome Kern on the front pastedown. An excellent example of Shaw’s musical criticism at his (and its) best: a humorous yet erudite explanation of Der Ring des Nibelungen to those potential admirers of Wagner for whom the cycle is merely a “struggle between half a dozen fairytale personages for a ring, involv- ing hours of scolding and cheating, and one long scene in a dark gruesome mine, with gloomy, ugly music, and not a glimpse of a handsome young man or pretty woman.” [BTC #342152]

98 (Music). David THOMAS. Three Manuscript Songs for Pere Ubu (Chinese Radiation, Real World, and One Four Nine). Three octavo leaves, each with a different song by David Thomas for the Cleveland proto-punk band Pere Ubu. The first song, “Chinese Radiation,” is completely handwritten by Thomas (but unsigned) and displays a few small corrections and differs substantially from the recorded version. The second song, “Real World,” is typewritten with small holograph corrections by Thomas, including the direction “[insert: senseless noise].” The third is a brief typed manuscript for “Drinking Wine Spodyody” but is here entitled “One Four Nine” with no holograph corrections. (Pere Ubu was noted for appropriating known song titles for their original compositions; this is apparently an early version before the “finished title” was appropriat- ed.) Some folds and small stains on “Chinese Radiation” thus very good, the other two about fine. All three songs are on the verso of the stationery of the Pressler-Weissinger Co., a Cleveland electronics company co-owned by Roy Pressler. Pressler’s daughter Charlotte was a central figure in the Cleveland punk scene whose eloquent exposition of the scene, printed in the 3a issue of CLE (Cleveland’s long-running underground music magazine) is one of the best contemporary pieces on Cleveland Punk. Unique documentation of early work from what some consider one of the great avant-garde rock bands. [BTC #343594] Between the Covers ~20~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

99 (Natural History). James HINTON and Havelock 100 (Nazism). [Broadside]: In the Name of ELLIS. Life in Nature. New York: Humanity Protest the Pogroms in Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press 1931. Germany. [New York]: American Student Union, City College [circa 1938]. First edition. Edited by Havelock Ellis. Single mimeographed leaf. Presumably later pencil ownership signature, Approximately 8¼" x 11". boards a little soiled, a very good copy in a Old folds, a stain mostly good or better Arthur Hawkins, Jr.-designed near the central fold, a lit- dustwrapper with a couple of small external tle age-toning, about very tape repairs and some faint stains. Ellis’s good. Broadside urging arrangement of the book originally published in Americans to write to 1862 by Hinton, a 19th Century British sur- Roosevelt to protest Nazi geon and social reformer. Neatly tipped to the barbarity, the pogroms half-title is a and to “discourage further one-page application of the princi- Autograph Letter Signed ples used at Munich to from Havelock Ellis to publisher Lincoln settle the Czechoslovak Mac Veagh returning the proofs for this Crisis.” We can find no book (not present), questioning some of mention of this ephemeral the author’s premises, and inquiring when piece in OCLC or any other source. [BTC #340110] the book will be released. The letter is in near fine condition. [BTC #335143] 103 S.J. PERELMAN. Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge. New York: Horace 101 Richard NIXON. Real Peace: A Strategy for the West. New Liveright (1929). York: [Privately printed] 1983. Third printing (the First edition. Fine in a slightly rubbed, near fine dust- same month as the first wrapper. Signed by Nixon. Laid in is a printed slip with printing, curiously in Nixon’s New York address stating: “This copy of ‘Real the same green plush Peace: A Strategy For the West’, from the author’s pri- binding as the first vate edition, is one of a limited number being sent to issue). Bookplate of the United States’ Medal of Honor winners and Madison Avenue adver- Vietnam POWs – Americans who have served their tising marvel and bib- country, and the cause of real peace, far beyond the liophile P.K. Thomajan, call of duty. RN.” Reportedly one of 1000 copies of a little wear at the bot- this private edition, it is unknown (by us, anyway) tom of the boards, near how many were earmarked for Medal of Honor winners fine in a very good or and POWs. [BTC #343396] better third printing dustwrapper with shallow chips at the 102 Kenneth PATCHEN. The Memoirs of a Shy top of the front Pornographer. New York: New Directions 1945. panel. Inscribed First edition, first impression. Clippings on the rear endpapers by Perelman at a else near fine, with tattered remnants of the dustwrapper (lack- later date: “To P. ing the front panel and front flap). Book label K. Thomajan of Greenwich Village artist Arthur Sturcke on Sincerely S.J. Perelman. Feb 2., 1944.” Perelman’s the titlepage. Inscribed by Patchen: “for rare first book, the Groucho Marx blurb on the rear Arthur signed with great admiration & affec- panel says it all: “From the moment I picked up tion on this publication day. Aug. 20, ’45. your book until I put it down I was convulsed with Kenneth.” An excellent association, the text laughter. Someday I intend to read it.” Some modest on page 101 of this book includes Patchen’s wear, but still a very nice copy, the abrasive plush dialogue, in a discussion of modern art: “All material of the binding tended to rub the jacket right, what about Kamrowski? – or Lee Bell? – away to nothing. The fact that the third printing or Jackson Pollack? – or Arthur Sturcke?” binding is made from green plush material might Sturcke, a lifetime friend of Patchen, was a shed some doubt on the commonly held opinion painter and pacifist who exhibited in the that the green plush precedes the silver embossed 1930s and 1940s, and who did much to help boards, or not. At any rate we’ve seen only one other and support the author. [BTC #344088] inscribed copy. [BTC #347866] (also see item 148) Modern First Editions ~21~ New Arrivals Inscribed to Stefan Lorant 104 (Photography). Germaine KRULL. 100 x Paris. Berlin- Westend: Verlag der Reihe 1929. First edition. Small quarto. 100 photo-engraved plates. Minor dampstains at the extremities, else near fine in a tattered, poor dustwrapper. Housed in a cloth custom clamshell case. Lengthy Inscription by Krull to Stefan Lorant in German. At the time both photographers were already well-known for their work in photography, film, and photojour- nalism. With the rise of Nazism, Krull moved to Monte Carlo, then Africa, and finally Southeast Asia after the war, while Lorant emigrated to England (where he co-founded Picture Post) and then America. Rare in jacket, and with a magnificent association linking two of the most important photographers of the time. [BTC #346670]

106 (Photography). Gerard 105 (Photography). MALANGA. Portrait of Nu: Arabesques. [No John Ashbery. place - Paris?: no publisher Portrait photograph. Approximately circa 1930?]. 11" x 14"; image size 6½" x 10". Fine. Quarto. Quarter black cloth Mounted with archival tape in old and illustrated glossy black mat. Number 2 of 10 numbered cop- boards. Rubbing to the ies Signed by Malanga, and with his boards, very good. Consists stamp on the verso. Also, Inscribed by entirely of nice quality nude Ashbery in 1986 along the bottom photographs with tissue margin. A handsome image of guards. [BTC #338106] Ashbery on a city street. [BTC #343276]

107 Sylvia PLATH. [Broadside]: Early Unpublished Poems by Sylvia Plath. London: Times Literary Supplement 1969. Folded in eighths. Uniformly toned cartridge 109 (Photography). paper, else fine. A proof sheet, offprint, or William W. STORY. broadside from the Times Literary Roba di Roma. London: Supplement printed recto only, with an Chapman and Hall 1875. image of Plath and five previously unpublished early poems, as they appeared in the Seventh edition. Octavo. magazine. In an envelope mailed to the 594pp. Illustrated with 63 Phoenix Bookshop in New York from an mounted albumen photo- English bookseller (revealing that it cost $5 graphs. Full velin 1969). Rare, possibly unique. OCLC lum stamped in locates no copies. [BTC #331264] gilt and red. Contemporary 108 —. ownership signa- Johnny ture, boards a lit- Panic and tle soiled, near the Bible fine. Unlike most of Dreams and Other Prose Writings. books illustrated with photo- London: Faber and Faber 1977. graphs from this First edition. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Fine period, a decent in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy, and seldom proportion in found thus. [BTC #99706] this volume are of street scenes, several of which include beggars, street musicians, the Jewish ghetto, and street urchins. A very nice copy. [BTC #342450] Between the Covers ~22~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

Four Pynchons from His Editor’s Collection 114 Adrienne RICH. 110 Thomas PYNCHON. V. Philadelphia: J.B. Snapshots of a Daughter-in- Lippincott (1963). Law: Poems, 1954-1962. New York: Advance Reading Copy. Spine slightly Harper and Row (1963). sunned, a very nice near fine copy in First edi- wrappers as issued. An unusually nice tion. Fine example of this advance copy of the in fine author’s first book, much more square dustwrap- than usual and without the usual “washed per. out” look this advance reading copy tends to develop. Small book- Advance plate of Pynchon’s editor Ray Roberts on the inside front wrap. Review Roberts became Pynchon’s editor when Copy with he went to Little, Brown. [BTC slip laid in. #342429] A fresh and lovely 111 —. V. London: Jonathan Cape (1963). copy. [BTC Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Fine in wrappers and #99770] fine proof dustwrapper (so noted on the front flap). Pynchon’s editor Ray Roberts’s copy, with his book label on the front pastedown. Roberts began editing Pynchon when Pynchon went to Little, 115 Marilynne ROBINSON. Brown, starting with his book Slow Housekeeping. New York: Farrar Learner. Winner of the Faulkner Award for best first novel. Rare. [BTC #342443] Straus Giroux (1980). First edition. 112 —. Gravity’s Rainbow. Slightest of sun- New York: Viking Press (1973). ning to the boards and a Uncorrected Proof. Tall blue wrappers. Pencil number (“7” – all cop- touch of foxing ies seen by us have been numbered), sunning to the spine and a little on the foredge, offsetting to the wrappers, else near fine. On the inside front wrap is still easily fine the small bookplate of Ray Roberts, Pynchon’s editor when he went in very near to Little, Brown. The author’s third novel. An exceptionally influen- fine dustwrap- tial Burgess 99 title, winner of the National Book Award and the per with very William Dean Howell Medal (for the best work of fiction to appear slight sunning in the U.S. over a five-year period). The novel was also voted the Pulitzer at the spine. Prize, but the award’s overseeing committee refused to grant the Robinson’s prize to Pynchon and thus none was given that year. A nice associ- acclaimed first ation copy of an uncommon issue. [BTC #342428] novel. [BTC #342109]

Publisher’s Dummy 116 John RUSKIN. Sesame 113 —. Mason & Dixon. New York: Henry Holt (1997). and Lillies. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop 1897. First edition, publisher’s dummy with provisional dustwrapper art. Limited Edition. Quarter cloth and paper Fine in fine dustwrapper affixed to the pastedowns. Unstamped covered boards full cloth with unprinted text block that bulks approximately the gilt as issued. A same as the finished book with photocopied jacket art and printed trifle rubbed, glassine else fine. One overjack- of 450 num- et. bered copies Pynchon’s editor Initialed by Ray Roberts’s copy, with his book label Elbert on the front pastedown. Note on Hubbard, Roberts’s printed card stating “sales- and hand- man’s dummy with provisional jacket illuminated art.” Possibly unique. [BTC #342469] by Fanny Stiles. [BTC #340567] Modern First Editions ~23~ New Arrivals

117 Nevil SHUTE. The Chequer Board. 118 (Sixties). [Bernhard] WILLEM. New York: William Morrow & Company 1947. Forty Dirty Drawings. Amsterdam: Thomas Rap [1969]. First American edition. First edition. 16mo. Two small tape shadows Near fine in printed on the front pastedown, pink wrappers with a little soiling to the some fading and a boards, very good in a small hole on the spine-sunned, very good front wrap. Very rude dustwrapper with a cou- drawings exhibiting a ple of modest tears. Inscribed by the author to his aunt ’60s sensibility. in the year of publication: “Aunt Grace from Nevil. Scarce. OCLC locates April 1947.” [BTC #343034] but three copies of this edition (and three more in the “A teen-age chick who digs rock musicians… same year from two But what she collects isn’t autographs” different publishers). 119 (Sixties). [Poster]: I Am a [BTC #339721] Groupie. [Los Angeles]: Eagle Films 1970. Original lobby card for the Sixties exploitation film, which was eventually released in 1971 as Groupie Girl. 14" x 11". Fine. Dry mounted on cardboard. Issued before the film changed its name, and reportedly an eminently forgettable film, but we like the poster all the same. [BTC #83350]

120 Patti SMITH and Tom VERLAINE. The Night. London: Aloes Books 1976. First edition. Octavo. String-tied red printed wrappers. Fine. 121 Dodie SMITH. Letter from Twenty-two poems written alternately by Smith and Verlaine. Paris. Beverly Hills: Dodie Smith [circa This is copy number 13 of 22 hand-numbered copies with a 1950]. Rimbaud piece Signed by Patti Smith bound in. The colo- Bradbound phon indicates that there were 25 copies signed by both mimeographed poets, but Verlaine signed none, and the handwritten limita- leaves printed tion seems to indicate that there were 22 copies rather than rectos only in either the 25 stated, or the 20 we’ve heard speculated. Rare. mimeographed [BTC #347388] wrappers. A little soiling and age-toning, near fine. The 122 Samuel and Bella title page lists Dodie SPEWACK. Lyrics by Cole Smith’s name and Beverly PORTER. Kiss Me Kate: A Hills address, presumably Musical Play. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1953. this is a version of the manuscript of the play First edition. Fine in a modestly spine-faded, else (with the embossed stamp near fine dustwrapper. A popular musical play based of “Massey’s Manuscript Service: Typing on The Taming of the Shrew, basis for a number of and Mimeographing” in Hollywood on the last leaf). films and television movies, originally directed by The play was produced in England in 1952, and pub- George Sidney in 1953 with Kathryn Grayson, lished in 1954. Smith had to return to England in Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, and Bob 1951 to help prepare the production of the play. Smith Fosse. Made just as Hollywood was trying to give had moved to the U.S. from England in order to pro- television audiences a reason to return to theaters, it tect her husband, who was a conscientious objector is reportedly the only film shot simultaneously in during the war. Although best remembered today for full frame, widescreen, and 3D versions, and conse- two novels, The Hundred and One Dalmatians and I quently suffers a bit from performers repeatedly Capture the Castle, Smith was most active and initially lunging themselves at the camera. Also of note is the 1968 television version successful as a playwright. [BTC #331445] directed by Paul Bogart with Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence. [BTC #344100] Between the Covers ~24~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

123 Wallace STEGNER. The City of the Living and 124 William STYRON. (William Other Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin FAULKNER). As He 1956. Lay Dead, a Bitter First edition. Neat gift inscription on the Grief. New York: Albondocani verso of the front fly, small tape shadows on the front pastedown where a small clipping Press 1981. was formerly attached and covered by flaps, Uncorrected proof. 17 unbound and foxing to the endpapers, a very good sheets printed rectos only on card copy in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper stock. Fine. Possibly a unique set with two small internal tape shadows, a tiny of proofs for this limited edition chip and some general light wear. Signed by of 326 copies total. Reprints the author. Despite a number of modest Styron’s eulogy of William flaws, a presentable and pleasing copy as it Faulkner that originally appeared appears on in Life magazine. Provenance on the shelf, of request. [BTC #341897] an increasingly uncommon title. [BTC #14856] 125 James G. THURBER. ’19. Many Moons: A Musical Comedy in Two Acts. (Columbus, Ohio): Scarlet Mask Club 1922. 126 Joan SUTHERLAND. (Dorothy BRANDON). First edition. Folio. The Outsider. New York: Brentano’s (1924). Illustrated wrappers. First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dust- 56pp. Small owner’s wrapper with a few tiny nicks at the crown. label of W.W. Havens on Novel adapted from the Dorothy Brandon the rear wrapper, his play of the same name, about a misunder- name neatly inked on stood medical genius, hounded for his odd the front wrap, two stra- but successful method of curing paralysis. tegically placed Scarlet Basis for three films, all with the same name: Masque “stickers” (diffi- a 1926 version directed by Rowland V. Lee cult to notice unless you and featuring Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, know they weren’t issued and Walter Pidgeon; a 1931 version directed thus). Additionally, by Harry Lachman featuring Joan Barry and Havens has neatly Harold Huth; and the 1940 version directed embellished some of the by Paul L. Stein, and featuring George art on the front wrap. A Sanders and Mary Maguire. [BTC #85017] few tears along the spine, near fine. An attractive copy of the musical score for one of Thurber’s first works, a Inscribed by the Real “Real McCoy” musical play by the Scarlet Mask Club of Ohio State University. 127 Frederic VAN de WATER. The Real McCoy. Havens was one of those who contributed additional words and Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & music to the play. Additionally, this copy has been Signed on a Company 1931. tipped in leaf (presumably collected at a performance) by James First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper Thurber, by Howard but for a small chip on the spine. “The true E. Hawk and story of Captain Bill McCoy of the Tomoka, Richard E. Fidler the founder of Rum Row and King of Rum (who were the prin- Runners.” Inscribed by the subject of the cipal music contrib- book: “To Bob Davis, the man who suggested utors), as well as by that this yarn be put in print. Bill McCoy.” about four dozen McCoy was probably the most famous of the others, most of rum runners, who would bring liquor to the whom were presum- edge of American territorial waters and ably members of the offload it onto small craft in order to elude cast, and some of the authorities. Rum runners were famous for whom also contrib- watering the liquor that they illegally import- uted occasional ed during Prohibition. McCoy words and music. apparently never did so, and han- Bowden D2. Scarce dled only high quality brands, and early Thurber hence popularizing the phrase item. Rare signed. “The Real McCoy.” Scarce either signed or in jacket. [BTC #342132] [BTC #346135] Modern First Editions ~25~ New Arrivals

128 (Western). Edna FERBER. Cimarron. Inscribed To Charles Du Bos Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 129 Edith WHARTON. The Mother’s Recompense. and Company 1930. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1925. First edition. A small stain on the spine else near fine in a modestly First edition, age-toned, very good or better binding A. dustwrapper with a small chip on Octavo. A the rear panel. A novel of frontier small nick at life in Oklahoma. Wesley Ruggles the crown, directed the 1931 film starring spine lettering Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, in darkened, a her first major role, as a couple faint stain on who brave the Oklahoma Land the front Rush (one of the greatest western board, light scenes ever filmed) and then help foxing to preliminaries and bottom edge; an settle the territory. Though dated in about very good copy without dustwrapper. In many respects, it was an early winner of the Academy Award for a specially made quarter morocco and cloth slipcase. A Best Picture and screenwriter Howard Estabrook also won an presentation copy, Inscribed on the front endpaper to literary critic and Oscar. A nice copy. [BTC #347472] James Joyce intimate Charles Du Bos and his wife: “For Charlie & Zézette with love from Edith. July 1925.” In A Backward Glance, Wharton described Du Bos in retrospect as “the future literary critic, and biographer of Byron, 130 Tennessee WILLIAMS. The Kingdom who in the course of the work became one of my closest friends.” The of Earth with Hard Candy: A Book of Stories. “work” referred to was Du Bos’s French translation of Wharton’s The House [New York]: New Directions of Mirth, his first translation project, which had been suggested by their (1954). mutual friend Paul Bourget. By 1925, the time of this inscription, the First edition. Signature Wharton-Du Bos friendship had been forged as they worked side-by-side, and conjugate and with considerable energy, in the French relief effort during the War. A pages plus title superb association copy. [BTC #343549] leaf. Title leaf, 20p. (paginated as in the 131 Margaret WILSON. The Able McLaughlins. book). Fine. Prints the New York: Harper and Brothers separate story “The (1923). Kingdom of Earth,” pre- First edition. Spine gilt slightly tar- pared for insertion into cop- nished else very near fine in an ies of Hard Candy: A Book of attractive, very good or better dust- Stories in order to complete the wrapper with a short internally private, limited edition of 100 repaired split, a thin chip along the copies (and a few for presentation). Stated one of 100 copies. Because edge of the spine fold, and some of its provocative content (a tubercular dandy dies while his ex-prosti- small chips at the crown. The sixth tute wife and his Cherokee half-brother ignore his pleas for help and novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, as instead have passionate sex in the next room), Williams was advised to well as winner of the Harper Prize remove the story from the collection Hard Candy. It did appear in Novel Contest. An exceptionally much later collections, and he later adapted the story into both a play scarce title in jacket. [BTC #347395] of the same name, and ultimately the longer play The Seven Descents of Myrtle (in which the half-brother is African-American rather than Native American). Rare. [BTC #337569]

132 (Women’s Travel). Peggy Iris THOMAS. Gasoline Gypsy or A Dog Is a Girl’s Best Friend. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (1953). First edition. A small bookstore label and contemporary ink date, both on the front fly, a faint spot on the top edge, near fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some considerable foxing. Memoir of an English-born woman who served in the British armed services during the war and then spent a year and a half and 14,000 miles traveling around North America by motorcycle with her dog, a large Airedale, stopping occasionally to recoup her finances with casual labor, including apple-picking and factory work. While this memoir is essential- ly lighthearted in tone (and presumably would have to be in order to attract a mainstream publisher), Thomas’s wanderlust is related to the on-the-road mentality that motivated the Beat generation, and similarly to the experi- ences of returned U.S. servicemen whose disaffection and dislocation in society eventually evolved into the devel- opment of the outlaw biker culture. Exceptionally uncommon, especially in this condition. [BTC #343166] Between the Covers ~26~ Art and Illustration

133 Marc CHAGALL and Joan MIRÓ. Derriere le miroir 92/93: 10 ans d’edition. Paris: Maeght Editeur 1956.

First edition. Folio. One corner bumped, a few light stains on the front wrap, very good or better. Includes two original double-page color lithographs, one each by Chagall and Miró, as well as a single page lithograph by Bazaine in black and yellow. Tiny and incon- sequential bend to a lower corner of the Miró, other- wise the lithographs are fine. [BTC #342796]

134 J.F. BLACKER. The A.B.C. of Japanese Art. Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons [circa 1918]. First Canadian edition. 460pp. Gift inscription dated in 1918, front board a little bent, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #85046]

135 Georges RIVIÈRE. Renoir et Ses Amis. Paris: H. Floury 1921. 136 Ian COLVERSON and Edward First edition. LUCIE-SMITH. Consulat des Arts la Quarto. [4], Garde Freinet. 273, [3]pp. Contemporary maroon cloth, gilt [Paris?]: Riccobono 1974. spine titles, with the front wrap (a First edition. Photographs by Colverson; color lithograph) bound-in. With verse by Lucie-Smith. Twelve photo post- 95 in-text gravure illustrations, 56 cards of St. monotone and color gravure Tropez plates (12 in color), one original viewed drypoint etching by Pierre- from the Auguste Renoir, “Jeunes Filles Consulat Fleurissant Leurs Chapeaux,” and des Arts, one color lithograph “Tête de laid into a Jeune Fille” (the front wrap). folding Very good with moderate soiling to case. A the boards and the usual age toning at the small stain edges of the text pages; the plates are clean and bright. on the rear of the portfolio, else fine. One of 50 numbered copies with a [BTC #342794] hand-numbered limita- tion. Inscribed by Edward Lucie- Smith and Signed by Ian Colver son. Scarce. OCLC locates a single copy. [BTC #338246] Modern First Editions ~27~ Baseball and Sports

Joe DiMaggio’s Copy 138 (Baseball). John B. FOSTER, 137 (Baseball). Ira compiled and edited by. A History BERKOW. Pitchers Do of the National Association of Get Lonely and Other Professional Base Ball Leagues… Sports Stories. New York: To Commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Atheneum (1988). the National Association 1902-1926. [No First edition. Fine in fine dust- place]: National Association of Professional Base wrapper. Signed by the author. Ball Leagues (1926). Joe DiMaggio’s copy, with a let- First edition. Octavo. 160pp., portraits. Blue ter of provenance signed by his cloth stamped in silver. Slightly spine cocked, two granddaughters. [BTC else near fine, presumably issued without dust- #93607] wrapper. Much early minor league history. [BTC #339774]

139 (Baseball). Mickey MANTLE and Roger 140 (Baseball). (Lou GEHRIG). [Caption title]: MARIS. Signed Life Magazine Cover. August Something To Look Up To---Always! New York: New 18, 1961. York Journal American 1941. Life Magazine Broadside. 16½" x 21". cover from Folded, probably as 1961 that has issued. Small tears at a been trimmed couple of folds, else near and cheaply fine. Printed recto only, framed. Near reproducing the front fine, would page of the sports sec- probably benefit tion of the New York from a better Journal American for July framing job. 26, 1941, the main story The cover has is about the dedication been Signed by of Lou Gehrig Plaza at both Mantle 161st and the Grand and Maris Concourse, presided below their over by Joe McCarthy, photos: “Best Wishes, Mickey Mantle” and “Best of Luck, Roger Bill Dickey, and Lefty Maris.” Anyone who needs to be told why the M&M boys were on Gomez, and mentioning the cover of Life at that particular time probably isn’t a baseball fan, the upcoming movie of the Yankee great’s life. Rare. [BTC #342697] but no worries, we’ll be happy to sell it to you anyway. [BTC #341739] 142 (Sporting). [Calendar on linen]: Animals 141 (Raquet Sports). E.B. NOEL and The That Are Hunted. St. Louis, Mo.: Bemis Bro. Bag Co. Hon. C.N. BRUCE. First Steps 1903. to Rackets. London: Mills & Boon Calendar on linen. (1926). Approximately 10¾" x First edition. Octavo. 136, 16 ads pp., plates. 15¾". Twelve illustrated Green cloth. A slight bump on the front printed leaves on linen board, very good or better without dustwrap- bound at the top with a per. Inscribed by one of the co-authors: “To gilded metal strip. A tiny George Standing in grateful remembrance of nick on the first leaf, the pleasure of meeting. Clarence N. Bruce. slight edgewear, pencil Jan. 1928.” Not to be confused with either marks on a couple of tennis or squash, rackets or racquets is an dates on the July leaf, indoor racquet sport played in the United near fine or better. A very Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The handsome calendar of big sport is infrequently called “hard rackets,” possibly to distinguish it from game animals of North the related sport of squash (formerly called “squash rackets”). Both authors America, with each were rackets champions and the recipient, George Standing, was the head month devoted to a single professional at the New York Racket and Tennis Club, and was runner-up animal. Seldom found in for the World Championship in 1897. [BTC #342222] this nice condition. [BTC #343030] Between the Covers ~28~ Children's Books

143 Conrad 144 Judy BLUME. Iggie’s House. AIKEN. Tom, Scarsdale, New York: Bradbury Press (1970). Sue and the Clock: A Story First edition. Publisher’s reinforced library binding Poem. New York: (also issued in un-reinforced binding). Child’s reason- Collier Books (1966). ably neat signature, edgeworn, about very good in very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with light overall wear. The author’s second book, and her First edition. Very faint first for young adults. Very scarce. [BTC #347464] stain on the bottom corner of the book and jacket else fine. Children’s 145 Lewis CARROLL. [Handbill]: book by the Georgia Advertisement. For over 25 author. [BTC #99785] years, I have made it my chief object… “Through the Looking 146 Roald DAHL. Charlie and the Glass.” [London]: Lewis Carroll Christmas, Chocolate Factory. 1893. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Small handbill. 4¾" x 7". Fine. An (1964). advertisement by Carroll attempting to recall copies First edition, first issue. Spine of the “Sixtieth Thousand” printing because of poor lettering rubbed, and a little quality: “…I am deeply annoyed to find that the soiling on the boards, else near last issue of ‘Through the Looking-Glass,’ consisting fine in a price-clipped, near of the Sixtieth Thousand, has been put on sale with- fine dustwrapper with a cou- out its being noticed that pictures have failed so ple of tiny tears and very much, in the printing, as to make the book not slight toning. A subversive worth buying.” He requests all copies be returned to children’s classic, and the basis the publisher in exchange for copies of the next edi- for two memorable films, first tion, with the unsold copies to be given away to starring Gene Wilder and later Mechanics’ Institutes, Village Reading-Rooms, and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. A similar institutions. Uncommon. [BTC #343407] handsome copy. [BTC #331941]

Mad Man 149 Maurice SENDAK. [Motor 147 Chauncey GILES. The Wonderful 148 P.K. THOMAJAN. ized Advertising Display]: I Saw and Pocket, the Angels’ Christmas-Tree: The White Lie. Esau. [Cambridge: Candlewick Press Christmas Stories for Children. Boston: William Philadelphia: Ritten House Carter and Brother 1864. 1992]. 1940. Advertising dis- First edition. play. Illustrated by Leo Approximately Manso. Glazed 14"x 18¼" x illustrated boards. 5". A stiff card- A small nick on the board cutout front gutter else with attached near fine, probably motor and bat- issued without tery compart- jacket. Thomajan ment on rear. was a designer, Slightly rubbed iconoclast, and at the edges advertising man, with a couple and issued some First edition. 12mo. 40pp. tiny spots on collectible fine Printed green glazed wrap- the rear and a press Christmas pers. Rubbing and tiny nicks bit of oxi- booklets. This copy at the extremities, a sound dation to Inscribed by the and attractive, very good the rear illustrator to the copy. OCLC locates a single motor author, using Thomajan’s nickname: “To my copy (Graduate Theological arm. When batteries are inserted the two characters friend Tommy, Leo Manso.” A marvelous associa- Union Library). [BTC on the front of the display move up and down on a tion copy of a very scarce children’s book. OCLC #343222] seesaw. An uncommon and lovely Sendak promo- locates only two copies. [BTC #340320] tional item. [BTC #334422] Modern First Editions ~29~ Mystery and Detective Fiction

150 (Anthology). A.D. DIVINE, edited Inscribed to Bill Bradley by. My Best 151 Jeffrey ARCHER. A Prison Diary. Volume Two and Secret Service Volume Three [Only]. (London): Macmillan Story. London: Faber (2003; 2004). and Faber (1940). First editions. Two volumes. Corners a little bumped, thus near fine in near fine or better dustwrappers. Both volumes are Inscribed to basketball player and First edition. Corners a lit- former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, and his wife tle bumped, else near fine Ernestine. Account in good plus dustwrapper of suspense author with overall soiling, and and politician small chips and tears. Archer’s time in Anthology featuring the prison for perjury. best of English mystery [BTC #343394] and thriller writers including Eric Ambler, Carter Dickson, Agatha Christie, Ethel Lina White, W.S. Maugham, Graham Greene, Talbot Mundy, and many others. Scarce, especially in jacket. [BTC #322489]

152 Anthony BERKELEY. Trial and Error. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company 1937. First American edition. Corners a little bumped and boards a trifle soiled, very good or better in very good dustwrapper with a triangular chip on the front panel, and other light wear. Haycraft- Queen Cornerstone. [BTC #342126]

153 —. Death in the House. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club 1939. First American edition. Fine in near fine dust- 156 James wrapper with a few very small nicks and tears. CRUMLEY. [BTC #342123] Whores. (Missoula, MT: Dennis McMillan 154 J.S. FLETCHER. Publications 1988). The Cartwright Gardens Murder. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1926. First edition. Fine. One of 26 lettered copies (of a total edition of 501), bound in full black morocco gilt, without dust- First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks and wrapper as issued. Signed by the author. short tears. Amateur sleuth attempts to unravel a mysterious poi- A number of short works, including the soning. Scarce in the jacket (illustrated by Nick). [BTC #316311] title story, and an excerpt from Mexican Tree 155 Ian FLEMING. The Duck. Spy Who Loved Me. Although not New York: The Viking Press marked (1962). in any First American edition. Fine in way, this fine dustwrapper with a few copy is small spots of foxing on the rear flap fold. James Bond in the from the Adirondacks. A superior, fresh and crisp copy. The subsequent distin- Bond film, sharing with the book only the title and a steel-toothed guished henchman, was the best of the Roger Moore era and one of the modern best in the series. [BTC #312984] first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #311736] Between the Covers ~30~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

157 Elmore 158 Robert LUDLUM. The Bourne LEONARD. Identity. New York: Richard Marek (1980). Unknown Man No. 89. (New York): First edition. Small ownership signature on the front Delacorte (1977). free endpaper, foredge lightly soiled, else near fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with edgewear. First edition. Bookplate The first Bourne novel, and the basis for a 1988 TV on the front fly, spine a miniseries with Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn bit rubbed, very good in Smith, then filmed in 2002 by director Doug Liman near fine dustwrapper. with Matt Damon and Franka Potente. [BTC [BTC #339023] #337398]

160 H.C. McNEILE. The Female of the Species. 159 Jerome ODLUM. Each Dawn I Die. Indianapolis and New Garden City: The Crime York: Bobbs-Merrill Company (1938). Club / Doubleday, Doran First edition. Spine heavily bleached, good only in & Company 1928. an internally lined, good dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Inscribed by the author: “To First American edition. Jennie & Lee Luschier – my old friends. Jerome Bob Slight soiling on the boards, Odlum. Mar. else near fine in a good or a 25, 1938.” Also little better, spine-faded Inscribed in dustwrapper with some another hand, very small chips and tears. presumably that Jacket art by Hans Flato. of the author’s [BTC #328533] wife: “To – Lee and Jennie Luschier. The Streets of San Francisco Mildred & Bob Odlum.” Basis for the 1939 William 161 Carolyn Keighley film featuring James Cagney as an unjustly WESTON. Poor, imprisoned reporter, and George Raft as a hard-as-nails mobster he turns to for New help. Scarce in jacket, and especially signed. [BTC #347393] Poor Ophelia. York: Random House (1972). 162 Sara PARETSKY. Guardian Angel. First edition. Fine in fine Bristol: Scorpion Press (1992). dustwrapper with two tiny First edition. Fine in quarter tears barely worthy of the leather with raised bands, mention. The first Casey marbled boards and fine ace- Kellog mystery. Basis for the tate dustwrapper. Copy O of television series The Streets 20 specially bound, lettered of San Francisco with Karl copies Signed by the author Malden and Michael and Frances Fyfield, who Douglas. Not an wrote the appreciation. The uncommon title, but lettered copies were for pre- fine copies are scarce. sentation and not offered for sale. Although not marked [BTC #85334] in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #311282]

163 Cornell WOOLRICH as William IRISH. The Blue Ribbon. Philadelphia: Lippincott (1949). First edition. A foxed spot on the front fly else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of shallow nicks. A very attractive copy of this collection of short stories. [BTC #47322] Modern First Editions ~31~ Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror The Day the Earth Stood Still 164 (Harry BATES, Theodore STURGEON, L. Sprague de CAMP, et al). [Pulp magazine]: Astounding Science-Fiction – October 1940, Volume XXVI, Number 2 (British Edition). [London]: Street & Smith / [Atlas Publishing] 1940. Magazine. Octavo. 80pp. Perfectbound wrappers. Worn wraps with some nicking along the spine, very good plus. This is the British edition of Astounding, published the same month as the American edition, featuring the first U.K. appearance and first cover appearance of Harry Bates’s story, “Farewell to the Master.” This story was the basis for the classic science-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Directed by Robert Wise, scripted by Edmund H. North, starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal, and with music by Bernard Herrmann, the film is universally acclaimed as one of the best science-fiction films ever made. While Bates’s story is featured on the cover of this issue, it was not featured on the American issue (the British issues did not contain serialized stories and so often had different covers). Also includes Theodore Sturgeon’s second science-fiction story, and contributions from L. Sprague de Camp, Malcolm Jameson, Nat Schachner, and Willy Ley. [BTC #342291]

165 G.P. BAKER. The Magic Tale of Harvanger and Yolande. New York: George H. Doran (1914). First edition. Page edges soiled, else fine in two variant dustwrappers, each of which is near fine, with very shallow chipping at the crown. We speculate that one of the jackets, with no printed copy to the flaps, may be a trial issue. Medieval fantasy adventure. [BTC #85090]

Senior in a Strange Land 166 (Robert A. HEINLEIN). The Lucky Bag: The Annual of the Regiment of Midshipmen Published at the United States Naval Academy Annapolis, MD by the Class of 1929. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Academy 1929. Robert E. Howard’s First Book Appearance First edition. 167 (Robert E. HOWARD). Gerta Large quarto. AISON, editor. Modern American Embossed Poetry 1933. New York: leatherette. The Galleon Press 1933. Three full-page color illustra- First edition. Light wear to tions by N.C. the foredge, about fine in Wyeth. Near near fine dustwrapper with a fine. Senior chip and a few short tears to Class annual the crown. A vanity-press yearbook. Among poetry anthology containing the graduating class is future sci- two poems (“To a Woman” ence-fiction master Robert A. Heinlein, with a full and “One Who Comes at page devoted to his class photograph and biograph- Eventide”) which comprise ical information. He is also pictured in the drama the ONLY book appearance group (the Masque Raders) and pictured uncredit- by Howard during his short ed on the Fencing Team. Presumably more research life. Reportedly Howard, the creator of would uncover him unattributed in other group photos. [BTC #345851] Conan the Barbarian whose only other lifetime publications were magazine appearances (notably Weird Tales), responded to an advertisement from Galleon Press and submitted his poetry. Upon learning that the Press planned to subsidize the publication primarily through sales to its contributors, he withdrew his submission. Galleon, perhaps hoping he would reconsider, expressed continued interest in publishing his poetry and Howard granted permission. He committed suicide three years later at the age of 30, leaving behind many unfinished manuscripts – there was no evidence that he had purchased any copies of this book. The posthumous publications A Gent from Bear Creek (1937) and Skull Face and Others (1946) are generally listed as his first book appearances. Howard helped to define and popularize sword and sorcery fantasy, and his bold style and visceral characters have been much-reworked and imitated. His Conan stories became popular comic-books in the 1960s and the character was eventually filmed by John Milius (with Oliver Stone co-writing the script) as the first action film for Arnold Schwarzenegger. An uncommon and little known book, rarely seen in jacket. [BTC #34000] Between the Covers ~32~ C a t a l o g 1 6 9

168 Ursula K. Le GUIN. 169 Ambrose PRATT. The Living Mummy. New The Left Hand of Dark York: Frederick A. Stokes (1910). ness. London: Macdonald (1969). First American edition. Octavo. Illustrated First English edition. Slightly cloth. Illustrated in color by Louis D. cocked, foredge a little foxed, and Fancher. Neat owner’s signature on the tiny tears on two pages, else near front fly, a little edgewear to the spine fine in near fine, price-clipped dust- ends, else near fine. An attractively illus- wrapper with a short tear on the trated and exceptionally scarce and early front panel and a little foxing on the Mummy-novel by an Australian author, rear panel. The English edition of about a reanimated ancient Egyptian. this Hugo Award-winning novel is [BTC #342149] uncommon. [BTC #343643] 171 Count Ernst zu

170 Seabury QUINN. The Complete REVENFLOW. The Adventures of Jules De Grandin. Shelburne, Vampire of the Continent. Ontario and Sauk City, Wisconsin: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box / New York: The Jackson Press 1917. (George A. Vanderburgh) 2001. Second American edition. Translated by George Chatterton-Hill. Pictorial cloth. Light dampstain at the bottom of the text pages, thus about very good in very good pictorial dustwrapper with a corresponding stain and some small chips. Not about vam- pires at all, but a polemic attempting to demonstrate the insatiable greed of Great Britain for Empire. However, the striking illustration on both the front board and repeated First edition, hardbound issue. Three volumes. Quartos. Fine in on the dustwrapper, of a winging vampire sinking its claws very slightly rubbed, still easily fine dustwrappers. Massive compilation of all into a nude woman, is among our favorites. We’ve never 93 Jules De Grandin stories that appeared in Weird Tales between 1925 and seen the book in jacket before. [BTC #347384] 1951. Somewhat amateurishly produced (the elaborate color Xeroxed dustwrappers have been pieced together with tape, as issued) yet still attractive. 174 Bram STOKER. Very uncommon. [BTC #315979] The Lady of the Shroud. London: 172 Dan SIMMONS. Song of William Heinemann 1909. Kali. (New York): Bluejay Books Inc. (1985). First edition. Red cloth gilt. First edition. A faint stain on the copy- Fine in fine right page and the facing dustwrapper. dedication page, else very Signed by the near fine. A lovely copy of author. A very this uncommon horror nice copy of the novel. [BTC #341023] acclaimed author’s first book. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from 173 Mark WICKS. To Mars Via The Moon: An Astronomical the distin- Story. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1911. guished modern first edition collection of First American edition. Scattered foxing, elaborate spine-gilt bright and unrubbed, a very Bruce Kahn. [BTC #305105] near fine copy. Bleiler Checklist title. [BTC #292863]