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Fine Books, Esoterica, and Miscellany] 2011 New York ABAA Book Fair A Strange(ly Interesting) and Inexplicable(ly Disparate) Collection of Works on Paper [Fine Books, Esoterica, and Miscellany] Lux Mentis, Booksellers 110 Marginal Way, #777 Portland, ME 04101 207-329-1469 [email protected] http://www.luxmentis.com Lux Mentis, Booksellers – 207.329.1469 – luxmentis.com – [email protected] 2011 New York ABAA Book Fair This catalogue includes the majority of the material we have brought to sketches). Illus. (b/w plates). Bibliography. A "private edition" of 250 the 51st Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. It copies, this being number 210. Signed by author on the limitation page. includes approximately 400 items that span a very broad range of Laid in postcard of the "Mabel Dodge Luhan House" in Taos, NM. Full subject matter, genres, and periods (admittedly, with a concentration in Leather. Fine. No DJ, as Issued. (1810) $175.00 fine press material in all areas). Our goal is that there should be something of interest for nearly everyone...and something you are not Foreword by Frank Waters (possibly his last published work). A pristine copy of this likely to find elsewhere. As it is only a small portion of our current wonderful volume. material, please let us know of your interests and we will do all we are 4. Andersen, Hans; Dulac, Edmund (illus). Stories from Hans able to pander to your whims. Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Second Edition. Lux Mentis, Booksellers specializes in fine first editions and rarities, Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of glue toning at preliminaries, minor books that have been treasured and will continue to be treasured. foxing at textblock fore-edge (non-penetrating), else tight, bright and Whatever your interests - Americana, fiction, film, juvenilia, art, travel unmarred. DJ shows heavy shelf wear, rear panel and flap missing, large or history of ideas - Lux Mentis provides a diverse selection. If we do chip at head (effecting title text, several small chips and closed tears, not have what you are seeking, please contact us and we will strive to even toning, else clean and bright (color pictorial only by Dulac shows find it. All items are subject to prior sale. Shipping and handling is no rubbing or wear). Mustard/beige cloth boards, gilt lettering and calculated on a per order basis. Please do not hesitate to contact us decorative elements, decorative endpages, frontispiece, decorative regarding terms and/or with any questions or concerns. boarders at each page, tipped in plates. Small 4to. 250pp. Illus. (color plates). Hardcover. Very Good+ in Fair DJ. (6032) $550.00 Books, Manuscripts, & Ephemera Widely considered one of Dulac's best works. Though obviously flawed, the 1. Addresses - Drinking Usages [Civil War & Temperance]. presence of [most of] the very scarce DJ is quite unusual. Overall, a handsome Boston: Massachusetts Temperance Society, 1861. First Edition. Light copy of this significant work. shelf/edge wear, wear at head and tail, minor toning to spine, tide mark 5. Anon. The Life and Character of the Late Lord Chancellor at fore-edge, light foxing at frontispiece, else tight, bright and Jefferys [sic]. London: J Pottinger and J Seymour, 1764 [1725]. unmarred. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, Second Edition. Light shelf/edge wear, tips through, minor scratch in rust endpages, tissueguard. 8vo. 98pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Laid in period paper front board, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, letter (see below). Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. (6255) burgundy leather spine, marbled paper boards. Small 8vo. 54pp plus 2pp $250.00 ad. Hardcover. Very Good+ [Textblock Fine]. (5740) $325.00 Rev. B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) DeCosta was a noted NE minister, abolitionist and A wonderfully unflattering short biography of the notorious Judge Jeffreys. Jeffreys temperance supporter. Laid in letter and signed personal card. Letter on Union infamously presided over the trial of Titus Oates and numerous other significant letterhead [color top-piece with flags, eagle, "UNION" and a banner reading cases...bringing his unusual blend of apathy, arrogance and brutality to the "Constitution of the United States of America"), dated Nov. 25, 1861, makes bench. It is said that he was "reckless of everything save his own advancement." reference to their time in the "Virginia Campaign"...doubly interesting as the VC This volume contains a list of some 240 names, organized by towns, of those who is now thought of as revolving around the Second Bull Run battle in 1862. Very suffered his convictions. A very handsome copy of this minor classic. likely a presentation as "Friend Phelps" was a drinker... A handsome copy of this minor classic temperance item with a period civil war letter with interesting 6. Araki, Nobuyoshi. Tokyo Comedy. Kyoto: Korinsha, 1997. First content. Edition Thus. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf/ edge wear, tiny closed tear near head, else bright and clean. Orange 2. Adee, A.A. Manuscript Diary of a Navy Surgeon: "Vol. II, On paper wraps, whine ink lettering. 4to. np. (b/w plates). Original Board the US Vincennes" on a cruise to South America, The Wraps. Fine in Near Fine DJ. (5934) $125.00 Pacific Islands, and Canton. South Pacific: 1835-6. Original Work. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at the endpages, else tight, bright Text in English and German. Published to accompany Araki's exhibition at Wiener and unmarred. Halfbound, red leather boards, marbled boards, gilt Succession. A remarkable collection of images. Overall, a handsome copy of this lettering and decorative elements. Small 8vo. np (170pp). Approx. increasingly difficult to secure exhibition catalogue. 27,000 words. Several laid in bits of ephemera. Hardcover. Near Fine. 7. "Army and Navy U.S." [Collage of 100 US Army and Navy (6629) $7,500.00 Officers]. New York: C.D. Fredericks, nd [circa 1865]. First Printing The US Navy searches for lost Whalemen, with a complete account of the search [presumed]. Minor edge wear, very small surface chip (touches but does for the "Mentor" whalers from New Bedford, left captives in the Peliew Islands by not violate boarder), very minor album ruffle at top edge, soft crease at Capt. Barnard of Nantucket. Dr. Adee's Journal begins at Callao off the coast of lower quarter, slightly lightened, else bright and clean. Sepia albumen Peru, exploring-in rich detail-his adventures and discoveries. In the Appendix, Dr. print. 2.5"x4". Original Photograph. Very Good. (6665) $145.00 Adee quotes an 11 page letter from Capt. Barnard to Ed. Butler. "Loss of the Rear of card lists all 100 officers (numbered and matching difficult to read Whale Ship Mentor of New Bedford on the Pelew Islands" Canton, March 12th, number in image). Noted minor wear notwithstanding, a handsome copy of this 1833. Island topography, their products, houses, the native customs and physical very scarce [and useful] reference CDV. characteristics of the peopel are all discussed in Dr. Adee's Journal. A well-written (easily read) and extremely interesting account. 8. Arwas, Victor. Art Deco. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. First Edition. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf wear, 3. Allred, Charmay B. Amazing Mabel: Sketches by Mabel Dodge else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, in blind lettering and Luhan. Santa Fe, NM: One Horse Land & Cattle Co., 1996. First exceptional decorative elements, decorative endpages. 4to. 315pp. Illus. Edition/Private Edition. Signed by author, else tight, bright and (color and b/w plates). Biographies. Bibliography. Index. Hardcover. unmarred. Full black leather, in blind lettering and decorative elements, Fine in Near Fine DJ. (1779) $125.00 pictorial endpages, frontispiece. 12mo. xxi. 33pp (plus approx. 98pp of Lux Mentis, Booksellers – 207.329.1469 – luxmentis.com – [email protected] 2011 New York ABAA Book Fair A very strong reference volume covering all aspects of deco furnishings, furniture, Baldwin" following his unexpected and untimely death. An important work in architecture, jewelry, books, ceramics, etc. A near pristine copy of this wonderful Baldwin's cannon, beautifully illustrated by Baskin. and significant reference volume. 13. Barbauld, Anna Letitia; Edgeworth, Maria; Scott, Walter Sydney 9. Avedon, Richard. An Autobiography. New York: Random House, [ed]; Sandford, Lettice (illus). Letters of Maria Edgeworth and 1993. First Edition. Tight, bright and unmarred. Clear acetate DJ Anna Letitia [Laetitia] Barbauld. Selected from the unmarred. Brown cloth boards, red ink lettering. fo. Illus. (b/w plates). Lushington Papers and edited by Walter Sydney Scott. np. Index of Plates. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. (5911) $450.00 Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1953. Limited Edition. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Original glassine DJ A cornerstone work by Avedon in very handsome condition. shows light shelf/edge wear, several small closed tears, several small 10. Bach, Johann Sebastian; Mutel, Didier. Johann Sebastian Bach: chips, else clean. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, red cloth boards, gilt Sechs Préluden für Violoncello solo. Paris: Didier Mutel, 2004. lettering and decorative elements, hand-colored plates. 8vo. 88pp. Illus. Limited Edition. Bright and unmarred. Off-white paper wrapper, paper (colored plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 270 of 300. onlay at spine matching slipcase, loose signatures in wrapper, printed in Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. (7186) $145.00 blue ink; slipcase printed with blank musical partitians. Small 4to. np Illustrated with 14 hand-coloured drawings by L. Sandford. Christopher Sandford [56pp]. Illus. (mono) Limited, numbered edition, this being 15 of 100. notes in Cock-A-Hoop, "Joan Hassall was to have engraved the illustrations for Original Wraps. Fine in Fine Slipcase. (7269) $1,500.00 these vivacious letters from two popular contemporaries of Jane Austen, but she 12 original aqua fortis plates by Didier Mutel.
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