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Literary Miscellany Including Recent Acquisitions. Catalogue 340 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 TEMPLE STREET NEW HAVEN, CT. 06511 USA 203.789.8081 FAX: 203.865.7653 [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com TERMS Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described, but are consid- ered to be sent subject to approval unless otherwise noted. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made prior to shipment. All returns must be made conscientiously and expediently. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance are billed to all non-prepaid domestic orders. Orders shipped outside of the United States are sent by air or courier, unless otherwise requested, with full charges billed at our discretion. The usual courtesy discount is extended only to recognized booksellers who offer reciprocal opportunities from their catalogues or stock. 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Adams, Ansel: [Original Silver Gelatin Print, Signed]: FERN SPRING, DUSK ... [with:] IMAGES 1923 - 1974. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974 Original gelatin silver print photograph (31 x 23 cm), printed by Adams from the negative. Dry mounted on archival board (42 x 34 cm). Fine. Print number 169 of 1000 numbered prints (500 numbered in Roman, 500 in Arabic), signed by Adams on the mount, and with certificate of limitation and technical details on verso. Published to accompany the deluxe, limited issue of Images 1923 - 1974, of which a copy is present, also numbered ‘169’ and signed on the colophon by Adams. The book is blem- ished, as at some point early on a previous owner excised the front free endsheet, quite likely to remove a presentation inscription, taking with it a significant area of the surface of the pastedown. It is otherwise very good and sound in dust jacket, with both enclosed in a somewhat faded and rubbed half calf oblong folio clamshell box, with the two short joints of the top lid at the fore-edge broken. In other words, a beautiful, virtually untouched copy of the signed print, with a flawed copy of the book tagging along. $3850. 2. [Adler, Jankel]: Themerson, Stefan: JANKEL ADLER AN ARTIST SEEN FROM ONE OF MANY POSSIBLE ANGLES. [London]: Gaberbocchus Press Ltd., [1948]. Quarto. Decorated wrapper over stiff wrapper. 12 full-page drawings by the subject. Browned at edges, with some spots to the wrapper fold-ins from now absent “protective” wrapper; just a good copy. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies printed by hand on handmade paper, and signed by Adler and Themerson. This monograph appeared the year prior to Adler’s death. $225. 3. [AIGA Auction]: THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS THE FIFTH BOOK AUCTION .... [New York: AIGA], March 1939. Printed wrappers. Spine faintly sunned, oth- erwise near fine. The auction was held at Sardi’s on 21 March, and included 129 numbered lots, including original Bruce Rogers manuscript maquettes, donations from the Black Sun Press, the Grabhorns, Dard Hunter, Random House, and on and on. $25. 4. Aldington, Richard: IMAGES (1910-1915). London: The Poetry Bookshop, [1915]. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers, with a handcolored design by John Nash. The wrappers are a bit dust darkened (but not foxed), small 1916 ownership signature inside front wrapper, but a very good copy. First edition of the author’s first book. Reilly includes this title, though it predates Aldington’s active service and only one or two poems might be seen as alluding to the War. WOOLMER A12. REILLY (WWI), p.39. $200. 5. Aldington, Richard: A FOOL I’ THE FOREST A PHANTASMAGORIA. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press 1925. Gilt cloth. Usual offset on endsheets delimited by the jacket flaps, otherwise a very good copy, in rather tanned dust jacket with a narrow discoloration toward the lower edge of the front panel. First edition, US issue, comprised of the British edition altered solely by insertion of a cancel title leaf. Like its UK sire, denoted a “limited edition” on the front jacket panel. It seems likely that this US issue was even more “limited” than the UK issue. KERSHAW 12n. REILLY (WWI), p.39. $60. 6. [Aldus Manutius]: De Vinne, Theodore: AL- DVS PIVS MANVTIVS WITH AN ESSAY BY ... TOGETHER WITH A LEAF FROM THE ALDINE HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI .... San Fran- cisco: The Book Club of California, 1924. Narrow folio. Quarter cloth and boards, gilt pictorial label. Light shelf-rubbing at tips, otherwise a very good or better copy, in folding cloth clamshell box. First edition. Copy #34 of 250 numbered copies printed at the Grabhorn Press on Kelm- scott handmade paper in Poliphilus type. Each of the originally distributed copies included a leaf from the grand illustrated 1499 edition from the Aldine Press. The leaf in this copy is graced by a half-page woodcut. Upon publication copies were offered at a hierarchy of prices: $12.50 for a purely typographic leaf; $15.00 for a leaf with an ornamental border, and $15.00 and up for copies with pictorial woodcuts, as here, with the price increasing for copies with better woodcuts. The narrative, sometimes attributed to Francesco Colonna, and the anonymous illustrations, exerted a powerful influence on readers as diverse as Carl Jung and Aubrey Beardsley. In 1955, fifty sets of remaining sheets were bound up, but included only a facsimile leaf. GRABHORN 67. Sold 7. Alexandrov, A.: USSR IN CONSTRUCTION A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE [Whole Number 11]. [Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts, November 1932. Folio (41.5 x 30cm). Typographic wrappers. Heavily illustrated with photographs. Corners a bit bumped, upper wrapper chipped at top corners. otherwise very good. Founded by Maxim Gorky and published in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1941 (and 1949), under the general editorship of G. Piatakov. An issue of this innovative periodical devoted to “the industrialization of the north,” specifically “Yakutia and the Port of Igarka.” This is the English language edition, with Alexandrov’s text translated by D.S. Mirsky. “All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks, designed by Lissitsky, Rodchenko and others were developed in USSR in Construction, one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century” - Parr-Badger. Versions were also published in Russian, German and French. PARR-BADGER I:148 $500. 8. [American Children’s Book - 19th Century German Language]: DIE GEFAHR IN DEN STRASSEN. NEBST EINIGEN ANDERN ERZÄHLUNGEN. Philadelphia: Gedrucht bey Jacob Meyer. Für Johnson und Warner Bro., 1810. 36pp. 12mo. Early plain stiff salmon wrappers. Typical scattered foxing and slight offsetting, but a very good copy. First edition in this format. The woodcut title-vignette is ascribed to A. Anderson. Seven edifying tales for the young. ROSENBACH 418. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 20192. WELCH 431. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 1770. OCLC 207258103. $75. 9. [American Children’s Book - Anonymous]: VILLAGE ANNALS, CONTAINING AUSTERUS AND HUMANUS. A SYMPATHETIC TALE. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1814. 35,[1] pp. 12mo. Laid (formerly sewn) into 19th century drab stiff wrappers. Frontis and seven wood engravings. Slight tanning and light foxing, wrapper spine a bit frayed; a good copy. First US edition of this densely moralistic tale for the young, published earlier in the UK. The OCLC entry calls for only five wood engravings in addition to the frontis. This is one of the titles in the infamous remainder of early American children’s books that passed to Rosenbach from Moses Polock’s stock. ROSENBACH 514. WELCH 1381. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 33546. OCLC: 155444872. $100. 10. [American Printing History Association]: Peich, Michael [ed]: A TYPE MISCELLANY TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY BROADSIDE PORTFOLIO. [New York: APHA], 1994. [6]pp. plus 29 broadsides. Small folio (33 x 25.5 cm). Laid into folding cloth case, gilt leather label. Fine. One of two hundred portfolios, designed by Jerry Kelly, with 29 broadsides printed by members of the Association, including Dwight Agner, Mark Argetsinger, Henry Morris, Lowell Bodger, John DePol, Morris Gelfand, Darrell Hyder, Steve Miller, Henry Morris, David Pankow, Gaylord Schanilec, Neil Shaver, Michael Tarachow, Tom Taylor, Asa Peavy, Jack Stauffacher, Roderick Stinehour, and others. This copy is complete -- some lack Henry Morris’s contribution due to insufficient copies of his broadside. $600. 11. Andolcetti, Fernando: LE PETIT VIOLON [cover title]. [Italy: The Artist], 1991.