THE ARION PRESS “ULYSSES” Cover image taken from Item # 16 Back cover image from item # 28 1 “GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, ASSISTS THE HUMBLE” 1. [ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS]. Alcoholics Anonymous. The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism New York: Works Publishing, 1946. First edition, tenth printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 9/16 inches; 211 x 140 mm). viii, [2], 400 pp. Publisher’s original blue cloth with blind stamped cover and gilt spine, original dust jacket. Some chipping and wear to jacket. Cloth very slightly rubbed on corners. Previous owner’s inscription [ as usual] to front free endpaper. Still, a very good copy, better than usually seen for this book. This book went through multiple printings of the first edition; the text and stories remained identical until 1955, when the second edition went to press. Any printing of the first edition is exceedingly rare in this collectible condition. The importance of this book and its central philosophy cannot be emphasized enough. It provides a step-by-step guide to conquering the disease of alcoholism, and has been effective for countless sufferers. HBS 65420. $1,750 THE ARION PRESS “ULYSSES,” WITH ETCHINGS BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL 2. [ARION PRESS]. [MOTHERWELL, Robert, illustrator]. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Etchings by Robert Motherwell. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. One of 150 numbered copies for sale (this being copy number ninety-six), out of a total edition of 175 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Thick folio (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 323 x 248 mm.). 835, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [3, blank] pp. With forty etchings by Robert Motherwell on twenty folded leaves, of which twenty are in color. Printed in Perpetua type on French mouldmade Johannot paper. The intaglio printing was done by R.E. Townsend in black and 19 colors on heavier-weight Johannot paper. Bound with white alum-tawed pigskin on the spine and fore- edges of the boards which are covered in blue cloth with white flecks. Spine lettered in blue. A fine copy of this impressive book. In the original slipcase covered with the same fabric and with a paper label on the spine. Also with the original cardboard shipping carton and publisher’s prospectus laid in. “Considered by many the greatest novel of the 20th century, Joyce’s Ulysses deserved this typographical tribute, painstaking craftsmanship, and the artistic contribution of a painter of international stature. Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), a founder of Abstract Expressionism, counted Joyce as his favorite modern author and drew upon the writings for titles to his paintings, drawings, and prints throughout his career. The project was four years in planning and a year and a half in production’’ (No. 27 in the “Checklist of Arion Press Books” in The Arion Press 1992 Catalogue). Slocum and Cahoon. HBS 66035. $15,000 2 WITH SUPERB INITIAL LEttERS SUPPLIED IN BLUE AND GREEN BY GRAILY HEWItt 3. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus. [Chelsea: Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, 1932]. One of 328 copies on Batchelor handmade paper with the bugle watermark, out of a total edition of 353 copies. Folio (11 7/16 x 7 1/2 inches). [2, blank], [2], 182, [2, blank] pp. Printed in black and red in Subiaco type. Initials supplied by hand in blue and green by Graily Hewitt and his two assistants, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley. Original limp orange vellum with matching silk ties. Spine lettered in gilt. In the original marbled board slipcase. Vellum spine lightly sunned. Two previous owner’s bookplates on front pastedown. Otherwise near fine. HBS 65895. $3,000 ONE OF THE LAST BOOKS ISSUED BY THE ASHENDENE PRESS 4. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. THUCYDIDES. [History of the Peloponnesian War]. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett…Chelsea: Printed at the Ashendene Press, 1930. One of 260 copies on paper (240 for sale), out of a total edition of 280 copies (257 for sale). Folio (15 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 400 x 273 mm.). [6, blank], [1], [1, blank], 363, [1, printer’s device] pp. Printed in black in Ptolemy type with three-line initials at the beginning of each chapter and the larger initials and opening line of each of the eight books designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in red. Marginal chapter summaries also in red in Blado Italic type. Printer’s mark D printed in black. Publisher’s white pigskin by W.H. Smith & Son, Ltd. Spine lettered in gilt with raised bands. All edges uncut. Spine very slightly darkened. Overall very good. HBS 65519. $4,000 THE ASHENDENE “MORTE DARTHUR” 5. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte Darthur, Notwythstondyng it Treateth of the Byrth, Lyf, and Actes of the Sayd Kyng Arthur, of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, Theyr Mervayllous Enquestes and Adventures…Whiche Book was Reduced in to Englysshe by Syr Thomas Malory, Knyght. Chelsea: At the Ashendene Press, [1913]. One of 147 copies on paper (not 145 as stated in the colophon), out of a total edition of 155 copies. Folio (15 3/4 x 11 inches; 398 x 280 mm.). xxii, 500 pp. Printed in red and black in Subiaco type, the chapter headings and shoulder notes in red, with initial letters designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in alternating red and blue. Two full-page woodcuts, one at the beginning and one at the end of the book, and twenty-seven smaller woodcuts by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain after designs by C.M. Gere and Margaret Gere. The text is that of Southey’s Reprint (1817) of Caxton’s edition, with a few minor variations. Original full brown calf. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, board edges and turn-ins ruled in blind. Corners are very slightly bumped, with the lower back corner slightly rubbed through. A few minor surface closed cracks to edges of the spine. Top corner of front free endpaper with a small professional repair. Some light browning and foxing, mainly to preliminary and final blanks. A near fine copy. “This book was printed on a new make of paper by Messrs. Batchelor of a size slightly smaller than the folio Dante and bearing a new water-mark. In it, for the first time, blue was used alternately with red for the large initials…The small woodcuts up to and including that to Book X. Cap. 59 were done by W.H. Hooper. He died during the progress of the work and the rest of the cuts were done by J.B. Swain” (Ashendene Bibliography). Ashendene Bibliography XXVI. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 205, no. 28. Tomkinson, p. 6, no. 28. HBS 66052. $10,000 3 A BEautIFUL COPY IN THE RARE DUST JACKET 6. AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition of the author’s first book. Square octavo Illustrations and border decorations by E. Boyd Smith. Original dark olive ribbed cloth. Front cover pictorially stamped in black, gray, and green and ruled and lettered in gilt within a blind panel. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy, in the rare pictorial dust jacket. Some minor chipping to spine extremities and edges of jacket. Inside of jacket with some tape repairs, mainly along flap folds. Zamorano Eighty 2. HBS 65778. $1,750 SECOND EDITION OF BACON’S PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD 7. BACON, Sir Francis. The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. To the King. London: Printed for William Washington, 1629. Second edition. Small quarto (7 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 187 x 146 mm). [2], 166, 169-198, [1, i.e. 169], 100-132, 233-335, [1,blank] pp. Collates complete and the same as the British Library copy. Some pages misnumbered as normal. Contemporary paneled calf. Newer morocco spine labels. Original endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. Boards with some scuffing. Corners and edges chipped and rubbed. Head of spine chipped. Outer hinges starting but still firm. Some offsetting to endpapers. A few old pencil marks in the margins and on title-page. One instance of old ink marginalia. A light dampstain across upper half of some leaves, mostly in rear. Altogether a very good copy. HBS 66007. $1,750 FIRST EDITION OF BauDELAIRE’S “LES FLEURS DU MAL” IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS 8. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mal. Paris: 1857. First edition, first printing with the six suppressed poems. In second state wrappers, with the back wrapper announcing “Les Fleurs du Mal.” Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 194 x 127 mm). [4], [1]-248, [4, table] pp. Title printed in black and red. Original light yellow printed wrappers. Uncut, as published, perfectly pure, without spots. Some professional restoration to spine. Front wrapper with a small crease along fore-edge and half-title also a bit creased. A beautiful copy. In glassine dust jacket and with a custom full morocco clamshell. The first issue contains the six “notorious” poems for which Baudelaire was prosecuted and fined for offenses to public morals. The poems that were suppressed in the second issue are: “Les Bijoux” (pp. [52]-53), “Le Léthé” (pp. [73]-74), “A celle qui est trop gaie” (pp. [91]-93), “Lesbos,” (pp. [187]-190), “Femmes damnées” (pp. [196]-197), and “Les Métamorphoses du vampire” (pp. [206]-207). The French ban on these poems was not officially lifted until 1949, although they were commonly printed as an appendix in posthumous editions of Les Fleurs du mal.