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.

“Baudelaire was said by Hugo to have introduced a frisson nouveau into poetry, an essentially modern form of exacerbated sensibility which will quicken only to a beauty that contains the elements of corruption. His prosody was classical in its perfection, but he was a precursor of modern poetry by his perception of the symbolic correspondences of colours, scents, and sounds…” (– Oxford Companion to French Literature). HBS 65197. $35,000

4 A Complete Set of the Fourteen “Oz” Books, All First Editions 9. BAUM, L. Frank. A Complete Set of First Edition Oz books. 1.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. First edition, second state. With the following points: on p. [2], the publisher’s advertisement has no box; on p. 14, line one begins “low wail of…”; p. 81, fourth line from bottom has “pieces”; p. [227], line 1 begins: “While The Woodman…”; and the colophon is reset in thirteen lines with no box; with broken type in the last line of p. 100 and p. 186. The verso of the title-page has a press-printed copyright notice, with the “R”’s having tails that are on a line with the rest of the printing. Second state of plate facing p. 34 without the two dark-blue blots on the moon and the second state of plate facing p. 92 without the pink shading at the horizon. Quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 211 x 165 mm). 259, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank] pp. Twenty-four inserted color plates (including title). Original light green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red and a darker green (variant C with publisher’s imprint at foot of spine in red in serifed type, with the “C” of “Co.” encircling the “o”). Pictorial pastedown endpapers (issued without free endpapers). Cloth is lightly soiled and spine is a bit darkened, but without ant restoration. Text with a small amount of soiling and finger smudging to outer margins. Some pages lightly toned. Plate facing page 44 with three tiny spots where the paper stuck to the facing page. Plate facing page 80 with a small closed marginal tear, not affecting illustration. Previous owner’s old ink signature on preliminary leaf. Overall, a very good copy. 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904. First Edition, second state. In the A binding but with the second issue text. An exceptionally clean copy of this scarce book. 3. Ozma of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co., 1907. First edition, first issue. In original tan cloth (binding A). 4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908. First edition, second state binding (Reilly & Britton on spine w/out “Co.”). A very good copy. 5.The Road to Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1909]. First edition, first state (printed on multi-colored stock), with caption and page numeral on page 129. Very good copy. 6. The Emerald City of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910. First edition, first state. In publisher’s aqua cloth (binding A) with a large laid-down color cover illustration highlighted in a distinctive green. In a later Reilly & Lee dust jacket. 7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1913. First edition, first issue. Original light green cloth, (Binding A). Collation includes fifty full-color illustrations. A near fine copy. 8. Tik-Tok of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1914. First edition, first issue. With full-color frontispiece and eleven plates inserted throughout. Original blue cloth. Overall, a very good copy. 9. The Scarecrow of Oz: Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1915]. First edition, first issue. Publisher’s green cloth, color pictorial label on front. With twelve full color inserts. Overall a very good copy. 10. Rinkitink in Oz. By L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1916]. First edition, first state.Full light blue cloth. An about fine copy. 11. The Lost Princess of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1917]. First edition, first issue. 12. The Tin Woodman of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1918]. First edition, first issue. With twelve color plates. Original red cloth, pictorial label mounted on front cover. An about fine copy. 13. The Magic of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co.,[1919]. First edition, first issue. A very good copy. 14. Glinda of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., [1920]. First edition, first issue.Overall about fine.

An exceptional set of first editions (and mostly first issue) copies . Some books with occasional soiling or rubbing, but all in all a very good to about fine set of these books which are generally found in very poor condition. HBS 65777. $37,500 The Marriage of Figaro 10. BEAUMARCHAIS, Pierre Augustin Caron de. Le Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro. Comédie en cinq Actes, en Prose. Representee pour la premier fois par les Comediens Francais ordinaires du Roi, le Mardi 27 Avril 1794. Paris: Chez Ruault, Librarie, pres. le Theatre, 1785. First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches). [4], lvi, 237, [1, blank] pp. With five plates after Saint-Quentin (the first four engraved by C.N. Malapeau and the fifth by Roi). Half-title present. Nineteenth-century full green morocco by Petit, triple gilt ruled borders, spine gilt in compartments and with central flower devices, gilt spine lettering, gilt board edges and turn-ins, densely gilt burgundy morocco doublures, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Morocco-edged slipcase. A sumptuous presentation for this scarce and desirable title. Printing and the Mind of Man 230. HBS 65361. $2,000 5 Limited First Edition In French Of Beckett’s Watt, One Of Only 92 Reserved Copies 11. BECKETT, Samuel. Watt. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, [1968].

Limited first edition in French, number 63 of 92 copies reserved for La Librairie des Éditions (189 total), of the preferred edition with Beckett’s translation of his novel. Small quarto (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 190 x 140 mm). [1]-268, [2, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp.

Publisher’s original ivory printed wrappers. Printed in black on front cover and spine. Uncut and unopened. In original glassine. Glassine lightly browned. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceedingly scarce copy in fine condition. HBS 65938. $1,000 One of 400 Copies Signed by the Artist 12. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. LAWRENCE, Jacob, [artist]. The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis. The King James Version. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989.

First edition. One of 400 copies signed by Lawrence, this being number 360. Profusely illustrated with silkscreens by Lawrence on Whatman paper. Large folio.

Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt on front. Publisher’s black cloth clamshell with leather label. Publisher’s newsletter laid in. A fine copy. HBS 66040. $5,500 First Separate Dudecimo Edition of the New Testament in Hawaiian 13. [BIBLE IN HAWAIIAN]. Ke kauoha hou a kakou Hake e ola’i, a lesu Kristo. Honolulu: Na na Misionari Mea i pai, 1843.

First separate dudecimo edition of the New Testament in Hawaiian. Twelvemo (7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches). [1]-501 [ie 411], [3, blank] pp. The complete New Testament.

Contemporary sheep, rebacked to style. Edges speckeled brown. Boards rubbed and bumped. Some dampstaining throughout especially to the front endpapers through page 27. Some browning and foxing throughout to various signatures. Overall very good. Hawaiian Language Imprints, 1822-1899. Forbes, 1419.HBS 65504. $1,000

The First Edition of “The best history of English law” With the Rare Eight-Page Supplement 14. BLACKSTONE, [Sir] William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: 1765, 1766, 1768, 1769. First edition with the rare eight-page supplement bound at the end of the first volume. Four quarto volumes (111/16 x81/2 inches; 282 x 216 mm.). [4, blank], [4], iii, [4], [1]-473, [1, blank], viii, supplement, [4, blank]; [4, blank], [8], [1]-520, xix, appendix, [5, blank]; [4, blank], [7], [1, blank]; [1]-455, [1, blank], xxvii, appendix, [5, blank]; [4, blank], [7], [1, blank], [1]-436, vii, appendix, [1, blank], [39, index], [5, blank] pp. Volume I with engraved frontispiece portrait. With the engraved “Table of Consanguinity” and folding “Table of Descents” in Volume II.

Uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in morocco. Boards ruled in tooled gilt. Spine with black and green morocco lettering labels. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. A bit of light toning throughout, mainly in volume II. Volume II, leaves Ff and Ff2 with some spotting. Otherwise a very clean set. Previous owner’s old ink signature on front free endpaper of volume IV. Overall a very good and attractive set.

“The Commentaries are not only a statement of the law of Blackstone’s day, but the best history of English law as a whole which had yet appeared ... the skilful manner in which Blackstone uses his authorities new and old, and the analogy of other systems of law, to illustrate the evolution of the law of his day, had a vast influence both in England and America, in implanting in the profession a sound tradition of the historical development of the law...” Holdsworth, Historians, 22. Grolier, 100 English, 52. Printing and the Mind of Man 212. Rothschild 407. HBS 64944. $20,000 6 From the Library of Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman Physician

15. [BLACKWELL, Elizabeth]. RUSKIN, John. The Ethics of the Dust. Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. By John Ruskin, M.A. New York: John Wiley & Son, 1866.

First edition, from the library of the first woman physician, Elizabeth Blackwell. Octavo (73/4 x 5 inches; 196 x 128 mm). [2, blank], [i]-250, [1, publisher’s advertisements], [1, blank] pp. With Elizabeth Blackwell’s signature and date of 1866 on front free endpaper and her bookplate on front pastedown.

Publisher’s full purple cloth, decoratively ruled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Dampstaining and wrinkling to cloth. Spine sunned and soiled. Head and tail of the spine chipped. Some foxing to blanks, otherwise very clean. Backwell’s inscription on endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell. Very good.

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman physician. “She had conceived the ambition of entering medicine about 1844, partly because of the suffering of an acquaintance whose modesty had prevented her consulting a male doctor until her uterine cancer was too advanced for any treatment; partly to dissociate the term ‘female physician’ from abortionists; and, according to her own autobiography, because she did not wish to become dependent on a man through marriage. Blackwell graduated MD above all 150 male students, an event that received widespread press coverage across the United States and in Great Britain. HBS 64968. $3,500

One of the Finest Eighteenth-Century Engraved Books 16. [BLAKE, William, illustrator]. YOUNG, Edward. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts. London: 1797.

First edition. Folio (161/4 x 121/2 inches; 411 x 318 mm). viii, 95, [1, blank], [2, explanation] pp. With forty-three copperplate engravings by William Blake surrounding the letterpress text. With the “Explanation of the Engravings” leaf at the end, perhaps by Fuseli (often lacking). Full tree-calf, with an old rebacking, to style. Boards triple-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. With a red and black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers. Some wear to board edges and to extremities. Previous owner’s armorial bookplate and a small bookseller label on front pastedown. Occasional very minor offsetting or light foxing to leaves, generally not affecting engravings. An exceptionally nice copy.

Edward Young’s immensely popular Night Thoughts first appeared in 1742-1745. He eventually extended the poem to nine “Nights,” though only the first four were illustrated by Blake for this edition. For this, his most ambitious and spectacular work to date, Blake spent two years creating over five hundred drawings, of which only forty-three were ever engraved. ” (Keynes, William Blake’s Engravings, p. 12). Bentley 515. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 3. Russell 17. HBS 65633. Please see front cover for an aditional image. $12,500 7 An Illuminated Manuscript Leaf Depicting The Massacre of the Innocents. 17. [BOOK OF HOURS]. Illuminated Manuscript Leaf. Flanders: [n.d., ca. 1430].

One leaf with Latin text written on vellum on recto and verso (71/2 x 515/16 inches; 190 x 150 mm). Verso contains a single column with sixteen lines of text. One two-line initial and six one-line initials, each initial is gilt, over a blue and pink background. A narrow gilt floral panel border along the left margin. Recto contains four lines of text in a single column with a four-line initial D. The initial is colored in blue over a gilt and floral background.

Four tiny glue spots to each corner of the verso, not affecting illumination and the broader right margin has been slightly cropped. Over all a very beautiful example of an illuminated manuscript. Matted. HBS 64899. $4,500

Boyle’s Seminal Work Comprising A Series Of Essays Presenting A Very Subtle View Of Experiment, First Enlarged Edition.

18. BOYLE, Robert. Certain Physiological Essays And Other Tracts; Written at different Times, and on Several Occasions. The Second Edition. Wherein some of the Tracts are enlarged by Experiments, and the Work is increased by the Addition of a Discourse about the Absolute Rest in Bodies. London: Henry Herringman, 1669.

Second edition, first enlarged edition. Small quarto (83/16 x 61/8 inches; 208 x 157 mm).[8], 292, [4], 30 pp. “Two essays, concerning the unsuccessfulness of experiments” and “Some specimens of an attempt to make chymical experiments” each have separate title page dated 1668; pagination and register are continuous. “The History of Fluidity and Firmnesse” has a separate half-title and pagination and register are continuous. “Of absolute rest in bodies” has separate dated title page, register, and pagination. As called for by STC. Lacking final blank. With approximately twenty-three additional pages of expanded text to enlarge this new edition.

Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked and recornered to style. Spine elaborately tooled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Title-page a bit soiled. Some toning and foxing throughout, mainly to endpapers. Signature Y with paper flaw at bottom edge of each leaf, not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. STCR17579 HBS 65500. $2,850

First Edition Of This Milestone In The History Of Science 19. BOYLE, Robert. The Sceptical Chymist: or, Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes. London: J. Caldwell for J. Crooke, 1661. First edition of this milestone in the history of science. Octavo (61/2 x 41/8 inches; 164 x 104 mm.). [Xviii], 436 pp. Second title-page printed in red and black and bound as title. Type-ornament headbands and woodcut initials. R2 a cancel.

Contemporary English speckled calf, boards with double-rule blind borders, spine ruled in compartments, red-speckled edges. Occasional light spotting or marking, a few leaves trimmed at head touching number, light marginal worming on second title and A-E, touching text on a few leaves, lacking first title, small paper flaws on Y6-8 and Z1, lacking final 3 postliminary leaves and final blank (as this final signature is comprised of the printer’s notes it is entirely possible that early issues were bound without it; this combination is often seen). Binding a little rubbed and scuffed, small skillful repairs to board-edges, skilfully rejointed but overall a lovely copy.

First edition of a milestone in the history of chemistry in a contemporary binding. ‘The importance of Boyle’s book must be sought in his combination of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and Newton’s modification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of matter ... Boyle distinguished between mixtures and compounds and tried to understand the latter in terms of the simpler chemical entities from which they could be constructed. In this sense the book must be considered as one of the most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revolution of Lavoisier in the late eighteenth century’ (PMM). The work is scarce at auction: only 9 copies are recorded by ABPC since 1975 (of which 4, as does the copy offered here, lack the final 4 leaves, possibly suggesting that this quire was issued later), and only two copies in a contemporary binding. Dibner 39. Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica,. Fulton, Boyle, 33. Norman Library 299. Printing and the Mind of Man 141. HBS 65254. $55,000 8 First Edition “Jane Eyre” 20. BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In Three Volumes. Vol. I. [II. III.] London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847.

First edition. Three octavo volumes (73/8 x 45/8 inches; 187 x 117 mm). [i-iv], [1]2-304, [1]2-32 (catalogue dated October 1847); [i-iv], [1]2-304; [i-iv], [1]2- 311[312]. With half-titles as called for but without the 32-page publisher’s catalogue (dated October 1847) in Vol. I., and without the inset catalogue fly-title dated June 1847 and the inset leaf on thicker paper advertising The Calcutta Review. Many copies lack these two haphazardly inserted elements, e.g. the Richard Manney copy (Sotheby’s New York 1991) and the presentation copy at the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Rebound in half blue morocco over blue cloth. Spines ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Two previous owner’s bookplates on front endpapers of each volume. An old bookseller description tipped in to front free endpaper of volume I. Some light foxing to blanks and half-titles of each volume. Also some light foxing to the fore-edge of the text block. A bit of light marginal soiling throughout. Overall a very nice set, housed together in a slipcase.

Published 19 October 1847. “Although Jane Eyre was published by the established firm of Smith, Elder, the number of first-edition copies printed was probably small because this was the first published novel by an unknown author; however, as the work proved popular with the public, as second edition was published just three months later.” (Smith, p. xvi). Grolier, 100 English, 83. Parrish, pp. 87-88. Sadleir 346. Smith, Brontë, 2. Wolff 826. HBS 65653. $35,000

One of 300 Copies, Signed by the Artist 21. BRONTË, Emily. BALTHUS, [artist]. Wuthering Heights. Fifteen Lithographs and an Afterword by Balthus. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993.

First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus, this being number 249. With fifteen lithographs by Balthus. Folio (16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches; 410 x 313 mm). Printed on Arches paper.

Publisher’s full tan leather, lettered in brown on front board. Spine very lightly toned. Housed in full cloth felt-lined clamshell, with leather spine label. About fine. Publisher’s newsletter laid in. HBS 66039. $6,000

9 The Most Well-Known Allegory Ever Written 22. BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come: delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered, the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country. London: Printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1682. The eighth edition. Twelvemo. [xii], 211, [1, ‘Conclusion’], [4. publisher’s ads] pp. frontispiece and two full page woodcuts.

Early nineteenth-century blind-tooled sheep, spine blind-stamped in compartments and with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Some wear to upper spine with a small crack. Marginal notes trimmed in a few places. Old rust mark to pp. 88-89. Some browning throughout. Overall, a very good copy of this very rare item.

In the last thirty years there have only been two other Pilgrim’s Progress published in 1682 to come up at auction and both of these were spurious with one claiming to be the ‘Fifth edition’ and the other the other the ‘Ninth Edition’. Harrison cites a New York Public Library catalog of 1929. which claims that the ‘fifth’ edition was not issued by Nathanael Ponder, and Sharrock records that the British Library copy of the same and that in the library of the Bunyan Meeting, Bedford, although bearing Ponder’s name, “are totally unlike all other editions bearing his imprint.” They are apparently printed in smaller type on inferior paper, with no shoulder noted. OCLC only records six copies of this actual 1682 (eighth) edition.

The most well-known allegory ever written, this journey of the protaganist, Christian, is simultaneously filled with vivid and full human portraits of its characters. With over 100,000 copies sold in Bunyan’s lifetime, this “most perfect and complex of fairy tales” succeeded in attracting audiences from every Christian sect. Harrison pp. 39-40. Wing B-5568. According to Harrison there are only thirty-eight known copies of any complete edition prior to this one (of which OLCL locates six, of which three are imperfect); making this one of the forty-three earliest known copies and one of only four known complete copies of the eighth edition. HBS 65265. $40,000 First Combined Edition (?) 23. BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come:. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is discover’d The Manner of his Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country...The Two and Twentieth Edition, with additions of new cuts. London: Printed for by A.W. for J. Clarke, 1727. [Together with] The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come. The Second Part. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is discover’d The Manner of his Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country... The Fourteenth Edition, With the Addition of Five Cuts...London: Printed for J. Clarke, 1728. [Together with] The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come; The Third Part. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Shewing The Several Difficulties and Dangers he met with, and the many Victories he obtain’s over the World, the Flesh, and the Devil. Together with His happy Arrival at the Celestial City, and the Glory and Joy he found to his Eternal Comfort. To which is added the Life and Death of John Bunyan, Author of The First and Second Part; compleating the whole Progress. The Tenth Edition. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth. 1722. The first combined edition (?). The twenty-second edition of this part one, the fourteenth edition of part two and the tenth edition of part three. According to the The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, the first combined edition was printed in 1728 and part two in 1727. Our copy of part one states the same “Two and Twentieth Edition” as the 1728 edition does, however our part one is dated 1727. The Printer J. Clarke is the same in our copy and the 1728 edition. Part two which is dated 1728 also mentions part three “Note, the Third Part, suggested to be J. Bunyan”s, is an imposter.” This contains an early edition of the third part which is usually found separately. All three parts are together in a contemporary binding.

All three parts bound together in one twelvemo volume (5 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches; 150 x 89 mm). [10], 205, [1]; [12], 179, [1]; [10], 138; 31. [1] pp. “The Life and Death of John Bunyan” has separate pagination. Each part with a separate title-page and woodcut frontispiece of Bunyan. With fourteen other wood-cuts in part one, included in the pagination.

Contemporary paneled sheep, professionally rebacked. Boards tooled in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges of boards a bit bumped and chipped. A few signatures have sprung, however the binding is tight. A few pages have been trimmed close on the fore-edge. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown and an old ink inscription on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65330. $5,000 10 First Edition in Original Cloth 24. BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To The Gold Coast For Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: 1883.

First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 7/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 189 x 126 mm). xii, [1, contents], [1, blank], [1]-354,[2,], [32, publisher’s advertisements]; [2, blank], [i]-vi, [1]-381, [3] pp. With two colored folding maps in volume I and a colored frontispiece in volume II.

Publisher’s original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt on boards. Spines lettered in gilt and stamped in black. Black-coated endpapers. Spines slightly rubbed and sunned. Top edges a bit foxed. Minimal and invisible restoration to inner hinges. Bookplate on front paste-down of each volume, of previous owner John Ralph Willis, a prominent collector of Rare Africana. Each volume with previous owner’s ink signature and date of 1888 on front free endpapers. On the same page in the same hand is written “Valley Forge Historical Society & Washington Memorial Library, Valley Forge.” A very good and handsome set.

“In 1881–2, Cameron joined Burton on a mission to West Africa. The two explorers examined the interior of the Gold Coast, searching for evidence of its gold-producing potential. Cameron also plotted the course of the Ankobrah River, and together they sent back to Kew 151 plants native to the Gold Coast. In 1883 their book To the Gold Coast for Gold was published...” (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). HBS 64998. $5,500

Capturing the French Revolution 25. CARLYLE, Thomas. The French Revolution. A History. In Three Volumes. London: James Fraser, 1837.

First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 197 x 121 mm). vii, [1], 404; vii, [1], 422, [2, publisher’s ads]; vii, [1], 448 pp. Complete with half-titles and the integral ad leaf in Vol. II. Uncut.

Publisher’s brown boards, expertly rebacked to style and with original printed spine labels laid down. Some expectable rubbing to boards, but still a remarkable copy. Very difficult to find in the original boards and complete. housed in a blue cloth clamshell case with a red morocco gilt spine label.

“Of the three great political upheavals which have altered the face of the earth-the American, French and Russian Revolutions- only the French has stimulated literary masterpieces which, in turn, have made their impact, direct and indirect, upon millions of readers who would have, and have, left unread the productions of dispassionate scholarship. They are Carlyle’s book [offered here] and the ‘History of the French Revolution’ by Michelet. Carlyle wrote his French revolution as a secular ‘tract for the times’ and as a warning for his compatriots of the frightful consequences of materialism, utilitarianism and democracy. Scottish puritanism and German romanticism were his lodestars; ‘History is the essence of innumerable biographies’ was his historical creed. The result is not a work of scholarship but a prose epic, teeming with colorful scenes of dramatic events and imaginative portraits of the leading revolutionaries. The book at once captured the Englihs-speaking world, and has, outside France, moulded popular conceptions of the French Revolution down to the present day” (PMM). Printing and the Mind of Man 304. HBS 65348. $5,000

11 First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Most Famous Works Beautifully Bound by Bayntum-Riviere 26. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: 1866. First published edition, with inverted “s” on the last line of the contents page. Octavo. (7 5/16 x 5 inches.). [xii], [1]-192 pp. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end. [Together with] Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: 1872. First edition. Octavo. (7 x 4 11/16 inches.). [xii], [1]-224, [4] pp. With the misprint “wade” instead of “wabe” on page 21. Fifty illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. With one page of publisher’s advertisements. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end.

Two volumes uniformly bound by Bayntum-Riviere in red calf. Boards ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Stamped and lettered in gilt. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with a stamped in gilt with the white rabbit on the front board and Through the Looking Glass with the queen stamped in gilt on the front board. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt with a blue and green spine label on each volume. Marbled endpapers. Volume I with some minor professional repairs to outer hinges. A 3/4-inch closed tear professionally repaired to outer margin of K3 of volume I. A bit of very light spotting on a few pages. Otherwise, an extremely nice set. Housed together in a red cloth slipcase.

This is the first authorized edition, often cited as the second edition and was published in November, 1865. “The first edition, familiarly known to book-collectors as ‘the 1865 Alice’, was printed at the Oxford University Press. This edition was at the last moment cancelled by the author, for whom MacMillan’s were publishing ‘on commission’ (i.e. as agent, not sponsors) because of what was considered the poor printing of Sir John Tenniel’s almost equally famous illustrations,.. less than a score are known to survive today.” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Williams, Madan and Green 44 and 84. HBS 64959. $12,500

First Edition, Signed by the Author

27. CATHER, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

First edition, one of 175 copies on Borzoi all rag paper, this being number 81. Signed by Cather on limitation page. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 1/16 inches; 233 x 154 mm). [10], 303, [1, colophon] pp. Title-page and half-title verso printed with a blue border.

Publisher’s quarter green cloth over marbled paper boards. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. Mostly unopened. A very light amount of sunning to spine. Front board lightly rubbed. A very good copy. HBS 65169. $2,750

12 With a Original Full-Page Color Illustration and Inscription by Chagall 28. CHAGALL, Marc, [artist]. MARITAIN, Raissa. Chagall ou l’orage Enchante. Geneve/Paris: Editions des Trois Collines, [1948].

Small quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches; 240 x 186 mm). [1]-196, [12] pp. Half-title with original color drawing and inscription by Chagall. With eight full color plates, tiped in with descriptions under the flaps and numerous black-and-white photographic plates and illustrations, many of which are full page. All illustrations and plates included in the pagination.

The half-title contains a full-page original drawing by Chagall done in pink, yellow and green crayon. It is a picture of a person looking up at an angel, with a crescent moon above. The angel’s wings, hair and the moon have been colored in. Incorporated within the drawing is an inscription in blue pen reading “Brandeis Univ./1960/ Pour/Sam/and/Helen Slosberg/Souvenir/Marc Chagall”

In publisher’s original full green illustrated dust jacket wrapper. Jacket illustrated and lettered in black ink. Uncut and partially unopened. Jacket with a very slight amount of sunning to spine and minimal rubbing to the spine extremities and edges. Overall a very good copy with a beautiful original drawing and nice provenance.

In January 1960, Chagall assumed his post at Brandeis as the first artist-in-residence.

“Samuel L. Slosberg was an executive with the Green Shoe Manufacturing Company of Boston, co-founded by his father Jacob. Green Shoe was the maker of the Stride Rite brand of shoes. (The company name was changed to Stride Rite in 1966.) Sam Slosberg became chairman of the company after his father’s death. He also served as head of the War Production Board’s shoe division during World War II. He died in 1982. Helen Slosberg, who studied painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, was active as a patron of the arts. She was the founder of the Brookline Chamber Music Society and a founder of the Cambridge Society for Early Music. She died in 1985.” (Blake Park: Brookline, Massachusetts, History of a Neighborhood, 1916-2005). Please See rear cover for an additional image of this item. HBS 65979. $12,500

The Last Black-Letter Edition of Chaucer and the First to Include the Conclusions to the “Cook’s Tale” and the “Squire’s Tale” 29. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Our Ancient, Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer: As they have lately been Compar’d with the best Manuscripts; and several things added, never before in Print. To which is adjoyn’d, The Story of the Siege of Thebes, By John Lidgate, Monk of Bury. Together with The Life of Chaucer, Shewing His Countrey, Parentage, Education, Marriage, Children, Revenues, Service, Reward, Friends, Books, Death. Also a Table, wherein the Old and Obscure Words in Chaucer are explained, and such Words (which are many) that either are, by Nature or Derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark’d with particular Notes for the better understanding their Original. London: 1687.

Eighth edition and the third edition edited by Thomas Speght. Folio in fours (12 3/4 x 8 inches; 326 x 202 mm.). [36], 660, [24] pp. (collated exactly like Pforzheimer). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Chaucer surrounded by the arms of his progeny (copied from the original by John Speed first used in the 1598 edition), large woodcut arms of Chaucer on divisional title to the Works (first used in the 1561 edition, here dated 1569). Black letter. Double columns. Signature c1 is signed “d”.

Full modern calf. Boards ruled in blind and tooled in blind floral pattern. Spine stamped and ruled in gilt. Original brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges brown. Newer endpapers. Bottom half of fore-edge and text block with a dampstain throughout, it occasionally creeps onto the lower quarter of the text. A bit of toning to leaves. Overall very good. HBS 65868. $2,500 13 Fine and with an Additional Set of Woodcuts, Signed by Kent 30. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. KENT, Rockwell, [illustrator].VAN WYCK, William, [translator]. The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. Together with a Version in Modern English Verse by William Van Wyck New York: Covici-Friede, 1930.

One of seventy-five deluxe copies printed on Crane’s Old Book paper at the Stratford Press, specially bound, and accompanied by a separate set of five panoramic sheets of Kent’s full-plate woodcuts, each signed by him in the lower right margin. Out of an edition of 999, signed by Kent. Two folio volumes (14 7/8 x 10 inches; 380 x 255 mm) and five panorama sheets (approx 40 x 151/2 inches) with the additional woodcuts in two colors of five Canterbury Pilgrims on each sheet. The books contain twenty-five woodcuts in two colors of the Canterbury Pilgrims as well as numerous head and tail pieces.

Full tan pigskin. Boards and spines stamped and lettered in blind. Top edge gilt, others uncut. The additional five sheets are lightly folded and chemised. All three housed together in a brown cloth slipcase. An exceptionally fine copy with no chipping or fading.

“Sublime, indeed, is how those responsible for updating Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales deemed Kent’s visual interpretations.” (Rockwell Kent’s Canterbury Pilgrims, Jake Milgram Wien). HBS 66060. $5,000 Uniformly Bound Set of “Leather-Stocking Tales” First Editions

31. COOPER, James Fenimore. [Five First Editions].New York and Philadelphia, 1823-1841. All volumes uniformly bound in full modern mottled calf by Bennett, N.Y.. Spines lettered and ruled in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed together in a cloth slipcase. Overall a very good set with just a few minor cases of shelfwear. Ten twelvemo volumes (6 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches; 175 x 106 mm). [Comprising]: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale. New-York: Published by Charles Wiley, 1823. Front hinge of the first volume expertly repaired. Some dampstaining to the first few pages of each volume. Previous owner’s old ink signature on first few pages of volume II. In volume II, page 217, lacking a corner slightly affecting text, and page 228, corner repaired but with no loss of text. Some minor staining throughout volume II. [and]: The Last of the Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757. By the Author of “The Pioneers.” Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826.Title -page of volume I has been washed in an attempt to eliminate previous owner’s name. Some dark toning to preliminaries. A small streak of a dark brown stain on pages 259-264. Head cap of volume I a bit chipped. Title-page of volume II with a number of small professionally repaired closed tears. Some toning and staining throughout. [and]: The Prairie; A Tale. By the Author of The “Pioneers and the Last of the Mohicans.” Philadelphia: 1827. Some large marginal repairs to title-page and first text page and final of volume II, not affecting text an first two leaves and barely affecting text on last leaf. [and]: The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840. Title-pages of each volume with dampstaining in an attempt to wash off previous owner’s old ink signatures. A bit of minor foxing throughout. [and]: The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Occasional foxing and tex may have been washed. HBS 65766. $10,000 14 A Superb Example with a Miniature on Ivory by Miss C.B. Currie 32. [COSWAY BINDING]. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. LEE, Sidney. A Life of William Shakespeare. With portraits and facsimiles. Second edition. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1898.

Second edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 192 x 133 mm). xxiii, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank], 479, [1, blank] pp. Two photogravure plates (including frontispiece portrait) and four additional plates.

Bound by Rivière & Son (stamp-signed in gilt on the front turn-in) in full brown crushed levant morocco, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Front cover set with a large (3 3/4 x 2 7/8 inches) oval miniature scene on ivory under glass by Miss C.B. Currie (stamped in gilt on front doublure: “Miniatures by C.B. Currie”) within an elaborate gilt frame incorporating onlaid red morocco gilt roses. Spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments, with gilt date at foot, the remaining four compartments decoratively tooled in gilt in a similar design with onlaid red morocco gilt roses, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt with gilt floral cornaments with onlaid red morocco gilt roses, green watered silk doublures and liners, top edge gilt. Additionally signed in gilt on the fore-edges of the front and rear boards: “Cosway Binding” and “Invented by J.H. Stonehouse.” A superb example. An inserted certificate leaf signed by both Stonehouse and Currie and numbered in ink identifies the present copy as being “No. 804 of the Cosway Bindings invented by J.H. Stonehouse, with Miniatures on Ivory by Miss Currie.” HBS 65595. $13,500 First Edition in Dust Jacket 33. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1964].

The true first edition (preceding the UK edition by three years), first issue, with six lines of printing information (instead of five) on the final page. Octavo 3/1(9 6 x 61/8 inches; 233 x 155 mm). [12], 161, [1], [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. Black and white text illustrations.

Publisher’s original red cloth with covers stamped in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge stained chocolate. Mustard endpapers. In the original color pictorial dust jacket. Jacket spine very slightly sunned. A few small chips and some small professionally repaired closed tears. A shallow crease to the bottom right corner to the bottom middle of the jacket. Overall a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

“The adventures of four nasty children and our hero with Mr. Willy Wonka and his famous candy plant”(from the jacket). HBS 65479. $2,750

With a Scathing Inscription by Henry Miller Regarding Salvador Dail 34. DALI, Salvador, [artist]. ROSE, Billy [author]. MILLER, Henry [association]. Wine, Women and Words. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1948].

First edition, limited to unspecified number of copies signed by the author. This being number 1451. Octavo ( 81/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 206 x 142 mm). [10], [1]-295, [1, blank] pp. With illustrations throughout by Dali. With an inscription to Pierre Sicari from Henry Miller describing his disdain towards Dali on the front free endpaper:

“To me S. D. is/a prick of the first/water, I know, from/intimate contact./May he live to/screw himself!/Henry Miller/1/31/73/Especially inscribed/for/Pierre Sicari/recently of Corsica”.

Quarter gold cloth over pictorial boards. Spine printed in black. Top edge black. Red endpapers. Red silk place-marker. Boards a bit rubbed. Edges with some light wear and corners bumped. Small stain to top of fore-edge. Very good. HBS 66050. $1,500 15 Signed And With An Original Etching by Dali 35. DALI, Salvador, [illustrator]. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Twelve Illustrations with Original Woodcuts and Original Etching… New York: Maecenas Press-Random House, 1969.

One of 2,500 numbered portfolios printed on Mandeure paper, signed by the artist on the title-page. This being copy number 307. Large folio (16 15/16 x 11 7/16 inches; 430 x 290 mm.). [4, blank], 150, [1], [1, blank], [1, limitation statement], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [5, blank] pp. Original colored frontispiece etching plus twelve full- page color illustrations, each with an original remarque. Title printed in orange and black. “The etching and remarques were printed by Ateliers Rigal. The twelve illustrations were printed by M. Nourisson. The typography was set at the press of Ateliers Rigal. Portfolios by Cartonnages Adine” (Colophon).

Loose, as issued, in the publisher’s brown cloth portfolio lettered in gilt on front cover. A fine copy. Housed in the publisher’s quarter orange leather over linen clamshell case with leather and ivory clasps. About fine. Lovett and Lovett 383. Williams, Madan and Green. HBS 66054. $8,500

An Excellent Set of Defoe’s Masterpiece

36. [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. Second edition (published the same year as the first edition). Octavo (7 9/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 193 x 120 mm). [4], 364, [4, ads] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark & Pine. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

[Together with:] [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of his Life, and of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe. London: Printed by W. Taylor, 1719.

First edition, first issue, with the verso of leaf A4 blank and with “Breaking,” “Dif-/ference,” “Punish-/ment,” and “wanting” on the recto; with “Farthfr” on the recto of leaf B1. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 196 x 123 mm). [8], 373, [11, ads] pp. Folding engraved map of the world facing p. [1]. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Both volumes bound in contemporary brown calf of the same tone; the first volume with double gilt fillet borders and the second with blind-stamped panels. Both volumes expertly rebacked to style. Both spines uniformly tooled in gilt. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. First volume slightly shorter than the second (196 mm. vs 193 mm.). Boards a bit rubbed. Some light occasional foxing. B3 of volume II with small marginal repair. Previous owner bookplate in the front of volume two. An excellent set of Defoe’s masterpiece. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. Crusoe 250 27. Grolier, 100 English, 41. Hutchins, pp. 74-78, 97-112, and 122-128. Printing and the Mind of Man 180. HBS 65669. $10,000 16 Limited Edition, With Illustrations by Degas

37. DEGAS, Edgar, [artist]. LOUŸS, Pierre [author]. VOLLARD, Ambroise, [editor]. Mimes des Courtisanes de Lucien. Illustrations D’Edgar Degas Paris: Ambrose Vollard, 1935.

Limited to one of 325 copies on Rives paper, this being number 138. (12 3/4 x 9 15/16 inches; 324 x 252 mm). With text by Louys and illustrations by Degas. With 83 pages of text, twelve intertextual woodcuts in brown and twenty-two loose etchings by Maurice Potin after Degas. Of the twenty-two etchings, four are in color.

In original stiff printed wrappers and original glassine. Wrappers and title-page printed in black and red. Leaves uncut and unbound. The loose etchings are housed in a separate folder. A fine copy. HBS 65288. $3,500

First Edition, in Publisher’s Dust Jacket 38. DENSLOW, W.W., [illustrator]. Denslow’s Night Before Christmas. By Clement C. Moore. LLD. Made into a book and illustrated by W.W. Denslow in 1902 New York: G.W. Dillingham Co. Publishers, 1902.

First edition, second issue with cloth binding. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 217 mm). 64 pp. In publisher’s dust jacket.

Full olive/tan cloth. Front board and spine lettered in brown. With illustrated plate affixed to front board. Pictorial endpapers. Inner hinges starting. Previous owner’s inscription, dated 1911. A few instances of marginal closed tears and finger smudges, not affecting illustrations. Jacket is faded, soiled , dampstained and quite chipped along edges, but still intact. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66004. $2,500

17 Exceptionally Rare in Parts

39. DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist: or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. ... With Twenty-Four Illustrations on Steel, By George Cruikshank. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, 1846.

First edition of the very rare ten monthly parts issue. Octavo. [1]2-311[312],[i-v]vi-vii[viii-ix]x-xii pp. The twenty-four plates are those used for the original Bentley magazine issue, re-touched, re-bitten, and “enhanced” by the engraver Findlay, and with the Bentley imprints erased. Cruikshank also designed the front wrapper for the parts issue, with very attractive, well-balanced, and appealing results

The set at hand collates complete with all the plates, text and advertisements according to Hatton & Cleaver’s description pp. 215-224. All wrappers correct and complete as well. Some of the parts professionally rebacked, or with other small neat repairs. Part VII front wrapper has been extended in bottom margin, but still a bit short. Front wrapper of part V and back wrapper of part VII trimmed a bit short on bottom margin. Back wrapper of part X slightly soiled. The usual rubbing and foxing to parts. One of the most difficult works of Dickens to find in parts. Period ownership inscription on the front wrapper of parts IV, VI and VIII. Still a handsome set. Housed in a blue quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 215-224. HBS 65570. $30,000

18 A Complete Set of Dickens’s Christmas Books, All First Editions 40. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: 1843. First edition, second issue: i.e., “Stave One”; text entirely uncorrected (but with period faint after “gloom” on p. 21, line 22); pale yellow coated endpapers; blue half-title; red and blue title. Small octavo. [8], 166, [2, ads] pp. Four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech and four wood-engraved text illustrations by W.J. Linton after Leech. [Together with:]—. The Chimes. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845 [i.e., December 1844]. First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1]2-175[176]. First state engraved title and frontispiece by Daniel Maclise; intertextuals by Doyle, Leech, and Stanfield. [With:]—. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Printed and Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [i.e., December 1845]. First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1]2-174[-176, ads]. Second state of Oliver ad. Engraved title and frontispiece by Daniel Maclise. Twelve intertextual illustrations by various artists, chiefly John Leech. [With:]—. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1-3]4-175[176], [8, publisher’s catalogue], [177-178, ads]. Second state engraved title (Todd state C2, Eckel 2) and frontispiece by Maclise; intertextuals by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield and Leech. [And:]—. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848.

First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1]2-188. Lithographic frontispiece and title, plus additional text illustrations by Leech, Stone, Stanfield and Tenniel.

Together five books, each first editions. In the original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt. Christmas Carol with outer and inner hinges starting. A few small repairs to cloth. Cloth lightly soiled and bubbling on the back board. Binding a bit skewed. Leaves with a bit of toning. Chimes has a wrinkle across back board. The cloth of Cricket a bit soiled. Battle of Life, with front inner hinge cracked, outer hinge starting. With very small bookplate on front pastedown. Haunted Man with some chipping to head and tale of spine. Spine and edges a bit darkened. Overall, a very good set. Each volume chemised and housed in quarter maroon morocco slipcase. Smith, Dickens, II, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. HBS 66025. $6,500

First American Edition, in Original Parts

41. DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Sons. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846-48.

First American edition, in original parts. Twenty parts in nineteen. Each part with two engraved plates, with the exception of part I, as it states on the bottom of the front wrapper “The Illustrations for this Number will be given with the Next.” Each number states this on the bottom of the wrapper “the text probably being set in type as soon as the English number was received and printed at once without waiting for the engraving of the plates for that number, so that the plates were always one number behind the text.” (Wilkins, pg 25). Number xix-xx was issued with only two plates total. The last two parts bear the imprint “John Wiley.”

Original grey-brown printed wrappers. Some soiling and staining to wrappers. Many wrappers chipped along edges and spines. Number xix-xx with back wrapper crudely repaired along back joint. Pages foxed as usual for American stock. Overall a very good set of the first American edition. Housed in a quarter blue morocco clamshell. HBS 66015. $6,000 19 First Edition in Original Cloth 42. DICKENS, Charles. STONE, Marcus, [illustrator]. Our Mutual Friend. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. In Two Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition. Two octavo volumes (5 11/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 143 x 219 mm). [i]-xii, 320, [36, publisher’s ads]; [viii], 309, [1, publisher’s imprint], [1, blank], [4, publisher’s ads] pp. With forty engraved plates including frontispieces by Marcus Stone, twenty in each volume. Each volume with all of the internal flaws called for by Smith.

Original purplish-brown sand-grain cloth, stamped in blind. Spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Endpaper’s coated pale yellow. Top of spines lightly frayed. Front inner hinges of volume I and both inner hinges of volume II with a hair-line crack. With a small repair to the inner hinge of volume II. A small, embossed bookseller’s label on front free endpaper of each volume. A very superior copy of a book usually found in remainder bindings, or rebound. Housed in a cloth slipcase.

“Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, the last part forming a double number, from May 1864- November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20, 1865; the second on October 21, 1865. 11s. each.” (Smith, Dickens, 15).

Our Mutual Friend was the last major work Dickens completed. Originally issued in parts, the first number sold 30,000 copies upon its appearance, “with orders flowing in fast” (Dickens). Smith, Dickens, I, 15. HBS 64550 $9,500

With Forty-Three Engraved Plates in a Contemporary Binding

43. DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman & Hall, 1837.

First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ greatest works, mixed issue. Thick octavo (8 3/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 209 x 136 mm). xiv, [1, directions], [1, errata], 609, [1, blank] pp. With forty-three illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title- page. With the seven plates by Seymour and the remaining ones by Phiz. Originally issued in 20 parts from April 1836 to November 1837. With half-title, “Directions to Binder” and errata leaf. Includes marginal note on page 9 that was suppressed in later issues.

Contemporary half brown calf over mabled boards. Green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped and ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. A small newspaper clipping tipped in on half-title, not affecting text. Previous owner’s old ink signature on half-title. Some of the plates are a bit foxed, but text is quite clean. Overall a very handsome copy in a contemporary binding. HBS 65781. $1,250

20 First Edition, Signed by the Author 44. DINESEN, Isak. Anecdotes of Destiny. New York: Random House, [1958].

First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the front free endpaper as Karen Blixen, dated 1959. Octavo (7 15/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 136 mm). [6], [1]-244, [2, about the author] pp.

Publisher’s cream cloth. Spine lettered and stamped in brown and black. Top edge black. Spine a bit darkened. In original price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket slightly chipped along top edge. Else near fine copy.

This book is a collection of stories containing: The Diver, Babette’s Feast, Tempests, The Immortal Story and The Ring. Books with Blixen’s signature are quite rare. HBS 65789. $1,000

Original Animation Production Cel

45. [DISNEY, Walt, Studios]. Fantasia. Hollywood:[N.p.: n.d., ca. 1940]. A beautiful original animation production cel on a Courvoisier background, of two Milkweed fairies from Disney’s classic Fantasia.

Visible image size: (7 3/8 x 6 inches). Matted, and glazed. Some toning amd chipping to the mat. Back of the mat stamped with “Copyright Walt Disney Productions All Rights Reserved.” A very lovely piece.

This cel shows two Milkweed fairies as they dance the Milkweed Ballet, during the Waltz of the Flowers from the The Nutcracker Suite section of the film.

“This is an original painting on celluloid, actually used in the Walt Disney Production of Fantasia. It is one of a select few that have been released to art collectors. The remainder have been destroyed.” (From the back, via Courvoisier Galleries) HBS 65951. $1,500

21 The Doves Bible in Beautiful Full Morocco by the Doves Bindery

46. [DOVES PRESS]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. [DOVES BINDERY, binder]. JOHNSTON, Edward, [calligrapher]. The English Bible. Containing the Old Testament & the New translated out of the original tongues by special command of His Majesty King James the First and now reprinted with the text revised by a collation of its early and other principal editions and edited by the Late Rev. F.H. Scrivener M.A. LL.D. for the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1903-1905.

One of 500 copies printed on handmade paper by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Five folio volumes (13 x 9 inches; 329 x 226 mm.). Printed in red and black, with initial letters designed by Edward Johnston.

Beautiful full blue morocco by The Doves Bindery. Boards with triple gilt rule. Spines lettered and stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles with floral corner devices. All edges gilt. Very minimal foxing and “Genesis” leaf very clean.

A small split to inner hinge of volume I when opened wide. A bit of offsetting to endpapers from dentelles. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. An near fine copy. Each volume housed in a morocco-tipped cloth slipcase.

“This edition of the Bible is considered the masterpiece of the Doves Press.…The type is a particularly crisp and faithful version of Jenson’s fifteenth-century roman. It was cut in only one size, which was used in all of the half-hundred issues of the Press. When the Press was discontinued in 1916, the type and matrices were destroyed by Cobden-Sanderson to prevent their misuse” (Huntington Library, Great Books in Great Editions). The distinctive red initials, executed by hand by Edward Johnston, are described by Ransom (Private Presses, p. 56) as “a pattern for all time of complexity reduced to the minimum of simplicity.”

Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 90-92. Huntington Library, Great Books in Great Editions, 7. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 251, no. 6. Tomkinson, p. 54, no. 6. HBS 65732. $35,000 22 The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 47. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892.

First edition, first impression (with no name on the street sign in The Strand Library device on front cover and the misprint “Violent Hunter” for “Violet Hunter” on page 317). Large octavo (9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 235 x 162 mm). [4], 317, [1, printer’s imprint], [2, blank] pp. With 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text.

Original light blue cloth over beveled boards. Front cover and spine blocked and lettered in gilt and black. All edges gilt. Gray flower and leaf endpapers. Front inner hinge expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Edges, head and tail of the spine and corners a bit rubbed and bumped. Spine lightly sunned and rubbed. Some light offsetting to free endpapers. Minor foxing throughout. Previous owner’s old ink inscription dated 1893 on half-title. Overall, very good.

[Together with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, 1894.

First edition. Large octavo (9 3/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 233 x 160 mm). [6], 279, [1, blank] pp. With ninety illustrations in the text (including frontispiece).

Original dark blue cloth over beveled boards. Front cover and spine blocked and lettered in gilt and black. All edges gilt. gold feather patterned endpapers. Binding slightly cocked. Edges, head and tail of the spine and corners a bit rubbed and bumped. Gilt on spine a bit rubbed. Previous owner’s ink signature on title-page. Overall a very nice copy. Both volumes housed together in an open-end slipcase.

“Rarely has a character so quickly established itself on the popular imagination as did Sherlock Holmes in the latter half of 1891.” (Green & Gibson). Green and Gibson A10a and A14a. HBS 65591. $4,500

First Edition “Hound” in the Original Cloth 48. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. PAGET, Sidney, [illustrator]. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902.

First edition, first issue in book form (first serialized in the Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April 1902), with “you” for “your” on page 13, line 3. Small octavo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 120 mm). [8], 358, [1], [1, blank] pp. With sixteen black and white plates (including frontispiece) by Sidney Paget.

Original scarlet cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black (in a design by Alfred Garth Jones) and lettered in gilt on front cover and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on spine. A bit of wrinkling to cloth. Spine a bit darkened. Cloth a bit rubbed. A bit of foxing to endpapers and edges of the text block. A few instances of brown stains to text, mainly pages 68/69 and 74/75. Housed in a marbled paper slipcase. Overall, a very good copy.

The Hound of the Baskervilles “was based on an idea given to [Doyle] by Bertram Fletcher Robinson, who was a nephew of Sir John Robinson and a correspondent for the Daily Express during the Boer War. The two men struck up a friendship when travelling back on the same ship from Cape Town. They spent four days together on a golfing holiday at Cromer in March 1901, and it was then that Robinson mentioned the legend (possibly of the Black Hound of Hergest associated with the Vaughan family of Hergest Court in Herefordshire). Doyle told his mother: ‘Fletcher Robinson came here with me and we are going to do a small book together “The Hound of the Baskervilles”—a real creeper’…” (Green and Gibson, p. 130). Green and Gibson A26. HBS 65802. $2,000

23 First Edition In Book Form 49. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Sign of Four. London: Spencer Blackett, 1890.

First edition in book form, second issue, with foot of spine reading “Griffith Farran & Cos Standard Library.” Octavo (77/16 x 5 inches; 188 x 127 mm). [4], 283, [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece by Charles Kerr, with tissue guard. With the numeral “138” on the contents page incomplete and reading “13,” as usual, and with “wished” appearing as “w shed” on p. 56, line 16.

Original dark red fine-ribbed cloth blocked in black with front cover and spine lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Dark brown coated endpapers. Minimal wear to spine extremities. A pinhole in the cloth of the spine and corners a bit bumped and rubbed. Front inner hinge repaired with some new paper. Overall a very nice copy.

The second Sherlock Holmes story after A Study in Scarlet. At the time, it received only moderate success, but after the publication of the stories in Adventures and Memoirs its popularity soared. HBS 65675. $7,500

A Bright, Fine Copy of the True First Edition of This Sherlock Holmes Novel In the Rare Original Publisher’s Dust Jacket

50. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1914].

True first edition (preceeds the British edition by three months). Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 195 x 130mm). 320 pp. With seven full page illustrations by Keller (including frontispiece).

Publisher’s red cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. In the rare original dust jacket. A couple small scrapes to the front board. Jacket chipped and with short tears at the edges, rubbed along the joint and fore-edge margin, . Spine of jacket foxed. Foxing and browning to endpapers. Previous owner’s embossed book mark on front free endpaper. A bright, fine copy in a very good dust jacket. HBS 65697. $10,000

24 The First English Edition in Book Form of “ The Count of Monte-Cristo” 51. DUMAS, Alexandre. The Count of Monte-Cristo. With twenty illustrations, drawn on wood by M. Valentin, and executed by the most eminent English engravers, under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath. In two volumes. Vol. I. [II.] London: 1846.

First edition in English in book form. Two octavo volumes. [2, blank], iv, 464, [2, blank] ; [2, black]iv, 464, [2, blank] pp. With twenty woodcut plates (including frontispieces, however frontispiece to volume I has been bound between pages 2 & 3) by M. Valentin (designed for the English edition).

Late nineteenth-century, early twentieth- century full speckled calf. Almost invisibly rebacked to style. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spines stamped in gilt. Spines each with red and black morocco spines labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A few very small spots of foxing in the text. A few plates with some minor toning to fore-edge, not affecting illustration. A few pages have been opened a bit rough. Previous owner’s signature on front free endpaper of each volume dated 1889. Same owner’s old in notes on final blank of volume I, dated 1923. Overall, a very good copy of this elusive title.

The Count of Monte-Cristo first appeared in English as an illustrated serial in the London Journal earlier this same year. “No translator’s name is given, yet it is interesting to note that almost every successive English edition has been based upon his work” Reed, pp. 175-176. HBS 65724. $10,000

The Beginning of Sociology

52. EDEN, Sir Frederic[k] Morton. The State of the Poor: or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period;... on subjects of national importance. London: Printed by 1J. Davis, for B. & J. White…, 1797.

First edition of “one of the classical works in the history of economics” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Three quarto volumes (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 269 x 207 mm). [6], xxxi, [1, blank], 632; [iii]-viii, 444, 443*-*444, 445-692; [iii]-viii, 693-744, 737*-*744, 737†-†744, 745-904, ccccxxx, [1, “Directions to the Binder”], [1, blank] pp. Bound without the half- titles, but with the “Directions to the Binder” leaf at the end of Volume III, which is often lacking. Errata leaf to Volume I bound before the Preface. Folding table facing p. viii of the Appendix (in Volume III).

Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to style. Covers with decorative gilt border, spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, with red and green morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges and turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt. Some light foxing and minor soiling. A 1.5- inch crack to bottom of outer front hinge of Volume I. Corners a bit bumped. Short tear to outer margin of 3U3 (pp. 517/518) in Volume I, not affecting text. From the library of William A. Foyle, with his red morocco bookplate on front pastedown. An excellent copy. Einaudi 1714. Goldsmiths’ 17107. Kress B.3384. Maxwell & Maxwell I, p. 387, no. 14. Printing and the Mind of Man 249. HBS 65389. $13,500

25 Signed by Thomas A. Edison 53. [EDISON, Thomas A.]. Ramsaye, Terry. A Million and One Nights. A History of the Motion Picture. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926.

First edition. Limited to 327 copies. Signed by the author and Thomas A. Edison. Quarto (9 x 6 1/2 inches; 241 x 168 mm). lxx, 400; 401-868 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrated throughout text with black and white photographic reproductions.

Publisher’s blue buckram, bordered with a single blind rule on the front cover, and with a center device stamped in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt. A bit of the gilt lettering slightly rubbed from the spines. Light staining to endpapers due to glue used on pastedown endpapers. Else a very handsome, near fine set.

A lavish production, chronicling the history of the silver screen, with wonderful vintage photographs—as Edison states, “the first endeavor to set down the whole and true story of the motion picture…through his years of preparation…I am aware of [the author’s] effort at exact fact. A high degree of detailed accuracy has been attained.”HBS 66012. $4,500

First Edition in Original Cloth

54. ELIOT, George. Felix Holt the Radical. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 194 x 122 mm). [iv], [1]-303, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-290; [iv], [1]- 283, [1, blank], [4, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Half-title present in volume I and III.

Original reddish brown sand-grain cloth with blind-stamped borders on covers and spines stamped and lettered in gilt (Carter’s “B” binding). Mostly unopened. Pale yellow-coated endpapers. Light toning to half- title of volume I. An exceptionally bright, clean set. Housed in a cloth chemise and quarter green morocco slipcase.

“Set in 1832 in Loamshire, [the book] vividly evokes the political ferment and corrupt electioneering tactics of the times.” (Oxford Companion to English Literature) Carter, Binding Variants, pp. 111-112. Sadleir 814. Woolf 2058. Parrish. HBS 64972. $3,500 The Most Famous Poem of the Twentieth Century 55. ELIOT, T.S.. The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922.

First edition, first issue. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this being number 134. With the limitation number in the colophon on page [6] measuring 5 mm in height, “water” with dropped “a” on page 22 and “mountain” spelled correctly on page 41. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 128 mm). [1]-64 pp.

Original flexible black cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Uncut. Spine very lightly sunned. Some very light rubbing to boards. A small dampstain on the fore-edge of pages 15-26. Overall a very nice copy. “

“Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion,’ (Pound)” (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 30b).Connolly 100 30b. Gallup, Eliot, A6a.HBS 65471. $8,500 26 In a Beautiful Hardcover Binding, Elaborately Decorated in Multi-Colored Needlework 56. [EMBROIDERED BINDING]. CAULFEILD, S.F.A.. SAWARD, Blanche C.. Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework. [Dictionary of Needlework] New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1972.

First Dover edition. Two quarto volumes (10 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches; 278 x 204 mm). xvii, [1], [1]-330; [4], 331- 697, [1, blank] pp. Extensively illustrated in black and white. Original printed wrappers bound in. Wrappers printed in color.

Bound in full blue cloth over boards. Covers elaborately decorated in multi-colored needlework. Floral patterns in red, yellow, purple and green thread. Spines and front boards lettered in gilt. Original wrappers bound in. House in a red cloth slipcase.

“This Dover edition, first published in 1972 , is an unabridged republication of the second edition (1887) of the work originally published by A.W. Cowan, London, in 1882 under the title The Dictionary of Needlework: An Encyclopedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlework. For this reprint edition, the work has been divided into two volumes, whereas the original work was published in six separately bound divisions. Some of the plates that originally appeared in color are here reproduced in black and white. A Table showing the location of the color and halftone plates has been prepared especially for this reprint edition.”HBS 65714. $850

First Edition of the First Complete English Translation, With All Thirty-Seven Overlips, of Euclid’s “Elements of Geometry”

57. EUCLID. The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated in the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, Citizen of London... new Secrets Mathematicall and Mechanicall, untill these our daies, greatly missed. London: Imprinted…by John Daye, 1570.

First edition of the first complete English translation of Euclid’s Elementa (first published in Venice in 1482 by Erhard Ratdolt), and with all thirty-seven overslips. Folio (12 x 7 7/8 inches; 302 x 202 mm.). [28], 203, 205-464 leaves (number 204 omitted in foliation) and with the folding letterpress “Groundplat” or table accompanying John Dee’s preface. Title within allegorical woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 99) showing, at top, Time bringing Truth and Antiquity to light, and with the figures of Ptolomeus, Marinus, Aratus, Strabo, Hipparchus, Polibius, Geometria, Astronomia, Arithmetica, and Musica on the sides, and Mercurius at the bottom. Woodcut geometrical diagrams throughout, twenty-six in Book XI with a total thirty-seven overslips. Woodcut portrait of John Day on colophon leaf. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. The overslips were originally printed as six bifolia bound in at the end (and are often found defective or lacking).

Early full brown calf neatly rebacked and restored to style. Ruled in gilt and blind. Boards with a central gilt device. Gilt spine bands, compartments blind panelled and with central oval gilt devices. Title neatly restored in margins and a bit soiled. Folding plate with a few closed tears, expertly and neatly repaired. Some minor marginal, dampstaining and light soiling. Boards with a few scuffs and scratches. Overall, an excellent copy, very clean overall and on strong paper. HBS 65761. $100,000

27 The First Appearance Of The Fahrenheit Thermometer 58. FAHRENHEIT, Daniel Gabriel. Experimenta circa gradum caloris. In: Philosophical Transactions. Volume. XXXIII, no. 381, pp. 1-3. [London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, 1724].

The first appearance of Fahrenheit’s invention of the Fahrenheit Thermometer. Quarto (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches; 215 x 167 mm). [2], 37, [1, blank] pp. Also with Robert Houstoun’s “An Account of a Dropsy in the Left Ovary of a Woman” pages 8-15, and additional material. With large folding engraved plate.

Disbound. With some very light foxing. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell.

“With his ‘Experiments concerning the Degrees of Heat’ Fahrenheit perfected the modern instrument, his principal innovation being a ‘fixed point’ of departure, namely the temperature to which water can be cooled when mixed with ice and salt. This he called zero. At the ends of his scale were normal human blood-heat-which he took as 96° -and normal freezing point of water, 32°. When this scale was later extended upwards, the boiling point of water fell at 212o. He may have been the first to use mercury as a thermometric fluid.” (PMM, 182). PMM 182. HBS 64723. $3,500

First Edition “Gatsby” 59. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.

First edition, first printing, with “chatter” on p. 60, line 16, “northern” on p. 119, line 22, “it’s” on p. 165, line 16, “away” on p. 165, line 29, “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9-10, and “Union Street station” on p. 211, lines 7-8. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 190 x 130 mm). [6], 218 pp.

Original dark green linen-like grain cloth with front cover lettered in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. The gilt on the spine is very bright and not rubbed. Previous owner’s pencil inscription dated 1925 on front free endpaper. About fine. Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A11.1.a. HBS 66062. $5,000 First Edition, First Issue of Flaubert’s Masterpiece, “Madame Bovary” In The Original Wrappers 60. FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Moeurs de Province. Paris: Michel Levy Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1857.

First edition, first issue, with the misspelling “Senart” on the dedication leaf (later issues have the dedicatee’s name spelled “Senard”). Two twelvemo volumes. (7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 188 x 118 mm). [iv], [1]- 232, 36 (advertisements); [4], [233]- 490 pp. December 1857 catalogue laid in at back of Vol. I.

Original pale green printed wrappers and glassine jackets, all edges uncut. Only lightest of wear and foxing. Both volumes chemised together in a quarter red morocco slipcase. Spine of slipcase lettered in gilt. Overall, a very attractive copy in the original state of Flaubert’s first and most famous work, and one of the most celebrated French novels of the nineteenth century.

“Flaubert’s object in Madame Bovary was to show his unbalanced, romantically-minded heroine at odds with her environment. He paints a flat, devastating picture of a petty provincial town (he names it ‘Yonville’) and the local worthies. Madame Bovary [Flaubert’s first novel] was first published in 1856 in the Revue de Paris, and upset readers’ susceptibilities even though cuts had been made by the editor. Flaubert was prosecuted, together with the part-proprietor and the editor of the journal for offences against public morals, but after a trial which was a literary sensation of the day he was acquitted” (The Oxford Companion to French Literature). Vicaire III, col. 721.H BS 65282. $15,000 28 First Edition in Dust Jacket 61. FLEMING, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, [1962].

First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 189 x 127 mm). [1]-221, [3, blank] pp. With a double- page black and white illustration.

Black cloth-patterned paper over boards. Front board stamped in silver and blind, in the shape of a dagger. Spine lettered in silver. Red endpapers. Top edge of text black foxed. Binding slightly skewed. Spine of book with a light crease down the center. In dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping. Jacket spine darkend. Light edgewear to jacket, mainly at creases and spine extremities. Inside of jacket with some small tape reinforcements. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65993. $1,000 The Birth of Antibiotics; One of 250 Copies

62. FLEMING, Sir Alexander. On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium with Special Reference to Their Use in the Isolation of B. Influenza. [London: 1929 (i.e. 1944)].

Second separate printing. One of only 250 copies. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 248 x 186 mm.). 12 pp. Self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Folding red cloth case. A fine copy.

“In 1944 Fleming commissioned a reprint of 250 copies of his famous paper in response to the renewed interest in his early discovery inspired by Chain and Florey’s development of penicillin. The paper was originally published in 1929 both as a journal article and as an off-print; the original offprint was limited to 150 copies and is now extremely rare. (Norman).

Garrison and Morton 1933. Heirs of Hippocrates 2320. Norman Library 799. Printing and the Mind of Man 420a. HBS 65299. $5,000

With Ninety-Four Engraved Plates

63. FORBES, James. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridges from a Series of familiar Letters Written during Seventeen Years Residence in India:... from original drawings. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley. Published by White, Cochrane, and Co, 1813.

First edition. Four large quarto volumes (11 3/4 x 9 5/16 inches, 298 x 237 mm). [4], [1]-xxiii, [1, blank],[1]-481, [1, printer’s slug]; xv, [1, blank], 542; xii, 487, [3, blank];[2, blank], xi, [1, blank], 425, [1, printer’s slug], [1, errata], [1, blank], [4, direction to the bindery], [2, blank] pp. Half-titles present. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Bate and ninety-three full page plates (of which twenty-eight are hand- colored and concern natural history subjects).

Bound in contemporary full tan calf, with the covers very lightly diced. Boards triple ruled in gilt, with gilt-stamped floral devices at the corners. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments. Edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Outer hinges a bit rubbed. Two previous owner’s old bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper in each volume. A 1-inch closed tear to the lower margin of the plate “A Hindoo Family” from volume I, not affecting engraving. The “Cobra” plate in volume I, trimmed closed at the top. Some minor foxing and toning throughout, mainly to the frontispiece portrait. Overall a very nice set. HBS 65554. $8,000 29 Two Volumes, Each With a Fore-Edge Paintin 64. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Lady in the Lake. Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Co., 1822.

Two twelvemo volumes (6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; Volumes IV and V of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Each volume with a fore-edge painting. Volume IV with a fore-edge painting of Craigmiller Castle and volume V with a fore-edge painting of Loch Leven Castle.

Full, navy blue straight-grain morocco. Boards stamped with a vignette in gilt of a countryside scene and paneled in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Blue drab endpapers. A bit of foxing and dampstaining, mainly to blank preliminaries and not affecting fore-edge. Overall very good.

“The Scene from the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch- Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days, and the transactions of each day occupy a Canto.” HBS 65863. $1,000

With Numerous Engraved Plates 65. FOXE, John. The Lives Of The Primitive Martyrs, From The Birth Of Our Blessed Saviour, To The Reign Of Queen Mary I. With The Life Of Mr. John Fox. London : Printed and sold by H. Trapp, NO. 1. Pater-Noster Row, [1776?]. [Together with]: FOXE, John. The Book Of Martyrs: Containing An Account Of The Sufferings & Death Of The Protestants In The Reign Of Queen Mary The First. Illustrated with copper-plates. Originally written by Mr. John Fox. Now carefully revis’d & corrected with a recommendatory preface by the Revd. Mr. Madan.[London] : Publish’d as the act directs, Octr, 12th, 1776,

First editions thus. Two folio volumes in one (14 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; 368 x 242 mm). [1]-287, [1, blank], [4, table]; iv, 815, [1, blank], [4, index] pp. First book with half-title, frontispiece, and frontispiece portrait. Second book with Frontispiece and engraved title. An additional thirty-eight engraved plates throughout (nine in first book, 29 in second book).

Contemporary full brown calf, rebacked to style. Spine stamped in blind. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges brown. Newer endpapers. A fair amount of foxing, toning and offsetting throughout. Some pages a bit brittle with marginal chipping, not affecting text. Worming to bottom margin of leaves 6L-7M, not affecting text. Leaf B2 of “Lives” bound out of place behind C2. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65965. $1,500

The Beginnings of Modern Comparative Religion 66. FRAZER, Sir James. The Golden Bough. A Study in Comparative Religion. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.

First edition Two octavo volumes. xii, [1, contents], 409, [2, ads]; 407 pp.

Publisher’s original fine-diaper green cloth with elaborate botanical gilt stamping on the covers, spines lettered in gilt. Black endpapers. An excellent copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 374. HBS 65275. $3,750 30 Underwater Warfare 67. FULTON, Robert. Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions. New York: William Elliott, 1810.

First edition of the first book on underwater warfare. Oblong folio (87/16 x 10 5/8 inches; 215 x 269 mm). 57, [3] pp. Complete with all five plates. The first two leaves (blank and title) are a bit short (8 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches; 215 x 209 mm).

As issued in marbled wrappers. Old, faint crease to center. Some occasional light foxing but overall, a very good and clean copy.

“The first book devoted to the subject. Although Fulton failed to persuade the United States Navy and Congress of the potential of the torpedo as a defensive weapon, his ideas ultimately revolutionized the strategy and tactics of naval warfare”---Honeyman sale 1384

Rare work by the co-inventor of the steamboat. Dedicated to President Madison & both Houses of Congress. In his foreword to the President, Fulton writes: “In January last, at Kalorama, the residence of my friend, Joel Barlow, I had the pleasure of exhibiting to Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, & a party of gentlemen from the senate & house of representatives, some experiments & details on Torpedo defence & attack.”

“British interference with commerce during the European wars made of Fulton an avowed advocate of the freedom of the seas & led him to seek means of combating what he regarded as sea piracy. . . . He chose submarine warfare as the most effective weapon & for nine years, beginning in 1797, applied his energies & genius almost exclusively to the development of the submarine mine & torpedo.”--- Dictionary of American Biography. Howes F417. Printing and the Mind of Man 264. Sabin 26199. HBS 65261. $12,500

The Fourth and Best Edition in a Beautiful Binding 68. GATTY, Mrs. Alfred. The Book of Sun-Dials. Originally Complied by the Late Mrs. Alfred Gatty. Now Enlarged and Edited by H.K.F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd London: George Bell and Sons, 1900.

Fourth and best edition. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Folio (10 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 274 x 189 mm). xvii, [1, blank], [errata slip], [1]-529, [1, colophon], [2, blank] pp. Frontispiece portrait and an additional eight photographic and engraved plates. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Plates with tissue guards.

Beautifully bound by Worrall Birmingham in full green morocco. Boards double-ruled in gilt, single-ruled in blind with corner ornaments. Spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Some toning to tissue guards. About fine. three editions. HBS 65831. $1,250

One of 300 Copies

69. [GRABHORN PRESS]. The Santa Fe Trail to California 1849-1852. The Journal and Drawings of H.M.T. Powell. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1931.

One of 300 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California. Folio (13 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches; 344 x 237 mm). 272 pp. with sixteen plates, and two folding maps. On hand-made paper by Van Gelder Zonen of Holland. With the Publisher’s prospectus laid in.

Quarter orange niger over tan linen boards. Spine stamped in blind with four raised bands. Fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Spine slightly sunned. Overall a near fine copy. HBS 65525. $1,500

31 First Edition in Dust Jacket, From the Zane Grey Library 70. GREY, Zane. The Trail Driver. New York and London: Harper & Brothers , 1936.

First edition. Octavo (7 7/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 189 x 130 mm). [6], 302 pp. In publisher’s dust jacket. From the Zane Grey Library, with the library’s blindstamp on the front free endpaper.

Full blue cloth, stamped and lettered in yellow on front board and spine. Book is about fine. Jacket with a few specks of chipping and with some minor creasing on front panel. Inside of the jacket with a bit of browning, not affecting the front. Overall very good to fine. HBS 65711. $1,000

First Edition, First Issue of Haggard’s Classic 71. HAGGARD, H. Rider. BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, [binder]. King Solomon’s Mines. London: Cassell & Company, 1885.

First edition, first issue, with “Bamamgwato” for “Bamangwato” on p. 10, line 14; “to let twins to live” for “to let twins live” on p. 122, line 27; and “wrod” instead of “word” on p. 307, line 29, and with publisher’s catalogue dated “5 G. 8.85” and “5 B. 8.85.” Small octavo (7 x 4 11/16 inches; 178 x 119 mm). [4], vi, [7]-320, [16, publisher’s catalogue] pp. Folding color facsimile map inserted as frontispiece. A black and white map on page 27. Original front cover cloth bound in at the back.

Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine printed and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A few professional repaired closed tears to the folding map. About fine.

The prototypical modern adventure novel, King Solomon’s Mines was a surprise bestseller, and the first issue (of 1,000 copies) was quickly consumed by readers of all ages. Allen 31. McKay 4. HBS 65171. $5,000 First Edition In the Original Cloth 72. HARDY, Thomas. The Trumpet-Major. A Tale. In Three Volumes. London: 1880.

First edition in book form (first printed serially in Good Words from January to December 1880). Three octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 185 x 125 mm) . [i]- vi, 295, [1, blank]; [i]-vi, 276; [2, blank], vi, 259, [1, blank] pp. Volumes I & II without preliminary blank.

Publisher’s primary binding of volume I and secondary binding of volumes II and III all of red diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth, the only difference being back covers stamped in blind with double-rule (vol. I) or triple-rule (vols II & III) border. Front covers decoratively stamped in black with a three-panel design incorporating two vignettes, an encampment at top, a mill at bottom, and lettering in the center panel. Spines decoratively stamped in gilt and black with standard, sword, and bugle, and lettered in blind and gilt (with imprint at foot of spine: Smith, Elder & Co.). Yellow coated endpapers. Spines of all volumes a bit darkened. Cloth of all spines with some wrinking as well as to cloth of back board of volume one. A bit of soiling and rubbing to cloth. Some light shelfwear to spines. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Occasional thumb soiling along fore-edges. Volumes slightly skewed. Overall a good set housed in a quarter morocco clamshell and chemise. The Trumpet-Major was published in an edition of 1,000 copies on 26 October 1880. Hardy himself drew the two vignettes for the front cover. Purdy, pp. 31-35. Sadleir 1115. Webb, pp. 14-15. Wolff 2995a. HBS 65765. $7,500

32 The ‘Wessex’ Edition in a Contemporary Binding by Zaehnsdorf 73. HARDY, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse With prefaces and notes. London: Macmillan and Co., 1912-1913.

Wessex Edition. Twenty-one consecutive octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 221 x 143 mm). Includes the complete set of The Wessex Novels. With photogravure frontispieces and double-page maps of Wessex at the end of each volume.

Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 1914, in full purple calf. Gilt triple-rule border on covers. Spines decoratively paneled in gilt, with four red morocco floral onlays and three brown morocco lettering labels. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Gilt dentelles. A bit of rubbing to some board edges and head and tail of a few spines. Overall a near fine and very attractive set.

“The Wessex Edition is in every sense the definitive edition of Hardy’s work and the last authority in question of text” (Purdy). Three further volumes of Verse were published several years later in 1919-31. Satires of Circumstance, Moments of Vision (1919), Late Lyrics and Earlier, The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall (1926) and Human Shows, Winter Words (1931). Purdy, pp. 282-285. HBS 65836. $6,000

The Best Edition of Harris’ Navigantium 74. HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. Or, a complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers ... Now carefully revised, with large additions, and continued down to the present time; including particular accounts of the manufactures and commerce of each country. Vol. I [Vol II.] London: Printed for T. Osborne. 1764.

Third and best edition, much enlarged. Two folio volumes (16 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches; 410 x 260 mm.). [10], xvi, 984; [12]. 1056, [19, index], [1, plate list] pp. (π2 a2É‘2 b-e2 2É‘2 B - 11R2; a2 b-c2 (-C2) B - 12R2). Complete with sixty-one engraved plates, including fifteen folding maps. Title-pages in red and black.

Beautifully bound in period-style Cambridge-paneled speckled calf with blind-tooling, spine compartments densely gilt in a repeating leaf pattern, red and green morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers. Scattered light foxing. A small owner’s stamp in purple ink to the outer margin of the title- page of Volume II. A closed tear in the center of leaf 5Z2 in Volume II has been expertly repaired. Overall a very good, remarkably clean and bright copy of this important collection of voyages.

“A collection of all known voyages ... [Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca] is valuable for the original impressions of the fine series of maps by Herman Moll, including a very good one of America. Also there is one of the world according to Mercator’s projection, with improvements, showing the northern coast line and part of the west and south coasts of Australia together with parts of Tasmania and New Zealand. Among voyages included are those of Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, Schouten, Hawkins, Narbrough, and Dampier. This work includes an interesting list of subscribers and indexes of places and persons” (Hill). Cox 1, p. 10. Sabin 30483. National Maritime Museum 34. Hill 775 (second edition). HBS 65407. $15,000 33 First Edition of a Classic American Novel 75. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.

First edition, mixed issue with “reduplicate” for “repudiate” on p. 21, line 20, and the contents ending on page “iv.” Without the publisher’s ads inserted. Small octavo (7 x 43/8 inches; 179 x 110 mm). [2, blank], iv, 322 pp. Title-page printed in black and red.

Beautifully bound by The Atelier Bindery in full blue morocco. Boards ruled in gilt with leaf corner devices. Front board with a scarlet calf letter “A” outlined in gilt, inlaid in the center. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Original brown cloth binding bound in at the back. Slipcase, with blue morocco edges. Overall a very good copy. BAL 7600. HBS 65788. $2,750 First Edition in Dust Jacket 76. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937.

First edition. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 203 x 135 mm). [viii], [1]-262, [2, blank] pp.

Publisher’s black cloth. Spine stamped and lettered in green and gilt. Front board stamped in gilt with Hemingway’s signature. In dust jacket with $2.50 price. Jacket edges with browning, some wear and light creasing. Head and tail of jacket spine with a few small chips. Some very light rubbing to cloth and a small amount of fraying to headcap. Overall, a near fine copy in a bright unrestored dust jacket.

This book is the basis of the famous Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall film of the same name (directed by Howard Hawks and released in 1944). This film has one of the most famous quotes of all time: “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow.” HBS 65648. $2,000

First Edition Of Holinshed’s Chronicles, an Important Shakespeare Source Book; With the Folding Map of Edinburgh 77. HOLINSHED, Raphael. The First [-Laste] Volumes of the Chronicles. of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. London: 1577.

First edition. Four parts in two. Two folio volumes (11 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches; 286 x 194 mm), a very large copy. [viii],124 (i.e. 126 leaves), 289, [1, blank] (pp), [8], 22 pp, 1-518, [26], [2, errata] (pp), [2], 28 (leaves), 115, [6], [1, blank], [2 errata] pp; [iv], 291-659, 700-981, 990- 1592, [2, names of knights], 1593-1876, [4, errata], [100, index] pp. Both volumes collate the same as Pforzheimer with the exception of the errata in volume I being bound out of place and with-out one blank. Also the present copy has an additional four pages of errata before the index in the second volume. There is a duplicate page 927, in volume II. Titles with woodcut borders (McKerrow 147a), numerous woodcut initials and illustrations of various sizes throughout, many repeated. With the fold-out plate of the Map of Edinburgh, which is often lacking.

First and best edition of ‘Holinshed’s Chronicles’, commonly known as the ‘Shakespeare Edition’, from the extensive use made of it by the great dramatist, who frequently used Holinshed’s own words in his plays. At page 243 of the ‘History of Scotland’ begins ‘The History of Macbeth’ which formed the basis for Shakespeare’s immortal play.

Eighteenth-century full brown calf, very expertly rebacked preserving original spines. Boards double-ruled in gilt with a central gilt device. Spines stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edge brown, others red. Newer endpapers. First title-page in each volume, neatly backed. Neat old ink notes on front free endpaper of volume I. A small marginal rust hole to pages 107-115 of volume I. The hole has been repaired on pages 111-115, and is barely affecting the marginal text notes on pages 111-114. Page 469 of volume one has a corner that has been professionally repaired, barely affecting text. The final four leaves of volume I have been remargined along the top edge, barely affecting the headline of just one leaf. The final leaf of this group has also been remargined along fore-edge, not affecting text. Volume II with pages 467, 889 and 891 recornered, not affecting text. Page 1197 has been recornered, barely touching the text. Pages 1005-1010, 1409 & 1423 have been remargined, not affecting text. There is a five-inch closed tear to leaf cii of the index, partially repaired with no loss of text. Occasional browning and light dampstaining. Overall, an excellent and quite large copy.Grolier Langland to Wither 146. Lowndes 1086. Pforzheimer 494. STC 13568 (most sets seem to have variations in imprint). HBS 65751. $45,000

34 One of the Most Influential Books in American and English Jurisprudence 78. HOLMES, O[liver] W[endell], Jr. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881.

First edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 209 x 136 mm). xvi, 422, [2, blank] pp.

Original russet fine cross-grain cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly worn. Spine the slightest bit darkened. Bookseller’s small stamp on front pastedown and early signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy of this classic of American law. In a quarter morocco clamshell.

“Holmes’s great contributions to American constitutional law from his service on the Supreme Court of the United States—mostly in dissents which are now sanctified—should not be permitted to obscure his lasting effect on legal scholarship, inspirational to Sir Frederick Pollack and Frederic William Maitland. This brilliant exposition, as effective on English scholarship and legal thinking as on American, of the true nature of law both as a development from the past and an organism of the present, blew fresh air into lawyers’ minds encrusted with Blackstone and Kent” (Grolier, 100 American). Grolier, 100 American, 84.HBS 65377. $1,750 First Edition in Dust Jacket, Signed by the Author

79. HUBBARD, L. Ron. Slaves of Sleep. Chicago: 1948.

First edition, one of 250 subscriber copies signed by author. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm). [10], [1]-206, [2, about the author], [6, blank] pp.

Original grey cloth over boards. Spine lettered in gilt. In original not price-clipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Hannes Bok. Jacket lightly browned along edges and spine. A fine copy in an about fine dust jacket. From the library of collector, Jack Cordes.

“Slaves of Sleep is a magic carpet into adventure that outdoes the Arabian Nights in romance, fabulous pageantry, dazzling color, and thrilling action. But more-this book is an invitation to an experience so unusual that the reader will be stunned from this prosaic world, and will take pause to wonder.” (from the front flap) HBS 65713. $2,500

Two Quarto Volumes of Johnson’s Dictionary 80. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed a history of the language, and an English grammar. In two volumes. The tenth edition, corrected and revised. London: For F. & C. Rivington, J. Walker [et al.], 1810.

Tenth edition, corrected and revised. Two quarto volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Samuel Johnson by Cook. Contemporary diced calf, ruled in gilt. Gilt lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Two former owners bookplates on front paste-down. Neatly rebacked to style. A very nice, bright copy. (PMM 201). Courtney & Nichol Smith, 58. Rothschild. HBS 64412. $2,500 35 “The Most Amazing, Enduring and Endearing One-Man Featin the Field of Lexicography” 81. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar.London: 1755.

First edition of “the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Two large folio volumes, tall paper copies, (16 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches; 412 x 254 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces.

Full brown calf, rebacked to style. Spines with original two calf spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spines ruled in gilt in compartments, six raised bands. Spine label on volume I, chipped with label professionally repaired. Boards rubbed and scuffed. Title-page and the first page of the preface with some professional restoration, not affecting text. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Some toning from glue to edges of pastedowns and blanks. Overall, a very nice set.

”Begun in 1747, and printed over five years, Johnson’s Dictionary at once put to shame every other dictionary that had ever been written and set the standard for every dictionary that has been written since. Its genius was at once acknowledged by every hand, and the first edition of two thousand copies was instantly sold out… Perhaps the greatest innovation in Johnson’s work was his consistent reliance not on earlier word-lists and dictionaries, not on his own intuition, but on English literature itself—the vast, wonderful treasury of words that, well chosen and properly sorted and accurately quoted, became in itself almost a dictionary of the language. ” (The Collection of The Garden Ltd., Sotheby’s New York, November 9 and 10, 1989, lot 148). Courtney & Nichol Smith, p. 54. Printing and the Mind of Man 201. Rothschild 1237. HBS 65682. $20,000

The First Folio Edition of Ben Jonson’s Works

82. JONSON, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Printed by William Stansby, 1616. [Together with:] The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume…London: [1631]-1640[-1641].

First folio edition. Three folio volumes, bound in two (Volume II divided into four parts, originally issued in two volumes). (Vol. I 10 13/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 275 x 180 mm.; Vol. II 11 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 282 x 190 mm.) [10], 1015, [1, blank]; [12], 88, [1], [1, blank], 93-170, 75, [1]; 155, [1, blank]; 292; 132 pp.. Volume I bound with rare initial blank leaf. Engraved allegorical title by William Hole.

Volume I- In this copy, the section title to Every Man out of His Humour (p. [73]) is within a woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 224) and has the imprint “Printed by W. Stansby for I. Smithwicke;” the section title to Cynthias Revels (p. [177]) is within the same woodcut border and has the imprint: “Printed by W. Stansby;” the section title to Poëtaster (p. [271]) is without the border and has the imprint: “Printed by William Stansby.” Volume II- the Divell is an Asse imprint dated 1631; the end of Mortimer reads :Hee dyed, and left it unfinished”. In this copy Part III is bound before Part II and The Divell is an Asse is bound before The Staple is News.

Volume I- Full contemporary brown paneled calf, expertly rebacked to style. Spine with red and green spine labels, lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Former owner’s signature on top of the title page, not affecting the engraving. Another signature on the front paste-down. Volume II- Full brown calf, ruled in blind, expertly rebacked and uniform with volume I, with red and green spine labels, lettered in gilt. Previous owners bookplates, Walter Scott Seton-Karr and John Seton Karr, on front paste-down. Together a very handsome set. Based on the fact that volume II was published twenty-four years after volume I, it is not unusually that the two volumes have different bindings.Grolier, 100 English, 17. Pforzheimer 559. STC 14751. HBS 64464. $35,000

36 James Joyce’s Last and Most Revolutionary Novel 83. JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, [1939].

First (regular) edition. Large octavo. [8], 628 pp.

Original rough red cloth. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt on two panels stamped in blind. Top edge stained orange-yellow, others uncut. Maroon dust jacket. A few minute abrasions to the top edge of the jacket. About fine.

“The ordinary edition consisted of 3400 copies of which 2255 were sold to the pubilc, 950 in the form of sheets being destroyed. The balance were gratis, etc.” (Slocum and Cahoon).

Joyce’s last and most revolutionary novel, Finnegans Wake was begun in 1922, with individual sections published as Work in Progress during the seventeen years of its composition. “Written in a dense, richly textured, and allusive style, whose punning, fragmentary quality mirrors the free-associating nature of the dreaming mind, the book is perhaps the definitive and most extreme work of literary Modernism. At once simple and complex, its narrative, which takes place in a single night but also incorporates the whole of human history, describes the relationships between Humphrey Chimpden Earwiker, an Everyman (H.C.E. translates as ‘Here Comes Everybody’) who is also Adam, his wife, Anna Livia Plurabelle, who is Eve and also the River Liffey, their daughter Iseult/Isobel, and their twin sons, Shem and Shaun, who are also Cain and Abel…The work is divided into four sections, corresponding, amongst other things, to the four seasons of the year and the Four Ages of Man, and offers a kind of guided tour around the ‘museyroom’ of the past, as well as a condensed history of language itself” (The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English).

“If Finnegans Wake is a key book, it is a key which needs a key…The ‘Wake’ reminds me of the unfinished obelisk which lies on its side at Assuan, yet it has passages of unearthly beauty…and huge comic scenes. Joyce insisted that each word, each sentence had several meanings and that the ‘idéal lecteur’ should devote his life-time to it, like the Koran” (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 87). Slocum and Cahoon A47. HBS 64362. $6,000

First Edition, One of One Thousand Copies 84. JOYCE, James. The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies. A fragment from work in progress. The Hague and London: The Servire Press and Faber and Faber Ltd, 1934.

First edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies printed on Old Antique Dutch paper, this being number 200. Octavo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm). [8], 77, [3] pp. Cover illustration, initial letter, and tail-piece designed by Lucia Joyce, the author’s daughter.

Original unprinted wrappers in the original printed dust jacket illustrated in blue, silver and gray. Some minor browning to the spine, and a small split at the bottom back hinge. Fragments of the original glassine laid in. Else a near fine, uncut and mostly unopened copy. In the original silver slipcase with pink paper label, lettered in silver. Slipcase with a bit of wear, but still very good.

This is a fragment from a ”work in progress,” which would be published as Finnegans Wake. Slocum and Cahoon A43. HBS 65791. $1,000

37 One of 900 Copies 85. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1936].

First English edition printed in England. One of 900 numbered copies printed on Japon vellum paper, out of a total edition of 1,000 copies, this being number 748. Quarto (9 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 252 x 190 mm). xiii, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank], 765, [1], [2, blank] pp.

Bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full green morocco. Front cover decoratively stamped in gilt with a Homeric bow (matching the original design), spine lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. A fine copy. Slocum and Cahoon A23. HBS 65768. $4,000 “A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever” 86. KEATS, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1818.

First edition, first issue. With one-line erratum on p. [xi], and five-line errata slip tipped in. And with printer’s imprint on p. [ii] reading “Printed by T. Miller, Noble street, Cheapside.” Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 221 x 145 mm). ix, [3], [1]-207, [1, blank], [4, ads dated May 1818] pp. Watermark on title and sheets “1817.”

Original drab boards rebacked to style. Original printed paper spine label, a bit chipped and soiled. Uncut. Corners lightly bumped and edges flaking a bit. A little light foxing and browning to edges of leaves. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy of a fragile item, in a quarter brown calf clamshell case.

So savage and malevolent were the reviews of this poem in Blackwood’s and The Quarterly Review (Lockhart described the poem as one of “calm, settled, imperturbable drivelling idiocy” (The Oxford Companion to English Literature) and “found it exquisitely funny that an apothecary, a fellow who confessedly knew no Greek, who had to read Homer in a translation, should venture on a classic theme” (MacGillivray, pp. xxiv-xxv)), that Keats’s supporters thereafter blamed the reviewers for his early death. HBS 65864. $8,500

The Best Edition 87. KEATS, John. The Poetical Works and Other Writings [Hampstead Edition]. Edited with Notes and Appendices by H. Buxton Forman. Revised with Additions by Maurice Buxton Forman. With an Introduction by John Masefield. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938-1939.

The Hampstead Edition. Limited to 1,050 numbered copies, this being number 695, signed by Maurice Buxton Forman (at the end of the Prefatory Note) and John Masefield (at the end of the Introduction). Eight octavo volumes (9 3/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 238 x 150 mm). Photogravure frontispieces with tissue guards and plates.

Half blue morocco over blue cloth. Morocco ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Blue marbled endpapers. A few volumes with a small amount of light discoloration to cloth. A near fine set. HBS 64942. $3,750 38 Rossetti’s “Ballads and Narrative Poems” 88. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. Ballads and Narrative Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [London: Published by Ellis & Elvey, 1893].

One of 310 paper copies, out of a total edition of 316 copies. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 206 x 143 mm). [4, blank], [4], 227, [5, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Golden type. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press.

Original full limp, yapp edges. With original silk ties. Spine lettered in gilt. The slightest crease to velum on spine. Previous owner Brian Stilwell bookplate on front pastedown. Small purple ownership stamp of Helen Ladd Corbett also on front pastedown. Housed in a custom black slipcase. A near fine copy.

Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, p. 29. Peterson A20. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 327, no. 20. Sparling 20. Tomkinson, p. 112, no. 20. HBS 65743. $3,000 The Doheny Copy, With Two Illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones 89. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. [Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality]. [Hammersmith: Sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1897].

One of 300 paper copies, out of a total edition of 308 copies. Large quarto (11 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 290 x 211 mm). [7, blank], [1], 90, [1], [1, blank] pp. With two full-page illustrations (frontispiece and illustration facing p. 90) designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and engraved on wood by W.H. Hooper. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Printed in black, red, and blue in Troy and Chaucer types.

Original full limp vellum with green silk ties. Spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Estelle Doheny. Overall an excellent copy.

Love is Enough was first published in 1872. Shortly before, Morris had abandoned his plan to produce an ornamented and illustrated edition, though an illustration by Burne-Jones, slightly altered and redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith, was later adapted for use in this Kelmscott Press edition. This was the second Kelmscott Press book to be printed in three colors (see Peterson). Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 61- 62. Peterson A52. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 331, no. 52. Sparling 52. Tomkinson, p. 121, no. 52. HBS 65752. $6,000

The Kelmscott Press “Utopia” 90. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORE, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Written by Sir Thomas More. [London: Sold by Reeves & Turner, 1893].

One of 300 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 308 copies. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 9/16 inches; 206 x 142 mm). [2, blank], xiv, 282, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. “Now revised by F.S. Ellis & printed again by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith” (Colophon). With a Foreword by William Morris.

Original full limp vellum with yapp edges. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Back bottom tie renewed. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. An about fine copy. Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, p. 26. Peterson A16. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 326, no. 16. Tomkinson, p. 112, no. 16. HBS 65744. $6,500 39 The Magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer

91. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896].

One of 425 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 438 copies. Folio (16 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches; 426 x 291 mm.). [4], ii, [2], 554, [2] pp. With eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert Catterson- Smith and cut by W.H. Hooper, woodcut title-page, fourteen variously repeated woodcut borders, eighteen variously repeated woodcut frames around illustrations, twenty-six nineteen-line woodcut initial words, numerous three-, six-, and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut printer’s device, all designed by William Morris and cut by C.E. Keates, W.H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type, the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Double columns. Edited by F.S. Ellis.

Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Printed paper label on spine. Spine and label very lightly browned, with a little chipping to label. Occasional light foxing or spotting on fore-edge. Otherwise a fine copy. With the bookplate of John Charrington on front pastedown. In a full brown morocco slipcase.

The Kelmscott Chaucer is “not only the most important of the Kelmscott Press’s productions; it is also one of the great books of the world. Its splendor…can hardly be matched among the books of the time” (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England).

Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 46-48. The Artist and the Book 45. Peterson A40. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 329, no. 40. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 258. Sparling 40. Tomkinson, p. 117, no. 40. HBS 65487. $85,000

40 First Edition, First Issue, With an ALS from the Kennedy Library Head, David Powers

92. KENNEDY, John F. , [editor]. As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, Mass.: Privately Printed, 1945.

First edition, first issue. One of an edition of about 500, distributed to friends and family. With all the points as described by Kennedy Library Head, David Powers: Title page in two colors, with sunken panel on front cover, ivory colored paper, and the caption on page 64. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 152 mm). xii, 75, [1, colophon] pp. Illustrated with thirty-three black and white photographs, including a frontispiece portrait.

Publisher’s original full burgundy cloth. Front cover stamped in black and gilt on a sunken panel. Spine lettered in gilt. A very small amount of rubbing to spine and back board. Otherwise near fine. In publisher’s original glassine. [Together with]: Three ALS, from the Head of the Kennedy Library, David Powers to Dr. Maury Bromsen dated January 23, 1978, April 2, 1979 and 1/7/80. The first of which is explaining the points that make the first edition differ from the reprint of [1965].

A copy of a letter of Spencer M. Cowan, President of the University Press to Arthur Price.

A coy of a letter from Jack [John F.] Kennedy to Mr. Tinker, a former teacher from Choate School telling him of Joe’s death.

The American Book Collector, February 1963 issue discussing this book as “The Find of the Year.”

This book, edited by Joe’s (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.) brother John, is a tribute to his exemplary and, tragically, short life. It is a collection of essays by the President and nineteen other people who knew Joe. Joe (1915-1944) was a gifted student, athlete, pilot and aspiring politician. He died when his experimental bomber malfunctioned and exploded mid-air over Europe. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross (their highest award), and a destroyer was christened in his honor. HBS 65163. $3,750

Kipling’s “Jungle Books”, Beautifully Bound In Full Morocco-Gilt With Elaborate Morocco Animal Onlays 93. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book [And:] The Second Jungle Book. New York: The Century Co., 1903, 1909.

Later editions of Kipling’s classic “Jungle Books.” Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm). With numerous illustrations.

Beautifully bound by by Asprey in contemporary full green morocco. Elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, brown, gray, burgundy, and black morocco animal onlays on each of the four covers. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. Previous owner’s bookplates on front pastedown of each volume. A fine set. Housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase, with morocco edges. HBS 65939. $3,000

One Of 525 Sets Signed By Kipling 94. KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1929.

First edition. One of 525 numbered sets, signed by the author, this being number 425. Three quarto volumes (10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches; 268 x 195 mm). With an engraved portrait of Kipling by Francis Dodd. Frontispiece with tissue guard.

Publisher’s full red crushed levant morocco. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Gilt dentelles. A bit of light foxing to fore-edges and frontispiece. A beautiful, about fine copy. HBS 65728. $2,000 41 With Ten Original Photographs

95. KNEELAND, Samuel. The Wonders of Yosemite Valley, and of California. With original photographic illustrations, by John P. Soule. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Boston: Alexander Moore, 1872.

Third edition. Octavo (10 5/16 x 6 3/4 inches; 262 x 172 mm). [iii]-xii, 13- 98, [2, blank] pp. (Preliminaries are incorrectly numbered in all editions.) Complete with ten mounted albumen photographs by Soule of scenes in Yosemite, with tissue guards, and three wood-engraved text illustrations relating to Giant Sequoias, and two engraved maps. Text and photographs ruled in red.

Original publisher’s green pebble- grain cloth over bevelled boards with front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black and rear cover decoratively stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Previous owner’s small bookplate on front pastedown, over older bookplate that has been partial removed. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Previous owner’s pencil drawings on front and back endpapers dated 1884. Pencil lines through the paper in a small area. A very clean and bright copy. HBS 64799. $1,500

First Edition of This Scarce Book on American Distilling 96. KRAFFT, Michael. The American Distiller or, the Theory and Practice of Distilling, According to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements, Including the Most Improved Methods of Constructing Stills, and of Rectification. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1804.

First edition. Octavo in fours (8 5/16 x 5 inches; 211 x 126 mm). [4], [1]-219, [1, blank] pp. With twenty-two unnumbered pages between pages 151 and 152 with the chapter title The Manner of Making Malt as described by Sir Robert Murray. Illustrated with three figures on two engraved folding plates. No copies could be located on OCLC. This book has been dedicated to Thomas Jefferson.

Contemporary tree sheep, rebacked to style. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. Boards with some light wear. Corners a bit bumped. A bit of chipping to spine. Pages a bit foxed and toned, particularly pages 29-43. The first folding chart has a minor closed split along the margin, not affecting the engraving. A small hole to first page of advertisements. A marginal paper flaw to page 53, not affecting text. Some minor soiling and staining to leaves. The final blank and back free endpaper contain old ink notes and recipes for Holland Gin, St. Croix Rum and Jamaica Rum, dated 1834. Overall a very good copy of this scare book on American distilling. This book contains instructions on the art of distilling as well as many recipes for various alcohols. HBS 66031. $2,750

42 The Journey in Search of Lapérouse, with the Rare Atlas of Plates Bound by Courteval 97. LABILLARDIÈRE, [Jacques Julien Houton de]. Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et la 2e. année de la République Françoise…Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, An VIII de la République Françoise [1799-1800].

First edition, quarto issue. Two quarto text volumes (290 x 222 mm.) and one folio atlas volume (22 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches; 565 x 415 mm.). xvi, 442; 332, 113, [1, errata] pp. Atlas with engraved title, double-page route map of the Western Pacific and Indian Oceean by Barbie du Bocage and forty- three plates engraved by Copia after drawings by Piron, the expedition artist, and the botanical plates by Redoute.

Contemporary French mottled calf [by Courteval]. Covers with borders of rope-and-disc design enclosed between gilt rules, smooth spines divided into sections using wide gilt bands stripped vertically, sections with large gilt designs, black morocco gilt lettering labels, gilt board edges, turn-ins decorated in a gilt greek-key pattern, marbled endpapers, edges speckled yellow. Atlas corners and caps expertly strengthened. Old and scattered oxidation stains to pp. 148-149 in Vol. II (text). Plate 10 with old, opaque stain to lower corner (into plate margin but not affecting image), four other plates with browning spots to lower blank margin. A truly exceptional set; beautifully bound, very tall and very clean. HBS 65251. $15,000 First British Edition of “The Most Important Exploration of the North American Continent” 98. LEWIS, Meriwether & William CLARK. Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by order of the Government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. By Captains Lewis and Clarke. Published from the Official Report.London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814.

First British edition. Quarto (11 x 8 7/8 inches; 282 x 225 mm.). xxiv, 663, [1, publisher’s ads] pp. With one large folding engraved map, and five engraved plans on three plates. One page of publisher’s advertisements. Bound with half-title.

Publisher’s original boards. Spine professionally reinforced. With original printed paper label. Uncut. Board edges and corners bumped and worn. Paper label, a bit chipped, barely affecting print. Some minor professional repairs to back of map, in the folds. A few pages with some minor tears, not affecting text. Final leaf with reinforcement along bottom edge and a small old library stamp. Two previous owner’s bookplates on front endpapers. A very good copy.

“Beyond the Missouri River there lay a vast and largely unexplored territory which bordered on the western reaches of the United States. Ceded by France to Spain in 1762 and then back to France in 1800 it was at this period visited only by some British and a few French trappers. The importance of exploring this area had been evident to Thomas Jefferson as early as 1783, when he had proposed the project to George Rogers Clark; but it was not until twenty years later that Jefferson, then President of the United States, saw the realization of his idea. Though unsuccessful in their attempt to find a transcontinental water route, they had demonstrated the feasibility of overland travel to the western coast” (PMM). Wheat states that the map is almost identical to the Philadelphia edition ‘except for a few minor variations’. Although preceded by the American edition in two volumes, this first British edition is generally thought to be a much finer production, both in layout and in the materials used. Graff 2480. Howes L-317. Sabin 40829. Wagner-Camp 13; 2. Grolier, American 100, 30 (American edition) HBS 65811. $30,000 43 Inscribed by Sinclair Lewis 99. LEWIS, Sinclair. Main Street. The story of Carol Kennicott. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition, first issue (mixed issue?) with folio 54 unbattered but the “y” in “may” on page 387 imperfect. Inscribed by Sinclair Lewis on front free endpaper. Octavo (7 5/16 x 5 inches; 185 x 127 mm). [2, blank], [8], 451, [3, blank] pp.

Inscription reads: “To Hugh Palmer/ (successor to all/interests of Von/ Jagemann)/Sinclair Lewis/Peterbord/Aug. 20, 1947.” On the front pastedown facing the inscription is an ownership inscription of Von Jagemann, 1920.

Original dark blue cloth stamped in orange on front cover and spine. Spine lightly sunned and the edges of the spine with a small amount of wear. A bit of light foxing to the preliminaries. Overall a very good copy. Pastore pp. 89-101. HBS 65172. $2,000

First Edition, Later Issue Of The Lincoln And Douglas Debates

100. LINCOLN, Abraham. DOUGLAS, Stephen A. Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois; Including the Preceding Speeches of Each, at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also, the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, As Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party, and Published at the Times of Their Delivery. Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.

First edition, later issue, with numeral “2” at bottom of page 13). Royal octavo (9 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches; 232 x 157 mm). [viii], [1] 2-268, [2, blank] pp.

Publisher’s original brown textured cloth, with blindstamped borders tied by floral devices in the corners and with a blindstamped central device. Spine lettered in gilt. Gilt slightly faded. Head and tail with some light shelfwear. Edges lightly rubbed. Foxing throughout as usual, but quite light. Previous owner’s bookplate on front free endpaper. Overall a beautiful copy. Howes L338. Howes. Monaghan 69. Streeter. HBS 66027. $1,000

The First Edition of Jack London’s Greatest Novel, In Dust Jacket 101. LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorated by Chas. Edw. Hooper. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903.

First edition. Octavo (192 x 131 mm). [5]-231, [1, blank], [2, ads] pp. With frontispiece and ten color plates, included in pagination. Text illustrations, some printed in blue and some in color. Title-page printed in blue and black.

Original vertically ribbed green cloth, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in white, red, black, and gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers, printed in blue with dog-team and mountain scene. In the original dark grey printed dust jacket. Jacket with restoration along folds. A bit of dampstaining to top edge of front panel. A closed tear along spine of jacket. Cloth extremities slightly worn and bumped, occasional finger-soiling to a few margins of text. Binding slightly skewed. A very good copy of this scarce first edition.

“The book, illustrating London’s recurrent Darwinian theme of the need for adaptation to survive was an immediate success and thrust London into a position of unaccustomed wealth.” (Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, 163). BAL 11876. Woodbridge 19. HBS 66030. $5,000

44 The Modern Age of British Economics 102. MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics. Vol. I. [all published]. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.

Scarce first edition. Octavo (811/16 x 5 1/2 inches). xxviii, 754, [2, publisher’s catalogue] pp.

Original dark green diaper-grain cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Dark green coated endpapers. Previous owner’s signature to the front free endpaper. Corners lightly bumped with some minor repairs to the top and bottom of the spine. Light foxing to half-title. Otherwise, a very good copy of a book that is almost always found rebound. Batson, p. 146; Einaudi 3736. HBS 64509. $7,500

Signed by Henri Matisse

103. [MATISSE, Henri, illustrator]. ORLEANS, Charles, Duc d’. Poèmes de Charles d’Orléans. Manuscrits et illustrés par Henri Matisse. [Paris]: Tériade Editeur, [1950].

One of 1,200 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 1,230 copies), signed by the artist on the limitation leaf. This being number 789. Large folio (16 1/8 x 10 7/16 inches; 409 x 265 mm.). 100, [1, colophon], [2], [1, blank] pp. Fifty-four full-page color lithographed illustrations by Matisse. Lithographed text in the artist’s hand printed in black within lithographed borders in color. “Les lithographies ont été exécutées sous la direction de Henri Matisse par les Ateliers Mourlot Frères…pour les Éditions de La Revue Verve” (Colophon).

Loose as issued in the original color lithographed wrappers. With the endleaves present. Lower corners very slightly bumped. A near fine copy. In the original glassine. Housed in a newer cloth slipcase. The Artist & the Book 202. HBS 66034. $7,500

First Edition, Signed by the Author 104. MCCARTHY, Cormac. No Country For Old Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

First edition, first issue. Signed by the author on tipped in leaf as usual for this title. Octavo (211 x 140 mm). [8], [1]-309, [3] pp. In publisher’s pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped.

Publisher’s original black boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Fine, unread condition.

This novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy is “A harrowing story of a war that society is waging on itself, and an enduring meditation on the ties of love and blood and duty that inform lives and shapes destinies, No Country for Old Men is a novel of extraordinary resonance and power.” (from the front flap). The book was adapted into an Oscar-winning film by the Coen brothers in 2007. HBS 66044. $850

First Edition, Inscribed by the Author 105. MCMURTRY, Larry. Terms of Endearment. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1975].

First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo (214 x 136 mm). [2], [1]-410 pp.

“For Ned-/I hope you’ve/followed This/gripping chronicle/to the Bitter/End-/Best/Larry McMurtry”

Brown cloth backstrip over beige paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket. Text browned as usual, else near fine. HBS 65793. $600

45 The Foundation of the Metric System, From the Library of Frank S. Streeter 106. MÉCHAIN, Pierre François André. DELAMBRE, Jean Baptiste Joseph. Base du système mètrique décimal, ou Mesure de l’arc du méridien compris entre les parallèles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, exécutée en 1792 et années suivantes…Paris: Baudoin, Imprimeur de l’Institut National [et] Garnery, 1806-1810.

Rare first edition of the foundation of the metric system. Three quarto volumes (10 x 7 7/8 inches; 255 x 200 mm). [2], ii, 551, [1, blank]; xxiv, 844; [4], 4, 16, 704, 62 pp. With half-titles. Twenty-eight folding engraved plates by E. Collin, and numerous tables in the text.

Contemporary French tree calf, with gilt borders. Smooth spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Red morocco spine labels. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Lacking free endpapers in volume I. Some insignificant pale marginal dampstaining. A few small splits to joints. Corners and boards a bit rubbed. Some staining to boards of volumes I and III. The bookplate of Frank S. Streeter on front pastedown of each volume. Overall a very nice set.

“In 1788 the French Academy of Sciences, at the suggestion of Talleyrand, proposed the establishment of a new universal decimal system of measurement founded upon some ‘natural and invariable base’ to replace Europe’s diverse regional systems. This project was approved by the National Assembly in 1790 and a basic unit or ‘meter’ of measurement proposed, which was to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the terrestrial pole and the Equator. In 1792 Méchain and Delambre were appointed to make the necessary geodetic measurements of the meridian passing through Dunkirk and Barcelona, from which the meter would be derived. The project was hampered by France’s political revolution, by the death of Méchain in 1804, and by the tedious calculation involved in converting one system to another; it was not until 1810 that Delambre was able to complete the final volume of their report. Méchain’s measurement of the arc of the meridian in Spain and the Balearic Islands, left incomplete at his death, was finished several years later by François Arago and Jean Baptiste Biot; these results, along with measurements taken in France, England and Scotland, were published in the supplementary volume (Norman Library). Norman Library 1481. Printing and the Mind of Man 260. Streeter. HBS 65393. $35,000

Signed Limited Now We Are Six 107. MILNE, A.A.. SHEPARD, Ernest H., [illustrator]. Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1927].

First American edition, large paper edition, one of 200 copies signed by A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard, this being copy number 8. Small quarto (7 1/16 x 8 3/4 inches). [2], ix, [3], [3, blank] 103 pp. Printed on Japon vellum. With signed limitation leaf between pp. [iv] and [v]. Text illustrations.

Original half pink cloth over light blue illustrated paper boards. Printed paper spine label. Blue laid endpapers. Publisher’s light blue printed jacket, and illustrated box. Top edge cut, others untrimmed. Mostly unopened. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Box, slightly browned with some chips and repairs. Box is missing its left side. A handsome, fine copy. HBS 64512. $3,000

46 John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” with John Martin’s Illustrations, One of 50 copies 108. MILTON, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton. With Illustrations, Designed and Engraved by John Martin. London: 1827.

First (Imperial Quarto) edition. One of only 50 copies with the smaller set of engravings. According to Campbell there were two issues of the Imperial Quarto Edition: “(2) Imperial Quarto Edition, measuring 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in., with fully lettered prints from the larger set of plates, at £10 16s.(3) Imperial Quarto Edition, measuring 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in., containing lettered proofs of the smaller set of the engravings: limited to 50 copies, at 12 guineas for the complete publication.” Thus even though the images were smaller, this edition was more expensive upon publication. Campbell states “only three copies of the Imperial Quarto edition containing proofs from the smaller set of engravings are now known” (this was in 1992).

Two volumes bound in one. Large quarto (14 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 366 x 268 mm.). [4], 228; [2], 218 pp. Twenty-four mezzotint plates in the smaller format (image size: 8 x 5 1/2 inches), with tissue guards.

Contemporary burgundy pebble-grain morocco. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spines paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt spine bands, gilt board edges, wide gilt-tooled dentelles, marbled endpapers and doublures, all edges gilt. Some light foxing (mainly to the plate margins and prelims). An excellent copy of this scarce edition.

“This book was one of the great publishing enterprises of the age. It appeared in eight different formats, four with the large plates (8 by 11 inches) and four with the small (6 by 8 inches). Martin executed the forty- eight mezzotints himself. The apocalyptic romanticism of his conceptions had many sources: the monumental buildings of London, the engravings of Piranesi, published volumes of eastern views, even incandescent gas, coalpit accidents, and Brunel’s new Thames Tunnel. The resulting illustrations may be heterogeneous, but they are also unforgettable” (Ray).

“Martin’s illustrations to John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost represent a turning point in his career. The vast majority of Martin’s most famous works…were based upon either Miltonic or biblical subject matter—the Paradise Lost series are of particular importance both as one of his chief bodies of designs and as the focal point for the beginning of his career as a mezzotint engraver. Begun by early 1824, this series of engravings was the result of a commission from a little known American publisher, names Septimus Prowett. Prowett, who was based in London, approached Martin to produce 24 mezzotint illustrations…to accompany an issue of Milton’s text which was to be produced in twelve parts…To appreciate the impact which Martin’s designs had upon his public, one must realize the extent to which these extraordinary visions represented an entirely new conception of approach to the art of illustration. Not only were they ‘original’ in the truest sense of the word—designed directly on the plates without the aid of preparatory sketches, they were some of the earliest mezzotints to have been made using soft steel rather than copper, and they were the first illustrations of Milton’s epic work to have been made in the mezzotint medium…The greatest significance of Martin’s illustrations, however, was in their spectacular visionary content…Martin laid before his public the spectacular settings of the epic tale—the open voids of the Creation, the vast vaulted caverns of Hell vanishing into the utter blackness of Chaos, the daunting scale of the city of Pandemonium, and the sweeping beauty f Heaven itself. These images have no serious counterpart and are the very essence of the sublime in Romantic art. They are without doubt one of the most significant series of British book illustrations ever to have been produced” (Campbell, John Martin, Visionary Printmaker, pp. 38-41).Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 69. HBS 65255. $9,500

47 First Appearance of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” 109. MOORE, Clement C. Poems. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844.

First edition, collected and published at the request of Moore’s children. Contains the first appearance of his famous poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (“Twas the Night Before Christmas”) in a collection of his own verse. Twelvemo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm). xi, [1, blank], [13]-216 pp.

Uncut in publisher’s original brown paper boards. Printed paper spine label. Top edge brown, fore-edge uncut. Some of the letters on the spine label have been darkened with ink as the label is a bit rubbed. Some professional restoration to spine extremities and hinges. A bit of rubbing tospine, boards and edges. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Previous owner’s extensive old ink notes about this edition on front free endpaper. Chemised and housed in a quarter calf slipcase. Overall a very nice copy.

“A Visit from St. Nicholas” appears on pp. 124-127. The poem was first published in The Troy Sentinel (N.Y.), circa 1830 and not seen by BAL. There has been only one copy of The Troy Sentinel in the last 35 years. It sold in New York in 2006 in poor condition for about $65,000. The first appearance of the poem in book form was in an anthology, The New-York Book of Poetry (New-York: 1837). Moore’s Poems is much rarer than The New-York Book of Poetry and is the desired first edition since it contains only Moore’s poems. BAL 14348. Grolier, 100 American, 52. HBS 65100. $7,500

Limited to 300 Copies Signed by the Artist

110. MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus, [composer]. BALTHUS, [illustrator]. Cosi Fan Tutte. Xilografie di Balthus. New York: Limited Editions Club, 2001.

First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus, this being number 249. Folio. With numerous color woodcuts by Balthus. Also includes three compact discs containing Hans Rosbaud’s opera in a pocket in the inside rear cover. Text in Italian.

Publisher’s full peacock green silk. Front board with black leather label on, lettered in gilt. Fine. Housed in the publisher’s matching suede-lined silk clamshell with black leather label, lettered in gilt on spine. With Limited Editions Club newsletter laid in. HBS 66037. $2,500

In its Rare Uncut State and Original Wrappers 111. PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. London: Printed for J.S. Jordon, 1791. Second edition (The first edition is extremely rare). With “Jordan” imprint and added preface. Octavo, in fours (9 x 5 3/4 inches; 226 x 147). x, [7]8-171, [1, blank] pp. Half-title present.

In scarce original plain blue wrappers, string-tied to binding. All edges uncut. The title and date is hand-written in pencil on the front wrapper. Wrappers with a bit of creasing and edgewear. A few small tears to middle of wrapper spine. Internally quite clean. Overall a very good copy of this book in its scarce uncut state. Housed in a quarter green straight-grain morocco slipcase.

This famous and important treatise, on the principles of fundamental human rights laid down by Thomas Paine, became an instant success. Originally published by Johnson in February of 1791, it was suppressed immediately.

“The textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy”—Printing and the Mind of Man. Gimbel p. 418. Howes P31. Printing and the Mind of Man, 241. HBS 66049. $2,500 48 An Autographed Note, Signed By Maxfield Parrish 112. PARRISH, Maxfield. Autograph Note Signed. [No place, no date]. An autographed note, signed by Parrish on a 3 x 5 inch card. In his distinct hand it reads: “Dear Mr. Johnson:/As far as I can remember the books I/ have illustrated are about as follows:/ The Knave of Hearts: Louise Saunders./ Arabian Nights./ Italian Villas. Edith Wharton./ Mother Goose in Prose./ The Golden Age [and] Dream Days} Kenneth Grahame./ Poems of Childhood. Eugene Field./ M.P.” And on the reverse of the note is his full name, signed “Maxfield Parrish” HBS 66041. $3,000

One of 300 Copies Signed by Both Author and Artist 113. PAZ, Octavio. BALTHUS, [artist]. Sight and Touch. In Spanish, English and French. With Three Woodcuts by Balthus New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1994.

Limited to 300 copies signed by Paz and Balthus on the limitation page. This being number 249. Large folio. With three full-color woodcuts by Balthus.

Publisher’s quarter tan morocco over tan cloth. Font cover with printed paper label, lettered in brown. Housed in publisher’s tan, felt-lined cloth clamshell. Clamshell with tan morocco lettering label on front. With publisher’s newsletter laid in. A fine copy. LEC Bibliography. HBS 66046. $1,750

With An Additional Suite Of Ten Colored Etchings By Joseph Goldyne 114. [PENNYROYAL PRESS]. [GOLDYNE, Joseph, illustrator]. FRANK, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl: Het Achterhuis. [West Hatfield, Massachusetts]: Pennyroyal Press with Jewish Heritage Publishing, 1985.

Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by illustrator Joseph Goldyne and designer Barry Moser. With an additional suite of the etchings, each signed in pencil by the artist. Folio (13 9/16 x 9 inches; 344 x 328 mm.). [196] pp. Illustrated with ten colored etchings by Joseph Goldyne, each signed in pencil by the artist. Plates with tissue guards. Printed by Harold P. McGrath in gray and rose in Bembo on Mohawk Letterpress. The etchings were printed by R.E. Townsend, Inc., on gray Arches. Designed by Barry Moser, who also engraved the tail-piece on endgrain boxwood.

Publisher’s full gray morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, Boston, Massachusetts, under the supervision of Samuel B. Ellenport. Front cover and spine ruled and lettered in blind. A fine copy. The additional suite of ten colored etchings in a quarter gray morocco portfolio. Both items housed in the publisher’s linen slipcase. A fine set. Pennyroyal 45. HBS 65722. $2,750

Uncut in Contemporary Binding 115. PEPYS, Samuel. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith A.B. of St. John’s College, Cambridge, from the Original Short-Hand Ms. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. London: Henry Colburn, 1825.

First edition. Two quarto volumes (11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 300 x 245 mm.). [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix, [3]; [4], 348, vii, [1], 311, [1] pp., with half-titles in each volume. Engraved frontispiece in each volume, and eleven engraved plates (one folding), and embellished with two engraved illustrations in the text.

Uncut in contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, spines with gilt bands, gilt panelled compartments and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Armorial bookplate. Small divet from 3k in first volume, one marginal tear tp 4E4 in second volume. Some general rubbing and fading to boards but, overall, a very clean and excellent copy. Grolier, 100 English 75, Sterling 674. HBS 65339. $4,500 49 With Ten Engraved Plates and Text in Both English and French 116. PERRAULT, Charles. The Histories of Passed Times, or the Tales of Mother Goose. With Morals;. A new edition, to which are added two Novels viz. The Discreet Princess, and the Widow and her two Daughters. Adorned with fine cuts. Vol. I. [II.]London printed and sold at Brussels: B. Le Francq, 1785.

A “new edition” with two additional stories The Discreet Princess, and The Widow and her two Daughter. Two twelvemo volumes (5 3/8 x 3 1/16 inches; 137 x 77 mm). [4], 189, [1, blank] + [8] leaves of plates; [4], 30, 29-193, [1, blank] + [2] leaves of plates. With ten engraved plates including the frontispiece (collated complete as compared to the Morgan Library copy). Text paralleled in French and English. With title-pages to both volumes printed in red and black in both French and English. ESTC notes that it was probably printed in Brussels.

Only three copies exist on World Catalogue and in the Anderson Gallery auction of Theodore Low De Vinne in 1920, it was described as “very rare.”

Contemporary full sheep. Spines stamped in gilt. Green morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. Previous owner’s old ink signature dated 1794 on English title-page of each volume. Boards a bit scuffed. Some wear to head and tail of the spines and corners. Board joints, cracked but firm. Overall a very good copy of this scarce book. Housed in a full morocco clamshell.

According to the ESTC: ’The Discreet Princess’ is by M. J. L’Héritier de Villandon. ’The Widow and Her Two Daughters’ is by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont.- Translations by Guy Miège and Robert Samber. HBS 65770. $12,500

With Two Original Lithographs 117. PICASSO, Pablo. MOURLOT, Fernand. Picasso Lithographe. Notices Et Catalogue Établis Par Fernand Mourlot. III. 1949-1956. Monte-Carlo: André Sauret, 1964.

First edition, limited to 2500 copies. Large quarto volume (12 1/16 x 9 11/16 inches; 320 x 247 mm). 159, [3] pp. Color and black and white plates, and two original lithographs done especially for this book. These lithographs are the covers and frontispieces.

Original black and white lithograph wrappers. With original onion skin. Onion skin lightly browned and a bit chipped. About fine. HBS 65578. $950

Sydenham’s Translation Of Plato 118. PLATO. Dialogues of Plato. [Translated by Floyer Sydenham]. London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1767, 1773.

First collected edition of Sydenham’s translations. Eight (of thirteen) parts, in two volumes. Quarto. Engraved folding plate in Volume II. Each part containing special title-page (Except for Meno and The Rivals) and separate pagination.

Contemporary full tan calf, rebacked to style, gilt single-rule border on covers, gilt board-edges, marbled endpapers. Brown calf spine labels, lettered in gilt. Corners worn, and boards lightly scuffed. Occasional light foxing throughout. Previous owner’s armorial bookplate on front paste-down of both volumes. A very good, crisp copy. HBS 64500. $4,000

50 The First Appearance of Poe’s Famous Detective Story in Publisher’s Gift Binding 119. POE, Edgar Allan. The Purloined Letter. [contained in] The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1845.

First appearance of Poe’s short detective story The Purloined Letter (pages 41-61). Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 219 x 139 mm). iv, [5]-300 pp. With eight engraved plate including the frontispiece portrait and engraved title-page. Plates with tissue guards. The Gift is also the first appearance of works by Emerson, Longfellow and others.

Full maroon morocco publisher’s special gift binding. Elaborate gilt stamping on boards and spine. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Corners with some rubbing. Some scattered foxing. A very nice copy in a beautiful binding.

C. Auguste Dupin, fictional detective appearing in three stories by Edgar Allan Poe including the present The Purloined Letter. Dupin was the original model for the detective in literature.

“Based on the roguish François-Eugène Vidocq, onetime criminal and founder and chief of the French police detective organization Sûreté, Dupin is a Paris gentleman of leisure who for his own amusement uses “analysis” to help the police solve crimes. In the highly popular short stories The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) and The Purloined Letter (1845), as well as the less-successful The Mystery of Marie Roget (1845), Dupin is depicted as an eccentric, a reclusive amateur poet who prefers to work at night by candlelight and who smokes a meerschaum pipe—foreshadowing the nocturnal Sherlock Holmes. Like Holmes, Dupin is accompanied by a rather obtuse sidekick, though Dupin’s companion, unlike Dr. Watson, remains nameless.” (Britannica) BAL 16143. Heartman and Canny,. Mason 351. HBS 65409. $2,000

First Collected Edition of Edgar Allan Poe, With First Edition “Literati”

120. POE, Edgar Allan. The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With notices of his life and genius. By N.P. Willis, J.R. Lowell, and R.W. Griswold. In two volumes. New York: J.S. Redfield, 1850. [Together with:] The Literati: Some honest opinions about authorial merits and demerits, with occasional words of personality. Together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays. With a sketch of the author, by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. New-York: J.S. Redfield, 1850. [And:] The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe. With a memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and notices of his life and genius by N.P. Willis and J.R. Lowell. In four volumes. New York: Redfield, 1856.

First collected edition. First edition, second issue of Volumes I, and II; First issue of Volume III; first and only printing of Volume IV. Four twelvemo volumes (octavo size; 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 185 x 115 mm). [4], xx, 483, [1, blank], [4, ads]; vi, [7]-495, [1, blank]; xxxix, [1, blank], 607, [1, blank]; xi, [1, blank], 447, [1, blank] plus [8] pp. of advertisements (numbered 1-4, 7-10). Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I.

Volumes I & II in original light purple cloth (BAL binding F). Covers blindstamped with a double rule frame, cornerpieces and ornate centerpiece. Spines blindstamped with simple rules, lettered in gilt, and with a gilt-stamped rule between the volume number and volume title. Cloth is a bit rubbed on these two volumes and uniformly sunned. A small amount of shelf-wear. A tiny hole to spine hinge of volume II. Volume III in blue cloth (BAL binding F) with matching blindstamping and gilt as the previous two volumes. A bit of edge and shelfwear. Spine sunned. Volume IV in original purple cloth (BAL binding H). Covers blindstamped with five-rule frame. Spine lettered in gilt and stamped in gilt with the bust of Athene and raven. Pale yellow endpapers. Spine sunned. Vols I-III with previous owner’s pencil inscription on front free endpapers. Vol. IV with previous owner’s old ownership stamp on title-page. A bit of light foxing throughout, bit overall a very good set. Each books chemised and housed together in a quarter morocco slipcase. Slipcase replicates the spines of four books. A bit of soiling to slipcase. BAL 16158, 16159, and 16161. Heartman and Canny, pp. 130-132. HBS 66055. $5,000

51 With 114 Color Illustrations

121. [POIRSON, V.A., illustrator] GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London: 1886. Large octavo.

Illustrated with 114 color illustrations. Octavo (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 250 x 167 mm). [4], xvi, [2], 291, [1, blank] pp.

Modern full autumn morocco. Boards quadruple gilt- ruled. Spine decoratively stamped in gilt in compartments and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Gilt dentelles. Green watered silk endpapers. Previous owner’s book plate on front blank. A few tiny scratches to back board. Otherwise, about fine. HBS 65773. $450 Signed by Porter 122. PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio Two: Iceland. San Francisco: Sierra Club, [1977].

First edition. Signed by the artist. Limited to 110 copies of which 100 were for sale. This being number 104. Photographs were taken in 1975, but Portfolio was published in 1977. Consisting of eleven (of twelve) 8 x 10 1/2 - inch dye-transfer color prints mounted on 20 x 15 inch heavy backing. 4pp. Introductory text (by Porter) with list of plates. Tissue guards between each plate. Stamped on the verso of each mount states “Portfolio II, (Iceland), Eliot Porter, print number, and portfolio number, and Printed by the artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1975. A light line of toning across title-page. Photos and mounts about fine. Housed in a blue cloth string-tied folding case. Case with a bit of light scuffing.

Porter’s photographs for this portfolio were taken during a two-month Landrover trip through Iceland, accompanied by his son Jonathan and daughter-in-law Zoë.

Eliot Porter had a passion for photography from a young age, however he followed a family tradition of enrolling in Harvard and graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Science. While working as a biochemical researcher at Harvard in the mid-1930s he was introduced to both Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams. Stieglitz offered to show some of Porter’s black and white prints at his gallery in New York. This show validated him as a photographer on par with Stieglitz and Adams. He gave up his career in science to fully concentrate on his photography career. HBS 66056. $4,500 First Edition of “Mrs. Tittlemouse” 123. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs.Tittlemouse. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910.

First edition. Twelvemo (5 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches; 139 x 105 mm). 85, [1, blank] pp. Pictorial label, frontispiece, and twenty-six illustrations in color (included in the pagination).

Original blue boards, printed in white. Color pictorial paper label on front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Top of spine a little bumped. Spine lightly sunned. Small bookseller stamp on blank verso of front free endpaper. Overall very good to fine. Linder,. Quinby 18. HBS 65816. $750

52 With Forty-Three Additional Songs 124. PURCELL, Henry, [composer]. Orpheus Britannicus. A Collection of All The Choicest Songs for One, Two, and Three Voices. Together, With such Symphonies for Violins or Flutes, As were by Him design’d for any of them and A Through-Bass to each Song; Figur’d for the Organ, Harpsichord, or Theorbo-Lute. The Second Edition with Large Additions; and placed in their several Keys according to the Order of Gamut. London: Printed by William Pearson, and sold by John Cullen. 1706, 1711.

Second edition, first issue, with the addition of forty- three songs more than the first edition. Two folio volumes (13 3/4 x 9 inches; 348 x 225 mm). [4], [1]-vi, [1, ads], [1, table], 1-190, 189-286; [4], ii, 31, 35-99, 140- 141, 1-2-204 pp. No frontispiece called for in this issue.

Contemporary full paneled calf, rebacked with original spine. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Boards and spines ruled and stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled red. Board edges tooled in gilt. Front inner hinge cracked, but firm in volume II. Page 169, volume I with a closed tear to lower margin, barely affecting text. Contents very clean. A very good, handsome set. HBS 66059. $3,500

Signed Limited Arthur Rackham

125. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. The Allies’ Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse C.B. and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [n.d., 1916].

Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. This copy is number 369. Quarto. xxii, 121, [1] pp. Twelve color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-four drawings in black and white.

Publisher’s original blue buckram, front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 45-46. Riall, p. 128.HBS 64455. $2,000

53 Edition de Luxe 126. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Cinderella. Retold by C.S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1919].

Edition de Luxe. One of 325 copies on Japanese vellum, out of a total edition of 850 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. This being number 233. Quarto. 110, [1], [1, blank] pp. Mounted color frontispiece with color pictorial border and tissue guard. Three double-page silhouette illustrations with color, fourteen single- page silhouettes (of which one is in color, and not included in the trade edition), and thirty-six silhouette text illustrations. Title- page with black and white and color illustrations.

Original quarter vellum, ruled in gilt, over white boards, front cover and spine lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Green and white pictorial endpapers. Some minor wear to corners and board edges. A closed tear partially through “Heinemann” on spine, with no loss of text. Boards a bit sunned at extremities. A very good copy of Rackham’s lovely Cinderella.

Latimore and Haskell, pp. 49-50. Riall, pp. 134-135. HBS 65870. $2,000

Limited to 300 Copies 127. [ROGERS, Bruce]. DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The prose translation by Charles Eliot Norton. With illustrations from designs by Botticelli. New York: Bruce Rogers & The Press of A. Colish, 1955.

Limited to 300 numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). Folio (14 x 9 5/8 inches;354 x 245 mm). 364, [2] pp. With illustrations from designs by Botticelli.

Original full brick morocco. Boards decoratively stamped in gilt with corner devices, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. In original plain paper dust jacket. With two copies of the publisher’s prospectus laid in. A beautiful, about fine copy housed in a black cloth slipcase. HBS 66033. $1,250

Hirschfeld’s Harlem Caricatures

128. SAROYAN, William. HIRSCHFELD, Albert, [artist]. Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld. New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941.

First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies. This being number 511. Large folio (181/4 x 14 inches). With six pages of text by Saroyan. Illustrated with twenty-four original lithographic captioned plates by Hirschfeld. Printed on hand-made Canson paper.

Publisher’s original cream cloth, lettered on the front cover and spine, and with an illustration from the book reproduced and colored by hand on the front cover. Spine a bit bumped and rubbed. Some minor spotting and soiling to the cloth as is often seen, else a very good, handsome copy complete with twenty-four wonderful illustrations. Plates are clean and bright. Kherdian. HBS 66051. $3,000

54 The Birth of the Cell Theory 129. SCHWANN, Theodor. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die . . . Thiere und Pflanzen. Berlin: G. E. Reimer, 1839.

First edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 198 x 117 mm). Xviii, 270 pp. With all four folding plates at the rear.

Strictly contemporary German speckled boards with red paper gilt lettering label, light blue endpapers, edges stained red. Early (1888) ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Cloth clamshell case. Some minor rubbing to front outer joint. Minor foxing to pastedowns but, overall, a very clean and bright copy in an appropriate binding

The cell theory, or cell doctrine, states that all organisms are composed of similar units of organization, called cells. The concept was formally articulated in 1839 by Schleiden & Schwann and has remained as the foundation of modern biology. Schwann published his book on animal and plant cells (offered here), a treatise devoid of acknowledgments of anyone else’s contribution, including that of Schleiden. He summarized his observations into three conclusions about cells: 1) The cell is the unit of structure, physiology, and organization in living things. 2) The cell retains a dual existence as a distinct entity and a building block in the construction of organisms. 3) Cells form by free-cell formation, similar to the formation of crystals We know today that the first two tenets are correct, but the third is clearly wrong. The correct interpretation of cell formation by division was finally promoted by others and formally enunciated in Rudolph Virchow’s powerful dictum, “Omnis cellula e cellula”... “All cells only arise from pre-existing cells” [Charles Mallery]. Printing and the Mind of Man 307b. HBS 65372. $25,000

First Edition in Dust Jacket 130. SEUSS, Dr.. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. New York: Random House, [1957].

First edition, first printing. With the following issue points: “14 books (up to now)” on the rear jacket flap and a list of 13 books printed at the end of the book. Quarto. Illustrated in black and red.

Original illustrated glossy paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. In the price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner’s small signature neatly inked out on front free endpaper and half-title. Jacket spine and corners with some chipping and rubbing. Some small crease marks along extremities of the jacket. Overall, a near fine copy of this book in a very good jacket. Hirsch 91. HBS 65181. $850

First Edition, First Printing, Inscribed by Dr. Seuss 131. SEUSS, Dr.. SEUSS, Dr., [illustrator]. The Seven Lady Godivas. New York: Random House, 1939.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Seuss on verso of half-title. “For Noel/Who can sue/but he damn well/can’t collect-/-Dr, Seuss”. Octavo (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 254 x 185 mm). Printed and illustrated in red and black.

Publisher’s original pink cloth. Front board decoratively stamped in red with a coat of arms. Spine lettered in red. Pictorial endpapers. In original publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with the price of $1.75. Inner hinges of book slightly toned. Dust jacket slightly chipped at spine extremities and corners. A closed two-inch tear at the fold of the front flap. A bit of darkening to jacket spine and edges. Overall a very good, clean copy. Hirsch 71. HBS 65182. $2,000 55 With an Original Ben Shahn Drawing 132. SHAHN, Ben. The Alphabet of Creation: An Ancient Legend from the Zohar. with Drawings by Ben Shahn. New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon, [1954].

First edition. One of 50 copies printed on Umbria handmade paper, signed by Shahn and with an original drawing by him. This copy being number five. Tall octavo (103/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 275 x 170 mm). [44] pages including colophon and numerous Shahn illustrations plus the frontispiece of an original Shahn watercolor of the letter ‘Zadhe’, signed by him below.

Publisher’s natural linen cloth with black morocco gilt spine label (English) and cover label (Hebrew). In publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Slipcase with a small split at bottom. Overall a fine copy.

“The Alphabet of Creation is one of the legends from the Sefer Har-Zohar, or Book of Splendor, an ancient Gnostic work written in Aramaic by a thirteenth century Spanish scholar named Moses de Leon who presented the work, not as his own, but as mystic knowledge revealed many centuries earlier to the Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai” (colophon). HBS 66047. $1,850

With Twenty-four Lithographs, Each Signed by Shahn

133. SHAHN, Ben, [artist]. RILKE, Rainer Maria. For the Sake of a Single Verse. New York: Atelier Mourlot, 1968.

First edition. One of 200 copies, signed by Shahn out of a total edition of 950. This being number eighteen. Complete with twenty-four lithographs, on Richard de Bas hand-made paper, each signed by the artist. Large folio.

Lithographs are loose as issued. Housed in a half vellum over cloth clamshell. Clamshell is embossed on the front with an image of a hand with a pen. Spine of the clamshell lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

“I had now long ago found in Rilke the passage that came to mean so much to me. He was a writer about the processes of art who was not telling me what to do, what to think, how to paint. No; he was too engrossed in his own discoveries. He was sharing with me the doubts and the hesitations of art, the probings, the slow emergence of forms. His every line of writing was art, and yet such art was inseparable from its life content. No manifesto could ever tell me more clearly than this one paragraph of Rilke’s that art is an emanation from a person; that it is shaped and formed out of the shape and form of that person. In being so acutely personal to him it achieves also a rare universality. Rilke is speaking, (is he not?) to the innermost recesses of the consciousness, an area in which we spend so much of our time and expend so much of our feeling, and yet an area that is so remote from communication with our fellow-beings, an area that is, unhappily, increasingly remote from the reaches of art. “ (From the Afterward by Ben Shahn). HBS 66038. $13,500

56 The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare 134. SHAKESPEARE, William. Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. The Text of the First Edition. Illustrated with Etchings. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1883.

Eight octavo volumes (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 202 x 132 mm). Illustrated with etchings.

Three-quarter red morocco over red linen boards. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Some hinges with a bit of very light rubbing. Overall a very good, handsome set. Jaggard,. Shaksperiana,. HBS 65994. $1,500

Shakespeare’s Rare ‘Pericles’ 135. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Late, and much admired Play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the True Relation of the Whole History, Adventures and Fortunes of the Said Prince. London: Thomas Cotes, 1635.

Sixth edition. Octavo in fours. (6 13/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 176 x 105 mm). 67, [1, blank] pp. With printer’s device on title-page (McK. 283).

Full twentieth century red morocco. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Edges speckled red, from an earlier binding. Spine slightly sunned and worn at the edges. Previous owner William Glegh’s old ink signature on the final leaf at the end of the text.

The reason for the omission of Pericles from the First Folio us uncertain. Edward Blount, co-publisher of the Folio, entered it in the Stationer’s Register on 20 May 1608, though the early editions (1609, 1609, 1611) were not publishing by him and were apparently not drawn from a true copy. It was included, though not as a self- standing bibliographical unit, in Pavier’s 1619 collection of Shakespeare plays. The collation of Cotes’s edition follows that of Robert Bird’s 1630 edition. This 1635 edition provided the copytext for its eventual inclusion in the Third Folio, 1664.”

Jaggard,. Shaksperiana,. Pforzheimer, 894. ESTC S111200. HBS 65236 $60,000

The Second Johnson-Steevens Edition, with the Two Supplemental Volumes 136. SHAK[E]SPEARE, William. The Plays of William Shakespeare. In ten volumes. [Second Johnson & Steevens Edition]. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to Which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Stevens. The Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. London: Printed for C. Bathurst…, 1778. [Together with] SHAK[E]SPEARE, [William]. Supplement to the Edition of Shakspeare’s Plays Published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. In two volumes. Containing additional observations by several of the former commentators: to which are subjoined the genuine poems of the same author, and several plays that have been ascribed to him; with notes by the editor and others. London: Printed for C. Bathurst…, 1780.

The Second Johnson & Steevens Edition of the plays and first edition of the supplemental volumes. Together, twelve octavo volumes including the two volume supplement. First volume with frontispiece portrait, possibly supplied and a folding plate with binder’s instructions “To face the last page of Shakespeare’s Will.” Half-title in each volume.

Uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style. Red morocco spine labels. Spines ruled in gilt. Board edges stamped in blind. Edges speckled red. Inner hinges repaired of each volume. A bit of worming to inside of front board if Volume IV. A few corners bumped and some with repairs. Previous owner’s old ink signatures on front endpapers of each volume, except supplement volume I. Supplement Volume I, with a removed bookplate on front free endpaper. Overall a very good set. HBS 66053. SOLD 57 From the Fourth Folio 137. SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Tempest. [together with] The Two Gentlemen of Verona. [London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.]

Extracted from the Fourth Folio. Folio (14 1/16 x 9 1/8 inches; 359 x 226 mm). [16] leaves (pages pages 1-34).

Attractively bound in half orange morocco over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Front board with orange morocco label, lettered and ruled in gilt. Edges speckled red. Some minor marginal dampstaining throughout. Pages 23-26 with some soiling and approximately one-half inch trimmed from the bottom margin, not affecting text. Leaf B6 (pg 23-24) with a seven-inch closed tear. Overall very good.Bartlett 123A. Greg III, p. 1119. Jaggard, p. 497. Pforzheimer 910. Wing S2915. HBS 66043. $3,500

From the Fourth Folio 138. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Comedy of Errors. [together with] Much Ado About Nothing. [London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685].

Extracted from the Fourth Folio. Folio (14 1/16 x 9 1/8 inches; 359 x 226 mm). [17] leaves (pages pages 75-110, ie 111). 75-96, 99-106, 109, 108, 111, 110 pp. Mispaginations but correct collation.

Attractively bound in half orange morocco over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Front board with orange morocco label, lettered and ruled in gilt. Edges speckled red. Some minor marginal dampstaining throughout. Overall very good.

The Fourth Folio was the stateliest of all the folios, being printed on a Royal stock, distinctly larger than the sheets of the Third Folio, which in turn is on a larger sheet than the First and Second. The last edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in the seventeenth century and the last to be printed before the editorial endeavors of the eighteenth century. Bartlett 123A. Greg III, p. 1119. Jaggard, p. 497. Pforzheimer 910. Wing S2915. HBS 66028. $4,500

A Wonderful Copy of the First Illustrated Edition of “Frankenstein” 139. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new introduction, by the author. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. [Together with:] SCHILLER, Friedrich von. The Ghost-Seer! From the German of Schiller. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.

First illustrated edition (third overall). The first edition to credit Shelley as the author, and the first one-volume edition. Two works in one small octavo volume (No. IX in Bentley’s Standard Novels Series). [4, publisher’s ads], [, 2, blank], xii, [including Series title], 202; [2], 163, [1, printer’s slug], [3, ads], [1, blank] pp. Engraved vignette title and engraved frontispiece for Frankenstein. Half-title present for Ghost-Seer.

Original glazed plum linen (Sadleir’s Binding A) with two black paper gilt lettering labels on spine, lettered in gilt. Labels a bit chipped (but often lacking completely). Spine lightly sunned. Head and tail of the spine a bit frayed. Corners a a bit rubbed and bumped. Some very minimal marginal soiling. Old ink “75” on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy and internally very clean.

Mary Shelley “revised [and] corrected” the text for publication by Bentley, and, at the request of the publishers, she wrote an Introduction, dated October 15, 1831, specifically for it, which is the first appearance in print of the now famous story of the genesis of Frankenstein in Switzerland in the summer of 1816. Lyles B4a. Sadleir 3734a. Wolff 6280a. HBS 65736. $7,500 58 Limited Edition, Signed by the Author and Artist

140. SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. MOSKOWITZ, Ira. Satan in Goray. Etchingsand Drawings by Ira Moskowitz. With a new introductory essay by the author “The Making of a First Book” New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981.

Sweetwater Editions. Limited to fifty copies signed by author and artist out of a total edition of 475. This being number twenty. Book illustrated with ten original signed copperplate etchings and forty drawings. With tissue guards. Also included is an additional clamshell portfolio with a set of ten signed copperplate etchings and an original signed drawing from the book. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches; 291 x 225 mm).

Original full burgundy morocco. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Housed in a cloth slipcase along with the additional portfolio. About fine. HBS 66032. $1,500

“The First and Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought” A Beautiful Clean Copy of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”

141. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan; & T. Cadell, 1776.

First edition. Two large quarto volumes (sheet size-10 13/16 x 8 3/8 inches; 275 x 213 mm.). [12], [1]-510, [2, blank]; [4], [1]-587, [1, advertisements] pp. Complete with half-title in Volume II (no half-title called for in Volume I), and the final blank leaf at the end of Volume I.

Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Boards tooled with gilt boarder, and gilt floral corner devices. Spine densely stamped in gilt in compartments. With blue and green morocco gilt lettering labels. Gilt dentelles. Edges speckled blue. Marbled endpapers. Outer hinges are a bit cracked, but holding very firm. A bit of chipping to head and tail of the spines. Some minor flaking of the leather along outer hinges. A slight crease down the center of the spine of volume II. In volume II, pages 563-566 have been bound out of order, between pages 554 and 555, which is not entirely uncommon. A small closed marginal tear with no restoration to leaf 4A2, not affecting text. Overall a very clean, near fine set. Housed in a full tree calf clamshell, elaborately embellished in gilt.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) spent ten years in the writing and perfecting of The Wealth of Nations. “The book succeeded at once, and the first edition was exhausted in six months…Whether it be true or not, as Buckle said, that the ‘Wealth of Nations’ was, ‘in its ultimate results, probably the most important that had ever been written’…it is probable that no book can be mentioned which so rapidly became an authority both with statesmen and philosophers” (D.N.B.). “The history of economic theory up to the end of the nineteenth century consists of two parts: the mercantilist phase which was based not so much on a doctrine as on a system of practice which grew out of social conditions; and the second phase which saw the development of the theory that the individual had the right to be unimpeded in the exercise of economic activity. While it cannot be said that Smith invented the latter theory…his work is the first major expression of it. He begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange… Labour represents the three essential elements—wages, profit and rent—and these three also constitute income. From the working of the economy, Smith passes to its matter—‘stock’—which compasses all that man owns either for his own consumption or for the return which it brings him. The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development, a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system, and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control…The Wealth of Nations is not a system, but as a provisional analysis it is complete convincing. The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Grolier, 100 English, 57. Kress 7261. Printing and the Mind of Man 221. Rothschild 1897. Sabin 82303. HBS 65988. $185,000 59 Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”

60 First Edition of “The Jessie Wilcox Mother Goose” in the Rare Publisher’s Box 142. [SMITH, Jessie Wilcox, illustrator]. The Jessie Wilcox Smith Mother Goose. A Careful Selection of the Rhymes. With Numerous Illustrations in full color and black & white. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1914].

First edition, second issue. Large oblong quarto (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches; 215 x 290 mm). With seventeen full-page plates, twelve of which are in color, including frontispiece. Many illustrations in the text. Title-page in black and blue.

Publisher’s full black cloth, color pictorial label on front cover. Spine lettered in white. Pictorial label with a few very small spots of rubbing. Previous owner’s inscription on front free endpaper. A few instances of finger soiling. Overall a near fine copy. Housed in the rare publisher’s pictorial box. Box is a bit tattered and is missing one end flap. HBS 66036. $1,250

the Development of the Atomic Bomb (PMM 422e) 143. SMYTH, Henry de Wolf. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-45. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945.

First government Printing Office edition. Octavo (91/8 x 5 13/16 inches; 231 x 148 mm). ii, [2], 182 pp. With a few black and white charts within the text.

Printed beige cardboard wrappers. Bound with staples. Back wrapper a bit sunned. wrappers with a few light creases. Otherwise, about fine.

This is the first description of the technical development of the atomic bomb. The first edition was published on 12 August 1945, just six days after Hiroshima. Until the publication of A General Account research and development had been undertaken in conditions of the utmost secrecy and the report was also prepared in secret. However, the British and American governments decided that the widest dissemination of this “remarkably full and candid account” (PMM) was in the public interest, and this first edition was distributed to journalists for radio use on 11 August and for press use the next day. This first edition with a Foreword by L.R. Groves is described as a “lithoprint” and was printed in the Adjutant General’s office in the Pentagon from a typescript. Norman Library 1962. Printing and the Mind of Man, 422e. HBS 65801. $500 The First English Edition 144. SOLÍS [Y RIBADENEYRA], Antonio de. The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Done into English from the original Spanish of Don Antonio de Solis, secretary and historiographer to His Catholick Majesty. By Thomas Townsend, Esq. London: Printed for T. Woodward,… J. Hooke…and J. Peele…, 1724.

First English edition. Five parts in one folio volume (12 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches; 311 x 201 mm). [18], 163, [1, blank], 252, 152, [4, blank] pp. Both the first and second parts and the third and fourth parts are continuously paginated. With two engraved maps (one folding), and six engraved plates (of which five are folding and one is double- page), but bound without the engraved frontispiece portrait. Engraved head- and tail-pieces and ornamental initials.

Contemporary full tree calf, rebacked. Boards tooled in gilt floral motif. Original red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners a bit bumped. Boards with a few minor scuffs and scrapes. Title-page has been trimmed and is laid down. A closed tear, professionally repaired and folds reinforced to the folding plate between page 68/69 of book III. Small old ink binding instructions also written on this plate. Top margin of plate between 72/72 has been reinforced. A four-inch closed tear to page 243. Some foxing and toning throughout. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65848. $2,000

61 Collier’s Edition Of Spenser’s Works 145. SPENSER, Edmund. The Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited by J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. London: Bell and Daldy, 1862.

First edition edited by J. Payne Collier. Five octavo volumes (8 13/16 x 5 7/8 inches; 224 x 152 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Title- pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Twentieth-century three-quarter red morocco over red buckram boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A fine set of this important edition. Carpenter, p. 114. Lowndes, p 2478. HBS 65807. $1,000

The Works of Laurence Sterne, ina Spectacular Contemporary Binding 146. STERNE, Laurence. The Works. In ten volumes complete. Containing, I. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. II. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. III. Sermons. IV. Letters. With a life of the author, written by himself. London: Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley…, 1780.

Ten octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 5/16 inches; 180 x 110 mm). Frontispiece portrait and other engraved plates throughout.

Contemporary full tree calf. Spines stamped in gilt. Each volume with red and green morocco spine labels. Green labels with a small red morocco oval inlay with volume number stamped in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. A bit of scattered light foxing, but generally very clean. About fine. HBS 65708. $3,000

First Edition of Dracula in Original Cloth

147. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, [June] 1897.

First edition, later issue (probably third, circa Dec. 1897). Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 inches; 192 x 128 mm). [i-vii], viii-ix,[x], [1]2- 390,[1, blank], [1,ad “Shasta”] 1-16 (catalogue).

Original publisher’s yellow cloth, bordered and lettered in red on boards and spine. Boards lightly soiled, red-stamping faded. Spine darkend and soiled. Head and tail of the spine chipped and frayed. Inner hinged starting. Some toning and foxing, primarily to endpapers and preliminaries. A marginal tear to page 53, not affecting text. Previous owner’s old ink signature dated 1898 on front free endpaper. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Some pages of ads unopened, with some pages of ads opened roughly. Still, a very good copy of the first issue of this classic, which is scarce in any condition. Housed in quarter black morocco clamshell case.

The bibliographical research on this very important title is surprisingly meager, but the following sequence is agreed upon among the most experienced dealers who have handled many copies of the book: first issue without the Shoulder of Shasta ad on p. [392]; second issue with this ad but no catalogue inserted at back; third issue with Shoulder of Shasta ad on p. [392] and the catalogue seen here (with no general date but clearly from 1897 [see bottom of page 7]); and fourth issue with inserted catalogue dated 1898. Variances in paper stock are not issue points.

Dalby 10 (a). HBS 65726. $7,500 62 A Sensational First Edition of “Gulliver’s Travels” in a Contemporary Binding 148. [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726.

First edition, Teerink’s State A, with the four necessary points: Part I, p. 35, line 5 has “Subsidies” correctly spelled; Part III, p. 74 is misnumbered “44;” Part III, G6 is a cancel, with “Part III” at foot; Part IV, p. 52, line 1 has the misprint “buth is.” Also, on the special title to Part IV the word “Voyage” is printed with capitals. Four parts in two octavo volumes (7 9/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 192 x 117 mm.). xvi, 148; [6], 164; [6], 155, [1, blank]; [8], 199, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state, with the inscription “Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff. Ætat. suæ LVIII.” around the oval frame, the tablet below bearing a Latin inscription (printed on paper with vertical chain-lines), four maps (one to each of the four Parts), and two plans (in Part III). Decorative woodcut and typographic head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Contemporary paneled calf. Spines with raised bands and brown morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Joints just starting. Portion of rear free endpaper in Volume II torn away. Short tear to lower gutter margin of C2 (pp. 19/20) in Part II, not affecting text. Small waterstain to outer margin of I7-K4 (pp. 125-136) in Part II. A few additional minor stains or soil marks. Armorial bookplate of The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lymington on front pastedown of each volume. A sensational copy, totally unsophisticated. Chemised in a quarter red morocco pull-off case.

Gulliver’s Travels, to use the popular title, is one of the greatest satires in the English language—or any language, for that matter. It was an immediate success, which accounts in part for its bibliographical complexity, and has been hailed as a book that “would last as long as the language, because it described the vices of man in all nations” (D.N.B.).

“Gulliver’s Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame…All those who had been fascinated by the realism and vivid detail of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe were captivated again, even though they knew that Gulliver must be fiction. The brilliance and thoroughness with which his logic and invention work out the picquancies of scale involved by the giant human among the Lilliputians, and then by a minikin Gulliver among the Brobdingnagians, ran away with the author’s original intention. Gulliver’s Travels has achieved the final apotheosis of a satirical fable, but it has also become a tale for children. For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background, twenty have appeared, abridged or adapted, for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Grolier, 100 English, 42. Hubbard, pp. 15-17. Printing and the Mind of Man 185. Rothschild 2104. Teerink 289. HBS 65047. $125,000 63 With Fifteen Original Lithographs

149. TAMAYO, Rufino, [artist]. Apocalypse de Saint Jean. Monaco: Club International de Bibliophilie Jaspard, Polus & Cie, 1959.

First and only edition, limited to 255 copies, this being number 45. Folio (13 x 10 inches; 328 x 254 mm). Comprised of numerous loose gatherings housed in the original Rives paper wrappers and folder. 142 pp. With fifteen original lithographs, four of which are double paged. Each with a tissue guard. Text in French.

Loose gatherings as issued housed in original Rives wrappers and folder. Front of folder lettered in black and red. Occasional finger smudging. Otherwise about fine. Housed in a chemise and custom cloth clamshell.

This book is considered Tamayo’s most beautiful and ambitious book. “[Rufino Tamayo, a] Mexican painter who combined modern European painting styles with Mexican folk themes...Tamayo spent many years of his career in New York City, first settling there from 1926 to 1928. He retained his ties to Mexico and returned there often, but the modern art he encountered in New York—especially the paintings of European artists Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henri Matisse—profoundly influenced his work. Tamayo reacted against the epic proportions and political rhetoric of the paintings of the Mexican muralists, who had dominated the country’s art production since the Mexican Revolution. Instead, he chose to address formal and aesthetic issues in easel paintings, fusing European styles such as Cubism and Surrealism with subject matter that often involved Mexican culture...” (Britannica) Monod 322; “The Artist & The Book”, p.200; “The Artist & The Book in France”, p.342; Pereda 58- 72. HBS 65573. $4,500

Beautiful Imperial Folio with Magnificent Engraved Plates and Vignettes

150. THOMSON, James. BARTOLOZZI, F., [artist]. HAMILTON, W. T. , [illustrator]. The Seasons. Illustrated with Engravings by F. Bartolozzi and P. W. Tomkins…from Original Pictures painted for the Work by W. Hamilton, R.A. London: P.W. Tomkins, 1797.

A magnificent edition, imperial folio (18 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches; 470 x 372 mm). [2], [5, list of subscribers], [1, contents], [2], [1]-236 pp. An engraved frontispiece and dedication leaf, five full- page engravings, ten head- and-tail pieces and five vignettes. Extra-illustrated with four later engraved full-page plates each with a vignette of a cherub, attributed to Tomkins, but from a later date.

Beautifully bound by Riviere and Son in full dark red levant morocco. Boards ruled in gilt tooling. Spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Some restoration to the outer hinges. Overall a beautiful copy. HBS 65343. $3,500

64 The First American Edition of a Classic Work of American Literature 151. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). With one hundred and seventy- four illustrations. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First American edition, later issue, with the following points: on p. [13], the illustration captioned “Him and another Man” is correctly listed at p. 87 (Blanck’s second state); on p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads “with the saw” (Blanck’s second state); on p. 155, the final “5” extends below the line of the figures that precede it (Blanck’s third state). and the frontispiece portrait is Blanck’s third state, with the imprint of the Photo-Gravure Company. Octavo (8 3/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 214 x 169 mm). [1]-366, [4, blank] pp. Portrait frontispiece inserted. Text illustrations by E.W. Kemble.

Original green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in black and gilt on front cover and spine. The gilt is exceptionally bright. Top edge of spine a bit frayed. Corners a lightly bumped. Some light staining to fore-edge. Overall a very good copy. BAL 3415. Johnson, Twain,. HBS 65946. $1,250

“One Of The Most Provocative Books Written By An American Intellectual”: First Edition Of Veblen’s Landmark Theory Of The Leisure Class 152. VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899.

First edition of the author’s first book and one of the masterpieces of American social thought and economic theory. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches; 190 x 131 mm). viii, 400, [2, publisher’s ads], [2, blank] pp.

Original dark green cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Front board ruled in blind. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A bit of soiling to the cloth of the front cover. Spine very slightly darkened. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a full green morocco clamshell.

“Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen’s work is as fresh and relevant as ever. Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class is in the tradition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, yet it provides a surprisingly contemporary look at American economics and society. Establishing such terms as ‘conspicuous consumption’ and ‘pecuniary emulation,’ Veblen’s most famous work has become an archetype not only of economic theory, but of historical and sociological thought as well. An iconoclastic masterpiece of American social thought. Veblen assails the sacrosanct concepts borrowed from evolutionary biology and used to justify social inequality. The fruit of much lonely study and contemplation, this first book of Veblen’s catapulted him to prominence at the age of 42. Thoroughly independent and ornery in his living and thinking, Veblen began here his long and provocative criticism of the business enterprise system... his ideas were seminal and his influence is continuous” (100 Influential American Books).Grolier, 100 American, 100. HBS 65764. $5,000 First Paperback Photoplay Edition In The Rare Original Wrappers 153. VON HARBOU, Thea. Metropolis. Berlin: August Scherl, [1926].

First paperback photoplay edition (text in German). Octavo (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 186 x 125 mm). [194], [2, publisher’s ads] pp. With eight photogravure illustrations from Fritz Lang’s film on four inserted pages.

Original pictorial printed color wrappers. Printed in Red , blue and black. Title printed in red. Spine printed in black. Spine and back wrapper with some very light smudging. Top of the spine with the smallest amount of chipping. A small crease to the lower right corner of the title- page. Still, a near fine copy of this extremely rare and fragile item. Thea Von Harbou was Fritz Lang’s wife and collaborator. The inspiration for the book and film came from Lang when he saw the enormous skyscrapers of New York from the deck of his ship. He suggested to his wife that she write the futuristic novel and screenplay, which he filmed to universal acclaim (it is unclear whether the book or the screenplay was written first). HBS 65545. $2,500 65 A Collaborative Work between Andy Warhol and his Mother 154. [WARHOL, Andy]. Holy Cats By Andy Warhol’s Mother. [New York: Privately Printed, 1957].

First edition. A collaboration between Andy Warhol and his mother Juila Warhola who was know for her quirky illustrations and calligraphy. Twenty leaves. Each leaf printed on recto with a photolithographic image of a cat and corresponding calligraphic text. Leaves in a variety of different colored papers. Front blank with an unsigned inscription “To Joan” by Andy Warhol’s mother. Very good.

Original pictorial buff paper over boards. Spine brittle and chipped, missing a one-inch portion from bottom of spine. Edges of boards a bit toned. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell with two red morocco spine labels.

“Julia (Andy’s mother) moved to New York City in 1952 to be with Andy. She continued her singing and drawing through the Fifties and Sixties. Andy admired her abilities and used her penmanship often. Her decorative handwriting would often accompany his illustrations. She won awards for her lettering...In 1957 she illustrated a small book called Holy Cats. It featured what she loved to draw most, angels and cats.” (Warhola) HBS 65603. $6,000

With Fifty-Four Screen Test Portraits 155. WARHOL, Andy, [artist]. MALANGA, Gerard. Screen Tests. A Diary. New York: Kulchur Press, 1967.

First edition. From an edition of less than 500. Octavo (10 x 7 1/2 inches; 253 x 191 mm). With fifty-four black-and-white screen test portraits of various individuals included Edie Sedgwick, Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Donovan and Lou Reed. Each portrait is printed on vellum translucent paper and accompanied by a poem by Malanga on the facing page.

In original full color photographic wrappers. Title, authors and $2 printed in white on the front wrapper. Spine lettered in red and blue. Some light creasing to front and back wrapper. Spine has been chipped and repaired. A few small pieces missing from spine but most letters are intact. A slight wrinkle to photograph number 43. The final three portraits and the corresponding poems for the final two as well as the back endpaper have been misbound after portrait number 34. However all photographs are present and the book is complete. A very good copy of this scarce and interesting item.

“Prior to Warhol’s 1964-66 film portraits being labeled as Screen Tests, the only films that were titled as “Screen Tests” were three longer movies written by Ronald Tavel for Warhol in 1965 - Screen Test No. 1 and 2 and what is sometimes referred to as Screen Test No. 3 or Suicide - with each film lasting more than an hour. Stills from the shorter film portraits were included in Gerard Malanga’s book, Screen tests: A diary, published in 1967, indicating that although they may not have started as screen tests, the film portraits were referred to as such by 1967. The book consisted of 54 subjects (17 women and 37 men) and Malanga’s poetry.” (Gary Comenas, warholstars) HBS 65622. $2,750 66 The English of America 156. WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and primary signification of English words, as far as they have been ascertained. II. The genuine orthography and pronunciation of words, according to general usage, or to just principles of analogy. III. Accurate and discriminating definitions, with numerous authorities and illustrations. To which are prefixed, an introductory dissertation on the origin, history and connection of the languages of western Asia and of Europe, and a concise grammar of the English language. In two volumes. New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe…, 1828.

First edition. Two large quarto volumes (11 1/16 x 9 inches; 280 x 229 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait (the portrait of Webster painted by S.F.B. Morse) by A.B. Durand printed by J.R. Burton. With the final leaf of “Additions” and “Corrections” at the end of Volume II, which is often lacking.

Contemporary tree calf, with outer hinges restored. Spines ruled in gilt in compartments with red and black morocco gilt lettering labels. Occasional light foxing and off-setting to first and last few pages. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Previous owner’s bookplate and a library bookplate on front paste-down of each volume, but with no library markings. Overall, an excellent copy of a book almost always found rebacked because of its size.

“‘The most ambitious publication ever undertaken, up to that time, upon American soil.’ Webster began work on his Dictionary in 1800. Along the way his produced his fat duodecimo Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, New Haven, 1806…and an abridgement of this for schools in 1807, and by 1813 he had learned twenty languages, seven of which were Asiatic or dialects of the Assyrian, to which twenty he later added Portuguese, Welsh, Gothic and the early dialects of English and German. He spent a year abroad in 18234-25 to perfect the work, and began printing May 8, 1827…Webster set a new standard for entymological investigation, and for accuracy of definition (‘a born definer of words’—Sir James Murray), and included 70,000 words, as against the 58,000 of any previous dictionary. There were 2,500 copies printed, in boards uncut or full calf…Webster wrote every word of the manuscript of the dictionary himself” (Grolier, 100 American). Grolier, 100 American, 36. Printing and the Mind of Man 291. Sabin 102335. Skeel 583. HBS 64738. $27,500

A First Edition of West’s Classic, in Dust Jacket

157. WEST, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust. New York: Random House, [1939].

First edition. Octavo (8 x 5 inches; 203 x 126 mm). [xviii], [1]-238, [2, blank] pp.

Publisher’s full red cloth. Orange paper label on spine, printed in black. Top edge black. In bright publisher’s dust jacket, with the $2.00 price. Jacket with some minor wear along edges and some light rubbing. A small circle stain to back panel of the jacket and back board of book. Outer joints of book just slightly darkened. Still, a near fine copy of this book, arguably the most famous novel about Hollywood ever written..

“Set in Hollywood, where the author wrote screenplays in the last years of his life, the book deals with Tod Hackett, a young artist and Yale graduate who has been lured to Southern California by the prospect of learning costume and set design. In Hollywood, he finds a group of appalling misfits living lives of monotony and boredom, including Homer Simpson, ‘an exact model for the kind of person who comes to California to die.’ The book culminates in a surrealistic riot at a movie premiere.” (Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, 256). White. HBS 65644. $4,500 67 With An Original Photograph, Signed by Weston

158. WESTON, Brett. Brett Weston: Photographs From Five Decades. Profile by R.H. Cravens.[New York]:An Aperture Monograph, [1980]

First edition. Limited to 400 copies signed by the artist, this being number 241. With an original silverprint photograph signed by the author. Original photograph entitled Reeds, Oregon, 1975. With numerous black and white photographs through out and text by R.H. Cravens. Folio (13 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches; 340 x 296 mm). [2], [1]- 131, [1, blank] pp.

Original full oatmeal linen cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a matching slipcase. Slipcase in opened original plastic wrap. The original signed silverprint is housed separately in portfolio made from oatmeal-colored boards. Portfolio lettered in gilt. A fine copy. Book and portfolio housed in publisher’s original cardboard shipping box.

“Within the two-dimensional plane of the photograph itself, Brett has an equally rare capacity to create rhythms and dynamics in what we know to be perfect stillness. It is done of course, through the relationship of one form to another-powerful to weak- within the picture. Only the full exploitation of the black-and-white spectrum can accomplish such movement or- when he has chosen- the Zen-like immobility of ponds, harbors, canals, and other landscapes. An intriguing quality in Brett’s work is that the greater the distance his lens encompasses, the less movement there is. The closer the subject, the more intense the rhythmic relationship.” (R.H. Cravens). HBS 66057. $5,000

Limited to 550 Copies Signed by Weston

159. [WESTON, Edward]. ARMITAGE, Merle. The Art of Edward Weston. By Merle Armitage. Foreword by Charles Sheeler. Appreciation by Lincoln Steffens. Prophecy by Arthur Millier. Estimate by Jean Charlot. A Statement by Edward Weston. New York: E. Weyhe, 1932. Limited to 550 copies signed by Weston, this being number 287. Small folio (13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches; 342 x 260 mm). [12], 12, [2], [39 plates], [1, biography], [1, colophon], [4, blank] pp. With thirty-nine black & white plates. Each plate with a facing description page (verso of previous plate). With frontispiece portrait by Brett Weston (Edward’s son).

Original quarter white over black boards. Front board and spine lettered in black. Black endpapers. Spine with some professional repairs, with no new material. Spine a bit darkened. Corners and edges a bit rubbed and bumped. Boards with a few scratches. Plates 13-24 a bit sprung. Overall very good and internally quite clean.

“In 1926, [Weston] began a series of joint exhibitions with his precocious son Brett and thereafter commenced the work for which he is most deservedly famous: natural-form close-ups, nudes, and landscapes. The two Westons opened a San Francisco studio together in 1928. The following year they moved to Carmel and began photographing in the Point Lobos area. Edward organized with Edward Steichen the American section of the 1929 Stuttgart Film und Foto exhibition at this time. In 1932 Weston was a founding member of the f/64 group of purist photographers along with Ansel Adams, Willard Van Dyke, Imogen Cunningham, and Sonya Noskowiak. The Art of Edward Weston, a book of nearly 40 photographs, was published by Merle Armitage later the same year.” (Photography West) HBS 65738. $3,000 68 First Edition, One of One Thousand Copies 160. [WILDE, Oscar]. An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899.

First edition. One of 1,000 copies printed. Small quarto (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 207 x 153 mm). [16], 213, [1, printer’s imprint], [2, blank] pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press.

Original mauve cloth decoratively stamped in gilt on covers and spine with designs by Charles Shannon. Spine lettered in gilt. Some minor foxing. Spine is sunned. A bit of wrinkling to the cloth. Head of the spine with some minor wear. Overall a very good copy. Mason 385. HBS 65689. $2,000

Limited Edition Signed and Numbered by the Artist 161. WILDE, Oscar. DINE, Jim, [artist]. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press, [1968].

Limited edition signed and numbered by the artist, Jim Dine on the limitation page. This being number 29 of 200 in Edition A. Folio (17 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 440 x 310 mm). A complete set of 12 lithographs in color, with a set of an additional 6 loose lithographs issued in a portfolio, each annotated “Edition A” on the reverse and numbered 29/200 and signed by the artist.

Original full fuchsia (red) velvet boards. Front board lettered in silver. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. With additional black cloth portfolio. A fine copy. HBS 65153. $4,500

A Beautiful Copy of Her Landmark Work, In Original Dust Jacket

162. WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929.

First edition. Small octavo (6 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 175 x 112 mm). 172 pp.

Original cinnamon cloth lettered in gilt on spine. In the original pale pink dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Jacket spine vey lightly sunned. Minor offsetting to front free endpaper. Some light foxing to edges of text block. .A near fine copy of this landmark feminist essay in a near fine jacket.

“A feminist essay by Virginia Woolf on the status of women and the difficulties of a woman artist. Based in a series of lectures, Woolf describes the inequalities of the educational opportunities for women and men. She says that women need to develop their own kind of writing, for which they need two things: money and privacy, both of which they have been deprived of by their role in a patriarchal society. Woolf has been criticized for her ideal of an upper-class writer with an independent income, but the essay was pioneering work that led the way for later conceptualizations of women’s writings.” (Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, 886). Kirkpatrick A12. HBS 65643. $6,500

69 With a Signed Original Drawing 163. WYETH, Betsy James. WYETH, Jamie, [illustrator]. The Stray. With Drawings by Jamie Wyeth New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1979. First edition. Signed with an original drawing on the title page by Jamie Wyeth. Drawing is of a pig, surrounding the illustrators printed name, with the signed name below. Octavo (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 235 x 190 mm). [14], 158, [4, blank] pp. In color pictorial dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Publisher’s full orange cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Blue endpapers. Book about fine. Dust jacket with some minor toning, otherwise about fine.

HBS 66045. $500

The Last Natural Philosopher 164. YOUNG, Thomas. “The Bakerian Lecture. On the Theory of Light and Colours.” In: Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCII. Part I (pp. 12-48). [London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. and Sold by G. and W. Nicol, 1802].

First edition. Quarto (8 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 220 x 158 mm). Pp. 12-48 and with an engraved folding plate. Extracted from the Philosophical Transactions amd bound in full burgundy morocco with gilt spine lettering. A clean and fine copy.

“Young was the last of the natural philosophers who could know all that there was to be known. He was the perfecter of the wave theory of light, he expounded the mechanism of vision, stated the laws of blood circulation, introduced the modern conceptions of ‘energy’ and ‘work done’, evolved a sound theory of tides, and helped to decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone.

This Bakerian Lecture delivered in November 1801 is an epoch-making contribution to the theory of light in all its phases. Hooke, Huygens and above all Newton had discussed the nature of light in the seventeenth century…but Young, in this and two subsequent papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions, July 1802, and his Bakerian Lecture, November 1803, based himself firmly on the theory that ‘radiant light consists of undulations of the luminous ether‘: a theory that held the field until the latter-day notions of Planck and J.J. Thomson” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Dibner 152. Garrison and Morton 1488. Norman Library 2275. Printing and the Mind of Man 259. HBS 65368. $2,000

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