Sale 401 Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:00 PM
Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries
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Spring Auctions, 2009
April 16, 2009 – Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries
April 30, 2009 – Fine & Rare Books
May 14, 2009 – Americana with Autograph & Manuscript Material
May 28, 2009 – Illustrated & Children’s Books - Fine Printing - Fine Books in All Fields
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1. Ainsworth, William Harrison. The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of the Pendle Forest. 3 volumes. [2], iv, 320; iv, 318; iv, 359 pp. 7¾x5, later green half morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered and tooled in gilt, top edges gilt. First Edition. London: Henry Colburn, 1849 Minor wear at extremities; light foxing; very good. (200/300)
2. Ambler, Eric. The Ability to Kill. Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Bodley Head, 1962 One of reported 50 copies bound for promotional purposes before the publication was suppressed because Ambler’s essay on Dr. John Bodkin Adams was considered potentially libelous, later issues have an essay on Hanratty and the A6 Murders substituted for the one on Dr. Adams. Some bubbling to laminate covering of dust jacket; bookseller’s penciled notes on endpapers; else fine. (250/350)
3. Asimov, Isaac. The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov. 678 pp. Edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Illustrated by Ron Lindahn and Val Lakey Lindahn, including a color frontispiece and pictorial glossy endpapers. 10x7, gold-color coated boards, dust jacket, maroon cloth slipcase. No. 321 of 500 copies. Special Deluxe First Edition. Arlington Hts., IL: Dark Harvest, 1989 Signed by Asimov and the two illustrators on the limitation page. Fifty of Asimov’s classic stories, including one from each year of his writing career, arranged chronologically. A touch of wear to slipcase and jacket edges; else fine. (200/300)
4. (Beach, Sylvia) Sylvia Beach 1887-1962. 8x5½, wrappers. First Edition. One of 1400 copies. [Paris]: Mercvre de France, 1963 Text includes hommages from her friends, including T.S. Eliot. Smudge and pen mark on front wrapper; very good. (200/300)
5. Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. A Savannah Story. Black cloth-backed green boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1994] First issue with “fmr” 7 lines up from bottom of page 11. Basis for the 1997 film starring Kevin Spacey and directed by Clint Eastwood. Slight wrinkle at head of jacket spine; else fine. (200/300)
6. Bierce, Ambrose. The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays. Edited by S.O. Howes. Original green buckram decorated in black and gilt, dust jacket. First Edition. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909 A selection of stories and essays gathered from various published California journals and periodicals, which reflect Bierce’s sardonic wit and humor. BAL 1127. Jacket chipped, lightly yellowed and creased, small dampstain at heel of spine; worn and yellowed at volume edges, small stain on rear cover; yellowed endpapers; very good volume in same jacket. (250/350)
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Page 1 FIRST EDITION RAY BRADBURY 7. Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Green cloth, dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950 Bradbury’s second novel. Many stories in this “half-cousin to a novel” were previously published in Science Fiction periodicals, including Usher II. Jacket price reads $2.50. Bleiler 255; Currey p.56. Some light chipping to jacket edges; light wear to volume edges; else near fine in a like jacket. (2000/3000)
8. Brin, David. The Tides of Kithrup. Blue wrappers. Uncorrected Page Proofs. First Edition. New York: Bantam, [1983] Inscribed by Brin on half title: “To Seth Goodman, keep thinking and wondering! Best wishes at Baycon 11/83/-David Brin”. Jacket with some wear and soiling; staining in outer margin; very good. Lot 7 (200/300)
9. Burke, James Lee. The Lost Get-Back Boogie. Dark turquoise cloth, spine lettered in bright orange, pictorial jacket. First Edition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986 Inscribed and signed by James Lee Burke on the title page to Art Stone. Author’s first book after a fifteen year absence and the title which won him immediate critical acclaim. Fine in fine jacket. (400/700)
AUTOGRAPHED LETTERS FROM BURROUGHS TO CORSO 10. Burroughs, William S. Four letters from William S. Burroughs to Gregory Corso. Two typed letters, one autograph letter, and one greeting card. Various places: c. 1984 In the autograph letter Burroughs writes: “Gregory, Somehow ended up w/ your copy of my book, Fucked up. Usually I absent-mindedly abscond with better books than that!” In his Christmas greeting he advises Corso: “I think best not to send any pills through international mail...Thanks anyway for the offer.” Also included is a snapshot photograph of Burroughs with Kate Millet. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Very good. (500/800)
11. Burroughs, William S., Jr. Typed Letter, signed From Billy Burroughs to Gregory Corso. One page typed letter, signed, 11x8½. Typed in red ink. Several holograph corrections. No place: No date Burroughs writes: “Dear Gregory, How can you tell I cant play a decent game of POKER? Is it fair fair fair not to win no money fairly?...Is there no ground called Santuary? take a shot, any shot. One of these days you will wake up stoned...P.P.S. a real and strange man or should I say (what?) caught me throwing knife drawing real blood and swearing fidelity to the honor of the weak in the Arbotoreoum...As usually, ‘Quashed Love, Bill Jr.” Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Creased; very good. (500/800)
Page 2 12. Burroughs, William S. Cobble Stone Gardens. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. First Trade Edition. [Cherry Valley, NY]: Cherry Valley Editions, [1976] Signed by Burroughs beneath his printed name on the title page. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Light wear to wrappers; very good (250/350)
13. Burton, Richard F. Supplemental Nights To The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. 6 volumes in 7. 9½x5¾, three-quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt. One of 250 copies. [Denver]: [Burton Society], [c. 1900] The Supplemental Nights volumes from the Burton Society facsimile edition of the Kamashastra Society Benares edition. Spines faded to brown; some light wear to leather at extremities; very good. (700/1000)
14. [Butler, Samuel]. Erewhon or Over the Range. viii, 246 pp. 7½x4¾, later full brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere for Buddenbrooks of Boston. First Edition. London: Trubner & Co., 1872 The author’s first novel, a classic of utopian fiction. Corners dogeared on a few leaves; fine. (400/600)
15. Byron, Lord. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. xvi, 311 pp. 32 steel engraved plates after the Finden brothers. 7½x4¾, original publisher’s full green morocco elaborately gilt on spine and covers, all edges gilt. London: John Murray, 1853 A fine example of mid-19th century publisher’s bindings. Light wear at extremities; foxing to plates; very good. (200/300)
16. (Byron, Lord) Finden, Edward. Finden’s Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron. 3 volumes. Commentary by W. Brockedon. Illustrated throughout with engravings by Finden from works of various artists; tissue guards. 9x6¼, period full blindstamped brown morocco, spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition. London: John Murray, 1833-34 Light wear to extremities, hinges starting; occasional foxing; very good. (500/800)
A FEW BY TRUMAN CAPOTE 17. Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. Frontispiece from photograph. Brown cloth, dust jacket. First Trade Edition. New York: Random House, [1965] Capote’s masterpiece and considered one of the most important books of nonfiction ever written by an American in the twentieth century. First issue jacket with the “1/66” code on the front flap and “Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library” located on the rear flap. Two short tears to jacket; light wear to volume including a few faint soil marks and covers slightly bowed; else near fine volume in same jacket. (200/300)
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Page 3 18. Capote, Truman. The Grass Harp. Illustrated double title page. Beige linen, dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Random House, [1951] Author’s fourth book. First printing with rough linen binding. Jacket price-clipped, lightly chipped and rubbed at creases, slightly yellowed; volume spine yellowed a bit, very faint spot of soiling; ink inscription on front free endpaper; else very good overall. (200/300)
19. Capote, Truman. A Tree of Night and Other Stories. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1949] Signed by Capote on front free endpaper. Capote’s second book and first collection of short stories. Wilson A2a. Jacket price clipped, chipped at edges, tape repair on verso; light soiling to cloth and endpapers, bookplate; else very good. (500/800)
20. Carleton, Will. In Historic Rome - Autograph Manuscript. 25 pp., in pencil, on rectos of 25 leaves 8x5. No place: No date The American poet and author of Farm Ballads takes a tour of Rome, “A city were every spade- full of earth is a leaf of history turned over....” First page soiled, rust mark from clip; very good. (200/300)
21. Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits. xi, [3], 83, [2] + 1 ad pp. Illustrated with frontispiece (included in pagination) & 8 full-page wood engravings by Shain after Henry Holiday. 7¼x4¾, original pictorial buff cloth, all edges gilt. First Edition. London: Macmillan & Co., 1876 Tipped in at front is Carroll’s scarce 4 page pamphlet “An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves “Alice.”” Spine chipped and with some repair, rear joint split, front hinge cracked; foxing; good. (300/500)
22. Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. [12], 224, [3] pp. Illustrations by John Tenniel. 7¼x5, original gilt-stamped red cloth, gilt vignettes on covers, dark green endpapers. First Edition, First Issue. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872 First issue with “wade” on p.21. “Burn & Co.” binder’s ticket on rear pastedown. Soiling to cloth, spine leaning, some edge wear, hinges cracked; else very good. (500/800)
23. Casanova, Jacques. The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova. 6 vols. Translated and Edited by Arthur Machen. A chapter by Arthur Symons. 8½x5¾, gilt-lettered blue cloth, gilt-lettered black cloth spine labels. One of 500 sets. [No place]: Privately Printed, [1902] From the rare unabridged London edition of 1894, translated by Machen. Light rubbing to extremities, spines a bit sunned; else a near fine and bright set. (600/900)
24. Char, René. Le Poème Pulvérisé. 10x7, tan wrappers. One of 1200 copies. Paris: Fontaine, [1947] Front wrapper detached; else very good. (200/300)
Page 4 SIMON TEMPLAR IS THE SAINT 25. Charteris, Leslie. Enter the Saint. 7¼x4¾, yellow cloth with black lettering, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1930] With the rarely seen original dust jacket, from the Hodder and Stoughton “yellow jacket series.” Price reads 3/5 net on front panel and both flaps. This is the second book from The Saint series, and the first to carry the name of “Saint” in the title. Heavily chipped head and heel of jacket, tears repaired on verso with tape, smudging to front and rear panels; volume spine leaning, foxed edges of page block, edge wear, joints rubbed; foxing at front and rear of volume; else a very good volume in good jacket. (300/500)
26. Charteris, Leslie. The Happy Highwayman. 273 pp. 7¼x5, red cloth with black lettering, dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: The Crime Club, 1939 The twenty-first installment in The Saint series of books. Restored along edges of jacket (largely at head and heel of spine) and flap creases; edge wear and very light soiling to edges of volume; else a very good volume in a good jacket. (200/300)
THE FIRST SIMON TEMPLAR BOOK 27. Charteris, Leslie. Meet the Tiger. 296 pp. 7¼x4¾, black cloth with red lettering. Hinges tender. First American Edition. Garden City: The Crime Club, 1929 The first of the Simon Templar series. Edge wear; very good. (200/300)
28. Charteris, Leslie. Meet the Tiger. 256 pp. 7¼x4½, olive green boards with black lettering to cover and spine. First Edition. London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1928] The first in The Saint series, featuring the classless hero, Simon Templar. Written by the author at age 21. Edge wear, few spots of faint soiling, spine leaning a bit; bookplate and blue pencil to front endpapers; very good. (200/300)
29. Charteris, Leslie. The Saint Goes West. 222, [1] ad pp. 7¼x4½, light blue cloth, spine lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1942] The twenty-third book in The Saint series. Many tape repairs to short tears on verso of jacket, soiling to rear panel, chipped head and heel; slight lean to volume spine, light edge wear; very good volume in good jacket. (200/300)
30. Charteris, Leslie. The Saint Goes West. 276 pp. 7½x4¾, green cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. First American Edition. Garden City: The Crime Club, 1942 The twenty-third book in The Saint series. Many tape repairs on verso of jacket, including to a horizontal tear through spine, chipped; edge wear to volume; very good volume in good jacket. (200/300)
Page 5 31. Charteris, Leslie. Thieves’ Picnic. 306 pp. 7¾x5¼, black cloth with red lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. First American Edition. Garden City: The Crime Club, 1937 The eighteenth installment in the Simon Templar series. Short tears, some chipping to jacket, and lightly yellowed with age; light edge wear to volume; very good volume in like jacket. (200/300)
32. Charteris, Leslie. Twenty first editions from The Saint series. Includes: The Ace of Knaves. No jacket. [1937] * Follow the Saint. No Jacket. [1939] * The Happy Highwayman. Jacket lacking at rear panel, heavily chipped, volume soiled, front hinge cracked. [1939]. * The Saint On Guard. [1945]. * 2 copies of: The Saint Sees it Through. [1947]. * Call for the Saint. [1948]. * Saint Errant. [1949]. * The Saint in Europe. [1954]. * The Saint on the Spanish Main. [1956]. * 2 copies of: The Saint Around the World. One dj repaired on verso with tape. [1957]. * Thanks to the Saint. [1958]. * Señor Saint. [1959]. * 2 copies of: The Saint to the Rescue. [1961]. * Trust the Saint. [1962]. * The Saint in the Sun. [1964]. * 2 copies of: Vendetta for the Saint. [1965]. Together 20 octavo first editions in cloth, including 4 duplicates. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937-1965 Sixteen titles from The Saint series. A wide and varied selection of titles from that series, all but two volumes in dust jackets. Jackets vary from good to very good; volumes vary, very good or better. Sold as is. (600/900)
33. Charteris, Leslie. Eighteen first American editions from The Saint series. Includes: The Last Hero. Black cloth. [1930]. * Wanted for Murder. Black cloth. [1931]. * The Brighter Buccaneer. Black cloth. [1932]. * 2 copies of: Follow the Saint. Black cloth, one with jacket. Chipped jacket. 1938. * The First Saint Omnibus. Black blind-stamped cloth, jacket. 1939. * The Saint in Miami. Light blue cloth, jacket. Jacket moderately chipped, volume covers soiled. 1940. * The Saint Steps In. Red cloth, jacket. 1943. * The Saint on Guard. Red cloth, jacket. 1944. * The Saint Sees It Through. Blue cloth, jacket. 1946. * Call for the Saint... Red cloth, jacket. 1948. * Thanks to the Saint. Black cloth, jacket. 1957. * Señor Saint. Tan cloth, jacket. 1958. * The Saint to the Rescue. Gray cloth, jacket. 1959. * Trust the Saint. Blue cloth, jacket. 1962. * The Saint in the Sun. Black cloth, jacket. 1963. * Vendetta for the Saint. Orange cloth, jacket. Price-clipped dj. [1964]. New York: The Crime Club, 1930-1963 Condition varies, overall very good. Sold as is. (500/800)
34. Christie, Agatha. Sparkling Cyanide. Red cloth, jacket. First Edition. London: Crime Club, [1945] Jacket price reads 8s. 6d. The mystery of Rosemary Barton’s death, and the events that occur one year later. Light creasing, chipping, and staining to verso of jacket (not affecting recto); edge wear; ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; all very good. (500/800)
35. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 35 pp. 5 full page color plates by Duncan Grant. 9x5¾, original full blue morocco, gilt medallion on front, spine lettered gilt, top edge gilt. One of 700 copies. [London]: [Allen and Richard Lane], 1945 Some light wear to leather, endpapers browned at edges; else near fine. (400/600)
36. Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. [vi], 392 pp. 7¾x5, original green cloth. First American Edition, Second State. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900 With copyright in Conrad’s name versus Doubleday’s name of first state printing. Spine a bit darkened, light wear at edges; some soiling to edges of page block; very good. (200/300)
Page 6 37. Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. [iv], 631 pp. Original green cloth decorated in orange and black, lettered in gilt. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904 Light wear at extremities; very good. (200/300)
UN-EDITED PRINCE OF TIDES TYPESCRIPT COPY 38. Conroy, Pat. The Prince of Tides - Typescript copy. Over 1000 pages. 8½x11”. No place: [c. 1985] Photo-copy of Conroy’s typescript of the book as submitted for publication, it eventually was made into the successful film that starred Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand. Included are a couple of photo-copies of inter-office memos and the like from Bantam Books, although the hardcover book was published in 1986 by Houghton Mifflin, Bantam had the paperback rights. This lot also includes a photo-copy of a two-page, single-spaced synopsis that was also used in-house before the book would have been issued in either proof or advanced reading copy format, the synopsis praises the novel (“exceptionally high quality both as a story and for its literary virtuosity”), but it also criticizes its length, it calls for Conroy to make cuts “where the relevance to the central theme becomes tenuous or the descriptive writing a little too dense”, adding that if accomplished the book would have the wide appeal of To Kill A Mockingbird, also included is a photo-copy of a letter from Bruce Hunter, a director of David Higham Associates Limited, London agents, to Anthony Mott of Bantam Books presenting the typescript. Also included is a photo-copy of a letter from Kate Parkin, a Bantam editor, praising the work with high enthusiasm, although she also calls for changes because of too much repetition and too much detail, she ends by writing “can we offer to do it -- I feel I know just what needs attention (that’s not being arrogant), but we have got to have this book,” another photo-copy of a letter from Parkin to Steve Rubin of Bantam repeats her praise, criticism, and appeal to publish the book, the title page of this typescript is highlighted by being Signed by Pat Conroy, this typescript is the novel in its un-edited version and would be an invaluable tool in tracking the evolution of this highly praised novel. Pages edges worn; very good. (600/900)
39. Cooper, James Fenimore. Manuscript list of books necessary to the understanding of the United States. Handwritten list by Cooper comprising 15 titles, followed by 14 lines of explanatory text. 4-page notesheet, 7x4½, addressed on p.4 to Monsieur Cordier, No. 20, rue Nueve, St. Augustine. No place: c.1830 J. Fenimore Cooper’s list of books necessary to an understanding of the United States, beginning with The Federalist and John Marshall’s Life of Washington, with a formal note in the third person explaining to a Frenchman his list: “Mr. Fenimore Cooper prays Mr. Cordier to forgive the delay in sending this note; it has been occasioned by deaths and illness in the family of a countryman...” Cooper was in Europe from 1826 to 1833, in the service of the U.S. Government, and it was undoubtedly during this period that the list was prepared. Cooper’s intense, even polemic, Americanism make his list of books of unusual interest. Very good. (800/1200)
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Page 7 SIX LOTS OF RICHARD SHARPE ADVENTURES 40. Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe’s Company. Olive green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. London: Collins, 1982 Signed by the author on the title page. One of the hardest signed titles to find in the Richard Sharpe series of books. Fine. (500/800)
41. Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe’s Sword. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. London: Collins, 1983 The fourth installment in the Richard Sharpe series. A “compelling story of war, revenge and treachery, set against the magnificent background of the battle for Western Spain.” -jacket blurb. Jacket price-clipped; all else fine. (800/1200)
42. Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe’s Tiger. 9¼x5¾, red half leather with marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. One of 99 numbered copies in a special binding. First Edition. Blakeney, UK: Scorpion Press, [1997] Signed on limitation statement by the author. Fine. (200/300)
43. Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe’s Waterloo. Orange-brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Collins, 1990 Signed by the author on the title page. The eleventh installment in the Richard Sharpe series of books. Fine. (200/300)
44. Cornwell, Bernard. Five first edition Richard Sharpe novels. Includes: Sharpe’s Enemy. Dj price- clipped. Blue circular rubber stamp with “C” on title page. [1984]. * Sharpe’s Honor. 1985. * Sharpe’s Siege. 1987. * Sharpe’s Rifles. 1988. * Sharpe’s Revenge. 1989. Together five cloth-bound octavos in dust jackets. London: Collins, 1984-1989 Five titles from the captivating series which follows the historical adventures of Richard Sharpe. Overall near fine or better. Sold as is. (400/600)
45. Cornwell, Bernard. Thirteen first editions, eight signed by Bernard Cornwell. Includes: Bluth, B.J. Marching with Sharpe. Signed by Cornwell on page 7. [HarperCollins, 2001]. * Adkin, Mark. The Sharpe Companion. [1998]. * Books by Cornwell: Sharpe’s Skirmish. Wrappers. Signed. [Sharpe Appreciation Society, 2002]. * Sharpe’s Christmas. Wrappers. Signed. [Sharpe Appreciation Society, 2003]. * Published by HarperCollins: Sharpe’s Fortress. [1999]. * Sharpe’s Triumph. [1998]. * Sharpe’s Trafalgar. [2000]. * Sharpe’s Battle. [1995]. Various places: 1992-2004 Published by HarperCollins and signed by Cornwell: Sharpe’s Prey. [2001]. * Sharpe’s Devil. [1992]. * Sharpe’s Havoc. [2003]. * Sharpe’s Escape. [2004]. * Sharpe’s Tiger. [1997]. Together twelve octavos and one quarto, all with dust jackets. Eight volumes signed by Cornwell. Overall near fine or better. Sold as is. (600/900)
Page 8 A COLLECTION OF GREGORY CORSO MANUSCRIPTS 46. Corso, Gregory. Two notebooks of writings by Gregory Corso, including poetry and autobiographical notes. Two 8¾x6¾ notebooks, each approximately 40-45 pages. Signed and dated inside front wrappers. Paris: October & November 1983 The November notebook contains numerous poems of various lengths (some several pages) by Corso, with his holograph deletions and corrections. The October notebooks contains several poems and the formation of some autobiographical prose prefaced with a list of events to include and beginning with an account of his first shot of heroin: “The American trumpet player I had met in Paris in 1957 gave me my first shot of dope (I had snorted it the year before in N.Y.C.) but this was my first experience with the “needle” - and what an experience it was!” Corso goes on to describe a trip to Rotterdam with his friend to “cop” heroin, his being shot up on the train station platform and finding himself in a bar in Amsterdam 5 hours later. The notebook continues with a description of Holland and brief mention of his writing of “Bomb” while in Amsterdam. It is unknown if any of the content of these notebooks has ever been published. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Creased vertically (probably carried in his pocket), edge wear, soiling, a few stubs from removed pages, etc.; very good. (3000/5000)
47. Corso, Gregory. “Drafts - Proofs - Changes of Poems for Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit”. File of typed, photocopied or manuscript poems. c. 1981 File comprising draft or proof versions of 44 of the 50 poems published in Corso’s “Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit”. Nearly all with holograph corrections in Corso’s hand and most signed by Corso. The outside of the file folder with Corso’s name, address and phone number in his hand. Also included is a copy of the published work (New Directions, 1981), noted by Corso as copy ‘no. 2’ and signed by him on front free endpaper, additionally inscribed by Corso to Nathan [May] on half title. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Drafts with some wear (a few with considerable wear); volume fine. (2000/3000)
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48. Corso, Gregory. The Day After Humankind - An unpublished poem. Four drafts, including a photocopy of an early draft with holograph corrections in Corso’s hand; two typed drafts, one with corrections and notations; a photocopy of the final draft noted in the margin of the first leaf as “Final draft, First Copy” and signed and dated by Corso. c. 1983 Also included are three original drawings by Corso intended as illustrations for the poem. Each 8x10 or the reverse and removed from a spiral bound sketch book. Unpublished. [Note: The manuscript version of this poem appears in the 1983 Paris notebooks of Corso which are offered elsewhere in this catalogue.] Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Fine (1500/2500)
ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY GREGORY CORSO 49. Corso, Gregory. Six original drawings by Gregory Corso. Six ink drawings, each approximately 11¼x7¼. [c. 1982] Eached signed ‘Corso’ at lower edge. Five of these drawing appeared in Beatitude Magazine #32, the sixth is apparently unpublished. A copy of the magazine, signed by the editor/ publisher, is included. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor and publisher of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Fine. (1000/1500)
50. Corso, Gregory. Drafts of six poems by Gregory Corso. 8 leaves containing 6 poems. 5 being typescripts or typescripts with manuscript corrections and additions; one a photocopy (signed by Corso). c. 1980-85 Poems include “Nevermore, Baltimore”, “Upon Kaye McDonough Publishing Kirby Doyle”, “Many Have Died”, 2 untitled poems and one title simply “A Poem”. [I tried being nice today / and I wasn’t hurt / like any other day]. Very good. (700/1000)
Page 10 51. (Corso, Gregory) Small archive of material relating to Gregory Corso. Includes: Two post cards addressed to Corso both from senders named “Bill” but in different hands, one postmarked Barbados, 1965 (stamp torn off), the other postmarked Rocca Sinibalda [Italy] (stamp removed) * Proof sheets for French and German translations of his ‘Bomb’, the French version with holograph corrections by Corso * A napkin with Corso’s phone number, in his hand * A postcard containing Corso’s poem ‘The Doubt of Truth’ signed by Corso. Creased. * 9 flyers for readings by Corso and others including 8 flyers for 3 different Keystone Korner Poetry Series readings * A typed letter, signed, from Corso to an unnamed inn-keeper regarding a careless chambermaid throwing away 3 letters * Application form for a grant from the Committee on Poetry requesting $125 for travel expenses, signed by Corso * Wilson, Robert A. Ten Tintypes and a Tiger. Inscribed to Corso by the author * Beatitude Anthology, 1960. Various dates Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Very good. (500/800)
52. Corso, Gregory. Original poem by Corso assembled from cut-out words. Cut-out words and phrases pasted and taped to blue, black and green paper, backed with stiff card. Approximately 11¼x7¼ 1974 A unique creation by Corso. Poem begins “A dancing god trapped in the mind of the image-maker stole the show from reality...” Signed by Corso at the bottom and dated 1974. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Very
good. (500/800)
53. (Corso, Gregory) Three letters to Corso from New Directions Publishing. Three typed letters, one 2 pages, others 1 page each. On New Directions letterhead. New York: 1968 & 1978 The earliest letter (4/1/1968) from James Laughlin to Corso in Woodstock, NY encouraging him to further writing and noting that a royalty check is enclosed for sales in 1967 ($902.81). The second letter (2/1/1978) from Frederick Martin to Corso care of City Lights in San Francisco, again encouraging him to write and mentioning a meeting with Allen Ginsberg. This letter with a holograph note of encouragement from Ginsberg. The final letter (7/28/1978) from Laughlin to Corso care of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, offering both encouragement and criticism. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Creased from mailing; very good. (400/600)
CORSO, GINSBERG AND KEROUAC 54. Corso, Gregory. Two postcards from Corso to Allen Ginsberg. Two autograph letters, on postcards. 4¼x6”. Paris & San Francisco: No dates Both from Corso to his friend and fellow poet Allen Ginsberg. Both cards discuss Jack Kerouac. In the first, addressed to Ginsberg care of the Naropa Institute and written in San Francisco, Corso reveals “I dream of Jack K. a lot - It’s all right.” The second card, addressed to Ginsberg care of City Lights Bookshop and written in Paris, Corso pens “...Jack suffers his because he believed he was king of the Beats - What Beats? Surely not the ones he wrote about - Anton, [?], always put him down - plus you pay for lying - he lied when Subterraneans took place in N.Y. not S.F. but for Grove Press commercial reasons, combined Beat Generation with S.F. Poesy Renaissance - ever think of that? He lied when he said beat meant Beautific - when you & I know it meant Beat as Anton constantly told him “Don’t bug me, man, I’m beat” - See? G. Stein called writers a lost generation - Jack called the young of the day, Beat G. You can’t call 4 people
Page 11 a generation & deny the millions & expect the millions to love you, when the 4 don’t even.” Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Some wear and soiling; very good. (400/600)
55. Corso, Gregory with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. On Nixon, Chain Poem. Photocopy of a poem with holograph corrections. Signed by Corso and Ginsberg. 1979 A note beneath the poem dated May 13, 1979 explains “ This poem was written in a bar on Broadway near 110th Street Manhattan over beers, during a visit to town by Kerouac soon after the Vice-President’s celebrated Checkers speech...” The poem reads in part “Nixon has a pillow in his mouth in the Kitchen / Nixon has chickenfeathers coming out of his fly / Nixon’s hair is purple like the egg-yolk of a Suarian Reptile / Nixon’s ears whistle...” The poem has been signed Jack, Gregory, Allen, presumably Kerouac’s posthumous signature has been added by either Corso or Ginsberg. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Some wear and soiling; very good. (200/300)
56. Corso, Gregory. Two postcards from Corso to Nathan May. Two postcards, 4x5¾. [c. 1984] Two cards to his friend Nathan May asking the favor of repayment of certain debts to others: “Nathan, please give this to Yolanda or Kathy, I Owe them 25$ plus 10$ for bounce. Do this small payment for me else my social life is ruined!!” and “Nat, please service me by giving 30 dollars to Yolanda at Cafe Trieste in my name for a check bounced...” Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Fine. (200/300)
57. (Corso, Gregory) Four photographs of Gregory Corso and other Beat Authors. Four photographs, various sizes 4½x6½ to 9½x7½. Various dates Including in the various photos are Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Jose Vila, Peter Orlovsky and others. 3 with the label of Fred McDarrah on verso. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Well worn, creasing, chipping, pinholes, writing on images, etc.; fair only. (200/300)
MANY SIGNED BY GREGORY CORSO 58. Corso, Gregory. Herald of the Authchthonic Spirit. Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. [New York]: New Directions, [1981] Noted as copy ‘No. 3’ in Corso’s hand on half title with his signature and notation that he has made corrections to the printed text, dated 1981. Four pages bear holograph corrections by Corso. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Fine (300/500)
59. Corso, Gregory. Hitting the Big 5-0. [8] pp. 7x5, stiff wrappers. From an edition of 126 copies, none for sale. This copy marked as ‘out of series’. First Edition. New York: Catchword Papers, 1983 Signed by Corso at colophon. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Fine (200/300)
Page 12 60. Corso, Gregory. The Geometric Poem. Unpaginated. 11x8½, wrappers, dust jacket. One of 309 copies. Milan: East 128, 1966 Signed by Corso on title page. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Browning and soiling to jacket; very good. (200/300)
61. Corso, Gregory. 10 Times a Poem. 7x5½, stiff pictorial wrappers. Number 32 of 150 copies. No place: 1967 Signed by Corso on title page. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Wrappers a touch worn at edges; else near fine. (250/350)
62. Corso, Gregory. Six titles by Gregory Corso - All signed or inscribed. Includes: Gasoline. Wrappers. Signed on title page. Ex-library. First Edition. [1958] * Gasoline [&] The Vestal Lady on Brattle. Wrappers. Signed on title page. [No date] * The Happy Birthday of Death. Wrappers. Inscribed on first leaf. Wrappers worn. [1960] * The Vestal Lady on Brattle. Wrappers. Signed on title page. Ink stamp on bottom edge of page block. Facsimile Edition. [1969] * Way Out: A Poem in Discord. Wrappers. Inscribed on title page. With cast list laid in. Stained. One of 500 copies. 1974 * Ashes Chapbook Number 2: Wings, Wands, Windows by Gregory Corso. Wrappers. Signed at rear. 1982. Together 6 volumes. Various places: Various dates Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Condition varies; overall good or better. (400/700)
SHOOTING SCRIPT FOR MICHAEL CRICHTON’S WESTWORLD 63. Crichton, Michael. Westworld - Original Shooting Script for the 1973 MGM Movie. 100 pp. including several blue revision pages. 11x8½, stiff yellow wrappers. [Culver City, CA]: MGM, 1973 This copy was used by actor John Dennis, who played Technician #2 in the film, and bears notes pertaining to his role on wrappers and several leaves. Several ‘Call Sheets’ laid in. Scarce. Very good. (400/600)
64. Crowley, John. Little, Big. Original pink wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs. First Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1981 Inscribed by Crowley on title page. Some wear to extremities, rear wrapper and final few leaves creased; else very good. (250/350)
65. Cussler, Clive. Three signed volumes. Includes: Fire Ice: A Novel from the Numa Files, a Kurt Austin Adventure (with Paul Kemprecos). Cloth-backed marbled boards, publisher’s slipcase. One of 600 copies. Signed by both authors. First Edition. 2002. * The Sea Hunters 2. Cloth-backed marbled boards, publisher’s slipcase. One of 600 copies. Signed. First Edition. 2002. * Mayday! Blue gilt- lettered leatherette, dust jacket. Signed on half title. Gift Edition. First Edition. 2004. Aliso Viejo, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 2002-2004 Fine. (250/350)
Page 13 66. Dagley, R[ichard]. Death’s Doings; Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions, in Prose and Verse, the Friendly Contributions of Various Writers... xviii, [3], 369, [1] pp. Additional engraved title and 24 engraved plates. 8¾x5½, later three-quarter brown morocco and mottled boards, skull and crossed bone devices in spine compartments, raised bands, top edge gilt. First Edition. London: J. Andrews, 1826 ‘The Poet’ and ‘The Captive’, two contributions signed ‘Alfred’, have been doubtfully attributed to Tennyson, whose first acknowledged poems were published the following year. Light foxing; near fine. (300/500)
67. Davies, William Henry. Autograph Letter signed by W.H. Davies. 19 lines, in ink, on recto of sheet of letterhead 8½x5½. The Weald, Nr. Sevenoaks: Nov. 28th, 1909 Letter from the Welsh poet and writer to a Mr. Cosgrove (?), about various publication projects, “...I would not like to be so hard on Mr. Goldring as to take payment for what he did not use... I will see what I can do with the ms. I have in hand, whether I can make three or four chapters that will read like complete article... Fifield has offered to publish my next book of verse on the same terms as Nature Poems, and I have accepted them. I am sure you will not mind this, for, as you know, there is very little to be got out of poetry in book form...” With date rubberstamp at top indicating receipt on 19 Nov. 1909, along with a penciled X. Near fine. (200/300)
THREE WORKS BY CHARLES DICKENS 68. Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. xvi, 624 pp. Half-title present. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) (1 of them a “dark plate”), including frontispiece and additional title. (8vo) 8¼x5½, cloth-backed boards. First Edition in book form, bound from the original parts, example of front and rear wrappers (trimmed) bound in. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 With the 2-line errata leaf but lacking the inserted errata slip. Smith Vol. I, 8. Some light wear to binding, dampstain to lower corner of several plates; very good. (400/600)
69. Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. xiv, 625 pp. Illustrated with 40 plates from etchings by Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”), including the 8 “dark plates” and the added pictorial title page and frontispiece. 8¼x5¼, green half morocco and cloth, spine gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition, bound from the original parts, first issue. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857 First issue with: signature BB2 misprinted as “B2” at page 371; errata at p.xiv with “Frederick” for “William” and “Blandois” for “Rigaud.” Smith Vol.I, 12; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 305-333. Binding worn at edges, hinges cracked; plates darkened as usual, a few plates with amateur attempts at coloring; soiling in margins; good. (250/350)
70. Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. 2 vols. bound in 1. xi, 320; viii, 309, [1] pp. Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone. 8½x5¼, period morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition in book form. London: Chapman & Hall, 1865 Smith Vol. I, 15. Joints worn and cracking, some wear to cloth; foxing throughout; good. (250/350)
71. Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa. Black and orange cloth, pictorial jacket. First American Edition. New York: Random House, [1938] Basis for the Academy Award winning 1985 film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Jacket spine a bit darkened, very minor wear at jacket edges; else fine in a fine jacket. (400/600)
Page 14 72. D[oolittle], H[ilda]. Two works by Hilda Doolittle [H.D.]. Includes: Hippolytus Temporizes: A Play in Three Acts. Cloth-backed boards. Lacking slipcase. One of 500 copies. First Edition. 1927 * Helen in Egypt. Brown cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. [1961]. Together two volumes. Various places: Various dates Some light wear; overall very good. (200/300)
FIRST ISSUE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SHERLOCK HOLMES TALE 73. Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 16 plates by Sidney Paget. (8vo) original red cloth decorated in gilt and black, custom clamshell box. First Edition. London: George Newnes, 1902 First issued in parts in The Strand magazine. The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes tales, based on an English fable told to Doyle by a journalist friend, Fletcher Robinson, while on holiday. First issue with ‘you’ for ‘your’ line 3 page 13. Spine a touch faded, light wear to edges; 1902 gift inscription on front free endpaper; very good. (3000/5000)
74. Dunn, Katherine. Geek Love. 351 pp. Wrappers. Uncorrected Proof, Advance Copy. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1989 Inscribed by Dunn on title page. 8 page autobiographical pamphlet laid in. Fine. (200/300) Lot 73
75. Durrell, Lawrence. Poetry - four volumes of poems. Includes: Cities Plains and People. 2 dj’s, one price-clipped. [1946]. * On Seeming to Presume. Dj price-clipped. [1948]. * Sappho: A Play in Verse. [1950]. Three octavos bound in cloth, published by Faber and Faber, with dust jackets. And, the Viking Press Galley Proof Copy of: Lawrence Durrell: Collected Poems 1931-1974. Blue wrappers. Edited by James A. Brigham. Viking Press, 1980. London; New York: 1946-1980 Laid in to Collected Poems is a photocopy of a Viking Press memorandum regarding the procedure for representatives reviewing the copy of the volume. Very good or better. (200/300)
76. Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems, 1909-1935. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Faber & Faber, [1936] Gallup A32a. Jacket spine faded, light wear at edges, ink smudge on front panel; small spot on rear board; else near fine in a like jacket. (200/300)
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Page 15 FOUR QUARTETS – T.S. ELIOT 77. Eliot, T.S. Four Quartets. Black cloth, dust jacket. First American Edition, First Impression. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943] Exceedingly scarce first impression. Only 788 copies with the words, “first American edition” on the copyright page were distributed. Although the original printing consisted of 4165 copies, 3377 copies were destroyed by the publisher. Jacket lists the price of $2.00 on front flap, and rear panel lists nine books, ending with Old Possum’s... Gallup A43.a. Jacket heavily chipped at edges of front and rear panel, smaller chips to head and heel of spine, affecting the “T” in the authors name and the “E” in “Brace,” small holes at flap folds; light soiling to cloth; very good volume in good jacket. Lot 77 (1500/2500)
78. Eliot, T.S. [Four Quartets] - Original Separate Pamphlets. With: East Coker. Fifth Impression. (1941); Burnt Norton. Third Impression. (1941); The Dry Salvages. First Impression. (1941); Little Gidding. First Impression. (1942). 8¾x5¾, original saddle-stitched printed wrappers (various colors). London: Faber and Faber, [1941-42] Separate issues of Eliot’s Four Quartets, in the original four parts, which were later published in a single volume (1943). Each issued in a small number of copies. Dry Salvages on paper watermarked ‘Adelphi’. Each with edge wear and scuffs or marks on wrappers; Dry Salvages & East Coker with moderate dampstains to wrappers; name inked on front free endpaper of Burnt Norton; else generally very good. (800/1200)
79. Eliot, T.S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Gray cloth, pictorial jacket. First American Edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1939] The basis for the musical “Cats.” One of a reported 2000 copies printed. Gallup A34b. Jacket spine darkened and chipped at ends, 1½” tear at head of spine, some light edge wear to jacket panels and flaps; 1939 gift inscription on front free endpaper; else near fine inery v good jacket. (300/500)
80. Eliot, T.S. Four T.S. Eliot First Editions. Includes: Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. [1948] * The Cocktail Party. First issue with error on page 29. [1950] * The Confidential Clerk. Second issue with error corrected on page 7. [1954] * The Elder Statesman. [1959]. Together four cloth bound volumes, all First Editions in dust jackets. London: Faber & Faber, Various dates Light wear and soiling to jackets; volumes near fine. (250/350)
81. Eliot, T.S. Six volumes by or about T.S. Eliot. Includes: After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy. The Page-Barbour Lectures... Black cloth. Second Impression. Faber and Faber, [1934]. * Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Blue boards. Spine chipped and torn. Faber & Faber, [1932]. * 2 copies of: Little Gidding. Pale pink wrappers. Faber and Faber, [1942]. * The English Association Pamphlet No. 80. Charles Whibley: A Memoir. Tan wrappers. Few spots of soiling to wrappers. [University Press, Oxford], 1931. * Chadbrook, M.C. T.S. Eliot. Supplement to British Book News. Tan wrappers. Longmans, Green & Co., [1950]. Various places: Various dates Together five volumes by T.S. Eliot and one volume about his writing. Very good. (200/300)
Page 16 INVISIBLE MAN – FIRST PRINTING 82. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Two-toned black and beige cloth with vignette stamped in gray around upper spine area, spine lettered in white over black portion, top edge stained bluish black, pictorial jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer and with a portrait of Ellison by Gordon Parks on the back panel. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Random House, [1952] The jacket wraparound band for National Book Award laid in. Ellison’s first book, winner of the National Book Award. Classic African-American work and a high spot in twentieth century American literature. Tells the story of a black man’s existence in a white world, where he resides in his basement lair and lives as an invisible man to the world. With publisher’s “A.B.” on bottom of copyright page as considered required for the first printing. Very light edge wear to jacket, light edge wear to wraparound, rubbed at creases; very light edge wear to volume, white lettering on spine almost entirely rubbed away; very good. Lot 82 (2000/3000)
83. (Entertainment: Rock & Roll) Bill Graham. Lot of 5 Bill Graham Concert Posters. Lot of 5. First printings of Bill Graham concert posters BG95, BG130, BG132, BG139 and BG149 designed by Bonnie MacLean and Lee Conklin. Fillmore and Fillmore West venues featuring Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Moby Grape, Jeff Beck Group, Eric Burdon And The Animals, Canned Heat, Gordon Lightfoot, Country Joe And The Fish and Sea Train. Approx. 21x14. San Francisco: 1967-1968 Center or corner thumbtack holes along top edges, yellow stripping error on BG130 edge, crease line and light discoloration in white areas on BG149. Very good. (400/600)
84. Erskine, John. Iphidamas - Manuscript Poem signed. 8 pp., on rectos only of four 4-page notesheets 6¾x5½, signed by Erskine at the end. No place: No date Manuscript poem by the American educator and author, on a classical theme, leading off with a quote from the Iliad. Erskine’s best-known work is probably Private Life of Helen of Troy, published in 1925. Paper-clip mark, very good or better. (300/500)
85. Everson, William. Blame it on the Jet Stream!. Woodcut portrait by Dennis Marks. 8x10, ¼ dark blue morocco and linen, spine lettered in gilt. No. 17 of 150 copies printed at the Lime Kiln Press on Hayle paper. First Edition. [Santa Cruz, CA]: Lime Kiln Press, 1978 Signed by Everson in the colophon. Prospectus, UCSC typed publication party invitation card laid in. Fine (200/300)
86. Falconer, William. The Shipwreck, a Poem . . . the Text Illustrated by Additional Notes, and Corrected from the First and Second Editions, with a Life of the Author, by J.S. Clarke. [4], xlvi, 214, +[9] ad pp. Four full- page engraved plates; six engraved vignettes. 9¼x5¾, 19th century full straight grain red morocco, gilt ruled borders, spine gilt, all edges gilt. “A New Edition.” London: Printed for William Miller by T. Bensley, 1811 First published in 1762 “The Shipwreck” was reprinted many times. This edition adorned with exquisite engravings after paintings by Nicholas Pokock. Spine faded, some light wear to extremities; very good. (300/500) Page 17 Lot 87 Lot 88 SIGNED, LIMITED WILLIAM FAULKNER 87. Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!. 384 pp. Folding map in back. 8vo. Green cloth-backed decorative boards, top edge gilt, custom cloth slipcase. One of 300 hand-numbered copies on Holliston Rag paper by the Haddon Craftsmen. First Edition. New York: Random House, 1936 Signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Petersen A17d. Spine and edges a bit darkened, ends rubbed (foot with tiny chipping), corners bumped, light shelf wear; evidence of bookplate removal with old glue showing on front pastedown, previous owner’s embossed initials “E.G.B.” on front free endpaper and title page; about very good. (3000/5000)
88. Faulkner, William. Big Woods. Decorations by Edward Shenton. Green cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition New York: Random House, [1955] Signed by Faulkner on title page. Faulkner’s classic hunting stories. Peterson A33a. Jacket worn at edges, tape repairs on verso; gift inscription on front free endpaper; else volume near fine in an about very good jacket. (3000/5000)
89. Faulkner, William. Go Down, Moses. Black cloth, gilt-lettered, jacket. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Random House, [1942] First issue, in black cloth. Seven interconnected stories which together form a novel, including Faulkner’s celebrated “The Bear” and his comic masterpiece “Was”. Petersen A21b. Jacket price- clipped and with some light wear at edges, 1” tear at bottom of rear flap fold; else fine in a very good jacket. (1200/1800)
90. Faulkner, William. Idyll in the Desert. 17, [1] pp. Marbled boards, printed paper cover label, glassine dust jacket. First Edition. One of 400 copies, signed by the author. New York: Random House, 1931 Very nice copy of a fragile book. This is the only publication of this story and also Faulkner’s first Random House book. Petersen A10. Glassine jacket split apart at spine and front flap fold, most still present, several chips and short tears; volume spine gently faded, light edge wear; very good. (1200/1800)
Page 18 91. Faulkner, William. Intruder in the Dust. Black cloth, lettered in gilt and blue, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1948] The novel that helped Faulkner win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Petersen A24b. A few short tears, very light edge wear to jacket, few light smudges; fine volume in near fine jacket. (300/500)
92. (Faulkner, William) Intruder in the Dust. Color movie poster. 14x36. Loew’s Incorporated, 1949 Lovely original poster for the 1949 movie starring Claude Jarman, Jr. Creased from folding, lightly creased along edges, spot of light chipping on right edge; else very good. (200/300)
93. (Faulkner, William) Intruder in the Dust - eight lobby cards. Eight color lobby cards, each measuring 11x14. Loew’s Incorporated, 1949 Code on bottom right-hand corner of each reads 49/447 and they are numbered 1-8. The original lobby cards are from the 1949 film based on the Faulkner novel and starring David Brian, Claude Jarman, Jr. and Juano Hernandez. Near fine. (200/300)
TWO SIGNED, FIRST EDITIONS BY FAULKNER 94. Faulkner, William. New Orleans Sketches. Cloth backed boards, dust jacket. First American Edition. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1958 Signed by Faulkner on title page. “The first collection of the 1925 Times-Picayune sketches to reprint all sixteen pieces, and to use the most authoritative possible text.” Petersen 132e. Light wear at top edge of jacket; edges of boards faded; else fine in a fine jacket. (3000/5000)
95. Faulkner, William. The Town. Beige cloth, pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition, First Issue, Variant Binding. New York: Random House, [1957] Signed by Faulkner on title page. First issue with page 327 lines 8 and 10 repeating; jacket with
Lot 94
$3.95 price printed at upper corner and without “5/57” at bottom corner (as appropriate for the beige cloth copies), threaded gray endpapers (Petersen calls for plain endpapers in the beige cloth copies). The second installment, following “The Hamlet,” in Faulkner’s three-book chronicle of the Snopes family. Petersen A34e. Fine in a fine jacket. (3000/5000) Lot 95 Page 19 96. (Faulkner, William) 28 black and white stills from Sanctuary, the movie. Twenty-eight glossy black and white photographs, each 8x10. 20th Century Fox, 1960 Stills from the 1961 film adaptation of Faulkner’s novel, starring Lee Remick, Yves Montand, and Bradford Dillman. They are numbered at the top right-hand corner of each, and include: 4, 19, 23, 24, 28, 41, 51, 53, 55, 61, 62, 63, 64, 69, 78, 82, 83, 87, 89, 90, 97, 100, 101, 105, 108, 111, 112, and 115. One photograph with pen notation on verso; very good or better. (200/300)
EDITION DE LUXE OF HENRY FIELDING’S WORKS 97. Fielding, Henry. The Complete Works of Henry Fielding. 16 volumes. 8¼x5½, period tan half morocco and cloth, spines gilt, top edges gilt. One of 1000 copies of the ‘Edition de Luxe’. New York: Croscup & Sterling, [1902] Spines darkened, a few small bumps and nicks to leather, one volume chipped at head; very good. (1000/1500)
98. (Fine Press) Five volumes of literature published by fine presses. Includes: 2 copies of: Lehman, Anthony L. D.H. Lawrence, Idella Purnell and Palms. Green gilt-lettered and decorated green cloth. 1 of 26 “Lettered” copies, out of series. George Houlé, 1986. * Salmans, D.L. Personal Thoughts: A Small Collection of Poems. Purple cloth. N.p., [1986]. * Thayer, James Bradley. A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson. Black cloth-backed decorative green boards. 1 of 600 copies, out of series. Book Club of California, 1980. * Hall, Francis. A Winter Traveler. Blue cloth. [Richard J. Hoffman], 1984. Various places: Various dates Fine. (200/300)
THE GREAT GATSBY 99. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Dark green cloth, blind-stamped lettering on front cover. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Scribner’s, 1925 First edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great masterpiece: considered the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature. First issue with “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9-10, plus the other 5 textual variations noted by Bruccoli. Bruccoli A11.I.a. Slight lean, spine repaired at heel and a bit of back cover, gilt rubbed away from lettering on spine; scattered light foxing; good. (2000/3000)
100. Fitzgerald, F. Scott, lyrics. Safety First!. 99 pp. 12x9¼, original stiff pictorial boards, modern cloth rebacking. First Edition. Cincinatti, New York & London: John Church Company, [1916] Fitzgerald provided the lyrics for this musical comedy, his third published work, preceded by 2 other Princeton University Triangle Club productions, Fie!, Fie!, Fi-Fi! and The Evil Eye. Bruccoli A4. Covers soiled and with some creasing, restoration to corners of rear wrapper, hinges reinforced with cloth tape; some light smudging in margins; very good. (1000/1500)
Lot 100 Page 20 SIX BY IAN FLEMING 101. Fleming, Ian. Diamonds Are Forever. Black boards, silver vignette on front cover, spine lettered in silver, pictorial jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition, First Printing, First Issue. London: Jonathan Cape, [1956] The fourth book in the 007 James Bond series and basis for the 1971 film starring Sean Connery. True first issue with: the word “Boofy” present on page 134, 8 lines up; contents page with chapter XV (states starts on p. 144), which is two pages behind what it actually is, along with all other chapters that follow it; although jacket is price-clipped, the rear flap starts with a blurb by Raymond Chandler and states “besides Casino Royale, Mr. Fleming has also written” and lists Live and Let Die and Moonraker with blurbs and prices; and the rear panel does not give the artist’s name for the front cover art. Jacket price-clipped, many tape repairs on verso of jacket, soiling to rear panel, spine/front panel, and front flap fold, slight loss to ‘am’ of Diamonds on spine; inked name and address on front free endpaper; else a near fine volume in a good jacket. (2000/3000) Lot 101
102. Fleming, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. Plain black boards, spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1965] From the 007 James Bond adventure series; film released in 1974. Wraparound jacket illustration of a gun, bullets, two flies and a skull over a leaf. Jacket price reads 18s. A touch of chipping at head and heel of jacket spine; very slight edge wear to volume; else a near fine volume in very good or better jacket. (300/500)
103. Fleming, Ian. Octopussy and the Living Daylights. Boards with silver lettering, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1966] Verso of title page reads, “First Published 1966” and the jacket price reads 10s. 6d. net price. The jacket does not have a price sticker. Chipped and a bit yellowed at jacket edges, head of spine and a few short tears reinforced on verso with tape, a few scratches and small spots of soiling on front panel; very light edge wear to volume; slight loss to final 3 pages due to burn(?); near fine volume in good jacket. (300/500)
104. Fleming, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Black-brown boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1963] The eleventh title in the 007 James Bond series. Jacket with original 16s. net price present. Many short tears repaired with tape on verso of jacket, lightly chipped edges, very faint dampstain on verso; very slight wear to volume, spine leaning a touch; some offsetting and bit of loss to endpapers; all very good. (300/500)
105. Fleming, Ian. Thunderball. Black boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1961] First issue with blind stamp on front cover. The ninth title in the 007 James Bond adventure series. Original “15s. net” printed price present on jacket. Very lightly chipped jacket edges, spine darkened, some yellowing and rubbing; near fine volume in very good jacket. (400/700)
Page 21 106. Fleming, Ian. You Only Live Twice. Black cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition. [London]: Jonathan Cape, [1964] The twelfth title in the 007 James Bond adventure series. Copyright page reads, “First published 1964.” Jacket with wrap-around color illustration by Richard Chopping. Four short tears repaired with tape on verso of jacket, some faint dampstains on verso, slight loss at publisher’s seal on jacket spine due to rubbing; endpapers torn a bit from removed stickers, number inked at front pastedown; else a near fine volume in a very good jacket. (300/500)
107. Forester, C.S. The Gun. [vi], 290, +[6] ad pp. Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., [1933] Jacket a bit soiled, pencil notes on front panel and rear flap, light chipping at edges; cloth lightly faded on spine and at head of front and rear boards; else very good in a like jacket. (300/500)
108. Forster, E.M. A Passage to India. 325 + [3] ad pp. 7½x4¾, maroon cloth, lettered in black. First Trade Edition. London: Edward Arnold, 1924 Forster’s final and most famous novel. Some wear and soiling to cloth; contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper; very good. (250/350)
109. Forester, C.S. Eight novels by C.S. Forester (non-Hornblower). Includes: Brown on Resolution. Blue cloth. [1929] * The General. Brown cloth. [1936] * The Bedchamber Mystery. Pictorial boards. Corner torn from front free endpaper. Toronto, [1944] * The Sky and the Forest. Red cloth, dust jacket. [1948] * Randall and the River of Time. Black cloth, dust jacket. Some soiling. [1951] * The Nightmare. Tan cloth, dust jacket. [1954] * The Good Shepherd. Black cloth, dust jacket. Jacket chipped, tape repairs. [1955] * Gold from Crete. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Together 8 volumes, all first or first English editions. London (mostly): Various publishers, Various dates General wear; overall good to very good. Sold as is. (250/350)
110. Forester, C.S. Eight works of non-fiction by C.S. Forester. Includes: Napoleon and His Court. Green cloth. ‘Presentation Copy’ stamped on title page. [1924] * Josephine, Napoleon’s Empress. Green cloth. [1925] * Lord Nelson. Tan cloth, dust jacket. [1929] * Marionettes at Home. Red cloth. [1936] * The Earthly Paradise. Red cloth, dust jacket. Ex-library. [1940] * The Adventures of John Wetherell. Edited by Forester. Red cloth, dust jacket. [1954] * The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812. Tan cloth, dust jacket. 1956 * Long Before Forty. Blue boards, dust jacket. [1967]. Together 8 volumes, first editions. Various places: Various dates General wear; overall good to very good. Sold as is. (250/350)
111. Forester, C.S. 24 volumes from Forester’s Hornblower series. Includes: Flying Colours. Red cloth, jacket. Two small holes punched in jacket. London, [1938] * Flying Colours, including A Ship of the Line. Green cloth, no jacket. With special Book Society bookplate, signed by Forester, on front free endpaper. London, [1938] * The Ship of the Line. Blue cloth, jacket (price-clipped). Boston, 1938 * Captain Horatio Hornblower. 3 volumes. Green cloth, glassine jackets, slipcase. Slipcase split at corners, glassines chipped. Boston, 1939 * Lord Hornblower. Brown cloth, jacket. London, [1946] * The Commodore. Tan cloth, jacket. London, [1945] * Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Green cloth, jacket. London, [1950] * Lieutenant Hornblower. Blue cloth, jacket. London, [1952] * Horatio Hornblower. Blue cloth, jacket, wrap-around BBC band. Review copy with slip laid in. London, [1952]
Page 22 * [Another copy]. Jacket and band worn. London, [1952] * [Another copy]. Lacking wrap-around band, jacket (price-clipped). London, [1952] * Hornblower and the Atropos. Brown cloth, jacket. London, [1953] * Hornblower and the Atropos. Green cloth, jacket. Boston, [1953] * Hornblower’s Triumph. Blue cloth, jacket. Cadet Edition: Volume Four. London, [1955] * Hornblower in the West Indies. Blue cloth, jacket (price-clipped). London, [1958] * Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies. Green cloth, jacket. Boston, [1958] * Hornblower and the Hotspur. Blue cloth, jacket. London, [1962] * The Hornblower Companion. Red cloth, jacket. London, [1964] * The Hornblower Companion. Brown cloth, jacket. Boston, [1964] * Captain Hornblower RN. Blue boards, jacket (price-clipped). London, [1965] * Admiral Forester. Blue boards, jacket. London, [1966] * Hornblower and the Crisis. Blue boards, jacket. London, [1967]. Together 24 volumes, all First English or First American Editions. Various places: Various dates Varying wear; overall good to very good. Sold as is. (600/900)
112. Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. Map endpapers, (8vo). Black cloth-backed dark blue boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First State. New York: Atlantic Monthly, [1997] Signed by the author on title page. First state with misprint “man-woman” on p. 25, later changed to “mad-woman”. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award and basis for the 2003 film. Jacket with the original blurb sticker, with John Berendt’s quote, affixed to front panel. Postcard for an author reading laid in. Minor wear at top of jacket spine; else fine. (300/500)
113. Gardner, John. Licence to Kill. Black cloth with gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket featuring photograph of the star of the motion picture, Timothy Dalton. First Armchair Detective Library Edition. [New York]: [Armchair Detective Library], [1990] Dust jacket and volume spine with Armchair Detective logo, price of $18.95 intact on jacket flap. Fine copy of this first edition, with the number line on the copyright page reading, 5 4 3 2 1. Jacket with the slightest edge wear at top edge, one tape reinforcement on verso of rear flap fold edge; else a fine jacket in a fine volume. (300/500)
114. Gardner, John. Two jacketed first editions from the James Bond series. Includes: Licence Renewed. Two tape reinforcements to rubbed areas on verso of jacket flap folds. [1981]. * Icebreaker. One short tear to jacket edge. [1983]. Together two octavos in black cloth with gilt-lettered spines, color pictorial dust jackets. First Editions. London: Jonathan Cape, 1981; 1983 The first and third novels of the James Bond series written by the man hired to continue the franchise in 1981. Icebreaker is considered among fans to be the best of Gardner’s Bond novels. The jacket on Licence Renewed is designed from a watercolor by Richard Chopping. Each jacket with very light edge wear; else near fine all around. (200/300)
115. Gilchrist, Ellen. Riding Out the Tropical Depression: Selected Poems, 1975-1985 - 2 signed, limited editions. Includes: Black morocco-backed purple cloth, gilt-lettering on spine and cover. One of 50 deluxe copies. * Full purple cloth, gilt-lettering on spine and cover. One of 30 Presentation copies. Each measures 10¾x7½. New Orleans: Faust Publishing, 1986 Both volumes are signed by the poet on the half title. Designed and printed by Herb Yellin and Carl Bennitt, and bound by Marianna Blau. Two tiny spots of leather chipped away from spine of deluxe edition; else both volumes are fine. (200/300)
Page 23 ARCHIVE OF LETTERS FROM ALLEN GINSBERG TO GREGORY CORSO 116. Ginsberg, Allen. Archive of 10 letters and postcards from Ginsberg to Gregory Corso. Six autograph letters, one typed letter and two postcards. Various places: Early 1980s Most exchanging pleasantries and keeping Corso up to date with his activities and travels, a few with more interesting content including a postcard from Charleville, France where Ginsberg spent the night in the apartment of Charles Rimbaud: “I woke up at 4 AM to take a pee in his old toilet and saw a figure standing in the doorway of the living-dining room - It was the television set.” Also included are 10 empty envelopes (from letters other than those present here) addressed from Ginsberg to Corso. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Very good. (1000/1500) Lot 116
117. Ginsberg, Allen. Autograph Letter, Signed, from Ginsberg to Gregory Corso. 3 page autograph letter, signed, on backs of photocopied sheets of Ginsberg’s poetry (lined through and labeled ‘recycled’ by Ginsberg). 11x8½ New York: Feb. 9, 1982 An intimate letter from Ginsberg to his friend and fellow poet Gregory Corso. Ginsberg encourages Corso regarding a reading, offers praise for his poetry and chides him for forging a check in Ginsberg’s name: “The $50.00 check...you stole in Boulder & signed in my name Nov. 6 -’81 as usual caused me trouble...I didn’t figure out what was wrong till weeks later when I got your forged check back...If anybody did that to you there’d be no end of your screaming tantrums and obnoxious drunken mouth shit - if anybody wasted that much of your time, much less beat you for money. This is the third time you’ve done this when you visited & we had you in house as guest....We’ll try one more time. If you steal from my house, again, best stay out of it thereafter - Doesn’t that make sense?...Cheers! Allen” Corso has penned, at the head of the first page, his response: “Allen, you’re wrongly hysterical - I took no 50 dollars - I mean I can’t recall - oh dear, sorry, thought yours was mine. A real dopey thought, no? Oh, well. Gregory” Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Creased from mailing; very good. (700/1000)
118. Ginsberg, Allen. Two Autograph Letters, Signed to Francois Legros. 2 autograph letters, signed, on postal airmail stationary. New York & San Francisco: 1974 Both letters to the translator of the French editions of Ginsberg’s poetry. In the first letter, dat- ed June 18, 1974, Ginsberg writes apologizing for his long silence saying that he’s been “fitfully maintaining correspondence with City Lights, Claude Beach, Bourgois, J. J. Lebel and others.” About Legros’ translation he remarks that “It’s a lot of work for me to do this checking, I doubt if I can continue to do so, and apparently it displeases you anyway. So what to do? Leave it at your text without second set of eyes to check for holes + French-long syntax? I am building a small wood house a few hundred yards away in woods from Gary Snyder, some physical work and can hardly answer letters, much less find a French/hip/Americanese tongue expert.” In the second letter, dated December 14, 1974, Ginsberg writes to say that he’s contacted someone to check Legros’ translation: “I said OK provisionally---we can go over any questions you have--- and see if she can read your text through---I just don’t know how it will work---but I’m willing
Page 24 to try and work with her---if she does not seems to have special mind like Claude/Mary or J. W. Taylor to check out translation, I’ll have to try another way.” Creased from mailing and with some chipping at edges from opening; very good. (300/500)
A FEW MORE FROM GINSBERG TO CORSO 119. Ginsberg, Allen. Typed Letter, Signed, to Gregory Corso. Typed letter, signed, on the back of a flyer for Naropa Institute conference on the life, times and work of Jack Kerouac. Several holograph corrections and a short note added at bottom, envelope present. 14x8½. Boulder, CO: November 1, 1983 Ginsberg discusses a dream of his mother: “And I went to the land of the dead and saw my mother this month in a dream, she’d gotten saner and was a bag woman in Bronx under a tin shelter in an apartment building side-alley that led into a basement storeroom, and I realized I’d at long last found a place I could settle down in near her and finally make up for abandoning her in the Bronx and henceforth could take care of her, in her last years, & I was happy, even after waking up, life seemed to be turning out alright in the end.” He also discusses his relationship with Corso: “Do we irritate each other equally, when we’re irritable? Who got worse? Who knows....you get drunk and fiery angry, I get sober & timid, pale, same thing.” Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Creased from mailing; very good. (500/800)
120. Ginsberg, Allen. Postcard from Allen Ginsberg to Gregory Corso. Autograph letter on postcard, 3¼x5½ Cooperstown, NY: Sept. 23, 1968 Ginsberg describes an altered state while in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention in 1968. In full: “Dear Gregory. I airmailed your mail & Belle’s in one package, also airmailed yr other battery charger & sent regular post the 2 books on stars I saw around and began reading - but your in the middle of those studies & should have your books fast - Astronomy stars, every night I been looking at Milkey Way. Send me the letter you wrote & I’ll answer it - Any way I’ll write you letter describe Chicago. I got into high trance state chanting (Aum) on sunday 7 hours - first time I ever had that physiologic electric high from breathing & chanting. That was worth Chicago trip. Otherwise Genet & Bill were a ball. - Will describe police state scene later. Allen” One the reverse side Ginsberg has added: “Letters & other parts arrive simultaneous airmail, the star books arrive later in week so go back to city lights to pick up. Allen” Addressed to Gregory Corso care of City Lights. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Some wear and staining; very good. (500/800)
121. Ginsberg, Allen. “Declaration Of Three” to World’s Writers, Appeals for Liberty of Nicaragua. Written with Eugenio Yevtuchenko and Ernesto Cardinal. Three photocopied pages of typed pages. 11x8½. New York: February 4, 1982 Manifesto written by the three poets at the Managua Poetry Festival in January, 1982. Inscribed on the first sheet by Ginsberg for his friend and fellow poet Gregory Corso. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Creased from mailing, some light staining; very good. (300/500)
A RUN OF ALLEN GINSBERG FIRST EDITIONS 122. Ginsberg, Allen. Empty Mirror: Early Poems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. 8vo. Original black and white pictorial wrappers, with design by Jesse Sorrentino. First Edition. New York: Totem Press...with Corinth Books, 1961 Signed by Ginsberg on title page. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Wrappers browned at edges, light wear; very good. (200/300)
Page 25 PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN CELLON HOLMES 123. Ginsberg, Allen. Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions. (4to) brown cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Row, [1986] Presentation copy inscribed by Ginsberg to his long-time friend and fellow writer John Clellon Holmes: “Dear John, Here’s a book wouldn’t exist without your hand & heart. Allen Ginsberg 2/3/87 N.Y.C.” Ginsberg has also done a drawing of a sunflower with its stem turning into a snake. Holmes was among the original founding members of the Beat Generation, and his novel Go was the first book written about Kerouac, Ginsberg, and their circle of friends in New York in the late ‘40s (and the first book to use the phrase “The Beat Generation”). More importantly, it was Holmes who received from Kerouac in the mid-’50s an early draft of Howl that Holmes discovered among his papers and returned to Ginsberg 25 years later, making possible the publication of this book. A superb association copy of the definitive edition of Howl inscribed to Ginsberg’s old friend without whom the book could not have been published. Light foxing to top edge of the inside of the dust jacket and top edge of page block; else fine. (1000/1500)
124. Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960. 6¼x4¾, black and white wrappers, perfect bound. First Edition, First printing. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1961] Signed by Ginsberg on the title and dated 10/10/84. First printing with 10 lines of print on the rear cover. One of 2500 copies printed at Villiers Publications in London. Cook, pp. 42-43. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. A few small spots of soiling to wrappers, corners lightly bumped; very good. (250/350)
125. Ginsberg, Allen. Plutonian Ode. 4 unbound leaves printed on rectos only. 8½x11, yellow wrappers. First Edition. [Rocky Flats, Co]: [Privately Printed], [1978] Signed on the front wrapper by Ginsberg who has apparently also scribbled on the inside of the wrapper as attested to in an initialed inscription beneath by Gregory Corso: “Allen here’s Plutonium scribbles. G.C.” Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Wrapper worn along spine crease, upper corners of wrappers dogeared; very good. (300/500)
126. Ginsberg, Allen. Reality Sandwiches, 1953-60. 6¼x4¾, black and white wrappers. First Edition. San Francisco: City Lights Books, [1966] Inscribed by Ginsberg and dated Nov. 28, ‘81 on the title page. “Kerouac” penned by Ginsberg at the end of the printed two-line quote. Pocket Poets Series No. 18. Dowden, pp. 10-12; Cook, pp. 53-54. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. A touch of wear at edges; else fine. (200/300)
ONE OF 14 COPIES THUS BOUND 127. Ginsberg, Allen. The Moment’s Return. Illustrations by Robert LaVigne. (Oblong 4to) 8¾x15, brown morocco backed pictorial front and rear boards. One of only 14 copies thus bound from and edition 200 copies. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970 One of the smallest limitations of any Ginsberg item. Small stain to leather, a few small bumps to board edges; near fine. (1000/1500)
Page 26 128. Ginsberg, Allen. Wichita Vortex Sutra. 8x6¼, original saddle stitched white wrappers, lettered in blue and red. First American Edition. One of 500 copies. [San Francisco]: Coyote Press, 1966 Signed by Ginsberg at the copyright statement. Dowden p.14. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Light wear and soiling to wrappers, light crease; very good. (200/300)
129. Ginsberg, Allen. Seven volumes by Allen Ginsberg - All signed or inscribed. Includes: The Yage Letters. [written with William S. Burroughs]. Wrappers. Inscribed on title page. Front wrapper damaged from removal of sticker. [1963] * Ankor Wat. Wrappers. Inscribed on first leaf. [1968] * Airplane Dreams. Wrappers. Inscribed on title page. [1969] * Genet, Jean. May Day Speech. Described by Allen Ginsberg. Wrappers. Signed on title page. [1970] * The Fall of America. Wrappers. Inscribed on title page. [1971] * First Blues. Wrappers. Signed on title page. [1975] * Mind Breaths. Wrappers. Signed on title page. [1977]. Together seven volumes. Various places: Various dates Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32. Overall very good. (400/600)
130. (Gioia, Dana) Hagstrom, Jack W.C. and Bill Morgan. Dana Gioia: A Descriptive Bibliography, With Critical Essays. xviii, 301, [1] pp. Blue cloth. One of 500 copies. [Jackson, MS]: Parrish House, 2002 Signed by Gioia on title page. Also included are: Peich, Michael. Dana Gioia & Fine Press Printing. One of 500 copies. Signed by Gioia at colophon. The Kelly/Winterton Press, 2000 * Luzi, Mario. On the Shore. Translated by Dana Gioia. A single folded sheet. One of 200 copies. Signed by Gioia on rear. Aralia Press, 2006. Together 3 items. Fine. (250/350)
131. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. 12 volumes. 9¾x6½, period three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, repeating floral device on spines, top edges gilt. One of 500 sets of the Wakefield Edition De Luxe. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900 Prospectus laid into Volume 1. Frontispieces in Volumes 1 through 8 by A.I. Keller (2), Alfred Fredericks, W.P. Snyder, F. Luis Mora (2), Albert E. Sterner, Charles Broughton, all signed by the artist. Volumes 9-12 contain Forster’s Life and Times of Goldsmith. Spines uniformly faded to brown, some light wear to extremities; very good. (500/800)
132. Gordimer, Nadine. The Soft Voice of the Serpent and Other Stories. Gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt over bright pink background, dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952 A brilliant collection of stories by this Nobel Prize-winning South African author. Publisher’s business reply card laid in. Jacket spine and edges somewhat darkened, light soiling, minor creases to spine ends, 1” rub mark to upper front panel, faint pencil marks on rear panel; volume spine a bit faded, else fine in a very good or better jacket. (200/300)
SUE GRAFTON MYSTERIES 133. Grafton, Sue. Second and third books in the Kinsey Millhone alphabet mystery series. Comprises: “B” is for Burglar. Signed by Grafton on the title page. [1985]. * “C” is for Corpse. [1986]. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo. Boards, pictorial jackets. First Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1985; 86] Fine with fine jackets. Scare early titles, both with a small print run. (1200/2000) Page 27 134. Guthrie, A.B., Jr. Two novels by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. Includes: The Big Sky. [1947] * The Way West. [1949]. Both with pictorial dust jackets. First Editions. New York: Sloane, [1947 & 1949] Jackets with some edge wear, a few tape repairs on verso of Big Sky jacket; else very good or better in like jackets. (200/300)
135. Hannah, Barry. Geronimo Rex. Cloth-backed boards, slipcase. Copy ‘y’ of 26 lettered copies from a total edition of 376 copies. 25th anniversary edition. Jackson, Mississippi: Parrish House, 1997 Signed by Hannah at limitation statement. Fine (250/350)
136. Harrison, Jim. Seven volumes by Jim Harrison - Including three signed. Includes: Warlock. [1981] * Just Before Dark. [1991] * Julip. Inscribed on half title. 1994 * The Road Home. [1998] * The Beast God Forgot to Invent. Signed on title page. [2000] * The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand. [2001] * Off to the Side. Signed on title page. [2002]. All hardcover first editions in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Some light general wear; overall very good or better. (300/500)
ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTER 137. (Harte, Bret) Luck of Roaring Camp - movie poster. 27x41. Color stone lithograph image features a beautiful woman at center and a man to either side, with the phrase, “Bret Harte’s Greatest Novel” in bold yellow. Monogram Pictures, [1937] The 1937 film starred Owen Davis Jr., Joan Woodbury, and Charles Brokaw. Based on the story by Bret Harte. Creased from folding, four tape repairs on verso, the color lightly rubbed at creases; very good. (250/350)
138. Hawking, Stephen W. A Brief History of Time. Gray wrappers. Uncorrected Proofs. First Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1988 A touch of wear at edges; else fine. (200/300)
139. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. vi, [7]-256 pp. Several wood engravings. 6½x4¼, decoratively blindstamped blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, second issue. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852 Second issue with page 21, line 3 having the word “lifted” corrected from “lifed” in the first issue. BAL 7606. Cloth faded, wear at extremities; light foxing and staining; very good. (200/300)
140. [Heggen, Thomas (novel) and Joshua Logan (screenplay)]. Mister Roberts. 133 pp. 11x8½, full red leather, spine gilt. “Shooting Script”. [Los Angeles]: [Warner Brothers], 1955 Shooting script for the Academy Award nominated film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon (whose role won the Oscar for best supporting actor) and William Powell. The copy from the library of Jack Warner with “Mr. & Mrs. J.L. Warner” stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine. Fine (250/350)
Page 28 CATCH-22 IN DUST JACKET 141. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Blue cloth, dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961 Signed by Heller on a card, tipped in at front leaf. A few very short tears to jacket; light edge wear and slightly yellowed edges of volume, covers a touch bowed; all very good. (1500/2000)
142. Hellman, Lillian. Five volumes. Includes: Maybe. First Edition. Little, Brown and Company, [1980]. * The Searching Wind: A Play in Two Acts. Dj chipped w/short tears, name in ink on front free endpaper. Second Printing. 1944. * The Lark. Adapted from a play by Jean Anouilh. Dj lightly chipped, few short tears, dampstaining to rear panel. Prospectus laid in. First Printing. Random House, [1956]. * Pentimento: A Book of Portraits. Dj price-clipped. First Edition. Little, Brown and Company, [1973]. * Three: An Unfinished Woman. Pentimento. Scoundrel Time. Slipcase. 1 of 500 copies. Signed. First Edition. Little, Brown and Company, [1979]. Together five octavos, four in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Very good or better. (200/300)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S CLASSIC, WITH A SIGNED 10-FRANCS NOTE 143. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Black cloth, gilt paper cover and spine labels, pictorial jacket illustrated by Cleon, custom drop-back box. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Scribner’s, 1929 First issue of Hemingway’s masterpiece with a 10-Francs note (série de 1944) signed by Hemingway laid in. Matches first issue points; no disclaimer notice on p. [x], which was added to the second printing at Hemingway’s request, and publisher’s seal on copyright page. First issue jacket with the misspelled name “Katharine Barclay” on the front flap. Hanneman A8.A. Moderate tanning to jacket, small stain to lower corner of front panel, light dust-soiled rear panel, light edge wear, short tear; tiny chip to cover paper label; ownership rubber stamp and date on front free endpaper; very good volume in same jacket. (5000/8000) Lot 143
144. Hemingway, Ernest. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt over black background, jacket. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Scribner’s, 1938 Hemingway’s three-act play and four previously uncollected stories written from his experiences in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. First printing: 1938 date on title and copyright pages, Scribner’s seal and “A” present; jacket with original “$2.75” printed price. Hanneman A16.A. Edge wear with moderately chipped head and heel of jacket spine; very slight edge wear to volume; name and date of publication in ink on front free endpaper; else a fine volume in very good jacket. (2000/3000)
Lot 144
Page 29 145. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Beige cloth, spine lettered in black over red background, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940 First issue dust jacket without photographer’s name below portrait of Hemingway on verso. Publisher’s “A” code on copyright page. Hanneman A18.A. Moderate edge wear to jacket, chip from head of spine (¾”) affecting title, few short tears; volume spine a bit yellowed (yet the spine label is bright); bookplate on front free endpaper, endpapers a bit yellowed; very good volume in good jacket. (500/800)
146. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Beige cloth, spine lettered in black over red background, later dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Scribner’s, 1940 Publisher’s “A” code on copyright page. Jacket is a later state with the name of the photographer, Arnold, beneath Hemingway’s portrait on the rear panel. Hanneman A18.A. Jacket lightly chipped, with some very short tears; red background for spine label faded to pale pink, bit of yellowing to spine and covers; else a very good volume in like jacket. (200/300)
147. Hemingway, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa. Decorations by Edward Shenton. Green cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. New York: Scribner’s, 1935 With the presumed first state dust jacket with wide green band on rear panel and text in small font. An account of Hemingway’s 1933 two month winter safari with his wife Pauline in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. Hanneman A13.A. Jacket spine faded, price clipped from front flap, some chipping and wear at jacket edges; cloth faded at spine and board edges (as usual); else very good in a like jacket. (600/900)
FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS OF HEMINGWAY 148. Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time. (8vo) publisher’s variant blue cloth, white lettering on spine, cream dust jacket printed in blue and black. First English Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1926] Jacket front panel and spine read, “The Story Series No. 5.” Hanneman A32.A. Slight edge wear, two very short tears to jacket; light edge wear to volume; tears to pages 243 & 245 are repaired; very good or better volume in same jacket. (2500/3500)
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149. Hemingway, Ernest. Men Without Women. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine, publisher’s device blindstamped to rear cover, jacket. First English Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1928] White jacket, colored with rose, black and green, designed by J.L. Carstairs, and the front flap erroneously refers to the thirteen stories within the volume, when there are actually fourteen. Original price of 6s. net present on front flap. Hanneman A34.A. Jacket edges chipped, yellowed; volume spine sunned a bit, spots of staining; previous owner’s name in ink on front pastedown; otherwise very good book in good jacket. (1000/1500)
150. Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast: Sketches of the Author’s Life in Paris in the Twenties. Illustrated from photographs. Cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Scribner’s, [1964] Posthumously published. Hanneman A31.A. Light edge wear to jacket and volume; else near fine. (250/350)
151. Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea - Advance Galley Proofs. 17 long galley sheets, printed on one side, stapled at one corner. Also includes a two-page typed letter on Life magazine letterhead, dated August 12, 1952 and signed by Larry Hoover. [New York]: Life, 1952 Written in pencil on front page, “Compliments of David Randall August 21, 1952.” “Prior to magazine publication, Life distributed 5000 sets of advance galley proofs of the story for promotional purposes.” -Hanneman C370. The Sept. 1, 1952 edition of Life magazine is where this classic story was first published. Stamped on top sheet “Advance Galley Proofs” and on first sheet of text “Advance galley proofs for your personal reading only Life publication date, Sept. 1.” First page detached from staple, very light chipping to many of the pages; very good. (1000/1500)
152. Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Scribner’s, 1952 First printing with “A” code and publisher’s device on copyright page. First issue jacket, with the photograph of Hemingway on the rear panel printed in blue ink. This was changed to olive green, and the mention of Hemingway winning the Nobel Prize was added later. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the book which finally earned the Nobel Prize for Hemingway. Hanneman A24.A. Jacket chipped at upper edges, yellowed edges, a few tiny holes where rubbed through at rear flap fold and spine crease; volume spine leaning, few faint spots of soiling; all else very good. (800/1200)
Page 31 HEMINGWAY’S FIRST NOVEL 153. Hemingway, Ernest. The Torrents of Spring. Greenish-black cloth, pictorial jacket, custom clamshell box. First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926 Hemingway’s first novel, printed in an edition of only 1250 copies, the first of his books to be published by Scribner’s. Hemingway began the book while under contract to Boni & Liveright, who had published his first Lot 153 book, the collection of stories “In Our Time”. Hemingway was dismayed by the book’s lack of commercial success and blamed the publisher’s poor promotion and use of blurbs by more famous writers -- most especially Sherwood Anderson, who was then the dean of American letters and Boni & Liveright’s bestselling author. Hemingway felt the blurbs were off-putting and hurt, rather than helped, his book. Although he was under contract to Boni & Liveright for two more books, Hemingway contrived a plan to free himself from the obligation: his contract stated that if Boni rejected one of his books, he would be free to terminate the contract and take his writing elsewhere. As such, he conceived of a short, comic novel which would lampoon Sherwood Anderson’s most recent book, “Dark Laughter”, and which would be unpublishable by Boni, thus freeing Hemingway to go elsewhere. Hemingway wrote “The Torrents of Spring” in a few short weeks in November, 1925 and submitted it to Boni & Liveright where it was promptly, as he had expected, rejected. Hanneman A4.A. Moderately chipped jacket edges, a few short tears, spine darkened and with some staining; faint soiling to cloth, slight lean to spine; else very good. (4000/6000)
154. Horgan, Paul. Lamb of God. [8] pp. 9x6, original stiff black wrappers, purple label on front, purple endpapers. One of 60 copies. First Edition. Roswell: 1927 Minor wear to wrappers; title page and final pages browned from contact with endleaves (portion of the title less browned from laid in paper no longer present); very good. (300/500)
SIGNED BY LANGSTON HUGHES 155. Hughes, Langston. The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations. 20 pp. Decorations and typography designed by Prentiss Taylor. 9x5¾, yellow wrappers, printed in black. N.p.: Golden Stair Press, 1931 Signed on verso of front wrapper by Langston Hughes and dated 1932. Creasing and some very short tears to wrappers, a bit of smudging and very faint spots of soiling; else very good. (1000/1500)
Lot 155
Page 32 156. Hughes, Rupert. Soldiers in the Making - Autograph Manuscript. 20 pp., in ink, on rectos only of 20 leaves. Plus 16-page typescript of the manuscript, and pencil introduction (2 leaves) in another hand. All set in cloth folder. 11¼x8¾. New York: c.1905 Manuscript of an article by the historian, novelist, film director and composer, who was to leave New York and venture to Hollywood where he made his fame. He bemoans the sad state of U.S. military forces, and makes a plea for the National Guard as a solution. A few pages laid on backing paper; overall very good. (300/500)
157. Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. 5 volumes. Translated by Chas. E. Wilbour. (8vo) 9x6, original green and purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First American Edition. New York: Carleton, 1862 With: Fantine, Cosette, Marius, St. Denis, etc., and Jean Valjean each in their own volume. Marius in purple cloth, others in green cloth. Some wear and soiling to cloth, front free endpaper lacking from first volume; light foxing; else very good. (1000/1500)
158. Hume, Fergus W. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. 230, [2] ad pp. 7x4½, pictorial wrappers (advertisements on rear cover and verso of front and rear covers). Second Edition. Two-Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Thousand. London: Hansom Cab Publishing Company, [1887] Hume was born in England, raised in New Zealand, and settled into Melbourne where this novel is set. This is the author’s first novel, and his claim to fame. This is the second edition overall, but the first UK edition. Light spots of soiling and foxing, light edge wear, chipped at head and heel of spine; else very good. (400/600)
JACKETED FIRST TRADE EDITION OF ALDOUS HUXLEY’S CLASSIC 159. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. [6], 306, [1] pp. 7½x5, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge blue-gray, color pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 Huxley’s classic and best known work; a “Utopia which is never dull, of which the horror is always credible” – Connolly, The Modern Movement 75; Eschelbac 38; Shober [10]; Bleiler (1978), p.106; Reginald 07670. Jacket spine panel darkened and small chips to head and a larger chip at foot of spine with loss of most of publisher’s imprint, a few other small spots of edge wear; volume with slight lean, spine a little sunned, ends a bit crimped; near fine or better, jacket still very good. (2000/3000) Lot 159
160. Irving, John. Three works by John Irving. Includes: The World According to Garp. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. New York: Dutton, [1978] * The Hotel New Hampshire. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. New York: Dutton, [1981] * The Pension Grillparzer. Wrappers. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Form Company, 1980. Together 3 volumes. First Editions. Various places: Various dates Some light wear to jacket edges; near fine. (200/300)
Page 33 161. [Irving, Washington] Crayon, Geoffrey. The Alhambra. 2 volumes. viii, 333; [vi], 299 pp. (8vo) 8¼x5½, modern brown half calf and marbled boards. First English Edition. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832 Precedes the American Edition. BAL 10135. A fine rebound set. (250/350)
162. Irving, Washington. The Alhambra. 2 volumes. Photogravure plates. 8½x6, original white cloth with a moorish design in green, blue and gilt, top edges gilt, original blue cloth dust jackets, slipcase. The Darro Edition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892 Slipcase heavily worn and with tape repairs at corners; dust jackets fine; some yellowing to cloth; else volumes near fine. (200/300)
163. (Irving, Washington) Curtis, George William. Washington Irving, A Sketch. [viii], 115 pp. Three inserted etchings. 9x6, original full red morocco stamped in gilt, slipcase. One of 344 copies. First Edition. New York: Grolier Club, 1891 Slipcase worn, a few small scuffs to leather; else near fine. (200/300)
164. Jong, Erica. Four works by Erica Jong. Includes: Fear of Flying. [1973] * Loveroot. [1975] * How to Save Your Own Life. [1977] * Fanny: Being the True History of Fanny Hackabout-Jones. Inscribed by Jong on half title. [1980]. Together four First Editions in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Some light wear to jackets ; tops a bit dusty; very good or better in like jackets. (200/300)
ULYSSES, 1 OF 750, WITH THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS BOUND IN 165. Joyce, James. Ulysses. [6], 732, [1] pp. 4 leaf errata bound in at rear. 9¼x7¼, bound in blue quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered and dated in gilt, original wrappers bound in, custom slipcase. No. 318 of 750 copies printed on handmade paper. First Edition, First Printing. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922 An attractive copy of the greatest work of literature of the twentieth century. “Ulysses” can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute to Joyce’s influence. According to James Spoerri, “This fortunate combination of printer [Maurice Darantiére and publisher [Sylvia Beach] resulted in the appearance of ‘Ulysses’ as a book whose physical aspect is particularly suited to its content. It is a fair and inviting volume, the blue and white of its covers subtly evocative of the Greece whose epic it so closely parallels.” Spine a touch faded; some edge wear to original wrappers, pages lightly browned at edges (as usual); very good. (10000/15000) Lot 165
Page 34 166. (Kees, Weldon) Gillane, Daniel and Robert Niemi. The Bibliography of Weldon Kees. Foreword by Donald Justice. Introduction by Dana Gioia. Black cloth, slipcase. Copy ‘J’ of 26 lettered copies from a total edition of 526 copies. Jackson, Mississippi: Parrish House, 1997 Signed at the limitation page by Gillane, Nieme, Justice and Gioia. Fine (250/350)
167. Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Green cloth, dust jacket, custom drop-back box. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Viking, [1962] First issue, with “that fool Red Cross woman” on p. 9, lines 12-13; and with “It’s the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin, with the blond hair the patients are always arguing about....” on pp. 85-86. Jacket with the five word Kerouac quote on front flap. Light edge wear, mostly at head and heel of spine; near fine volume in very good jacket. (4000/6000)
168. King, Stephen. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. Reddish-brown cloth, dust jacket. First Trade Edition. [West Kingston, RI]: Donald M. Grant, [1982] Jacket worn at edges, dampstain at spine foot on both jacket and cloth; else very good. (500/800) Lot 167
169. King, Stephen. Different Seasons. Blue cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking, [1982] Inscribed on rear panel of jacket: “For Herb, Best, Stephen King”. Upper corner of rear board bumped; else near fine in a fine jacket. (300/500)
170. King, Stephen. The Stand. Cloth-backed boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 The author’s fifth book and fourth novel; a classic of good versus evil. Price intact reading $12.95. Page 823 with “T39” printed in the gutter. Light edge wear to jacket, chipped along top edge, lightly yellowed overall; name in ink on front free endpaper; else a near fine volume in a very good jacket. (200/300)
171. Kingsley, Charles. Alexandria and Her Schools; Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh. xxiv, 172 pp. 7¾x5, finely bound by the Hampstead Bindery in full tan morocco with elaborate gilt paneling, spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, parchment doublures stamped in gilt and red, top edge gilt. First Edition. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1854 Set into a blank leaf at the front is a clipped signature of the author. Bookplate of John Morgan of Rubislaw House, Aberdeen. Spine and edges browned, some light wear; very good. (300/500)
Page 35 172. Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe - Uncorrected Proof. 265 pp. Gray wrappers. Uncorrected Proof, Advance Copy. First Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982 Signed ‘Bill Kinsella’ on title page. Basis for the film “Field of Dreams”. A touch of wear at wrapper edges; else fine. (200/300)
A RUN OF RUDYARD KIPLING 173. Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous: A Story of Grand Banks. Illustrated by I. W. Taber. Original gilt-decorated and lettered blue cloth, all edges gilt. First Edition. London: Macmillan, 1897 Classic nineteenth-century English adventure novel. Livingston 137. Edge wear, slight lean; ownership sticker on front free endpaper; very good. (300/500)
174. Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. Original green cloth, stamped in black, gilt-lettered on cover and spine, top edge gilt. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901 First Issue with rhymed chapter headings for chapters VIII and XIII only. Precedes the English edition. Livingston 248. Edge wear, head and heel of spine frayed, small stains to covers; else very good. (200/300)
175. Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. [4], 413 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 10 plates from photographs taken by John L. Kipling (Rudyard’s father). 7¾x5, original red cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First English Edition. London: Macmillan, 1901 Some light wear at edges, rear hinge repaired; very good. (200/300)
176. Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook’s Hill. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 4 color plates. 8x5, original green cloth gilt-lettered and pictorially stamped in black, top edge gilt, custom slipcase. First Illustrated Edition. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906 Latimore & Haskell, p.28. Edge wear, corners bumped; frontispiece tissue-guard foxed; very good. (200/300)
SIGNED BY WILLIAM KITTREDGE 177. Kittredge, William. The Van Gogh Field and Other Stories. Blue cloth lettered in red on spine. No dust jacket, as issued. First Edition. Columbia, Missouri: Breakthrough Books/University of Missouri Press, 1978 Signed and with a quote by Kittredge on title page: “Prayer, silence before the chant begins”. One leaf prospectus laid in. The author’s first book. A touch of wear at spine ends and corners; else fine. (800/1200)
178. Koontz, Dean R. Twilight Eyes. 263, [1] pp. Numerous illustrations in color and black and white by Phil Parks; pictorial endpapers. (4to) 11x8½, gilt-decorated black boards, color pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition. [Plymouth, MI]: The Land of Enchantment, Christopher Zavisa, [1985]
Page 36 Inscribed and signed by both the author and artist on the front flyleaf: “To Art Stone, Better hope that none of the creatures in this book ever comes into your veterinary clinic in need of a check-up! Your friend, Dean R. Koontz” and “For Art Stone, This is a good time to get those throwing knives sharpened! Phil Parks.” Also, publisher’s folding promotional poster, laid in. Fine in fine jacket. (200/300)
179. Koontz, Dean R. Three first editions by Dean Koontz, two signed. Includes: Hanging On. Cloth- backed boards. Signed on half title. Name in ink on front free endpaper. M. Evans and Company, Inc., [1973]. * Darkness Comes. Cloth. Signed on sticker on half title. Name in ink, sticker residue and bookseller’s label to endpapers, front hinge starting. W.H. Allen, 1984. * The Bad Place. Cloth. Jacket with ¾” chip on rear panel. Guild Publishing, [1990]. Together three octavos in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Each jacket with light to moderate edge wear; volumes with very light to light edge wear, and a few spots of scuffing; else near fine volumes in very good to near fine jackets. (250/350)
180. Kosinski, Jerzy. Five novels. Includes: Passion Play. Signed on front free endpaper. First Edition. St. Martin’s Press, [1979]. * Being There. Tape residue on jacket and volume. First Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., [1970]. * Steps. Red ink writing on rear dj flap. First Edition. First Printing. Random House, [1968]. * Cockpit. First Edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1975. * Blind Date. First Edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Together five cloth octavos in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Very good or better. (200/300)
181. L’Amour, Louis. The Lonesome Gods. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Bantam Books, [1983] Inscribe by L’Amour on front free endpaper. A touch of wear to jacket edges, short tear at head of rear flap; else fine. (250/350)
SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION IN RARE DUST JACKET 182. Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. 365 pp. 9x6, original brown boards with Lawrencian phoenix in black on front cover, paper spine label, original plain paper dust jacket. One of 1000 copies. First Edition. [Florence]: Privately Printed, 1928 Signed by the author on colophon. The paper jacket is especially scarce. This edition published by the Italian press Tipografia Giuntina is increasingly difficult to come by; more often you will encounter one of the many pirated editions. Connolly 57; Fabes p.14; Roberts A42a. Jacket lightly yellowed, extensive tape repair to tears on verso; wear to head and heel of volume spine, few faint spots of soiling, foxed spine label; bookplate on front pastedown; else near fine volume in good jacket. (10000/15000) Lot 182
Page 37 183. Le Carré, John. Twelve novels. Includes: Absolute Friends. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [2004]. * Single & Single. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [1999]. * The Constant Gardener. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [2001]. * The Tailor of Panama. Cloth-backed boards. Dj with one short tear. First Edition. Knopf, 1996. * The Tailor of Panama. Cloth-backed boards. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [1996]. * Our Game. Ex-library copy, dj has been glued to pastedowns at flap folds, rubber stamps, blind stamp to title page. First Trade Edition. Knopf, 1995. * The Little Drummer Girl. Dj spine sunned. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [1983]. * The Quest for Carla. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [1982]. * The Night Manager. Gift inscription on half title. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [1993]. * Smiley’s People. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [1980]. * [Two Novels in One] The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - The Looking Glass War. Glossy boards. First Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, [1994]. * Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Moderate edge wear, rubbing, chipping and tearing to dj. Book Club Associates, [1975]. Altogether twelve cloth octavos in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Jackets vary from very good to fine (Our Game dj good only-see above); volumes are largely near fine, with few exceptions. Sold as is. (400/600)
HARPER LEE’S PULITZER PRIZE AWARD-WINNING NOVEL 184. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Green cloth-backed brown boards, pictorial jacket, custom leather drop-back box. First Edition. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott, [1960] First printing of the important 1961 Pulitzer Prize Award-winning story that takes place during the Great Depression, and the basis for the classic 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. First issue jacket with Truman Capote’s quote blurb on the top front flap printed in green; original printed “$3.95” price present. Light edge wear to jacket and rubbing at creases, loss of upper layer of jacket, some of the Capote blurb affected, tape residue along edge of each flap; lightly rubbed volume; small pen mark on bottom of page block; name inked on front free endpaper; very good volume in like jacket. (10000/15000)
Lot 184
185. Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition, First Binding. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1927] Basis for the 1960 film, winner of three Academy Awards, and starred Burt Lancaster as the title role. First binding, with the “G” in “Gantry” on the spine strongly resembling a “C”. Chipping repaired on verso of jacket, very faint dampstains on verso; very light edge wear to volume, spot of soiling on rear cover; all very good. (800/1200)
Page 38 186. Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott. Blue cloth stamped and lettered in orange, dust jacket. First Edition, later issue. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 Later issue with page number imperfect on p. 54 and the “y” in “may” on p. 387 (last line) is imperfect. Dust jacket with printed green selection of other G&D titles on verso. Jacket moderately chipped and rubbed, mostly at head and heel of spine, 5” tear up front flap fold; volume rubbed, edge wear, spine darkened a touch, a few spots of soiling; else a very good volume in good jacket. (200/300)
187. Lewis, Sinclair. Two signed novels. Includes: The Prodigal Parents. Red cloth, dust jacket. Signed by author on front free endpaper. First Edition. Short tears and chips to jacket; light edge wear to volume; bookplate on front pastedown; very good volume in very good jacket. Doubleday, 1938. * Kingsblood Royal. Red cloth. One of 1050 copies. Signed on limitation page by author. First Printing. Some edge wear and black marks on back cover; very good. Random House, [1947]. New York: 1938; [1947] Very good overall. (250/350)
188. (Literary Letters) Four Autograph Letters signed by 19th century British literary figures. Includes: A.L.s. from Charles Kingsley, inquiring as to the identity of the author of an article. * Note from Agnes Strickland, conveying her autograph to the Rev. John Gwynn. (Stained.) * A.L.s. from William Harrison Ainsworth, regretting that he cannot accept an invitation to visit Rackheath. * A.L.s. from Elizabeth Gaskell, apologizing for borrowing some books without permission. Together, 4 letters. Approx. 7x4½, 3 are 4-page notesheets; hinged into individual mats. Britain: c.1854-1864 Very good or better. (400/600)
189. (Literary Letters) Approx. 20 Autograph Letters signed & MS. leaves from British & American authors of the 19th & 20th centuries. Includes: Richard Le Galliene. * St. John Ervine. * Maud Diver. * Leonard Merrick (2). * R.H. Horne (to William Thackeray). * Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton. * Fair copy of letter from William Hampen(?) to Sir Walter Scott. * Edwin Arnold. * Ms. leaf, unsigned, by Mrs. Gore (chipped & creased). * 2-page Ms. poem, signed, by Hugh Macmillan. * Andrew Lang (2). * Lawrence Binyon (2). * John Masefield. * W.A. Lecky. * William Cullen Bryant. * Richard Henry Stoddard. * Louis Adamic (this a T.L.s.). Together, approx. 20 authograph items. Various places: Various dates Generally very good or better. (500/800)
190. London, Charmian. Typed Letter, signed with her initials, regarding a Jack London manuscript. One page Typed Letter, signed C.K.L. 6½x8½”. Glen Ellen, Calif.: Dec. 23, 1930 From Charmian Kittredge London signed by her with her initials, dated Dec. 23, 1930, from Glen Ellen, California to a Mr. Taylor, sending him the original manuscript of “The Tar Pit” which was published as “The Captain of the Susan Drew,” the manuscript was completely in London’s hand and was signed and dated by him, it included a title page and 86 pages of text, she notes, “This is the only manuscript of one of my husband’s short stories that I own. All others have gone into the Huntington Library, there to remain as the property of the people of the State of California. They will never circulate among collectors.” Fine (300/500)
Page 39 191. London, Charmian. The Book of Jack London. 2 vols. Illustrated with photo plates. Green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First American Edition. New York: The Century Co., 1921 Both volumes inscribed and signed by Charmian London to Tom Manners on the front free endpapers; apparently Manners knew Jack London, and in the second inscription Charmian notes that the volume “is more reminiscent of my own life with Jack, with its observations of his maturer years. I am led to a more intimate inscription, for I feel that you will care for the intimacy shared with you in this book, Yours very sincerely, Charmian London, Jack London Ranch, Glen Ellen, California, 1922. Mounted on the front pastedowns are copy photographs of a portrait of Charmian and a view of their house in Hawaii with Jack standing in front. Woodbridge remarks that “these two volumes contain offer 250 letters, telegrams and inscriptions by Jack London to various correspondents, some complete and some excerpted. The majority are first printings....” Woodbridge 1180 Some rubbing and wear to the bindings, circular stains to the front covers; first with hinges cracked at endpapers, those in the second tender, else very good. (700/1000)
JACK LONDON AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO FUTURE WIFE CHARMIAN 192. London, Jack. Autograph Letter from Jack London to Charmian Kittredge. 71 lines, on rectos only of 6 sheets of plain notepaper. 6x9¼, held together with a straight pin. [Oakland?]: Friday, Oct. 2/03 The letter is not addressed and not signed – Jack had separated from Bessie only a few months before, and their divorce would not be final for over two years. Jack and Charmian’s romance was a closely kept secret, and Jack was reluctant to leave a paper trail. Just how effective the deception was is revealed in this letter. Jack begins by bemoaning the necessity of maintaining their distance when they were in social settings: “Each time I see your beautiful body it is to me as a new revelation. It first began with the magic of your shoulders, long and long ago… Last night I couldn’t resist you, and so was compelled to keep away from you. Had I come near and touched you, as I wanted to, I can’t imagine what might have happened. I know, and know well, that I would forget myself. So I fought away from you, & loved you, and was glad that I was there…” After relating how he feigned a lack of lamp fuel to linger that evening, he discusses Bessie’s perceptions, and how she actually relies on Charmian, the “other woman” (unbeknownst to Bessie) for solace: “All goes well with B, --so far as you and I are concerned. Her own people seem to have deserted her, and she told me last night that she didn’t know what she would do if it weren’t for you. And she spoke at length of your visits and what they meant to her. In fact, you were exalted above all people… Before I forget it, and in case I forget it to- night, next Thursday will be my only free night next week. Can we hit it off together?… Dear girl, I never think of you without loving you. My every thought of you is a caress, and I caress you now.” Old folds, near fine. (4000/6000)
Lot 192
Page 40 193. London, Jack. Autograph Letter from Jack London to Charmian Kittredge. 42 lines, on rectos only of 2 sheets of plain notepaper. 11x8½, held together with a straight pin. [Oakland?]: Tuesday, Aug. 25/03 Jack expounds at length on his love for Charmian, “…Oh my sweet one, not only am I hungry for you all the time, but I am hungry to see you in the day-time just to look upon your face. I forget that your eyes are golden, these days, and calm, and proud. And I love the pride; and the calm, for it is bred of sureness and strength. And I love you, for these reasons, and some others which I may know, but I love you over and beyond all these, for reasons I do not know and may never guess. And it is all one small woman, whose body tucks so cosily into mine as we walk side by side... You are God to me, and I worship you.” The letter is unsigned, in an effort to maintain the secrecy of their relationship. Old folds, near fine. (3000/5000)
Lot 194
194. London, Jack. Autograph Letter from Jack London to Charmian Kittredge. 41 lines, on rectos only of 5-1/3 sheets of plain notepaper. 6x9¼, held together with a straight pin. [Oakland?]: Sunday, Oct. 19/03 Jack writes of the depth of his love for Charmian, and the deleterious effects on his psyche from their enforced separation: “…Dear Love-Woman, I am mad for you. Instead of growing saner the more I have of you, the madder I become, & the more I fear the possibility of losing you. An empty world it would be to me, were you out of it, or were you another’s…” He then mentions what might have been a dalliance with another woman, “I guessed it last night and I have nothing to say…, or much, whichever way I will. I’ll talk it over with you some time, for you must know precisely the kind of woman it was, as well as my own outlook on my own life at that time. Never-the-less, and unwittingly, I sinned against you. Forgive…” In a marginal note next this passage Charmian wrote at a later date, “This was in relation to the telegram Bessie read over his shoulder in camp.” The lower 2/3 of the final page is clipped off, with a fragment of writing remaining, perhaps Jack signed the letter, then removed the signature to maintain discretion. Old folds, short tear to first leaf; near fine. (3000/5000)
195. London, Jack. Autograph Note from Jack London to Charmian Kittredge. 5 lines, on recto of sheet of plain notepaper 6x9¼. [Oakland?]: Thursday, Sept. 8/03 Jack drops Charmian a line “Just to tell you that I love you, love you greatly and wisely and well.” At the top he has written in a little box, “no letters. N.G.” (apparently No Good). The note is not addressed and not signed, their clandestine relationship still had to be hidden from outsiders. 1½” split along central crease, very good. (500/800)
Page 41 196. London, Jack. Lot of 4 ephemeral pieces. Includes: Charmian London’s mythology-inspired bookplate, woman riding horse through the waves. 3x4. * Jack London’s Wolf Head bookplate. 5x4. *The Tramp. 28, [4] pp. (incl. printed self-wrappers). 5x3½. Woodbriodge 1036. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, [after 1904] (A few small stains to wrapper). * “A New Idea in Fiction” The Star Rover by Jack London, With a sketch of Jack London’s life and a complete descriptive list of his novels, short stories and economic writings. [8] pp. 8¾x4¼, original photo-pictorial wrappers. New York: Macmillan, [1915]. (Some fading to wrappers).Together, 4 items. Various places: Various dates Very good or better. (250/350)
JACK LONDON FIRST EDITIONS 197. London, Jack. The Abysmal Brute. 169, [1] ad pp. Frontispiece by Gordon Grant, with tissue- guard. 6¾x4½, olive green cloth with orange and black decorations and lettering, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Century Co., 1913 Inscribed on front free endpaper in George Sterling’s hand “To Will, from George.” West Coast poet George Sterling (1869-1926) was a close friend of London’s. BAL 11945; Sisson & Martens, p.70. Lightly chipped jacket, a few short tears, one spot of soiling on verso; slight edge wear to volume; very good volume in same jacket. (1200/1500)
198. London, Jack. The Apostate: A Parable of Child Labor. 15, [1] pp. 7½x5½, original buff wrappers. First Edition. Girard, Kansas: Appeal to Reason, 1906 BAL 11897. A few small spots to wrappers; else fine. (300/500)
199. London, Jack. A Daughter of the Snows. 334 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with 4 color plates, including frontispiece, by Frederick C. Yohn. 7½x5, red cloth lettered in white, cover illustration in white, gilt & green. First Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1902 London’s first novel and fifth book overall. BAL 11874; Sisson & Martens, p. 9. Spine lettering lacking (as usual), minor rubbing to cover design; very good. (300/500)
DUTCH COURAGE IN DUST JACKET 200. London, Jack. Dutch Courage. xii, [4], 180 pp. Frontispiece photograph of Jack London, 7 plates from drawings by G. M. Richards. Red cloth decorated & lettered in black on front cover, in gilt on spine. Pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1922 Fine copy of this posthumous collection of sea stories. The fragile binding is rarely found in very good or better condition and is quite rare in the pictorial jacket. BAL 11977; Sisson & Martens, p. 97 Several small chips at jacket edges, front flap price clipped and trimmed diagonally from top to bottom (no loss of text), jacket darkened and soiled; volume fine with just a slight loss of black pigment in the ruled border of the front cover. (2500/3500)
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201. London, Jack. Moon-Face and Other Stories. v, [1], 273, [1] + [4] ad pp. 7½x5, blue cloth lettered in cream, cover and spine illustrated in cream, light green, and gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1906 BAL 11895; Sisson & Martens, p. 27. Extremities rubbed, previous owner’s name and stamp on front endpapers; else very good. (200/300)
202. London, Jack. Opere Complete di Jack London. 14 (of 19) volumes. 7½x5, brown half morocco and cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt. Milan: Modernissima, 1927-28 Translated by Dienne Carter and Gian Dauli. Spines faded; very good (200/300)
203. London, Jack. The Scarlet Plague. 181, [3] + [4] ad pp. Frontispiece and drawings by Gordon Grant; decorative endpapers. 7½x5, plum red cloth decorated in red-orange and yellow, lettered in red-orange on front cover, in gilt on spine. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1915 BAL 11960; Sisson & Martens, p. 7. Spine ends chipped, corners rubbed, spine faded; very good. (200/300)
204. London, Jack. The Sea-Wolf. vii, [1], 366 + [3] ad pp. Frontispiece and 5 plates by W. J. Aylward. Blue cloth lettered in white on front cover and spine, cover illustrated in dark blue, orange, and white, top edge gilt. First Edition, Second Issue. New York: Macmillan, 1904 Title page a cancel. BAL 11882; Sisson & Martens, p. 19. Covers soiled, some loss of colored stamping on front, hinges cracked; lacking one plate; fair. (200/300)
205. London, Jack. The Star Rover. [6], 329, [3] + [8] ad pp. Color frontispiece by Jay Hambridge. 7½x5, original sky-blue cloth decorated in navy blue & cream, lettered in gilt. First American Edition. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1915 London’s novel of reincarnation and astral projection based on the “true” experiences of a prisoner at San Quentin. Published a couple months earlier in the UK as “The Jacket.” BAL 11963; Sisson & Martens, p. 8. Spine cocked, some wear and soiling to cloth, hinges cracked, two bookplates on front endpapers; good. (200/300)
Page 43 206. London, Jack. Eight titles by Jack London. Includes: The Faith of Men and Other Stories. Blue cloth. 1904 * War of the Classes. Red cloth. Ex-library, lacks front free endpaper. 1905 * When God Laughs and Other Stories. Green cloth. 1911 * A Son of the Sun. Blue cloth. 1912 * The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii. Green cloth. Damp stain. 1912 * The Star Rover. Blue cloth. 1915 * The Scarlet Plague. Red cloth. Heavy dampstain on rear. 1915 * The Little Lady of the Big House. Blue cloth. 1916. Together 8 volumes, all First American Editions. Various places: Various dates Varying wear, soiling, etc.; overall fair to good. Sold as is. (500/800)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 207. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Ballads and Other Poems. 132 pp. 7x4½, original cream-yellow paper boards, expertly rebacked. Custom slipcase. First Edition, First Issue. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842 First issue, with the quotation marks after the first line on p. 34 and the small “t” in the last line on p. 88. Early owner’s inscription dated January 4, 1842 of front free endpaper. Longfellow’s rarest book of poetry, one of only 350 copies printed and very rarely seen in the original boards. BAL 12070. Light wear to boards, hinges repaired; light foxing; else about fine. (1000/1500)
208. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. vii, 151 pp. 7x4¾, original white wrappers lithographed in gilt, edges uncut. Custom clamshell box. First Edition. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846 (wrappers dated 1845) Bookplate of Robert Darrah Jenks. BAL 12083. Spine sunned Lot 207 and chipped, gilt faded, wrapper edges chipped; very good (500/800)
209. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Building of the Ship. 79 pp. Twenty engraved illustrations after W.J. Hennessy and R.S. Gifford. 6½x4¾, original publisher’s full blindstamped brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Illustrated Edition. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870 First separate edition, originally included in The Seaside and the Fireside (1850). BAL 12511. Light wear to extremities, hinges cracked; very good. (200/300)
210. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems. 215 pp. 12 page publisher’s catalog at rear dated October, 1858. Slip advertising the Waverly Novels tipped in at front. 7¼x4½, original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, First Issue. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858 BAL 12122. Slight lean to spine, edge wear; very good. (200/300)
211. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems. 215 pp. 7x4½, original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition, First Issue. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858 The rare publisher’s ‘Gilt-Extra’ binding. BAL 12122. Light wear to extremities; bookseller’s pencil notes on front flyleaf; very good. (200/300) Page 44 212. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie. 163 pp. 10x6¾, original boards, modern rebacking. Large Paper Edition. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848 One of 50 copies of a large paper edition printed the year after the first edition. Scarce. Inscribed by a previous owner on front free endpaper: “To my daughter Mary Ann Lipscomb, from H.W. Longfellow to A.A.L, - and from A.A.L. to M.A.L. March 22nd, 1867. Wee Willie Cottage, Athens, Georgia.” BAL 12321. Boards well worn, top half of front free endpaper excised; light foxing, paper a bit browned; very good. (600/900)
213. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Hiawatha, A Poem. 208 pp. 16 full page illustrations, pictorial endpapers, and illustrated margins by John R. Neill. 7¾x5½, original green cloth with color illustration mounted on front cover, top edge gilt. First Edition with Neill illustrations. Chicago: Reilly and Britton, [1909] Neill is best known for his illustrations for various ‘Oz’ books. Very minor wear to binding; near fine. (200/300)
214. Longfellow, Henry W. Hyperion, A Romance. (3)-267 pp. 5¼x3½, period green half morocco and patterned boards, spine gilt. First English Edition. London: H.G. Clarke, 1844 Longfellow’s first novel, first published New York, 1839. This edition not recorded by the BAL. Apparently lacking an illustrated title page present in the collation provided by WorldCat which locates only 3 copies of the present edition. Some rubbing, hinges starting; very good. (300/500)
215. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Seaside and the Fireside. (vi), 141 pp. 7x4½, original brown cloth stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 The publisher’s rare ‘Gilt-Extra’ gift binding. BAL 12099. Spine ends lightly frayed, a few small spots to cloth; light foxing; else near fine. (250/350)
RARE “SUPER GILT EXTRA” BINDING 216. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. iv, 316 pp. 7x4¼, original “super-gilt extra” blue cloth, all edges gilt. First Edition, First Issue. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855 First issue with all BAL 1st issue points. Rare “super-gilt extra” binding with all stamping in gilt versus the gilt and blind stamping of the “gilt-extra” binding. Early owner’s inscription dated Dec. 25, 1855. Bal 12112; Grolier American Hundred 66. Spine a touch darkened, some light wear to cloth; else near fine. (1000/1500)
217. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. iv, 316 pp. 24 page publisher’s catalog at rear dated March, 1855. 6¾x4¼, original blindstamped slate blue cloth, spine gilt. First English Edition. Lot 216 London: David Bogue, 1855 Precedes the American edition by 10 days. BAL 12111; Grollier American Hundred, 66. Slight lean to spine, a few small spots to cloth, hinges cracked; light foxing; very good. (300/500)
Page 45 218. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. iv, 316 pp. 12 page publisher’s catalog at rear dated November, 1855. 7x4½, original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, First Issue. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855 With ‘dove’ for ‘dived’ p.96, line 7. BAL 12112; Grollier American Hundred, 66. Spine ends lightly frayed, remnant of newspaper clipping on front free endpaper, 1855 ownership signature on front pastedown; else near fine. (250/350)
219. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Tales of a Wayside Inn. viii, 225 pp. 22 page publisher’s catalog at rear dated November, 1863. Additional illustrated title page. 7x4½, original green cloth (BAL’s ‘TR’ pattern), spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863 Second issue ads at rear with this title priced at $1.25 on page 11. BAL 12136. Light wear at extremities; light foxing; very good. (200/300)
220. [Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, editor]. The Waif: A Collection of Poems. xiv, 144 pp. 7x4½, original color lithograph wrappers. Custom clamshell box. First Edition. Cambridge: John Owen, 1845 A scarce collection of largely European poetry edited by Longfellow, the only American poets included are Longfellow, Emerson, Very, and Freneau. BAL 12075. Wrappers a bit soiled and browned; foxing; else near fine. (800/1200)
221. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Tales of a Wayside Inn. vi, 160 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 9 illustrations by John Gilbert. 8½x6, original publisher’s full blindstamped brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Illustrated Edition. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866 BAL 12489. Some light wear at extremities, small pull to foot of spine; small stain in lower margin of a few leaves; very good. (200/300)
222. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Five volumes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Includes: The Poets and Poetry of Europe. (8vo) original black half morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the bookplate of poet and bibliophile William Winter. First Edition. BAL 12078. 1845 * Household Poems. Original terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. BAL 12140. 1865 * The New England Tragedies. Green cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. BAL 12150. 1868 * The Hanging of the Crane. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt. First American Trade Edition. BAL 12166. 1875 * Poems of the “Old South”. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black. First Edition. BAL 19194B. 1877. Together 5 volumes. Various places: Various dates Some general wear; overall very good. Sold as is. (200/300)
223. Lorca, Federico Garcia. Poeta en Nueva York. 187 pp. Preface by Jose Bergamin. Introductory poem “El Crimen Fue en Granada” by Antonio Machado. Illustrated with 4 full-page drawings by Lorca, 2 of which are color plates. 9½x7, original cream wrappers (front cover and spine printed in red and black) with glassine, edges untrimmed and unopened. First Spanish Edition. Mexico: Editorial Séneca, 1940 Text in the original Spanish is accompanied by four lovely illustrations. Glassine heavily chipped; else very good or better. (1200/1800)
Page 46 Lot 223 224. (Lord John Press) Fifteen titles from the Lord John Press. Includes: Everson, William. Renegade Christmas. Half leather. 1 of 26 lettered copies. Signed. 1984. * Simmons, Dan. Children of the Night. Leather-backed boards, slipcase. 1 of 200 deluxe copies. Signed. 1992. * Oates, Joyce Carol. Queen of the Night. Cloth-backed boards. 1 of 300 copies, “Binder’s copy.” Signed. 1979. * O’Brien, Edna. James and Nora: Portrait of Joyce’s Marriage. Two-toned cloth, slipcase. 1 of 250 copies. Signed. 1981. * Out of the West: Poems by William Everson... Cloth-backed boards. 1 of 300 copies. Signed by all five poets featured at the beginning of their section of the volume. 1979. * Trudeau, Garry. Rap Master Ronnie. Cloth-backed boards. Presentation Copy, per the limitation statement. Not signed. 1986. * Gardner, John. Vlemk the Box-Painter. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 1 of 300 copies. Signed. 1979. * Francis, Bruce. Scenic Route. Cloth-backed boards.1 of 250 copies. Signed on title page. 1990. * Barth, John. Don’t Count on It: A Note on the Number of The 1001 Nights. Two-toned cloth. 1 of 150 copies. Not signed. 1984. * Barth, John. The Literature of Exhaustion and the Literature of Replenishment. Linen. 1 of 100 copies. Signed. 1982. * Bradbury, Ray. The Last Circus & The Electrocution. Cloth. Not signed. 1980. * Leonard, Elmore. Notebooks. Cloth-backed boards. 1 of 300 copies. Signed. 1991. * Berger, Thomas. Granted Wishes: Three Stories. Cloth. 1 of 250 copies. Signed. 1984. * Apparitions: Poems by John Ashbery... Cloth. Presentation Copy, per the limitation page. Signed by each of the five poets featured at the first page of their section of the volume. 1981. * Erdrich, Louise and Michael Dorris. Route 2. Cloth. Small grease stain on rear cover. Publisher’s Copy per the limitation page. Signed by both authors. 1991. Together 15 volumes. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, Various dates All limited editions are not numbered, most are out of series. Others are publisher’s copies or presentation copies. Near fine or better. (600/900)
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Page 47 THE NOVELIZATION OF KING KONG 225. Lovelace, Delos W. King Kong. [6], 249, [1] pp. Novelized from the Radio Picture by Lovelace. Conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper. 8x5¼, original green cloth, lettered in dark maroon, pictorial endpapers showing several action stills from the movie, color pictorial jacket with wrap-around artwork. First Edition. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [December 1932] The original novelization for the 1933 King Kong movie classic as part of the film’s advance marketing. Co-creator Merian Cooper was the key creative influence, saying that he got the initial idea after he had a dream that a giant gorilla was terrorizing New York City. Edgar Wallace, a famous writer of the time, died very early in the process and it is generally believed that little if anything of his ever appeared in the final story, but his name was retained for its saleability. Bleiler (1978), p. 127; Reginald 09268. Jacket split along spine folds, chipped at edges and with tape repairs on both sides; volume a bit worn at spine ends, clipped stills from the movie production pasted in blank spaces on several leaves; overall very good in a fair jacket. (1000/1500)
226. Lytton, Edward Bulwer. [Works]. 30 (of 32) volumes. (8vo) three-quarter green morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt. One of 1000 sets of the “Edition de Luxe”. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1892 Some light wear to extremities; bindings cocked on several volumes; very good and quite attractive. (500/800)
227. MacDonald, George. Lot of six Autograph Letters or Notes signed by fantasy author George MacDonald. Includes: A.L.s. to W. Osgood, “...Do not forget to send me the missing volume of Emerson...” May 23, 1873. * A.L.s. to Strahan, “I enclose Blackett’s letter just received. So I can do no more. If you break up the cov. you might try Sampson, Low with the novels...” Oct. 23, 1885. * Undated A.L.s. to Strahan, “...Will you get this set up and see how it cooks?” * Portion only of an A.L.s. to G. Dowson Rogers, “I used to get L300 there, but now not the half of that because of the piracies...” * A.L.s. to Seymour, “...I am sorry to say that I find my interests have been so neglected here in respect of the little book as that it was published without my knowing of it...” June 28, 1873. * Salutation signed, “I am, my dear Sir, faithfully yrs., Geo. Macdonald.” Together, 6 items. Great Britain: c.1873-1885 George MacDonald (1824-1905), Scottish novelist, poet, clergyman, was the author of such notable fantasies as At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, and The Princess and Curdie. He is known to have had a strong influence on J.R.R. Tolkien. Very good condition. (500/800)
228. Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead. Black cloth, dust jacket designed by Karov. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1948] Inscribed by Mailer on the front free endpaper. Author’s first book; a stunning debut which ranks among the best American war novels ever written. First printing with publisher’s circled “R” on the copyright page. First issue jacket without New York Herald Tribune quote. A Burgess 99 title. Jacket price-clipped, very light wear at edges; light wear to binding at extremities, small wrinkle at head of spine; else very good in a like jacket. (300/500)
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Page 48 229. Mailer, Norman. Three novels. Includes: The Executioner’s Song. First Edition. Little, Brown and Company, [1979]. * An American Dream. ¾” chip to head of dj spine, chipped along edges; light sunning at head of volume spine. Dial Press, 1965. * Cannibals and Christians. Tipped in photograph frontispiece. Waterstain to rear dj panel, lightly creased/rubbed head and heel of dj. Dial Press, 1966. Together three cloth octavo first editions in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Good to very good jackets; very good or better volumes. (200/300)
230. Márquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 8vo. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket, custom slipcase. First American Edition, First Printing, First Issue. New York: Harper & Row, [1970] First American printing with no number sequence in the back and states “First Edition” on the copyright page. First issue jacket with an exclamation point at end of first paragraph on front flap. First published in Argentina in 1967 under the title “Cien Años de Soledad,” this is the Nobel Prize winning author’s masterpiece of love and lust, war and revolution. Jacket price clipped, several chips and short tears at edges; minor wear to volume edges; else very good in a good jacket. (1200/1800)
231. Massinger, Philip. The Plays of Philip Massinger. 4 volumes. 8½x5½, later full tan polished calf, spines gilt, black morocco lettering pieces, top edges gilt. Second Edition. London: G. and W. Nicol, et al, 1813 Front joint split on Volume 1 with front board loosely attached; wear to extremities; else very good. (300/500)
232. McAlmon, Robert. Post-Adolescence. 7¼x4½, tan wrappers, decorative slipcase. First Edition. [Paris]: [Contact Publishing], [1923] Scarce work published by McAlmon’s own publishing house, Contact Publishing, which he founded in Paris to specialize in books “not likely to be published . . . for commercial or legislative reasons.” Bookseller’s label for Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company inside front wrapper. Edge wear to slipcase and chipping; volume chipped at head and heel of spine; very good. (250/350)
SMALL RUN OF CORMAC MCCARTHY 233. McCarthy, Cormac. Child of God. Blue cloth-backed red boards, jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1973] Label signed by McCarthy adhered to half title. The author’s elusive third book, a tale of violence and horror in the hill country of East Tennessee. Jacket price-clipped, edges worn, 1” tear and crease on front panel; endpapers foxed, faint remainder price stamped on front free endpaper; else very good. (300/500)
234. McCarthy, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. Cloth backed boards, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1998 The concluding book in The Border Trilogy. Slight wear to jacket; else fine. (200/300)
235. McCarthy, Cormac. The Gardener’s Son: A Screenplay. Brown cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. [Hopewell, NJ]: The Ecco Press, [1996] Fine. (200/300) Page 49 236. McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. Black boards, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 Fine. (200/300)
237. McCarthy, Justin. Lot of 22 A.L.s. and 10 T.L.s. from Irish historian, novelist and politician Justin McCarthy. On various sizes and types of paper, a few on notecards. Various places: c.1857-1907 Letters from the Irish nationalist historian, novelist and politician, sometime MP in the UK Parliament, and a rival to Charles Stewart Parnell for leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Most are to his publishers, mainly Chatto & Windus. There are also two A.L.s. from his daughter Charlotte McCarthy. A few of the typed letters, of larger size and on flimsy paper, are chipped and torn with loss; good to very good condition. (400/600)
238. Melville, Herman. Moby Dick. [xxxii], 822, [5] pp. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. 7x5, original black cloth stamped in silver, dust jacket. First Kent Trade Edition. New York: Random House, 1930 Small format, one-volume version of the Lakeside Press three-volume limited edition. Jacket with several small chip and short tears, dampstain to rear panel and flap, wax drip on front panel; some loss of silver stamping on front and spine of volume; else very good. (200/300)
SIGNED BY THE PULITZER AWARD WINNING AUTHOR 239. Michener, James A. Tales of the South Pacific. Cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1947 Signed by James A. Michener on title-page with his rubberstamped initials in red. The first book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. ¾” chip lacking to top rear jacket panel, a few tears over ½”, short tears and nicks to edges; light edge wear to volume; light age toning to page margins; very good volume in like jacket. (3000/5000)
Lot 239 Lot 242
Page 50 240. Michener, James A. Ventures in Editing. 7¾x5, light blue cloth, lettered in silver, publisher’s slipcase. One of 274 copies. First Edition. Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1995 Number 2 out of 274 copies. Signed by James A. Michener with his red initialed rubberstamp on limitation page. Very light marks to bottom of slipcase; else fine. (200/300)
241. Miller Arthur. Timebends. Frontispiece portrait by Christine Bunn. Full red leather decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1987 Signed by the author at blank leaf before the half-title. Fine (200/300)
242. Miller, Henry. Scenario (A Film With Sound). 9¾x6, loose signatures as issued within tan wrappers. One of 200 copies. First Edition. Paris: Obelisk Press, 1937 Signed by Henry Miller on the limitation statement. Moderately dampstained wrapper edges, creasing, bit of crayon marking front wrapper; else very good. (1000/1500)
243. Moore, George and Julian Hawthorne. 4 T.L.s. from George Moore to Julian Hawthorne, and 1 carbon T.L.s. from Julian Hawthorne to George Moore. 11x8½ or slightly smaller. London & San Francisco: 1925-1932 The friendly letters deal with matters both personal and literary, and include references to Julian Hawthorne’s father Nathaniel. Julian Hawthorne’s signed carbon is darkened and brittle, chipped at right margin affecting a few words; 1 of Moore’s letters with his obituary taped at bottom causing darkening, the others are very good. (400/600)
244. Morrell, Ed. The Twenty-Fifth Man: The Strange Story of Ed. Morrell, the Hero of Jack London’s “Star Rover”. 7¼x4¾. Blue cloth, jacket. First Edition. Montclair, N.J.: New Era Publishing Co., [1924] “A great book by a man who may one day be acclaimed as one of the world’s great men” -- jacket blurb. The fast-paced, compelling prison autobiography of a celebrated bandit. Jacket chipped with short tears and some rubbing; light edge wear to volume; else very good overall. (200/300)
245. Murdoch, Iris. 20 volumes by Iris Murdoch. Includes: Three 1962 editions of: An Unofficial Rose. Chatto & Windus. * Viking. (dj price-clipped) * The Reprint Society London. ** The Sandcastle. Viking, 1957. * Under the Net. Dj price-clipped. Viking, 1954. * A Word Child. Chatto & Windus, 1975. * A Word Child. Viking, [1975]. * The Italian Girl. Many tears on dj repaired on verso with tape, chipped, name in ink on ffep. Viking Press, [1964]. * The Red and the Green. Top and bottom corner of front dj flap clipped. Viking, [1965]. * The Three Arrows and The Servants and the Snow. Stain on dj flap fold. Viking, [1974]. * The Sacred and Profane Love Machine. Dj price-clipped. Viking, [1974]. * The Time of the Angels. Writing in ink on ffep. Chatto & Windus, 1966. * An Accidental Man. Dj price-clipped. Chatto & Windus, 1971. * An Accidental Man. Viking, [1972]. * Henry and Cato. Viking, [1977]. * The Sea, The Sea. Dj price-clipped. Chatto & Windus, 1978. * The Sea, The Sea. Volume covers lightly sunned. Viking, [1978]. * Nuns and Soldiers. Viking, [1981]. * Nuns and Soldiers. Chatto & Windus, 1980. * The Nice and the Good. Dj price-clipped and lightly chipped. Viking, [1968]. Various places: Various dates Together 22 octavos in dust jackets. Jackets and volumes are generally very good or better (see above for details). Sold as is. (500/800)
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You can bid absentee directly from the item description in the online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com. Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder. 246. Oates, Joyce Carol. Ten works by Joyce Carol Oates. Includes: Do With Me What You Will. Jacket price clipped. [1973] * Childwold. [1976] * Son of the Morning. [1978] * Cybele. No jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies. 1979 * A Sentimental Education. [1980] * Bellefleur. [1980] * Mysteries of Winterthurn. [1984] * Solstice. Tape repair to jacket. [1985] * Nemesis. (Writing as Rosamond Smith). Inscribed “’Rosamond’/Joyce” on half title. [1990] * What I Lived For. [1994]. Together 10 First, or First Trade, Editions, in dust jackets where issued. Various places: Various dates Some light wear to jackets; overall very good or better. (250/350)
MANY FROM THE AUBREY-MATURIN SERIES 247. O’Brian, Patrick. The Far Side of the World. Green cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. London: Collins, 1984 The tenth book from the famed Jack Aubrey books. A hard to find jacketed copy of this English edition of the book. Jacket price-clipped, very faint trace of creasing or rubbing to a few spots along edges; lightly yellowed pages as usual; near fine volume in like jacket. (1000/1500)
248. O’Brian, Patrick. Master and Commander. Blue cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. London: Collins, 1970 Price on jacket flap reads £1.50 net, 30s. net and has an advertisement for Graham Shelby’s The Knights of Dark Renown on rear panel. Jacket design by Dell’ Orco. One of three novels in the Jack Aubrey series upon which the 2003 film was based upon. Jacket edges lightly yellowed and creased, many short tears repaired with tape on verso; light edge wear to volume; fore edge of page block foxed; name inked in red on front free endpaper; very good volume in good jacket. (800/1200)
249. O’Brian, Patrick. Master and Commander. Blue cloth, color pictorial jacket. First American Edition. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, [1969] Jacket code on front flap reads 1169. The American edition precedes the UK edition. Jacket price-clipped, very light edge wear, a few scratches and lightly rubbed; very light edge wear to volume; else a near fine volume in a like jacket. (200/300)
250. O’Brian, Patrick. The Surgeon’s Mate. Red cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition. London: Collins, 1980 This scarce first edition is the seventh installment in the Jack Aubrey story. Jacket art after a painting by W. Smyth. All novels in the series are “self-contained and can be read separately,” per the jacket flap. Very slightly creased upper jacket edge; fine volume in same jacket. (1000/1500)
251. O’Brian, Patrick. Three first editions from the Jack Aubrey series. Includes: The Letter of Marque. * The Thirteen Gun Salute. * The Nutmeg of Consolation. Together three first editions in dust jackets. London: Collins, 1988-1991 The twelfth through fourteenth installment in the Jack Aubrey story. Fine. (300/500) Lot 250
Page 52 252. O’Brian, Patrick. Ten volumes by or about Patrick O’Brian. Includes: The Golden Ocean. W.W. Norton, [1994] * The Unknown Shore. Third Impression. W.W. Norton, [1995] * Post Captain. Lippincott, [1972] * The Letter of Marque. Third Impression. W.W. Norton, [1990] * The True Love (Clarissa Oakes). W.W. Norton, [1992]. * The Commodore. W.W. Norton, [1995]. * The Yellow Admiral. W.W. Norton, [1996]. * 2 copies of: Lavery, Brian. Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick O’Brian. Naval Institute Press, [2003]. Each cloth bound first editions with dust jackets. Various places: 1972-2003 Also: King, Dean. A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O’Brian’s Seafaring Tales. Wrappers. Henry Holt, [1995]. Together ten volumes, including one duplicate. Near fine or better. (200/300)
253. O’Brian, Patrick. Eight first editions from the Jack Aubrey series. Includes: Clarissa Oakes. * The Wine-Dark Sea. & Blue at the Mizzen. * The Yellow Admiral. * The Hundred Days. * Two copies of: The Commodore. * The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey. Together seven titles in eight volumes, each a first edition in a dust jacket. London: HarperCollins, 1992-2004 The last seven titles of the Jack Aubrey series. Near fine or better. (250/350)
254. O’Brian, Patrick. Ten first editions from the Jack Aubrey series. Including: Post Captain * H.M.S. Surprise. * The Mauritius Command. Dj price-clipped and yellowed. * Desolation Island. Dj price- clipped. * 2 copies of: The Fortune of War. One dj price-clipped. * The Ionian Mission. * 2 copies of: Treason’s Harbour. One dj price-clipped. * The Reverse of the Medal. Together ten first edtision, including two duplicates, in dust jackets. London: Collins, 1972-1986 Second through sixth, the eighth, ninth, and eleventh books from the popular Jack Aubrey series. Light edge wear to each jacket and each volume; very good or better. (500/800)
IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE, SIGNED 255. O’Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. Half cloth and boards, embossed vignette on the front cover, spine lettered in black and glittery green, jacket. Third printing. [New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1973] Inscribed by the author on the title page in black ink: “To Bill, Peace, Tim O’Brien.” Author’s rare first book about a foot soldier in the Vietnam War, based on the author’s own personal experiences, brilliantly detailing accurate aspects of the war. First issue jacket with the publisher’s $5.95 printed price on the front flap and the “0373” code on the rear flap. Very slight crease to upper edge of front jacket panel; fine volume in same jacket. (1500/2000)
Lot 255
Page 53 256. Parker, Robert B. Three by Robert B. Parker published at Lord John Press. Includes: The Private Eye in Hammett and Chandler. 9¼x6, black cloth. Signed. One of 300 copies. Out of series. 1984. * Parker on Writing. 10x7, black leather-backed red cloth. One of 300 copies. Labelled Author’s copy on limitation statement. Out of series, unsigned. 1985. * Surrogate. 6x4, red leather-backed boards. One of 300 copies. Signed. Out of series. 1982. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, Various dates Together three lovely volumes from the American novelist, best known for his detective fiction. Fine. (250/350)
SIGNED BY PERCY WALKER 257. Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961 Signed by Percy on title page. The author’s first book and winner of the 1961 National Book Award. The former owner of the book, attorney and writer Ben Toledano of New Orleans, has signed the rear pastedown with a note asking that the book be returned even “under the most extraordinary of circumstances.” Accompanied by a 4 page letter dated 2004 on Toledano’s letterhead detailing his relationship with Percy and the circumstances of signing. The letter in part reads: “Walker Percy and I met each other in the mid-1960s, maybe 2 or 3 years after The Moviegoer was published. I had known Walker’s younger brother Phinn since the mid ‘50s... Up until 2 weeks before he died, he and I were in close contact with each other... Two weeks, maybe three before he died, he called me and asked if there were any books I wanted him to sign for my four children. Lot 257 I said probably so. He said ‘meet me at the Waffle House in Covington at noon.’ He had breakfast, and ordered a hamburger for me. He said ‘Promise me you’ll have an annual examination by your urologist, if you’re not already doing so.’ Although I think of him often, I think of him very particularly every year in my urologist’s office. Walker would like that. I swear I think his sense of humor was even better than his great intellect. Bill Buckley asked me to write a short notice of Walker’s death for National Review and I did so.” Jacket browned along top edge; tape marks on boards at upper and lower edges and on endpapers, erasure marks on front free endpaper; else very good in a near fine jacket. (2000/3000)
258. Percy, Walker. Two by Walker Percy. Includes: Questions They Never Asked Me. 7¼x5, blue cloth-backed boards. One of 300 copies, out of series. Signed. Lord John Press, 1979. * Diagnosing the Modern Malaise. 8¾x5½, black leather-backed red cloth with pictorial label on cover, gilt-lettered spine. One of 250 copies according to limitation statement, out of series and unsigned. Various places: Various dates Two from the American philosophical novelist. Fine. (200/300)
259. (Perse, Saint-John [pseudonym of Alexis Leger]) Knodel, Arthur. Saint-John Perse, A Study of His Poetry. With 3 page TLs. Cloth backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition. Edinburgh: University Press, [1966] Tipped in at the rear of the volume is a 3 page Typed Letter, signed, by Saint-John Perse to Samuel Eliot Morison dated July 9, 1969. Morrison’s bookplate on front pastedown and a short note initialled by him on front free endpaper. Jacket price clipped, short tear to front panel, light edge wear; letter folded; very good. (300/500)
Page 54 260. Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. 412 pp. 8 tipped-in color plates by Harry Clarke. 10¼x7¾, finely bound in full black morocco, spine gilt, image of a hooded figure with outstretched hand on front. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1933 Binding by the Cottage Bindery of Bath, England. Fine. (500/800)
261. Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, [1962] The Pulitzer Prize winning author’s masterpiece. Jacket edges lightly worn, some browning; erasure on front free endpaper; else near fine in a very good or better jacket. (200/300)
262. Pound, Ezra. Exultations of Ezra Pound. 6½x4¼, red gilt-lettered boards. First Edition. London: Elkins Mathews, 1909 Spine darkened and chipped at head and heel, edge wear, dampstains to lower corner of covers; a few pages with touch of red ink (from dampstained covers) on edges; else very good. (200/300)
263. Proulx, E. Annie. Heart Songs. 182 pp. 8x5½, mint-colored wrappers, printed in black. Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition, First Printing. London: 4th Estate, 1995 Signed by the author on the title page. Eleven stories from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Tiny soil mark on front wrapper, lightly creased wrappers near spine; else fine. (250/350)
264. Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Green cloth with initials AR stamped in gilt on front cover, spine lettered in gilt on black background, top edge stained dark blue-gray, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Random House, [1957] Highspot in 20th century literature. Author’s classic novel based on her principles of Objectivist philosophy. Jacket price-clipped, spine sunned, dampstain at lower corner of front panel and flap, small tape repair on verso of head of spine; a few small abrasions to endpapers; else a near fine volume in a very good jacket. (700/1000)
265. (Reference) Five volumes of books about books. Includes: Sisson, James E. III and Robert W. Martens. Jack London first Editions. Pen mark on front cover. Star Rover House, 1979. * Zempel, Edward N. and Linda A. Verkler. First Editions: A Guide to Identifications. Dj. Second Printing. Spoon River Press, [1985]. * The Adrian H. Goldstone Collection of Mystery and Detective Fiction. California Book Auction Galleries, 1981. * Haller, Margaret. The Book Collector’s Fact Book. Dj. Arco Publishing Company, [1976]. * Lepper, Gary M. A Bibliographical Introduction to Seventy-Five Modern American Authors. Dj. Serendipity Books, 1976. Various places: Various dates Together five volumes of book reference texts. Very good to near fine. (250/350)
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266. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. 319, [1] pp. 7½x5, original tan cloth lettered in green, dust jacket. First English Edition. London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1929] Jacket lightly chipped at edges, large paper reinforcement on verso at head of spine, small faint stain on front panel above title; last page of text darkened from laid in clipping (no longer present); else fine in a very good jacket. (1000/1500)
267. Rice, Anne. Interview With The Vampire. Cloth-backed boards, gilt foil dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1976 Signed by Rice on front free endpaper. The author’s first book. Some creasing and edge wear to jacket; else fine in a very good jacket. (600/900)
268. Rice, Anne. Interview With The Vampire. Black boards, dust jacket. First English Edition. London: Macdonald, 1976 Inscription by Anne Rice, dated 1994, on front free endpaper. Author’s first book. A touch of wear to edges of jacket at folds; else fine in a like jacket. (300/500)
JACOB A. RIIS MANUSCRIPTS 269. Riis, Jacob A. In the Gateway of Nations - Autograph Manuscript. 21 pp., in ink, on rectos only of 21 leaves 10x8. Signed by Riis on the last page. New York: c.1900 The Danish-American social reformer, journalist and photographer looks back to his arrival in America, and ponders the American experience: “Then it all came back to me: That Sunday in early June when I stood, a lonely emigrant lad, at the steamer’s rail and looked out upon the new world of my dreams, upon the life that teemed ashore and afloat and was all so strange; upon the miles of streets that led nowhere I knew of; upon the sunlit harbor and the gay excursion boats ...with their careless crowds...” With numerous ink corrections by Riis, pencil notes in another hand on 1st page. Very good or better. (700/1000) Lot 269
Page 56 270. Riis, Jacob. Heroes in the Fire Department - Autograph Manuscript. 38 pp., on rectos only of 39 sheets of plain paper (1 of the sheets is a foot-note), in ink. Signed by Riis on 1st and last sheets. 11½x8¾. New York: c.1897 The pioneering Danish-America photo-journalist and social reformer writes of the brave deeds done by members of the fire department. Heavily corrected, mostly in ink, in Riis’s hand, also some pencil publication marks on 1st page. First page a bit soiled, some minor chipping, very good. (500/800)
271. Robbins, Tom. Jitterbug Perfume. Original wrappers. Uncorrected Proofs. First Edition. New York: Bantam, 1984 Inscribed by Robbins on half title. Light wear and soiling to wrappers; else near fine. (200/300)
272. Robbins, Tom. Still Life With Woodpecker. Original Wrappers, price corrected on front in ink. Uncorrected Page Proofs. First Edition. New York: Bantam, 1980 Inscribed by Robbins on title page. Wrappers worn and soiled; first leaf partially detached, dampstain at lower corner of a few leaves at rear, a few spots of highlighting to text; good. (200/300)
273. Roberts, Kenneth. Oliver Wiswell. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First Trade Edition. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940 Laid in is a 1 page autograph letter, signed to author Carl Carmer thanking Carmer for inscribing a copy of his ‘The Hudson’. Fine in a like jacket. (200/300)
274. Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927 Light wear at jacket edges; slight lean to spine; very good or better in a like jacket. (200/300)
275. Rushdie, Salman. Three first editions, one signed. Including: The Satanic Verses. Signed on title page. Very light edge wear to jacket. Viking, [1988]. * The Moor’s Last Sigh. Jonathan Cape, [1995]. * East, West. Jonathan Cape, [1994]. Together three first edition cloth octavos in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Satanic Verses is the winner of the Whitbread Prize for best novel, and earned the Rushdie Germany’s Author of the Year award in 1989. Fine, except Satanic Verses jacket (see above). (200/300)
CATCHER IN THE RYE IN FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET 276. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. First Edition, first issue jacket. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951 The classic story of the “cynical adolescent” Holden Caul- field. First issue jacket with the original “$3.00” printed price present and the photo credit of Salinger’s portrait by Lotte Jacobi on rear panel. Often seen “price-clipped” due to the nearly identical “Book-of-the-Month Club” issue, which has a stamped slug on the top of the front flap, and often the differ- ence between the two cannot be determined due to the price
Lot 276 Page 57 clipping. A few chips to jacket, spine yellowed, slightly rubbed at head and heel, with a few spots of soiling; lettering to volume spine rubbed; foxed endpapers; very good volume in like jacket. (4000/6000)
277. Sandburg, Carl. Good Morning, America. (8vo) red cloth. One of 811 copies. First Edition. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928 Signed by Sandburg on half title, as issued. Also included is a 3x5 card signed by Sandburg. Some loss of gilt on covers, light edge wear; very good. (200/300)
278. Schwartz, Delmore. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. Black cloth, stamped in gilt, jacket. First Edition. 1 of 1000 copies. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1938] Author’s important first book in the scarce jacket. Jacket chipped and torn at corners and edges, spine and edges a bit darkened; near fine volume in a very good jacket. (300/500)
279. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. Engraved title leaf, dedication leaf, 223 pp. 9x5½, modern half-calf and marbled boards. London: John Brooks, 1829 First published in a privately printed edition in 1813, a pirated edition was issued in 1816. The present edition, also pirated, contains a dedication to Shelley’s first wife Harriet. Foxing throughout; pages untrimmed; very good. (400/700)
280. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems. vi, [2], 92 + [4] ad pp. (8vo) later half red morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpaper, top edges gilt. First Edition. London: C. and J. Ollier, 1819 Contains some of Shelley’s most celebrated poems such as the sonnet “Ozymandias” and “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.” Very lightly scuffed extremities; light dampstains to gutter of first few pages; light scattered foxing; very good. (1000/1500)
281. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. 3 volumes. 9¼x5¾, rebound in full blue morocco, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt dentelles, silk doublures and endleaves. Bound by Taffin for E.F. Bonventure of New York. London: Vale Press, 1901-02 One of 300 copies printed at the Ballantyne Press under the supervision of Charles Ricketts. Minor wear at edges; else fine. (700/1000)
282. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of Islam; A Poem, In Twelve Cantos. xxxii, [2], 270, [1] errata pp. (8vo) contemporary half calf with marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine, morocco spine label. First Edition, Second Issue. London: C. and J. Ollier, 1818 This second issue differs from the first in that it has the correct date of publication (first issue incorrectly read 1817 on title page), and has errata page. This volume represents a revision of Shelley’s work “Laon and Cythna; or The Revolution of the Golden City.” Very slight edge wear; lightly foxed; very good. (1500/2500)
Page 58 283. Shelley, [Percy Bysshe]. Shelley. 181 pp. 9¼x6½, original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Custom slipcase. One of 200 copies on paper. Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1914 Selected, arranged, and printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Some darkening to vellum as usual, slightly bowed; near fine. (400/600)
284. Steadman, Ralph. Red Shark. (Sylph Chapbook Number 3). 29 pp. Illustrations from drawings by Ralph Steadman and from photographs. 7½x5, red cloth and marbled boards, leather spine label. One of 100 copies thus bound from a total edition of 140. [Tucson]: Sylph Publications, 2003 Signed by Ralph Steadman, Anna Steadman, Joe Petro III and Kurt Vonnegut, as issued. Fine (500/800)
285. Stegner, Wallace. Typed Letter, signed, to Erskine Caldwell. 1 page Typed Letter, signed. 11x8½”. Stanford University: January 28, 1947 From Stegner to fellow author Erskine Caldwell, written while Stegner was at his post as creator of the Stanford Creative Writing program using his Stanford return address, the letter is addressed to Caldwell at publisher Duell, Sloan and Pearce, two paragraphs, a total of 14 lines, Stegner responds to Caldwell’s letter about the American Folkways series, Caldwell was editor of the series and Stegner wrote Mormon Country for the series, Stegner expresses pleasant surprise at the sales for Mormon Country, he also offers some follow-up ideas related to the series, such as “picture stories” as “a natural for some picture magazine,” he agrees with Caldwell that an American Folkways Reader would be a good idea, although that book never materialized, a wonderful association between two great authors. Creased from mailing, some light wear at edges; very good. (400/700)
A RUN OF STEINBECK FIRSTS 286. (Steinbeck, John) Capp, Al. The World of Li’l Abner. Foreword by Charles Chaplin, introduction by John Steinbeck which is excerpted on the rear jacket panel. Tan and red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953 Goldstone and Payne B76. Jacket lightly edge worn; upper corners bumped; very good in a like jacket. (200/300)
287. (Steinbeck, John) Columbia Records. The Columbia Literary Series. Distinguished Authors Reading from Their Own Works. Original 12 “Non Breakable” 12” LP-record set of spoken word albums, with 40-page bound volume with a statement about “The Columbia Literary Series,” short quotes and text for each author, illustrated with photographs. Book and 12 records housed in the original two-part slipcase. New York: Columbia Records, 1953 This is the educational edition of the Columbia Literary Series, as edited by Goddard Lieberson, in which 12 authors read from their works. Steinbeck reads two of his most famous short stories, “The Snake” and “Johnny Bear”. A booklet about the making of this series is included in which Lieberson provides the preface and Irwin Edman provides the introduction, followed by a written vignette on each of the authors and their reading session, each vignette is accompanied by a photo of the author in question, in addition to Steinbeck, the series includes W. Somerset Maugham, Aldous Huxley, John Collier, Katherine Anne Porter, Edith Sitwell, Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, Edna Ferber, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, and William Saroyan. This item is not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or the Morrow catalogue. Some light wear to slipcase; splitting along corners of outer slipcase; else fine. (700/1000)
Page 59 288. (Steinbeck, John East of Eden - 1955 movie poster. Color movie poster. 27x41. Warner Brothers, 1955 The 1955 film starred James Dean, Julie Harris, and Raymond Massey. Code at bottom right- hand corner reads 55/114. Per the movie poster this is Dean’s “first picture - a very special start.” Creased from folding, pen mark on verso, chipped and creased along edges, some loss to surface near top edge, rubbed a bit at creases; good. (300/500)
A STEINBECK PRESENTATION COPY 289. Steinbeck, John. The Forgotten Village. Illustrated with 136 photographs from the motion picture taken and directed by Herbert Kline and associates. 10x6¾, coarse natural buckram with illustration in green on front cover, spine printed in green, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking, 1941 Presentation copy, inscribed by Steinbeck on half title: “For Ben with best wishes from John Steinbeck”. A few small chips and short tears to jacket edges; crease to rear free endpaper; else near fine in a very good jacket. Lot 289 (3000/5000)
290. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Beige pictorial cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking, [1939] First edition of Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Perhaps the most influential, and best remembered book to come out of the Great Depression. Goldstone-Payne A12.a. Price and “First Edition” clipped from jacket, chipped edges, many tears repaired on verso; edge wear, spine lightly soiled; else very good volume in good jacket. (800/1200)
291. Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Tan cloth, pictorial jacket. First World Books Edition. London: World Books, 1940 Jacket with photos of the stars of the 20th Century-Fox film. A scarce edition, rarely seen in jacket. Goldstone & Payne A12k. Jacket chipped at edges including an approximately ½x1” chip at head of rear panel, some soiling to rear panel; foxing to edges of page block and to endpapers; else very good in a like jacket. (200/300)
292. (Steinbeck, John) The Grapes of Wrath - lobby card. 11x14 original color lobby card. 20th Century Fox, 1940 Starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, both of whom are pictured. This piece of ephemera from the 1940 release of the film based on the Steinbeck’s classic novel was not in the Goldstone collection. See Goldstone & Payne E6. Light creasing to corners, three very short tears, bit of loss (due to adhesive from framing?) on some edges; very good. (600/900)
293. (Steinbeck, John) The Grapes of Wrath - lobby card. 11x14 original color lobby card. 20th Century Fox, 1940 The scene pictured here is the family loading up their truck for their journey West. This piece of ephemera from the 1940 release of the film based on the Steinbeck’s classic novel was not in the Goldstone collection. See Goldstone & Payne E6. Bottom right corner separated by a tear, now repaired in place with tape on verso; pin holes at four corners; else very good. (600/900)
Page 60 294. (Steinbeck, John) A Medal for Benny - set of eight lobby cards. Eight color lobby cards, each measuring 11x14. Paramount Pictures Inc., 1945 Code on bottom right-hand corner of each reads 45/53 and they are numbered 1-8. These are original lobby cards from the film starring Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova, and J. Carrol Naish. See Goldstone & Payne E13. Light edge wear to each; very good. (400/700)
295. (Steinbeck, John) A Medal for Benny - 1945 movie poster. Color movie poster. 22x28. Paramount Pictures Inc., 1945 An original color movie poster for the film starring Dorothy Lamour and Arturo de Cordova, and featuring them both on the poster. Code on bottom right-hand corner reads 45/53. See Goldstone & Payne E13. Poster never folded, lightly creased along edges, with a few smudge marks in margins; very good. (200/300)
296. (Steinbeck, John) The Pearl - set of eight lobby cards. Eight color lobby cards, each measuring 11x14. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1948 Scarce complete set of lobby cards. Code on bottom right-hand corner of each reads 48/932 and they are numbered 1-8. These are original lobby cards from the film starring Pedro Amendariz and Maria Elena Marques. See Goldstone & Payne E15. Very light edge wear to each; very good or better. (800/1200)
297. (Steinbeck, John) The Red Pony - large movie poster. Color movie poster. 27x41. 1949 Movie for the 1949 film based on Steinbeck’s book. See Goldstone & Payne E16. Creases from folding, edge wear; else very good. (250/350)
298. (Steinbeck, John) The Red Pony - 1949 movie poster. Color movie poster. 14x36. 1949 CodE at bottom right-hand corner reads 49/150. Movie poster for the film that starred Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum, both of whom are pictured. Was not in the Goldstone collection. See Goldstone & Payne E16. Creases from folding, some creasing along edges, especially at lower right-hand corner; else very good. (200/300)
INSCRIBED, FROM JOHN & CHARLEY STEINBECK 299. Steinbeck, John. Travels With Charley In Search of America. Rebound in blue half calf and cloth, spine gilt. Eighteenth Printing. New York: Viking, [1964] Inscribed by Steinbeck on half title: “For Jim Gee from John & Charley Steinbeck”. Gee has also signed on the front flyleaf and written an inscription to another. Laid in are two affectionate letters from Elaine Steinbeck to Jim Gee, one note dated 1965, and the other letter on Elaine’s letterhead dated 1969, shortly after Steinbeck’s death (Gee had some masses offered in memory of John). A few light scuffs to leather; else near fine. (2500/3500)
Lot 299
Page 61 300. Steinbeck, John. The Wayward Bus. Dark reddish-orange cloth lettered in gilt, illustration of a bus blindstamped at the bottom of the front cover, showing up a little lighter than the rest of the cover, jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition, First Binding. New York: Viking, 1947 In the two later binding states, the bus on the front cover was darker than the rest of the cloth, and the same shade as the rest. Goldstone-Payne A23.a. Light creases and wear to jacket spine ends and corners, head of spine with slight color restoration, tape repairs to verso, minor soiling; volume spine leaning a bit, joints and extremities rubbed; previous owner’s signature from 1947 on the front pastedown, else very good in very good jacket - bright jacket art work. (200/300)
301. Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. Dark green buckram with facsimile signature stamped in gilt on front cover, spine lettered in gilt on partial black background, pictorial jacket. Housed in a custom morocco-backed clam-shell box. One of 500 copies. First Edition. New York: Viking, 1961 This limited first edition was “specially printed and bound for friends of the author and the publishers.” Lacking the acetate wrapper with “Limited Edition” printed on the front panel. Goldstone-Payne A38.a. Jacket browned and worn along top edge; spine leaning; very good in a like jacket.
(500/800)
302. (Steinbeck, John; Hemingway, Ernest) Movie press books and exhibitor’s campaign books. Includes: 2 copies of: A Medal for Benny. Paramount’s Pressbook. Contains articles about the film and its stars and examples of all posters available. 15x12, blue wrappers. Paramount Pictures, 1945. * 2 copies of: The Wayward Bus. Exhibitor’s Campaign Book. 16½x13, white wrappers. 20th Century Fox, 1947. * Under My Skin. Exhibitor’s Campaign Book. 15x11, white wrappers. Creased from folding in half. 20th Century Fox, 1950. Paramount Pictures & 20th Century Fox, Various dates Each illustrated with example movie posters, articles, photographs, etc. Some smudging and a few spots of soiling, light edge wear; else very good. (300/500)
303. Sterling, George. The Caged Eagle and Other Poems. Gilt decorated green cloth. First Edition. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1916 Inscribed to a friend, “B.B.” on front free endpaper. Additionally, the author traced his hand in pencil on the following two pages, and within that wrote, “The hand that never shook Sullivan’s i.e. George Sterling’s.” Inscribed again from the author “For Beatrice Worlock” written on the ad pp. Manuscript poem from an unidentified author laid in. BAL 18767. Edge wear, a few scratches on front cover, spine darkened a bit, few spots of soiling; yellowed endpapers; else very good. (300/500)
304. Sterling, George. The Testimony of the Suns...Including Comments, Suggestions, and Annotations by Ambrose Bierce. A Facsimile of the Original Typewritten Manuscript with the Marginal Notes by George Sterling... [35] pp. plus 12 pp. facsimiles of Sterling’s original typed and hand-corrected manuscript tipped in. (Folio) 14x9, original decorative boards. Limited Edition, one of 300. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1927 Beautifully designed and printed by John Henry Nash. Heel of spine torn; Santa Cruz University Library bookplate on front pastedown; else near fine. (250/350)
Page 62 305. Sterling, George. Truth. Linen-backed boards with paper cover and spine label. One of 285 copies. First Edition. Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1923 Signed by author at colophon, inscribed to Jim Bishop from the author on the dedication page, and a full page inscription to Jim Bishop on front free endpaper: “Dear Jim: Let us remember many happy hours in “The cool, grey city of love” and hope they will continue, despite prohibitionists, blue-noses and other reformers. Yours for beer, light wines and birth- control. George. San Francisco, Aug. 5th, 1924.” Rear free endpaper has the words, “Dear Jim,” written before author realized he was writing at the back of the book. BAL 18809. Edge wear, moderately soiled; bookplate of Falka G. Sturges on front pastedown; very good. (300/500)
306. Stevens, Wallace. Harmonium. 7½x5, tan cloth with printed paper spine label, top edge stained red, gray dust jacket. First Revised Edition. New York: Knopf, 1931 Stevens’ first book. Edelstein A1b. Jacket spine lightly darkened with a small red stain, lightly chipped edges; near fine volume in a very good jacket. (600/900)
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE 307. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [8], 141 + [1] ad pp. 7x4½, finely bound by Riviere in full polished tan calf, spine gilt, morocco lettering piece, top edge gilt. First English Edition. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886 The advertisement leaf at rear is for the second edition of “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” Light wear to leather, bookplate; near fine. (800/1200)
308. Stout, Rex. Five Nero Wolfe first editions, in seven volumes. Includes: The Silent Speaker. Library rubber stamp to front free endpaper. 1946. * Too Many Women. 1947. * And be a Villiain. Ex-library rubber stamps. 1948. * 2 copies of: The Second Confession. 1949. * Trouble in Triplicate. 1949. Together five first edition octavos, with one duplicate, all in dust jackets. Also includes: And be a Villian. Variant cloth binding and poor quality paper. 1948. New York: Viking, 1946-1949 Titles from the 1940’s in this classic series of books following the exploits of the burly detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. Some jackets with tape repair on verso to short tears, creasing and some chipping; very light edge wear to volumes; else very good overall. Sold as is. (250/350)
309. Stout, Rex. Eleven first edition mysteries and detective novels. Includes: Too Many Cooks. [1938]. * Mountain Cat. Library rubber stamp and bookseller’s label. [1939]. * Some Buried Caesar. [1939]. * Where There’s a Will. [1940]. * Over My Dead Body. [1940]. * The Broken Vase: A Mystery. Ownership rubber stamp. [1941]. * Black Orchids. [1942]. * Not Quite Dead Enough. War edition with reduced paper size. [1944]. Together eight books in dust jackets. Also; The Hand in the Glove. Ink name on half title. [1937]. * Double for Death. Book plate. [1939]. * Alphabet Hicks. [1941]. All together eleven cloth octavos. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937-1944 Many from the Tecumseh Fox and Nero Wolfe mystery series. Most jackets with mild to moderate edge wear including chipping, creasing, and tears, some with tape repair on verso; each volume with edge wear; very good volumes in good to very good jackets. Sold as is. (500/800)
Page 63 310. Stout, Rex. Twelve Nero Wolfe titles published for The Crime Club, London. Includes: 2 copies of: The Silent Speaker. [1947]. * Too Many Women. Price torn off dj. [1948]. * Even in the Best Families. [1951]. * The Golden Spider. [1954]. * If Death Ever Slept. 1958. * The Gambit. [1963]. * The Mother Hunt. [1964]. * A Right to Die. [1965]. * The Doorbell Rang. [1966]. * The Father Hunt. [1969]. * Death of a Dude. [1970]. * London: The Crime Club, 1947-1970 Together twelve cloth octavo first British editions in dust jackets, including one duplicate. Chipping and edge wear to most dust jackets; a few volumes with ink inscriptions on front free endpapers, light foxing here and there; generally very good or better. Sold as is. (250/350)
311. Stout, Rex. Eighteen first edition Nero Wolfe novels, from the 1950’s. Includes: 2 copies of: In the Best Families. 1950. * Three Doors to Death. 1950. * Murder by the Book. 1951. * Curtains for Three. 1951. * Prisoner’s Base. 1952. * Triple Jeopardy. 1952. * The Golden Spiders. 1953. * the Black Mountain. 1954. * Before Midnight. 1955. * Might As Well Be Dead. Dj price-clipped. 1956. * Three Witnesses. Dj price-clipped. [1956]. * If Death Ever Slept. Dj price-clipped. 1957. * Three for the Chair. 1957. * All Aces: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus. 1958. * Champagne for One. Dj price-clipped. 1958. * And Four to Go. 1958. * Plot it Yourself. Dj price-clipped. [1959]. Together 18 cloth octavo first editions in dust jackets. New York: Viking, 1950-1959 An almost complete set of 1950’s Nero Wolfe books. Only missing 1954’s Three Men Out. And adding a Nero Wolfe Omnibus (All Aces). Most jackets with mild to moderate edge wear, chipping, and tears, many repaired on verso with tape; mild edge wear to volumes; volumes generally very good or better, jackets good to very good. Sold as is. (500/800)
312. Stout, Rex. 22 Nero Wolfe first editions. Including: Three at Wolfe’s Door. 1960. * Too Many Clients. 1960. * 2 copies of: Homicide Trinity. [1962]. The Mother Hunt. [1963]. * A Right to Die. [1964]. * 2 copies of: The Doorbell Rang. One dj price-clipped. [1965]. * 2 copies of: Death of a Doxy. [1966]. * The Father Hunt. Sticker on recto and verso of bottom of title page (covering up a stamp?). [1968]. * Death of a Dude. Sticker on recto and verso of bottom of title page (covering up a stamp?). [1969]. * 2 copies of: Please Pass the Guilt. One copy with sticker on recto and verso of bottom of title page (covering up a stamp?). [1973]. * A Family Affair. [1975]. New York: Viking, 1960-197x Also: Five of a Kind: The Third Nero Wolfe Omnibus. 1961. * Royal Flush: The Fourth Nero Wolfe Omnibus. [1965]. * 2 copies of: King Full of Aces: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus. [1969]. * Three Trumps: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus. A review copy with a publisher’s slip laid in. [1973]. * Triple Zeck: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus. Name in ink on front free endpaper. [1974]. All together 21 octavos with dust jackets. Most are cloth-backed boards. Some jackets are chipped with short tears, a few repaired on verso with tape; edge wear to volumes; volumes are generally very good in like jackets. Sold as is. (600/900)
313. Swinnerton, Frank. Nocturne. Black cloth, chemise, and morocco-backed slipcase. First Edition. London: Martin Secker, [1917] The first edition is a “genuinely scarce book,” according to the typed and signed letter from bookseller Bertram Rota, dated 1928, and which is laid in. Card on front free endpaper tipped in, signed by the author. The card also reads, “This copy of ‘Nocturne’ is the property of Mr. Alfred W. Lublin.” The owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Slipcase rubbed; volume covers lightly rubbed, corners bumped; stickers, penciling, creasing and a few marks on endpapers; else very good. (300/500)
Page 64 314. (Sylvester & Orphanos Press) Six titles from the Sylvester & Orphanos Press. Includes: Gordimer, Nadine. Town and Country Lovers. 1980. * Merrill, James. Samos. Slipcase. 1980. * Purdy, James. Scrap of Paper & The Berry Picker: Two Plays. Slipcase. 1981. * Roth, Philip. Novotny’s Pain. Slipcase. 1980. * Styron, William. Shadrach. 1979. * Cunningham, J.V. Dickinson: Lyric and Legend. 1980. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, Various dates Each one of 330 copies, and “Binder’s” written at bottom of limitation statement in place of a number. Each signed by the author. Near fine or better. (300/500)
FIRST EDITION WALDEN BY HENRY THOREAU 315. Thoreau, Henry D[avid]. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. 357, [2 blank leaves] + 4 (of 8) ad pp. Wood-engraved vignette on title-page. Illustrated with a map of Walden Pond. 7x4¼, original blind-stamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom morocco drop-back box. First Edition. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854 First edition of one of the landmarks in American letters: “I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours” (p.346). The ads in this copy are dated April, 1854. BAL declares that the dates of the ads have “no known bibliographical significance”. 2000 copies of the first edition were printed. BAL 20106. Light soiling and wear to cloth, spine leaning a bit, cloth repaired at head and heel of spine, front hinge cracked, rear tender; ownership name in ink on front free endpaper; else very good. (6000/9000) Lot 315
TWENTY VOLUME SET OF WRITINGS BY THOREAU WITH MS. LEAF 316. Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. 20 volumes. Illustrated throughout with photogravures, color plates, etc. (8vo) 8¾x6, contemporary ¾ dark green levant morocco, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titled and decorated spine compartments, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. No. 155 of 600 copies of the Manuscript Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906 Inserted in Volume 1 (as issued) is a 2 page (1 leaf) holograph manuscript in Thoreau’s hand, with corrections. Spines uniformly faded to brown, minimal wear at extremities; fine. (12000/18000)
Lot 316
Page 65 317. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Return of the King. 416 pp. Folding map at rear. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First American Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956 The third volume of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Jacket foxed and with some light chipping at edges; volume near fine; jacket about very good. (500/800)
318. Tolkien, J.R.R. Tree and Leaf and The Fellowship of the Ring. Includes: Tree and Leaf. Blue gilt- lettered cloth. First American Edition. Heavy edge wear to dj including 3” tear along spine, 1” tear at flap fold, ½” lacking at spine heel, some sunning. Houghton Mifflin, 1965. * The Fellowship of the Ring. Folding map at rear. Red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Fourteenth Impression. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1965]. Together two octavos in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates In Tree and Leaf, an essay and a story by Tolkien are included: On Fairy-stories and Leaf by Niggle. Per his introductory note, “they are no longer easy to obtain, but they may still be found interesting, especially by those to whom The Lord of the Rings has given pleasure.” Tree and Leaf jacket good; other jacket very good with light edge wear; volumes have light edge wear; volumes very good. (200/300)
319. Tolstoi, Lyof N. War and Peace. 3 volumes. 429; 360; 387 pp. 7¼x5, period half burgundy morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Stated Third Edition. London: Vizetelly & Co., [c. 1889] Bound by Maclehose, Glasgow. Spine heads restored, some touch-up to extremities; very good. (500/800)
MARK TWAIN 320. Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. xviii, [19]-651 + [5] ad pp. Illus. with wood engravings. 8¾x5½, black cloth decorated & lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition, Third State. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1869 Third State with page reference numbers present on pp. xvii-xviii of table of contents, p.[654] with ads for History of the Bible, etc. BAL 3316. Rebacked with original spine laid down, edges and corners rubbed, hinges repaired, glue residue and hole in front free endpaper from removal of bookplate; good. (300/500)
321. Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. 624 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout. 8½x5¾, original brown cloth decorated in black with gilt pictorial vignettes, lettered in gilt on spine, modern slipcase. First American Edition, First State. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883 First state with both the caption on p. 443 reading “The St. Louis Hotel” and tailpiece on p.441 depicts an urn, flames and the head of Mark Twain. At the request of Mrs. Clemens, the tailpiece was removed in later states, as she felt it too morbid. BAL 3411. Scarce. Minor wear to cloth, front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting, glue residue from removed bookplate on front free endpaper; else very good. (700/1000)
322. Twain, Mark. Merry Tales. vi, [7]-209 + [7] ad pp. 7x4-5/8, original green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892 BAL’s ‘B’ issue (probable priority) with a parsley-like pattern on the white paper endpapers and inserted frontispiece portrait. BAL 3435. Light wear to extremities, glue residue from removed bookplate on front free endpaper; very good. (200/300)
Page 66 323. Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages. 411 pp. With 192 illustrations in black and white. 8¼x6½, period (original?) half morocco and mottled boards. First American Edition. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882 The American edition was published a few days after the London and Montreal editions. BAL 3402. Light wear to extremities, boards rubbed at edges; very good. (400/700)
324. Twain, Mark. Roughing It. 591 + [1] ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout. 8¾x5½, original brown cloth, gilt vignette stamped on front cover, decorative blind-stamp on rear cover, spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. First American Edition, First Issue. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1872 First issue, with perfect type on p. 242, lines 20-21 (BAL State A) and with ad present on page 592 (no priority). Twain’s famous narrative of his travels from Missouri to Nevada, and from California to Hawaii, which took him seven years. BAL 3337. Spine faded, some light wear to extremities, corners rubbed, evidence of bookplate removed from front free endpaper; very good in a worn slipcase. (600/900)
325. Twain, Mark. The Stolen White Elephant, Etc. 306 + 12 ad pp. 6½x4, gray pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and red. First Edition. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882 Short pieces by Twain including the “The Stolen White Elephant,” “On the Decay of the Art of Lying,” “Concerning the American Language,” “An Encounter with an Interviewer,” etc. BAL 3404. Spine ends frayed, some wear at edges; very good. (200/300)
326. Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn. Edited by Mark Twain. 219, + [4] ad pp. Illustrations, including frontispiece and plates, by Dan Beard. (8vo) 8x5¾, original gilt-lettered pictorial tan cloth. First Edition. New York: Charles Webster, 1894 BAL’s binding state ‘A’ with approx 5 5/8” between Twain and Webster on spine (no priority). This copy with the blank flyleaf at rear not found in all copies. BAL 3440. Spine ends frayed, light wear to extremities, hinges starting to crack; very good. (250/350)
327. Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. 432 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece from photograph of Twain with tissue-guard; marginal drawings throughout. 8½x5¾, original brown-orange decorative cloth, lettered in gilt. First American Edition, First Issue. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1894 With title page integrally bound (not on a stub), frontispiece with Twain’s facsimile autograph 1-7/16” wide, and sheets bulk 1-1/8.” Bookplates of Herbert Ten Broeck and Albert Horowitz on front endpapers. BAL 3442. Light edge wear, faint spots of soiling, a bit rubbed; very good. (500/800)
328. Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. xvi, 17-631, + [1] ad pp. Illustrated with 328 wood engravings by W. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and others; double frontispiece including a steel-engraved portrait of Twain and a wood engraving of the baby Moses being set adrift. (8vo) 8¾x5½, original black cloth stamped in gilt and blind. First Edition. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1880
Page 67 With state ‘B’ of the portrait frontispiece with underlying lines in lapel slanted; first state of the second frontispiece with caption ‘Moses’; sheets bulking 1 5/8” (BAL state ‘A’), Binding state ‘A’ with inner corners of blindstamping slightly curved. BAL 3386. Spine sunned, spine ends frayed, some light edge wear, modern bookplate; very good. (500/800)
329. Twain, Mark. A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. xv, [16]-575 + [2] ad pp. Drawings by Dan Beard throughout. 8½x6½, original olive green cloth, decorated in gilt and gray-blue, lettered in gilt. Custom chemise and slipcase. First Edition, Second Issue. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889 No S-like ornament on page 59 between The and King. Publisher’s “S” cloth edition. BAL 3429. Some light wear to extremities, hinges cracked and with evidence of glue repair to front hinge; very good. (250/350)
330. Twain, Mark. Three titles by Mark Twain. Includes: Mark Twain’s Library of Humor. Rebound in full brown leather. Frontispiece bound upside-down. First Edition. 1888 * Pudd’nhead Wilson. Red cloth stamped in black. Rear joint and hinge split, spine leaning. First English Edition. 1894 * The Personal Recollection of Joan of Arc. Red cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Binding detached from page block following title page. First Edition, First Issue. 1896. Three volumes. Various places: Various dates Overall fair. Sold as is. (200/300)
A FEW BY JOHN UPDIKE 331. Updike, John. Baby’s First Step. Vignette drawing in green on title page. 8½x5½, green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. Still in original shrink wrap with numbered red card inside. No. 15 of 100 copies designed by James Cahill. First Edition. Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, [1993] Signed by Updike on the colophon. Fine in original shrink wrap. (200/300)
332. Updike, John. Rabbit at Rest. [4], 512, [4] pp. 8¼x5¼, white wrappers, title in green, green card stock slipcase, title printed in white. Advance Reading Copy. New York: Knopf, 1990 Signed by the author on first leaf within. Light shelf wear to slipcase, including short tear; fine volume in very good slipcase. (200/300)
333. Updike, John. Rabbit Redux and Rabbit at Rest, signed. The two first editions, each in original dust jackets, and each signed by the author on the front free endpaper. New York: Knopf, 1971; 1990 The second and final books in the Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom series. Rabbit Redux: short tear to heel of jacket spine, light edge wear to jacket and volume; else near fine; Rabbit at Rest with very slight edge wear to jacket and volume; else fine. (200/300)
334. Updike, John. Four works by John Updike. Includes: Rabbit Redux. Jacket price clipped. 1971 * The Coup. Front flap of jacket creased, remainder stamp on top edge of page block. 1978 * Rabbit is Rich. 1981 * The Witches of Eastwick. Spine leaning. 1984. Together four First Editions in dust jackets. New York: Knopf, Various dates Very good or better in like jackets. (200/300) Page 68 SIGNED BY ARTHUR UPFIELD 335. Upfield, Arthur. Two signed volumes. Includes: Bony and the Kelly Gang. [1960]. * The Battling Prophet. Jacket price-clipped. [1956]. Together two cloth octavos in dust jackets, each inscribed on the title page by the author. London: William Heinemann, [1956] and [1960] The Battling prophet is inscribed and dated in the year of publication. Signatures of this Australian author are hard to come by. Jackets foxed and lightly yellowed at edges; light shelf wear to volumes; very good. (250/350)
336. Upfield, Arthur. Seven volumes from the Napoleon Bonaparte “Bony” series. Includes: Mr. Jelly’s Business. Orange cloth, black lettering on spine. Spine very faded. John Hamilton Ltd., [c.1937]. * Bushranger of the Skies. Black cloth, dj. London House & Maxwell, [1963]. * Death of a Swagman. Navy cloth, dj. Francis Aldor, [1946]. * Death of a Swagman. Black cloth, dj. Angus and Robertson, [1962]. * An Author Bites the Dust. Tan cloth, dj. Dj price-clipped. Angus and Robertson, 1948. * Bushranger of the Skies. Black cloth, dj. Angus and Robertson, [1963]. * The Sands of Windee. Red cloth, dj. Spine leaning. Angus and Robertson, [1959]. Various places: 1937-1963 Together seven octavos, all but one in a dust jacket. Publications from Australia, Great Britain, and the United States, each from the “Bony” detective series of books. Edge wear to each jacket, some foxing on verso of jackets; edge wear to each volume; varies from good to very good. (250/350)
337. Upfield, Arthur. Seventeen novels and a biography. Includes: Hawke, Jessica. Follow My Dust! A Biography of Arthur Upfield. Dj price-clipped. [1957]. * By Arthur Upfield: The New Shoe. [1952]. * The Mountains Have a Secret. Dj price-clipped. [1952]. * Murder Must Wait. [1953]. * Cake in the Hat Box. Dj price-clipped. [1955]. * Man of Two Tribes. [1956]. * The Battling Prophet. Dj price-clipped. [1956]. * Bony Buys a Woman. Dj price-clipped. [1957]. * The Bachelors of Broken Hill. Dj price- clipped. [1958]. * Bony and the Mouse. [1959]. * Bony and the Black Virgin. [1959]. * The Mystery of Swordfish Reef. [1960]. * 2 copies of: Bony and the White Savage. [1961]. * The Will of the Tribe. [1962]. * Madman’s Bend. [1963]. * The Barrakee Mystery. [1965]. * the Lake Frome Monster. [1966]. Together 18 octavo first UK editions in dust jackets. London: William Heinemann, 1952-1966 Many from the Australian author featuring Detective Napoleon Bonaparte or “Bony.” Most jackets foxed, mildly to moderately chipped, with short tears; volumes with edge wear; overall very good volumes in good to very good jackets. Sold as is. (500/800)
338. Upfield, Arthur. Nineteen detective novels by Arthur Upfield. Includes: The Mystery of Swordfish Reef. 1943. * Wings Above the Claypan. Name in ink on ffep. 1943. * No Footprints in the Bush. 1944. * The Devil’s Steps. 1946. * The Widows of Broome. Name in ink on ffep. 1950. * The New Shoe. 1951. * Venom House. Name in ink on ffep, rubber ownership stamp on bottom edge of page block. 1952. * Murder Must Wait. 1953. * Sinister Stones. Bookplate. 1954. * Death of a Lake. 1954. * The Man of Two Tribes. 1956. * The Bushman Who Came Back. Name in ink on ffep. 1957. * Journey to the Hangman. Bookplate. 1959. * Valley of Smugglers. Dj price-clipped and name in ink on ffep. 1960. * The White Savage. 1961. * The Will of the Tribe. Sticker and rubber stamp on ffep. 1962. * The Body at Madman’s Bend. 1963. * The Lure of the Bush. 1965. * Death of a Swagman. No dj. 1945. Together nineteen octavo first American editions, all but one in a dust jacket. New York: Doubleday for The Crime Club, Various dates Many from the series following Australian Detective Napoleon Bonaparte. Three with a publisher’s review slip laid in. All with some edged wear, many with moderate chipping, tears, or creases; volumes with light to moderate edge wear; overall good to very good. Sold as is. (400/600)
Page 69 339. Verne, Jules. Five Weeks in a Balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen. 345 pp. Illustrated with 12 inserted heliotype plates (4 images on each plate) from 48 engravings and sketches by Riou, original pictorial orange cloth, stamped in black and gilt with flying balloon vignette on the front cover. Second American Edition. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1873 Verne’s first book, first published in Paris in 1863, titled: “Cinq Semaines en Balloon: Voyages de Decouvertes en Afrique.” Myers 20. Binding cocked, spine faded, some light wear to extremities; several plates detached; good. (200/300)
ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF JULES VERNE 340. Verne, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Round It. viii, 323 pp. Illustrated with 80 wood-engraved plates. 7¾x5, publisher’s green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black. First Illustrated American Edition. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874 This is the first obtainable American edition; it is preceded by the 1869 Newark edition, of which only one copy is known. Myers 26. Edge wear, spine frayed a bit, a few spots of scuffing or soiling; hinges cracked; ink inscription on front free endpaper; else very good. (1200/1800)
341. Verne, Jules. Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery. viii, 272 pp. Illustrated with 48 wood-engraved plates. 7½x5¼, original blue cloth pictorially stamped in black, lettering in gilt. First American Illustrated Edition. Lot 340 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1883] There was a pirated edition published in New York in 1883 by George Munro, in wrappers and not illustrated, which preceded this edition. Myers 29. Some light wear to cloth, rear hinge starting; very good. (250/350)
342. Verne, Jules. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. 305, [10] ad pp. 20 illustrations by Riou. Caution from publisher on verso of title page warning against pirated editions. 7¼4¾, original green blind and gilt-stamped cloth, Scribner, Armstrong & Co. in gilt on heel of spine. Popular Edition. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., [1874] Myers 35. Bleiler, page 199. Edge wear, rubbed; front hinge cracked; ink inscription on front free endpaper; scattered light foxing; else very good. (200/300)
343. Verne, Jules. In Search of the Castaways. 620, [4] pp. Illustrated with 170 engravings. 8¾x5¾, original green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Second American Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1874 Myers 34. Extremities rubbed; foxing; very good. (200/300)
344. Vidal, Gore. Williwaw. Black cloth, lettered in blue, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946 Signed by Vidal on the title page. The author’s first book. Chipping to jacket spine ends and corners, rubbing and slight creases to jacket extremities, tape repairs to jacket spine ends, price clipped; volume spine slightly leaning, light shelf wear, else very good or better in good jacket. (600/900)
Page 70 345. Vidal, Gore. Five novels. Includes: Lincoln: A Novel. Second Printing. Random House, [1984]. * Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. Small loss to head of dj spine, few small tears., Brown and Company, [1970]. * Washington, D. C. A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, [1967]. * Myron: A Novel. Short tear to dj, sunning to volume. Second Printing. Random House, [1974]. * Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. Dj price-clipped. Little, Brown and Company, [1969]. Together five cloth octavo first editions in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Generally very good jackets in like or better volumes. (200/300)
346. Vonnegut, Kurt. Three works by Kurt Vonnegut. Includes: Breakfast of Champions. Jacket spine faded, price clipped. [1973] * Jail Bird. Jacket price clipped. [1979] * Palm Sunday. [1981]. Together 3 First Editions, with dust jackets. New York: Delacorte, Various dates Very good or better in like jackets. (200/300)
347. Wallace, Lew. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. 560, 12 ad pp. 6½x4½, original blue cloth. Early edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1880] but after 1884 Card signed by the author mounted to front pastedown. With four line dedication on page (iii). Early ownership signature on front free endpaper; else near fine. (200/300)
348. Waugh, Evelyn. Scoop. Yellow cloth, pictorial jacket. First American Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938 British author’s classic novel about journalism, seldom seen in jacket. Jacket a bit browned at edges and with some light chipping, tape repairs on verso, spine faded; light foxing to endpapers; else near fine in a very good jacket. (250/350)
A RUN OF H.G. WELLS 349. Wells, H.G. In the Days of the Comet. viii, 378 pp. Original pictorial blue cloth. First American Edition. New York: Century, 1906 Light wear to cloth, early owner’s inscription on front free endpaper; very good. (200/300)
350. Wells, H.G. The Dream. 320 pp. 7½x5, original red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, Second Issue. London: Jonathan Cape, [1924] With leaf [A1] a cancel mounted on a stub. Currey p.518. Jacket spine darkened, rear panel soiled and with a few small paint drips, light chipping at edges; volume light faded on spine; else near fine in a very good jacket. (300/500)
351. Wells, H.G. The First Men in the Moon. Vii, 342 pp. 12 inserted plates. 7½x5, original gilt stamped dark blue cloth. First English Edition. London: George Newnes, 1901 First issue binding with black coated endpapers. Currey p.518. Spine a bit faded, light wear to extremities; frontispiece partially detached; very good. (300/500)
Page 71 352. Wells, H.G. The Time Machine: An Invention. [viii], 216 pp. 6¾x4½, original red cloth stamped in gilt. First American Edition, Second Issue. New York: Henry Holt, 1895 With author’s name correctly spelled on title page, no ads at rear. Currey’s ‘B’ binding. Precedes the English edition by several months and with textual differences. Currey p.524. Spine leaning, some light edge wear; very good. (1000/1500)
353. Wells, H.G. The War in the Air, and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While it Lasted. [viii], 389, [1], +[2] ad pp. 16 plates by A.C. Michael. 7½x5, original blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908 Currey’s binding state ‘A’ with all stamping in gilt. Currey p.526. Some wear and soiling to cloth; very good. (300/500)
354. Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds. viii, 303, +[32] ad pp. 7½x5, original grey cloth lettered in black. First Edition. London: William Heinemann, 1898 Currey p.526. Spine leaning, some staining to cloth, repairs to hinges; very good. (700/1000)
355. Wells, H.G. Four works by H.G. Wells. Includes: Certain Personal Matters. Blue cloth. Front hinge open. First Edition. 1898 * Mankind in the Making. Blue cloth. Hinges cracked. First American Edition. 1904 * The Secret Places of the Heart. Red cloth, dust jacket. Tape reinforcement on jacket verso. First American Edition. 1922 * Meanwhile. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First American Edition. [1927]. Together 4 volumes. Various places: Various dates Varying wear; overall good or better. Sold as is. (300/500)
356. Wharton, Edith. The Mother’s Recompense. Red cloth, pink paper jacket with gilt mottling. First Edition. New York: Appleton, 1925 Jacket with small chips and short tears at edges, spine faded, tape repairs on verso; binding cocked; very good. (200/300)
LIPPINCOTT’S - THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY 357. (Wilde, Oscar) The Picture of Dorian Gray, printed in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, July, 1890. 24 ad, 174, 25-50 ad pp. 9¼x6, original tan wrappers, printed in black and red. Philadelphia & London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1890 The first appearance of Wilde’s famous tale is this July 1890 Lippincott’s magazine. The story went through considerable changes before it was published in book form in 1891. Chipping to head and heel of spine, very short tears and some creasing to wrapper edges; very good. (1000/1500)
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 358. Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. Lavender boards with black and white decorations, jacket with matching decorations. First Edition, First State. [New York]: New Directions, [1947] First state in original lavender boards (changed for later printings), which Ahearn explains are “extremely vulnerable to fading and edge wear.” Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by one of America’s greatest playwrights. The basis for the explosive 1951 film featuring Marlon Brando. Jacket spine faded, light wear and browning at edges; volume lightly worn at edges, slight bump to upper corner of front cover; overall near fine in a very good or better jacket. (1500/2000) Page 72 359. Wister, Owen. The Virginian. xii, 504 + [6] ad pp. 8 plates by Arthur I. Keller. Original tan cloth. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1902 Some light wear to cloth; tear to final leaf of ads; very good. (250/350)
LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, HAND-SET AND PRINTED 360. Woolf, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday. 91 + [1] ad pp. Illustrated with full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. 7¼x4¾, cloth-backed decorative paper over boards designed by Bell. First Edition. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1921 One of only 1000 copies printed. Hand-set and printed. Kirkpatrick A5a; Woolmer 17. Rubbed and foxed; moderate foxing or yellowed endpaper; faint offsetting from woodcuts; light scattered foxing; else very good. Lot 360 (1500/2000)
361. Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey [“Susan Coolidge”]. Series of 5 Autograph Letters signed by Woolsey, & 1 authograph quote signed by her. Four of the letters are to a Miss Brook, the other to a Mr. Rick (or Kirk?); all are signed Sarah Woolsey. The quote (in the form of a couplet) is signed Susan Coolidge. All on 4-page notesheets 7x4½. Newport, RI: c.1878-1893 Letters from the American author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge, best known for her classic children’s novel What Katy Did. The letters seem to be to publishers or literary agents. Near fine to fine. (300/500)
362. Wordsworth, William. The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons. A Poem. xi, 162 pp. Engraved frontispiece. (4to) contemporary calf, gilt and blind-tooled decorative borders and spine, black morocco gilt-lettered spine label. First Edition. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 “During the summer of 1807, the Author visited...the beautiful Scenery that surrounds Bolton Priory, in Yorkshire; and the Poem of The White Doe, founded upon a Tradition connected with the place, was composed at the close of the same year.” -Advertisement on pg v. Cornell 26; Tinker 2339; Wise 19. Edge wear, rubbed at joints; two small bookplates on front pastedown; scattered foxing; very good. (1000/1500)
363. Yates, Richard. Revolutionary Road. Red and black cloth, dust jacket. Photograph portrait of author on rear panel by Bob Isear. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1961] Yates’s important first book. Kurt Vonnegut once remarked, “the Great Gatsby of our time.” Basis for the 2008 film by the same title. Many worm holes to jacket, rubbed; heel of volume spine rubbed a bit; else a near fine volume in a good jacket. (1200/1800)
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