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JAMES CUMMINS Bookseller Catalogue 132 JAMES CUMMINS bookseller Catalogue 132 To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 [email protected] jamescumminsbookseller.com hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 27 inside front cover: item 22 inside rear cover: item 80 rear cover: item 7 photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. 1] Fine Early Copy of Ackermann’s Oxford ACKERMANN, Rudolf An early copy. The list of plates in vol. I is the first state (it does not list the portraits of Founders; this copy does not A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, include the Founders). Plate 1, vol.1, is mislabeled “History Halls, and Public Buildings. London: Rudolf Ackermann, of Cambridge” and plate 50 bears the May 1, 1814, date — 1814. both are Abbey’s first states. Plates 15, 39, 74, 78, 84 and 94 are Abbey’s second state. There are 6 watermarked plates, each First edition. Stipple engraved portrait of the Chancellor, bearing the date 1812, and the half-title is present in both Lord Grenville, 64 hand-colored aquatints engraved by Bluck, volumes. Hill, Stadler and others after Pugin, Mackenzie, Westall, et al, and 17 colored line and stipple engraved costume plates A fine, early copy of Ackermann’s monumental survey of the of university figures in their academic garb by Aagar after great university. Uwins. xxv, [1], 275, [7]; [4], 262, [6] pp. 2 vols. 13-3/8 x 11-1/4 $6,000 inches. Bound in full antique brown calf, gilt spines, marbled endpapers, some offsetting of plates, foxing to Grenville plate, but a fine, otherwise unfoxed, handsome copy. Tooley 5; Abbey Scenery 280. 2] Illinois State Normal University cross country to California, then by freighter to Seattle, and on to Alaska. The tenderfoot (ACKERMANN, Rudolph) GERNING, Baron recounts job-hunting, snowshoeing on the Gold Creek Trail Johann Isaac von and experiences in an avalanche. After a stint in a bakery, A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to he went into commercial aviation with a more experienced pilot, Fred Soberg. Cole performed a loop the loop with Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable their Curtiss Jenny. The venture was ended when a sudden Events, and of Popular Traditions … Translated from overnight gale wrecked their plane. Cole soon found a job the German by John Black. London: R. Ackermann, 101, with a survey team in Mount McKinley National Park (the Strand, 1820. frontispiece shows him seated with a rifle). He travelled as a stowaway on a steamer from Cordovia to Seward, where he First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. 24 would have picked up the railroad line. hand-colored aquatint plates after M. Schuetz, 1 map. xiv, [2], [1]-178 pp. Folio (13-1/4 x 11 in.). Contemporary polished calf, Frederick Soberg (1905-1983) was an early pioneer of Alaskan spine gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked, corners somewhat rubbed, aviation and a founder of the Juneau Aviation Club in 1934. offsetting from plates and text, very good, attractive copy. One of Soberg’s flying buddies was Sheldon Simmons, who Abbey Travel 217; Martin Hardie, pp. 107-8, 312; Prideaux, p. later founded Alaska Airlines. At pp. 84-86, Cole publishes a 337; Tooley (1954), no. 234. letter from Soberg saying that he had formed a partnership with Simmons. Along the Rhine with Ackermann Long after this visit to Alaska in 1930, Cole produced One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books . a privately printed account, Journey to Caribou Land $4,500 (Whittier, Calif., 1983), that draws upon One Lives but Once and gives details of his work in the park. UNRECORDED. 3] $850 (ALASKA) COLE, Martin One Lives But Once. [N.p: n.d., 1936]. With frontispiece and two plates from photographs. 105 pp. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the first blank. Very good plus. Not in OCLC. Short and colorful account of the adventures of young Martin Cole making his way from the classrooms of the 2 | James Cummins bookseller 4] ANDERSEN, Hans Christian Fairy Tales. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1932]. No. 144 of 500 copies signed by Rackham. With twelve color plates, fifty-nine black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 286 pp. 4to. Bound in full vellum, stamped in gilt, VERY FINE. In glassine and custom cream paper over borders box. Riall, p. 177; Latimore and Haskell, p. 68. Stunning copy of the signed limited edition $4,500 5] APPIAN [Title in Greek] Appiani Alexandrini Rom. historiarum Punica, sive Carthaginiensis, Syriaca, Parthica, Mithridatica, Iberica, Annibalica, Celticae & Illyricae fragmenta quaedam : item De bellis civilibus libri V. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus [Estienne], 1592. First complete Estienne edition. Printer’s device to title- page. [xii], x, [2, blank], 767, [1] 72, [34] pp. Parallel Greek and Latin text in two columns. Folio. Full contemporary white pigskin, covers tooled in blind to a panel design with three distinct rolls and small tools surrounding arabesque centerpiece, remnants of ties. Small excision from margin of title-page, else a clean copy. Adams A-1352; Schreiber 223. Provenance: Earls of Maccelsfield (South Library bookplate and small embossed stamp to first two leaves. Magnificent Estienne printing of Appian of Alexandria’s Roman History; the Macclesfield copy in a contemporary blindstamped pigskin binding. $2,000 Catalogue 132 | 3 6] AVINOFF, Andrey Russian Ecclesiastical and Decorative Art Objects in the Collection of George R. Hann: Watercolor illustrations by A[ndrey] Avinoff. Pittsburgh?: 1944. A total of 100 watercolors, each about 5 x 3 in; 84 of them mounted in two volumes, the remainder loose. 2 vols. Folio (13 x 11-1/2 in.). Two full dark blue calf albums, gilt on upper covers and spines, patterned fabric doublures, linen hinges (to allow the thick volumes to open flat); fine condition. With the bookplate of George Rice Hann and that of the Library of the Westmoreland County Museum of Art in each volume. 100 Avinoff Watercolors of Russian Art Treasures Andrey Arvinoff (1884-1949), a Russian artist who emigrated to America after the Bolshevik revolution, specialized in landscapes and portraits; he also had a successful career in commercial art. He was noted for his imaginative and skillful detail, art critics praising his “purity of line that can come from only the most delicate perception” and observing “like the other Russians who have come here, he loves to use details in wholesome quantities.” In the commercial art field, his nephew Alex Shoumatoff notes in the family chronicle Russian Blood, “his renditions of everyday household articles attracted attention as works of art.” In 1922 he was recruited by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh to be a curator of entomology and in 1926 became the museum’s director. In addition, he taught courses on Oriental and Russian art at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the ideal artist to depict George Hann’s Russian objects, and his watercolors, done over pencil, are careful but not fussy; where, as is often the case, the objects are set with precious stones, his drawings shine with a radiant sparkle. Accompanying these volumes is the catalogue of an exhibition of Russian Icons and other works of art from Mr. Hann’s collection held at Carnegie Institute in 1944. It is finely bound in dark brown calf, gilt device on upper cover; apart from a little wear to extremities, it is in fine condition, and displays some of the items illustrated in the two albums. $15,000 4 | James Cummins bookseller 7] BARNES, Djuna Collection of manuscripts, books, letters, photographs and original art of Djuna Barnes. Ca. 1915-1982. Condition generally very good or better, described in complete listing of collection. Provenance: Hank O’Neal. A career-spanning collection comprising manuscripts and corrected typescripts, candid vintage photographs, inscribed books, original art, and autograph postcards and typed letters of Djuna Barnes, from the collection of Hank O’Neal, New York photographer, record producer and author. Through his friendship with Berenice Abbott, O’Neal was one of the few to gain access to the reclusive Barnes during the final years of her life. O’Neal helped Barnes manage her literary affairs, stave off unwanted attention, and arrange for reprints and new editions of her work. In 1990, O’Neal published a memoir of their relationship, “Life is Painful, Nasty and Short … In My Case It Has Only Been Painful and Nasty.” Over the course of their relationship, O’Neal received gifts of inscribed books, manuscripts and artwork from Barnes. Highlights of the collection include: — One of only 10 copies of Ladies Almanack, signed and hand-colored on Vergé de Vidalon, and additionally inscribed to O’Neal. — Inscribed copies of A Book (1923), Nightwood (1937), Selected Works (1980). — Barnes’ working copy of The Antiphon, with numerous manuscript corrections and 8 typed pages of insertions, done for the 1962 Selected Works edition. — 6 autograph postcards, including 4 to Barnes’ mother Elizabeth Chappell Barnes. — Original art, including suppressed “Horace Chubble Brushing Around Heaven” illustration for Ryder — Vintage and rare photographs, including a collection of portraits of Barnes taken by Berenice Abbot in her studio in 1957 and printed by Hank O’Neal.
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