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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. dedication copy 2 1 BAUM, L. Frank. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Being an account ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. 8vo, New York: Boni of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman … & Liveright, 1925. First trade edition. Black cloth, yellow let- the story being A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz. 16 full-page color tering, pictorial endpapers in yellow and black. A fine copy in plates, full-page black and white illustrations, and black and a near fine, unclipped dust-jacket. Hogan book label. Byron white illustrations in the text by John R. Neill. Small 4to, Chi- Price book plate. In cloth slipcase and chemise. cago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1904. First edition, second state Lovely copy of Anderson’s best-selling novel, which the jack- with “Published, July, 1904” on verso of title-page. Bound in et blurb announces as “an intense love story superimposed crimson cloth, lettered in dark blue and illustrated in black, upon a background of dark laughter, the mysterious, de- green and silver, pictorial endpapers. About fine. tached, strange laughter of the negro, the earth and the river The Oz books are considered to be the first American fanta- …” Inscribed to the dedicatee, Jane W. Prall, the mother of sies. Anderson’s second wife, Elizabeth Prall, whom he married in $3,500 1924. Elizabeth Prall had been the manager of Doubleday’s Bookstore in New York (where she met Anderson) and was well-known in literary circles. Dark Laughter has an important connection with Ernest Hemingway. In his novel The Torrents of Spring (1926), Hemingway parodied the styles of some of his contemporaries – in particular Sherwood Ander- son and Dark Laughter. $5,000 tyndale’s gift to the english language The English Bible, translated by scholar and protestant 3 martyr William Tyndale (ca. 1494-1537), Thomas Matthew’s (BIBLE, English) [The Byble: that is to saye, all the holye Scrip- version (first printed, 1537), this edition “closely following ture: in whiche are contayned the olde and new Testament, truly and Raynalde and Hyll’s Bible of 1549,” according to Herbert. purely translated into Englishe, & now lately with great industry & “The ability of every ordinary man, woman, and child to diligence recognysed]. Text in black letter, in double columns; 55 read and hear the whole New Testament in English, accu- lines. First Table and Kalendar printed in red and black. Wood- rately rendered, was Tyndale’s work, and its importance can- cut borders to sectional titles (O.T., Psalms, N.T.). Lacking not be overstressed. … Tyndale’s gift to the English language the general title; last leaf in fine facsimile. Folio, [London: by is unmeasurable. He translated into a register just above Wyllyam Bonham, dwellynge in Paules churche yarde, at the common speech, allied in its clarity to proverbs. It is a lan- sygne of the rede Lyon] [Colophon: Imprynted at London, by guage which still speaks directly to the heart. His aims were Nicolas Hyll, dwelling in Saynct Iohns streate, at the coste and always accuracy and clarity. King James’s revisers adopted charges of certayne honest menne of the occupacyon, whose his style, and his words, for much of the Authorized Version. names be vpon their bokes, 1551]. Rebound in period style At a time when European scholars and professionals com- in an Oxford binding, full dark English calf over contempo- municated in Latin, Tyndale insisted on being understood by rary pastepaper boards, spine with raised bands, extensiverly ordinary people” (ODNB). A beautiful and important English tooled in blind. Title leaf re-margined, some headlines and Bible. shoulder notes shaved (with minor losses), occasional mar- $25,000 ginal paper flaws, old paper repair on verso of N.T. sectional title. Pen starts a few words in ink on blank leaf before Psalms, dated 1579. A lovely and imposing volume. Herbert 92; STC 2086.  | james cummins bookseller 4 (BINDING, French) Traicté de la Forme et Devis Comme on Faict les Tournois par Olivier de la Marche, Hardouin de la Jaille, An- thoine de la Sale etc. Mis en Ordre par Bernard Prost Enrichi de 16 Planches, Dont 9 Doubles Coloriées au Pinceau Avec le Plus Grand Soin et Rehausées d’Or. 17 plates (16 hand-colored and height- ened in gold), half-title and title printed in red and black. [i-ii], xix, [i], 259, [1], [iv] pp. 8vo, Paris: A. Barraud, 1878. No. 8 of 258 (of 260) copies on papier vergé fort. Contemporary vellum by Ch. & L. Hilaire, covers stamped in gilt with wide border of arabesque tools with initial “F” at each corner, surrounding a central panel with a semé of fleur-de-lys and ermine-tail tools, the upper cover with a large initial “F” surmounted by a King’s helm with mantling, spine in six compartments with raised bands, titled in the second, the rest with repeat tooling of a decorative border surrounding an initial “F,” gilt turn-ins, cream moiré paper pastedowns and free endpapers, gilt and gauffered top edge, original wrappers bound-in. First edition under this title, and the first to include the plates. The first appearance of Prost’s text was with the title “Traités du duel judiciaire,” published in 1872 by Léon Willem in an edition limited to 400 copies. For the present edition publisher Barraud changed the title and added 16 colored plates, adapted from ms 2692 in the French Biblio- thèque Nationale (“Portraicts du tournoi de Monseigneur de Gruthuse appelant, et de Monseigneur de Ghistelle deffen- dant”). The binding is possibly a pastiche of a binding done for François I. $1,250

5 (BINDING, Publisher’s) Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton. With a Memoir and Critical Remarks on his Ge- nius and Writing by James Montgomery. 120 engravings by John Thompson, S. and T. Williams, O. Smith, J. Linton, and others, after William Harvey. [iv], lii, 378, [2, ads]; vii, 341, [1], [2, ads] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1843. Tilt’s Illustrated Edition. Publisher’s full pebbled morocco, covers blocked in gilt with cross and crown of thorns and sword and serpent, spines blocked in gilt with Adam and Eve, dove and laurel, and title, a.e.g. Fine. Lowndes, p. 1557. A stunningly-fine copy of Tilt’s illustrated edition of Milton in the publisher’s binding. $750

catalogue 116 |  “to the extravagant mr. wilson” (of phoenix book shop) 6 BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poems. 40 pp. 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. Yellow paper boards. Near fine in like dust-jacket. Elizabeth Bishop’s first collection printed in Great Britain (no American edition appeared), being a selection of poems from North & South, and A Cold Spring. The dust-jacket blurb from the publisher praises her work as being “unclouded by any facile glumness.” This copy is inscribed on the title page: “Elizabeth Bishop / March 19th, 1973 / — to the extravagant Mr. [Robert] Wilson.” $1,250

7 BLUNDEN, Edmund. The Harbingers. Poems by E.C. Blunden, (Late of Christ’s Hospital). [4], 67 pp. 16mo, [Framfield, Uckfield, Eng.]: Private- ly printed, “To be had of G.A. Blunden” printed on upper cover, 1916. First edition. Original printed purple wrappers. Beautiful copy, mint as issued. In a custom gray cloth folding case with recessed compart- ment. Beautiful copy of Blunden’s rare and fragile third book. $2,000

the original american gothic 8 [BROWN, Charles Brockden]. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793. By the Author of Wieland. [i-iv], [1] – 224. 12mo, Philadelphia: H. Maxwell, 1799. First edition. Contemporary tree sheep, rebacked with period gilt-ruled spine, red morocco label. Fine. BAL 1498; Evans 35243; Wright I 418. . Charles Brockden Brown may not unjustly be termed “The Father of American Novelists.” Under an equable exterior, he concealed the tormented state of mind in which, in all his novels, he was so much interested. “In Arthur Mervyn Brown managed to give a sense of the horror of silent streets disturbed only by the rattling of the dead cart, of the terror of empty houses abandoned to the dead and the dying, of the atmosphere of disease and death hanging over the panic- stricken city in which neither food nor shelter could be bought. He describes the flight of the living, the atrocities of the hospital, and the hearse men dragging out the still breathing bodies, and illustrates the general desolation by the experiences of Arthur who, attacked by the fever, could only drag himself to a deserted house to die out of reach of the hospital cart. Brown’s descriptions are of an unshrinking real- ism, he never trusts in suggestion or in the imagination of his reader, and yet from his loathsome catalogue of disgusting details there results an effect of simple horror” (Loshe, The Early American Novel). Arthur Mervyn was Brown’s second novel, after Wieland; or, The Trans- formation. An American Tale (1798). The book proved a success and a sequel was published in New York the following year. $1,750

 | james cummins bookseller 9 [BURTON, Sir Richard F.] The Kasidah (Couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yazdî: A Lay of the Higher Law. Translated and annotated by his Friend and Pupil F.B. [4], 33 pp. 4to, London: Privately Printed, [1880]. First edition, first issue (with title-page undated). Original yellow wrappers. A few small splits along spine fold of front wrapper, overall a fine copy. In custom morocco-backed slipcase and cloth chemise. Penzer, pp. 97-98; Casada 84. Entirely authored by Burton under the pseudonym of Hâjî Abdû and published by Bernard Quaritch primarily for the private use of Burton and his friends. “The first issue (undated) was very small indeed, and later in the year the second issue appeared. Very few of these copies sold, and the remainder were returned to Burton. The entire first edition did not in all probability consist of more than 200 copies …” $6,000

10 BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). The Deformed Transformed; a Drama. 88 pp. + 6 pp. ads dated Feb. 1824. 8vo, London: Printed for J. anf H.L. Hunt, 1824. First edition, first variant, with final signature printed “G.“ Original plain drab wrappers. Spine chipped, upper covers lightly stained as well as lower margin of flyleaf and half title, stab marks (probably from previous binding in a nonce volume) throughout at inner margin, 1 x 3 inch piece excised from upper corner of title leaf, with no loss of text. Still a more than ac- ceptable copy of this rarity, with half-title. Wise II, pp. 45-46. Wise quotes Walter Shelley Leigh Hunt to the effect that “about five or six hundred copies” only were printed. Byron’s unfinished Gothic drama has for its subject a Faustian pact with the devil made by the hero, a deformed hunchback who longs for love and acceptance. $750

catalogue 116 |  borowitz copy uncut in boards 11 [BYRON, Lord (George Gordon)]. English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire. vi, 54 pp. 12mo, London: James Cawthorn, [1809]. First edition, second issue, with “Preface” leaf; p. 5 line 7 reading “despatch”; watermark “E & P 1805,” as per all authorized copies. Uncut in original drab green paper boards, printed in black. Crack in upper joint, skillful repair to foot of spine. Beautiful copy, in half blue morocco slipcase with chemise. Wise I, p. 19; Hayward 219. Provenance: H.W. Sibthorpe (signature on front pastedown); Richard Ellison, Jun. (signature on title-page); and David Borowitz (bookplate on chemise). A fine copy in original boards of Byron’s classic takedown of the Edinburgh Review. $3,000 in original wrappers 12 BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale. 8vo, London: Printed by T. Davison for John Murray, 1813. First published edition, issue on unwatermarked wove paper. Original drab brown wrappers, uncut. One-inch chip from foot of spine, a few stains on rear wrapper, otherwise a beautiful copy, unusual thus, in brown cloth wraparound chemise. Bookplates of Simon and Judith Adams Nowell-Smith; cancelled check from previous owner to dealer laid-in. Wise, I, p. 78. Wise distinguishes between the first edition, privately printed without the author’s name on the title-page, and the first published edition, with Byron’s name on the title-page, as above. (Of the first published edition, a few copies were printed on hand-made, watermarked paper.) Rare thus, in wrappers. $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller 13 BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). Hebrew Melodies. 8vo, London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. First edition, first issue, with Roger’s “Jacqueline” and Campbell’s “Selected Beauties” listed second and third on the second page of advertisements (E4r). Origi- nal plain wrapper. Spine a bit chipped, but a truly fine copy in custom cloth slipcase with chemise. Bookplate of David and Lulu Borowitz and Robert Wilson. Wise I, p. 103. $2,000

14 BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems. [vi], 60, [ii] pp., + 2 leaves of ads dated November 1816. 8vo, London: John Murray, 1816. First edition. Original drab brown wrappers, uncut. Spine chipped, corners bumped, upper wrapper with mild staining. Wise I, p. 113. $1,250

catalogue 116 |  calligraphic manuscript on vellum by ernest treglown the first modern self-help book 15 16 (CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM) Raleigh, CARNEGIE, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People. x, Sir Walter. The Last Fight of the Revenge. 24 pp. pen-and-ink 337, [5] pp. 8vo, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. First on vellum, first page opening gilt-lettered and floriated in edition. Publisher’s red cloth. Covers a bit faded and edge- plum, green, and yellow, text in black with gilt initials. 8vo, worn on the bottom edge, previous owners’ inscriptions on N.p: 1907. Plain limp vellum, fine, in a custom linen folding front and rear endpapers. In the original unclipped pictorial box with clasp. dust-jacket, worn at folds with some loss. The colophon reads, ”This version of The Last Fight of First edition in the scarce dust-jacket of the first modern self- the Revenge was published in a Selection of English Prose help manual. Carnegie’s book, based in part on his popular by William Ernest Henman [corrected in pencil to read courses on public speaking, became an instant best seller, “Henley”] and Charles Whibley — and written for the Earl reaching its 17th printing in only a few months and going on [of] Plymouth by Ernest G Treglown in the year MCMVII.” to sell millions of copies worldwide. A cornerstone of Ameri- Treglown was a favored pupil of Edward Johnston. can popular and corporate culture. $2,000 $3,500

 | james cummins bookseller 17 inscribed with a self portrait drawing COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Poems. xi, [i], 202, [2, ads] pp. 18 8vo, London: Printed by N. Biggs, Crane-court, Fleet-street, COVARRUBIAS, Miguel. The Prince of Wales and Other Fa- for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-row, 1803. Third mous Americans. With a Preface by Carl Van Vechten. Color fron- edition. Full period-style green levant, spine gilt, boards with tispiece of the Prince of Wales and 65 caricatures (including gilt rule borders, marbled endsheets, t.e.g., others untrimmed. 3 in color) by Covarrubias. 8vo, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Ashley Library I, 201; Wise, “Two Lake Poets,” p. 68; Haney 1925. First edition. Publisher’s yellow cloth with batik boards. 12. Spine browned with some fraying to ends, corners rubbed, After the favorable reception of the first edition of 1796, sporadic foxing, small tear at margin of John Barrymore page the publisher Cottle requested a second, to which Coleridge with old tape-repair. In pictorial dust-jacket, split at front fold, contributed several new pieces, including “The Ode to the chipped and creased with some loss, 2 inch piece from rear Departing Year,” as panel. Provenance: Anne Rosenberg (inscription and Rock- well as Lamb’s and well Kent-designed bookplate). Lloyd’s poems which Sharp, frequently devastating portraits by the brilliant Mexi- were printed there can artist. Among the victims are Jack Dempsey, Eugene for the first time. O’Neill, Calvin Coolidge, Pablo Picasso, Willa Cather, Babe Coleridge also added Ruth, H.L. Mencken, John D. Rockefeller, Igor Stravinsky, a new Preface in Carl Van Vechten (who wrote the Preface), and the artist Co- which he defended varrubias himself (as “The Murderer”). This copy inscribed himself from charg- by Covarrubias, “To Anne Rosenberg, from Miguel Covarru- es of obscurity. This bias. N.Y. Jan 24 — 1926” with a small pencil self-portrait of third edition drops the artist. Lamb and Lloyd’s $1,750 contributions. At- tractive copy of a landmark of English literature. $2,250

catalogue 116 |  first robinson crusoe in french 19 DEFOE, Daniel. La Vie et les Avantures Surprenantes de Robinson Crusoe … [and:] … Tome Second [and:] Reflexions Serieuses et Im- portantes de Robinson Crusoe, Faites pendant les Avantures surprenantes de sa Vue. Avec Sa Vision Angelique … Tome Troisieme. Title pages printed in red and black. Frontispiece of Robinson Cru- soe, folding map, and 4 engraved plates in vol. I; frontispiece, folding map, and 5 engraved plates in vol. II; frontispiece and 6 engravings in vol. III. xxxiv, [ii], [1]-632; viii, [1]-588; xii, [1]- 629 pp. 3 vols. Thick 12mo, Amsterdam: Chez L’Honoré et Chatelain, 1720-1721. First edition in French. Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Brany. Fine. Bookplates of Thomas Powell & Frasier W. McCann. Brunet II 556; Gu- muchian 4793 (“un des plus beaux livres de voyages à figures du XVIIIe siècle”). unpublished dickens letter First edition in French of this classic, published in three parts not long after the London original. The title page of the first 20 volume makes no reference to subsequent volumes (later edi- DICKENS, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles tions indicate that the work is in three volumes). The superb Dickens”), to Rev. William Ellis, 30 April 1849, mentioning engravings were copied with varying degrees of success in Miss Coutts and a candidate for proposed admission to the later editions. Home for Fallen Women [In a copy of:] Martin Chuzzlewit. 2 pp., pen-and-ink on laid paper bifolium (versos blank). 12mo; $4,500 book 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, [London]: 1849. Book: First edition, 1844, bound from the parts (engraved title with 100£, no priority per Smith). Letter: Fine, inserted, envelope with autograph address and signature of Dickens tipped-in oppo- site. Book: Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, a.e.g., preserving several wrappers (front of parts V & VII, several back wrappers) and selected ads (including announcement of A Christmas Carol). Minor rubbing. Fine, plates fresh. Unpublished. For Martin Chuzzlewit: Gimbel A71. Fine letter from Dickens to William Ellis (1794–1872), mis- sionary and author of Polynesian Researches (1833), somewhat oblique in its meaning but indisputably referring to a charitable case for which Ellis had sought assistance from the Home for Fallen Women established by Dickens and Miss Angela Burdett Coutts, a wealthy philanthropist (and book

 | james cummins bookseller collector). “Dickens’s philanthropy was as comprehensive as 21 his charity was instinctive,” writes Ackroyd, who details the DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. Alice’s Adventures in Wonder- long connections between Coutts and Dickens. Reading, in land. By Lewis Carroll [and:] Through the Looking Glass and What part: “Miss Coutts has communicated with me, in reference Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll. With 42 wood-engraved il- to the case — proposed for admission in the Home — in lustrations after John Tenniel. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Macmil- which you are kindly interested. I should like to share a few lan, 1866; 1872. Second edition (and the first published English words of conversation with you on the subject, and to sug- edition) of Alice; first edition ofThrough the Looking Glass, first gest to you why in this case it would do better in another issue, with “Wade” for “Wabe” in “Jabberwocky,” p. 27. Bound kind of Institution. Would it be convenient to you if I called in full blue morocco, richly gilt, gilt-decorated spines, raised on you at 12 on Wednesday? In case you should have an bands, a.e.g., original cloth and spines laid down and bound engagement for that time, I shall be at home at 5 tomorrow in at end of each volume by Wood, London. Rebacked. A fine afternoon, but I shall be very happy to call upon you as I have set. Williams, Madan and Green 44 & 67. proposed, if that will do …” The present letter is apparently unpublished and has been in a private collection for the past $9,500 fifty years or more. $7,500

catalogue 116 |  22 DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. Alice’s Adven- tures under Ground. Being a Facsimile of the Origi- nal MS. Book afterwards developed into “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” With thirty-seven illustrations by the author. viii, [8], 95, [1], [1, blank], [2, ads], [1, blank] pp. 8vo, London: Macmillan, 1886. First edition. Tan morocco, spine gilt in 6 compartments, front cover lettered in gilt and with an image of the Mock Turtle in gilt, flowering branch in gilt on rear cover, a.e.g., gilt dentelles, by the Zahn Bind- ery in Memphis. With the original gilt covers bound-in. Minimal wear to extremities, a few tiny spots to cover. Bookplate on front pastedown, faint spotting to endpapers, else a fine copy. Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 194; Lovett and Lovett 178. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title: “Mrs. Bell from the Author. Jan. 1887.” “Mrs. Bell” is probably Mrs. C.F. Moberly Bell, wife of the editor of The Times, eldest sister of one of Dodgson’s former child- models, Gertrude Hathaway, and herself the mother of four daughters whom Dodgson was particularly anxious to sketch or photo- graph (see Cohen, Lewis Carroll, pp. 475-6). With Dodgson’s own illustrations of Alice, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground provides a fascinating glimpse of the evolution of the familiar “Wonderland” tales. $6,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 116 |  23 DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony in Eight Fits. By Lewis Carroll. With nine wood-engraved illustrations by Henry Holiday. xi, [3], 83, [3] pp. 8vo, Lon- don: Macmillan, 1876. First edition. Later blue morocco, covers paneled in gilt, pictorial front cover lettered and tooled in gilt, spine tooled in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by the Zahn Bindery in Memphis. With the original gilt pictorial blue cloth covers bound-in. Spine very slightly faded. Bookplate on front pastedown, very faint spotting to endleaves. A fine copy. Williams- Madan-Green-Crutch 115. Presentation copy, inscribed on the day of publication by Dodgson on the half-title: “Mrs. Bell from the Author, Mar 29th, 1876.” On March 21, 1876, Dodgson wrote to his publisher, requesting them to bind presentation copies of the Snark – “100 in red and gold, 20 in dark blue and gold, 20 in white vellum and gold.” These were quickly prepared and on Wednesday the 29th Dodgson “spent from eleven till nearly five at Macmillan’s writing in about 80 presentation copies.” (For Mrs. Bell, see the previous item.) $7,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 116 |  24 DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge. A Tangled Tale. By Lewis Carroll. With six illustrations by Arthur B. Frost. [12], 153, [1, blank], 1, ads] pp. 8vo, London: Macmillan, 1886. Second edition (third thousand). Brown morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, covers with an image of dragon in profile in gilt, gilt dentelles, a.e.g., by the Zahn Bindery. With the original red cloth covers bound in. Williams 49. Inscribed by Dodgson in purple ink on the half-title: “May Beringer from the Author. Ap. 15, 1890.” The recipient was possibly the daughter of a Mrs. Beringer, probably a friend of Dodgson’s to whom he wrote at least one letter in 1892 (Letters of Lewis Carroll II, p. 904, note 1). $6,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 116 |  fitzgerald at princeton 25 (FITZGERALD, F. Scott) Van Dyke, Henry. A Book of Princeton Verse II 1919. Edited by Henry Van Dyke, Morris William Croll, Maxwell Struthers Burt, and James Creese, Jr. [xii], [1]-179 pp. 8vo, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [1919]. First edition. Olive green cloth, t.e.g. Some slight irregular coloration of cloth, else about fine in very good plus tan printed dust-jacket (old repair to short split and small hole at top of spine fold, small loss at foot of spine panel). In quarter brown morocco slipcase and chemise. Bruccoli B1. With three poems by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Marching Streets,” “The Pope at Con- fession,” and “My First Love”; his name is misprinted beneath each poem as “T. Scott Fitzgerald ‘18.” There are also six poems by Edmund Wilson and 5 poems by John Peale Bishop. This is Fitzger- ald’s first book appearance [Bruccoli B1], excluding the three plays produced by Princeton Triangle Club which he wrote the lyrics for (Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!, The Evil-Eye & Safety First, Bruccoli A1-4). $1,750

26 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gats- by. [vi], 218 pp. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. First edition, first issue. Original green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight lean to spine, else a fine, bright copy. In a custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Bruccoli A 11.1.a. Provenance: George F. Tyler (ownership signature to front free endpaper). The celebrated classic of Twenties America. This copy belonged to banker and sportsman George F. Tyler of Bucks County, PA. The French-Norman Tyler estate is now the campus of the Bucks County Community College. Ty- ler, who was related by marriage to the oilman William Lukens Elkins, founded with his wife the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art at Temple University. $4,000

 | james cummins bookseller 27 (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS) The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I … 64 wood-engraved illustrations and initials printed from the blocks. Small folio, [n.p. but actually St. Lawrence, Waltham]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. One of 488 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper, from a total edition of five hundred copies. Three quarter white pigskin and tan polished buckram, raised bands, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A few scattered spots of the almost inevitable foxing to the polished buckram side panels, a couple of short, thin surface scratches to the lower side panel, just a trace of slight darkening and rubbing to the spine, otherwise a fine copy, internally quite fine. Gill, Eric Gill, 285; Chanticleer 78; Artist & the Book 122; From Manet to Hockney 89. One of Eric Gill’s masterpieces as an illustrator. “Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the Golden Cockerel book usually compared with the Doves Bible and the Kelmscott Chaucer. A flower among the best products of English romantic genius, it is also surely, thanks to its illustrator … the book among all books in which the Roman type has been best mated with any kind of illustra- tion“ (Chanticleer). $15,000

catalogue 116 |  28 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed Letter, signed (“Ernest Hemingway”), to Mr. Grover Whelan, declining an invitation to the world premier of the film of The Old Man and the Sea. One page, on personal letterhead of Finca Vigia. 4to, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba: September 28, 1958. Slight toning at edges, otherwise fine. Handsomely framed and matted with a copy of the tele- gram of invitation from Whelan (dated September 5, 1958) and with a copy of the dust-jacket of the book. Whales introduces himself as the Chairman of the Charity Performance for the world premier of the Old Man and the Sea, to take place on Tuesday, October 7, 8:00PM at the Criterion Theatre on Times Square. Hemingway responds: “Thank you very much for your invitation to the world premiere of The Old Man and the Sea. Unfortunately it is impossible for Mrs. Hemingway and me to attend this opening, but I am enclosing my cheque for $100 to the New York March of Dimes. Would you be so kind as to deliver the two tickets you have reserved for Mrs. Hemingway and myself to my friend, Mr. George Brown, who will call for them …” $11,000

 | james cummins bookseller hemingway vs the dodgers in havana 29 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed Letter, signed (“Ernie”), to George Brown, his boxing coach and trainer, regarding a visit from several Brookyn Dodgers, and his fight with pitcher Hugh Casey. 1-Hpp., single-spaced, with numerous marginal notations and a half-page autograph note in pencil. On personal stationery of Finca Vigia. 4to, Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba: March 3, 1942. Very good in custom brown morocco-backed protective case. Superb letter from Hemingway in fine fettle, writing to his boxing coach about a visit from the Brooklyn Dodgers, which ended in a fight in Hemingway’s living room: “Early this morning I though of sending you a wire to see if you could come down and get me in shape in about ten days to fight a guy named Hughey Casey who pitches for the Dodgers. We went five one-minute ones last night and I was under the impression that I needed a lot of work in order to come up against Casey again [his pencilled note: “Maybe he still thinks he can beat me but I really know he can’t if I get out and run and lay off. Have drunk very little all month except twice and have been feeling good”], but when I saw him today it looks as though there won’t have to be any again. So it is all right. Marty [Martha Gellhorn] is still very sore about it on account of it taking place in the living room which it seems took a lot of trouble to construct and maintain and will perhaps never be quite so good again … [pencilled note: “My left middle toe is broke but otherwise nothing but lots of loose skin on all the old marbles in my mouth. I had him down twice and he hit me with everything he had all the time and it didn’t do me any harm. You would have enjoyed it. All the punches landed and there were lots of them he being a crowder like I have become.”] “There are a lot of really good guys on the Dodgers [pencilled note: “Casey, Billy Herman, Augie Gulan, Rizzo, Art Davis, Larry French”]. We have shot pigeons against them three times and have now won $115 odd from them in the three shoots, and I would hate to think that any bitterness had sprung up from that …” In his pencilled post scriptum, Hemingway adds: “Don’t say anything about the Casey business. really. It was one of those good ones not the publicity kind. I know I can beat him because he is throwing hundreds of right hands … He is one of those good Irishmen that likes to fight and is sure he can beat anybody …” $12,500

catalogue 116 |  30 JOHNSON, Samuel. [Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. viii, 159; viii, 165 pp. A2r of vol. II in second, corrected state; terminal blank M4 present. Two volumes bound in one. Small 8vo (5-M x 3-13/16), London: for R. and J. Dod- sley … and W. Johnston, 1759. First edition, one of 1,500 copies printed by William Strahan. Contemporary speck- led calf, brown morocco spine label. Slightest rubbing at extremities. Fine, fresh copy. Full brown morocco slipcase. Courtney & Smith, p. 87; Chapman & Hazen, p. 142; Flee- man I, 785-8; Rothschild 142; Tinker 1314. “Hawkins and Boswell agree that Rasselas was written to help the dying Sarah Johnson and eventually to pay for her funeral … Johnson told Reynolds he wrote the work in the evenings of a single week, which implies a commence- ment at least on Monday 15 January, the date on which he learned of his mother’s illness and on which he first sent her money” (Fleeman). Very attractive copy in a contemporary binding. $7,500

joyce’s second published work 31 JOYCE, James. “The Day of the Rabblement” [published in Two Essays. “A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question” by F.J.C. Skeffington and “The Day of the Rabblement” by James A. Joyce]. 8 pp. 8vo, Dublin: Gerrard Bros, [1901]. First edition of Joyce’s second published work, one of 85 published. Original pink printed wrappers, stapled. Faint crease marks from prior folding, small stain to top margin. In red cloth drop box. Provenance: John Howell Books. Slocum & Cahoon B1. The first edition of Joyce’s second published work, and his first appearance in a book, one of only 85 copies printed (his first appearance was a review of Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken published in the Fortnightly Review the previous year). Joyce’s essay, written when he was a nineteen-year-old student at University College, Dublin, is an attack on the Irish Literary Theater and its founders — Yeats, Moore and Martyn. He accuses them of abandoning the high ideals of the Theater’s founding and catering to popular tastes, becoming “the property of the rabblement of the most belated race in Europe.” The essay appears here in print with school friend F.J.C. Skeffington’s essay advocating equal university rights for women. Both essays were first rejected (“refused insertion by the Censor”) by St. Stephen’s, the newspaper of the University College, Dublin, at which point Joyce and Skeffington gathered the 2 pounds 5 shillings necessary to have the essays printed at a local stationery shop. $13,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 116 |  first edition in english 33 32 KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other KAFKA, Franz. The Metamorphosis. Translated by A.L. Lloyd. Poems. [4] ff., 199, [1] pp. Half title present. 12mo, London: [6], 74 pp. Small 8vo, [London]: Parton Press, 1937. First edi- Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. First edition. Contem- tion in English. Original blue cloth spine over grey paper porary straight-grain brown morocco, boards tooled in gilt boards, with printed label on the upper cover, spine lettered Greek key scroll and in blind about a central field. Bound within black. Spine slightly toned, faintest rubbing at extremities. out ads. Upper joint a bit rubbed, a few passages finely under- Pencilled notes amending translation at pp. 49-60, notecard scored in contemporary ink, else fine. In a quarter morocco from Erich Heller, German professor at Swansea. A very good drop box. MacGillivray 3; Hayward 233; Tinker 1420. copy, lacking, as usual, the plain cellophane wrapper. In cus- Beautiful copy of one of the treasures of English literature, tom blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. Keats’ last and greatest book, containing the title poems as First published in German (Die Verwandlung) in 1915. “Born well as his final, triumphant odes: “To a Grecian Urn,” “To in Prague of German-Jewish parents, Franz Kafka told his Melancholy,” “To a Nightingale,” “To Autumn.” bizarre tale of nightmarish isolation and entrapment in a $14,000 detached, almost reportorial style. While critics have inter- preted this chilling story variously as a description of despair in a meaningless world, as a reaction to institutional authori- tarianism, and as an expression of conflict between the author and his father, its power seems to rest in its resistance to interpretation. W. H. Auden has said of it, ‘Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka would be the first one would think of’” (Books of the Century, 13). $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller the kelmscott keats 34 KEATS, John. The Poems of John Keats. Engraved title-page, borders and initial capitals. 8vo, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. One of 300 copies on paper. Original vellum. Fine, with ties. In a custom cloth slipcase. Peterson A24. Keats — especially his “La Belle Dame sans Merci” — was an icon of the Pre-Raphaelites, and how deeply Morris felt about the publication of this book is illustrated by his discov- ery of some initial mistakes in the text of “La Belle Dame sans Merci.” According to Sidney Colvin in his John Keats [1918], p. 470: “I was with him when he happened to open the sheet on which La Belle Dame sans Merci was printed. He began to read it and was suddenly aware of unfamiliar words … Great was his indignation. He swiftly altered the words and then read the poem to me, remarking that it was the germ from which all the poetry of his group had sprung — The sheet was reprinted and the earlier and better version restored …” $4,500

35 KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. [i], [i, ad], xii, 403, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Mac- millan and Co., Ltd, 1936. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth, spine titled and ruled in gilt. Fine. Small bookseller’s ticket (Foyles, Charing Cross Rd) on front pastedown. PMM 423. An absolutely pristine copy of the first edition of Keynes’ most important work, a cornerstone of modern liberal eco- nomic theory, and a book that incites intense debate to this day. In the wake of the Depression Keynes argued that gov- ernment must set monetary policy to mitigate and manage the boom-bust cycles of capitalist economies (an idea that FDR was already putting into practice in his New Deal pro- grams): “The regulation of the trade-cycle — that is to say the control of booms and slumps, the level of employment, the wage-scale and the flow of investment — must be the responsibility of governments. Lost equilibrium in a national economy could and should be restored by official action and not abandoned to laisser faire” (PMM). $2,750

catalogue 116 |  the smallest book in the world 36 KHAYYAM, Omar. The Rose Garden … Founded on the Persian by Eben Francis Thompson. 4to, Worcester, Mass.: Commonwealth Press, 1933. One of 150 copies. Drop box in three quarter crimson pebbled publisher’s morocco and marbled boards housing five books: The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam (3/16 x J); The Rose Garden … (1-I x 1-H); The Rose Garden … (5-M x 4-M); A Thimbleful of Books; Proof Sheet. The first four are bound in full red morocco; the Proof Sheet is in wrappers. With a folding magnifying glass. Fine condition of the box; books are in fine condition. Bradbury pp. 51-53; Welch 5354; Bondy, Miniature Books, p.154. At the time of its publication, The Rose Garden was advertised as the smallest book in the world. Thompson’s A Thimbleful of Books gives a brief account of miniature books (with illustrations of various examples) and the circumstances of this book’s prepara- tion. $1,250 first edition in english 37 KIERKEGAARD, Soren Aabye. Either/Or. A Fragment of Life. Translated by David F. Swenson and Lilian Marvin Swen- son. […] Volume Two. Translated by Walter Lowrie. vii, [viii- x], [1]-387; xvi, [1]-304 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Princeton: Princeton University Press. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1944. First edition in English. Publisher’s blue cloth. Fine in slightly sunned near fine dust-jackets. PMM 314 (first edition). Published in Danish in 1843 in an edition of 525 copies, first translated into English and published in this handsome edition in 1944, when the continued existence of the Danish nation was in question. $600

 | james cummins bookseller 38 KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book. With decorations by J. Lockwood Kipling. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Macmillan, 1894 & 1895. First editions. Blue gilt- pictorial cloth. Fine, bright copies, the second volume in the rare pictorial dust-jacket, with one-inch chip from top and bottom of spine, piece missing from upper inner corner of front panel which is detached from spine. Rare thus. Grolier/Kipling 185 & 197; Stewart 123 & 132; Rich- ards A76 & A85. Fine copies of both volumes of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the second volume in the rare dust-jacket. $7,500

39 LAMB, Charles. Album Verses With a Few Others. Sm 8vo, London: Edward Moxon, 1830. First edition, with ad at back for Rogers’s “Italy.” Original drab brown boards, uncut, printed paper label on spine, marginal label. Joints rubbed, else fine, in blue cloth slipcase and chemise. Thompson 76; Livingston-Roff, p. 169. Provenance: Mrs. J. Insley Blair (Blairhame booklabel). To help his friend and future son in law Edward Moxon (who was to marry Lamb’s adopted daughter Emma Isola) Lamb prepared this collection of verses, along with a two- page dedication; this was Moxon’s first publication. $1,000

catalogue 116 |  in publisher’s gilt morocco binding 40 LANE, Edward William (trans.) The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertain- ments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. Illustrations in text after William Harvey; xxxii, 618, [2] pp + 4 pp. ads; xii, 643 [1] pp.; xii, 763, [1] pp. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Charles Knight and Co. Ludgate Street, 1839 – 1841. First edition of Lane’s translation. Original publisher’s pebbled morocco gilt, spine gilt with leaf and shell ornaments, boards tooled in blind and with triple gilt rule border, central cartouche with gilt rule, and central gilt vignettes (camel on upper board; Sheherezade and Shariar on lower board), board edges and turn-ins gilt, a.e.g. Faint- est traces of rubbing. Fine. Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Companion, pp. 23-8 et passim; Irwin, Visions of the Jinn, pp. 62-65. The first English translation of the Ara- bian Nights directly from the Arabic (previous English versions were essentially adaptations of Galland’s French translation). “I assert that Galland has excessively perverted the work. His acquaintance with Arab manners and customs was insufficient to preserve him always from errors of the grossest description” (Lane, cited in Irwin, The Arabian Nights: A Com- panion, p. 24). Edward William Lane (1801-1876) moved to Egypt in 1825 and lived there for three years. Upon his return to London, he composed a substantial manuscript Description of Egypt, unpublished during his lifetime but from which he extracted An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), a landmark work. He also prepared this translation of a selection of the Arabian Nights with his extensive ethnographic and cultural notes. “It reigned as the leading English translation of the Nights for decades, and its copious notes are stimulating micro-essays of enduring value” (ODNB). Its fame was somewhat eclipsed by the notoriety of Burton’s edition (1883-6) which is not surprising given Burton’s emphasis on sexual customs and practices. The Lane edition is also noteworthy as the first in which the illustrations were based upon serious research into the scenes and costumes of the Middle East, and well as the translator’s own direct experience. Lane had a very specific intention of introducing the British reader to the realistic Arab world and, “being himself a trained illustrator, closely supervised William Harvey’s work” (Irwin). William Harvey (1796-1866) was a favoured pupil of Bewick. “He did more than 500 illustrations for Lane’s translation … and this edition of the Nights is exceptional in its close integration of the unframed images with the text — as it were, visual footnotes to the text … Harvey’s illustrations to the Nights were the summit of his artistic achievement, and throughout the nineteenth century his illustrations were the most frequently reproduced” (Irwin, Visions of the Jinn). Later editions, such as those published by John Murray, invariably reduced the scale of the reproductions. This copy, in superior condition, is the only example of the publisher’s deluxe leather binding that we have seen. The vignettes on the boards are those used on the cloth bindings. A lovely example of a pioneering edition. $3,750

 | james cummins bookseller one of 56 copies 41 LAWRENCE, T.E. An Essay on Flecker. 4 pp. 8vo, Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran, 1937. First American edition, one of 56 copies to secure copyright. Original wrappers, fine copy. O’Brien A199. According to O’Brien, An Essay on Flecker was “written in 1925 with the intention of publication in a periodical, [and] did not appear in print until 1937 when it was [first] issued in [a] very limited edition of 30 copies [by the Corvinus Press in London]. The poet James Elroy Flecker had been a friend of Lawrence’s in Beirut before the war. None of the three appearances of this essay have been in trade editions.” $2,500

“one enduring plum-cake” 42 LEECH, John. Pictures of Life & Character … from the Collection of Mr. Punch [First through Fifth Series. Complete]. Each series with several hundred wood-engraved illustrations after Leech. Oblong folio, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854, 1857, 1860, 1863, 1869. First edition, bound from the parts. Contempo- rary half red morocco, a.e.g., original pictorial front wrappers bound-in at back. Rebacked to style, new front endsheets. Some minor paper flaws, chiefly at margins. Very good. Houfe 35; cf. also Ray 139 (for 1886 collected ed.). Complete series of the celebrated Pictures of John Leech, of which Thackeray exclaimed, “This book is better than plum- cake at Christmas. It is one enduring plum-cake …” One of the great visual repositories of mid-Victorian English life and humor. $1,000

catalogue 116 |  “the first humorous book produced west of the alleghanies [sic]” (howes) 43 LITTELL, William. Festoons of Fancy, Consisting of Compositions Amatory, Sentimental and Humorous, in Verse and Prose …. [2], 180 pp. (pages 3-10, 13-18 and 179 in facsimile). 12mo, Louisville, Kentucky: From the Press of William Farquar, 1814. First edition. Con- temporary sheep, varnished, leather label. Text somewhat soiled and stained, new free endpapers. Streeter Sale 1648; Howes L378, “C”; Graff 2508; Kentucky Hundred 35; Jillson, p. 52; Coleman, Kentucky Rarities 78; Shaw-Shoemaker 31939. “Festoons of Fancy is not only the first important book of poems printed west of the Alleghenies, but it is almost certainly the first book of any kind printed in Louisville” (Streeter). Littell (1768-1824) was a lawyer and author who, after a stint in western Pennsylvania, settled in Kentucky in 1801. He published several import law reference works that were early efforts to codify Kentucky law. His satires, Epistles of William, Surnamed Littell, to the People of the Realm of Kentucky (1806) and Festoons of Fancy (which includes the earlier work), were not well-received at the time, and were seen as “proofs of his eccentricity, frivolousness, and immorality. Today they are acknowledged as important first examples of frontier humor” (DAB). $3,250

 | james cummins bookseller the magnum opus, inscribed inscribed 44 45 MAUGHAM, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. 8vo, MAUGHAM, William Somerset. The Trembling of a Leaf. Lit- New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First edition, tle Stories of the South Sea Islands. 8vo, London: William Heine- second issue, with the misprint corrected at line 4, page 257. mann, 1921. First edition. Original blue cloth. Some toning at Original green linen blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt title on gutter of first two leaves, tear in lower free endpaper, else a spine, faint rubbing to extremities, rear cover with ink stains. near fine copy in dust-jacket lacking two inches from foot of Bookplate of Opha Moore, Ohio historian, and Columbus, spine panel. Ohio bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown. Contemporary Inscribed on the flyleaf: “For / de V. Payen Payne / W. Som- presentation inscription on title page, “Compliments of the erset Maugham.” One of the key early Maugham collections. Season — A.J. Messier / Dec 1915.” Preserved in a green cloth Maugham got himself into a lot of controversy over some of clamshell box. Stott A21. the raw material here, which he made all too transparent in Inscribed simply by Maugham on the front free endpaper in his fictional portrayals. ink: “For Paul North / W. Somerset Maugham.” Inscribed $2,000 copies of the true first (American) edition of Maugham’s most famous book are extremely scarce, from any period. This inscription, although probably not contemporary with publication, has the look and feel of being early, and is in brown ink — not at all like the blue ink which Maugham typically used in later, post-war inscriptions. A very desirable inscribed copy of Maugham’s most famous work, and one of the enduring novels of the twentieth century. $4,000

catalogue 116 |   | james cummins bookseller the greatest american novel 46 MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Thick 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First American edition. Original purple-brown cloth with publisher’s circular device on upper cover ( BAL’s “first binding”), rebacked, preserving the original gilt- lettered backstrip and orange coated endpapers. Covers and spine rubbed and faded, coated endpapers mottled; text a bit toned at edges, very slight dampstaining along top corner and fore-edge of first few leaves. In a quarter red morocco slipcase with chemise. BAL 13664; Grolier, One Hundred American Books, 60. First American edition of the greatest American novel. This edition was technically preceded by the extremely rare English edition (Richard Bentley) two months earlier, but textually this is the far more important of the two, having been printed from Mel- ville’s manuscript, whereas the Bentley edition was set up from the sheets of the American edition. Furthermore, for political or editorial reasons, Bentley made some thirty-five unauthorized deletions from the original, and the American edition remains the standard text, never having been further revised. Printed on cheap wood-pulp paper and in one bulky volume, Moby-Dick rarely survives without foxing, and is generally found chipped and shaken. $27,500

catalogue 116 |   | james cummins bookseller the robert wilson collection of james merrill 47 MERRILL, James. The James Merrill collection formed by bookseller and collector Robert Wilson, comprising over 65 books, most of them inscribed, and an album of postcards from Merrill to Wilson. V.p.: Various publishers, 1942 – 2004. Mostly first editions. Most are in exceptional condition in original dust-jackets. A virtually complete collection of James Merrill’s books, formed over several years by the former proprietor of the Phoenix Book- shop in Manhattan, Robert Wilson, who was also a collector, author, an occasional publisher — and friend of Merrill. Their close attachment is not only clearly seen in the numerous inscriptions penned in these volumes; it is also in evidence in the sparkling collection of postcards which Merrill sent to Wilson from 1976 through 1986, and which Wilson carefully preserved. Wilson’s collection contains all of the major books and principal rarities, including his first two (privately printed) books, Jim’s Book, and Black Swann, each inscribed in the year of publication; first editions of all of his trade publications, usually both in hard- back and paperback; his privately printed rarities (e.g., The Thousand and Second Night, Athens, 1963 — one of 50 copies); all of the novels, including proofs and advance review copies. Included as well, are a number of early appearances in periodicals, and much ephemera. Details are available upon request. $35,000

catalogue 116 |  a rare inscribed copy 48 MILLER, Arthur. A View from the Bridge. 8vo, New York: The Vi- king Press, 1955. First edition. Original cloth-backed boards. Fine copy in slightly worn and soiled dust-jacket with chip from head of spine. inscribed on the flyleaf: “For Ruth Cooper, Without whom nothing [underlined] would happen right! Best luck, Arthur Miller.” A fine association copy of this book, which is rarely found inscribed. Ruth Cooper worked for MCA Management, Ltd., which repre- sented Arthur Miller for over 40 years. $1,500

49 MILNE, A.A. Complete set of first editions of the Pooh books: When We Were Very Young (1924); Winnie-the-Pooh (1926); Now We Are Six (1927); The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Illustrated by E.H. Shephard. 4 vols. 8vo, London: Methuen, 1924-1928. First editions. All in original gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. Very good plus copies (last title with slight toning to spine). A nice set of these classics of childhood. $4,500

50 PERCY, [Bishop Thomas]. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Con- sisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Po- ets, (Chiefly of the Lyric kind.) Together with some few of later Date. Engaved frontispiece in vol. I, and a full-page plate of music at the end of vol. II, head and tail-pieces. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1765. First edition, with half-titles in vols. II and III. With all the cancellantia listed in Rothschild, except C2 and C7 (vol. I); U2, U3 and U4 (vol. II); B3 (vol. III), all appearing conju- gate. Contemporary full polished calf, possibly newer spine labels, very handsome. Signed on the title-page by Marianne Ford, 1804. Abel Berland bookplate. Rothschild 1521; Fleeman 65.2PR/1; Courtney, p. 111; Hazen, pp. 158-68; Grolier Hundred, 45. $1,250

 | james cummins bookseller “… among the most beautiful books ever produced …” 51 (ROGERS, Bruce) Lawrence, T.E., translator. The Odyssey of Homer. 26 illustrations after Homeric figures from Greek vase- paintings, printed in black on gold-leaf roundels. Printed on gray paper. Small folio, [London: Printed and Published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers], 1932. First edition of the Lawrence translation, limited to 530 copies (500 for sale by subscription). Original black niger morocco, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., others uncut. A near fine copy, the text immaculate, the gilt roundels splendid and unflaked (protected by the original tissue guards), the gilt spine lettering solid and bright; and only a few faint scuff marks. Without the original slipcase. O’Brien A141. “The initiative that made possible a new translation and a magnificent printing of an Odyssey of Homer came from Bruce Rogers” (Blumenthal, Bruce Rogers, p. 128). While reading Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, it occurred to Rogers that here was the very man to translate the Odyssey, and indeed, it was a book that Rogers had wanted to print for a very long time. As Rogers said in his forward to a collections of letters from Lawrence — “Here, at last, was a man who could make Homer live again a man of action who was also a scholar & who could write swift and graphic English.” As his partners in publication, as well as the translator, were all “enthusiasts of bookmaking, it was unanimously decided to make as fine a volume as possible, ‘however expensive it might prove to be’” (ibid., p. 131). It was thus that Rogers decided upon a generously sized page of 11-H x 8 inches and the type to be the recently completed 16-point Monotype Centaur. “After several experimental page set-ups, 2-point leading was chosen to provide an open feel to the pages” (ibid., p. 132). The decorations were drawn by Rogers using figures on Greek vases as his models. He did not, however, copy these figures exactly, but put them together in new combinations. Printed on gold roundels, they appear at the start of each of the twenty-four books and on the title-page. “The magnificence of the gold roundels as they illuminate the finished volume was not achieved without ingenuity and great effort. Each roundel was subjected to seven separate impressions through the press” (ibid., p. 132). Paper and ink were carefully selected by Rogers. Blumenthal writes: “I had the privilege of arranging an exhibition, ‘Art of the Printed Book: 1455-1955,’ for the Pierpont Morgan Library … I believe that the Bruce Rogers Odyssey is indisputably among the most beautiful books ever produced, including the widely acclaimed, illustrated Hyperotomachia Poliphili of Aldus Manutius, issued in 1499” (ibid, p. 134). $4,500

catalogue 116 |  inscribed by walter scott to his daughter-in-law 53 (SCOTT, Sir Walter) Lockhart, John G. Ancient Spanish Bal- lads. xxvii, 209 pp. Small 4to, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1823. First edition. Contemporary full straight-grain burgundy Rus- sia gilt presentation binding, a.e.g. Shallow dampstain to top adelaide’s copy, signed edge, affecting first and last few leaves. Slightly rubbed at ex- 52 tremities. Lowndes, 1381. See Todd 349A. SCHILLER, Friedrich. William Tell, a Drama from the German Presentation copy, inscribed and signed on front fly by Sir … Translated by R. Talbot. 8vo, London: Printed by Plummer Walter Scott to his daughter-in-law Jane, “Jane Scott, from and Brewis, 1829. First edition of this translation (second edi- her affectionate father, Walter Scott, Abbotsford, 12 February, tion of William Tell in English). Contemporary full gift bind- 1825.” Earlier attempts to arrange these ballads in chronolog- ing of maroon morocco gilt, white watered silk doublures and ical order had failed until someone with Lockhart’s under- endpapers and wide gilt turn-ins, gilt-decorated spine; by her- standing of ancient Spanish could date the different versions. ing. Edges and joints a little rubbed, otherwise fine. Contemporary reviewers praised Lockhart’s skill: “what was This is almost certainly a publisher’s presentation binding tame he inspired; what was lofty gained additional grandeur; for the Queen. It is signed on the title page by Adelaide, then and even the tender … grew still more pathetic beneath his consort of William IV, and on the verso of the flyleaf is an touch” (Moir’s Sketches, 1851, 294). Lockhart had married Sir autograph note, most likely in the hand of the Translator: Walter Scott’s daughter Sophia in 1820. In 1833, he produced “There having been no opportunity of revising the Press, an edition of Scott’s Poetical Works, and in 1836 published his several trifling errors remain uncorrected. The Printer has great biography of Scott, which has been called, after Bo- also been too liberal of his Italics.” The binding firm of Her- swell’s Johnson, “the most admirable biography in the Eng- ing, founded by Charles Hering and continued by his brother lish language” (Britannica). Well before Lockhart’s biography, John and son, was one of the most prominent and success- Scott had been putting a spin on his own past, but this was ful in London in those years (See Howe, London Bookbinders no trick of the telling, it was the very content of his life — 1648-1815; and Maggs, Bookbinding in the British Isles, Pt II, hidden business deals, genealogical wizardry, pseudonymous 244-247). Craftsmen of German origin, they executed many authorship — all charmingly perpetuated by his son-in-law. bindings for English royalty. This copy of Lockhart’s Spanish Ballads was given by Scott himself to his new daughter-in-law, Jane, nine days after her $1,500 wedding to his son Walter, upon the couple’s departure for Ireland, where Walter’s regiment was stationed. A loosely inserted autograph letter, signed, from the Edinburgh bookseller James Stillie (4 July 1888) gives the history of this copy. Stillie, as an apprentice to John Ballantyne, delivered galley proofs to Scott at Abbotsford, and who remembered being addressed by Scott “as if I were his equal.” A wonderful Scott association copy. $4,000

 | james cummins bookseller duke of buccleuch’s copy, uncut in boards 54 [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. Ivanhoe; A Romance. [vi], xxxiii, [i], 298; [iv], 327, [1]; [iv], 371. [1] pp., + 3 pp. catalogue. With half-titles. 3 vols. 8vo, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. … and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, London, 1820. First edition, first issue. Original boards and paper labels. Joints cracked, spines creased and chipped, labels darkened and chipped, internally very clean. In custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Worthing- ton 8; Van Antwerp 9; Todd & Bowden 140Aa. Provenance: Fifth Duke of Buccleuch, signed six times (“Duke of Buc- cleuch / Lagholin Lodge”) to front boards and pastedowns. First edition in original publisher’s boards, belonging to the young Fifth Duke of Buccleuch, Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott (1806-1884). His father, Charles Montagu-Scott (1772-1819), was a close friend and patron of Scott’s, to whom the author dedicated his “Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.” The Fourth Duke of Buccleuch helped Scott to his post of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire and guaranteed a loan of £4000 which Scott used to “repurchase the copyright of ‘The Lady of the Lake’ and ‘Rokeby’ from John Ballantyne & Co., thus putting £4000 into the business to keep it solvent” (ODNB). Of his friend, Scott wrote “we had many feelings and pursuits in common and perhaps it is uncommon for two men so different in rank to have lived more intimately and familiarly” (letter to Lady Abercorn, Nov. 1819). Scott purchased land abutting the Buccleuch estate and upon the death of his friend the Duke became involved in preserving the inter- ests of the family and in overseeing the education of his late friend’s son. “The little Buccleuch turns out a goodly youth with fine points of sense and generosity about him. A better selected course of reading & still more of conversation will do very much for him” (letter to Lady Louisa Stuart, Feb. 1825). Scott was himself a descendant of the Lords of Buccleuch and explored his family lineage in “The Lay of the Last Minstrel.” A superb association, in original condition. $6,000

catalogue 116 |  55 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems of William Shakespeare, Printed After the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover’s Complaint. Printed in black and red. Golden type. 8vo, [Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1893]. Kelmscott edition, one of only 500 copies printed . Limp vellum, with ties. Fine. In a custom cloth slipcase. Peterson A 11; Sparling 11; Walsdorf 11. The superbly-produced Kelmscott printing of Shakespeare’s Poems. “Though the number was large it has become one of the rarest book issued by the Press” (Sparling). $5,000

one of 3 copies on vellum — buxton forman’s copy 56 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Epipsychidion … A Type Fac-Simile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1821. With an Inroduction by the Rev. Stop- ford A. Brooke and a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Edited by Robert Al- fred Potts. lxvi, 31, [3] pp. 8vo, London: For the Shelley Society, 1887. One of 3 copies printed on vellum. Original boards. Fine. With the bookplate of H. Buxton-Forman, President of the Shelley Society (which published the book). Graniss, pp. 66-67. $3,000

 | james cummins bookseller original cloth signed by nicholson 57 58 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Masque of Anarchy. A Poem Now SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Posthumous Fragments of Margaret First Published, with a Preface, by Leigh Hunt. 47 pp. 8vo, Lon- Nicholson. Found among the Papers of that Noted Female Who At- don: Edward Moxon, 1832. First edition. Original cloth. Some tempted the Life of the King in 1786. Edited by John Fitzvictor. 29 rubbing to spine ends, inner hinges professionally repaired. pp. Small 4to, Oxford: Printed & Sold by J. Munday, 1810 [ca. Pictorial bookplate of William Bell Scott. Wise, 71. 1870]. This is the facsimile done c. 1870 of Shelley’s rare third “The poem was written in 1819 on the occasion of the infa- book. Wise attributes it to Richard Herne Shepherd. Three- mous ‘Peterloo’ affair, and was sent to Leigh Hunt, for publi- quarter blue morocco by Stikeman. Fine. Buxton Forman 4; cation in The Examiner, before November 1819. Hunt did not Granniss 4 (for the first edition). publish it then, but saved it till 1832, and then issued it with a Even this facsimile is very scarce, and should not be confused preface of considerable interest” (Forman, pp. 112-113). With with Buxton Forman’s 8vo reprint. Margaret Nicholson the pictorial bookplate of William Bell Scott (1811-1890), the was the insane washerwoman who had tried to assassinate Pre-Raphaelite poet, painter, and critic. A friend of Swin- George III twenty-five years before. Shelley’s play on the burne and Rossetti, Scott was noted for his mural designs. name “Fitz Victor” (i.e. son of Victor as in “Original Poetry He edited a series of collections of the English Romantic by Victor and Cazire”). With a clipped signature of Margaret poets, each with substantial memoirs, including Shelley and Nicholson tipped-in — attested to by noted authority Walter Coleridge in 1874. His posthumous Autobiographical Notes “is Benjamin. a valuable contribution to the history of literary and artistic $3,000 society … Blake and Shelley were his chief models, and Ros- setti’s friendship was a continual stimulus to him” (DNB). The bookplate depicts a palette and brushes, an open book, and an elaborate lamp, from which a genie is emerging, before an arched stone window giving upon a night sky. $2,000

catalogue 116 |  59 SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Revolt of Islam; a Poem, in Twelve Cantos. [2], [v]-xxxi, [xxxii, blank] [xxxiii, fly title, verso blank], [1]-270, [1, errata] pp. 8vo (8-I x 5-L inches: 223 x 144 mm.), London: For C. and J. Ollier, Welbeck Street, 1818. First edition, second issue, with correctly dated title, a cancel; errata leaf (b2) bound at end of volume rather than after title (re- placing missing blank leaf); fly-title correctly bound as d1. Full brown levant morocco, gilt fillet borders, spine gilt, t.e.g., other edges uncut. Repaired tear in c7. Bookplate of George Clinton Fairchild Williams and morocco book label of Blair- hame. Ashley V, pp. 67-68; Granniss 44; Tinker 1895. A tall, uncut, complete copy, including the rare fly-title with the Greek epigram from Pindar and the errata leaf, one-half inch taller than typical bound copies. A fine copy with distin- guished provenance. $3,250

60 SMITH, Charlotte. Beachy Head; with Other Poems. viii, [ii], 219 pp. W. Pople, Printer, 22, Old Boswell Court, Strand. 8vo, Lon- don: Printed for the Author and sold by J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1807. First edition. Contemporary tree calf with red morocco label. Joints cracked with hinges strengthened, early ownership inscription to ffep. From the Advertisement, “As the following Poems were delivered to the Publisher as early as the month of May last, it may not be thought improper to state the circumstances that have hitherto delayed their appearance. The fulfilling this duty to the public has since devolved to other hands; for alas! the admired author is now unconscious of their praise or censure, having fallen a victim to a long and painful illness, on the 28th of October last.” The title poem, left unfinished at the time of Smith’s death, is a protest against slavery and one the of the poet’s most admired works. $600

 | james cummins bookseller “…an indication that all is not lost and forgotten…” 61 STEINBECK, John. Autograph Letter, signed (“John”), to Burgess Meredith, requesting that he deliver Steinbeck’s eulogy at the Harry Hopkins Memorial, along with Meredith’s copy of the typescript of Steinbeck’s speech, with one manuscript correction. 2 pp. on recto and verso of yellow ruled notepaper. Folio (8 x 12-H inches), 175 E. 78th St., New York: April 27, [1946]. Slightly browned at lower edge, old folds, overall very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith. A remarkable, moving letter to his good friend, the actor Burgess Meredith, in which Steinbeck asks Meredith to deliver his speech at the memorial for Harry Hopkins, FDR’s close advisor and one of the architects of the New Deal. “Dear Buzzy: … On May 22nd in Washington there is going to be a memorial meeting for Harry Hopkins. But it is only ostensibly a memorial meeting. Really it is an attempt to rally and hold together the things we all worked for so long. They are going to be needed sooner than we think or know. The meeting will have 9 speakers each one of whom will speak 5 minutes — no more. Henry Wallace presiding, General Eisenhower, Jimmy Forrestal, Sam Rayburn, Paul Robeson (who will sing), Isidore Julin, Nels Anderson, Mrs. Roosevelt and me. I have said that I will write a five minute speech but will not say it. You know my delivery. I freeze up and my throat closes. I’ve said I would ask whether you could deliver it — Could you do that? And could you let me know right away? I don’t know how important it is but I think it might be very important. At least it would be an indication that all is not lost and forgotten. The boys seems to have everything their own way now and this would be just a means of saying they haven’t and won’t ever have. You are asked because you so closely were associated with everything that went on in what they now call the old days. Well there it is. Please let me know as soon as you can …” [With:] Steinbeck, John. Typescript, 3 pp. 4to, of the speech Meredith delivered, entitled “Memorial to Harry Hopkins.” Burgess Meredith’s copy — no doubt the one he read from at the memorial service — with one minor manuscript correction to the text. We have been able to trace only one other copy of the typescript — at Georgetown University, in the Harry Hopkins Letters, but to our knowledge, the speech is unpublished, as is the letter. $7,500

catalogue 116 |  “everybody is calling everybody else a communist …” 62 STEINBECK, John. Typed Letter, signed (“John”), to Bur- gess Meredith, regarding his planned trip to Europe, the premier of the film The Pearl, the state of political affairs in the U.S., etc. 1-H pp. on personal stationery. 11-G x 7-G in., 175 East 78th St., New York City: May 6, [1947]. Slightly waterstained. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith. A fine, unpublished letter from Steinbeck to his close friends Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard: “We had a little bit of horror the other night. The Ratheons [?] gave a little reception at the Ritz Carlton for President Aleman of Mexico. The prize bit of this evening was to be the world premier of my picture The Pearl which I have been making for two years and a half. So they set up a screen and started the picture. First the FBI insisted that a big spot light be kept on the face of Aleman and you had to look at the screen through it (incidentally it made him a perfect target if anyone had wanted to shoot him. Then the power went not off but down enough so that all you could see were some dark shadows moving on a darker screen. It was quite something. Third it was in spanish which not ten people in the audience understood. You can see that it was one of my greatest personal triumphs. I was sitting in back but Gwyn says that in the middle of this horror Ale- man leaned over and patted me on the shoulder and said, ‘Now don’t you worry. It’s going to be all right.’ Nothing so beautiful has ever happened to me. “I am glad to hear that you are both so happy in your work. I have had a kind of a year of frustrations and disappointments, all my own fault but keen nevertheless. Thats one of the reasons I want to get out with some goat herder and vinyardists in the Greek countryside. “I guess Milly is working on The Red Pony. I haven’t heard anything to the contrary. New York is rainy and pleasant to me. Every- thlng is moist and you don’t dry out. But there is a dreadful nervousness. Congress just cut off all the state departments revenue for radio and magazines and gave J Edgar Hoover every cent he asked for. That seems to be the trend. Everybody is calling everybody else a communist. “A group of Senators is going out to investigate Hollywood and to try to get laid. Louella Parsons has taken a strong stand against communism …” $4,500 an undiscovered steinbeck story? 63 [STEINBECK, John ?]. Typescript of short story entitled “The Story of Juan Diego.” 8 pp., with manuscript corrections and notes in pencil in the hand of Burgess Meredith, who has struck through the typed signature “by John Steinbeck.” 11 x 8-H in., n.p.: n.d. Very good. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith. Possible Steinbeck piece — or collaborative effort — which tells the story of the Indian peasant who first saw the vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It was intended for broadcast by Burgess, who has carefully noted the pronunciation of the Indian names in the text. $2,500

 | james cummins bookseller uncle tom in the original cloth, early ownership 64 STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Illustrated vignette on title pages and 6 plates by Hammatt Billings. [iii]-x, [13]-312; iv, [5]-322 pp. 8vo, Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852. First edition (with Hobart & Robbins on the copyright pages). Publisher’s brown cloth (BAL binding B) front covers gilt-stamped with vignette, spine lettering gilt. Wear to spine ends and corners, wear to rear joint of vol. II, some intermittent foxing and spotting throughout, still a very attractive set, in custom brown cloth chemises and a morocco-backed slipcase. BAL 19343; Wright 2401; PMM 332; Grolier American 100, 61; Sabin 92457. Provenance: Lucy Curtis (her inscriptions on pastedowns, “Lucy Curtis / Newton, March 26, 1952”). A respectable copy in original publisher’s cloth of the first edition of one of the most important works of American literature. With contemporary ownership inscriptions on the front pastedowns dated only 6 days after the book’s publication, “Lucy Curtis / Newton, March 26, 1952” (BAL notes that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was advertised for March 20). “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-ninteenth-century America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on ‘the Southern way of life.’ Whatever its weakness as a literary work — structural looseness and excess of sentiment among them — the social impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the United States was greater than of any book before or since” (PMM). $10,000

catalogue 116 |  the american original 66 THOREAU, Henry David. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Illus- trated with a title vignette of Thoreau’s cabin in the woods and an engraved plan of Walden Pond. 357, [1, blank] pp. 12mo (7-G x 4-K in.), Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Original brown vertical-ribbed cloth with covers dec- oratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Pale yellow coated endpapers, with 8-page publisher’s advertisements dated May 1854 bound in between rear endpapers (no priority established among the catalogues). Housed in a beige linen sliding case, with chemise. Some very light spotting to endsheets, title-page with a few minor spots, otherwise an excellent, bright, copy, with a mid-19th century Welsh bookseller’s ticket on the front pastedown. Allen, pp. 8-10; Borst A2.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier, American 63. A fine, unsophisticated copy of this American classic, which was “for almost a hundred [but now almost 160] years an in- spiration to nature lovers, to philosophers, to sociologists … and to persons who love to read the English language written with clarity …” (Grolier One Hundred). $25,000 one of 140 copies, signed 65 THOMAS, Dylan. Twenty-Six Poems. 76, [2] pp. 4to, [Verona: Printed for James Laughlin and J.M. Dent by Officina Bodoni in Verona, December, 1949]. First edition, no. 79 of 140 copies on handmade Ciconia paper, signed by the author (“Dylan Thomas”) on the colophon. Printed by Mardersteig at the Of- ficina Bodoni. Linen and patterned paste paper boards. Slight- est smudge and soiling to head of front board, else a fine copy (without publisher’s slipcase). Custom morocco-backed folding box. Rolph B13. A choice selection of Thomas’ poems, in the superb presentation by Mardersteig. Rolph reports 10 copies printed on japan vellum and 140 on handmade paper; the American issue (nos. 61-147) preceded the English (nos. 11-60) by several months. $3,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 116 |  67 THURBER, James. “I said the hounds of spring are on winters traces, but let it pass.” Pen-and-ink on paper, framed. Captioned and signed “James Thurber.” 10.5 x 8.25 in. The caption is a play on Swinburne’s evocation of the coming of spring that opens the Chorus of his Atalanta in Calydon. $7,500

 | james cummins bookseller 68 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Barchester Towers. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1857. First edition, first issue (with “tattooed” for “tabooed” on page 269, line 24 in vol. II), vol. I with half-title present. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and blue cloth sides, t.e.g. Spines slightly faded, bifolium S4-5 (pp.2 63-6) in vol. II toned, else fine. Bookplate. Sadleir, Trollope, 5; Wolff 6766. $1,500

69 TROLLOPE, Anthony. An Eye for an Eye. vi, 215; vi, 208 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. Three- quarter blue morocco and blue cloth sides, t.e.g. Spines sunned, bookplate of Joseph Spencer Grayson. Sadleir, Trollope, 53. An Eye for an Eye, set mainly in Ireland, was serialized in The Whitehall Review from August 1878-February 1879, and then published in two volumes by Chapman & Hall of London in January 1879 as here. Scarce. $1,250

70 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Framley Parsonage. With six wood-engraved plates by Dalziel after J. E. Millais R.A. [iv], [1]-333, [1]; [iv], [1]-318 ; [iv], 1-330 pp. 3 vols. Small 8vo, London: Smith, Elder, 1861. First edition, with comma misplaced after “Mark” on p. 238, line 17 of vol. III. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, t.e.g., by Bayntun, Bath. Spine evenly faded. Bookplate of Joseph Spencer “Ticky” Graydon. Sadleir, Trollope, 11; Wolff 6777. $1,500

71 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Is He Popenjoy? A Novel. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. First edition. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and matching cloth sides, t.e.g. Bookplate. Minor fading, else fine. Sadleir, Trollope, 49. $1,100

72 TROLLOPE, Anthony. John Caldigate. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition, with half-titles as called for. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and blue cloth sides, t.e.g. Spines slightly faded, else fine. Bookplate. Sadleir, Trollope, 59. $1,000

catalogue 116 |  73 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Kept in the Dark. A Novel. [viii], 253; 239 pp. 2 vols. 12mo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. First edition, with half-titles. Bound in late 19th – or early-20th century half teal morocco, gilt-ruled, spines gilt in six compartments with raised bands, top edges gilt. Bookplate of Joseph Spencer Graydon (engraved bookplates dated 1936). Sadleir, Trollope, 65. $1,500

74 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Marion Fay. viii, 303; viii, 282; viii, 271 pp. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1882. First edition, with half-titles. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and blue cloth sides, t.e.g. Spines slightly faded, else fine. Bookplate. Sadleir, Trol- lope, 64. $1,100

75 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Mr. Scarborough’s Family. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First edition, first issue, with half- titles as called for & ads dated March 1883. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and blue cloth sides, t.e.g. Spines slightly faded, else fine. Bookplate. Sadleir, Trollope, 66. Originally published weekly in All the Year Round between 27 May 1882 and 16 June 1883. $1,000

76 TROLLOPE, Anthony. South Africa. Folding hand-colored map of South Africa by Henry Hall in vol. I and color two-page map of the Kimberley Mines (“Plan and Evaluation of Kimberley 1876”) in vol II. Each fine. vii, [i], 352; vii, [i], 52, 32, ads [dated Nov., 1877] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Picadilly, 1878. First edition, with half-titles. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, t.e.g., by Bayntun. Bookplate of Joseph Spencer “Ticky” Graydon. Spines lightly sunned, else fine. Sadleir, Trollope, 48. $1,000 the first bartshire novel 77 TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Warden. iv, 336 pp. 8vo, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco and blue cloth sides, t.e.g. Spines slightly faded, else fine. Bookplate. Sadleir, Trollope, 4. $1,250

 | james cummins bookseller 78 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Lady Anna. viii, 317; viii, 314 pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1874. First edition, without half-titles. Bound in blue straight grained half morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Minor fading, else fine. Bookplates of Sir Andrew Noble and Joseph Spencer Graydon. Sadleir, Trollope, 42. Trollope wrote this novel on his way to Australia to visit his son. The novel ends with lady Anna and her husband emigrating to Australia. $1,150

79 TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Last Chronicle of Barset. With 32 illustrations by George H. Thomas. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Smith, Elder, 1867. First edition. Contemporary half green calf, spines gilt with red and brown morocco labels, marbled edges with label of Cross, Argyle Street, Birkenhead on front pastedown of both volumes. Fine copy. Sadleir, Trollope, 26; Wolff 6874. $1,500

80 TROLLOPE, Anthony. Nina Balatka. The Story of a Maiden of Prague. [vi], 228, [2, ads] ; 215 pp. 2 vols. 12mo, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1867. First edition, with half-titles. Bound in pebbled half morocco and marbled boards, by Roger de Coverley. Spines slightly sunned, else fine. Bookplates of Oliver Brett and Joseph Spencer “Ticky” Graydon. Sadleir, Trollope, 25. This short novel set in Prague is a love story of a Catholic girl, Nina Balakta, and an orthodox Jew, Anton Trendelssohn. $4,000

81 TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Prime Minister. 4 vols. 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1876. First edition. Bound in early twentieth century pebbled morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g., with original cloth covers and spines bound in at back, bookplates. Spines lightly sunned, else fine. Sadleir, Trollope, 45. The fifth Palliser Novel of a total of 6 titles, in the rare four-volume format. $1,500

catalogue 116 |  82 83 UPDIKE, John. Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rab- [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. Frontispiece (in second bit at Rest. 4 vols. 8vo, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960, 1971, state, on china mounted on heavy paper); BAL state B of copy- 1981, 1990. First editions. Publisher’s cloth. Rabbit, Run has right notice; state B of p. iv, with column 2, line 4 reading: some rubbing to upper board, and some light shelf-wear and “cities and”; corrected state of p. 49, line 2; with the 8 pp. of creasing to dust-jacket (first state, with 16-line blurb on front reviews (inserted in some binding B copies). Small folio (11-J flap). Others fine, in fine dust-jackets. x 7-I in.; 284 x 197 mm), Brooklyn, New York: 1855. First edi- A complete first edition set of the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy. tion, second issue, BAL binding B. Original green cloth, upper board titled in gilt with triple-ruled borders stamped in blind, $1,500 spine titled in gilt, lower board stamped in blind, plain yellow endpapers. A touch of foxing to portrait, slightest rubbing to extremities. Half morocco slipcase and chemise. BAL 21395; Grolier American 67; Johnson, High Spots 79; Meyerson A.2.1.a1; PMM 340; Wells & Goldsmith 3; Feinberg/ Detroit 269; Schmidgall, “1855: a Stop-Press Revision,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 18, Fall/Summer 2000, pp. 74-76. An excellent copy of this book which, more than any other perhaps, has defined America to itself. “He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the intoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of his ‘barbaric yawp,’ are so powerful that the echo of his crude yet rhythmic song rings forever in the American air” (Grolier One Hundred). This copy has the corrected version of line 2 of page 49 (“And the day and night are for you and me and all,”). Whitman scholar Gary Schmidgall, in his article, “1855: a Stop-Press Revision,” notes that Whitman retained the “day and night are for you” reading for the 1856 and 1860 editions. A beautiful copy. $165,000

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 116 |  84 one of 30 copies of the rare first WILDE, Oscar. Poems. [i – x], [1]-236 pp. Crown 8vo, Lon- 85 don: David Bogue 3, St. Martin’s Place, Trafalgar Square, [WILDE, Oscar]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3. 8vo, W.C, 1881. First edition, one of 250 copies. Original vellum London: [1898]. First edition, one of 30 copies on Japanese gilt, t.e.g., all others uncut. Spine and free endpapers toned. vellum. Cinnamon-colored cloth, vellum spine. Covers show Bookplate of Norton Burr Steele. In a green cloth slipcase and slight insect damage and minor soiling, spine a bit soiled, oth- chemise. Mason 304. erwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase “The first printing (June 1881) consisted of 750 copies, of with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress which only 250 copies were used for the first edition, the lena ashwell on the front pastedown. Mason 372. remaining 500 being equally divided between the second and First edition of Wilde’s legendary poem, written while he third editions” (Mason, p. 282). The gilt designs on the boards was in jail, in its rarest state — being one of only 30 copies are larger in the later editions. printed on Japanese vellum. This copy comes from the distin- $1,500 guished library of the actress Lena Ashwell (1872–1957), who as a young actress toured in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan in 1891, later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. According to her biographer, Margaret Leask (Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer, Univ. of Hertfordshire Press, 2012), Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde’s arrest, and wrote later: “… the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. His plays were so very brilliant, and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere’s Fan, so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble.” Later, during WWI, she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France. An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. $27,500

 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 116 |  inscribed by robbie ross first edition, one of 75 copies signed 86 87 WILDE, Oscar. De Profundis. [Prefatory dedication by Robert WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated Ross]. xvi, 211, [1] pp. 8vo, London: Methuen and Co, [1908]. by Walter Crane and Jacob Hood. Small folio, London: David First edition, first issue with additional material. One of 1000 Nutt, 1888. First edition, no. 28 of 75 copies, signed by Wilde copies printed on hand-made paper. Original white linen and the publisher. Original Japan vellum over boards, upper cloth, uncut. Spine darkened and edges toned, title-page has cover blocked in red and black after a design by Hood. Some closed tear, internally fine. Mason 441. slight soiling to covers and spine, otherwise a very clean, fresh Inscribed to the poet, novelist, friend and correspondent of and attractive copy. Mason 314. Wilde, Beatrice May Allhusen: “For Mrs. Allhusen from ‘Rob- An estimable copy of one of the great classics, in its rarest bie’ Aug. 9th, 1908.” First edition with the additional matter, and most desirable state, signed by Wilde, printed on hand- including the prefatory dedication to Dr. Max Meyerfield made paper, and with Hood’s headpieces on mounted India (who translated the work into German) by Wilde’s literary paper and the three full-page plates by Walter Crane in two executor Robert Ross, four letters from Wilde to Ross writ- states, also on mounted India paper, printed in both black ten from Reading Prison, two letters on prison life by Wilde and sepia. to The Daily Chronicle, and additional material to the text $17,500 itself. Part of the first collected edition of Wilde’s works. $1,500

 | james cummins bookseller 88 WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacob Hood. Small 4to, London: David Nutt, 1888. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Minor soiling to covers and spine, one dent at lower edge of upper board, corner slightly bumped. Overall, a very attractive copy. Mason 313. A choice copy of one of the great classics. $1,750

89 WILDE, Oscar. A House of Pomegranates. Pictorial title-page, decorations, end-papers, and covers, after Charles Ricketts; four full- page inserted illustrations by C.H. Shannon. [8], 157, [2] pp. Small 4to, London: James Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891. First edition. Origi- nal quarter green linen over brown boards, upper cover printed in red and stamped with gilt designs of a peacock, a fountain, and a basket of pomegranates. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers printed in olive green. Hinges starting, but internally a fine copy, uncut (albeit the Shannon plates are, as usual, very faint). Bookplate of Alexander Hamilton Rice and Eleanor Elkins Rice on the front pastedown. In quarter blue-morocco slipcase with chemise. Mason 347. Contains four stories: “The Young King,” “The Birthday of the Infanta,” “The Fisherman and His Soul,” and “The Star-Child.” $1,500

90 WILDE, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. By the author of Lady Winder- mere’s Fan. Small 4to, London: Leonard Smithers & Co, 1899. First edition, trade issue, one of 1,000 copies printed. Mauve cloth, decorated in gilt. Slight soiling to covers, front endpapers with slight spotting, title and text very slightly toned at outer edge. Very good. Mason 385. $2,000

catalogue 116 |  91 92 WILDE, Oscar. The Importance of Being Ernest. A Trivial Com- WILDE, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan. A Play about a Good edy for Serious People by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan. Woman. 1 f. blank, [xiv], 132, [16, publisher’s catalogue] pp. Small 4vo, London: Leornard Smithers, 1899. First edition, 8vo, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. First edi- trade issue. One of 1000 copies (this copy not numbered). tion, one of 500 copies. Original mauve cloth gilt with designs Mauve cloth, decorated in gilt. Cloth somewhat soiled and by Charles Shannon. Endpapers slightly toned, else a fine copy smudged, spine a bit dulled, text block very slightly toned, and in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise. Bookplate spine tips slightly rubbed, but a good, solid copy. Mason 381. of George Ravescroft Dennis, designed by R.A. Bell in 1893; Very good copy of Wilde’s most popular and enduring work, and that of Alexander Hamilton Rice and Eleanor Elkins Rice. and one of the crown jewels of the English theater. Mason 357. A fresh copy of Wilde’s great comic drama. $3,000 $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller 93 WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. In Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. 162 pp. in all, Dorian Gray consisting of pp. 3-100. Phila- delphia: Ward Lock & Co. … Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, July, 1890. First printing of The Picture of Dorian Gray, printed in America and issued simultaneously in England and America. Original Ward Lock wrappers, conforming to the English issue as per Mason. Wrappers worn, slightly chipped at outer edge, and with several repairs to spine. Nonetheless a very good copy overall of a fragile production on cheap paper. In custom cloth box. Mason 81. Dorian Gray first appeared here in print in July, 1890, with the complete text printed in thirteen chapters; Ward, Lock published the first English book edition later in 1891, with a text which Wilde substantially altered and expanded, adding six new chapters. “After this date [July 1890] Victorian literature had a different look” (Ellman, Oscar Wilde, NY, 1988, p. 314). $4,000

catalogue 116 |  94 inscribed WILDE, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 154, [1] pp. 4to, 95 London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo WOLFE, Thomas. Of Time and the River. A Legend of Man’s Street. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1894. First Hunger in His Youth. [xii], 912 pp. Thick 8vo, New York: Charles edition, one of 500 copies. Original mauve cloth decorated in Scribner’s Sons, 1935. First edition. Dark blue cloth. Fine in gilt. Front hinge just starting, endpapers slightly spotted, else near fine dust-jacket with fold down middle of front panel, a fine copy, in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise. spine very slightly sunned. Johnston A3.I.a. Bookplate of Alexander Hamilton Rice and Eleanor Elkins Inscribed, “For Hazel Abrams. Sincerely, Thomas Wolfe, Hol- Rice. Mason 365. lywood. — Sept. 3, 1935.” An attractive copy of this witty and urbane play by Wilde. $4,500 $2,000

 | james cummins bookseller 96 supernatural interesting by the dramatic truth of the emo- WORDSWORTH, William & Samuel Taylor Coleridge. tions aroused. The result was the ‘Lyrical Ballads,’ published Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. In Two Volumes. 2 vols. 12mo in September 1798. Coleridge’s principal contribution was ( 6-I x 4-J inches: 17 cm x 10 cm), London: Printed for T.N. the ‘Ancient Mariner.’ . . . The first parts of ‘Christabel’ and Longman and O. Rees, 1800. Second edition (first edition of ‘Kubla Khan’ were also written in the winter of 1797” (DNB). vol. II), with leaf a3 of first volume in cancelled state; p. 210 This uncut copy is fully half an inch taller than every bound of vol. II in first state with 10 lines. Rose boards with lighter copy we’ve seen. drab paper spines, printed spine labels (in fine facsimile), un- $12,500 cut. Vol. II resewn and returned to the original boards (toned), vol. I bound to style (using old paper and boards, endsheets renewed). A lovely set. Custom half morocco slipcase and che- signed by yeats mise. Healey 6; PMM 256; Ashley 8:6-9; Wise 5; Tinker 2330-1. 97 Although strictly speaking this is the second edition of Lyri- YEATS, W[illiam] B[utler]. Essays. viii, 538 pp. 8vo, New cal Ballads and Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, it is York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. New and Revised edi- of primary importance in the history of Romanticism in that tion. Published July 1924. Number 191 of 250 copies signed it contains the first appearance of Wordsworth’s celebrated by yeats. Quarter blue cloth and brown boards, printed spine credo — the Preface; and in any case, as volume II in its label, untrimmed edges. Near fine, fresh copy (label toned), in entirety contains new material, it constitutes an entirely new publisher’s card slipcase with printed label (slipcase repaired book, and is a cornerstone in the development of modern along seams). literature. “It is not the incidental remarks on diction that are important but Wordsworth’s revolt against eighteenth- A superb compendium of Yeats’ writings on magic, Synge, century artificiality” (PMM). Coleridge’s landmark work, Celtic elements in literature, painting, William Blake, Japa- initially much misunderstood, was written during the fertile nese plays, Edmund Spenser, and a broad range of miscel- winter of 1797-1798. “The discussions with Wordsworth laneous topics. really turned upon the principles of their art. They agreed Here in the deluxe, signed state. to combine forces in a volume, where Wordsworth should $1,500 exemplify the power of giving interest to the commonplace by imaginative treatment, while Coleridge should make the

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