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NOTE: MOST LOTS OFFERED IN THIS SALE HAVE A MINIMUM RESERVE OF ONE HALF OF THE PRESALE LOW ESTIMATE. SOME LOTS HAVE HIGHER RESERVES, BUT ALWAYS BELOW THE LOW ESTIMATE. Administration Roger Wagner, Chairman Scott Evans, President Shannon Kennedy, Vice President, Client Services Angela Jarosz, Administrative Assistant Megan Hipsley, Shipping Clerk
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Front Cover: Lot 292 Back Cover clockwise from upper left: Lots 105, 263, 189, 21 Bond # 14425383
Section I: Fine Literature, Lots 1-311
Section II: Fine Books in All Fields, Lots 312-427
Section I: Fine Literature
1. Ali, Monica. Brick Lane. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Doubleday, 2003 Signed and dated by Monica Ali on the title-page. Her first book. Fine in fine jacket. (80/120)
2. Amis, Martin. Success. Black boards, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1978] Signed by Martin Amis on the title-page. Author’s third book. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. (150/250)
3. Amis, Martin. Four titles by Martin Amis, three of them signed. Includes: Other People: A Mystery Story. (Some spotting to page fore-edges.) [1981]. * Money: A Suicide Note. (A few pages with light marginal stains; jacket price clipped.) [1984]. * Einstein’s Monsters. (Jacket with remains of sticker on front flap, price clipped.) [1987]. * Times Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence. [1991]. Together, 4 volumes. Cloth or boards, jackets. First Editions. London: Jonathan Cape, Various dates All but Money signed by Martin Amis on the title-pages. Very good to fine in fine jackets. (200/300)
4. Ashbery, John. Some Trees. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Black cloth, jacket. First Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956 First book of poems by John Ashbery, published as No. 52 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Jacket stained, small hole in spine, price clipped; volume near fine, jacket good. (100/150)
5. [Asimov, Isaac] French, Paul, pseud. Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury. Boards, jacket. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952 Fourth in Asimov’s pseudonymous “Lucky Starr” series. Slight wear to jacket spine ends and corners; small tape stains to pastedowns; near fine in like jacket. (150/250)
6. Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. Boards, jacket. First Edition. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, [1972] Signed by the author on the title-age. Her second novel. Fine in fine jacket, with former owner’s name in ink on front endpaper. (100/150)
Page 1 7. Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh]. Autograph Letter Signed by W.H. Auden, to a Mr. Robinson. 11 lined, in ink, on thin sheet of typing paper. 28x21.8 cm. (11x8½”). New York: Jan. 19th, 1971 Auden writes, “You are right, of course, They means the Old Masters. The price of A Certain World is, I agree, prodigious, but that is the Publisher’s doing, not mine. With best wishes, yours sincerely, W.H. Auden.” With original envelope hand-addressed by Auden including his signed return address. Horizontal creases from folding, near fine. (200/300)
8. Barnes, Julian. Before She Met Me. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1982] Inscribed “To Michael with thanks” and signed by Julian Barnes on the title-page. His second book. Fine in fine jacket. (120/180)
9. Barnes, Julian. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1989] Signed by the author on the title-page. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
10. Barnes, Julian. Four titles by Julian Barnes, two of them signed. Includes: Flaubert’s Parrot. 1st U.S. edition. Knopf, 1985. * Staring at the Sun. 1st edition. Jonathan Cape, [1986]. * Talking it Over. 1st U.S. edition. Knopf, 1991. * England, England. 1st edition. Jonathan Cape, [1998]. Together, 4 volumes. Cloth &/or boards, jackets. London & New York: Various dates Second and fourth signed by the author on the title-page. Fine copies in fine jackets. (200/300)
THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK 11. Barth, John. The Floating Opera. Cloth, jacket. First Edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956 Author’s first book. Jacket spine and a few edges yellowed, a few tiny stains or spots of yellowing, a bit rubbed at flap folds; a touch of extremity wear to volume and slightly yellowed endpapers; else a fine volume in a near fine jacket. (300/500)
12. Bayly, Thomas Haynes. “A Ditty” - Autograph poem, signed. 2 page autograph poem, signed. Ink on paper. 22.8x18.5 cm. (9x7¼”). June 22nd, 1835 The 24 line poem is an unpublished poem, and begins with a verse from Isaac Watts. Haynes (1797-1839) signs at the end of the poem, “Written in the shortest minute of the longest day, Thomas Haynes Bayly June 22nd, 1835.” Faint crease lines from where it was once folded, faintly foxed; very good. (300/500)
13. Begley, Louis. Two titles by Louis Begley. Includes: Wartime Lies. 1991. * About Schmidt. 1996. Together, 2 volumes. Half cloth & boards, jackets. First Editions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1991 & 1996] Second signed by Begley on the half-title. Both fine in fine jackets. (80/120)
Page 2 14. Bellow, Saul. Henderson the Rain King. Linen-backed bright orange cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Viking, 1959 First issue with the top page edge stained yellow. Edge wear to jacket, a few short tears with tape repairs on verso; small stain to page fore-edges, very good in like jacket. (150/250)
15. Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March. Black and gray cloth, jacket. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Viking, 1953 Author’s third book. First issue with top page edge stained orange and the copyright page with the “Vail-Ballou” printer’s imprint. First issue jacket with ad for “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck” on the rear flap and with no review quotes. Jacket edge worn and with a few small chips and short tears; page edges lightly soiled, diagonal crease on rear flyleaf; book and jacket very good. (250/350)
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 16. Berger, Thomas. Little Big Man. Black cloth-backed tan boards, dust jacket. New York: Dial Press, 1964 Inscribed by Berger to Trudy Laub on half title. Basis for the 1970 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway. Light edge wear to jacket, jacket spine faded; volume fine in a near fine jacket. (500/800)
17. Booth, Stephen. Black Dog. Wrappers. First Edition. London: HarperCollins, [2000] Signed by the author on the title-page. His first novel, the first edition was issued in wrappers. Fine condition. (100/150)
18. Boyd, William. A Good Man in Africa. Half cloth & boards, jacket. First U.S. Edition. New York: William Morrow, 1982 First American edition of the author’s first book. Former’s owner’s name in ink on front endpaper, still fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
19. Brown, Dan. Digital Fortress. Black boards, jacket. First Edition, second printing. New York: St. Martin’s, [1998] The first book from the author of The Da Vinci Code. Signed label laid in. Fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
20. Brown, Larry. Facing the Music. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver, jacket. First Edition. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1988 Signed by the author on the title-page. His first book, a collection of stories. Brown, from Mississippi, was the first writer to twice win the Southern Book Award, the major literary award given out by the Southern Book Critics Circle. Fine in fine jacket. (120/180)
Page 3 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SONNET FROM ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 21. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Sonnet - a thought” [i.e. “An Apprehension”] - original manuscript, with fragment on verso. 14 lines plus title, written in brown ink in a miniscule hand on a slip of paper; on the verso is a 13-line fragment from “The Maiden’s Death,” also in Browning’s hand. Slip of paper is 5.8x11 cm. (2½x4½”), neatly glued along left edge to backing board so it can be lifted to view the verso. Matted along with a typed transcript of both recto and verso, framed under glass (removed from frame for examination). No place: c.1840 Rare original manuscript of a sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Published in Browning’s “Poems”, 1844, under the title An Apprehension, with the present ms. slightly different than the printed version. The sonnet begins “If all the gentlest-hearted friends I know / Gave to the heart of one their gentleness...” whereas the second line of the printed version reads “Concentrated in one heart their gentleness.” The third line begins “Which still grew gentler...” with the printed version “That still grew gentler...” The third line from bottom reads “Of your salt scorn dash on me!...” differing from the printed “Of bitter scorn dash on me!...” The fragment on the verso is also quite curious. “The Maiden’s Death” was not published during E.B. Browning’s lifetime, but was one of a number of early poems by her contained in a quarto ms. volume sold at the sale of Browning manuscripts in 1913 - it was published in Cornhill Magazine that same year. The present fragment begins with the 19th line, “Weep for her who doth remove” and ends with the line “Dust to dust, she lies beneath.” In the right hand margin of the sonnet, written perpendicular to the text in a larger, later hand, in black ink, “Elizabeth B. Browning / author of ‘The Scraphian(?)” re / a very Pythiness.” A small fragment of sealing wax is beneath the sonnet. Slight discoloration to the paper; very good. (5000/8000)
Lot 21
A LARGE COLLECTION OF NOVELS BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS BEGINNING WITH THE TARZAN STORIES 22. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes. Title-page illustration by Fred J. Arting. Red cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. First Edition, First Printing. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1914 Burroughs’ first book, and the first volume in his signature series, in which Tarzan, the son of an English nobleman, is raised in the jungle by a she-ape, falls in love with Jane Porter, and journeys to America to find her. This is the first binding, with A.C. McClurg set in one line in spine imprint, no acorn device, and the first printing (or state), with “W.F. Hall Printing Co./
Page 4 Chicago” on copyright page set in two lines of Old English type. Heins gives the binding with the acorn device on the spine priority, but investigations since he wrote his bibliography reveal that not to be the case. Heins TA-2; Zeuschner 696; Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 134. Light wear to cloth, small hole along front spine edge, endpapers replaced; very good. (1000/1500)
23. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes. Green cloth lettered in black, dust jacket. Early Reprint. New York: A.L. Burt, [c.1915] An early reprint of the first Tarzan adventure, the dust jacket similar to the original. Jacket foxed, light chipping at edges, larger chip at head of jacket spine with loss of most of the word “Tarzan”, a few tape repairs on reverse of jacket; volume worn at edges, cloth soiled, front hinge cracked, gift inscription dated 1920 on front free endpaper; good. (300/500)
24. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Return of Tarzan. With pictorial headpieces by J. Allen St. John. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1915 Tarzan returns to the jungle to save Jane from the lost city of Opar and marry her. The author’s second book and second Tarzan novel. Heins RT1; Zeuschner 446. Light wear and soiling to cloth, some loss of gilt lettering on spine, hinges cracked; very good. (300/500)
25. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Eternal Lover. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Blue cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1925 Bizarre twists in time bring together unlikely lovers: a stone age cave man and a modern woman. Only about 5,000 copies of the first edition were produced. Heins EL1; Zeuschner 138. Spine faded, previous owner’s name erased from front endpaper, rear hinge cracking; very good. (200/300)
26. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Beasts of Tarzan. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1916 Burroughs’ third book and third in the Tarzan series. Tarzan enlists jungle beasts to aid his search through Africa for Jane and his kidnapped son, Jack. Heins BTa-1; Zeuschner 43. Light wear to extremities, slight lean to spine; previous owner’s name on front flyleaf; very good. (200/300)
27. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Son of Tarzan. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition, Second Printing. Chicago: McClurg, 1917 Second printing, with the dedication-page to Hulbert Burroughs. Jack metamorphoses into Korak the Killer after moving into the African jungle. Heins ST-2; Zeuschner 485. Spine leaning, letters on front cover drawn over with pencil, hinges starting, rear hinge shaken, previous owner’s name on front free endpaper; about very good. (150/250)
28. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Illustrated with 8 plates by J. Allen St. John. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1918 Tarzan narrowly escapes being sacrificed by a queen after being captured in an ancient city by hairy beast men. Heins T61; Zeuschner 598. Slight lean to spine, light wear at edges; very good. (150/250)
Page 5 29. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Illustrated with 5 plates and chapter header drawings by J. Allen St. John. Orange cloth lettered in black. First Edition, First Printing. Chicago: McClurg, 1919 Twelve tales of Tarzan’s youth in the jungle among apes and natives. Currey’s “A” binding in orange cloth with spine imprint in three lines; W. F. Hall imprint on copyright page. Heins T7.1; Zeuschner 214. Some light soiling to cloth; very good. (200/300)
30. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan the Untamed. With 9 plates after drawings by J. Allen St. John, including frontispiece. 8vo. Light green cloth, stamped in brown on cover and spine. First Edition. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1920 A vengeful Tarzan unleashes his jungle cunning against the Germans in Africa during World War 1. Heins TU1; Zeuschner 768. Spine ends frayed, splitting along front joint, hinges cracked; good. (100/150)
31. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan the Terrible. Illustrated with 9 plates by J. Allen St. John, plus a map. Red cloth decorated and lettered in black. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1921 Tarzan’s search for Jane leads to Pal-ul-don, a land of prehistoric monsters and tailed men. Heins TTe1; Zeuschner 754. Spine frayed, some splitting at spine edges, hinges cracked; good. (150/250)
32. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Golden Lion. Illustrated with 8 plates from paintings by J. Allen St. John. Mustard-yellow cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1923 Tarzan raises a lion cub to maturity. Heins GL1; Zeuschner 582. Spine leaning, some light wear and soiling to cloth; very good. (200/300)
33. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Ant Men. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Brown cloth lettered in dark brown. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1924 Tarzan crashes in The Great Thorn Forest, and has adventures with a race of 18-inch men. Contains a 4-page supplement entitled How Burroughs Wrote the “Tarzan Tales” by Robert H. Davis. It was Davis who “discovered” Burroughs in 1911 and accepted his early efforts for publication with All-Story Weekly. Heins AM1; Zeuschner 532. Extremities worn, cloth splitting along rear spine edges; very good. (150/250)
34. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan Lord of the Jungle. Illustrated with 5 plates by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth lettered in black, dust jacket (partial). First Edition, First Printing. Chicago: McClurg, 1928 With the help of an American, Tarzan discovers two lost cities of 12th century knights while battling Arab slavers. This is the last Tarzan title published by McClurg, and one of the scarcer ones. Zauschner indicates only 7,500 copies of the four printings were produced. Heins LJ1; Zeuschner 682. Jacket lacking approximately the lower third of the front panel and spine, rear panel and both flaps without loss, old cello-tape repairs on face of jacket and old paper tape repairs to reverse, jacket soiled; volume with some light wear and soiling, bookplate; very good in an incomplete jacket. (300/500)
Page 6 35. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Lost Empire [&] Tarzan at the Earth’s Core. 2 volumes. Orange and green cloth respectively. First Editions in Book Form. New York: Metropolitan, [1929 & 1930] Both titles previously appeared in the pages of The Blue Book Magazine. Heins LE1 & TEC1. Both with some wear and soiling to cloth, first title with damage to front free endpaper where it appears that a bookplate was removed, second title has a previous owners name on the front endpaper; good. (150/250)
36. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan the Invincible. Blue cloth lettered in red. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1931] This is the first hardcover book published by Burroughs’ own publishing company. Tarzan thwarts attempts by Russian-led Communists to steal from the magnificent treasure vaults of Opar. Heins T16.1; Zeuschner 733. Light wear and soiling to cloth; dampstain to top edge of page block; very good. (150/250)
WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET 37. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan Triumphant. Illustrated with 5 plates by Studley O. Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in red, top edge stained red, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1932] Tarzan deals with Russian revenge, raiding shiftas, and a lost cult of religious fanatics. First edition in the blue cloth and the “$2.00” price on the jacket spine. Heins TT17.1; Zeuschner 783. Jacket with a bit of edges wear; cloth worn and soiled, hinges cracked; good in a near fine dust jacket. (200/300)
38. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan Triumphant. Frontispiece by Studley Burroughs. Tan-gray boards lettered in blue, jacket. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1948] Tarzan deals with Russian revenge, raiding shiftas, and a lost cult of religious fanatics. Heins TT17.6; Zeuschner 788. Jacket with some chipping to edges, sticker residue on spine; light dampstaining to top edge of page block and to top edge of frontispiece and title page; very good in a like jacket. (150/250)
39. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the City of Gold [&] Tarzan and the Leopard Men. Two volumes, both in the original blue cloth. First Editions. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1933 & 1935] Heins CiG1 & FC1. Both with some wear, soiling, etc.; first title with dampstaining and adhered paper to rear cover; good. (150/250)
THREE MORE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS 40. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Lion Man. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Tan-gray boards lettered in blue, jacket. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1948] Tarzan encounters a movie safari and a bizarre city of talking gorillas run by a mad scientist. This copy is “one of the few survivors of a near-disastrous fire that occurred in our store-room on Saturday, May 3, 1958. The fire started as a result of the spontaneous combustion of old Tarzan motion pictures printed on nitrate film...,” with printed label to that effect mounted on the front pastedown. Heins T19.6; Zeuschner 632. Fine in a fine jacket. (150/250)
Page 7 41. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Leopard Men. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Gray cloth, dust jacket. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1948] Tarzan battles a secret society of cannibals while suffering from temporary amnesia. Heins LeM 6. Jacket chipped at edges, small hole and sticker residue on spine; small damp stain at top of frontispiece and title page, some faint staining to top edge of page block; book and jacket very good. (200/300)
42. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan’s Quest. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Tan-grey boards lettered in blue, jacket. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1948] Tarzan rescues Jane from a tribe of bestial white men who have found the secret of eternal youth. Heins T22.5; Zeuschner 798. Some small chips to jacket edges, crease on rear panel; fine in a very good jacket. (150/250)
INSCRIBED BY BURROUGHS 43. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Forbidden City. Illustrations, including color frontispiece, by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in orange, dust jacket (not laminated). First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1938] Inscribed by Burroughs on the front free endpaper: Dear Don - Back from Honolulu yesterday and found Jean’s letter to Florence. Good you weren’t blown away by the Hurricane. Best wishes, Ed. Tarzana, October 12, 1938. Tarzan finds two hidden cities in an extinct volcano while searching for a man and a huge diamond. The only Burroughs book (to 1964) to have a color frontispiece. This was also the first of the Tarzan titles to be illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs, the author’s younger son. Heins T23.1; Zeuschner 569. Jacket lightly edge worn; old paper tape repairs on verso; volume spine faded, soiling to front free endpaper, rear hinge starting; very good. (500/800)
44. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Forbidden City. Illustrations, including color frontispiece, by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in orange, dust jacket (not laminated). First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1938] Tarzan finds two hidden cities in an extinct volcano while searching for a man and a huge diamond. The only Burroughs book (to 1964) to have a color frontispiece. This was also the first of the Tarzan titles to be illustrated by John Coleman Burroughs, the author’s younger son. Heins T23.1; Zeuschner 569. Jacket with some light wear, a few short tears; volume with some faded and soiling to cloth; very good in a near fine jacket. (250/350)
45. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan the Magnificent. Illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1939] Tarzan enjoys the company of a tribe of warrior women and encounters two rare gems with mysterious hypnotic powers. Heins T25.1; Zeuschner 749. This copy with the ownership signature of author and bookseller Larry McMurtry. Spine a bit faded, light edge wear, faint staining to covers; very good. (150/250)
Page 8 46. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and “The Foreign Legion”. Illustrated with 5 plates by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth, lettered in red, pictorial jacket. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1947] This was the last Tarzan story published by ERB, Inc. and the last Tarzan story published during Burroughs’ lifetime. Tarzan and his friends join the Dutch guerrillas in Japanese-held Sumatra during WWII. Heins T29.1; Zeuschner 578. Jacket lightly worn, small spot of tape repair on rear of jacket; fine in a near fine jacket. (200/300)
THE MARS NOVELS 47. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. A Princess of Mars. Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover, including color frontispiece. Brown cloth lettered in red. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1917 This was the first real story written by Burroughs, in 1911, preceded only by two childish efforts written years before. It first appeared in six issues of The All-Story Weekly, Feb.-July, 1912, under the pseudonym Norman Bean. A profoundly seminal work, it singlehandedly created the “interplanetary romance” form of science fiction. John Carter, the hero of “uncertain age,” finds adventure on Mars romancing Princess Dejah Thoris and fighting fierce red and green creatures, eventually fatefully returning to earth. Heins PM-1; Zeuschner 424. Spine leaning, some edge wear, small chip top cloth along fore edge of front cover, front hinge cracked, previous owners’ stamp and name on front endpapers; lacking plate at page 224; good. (150/250)
48. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Gods of Mars. Frontispiece by Frank E. Schoonover. Red cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1918 John Carter returns to Mars to find his son and expose the false religion of Issus. Heins GM-1; Zueschner 75. Soiling to cloth; some smudge marks in margins; very good. (200/300)
49. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Warlord of Mars. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Red cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition, First Printing. Chicago: McClurg, 1919 John Carter attempts to rescue Dejah Thoris. First printing with imprint of W.F. Hall on copyright page and with the publisher’s imprint at base of spine set in 3 lines. Heins M3.1; Zeuschner 829. Spine faded, wear to edges, some soiling’ pages a bit browned at edges; good. (150/250)
50. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Thuvia, Maid of Mars. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth lettered in black with black circle design on front cover. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1920 John Carter’s son, Cathoris, battles green men and phantom bowmen to rescue a royal maiden. Heins TMM-1; Zeuschner 802. Light extremity wear, lacking front free endpaper, front hinge cracked; very good. (150/250)
51. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Chessmen of Mars. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Red cloth with black lettering. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1922 Tara, the Warlord’s daughter, encounters many strange beings and is the prize of a deadly game. Heins M5.1; Zeuschner 92. Light extremity wear; paper a bit browned at edges; very good. (300/500)
Page 9 52. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Master Mind of Mars. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, including frontispiece. Orange cloth, lettered in green. First Edition. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1928 Transported to Mars, Captain U. Paxton meets and ancient doctor who has discovered immortality. Heins MMM1; Zeuschner 315. Light wear, bookplate; paper a bit browned; very good. (200/300)
53. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. A Fighting Man of Mars. Frontispiece by Hugh Hutton. Textured red cloth lettered in green. First Edition. New York: Metropolitan, [1931] Hardon and Hastor rescue an abducted maiden on Mars. Heins M7.1; Zeuschner 146. Light wear and soiling to cloth, rear hinge with amateur tape repair; good. (150/250)
54. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Swords of Mars. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1936] John Carter’s Princess yet again needs rescuing, this time on Mars’ nearer moon, Thuria. There is a famous secret code this book, the first letter of text of each chapter spells out “TO FLORENCE WITH ALL MY LOVE ED”; Florence was Burroughs’ second wife. Though the story was written in 1933, as Burroughs marriage to his first wife Emma was falling apart, Burroughs arranged it so that the first words in the chapters would spell the message. Heins SwM1; Zeuschner 501. Light wear to cloth, dampstain to front endpapers and to head of the first few leaves at front, previous owner’s name; very good. (150/250)
55. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Synthetic Men of Mars. Illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1940] Vor Daj and the Warlord struggle against a Frankenstein-like synthetic being. Heins SMM1; Zeuschner 511. Light extremity wear, small nibble to upper corner of front cover; very good. (150/250)
WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET 56. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Llana of Gathol. Illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in orange, jacket. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1948] This copy is “one of the few survivors of a near-disastrous fire that occurred in our store-room on Saturday, May 3, 1958. The fire started as a result of the spontaneous combustion of old Tarzan motion pictures printed on nitrate film...,” with printed label to that effect mounted on the front pastedown. Llana faces numerous perils with the help of her grandfather, John Carter. Heins LG1; Zeuschner 280. Jacket with just slight wear; book and jacket fine. (300/500)
THE PELLUCIDAR NOVELS 57. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. At the Earth’s Core. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Gray-green cloth, lettered in black. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1922 David Innes and Abner Perry discover a strange inner world of cave men and savage reptiles. Heins AEC1. Spine leaning and frayed at ends, bookplate, hinges cracking; good. (100/150)
Page 10 58. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pellucidar: A Sequel to “At the Earth’s Core”. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Red cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1923 David uses Perry’s inventions to battle against the Mahar reptiles and rebuild his empire. Heins P1; Zeuschner 388. Spine faded and frayed, some light wear and soiling, bookplate; good. (100/150)
59. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tanar of Pellucidar. Frontispiece by Paul F. Berdanier. Blue cloth lettered in black. First Edition. New York: Metropolitan Books, [1930] The empire is threatened with destruction by a race of fierce pirates who have captured David. Heins TP1; Zeuschner 520. Spine leaning, light wear, partial cup ring on front, bookplate; very good. (100/150)
WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET 60. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Back to the Stone Age. Illustrated with 7 plates by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in orange, pictorial jacket. First Edition. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1937] In the prehistoric world of the eternal sun, adventurer Lt. Wilhelm von Horst discovers love. The original dust jacket is laminated with a ripple effect (there were also laminated jackets without a ripple-like effect, as well as unlaminated jackets). Heins BSA-1. Jacket with light edge wear; previous owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper, some light staining in margins; very good in a near fine jacket. (200/300)
61. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Land of Terror. Blue cloth lettered in red. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1944] Emperor David Innes encounters numerous bizarre and mysterious tribes in this adventure story. Heins LT1; Zeuschner 240. Spine a bit spotted, corners lightly bumped; very good. (100/150)
62. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Savage Pellucidar. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Blue cloth lettered in dark blue, jacket. First Edition. New York: Canaveral Press, 1963 First of the Canaveral printings of Burroughs’ stories not previously published in book form. The illustrations are those done by J. Allen St. John for the magazine appearances in the 1940’s. Heins SP1; Zeuschner 472. Jacket lightly worn at edges; fine in a near fine jacket. (150/250)
THE VENUS NOVELS 63. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Pirates of Venus. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Blue cloth lettered in red, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1934] This is the first of the Venus series, in which Carson Napier ventures to Venus, where he meets the stunning Princess Duare. Heins PV1; Zeuschner 406. Minor edge wear to jacket; light spotting to cloth; very good in a near fine jacket. (300/500)
Page 11 64. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Lost on Venus. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Tan cloth lettered in brown, dust jacket. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1948] Carson Napier battles incessantly to rescue the sacrosanct Princess Duare from capture. Heins LV5. Jacket edge worn with large chips at spine ends; spine leaning; very good in a good jacket. (150/250)
65. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Lost on Venus. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Blue cloth lettered in red. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1935] Carson Napier battles incessantly to rescue the sacrosanct Princess Duare from capture. Heins LV1; Zeuschner 286. Spine faded, some extremity wear; paper a bit browned; very good. (100/150)
66. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Carson of Venus. Illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in red, dust jacket. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1939] Inscribed by Burroughs on the front free endpaper, “Dear Johnny, This is my latest. You don’t have to read it - just look at the pictures. Yours, Ed, Tarzana May 9, 1939.” Carson and Duare fly in the premier airplane flight over Venus, and encounter many troubles along the way. Heins CV1; Zeuschner 70. Jacket price-clipped and with a few small chips, creasing to flaps; spine leaning, damp staining to covers, edge wear; good in a very good jacket. (500/800)
67. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Escape on Venus. Illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs; map endpapers. Blue cloth lettered in red, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1946] After endless struggles to escape imprisonment, Carson and Duare at last find their home and peace. Heins EV1; Zeuschner 126. jacket with light wear at edges and folds; a few small spots to cloth; crease to upper corner of a few leaves at rear; near fine in a like jacket. (300/500)
OTHER WORKS BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS 68. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Mucker. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth with red lettering. First Edition, First Issue. Chicago: McClurg, 1921 First issue with publisher’s spine imprint in two lines. The far-flung adventures of a Chicago hoodlum, Billy Byrne, to prove himself to the girl he loves. Heins M1; Zeuschner 359. Slight lean to spine, some light wear and soiling to cloth, front hinge starting, gift inscription on front free endpaper; very good. (150/250)
69. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Girl from Hollywood. Red pebbled cloth, lettered and stamped in green. First Edition, First Binding. New York: Macaulay, [1925] Later printings had a smooth cloth binding. On a peaceful California ranch, a dope-addicted movie actress finds love and the strength to quit. Heins GH1; Zeuschner 168. Spine a touch sunned, small tape marks on front endpapers, short tear to rear free endpaper; very good. (200/300)
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Page 12 70. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Land That Time Forgot. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Green cloth lettered in blue. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1924 Adventures on a South Sea island forgotten by time and overrun with prehistoric beasts and evolutionary tribes. Heins LTF1; Zeuschner 250. Spine ends and corners worn, hinges cracked with amateur repairs, light soiling to cloth; very good. (100/150)
71. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Cave Girl. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Blue cloth lettered in dark green. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1925 A stone age cave girls aids a weak boy to become an empowered cave man. One of the scarcer Burroughs titles, only about 5,000 copies of the first edition being produced, according to McClurg’s records. Heins CaG1; Zeuschener 80. Spine sunned, light wear; very good. (150/250)
72. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Bandit of Hell’s Bend. Frontispiece by Modest Stein. Light blue cloth, lettered in dark green. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1925 Two tough cowboys vie for the hand of an Arizona ranch owner’s pretty daughter in the old west. Heins BHB1; Zeuschner 35. Spine sunned, some wear at edges; separation in gutter between front free endpaper and frontispiece and between the two final text leaves; good. (100/150)
73. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Mad King. Frontispiece by J. Allen St. John. Dark blue cloth lettered in orange. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1926 An American begins to enjoy a mythical European kingdom when he is mistaken for a king. With date on title page with broken type reading “1026” (not 1926) and the errors on pages 12 & 92 not corrected. Heins MK1; Zeuschner 301. This copy with the signature of author and bookseller Larry McMurtry on front free endpaper. Spine faded, edges worn; paper a bit browned; good. (100/150)
74. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Monster Men. Title-page illustration by J. Allen St. John. Tan cloth with green lettering. First Edition. Chicago: McClurg, 1929 Much like the story of Frankenstein, a brilliant but mad professor creates malformed, synthetic human life on an island. This was the last of the non-series titles by Burroughs published by McClurg; only about 5,000 copies were printed. Heins MMe1; Zeuschner 329. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good. (100/150)
75. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Lad and the Lion. Illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Blue cloth lettered in red. First Edition. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1938] A royal lad and an adult lion romp in the desert. Heins LL1; Zeuschner 235. Minor wear to cloth; near fine. (100/150)
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Page 13 76. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County. Illustrated with a frontispiece and chapter headings by John Coleman Burroughs. Gray cloth lettered in orange, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1940] Rancher Buck Mason tries to prove himself innocent after the murder of an old enemy. Heins DS1; Zeuschner 110. This copy with the ownership signature of author and bookseller Larry McMurtry on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine jacket (300/500)
77. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Beyond Thirty and the Man-Eater. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket designed by Gilbert Kane. 1 of 3000 copies. First Hardcover Edition, First State Jacket. South Ozone Park, NY: Science-Fiction and Fantasy Publications, 1957 Two stories, one of a savage Europe isolated from the Americas, the other about a lion who unwittingly aids justice. Beyond Thirty was first published separately two years earlier, anonymously by Lloyd Eschbach, a typed offset edition of 300 copies in red paper covers. Heins BTh1; Zeuschner 63. Jacket price-clipped and hole-punched, wrinkled at spine ends; volume likewise wrinkled at spine ends; near fine in like jacket. (100/150)
78. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. I Am a Barbarian. Frontispiece by Jeff Jones. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., [1967] Written by Burroughs between April and September in 1941, this historical novel is set in the time of the Roman Empire. It was not published in any form before this book edition. Only 2000 copies were printed, and a number of those were destroyed in a fire in the Burroughs warehouse. Zeuschner 186. Light wear to jacket edges; fine in a near fine jacket. (100/150)
79. Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Five volumes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Includes: The Moon Maid. Blue cloth. 1926. * The Outlaw of Torn. Red cloth. 1927. * The War Chief. Orange cloth. Endpapers replaced. 1927. * Jungle Girl. Blue cloth. [1932]. * The Oakdale Affair & The Rider. Blue cloth. [1937]. Together 5 volumes, all first editions. Various places: Various dates All with some wear, soiling, etc.; overall fair to good. (200/300)
80. (Burroughs, Edgar Rice) . Four volumes on Edgar Rice Burroughs and his writings - plus two others. Includes: Heins, Henry Hardy. A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cloth, dust jacket (soiled). Revised edition. 1964. * Lupoff, Richard A. Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure. Green cloth, dust jacket. One of 150 copies, this copy out of series. Signed. 1965. * [Another copy]. Ace paperback edition. * Porges, Irwin. Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan. (4to) cloth, dust jacket. Various places: Various dates Also included: Weissmuller, Johnny. Swimming the American Crawl. Red cloth. Reprint. G & D, 1930. * Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. Cloth, dust jacket. Sixth Edition. 1992. All with some light wear; overall very good. (200/300)
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Page 14 81. (Burroughs, Edgar Rice) Hogarth, Burne. The Golden Age of Tarzan, 1939-1942. xix, [3], 154 pp. Edited by Maurice Horn. Introductory essay by Burne Hogarth and Maurice Horn. Illustrated throughout from the original comics, printed in colors. (Large folio) 20x15, decorative golden boards stamped in brown, lettered in blue, publisher’s golden slipcase. No. 1103 of 2000 hand-numbered copies. First Edition. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1977 Signed by Burne Hogarth on the limitation/title page. Classic collection of Sunday comic strips from the Tarzan series. Light wear to slipcase; volume fine. (300/500)
TWO BY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 82. Burroughs, William S. The Naked Lunch. Original green wrappers with decorative border. First Edition, First Issue. Paris: Olympia Press, [1959] First issue with green border on title-page and price of “Francs 1500” printed on lower rear wrapper cover. Without the dust jacket. Number 76 in The Traveller’s Companion Series. The true first printing with only 5,000 copies produced. “Naked Lunch” was banned in the United States due to its supposed obscene nature, therefore it was first published in France. Maynard & Miles A2a. Lacking dust jacket, spine sunned, light wear to wrapper edges; the three leave comprising page 91-96 have been sliced from the book with a penciled ‘X’ on two of the pages (perhaps in attempt to expurgate the text), stain to two pages (30 & 31); good. (400/700)
83. Burroughs, William S. Nova Express [&] The Soft Machine. Includes: Nova Express. 1st Ed. [1964]. * The Soft Machine. 1st U.S. Ed. [1966] Together, 2 volumes, Cloth, jackets. New York: Grove Press, [1964 & 1966] Jackets a little rubbed, 2nd with some soiling, some edge wear; very good or better in like jackets. (200/300)
84. Byatt, A. S. Possession: A Romance - 1st & 1st U.S. editions. Cloth &/or boards, jackets. First and First U.S. Editions. London & New York: Chatto & Windus [&] Random House, [1990] Each signed by the author on the title-page. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. Paper of the English edition slightly tanned, as inevitably occurs; both fine or nearly so in like jackets. (150/250)
85. Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. Frontispiece from photograph. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. First Trade Edition. New York: Random House, [1965] Capote’s masterpiece, considered by some one of the most important books of nonfiction ever written by an American in the twentieth century. First issue jacket with the “1/66” code on the front flap and “Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library” located on the rear flap. Jacket spine a little darkened, a touch of rubbing to corners and spine ends, else fine in near fine jacket. (300/500)
86. Card, Orson Scott. Speaker for the Dead. Duo-tone blue boards, spine lettered in silver, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. [New York]: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1986] Signed and dated Feb. 19, 1988 by the author on the half-title page. Sequel to Card’s modern classic, Ender’s Game; winner of the 1986 Nebula and 1987 Hugo awards. Fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
Page 15 87. Carey, Peter. Four volumes by Peter Carey, two of them signed. Includes: The Fat Man in History. Faber & Faber, [1980]. * Bliss. Faber & Faber, [1981]. * Oscar and Lucinda. Faber & Faber, [1988]. * Oscar & Lucinda. 1st U.S. Ed. Harper & Row, [1988]. Together, 4 volumes. Cloth or boards, jackets. First three are First Editions. London & New York: Various dates First and fourth signed by the author on the title-page. Second with indentation marks to the silver foil dust jacket, slight rubbing to volume extremities, creases to prelim. leaves, else very good in like jacket, others fine in fine jackets. (200/300)
ONE OF ONLY 175 COPIES SIGNED BY WILLA CATHER 88. Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. [9], 303, [1] pp. (8vo), green cloth-backed marbled boards, morocco spine label, later slipcase. No. 18 of 175 copies. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1927 Signed by Cather on the limitation page. There were also 50 copies on vellum. One of the scarcest of the Cather limited editions. Some wear to slipcase; spine a touch sunned, extremities lightly rubbed; very good. (1200/1800)
89. Chabon, Michael. Two titles by Michael Chabon. Includes: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. William Morrow, [1988]. * Wonder Boys. Villard Books, 1995. Together, 2 volumes. Cloth &/or boards, jackets. First Editions. New York: [1988] & 1995 The second is inscribed, signed and dated the year of publication by the author on the title- page. Pittsburgh is his first book, Wonder Boys his third book and second novel. Wonder Boys with the lowest number in the Lot 88 line on copyright-page being 2. Near fine to fine copies in like jackets. (100/150)
90. Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. [London]: Secker & Warburg, [1999] Nobel Prize winning South African author Coetzee won his second Booker Award for this novel. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
91. Coetzee, J.M. Life and Times of Michael K. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First U.K. Edition. London: Secker & Warburg, [1983] Booker Prize winning third novel by the Nobel Prize winning South African author. Top edges of the boards faded; else fine in fine jacket, very scarce thus. (300/500)
92. Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. Black boards, jacket. First Edition. [London]: Viking, [2001] Signed by author on title page. Fine in fine jacket. (300/500)
Page 16 93. Collins, Michael. Two titles by Michael Collins, each signed. Includes: The Meat Eaters. Jonathan Cape, [1992]. * The Keepers of Truth. Phoenix House, [2000]. Together, 2 volumes. Boards, jackets. First Editions. London: [1992 & 2000] Each signed by the author on the title-page. Fine in fine jackets. (150/250)
94. Connelly, Michael. Sixteen novels by Michael Connelly. Including 4 signed, first editions: The Drop. Signed on title page. [2011]. * The Reversal. Signed on the title page. [2010]. * Echo Park. Signed on the title page. [2006]. * Nine Dragons. Signed on the title page. [2009]. New York: Little, Brown, Various dates All but a few are first editions, some signed. Complete list available upon request. Fine. (80/120)
95. Coover, Robert. The Origin of the Brunists. Brown cloth, white dove vignette stamped on front cover, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. New York: Putnam’s, [1966] Signed by Coover on the title-page. Author’s first book. Near fine in like jacket with slight edge wear. (100/150)
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF DR. KAY SCARPETTA 96. Cornwell, Patricia D. Postmortem. Cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in silver, jacket. First Edition. New York: Scribner’s, [1990] Signed by the author on the title page, with inscription by her “To Al.” Author’s first novel and winner of the Edgar and Prix du Roman D’Adventure Awards, among others. Cloth with slight discoloration at bottom of spine, faint foxing to top edge of text block; else near fine in fine jacket. (700/1000)
97. Crace, Jim. Seven volumes by Jim Crace, six of them signed. Includes: Continent. With publisher’s “You can afford to make the journey!” sticker to front panel of jacket. Heinemann, [1986]. * Another copy, without the sticker on the jacket. * The Gift of Stones. 2 copies. Secker & Warburg, [1988]. * Arcadia. Jonathan Cape, [1992]. * Signals of Distress. Viking, [1994]. * Quarantine. Viking, [1997]. Together, 7 volumes. Boards, jackets. First Editions. London: Various dates All but one copy of The Gift of Stones is signed by Crace on the title-page. His first four and sixth books (and first five novels). All in fine condition, in fine jackets. (200/300)
FIRST EDITIONS OF CHARLES DICKENS 98. Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. xvi, 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 plates by H.K. Browne (“Phiz”), including the frontispiece and additional title-page. Includes the 10 “dark plates.” (8vo) 20.8x13 cm. (8¼x5¼”) finely bound for Henry Sotheran in full green crushed morocco, gilt-ruled borders, central gilt portrait within a gilt oval frame on front, facsimile signature in gilt on rear, gilt-topped raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt-rolled edges, gilt-ruled dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition in book form. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853 Hatton & Cleaver p.275; Smith I, 10. Spine faded to brown; light spotting and browning to plates; very good. (500/800)
Page 17 99. Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son. (v)-xvi, 624 pp. Half-title and errata leaf not present. 40 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), including the additional illustrated title page. (8vo) 20.9x13 cm. (8¼x5¼”) finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in full red crushed morocco, gilt-ruled borders, central gilt portrait within a gilt oval frame, gilt-topped raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt-rolled edges, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition in book form. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 With 2-line errata leaf following page xvi. With errors on pp. 324, last line (“Capatin” instead of “Captain”), and on pp. 426, line 9 (“if” missing). Hatton & Cleaver pp. 227-250. Light browning to plates; fine. (500/800)
100. Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. xiv, [2 (errata leaf)], 624 pp. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne) with frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 other engraved plates. (8vo) 20.8x13 cm. (8¼x5¼”) finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in full red crushed morocco, gilt-ruled borders, central gilt portrait within a gilt oval frame, gilt-topped raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt-rolled edges, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition in book form. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844 Second issue with the 14 line errata leaf after list of plates. Smith Vol. I, 7; Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 185-224. Mild browning to plates; fine. (500/800)
101. Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. xvi, 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 plates designed and etched by Phiz except the portrait frontispiece after Daniel Maclise. (8vo) 20.6x13 cm. (8¼x5¼”) finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in full blue crushed morocco, gilt-ruled borders, central gilt portrait within a gilt oval frame, gilt-topped raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt- rolled edges, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition in Book Form. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 Second issue with the errors at pages 123 and 160 corrected. Spine slightly faded; a bit of foxing and browning to plates; near fine. (500/800)
102. Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend - Finely bound from the original parts. 20 parts in 19 bound in two volumes. Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone. (8vo) 22x14.5 cm. (8¾x5¾), full red crushed morocco, double gilt-ruled borders, spines gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bound by G.J. Sawyer Ltd. First Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, [1864]-1865 First edition, bound from the original parts, the original wrappers and advertisements bound in at the rear of each volume. With all wrappers and advertisements as called for by Hatton & Cleaver except as follows: Part 1, lacking the front wrapper, the first 16 pages of the Advertiser, the “To the Reader” slip and the Groombridge & Sons ad; Part 2 with several duplicate copies of ads from Part 3; Part 4 with a slip announcing as ‘Just Published...Mary Seaham” not called for by Hatton & Cleaver, lacking the Glenfield Starch ad; Part 5 lacking page 1-2 of Advertiser and the slip for “The Tale of a Chivalrous Life; Part 7 lacking rear wrapper and slips for Cassell, Petter & Galpin and Thorley’s; Part 9 lacking Astra Castra ads; Part 10 lacking Capt. Mayne Reid slip and Norton’s Camomile Pills ad; Part 11 lacking wrappers and all ads except the Advertiser; Part 12 lacking rear wrapper and “All the Year Round” slip; Part 13 with additional copies of Norton’s Camomile Pills ad and Keating’s Persian Insect Destroying Powder ad; Part 14 lacking Mappin, Webb & Co. ad and Economic Life Assurance Society ad; Part 16 lacking Mappin, Webb & Co. ad; Part 17 lacking Mappin, Webb & Co. ad; Part 18 lacks advertiser, “All the Year Round” slip; Part 19/20 lacks wrappers and Economic Life Assurance Society ads and Mappin, Webb & Co. ad. The often lacking Foreign Bank Notes slip is present. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345-370. Some light browning to paper but overall a fine copy. (700/1000)
Page 18 WITH A LETTER FROM DICKENS INSERTED 103. Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield - finely bound and with a letter from the author. xiv, [2], 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 plates designed and etched on steel by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), including frontispiece and added title. (8vo), 21x13 cm. (8¼x5¼”), finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in full red crushed morocco, decorative gilt borders, gilt-topped raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt-rolled edges, wide gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition in book form. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850 With the added engraved title dated 1850, called by some a first issue point. Smith Vol. I, 9. Tipped to a blank leaf at the front is an Autograph Letter, signed, from Dickens to the Rev. Charles Eckersall. In full: Dear Sir, I regret that I cannot comply with your request, prepared in terms so cordial and so very agreeable to me. But, I assure you my time is so portioned out, and it is so indispensable to me to have it to myself in my own study, unbroken, that I go even to Birmingham with great reluctance and difficulty - should certainly not go, but for an old obligation - and shall be obliged to return home in the course of the same night. I am dear Sir, Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens.” The original hand-addressed envelope tipped to the following leaf. A bit of browning to the plates; else fine. (2000/3000)
Lot 103
104. Dickens, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. [iii]-xiv, [2], 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 plates designed and etched on steel by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), including frontispiece and added title. (8vo), later half morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. First Edition in book form. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850 With the added engraved title dated 1850, called by some a first issue point. Smith Vol. I, 9. Spine and corners scuffed, spine head chipped, front joint cracked with cover nearly detached; front free endpaper and flyleaves detached, some foxing and soiling within including to the plates, a few marginal repairs; very good overall. (300/500)
Page 19 A SIGNIFICANT COPY OF PICKWICK - THE RAREST OF THE PLATES PRESENT 105. Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. xiv, [2], 609 pp. Half-title present. With 43 etched plates, including additional illustrated title page and frontispiece, after Robert Seymour; Robert William Buss; and Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). Two additional plates bound in. (8vo) 20.5x12.8 cm. (8¼x5”) finely bound by Riviere in full red crushed morocco, triple gilt- ruled borders, gilt-ruled raised bands, spine compartments gilt, gilt-rolled board edges, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition in Book Form, bound from the original parts. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837 A significant copy, with six of the seven first issue points described by Smith (signature mark ‘E’ present on page 25, lacking in only the earliest copies). Frontispiece, illustrated title-page and the following 21 plates all in the first state as described by Smith; all but one of the remaining 20 plates are from the first plates (plate at page 533 is from the second plate, with a bundle on the Irishman’s stick) and all but one is of the first state (plate at page 343 is a second state, without the page number in the lower margin). The two suppressed plates by Buss are present at pages 69 & 74. The two plates at pages 154 & 169 are in the extremely rare state with the page numbers transposed. [“These mis- paginated plates may be considered the rarest items in the whole realm of Pickwick.” - Hatton & Cleaver. “The rarest of all Pickwick plates.” - Johannsen. “In the correct form these plates are of great rarity”. Eckel.] A beautiful copy, with most of the earliest textual points and plates. Smith I: 3; Eckel pp.17-58; Grolier English 78; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 3-88; Johannsen, pp. 1-75. A slight touch of rubbing to the front joint; some mild browning to plates; a few lightly penciled notes and marks identifying early points of issue; overall a fine copy. Lot 105 (3000/5000)
PICKWICK EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED 106. Dickens, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - Extra-illustrated. 2 volumes. Illustrations by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), and J. Leech. (Thick 8vo) 22.4x15.3 cm. (8¾x6”), finely bound by Bayntun in full green crushed morocco, triple gilt-ruled borders, raised bands, gilt spine compartments, gilt-ruled dentelles, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. One of 2000 copies. London: Chapman and Hall, 1887 This copy extra-illustrated with the insertion of 24 water-color drawings by F.W. Pailthorpe; 56 wood-engravings by Phz from the “Household Edition” of Pickwick; portrait of the author; portrait of Phiz; facsimile of a canceled plates by Buss; colored plate of Sam Vale, the inspiration for Sam Weller, by George Cruikshank; 7 plates by Phiz from a different edition; colored plate of Sam Weller. Spines faded, a touch of extremity wear; some light foxing; very good. (1000/1500)
107. (Dickens, Charles) . Three volumes on Charles Dickens and his works. Includes: Forster, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. (8vo) full green leather. No date. * Johannsen, Albert. Phiz: Illustrations from the Novels of Charles Dickens. (Oblong 4to) cloth, dust jacket. [1956]. * Hatton, Thomas & Arthur H. Cleaver. A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens. (4to) cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. One of 50 large papers copies. 1933. Together 3 volumes. Various places: Various dates All with some wear; penciled notes internally; overall very good.
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108. Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa. Black and orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: Random House, [1938] Basis for the Academy Award winning 1985 film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Jacket spine faded a touch, a bit of rubbing to ends, a few tiny edge tears, rear panel slightly soiled and darkened; faint flecks of white residue to top corner of front cover, darkening to endpaper gutters, near fine in like jacket. (300/500)
ONE OF PERHAPS ONLY FIVE OR SIX COPIES 109. Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. 557 pp. Title page is a cancel. 18.5x12.3 cm. (7¼x4¾”), blue cloth, lettered in yellow. New York: Frank Shay, 1917 Presentation copy, inscribed to noted bibliophile F[rederick] W. Skiff, and signed by the author on the title page. Also with the bookplate of Skiff on the front pastedown. The title page contains no copyright information on verso. With an “FS” publisher’s logo in yellow on rear cover, and “Shay” between two rules at spine heel. Shay, a good friend of Theodore Dreiser, was all set to publish a new edition of Sister Carrie when he was drafted in 1917. While appealing his conscription, he introduced Dreiser to Horace Liveright, and this led to the publication of the Boni & Liveright 1917 edition, thus beginning Dreiser’s long relationship with Boni & Liveright. This Frank Shay edition was never mass-produced, and is very rare. According to two pencil notes, one on each of the front endpapers, it is one of only five copies in existence (one of those pencil notes is partially obscured by the bookplate). Only 1 copy located by OCLC / Worldcat, located at UCLA and according to their notes, that copy contains a penciled note on fly leaf that states one of six copies published by Frank Shay. The history of the publication is as follows: The first edition was in 1900 by Doubleday, Page. In 1906 Dreiser personally bought the plates from Doubleday, Page, and made changes on page 5, lines 3-22. Then Dodge published an edition of around 500 copies in 1907, and Grosset & Dunlap published a very small printing after that of maybe Lot 109 only 100-200 copies, and Harper in 1912, another small printing, then Shay printed this edition in 1917, but they ran into a snag there, which is why the pencil note on our copy says only 5 were issued, and then it was turned over to Boni & Liveright who came out with another edition in 1917. PBA thanks John Martin, former publisher of Black Sparrow Press for his help with this description. Martin thinks that all these editions may have been made up of sheets from the 1912 Harper edition since our Shay title page is a tipped in cancel. John Martin states that during his five decades of collecting Dreiser, he never saw the G&D edition, the Harper edition, nor this Shay edition. For more information about the publishing activities of Frank Shay, please visit the website of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin: http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/bookshopdoor/theshop.cfm Lightly rubbed at spine lettering and volume extremities, some very light soiling and one bump on bottom of rear cover; very good. (1000/1500)
Page 21 110. Dubus, Andre, III. The Cage Keeper and Other Stories. Quarter cloth & boards, jacket. First Edition. New York: Dutton, [1989] Signed by the author on the title-page. His first book. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
111. Dunning, John. Booked to Die. Cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in bluish gilt, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Scribner’s, [1992] Signed by the author on the title-page, Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award. A mystery introducing book detective Cliff Janeway. Near fine. (300/500)
112. Eliot, T.S. The Confidential Clerk. 134, [2] pp. (8vo) blue cloth, jacket. First Edition. London: Faber & Faber, [1954] The play, first produced at the Edinburgh Festival of 1953, is presented here with a slightly extended text. Jacket spine darkened, the remainder less so, small chips/rubbing to top edge; small bookseller’s label to front pastedown, offsetting to front free endpaper, ink name, else very good in good jacket. (300/500)
113. Ellison, Harlan, ed. Dangerous Visions. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. Black cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967 Stories by Philip K. Dick, Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven, J. G. Ballard, Robert Silverberg and others. Some rubbing to jacket front panel, repaired tear and creasing to rear, spine a bit faded, head creased; fading to endpaper gutters, owners rubberstamp on front free endpaper, very good in like jacket. (100/150)
114. Etchison, Dennis, editor. The Complete Masters of Darkness. [14], 766 pp. 8vo. Half black leather over red cloth, spine lettered in golden-gilt, marbled endpapers, attached red silk-ribbon bookmark, color pictorial jacket, publisher’s original red cloth clamshell box with interior black velvet lining and a color pictorial spine label. No. 65 of 345 hand-numbered copies. First Edition. Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1990 Signed by 39 of the contributing authors on the four specially inserted leaves before the title page. Signatures include: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, James Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, George R.R. Martin, Damon Knight, Charles L. Grant, George Alec Effinger, Whitley Strieber, L. Sprague de Camp, David Morrell, William F. Nolan, Jack Williamson, Joyce Carol Oates, the editor, and others. Collects “for the first time in permanent hardcover” 45 classic horror stories, chosen by the author’s themselves for this edition. A few spots of very faint soiling to red cloth box; else fine. (300/500)
You can bid absentee directly from the item description in the online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com. Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder. Page 22 AN EVERSON RARITY – ONE OF ONLY 61 COPIES 115. Everson, William. A Canticle to the Waterbirds. Illustrated with woodcuts by Daniel O. Stolpe, including a color double-page frontispiece. (Oblong folio) 33.5x47.5 cm. (13¼x18½”), full linen, paper cover label, bound by Maureen Carey. No. 7 of 61 copies, handset in Weiss Roma from the Kingfisher Press & printed by Felicia Rice & Gary Young at the Bear’s Tooth Studio on paper handmade by Peter Thomas. [Santa Cruz]: Alcatraz Editions, [1992] Signed by Everson beneath his author’s note at end; signed by Stolpe, Carey, Rice, Young and Thomas in the colophon. A superb printing of what Everson considered his best known poem, and one of his favorites. The five people who produced the book each received five copies, and at least 20 went directly to institutional libraries, and the remaining 20 or so copies were sold out at publication, making this book quite scarce and rarely available. This copy additionally inscribed by Everson on the half-title: “To Peter and Hortensia on their return to Kingfisher Flat and for all the years we have been and enjoyed each others f_. William Everson.” Lacking the original matching linen box; volume fine. (1500/2000)
Lot 115
116. (Everson, William) Burke, Clifford. Printing Poetry: A workbook in Typographic Reification - signed by Bill and Sue Everson. xv, 150 pp. Foreword by William Everson. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980 Inscribed and signed from Bill and Sue Everson on the half title page. The rear colophon mentions a limitation of 2000 copies, but in fact only about 600 were actually bound in cloth. Fine. (150/250)
117. Everson, William. Mexican Standoff. Woodcut frontispiece by Robin Eschner. (8vo) red-orange cloth, paper spine label. One of 100 copies. [Emeryville, CA]: Lapis Press Studio, 1989 Signed by Everson at the colophon and by the illustrator at the frontispiece. A few small spots on front cover; near fine. (150/250) Page 23 118. Everson, William, et al. West to the Water. Six Poets: A Santa Cruz Portfolio. 6 broadside poems and title-sheet, loose in printed paper folder, as issued. 21x15¾”. No. 81 of 200 copies printed on an 1830 Acorn Handpress in Goudy Oldstyle on Tovil English handmade paper. Santa Cruz: Lime Kiln Press, 1972 Includes one broadside each from George Hitchcock, Mary Norbert Korte, Peter Veblen, Naomi Clark, John Skinner, and William Everson. Each broadside signed by the poet. Everson’s contribution is entitled Gale at Dawn. Prospectus laid in. This copy inscribed on the rear of the folder from William Everson to Peter Bartlett, proprietor of Cayucos Books. Paper folder lightly soiled; near fine. (150/250)
119. Everson, William. The Year’s Declension. Unpaginated. Decorative initials & sign cuts by Kenneth John Carpenter. (4to) 11½x8, boards. 1 of 100 copies printed by Kenneth John Carpenter, only 50 of which were for sale. Berkeley: [University of California], 1961 Signed by Everson in the colophon. Additionally inscribed by Everson to Peter Bartlett, proprietor of Cayucos Books. Prospectus from the Porpoise Bookshop laid in. Bartlett & Campo A18 Fine. (400/700)
120. Everson, William. Three works by William Everson. Includes: In Medias Res. Canto One of an Autobiographical Epic: Dust Shall Be the Serpent’s Food. Blue morocco-backed linen, front cover with a gilt-stamped morocco panel after Killion’s woodcut. With original tissue covering and shipping box. Copy Letter “C” of 226 copies. Signed by the author, artist and book designer/printer in the colophon. Adrian Wilson, [1984]. * The Masks of Drought. Cloth-backed boards. 1 of 250 copies signed by Everson. Black Sparrow Press, 1980. * Tendril in the Mesh. Cloth-backed boards. Prospectus laid in. 1 of 250 copies signed by Everson. Cayucos Books, 1973. Together 3 volumes. Various places: Various dates Fine. (250/350)
121. Fariña, Richard. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Green cloth-backed boards, jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1966] Tragically, the author died in a motorcycle accident on his way to a book signing soon after the book was published. He was married to the sister of folk singer Joan Baez. Mild soiling to jacket spine, other light wear, price clipped; faint discoloration to endpapers, else near fine in very good jacket. (150/250)
FAULKNER’S A FABLE – SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 122. Faulkner, William. A Fable. Decorated dark blue buckram, beveled edges, publisher’s slipcase. No. 808 of 1000 hand-numbered copies. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1954] Signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955, the first book to win both awards. Petersen A31b. Light finger soiling to slipcase; fine volume in near fine slipcase. (1000/1500)
Lot 122 Page 24 123. Faulkner, William. The Hamlet. Color pictorial title page. 8vo. Black cloth, top page edge stained maroon, color pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition. New York: Random House, 1940 First issue jacket without reviews but a list of “Recent and Forthcoming” titles offered by the publisher on the rear panel. Volume one of the Snopes family chronicle. Petersen A20a. Jacket a bit browned, light wear to edges; fine in a near fine jacket. (800/1200)
124. Faulkner, William. The Mansion. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1959] First issue jacket with “10/59” printed on the lower front flap. Petersen A36b. Jacket edge worn, fine in a very good jacket. (200/300)
125. Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First English Edition. London: Chatto and Windus, 1953 Peterson A28f. Jacket chipped at edges, a Lot 123 few small tape repairs on the reverse side; light wear to volume; very good in like jacket. (100/150)
126. Faulkner, William. The Town. Red cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. First Trade Edition, First Issue. New York: Random House, [1957] First issue book and jacket with red cloth, top edge stained grey, the end papers gray-patterned, page 327 lines 8 and 10 repeat; jacket with $3.95 price printed and “5/57” at bottom. The second installment, following “The Hamlet,” in Faulkner’s three-book chronicle of the Snopes family. Petersen A34a. Jacket a bit toned with some foxing on verso; dampstaining to cloth; internally clean; good in a very good jacket. (100/150)
127. Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms. Beige cloth, ruled in green, dust jacket. First Trade Edition. New York: Random House, [1939] The variant binding with brown lettering to spine, instead of gold. First edition published under the title “The Wild Palms,” but later changed to Faulkner’s intended title “If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem,” which consists of two novellas: “The Wild Palms,” and “Old Man.” Petersen A19c. Several small nicks and tiny closed tears along jacket edges, some light rubbing at folds; volume spine a bit browned, worn at spine ends and corners; very good volume in same jacket. (500/800)
128. Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre Affair. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [2001] Signed by the author on the title-page. Fforde’s first novel, the first in his Thursday Next series set in a strange, parallel 1985 where you can make a dodo from a home-cloning kit, Wales is a Soviet Republic, and the ending of Jane Eyre is less than satisfactory. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
Page 25 129. Firbank, Ronald. Prancing Nigger. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Color frontispiece by Robert E. Locher. Black cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. New York: Brentano’s, [1924] Firbank’s first book to be published in America, preceding the English edition by about eight months; only 300 copies were printed. A controversial study of West Indian life and manners, the book was slated to be made into a movie by MGM in the 1930’s, but there was a great outcry from the “American negro press,” and, despite defense of Firbank and his use of the title by Nancy Cunard, the film was never made. Benkovitz A10. Jacket torn along spine with stains on verso from earlier tape repairs, split along folds with verso tape repairs still present, some edge wear, etc.; some rubbing to covers; else very good in good jacket. (150/250)
FIRST EDITION OF FITZGERALD’S GREAT GATSBY 130. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lettering on front cover blind-stamped. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Scribner’s, 1925 First edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great masterpiece: considered the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature. First issue with “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9-10, plus the other 5 textual variations noted by Bruccoli. Bruccoli A11.I.a. A little rubbing to spine ends, lower corner of front cover bumped, rear slightly so, a few tiny white flecks to spine and 1 to front cover, ½” abrasion to top edge of front cover, leaning a trifle; front hinge cracking before half-title, 1” tear along its gutter, offset to rear endpapers from newsclippings laid in, occasional light pencil notes and marks in margins; good to very good. (800/1200)
131. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Blue cloth, dust jacket. Early reprint. New York: A.L. Burt, [1920] The most popular of his works in his own lifetime, until The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night achieved monumental posthumous stature. Dust jacket extensively restored rendering a near fine appearance; book with some light wear, front endpapers renewed, rear hinge cracked. (700/1000)
132. Fitzgerald, Penelope. Three titles by Penelope Fitzgerald. Includes: The Golden Child. Duckworth, [1977]. * Offshore. Collins, 1979. * The Gate of Angels. Collins, 1990. Together, 3 volumes. Boards, jackets. First Editions. London: Various dates Last signed by the author on the title-page. Second with faint foxing to edges of text block, jacket price clipped; near fine to fine copies in like jackets. (100/150)
133. Flint, Edward DuBois. Archive of correspondence from various California writers to Edward DuBois Flint, regarding his book, The Garden Patch, 1913. 58 album pages with newspaper clippings, typed notes signed, and autograph letters signed, laid down on pages, within a hand-tooled leather Arts and Crafts style album. 26x22 cm. (10¼x8¾”). 1913-1921 A superb archive of correspondence to Flint from various California authors such as Jack London, Luther Burbank, and Edwin Markham. Plus correspondence from several others to whom were sent a copy of the book. The typed note signed from Jack London is on his Glen Ellen, Sonoma letterhead, dated August 3, 1914. Plus, an original autograph 4-line poem directly written on one of the leaves within titled, “The Praise of Poverty” signed by Edwin Markham, dated April, 1921. Leather album designed by Ethel Shearer of San Francisco, with beautifully hand-tooled lettering, with vine and vegetable illustration surrounding the title. The album also contains several newspaper clippings of reviews of the book. Some light extremity wear; near fine. (800/1200)
Page 26 134. Ford, Richard. A Piece of My Heart. Quarter cloth & boards, jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Row, [1976] Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. His first book. A touch of wear at jacket edges; tiny spot to front board (likely a binder’s flaw); else a fine volume in near fine jacket. (300/500)
135. Ford, Richard. Independence Day. Quarter cloth & boards, jacket. First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title-page, “For David, with good wishes for you, Richard Ford.” Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize. Fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
136. Ford, Richard. The Sportswriter. Color pictorial wrappers. First Edition. New York: Vintage Books, [1986] Signed by Ford on the title-page. His breakthrough novel, which was not published in the U.S. in hardcover until 1996. Fine with just a hint of the usual darkening to the paper. (100/150)
137. Ford, Richard. The Ultimate Good Luck. Black cloth lettered in silver, jacket. First Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981 Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title-page, “For Ernest, with my warn wishes for you, Richard.” Ford’s second novel, a hard-boiled thriller involving American expatriates in Mexico. Fine in fine jacket, without the cracking to the rear joint that often occurs. (200/300)
138. Funke, Cornelia. The Thief Lord. Red boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First U.K. Edition. [London]: The Chicken House, [2002] Signed by the author on the half-title. International bestseller by the “German J.K. Rowling” about the magical underworld beneath Venice, Italy where orphans and street children led by ‘The Thief Lord’ reside. Fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
139. Garland, Alex. Two titles by Alex Garland, both signed. Includes: The Beach. Color pictorial wrappers. [1996]. * The Tesseract. Boards, jacket. [1998]. Together, 2 volumes. First Editions. London: Viking, [1996 & 1998] Each signed by the author on the title-page. Alex Garland’s first two books. The Beach was the basis for Danny Boyle’s 2000 cult movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Carlyle. The Beach with tiny, all but indiscernible indent to front wrapper; both fine or nearly so. (120/180)
GINSBERG’S POEMS INSCRIBED TO CARL SOLOMON 140. Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems, 1947-1980 - Inscribed to Carl Solomon. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Row, [1984] Inscribed on the title page and facing leaf to Ginsberg’s longtime friend and the man to whom his masterpiece “Howl” is dedicated, Carl Solomon. “For Carl Solomon January 18, 1985, New York City, from Allen Ginsberg, with thanks for his advice, sympathy, critiques, irritations, dispairs(sic), happiness & friendship for 3 and a half decades now.” And with his AH monogram at the head of the title page. An important association copy. Postcard and envelope addressed to Solomon from Ginsberg laid in. Jacket edge worn, light wear to cloth; both book and jacket very good. (500/800)
Page 27 141. Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. 6¼x5, original black wrappers overprinted in light blue, with white hand-pasted wrap-around paper label printed in black. Second printing. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, [1956] Ginsberg’s revolutionary poem, which had been seized by the U.S. Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee soon after publication, setting off one of the most important episodes in the battle for freedom of the press, and against censorship. The second printing is scarce as this was the edition seized as it arrived in San Francisco and is actually scarcer than the first printing. “75 cents” lettered in light blue on rear cover. Pocket Poets Series No.4. Slight bowing to wrappers, darkening along spine; very good or better. (400/600)
142. Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. 44 pp. Wrappers. Fourth Printing. San Francisco: City Lights, [after 1956] Light extremity wear, spine a little darkened, ink name on title-page; very good. (200/300)
143. Goodman, Allegra. Two titles by Allegra Goodman, both signed. Includes: Total Immersion: Stories. Harper & Row, [1989]. * The Family Markowitz. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1996]. Together, 2 volumes. Cloth-backed boards, jackets. First Editions. New York: [1989 & 1996] Author’s first two books, each signed by her on the title-page. Both fine in fine jackets. (100/150)
144. Gowdy, Barbara. Through the Green Valley. Boards, jacket. First Edition. [London]: Priatkus, [1988] Signed by the author on the title-page. Her first book, a “celebration of old Ireland.” Fine in fine jacket. (80/120)
JOHN GRISHAM’S FIRST BOOK 145. Grisham, John. A Time to Kill. Maroon cloth-backed orange boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Wynwood Press, [1989] Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page: “To Pat, Best Regards, John Grisham, 9-10-89.” The rare first edition of the author’s first book, which was inspired by an actual trial for the rape of a 12-year-old child. Only 5000 copies of this original first edition were published, 1000 of which the author purchased and literally sold out of the trunk of his car. Also, was the basis for the 1996 film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, and Matthew McConaughey. Jacket edge worn and with some scuffing; slight lean to spine, crease to rear flyleaf; both book and jacket very good. (1000/1500)
146. Guedalla, Philip. Conquistador: American Fantasia. Cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, dust jacket, custom morocco backed cloth drop-back box, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. First Edition. London: Ernest Benn, [1927] Inscribed to Sir Edmund Grosse and signed by the author, dated 1927 on the front free endpaper. There are notations in ink on verso of the rear jacket flap, which appear to be a seating arrangement for a dinner party or something to that extent perhaps written by the recipient of the book. Slipcase spine sunned; jacket expertly backed at spine tips and joints, light smudging all over, spine faintly yellowed; a near fine volume in very good jacket and slipcase. (150/250)
Page 28 147. Guterson, David. The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind. Stories. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. First Edition. Signed “Enjoy - David Guterson” on the secondary half-title. Acclaimed writer’s first book, a collection of short stories. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
WITH THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET 148. Guthrie, Woody. Bound for Glory. Portrait frontispiece from a photo by Robin Carson; illustrations from sketches by the author. (8vo) black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Second Printing. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1943 First book and autobiography of one of the great 20th century American folk singers. The basis for the 1976 film of the same name, directed by Hal Ashby and starring David Carradine as Woody Guthrie. This is the second printing, April 1943, one month after the first printing. The original dust jacket appears identical to that on the first printing. Minor chipping to jacket spine ends and corners, two short tears tape-repaired on verso, spine a bit faded; cloth with some fading to lower edges; very good or a bit better in like jacket. (500/800)
149. Haddon, Mark. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [2003] Signed by the author on the title-page. The less-common ‘adult’ version of the renowned novel, with the red-brown cover. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
150. Hamilton, Ruth. The Book of Ruth. Cloth-backed boards, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988 Signed by the author on the half title page. Author’s uncommon first book, winner of the PEN/ Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel Two tiny darkened spots to front board, as came from the publisher, still fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
151. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. 344 pp. (8vo) 7¼x4¼, original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 BAL binding ‘E’ with publisher’s spine imprint measuring 1/8” high and 1-1/16” wide. No publisher’s catalogue. BAL 7604. Spine ends worn and frayed, spine leaning, some wear and possible early repairs to joints, covers with several small stains and spots, some rubbing; occasional soiling within, hinge cracking before title, ink name to title page and front endpaper; overall in very good condition. (300/500)
152. Heinlein, Robert A. The Man Who Sold the Moon: Harriman and the escape from Earth to the Moon!. Introduction by John W. Campbell, Jr. 8vo. Black cloth-backed beige boards, spine lettered in gilt, chronological chart on endpapers, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1950] With the publisher’s printed label “Future History, 1951-2600 A.D.” on the bottom of the front and rear endpapers, as issued. Currey p. 233; Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-89. Jacket spine sunned, very light edge wear; endpapers a bit browned; near fine in a like jacket. (500/800)
Page 29 153. Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: Scribner’s, 1950 First issue jacket, with yellow spine. The British edition precedes the American edition, but only by three days. Hanneman A23.A. Tiny chips and tears to jacket edges, faint dampstain to top edge of verso of rear panel and flap; rubberstamp date of Aug 15 1950 on lower corner of rear jacket flap; volume a touch rubbed at spine ends; near fine volume in very good jacket. (200/300)
154. Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: Scribner’s, 1950 First issue jacket, with yellow spine. The British edition precedes the American edition, but only by three days. Hanneman A23.A. Jacket with light edge wear, ½” scuff to front panel affecting first “the” in title, 2” tear from bottom edge of rear panel tape-repaired on verso; volume a little rubbed at extremities, very good in like jacket. (150/250)
155. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Black cloth, gilt paper cover and spine labels. First Edition, second issue. New York: Scribner’s, 1929 Second issue, with the disclaimer notice on p. [x], which was added to the second printing at Hemingway’s request. Publisher’s device on copyright page. Hanneman A8.A. Spine a bit faded, leaning, vertical crack to label, rubbing to ends and corners, mild staining to covers; ink name to front endpaper, about very good. (100/150)
156. Hemingway, Ernest. “The Old Man and the Sea” in Life magazine. The first appearance of Hemingway’s Nobel-prize winning novella, in “Life” magazine, pp. 34-54, disbound from magazine, and, along with cover, laid into sleeves in portfolio book. With full-page color photograph of Hemingway, plus drawings by Noel Sickles. 14x10½, includes the front pictorial wrapper with portrait of Hemingway on front cover by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Chicago: Life Magazine, September 1, 1952 The complete work by Hemingway, preceding by eleven days its publication in book form. Hanneman C370. Also included in the lot is a First Day of Issue Hemingway stamp, on a promotional color lithograph reproduction/blow-up of said stamp. 1989. * Blown up reproduction of a photograph captioned, “Hemingway’s guide shows off tarpon and sailfish.” Light wear to page edges; very good. (150/250)
157. Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Black cloth, gilt paper cover and spine labels. First Edition, Second issue. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926 Second issue with “stopped” (instead of “stoppped”) on p. 181, line 26. Hanneman A6A. Spine leaning, extremities worn, soiling to cloth, small chip to spine label; good. (400/600)
AN ORIGINAL PORTRAIT OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY 158. (Hemingway, Ernest) Gant, David. Portrait of Ernest Hemingway. Original oil on canvas, 50.7x40.5 cm. (20x16”). Signed by the artist on the rear of the canvas. 2011 A vividly colored portrait of Ernest Hemingway by this Kansas City artist. Fine (500/800)
Page 30 159. Hilton, James. Catherine Herself. (8vo) red cloth. Modern slipcase. First Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1920] The author’s rare first novel. Wear and soiling to covers, front cover creased, hinges cracked; overall a very good copy of a cheaply produced book. (400/700)
160. [Holmes, Oliver Wendell]. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. viii, 373 pp. Ads on endpapers. (8vo) original blindstamped green cloth, spine gilt. First Edition. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858 First printing with period after ‘Company’ in title page imprint. BAL’s binding ‘A’ with three fleur-de-lis on spine. BAL 8781. Light rubbing to cloth, spine ends chipped; very good. (300/500)
161. Howells, William D. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt. First Edition, First State. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885 Second state advertisement on page [vi] (headed Mr. Howells’s Latest Novels) as well as battered type on page 176. BAL 9619. Some rubbing to covers, wear to extremities, spine leaning; about very good. (100/150)
SIGNED BY VICTOR HUGO 162. Hugo, Victor. Actes et Paroles: Avant L’Exil, 1841-1851. xlviii, 516 pp. 23.5x15.5 cm. (9¼x6”), blue calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. Paris: Michel Levy, 1875 Signed from Victor Hugo to Jules Simon(?) on the half title page. Spine repaired at front joint, joints rubbed, edges rubbed, corners exposed; hinges cracked; else internally very good. (600/900)
163. Huxley, Aldous. Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme. Cloth-backed boards. No. 1 of 260 copies. First Edition. London: Chatto and Windus, 1930 Signed by Huxley at the limitation statement. Boards a touch browned; near fine. (300/500)
164. Isherwood, Christopher, translator. The Intimate Journals of Charles Baudelaire - with sticker signed by Isherwood. Introduction by W.H. Auden. (8vo) blue cloth lettered in red, yellow dust jacket. First American Edition. Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1947 With a sticker signed by Christopher Isherwood on the front free endpaper. Plus the bookplate of N. Reed Mathis, 1950 on front pastedown. With considerable revision from the earlier edition, published in 1930 by Blackmore Press/Random House. * Also included in the lot: Wesby, Selmer. Christopher Isherwood: A Bibliography, 1923-1967. Cloth. California State College at Los Angeles Foundation, 1968. Jacket price-clipped, lightly chipped at edges, with a long closed tear at front joint of jacket spine, some yellowing and tiny stains; volumes are fine. (300/500)
165. Jecks, Michael. The Last Templar [&] A Moorland Hanging. Together, 2 volumes. Boards, jackets. First Editions. London: Headline, [1995 & 1996] Each signed by Jecks on the title-page. The authors first and third books, Medieval West Country mysteries. First volume spine ends a bit crimped, both with the usual mild tanning to contents; near fine to fine copies in like jackets. (200/300) Page 31 A FEW LOTS OF ROBINSON JEFFERS 166. (Jeffers, Robinson) . Photograph of Robinson Jeffers with wife Una. Original vintage black and white photograph of Robinson Jeffers seated with his wife Una. 20x25 cm. (7¾x9¾”). [New York]: [Arthur Stettner], [c.1950s] With the rubberstamp of Arthur Stettner, 562 Fifth Avenue, Longacre 5 - 9232, on verso. A beautiful image of the two seated and looking at one another. One tiny spot and a faint crease at bottom edge; near fine. (200/300)
167. Jeffers, Robinson. Californians. Original blue cloth gilt-lettered and pictorially stamped with small view of the coast, top edge gilt. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1916 The author’s second book. With the bookplate of Edwin Newberry Durland on the front pastedown. Lightly rubbed extremities; a few neat inscriptions in ink on front free endpaper; a few very neat ink notation on leaves within, such as “you will like this” and “characteristic”; very good. (100/150)
168. Jeffers, Robinson. Two works by Robinson Jeffers - limited editions, signed by William Everson. Includes: Californians. Cloth-backed boards. No. 49 of 500 copies. 1971. * The Alpine Christ & Other Poems. Red calf-backed cloth. No. 250 of 250 copies. 1973. Together 2 volumes, both signed on the colophon by William Everson. Cayucos Books, Various dates A touch rubbed; else fine. (200/300)
169. Jeffers, Robinson. Thirteen volumes by Robinson Jeffers - a few signed. Includes: Give Your Heart to the Hawks. Inscribed and signed by Jeffers on the front free endpaper. Random House, 1933. * Jeffers Country: The Seed Plots of Robinson Jeffers’ Poetry. With photographs by Horace Lyon. Inscribed and signed by Lyon on front free endpaper, with a TNs from Lyon laid in. With dj. Scrimshaw Press, 1971. * Thurso’s Landind and Other Poems. With 2 small original photographs of Jeffers’ home laid down on front free endpaper. Liveright, Inc., [1932]. * Hungerfield and Other Poems. With dj (heavily chipped and torn). Inscribed and signed by Jeffers. Some dampstaining. Random House, [1954]. * Roan Stallion Tamar and Other Poems. Boni & Liveright, 1925. * Cawdor and Other Poems. Horace Liveright, 1928. * The Women at Point Sur. Boni & Liveright, 1927. * The Alpine Christ. With dj. Trade Edition. Cayucos Books, 1974. * The Double Axe & Other Poems. With dj. Random House, [1948]. * Roan Stallion Tamar and Other Poems. With dj. Modern Library, [1953]. * 2 copies of: Flagons and Apples. 1970 re-issue by Cayucos Books. * Medea. Random House, [1946]. Together 13 volumes. Various places: Various dates Mostly mild wear to some; 1 with moderate wear (Hungerfield); mostly very good or near fine. (400/600)
170. Jin, Ha. Three titles by Ha Jin, each signed. Includes: Ocean of Words: Army Stories. Wrappers. Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, [1996]. * Under the Red Flag. Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, [1997]. * Waiting. 2 copies. New York: Pantheon Books, [1999]. Together, 3 titles, 4 volumes. Last 3 in cloth &/or boards. All are First Editions. Various places: Various dates Each signed by the author on the title-page. The first title was not issue in hardcover until after it won the 1997 PEN/Hemingway Award. The second volume won the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction. The author emigrated from China to the United States following the Tiananmen Square massacre. All in fine condition. (150/250)
Page 32 171. Joyce, James. Chamber Music. [40] pp. 15.5x105 cm. (6¼x4¼”), original green gilt-lettered boards. First (unauthorized) American Edition. Boston: The Cornhill Company, Precedes the authorized American edition published in New York by B. W. Heubsch. This is the issue with laid, rather than wove paper endpapers, no known priority. Slocum & Cahoon A5. Light wear; endpapers foxed, erasure on front endpaper; very good. (200/300)
TWO LOTS OF KEROUAC 172. Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Black cloth, lettered in white, dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing in First State jacket. New York: Viking, 1957 First state jacket, price present on front flap of $3.95 and blue and red stripe across back cover. One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, by the father of the beat generation. Charters A2. Jacket rubbed at folds, vertical creases to front panel and spine, some chipping to spine ends and corners, a few short tears, edge wear, dampstain to spine strip which is evident only on the verso; a bit of rubbing/finger soiling to covers, spine lightly stained with vertical crease, leaning; good to very good in like jacket. (800/1200)
173. Kerouac, Jack. Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46. Black cloth-backed boards, pictorial endpapers, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Coward-McCann, [1968] Jacket with several tears and creasing at top edge, tape repairs on verso; gilt on volume spine well faded, mark near top edge of front cover; about very good in like jacket. (100/150)
174. King, Stephen. The Stand. Cloth-backed boards, pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 The author’s fifth book and fourth novel; a classic of good versus evil. Short tears and minor creases to jacket edges, light wear along flap folds, a few tiny stains; mild rubbing to volume, faint wrinkle to upper front board; near fine in a very good or better jacket. (200/300)
175. Kosinski, Jerzy. Cockpit. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975 Inscribed on front free endpaper: “With every best wish, Jerzy Kosinski”. Jacket with some edge wear, short tear at bottom edge of front panel; volume with light edge wear; very good in a like jacket. (150/250)
176. Lamb, Charles. Tales from Shakespear, designed for the Use of Young Persons. 2 volumes. xi, [1], 235; [4], 261 + [1] ad pp. With 20 copper-engraved plates including 2 frontispieces. (12mo) 17.6x10.5 cm. (7x4¼”), period tree calf, gilt-roll borders, spines tooled in gilt. Stated Third Edition. London: M.J. Godwin, 1816 Nice little edition of Lamb’s classic. Some rubbing to spines, joints and edges; some foxing and minor staining within, bookplates of Herbert Riley, very good. (200/300)
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Page 33 177. Lawrence, D.H. Six works by D.H. Lawrence. Includes: The Man Who Died. Green cloth, gilt. One of 2000 copies. With Noreen Curry’s ownership signature on the front free endpaper, with evidence of a removed bookplate there. Martin Secker, 1931. * England My England. Dark blue cloth. Thomas Seltzer, 1922. * The Man Who Died. Cloth-backed boards. Heinemann, 1935. * 2 copies of: St. Mawr. Brown cloth. Issue with table of contents listing first page as 9 (instead of 7). Martin Secker, [1925]. * The Lovely Lady. Aqua cloth, dust jacket (price-clipped). Viking Press, 1933. Together 6 volumes. Various places: Various dates Mostly light general wear to each; mostly very good or better. (250/350)
178. Lawrence, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph. 672 pp. Illustrated with over 50 plates most from charcoal, pastel & line drawings of portraits; 4 maps. 25x19 cm. (9¾x7¼”), quarter morocco & buckram, spine titled in gilt, top edge stained red, others untrimmed. No. 298 of 750 copies. First American Trade Edition, Limited Issue. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935 One of the indisputable classics of twentieth century English literature, which assured Lawrence’s place in history as “Lawrence of Arabia.” Inscription on front free endpaper reads: “To A.B. Elias, Esq. with kindest regards from S.A. Taylor, 9.28.35.” Spine scuffed, darkened, dampstain to rear cover; darkening to endpaper gutters; about very good. (400/600)
179. Le May, Alan. The Searchers. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. One of 800 copies for presentation. First Edition. New York: Harper, 1954 Signed by Le May on limitation-page. Basis for the classic John Ford Western starring John Wayne. Jacket spine faded a bit, light chipping to spine ends and corers, stain to top of front panel, a short edge tear, crease to top corner, small hole in front fold; very good in like jacket. (200/300)
180. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Dark gray boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. The 40th Anniversary Edition, first printing. [New York]: HarperCollins, [1999] Signed by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine jacket. (200/300)
181. Lethem, Jonathan. Fourteen works by Jonathan Lethem - all signed. Includes: Gun, With Occasional Music. [1994]. * Amnesia Moon. [1995]. * The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye. [1996]. * As She Climbed Across the Table. [1997]. * Girl in Landscape. [1998]. * Kafka Americana. [1999]. * Motherless Brooklyn. [1999]. * This Shape We’re In. [2001]. * The Fortress of Solitude. [2003]. * Men and Cartoons. [2004]. * The Disappointment Artist. [2005]. * You Don’t Love Me Yet. [2007]. Chronic City. [2009]. Together 13 volumes, all first editions in dust jacket, all signed by the author. Various places: Various dates Also includes: Coda Hardboiled. Framed broadside, signed. Printed at the Poltroon Press. A few with some light wear; overall near fine to fine. (500/800)
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Page 34 WITH THE RARE DUST JACKET 182. Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Blue cloth lettered and stamped in orange, jacket. First Edition, First Binding. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1927] First binding, with the “G” in “Gantry” on the spine strongly resembling a “C”. All jacket flap corners evenly clipped with the publisher’s printed “$2.50” price at the end of the front flap text (just above the publisher’s imprint). Dust jacket chipped at spine ends, resulting in the loss of the top of the letter “E” in “Elmer” at the top and in the loss of a few letters in the publisher’s name at the bottom, two small triangular chips out of the rear panel; volume with slight lean to spine; near fine in a very good jacket. (300/500)
183. London, Jack. Jerry of the Islands. ix, [1], 337, [3] + [6] ad pp. Color frontispiece. 7½x5, red- orange cloth lettered in gilt and black, decorated in black. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1917 BAL 11973; Sisson & Martens, p. 93. Rubbing to spine ends and corners, soilmark to spine, leaning a bit; else very good. (100/150)
184. London, Jack. Revolution and Other Essays. ix, [1], 309, [1] + [4] ad pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1910 The preferred maroon cloth edition. Scarce, only 2130 copies printed. BAL 11916; Sisson & Martens, p. 45. Spine sunned, some light wear to extremities, lacking front free endpaper, previous owner’s name on front pastedown; very good. (150/250)
185. London, Jack. Two first editions by Jack London. Includes: The Little Lady of the Big House. [i-vi], 392, [2] + [4] ad pp. Color frontispiece. Blue cloth with hacienda pictorial on front and spine in orange, cream and darker blue, spine lettered in gilt. Front cover and spine detached at front hinge. First Edition. * The Mutiny of the Elsinor. [4], 378, [2] + [6] ad pp. Color frontispiece. 7½x5, orange cloth with cover illustration in blue and light blue-gray, lettered in white on front cover and gilt on spine. First Edition. New York: Macmillan, Various dates Some mild to moderate rubbing to cloth; very good. (200/300)
186. London, Joan. Jack London and His Daughters - copy of original typescript. 258 leaves plus 15 leaf synopsis of remainder of book. Photocopy of original typescript on rectos only of 11x8½” paper. c. 1990 Address of Bart Abbott, Jack London’s grandson, and author of the introduction on the first leaf. Memoir of her life as the daughter of her often-absent novelist father. Fine. (200/300)
187. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems. vii, 151 pp. 7x4½, wrappers (which are original endpapers because it lacks gilt lithographed wrappers, except for at spine), custom cloth chemise, and morocco-backed slipcase, gilt spine. First Edition. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846 BAL 12083. Light shelf wear to slipcase; spine lacking 2” at heel, a few tiny tears and faint smudges to front wrapper; very good. (150/250)
Page 35 188. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Three titles by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Includes: Tales of a Wayside Inn. viii, 225 pp. 22 page publisher’s catalog at rear dated November, 1863. Additional illustrated title page. First Edition. BAL 12136. Ticknor & Fields, 1863. * The Building of the Ship. 79 pp. 20 engraved illustrations after W.J. Hennessy and R.S. Gifford. First illustrated edition & first separate edition, originally included in The Seaside and the Fireside (1850). BAL 12511. Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. * The Divine Tragedy. iv, 150 pp. Small paper format. First Edition. BAL 12157. James R. Osgood, 1871. Together, 3 volumes. Original cloth. Boston: Various dates Varying amounts of wear, spines faded, 1st head chipped, last with inscription on flyleaf, newspaper clipping on its verso; about very good. (150/250)
THE FIRST LEW ARCHER MYSTERY 189. Macdonald, John [pseud. of Kenneth Millar]. The Moving Target. Peach cloth stamped in green, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1949 An excellent copy of the first Lew Archer novel by Ross Macdonald writing as John Macdonald; he also published novels as John Ross Macdonald, and under his real name, Kenneth Millar. Jacket lightly edge worn; fine in a near fine jacket. (1500/2000)
190. Mann, Thomas. Joseph in Egypt. 2 volumes. Translated from the original German for the first time in English by H. T. Lowe-Porter. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers, top page edges stained yellow. First American Edition, fifth printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938 Signed by Mann on flyleaf in Volume 1 and half-title in Volume 2. Spines leaning, light wear; bookplates, bookplate removed from front flyleaf in Volume 1; very good. (150/250) Lot 189
TWO SOMERSET MAUGHAM LIMITED EDITIONS 191. Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Illustrated by Randolph Schwabe. 9¼x6¾, tan linen decorated in gilt and black, top edge gilt, acetate jacket, slipcase with pictorial label. No. 480 of 751 copies. First Illustrated Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1936 Signed by Maugham and Schwabe on the limitation statement. Stott A21.d. Edge wear to slipcase, some soiling and yellowing to slipcase pictorial label; lightly foxed at early and late leaves; near fine volume in a very good slipcase. (400/600)
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Page 36 192. Maugham, W. Somerset. The Razor’s Edge. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt-lettered black leather spine label, top edge gilt, slipcase. No. 12 of 750 copies. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1944 Signed by Maugham on the limitation page. Maugham’s last major novel, which was a departure for him in many ways, from his other works. A disillusioned WWI veteran abandons his wealthy friends and lifestyle, while traveling to India seeking enlightenment. Basis for the 1946 film starring Tyrone Power and again in 1984 starring Bill Murray. Stott A63.a. Slipcase restored at all edges; restored at gutter of limitation leaf; volume very good. (1000/1500)
193. McEwan, Ian. Amsterdam. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1998] Signed by the author on the title-page. Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize; first state dust jacket Lot 192 without the booker prize blurb. Fine in fine jacket. (80/120)
194. McEwan, Ian. Atonement. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [2001] Signed by McEwan on the title-page. Fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
195. Merritt, A[braham]. The Face in the Abyss. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931 “Lost race fantasy adventure novel, possibly Merritt’s most imaginative and colourful.” - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 155. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1158. Jacket chipped at edges, some soiling; volume with some light edge wear; very good in a very good jacket. (400/700)
196. Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Orange cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking, 1949 First state of the dust jacket with the second S in Salesman touching Willy Loman’s right arm in the front panel illustration, Miller’s photograph on rear flap. Death of a Salesman was the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Some rubbing and creasing to jacket, a few edge tears, small chips to spine ends and corners; very good in like jacket. (500/800)
SEVERAL LOTS OF HENRY MILLER 197. Miller, Henry. Aller Retour New York. 89 pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, lettered in gold. One of 500 copies printed for private circulation. First American Edition, Trade Issue. [Brooklyn, NY]: Privately Printed, 1945 Shifreen & Jackson A11c. A touch rubbed; near fine. (200/300)
Page 37 198. Miller, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. Black cloth, dust jacket. First New Directions Edition. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1941, but 1946] First published in 1941 by the Colt Press. Signed by Miller on the front free endpaper. Jacket with several chips and short tears, old tape repairs on verso; light wear to cloth; very good. (200/300)
199. Miller, Henry. Order and Chaos chez Hans Reichel. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Illustrated with facsimiles and drawings, plus an original photograph of Miller on the front pastedown and a self- portrait drawing of Reichel; prospectus. (4to), variegated colored papers and cork endpapers in wove tissue-covered boards, pictorial jacket, slipcase. One of 1399 copies of the Cork Edition. First Edition. [Tucson]: Loujon Press of New Orleans, [1966] Number 3 in the Gypsy Lou Series. Shifreen & Jackson A157c. Fine. (200/300)
200. Miller, Henry. Remember to Remember. Maroon cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. [New York]: New Directions, [1947] An advance copy, stamped with publication date, Nov. 5, 1947 on front free endpaper. Also inscribed on this leaf: To Roland Bartell - Who is not only a unique bookdealer but a rare soul - and a loyal friend. With warmest greetings, Henry Miller, Big Sur, 11/4/47”. The second volume of “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. Shifreen & Jackson A65a. Jacket with minor edges wear; else fine in a fine jacket. (200/300)
201. Miller, Henry. The World of Sex. 88 pp. Blue cloth, unlettered. Variant Second Edition, Fifth Variant Binding. [New York]: Printed for J.H.N. for Friends of Henry Miller [Ben Abramson], [c. 1946] Shifreen & Jackson A25j. Small tear to surface of front free endpaper; near fine. (100/150)
202. Miller, Henry. The World of Sex. 88 pp. Black cloth, gilt cover label, lettered in black. One of 250 copies [but known to be closer to 1000 copies]. First Edition, First Binding Variant. [Chicago, IL]: Printed for J.H.N. for Friends of Henry Miller, [1941] First binding variant with a non-lettered spine, issued without a dust jacket, and with raspberry- pink endpapers. Largely uncut. Shifreen & Jackson A25b. Lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners; else near fine. (100/150)
203. Miller, Henry. Three works by Henry Miller - Grove Press Editions. Includes: Tropic of Cancer. First printing, third printing jacket with (iii) on rear panel. [1961]. * Tropic of Capricorn. First Printing. [1962]. * Black Spring. First Printing. [1963]. All in cloth-backed boards, with original dust jackets. New York: Grove Press, [1960s] Tropic of Capricorn signed by Miller on the front free endpaper. Some fading and light wear to jackets; fine in very good or better jackets. (200/300)
You can bid absentee directly from the item description in the online version of the catalogue at www.pbagalleries.com. Or bid during the auction using the Real-Time Bidder. Page 38 204. Miller, Henry. Five volumes by, about, or with contributions by, Henry Miller. Includes: Circle. Volume 1, Number 3. With contribution by Miller. Original wrappers (detached). [1944]. * Laurence Durell, Henry Miller. A Private Correspondence. Cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. [1963]. * Thoreau, Henry David. Life Without Principle. Introduction by Henry Miller. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. One of 500 copies. First Edition. 1946. * Stand Still Like the Hummingbird. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First Edition. [1962]. * White, Emil, editor. Henry Miller. Between Heaven and Hell. Wrappers. Signed by the editor. 1961. Together 5 volumes. Various places: Various dates Overall very good or better. (200/300)
205. Miller, Henry. Nine works by or about Henry Miller. Includes: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird. With dj. New Directions, [1962]. * The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. With dj. New Directions, [1948]. * Gordon, William A. The Mind and Art of Henry Miller. With dj. Louisiana State University, [1967]. * Tropic of Capricorn. With dj (price-clipped). John Calder, [1964]. * The Books of My Life. With dj. New Directions, [1952]. * Remember to Remember. Vol. 2 of the Air-Conditioned Nightmare. With dj. New Directions, [1947]. * The Colossus of Maroussi. Colt Press, [1941]. * Greece. Drawings by Anne Poor. With dj. Viking Press, [1964]. * The Happy Rock. A Book About Henry Miller. With dj. No. 161 of 3000 copies, of which 750 were bound for distribution in 1945. Together 9 volumes. Various places: Various dates Mild to moderate wear to dust jackets; mostly mild general wear to volumes; mostly very good. (200/300)
206. Milne, A[lan] A[lexander]. Toad of Toad Hall. A Play From Kenneth Grahame’s Book ‘The Wind in the Willows’. xv, 166, [2], +8 ad pp. (8vo) blue cloth, dust jacket. First Trade Edition. London: Methuen & Co., [1929] Some chipping to jacket edges; slight bump to corners, bookplate; near fine in a very good jacket. (150/250)
207. Milne, A[lan] A[lexander]. Four titles by A.A. Milne. Includes: The Holiday Round. Green cloth. First Edition. [1912]. * The Sunny Side. Red cloth, dust jacket. One of 1500 copies. First American Edition. [1922]. * For the Luncheon Interval: Cricket and Other Verses. Wrappers. First Edition. [1925]. * By Way of Introduction. Purple cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. [1929]. Together 4 volumes, all first or first American editions. Various places: Various dates Poems and literary works by the author of the Winnie the Pooh stories. All with some light wear; overall very good or better. (100/150)
208. Moore, Lorrie. Three titles by Lorrie Moore, each signed. Includes: Self-Help. 1985. * Anagrams. 1986. * Like Lives. 1990. Together, 3 volumes. Cloth & boards, jackets. First Editions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Various dates Each signed by the author on the title-page. Moore’s first three books for adults - she wrote a juvenile, The Forgotten Helper, that was published in 1987. First with slight fading to board edges, else near fine, others fine in fine jackets. (120/180)
Page 39 THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK 209. Moore, Marianne. Observations. Black cloth and boards, paper label on spine, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Dial Press, 1924 The author’s rare first book. An additional spine label is tipped to the rear endpaper. Jacket with some chipping, tears and creases; slight lean to spine, small pull to paper of rear board; very good in a good jacket. (700/1000)
210. Morrison, Toni. Two novels by Toni Morrison, including one signed. Includes: Paradise. Signed by Morrison on a special bookplate on half title page. Cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. 1998. * Tar Baby. Cloth, dust jacket. First Trade Edition. 1981. Together 2 volumes. New York: Knopf, Various dates Near fine or fine. (100/150)
211. Morrison, Toni. Two titles by Toni Morrison. Includes: Tar Baby. 1981. * Beloved. 1987. Together, 2 volumes. Cloth, jackets. First Editions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 & 1987 Toni Morrison’s fourth and fifth novels. Both fine in fine jackets. (100/150)
212. Mosley, Walter. Three titles by Walter Mosley, each signed. Includes: Devil in a Blue Dress. [1990]. * A Red Death. [1991]. * White Rawlins. [1992]. Together, 3 volumes. Cloth-backed board, jackets. First Editions. New York: W.W. Norton, Various dates Each signed by the author on the title-page. The author’s first three novels, featuring hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins in Los Angeles in the late 1940s. Fine in fine jackets (200/300)
213. Márquez, Gabriel García. Two titles by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Together, 2 volumes. Cloth, jackets. First U.S. Editions. New York: Harper & Row, [1972 & 1978] First jacket price clipped, 2nd with owner’s neat name to front endpaper; near fine to fine copies in like jackets. (120/180)
214. Nabokoff, Vladimir. Laughter In The Dark. Tan cloth, spine lettered in green, jacket. First American Edition. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1938] Published in England under the title Camera Obscura. The first book by Vladimir Nabokov published in America. Jacket chipped, soiled and creased, rear flap detached; light wear to cloth, previous owner’s name on rear endpaper, endpapers browned; very good in a good jacket. (400/700)
215. Naipaul, V.S. The Middle Passage. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. [London]: Andre Deutsch, [1962] With the Reader’s Union dust jacket, printed in purple. Jacket with slight edge wear; spine leaning; near fine in a like jacket. (250/350)
Page 40 216. Newton, A. Edward. Derby Day and Other Adventures - two editions of the work. 2 editions of the work, including: First trade edition in plaid cloth, cover label and dust jacket. With the bookplate of Jean Hersholt, with the name in ink on the bookplate. * First Edition. No. 843 of 1129 copies, signed by the author. Cloth-backed boards. With rear pocket containing reduced facsimile of Charlotte Bronte’s previously unpublished “A Leaf from an Unopened volume.” Boston: Little, Brown, 1934 Light wear to all; very good or near fine. (200/300)
217. Nordan, Lewis. The All-Girl Football Team. Yellow cloth, jacket. First Edition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986 The author’s second collection of stories. Added to the lot are Vintage Contemporaries paperback editions of this book and of his first book, Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair, both published in 1989. Fine in fine jacket. (120/180)
218. Norman, Howard. Four volumes by Howard Norman, each signed. Includes: The Northern Lights. New York: Summit Books, [1987]. * Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories. New York: Summit Books, [1989]. * The Bird Artist. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1994]. * The Bird Artist. First British edition. [London]: Faber & Faber, [1994]. Together, 3 volumes. Cloth &/or boards, jackets. First three are First Editions. Various places: Various dates Each signed by the author on the title-page. Howard Norman’s first three prose works for adults. Northern Lights and Bird Artist were each nominated for a National Book Award. Fine in fine jackets. (120/180)
219. (“Nothing” series) Butler, William Allen, et al. Nothing to Wear and two sequels. Includes: [Butler, William Allen]. Nothing to Wear; An Episode of City Like. (From Harper’s Weekly). 7 plates by Hoppin. Rudd & Carleton, 1857. * Nothing to Do: An Accompaniment to “Nothing to Wear.” By a Lady. 8 plates by J.H. Howard. Wiley & Halsted, 1857. * Nothing to You; or, Mind Your Own Business. In answer to “Nothings” in general, and “Nothing to Wear” in particular. By Knot-Rab. 8 plates by J.H. Howard. Wiley & Halsted, 1857. Together, 3 volumes. Original blindstamped cloth stamped in gilt. First Editions. New York: 1857 Butlers comedic poem and two parodies - a cottage industry seems to have sprung around producing these “Nothing” books. Some foxing within, darkening to the pates, two with bookplates; very good. (150/250)
220. O’Nan, Stewart. Two titles by Stewart O’Nan, each signed. Cloth &/or boards, jackets. First Editions. Pittsburgh & New York: [1993 & 1994] Each signed by the author on the title-page. His first two books. Walled City was the 1993 winner of the Drue Heinz Prize and the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize. Fine in fine jackets. (80/120)
221. O’Neill, Jamie. Three titles by Jamie O’Neill. Includes: Disturbance. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1989]. * Kilbrack or Who is Nancy Valentine? Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1990]. * At Swim, Two Boys. Scribner, [2001]. Together, 3 volumes. Boards, jackets. First Editions. London: Various dates Third signed by the author on the title-page. O’Neill first three (and thus far only three) books. First two with mild tanning to the contents, an inevitable occurrence, near fine to fine in like jackets. (120/180) Page 41 INSCRIBED BY CHARLES OLSON 222. Olson, Charles. Call Me Ishmael. Yellow cloth, spine lettered dark blue, orange jacket. First Edition, first printing. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947] Inscribed and signed by the author and his wife (all in Charles Olson’s hand) in blue ink “For Marian & Michael whom we love, Connie & Charles” on the front free endpaper. Author’s scarce and important first book. Jacket front panel subtitled: Herman Melville, ‘Moby-Dick’, and America: Space...Myth...Shakespeare. Butterick & Glover A1. Chips and tears with creases to jacket edges, large old tape repairs to verso (causing some darkening to recto), mild rubbing; slight lean, light shelf wear; very good or better, bright, jacket fair to good but quite scarce. (700/1000)
223. Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Canadian Edition. Toronto: Reginald Saunders, [1946] Scarce Canadian edition of Orwell’s masterpiece of revolution gone awry, dramatized on an English farm. Imprint of London publisher Secker & Warburg also on title-page, but First Canadian Edition and Printed in Canada on its verso. A little rubbing to jacket extremities, spine head frayed, tape repair on verso; else fine in near fine jacket. (200/300)
224. Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. First Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, [1996] Author’s first book, basis for the 1999 film starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Fine in fine jacket. (80/120)
225. Pierre, DBC [pseud of Peter Warren Finlay]. Vernon God Little. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Faber & Faber, [2003] Signed by the author on the title-page. The author’s first book. Fine in fine jacket. (150/250)
226. (Pocket Poets Series - City Lights Books) . Seven volumes in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books, including two duplicates. Includes: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Pictures of the Gone World. Pocket Poets Series No. 1. 2 copies. 6th ptg. & 16th ptg. [Latter with owner’s inscription.] After 1955. * Rexroth, Kenneth. Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile. Pocket Poets Series No. 2. 2nd Ed. [1957]. * Corso, Gregory. Gasoline. Pocket Poets Series No. 8. 1st Ed. [1958]. * Hollo, Anselm. Red Cats. Pocket Poets Series No. 16. 2 copies, each with Kepler’s Books rubberstamp at top of front wrapper. 6th ptgs. [1968]. * Ginsberg, Allen. Reality Sandwiches. Pocket Poets Series No. 18. 2nd ptg. 1963. Together, 7 volumes. Wrappers. San Francisco: City Lights Books, Various dates Some soling to wrappers; very good or better. (300/500)
227. Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, [1962] The Pulitzer Prize winning author’s masterpiece. There are two examples of the jacket, one for the first edition, one for the book club edition. A little extremity rubbing to the jackets (mostly the book club jacket, with has protected the other), about fine in near fine jackets. (100/150)
Page 42 228. Powers, Richard. Three titles by Richard Powers. Includes: Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. [1985]. * Prisoner’s Dilemma. [1988]. * The Gold Bug Variations. [1991]. Together, 3 volumes. Cloth-backed boards, jackets. First Editions. New York: William Morrow, Powers’ first three books. Last with mild crease to fore-margins of earlier leaves; overall, fine in fine jackets. (150/250)
229. Prokosch, Frederic. Seventeen titles and one Autograph Letter Signed by Frederic Prokosch. Includes: Autograph letter signed by Prokosch, to a Mr. Jack Robinson, discussing his work The Asiatics. With envelope. Paris: May 22, [1964]. * The Asiatics. (Jacket with some extremity creasing and wear.) 1935. * The Assassins: Poems. (Jacket missing pieces from spine strip and lower edge of front panel.) 1936. * First British edition of preceding. 1936. * The Carnival. 1938. * First British edition of preceding. 1938. * Death at Sea. 1940. * The Skies of Europe. 1941. * The Conspirators. (Jacket missing top 1” of spine strip.) 1943. * The Idols of the Cave. 1946. * Storm and Echo. 1948. * Snow Song. Inscribed and signed by the author. Wrappers. Letter i of 10 copies on Sienese paper, from a run of 44 copies. 1949. * Nine Days to Mukalla. 1953. * The Seven Sisters. [1962]. * First British edition of preceding. [1963]. * The Missolonghi Manuscript. [1968]. * America, My Wilderness. 1st British edition. * Voices: A Memoir. 1983. Together, 17 volumes & 1 letter. Cloth &/or boards with jackets except as noted. First Editions except as noted. Various places: Various dates Besides is extensive literary accomplishments, Prokosch is remembered for forging copies of William Butler Yeats poems, and his signature, as well as other rather nefarious deeds. His memoir, Voices, a record of his encounters with some of the century’s leading artists and writers, has been revealed to be almost wholly fictitious and part of an enormous hoax. Various amounts of wear, fading or darkening to volume and jacket spines, some with bookplates or inscriptions, good to very good, sold as is. (500/800)
230. Proust, Marcel. Four works by Marcel Proust. Includes: Within a Budding Grove. 2 volumes. NY: Setzer, 1924. * Swann’s Way. 2 volumes. Fourth Impression. NY: Holt, 1925. * The Sweet Cheat Gone. NY: Boni, 1930. * The Past Recaptured. NY: Boni, 1932. Together 4 works in 6 volumes, original cloth-backed patterned boards, paper labels on spines. First or Early American Editions. Various places: Various dates Four parts from Proust’s multi-part novel, “Remembrance of Things Past”. Several volumes with the bookplate of Walter Scott Hastings. Spines darkened, labels chipped; good. (300/500)
231. Radcliffe, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. A Romance. Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry. 3 volumes. 208; 207; 206 pp. (16mo) 12.5x7.2 cm. (5x2¾”) period brown cloth, leather spine labels. Exeter: J. and B. Williams, 1834 Charming edition of Ann Radcliffe’s influential Gothic novel, first published in 1794. Spines leaning, light wear and soiling; foxing; very good. (200/300)
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Page 43 INSCRIBED BY AYN RAND 232. Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Green cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. Thirteenth Printing. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., [Sept. 1944] Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Laura B. Scott - Cordially - Ayn Rand. December 16, 1944.” The dust jacket is slightly shorter than the book, and is the second issue, with the author’s photograph and three reviews on the back panel, the original “$3.00” printed price present on the lower front flap. Jacket with edge wear and some creasing, ½x1” chip to lower front panel, smaller chips at spine Lot 232 ends, a few tape repairs on verso; several faint stains to covers; very good or better in good jacket. (1000/1500)
233. Rand, Ayn, editor. The Objectivist - Volume 8, Number 6. 16 pp. 21.3x14 cm. (8½x5½”), original green wrappers lettered in white. New York: The Objectivist, 1969 Signed in ink on the front cover by Ayn Rand. The contents of this issue include: What is Romanticism? (II), by Ayn Rand; The Base of Objectivist Psychotherapy, by Allan Blumenthal; The War of Liberation in Hollywood, by Ayn Rand and Erika Holzer. Lightly rubbed at wrapper edges; very good. (300/500)
234. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Gray buckram, top page edge stained red, color pictorial jacket. First American Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929 Remarque’s classic about a disillusioned soldier dealing with the devastation caused during WWI. Jacket with ¼x½” chip to top edge of front panel, a few short edge tears with tape repair on verso, vertical crease to spine; near fine in very good jacket. (300/500)
THREE LOTS OF ANNE RICE – MANY SIGNED 235. Rice, Anne. Interview With The Vampire. Cloth-backed boards, gilt foil dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Knopf, 1976 Signed by Rice on front free endpaper. The author’s first book. Some light creasing and edge wear to jacket; a touch of light edge wear to volume; name in ink on top edge of front free endpaper; else near fine in a very good jacket. (500/800)
236. Rice, Anne. Seven signed first editions by Anne Rice. Includes: The Vampire Lestat. 1985. * The Witching Hour. Inscribed, “For Nina.” 1990. * The Tale of the Body Thief. 1992. * Lasher. 1993. * Cry To Heaven. 1982. * Servant of the Bones. 1996. * Menoch the Devil: The Vampire Chronicles. 1995. Together 7 octavos in cloth or cloth-backed boards in dust jackets. New York: Knopf, Various dates Each volume is signed in bold black marker or ink on the front free endpaper. Some with very light edge wear to jackets and/or volumes; near fine or fine. (600/900)
Page 44 237. Rice, Anne. Ten novels by Anne Rice - mostly first editions. Includes: The Queen of the Damned. 1st Edition. Knopf, 1988. * The Feast of All Saints. 1st Edition. Simon and Schuster, [1979]. * Violin. 1st Trade Edition. Knopf, 1997. * Pandora. 1st Trade Edition. Knopf, 1998. * Rampling, Anne, pseud. Exit to Eden. 2nd Edition. Arbor House, [1985]. * Taltos. 1st Edition. Knopf, 1994. * Belinda. 1st Edition. Arbor House, [1986]. * 2 copies of: The Mummy or Ramses the Damned. 1st UK Edition. Chatto & Windus, [1989]. * The Vampire Lestat. With bookplate. 3rd Printing. Knopf, 1985. Various places: Various dates Plus: Ramsland, Katherine. Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice. 1st Edition. Dutton, [1991]. * Mascetti, Manuela Dunn. Vampire: The Complete Guide to the World of the Undead. Inscribed from previous owner on front free endpaper. 1st Edition. Viking Studio, [1992]. Together 12 volumes, all in cloth or cloth-backed boards, with dust jackets. Mild wear, if any; near fine or fine. (300/500)
238. Rinehart, Mary Roberts. The Door. Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1930] Another murder mystery from the author of The Circular Staircase. Short tears at bottom of front flap fold and rear spine edges; volume with some light wear; both book and jacket very good. (100/150)
239. Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Boards, jacket. First U.K. Edition. London: Flamingo, [1997] Signed by the author on the title-page. The Indian author’s first book, winner of the Booker Award, first published in New Delhi the same year as the U.K. edition. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
240. Rushdie, Salman. Grimus: A Novel. Purple boards, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1975 The author’s first book. Just a bit of rubbing to jacket edges, corner crease to front flap; volume leaning a trifle, slight bumps to spine head, top corners, and lower edge of front cover; spot of adhesion damage to front free endpaper; very good or better in near fine jacket. (200/300)
241. Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses. Blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Trade Edition. [London]: Viking, [1988] The controversial novel which had the author hiding for ten years after its publication. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
242. Rushdie, Salman. Shame. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1983] Signed by Rushdie on the title page. Author’s third book. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
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Page 45 243. Rushdie, Salman. Two first editions by Salman Rushdie, signed. Includes: Midnight’s Children. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. With signed bookplate laid in. Knopf, 1981. * The Satanic Verses. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Signed on the half title page. Viking, [1989]. New York: Various dates Both first American editions. Midnight’s Children is the author’s scarce second book, and the first American edition was published weeks before the British edition. Midnight’s Children jacket spine sunned; else all fine. (400/600)
244. Scarrow, Simon. Under the Eagle. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Headline, [2000] Signed by the author on the title-page, dated 7th July 2000 (the publication date). Author’s first book and first in his Marco and Cato series. Fine in fine jacket. (200/300)
245. Scarrow, Simon. Under the Eagle. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Headline, [2000] Author’s first book and first in his Marco and Cato series. Fine in fine jacket. (120/180)
246. Schulberg, Budd. The Harder They Fall. Black cloth, jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1947] Second novel by the author of “What Makes Sammy Run?” Jacket with some edge wear and extremity rubbing, 2” tear to spine and ¾” tear to top edge of front panel, both with tape repairs on verso; else very good in like jacket. (150/250)
A CHARMING SMALL SET OF SHAKESPEARE 247. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Works in miniature. 24 volumes bound in flexible brown leather, blind-stamped covers, all edges red. Set in brown cloth case with folding top, and the bottom half only of a metal clasp. New York: Knickerboker Leather & Novelty Co., c.1900 Charming little set of Shakespeare. Box with a few modern repairs along hinge and other edges; tiny spots of rubbing to volume spines; very good. (200/300)
248. Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Twenty volumes by Isaac Bashevis Singer. First Editions. Includes the leather-bound Franklin Library edition of The Penitent. Signed. 1983. All hardbacks, all but 1 in dust jackets (all as issued). Various places: Various dates Light general wear to most; mostly very good or near fine. (80/120)
249. Smith, Clark Ashton. Grotesques and Fantastiques. 40 pp. (8vo) black cloth lettered in gilt, original wrappers bound in. No. 15 of 50 copies thus bound from an edition of 600 copies Saddle River, NJ: Gerry de la Ree, 1973 A Selection of Previously Unpublished Drawings and Poems. This copy prepared for noted collector Forrest J. Ackerman. Minor soiling to cloth; very good. (150/250)
Page 46 250. Steinbeck, John. Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form. Light beige cloth printed in red, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking, 1950 Steinbeck’s attempt to develop a new technique of writing. A story of human struggle. Goldstone & Payne A29.a. Jacket spine lightly sunned, some light edge wear; volume with some light browning to endpapers; near fine in a like jacket. (300/500)
INSCRIBED BY STEINBECK TO A MONTEREY BOOKSELLER 251. Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. Canary-yellow cloth lined in blue, top page edge blue-gray, dust jacket. First Edition, second state binding. New York: Viking, 1945 Inscribed by John Steinbeck on front free endpaper to Monterey bookseller Roland Bartell. A black and white photograph of Bartell in his shop is included. Originally issued in a buff-colored cloth; there was not enough of the buff cloth to complete the run, so canary-yellow cloth was selected to bind the remainder, as this copy. Goldstone-Payne A22.b. Jacket price-clipped ; else book and jacket fine. (1000/1500)
252. Steinbeck, John. Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History. Dark blue cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, color pictorial jacket. Second Edition. New York: Covici Friede, [1936] Second edition, without Covici Friede imprint on spine and with both 1929 and 1936 copyright dates on the verso of the title-page. Goldstone-Payne A1.c. Jacket lightly worn at edges; previous owners names on front free endpaper; near fine in very good or better jacket. (200/300)
253. Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. Green cloth, pictorial jacket. First Trade Edition, First Issue. New York: Viking, 1952 With the word “bite” present on page 281, line 38. First issue jacket with photo of Steinbeck on rear panel with no photo credit mentioned. Steinbeck’s epic novel about two families who settle in the rich farmlands of California. Goldstone-Payne A32.b. Jacket price-clipped, lightly rubbed jacket edges, light dust soiling, a few small closed tears at top edge and repaired on verso with tape; light extremity wear to volume; else a near fine volume in a very good jacket. (300/500)
254. Steinbeck, John. The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village. Illustrated with 136 photographs from the motion picture taken and directed by Herbert Kline and associates. (8vo), coarse natural buckram with illustration in green on front cover, spine printed in green, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking, 1941 Steinbeck wrote the screenplay for the movie, from which the present narrative is derived, revealing the complicated relationship between tradition and progress in a Mexican village. Goldstone-Payne A14.a. Jacket edge worn, small tear at head of spine; volume with previous owner’s name in ink on front free endpaper; near fine in very good jacket. (150/250)
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Page 47 255. Steinbeck, John. The Log From the Sea of Cortez. Portraits of Steinbeck and Ricketts from photographs as double frontispiece. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt on front cover & spine, jacket. Second Edition (but first separate issue of the “Log” portion of Sea of Cortez. New York: Viking, 1951 The narrative portion of the book, Sea of Cortez, by Steinbeck & Edward F. Ricketts, 1941, with the first appearance of “About Ed Ricketts” by Steinbeck. Goldstone-Payne A15.c. Jacket price- clipped (additional price, in ink, at upper corner), spine faded; fine in a near fine jacket. (200/300)
256. Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. Terra cotta cloth with coarse beige linen spine, jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking, 1938 A collection of short stories, which includes “The Red Pony” and “St. Katy the Virgin.” Goldstone-Payne A11.a. Jacket spine darkened and creased at center, slightest touch of edge wear; linen spine darkened, endpapers browned; else near fine in a like jacket. (300/500)
257. Steinbeck, John. The Moon is Down. Blue cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Viking Press, 1942 Second issue, without the large period between ‘talk’ and ‘this’ on page 112, two line printer’s statement at foot of copyright page, and no mention of the Haddon Craftsmen in the copyright statement. Second issue jacket with smooth texture. Goldstone & Payne 16b note. Jacket chipped, rear panel browned and with small stain at bottom; volume spine sunned, previous owner’s name stamped on rear endpaper; very good. (150/250)
258. Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. Beige cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Covici-Friede, [1937] First issue, with the words “and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula” on page 9; also, the bullet between the two 8’s in the page number 88. The dust jacket has the $2.00 price on the front flap. Goldstone-Payne A7.a. Jacket lightly edge worn, small chip to front edge of jacket spine; previous owner’s name on front endpaper; near fine in a very good or better jacket. (700/1000)
FIRST ISSUE OF STEINBECK’S RARE SECOND NOVEL 259. Steinbeck, John. The Pastures of Heaven. Gilt-lettered green cloth, top page edge stained black (as issued). First Edition, First Issue. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932 Steinbeck’s scarce second book. First issue with spine imprint reading “Brewer/ Warren/ Putnam” on the foot. Though now one of the most popular of Steinbeck’s early books, it was not well received by the public when first released. The first edition had 2500 sets of sheets printed, of which 1650 copies were bound, but only 650 copies sold. The remainder of copies were sold to Ballou in 1932. Goldstone & Payne A2a. Spine faded, binding leaning, a few small spots to rear cover, light foxing to endpapers, early gift inscription on front free endpaper; final leaf of text and adjacent blank roughly opened with a chip from the fore edge of the blank leaf; still very good. (1200/1800)
Page 48 260. Steinbeck, John. The Pastures of Heaven. Gilt lettered green cloth, top edge stained black. First Edition, Third Issue. New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1932 Steinbeck’s scarce second book. Third issue with Ballou imprints on title page and spine. Though now one of the most popular of Steinbeck’s three early books, it was not well received by the public when it was first released. The first edition had 2500 sets of sheets printed, of which 1650 copies were bound, but only 650 copies sold. The remainder of copies were sold to Ballou in 1932. Goldstone & Payne A2c. Spine faded and leaning, remnants of dust jacket pasted to endpapers; very good. (500/800)
261. Steinbeck, John. The Pastures of Heaven. Beige cloth, spine lettered in red, wrap-around red line. First Edition, Fourth issue. New York: Covici-Friede, [1935] Steinbeck’s scarce second book. Fourth issue with tipped-in Covici-Friede title page. Though now one of the most popular of Steinbeck’s three early books, it was not well received by the public when it was first released. The first edition had 2500 sets of sheets printed, of which 1650 copies were bound, but only 650 copies sold. The remainder of copies were sold to Ballou in 1932. Goldstone & Payne A2e. Lacking dust jacket, previous owner’s name on front pastedown endpaper; near fine. (300/500)
262. Steinbeck, John. Sweet Thursday. Yellow-beige cloth stamped in blue and red, pictorial jacket. First Edition, cloth-bound issue, first issue. New York: Viking, 1954 First issue cloth in a beige-like color, top edge stained reddish, title-page in red and black, copyright-page with the printer’s name, and no book club deboss mark on back cover. First issue jacket with no blurbs beneath the photo of Steinbeck on the back panel. Goldstone-Payne A33.b. Jacket with slight wear to edges; endpapers browned; book and jacket near fine. (150/250)
STEINBECK’S THIRD NOVEL – IN THE RARE DUST JACKET 263. Steinbeck, John. To a God Unknown. Pale green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained black; decorative jacket and endpapers by Mahlon Blaine. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1933] First issue, with Robert O. Ballou imprint. Steinbeck’s scarce third book, one of 598 bound and sold as the first issue (of 1,498 copies printed). The remaining sheets were sold to Covici, Friede, and issued under their imprint in 1935. Printed jacket price listed towards the bottom of the front flap. Goldstone-Payne A3.a; Merle Johnson, p. 473. Jacket lightly edge worn, short tear at bottom edge of front panel and small chip at foot of spine; volume with faint small smudge streak on spine cloth; book and jacket near fine. (5000/8000)
Lot 263
Page 49 264. Steinbeck, John. The Wayward Bus. Dark reddish-orange cloth lettered in gilt, illustration of a bus blind-stamped at the bottom of the front cover, top edge stained light green, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First State. New York: Viking, 1947 First binding with the illustration of the bus on the front cover appearing lighter than the other cloth. Goldstone-Payne A23.a. Jacket browned and with some light edge wear; extremities a bit rubbed; very good in a like jacket. (150/200)
265. Steinbeck, John. Two first editions by John Steinbeck. Includes: Sweet Thursday. Yellow-beige cloth stamped in blue and red, dj. 1st issue in a beige-like color, top edge stained reddish, title-page in red and black, copyright-page with the printer’s name, and no book club deboss mark on back cover. 1st issue jacket with no blurbs beneath the photo of Steinbeck on the back panel. First Edition, First Issue. 1954. * The Wayward Bus. Dark reddish-orange cloth lettered in gilt, illustration of a bus not brighter that rest of cloth. First Edition, later issue. Together 2 volumes. New York: Viking, Various dates Mostly mild edge wear to jackets including light chipping and rubbing; mostly mild edge wear to volumes; all very good. (200/300)
266. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [8], 141 + [1] ad pp. 7x4½, original salmon-colored cloth lettered in black on front cover. First English Edition, cloth issue. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886 The cloth-bound issue of the English edition of Stevenson’s classic followed the wrapper-bound issue by about a week, and the American edition by about 16 days. The advertisement leaf at rear is for the second edition of “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” With engraved armorial bookplate of Frederic Bronson Winthrop on front pastedown. Moderately rubbed extremities, moderately darkened from finger soiling; hinges cracked; very good. (1000/1500)
267. Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers: A Novel. Cloth, jacket. First Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 Signed by the author on the title-page. The author’s second book. Jacket with a little wear along top edge, price clipped; slight fading to top and bottom cover edges; near fine in like jacket. Lot 266 (120/180)
268. Styron, William. Lie Down in Darkness. Brown cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1951] Author’s first book. Jacket with a little rubbing to spine ends and corners, spine sunned a trifle, mild soiling to rear panel; volume spine slightly faded, a bit of offset to endpapers, else near fine in like jacket. (300/500)
269. Swift, Graham. Learning to Swim and Other Stories. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: London Magazine Editions, [1982] Signed by the author on the title-page. Slight shelf wear, near fine in like jacket. (150/250)
Page 50 270. Swift, Graham. Shuttlecock. Boards, jacket. First Edition. [London]: Allen Lane, [1981] Signed by the author on the title-page. Author’s scarce second book. Swift won the 1996 Booker Prize for his novel Last Orders. Slight wear to volume spine ends and corners; near fine in like jacket. (150/250)
271. Swift, Graham. Waterland. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Heinemann, [1983] Fine in fine jacket. (100/150)
272. Tarkington, Booth. The Two Vanrevels. Illustrated plates by Henry Hutt. Green cloth stamped in white, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Trade Edition, second state binding. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902 With, “Published, October, 1902, R” after copyright notice. The first trade edition of Tarkington’s third book, and it was published prior to the limited edition. Minor stains to spine and covers, spine leaning; very good. (100/150)
THACKERAY’S PENDENNIS IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS 273. Thackeray, W[illiam] M[akepeace]. The History of Pendennis. 24 parts in 23. Illustrated by Thackeray with 48 etched plates, including added titles; wood engravings in the text. 8¾x5½, original illustrated yellow wrappers. Custom drop-back box. First Edition. London: Bradbury & Evans, November, 1848-December, 1850 First edition in the original parts of Thackeray’s rather convoluted tale of love, lust and greed amongst the English gentry. “Pendennis Advertiser” at front of most issues, many also with advertisements at rear and some inserts, title pages, half-titles, and contents and plate lists at rear of Parts XII and XXIII/XXIV. Van Duzer 165. Some wear to wrappers, spine perished on Part XIX; light foxing; very good. (600/900)
274. [Thackeray, William Makepeace] Pendennis, Arthur, ed., pseud. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. 2 volumes. viii, 380; viii, 375 pp. Illustrated with 46 engraved plates and 2 added engraved titles by Richard Doyle; numerous wood engravings throughout the text. (8vo) 22x14 cm. (8¾x5½”), later full polished tan calf, gilt borders and decorative corner-pieces, spines gilt, morocco labels, top edges gilt, original front and rear wrappers bound in at rear of each volume. First Edition in book form. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854-55 Thackeray’s pseudonymously-written classic, which was serialized in twenty-three monthly installments in London from October 1853 through August 1855. The Newcomes is an unusual, early example of a novel sensitive to the position of women in Victorian society. Van Duzer 147. Joints and hinges cracked in Volume 1, Volume 2 with hinges cracked and some wear to joints, spines a bit rubbed; some browning to plates; light foxing; very good. (300/500)
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Page 51 275. Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. xiv, 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 steel-etched plates, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title page; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (8vo) 22.2x14 cm. (8¾x5½”), original blindstamped blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition in Book Form, mixed issue, bound from the original parts. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848 An important landmark in Victorian literature, Vanity Fair epitomized the turn towards realism and psychological truth. Contains the following first issue points: no street address imprint on the title page verso, dedication leaf in small type with last line measuring 2-1/8 inches; the heading on page [1] is in rustic type; “Mr. Pitt” rather than “Sir Pitt” on page 453. However, second state of the pictorial title dated 1848 instead of 1849 and without the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336. No ads present in this copy. The first issue is especially valuable for the preservation of Thackeray’s illustrations in their original state, as the plates were altered for later editions. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699. Bookplate of Lionel Lancelot Shadwell. Spine ends chipped, a few short splits along front joint, corners rubbed; very good. (500/800)
THACKERAY’S VIRGINIANS IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS 276. Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. Original 24 parts, Nos. 1-24, issued monthly, November, 1857 to October, 1859; collates as 2 volumes. 32 pages each (plus several ads in front and back in most, presumably some are not present, ranging from 8 to 24 in front and from zero to 20 plus extra different colored leaves in back), numbered from 1 to 382 and 1 to 376. Illustrated with 48 etched plates, plus several woodcut vignettes within the text, all after drawings by Thackeray. (8vo), original pictorial yellow paper wrappers. First Edition, early issue. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-59 Thackeray’s classic American sequel to Henry Esmond. Early issue, with “actresses” instead of “ancestresses,” on p. 207, line 33; and the errors in Part XII, with chapters XLVII-XLVIII mislabeled “XLVIII-XLIX.” Title page, contents, list of plates, etc., for volume I at end of part No. 12; and the same for volume II at end of part No. 24. Van Duzer 232. Wrappers with some wear and soiling; some foxing; very good. (600/900)
A FEW LOTS OF MARK TWAIN 277. Twain, Mark. The American Claimant. xv, [16 (blank)], [17]-277, [1] blank + [8] ad pp. Illustrated from drawings by Dan Beard. 8x5½, decorative grayish-green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892 Twain originally intended to dictate the entire work and fill over a hundred Edison cylinders, but later gave up the idea. BAL 3434. Light rubbing to joints and extremities, slight bubbling to rear cover cloth; light foxing to endpapers, inscription to front free endpaper, else very good. (150/250)
278. Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. 712 pp. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, etc.; portrait frontispiece. (8vo), original blue cloth, color pictorial cover label with gilt, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1897 This copy has Johnson’s preferred title with Hartford imprint only, signature mark “11” present on p. 161. BAL 3451. Some rubbing to spine ends and corners, slight rubbing to cover label; front hinge well cracked at endpapers, else very good. (200/300)
Page 52 279. Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age. A Tale of Today. xvi, 17-574, [2] pp. Illustrated with frontispiece, 19 full-page plates, copious text illustrations, and a folding rebus map. (8vo) 8¾x5¾, original half gilt-ruled morocco & cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1874 First edition, later issue, in the scarce half morocco publisher’s binding. Dated 1874, but with some early issue points: the title mentions White as an illustrator; reads “Eschol” rather than “Beriah” in all instances (Ch. 5 contents, p. 27, p. 247, etc); earliest state of ads at rear; no comma after ‘Hallelujah’ on p. 246; period after “Dr. Jackson” on p. 280, but all other points noted in BAL correspond to later issue. The character Eschol Sellers changed his name after an actual Eschol Sellers threatened suit on the publishers. BAL 3357. Spine well scuffed, corners less so; else very good. (150/250)
280. Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress. xviii, [19]-651 + [5] ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings. (8vo), publishers full sheep leather, black leather labels. First Edition, Second State. San Francisco & Hartford, Conn.: H.H. Bancroft & American Publishing Company, 1869 Second state with page numbers present on pp. xvii-xviii of table of contents, last entry on p. xviii ending with ‘conclusion’, portrait of Napoleon III on p. 129; p. (643) heading reading ‘Chapter LXI’, p.[654] with ad for Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant. BAL 3316. Scarce in the publishers sheep binding. Spine detached along front joint, front cover and a few leaves loosely attached, rear joint and hinge cracked; scuffing to leather; would benefit from restoration. (200/300)
281. Twain, Mark. Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. 46 pp. Wood engraved illustrations. 7½x5, original terra-cota cloth stamped in gilt and blind, housed in a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. First Edition, second state. New York: Sheldon & Co., [1871] Second state, with ad on verso of title page. BAL 3326. Light wear to cloth, bookplate; very good. (200/300)
282. Twain, Mark. Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. 46 pp. Wood engraved illustrations. 7½x5, original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. First Edition, second state. New York: Sheldon & Co., [1871] Second state, with Ball, Black & Co. ad on copyright page. BAL 3326. Wear and soiling to covers; very good. (150/250)
283. Twain, Mark. The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories. 260, [2] + 9 ad pp. Frontispiece illustration by Dan Beard with tissue-guard. 7½x5¼, original decorative tan cloth stamped in gilt, black and olive, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1893 BAL 3436. Spine sunned, light extremity wear; front hinge starting, 1894 name in ink on front free endpaper; very good. (200/300)
284. Twain, Mark. Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches. 140, [2] ad pp. 5¾x4¼, original wrappers. First Edition. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., [1878] First edition, with Twain’s name in Roman on title page versus facsimile autograph of second edition; first state of rear wrapper with illustration of scrapbook measuring 2-7/8x2”. BAL 3378. Light wear to wrappers, old tape repairs on inside of wrappers; very good. (400/700)
Page 53 285. Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn. Edited by Mark Twain. 219, + [4] ad pp. Illustrations, including frontispiece and plates, by Dan Beard. (8vo) 8x5¾, original gilt-lettered pictorial tan cloth. First Edition. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1894 BAL’s binding state ‘A’ with approx 5 5/8” between Twain and Webster on spine (no priority). This copy with the blank flyleaf at rear not found in all copies. BAL 3440. Minor soiling to covers, spine foot rubbed affecting imprint though it is still visible, inscription on front free endpaper, with another erased, hinge cracked before frontispiece; very good. (300/500)
286. Twain, Mark. Three titles by Mark Twain. Includes: The Jumping Frog, in English, then in French, then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language. [4], 66 pp. With 12 plates by F. Strothman. BAL 3477. First Edition Thus. 1903. * Extracts from Adam’s Diary: Translated from the Original MS. [4], 89, [1] pp. Illustrated by F. Strothmann. BAL 3480. First Separate Edition. 1904. * A Dog’s Tale. [4], 36 pp. 4 plates by W. T. Smedley. BAL 3843. First American Edition. 1904. Together, 3 volumes. Red pictorial cloth. New York: Harper & Brothers, Various dates Fading to spines, some rubbing, minor cover soiling or staining, generally very good. (250/350)
TWO LOTS OF KURT VONNEGUT RARITIES 287. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Happy Birthday, Wanda June. Black boards, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1971] Vonnegut’s scarcest book. Light scuffing to jacket surface, light wear at edges; previous owner’s embossed stamp on front free endpaper; near fine in a very good jacket. (600/900)
288. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Player Piano. Green cloth, spine lettered in silver, pictorial light green jacket by George W. Thompson. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Scribner’s, 1952 Signed by the author on front free endpaper, dated Sept. 16, 2000. First edition of the author’s first book, chronicling “America in the Coming Age of Electronics”. First printing with the publisher’s seal and “A” on the copyright page. Jacket darkened on spine and at edges, a few small chips at edges; light soiling to cloth; both book and jacket very good. (1000/1500)
289. Walker, Mary Willis. Zero at the Bone. Boards, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press, [1991] Signed by the author on title-page. Walker’s scarce first book. Fine in nearly fine jacket with a tough of rubbing to extremities. (300/500)
290. Wallace, Edgar. The Northing Tramp. Black cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929 A wedding day mystery from the “King of Mystery Writers”. Jacket lightly edge worn; light wear to cloth; both book and jacket about near fine. (100/150)
Page 54 291. Welch, James. Two titles by James Welch, both signed. Includes: Winter in the Blood. [1974]. * The Death of Jim Loney. [1979]. Together, 2 volumes. cloth-backed boards, jackets. First Editions. New York: Harper & Row, [1974 & 1979] Each signed by the author on the title-page. First two novels by this Native American author, of Blackfeet and Gros heritage, with a little Irish thrown in. Light shelf wear, 2nd jacket price clipped; near fine or better in like jackets. (100/150)
FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF WELLS’ WAR OF THE WORLDS 292. Wells, H.G. La Guerre des Mondes. 235, [8] pp. Translated by Henry-D. Davray. Illustrated by Alvim-Correa, with 32 color lithographed plates with printed tissue guards, and numerous drawings in the text. 32x25.5 cm. (12½x10”), original boards. No. 158 of 500 copies. Brussels: L. Vandamme & Co., 1906 Signed on the limitation-page (verso of title) by the illustrator, Alvim-Correa. The superbly designed and illustrated French edition of Wells’ The War of the Worlds, quite scarce. Spine strip detached, worn and split in two piece, but present, some other rubbing and moderate wear to covers; some foxing and darkening to contents and tissue guards, but not to the bright plates, which are on heavier glossy paper, fraying to the ribbon place marker; in good to very good condition, worthy of restoration. (2500/3500)
293. West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust. Red cloth, paper spine label, pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1939] West’s stirring novel about Hollywood’s lunatic fringe. Jacket soiled and with some tape repairs on verso, edges chipped; spine leaning, some light soiling to cloth including a cup ring on front cover, endpapers browned; very good in a good Lot 292 jacket. (700/1000)
294. West, Nathanael. Miss Lonelyhearts. Tan cloth, spine lettered in silver over black background. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Liveright, [1933] The rare first issue with the publisher’s device on the title page, with “at the Van Rees Press” on the copyright page and Liveright imprint on spine. The saga of a young newspaper advice columnist who grows despondent over reading the piles of letters from the broken-hearted. Spine cloth sunned, light wear; very good. (800/1200)
Page 55 295. Weöres, Sándor. Ten titles by Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres, each inscribed and signed. Includes: A Fogak Tornáca. [1947]. * Meduza. [1948]. * Tuzkut. 1964. * Hold es Sarkany. [1967]. * Enek a Hatartalanrol. [1980]. * Kezirasos Konyve. [1981]. * Dzsajadeva Gita Govinda Pasztorenek. [1982]. * Posta messzirol. [1984]. * Kutbanezo. [1987]. * Fairy Spring: Freskok es Stukkok Egy Vidam Szinhazba. [1988]. Together, 10 volumes. First 3 in wrappers, others cloth or boards in jackets. Apparently all are First Editions. Various places: Various dates Each inscribed and signed by Sándor Weöres at or near the time of publication. Verse from one of Hungary’s leading poets, whose publications were interrupted during the Stalin era and its aftermath. Very good or better condition. (300/500)
296. White, Randy Wayne. Sanibel Flats. Black boards, jacket. First Edition. New York: St. Martin’s Press, [1990] Signed “Randy Wayne White Sanibel” on the title page. Author’s scarce first novel. Volume spine ends slightly crimped, still fine in fine jacket. (600/900)
297. Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl. 52 pp. Portrait frontispiece inserted. (8vo) original brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on front and spine. First Edition. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866 First state, with page 52 numbered at foot of page. BAL 21862. Light wear and soiling to cloth; foxing, heavier at front and rear; very good. (400/700)
298. Wilde, Oscar. The Nightingale and the Rose. 13 pp. 18.2x11 cm. (7¼x4¼”) original pictorial wrappers, patterned glassine jacket. New York: R.F. Fenno, [c.1900] A charming edition of this short tale by Wilde. Glassine chipped; light wear near fine. (100/150)
299. Wilson, Robert. A Small Death in Lisbon. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: HarperCollins, [1999] Signed by the author on the title-page. Winner of the Gold Dagger Award in the U.K. for the best mystery of 1999. Fine in fine jacket. (120/180)
300. Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. London: Pandora Press, [1985] Signed by the author on the title-page. Her first novel, not issued in hardcover. Slight creasing along front joint, other light wear, very good or better. (150/250)
301. Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. White cloth, spine lettered in multi-colored foil, orange endpapers, top page edge light blue, color pictorial jacket. First Edition. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, [1968] Classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960’s. Considered as one of the best and most revealing books on the hippie lifestyle and philosophy. Jacket price-clipped, faint stain at head of spine, some light edge wear; mild soiling to white cloth of covers, front free endpaper diagonally clipped at upper corner, tape stains on endpapers, small ink stamp on front pastedown; very good. (80/120)
Page 56 302. Wolff, Tobias. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs. Cloth, jacket. First Edition. New York: The Ecco Press, [1981] Inscribed “To Patrick,” and signed by the author on the title-page. The author’s first book to be published in the United States and his first acknowledged book - he does not list is first book, Ugly Rumors, a novel of the Vietnam War with which he expresses dissatisfaction, among his “previous publications.” This is in the second issue dust jacket, with the price clipped. Originally priced at $14.95, the decision was then made to reduce the price to $10.95 - the second state dust jackets were price-clipped by the publisher with a $10.95 sticker being affixed - the third state dust jacket then later carried the $10.95 price. The sticker has been removed from the jacket flap of this copy, but a trace of glue residue remains. Fine or nearly so in like jacket. (200/300)
A FEW SHELF LOTS OF MODERN LITERATURE 303. (Shelf Lot Authors A to B) . Eighteen modern literature titles by authors with names beginning with A to B. Includes several by Ray Bradbury and Machado de Assis, plus an Advance Reading Copy in wrappers of Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow. The remaining are hardcover with jackets. First Editions (some may be first U.S. or first U.K. editions). Various places: Various dates Some signed by the authors. A few with the ownership signature of Noreen Curry. Complete list available on request. Near fine condition. (80/--)
304. (Shelf Lot Authors C to D) . Twenty modern literature titles by authors with names beginning with C to D. Includes several by Arthur C. Clarke, three of which are advance proof copies in wrappers. Plus 2 advance reading copies of works by Michael Chabon. Also, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Through the Magic Door from Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. The rest of the volumes are hardcovers with jackets. Mostly First Editions (some may be first U.S. or first U.K. editions). Various places: Various dates Complete list available on request. Most are near fine or fine. (80/--)
305. (Shelf Lot Authors F to H) . Sixteen modern literature titles by authors with names beginning with F to H. Includes a few by Graham Greene and John Fowles. Plus a third impression of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, by Ian Fleming, in a dust jacket. Also a signed first edition of The Twenty- Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen. Most are First Editions in dust jackets (some may be first U.S. or first U.K. editions). Various places: Various dates Complete list available on request. Mostly near fine. (80/--)
306. (Shelf Lot - Authors H to L) . Eight volumes of modern literature. Includes: Haruf, Kent. The Tie That Binds. 1st Ed. NY: Hold, Rinehart & Winston, [1984]. * Haruf, Kent. Where You Once Belonged. 2 copies. 1st Eds. [1990]. * Jones, David. In Parenthesis seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn mameu. Intro. by T.S. Eliot. (Some edge wear to jacket.) Apparently the first U.S. edition with Eliot’s introduction of the work first published in 1937. NY: Chilmark Press, [1961]. * Leavitt, David. Family Dancing. 1st Ed. NY: Knopf, 1984. * LeRoy, J.T. [pseud. of Laura Albert]. Sarah. 2 copies. Pictorial boards, not issued with jackets. 1st U.S. Ed. NY: Bloomsbury, [2000]. * Lowry, Malcolm. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid. (Jacket price clipped, owner’s name to front endpaper.) NY: New American Library, [1968]. Together, 6 works, 8 volumes. Except as noted, cloth &/or boards with jackets. Various places: Various dates “In Parenthesis” very good, others near fine to fine in like jackets. (150/250)
Page 57 307. (Shelf Lot Authors J to L) . Twenty-one modern literature titles by authors with names beginning with J to L. Including several by Mario Vargas Llosa and Milan Kundera. Including an Advance Uncorrected Proof of Ken Kesey’s Sailor Song in wrappers. All but a few are hardback in dust jackets. Mostly First Editions (some may be first U.S. or first U.K. editions). Various places: Various dates Complete list available on request. A few with mild to moderate general wear; mostly near fine. (80/--)
308. (Shelf Lot Authors M to S) . Nineteen modern literature titles by authors with names beginning with M to S. Including several by Jose Saramago. Plus works by Henry Miller, Larry McMurtry and John O’Hara. All but one are hardback in dust jackets. Mostly First Editions (some may be first U.S. or first U.K. editions). Various places: Various dates Complete list available on request. A few with light wear to jackets; mostly near fine. (80/--)
309. (Shelf Lot - Authors O to W) . Six volumes of modern literature. Includes: Orfutt, Chris. Kentucky Straight. Signed by the author. Wrappers. NY: Vintage Contemporaries/Random House, [1992]. * Orfutt, Chris. The Same River Twice. Signed by the author. NY: Simon & Schuster, [[1993]. * Todd, Charles. A Test of Wills. Inscribed and signed by the author. NY: St. Martin’s Press, [1996]. * Vickers, Salley. Miss Garnet’s Angel. Signed by the author. London: HarperCollins, [2000]. * Watson, Larry. Montana 1948. Signed by the author. [Minneapolis]: Milkweed Editions, [[1993]. * Wilson, Robert McLiam. Ripley Bogle. [London]: Andre Deutsch, [1989]. Together, 6 volumes. Cloth &/or boards, jackets, except as noted. First Editions. Various places: Various dates All in fine condition. (200/300)
310. (Shelf Lot Authors S) . Thirteen modern literature titles by authors with names beginning with the letter S. Includes several by William Saroyan, including a few signed, first editions: Set This House on Fire. Random House, [1960]. * Saroyan’s Fables. 1 of 1000 copies. With slipcase (lacking top edge). Harcourt, 1941. * The Adventures of Wesley Jackson. Harcourt, [1946]. All hardback books, all but the limited edition in dust jackets. Various places: Various dates Complete list available on request. Light general wear to each; very good or near fine. (80/--)
311. (Shelf Lot Authors U to W) . Eighteen modern literature titles by authors with names beginning with U to W. Includes several by Evelyn Waugh and John Updike. Hardcovers in dust jackets. Mostly first editions (some may be first U.S. or first U.K. editions). A few duplicate titles. Various places: Various dates Complete list available on request. A few with mild general wear; mostly near fine. (80/--)
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312. Aikin, J[ohn]. Letters from a father to his son, on various topics, relative to literature and the conduct of life. Written in the years 1792 and 1793. 328 pp. 20x11 cm. (8x4½”), period tree sheep, leather spine label. First American Edition. Philadelphia: Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1794 Rare first American edition of Aikin’s ruminations on comportment, patriotism, Pope, spectral appearances and cheap pleasures, the year following the London first edition OCLC/WorldCat lists only two copies of this edition, at Dartmouth and the University of Michigan. Evans 26541 notes one at the American Antiquarian Society. Rubbing to covers, spine worn, stained, ends chipped, hinges cracked; fairly minor foxing and darkening to contents, very good. (200/300)
313. (Allen Press) Twain, Mark. Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent. Selections from his letters to the Territorial Enterprise: 1865-1866. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson. Illustrations from photograph, old prints. Cloth-backed boards. One of 400 copies. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1957 Printed at the Allen Press. In their bibliography the Allens refer to this production as “a violent departure from our goal of hand produced books. The text was selected by the Club; the types were machine set; the paper was machine made, and the printing done on a motor-driven press.” Allen Press 20. Fine. (100/150)
314. (Almanack) . Eleven almanacks from 1781 bound together. 11 almanacks, including: The Gentleman’s Diary, or The Mathematical Repository. * The Ladies’ Diary: or Woman’s Almanack. * Vox Stellarum: or, A Loyal Almanack. * Merlinus Liberaturs. Being an Almanack. * Parker’s Ephemeris. * Old Poor Robin. * The English Apollo: or, Useful Companion. * Speculum Anni: or, Season on the Seasons. * [Greek Lettering] or, an Almanack for the Year... * The Coelestial Atlas; or, A New Ephemeris. Each paginated separately, and each with its own paper printed tab. Full red morocco, tooled and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. London: John Wilkie, 1781 Title pages and some preliminary text printed in black and red. Some title pages with a woodcut illustration, also diagrams, etc. within. Rubbed along edges, spine darkened, half of gilt-lettered spine label lacking; some ink notes on blank front fly leaf, rubberstamp of The Law Society London on the title page of each; very good. (400/600)
SEVEN LOTS FROM THE ARION PRESS 315. (Arion Press) Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. With photographs by Michael Kenna. (4to), brown-gray cloth with decorative black paw-print on covers, pictorial endpapers, slipcase with pictorial covers, paper spine label. One of 400 copies printed under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1985 Signed by the photographer in pencil at end of his statement introduction. Faint spots on front cover; near fine. (250/350)
316. (Arion Press) Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 179, [2] pp. Illustrated with drawings by Michael Graves. (4to) half cloth and illustrated boards, paper spine label, slipcase. One of 400 copies printed at the Arion Press under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984 Signed by Michael Graves in the colophon. The fifteenth volume of the press. Slight wear to slipcase and spine, near fine.. (800/1200) Page 59 317. (Arion Press) Ketcham, Diana. Le Desert De Retz: A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden. Le Jardin Pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville. Text in French & English. Illustrated from photographs, engravings, etc. (Oblong folio), blue cloth, paper cover and spine labels. One of 400 copies printed at the Arion Press under the direction of Andrew Hoyem. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990 Finely printed examination of the marvelous garden created by de Monvelle in the village of Retz outside of Paris. Small spot on rear cover; near fine. (400/600)
318. (Arion Press) Miller, Arthur. The Price: A Play. Illustrations by Stan Washburn. 25.5x17.8 cm. (10x7”), cloth, slipcase. No. 91 of 300 copies. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999 Signed by Arthur Miller on the half title. Also signed by the illustrator at the limitation statement. Fine. (300/500)
319. (Arion Press) Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. Printed in parallel German and English, the German in black letter, both with red initials. (4to), brown cloth with printed paper labels. One of 315 copies. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1983 Warren Chappell’s vignettes appear on each page of the translation. Spine sunned, small spot on rear cover; near fine. (200/300)
320. (Arion Press) Shepard, Sam. A Lie of the Mind. 142, [1] pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by Stan Washburn. (Folio) 13x10, morocco backed pictorial boards. One of 300 copies. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993 Signed by Shepard and Washburn at colophon. The CD of The Music of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind by the Red Clay Ramblers, is not present. Also included is: Jack Gannon, Jack of All Trades and Master of One. A Roxburghe and Zamorano keepsake published by the Arion Press, 1 of 300 copies. Fine. (200/300)
321. (Arion Press) Vidal, Gore. Williwaw. With 3 tipped-in halftones from photographs of Vidal as a sailor in WWII. 11½x8¼, cloth, paper spine label, pictorial cloth-edged dust jacket. No. 101 of 250 copies. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996 Signed by Vidal on the limitation-page. Fiftieth anniversary edition of Vidal’s first novel, handsomely printed at the Arion Press. Fine. (200/300)
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Page 60 322. (Armitage, Merle) . Twenty-four volumes designed by Merle Armitage, or with contributions. Includes: Jewell, Edward Alden. Have We an American Art? Longmans, Green & Co., 1939. * Erna Fergusson’s Albuquerque. With dust jacket. Merle Armitage Editions, [1947]. * Thomajan, P.K. Hades & Jades. With dust jacket. 1 of 500 copies signed by the author and Armitage. Merle Armitage & The Tantalus Press, 1949. * Armitage, Merle. Stella Dysart of Ambrosia Lake. With dust jacket. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1959]. * Phillips, Margaret. No Going Back: Odyssey of a Conversion. With dust jacket (price-clipped). Academy Guild Press, [1964]. * Gardner, Erle Stanley. Neighborhood Frontiers. With dj (price-clipped). William Morrow, [1954]. * 2 copies of: Armitage, Merle. Post-Caviar. Longmans, Green & Co., 1939. * Marcus, Alan. ...of Streets and Stars. With dust jacket. Manzanita Press, [1960]. * Armitage, Merle. Operations Santa Fe. With dust jacket (price- clipped). Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1948]. * Armitage, Merle & Isabelle. Fit for a Queen. With dust jacket. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1958]. * Armitage, Merle. Railroads of America. With dust jacket (price-clipped). Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1952]. * Musaliar, A. Thangal Kunju. Man and the World. With dust jacket. San Vicente Foundation, [1949]. * Armitage, Merle. Success is no Accident: The Biography of William Paul Whitsett. With dust jacket. Manzanita Press, [1959]. * Armitage, Merle. Pagans, Conquistadores, Heroes and Martyrs. With dust jacket (price-clipped). Academy Guild Press, [1960]. * Armitage, Merle. Fit for a King. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1939]. * Armitage, Merle. Dance Memoranda. With dust jacket. Second Edition. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1946]. * Lee, Marshall, editor. Books for our Time. With contribution by Armitage. Oxford University, [1951]. * The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Townley Scott “a dirty hand”. Foreward by Armitage. With dj. University of Texas, [1969]. * Accent on Life. Iowa State University, [1965]. * Igor Stravinsky. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1949]. * Pagans, Conquistadors, Heroes and Martyrs. Wrappers. Manzanita Press, [1960]. * Lampell, Sgt. Millard. The Long Way Home. Julian Messner, 1946. * Barker, Eric. Directions in the Sun. Gotham Book Mart, [1956]. Together 24 volumes. Various places: Various dates Some light to moderate wear to many; mostly very good. (300/500)
323. Arossev, A., editor. Soviet Cinema. [326] pp. Illustrations from film stills throughout. (4to) 26x19 cm. (10¼x7½”), red cloth and pictorial boards. First Edition. Moscow: [Voks], 1935 Rare work on the State-controlled Soviet film industry. The plate depicting Stalin’s head in profile, printed in silver on cellophane, is intact but for a diagonal tear in the lower left margin. This plate is typically found in a deteriorated state. Some chipping to cover illustrations, light wear; very good. (400/700)
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY 324. (Beardsley, Aubrey) Malory, Sir Thomas. The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, of His Nobel Knight of the Round Table, Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures, the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of this World of Them All. lv, [1], 538 pp. Illustrated with 20 full page plates, including 2 from etchings and 18 from woodcuts (five are double-page) by Aubrey Beardsley with tissue-guards, plus approx. 280 woodcut chapter headers, initials, borders and ornaments throughout the text. Introduction by John Rhys. Note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. Note on the designs omitted from the first edition by R. A. Walker. Caxton’s Preface from the 1485 edition. Glossary. 11½x8¾, original gilt decorated and stamped black cloth, beveled edges, untrimmed, top edge gilt. One of 1600 copies. Third Beardsley Edition. [New York]: E. P. Dutton, 1927 Beardsley’s first major work. An elaborately illustrated third edition of Sir Thomas Malory’s masterpiece in facsimile format from Caxton’s 1485 typographic classic. Beardsley’s illustrations to Le Morte d’Arthur are a mix of knights and fauns, swans, fantasy figures, all in his “fin de siecle” style. This edition is the first to include all of the eleven designs that were omitted from the first edition. A touch of rubbing to front cover designs, short tear at head of spine; near fine. (1000/1500)
Page 61 325. (Bible in English) Jamieson, Rev. R. and Rev. E.H. Bickerstetch. The Holy Bible with A Devotional and Practical Commentary. With 2 pages of color lithograph works at front: a color lithograph marriage certificate and some scripture in decorative text. With steel-engraved plates including a frontispiece and an additional title page. 33.5x25 cm. (13¼x10”), full brown morocco, decorated and lettered in gilt, lettering with red and blue accents, functioning metal clasps, all edges gilt. London: James S. Virtue, [c.1850] A lovely example of a finely bound Bible. The Old and New Testament with commentary text. Rubbed at edges; internally near fine; very good. (200/300)
326. Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 4 volumes. 4 volumes. [4], viii, 485; [viii], 520, xix; [viii], 455, [1] blank, xxvii; [viii], 436, vii, [1] blank, [39] pp. Folding Table of Descents and Table of Consanguinity in Volume 2. (4to) 10¾x8¼, period full calf, spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces. Fourth Editions. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1770 “Blackstone’s great work on the laws of England is the extreme example of justification of an existing state of affairs by virtue of its history...Until the Commentaries, the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine; nothing but trouble, even danger, was to be expected from contact with it. Blackstone’s great achievement was to popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its formation...” (PMM). Grolier English 52; PMM 212; Rothschild 407 (all for first edition). Eller 5. Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Thomas Tipping. Bindings well worn, joints and hinges cracked; internally very good. (800/1200)
327. Boehme, Jacob. The Works of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher. [8], 195, [37], 120, 160, 32 pp. With 15 copper-engraved plates. (4to) 25.5x20.4 cm. (10¼x8”), 20th century buckram. London: Joseph Richardson, 1763 Later issued with a cancel title-page as Vol. 2 of 4 volume ’The works’ (1664-81), with imprint: London, printed for M. Richardson, 1764. The four parts contained herein are: The threefold life of man - The answers to forty questions concerning the soul - the treatise of the incarnation: in three parts - The clavis: or an explanation of some principal points and expressions in his writings. The plates are described on the title-page as “...figures, illustrating his principles, left by the Reverend William Law, M.A.” Some foxing and soiling within, including the plates, 3 plates at rear with small portion of text excised; good condition. (600/900)
328. (Bohemian Club) Allen, Harris. A Romany Legend - signed by members of the Bohemian Club. Cloth-backed boards. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. [San Francisco]: Bohemian Club, 1953 Inscribed and signed on front and verso of front free endpaper, plus next blank fly leaf. Inscriptions are addressed to actor Jean Hersholt, and his bookplate is on the front pastedown, along with his hand-written note regarding a “silly rule” about not soliciting autographs. Inscribed by 9 members of the Bohemian Club, including one with a large original drawing by cartoonist Norm Blackburn. The 48th Grove Play of the Bohemian Club. A touch rubbed at extremities; near fine. (200/300)
329. (Bohemian Club) Hook, Kenneth G. Lif Kronan: A Grove Play. Music composed by Ulderico Marcelli. Decorative boards. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. First Edition. San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1937 Signed by 9 Bohemian Club members of front free endpaper and title page, including Ken Hook. Spine and edges a bit yellowed and worn; very good. (150/250)
Page 62 330. (Book on Books) . Two volumes on the study of rare books. Includes: Mumey, Nolie: A Study of Rare Books: With Special Reference to Colophons, Press Devices and Title Pages of Interest to the Bibliophile... Cloth backed boards, cover and spine labels. Out of series copy of 1000 copies. Clason Publishing Company, 1930. * Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness; A Bibliographical Romance. Morocco backed cloth, top edge gilt. Chatto & Windus, 1876. Together 2 volumes. Various places: Various dates Some mild to moderate general wear to each, morocco spine chipped and worn; mostly very good. (200/300)
331. (Books on Books) . Nine volumes of bibliographic works. Includes: (Abbey, John R.). Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J.R. Abbey. 2 volumes. Cloth, dust jackets. Alan Wofsy, 1991. * Morton, Leslie T. A Medical Bibliography (Garrison and Morton). Cloth, dust jacket. Later edition. Andre Deutsch, [1970]. * Sabin, Joseph. A Dictionary of Books relating to America. 2 volumes. Second printing of the reprint of the original edition. [Martino, 2002]. * The Haskell F. Norman Lib. Of Science & Medicine. 3 volumes. Boards. Christies, 1998. * Howes, Wright. U.S.Iana. Re-bound, with original spine and covers laid down. Revised. R.R. Bowker Company, 1963. Together 9 volumes. Various places: Various dates All but one are near fine to fine. (100/150)
332. Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. (viii), 524, [1] errata pp. Half title present. (8vo) 20.4x12.5 cm. (8x5”) later full calf, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition Second State. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785 Second state with p. 121 corrected; page 237 with “Kings and subjects”; page 299 with “Mrs. Thrale” added. Leaves E3, E4 and M4 are cancels. Boswell’s classic account of his journey to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. The text of this book was largely completed in 1773, from the journal which Boswell kept while travelling in Scotland. The publication was held back until Johnson’s death. Many have considered this Boswell’s masterpiece, and at the very least it reveals that his unique gift for biography had fully flowered by the time he was in his early thirties. Armorial bookplate (Buchanan) on front pastedown, bookplate of author and collector Edward Bellamy on front free endpaper. Spine sunned, some rubbing; small strip torn front head of title page (no loss of printed text); light foxing; very good. (700/1000)
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Page 63 FIRST EDITION OF BOSWELL’S JOHNSON 333. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, during Which He Flourished. 2 volumes. xii, [16], 516; [2], 588 [i.e. 586] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 2 engraved plates of facsimiles. (4to) 28x22 cm. (11x8¾”), later full brown calf, covers stamped in blind, spines gilt, red morocco lettering pieces. First Edition. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, 1791 First edition of perhaps the most famous literary biography, cementing the fame of both Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. This is the issue with the “give” reading on p.135 of Vol. I. Rothschild 463; Pottle 79. Armorial bookplate of R.C.A. Prior in each volume. Light wear to bindings; frontispiece and title pages with moderate to heavy foxing; light foxing internally; still a very good plus copy. (3000/5000)
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334. Bourke-White, Margaret. Two works by Margaret Bourke-White, signed. Includes: Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of... Cloth-backed boards. Signed on title page. First Edition. 1949. * Portrait of Myself. Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. With a hand-written card from her brother Roger which explains that this copy of the book was signed by his sister, with yellowed tape at corners, matching the yellowed tape at front pastedown. Signed on front free endpaper (although somewhat suspect autograph, not matching others). New York: Simon and Schuster, Various dates Light edge wear to dust jacket; light edge wear to volumes; very good. (150/250)
Page 64 335. (Brighton Press) Hanzlicek, C.G. (poems) & Olda Prochazka (etchings). Mahler: Poems and Etchings. 8 original etchings by Olda Prochazka. (Folio) original leather backed and edged boards. No. 5 of 55 copies. [San Diego]: Brighton Press, [1994] Signed in pencil by the author and illustrator at the colophon. “The music of Gustav Mahler serves as a touchstone for poet C. G. Hanzlicek, who asks that the composer “listen to him for a change.” Hanzlicek reflects on the nine symphonies in a parallel series of intimate poems, addressing the composer directly. Prochazka’s eight moody images resonate between the poems, revealing the artist’s restless exploration of a tactile landscape of etched and engraved line.” (from the Brighton Press website). Slight extremity wear; near fine. (1000/1500)
IN A GORGEOUS LOUIS XIV FULL MOROCCO ARMORIAL BINDING 336. Callimachus. Hymni, Epigrammata et Fragmenta - finely bound, with the arms of Louis XIV. [20], 262, [58] pp. (4to) 22.8x16.5 cm. (9x6½”) period full red morocco, central gilt arms of Louis XIV and fleur-de-lys devices at corners, spine in six compartments with gilt title and fleur-de-lys devices, gilt-topped raised bands, gilt-rolled board edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Paris: Sebastianus Mabre-Cramoisy, 1675 Scarce edition of the Greek poet and scholar Callimachus. A gorgeous binding with the arms of the Sun King, Louis XIV. With the bookplate of Lord Rosebery on front free endpaper, another armorial bookplate, with the initials D.C.M. and legend “Advance With Courage”, on front pastedown. Only the third copy to appear at auction in at least the last 30 years. This copy last offered at Sotheby’s in 1957, sale of The Property of the Bishop’s Court Estate The Property of Capt. the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Roden, R.N. Light wear to extremities, beginnings of crack to rear joint at head, some foxing and browning; very good. (3000/5000)
337. (Caxton Club) Willoughby, Harold R. The Coverdale Psalter and the Quatrocentenary of the Printed English Bible. 31.5x20 cm. (12½x8”), red cloth, black boards slipcase. One of 225 copies printed for the Caxton Club at the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Designed by Wm. A. Kittredge. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1935 Some light wear to slipcase edges and some splitting at a few corners; near fine volume in very good slipcase. (150/250)
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Page 65 338. (China) . Three Chinese woodblock books. 3 volumes in Chinese text with woodblock illustrations. 25.5x18 cm. (10x7”), sewn blue wrappers with paper cover label. [c.early 20th century] With wonderful black and white woodblock illustrations of animals and plants Some rubbing and faint soiling to wrappers; very good. (200/300)
339. (Chu-Nom) . Four hand-bound books in the lost Chinese script of Chu-Nom. 4 hand-bound volumes. 2 are 26x15 cm. (10¼x6”) and 2 are 20x13 cm. (7¾x5”). In custom cloth drop-back box with spine label. [c.19th century] Four works printed in the lost script formerly used to write Vietnamese, using Chinese Characters. Should be seen first-hand. Worming, worn edges, in various states of disrepair, about good. (250/350)
340. Cluverii, Philippi. Introductionis in Universam Geographiam. 465, [6] pp. Engraved title page; folding table. 10.2x5.3 cm. (4x2”), full calf, spine and front cover replaced, remains of original spine laid down. Venice: Balleonium, 1674 Scarce geography text, later issued with maps. Rear cover worn; a bit closely trimmed but without loss of text; very good. (200/300)
341. (Cookery) Los Angeles Times. The Times Cook Book No. 2. 957 Cooking and Other Recipes by California Women; 79 Recipes For Spanish Dishes; 109 Recipes for Soups; 135 Recipes for Salads. . .Brought Out By The 1905 Series of Prize Recipe Contests in the Los Angeles Times. 105, [1] pp. 8¾x5½, white cloth lettered in black. First edition, second issue (with cover price of 35 cents). Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., 1905 Covers soiled; some darkening and soiling within, 2” tear to title-page, recipes glued to pastedowns, good condition. (100/150)
342. (Cookery) Ross, Janet. Leaves From Our Tuscan Kitchen, Or How to Cook Vegetables. xxviii, 150 pp. (Small 8vo) original red cloth. Custom cloth clamshell box. First Edition. London: J.M. Dent, 1899 Classic text on vegetable cookery, rarely found in the first edition. OCLC/WorldCat locates only 8 copies within the United States. Spine faded, hinges cracked but still tightly bound, endpapers browned; very good or better. (250/350)
343. Curne de Sainte-Palaye, M. de la. Memoires sur l’Ancienne Chevalerie; Consideree Comme un Etablissement Politique et Militaire. 3 volumes. xii, 391; [iv], 317, [3]; xvi, 456 pp. (12mo) 16.6x9.5 cm. (6½x3¾”) Volumes 1 & 2 in period full calf, Volume 3 in later full calf. First Edition. Paris: Chez Nic. Bonav. Duchesne, 1759, 1781 Sainte-Palaye, was a French medievalist and a member of the Academy of the Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, as well as the French Academy. Binds worn and a bit dry; light foxing; very good. (300/500)
344. Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner. Illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, hand-colored by the pochoir process. (4to) original cloth. No. 180 of 535 copies. London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929 Covers sunned at edges, light wear; internally fine, the illustrations vividly colored. (300/500) Page 66 345. (Derrydale Press) Clark, Roland. Stray Shots. [8], ii, 124, [1] pp. Thirteen drypoint etchings by Clark. (8vo) 23x14.6 cm. (9x5¾”) black cloth stamped in gilt and white. One of 500 copies. New York: Derrydale Press, 1931 Frontispiece signed in pencil by Clark. Siegel, 58. A touch of edge wear, old cello-tape stains on endpapers; near fine. (600/900)
346. (Derrydale Press) . Ten sporting works published by the Derrydale Press. Includes: Foote, John Taintor. Jing. [1936]. * Cox, Charles E., Jr. John Tobias, Sportsman. Dampstain. [1937]. * Hatch, Alden & Foxhall Keene. Full Tilt. [1938]. * Montgomery, Rutherford. High Country. Spine faded, label detaching. [1938]. * Curtis, Paul A. Sportsmen All. [1938]. * Bigelow, Horatio. Gunnerman. [1939]. Williams, Ben Ames. The Happy End. One of 1250 copies. [1939]. * Bandini, Ralph. Veiled Horizons. [1939]. * Hart, Scott. The Moon is Waning. [1939]. Together 9 volumes, all in the original bindings, each one of 950 copies except where noted. New York: Derrydale Press, Various dates Also includes the first Derrydale bibliography: A Decade of American Sporting Books & Prints. One of 950 copies. 1937. Some light wear, several with bookplate; overall very good. (400/700)
THE DOVES PRESS MILTON 347. (Doves Press) Milton, John. Paradise Lost [&] Paradise Regain’d. 2 volumes. (387), [1]; (344) pp. Printed in red and black. (8vo) 23.5x16.5 cm. (9¼x6½”), original full vellum, spines lettered in gilt. Each volume one of 300 copies on paper. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1902 & 1905 Beautifully printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Laid in is a March, 1901 “List of Books Printed & in Preparation by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at the Doves Press.” 4 pages on a single folded sheet, listing Paradise Lost and 3 other titles as well as listing two titles then out of print. DP5 & DP7. Some typically browning and rippling to vellum; else fine. (2500/3500)
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Page 67 348. (Doves Press) St. Francis of Assisi. Laudes Creaturarum. [10] pp. Printed in red and black. 16x11 cm. (6¼x4¼”) bound by the Doves Bindery in full niger goatskin, lettered in gilt on spine and front. Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1910 From the ancient Italian Text published by Monsieur Sabatier, and from the English Translation by the late Matthew Arnold. Tidcombe DP23. Wear and staining to binding; tear to title leaf and final text leaf, small repair to bottom edge of colophon leaf, soiling to text leaves; good. (400/700)
349. (Easton Press) . Seventy-seven volumes published by the Easton Press. 77 volumes, full leather bindings stamped in gilt. Norfolk, CT: Easton Press, Various dates From the “Collector’s Library of Famous Editions”. Title list available on request. A few with some light scuffing; overall fine. (1500/2000)
350. (Elzevier] Segethus, Thomas. De Principatibus Italiae. 318, [15] pp. Engraved title page. 10.8x5.5 cm. (4¼x2¼”), full calf, later rebacking. First Edition. Leiden: Elzevier, 1628 Willems 301. Some wear at edges, endpapers replaced; good. (250/350)
351. Emerson, William, & Georges Gromort. Old Bridges of France: A Series of Historical Examples.... [4], 124, [2] pp. With 24 mounted color plates from watercolors by Pierre Vignal; 44 plates of measured drawings, etc; numerous illustrations in the text, largely from drawings by Louis C. Rosenberg & Samuel Chamberlain. 45x31.5 cm. (17¾x12¼”), contents loose as issued in boards portfolio with new cloth spine, 2 (of 3) ribbon ties. No. 978 of 1000 copies. New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, 1925 Important architectural study of the bridges of France before so many of them were destroyed in the carnage of World War II. Water stains to cover portfolio; college library bookplate on inside front portfolio cover, plus pencil notes, some light finger soiling and pencil notes to half title; some faint creasing to corners of many leaves; else contents near fine. (400/600)
352. (Erotica) Ungerer, Toni. Fornicon. 60 plates, loose in slipcase, as issued. 38x29 cm. (15x11½”). No place: [1969] Lacking the text leaves containing the title and forward. A portfolio of sexual machinery, some intriguing, some torturous. Case worn and with some tape repairs, plates with an occasional smudge mark and minor edge wear; very good. (300/500)
353. (Fine Binding) Palliser, Mrs. Bury. History of Lace. iv, 460 pp. Wood-engraved plates and text illustrations throughout, many of the plates printed with colored ink; tissue guards. 20.5x13.5 cm. (8x5¼”), full dark blue levant morocco elaborately tooled in gilt on both covers and spine, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, silk endleaves, all edges gilt; bound by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurg & Co. First Edition. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1865 Scarce first edition of Palliser’s important study of lace through the ages, beautifully bound. With Zaehnsdorf’s printed name at bottom of front free endpaper verso; on the following leaf is written in pencil “Cobden-Sanderson binding.” T.J. Cobden-Sanderson trained at Zaehnsdorf before going into business for himself and founding the Doves Press. Ink signature of Mrs. G.B. Cleveland to top of front free endleaf. Fine condition. (500/800)
Page 68 354. (Fine Bindings) Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 5 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (12mo) 16.5x10 cm. (6½x4”) later polished red half calf and cloth, spines gilt, top edges gilt. London: Thomas Tegg, et al, 1824 An attractive early 19th century edition of Boswell’s classic biography. Spines sunned, light wear; very good. (200/300)
FINELY BOUND AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED 355. (Fine Bindings) Greville, Charles C.F. The Greville Memoirs - Finely bound and extra-illustrated. 8 volumes. (8vo) 21.3x13.8 cm. (8¼x5½”) finely bound by Bayntun in full blue levant morocco, gilt borders and corner devices on covers, raised bands, spines gilt, gilt-rolled board edges, gilt-ruled dentelles, silk endleaves; all edges gilt. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1874-1887 Extra-illustrated with the insertion of 360 plates, 74 of which are hand-colored. Also 7 autograph items including signatures of George Canning, Wm. Frederick Sunderland, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Brougham, Lord Lynedoch, and an envelope addressed in the hand of T.B. Macaulay. A very handsome set. Spines faded, front joint of first volume worn and a bit tender; still very good or better. (1200/1800)
356. (Fine Bindings) Van Dyke, Henry, editor (his copy). Little Masterpieces of English Poetry by British and American Authors. 6 volumes. (12mo), three quarter blue levant morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, top edges gilt. Bound by Blackwell. First Edition. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905 This copy from the library of the editor, Henry Van Dyke, with his signature and bookplate in Volume 1. A charming set. A touch of light wear and spotting to boards; near fine. (400/700)
FIVE LOTS OF FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS 357. (Fore-Edge Painting) Bloomfield, Robert. Two volumes of verse by Robert Bloomfield - each with a fore-edge painting. Four works in two volume, comprising: Wild Flowers. 1809. * The Banks of Wye. 1811. * The Farmer’s Boy. 1811. * Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs. 1811. (12mo) 15.8x9.5 cm. (6¼x3¾”) mid-19th century full red morocco, decorative borders in gilt and blind, spines gilt, all edges gilt. Early editions. London: Vernor, Hood, et al, 1809-1811 Each volume with a lovely fore-edge painting. One showing Troston Hall, Suffolk and the second a view of the Farm House at Sapiston, where Bloomfield spent his youth and the scene of his “The Farmer’s Boy”. Each volume with the gilt-stamped name of London booksellers Taylor and Hessey on the fore-edges of the covers. Light wear to extremities; light foxing; very good. (1000/1500)
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Page 69 358. (Fore-Edge Painting) Gilpin, William. Observations on Several Parts of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. Also on Several Parts of North Wales; Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, in Two Tours, The Former Made in the Year 1769. The Latter in the Year 1773 - with fore edge painting. xii, 208 pp. 19 oval tinted aquatint views, one untinted aquatint of ruins. (8vo) 22.3x13.5 cm. (8¾x5¼”) later full red morocco, gilt rule border, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition. London: T. Cadell, 1809 With a charming fore-edge painting of Caernarfon (Carnarvon) Castle. One of Gilpin’s most interesting volumes of tours with remarks on several great houses. Armorial bookplate of Rev. C.B. Pearson. Abbey, Scenery 15. Light wear to binding, spine sunned; some foxing and offsetting; very good. (500/800)
359. (Fore-Edge Painting) Junius. The Letters of Junius - with fore-edge painting. xxxvi, 460 pp. (12mo) 15.4x9.6 cm. (6x3¾”) period full red morocco, wide gilt decorative borders, spine gilt, all edges gilt. London: J. Bumpus, et al, 1820 With a beautiful fore-edge painting of Shrewsbury, England from the banks of River Severn, with several boats on the water. Light wear to extremities, front hinge cracked; penciled note on title page; very good. (700/1000)
360. (Fore-Edge Painting) Pollock, Robert. The Course of Time - with fore-edge painting. [2], 394, [2] pp. (12mo) 17x10 cm. (6¾x4”) period full green morocco, elaborately bordered in gilt and blind, spine gilt, all edges gilt. Seventh Edition. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1828 With a lovely fore-edge painting of London’s Richmond Bridge from the bank of the Thames river, park land in the foreground, a small sailboat on the water. Joints rubbed; front hinge just starting to crack; very good. (700/1000)
361. (Fore-Edge Painting) Ritchie, Leitch. Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland - with fore-edge painting. Issued as Heath’s Picturesque Annual for 1833. viii, 256 pp. 26 engraved plates including frontispiece and additional illustrated title page. (8vo) 19.5x12.2 cm. (7¾x4¾”) original full red morocco, decorative borders in blind, gilt wreath at center of covers, spine titled in gilt in decorative gilt device, all edges gilt. London: Longman, Rees, et al., 1833 With a double fore-edge painting showing scenes of Abbotsford and of an angler in a small boat on the river Avon. Light wear; light foxing; very good. (700/1000)
362. Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Black cloth, dust jacket. First American Edition. New York: Doubleday, [1952] Translated from the Dutch publication in 1947, Het Achterhuis. Jacket spine sunned, lightly chipped at edges, especially at spine ends, two tape repairs on verso at top edge, light rubbing; a touch of wear to volume edges; else a fine volume in a very good jacket. (600/900)
363. Freiesleben, Christoph. Henr. Corpus Juris Canonici Academicum, Emendatum et Notis P. Lancellotti Illustratum, in Suos Tomos Distributum, Usuique Moderno. 2 volumes in 1. Various paginations. (4to) 24x18 cm. (9½x7”) period blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, leather and brass closure straps. Coloniae Munatianae [Basel]: E. & J.R. Thurnisiorum [Thurneysen], 1735 Second title page dated 1730. Some wear and soiling to binding; some foxing; very good. (400/700)
Page 70 WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY ROBERT GIBBINGS 364. (Golden Cockerel Press) Lucian, of Samosata. The True Historie of Lucian the Samosatenian. [iv], 44, [1] pp. Wood engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings. (4to) 31.5x22.5 cm. (12½x8¾”) brown niger-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. No. 121 of 275 copies [Waltham, St. Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1927 Translated from the Greek by Francis Hickes. Chanticleer 53. Light wear and soiling to binding; minor foxing; very good. (1000/1500)
365. Gregory, G. A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 2 volumes. vi,960; [ii], 928, [2] pp. Two engraved title pages and 134 (of 138) copper-engraved plates (39 with hand coloring). (4to) 27.2x21 cm. (10¾x8¼”) period full calf. Second Edition. London: Thomas Tegg / S.A. Oddy, 1815 The natural history plates with contemporary hand-coloring. Lacking plates numbered 82, 86, 87, & 102. Bindings well worn, spines partially detached, joints and hinges cracked; foxing, some edge wear and short tears to pages; good. (300/500)
FOURTEEN LOTS OF ZANE GREY BOOKS, PHOTOS AND ARTIFACTS 366. Grey, Zane. Collection of Zane Grey films. 27 films in 8mm or 16mm format, all in original “Zane Grey Adventure Stories” box. Titles include: [Small 8mm] To the Last Man (2 copies). * Heritage of the Desert. * Man of the Forest. * Fighting Caravan. * [Larger 8mm] Rocky Mountain Mystery. * Knights of the Range. * Born to the West. * Wagon Wheels. * Drift Fence. * Forlorn River. * To the Last Man. * Hell Town. * Man of the Forest. (2 copies). * The Thundering Herd. * [Small 16mm] To the Last Man. * Heritage of the Desert. * Drift Fence. * Man of the Forest. * Thunder Trail. * The Thundering Herd. * [Larger 16mm] Man of the Forest. * Born to the West. * Knights of the Range. * Wagon Wheels. * The Thundering Herd. Together 27 films. Hollywood, CA: Hollywood Film Enterprises, Inc, [1930s?] Boxes with some wear, a few lacking flaps; we have not viewed these films to determine condition of the prints, sold as is. (400/600)
367. (Grey, Zane) . Collection of enlarged photographs from Zane Grey’s Altadena Mansion. Includes 16 enlarged photographs. Including: 8x10” of Zane with native fisherman on the reef at Tahiti (per caption on verso). * 6½x10½” of Zane sitting next to five fresh catches on the grass. * 11x14” of a swordfish jumping out of the waters. * 9¼x15¼ of Zane Grey’s - Captain Mitchell, hauling in a massive (976 Pound) black marlin, at the bay of Islands in 1926. * 15¾x19¾ photograph impression labeled Rainie Falls, showing fisherman working among the rocky shoreline. * 11x14 of Tahitian coastline, 1928, according to the caption on verso. * 11x14 of New Zealand, So Island Mararoa River, 1928, according to caption on verso. * 11x14” of The Fisherman, by Anthony A. Ugrin. * Plus several others of fish, fishing and landscapes. Provenance: From the Grey family’s Altadena home, through the Loren Grey Estate. Some with mild wear to edges; mostly very good or better. (300/500)
ZANE GREY’S FISHING TACKLE 368. (Grey, Zane) . Collection of fishing flies, hooks and leaders used by Zane Grey, contained in a small copper pot. 2 freshwater fishing flies, 2 large metal fishing hooks (3½”), and several antique leaders and swivels. Plus a small hand-made copper pot with hinged lid and handle. Approximately 2½” tall, with a 3” circumference. With a small card that is signed by Zane Grey. Provenance: From the Grey family’s Altadena home, through the Loren Grey Estate. Very good or near fine. (500/800)
Page 71 369. (Grey, Zane) . Collection of photographs and ephemera from the Zane Grey estate - including a check made out to The Tuna Club. Includes: A check from Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank, written out for $5 to the Tuna Club, signed. * 1 page ALs from Zane Grey to son Romer, with envelope. Signed, “Dad”. * 2 page ALs from Zane Grey to his daughter Molly Bugs. On Zane Grey, Avalon California stationary, signed, “Dad.” * Original photograph of Zane standing with his catch, including: Grey holding the “World Record Tiger Shark.” (Photo reproduced in the Feb. 1937 Fish & Stream.) * Original photograph of Zane standing with a massive tuna. * Original photograph of Zane’s ship The Fisherman, in Whangaroa, New Zealand. * 13 original black and white photographs of the Grey family. 2 are stamped on verso as photographed by Romer Grey. 8x10”. * A telegraph to his son Romer in 1929. * Aflalo, Frederick G. A Sketch of the Natural History of Australia With Some Notes on Sport. 307, 7 ad pp. Original Wrappers (some soiling). Macmillan’s Colonial Library. Macmillan, 1896. * Plus, a few other items. Provenance: Most are from the Grey family’s Altadena home, through the Loren Grey Estate Very good or near fine. (500/800)
ORIGINAL PLANS FOR ZANE GREY’S YACHT 370. (Grey, Zane) . Four original ship plans for Zane Grey’s yacht Fisherman II. 4 ship plans, prepared by the German Arms maker Krupps. The largest is 52x151.7 cm. (20½x65¾”) and has a Lambie & Mabry, Naval Architects - Marine Engineers Wilmington, California, rubberstamp on bottom right corner, with the date inked in as 2-25-31. 1931 All other text on the plans is in German, and each is stamped with the Krupps logo. The largest plan has several small tears at edges and at crease folds; another with a hole at bottom right section; else they have finger soiling and some darkening; good. (500/800)
371. (Grey, Zane) . Large hand-colored photograph of Zane Grey holding a yellowtail. Enlarged hand- colored photograph on board, framed. 48x28.5 cm. (19x11¼”). Stamped on verso, “Enlargement by Carney & Grey. A rare enlarged colored photograph of Zane Grey, holding a world record Yellowtail in New Zealand circa 1925-1926. Provenance: From the Grey family’s Altadena home, through the Loren Grey Estate. Only tiny slight imperfections to surface; near fine. (400/700)
372. (Grey, Zane) . Original photograph of R.C. Grey with his 638 lb. Nova Scotia Tuna - with hand- written note by brother Zane Grey. Original photograph of R.C. Grey, standing next to a massive tuna. 11x8.3 cm. (4¼x3¼”). With a hand-written note in Zane Grey’s hand on recto top left corner that reads, “R.C. + his 638 lb. Tuna landed in 38 minutes at Jordan Bay Nova Scotia,” Some fading, a faint crease at bottom, and small closed tear at top edge; very good. (300/500)
373. (Grey, Zane) . Original photograph of Zane Grey - found in Tales of Freshwater Fishing. Original black and white photograph of young Zane Grey holding a freshly caught fish. 18x13.3 cm. (7x5¼”). With hand-written note by Zane Grey on verso that reads, “Zane Grey with a six pound small- mouth black-bass.” This photograph was published in Grey’s “Tales of Freshwater Fishing.” One tiny closed tear on right edge, repaired on verso with tape; else near fine. (300/500)
Page 72 THREE LOTS OF ZANE GREY’S FISHING BOOKS 374. Grey, Zane. Tales of Fishes. 267 pp. Illustrated from photographs by the author, including color frontispiece plate. Original yellow cloth, dust jacket. Reprint Edition. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1919, but later] Reprinted from the Harper & Brothers plates. 1938 gift inscription on rear of frontispiece. Jacket with some light chipping at edges; offsetting from jacket onto cloth; very good in like jacket. (150/250)
375. Grey, Zane. Tales of Southern Rivers. ix, 249, [1] + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with several plates from photographs throughout; frontispiece from photograph of a waterfall on a tropical river. 8¼x5½, green cloth, pictorial cover label on front cover, lettered in gilt, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1924] With Harper’s code “H-Y” on copyright page. Includes, The Great River of the Gulf, River of the Everglades, Down an Unknown Jungle River. Jacket price-clipped, edge-worn and with some soiling to spine and edges, long closed tears at spine, with one tape repair on verso; light wear to book; very good volume in good jacket. (700/1000)
376. Grey, Zane. Tales of the Angler’s Eldorado, New Zealand - plus 1 ALs written to Zane Grey. viii, 228 pp. Illustrated with plates from over 100 photographs by Zane Grey and from drawings by Frank E. Phares, pictorial endpapers. 10½x7½, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, dust jacket. First British Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1926 Deep-sea and freshwater fishing in the waters of New Zealand. Bruns G181. The lot includes a 4-page ALs from a gentleman in Auckland, New Zealand dated September 3, 1925. It asks Grey to visit his fishing region. Includes the original mailing envelope. Jacket spine yellowed, some light chipping at jacket edges, split along rear joint, yet intact; volume edges lightly rubbed; name in ink on front free endpaper; else a near fine volume in a very good jacket. (600/900)
377. Grey, Zane. Typescript for “The Giant Pacific Salmon”. 30 pp., plus cover page, typed pages. No date The lot also includes: Receipt for Zane Grey at the Hotel Stonehurst in Auckland, New Zealand. Provenance: From the Grey family’s Altadena home, through the Loren Grey Estate. Fine. (200/300)
378. (Grey, Zane) Roughley, T.C. Big-Game Angling Australia. [12] pp. including covers. With photographs of Zane Grey and others fishing, and with their catch. 34.3x24 cm. (13½x9½”), with color lithograph front cover, photograph rear cover. Melbourne: Australian National Travel Association, 1937 Beautiful illustrated promotional fishing booklet, a rare find! A touch of edge wear; else fine. (300/500)
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Page 73 379. (Grey, Zane) . Periodicals featuring angling stories by Zane Grey. Includes: Field & Stream. February, 1937. With article by Zane Grey titled, “World-Record Tiger Shark: Big-Game Fishing in Australian Waters.” on page 9. Original wrappers. * Popular Photography. January, 1938. With article by Loren Grey, featuring the photography of Zane Grey titled, “Zane Grey Takes His Camera Swordfishing,” on page 28. Original wrappers. * Izak Walton League Monthly April, 1923. With article by Zane Grey titled, “The Gladiator of the Sea,” on page 385. Original wrappers. * Physical Culture. July, 1931. With article by Zane Grey titled, “Tales of the South Seas,” on page 55. Original wrappers. (Also include’s Jack London’s “Poppy Cargo” the first appearance of the work under this title.) * Motorship. Vol. XIV, No. 1 - No. 12 (Jan-Dec, 1929) bound together. Within Vol. XIV, No. 10 (Oct, 1929) is the short article, “Famous Diesel Yacht ‘Goes Pro’. Regarding Grey’s schooner Marechal Foch. Various places: Various dates Also includes: Ashaway Sportsman 1952. Original photographic wrappers. * 2 issues of The Catalina Islander. Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (Wednesday, January 14, 1931) and Vol. XXII, No. 24 (Thursday, June 13, 1935). Some soiling to each. * 3 issues of: Radio News. The Polynesian. A Newspaper Issued Daily Aboard Passenger Ships of the Matson Navigation Co. and the Oceanic Steamship Co. Vol. XXIII, No. 4 (Sunday, July 28, 1935); Vol. XIV, No. 12 (Thursday, October 3, 1935); and Vol. XXIV, No. 16 (Thursday, October 17, 1935). Some light to moderate general wear to each; mostly very good. (300/500)
380. Hamilton, A[nthony]. Memoirs of Count Grammont. iv, 362, [lxxxiv], [5] pp. 76 copper- engraved portraits; engraved title-page. (4to) 26x20.5 cm. (10¼x8”) early full calf, covers bordered in blind and gilt, spine gilt, later rebacking with original spine leather laid down, all edges gilt. London: S. and E. Harding, [1793] Europe of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, revealing the intrigues and amours of both the continent and the English court. The many engraved portraits are of the leading gentlemen and ladies of the era. Binding well worn and detached at both hinges; some foxing, penciled notes; fair. (400/700)
381. Hawkins, William. A Treatise of the Pleas to the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Their Proper Heads. 2 parts in 1 volume. [xvi], 266, [48]; 464, [74] pp. (Folio) 34.5x22.5 cm. (13½x8¾”) period calf with later rebacking. Third Edition. [London] In the Savoy: E. and R. Nutt & R. Gosling for B. Nutt, 1739 First published 1716-1721. A scarce legal text. ESTC T107637 Binding worn, front cover detached, spine leather chipped and a bit dry; internally fine. (200/300)
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Page 74 FIRST EDITION OF CHAPMAN’S TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD OF HOMER 382. Homer. The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets. [22], 341, [9] pp. *2-6, A-Z6, Aa-Ff6, Gg7. Title leaf not included in pagination or collation. Lacking leaves *1 and Gg*, both blanks. Leaves Bb3 & Bb4 slightly smaller and presumably supplied from another copy. This copy without the errata on A6r. Engraved title page, rear blank. (Folio) 27.7x19 cm. (11x7½”), old full calf with 20th century rebacking. First Edition. London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter, [1611?] First edition in English of Homer’s Iliad, translated by George Chapman. There are the sixteen sonnets by Chapman on leaves Gg4-7 following page [342], as called for. This is apparently the later printing of the first edition, with less elaborate chapter headpieces than in the first printing. This work was followed by Chapman’s translation of the Odyssey was published circa 1615 and a combined edition with a new title page was issued shortly thereafter. STC 13634. Extremities rubbed, rear hinge cracked; title page trimmed and remargined at right edge with loss of ruled border, one leaf (G3) with a thin strip torn from right margin, no loss of text; some foxing and browning; very good. (5000/8000)
DARD HUNTER ON PAPERMAKING IN THE ORIENT 383. Hunter, Dard. A Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea, and China. 148, [4] pp. With 2 line drawings and 66 gravure illustrations from photographs; 50 samples of paper inserted. (4to) 28x23 cm. (11¼x8¾”), black morocco-backed patterned boards. No. 347 of 370 copies printed by the Pynson Printers. New York: Pynson Printers, 1936 Signed by Dard Hunter and the printer Elmer Adler in the colophon. A study of papermaking in the Far East; a region with a long tradition of fine handmade papers. Spine a touch sunned and with some minor wear; near fine. (1500/2500)
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Page 75 384. (Kama Shastra Society) . The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana [and] The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa’Di. 181 + [1] ad. 19x13 cm. (7½x5”), vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Reprint. * viii. 282 pp. 19x13 cm. (7½x5”), vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Together 2 volumes. Cosmopoli: For the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883 [and] 1888 Light finger soiling or yellowing to vellum; evidence of removed bookplate on front free endpaper of each; very good. (200/300)
385. (Lambeth Palace) . A Concise Account, Historical and Descriptive of Lambeth Palace. iv, 87 pp. 20 engraved plates including additional illustrated title page. (4to) 30x23.5 cm. (11¾x9¼”) period calf boards with modern cloth rebacking. First Edition. London: Herbert & Brayley, 1806 Abbey, Scenery 209. Binding well worn, foxing, staining in lower margin; good. (150/250)
386. Laurents, Arthur. West Side Story - Review Copy. Gray cloth, cover pictorial label, dust jacket. Review Copy of the First Edition. New York: Random House, [1958] With a review slip from the publisher laid in. Jacket spine sunned, light edge wear including tiny closed tears, a few tiny spots of soiling; very slight bump to volume spine ends; fine volume in a very good jacket. (200/300)
387. (Law) . The Law of Actions: Being an Exact, Brief and Methodical Collection of All Adjudg’d Cases Out of All the Reports of the Law to This Day. [xii], 228 pp. (12mo) 19x12 cm. (7½x4¾”), period full calf. First Edition. [London] In the Savoy: Printed by John Nutt for John Hartley, 1710 Scarce early legal text. OCLC WorldCat locates only 10 copies worldwide. Front board lacking, rear board detached; first signature detached; foxing, some early underlining; fair. (600/900)
388. (Limited Editions Club) . Ten titles from the Limited Editions Club. Includes: Scott, Sir Walter. Waverly. Illustrations by Robert Ball. Signed by Ball. 1 of 1500 copies. 1961. * Crane, Hart. The Bridge: A Poem. With photography by Richard Benson. Signed by Benson. 1 of 2000 copies. 1981. * Southey, Robert, translator. The Chronicle of the Cid. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Signed by Sussan. 1 of 1500 copies. 1958. * de Alarcon, Pedro Antonio. The Three-Cornered Hat. Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. Signed by Duvoisin. 1 of 1500 copies. 1959. * The Book of the Prophet Isaiah. Illustrated by Chaim Gross. 1 of 2000 copies. 1979. * de Balzac, Honore. Eugenie Grandet. Illustrations by Rene ben Sussan. 1 of 1500 copies. 1960. * Saint-Simon: The Memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy. 2 volumes. Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud. 1 of 1500 copies. 1959. * Hearn, Lafcadio, translator. The Tales of Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893. Illustrated by Gunter Bohmer. 1 of 1500 copies. 1963. * Hale, Edward Everett. The Man without a Country. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. 1 of 1500 copies. 1936. * Tarkington, Booth. Monsieur Beaucaire. Illustrated by T.M. Cleland. 1 of 1500 copies. 1961. Together 10 titles in 11 volumes. Each with their slipcase and signed by their illustrator. Limited Editions Club, Various dates The lot includes 2 additional volumes: Bridges, Robert. The Testament of Beauty: A Poem in Four Books. 1 of 250 copies printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge. With slipcase. Oxford University, 1929. * Fowles, John. Mantissa. 1 of 500 copies, signed by the author. With slipcase. Little, Brown, [1982]. Mostly light general wear, mostly very good. (200/300)
Page 76 389. (Limited Editions Club) . Ten volumes from the Limited Editions Club. Includes: Hugo, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. 1 of 1500 copies. 1955. * Fils, Alexandre Dumas. La Dame aux Camelias Camille. Illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. 1 of 1500 copies. 1955. * Flaubet, Gustave. Salammbo. Illustrated by Edward Bawden. 1 of 1500 copies. 1960. * Galsworthy, John. The Man of Property. Illustrated by Charles Mozley. 1 of 1500 copies. 1964. * Hersey, John. The Wall. Illustrated by William Sharp. 1 of 1500 copies. 1957. * Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Rivals: A Comedy. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan. 1 of 1500 copies. 1953. * Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Illustrated by R.J. Holden. 1 of 1500 copies. 1955. * James, Henry. The Ambassadors. Illustrated with Leslie Saalburg. 1 of 1500 copies. 1963. * Moliere Tartuffe & The Would-Be Gentleman. Illustrated by Serge Ivanoff. 1 of 1500 copies. 1963. * France, Anatole. The Revolt of the Angels. Illustrated by Pierre Watrin. No slipcase. Not signed. 1 of 1500 copies. 1953. All but the last in their slipcases. All but the last signed by their illustrators. A few with the bookplate of George McNear Bowles. Together 10 volumes. Limited Editions Club, Various dates The lot also includes: Galsworthy, John. Soames and the Flag. With slipcase. Signed by author on the half title page. 1 of 680 copies. Scribner’s, 1930. Mostly light general wear to each; mostly very good or better. (200/300)
390. Liston, Robert & Thomas D. Mütter. Lectures on the Operations of Surgery, and on Diseases and Accidents Requiring Operations. [4] ad, xii, (13)-565 pp. 16 page publisher’s catalog at rear. Woodcut illustrations throughout. (8vo) original full calf. First Edition. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1846 “Liston’s reputation as a surgeon and teacher made him well known and widely respected throughout the American medical community. Here, Thomas D. Mütter (1811-1859), professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, collected nineteen of the lectures given by Liston in 1844 at London’s University College. Mütter indicates that the original lectures were published in Lancet but, in this work he has edited the lectures and added some 250 pages of his own commentary to clarify and expand upon Liston’s material or to add subjects not covered by Liston.” - Heirs of Hippocrates, No. 1510 Extremities rubbed, spine sunned; light foxing; very good. (150/250)
391. M’Alpine, D. The Botanical Atlas. A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants. Unpaginated. 27 chromolithograph plates, included illustrated title page, interleaved with descriptive letterpress. (Folio) 35.4x28 cm. (14x11”) original green cloth stamped in gilt on front. New York: Century Co., 1883 Charming botanical color plates including the Lily, Crocus, Orchid, Geranium, Violet, etc. Light wear to extremities, some scuffing to cloth, front free endpaper partially detached; very good. (200/300)
392. Mason, John. More Hand Made Papers by John Mason. Thirty-five hand-made paper samples with printing (illustrations and/or text), interleaved with blank leaves. Also contains a unique original “Thread Picture” by Rigby Graham. (Small folio) 30.5x20.5 cm. (12x8”), original parchment covered boards, clear acetate jacket. Copy Number 10 (a “Special Copy”) from and unspecified limitation. New York: Chiswick Book Shop, 1966 “This is a Collection of Sheets of Paper which I made by hand, at my small Twelve by Eight Mill in Leicester, from fibres reduced from a variety of plants and fabrics. These papers I had printed by a number of outstanding craftsmen and at various Printing Schools in England. Commenced in 1958, the first copies were not completed until the end of 1965.” (John Mason). A touch of browning to edges; residue from removed bookplate on front flyleaf; fine. (200/300)
Page 77 393. (Medical) Cushing, Harvey. The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders. x, 341 pp. Color frontispiece, folding plate, numerous black and white photographic plates. 9½x6, original red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First Edition, Second State (less common). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1912] Garrison-Morton outlines the importance of Cushing’s first book: “Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the [20th] century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders.” Only 1000 copies of the second state, which lists Cushing as the Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard, were issued. Bookplate of the Mayo-Clinic Library on front pastedown. Cushing Bibliography 2. GM 3896. Spine gilt dull, rubbing and wear to ends and corners; hinges cracked, flyleaf detached, well shaken with hinges cracked, good overall. (150/250)
394. (Medical - Lantern Slides) . Approximately 30 glass lantern slides of individuals with rather horrific skin diseases and other deformities, plus tissue biopsies, etc. Most with paper labels giving patients’ names, etc. No place: c.1954 A rather disturbing group, evidently some sort of study of cancerous diseases, perhaps due to exposure to radiation - most of the names listed seem Hispanic in origin. A few broken, good to very good. (200/300)
RARE MINSTREL SONG BOOK 395. (Minstrels) . Christy’s Panorama Songster; Containing the Songs as Sung by The Christy, Campbell, Pierce’s Minstrels and Sable Brothers. Frontispiece, title page and pages numbered (71)-136, 93, 37 (as issued). Woodcut frontispiece; front wrapper and title page woodcut vignettes, a few woodcuts internally. 15.5x9.7 cm. (6x3¾”) original printed paper wrappers. New York: William H. Murphy, [c.1860s] Scarce mid-century Minstrel songster. Backstrip perished at ends; a few pencil notes; near fine. (200/300)
396. Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de. Essayes Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne ... done into English, according to the last French edition, by John Florio. [10], 348, 350-630 pp. (A-Iii6, Kkk4). Lacking leaf A6 which contained the metalcut portrait of John Florio by William Hole (sometimes bound as the frontispiece), lacking final blank leaf (Kkk4). (Folio) 29x19 cm (11½x7½, period calf, later rebacking. Second Florio Edition. London: Printed by Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, 1613 Second edition of John Florio’s translation into English of Montaigne’s Essays, following the edition produced in 1603. Books two and three have separate dated title-pages, with pagination and register continuous. Montaigne is generally credited with the invention of the essay, his Essays were first published in French in 1580, and are called by Printing and the Mind of Man the “consummate representation of the enlightened scepticism of the sixteenth century... “ Florio’s translation is considered one of the great translations of the Elizabethan period. With early ink ownership signature of John Monkhouse to top of title-page. (PMM 95); STC 18042. Some wear to binding, head of spine pulled, rear hinge cracked; paper repairs to edges of title page, one leaf (A5) detached, two leaves (pages 437-440) slightly smaller, possibly provided from another copy, paper a bit browned, light foxing; very good. (1500/2500)
Lot 396
Page 78 EARLY 20TH CENTURY COCKTAIL GUIDE 397. Muckensturm, Louis. Louis’ Mixed Drinks, With Hints for the Care & Serving of Wines. 115 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original red cloth decoratively stamped. First Edition. Boston: H.M. Caldwell, [1906] A turn of the century guide for mixed drinks of the day. A few additional recipes added in ink by a previous owner. Light wear to cloth; very good. (150/250)
398. (Napoléon) . Le Siécle de Napoléon, Galerie des Illustrations de L’Empire. Unpaginated. 25 hand- colored tinted lithograph portraits interleaved with descriptive letterpress. (4to) 30x23 cm. (11¾x9”), original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. Paris: Administration de Librairie, 1846 Portraits of leading figures from the reign of Napoléon after paintings by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux. Some wear and soiling to cloth, front joint splitting, hinges cracked; foxing; plates overall very good. (250/350)
399. (Natural History) . Three volumes on Orchids and other flowers. Includes: Muller, Walter & Dr. F. Kranzlin. Abbildungen der in Deutschland und den Angrenzenden Grundformen der Orchideen- Arten. (8vo) pictorial boards, spine repaired with black tape. 60 color lithograph plates. Ex-library. Covers worn. Berlin: Friedlander, 1904. * Weathers, John. Beautiful Bulbous Plants for the Open Air. (8vo) Boards. 33 color lithograph plates. Boards worn, spine lacking. London: Simpkin, et al, c.1900. * Davis, Aaron P. The Genus Galanthus. Cloth, dust jacket. A Botanical Magazine Monograph. Portland, OR: Timber Press, [1999]. Together 3 volumes. Various places: Various dates Final volume near fine; others fair to good. (150/250)
400. (Nonesuch Press) Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea. Translated out of the Greeke into French by James Amyot: and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North. 5 volumes. Illustrated by T.L. Poulton. (4to) 12x7¾”, tan buckram, beveled edges, paper spine labels, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. No. 951 of 1550 copies. London: Nonesuch Press, 1929 Large, handsomely printed edition of North’s Plutarch. Light wear and spotting to cloth, light chipping to labels; very good. (300/500)
401. (P.P.I.E.) Montgomery, Frances Trego. Billy Whiskers at the Exposition. 192 pp. 6 color plates, plus several illustrations within the text by Frank J. Murch. 22.5x18.5 cm. (8¾x7½”), color illustrated white boards, matching color illustrated dust jacket. First Edition. Chicago: Saalfield Publishing Company, [1915] With the lovely and rare color illustrated dust jacket, showing Billy Whiskers and friend admiring the view of the P.P.I.E. Jacket with light edge wear including several chips and closed tears, one long closed tear at front flap fold, a few holes at spine and rear flap fold; lightly frayed at spine ends as usually found; name in ink on front endpapers, else clean internally; very good volume in very good jacket. (100/150)
Page 79 PEPYS’ NAVAL MEMOIRS – PRESENTATION ISSUE 402. [Pepys, Samuel]. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, For Ten Years, Determin’d December 1688. [2], 214, [17] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece; folding table (“A General State of Account...). (8vo) 16.5x10.6 cm. (6½x4¼”) early full paneled calf, spine gilt, red morocco spine label. First Edition, Presentation Issue. [London]: Printed Anno MDCXC This issue was intended for private distribution, with the imprint ‘’Printed Anno MDCXC’’ instead of the commercial imprint ‘’for Ben. Griffin...”. There are the usual manuscript corrections (on pp. 11, 33, 39, 40, 42, 57, 70, 90, 92, 103, 120, 138, 142) which, if not by Pepys himself, were surely done at his direction (see Notes and Queries, 7th series, VII, pp. 81). Leaves B7, C2, C4, C6, D6, E8, K2, K3, L6, & L7 are all cancels. “This is the diarist’s only acknowledged publication. Upon this he lavished a great deal of thought and care. It represented a side of Pepy’s life which is apt to be ignored” (Pforzheimer). Wing P1449; Pforzheimer 793. Previous owner’s name “Northesk” on title page. Binding lightly rubbed; occasional light foxing; near fine. (4000/6000)
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403. (Photographs) Broderson, George H. Tired but Satisfied - silver print photograph. Silver print photograph. 10x12.6 cm. (4x5”). [San Francisco]: [c.1900s] On verso of photograph is neatly penciled, “Title - Tired but Satisfied. George H. Broderson. L.P.E. 785. 827 Texas St. San Francisco, Cal.” A nice photograph of a young boy after a day of fishing, his catch can be seen hanging from a barrel. Near fine. (100/150)
404. (Photographs) Eugene, Frank. Mosaic. Photogravure printed on tissue, matted and framed. Image size is 18.8x13.9 cm. (7¾x5½”). With frame measures 48x38.2 cm. (19x15”). 1910 This photograph illustrated the pages of Camera Work, the quarterly journal first published in 1903. From Camera Work 30, April 1910. Fine. In a fine and lovely custom frame. (300/500)
Page 80 SEVERAL LOTS ON PHOTOGRAPHY 405. (Photography) Avedon, Richard. An Autobiography. Unpaginated. (Folio) 35.5x27.6 cm. (14x11”). brown cloth, clear acetate jacket with printed back flap, original printed box. First Edition, Second Issue. New York: Random House, [1993] Label signed by Avedon affixed to front free endpaper. Second issue with title on spine in larger font. Light wear to box; volume fine. (300/500)
406. (Photography) Blumenfeld, Erwin. Portfolio. 4 pp. text + 12 images. 39.9x29.7 cm. (15¾x11¾”), loose in portfolio and slipcase as issued. [Milan]: [Gruppo Editoriale Electa Milano], [1982] Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) photographed more covers for Vogue than any photographer before or since. Light wear to slipcase; near fine. (200/300)
407. (Photography) Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield - illustrated with Woodburytype photographs. Illustrated with 12 Woodburytype photographs of pictures by eminent British artists. (8vo) original brown cloth decorated in gilt and black, all edges gilt. London: Bickers & Son, 1880 Spine leaning, some wear to cloth, rear hinge cracked; some penciled notes, a few pages loose; good. (200/300)
408. (Photography - Kertész, André) . André Kertész: Sixty Years of Photography, 1912-1972. 224 pp. 23.8x26.6 cm. (9½x10½”), tan cloth, lettered in gilt, white pictorial dust jacket. First UK Edition. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972 Inscribed “To Sun Yee Lee, with friendship. A. Kertesz. Oct 9 1975,” on the title page. A rare inscribed copy of the first edition. André Kertész (b.1894) was born in Budapest and had shows in major museums in Europe and the United States. This book contains 250 photographs taken from 1912-1972, including some taken in Paris, plus portraits of Einstein, Chagall, Calder and others, plus some of his famous distortions. A beautiful book, and rare with such a clean and bright dust jacket and inscription. Jacket with the faintest yellowing, two tiny closed tears at spine head, repaired on verso with tape; fine volume in a near fine jacket. (1000/1500)
409. (Photography) Maloney, T.J., editor. U.S. Camera - seventeen issues from 1937 to 1955. Includes: 1937. Spiral bound wrappers. * 1939. Spiral bound boards. * 1940. Spiral bound, cloth- backed boards. * 1941. 2 volumes. Red cloth, slipcase. * 1942. Cloth. * 1943. Cloth. * 1944. Cloth. * 1945. Cloth. * 1946. Cloth. * 1947. Cloth. * 1949. Cloth. * 1950. Cloth. * 1951. Cloth. * 1952. Cloth. * 1953. Cloth. * 1954. Cloth. * 1955. Cloth. Together 17 years of the annual, in 18 volumes. New York: 1937-1955 A beautiful compendium of photography, illustrated throughout by a large number of important American photographers including: Cecil Beaton, Dorthea Lange, Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Alfred Eisenstadt, Andre Kertesz, Edward Weston and more. Mild general wear to each; mostly very good. (500/800)
Page 81 410. (Photography) Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. [xiv], 304 pp. 43 illustrations including 18 half-tone photographs. (8vo) original pictorial boards backed in gilt-lettered blue cloth. Reprint. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912 First published in 1890. “One of the most important photobooks ever published, ‘How the Other Half Lives’ represents the first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book. It is the beginning, not of a photographic genre, but a photographic attitude, an ethos - humanist documentary photography - in which the photographic social document is employed to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world.” (Parr & Badger, The Photobook, p.53). Light wear, some browning and spotting to boards; very good. (150/250)
411. (Photography) Weegee [pseud. of Arthur Fellig]. Weegee: An Autobiography. Black cloth stamped in gilt, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing, [1961] Weegee is best known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and ‘40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city’s emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Light edge wear to jacket; volume with lower corners slightly bumped; book and jacket near fine. (150/250)
412. (Photography) Weegee [pseud. of Arthur Fellig]. Weegee’s People. Brown cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1946] Weegee’s second book of photographs. Weegee is best known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and ‘40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city’s emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death. Jacket price clipped, some light chipping to edges; volume with some light wear; near fine in a like jacket. (200/300)
WITH MAN RAY’S PORTRAIT OF PICASSO 413. (Picasso) . Picasso 1930-1935 [in] Cahiers D’Art 10e Annee, No. 7-10. Numerous illustrations throughout including a tipped-in photograph of Picasso by Man Ray with his signature stamped in red below. (4to) 31.8x24.8 cm. (12½x9¾”) original wrappers, cloth-backed marbled board slipcase and chemise. Paris: Cahiers D’Art, 1935 Slipcase worn, cracking at corners, light soiling to wrappers, separating at front hinge; very good. (300/500)
414. Plato. Phedon: or, A Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul. viii, 142 pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece. (12mo) 17x9.7 cm. (6¾x3¾”), period sheep. London: Printed for M. Cooper, [c.1755?] A rare edition of this philosophical work. Lacks the ad leaf at rear. Includes the “Crito” ESTC T132433. Joints starting, moderately worn edges with some scratching to covers; yellowing and light foxing to early and late leaves; very good. (1000/1500)
Page 82 415. Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius. Institutione Oratoria. Edited and with annotations by Edmund Gibson. [xxii], 645, [1], [73] pp. (4to) 21x16.8 cm. (8¼x6¾”) period full calf, spine gilt, red morocco label, edges speckled red. First Gibson Edition. Oxford: Henry Cruttenden, 1693 Edmund Gibson (1669–1748) was a British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London. He was just 24 years old when this work was published. Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), Q221; ESTC R14482. Armorial bookplate of Charles Richard Vaughan. Vaughan was a British diplomat, serving as Minister to Switzerland from 1823-1825 & Minister to the United States from 1825-1835. Extremities worn, front joint and hinge cracked, rear hinge starting; final two leaves of text and 2 rear blanks chipped (nibbled?) in outer margin without loss of text; very good. (500/800)
416. Robison, John. Proofs of a Conspiracy Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminatie, and Reading Societies. 399 pp. (8vo), period sheep, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Fourth Edition. To which is added, a postscript. New York: George Forman, 1798 John Robison, a Scottish freemason who investigated the Bavarian Illuminati , was alarmed at the subversion he found. This work reveals the inner secrets of Adam Weishaupt’s Order of the Illuminati, and how it was founded in 1776 in Ingolstodt, Bavaria to destroy the family, patriotism, Monarchy and the Christian Faith, especially the Catholic Church. By 1782, Weishaupt had succeeded in infiltrating the Masonic lodges of Europe. Covers rubbed and starting to detach; very light scattered foxing; very good. (150/250)
417. (Rolling Stones) Davis, Stephen. Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40 Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones - signed by members of the band. 592 pp. Wrappers. First trade paperback edition. New York: Broadway Books, [2002] Signed by members of Rolling Stones on title page: Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Keith Richards, etc. Light wear at extremities; near fine. (200/300)
418. Rothenstein, Will. Manchester Portraits: A Series of Lithographic Drawings. 12 lithograph portraits inserted between leaves of descriptive text. (Folio) 43x30 cm. (17x11¾”) original paper wrappers. One of 225 copies of the “ordinary” edition. Manchester: J.E. Cornish, 1900 There were also 55 portfolios of “proof impressions” issued. Prospectus and order blank laid in. Printed by Chorlton Knowles at the Mayfield Press. Wrappers edge worn; a bit browned at edges, light wear; very good. (200/300)
419. (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) Fitzgerald, Edward, translator. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer Poet of Persia. 39 pp. 16x10 cm. (6¼x4”), full leather, tooled with Art Deco cover decoration with grapes and vines. London: Arthur Fifield / The Simple Life Press, 1904 Not commonly encountered edition of this popular work. Lightly rubbed at spine; near fine. (200/300)
Page 83 ONE OF ONLY 260 COPIES 420. Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. (8vo) original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. No. 191 of 260 copies. First Edition. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928 Signed by the author at the limitation statement. Keynes A30b. Spine faded, endpaper browned; very good. (400/700)
421. (Shakespeare Head Press) Bede, Venerable. The History of the Church of Englande. xx, 479 pp. (4to) tan calf-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. One of 475 copies. Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930 A slip regarding the leather used in the bindings laid in. Beautifully printed. Some rubbing to spine and edges, a few small spots to leather; very good. (250/350)
422. (Smith, Jessie Wilcox) Underwood, Priscilla. When Christmas Comes Around: Sketches of Children. [6], 26 pp. With 6 color plates by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 28.8x26 cm. (11½x10”), cloth- backed pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. First Edition. New York: Duffield & Co., 1915 Some staining to front cover, with paper remnants adhered to it, corners showing; staining to front endpapers, short tear to front free endpaper, some marginal staining within not affecting plate images; good to very good. (200/300)
423. Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Living by Zen. [10], 235 pp. 8x5¾, patterned olive-green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. [Tokyo]: Sanseido, [1949] Inscribed presentation copy, signed by the author to Professor / artist Stanton MacDonald- Wright on the half-title: “To Prof. MacDonald Wright, with the regards of the author, Daisetz T. Suzuki, Los Angeles, February ’50.” MacDonald-Wright (1890-1973) was one of the first American abstract painters and founded a school known as “Synchronism” working with sound and music to create various colors. He was also the art history professor at UCLA. Suzuki was one of the primary scholars to introduce Zen Buddhism to the Western world, writing and translating many pioneering works on the subject. Overall, a great association item and a cornerstone for any Zen collection. Scattered small bumps, some flaking to gilt lettering; tape repair over chip affecting text on pp. 17-18, free endpapers darkened, signature and rubberstamp of Mary Parent; very good or better. (250/350)
424. (Toys) D’Allemagne, Henri-Rene. Les Jouets a la World’s Fair en 1904 a Saint-Louis (U-S): Et ‘Histoire de la Corporation des Fabricants - de Jouets - en France. x, 83 pp. 23 inserted plates, 12 in color. (Folio) 32x24.5 cm. (12½x9½”), original green cloth-backed stiff paper wrappers. First Edition. Paris: Chez l’Auteur, 1908 Toys from the collection of the author, exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Light soiling to wrappers; soft vertical crease throughout; very good. (150/250)
425. (Warhol, Andy) . Andy Warhol - [Moderna Museet Exhibition book]. Unpaginated. Black and white images from photographs throughout. 27x20.8 cm. (10½x8¼”), original wrappers. First Edition. [Stockholm]: [Moderna Museet], [1968] Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm. A previous owner, Howard Conant, has inscribed the title page: “I shook hands with him at a gallery opening in the nineteen fifties. His limp hand felt like a damp washcloth!” One of the scarce Warhol books. Wrappers worn, tape repairs to spine, partially disbound, some loose pages; fair. (200/300)
Page 84 THE FIRST BOOK TO DISCUSS ELECTRONIC COMPUTING 426. Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. 194, [1] pp. (8vo) original printed wrappers. First Edition. Paris: Hermann & Cie, 1948 First edition of the first book to discuss electronic computing (preceded only by a few technical reports). Wiener was a professor of Mathematics at MIT. “The revolutionary aspect of this work can hardly be underestimated.” (Origins of Cyberspace). Wrappers browned and edge worn, small chip to upper corner of front wrapper; previous owner’s name on title page; very good. (400/600)
427. (Wyeth, N.C.) Roberts, Kenneth. Trending Into Maine. [16], 394, [1] pp. Illustrated with 14 color plates, including frontispiece, and color pictorial endpapers by N.C. Wyeth; also, an extra set of 12 color plates by Wyeth for the book inside publisher’s printed envelope, laid in. 9½x6½, linen-backed blue cloth covered boards, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label, edges untrimmed, publisher’s slipcase. No. 247 of 1075 hand-numbered copies of the Arundel Edition. First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938 Signed by Kenneth Roberts and N. C. Wyeth on the limitation page. Author’s reminiscences of Maine, beautifully illustrated and includes the additional suite of plates which are often lacking. Slipcase with light soiling and some wear and yellowing at edges; volume spine a bit yellowed, spine label scratched, boards lightly faded at edges; tiny split at envelope’s corner; else internally and extra plates are fine; very good. (700/1000)
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The Polycronicon of Ranulf Higden, the second History of the Expedition under the Command of Eadweard Muybridge's stunning Panorama of edition, printed in 1495 by Wynkyn de Worde, Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1877, containing the first example of printed musical Missouri, 1814, the first edition of the official the 11 albumen photograph panels framed notation in an English book. account of the most famous and most important consecutively to stretch over seven feet wide. Sold for $33,000 expedition of exploration in U.S. history. Sold for $51,000 Sold for $212,000
Original manuscript diary kept by William Willson, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Set of John Ogilby’s translations of Nieuhoff’s recording a journey on the Oregon Trail from Iowa first issue, large paper copy. Embassy to China (1669) and Montanus’ Atlas to the Columbia River in the summer of 1852. Sold for $192,000 Chinensis (1671), handsomely printed with Sold for $30,000 numerous fine engraved plates. Sold for $42,000
F. Scott Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men, an First edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Fine example of William Eddy’s important Official inscribed presentation copy with original sketch by Species by Means of Natural Selection. Map of the State of California, 1854, folding into Fitzgerald, in the first issue dust jacket. Sold for $51,000 the original red leather covers, very rare. Sold for $37,375 Sold for $39,000
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