Sale 475 Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:00 AM Fine Literature & Fine Books in All Fields Auction Preview Tuesday March 13, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, March 14, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, March 15, 9:00 am to 11:00 am Other showings by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108 phone: 415.989.2665 toll free: 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664 [email protected]:www.pbagalleries.com REAL-TIME BIDDING AVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/ realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. Please note: you will need to be logged in and have a credit card registered with PBA Galleries to access the Real-Time Bidder area. In addition, we continue to provide provisions for Absentee Bidding by email, fax, regular mail, and telephone prior to the auction, as well as live phone bidding during the auction. Please contact PBA Galleries for more information. IMAGES AT WWW.PBAGALLERIES.COM All the items in this catalogue are pictured in the online version of the catalogue at www. pbagalleries.com. Go to Live Auctions, click Browse Catalogues, then click on the link to the Sale. CONSIGN TO PBA GALLERIES PBA is always happy to discuss consignments of books, maps, photographs, graphics, autographs and related material. There is no charge for appraisals of items intended for auction, and we accept both individual items, as well as, entire collections and estates. Please contact Bruce MacMakin for more information at [email protected] BOOK APPRAISALS AT PBA GALLERIES PBA Galleries now holds regularly scheduled book appraisals at our Kearny Street Gallery. Save the first Tuesday of each month to bring your books, manuscripts, maps, photographs and prints to the PBA Galleries’ Appraisal Events. Though no appointment is necessary, please call to let us know if you will be attending. The verbal appraisals are free. Join us from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., at PBA Galleries, 133 Kearny St., Preview & Auction Gallery, Fourth Floor, San Francisco (between Post and Sutter Streets). GET ON THE PBA EMAIL MAILING LIST PBA Galleries sends out notices of our auctions, schedule updates, sale highlights and other information via email. To be placed on this mailing list, email us at [email protected] RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF YOUR SPECIFIC WANTS At the PBA Galleries website, you can sign up for CATEGORY WATCH, and receive email notification when books or other items in your areas of interest are coming up for auction, or for individual titles or books by specific authors. Go to www.pbagalleries.com. PBA WILL PACK AND SHIP YOUR ITEMS TO YOU PBA Galleries has a full-service shipping department, and will pack and ship items to you that you purchase at auction upon payment. The preferred method of shipping is United Parcel Service, and added charges will apply for use of other services. 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 Consignments, Appraisals & Cataloguing Bruce E. MacMakin, Senior Vice President George K. Fox, Vice President, Market Development & Senior Auctioneer Gregory Jung, Senior Specialist Erin Escobar, Specialist Marketing Maureen Gross, Vice President of Marketing Photography & Design Chad Mueller, Photographer Spring Auctions, 2012 March 15, 2012 - Fine Literature and Books in All Fields March 29, 2012 - Americana - Travel - Cartography April 12, 20112 - Fine & Rare Books Schedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information. Consignments are being accepted for the 2011 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin at [email protected]. Front Cover: Lot 221 Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 201, 193, 289, 410 Bond # 14425383 Section I: Fine Literature, Lots 1-226 Section II: Fine Books in All Fields, Lots 227-446 Section I: Fine Literature 1. Anderson, sherwood. Dark Laughter. Quarter paper vellum and black boards, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in red, page edges untrimmed. No. 136 of 350 hand-numbered copies. First Edition. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925 Signed by the author on the limitation page. Slight rubbing to spine; near fine. (200/300) 2. Anderson, sherwood. Many Marriages. Dark blue cloth lettered in orange, jacket. First Edition. Rye, New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923 Signed by the author on the half-title. Spine ends and corners chipped, head well so, ¼x1” piece missing from rear panel; very faint stain to front cover, light offset to endpapers, near fine in very good jacket. (200/300) 3. Angelou, MAyA. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Black cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. New York: Random House, [1969] Jacket edge worn; minor wear to volume; very good. (200/300) 4. (Black Sparrow Press) Cooney, seAMus. A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press. Introduction by Robert Kelly. Cloth-backed boards, acetate jacket. No. 76 of 200 copies. First Edition. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971 Signed by both Cooney and Kelly, as issued. The scarce first bibliography of the press. Fine. (200/300) 5. (Black Sparrow Press) Five volumes published by the Black Sparrow Press. Includes: Owens, Rochelle. Salt & Core. No. 93 of 150 copies. 1968. * Posner, David. The Dialogues. No. 99 of 150 handbound hardcover copies numbered and signed by the poet.1969. * Bowles, Jane. Out In The World: Selected Letters of Janes Bowles 1935-1970. Edited by Millicent Dillon. Copy K of 26 lettered copies handbound in boards and signed by the editor. 1985. * Fante, John West of Rome: Two Novellas. One of 400 hardcover trade copies. 1986. * Wieners, John. Selected Poems 1958-1984. Edited by Raymond Foye. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. No. 32 of 200 numbered copies handbound in boards and signed by John Wieners, Raymond Foye and Allen Ginsberg. 1986. Together, 5 volumes. Cloth &/or boards. First Editions. Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, Various dates Near fine to fine condition. (200/300) Page 1 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 6. [Bronte, eMily]. Wuthering Heights. 288 pp. BOUND AFTER: Warren, Samuel. Now and Then. 290 pp. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1848. 2 volumes bound together. (12mo) 18x11 cm. (7x4½”), modern full green levant morocco ruled in gilt, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848 First American Edition of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, published the year after the very rare London edition. The author is wrongly identified on the title-page as being that of “Jane Eyre”. Jane Eyre had also been published first in 1847 and was immediately successful, leading to some speculation that Wuthering Heights was an earlier work by “Currer Bell” (i.e. Charlotte Bronte). The sisters did not acknowledge their identities to their American publishers until later. Dampstained throughout and intermittent foxing; handsome modern binding. (2000/3000) ORIGINAL RECORDING OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI 7. Bukowski, ChArles. Original reel-to-reel recordings of “90 Minutes in Hell”. Two seven inch reels of audio recording tape, in generic white boxes. [Hollywood]: 1966 In 1966, Santa Monica poet and bookstore owner Steve Richmond dropped off a tape recorder and some blank tapes at Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood apartment. Bukowski recorded 90 minutes of his poetry onto two reel-to-reel tapes and gave them to back to Richmond. In 1977, Steve Richmond finally issued a 2-record LP set of this recording session - “90 Minutes in Hell.” The records were released under Richmond’s bookstore name, Earth Books, in Santa Monica. In approximately 1990, Steve Richmond sold the two original tapes to Water Row Books and the idea came up to re-issue the LP set. The tapes’ boxes were labeled at Water Row Books and were sent to the professional recording studio, Blue Jay Studios, in Carlisle, Massachusetts, to validate the contents and condition of the tapes. These master tapes were found to be in good condition to use to re-issue the LP set but plans for the reissue fell through and these tapes resided in the Water Row warehouse for over twenty years. There are two individual reel-to-reel tapes, each contained in a separate white generic box. One box has the notation “Side 1 & 2” and the other box has “Side 3 & 4” - both notations written by Steve Richmond. On each box there is also a label and stamp with Water Row Books address information and a written label: Charles Bukowski 90 Minutes in Hell #1 and Charles Bukowski 90 Minutes in Hell #2. Both boxes have minor soiling, slight age wear, and some foxing; both of the 7-inch ¼” reel-to-reel tapes appear in fine condition, the sound quality and condition of both tapes was verified by a professional sound engineer at Blue Jay Studios in 1990. The sound engineer did make one CD-R transfer of each of the original tapes, these two CD-Rs are included. (700/1000) 8. Bukowski, ChArles, neeli Cherry & PAul VAngelisti (editors). Anthology of L.A. Poets. With black and white group photo of the poets, including Bukowski. 8vo. Printed wrappers. First Edition. [Los Angeles]: Laugh Literary / Red Hill Press, 1972 Poets include Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, Jack Hirschman, etc.