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Literary Miscellany Including Recent Acquisitions, Manuscripts & Letters, Presentation & Association Copies, Art & Illustrated Works, Film-Related Material, Etcetera. Catalogue 349 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 TEMPLE STREET NEW HAVEN, CT. 06511 USA 203.789.8081 FAX: 203.865.7653 [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com TERMS Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described, but are consid- ered to be sent subject to approval unless otherwise noted. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made prior to shipment. All returns must be made conscientiously and expediently. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance are billed to all non-prepaid domestic orders. Orders shipped outside of the United States are sent by air or courier, unless otherwise requested, with full charges billed at our discretion. 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Institutional billing requirements may, as always, be accommodated upon request. _______________________________________________________________ We invite you to visit our web site www.williamreesecompany.com where over thirty-five thousand items from our inventory are searchable and may be ordered directly via a secure server. Images associated with many items from this catalogue are also posted on our web site, and significant new acquisitions are posted there long before they appear on any of the collective databases. Those wishing to receive e-mail notification of the posting of new catalogues and lists to our website may request same by forwarding expressions of interest to [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________ William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT. 06511 USA Phone: 203.789.8081 Fax: 203.865.7653 email: [email protected] Members ABAA and ILAB 1. Abbey, Edward: THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG. Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975]. Large octavo. Pictorial yellow wrappers. A trace of very minor dust smudging to wrappers, light but visible discoloration to fore-edge and margin at top corner, otherwise a very good or better copy. Advance reading copy of the first edition of Abbey’s most widely admired novel. Laid into this copy is a typed letter signed from the senior vice president of Lippincott to historian/ biographer/novelist William Manchester, forwarding this copy and soliciting a blurb from him. $500. 2. Abbey, Edward: BEYOND THE WALL ESSAYS FROM THE OUTSIDE. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1984]. Cloth and boards. First edition, clothbound issue. Inscribed on the front free endsheet: “To the James S. Copley Library Edward Abbey La Jolla 1984.” Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket (state with the spelling error on the front panel). $275. Inscribed to Edmund Gosse 3. Abbey, Henry: THE POEMS OF HENRY ABBEY. Kingston, NY: Henry Abbey, 1886. v,[1],256pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Binding a bit dull and rubbed, textblock uniformly tanned at edges; a good, sound copy. “New and Enlarged Edition” (in fact, enlarged by over 100 pages from the 1879 edition). A good association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “To Mr. Edmund Gosse from Henry Abbey with kind regard.” During his later years, Abbey enjoyed a somewhat more appreciative audience among British reviewers than he did in the US, but in 1906 he left his mark on popular memory with the poem, “What Do We Plant When We Plant a Tree?” $200. 4. Abbey, J. R.: SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 - 1860 ... A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1952. xx,399,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty-three fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies. Among the most comprehensive works in its field, carefully describing over 550 plate books, depicting British and Irish views in aquatint and lithography. With the ownership signature of noted specialist antiquarian bookseller, Ben Weinreb. $550. 5. Abbey, J. R.: LIFE IN ENGLAND IN AQUATINT AND LITHOGRAPHY 1770 - 1860 ... A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Color frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large, thick quarto. Polished buckram, t.e.g., gilt label. A few patches of light flecking to sizing along edges of boards, ink name on endsheet (see below), otherwise a very good copy, without dust jacket. First edition. One of four hundred numbered copies. Among the most comprehensive works in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals, and the like, depicting British life in aquatint and lithography. With the ownership signature of noted specialist antiquarian bookseller, Ben Weinreb. $550. 6. Acton, Harold: THE PAZZI CONSPIRACY: THE PLOT AGAINST THE MEDICI. [London]: Thames & Hudson, [1979]. Large octavo. Gilt decorated cloth. Plates. Fine in very slightly darkened dust jacket. First edition. One of a total edition of approximately 3000 copies for British and US distribution, this being the UK issue which precedes the US by a couple of months. Inscribed by the author: “For Jimmy with happy memories of his dancing in New York. very cordially Harold.” RITCHIE A27. $125. 7. [Adagio Press]: Bahr, Leonard F.: TYPOGRAPHIA 1. [Harper Woods, MI]: Adagio Press, 1976. Sewn printed wrappers. First edition. One of approximately 325 numbered copies, set by hand in a variety of types, and printed in several colors, signed by the printer/ publisher. Fine in lightly worn printed envelope. $50. 8. [African American Interest - Texas]: [Original Color Pictorial Window Card for:] NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL ... JUNE 14TH TO JUNE 21ST TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION AT DALLAS. [Dallas, TX]. [1936]. Folio (21 x 13.5”; 53 x 34.5 cm). Printed in colors on recto only of stiff card. Shallow corner chip at upper right corner, short edge tear mended on verso at an early date, some uniform faint tan discolorations, with tidemark visible on blank verso, a bit of edge and corner-wear, but nonetheless a good to near very good example of a rare window card. A visually striking (and somewhat disconcerting) promotional window card for the Third National Folk Festival, held in conjunction with the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas. Sarah Grace Knott organized the first National Folk Festival, held in St. Louis, in 1934, and was the organizer/ promoter of this event as well. A native of Kentucky, Knott contacted authorities on folklore in Texas for help in anticipation of the event, including J. Frank Dobie (who had participated in the 1934 Festival, but was unable to participate in the 1936 Festival as either organizer or lecturer due to schedule conflicts) and members of the TFLS. Some thirty smaller festivals were held in various locations in Texas as a prelude, many sponsored by the State Board of Education and Departments of Recreation. While efforts were made to be representative of the varied ethnic cultures in Texas, Anglo and African American performers dominated the program, including three “Negro Days.” For an interesting account of the event, its precedents, the parties involved and the local and national response to it, see Kevin Mooney’s article: “Texas Centennial 1936: African American Texans and the Third National Folk Festival,” in the Journal Of Texas Music History, I:1, 2001. The poster is signed with the monogram “E.R.H.,” which this cataloguer has been unable to crack. The poster features renderings of members of a number of the participating ethnic groups, including Native Americans, Spanish Americans, Europeans and African Americans -- the last being represented by an overtly stereotypical “Aunt Jemima” type character (although it should be noted, though hardly in mitigation, that Lillian Richmond, who portrayed Aunt Jemima in promotions for Quaker Oats from 1925 - 1947 was then a Dallas resident). OCLC / Worldcat locates six copies of the program for the event, and a couple of other related printed items, but not this item. $450. 9. [African American Interest - Texas]: [Original Window Card:] PAY YOUR POLL TAX DEADLINE JANUARY 31ST EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE GREGG COUNTY JAYCEES. Gladewater, TX: [Printed by:] The Mirror, [nd. but prior to 1966]. Folio windowcard (19.5 x 14”; 49 x 35.5 cm). Printed in red on recto only of stiff card. A couple minor spots and corner bumps, but very good. An original Texas poll tax poster, issued under the sponsorship of the Gregg County Jaycees. Gregg County, located in Northeastern Texas, encompasses Longview, Kilgore and Gladewater, and as of the 2013 census, has a population of 125,000 souls. The Texas Poll Tax was added to the Texas Constitution in 1902, and in effect served to disenfranchise poor and minority voters. A vote to repeal it in 1963 failed, and it remained in place until it (and all poll taxes) were ruled unconstitutional in February of 1966. Dating of this window card can only be approximate, but the Gladewater Daily Mirror was established in the 1930s, and went through a number of name changes until rechristened the Gladewater Mirror in the 1950s.