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front cover (l to r): items 67, 59 & 29 inside front cover: item 50 inside rear cover: item 33 rear cover: item 46 photography by nicole neenan terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. 1 AUSTEN, Jane. Novels. The Text Based on the Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indices. Illustrations (some in color) from contemporary sources. 5 vols. Large 8vo, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1923. Large paper edition. Limited to 1000 sets. Original blue-grey cloth over marbled boards, untrimmed edges. Extra label at end of each volume. Some toning to spines, bookplates; mixed set (vol. 5 with rubbing to spine label, small ecclesiastical library stamp on fyleaf, otherwise unmarked). Overall very good plus. The best edition (and the source for many Oxford re-issues), comprising Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfeld Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. The plates include fashions, views, and reproductions of title-pages. $1,750 2 (BIBLE, N.T., English) Wyclife, John (translator). The New Testament Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ Translated Out of the Latin Vulgat by John Wiclif, S.T.P. Prebendary Of Aust In The Collegiate Church Of Westbury, And Rector Of Lutterworth, About 1378. To Which Is Præfxt A History Of The Several Translations Of The H. Bible And N. Testament, &C. Into English, Both In Ms And Print, And Of The Most Remarkable Editions Of Them Since The Invention Of Printing. Two fne engraved portraits, one folding plate. [2], iv, [4], 108, [2], [3]-156, viii pp. Folio, London: Sold by Thomas Page and William Mount …, 1731. First printing in book form of Wyclife’s translation of the New Testament. Old calf, rebacked and recornered in the 20th-century to style in brown calf, raised bands, lettered in gilt. Three bookplates on front pastedown, modest tanning, some very tiny worm tracks in extreme edges of the portrait of Wyclife, divisional title and frst leaf of text of the NT nearly detached at gutter and a bit creased, light occasional foxing, a few short tears at the fore-edge of the folding plate, otherwise a very good copy. ESTC T95000; Darlow & Moule (Herbert) 101; Macclesfeld Sale vii:2452. Accompanied by the extensive prefatory “History …” by John Lewis. At Wyclife’s instigation, a group of scholars prepared this translation into Middle English of the New Testament from the Latin Vulgate in 1380, and though popular, it circulated only in manuscript until this edition. Over two hundred manuscript versions are known, many of them of the revised version prepared by John Purvey. In 1409 the Wyclife version was condemned as heretical and outlawed in Britain. This edition was published by subscription, and the edition, including some copies on large paper, is reported to have consisted of only 160 copies. An advertisement leaf, a list of subscribers, and a page of errata follow the dedication. The frontispiece portrait of John Lewis and the portrait of Wyclife are signed in the plate by G. White, and the engraved folding plate is based on the frontispiece of the Cranmer Bible. While well represented in institutions, copies of this edition are uncommon in the market place: ABPC records only three appearances since 1999, and only one of them, the Macclesfeld copy sold in 2006, was complete with both the portraits, as is this copy. sold

3 BODIN, J[ean]. The six bookes of a common-weale … Out of the French and Latine copies, done into English, by Richard Knolles. Woodcut border title-page (McKerrow & Ferguson 223). [xii], 794, [ii] pp. (frst and last leaves blank). 4to, London: G. Bishop, 1606. First edition in English. Contemporary full calf, covers stamped in gilt with central medallion, rebacked and recornered. Covers scufed, light browning to text, wormhole to margin of frst four leaves, generally a very clean copy. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Greer. Kress 269; Goldsmiths 350; PMM 94 (for frst ed.). First English edition of the frst modern attempt to create a complete system of political science. Bodin’s theory of sovereignty was the frst clear formulation of the fundamental political argument of the next two centuries. “Law is merely an expression of the sovereign will, but where this reposes in an absolute monarch, it must be mitigated by a customary or natural law. When the lawgiver’s law becomes unjust, it ceases to be valid and must be resisted” (PMM). The translator, Richard Knolles (1550-1610), was best known for his History of the Turks. His translation draws from both Bodin’s original French and the author’s Latin translation. $2,500

2 | james cummins bookseller 4 5 BROWNE, Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into BROWNE, Thomas. The Works of the Learned Sr Thomas Very many received Tenents, And commonly presumed Truths. [xx], Browne, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich. Containing I. 386 pp., lacking fnal blank. 4to, London: Printed by T.H. for Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio medici: with Edward Dod, 1646. First edition. Old calf boards, rebacked. annotations and observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn- Joints cracked, binding split at pp. 380-1. Keynes 73; ESTC Burial: together with the garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellany R1093. tracts. With alphabetical tables. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Robert White, printed general title in red and black, and The frst edition of Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica, separate titles for each part. Folio, London: Printed for Tho. commonly referred to as Vulgar Errors. Contains the most Bassett, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearne, and unusual collection of commonly held errors, discussing Charles Brome, 1686. First collected edition. Early brown superstitions (that a salamander is able to live in fames; that mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original lettering piece hares are each of both sex; and of basilisks and grifns), preserved. Except for faint signs of marginal damp-staining, religious errors (navels on Adam and Eve; that the Tower an exceptionally fne, clean copy, almost entirely free of of Babel was erected against a second food; and that the foxing, with the armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport earth was slenderly peopled before the Flood), medical on the front pastedown. Keynes 201; Wing B5150; ESTC errors (the custom of blessing after a sneeze; that drowned R19807; Wither to Prior 110. men will foat on the ninth day) and chapters on Pygmies and Gypsies. “Hydriotaphia,” Browne’s treatise examining first collected edition of one of the great masters of Eng- various funereal practices in Britain, is often referred to as lish prose, collecting Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Religio Medici, his masterpiece of rhetoric. “Religio medici having made Hydriotaphia, and Miscellany Tracts. [Browne] famous for piety and wit, Pseudodoxia now earned $1,500 his reputation as scholar and naturalist. In this, his most substantial work, almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth- century misconceptions and new knowledge, Browne took up numerous false beliefs” (ODNB). $1,000

catalogue 126 | 3 6 BURROUGHS, William. Ali’s Smile. Oblong 8vo, [Brighton]: Unicorn Books, 1971. First edition, no. 54 of 99 copies, signed by Burroughs. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Fine. (Lacking the phonograph record which was issued with the book. According to the publisher, many of the records were destroyed by heat, so not all of the 99 copies were accompanied by the record.) One of Burroughs’ scarcer titles. one of 99 copies $5,000

4 | james cummins bookseller 7 BURTON, Richard F., translator. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [With:] Supplemental Nights. Extra-illustrated throughout with frontispiece portrait of Burton and plates after paintings by Albert Letchford (Remarque Proofs on Japan vellum numbered 1 to 71, with captioned tissue guards), inserted lists of the Letchford plates in each volume; 21 plates after Lalauze (A through U, with captioned tissue guards); and the plates by Stanley L. Wood with captioned tissue guards. 16 vols. Tall 8vo, Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885-1888. First edition, including the Supplemental Nights, the rare unexpurgated edition. With Volume 3 & 4 with the copyright notice changed from Ellis Spear to Philip Justice. The Letchford plates in Remarque Proof state, one of 25 so issued. Bound in full olive-green morocco, spines heavily gilt, gilt dentelles, white moiré silk endpapers with gilt ornaments, t.e.g., original black cloth covers and spines bound in, by H.S. Nichols Ltd. Spines uniformly toned, else fne. Penzer, pp. 114-116, 121; Casada 74; Spink 73 & 76-77; Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents, pp. 27-30 et passim. the original burton nights, unexpurgated, and extra-illustrated with letchford remarque proofs First edition of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation, which has been variously assailed since its publication by prudes and pettifoggers and has weathered the storms of criticism. Burton’s magnum opus contributed to the twentieth-century recognition of the Nights as one of the world’s literary masterpieces. The original, privately printed edition of the Nights, which included “sexually explicit language and situations liberally annotated with a veritable food of Burton’s pent-up wealth of anthropological and sexual knowledge,” was published at a guinea a volume; among the subscribers was Leonard Smithers, who became Burton’s friend and collaborator on erotic works. Smithers entered into a clandestine publishing partnership with Hary Nichols, modelled on Burton’s success with the Nights, and after Burton’s death negotiated fercely with Lady Burton to ensure the publication of complete editions of the Nights (in competition with her expurgated edition). The bookselling frm of H. Nichols & Co. was the foundation stone of the Book Decadent in the 1890s, issuing many elegant volumes and sets. The illustrations by Albert Letchford were painted at Naples and published by Nichols in 1897; the present volume, bound by Nichols, includes a complete series of the Letchford plates issued as Remarque Proofs on Japan Vellum, as well as the series of plates by Lalauze and Wood. The magnum opus, fnely bound. $15,000

catalogue 126 | 5 8 CAMERON, Charles. The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated. With the Restorations of Palladio Corrected and Improved. Added engraved title, engraved dedication leaf, 76 engraved plates (of which plate I is repeated), with 11 engraved mounted extensions, numerous large engraved vignettes & plans. Text in French & English. Folio, London: Printed by George Scott, and to be Had of the Author, 1772. First edition. Full early 19th-century sheep, covers tooled in gilt and blind with wide outer borders, with butterfy tool in blind at inner corners, rebacked in modern buckram, retaining original dark green morocco spine label. Covers scufed but sound, small damp-stain to right margin of title-page, light foxing to text, some ofsetting from plates, fnal two plates heavily foxed, but plates generally clean. Fowler 75; Berlin Catalogue 1898. A rare book with handsome plates, which Brunet believed might have been printed in only 50 copies. According to Eileen Harris, “Cameron’s architectural ideas are best seen in The Baths of the Romans (1772), the fruit of his study in Rome from about 1766 to 1769. A piece of scholarly self-advertisement, the work sought to continue and correct Andrea Palladio’s work on Roman antiquity, following Lord Burlington’s Fabbriche antiche (1730), and anticipated but was inferior to Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi’s monumental Fabbriche ci disegni di Andrea Palladio, begun in 1776. The book prompted an invitation from Catherine II for Cameron to come and work in Russia.” $3,000

6 | james cummins bookseller 9 CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Spencer. The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes. 57 illustrations, many especially drawn by Angus McNeill of the Seaforth Highlanders, 34 maps and plans many colored and folding. xxiii, 462; xiv, 499 pp. 2 vols. Thick 8vo, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition, frst printing, second state with single quotation mark on p. 459. Publisher’s blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Minor rubbing to boards, hinges almost imperceptibly repaired. Very good copy. Bookplate. Cohen A2.1.b. $4,750

catalogue 126 | 7 10 CHURCHILL, Winston. The World Crisis. 1911-1914. [vi], 536 pp. Volume I only. Annotated in pencil throughout by Count Metternich, with a manuscript note listing page numbers where annotations and underlining occur. 8vo, London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, (1923). Second printing. Publisher’s blue cloth. Light shelf wear to covers. In custom blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. Bookplate. Cohen A69.2(I).d. Provenance: Count Metternich (presentation inscription from Churchill, his notes throughout). inscribed by churchill to count metternich, the german ambassador to england, with his annotations throughout Inscribed on the frst blank, “To Count Metternich, from Winston S. Churchill, June 1. 1923.” Paul Wolf Metternich (1853-1934) was the German Ambassador to England during the lead-up to the First World War, serving from 1901-1912. Metternich read this volume closely and annotated it at length throughout in English, making more than 75 notes in pencil in the margins, some of the notes quite lengthy and flling the entire margin of a page. Metternich engages in a running conversation with Churchill’s work, ofering his opinions and frst-hand recollections of the events described. As to be expected, Metternich often difers quite sharply with Churchill’s assessment of the events leading to the outbreak of war, taking the position that Germany was forced into armed confict against her will — “She wished to be friends with her neighbors, but the neighbors would not be friends with her …” (note on p. 23). Metternich’s notes clearly blame France for the buildup to war, while minimizing the role of Austrian and Russian meddling in the Balkans: “We thought France had not acquired an inherent right to make of Morocco a French colony because Great Britain had given her support for it … It was not wicked but perhaps unwise to support Austria in her Balkan afairs … But after all, did Germany attack England? I thought it was vice versa” (p. 24). Metternich does, however, concede in other notes that the buildup of the German navy was disastrous for Anglo-German relations and a signifcant cause of war, “Our oversea commerce was to a great extent built up on the back of the British Empire and would in all probability have continued to prosper up to the present day without our naval policy which brought about the war with England, the defeat through America …” (p. 16). Metternich disagrees with Churchill’s assertion that England tried to ease Franco-German relations in the years before the war. He always saw England as frmly on the side of France and unwilling to give Germany a fair deal. Metternich’s name appears in Churchill’s text in connection to the German reaction to the Mansion House speech of Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, which clearly stated England’s intention to stand frm in the face of German aggression. Metternich denies that he implied to Sir Edward Grey that Germany was on the verge of military action, provoked by Lloyd George’s words: “I do not know what could have made him think so. Certainly not my words on that or any other occasion. Our conversation was perfectly polite and not acrimonious although I had to complain of Mr. Lloyd George’s speech” (p. 48). Churchill claims that the German government was blindsided by England’s resolve to stand with France, suggesting that Metternich, as ambassador to England, misread the

8 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 126 | 9 10 | james cummins bookseller political situation, something he denies: “I have told the German Govt repeatedly since 1904 that in case of war England would be on the side of France, either at once or later on, as the case might be. Two Foreign Secretaries, Sir Lawnsdowne and Sir Edward Grey, had told me so in guarded but unmistakeable words” (note p. 49). Churchill describes a meeting with Metternich on pages 53-5 (“One night the German ambassador, still Count Metternich, whom I had known for ten years, asked me to dine with him …”) Metternich has extensively annotated these pages, including one note correcting Churchill’s remark that they drank wine from the Emperor’s cellar (“no from my brother’s”), and one lengthy note on the question of whether the English navy would initiate a surprise attack on Germany. Other interesting notes include a humorous and lengthy account of a supposed German spy ring of armed waiters run by Metternich in London: “One gallant Colonel, an MP, had even found out that I was at the head of the German waiters, drilling them and hiding arms and ammunition in the cellars of the Embassy, to be distributed to my army of waiters in case of need” (pp. 52-3). Here Metternich describes a meeting with an ailing Bismarck, “[Bismarck] said to me in the year of his death (1898): ‘England’s muscular system is overgrown by too much fat. She will not anymore raise to a great efort.’ I did not deem it becoming to contradict him although I was of diferent opinion. I had spent some happy time in my young days in the hunting feld in England … and knew something of British energy not withstanding the fat …” (notes pp. 15-16). Metternich’s opinion on the inevitability of war, “Russia had in a secret agreement, if I remember right, in 1885, had conceded Bosnia Herzegovina to Austria … Had Russia gone to war on account of Serbian grievances in 1909 Germany would have helped Austria, France would have helped Russia and England would have come in, just as in 1914. Sir Edward Grey must have known that. It was a diplomatic contest of strength. In 1905 France gave way, in 1906 Germany gave way, in 1909 Russia gave way, in 1911 Germany gave way, in 1914 none gave way in time and war followed” (pp. 35-6). With many more notes, a complete list of which are available on request. A fascinating and important piece of World War I history, heretofore unknown to scholars. $30,000

11 (COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas) Portrait of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Photogravure bust portrait, inscribed “T.J. Cobden-Sanderson / 5 Aug. 1902” (lower margin), in custom painted wood frame with base, label of P.J. Bachmann, Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California. 6 x 4-¼ in, n.p: ca. 1902. Fine. Provenance: Alice Millard (her card afxed to rear of frame); Caroline Poole (gift inscription on card, “To my Beloved Caroline, Thanksgiving Day. 1920”). inscribed cobden-sanderson portrait, from the collection of two american collectors of his bindings An inscribed photogravure portrait of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, signed on the 20th anniversary of his marriage to Annie Cobden, and perhaps given away as a memento of that day. Afxed to the rear of the frame is the calling card of bookseller and collector Alice Millard. Her husband George was head of rare books at McClurg’s in Chicago, “said to have more Doves bindings than any collection, public or private.” (Tidcombe, p. 34). The Millards moved from Chicago to Pasadena, setting up business as independent booksellers and continuing their support of Cobden-Sanderson. Tidcombe notes that “The great enthusiasm book collectors in California have for the work of the Doves Bindery and Press is largely due to their eforts” (ibid, p. 107). In 1933 Alice Millard mounted an important exhibition of 86 Doves bindings, some of which were lent from the collection of her friend Caroline Poole, to whom this portrait was presented in 1920. An important item, linking Cobden- Sanderson to two American women collectors of his work. $3,500

catalogue 126 | 11 12 [COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor]. Autograph manuscript fragment of notes on the Neo-Platonist philosophers, Plotinus and Origen. In ink, on a single sheet of plain paper ruled by hand into three columns; the text of the note being mostly in the central column. 4 x 7 in., N.p.: n.d. [ca. 1820]. Folded twice, torn along fold, left edge a little ragged, and slightly soiled, but sound. coleridge on the neo-platonists A single paragraph on Plotinus, whose thought had a signifcant infuence on Coleridge: “Plotinus becomes an auditor of the interior Doctrines of Ammonius, who imposed an oath of secrecy on his Disciples. The crime of frst breaking by a partial publication of these doctrines charged by the Disciples and apologists of Plotinus on [new line] Origen.” In the left column are the dates 232 [A.D.] and 239; in the right column Coleridge has written “Gordianus, Emperor” — whose accession corresponds to the second number in the frst column; all having the appearance of a timeline. Coleridge’s interest in Neo- Platonic philosophers began as early as Cambridge; his notebooks are flled with references to Plotinus, and Biographia Literaria quotes the philosopher. $1,500

13 CONNELLY, Mark. The Green Pastures. xvi, 173 pp. 8vo, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1929]. First edition. Original green cloth. Spine a bit dulled, front hinge cracked. inscribed by the members of the original cast First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play — based on Roark Bradford’s stories Ol’ Man Adam an’ His Chillun — a retelling of Biblical stories from the point of view of a Depression-era black child. With signatures or inscriptions from 15 of the cast members from the original Broadway cast. The Green Pastures premiered at the Mansfeld Theatre, New York, February 26, 1930 and ran for 16 months on Broadway before touring the country. Signatures include those of acclaimed early black stage and screen actors Richard B. Harrison (“de Lawd”), Daniel L. Haynes (Hezdrel), Jesse A. Shipp (Abraham), Inez Richardson Wilson (Eve), J. Homer Tutt (Ham) and Alonzo Fenderson (Moses) — all uncommon signatures. $1,250

12 | james cummins bookseller 14 CONRAD, Joseph. The Niger of the “Narcissus.” Preface. 8 pp. 8vo, Hythe, England: Pvtly ptd for the Author by J. Lovick, 1902. First edition thus, one of 100 copies. Original stapled self-wrappers. Fine in custom three quarter green morocco slipcase and chemise. Cagle A3f; Wise 12. “to arrest, for the space of a breath, the hands busy about the work of the earth …” According to Wise, approximately forty copies were accidentally destroyed. Conrad’s “Preface,” his most important artistic statement, originally appeared as “The Art of Fiction” in the December 1897 issue of the New Review, at the end of the novel’s serialization, and was much revised for this frst separate printing. $3,500

15 CUSTER, Gen. G. A., U.S.A. My Life on the Plains, or, Personal Experiences with Indians. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature, plus 7 other portraits and views. 8vo, New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874. First edition. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Front free endpaper perished, spine ends and front hinge professionally restored. Very good plus, bright copy. Bookplate. Cloth slipcase. Howes C981; Graf 961. Custer’s famed autobiography of his years as a cavalryman on the plains, published two years before the last stand at Little Bighorn. $3,000

catalogue 126 | 13 16 DICKENS, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles Dickens” with fourish), to Adolphus Trollope, on the blank of a letter from Mowbray Morris to Dickens concerning his recommendation of Trollope to The Times. 8 lines in blue ink on conjugate leaf of letterhead of The Times. 8vo, Gads Hill Place: 24 November 1869. Framed, double glass. About fne. Published in Pilgrim Edition, vol. 12, on the basis of 1935 description in T.A. Madigan catalogue. a recommendation from charles dickens Mowbray Morris (1819-1874), manager of The Times newspaper from 1847 to 1873, wrote Charles Dickens on 23 November 1869, thanking him for the “recommendation of Adolphus Trollope. It is an infnite comfort to a man who is charged with the difcult task of ftting holes with their appropriate pegs to have the assistance of any one so competent as you are. I think we shall give Mr. Trollope a trial …” Dickens wrote a note on the blank, “My Dear Trollope, I received the note on the other side from Mowbray Morris this morning, and immediately post it on to you. Very afectionately yours, Charles Dickens,” signing with a fne fourish. Dickens had written to Morris on 20 November; Trollope did not take up the position at The Times. $5,500

17 DICKENS, Charles. Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-Day People. In Two Volumes. 16 etched plates by George Cruikshank. 2 vols. 12mo, London: John Macrone, 1836. First edition of the First Series, CHARLES DICKENS’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. Publisher’s embossed green leaf-patterned cloth. A fne, lovely set, in gilt calf-backed pull-of case. Bookplates of Morris Parrish and Charles A. Hill. Smith 1; Eckel, p. 11; Sadleir 699. dickens’ first book, the morris parrish copy Very attractive copy of arguably the most important frst novel of any author of the nineteenth century. Copies in the original cloth in acceptable condition are quite rare. $14,000

14 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 126 | 15 18 DICKINSON, Emily. Letters … Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd. Engraved frontispieces (portrait in vol. I; Dickinson home in vol. II), 3 facsimile letters; [iv], xii, 228; [viii], 229- 454 pp. 2 vols. Small 8vo, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. First edition. Original green buckram, covers and spines stamped in gilt (BAL’s variant 1). Small faint stain to vol. II spine, else near fne. BAL 4660; Myerson A3.1.a. $500

19 (DOVES BINDERY) Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Works of … 6 vols. 12mo, London: Macmillan and Co, 1890-3. Bound in full blue morocco, with line border and gilt line panel on the covers, spine panels tooled with gilt tulips surrounded by hearts on stems, turn-ins stamped with hearts on stems, a.e.g. with thin gaufered border. Bound for Bain Booksellers by the The Doves Bindery, signed “Doves Bindery 1894” on rear turn-in. Tidcombe no. 74. A fne set of the works of Emerson, bound by The Doves Bindery. $3,500

16 | james cummins bookseller 20 DUNNE, Finley Peter. “Mr. Dooley on the Convention.” Original manuscript of this humorous piece concerning McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and the Convention of 1900. Written on fourteen 11 x 8-½ in. pages in pen and (mostly) pencil, with numerous corrections. [New York]: ca. 1900. Light soiling to frst and last page, a few bits of minor marginal fraying, else fne. original manuscript of a “mr. dooley” piece on tr Written at the time of the 1900 Presidential Convention, this amusing piece, in “Mr. Dooley’s” Irish dialect, deals with the prospect of Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination as McKinley’s vice-president, which time has shown to be an epochal event in American history. Mr. Dooley lightheartedly notes that, “‘Tis well known that Mack was agin Tiddy f vice-president. Th’ las’ thing he said to Mark Hanna when he laid down his thrunk at th’ deepo was: ‘Above all things don’t put Rosenfelt on th’ ticket … I wudden’t f all th’ money in th’ wurruld have yr rip this bright an’ gallant leader fm’ th’ sarvice in his native state an’ condim him to a horrible existence in Washington f four years an’ give him no chanst f further priomotion …’” He continues discussing the appearance and attitudes of TR, and his reluctance to be nominated, ending with his strong suspicion that McKinley wanted him all the time. (A year later, of course, McKinley was assassinated and TR was President). Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) had a distinguished edito- rial career on a number of newspapers, including William C. Whitney’s Morning Telegraph, which led the Whitneys to become his patrons and subsidize him as they might a son. Most of his “Mr. Dooley” sketches appeared between 1893 and 1905, by which time, having received more than a million Whitney dollars, and no longer needing the income from his pen, he virtually ceased to write. A large factor in Dunne’s success was his use of Irish dialect, behind which he could amusingly conceal his very real out- rage at the wrongs of the times. He has been called America’s greatest humorist after Mark Twain. A signifcant manuscript. $2,500

21 ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. 4to (11-¼ x 8 in.), London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First deluxe edition. One of 300 numbered copies printed at the Ofcina Bodoni in Dante types on Pescia paper by Hans Mardersteig, signed by the author. Quarter gilt vellum and marbled paper over boards, t.e.g. Faintest shadow of absent bookplate on front pastedown, else fne in matching slipcase (very slightly edgeworn). A superior copy. Custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Gallup A6d. officina bodoni waste land, one of 300 copies signed by eliot $5,500

catalogue 126 | 17 22 residences, sporting activities, yachts, factories, etc., etc. [iv], (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED) A Selection from the Harleian 225 pp. 4to, New York: Town Topics Publishing Co., 1905. Miscellany of Tracts, Which Principally Regard the English First edition, no. 19 of 100 copies, signed by the publisher. History; of Which Many are Referred to by Hume. Extra- Bound in full green morocco extra, gilt turn-ins, green satin illustrated with 50 engravings of notable fgures from endsheets. In original wooden box. Fine. English history, by S. Harding, Bartolozzi, et al. vii, [i], captains of american industry, politics — and sport 571, [1, catalogue] pp. 4to, London: Printed for C. and G. Kearsely, 1793. Abridged edition. Contemporary full red Lavish and superbly produced biographical volume on morocco, covers tooled in gilt with Lowther cypher beneath American notables at the turn of the century. Captains of ducal crown, a.e.g. Spine faded, else a near fne copy. industry and politicians, bishops and sportsmen, are profled ESTC T111518; Fleeman 44.4HM/3 (noting no Johnson in double-page (or longer) spreads, with photogravure contributions to this edition). Provenance: Hugh Cecil vignettes of their mansions, stables, coaches, yachts, Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (gilt cypher and bookplate); factories, and other signs of wealth. Theodore Roosevelt Maggs Brothers (export licence, 1947, sold to); W.A Aiken. is pictured on horseback, Grover Cleveland with fy rod in hand, Foxhall Keene in polo and foxhunting scenes. Other Beautifully bound and extra-illustrated copy of the abridged names resonant in American sport include Perry Belmont, edition of the Harleian Miscellany, a collection of tracts and Peter Lorillard and W.K. Vanderbilt. pamphlets from the library of Robert Harley, frst Earl of Oxford, frst published in 8 volumes in 1744. $4,750 $2,000

23 Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Being a Portrayal of Their Tastes, Diversions and Achievements. [Introduction by Constance Cary Harrison]. Text printed in black within orange rule borders, gilt scrollwork. Small vignette portraits within gilt scroll border at each biographical entry, numerous vignettes of

18 | james cummins bookseller 24 she was member of the Publications committee for more [FITZGERALD, Edward]. Agamemnon. A tragedy, taken from than 15 years, and served as its chair 1997-2001; she was Aeschylus. 63, [1] pp. 8vo (7 x 5 in), [N.p.: privately printed, editor of the Gazette of the Grolier Club 1994-2000 & in 2004. A n.d. 1865]. First edition, with half-title. Early limp vellum, comprehensive collection of Grolier Club publications during yapp edges, gilt rule to turn-ins, gold leaf pastedowns and the last quarter century, with some earlier cornerstones: a free endpapers (stained, holed and repaired, gilt on turn-ins good run of the Gazette (and a complete run of the New rubbed). OCLC 556865780 (BL); Univ. Cambridge Newton Series, 1966 to present); and the gorgeous Fra Luca di Pacioli, Library Catalogue Syn.8.85.24 and .25 (2 copies, with MS a 1933 collaboration between Stanley Morison and Bruce corrections); cf. W.F. Prideaux Notes for a Bibliography of Rogers. Many of the books are signed or inscribed. Edward Fitzgerald (1911), pp. 25-7 (“exceedingly scarce”). Folio or Quarto, 64 vols., including: Stanley Morison, Fra “Exceedingly scarce” frst edition of Fitzgerald’s translation Luca di Pacioli, 1933, one of 390 initialled; S.M. Norman, 100 / interpretation of Aeschylus, privately printed and limited Books Famous in Medicine, 1995; Berger, Printing and the Mind to just 100 copies, most of which were sent out to his friends. of Merker, 1997, all three states (deluxe issue with specimen Rarer than the frst edition of the ”Rubaiyat” — ABPC lists leaves); Lindseth, C.L. Dodgson & Lewis Carroll, 1998, both only one record at auction in the last 30 years — the present states, hardcover inscribed to CZR; Hutner & Kelly, A work was reprinted by Quaritch in 1876. As Prideaux points Century for the Century, 2000, all three states (blue cloth state out, this work “with its fatalistic motif, was a play that suited is the frst copy, so inscribed, also 1/50 specially bond, with Fitzgerald’s genius. In many passages we fnd an echo of the specimen leaves, sgd.); Vivat Rex, inscribed to CZR from A. astronomer-poet of Naishapur.” With 8 ink corrections to Schwarz; Ong, For Jean Grolier & Friends, 2009 (1/250). The the text in Fitzgerald’s hand. beautifully produced bibliography of the Club’s publications. $2,000 Octavo, 24 vols. cloth, 81 vols. wrappers, including: The Grolier Club an Informal History, 1967; Bibliography, 1984, 25 inscribed to CZR by R. Folter; Books and Prints, Past and (GROLIER CLUB) Carol Rothkopf Collection of Grolier Future, 1984 Ray, Books as A Way of Life, 1988; The Books Club Publications. Approx. 240 vols. (approx. 10 linear feet.). of Pierre Lecuire, 1994, inscribed to CZR; Holzenberg, The Folio and smaller, New York: chiefy 1988-2014. Condition Middle Hill Press (Horblitt Coll.), 1997, inscribed to CZR; generally fne or approaching as new. Edwards, Iter Hibernicum, 1998, inscribed to CZR; Eric Holzenberg, Three Gold Bezants, Three Silver Stars: The Arms of Carol Z. Rothkopf, a Grolier member since 1988, is a the Grolier Club, 1999, both issues (1/40 specially bound with collector of Blunden & Sassoon, and a very talented editor; additional material); Grolier 2000, unique quarter morocco

catalogue 126 | 19 binding and calligraphic presentation to CZR; Mary Hyde booklabel, his signature and notes throughout); Bertram Eccles, A Miscellany, inscribed to CZR by Mary; Yeats Family Rota (purchased at the Hardy library sale, Hodgson’s 26 May and the Book, inscribed to CZR by Mac [Gatch] Stam; Books on 1938, pencil note on fep, initalled “B.R.”); William P. Wreden Ice, 2006, inscribed to CZR (bought from Rota, 1938). [And:]: Ephemera (various sizes octavo and smaller): thomas hardy’s copy Grolier Club Italy, 1962; printed booklets (15 vols.) and list A young Thomas Hardy’s copy, with his signature of travellers Exhibition catalogues: Japanese Prints 1896 (2 (“Thomas Hardy”) in ink on the fep and his notes in pencil copies) Posters, 1899; Gazette II:5, Feb. 1946, Exhibition of throughout. The notes consist of marginal lines and ticks, the work of J.T. Arms (duplicate); Carlos Baker, Forty Years with 7 instances of marginalia, as well as a précis of the of Pulitzer Prizes, 1956; 75th Anniversary, 1959; Nineteenth text flling two rear blanks and the rear pastedown. Hardy’s Century Fiction, 1963; News Sheets, 1970s & 1980s (folder); notes at the rear fall under the headings “Vivacity depends Nikirk Lectures, 4 vols, (with duplicates) Gazette (Octavo and upon,” “ Complex Sentences” and “Faults against Brevity” smaller); Gazette: no. 4, 1922; no. [5], 1923 (2 copies); nos. 11- and include examples or explanations of each category, 12, 1929; Gazette, vol. II, nos. 1-8, 1931-1949 (boxed together); especially as relates to writing. For example, under “Vivacity Gazette, New Series, nos. 1-63, 1966-2012 (20/21 and some depends upon” Hardy notes “(1) Expressing a thought after 31 are double nos.), in wrappers, with inscr. ofprints with as few words as possible (2) Using particular and from 50 & 53. determinate words instead of general ones,” he has defned $12,500 metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy and antonomasia and given examples of each on the facing page, and he adds, 26 “Simple sentences without any connecting prepositions (HARDY, Thomas) Campbell, George. The Philosophy of or conjunctions are the most forcible.” Hardy’s annotated Rhetoric. 8vo, London: Thomas Tegg, 1841. Eleventh edition. copies of Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, from the Publisher’s brown cloth. Spine perished, old paper repair collection of Frederick B. Adams, Jr., bear similar marginal to gutter of rear endsheets. Contemporary book tickets to notes as the present volume (cf. Sotheby’s 7 November pastedowns (King of Brighton and J. Poole, 39, Booksellers 2001, lots 371-3). Hardy biographer Michael Millgate dates Row, Strand). Provenance: Thomas Hardy (red Max Gate these volumes to ca. 1870, when Hardy was 30 years-old

20 | james cummins bookseller and revising the manuscript of Desperate Remedies. The methodical note-taking and annotations are consistent with this phase of Hardy’s career (cf. Robert Gidding, in Young Thomas Hardy, who notes that “… here was the turning point when Hardy took up again his systematic self-improving reading in all subjects …” p. 68). After Hardy’s death, Sydney Cockerell applied the red Max Gate booklabel to all books from the author’s library that were signed or annotated, while Hardy’s widow, Florence, applied black labels to books owned by Hardy but not annotated. Hardy’s library was dispersed by Hodgson’s on 26 May 1938; the present volume was purchased at that sale by Bertram Rota and then sold on, as part of a large group of Hardy’s books, to the San Francisco bookseller and collector William P. Wreden. A fascinating and important piece, bearing directly on Hardy’s education as an author. $6,500

27 [HARRINGTON, James]. The Commonwealth of Oceana. [12], 239, [1], 255-286, 189-210, [2] pp. Title page printed in red and black. Small folio, London: Printed by J. Streater, for Livewell Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley, 1656. First edition, variant with “Livewell Chapman” in the imprint. Nineteenth- century quarter calf and marbled paper boards. Joints slightly rubbed; occasional spotting and browning to text. ESTC H809; Wing H816; Pforzheimer 449; Goldsmiths 3735; Kress 2225. a classic of utopian thought A celebrated work of political philosophy, which had a profound infuence on America’s founding fathers. “The written constitution, the unlimited use of the elective principle and the separation of powers are all points which may have been derived directly from the Oceana, while all the minor points of machinery, rotation, checks and balances, popular ratifcations and special protection for the constitution seem to have been frst formulated by Harrington” (A. E. Levett in Encyc. of Social Sciences). Although the Dedication, signed by Harrington, is to Cromwell, and despite the fact utopia commonwealth is decidedly anti-monarchist, evidently fears of political repercussions led to the dispersal of the printing among three diferent printers, resulting in irregularities of typography and pagination. ESTC, alone among sources, calls for a frontispiece portrait, but if one was indeed ever issued, it is very rare. No copy at auction has ever appeared with one, and neither the Pforzheimer nor Huntington Library contains it. $6,000

catalogue 126 | 21 28 [HAWKSWORTH, John]. The Adventurer. Volume the First [… Second]. 140 Numbers in 2 volumes. Folio, London: J. Payne, 1753-1754. First edition. Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked. Beautiful copy. Rothschild 1120. with contributions by johnson “[Samuel] Johnson contributed 25 papers signed ‘T,’ which he dictated and gave to Dr. Richard Balthurst, who sold them for two guineas each; 4 papers signed ‘T and Misargyrus’ were attributed to Balthurst” (Rothschild). $800

29 HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common- wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. Allegorical engraved title-page, one folding table at p. 40. [vi], 396 pp. A-2Z4 3A-3D4. Folio, London: Printed [by Roger Norton and Richard Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, 1651. First edition (with the distinguishing title-page ornament of a winged head). Full period calf, covers ruled in blind, red morocco lettering piece. Engraved title-page tipped-in on stub, likely supplied, printed title-page with loss at right margin with repair to verso, small pieces from margin of H4, a few small signs of worming, some sporadic foxing and staining towards rear, 2Z2 and 2Z3 bound in reverse otherwise a clean, crisp copy. Macdonald & Hargreaves 42; Wing (2nd edition) H2246; Pforzheimer 491; Printing and the Mind of Man 138; ESTC R17253. Provenance: George Ware Tracy (his bookplate) . There were three separate editions (not “issues,” as they are sometimes mistakenly referred to) of Hobbes’ classic, with a title-page dated 1651. This is the true frst, with the “head” ornament on the title-page, and the errata uncorrected. A second printing, actually produced abroad with a false imprint, has a bear surrounded by foliage; and a third edition, actually printed around 1680, has a triangle of type ornaments on the title-page and modernized spelling. Hobbes’ famous essay on the origin of the State created (and still creates) a storm of controversy, since for Hobbes even the most repugnant authoritarian government is to be preferred over that celebrated Hobbesian state of nature in which anarchic life is “nasty, brutish and short.” For Hobbes “the State … might be regarded as a great artifcial monster made up of individual men, with an existence which could be traced from its generation through human reason under pressure of human needs to its destruction through civil strife proceeding from human passions. The individual (except to save his own life) should always submit to the State, because any government is better than the anarchy of the natural state” (Printing and the Mind of Man). $18,500

22 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 126 | 23 30 JOYCE, James. “The Day of the Rabblement” [published in Two Essays. “A Forgotten Aspect of the University Question” by F.J.C. Skefngton and “The Day of the Rabblement” by James A. Joyce]. 8 pp. 8vo, Dublin: Gerrard Bros, [1901]. First edition of Joyce’s second published work, one of 85 published. Original pink printed wrappers, stapled. Faint crease marks from prior folding, small stain to top margin. In red cloth drop box. Slocum & Cahoon B1. Provenance: John Howell Books. joyce’s second published work The frst edition of Joyce’s second published work, and his frst appearance in a book, one of only 85 copies printed (his frst appearance was a review of Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken published in the Fortnightly Review the previous year). Joyce’s essay, written when he was a nineteen-year- old student at University College, Dublin, is an attack on the Irish Literary Theater and its founders — Yeats, Moore and Martyn. He accuses them of abandoning the high ideals of the Theater’s founding and catering to popular tastes, becoming “the property of the rabblement of the most belated race in Europe.” The essay appears here in print with school friend F.J.C. Skefngton’s essay advocating equal university rights for women. Both essays were frst rejected (“refused insertion by the Censor”) by St. Stephen’s, the newspaper of the University College, Dublin, at which point Joyce and Skefngton gathered the 2 pounds 5 shillings necessary to have the essays printed at a local stationery shop. $11,500

31 JUVENAL, [John Dryden, translator]. The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden, and Several Other Eminent Hands. Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Made into English by Mr. Dryden … [iv], xxxix, [iii], 315, [1]; [iv], 87, [1] p. Folio, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1693. First edition. Contemporary full acid- stained calf, spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, lettered in gilt in one, the rest richly gilt. Neatly rebacked, preserving original spine, internally a clean, well-margined copy. ESTC R12345; Macdonald 30a. Provenance: Reginald Pole (bookplate); John Drinkwater (his signature, dated 1923); Lytton Strachey (his booklabel); Roger Stenhouse (his booklabel). Dryden’s translation of the 1st, 3rd, 6th, 10th and 16th Satires of Juvenal and all of Persius, with help from fellow translators Nahum Tate, William Congreve, and Dryden’s sons Charles and John. Congreve also contributed the poem that prefaces the translations of Persius. $1,250

24 | james cummins bookseller 32 KILMER, Joyce. The Circus and Other Essays. [viii], 79, [1] pp. 12mo, New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1916. First edition, frst issue. Publisher’s half brown cloth and boards. Near fne, in orange pictorial dust-jacket with clown holding faming circus hoop, jacket toned at spine panel, with some chipping to extremities of jacket. With obituary and other contemporary notices and poem pasted in to preliminaries and fnal leaf, and with manuscript poem, “Joyce Kilmer” by George Steele Seymour, on half-title. BAL 11108. with kilmer als from the front with mention of his war poem “rogue bouquet” With a fne Autograph Letter, signed (“Joyce Kilmer”), to Miss Olson, written from the front. Headquarters Co., 165th Infantry A.E.F. France, n.d., but after Nov. 1917. 1-½ pages, tipped in after title-page. “It was kind of you to send me the book of tickets, and I am honored by thus becoming the guest of the Chicago Woman’s Club … I’m more homesick for [Chicago] than for any other city in America (you see, Larchmont Manor isn’t a city) … I think you will like my poem ‘Rogue Bouquet.’ I am a sergeant now, and never expect to go any higher. For, to get a commission I’d be obliged to go to school away from the Regiment for some months and when school was over I’d be sent — whether or not I had gained a commission — not back to this Regiment but to some strange outft. And I’d rather be a sergeant in the 69th than an ofcer in any other Regiment …” Kilmer was proud of his position in the “Fighting Sixty-ninth” (though by his time known as the 165th Infantry) and had requested permission to join its ranks. Kilmer was killed in action 30 July 1918 while scouting German machine-gun positions near the Ourcq River. $2,500

catalogue 126 | 25 33 34 KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. With (LEWIS & CLARK) [Lewis, Merriwether, and William decorations by J. Lockwood Kipling. 324 pp. Printed by the CLARK]. Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across DeVinne Press. 8vo, New York: Century, 1899. Later printing. the American Continent to the Pacifc Ocean. Performed by Order Publisher’s green cloth, stamped in black with elephant on of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, front cover and lion on rear cover. Near fne. Richards A84 and 1806. Large folding map and fve charts on three plates. (for frst American edition). xxiv, 663, [1, ad] pp. 4to, London: Printed for Longman, inscribed to frank doubleday’s son, with a poem Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. First London edition, Inscribed on the title-page from Kipling to Felix Doty, published the same year as the Philadelphia edition. Late the son of his close friend and American publisher, Frank nineteenth-century three quarter dark brown morocco and N. Doubleday, “Jack Doty, from the Author: Mar 28: 99: pebbled cloth over boards, marbled endsheets and edges. Rudyard Kipling.” With a holograph four-line quotation on Early owner signature at upper margin of title. Faint traces the facing page from the “Law of the Jungle,” “Wash daily of inkstamp removal from title leaf. Joints repaired. Very from nose tip to tail tip — / drink deeply but never too deep. good plus copy, internally clean and fresh. Sabin 40829; / And remember the night is for hunting & / forget not the Church 1309; Streeter 3128; Graf 2477; PMM 272; Howes day is for sleep, / R.K.” Frank N. Doubleday, or “Efendi” — L317; Wagner-Camp 13:2. the nickname given him by Kipling, founded Doubleday & The “defnitive account of the most important exploration of McClure Company in 1897, partly on the author’s advice. the North American continent” (Wagner-Camp). Kipling was close to his American publisher and his family — it was Frank Doubleday’s son Nelson who asked Kipling to $22,500 write a book of animal stories, published as Just So Stories in 1902. The “Jack” Doty of this inscription is undoubtedly Felix Doty (1887-1941), a Louisiana boy adopted by Doubleday. $9,500

26 | james cummins bookseller 35 LORCA, Federico García. Autograph Letter, signed (“Federico García Lorca”), to his friends Herschel and Norma Brickell (“Queridos amigos”), while living in New York City and attending Columbia. One page in ink, on folded sheet. In Spanish. 6-⅝ x 5-¼ in., [New York: October 1, 1929]. Horizontal fold, blank conjugate with pencil mark, slight wear, but clean, crisp and overall, very good. With envelope addressed in Lorca’s hand (“Mr. Herschel Brickell, 441 Park Avenue, New York City”). Cf. Ian Gibson, Federico García: A Life, New York, 1989. the poet in new york: “i live in john jay hall at columbia …” In the summer of 1929, the young Spanish poet Federico García Lorca arrived in New York where he enrolled in Columbia and was assigned a room at John Jay Hall. Although the poet had several Spanish and Latin American friends in the city, he had few American acquaintances, primarily because of his limited English. Among the few friendships he did form with Americans, however, was one of lasting importance: that of Herschel Brickell, an important literary critic, and his wife Norma. “Thanks to Mildred Adams, Lorca soon met a couple who were to increase the pleasantness of his stay in New York: Henry Herschel Brickell and his wife Norma. Brickell, nine years older than the poet, was a literary critic on the New York Herald and, since 1928, had been manager of the publishers Henry Holt and Company. A keen student of Spanish, he knew the language and literature well and had visited Granada … In Spain people had told him about Lorca, and he was aware of the fame of Gypsy Ballads. All was ready for the meeting … Brickell arranged a party for him at his fat … All went better than even expected … Brickell was dazzled by Federico’s gifts, and was to write immediately after the poet’s death that in all his experience he had never met such a magic personality. His wife, a cultured and musical woman, was similarly impressed and … was soon getting on swimmingly with the poet. During July and the frst half of August Federico visited the Brickells frequently, and his friendship with the couple grew when he returned to New York that autumn after the holidays” (Gibson, pp. 253-54). Before his departure to Cuba, Lorca spent Christmas with the couple. Their friendship was an important part of his brief but intense experience of New York, and it was during that time that Lorca was writing most of the poems which formed the collection Poeta in Nueva York, published in a bilingual edition (New York, Norton, 1940, with translations by Rolfe Humphries). For that edition, none other than Lorca‘s old friend and early admirer, Herschel Brickell, contributed the biographical note at the end of that volume and translated the introduction by Lorca’s friend, José Bergamín. Brickell’s accomplishments as an editor and a critic were many during his lifetime; but chief among them is the undeniable fact that he was one of the frst Americans to appreciate Lorca‘s genius and bring it to the world’s attention. Lorca‘s letter reads [in translation]: “Dear friends, I have spent a long time in the countryside, longer than I thought I would. Although I have kept a ‘Spanish silence,’ I have not stopped remembering you with true afection. I would like to spend a little time in your friendly company. I live in John Jay Hall at Columbia where I’m taking fve courses. While waiting to hear from you please accept the afection of your friend forever — Federico Garcia Lorca.” Letters from Lorca of this period are extremely rare. $8,500

catalogue 126 | 27 36 (LOUISIANA) [Baudry des Lozières, Louis Narcisse]. Voyage à la Louisiane, et sur le continent de l’Amérique Septentrionale, fait dans les années 1794 à 1798; contenant un tableau historique de la Louisiane, des observations sur son climat, ses riches productions, le caractère et le nom des sauvages; des remarques importantes sur la navigation; des principes d’administration, de législation et de gouvernement propres à cette colonie, etc. etc. Par B*** D***. With folding engraved map by L. Collin at front (with a fanciful depiction of the American west). viii, 382 pp. 8vo, Paris: Dentu, An XI-1802. First edition. Quarter contemporary calf and boards, speckled edges. Handsome copy. Blue bookseller ticket of Ch. Chadenat, Librairie Américaine et Coloniale, Paris. Very good plus. Howes B-243; Clark II 76; Dionne II 915; Field 99; Sabin 3979; Streeter III 1571; Wagner-Camp 1a. $1,850

37 (LOUISIANA) Baudry des Lozieres, [Louis Narcisse]. Second Voyage à la Louisiane, faisant suite au premier de l’auteur de 1794 à 1798. Contenant la vie militaire du Général Grondel, doyen des armées de France, qui commanda long-temps à la Louisiane, et honoré de cent dix ans de service : un Détail sur les productions les plus avantageuses, les plus extraordinaires de cette belle Colonie, et sur les quartiers les plus fertiles et les plus lucratifs : de nouvelles Réfexions sur les Colonies en général, et le Régime nécessaire aux personnes des Colonies pendant la première année de leur arrivée. [Volume II:] Contenant un Mémoire sur la découverte du Coton Animal, un Manuel Botanique à l’usage des jeunes Colons, un Dictionaire ou Vocabulaire Congo, précédé d’une Statistique des Comptoirs de la côte d’Angole, le tout utile aux Américains cultivateurs … le Cofre de Chirurgie qui enseign. Folding table of questions in vol. I at p. 221. xvi, 414, [1, errata]; [iv], [1]-410 [1, errata] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Paris: Chez Charles, An XI- 1803 (mars). First edition. Contemporary full mottled French calf, gilt spine, marbled end sheets. Pink bookseller ticket of Ch. Chadenat, Librairie Américaine et Coloniale, Paris. Very good plus. Sabin 3980; Wagner-Camp 2-A; Howes B242 “aa”; Monaghan 150. Handsome copy of this rich resource on the French presence in Louisiana, including history, military biographies, notes on Indian tribes, slavery, botanical resources, statistical information, a vocabulary of the language of the Congo people, and the medicines and supplies to outft a doctor’s supply chest. $2,500

28 | james cummins bookseller 38 [LYTTELTON, George]. To the Memory of a Lady Lately Deceased. A Monody. [2], 15, [1] pp. Lacking half-title. Folio, London: Printed for A. Millar, over-against Catherine- Street in the Strand; and sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, 1747. First edition, with signature “E” under the frst “a” of “again.” Modern half calf. Near fne, contemporary note, “Lady Littleton [sic],” on p. 1. Foxon L337; ESTC T51302. Lyttelton’s most admired poem, a pastoral elegy and lament on the loss of his wife. $850

39 MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. Oblong 4to, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, [1976]. Uncorrected page proofs. Printed blue wrappers. Fine. Morocco-backed clamshell box. rare uncorrected proofs Written in the form of a novella, Norman Maclean’s autobiographical title story is drawn from his early years spent mostly in the Rocky Mountain region. Though critically acclaimed, the work received little attention until its adaptation as a major flm, after which it achieved tremendous popular success. In addition to the title story, this collection includes “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your Pal, Jim’” and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky.” Examples of the advance proof are rare. $4,500

catalogue 126 | 29 40 (MONOPOLY) Darrow, Charles. Monopoly game set. “White box” game set, comprising 1 white-backed gameboard (20 x 10-¼ in. folded), copyright 1933, printed in original colors, “How to Play Monopoly. 1934 Rules” printed on cardboard inset, 32 green wood houses, 12 red wood hotels, scrip play money in various colors and denominations from $1 to $500, 16 Chance cards, 16 Community Chest cards, 28 Property Deed cards, 2 wooden dice. 40 Westview Street, Germantown, Philadelphia: 1934. Board and contents in near fne condition, with very slight age toning and edgewear to board and cards. In the original white pictorial cardboard box (21 x 11 x 1-¾ in), printed in red and black, somewhat soiled with scufs and splits at edges. the charles darrow “white box” monopoly An early example of the frst fully printed, commercially available version of Monopoly as produced by Charles Darrow, with original cards, money and house and hotel pieces. Borrowing from similar games involving the buying and selling of property, Darrow began producing a homemade version of Monopoly on oilcloth. He secured a copyright in 1933 and the following year began selling the fully printed “white box” sets, as seen here, in Wanamaker’s Department Store in Philadelphia. The game’s distinctive aesthetic and Atlantic City setting were established by this point, though the game did not yet include the iconic game pieces. In 1935 Darrow sold the game to Parker Brothers, who distributed it nationwide to immediate success. $7,500

30 | james cummins bookseller 41 MONTAIGNE, Michel de. The essayes or, Morall, politike, and militarie discourses of Lord Michael de Montaigne, Knight of the noble Order of Saint Michael, and one of the gentlemen in ordinary of the French Kings chamber [translation by John Florio]. The Third Edition. Whereunto is now newly added an Index of the principall matters and personages mentioned in this Booke. Additional engraved title page by Martin Droeshout; [14], 161 [i.e. 631], [13] pp. Folio, London: Printed by M. Flesher, for Rich: Royston, in Ivie-lane next the exchequer ofce, 1632. Third edition in English. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, with gilt lettered spine label; endpapers renewed, but the original, with copious annotations in a contemporary hand, have been preserved. Covers slightly scufed, closed tear in engraved title skillfully repaired and its outer edge extended, faint dampstaining to lower outer corners of text block, otherwise a very attractive, sturdy copy, with the armorial bookplate of William Hutton. STC (2nd ed.) 18043. “will be read to the end of the world” Montaigne’s immortal, pioneering Essaies frst appeared in 1580, and John Florio’s translation, which became the standard for Elizabethan England, was frst published in 1603. Although this third edition was published after Florio’s death in 1625, it was printed from a corrected copy of the second edition of 1613. It had an enormous impact on English writers — most notably on Francis Bacon, who adopted the new form in his own Essays (frst ed., 1597). Then there is the case of William Shakespeare, whose patron, the 3rd Earl of Southampton was tutored by Florio. It is generally conceded that Montaigne’s essay “On Cannibals” was a direct source for Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and some (e.g., George Cofn Taylor, Shakespeare’s Debt to Montaigne, 1925) have argued that both Hamlet, in particular, and King Lear were also directly infuenced. It is interesting to note that the engraved title page which frst appears in this edition, is by Martin Droeshout, artist of the celebrated portrait which adorns the folio editions of Shakespeare. The original endsheets of this fascinating copy bear the copious annotations of an anonymous early owner, probably from the late 17th or early 18th century, quoting several excerpts in English translation from Pascal’s Pensées, St. Evremond’s “On the Exactness of Reasoning,” and La Bruyère’s Caractères (in French) — all regarding Montaigne’s book, which, as the citation from Saint-Evremond written here on the endsheets has it, “will be read to the end of the world.” $4,500

catalogue 126 | 31 42 NORTHUP, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. Wood- engraved frontispiece portrait of the author and 6 wood-engraved plates. [iv, ads], xiv, [17]-336 pp. 8vo, Auburn: Derby and Miller. Bufalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan. Cincinnati: Henry W. Derby, 1853. First edition. Publisher’s embossed brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Recased, with lower portion of spine replaced, original endpapers and ads preserved, some foxing throughout. Drummond, p. 86. The frst edition of Northup’s account of his kidnapping and enslavement. Northup (1808- 1863?), a free man living in New York with his family, was promised employment by two con men who drugged and kidnapped him, selling him into slavery in Louisiana. His book recounts the remarkable series of events that lead to his eventual freedom and was the source for the Oscar-winning flm of the same name. “His narrative, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, far more than just a personal memoir, provides a detailed and fascinating portrait of the people, circumstances, and social practices he encountered. His account of the slave market, his fellow captives, and how they were all treated is especially vivid” (ANB). $4,000

43 OVID. Metamorphoses, argumentis breuioribus ex Luctatio grammatico collectis expositae: una cum vivis singularum transformationum iconibus in aes incisis. Engraved pictorial title-page, portrait of Ovid from an antique medallion, 178 numbered full-page engravings by Petrus Vander Borcht, and printer’s device on verso of Z5; A-Z8, a7 [missing a8, blank]; 361, [20] pp. Oblong 8vo, Antwerp: Ex ofcina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, 1591. 18th-century calf, spine and covers ruled with simple gilt fllets, a.e.g. Some early, unobtrusive ms. notations on title page, otherwise a very attractive copy. Adams O-504. ovid for the young — plantin press $7,500

32 | james cummins bookseller 44 OVID. Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz’d, and Represented in Figures by G.S. [George Sandys]. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ovid, additional engraved title-page by Salamon Savery after Francisco Clein, and 15 engraved plates. Folio, London: Printed by J.L. for Andrew Hebb, 1640. Fourth edition of the Sandys translation. Bound in full early twentieth-century red crushed levant morocco gilt, skillfully rebacked with the original spine laid down, by Stern & Dess, circa 1920. Portrait and engraved title slightly waterstained, the latter with one small closed tear repaired, else fne, in a brown cloth morocco-backed slipcase. STC 18968. penned on the banks of the james river, virginia, 1626 Sandys’ translation of the Metamorphosis is of special note as being the frst major poetic production to come from American soil. Sandys became Treasurer of the Virginia Company in 1621 and sailed to America with the Governor, Sir Francis Wyatt. Before leaving, he had started the translation, but it was on the banks the James River that he fnally fnished it in 1626, dedicating it to Charles I. According to Kunitz and Haycraft, “he seems to have been of rather a quarrelsome disposition, and after many diferences with his fellow members and with his neighbors he returned to England for good in 1631.” His Ovid remained a very popular translation for over a century after his time, and greatly admired by Pope. This was the last lifetime edition, and also contains the frst book of his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Sandys (pronounced ‘Sands’) died in 1644. A particularly attractive copy, bearing an early ownership signature (“Jo: Rawling”?) on the engraved title, dated 1654. $3,000

catalogue 126 | 33 45 PERRIN DU LAC, M. [Francois Marie]. Voyages dans les Deux Louisianes, et chez les Nations Sauvages du Missouri … Large folding map of the upper reaches of the Missouri, folding plate of the mammoth skeleton, both on blue paper. x, 479 pp. 8vo, Lyon: Bruyset aîné et Buynand, 1805. First edition (one of two issues, with Lyon and Paris imprints). Contemporary calf, black spine label, blue marbled endsheets. Half title present. A bit rubbed at extremities (losses at spine ends, front joint tender). Old repair to verso of inner margin of mammoth plate, short tear at margin on mount of map. Very good. Howes P244; Sabin 61102; Wagner-Camp 3:1; Wheat, “Mapping the Transmississippi West” 256; Streeter sale 1773. across the wide missouri Early and important work, the major French account of travel during the short interval when Louisiana returned to French jurisdiction, though Howes questions its veracity. It contains the earliest published map of the trans-Mississippi region that bears “even the faintest semblance of accuracy” (Wheat). The folding plate depicts the mammoth skeleton at Peale’s Museum in Philadelphia. $4,500

46 (PICART, Bernard) Picart, Bernard. Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde repésentées par des fgures dessinées de la main de Bernard Picard [4 of 9 volumes] … [and:] Superstitions anciennes et modernes: prejugés vulgaires qui ont induit les peuples à des usages & à des pratiques contraires à la religion [2 volumes, complete]. Engraved title vignettes. Illustrated with engraved plates (several folding) after drawings by Bernard Picart (enumerated below). In all, 6 of 11 volumes. Folio, Amsterdam: J.-F. Bernard, 1723-1743. First edition. Handsomely bound in modern half brown morocco and cloth, with stamp of “Lincoln’s Inn Library” at the foot of each spine, and the Library’s bookplate on front pastedowns. Occasional spotting to a few pages of text and title, but the plates for the most part are crisp and clean, and all volumes are complete with half-titles. Brunet I, col. 1742. 147 fine plates by picart This magnifcent set, issued by the publisher Bernard over a period of 20 years, and rarely found complete, represents some of Picart’s fnest work. The encyclopedic text represents a compilation of extracts from the writings of several authors, including Le Brun, Thiers, Abbadie, Dupin, Boulainvilliers, et. al. — but it is the scope and beauty of Picart’s engravings that gives the work its irresistible power. The titles and illustrations are as follows: Ceremonies: Vol. I : Juifs Et Chretiens Catholiques. 1723. Frontispiece and 35 engraved plates (several foldout). Vol. II: Catholiques. 1723. 27 engraved plates. Vol III: Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuse Des Peuples Idolatres. Part 1 (of 2). 1723. 47 engraved plates. Vol. IX: [Supplement], Part 2 (of 2). 1743. 24 plates. Superstitions: Vol. I. 11 plates, Vol. II. 2 plates. The beautiful frontispiece plate, representing all the major religions of the world, was issued in 1743, and, according to Brunet, “manque souvent.” $4,000

34 | james cummins bookseller 47 (PICASSO, Pablo) Merimée, Prosper. Le Carmen des Carmen. With 5 original prints laid in at front including one color lithograph, one drypoint and 3 aquatints, each numbered in pencil “175/245.” With reproductions of 38 plates from the 1949 edition of Carmen. 4to, Paris: Editeurs Français Réunis, 1964. Number 175 of 245 copies on Arches paper (total edition 275), signed by Picasso & Louis Aragon on the colophon. Wrappers. In drop box. Mourlot 232; Cramer & Goeppert 126; Bloch 1000-1003 and 1005. carmen: the muse of muses Of all Picasso’s muses — Fernande, Olga, Marie-Thérèse, Dora, Françoise, Genevieve, and Jacquline — the fctional Carmen, Gypsy temptress from Seville, was as powerfully inspirational as any of his fesh and blood wives and mistresses. The artist’s fascination with Carmen was part of his extended and imaginative quest to comprehend the nature of tragic love. The mythic and mysterious heroine, immortalized by Prosper Merimée’s novella (1845) and George Bizet’s opera (1875), was a signifcant fgure for Picasso from his earliest days as an artist. In Picasso’s renderings Carmen appears both as icon and the subtle beauty of the artist’s imagination. $12,500

48 PILLEMENT, Jean. Livre de Chinois Inventé et Dessiné par Jean Pillement et gravé par P. Canot. Etched title and 7 etched plates. Oblong 8vo, London: Publish’d according to Act of Parliament, 1758. Bound to style using old materials, 19th century Chinese cloth-backed marbled paper covered boards, facsimile title on upper cover, light foxing. Cf. Berlin Kat. 4447; Guilmard pp. 188-9, no. 80OCLC 79267088 (1 copy, Winterthur). Very rare early Chinoiserie with delicate pastoral etchings by Pierre Charles Canot (1710-1777) after Jean Pillement (1728 - 1808). $1,750

catalogue 126 | 35 49 Epistle, from Clelia in Town to Sappho in the Country. 1733. POPE, Alexander, et. al. Bound volume containing 10 Foxon N285; [HARTE, Walter.] An Essay on Reason. Lacks works, 6 by Pope and 4 by friends and followers. All folio, fnal ad leaf. 1735. Foxon H93. London: 1731-35. All frst editions, unless otherwise noted $2,750 below. Full period panelled calf, red morocco spine labels. Light toning to text, generally in near fne condition. 50 epistles of pope POPE, Alexander. The Dunciad, in Four Books. Printed Bound collection of Epistles by Pope and others, includes a According to the complete Copy found in the Year 1742 [with:] An frst printing of Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, his celebrated Essay on Man: Being the First Book of Ethic Epistles to H. St. John poem in justifcation of his life and writings. Of False Taste, Bolingbroke. With the Commentary and Notes of W. Warburton An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington [bound with:] An Essay on Criticism. x, [ii], xxxvii, [i], [39]-235, … Third Edition. L., Gilliver, 1731. Lacks fnal ad leaf. [13]; [iv], 111, [1]; [iv], 60 pp., second title lacking half-title. Grifth 267; Foxon P913; [Epistle IV] Of the Use of Riches, an 2 vols. 4to, London: M. Cooper, 1743; [1744]. First complete Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst … Second edition of The Dunciad, frst annotated edition of An Essay on Edition. L., J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1733. Lacks fnal Man and An Essay on Criticism. Contemporary full tree calf, ad leaf. Grifth 323; Foxon P925-26; [Epistle III] An Epistle covers with Greek key roll border in gilt, spines tooled in gilt to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visc[Oun]T Cobham. L., with urn motif and small tools, with green morocco lettering Lawton Gilliver, 1733. First edition. Lacks half-title [“Of pieces. Some light surface wear to joints of second volume, the Knowledge and Characters of Men”] and fnal ad leaf. otherwise a fne set. Grifth 578, 589, 590; Foxon P796, P865, Page 1 soiled. Grifth 329; Foxon P920; [Epistle I]. Of The P819; ESTC T5560; Rothschild 1599, 1618. Characters Of Women. L., J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735. the first complete dunciad First edition, second state of title. Lacks half-title and fnal ad A beautiful matched set of the frst complete edition of leaf. Grifth 360; Foxon P917; [Epistle II] An Essay On Man … Pope’s celebrated satire, The Dunciad, with his Essays on Man Epistle I [-IV]. Later edition of frst part; second-fourth parts and on Criticism. This is the frst edition of The Dunciad to lack preliminaries. 1733 [-34]. Foxon P827, P833, P840, P84; replace Theobald with Colley Cibber as Hero of the poem, An Epistle … To Dr. Arbuthnot. J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, and it was the frst to close with the passage beginning “In 1734. First edition. Grifth 352; Foxon P80; [BRAMSTON, vain, in vain, — the all composing hour …” An Essay on Man James.] The Man of Taste. Occasion’d by an Epistle of Mr. Pope’s and An Essay on Criticism were published together in 1744, on on that Subject. Half-title with engraved frontispiece on verso. Criticism issued with half-title only, and are often bound with Later printing. 1733 Foxon B398; [NEWCOMB, Thomas.] the 1743 quarto Dunciad. The Woman of Taste. Occasion’d by a late Poem, entitled, The Man of Taste … Second Edition. 1733. Foxon N283; $2,000 [NEWCOMB, Thomas.] The Woman of Taste. In a Second

36 | james cummins bookseller for Lawton Gilliver … 1733. “Second edition.” Foxon P926; [POPE, Alexander.] The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, imitated in a dialogue between Alexander Pope, of Twickenham in Com. Midd. Esq; on the one Part, and his learned Council on the other … London: printed by L.G. and sold by A. Dodd … E. Nutt … and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1733. Reimpression of the second edition. Foxon P888; [MONTAGU, Lady Mary, and John, Lord HERVEY.] Verses Address’d to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace. By a Lady … London: printed for A. Dodd … [1733] Third edition? (published 12 days after the frst). Foxon V41; A Reply to a Lady, occasioned by her verses address’d to the Imitator of the frst satire of the second book of Horace. By a Gentleman. London: printed for T. Osbourne … [1733] First edition. Foxon P135; Advice to Sappho. Occasioned by her verses on the imitator of the frst satire of the second book of Horace. By a Gentlewoman. London: printed for the Authoress, near White’s Chocolate-House; and sold by J. Roberts … 1733. First edition. Foxon A86: with the correction in ink on page 6; An Epistle to the Little Satyrist of Twickenham … London: printed for J. Wilford … 1733. First edition. Foxon E415; The Fourth Satire of the First Book of Horace, Imitated. Address’d to Alexander Pope esq; London: printed for J. Roberts … 1733. First edition. Foxon F215. A very rare defence of Pope — Foxon records only four copies (two copies at Oxford, Huntington and Texas; The Satirist: in imitation of the fourth satire of the frst book of Horace … London: printed for L.G. and sold by Mrs. Dodd … Mrs. Nutt … and the booksellers of London and Westminster. 1733. First edition. Foxon S81; [MALLET, David.] Of Verbal Criticism: an epistle to Mr. Pope. Occasion’d by Theobald’s Shakespear, and Bentley’s Milton. London: printed for Lawton Gilliver … 1733. First edition. Foxon M51; [WHITEHEAD, Paul.] The State of Dunces: inscrib’d to Mr. Pope … London: printed for J. 51 Dickenson … 1733. Second edition? Foxon VI427; [SWIFT, POPE, Alexander, et. al. Fine collection of fourteen Jonathan?] The Life And Genuine Character Of Doctor Swift. poems by Pope, Swift, and other contemporaries, bound Written by himself. London: printed for J. Roberts … 1733. together in one volume (see list below). Together, 14 works First edition. Foxon S884; Teerink 727. in one volume. All folio, London: various publishers, all $2,000 1733. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in gilt to style. Contemporary bookplate of Sir Edward O’Brien, bt., on free endpaper. Generally, fne condition unless noted below. In order of their binding, they are as follows: [BRAMSTON, James.] The Man of Taste. Occasion’d by an Epistle of Mr. Pope’s on that subject … London: printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver … 1733. First edition, Foxon’s third impression. Title worn, with paper repair at lower outer corner and with small tear in second word of title. Foxon B398; [NEWCOMB, Thomas.] The Woman of Taste. Occasioned by a late poem, entitled, The Man of Taste. By a friend of the Author’s … London, printed for J. Batley … 1733. Second edition. Foxon N283; POPE, Alexander. Of False Taste. An epistle to the right honourable Richard Earl of Burlington … London: printed for L. Gilliver … 1731. ‘Third edition.’ Foxon P913; POPE, Alexander. Of the Use of Riches, an epistle to the right honourable Allen Lord Bathurst … London: printed J. Wright,

catalogue 126 | 37 52 penned his own response in the voice of Walpole (“The POPE, Alexander. The frst satire of the second book of Horace, Great Man’s Answer,” included here), in which the Prime imitated in a dialogue between Alexander Pope, of Twickenham Minister inadvertently skewers himself. The subtitle of in Com. Midd. Esq; on the one part, and his learned council on the original was clearly intended to suggest Alexander the other. 19, [1] pp. Folio, London: Printed by L. G. [Lawton Pope, and probably to hint at his authorship — the Dublin Gilliver] and sold by A. Dodd; E. Nutt; and by the booksellers editions even go so far as to attribute the poem to him. The of London and Westminster, 1733. First edition, Grifth playwright James Miller has, however, always been identifed variant d. Modern half calf. Fine. Grifth 292; Rothschild as responsible; but, as James McLaverty points out, the frst 1608; Foxon P888. edition was printed by John Wright, who worked closely with Pope, “and it seems unlikely that he could have been The frst efort in Pope’s series of loose translations and involved without Pope’s consent.” Pope was not sorry to see reworkings of Horatian satires and epistles, his Imitations of confusion about whether or not he had written the poem, Horace (1733-8). “[T]hrough the enabling example of Horace, and it is possible that he saw the frst edition through the Pope evolved a form of autobiographical poetry with little press. In that case, the many alterations of which Miller precedent in English literature” (ODNB). complains in this second edition were probably Pope’s own $350 doing. This volume, although rebound and in some places cut too close by the original binder, is an excellent collection 53 of both the original text and the many replies. Some of the (POPEIANA) Collection of nine poetical pamphlets, arising poems are really rare — Newcomb’s attacking Supplement from James Miller’s Are These Things So? bound together. (2) and the anonymous They Are Not (6) seem to be Folio, London: Various publishers, 1740-1741. Modern half recorded in a few copies only. See James McLaverty, Pope’s calf, with an early manuscript list and bookplate of George Printer John Wright (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1977), pp. Kenyon of Peel, both from the original volume, bound in. 7 and 26. “are these things so?” — “yes they are” — “they are not” 1. [MILLER, James.] Are These Things So? The previous question, from an Englishman in his grotto, to a great man at A remarkable collection of poems arising from James Miller’s court … The second edition corrected: with the addition of twenty Are These Things So? poem , an attack on Walpole written lines omitted in the former impressions. London: printed for in the voice of Pope. It generated enormous controversy T. Cooper … 1740. Second edition. Folio, pp. [iv], 15; outer and a host of responses and counter-attacks. Miller even margin of D2v cropped afecting frst letter (only) of each

38 | james cummins bookseller line; a couple of other leaves shaved but with no loss. Foxon M237. 2. [NEWCOMB, Thomas.] A Supplement to a Late Excellent Poem, Entitled, Are These Things So? Address’d to the **** … London, printed for J. Roberts … 1740. First edition. 4to, 16 pp.; lower edge uncut. Foxon N271, recording three copies only (L, OW; CtY). 3. [MILLER, James.] The Great Man’s Answer to Are These Things So? in a dialogue between [sic] his honour and the Englishman in his grotto … By the author of Are These Things So? London: printed for T. Cooper … 1740. First edition. Folio, pp. [iv], 13; Dlv cropped, afecting frst letter (only) of each line, with a few letters cropped on the recto also; CI shaved barely afecting text; Dl signed ‘E’ (as in the Bodleian copy). Foxon M249. 4. Pro and Con … London: printed for J. Roberts … 1741. First edition. Folio, pp. 9; a very good unpressed copy. Foxon P1102. 5. What of That! Occasion’d by a pamphlet, intitled, Are These Things So? and its answer, Yes, They Are … London: printed for T. Cooper … and sold by the pamphlet shops of London and Westminster. 1740. First edition. Folio, pp. 16; two catchwords just shaved. Foxon W380. 6. They are Not … London: printed for J. Roberts … 1740. First edition. Folio, pp. 8. Foxon T150, recording three copies only.

7. [MORRIS, Robert.] Yes, They Are: being an answer to Are 54 These Things So? The previous question from an Englishman in his POPE, Alexander. The Poetical Works … xxxii, xxxviii, [39]- grotto to a great man at court … London: printed for T. Cooper 315; [vi], 365, [1]; [iv], 402, [4, subscriber list] pp. Folio, … 1740. First edition, re-impression, with sig. B under “wish” Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1785. Contemporary and no advertisement on last page. Folio, pp. [ii], 13. Foxon quarter calf and marbled boards, rebacked to style. Gaskell M512. 678. 8. [MORRIS, Robert.] Have at You All: being a proper and A handsome copy of the Foulis edition of Pope’s works. distinct reply to three pamphlets just published, intitled, What of That? The Weather-menders, and They are not. By the author of $1,500 Yes, They Are … London: printed for T. Cooper … 1740. First edition. Folio, pp. 8. Foxon M507. 9. The Weather-Menders: a Tale. A Proper Answer to Are These Things So? By Mr. Spiltimber … London: printed for J. Roberts … 1740. First edition. Folio, pp. 8. Foxon S654. $3,500

catalogue 126 | 39 55 POPE, Alexander. The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated … [4], 15, [1] pp. With half-title bound in after the title. Folio, London: Printed for L. Gilliver, 1737 [i.e., 1738]. First edition. Modern cloth-backed boards. Very good, tall copy. Grifth 476; Foxon P965; Rothschild 1638. $300

56 POPE, Alexander. The Works … Folding engraved frontispiece portrait by George Vertue. [xxxii], 408 pp. 2 vols. Folio, London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates; Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1717; 1735. First folio edition, frst issue (without Tonson imprint). Contemporary full calf, red morocco lettering piece, rebacked, preserving most of original spine, joints rubbed, original spine leather worn and cracked, text lightly toned. Booklabel. Grifth 82; Rothschild 1585 (second issue). The frst collected edition of Pope’s works. Grifth notes ten pieces that appear here for the frst time, including the celebrated Eloise to Abelard. [With]: [The Works … Volume II]. [London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735]. [ii, To the Binder], [x], [6], [7]-66, 19, [24]-33, [1], [7]-25, [1], [35]-72, 4, 56, 65-91, [1], 12, 18, 201, [1, Errata] pp., lacking general title, half-title, and To the Reader leaves. Bound in period full panelled calf, contrasting morocco lettering pieces. Grifth 370. $2,500

40 | james cummins bookseller 57 PORTER, Cole. Archive of letters, documents and promissory notes concerning fnancial matters, mostly written to Porter’s lawyer and relative Albert Harvey Cole. 6 typed letters, signed (“Cole”), to Albert Harvey Cole, on Waldorf-Astoria letterhead; 3 typed documents, signed (“Cole Porter”); three promissory notes, signed (“Cole Porter”); 4 retained carbons; 1 typed letter, signed, from Margaret Moore, secretary to Cole Porter. Various sizes, letters approx. 11 x 8-½ in., New York: 10 January 1925-5 September 1952. Some light creasing, tears with loss to upper right corner of two documents, not afecting text, else generally near fne. cole porter on his finances: “it’s very difficult to keep the wolf away from the door” A fascinating correspondence, revealing that behind a nonchalant pose of indiference to money matters — “Sara Murphy commented that [Porter] never paid attention to money, assuming that everyone had it” (ANB) — Porter kept a close eye on his fnances and was deeply concerned about his fnancial standing. In a series of 6 typed letters from Porter to his attorney and relative Albert Harvey Cole, Porter asks that money be transferred into certain accounts (in order to keep a minimum of $5,000 in his “Special Account”), inquires into account balances, complains about his tax liability (a whopping $120,000 for the frst quarter of 1945), thanks Cole for “that life saving loan,” and wishes he could “touch a bit” of his inheritance from his mother’s estate. It is clear from these letters, as well as the three promissory notes in which Porter borrows over $26,000, that despite his income and his family’s wealth, Porter was often short on funds. A revealing collection of letters and documents. $5,000

58 RAND, Ayn. Autograph Manuscript of her article “Why I Like Stamp Collecting.” 16-½ pp. blue ink on pale blue paper, paginated 1-14, 16 (complete, erroneously skipping 15) with additional two half pages of inserts, extensive corrections and deletions throughout, many in red ink, with “by Ayn Rand” added in another hand. 4to (11 x 8-½ in.), 13 February 1971. A few minor spots of soiling. Laid into a quarter red morocco dropbox with a red leather label on upper cover. “a stamp album is a miraculous brain-restorer” A heavily reworked manuscript draft of Rand’s article on stamp collecting, “Why I Like Stamp Collecting,” published, with some changes, in 1971 in Jacques Minkus’ Stamp Journal (vol. IV, no. 2). Rand recounts how a meeting later in life with a young stamp collector revived her interest in a hobby she had begun when ten years old but had to give up when she fed the Russian Revolution. Rand gives her many reasons for stamp collecting: an hour spent working on her collection is a remedy for mental fatigue; it is a hobby for “busy, purposeful, ambitious people”; there is a pleasant fraternity among stamp collectors; collecting can have the thrill of the treasure hunt; stamp collecting enlarges one’s perception of the world and is a testament to the technical brilliance of man (“for a few pennies, you can send a letter to any place on earth, to the farthest, most desolate corner where human beings live”); and fnally, she enjoys the aesthetics of stamps (“the stamps of Japan are consistently the best”). With a copy of the published article. $7,500

catalogue 124 | 41 59 SHAKESPEARE, William. Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never before Printed in Folio [Works]. Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout in Hind‘s second state, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Text printed in double columns within box- rules. Collation: A4 b6; A-Z, Aa6 BB8; Cc-Zz Aaa6; Bbb- Zzz Aaaa-Daaa6 Eeee4; a6 b4 *-****4, ¶A-¶B6 ¶C-¶F4 ¶G6 = 514 leaves. Complete. Folio (12-¾ x 8-½ in.; 324 x 215 mm), London: Printed for P[hilip] C[hetwinde], 1664. Third folio edition, second enlarged issue, of Shakespeare‘s plays, generally regarded as the rarest of the seventeenth-century folio editions. Full red crushed morocco, triple fllet border, spine richly gilt with gold- stamped title, gilt turn-ins, marbled endsheets, a.e.g., by F. Bedford. Finely rebacked with original spine laid down. Portrait leaf with Ben Jonson verses inlaid; long tear in title skillfully mended (afecting a few letters in list of plays and frst O in imprint), with fore-margin extended; Dedication leaf [A3] signed “A2” repaired in gutter and near lower corner margin; lower margins of preliminary leaves A4, b1-6 extended, a few small stains on leaves Dd5 and Ee3; occasional leaves heavily inked. A choice copy with excellent provenance. Provenance: J. Pierpont Morgan, with his gilt-stamped red leather armorial bookplate (fyleaf verso with pencilled shelfmark “W 11 A copy 3” at top and “dupe PML CR” at bottom corner; shelfmark 5130 on verso of title). Greg III, p. 1118- 1119; Pforzheimer 908 ; Wing S-2914.i. the rare third folio, j.p. morgan copy An unknown number of copies is thought to have been destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. The Third Folio is a reprint of the second edition (1632), but this second issue contains seven additional plays; of which only Pericles Prince of Tyre is now considered to be the work of Shakespeare. In the frst issue, the portrait was printed on the title page and the verses “To the Reader” appeared opposite on the verso of the frst leaf. For this second issue, the frst two leaves were cancelled and replaced by a conjugate pair, with the portrait printed above the Jonson verses on the frst leaf, facing the title page now listing the seven plays (printed by Roger Daniel on eleven supplementary quires): Pericles Price of Tyre, The London Prodigall, The History of Thomas Ld. Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Puritan Widow, A York-shire Tragedy, The Tragedy of Locrine. $500,000

42 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 124 | 43 60 SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems of William Shakespeare Printed after the original copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover’s Complaint. Edited by Frederick S. Ellis. Three full- page titles with woodcut borders, several large ornamental woodcut initial capitals. Printed in red and black. Small 4to, London: Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press and sold by Reeves & Turner, 1893. One of 500 copies printed on paper. Original limp vellum, with silk ties. Near fne (one tie a bit short), a lovely copy. Peterson A11; Ransom, Private Presses, p. 326, no. 11; Tomkinson, p. 110, no. 11; Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 21-22. a lovely kelmscott shakespeare “Cockerell in 1898 described this volume as ‘one of the rarest books issued from the Press’ because of its popularity” (Peterson). $6,750

61 SHENSTONE, William. The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq; Most of which were never before printed. With portrait frontispiece, title vignette to vols. I & II, folding map of Leasowes, several headpiece illustrations and other decorations. [ii], viii, 345, [7]; vi, 392; xvi, 399, [1] pp. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764-1769. First edition. Uncut in original blue boards, vol. III in marbled boards, manuscript paper spine labels to vols. I & II, spines worn, vol. III covers detached. In a custom orange morocco-backed clamshell box. Rothschild 1840 (second edition only); Tinker 1911; Williams, Points in 18th Century Verse, pp. 60-63; ESTC T092444. Works of William Shenstone (1714-63), poet and noted landscape theorist of the picturesque, uncut in original boards. $850

62 SIDNEY, Sir Philip. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia … Now the Sixth Time published with some New additions. Title within woodcut border. [8], 676 (i.e., 576], 541-564, 601-624 pp. Small folio, London: Printed by W.S. for Simon Waterson, 1627. “Sixth” printing, but actually the eighth edition, counting Edinburgh and Dublin printings. 18th-century calf, rebacked and corners repaired, new endpapers. Slight staining and browning toward the rear, otherwise a very good, crisp copy, complete, with the preliminary blank. STC 22549. beling’s sixth book and alexander’s supplement printed for the first time The “new additions” include Sir William Alexander’s reconstruction of the lost ending to Book II (pp. 327-346), and Richard Beling’s concluding Sixth book (pp. 483-519), both printed here with Arcadia for the frst time. Also included are “Certaine Sonnets,” “The Defence of Poesie,” “Astrophel and Stella,” and the “May Day Masqe.” With two early ownership inscriptions on the preserved front free endpaper. $1,250

44 | james cummins bookseller 63 THOMAS, Dylan. Autograph Letter, signed (“Dylan Thomas”). One half page, on octavo sheet. Magoda, New Quay, Cardiganshire, Wales: 19 February 1945. Horizontal fold for mailing, marginal tear (with signs of old repair, but no loss) touching one word, otherwise very good. Folding cloth case. To G.F. Hench (?), Esq., addressed as “Dear Sir.” Thomas grants publication permissions for one of his great war poems, as well as a notable poem about the lead up to war: “Yes, you certainly have my permission to use to [sic] my two poems — ‘Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid’ and ‘The Hand That Signed’ — for your anthology ‘Poems for Europe.’ The frst poem was frst printed in Life & Letters Today, but will be included in a new books of poems of mine Dent are to publish this year some time: so I don’t know which you give acknowledgement to — Dent or L&L. Yours sincerely, Dylan Thomas.” The forthcoming collection he alludes to would be published as Death & Entrances, but it appears that the anthology to which this relates did not come to fruition, at least under the title given. $4,500

64 THUCYDIDES, [Thomas HOBBES, translator]. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre. Written by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke by Thomas Hobbes. Engraved title by Thomas Cecill, 4 (of 5) engraved plates, lacking frst folding plate. A4 a-c4 (signature b bound in error before a) B-3Y4 3Z6 (fnal leaf blank). Folio, London: Imprinted for Hen: Seile, 1629. First edition, frst issue (dated 1629). Modern full dark green morocco, red morocco spine labels. Contemporary owner’s inscription on title (“John Marsham”) with his notes on verso of title and intermittently throughout margins of text, with some underling and marks to text. Pforzheimer 493; ESTC S117705; PMM 102 (for Estienne 1588 ed.); Hazlitt VI, 383. The frst issue of Thomas Hobbes’ translation of Thucydides. In 1634, the printer Henry Seile sold of the remainder of this edition to Richard Mynne, who issued the text with a cancel title page; a third issue is dated 1676. $2,000

catalogue 124 | 45 65 66 (TISSOT, James) Goncourt, Edmond et Jules de. Renée TROLLOPE, Anthony. Barchester Towers. viii, 305, [2, ads]; iv, Mauperin. Édition ornée de dix compositions à l’eau-forte. 299, [1]; iv, 321, [1], 2 (ads) pp. Half-title in vol. I, none called Illustrated wih 10 etched plates by James Tissot. 12mo, Paris: for in vols. II & III. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Longman, Brown, Charpentier et Cie, 1884. One of 25 copies numbered 21-50, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1857. First edition, frst issue this being no. 39 (total edition 550 copies) with the plates (with “tattooed” for “tabooed” on page 269, line 24 in vol. in two states: before numbers signed in pencil, and after II). Original brown publisher’s cloth. Spines cocked, cloth numbers with the artist’s red paraph. Three quarter brown split along vol. I rear joint, recased with new endpapers, very morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Very slight sunning to good. Bookplates. Sadleir, Trollope, 5; Wolf 6766. edges, one small damp-stain to blank corner of frontispiece; in the publisher’s cloth overall, a fne copy. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 275. $2,500 one of 25, with 10 signed plates by tissot James-Jacques Tissot’s “reputation as a painter is refected in the enhanced standing of his etchings. He is remembered as an illustrator chiefy by his designs for this novel of French society which the Goncourts had written in 1864. His interest derived from the parallel which he discerned between the slow decline of its heroine and that of Kathleen Newton, the woman with whom he lived …” (Ray). $5,000

46 | james cummins bookseller 67 WHEATLEY, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Scipio Moorehead. 124, [4] pp. 8vo, London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and Sold by Messrs Cox and Berry, King Street, Boston, 1773. First edition, portrait in frst state. Contemporary sheep, boards ruled in gilt. Front joint tender, small excision from fyleaf. Owner signature of Wm Hummerstone, Harlow, Dec. 1801 on pastedown. In custom red half morocco slipcase and chemise. Blockson, A Commented Bibliography of 101 Infuential Books By and About People of African Descent (1556-1982) 68; Sabin 102136; Heartman viii; Stoddard 236; ESTC 153734. Provenance: Col. Ralph Isham (by descent in the family). Phillis Wheatley, the frst black woman poet in America, was kidnapped from Senegal, West Africa and sold to the Boston merchant John Wheatley in 1761. Phillis was educated by members of her master’s family, and, wonderfully gifted, she quickly mastered English, then Greek and Latin. She began writing poetry at the age of 13 and continued to write poem after poem, dedicating them to famous people of her day. The initial prejudice in America against the idea that any African might be capable of creative writing was so strong that John Wheatley, and Phillis herself, took her poems to London for publication. Thomas Jeferson dismissed her work as “… below the dignity of criticism” — a criticism to which Samuel Stanhope Smith, then President of the American Philosophical Society, replied: “How many of those [slave] masters could have written poems equal to them [her poems]?” Superior copy, in original condition, of a landmark work in American literature. $27,500

catalogue 126 | 47 68 WHITMAN, Walt. After All, Not To Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, Noon, September 7, 1871. vii, [i], [9-] 24, [2 blank], 2 (reviews) pp. 8vo, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition. Original green cloth over beveled boards, t.e.g. (Myerson binding B). BAL 21405; Myerson A6.2. The text of Whitman’s poem read to great success at the 40th annual exhibition of the American Institute, a trade organization. The distinctive gilt circular design on the front cover was supposedly after a design by Whitman. $750

69 WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. [vi], [ii, blank], [7]-338; iv, [5]-72, [2, blank]; 24, [2, blank]; 36 pp. 8vo, New-York: [Published by the Author, printed by William E. Chapin], 1867. Fourth edition, frst issue. Half black leather and nonpareil marbled boards (Myerson binding B). Wear to head of spine and tips, bookplate removed from front paste-down. Myerson A2.4.a(1); BAL 21399 (issue 1, binding B). the fourth edition, with the civil war poems The frst issue of the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass. It is the frst to incorporate Whitman’s Civil War poems, including Drum- Taps, and its Sequel — with the moving elegy of President Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom’d” — as well as Songs Before Parting, each with its separate title-page. $4,000

48 | james cummins bookseller 70 [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass [issued with:] Passage to India. vi, [7]-384, [iv], [5]-120 pp. 8vo, Washington, D.C. [New York: J.S. Redfeld], 1872. Fifth edition, second printing, frst issue, one of 500 copies printed. Publisher’s green cloth. Light shelfwear, spine ends frayed. Bookplate. Myerson A2.5.b(1); BAL 21407. Reprint of the Washington, D.C., edition of 1871, with revisions and alterations; issued with the 2nd printing of Passage to India. $700

71 [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. Engraved portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer. 382 pp. 8vo, Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881-82. Seventh edition, frst printing, frst (American) issue, second state of title-page. Publisher’s mustard yellow cloth, pale blue mottled endpapers (Myerson binding A). Small stain to spine, very slight wear to spine ends. Bookplate. Myerson A2.7.a(1); BAL 21418 (printing A); Grolier American 100, no. 67. Superb copy of the seventh edition of Leaves of Grass. $750

72 WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Engraved portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer. 382 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Rees, Welsh and Co., No. 23 South Ninth Street, 1882. Seventh edition, fourth (?) printing, the frst Philadelphia edition. Publisher’s mustard cloth, gilt. Light stain to spine and front cover, some wear to extremities. Previous owner’s inkstamp on front pastedown and frst blank. Myerson A2.7.d; BAL 21419. the first philadelphia edition With advertisement for Leaves of Grass and Specimen Days and Collect, “ready in September,” tipped onto the front free-endpaper (cf. Myerson A2.7.d, note two). Myerson notes that printings four through seven of the seventh edition have not been diferentiated. $400

catalogue 126 | 49 73 74 [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. Engraved portrait of WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass Including Sands at Seventy Whitman by Samuel Hollyer. 404 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: …1st Annex, Good-Bye My Fancy … 2nd Annex, a Backward David McKay, No. 23 South Ninth Street, 1884 [i.e., 1888]. Glance o’er Travel’d Roads, and Portrait from Life. Engraved Seventh edition, eleventh printing, third (American) issue. portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer. 438 pp. 8vo, Publisher’s mustard yellow cloth, grey endpapers. Slight Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-92. “Death Bed Edition,” fraying to spine ends and tips. Myerson A2.7k(3); BAL 21432; i.e. seventh edition, twelfth printing, second issue. Publisher’s Grolier One Hundred, Number 67. green cloth with spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. (Myerson binding D). Light shelfwear, some damage to fep and frst blank. A reissue of the McKay 1884 printing, with the addition Myerson 2.7.l(2); BAL 21441 (printing 1, binding C). of “Sands at Seventy” — sold simultaneously with an issue dated 1888. Indiana author Meredith Nicholson’s (1866-1947) Although the book is entirely a reprint, its importance lies copy, with his notes in pencil, signed by him and inscribed to in the fact that it represents Whitman’s fnal arrangement of Charles W. Moores, Indianapolis, January 1905. the text, and contains the famous note on p. [2] authorizing this text for future editions. $500 $900

50 | james cummins bookseller 75 WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman following the arrangement of the edition 1891- ’2. With woodcuts by Valenti Angelo. Large 4to, New York: Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco, for Random House, 1930. No. 36 of 400 copies. Original Phillipine mahogany boards, red niger morocco spine, binding signed “HD.” Spine faded, surface abrasions to leather at head of spine and along rear joint. Grabhorn Bibliography 138. The largest undertaking of the Grabhorn Press to date; this was one of the Fifty Books of the Year and took over a year to print. States the Press Bibliography: “The tremendous impression necessary to print this book so strained the press that the printers suggested the colophon should read: ‘400 copies printed and the press destroyed.’” The work remains one of the great examples of modern bookmaking, and a lasting tribute to America’s greatest poet. $1,500

catalogue 126 | 51 76 WILDE, Oscar. Poems. [i - x], [1]-236, [2] pp. Crown 8vo, London: David Bogue 3, St. Martin’s Place, Trafalgar Square, W.C, [June], 1881. First edition, one of 250 copies. Original vellum gilt, with detailed gilt stamped prunus blossoms design by Mathew Bell, t.e.g., all others uncut. Bookplates of Edward and Edith Heron-Allen, and 2 bookplates of Wilbur B. Foshay. Mason 304. from constance wilde to edward heron-allen “The frst printing (June 1881) consisted of 750 copies, of which only 250 copies were used for the frst edition, the remaining 500 being equally divided between the second and third editions” (Mason/Millard, p. 282). The gilt designs on the boards are larger in the later editions. With a note on the fep, “This is the frst edition, distinguishable from the 2nd only by the ‘small pattern’ of the Prunus blossom medallion on the binding. Given to me by Constance Wilde in November 1885. Edward Heron Allen Jan 1900.” The polymath and author Heron-Allen was an especially good friend of Constance Wilde as well as Oscar. The letters of Wilde reveal that the two authors exchanged books and that Heron-Allen was called upon to cast the horoscope for Wilde’s newborn son, Cyril (palmistry and astrology being among Heron-Allen’s varied pursuits). A fne association. $3,750

52 | james cummins bookseller 77 [WILDE, Oscar]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by “C.3.3.” [4], 31, [1, blank] f. Printed on rectos only. 8vo, London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. One of 800 copies on hand made paper from a total edition of 830. Mustard cloth with white linen shelf back, fore and bottom edges uncut. Some toning of endsheets from paste action, otherwise internally clean. Near fne. In custom purple half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise. Mason 371. ballad of reading gaol: the anonymous first “Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard. / Some do it with a bitter look, / Some with a fattering word. / The coward does it with a kiss, /The brave man with a sword!” $3,500

78 WILDE, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 154, [1] pp. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Edinburgh. 4to, London: John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street, 1894. First edition, one of 500 copies. Original mauve cloth decorated in gilt. Spine slightly toned. Fine. In yellow half morocco slipcase and chemise. Mason/Millard 365. An attractive copy of this witty and urbane play by Wilde. $3,500

catalogue 126 | 53 79 (YALE) [Warren, George Kendall, photographer]. Yale class of 1863 photographic yearbook. 12 large format (approx. 6 x 8 in.) albumen print campus views (8 by George Kendall Warren, with his signature in the negative), including group portrait, captioned in ink identifying 24 students, 89 photographic portraits individually mounted to album leaves, mostly albumen print cartes-de-visite, most signed in ink beneath image, 30 engraved portraits with facsimile signatures. With a manuscript register of student deaths, including 6 from Civil War battles. 4to, [New Haven, Ct: c. 1863]. Bound in full brown contemporary morocco-grained sheep, “Hamilton Wallis” stamped in gilt on upper cover, “Yale College, Class of 1863” stamped in gilt on spine, a.e.g. Binding rubbed, lacking clasps, sporadic foxing to plates. with 8 campus views by george kendall warren Photographic yearbook for the Yale class of 1863, wtih 12 large (approx. 7-½ x 9-½ in.) campus views and photographic and engraved portraits of faculty and students. Noted faculty include Benjamin Silliman (father and son) and future President of the University Timothy Dwight V. Eight of the campus views are by George Kendall Warren, including views of South College & Atheneum, Delta Kappa Epsilon (Deke), the Yale College Library, and the Trumball Gallery. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions, including Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point and Harvard. $5,500

80 [YOUNG, Edward]. The Universal Passion. Satire I-V, and “Satire the Last.” Together, 6 works, issued separately, bound in one. Folio, London: J. Roberts, 1725-1726. First editions. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt morocco label. Joints rubbed, fep loose, pages of Satire the Last toned, still an attractive copy in original condition. Bookplate of John Darner, possibly the profigate husband (committed suicide in 1776) of Anne Seymour Darner, sculptress and friend of Horace Walpole; and the bookplate of the notable bibliophile and Oxford don, John Sparrow. Rothschild 2612 (collected second edition only). john sparrow’s copy “The great achievement of Young’s early career” (ODNB) and an important infuence on Pope, the seven satires entitled The Universal Passions were published as separate folios between 1725 and 1728 and were collected in a second edition in 1728 under the title Love of Fame. Satire VI, not present here, was actually printed in 1728, after “Satire the Last,” in 1726. Laid in is a retained copy of a Typed Letter, unsigned from 12 May, 1955, almost certainly by John Sparrow, to an Edward Young scholar regarding the seemingly strange absence of Satire VI in this contemporary binding: “It occurs to me that, since the seventh satire is called “Satire the Last” and is not numbered [underlined phrase] and is anterior in date (1726) to Satires V (1727) and VI (which I understand was published in 1728, though it is missing from my copy), it may be that Young wrote and published the last Satire, either intending the whole poem to consist of fve Satires only … or without having made up his mind whether or not he was going to add further Satires … It is to be noted that Satires V and VI are the only ones which carry an actual title (“On Women”) on their title page. I would suggest, on this hypothesis, that the original owner of my copy bought the Satires as they came out and had them bound up in 1727, fondly supposing that he had the complete set; later, Young published Satire VI, to be interposed before ‘Satire the Last.’”. $2,000

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