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1] Charles Addams’ Monster Rally Charles ADDAMS With a Foreword by John O’Hara. Illustrated by Charles Addams. 4to, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950. Later printing. White cloth spine over yellow boards in dust-jacket. with a sketch of Gomez adams Signed and inscribed on the frst free end page in black felt tip “For Mrs. Schaefer, with happy memories, Chas. Addams, 1970,” beside a fantastic full-length sketch of Gomez Addams. $2,200

2] The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room Paul AUSTER 3 vols. 8vo. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1985; 1986; 1986). First editions. Publisher’s blue cloth. A fne set in near fne dust-jackets (with logo printed on spine of all three volumes). Signed by auster The complete New York Trilogy, Paul Auster’s classic meta-fctional detective story, signed by Auster in volumes 2 and 3. This was Auster’s second work and his signature theme of the search for identity and his brand of American existentialism appear fully formed here. The trilogy is not only set in New York, it uses Manhattan’s grid layout as an integral part of the story. It established him as a writer to watch, and indeed Auster has since published another fourteen novels, as well as poetry, memoirs and screenplays. $1,750 3] Auto-Cars. Car, Tramcars, and Small Cars (AUTOMOBILES) D. FARMAN Translated from the French by Lucien Seraillier. With Preface by Barpon de Ziylen de Nyevelt, President of the Automobile Club of France. With 112 illustrations. 241 pp. 8vo. London: Whittaker & Co, 1896. First edition in English. Original red cloth, spine a little darkened, else very good. Dibner 184. One of the Earliest Books on the Automobile First published in French the same year. Highly technical and illustrated with many diagrams and tables, it deals in detail with the history of the infant industry — discusses petroleum, steam and electric engines and every aspect of the auto-car, tires, springs, axles, etc. $1,750

4] En attendant Godot. Pièce en deux actes Samuel BECKETT 134, [2] pp. 12mo. [Paris]: Les Editions de Minuit, [1986]. Original printed wrappers, tiny speck on rear wrapper, else fne. With a black cloth box. significant association copy A lovely association copy to a signifcant Beckett collaborator in the last years of his life. The presentation reads: “For Rick with love from Sam Sept 88.” Waiting for Godot was the play that secured Beckett’s lasting fame. No matter that he’d been publishing since the 1920s or was Joyce’s amanuensis. This play in which “nothing happens” set him on a course that led to the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Rick Cluchey is a playwright, actor and director, who co-founded the San Quentin Drama Workshop in the mid-1950s at San Quentin State Prison while serving a life sentence for robbery and kidnapping. Cluchey We are all born mad. and Beckett met in the 1970s (once Clucheys Some remain so. sentence had been commuted) and he toured Europe with his play The Cage. Their relationship was especially productive in the last seven years of Beckett’s life. Cluchey served as the assistant director on a production of Godot in Berlin and Beckett later directed him in productions of Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame. It comes as no small surprise that the San Quentin Drama Workshop became Beckett’s American theatre of choice. Indeed, Cluchey wrote and performed the play Rick and Sam, which was a testament to his relationship with Beckett. $3,000

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5] Krapp’s Last Tape, and Other Dramatic Pieces Samuel BECKETT 141 pp. 8vo. New York: Grove Press, 1960. Evergreen edition. Original printed wrappers. Fine in a custom grey cloth box. Author’s presentation copy & fine association Beckett’s inscription reads: “For Teresita with love from Sam. ‘Perhaps my best years are gone. London, 1.3.84.” When there was a chance of hap- A one act play, with nothing but the title character and a tape recorder on stage, Krapp’s Last Tape was written for the Irish actor piness. But I wouldn’t want them Patrick Magee in 1958. It was originally performed as a curtain- back. Not with the fre in me now. raiser for Endgame, though continues to be performed as a stand- alone feature to this day. No, I wouldn’t want them back.’ Teresita Garcia-Suro, costume designer and actress who worked with Rick Cluchey as part of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. She worked with Beckett when he directed performances of Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame staged at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 1980. She married Rick Cluchey, founder of the San Quentin Drama Workshop, who has also cheekily added his ownership inscription. In March 1984, both Garcia-Suro and Cluchey were in London with Beckett, who was overseeing a staging of Godot directed by Walter Asmus that was due to feature at the Adelaide Festival in Australia that year. Cluchey played Pozzo. $2,500

Catalogue 130 | 3 6] Thomas Hardy (“Standing, hands in trouser pockets, in front of bookcase”) Max BEERBOHM Gouache and wash over pencil, titled and signed “Max 1926” (lower right). 12-¼ x 6-¼ in., 1926. Matted and framed. Provenance: Sir Hugh Walpole (1945 exhibition label); W.J. Armytage; John Arlott Esq. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries, 1928; Sotheby’s 15 December 1971; Piccadilly Gallery, September 1972. Literature: Hart-Davis, no. 704. max beerbohm portrait of thomas hardy Beerbohm’s portrait of Thomas Hardy is one of what might be considered a series for which he is best remembered. “Many of the people Max drew he knew personally, and, with a few exceptions — Kipling for one — those he knew he liked, and they liked him. His subjects, or ‘targets,’ included many well-known fgures: Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, G. B. Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Lytton Strachey, J. A. M. Whistler, Aubrey Beardsley, John Singer Sargent, Augustus John” (ODNB). Beerbohm (1872-1956) was a key fgure in turn-of-the-century English letters. His career as an artist began when he was just twenty in 1892 and he soon started contributing to The Yellow Book. He was a long-time Drama Critic for the Saturday Review, though left the post when he moved to Italy where he spent (war years aside) the rest of his life. $16,500

7] Zuleika Dobson or, An Oxford Love Story Max BEERBOHM [viii], 350. 8vo. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition. Brown cloth, paper label. In buf dust-jacket with price “7/6.” Joints show minor cracking. In custom half calf slipcase. First edition, in Rare Dust-Jacket The frst edition of Beerbohm’s only novel in a later dust- jacket, priced 7/6 (the frst jacket was priced 6 shillings). Beerbohm is best known as an artist and regarded as “the prince of essayists” by Virginia Woolf. Here he gives us the story of the eponymous heroine who enters Judas College, Oxford and wreaks havoc among the all male student body, many of whom fall in love with her immediately. The book culminates in a mass-suicide at the Eight Week regatta. A comic masterpiece. $1,250

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8] Madeline with the Gypsies Ludwig BEMELMANS Study in watercolor, black ink and pencil on paper, signed “Bemelmans” (lower right), additionally inscribed “Try on a lion” and “Madeline with the Gypsies.” With an incomplete drawing in black crayon on the verso. 18-½ x 13 in., ca. 1959. Framed. Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies (New York, 1959), p. 32. Bemelmen’s original artwork from the Madeline series is very rare indeed. “For gypsies do not like to stay Like most of the Madeline books, Madeline and the Gypsies commences: “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines, They only come to go away.” Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.” Here she and Pepito, the son of the Spanish consul who lives next door, visit the carnival and spend a few days with the local gypsies. $15,000

Catalogue 130 | 5 10] The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land- Baby (BINDING, RIVIÈRE) Charles KINGSLEY 32 mounted color plates by Warwick Goble. 4to. London: Macmillan and Co, 1909. First edition with illustrations by Goble. Full blue morocco, covers inlaid with green morocco frames, richly gilt, surrounding central pictorial panels made up of multi-colored morocco and mother-of pearl onlays and gilt tools, tan morocco doublures surrounded by richly gilt green morocco frames with onlayed blue morocco borders, doublures with with molded tinted morocco and mother- of-pearl pictorial onlays, green silk endpapers, a.e.g., by Rivière and Son. Fine, in original custom velvet-lined brown morocco box. In an Extraordinary Rivière Binding An extraordinary pictorial Rivière binding, the covers and doublures reproducing the following Warwick Goble illustrations: front cover, “The most beautiful bird of 9] paradise” (p. 210); front doublure, “The fairies came fying in at the window and brought her such a pretty pair of Libri Iehosuah, Iudicum, Samuelis et Regum, wings” (p. 126); rear doublure, “Tom had never seen a lobster Hebraice: Cum interlineari versione Xantis before” (p. 113); “… a dragon fy … the king of all the fies” Pagnini; Ben. Ariae Montani, & aliorum (frontispiece, p. 74). collato studio ad Hebraicam dictionem $20,000 diligentissimè expensa (BINDING, HEBREW BIBLE) 583, [1] pp. Text in Hebrew with interlinear translations “The most wonderful and the in Latin by Santes Pagnino. 8vo. [Leiden]: Ex. Ofcina strongest things in the world, you Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1611. Contemporary French (?) full olive-brown roan, covers tooled in gilt at center of each side know, are just the things which in repeating semicircle and star design, corners stamped in gilt with small foral tools, center of each cover with later no one can see” feur-de-lys tool stamped in gilt, smooth spine similarly tooled in gilt with small stars and fowers, all edges gilt and gaufered. Light wear to extremities. Finely Bound Plantin Press Printing of 4 Books of the Hebrew Bible The frst four books of the Prophets — Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings — of the Hebrew Bible, printed by the heirs of Franciscus Raphelengius, who ran the Leiden branch of the press of his father-in-law, Christophe Plantin. The text is edited by Benito Arias Montano, editor of the famed Plantin Polyglot Bible, and includes an interlinear Latin translation by Santes Pagnino. $3,000

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Catalogue 130 | 7 11] La Plante … d’après des détails très agrandis de formes végetales. Introduction de Charles Nierendorf Charles [Karl] BLOSSFELDT, Illustrated with 120 plates in heliogravure. Folio. Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, A. Calavas Éditeur, [n.d., ca. 1929]. French issue of Urformen der Kunst [1928]. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Fine in near fne dust-jacket. Roth 101, pp. 48-49; Parr/Badger I, p. 96; Hasselblad, pp. 66- 67. The French issue of Blossfeldt’s masterpiece in the scarce photographically illustrated dust-jacket. A remarkable book that traces a curious path from Art Nouveau to Modernism and foreshadows Conceptual Art. In exceptionally fne condition. $3,500

12] The English Gentleman Richard BRATHWAIT[E] Engraved frontispiece in compartments by Robert Vaughan, followed by folding letterpress ‘Draft of the Frontispiece’ leaf. [xvi], 456, [6] pp., variant without “Three choice characters of marriage” (p. [2], 459-487). Small 4to. London: John Haviland for Robert Bostock, 1630. First edition. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, later string ties. Recased with new endpapers, frontispiece heavily worn with loss and laid down, vertical tear across top third of D2, scattered marginalia. ESTC S104636; Grolier, Wither to Prior 66. First edition of a classic courtesy book by this tireless versifer. It was reprinted in 1641 and 1652. The chapter on Recreation (pp. 165-226) contains discussion of almost every form of sport and game conceivable, from fshing to gaming (with stern admonitions concerning the latter). $1,500

8 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 13] Babar and Father Christmas Jean de BRUNHOFF Translated from the French by Merle Haas. Color-printed pictorial title-page, illustrated throughout. Large folio (14 ¼ x 10 in.), New York: Random House, 1940. First English edition and last of the Babar books by Jean de Brunhof. Publisher’s pictorial boards, yellow cloth spine, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket; losses at bottom margin of front of dust-jacket restored. Grolier/Elliott 141. Babar and Santa Claus In this charming story, Babar visits Father Christmas and suggests that he take a vacation in the elephants’ country. In gratitude, Father Christmas gives Babar a magic Santa suit which will enable him to fy through the air and deliver presents on Christmas Eve to all the little elephants, beginning yet another wonderful western tradtion in Celesteville. $750

14] Zephir’s Holidays Jean de BRUNHOFF Translated from the French by Merle Haas. Introduction by A.A. Milne Illustrated. Large 4to. New York: Random House, (1937). First American edition. Original printed boards, cloth spine. Minor wear, else a very nice copy. This is the fourth book of the Barbar series and the frst devoted soley to Zephir. The introduction by A.A. Milne only adds to this cheerful tale. $350

Catalogue 130 | 9 15] A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archives (William BURROUGHS) Illustrated from photos by Brion Gysin. [6], 349, [blank] pp. 8vo. London: Covent Garden Press in conjunction with Am Here Books, 1973. First edition, Copy “J” of 26 lettered copies (total edition 226 copies, all signed by Burroughs, Gysin, and Miles), in full deluxe binding, upper cover with design by Gysin in red and black. White calf, spine slightly sunned. Near fne in slipcase. “The Name is Burroughs” — A Page of Manuscript A unique copy of this Burroughs rarity, with a one-page original typescript of his autobiographical sketch, “The Name is Burroughs,” laid in, signed by Burroughs, and bearing several autograph corrections to the text. The typescript page features most of Burroughs themes: dope fends, weenies, drugs and guns. He also says, “On this set a [sic] unpublished novel called Queer was also written. I remeber [sic] the head of Ace books who published Junkie said he would go to jail if he published it … Thanks to Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon Junkie was published by Ace Books in 1953.” The essay was frst collected in The Adding Machine: Selected Essays (1986), much altered from this manuscript fragment. $4,000

16] Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice BURROUGHS [viii], 401 pp. 8vo. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition, frst state, with printer’s name set in two lines of Old English type. Publisher’s crimson cloth, frst state of the binding, without acorn device on spine. Slight loss to spine gilt lettering, spine ends restored, rear hinge repaired, faint stain on textblock fore-edge, a bright copy. Previous owner’s name in ink on fep. Currey, p. 93; Zeuschner 696. The frst edition of the frst Tarzan novel — a brighter than usual copy. The child of Lord and Lady Greystoke who were marooned in West Africa, Tarzan (“White Skin” in ape language) was adopted by the she-ape Kala after his parents passed away. Immediately popular, Rice Burroughs’s hero featured in more than two dozen sequels and was further immortalised in flm. $4,500

10 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 17] In Cold Blood Truman CAPOTE [viii], 343, [1] pp. 8vo. New York: Random House, 1965. First trade edition. Original maroon cloth. Cellotape ghosts on endpapers and inner faps of dust-jacket, foot of spine faintly bumped, else near fne in near fne dust-jacket. Jacket has 1/66 and $5.95 on the front fap. CREATING A NEW GENRE An excellent copy of the frst non-fction novel. Capote had already established his reputation with the likes of Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tifany’s. Having learned of the murder of the Clutter family in an article in the New York Times, Capote travelled to Holcomb, Ka. and spent months there with Nell Harper, whose novel To Kill a Mockingbird was later published to international acclaim. The book took six years to complete and frst appeared in serial form in four issues of the New Yorker, beginning in September 1965. $350

18] The King in Yellow Robert W. CHAMBERS [ii], 316, [1, ad (verso blank)] pp. 12mo. Chicago & New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895. First edition, frst issue binding. Green cloth titled in brown, upper board with lizard design, t.e.g. Slightest traces of rubbing at foot. Fine, fresh copy. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 396; Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 49; Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 59; Tymn (ed), Horror Literature, pp. 3-49; Bleiler (1978), p. 41; Wright (III) 972. A cornerstone of modern horror and fantasy and a book that has fascinated authors from H.P. Lovecraft to James Blish. Chambers (1865-1933) was a prolifc and perennially popular author of historical romances set in France during the Franco-Prussian War and in rural New York during the American Revolution. Profoundly infuential, and efectively his only contribution to the genre. Bleiler has called this book “One of the most important works of supernatural horror between Edgar Allan Poe and modern horror fction.” $2,000

Catalogue 130 | 11 19] A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You [Henry COLE (pseud. “Felix Summerly”)] Hand-colored lithographed card, triptych depicting a family gathered around a dinner table toasting the recipient in the center panel, the side panels showing scenes of Christmas charity. Addressed to “His old young friends Emma & Agnes” from the designer of the card, “J. C. Horsley, Xmasse 1843.” (3-¼ x 5 in.; 83 x 127 mm). London: [Joseph Cundall for] Summerly’s Home Treasury Ofce, [December 1843]. Lightly soiled, creased across upper right corner, in custom cloth folding box. Grolier/Elliott 42; Elliott, Inventing Christmas, pp. 85-7; Buday, The History of the Christmas Card, pp. 618; Kenneth Rowe, The Ephemerist (December 1997), p. 713. The First Christmas Card, Signed by the Artist “While Germany can claim credit for the custom of the Christmas tree, the prize for the frst Christmas card goes to England” (Elliott, Inventing Christmas, p. 85). The frst Christmas card, one of 20 or 21 known to exist. This card signed by its creator, artist John Calcott Horsley and dated 1843 $22,500

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Catalogue 130 | 13 20] The Unexpected (COMIC ART) George TUSKA Appearing in vol. 22, no. 180, page 10. Splash Page “Die Laughing!” 16 x 10 in., DC Comics Inc., August 1977. Fine. The Unexpected was a continuation of Tales of the Unexpected, running over 118 issues between 1968-1982. It was essentially an anthology and included a variety of science fction stories. Included here is a fne copy of the original comic in which it appeared. Die Laughing is a short, brutal story of two brothers bound by disability, greed and an inheritance. It’s an excellent example of the genre. George Tuska specialized in particularly intense action scenes; he illustrated such series as Iron Man, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Justice League, Infnity, and Power Man, as well as the newspaper strip World’s Greatest Superheroes. Tuska fnished his studies at the National Academy of Design at age 21. In 1939, he joined the graphic studios of Jerry Iger and Will Eisner, where he worked on several comic books, like Jungle, Wings, Planet, Wonderworld, and Mystery Men. In the 1940s, as a member of the Chesler Studio, he drew several stories of Captain Marvel, Golden Arrow, Uncle Sam and El Carim. Tuska was mobilized during World War II, so he had to postpone his comic activities. After the war, he continued in the comic feld with Crime Does Not Pay, and as the illustrator on Scorchy Smith. In 1959, he took over the daily and weekly Buck Rogers pages, which he continued until 1967. In the late 1960s, Tuska started working for Marvel, where he contributed to the series Ghost Rider, Planet of the Apes, X-Men, Daredevil and Iron Man. He continued drawing superhero comics for DC, including Superman, Superboy and Challengers of the Unknown. In 1978, along with Marty Pasko and Vince Colletta, Tuska started a new version of the daily Superman comic strip. Tuska worked on this series until 1982. $2,550

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14 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 22] Autograph Letter, signed (“Frederick A. Cook”) to the Arctic artist Albert Opertit Frederick Albert COOK 1-½ pp., in ink, on personal stationery (Frederick A. Cook, M.D., 687 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.). 12mo. Brooklyn, NY: Oct. 4, 1896. Slightly soiled, old folds, docketed, presumably by Operti, “ans O/18/96.” Cook Congratulates Operti, 1896 A charming letter between two Arctic veterans. Frederick Cook, founding member of both the Arctic Club and the Explorer’s Club, and future rival claimant to Robert Peary as discoverer of the North Pole, writes to his old friend Albert Operti. Both Cook and Operti had been with Peary on an Arctic expedition in 1891 (Cook as surgeon, Operti as artist), and Operti had just returned from a second Peary expedition to Greenland, with sketches, notes, paintings, and memorabilia which now form an important part of the collections of the Explorer’s Club. The letter reads: “My dear Operti, I am so glad that you succeeded. You must have had a glorious time. Accept my hearty congratulations. I am anxious to see your hard earned collection and have a pleasant chat about our old Eskimo friends in the far North … Yours cordially, Frederick A. Cook.” $2,000

21] Almayer’s Folly. A Story of an Eastern River CONRAD, Joseph 8vo. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, frst state, with type dropped in bottom two lines on p. 110. Original olive green cloth, t.e.g., others uncut. Almost fne, in slipcase. Smith 1; Cagle A1a1. conrad’s first book Conrad’s frst book, recording the experiences of Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer who travels to Borneo in search of a goldmine. Almayer’s Folly establishes many of the interests and themes that would characterise Conrad’s great novels of the early twentieth century, and must be considered an important precursor. $2,500

Catalogue 130 | 15 23] The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. A Tale. By the Author of “The Last of the Mohicans” [James Fenimore COOPER] 2 vols. 12mo. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. First edition. Bound in blue morocco by Bennett, N.Y. Fine. BAL 3895; Spiller and Blackburn 32; Wright I 601. Chingachgook & Deerslayer The last of Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales” of Natty Bumpo in the American wilderness, although it is the frst in terms of sequence. Set on Ostego Lake in upstate New York, The Deerslayer depicts Natty Bumpo as a young man against the practise of scalping. A very desirable copy of this classic of American fction. $2,500

24] Hunting and Fishing in Florida Charles B. CORY Profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs. 8vo. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1896. Second edition. Original pictorial brown cloth, showing a silver-embossed tarpon being hooked. Cover slightly soiled, else fne. Bookplate. Bruns C-168; Heller 2:835. Not in Callahan’s Tarpon Bibliography. Early Tarpon Fishing in Florida An interesting account of the sport and ornithology of the state, with some wonderful historic photographs. Included is a chapter on Tarpon Fishing, with four photographs of the contest. $375

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25] The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri (DANTE) Henry BOYD (trans.) Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dante. vi, [2], 408; [4], 384; [4], 420 pp., with the half-titles in all three volumes. 3 vols. 8vo. London: Cadell and Davies, 1802. First complete edition in English. Uniform contemporary plain calf, covers with the gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet in the center of each cover (neatly rebacked with a new spine and label, edges and corners a little rubbed). A little foxed and spotted in places, title-page of frst volume evenly browned, large hole through the blank fore- margin of fve leaves near the end of the frst volume (not touching the text and possibly caused by a faw in the paper before it was printed). Provenance: The Society of Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh, with their gilt armorial stamp on the covers, label and shelfmarks on the front pastedown. The pinnacle of Italian literature, Dante’s Divine Comedy was completed a year before his death in 1321. Its signifcance and infuence cannnot be overstated. “In 1802 Boyd issued three volumes of an English verse translation of the whole Divina commedia of Dante, with preliminary essays, notes, and illustrations. The translation is important as the frst English version of the complete Divine Comedy to be published … The edition’s value was in assisting to re-establish an audience for Dante, whose reputation had sufered a decline in the previous century. It was dedicated to Viscount Charleville, whose chaplain Boyd was until the Irish rising induced him to resign his post” (ODNB). The work is of further interest as a record of early nineteenth century translation, as Boyd adheres to a neo-classical system of six line stanzas. Boyd was born into a farming family in Dromore, Co. Antrim and later educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His translation of the frst book of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Inferno, was published in two volumes in 1785 with notes, a biography of Dante and a “specimen of a new translation of the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto.” $11,500

Catalogue 130 | 17 26] Our Mutual Friend Charles DICKENS 40 engraved plates by the Dalziel Brothers or W. T. Green after illustrations by Marcus Stone, without publisher’s advertisements at back as frequently occurs with bound copies. 320; 309, [1] pp. 8vo. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition in book form. Contemporary half crimson morocco and marbled boards. Slight wear to covers, some intermittent foxing, an attractive copy. Eckle, p. 94; Smith no. 15. Commencing with the supposed death of John Harmon, who’s body is found in the Thames, Dickens’ tale of hidden identities, greed and love, is underpinned by the theme of wealth and its evils. Our Mutual Friend is considered one of Dicken’s most sophisticated works, and frst appeared in parts as it was written in 1864-65. Here we have it in book form published in the same year. Although Dickens lived until 1870, this is his last completed novel. $1,250

27] The Christmas Books Charles DICKENS Illustrations throughout (hand-colored in A Christmas Carol). 5 vols. 8vo. London: Chapman & Hall; Bradbury & Evans, 1844- 1848. Red calf gilt, spines gilt with contrasting lettering pieces, a.e.g., for Lauriat. Original cloth covers bound in. Fine set (tiny bump to head of spine of Battle of Life). A Finely Bound Set of Dickens’ Christmas Books Attractive set of Dickens’ immortal Christmas stories, fnely bound Comprising: (1) A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. Title printed in red and blue, half-title printed in blue. Fourth edition (statement efaced from title-page). (2) The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845. Twelfth edition. (3) The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition, second state of ad leaf. (4) The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Fourth state of pictorial title (Todd E1, Eckel 4). (5) The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. $3,000

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28] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas Charles DICKENS Title-page printed in red and green with wood-engraved holly vignette, half-title printed in green, hand-colored etched frontispiece and 3 handcolored etched plates after and by John Leech, 4 wood-engraved text illustrations after Leech by W. J. Linton, integral terminal leaf of publisher’s ads (“Works of Mr. Charles Dickens”). 12mo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. First ‘Bah,’ said Scrooge, ‘Humbug’ edition, frst issue, with all of Smith’s points and an unbroken signature letter c; indeterminate and very rare variant state with pink endpapers. Publisher’s cinnamon-brown rib-grain cloth, covers blocked in blind with decorative holly and ivy border, front cover and spine gilt with author and title with a holly wreath, pink-coated endpapers, gilt edges (Todd’s frst impression, frst issue of cover stamp); spine darkened, extremities a bit worn, inner hinges cracked, lightly shaken with two signatures sprung. Half brown calf slipcase, chemise. Smith, Dickens in the Original Cloth 2:4; Todd, “A Christmas Carol,” in The Book Collector 10:449–54. The First Issue, With Pink Endpapers Ebenezer Scrooge’s dark night of the soul featuring the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come is probably the most famous of all Christmas stories. An interesting fact, it was published in December 1843 — within days of the printing of the very frst Christmas card. $10,000

Catalogue 130 | 19 29] 30] The Mystery of Edwin Drood Alice’s Avonturen in het Wonderland. Naar het Charles DICKENS Engelsch van Lewis Carroll [Translated by R. Engraved title-page and portrait (in part 6) and 12 engraved Ten Raa] [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.] plates (2 in each part). 8vo. London: Chapman & Hall, April, [DODGSON, Charles L.] 1870 - September, 1870. First edition in parts. Full green morocco, with the original printed wrappers bound in, with With 40 illustrations after Tenniel. [viii], 146, [6 ads] pp. 8vo. ads. Part 2 lacks the very rare “Cork Hats” slip, as usual. Leiden: E.J. Brill, [1899]. First complete edition in Dutch. Bookplates of John A. Spoor and Peter A. Wick. Hatton & Grey cloth titled in gilt. Endsheets toned, small tape residue Cleaver, pp. 373-384. at foot of front fyleaf, else very good plus. Signed by the original Alice on the pastedown, and by Mrs. Ffooks on WITH A SIGNED CHECK TO AN EDITOR the fyleaf. Lovett 622. OCLC: 12310848 (4 U.S. locations). AT HOUSEHOLD WORDS Provenance: Alice P. Hargreaves, (née Liddell); Sotheby’s Desirable set of Dickens’ last book as it originally appeared, (London) Alice sale, 5 June 2001, lot 99 (owner’s note on card interrupted by his death on June 9, 1870, after three of the loosely inserted). parts had been issued. Alice’s Own Copy With a check signed by Dickens, June 4, 1860, tipped in, The frst complete Dutch edition, signed by Alice Pleasance written to William Henry Wills, an important editor at Hargreaves and also by Maude Ffooks (née Standen), another Household Words, and Dickens’ close friend, one that he of Dodgson’s child friends with whom he corresponded entrusted to forward his letters to Ellen Ternan during his while she was a governess in Russia. 1867–8 American reading tour. Also laid in, an ALS from Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall, 1787-1874) An uncommon edition with no better provenance. to Thomas Hood (1799-1845) dated May 27, 1840, in which $2,250 Procter thanks Hood for a copy of his book and apologizes for the delay in acknowledging the volume. sold

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31] Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricaturas 1983-1991 (DRUGS) Pablo ESCOBAR Numerous plates reproducing political cartoons and photographs and drawings of Escobar (4 of them in color). [2]-377, [1] ll., printed rectos only. 4to. [Medellin, Columbia: 1992]. Original calf with facsimile signature and fngerprint in gilt. Minor foxing on a few leaves. Proof of the law’s inability to constrain Escobar surely comes in no stranger format than this self-published collection of political cartoons concerning the Colombian drug trade. It was published by Escobar while serving time in his luxury prison, La Catedral. Escobar is quite serious about the value of this work and states in the prologue: “El lengua fgurativo de la caricatura representa una opinion, un criterio, un punto de vista personal y es por eso que hemos querido recopilar todos los pensamientos grafcos y bajo este tema especifco de narrativa. Porque visualizar un concepto tan abstracto como un modo de pensar, va mas alla de la simple ridiculizacion de un a personaje o la simple expocision de los razgos caracteristicos; es darle vida propia a una imagen abstracta que reposa silenciosa en nuestra mentes.” The book opens with a report on the Colombian government importing of cocaine and reprints a series of photographs of Escobar, some with his family and even some in prison. From there the wide-ranging caricatures satirise everything from politics, the mafa, religion, the United States, and even drug use in sport. According to an Escobar family member, most of the copies of the book were burned after Escobar’s escape from the prison with only a handful of copies surviving the fre. Rare. OCLC locates no copies, though the book does turn up now and again on a certain online auction site at predictably ludicrous prices. $9,500

Catalogue 130 | 21 32] The Tempest Act I, Scene 2 (Caliban: “Wouldst give me Water with berries in’t”) Edmund DULAC Watercolor, pencil and ink on paper, signed “Edmund Dulac 08” (lower left), additionally inscribed on verso: “Caliban. Wouldst give me water with berries in it … Act I Sc. II” and numbered 39. 15 x 9-⅞ in., 1908. Matted and framed. Exhibited: Leicester Galleries. Literature: Shakespeare’s Comedy of the Tempest (Hodder & Stoughton, 1908), p. 26; Hughey, Edmund Dulac: His Book Illustrations, no. 19. original watercolor for Dulac’s Tempest A beautiful watercolor from Dulac’s second major gift book commission for Hodder & Stoughton. The Dulac Tempest was issued as part of a projected series of Shakespeare illustrated by contemporary artists that was never completed. “Dulac can be considered a perfect illustrator for Shakespeare because of his tendency always to mix in with serious pictures some humorous ones, just as Shakespeare inserted scenes of comic relief between his serious ones … Dulac shows sensitivity to the nuances of the sea with his beautiful greens and blues and patterns of surf and rocks” (Hughey). Dulac “showed greater human understanding as the illustrations moved beyond stage scenes and became mood pictures or tone poems … Dulac’s greater assurance in The Tempest was manifested in many beautifully observed scenes … Caliban looks like a benevolent Neanderthal man, not very frightening, as befts an edition for children … The publication of The Tempest in November 1908 was again timed to coincide with the Leicester Galleries’ exhibition of the original watercolors, and both the art and book critics acclaimed his work, particularly his treatment of the sea” (White, Edmund Dulac, p. 36). $40,000

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33] 34] Ash Wednesday Invisible Man T.S. ELIOT Ralph ELLISON 12mo. New York & London: Fountain Press/ Faber & [viii], 439, [1] pp. 8vo. New York: Random House, (1952). First Faber, 1930. First edition, limited issue. One of six hundred edition. Publisher’s black and tan cloth, top edge stained numbered copies, printed on handmade paper at the Curwen black. Very slight spotting to textblock edge, else fne, in Press and signed by the author. Blue cloth, decorated and the E. McKnight Kaufer dust-jacket with Gordon Parks lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Usual slight ofset to endsheets, else photograph of the author on the rear panel, unlcipped, a fne copy in slightly chipped glassine, in slightly soiled lightly edgeworn, with small closed tear and crease to rear slipcase with short cracks at two joints. The whole enclosed panel. Blockson 86. in custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Gallup A15; Modern Movement 65; Untermeyer, Modern American Poetry, p. 396 ‘I am invisible, understand, simply because people (Harcourt Brace 1950). refuse to see me’ the limited signed edition Ellison’s National Book Award-winning frst novel, the only published in his lifetime. “Immediately acclaimed by critics, Based on Dante’s Purgatorio, Ash Wednesday is often it was recognized not merely as an excellent novel by a black referred to as Eliot’s conversion poem. Eliot converted to author, but as a great literary achievement” (ANB). Set in the Anglicism in 1927, and this was published just three years 1930s, the novel’s hero is expelled from a college in the South later. The poem was well-received and the poet Edwin Muir and moves to New York City where he becomes a member insisted that “’Ash-Wednesday’ is one of the most moving of the Brotherhood. Engaging and dramatic, Invisible Man is poems he [Eliot] has written, and perhaps the most perfect” a landmark work registering the social, cultural and political (Untermeyer). ideas and problems facing the black community in the mid- $2,250 twentienth century. $3,000

Catalogue 130 | 23 35] Emerson in Concord. A Memoir Written for the “Social Circle” in Concord, Massachusetts Edward Waldo EMERSON Engraved frontispiece portrait. [iv], 266 pp., with tipped-in slip (“With compliments of Edward W. Emerson”) and leaf (dated December 20, 1888, requesting this early copy be withheld from “general perusal” until publication in the fall of 1889). 8vo. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1889. First edition, advance copy. Publisher’s green cloth, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g. Covers rubbed. BAL III, p. 69 (for the regularly published edition). An advance copy of Edward Waldo Emerson’s memoir of his father, inscribed to the English author Richard Garnett, “Dr. Richard Garnett with the cordial regard of Edward W. Emerson.” With two inserted autograph letters, signed (“Edward W. Emerson”), to Garnett. In the frst letter (Concord, Massachusetts, December 30, [1888], 8 pp.), Emerson thanks Garnett for a copy of his Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (London, 1888) and praises the book while pointing out some if its errors. Emerson notes that only two advance copies of his Memoir have been sent to England. In the second letter (Concord, [Massachusetts]. March 18, 1889, 3 pp.), Emerson thanks Garnett for the “kindness and zeal you have shown on behalf of my book” and discusses plans for an English edition. $1,500

36] The Sound and the Fury William FAULKNER 401 pp. 8vo. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. First edition, with the phrase “First published 1929” printed on the copyright page. Original cloth-backed patterned boards. Inner hinges repaired. Faintest toning and wear at edges, tiny old cellotape repairs at corners. Very good plus copy, without the scarce printed dust-jacket. Black half morocco dropbox with velvet lining by Sangorski and Sutclife for Asprey. Petersen A6b. A pioneering work of American modernism, Faulkner’s fourth novel, which employed a stream-of-consciousness technique and multiple narrators, was slow to fnd an audience. Set in Faulkener’s fctional world, Yoknapatawpha County, it played a signifcant role in Faulkner receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.The Modern Library ranked it sixth on its list of 100 best English language novels of the twentieth century. $2,000

24 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 37] Costume design for Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 flm adaptation of The Great Gatsby (F. Scott FITZGERALD) Aldredge Watercolor and charcoal over pencil outline on thin artist’s board, signed by Aldredge at lower right. Verso with delicate pencil sketch of the character in a variant pose. 18- ¼ x 14 in., [c. 1974]. Light fnger soiling at margins, else fne. Aldredge won the 1974 Academy Award for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on The Great Gatsby. In the New York Times review of the flm, Vincent Canby, wrote: “Mia Farrow is lovely, eccentric and unfathomable as Daisy, which may be an impossible role.” She played opposite Robert Redford in the titular role. $3,500

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

Catalogue 130 | 25 39] The complete Flashman Papers in frst edition George MacDonald FRASER 12 vols, comprising Flashman (1969); Royal Flash (1970); Flash for Freedom! (1971); Flashman at the Charge (1973); Flashman in the Great Game (1975); Flashman’s Lady (1977); Flashman and the Redskins (1982); Flashman and the Dragon (1985); Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990); Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1994); Flashman and the Tiger (1999); Flashman on the March (2005). 8vo, London: Harvill and Harper Collins, 1969-2005. All frst editions. Red boards (save for Flashman and the Tiger, in black boards), most with map endsheets. All fne in near fne pictorial dust-jackets. The Flashman Papers in their entirity, documenting the many adventures and great many loves of Sir Harry Flashman VC KCB KCIE. For all his success, Fraser made it clear that his hero remained “a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward — and, oh yes, a toady.” $2,800

26 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 40] Come Christmas. A Selection of Christmas Poetry, Song, Drama and Prose. Edited by Lesley Frost (Robert FROST) Lesley FROST, editor Illustrated with a two-page facsimile manuscript poem by Frost, “Good Relief ”, unpublished until then SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY FROST, “Robert Frost / second signature / for Earl Bernheimer / April 5, 1936.” 8vo. New York: Coward- McCann, [1935]. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine copy in pictorial dust-jacket printed in silver, red, and green. Cloth slipcase and chemise. Inscribed by Frost and His Daughter Lovely and choice copy of the delightful Christmas anthology, edited by Frost’s eldest daughter, signed by her illustrious father, and inscribed by her as well on the fyleaf: “For George Mathew Adams / from Lesley Frost.” Frost was much lauded in his career, winning the Pulitzer Prize four times; he also received the Congressional Gold Medal. $2,000

41] A Boy’s Will Robert FROST Small, thin 8vo. London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition, second issue. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D). Fine. Cloth folding box. Clymer and Green p. 20; Crane A2. The author’s frst book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight (1894) of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one of the few poets who was successful throughout his entire lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer prizes among his many awards. $1,500

Catalogue 130 | 27 42] Sand and Foam. A Book of Aphorisms Kalil GIBRAN Illustrated with 7 drawings by the author. 85 pp. 8vo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition, no. 39 of 95 copies, signed by the poet, on Borzoi Rag Paper. Quarter brown cloth and silver decorated boards. A lovely copy of the frst edition. Sand and Foam includes one of Gibran’s most famous lines: “Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.” Gibran, a Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer, is best known for his 1923 work The Prophet. He is the third best- selling poet of all time after Shakespeare and the Chinese philosopher and poet Lao-Tzu. $4,500

43] Little Ann and Other Poems (Kate GREENAWAY) Jane and Ann TAYLOR Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Printed in Colors by Edmund Evans. 64 pp. 8vo. London: George Routledge & Sons, [n.d.]. First edition. Original green linen and pictorial paper over boards. Fine in half red morocco dropbox. Provenance: Alwin J. Scheuer. Engen, p. 231; Thomsen 168. INSCRIBED by kate greenaway Inscribed on the half-title “Mrs. H.(arry) J. Veitch, From Kate Greenaway. 1893.” The Veitchs of 34 Radclife Gardens, South Kensington, had a good collection of Greenaways. Sir Harry James Veitch (1840-1924) was a horticulturist who ran the family business in Chelsea, James Veitch & Sons Nurseies, and helped start the Chelsea Flower Show. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) is one of the most beloved of British book illustrators. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London and her frst book, Under the Window (1879), was an immediate success and she was prolifc in the twenty years before her death. She is often compared with Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott and as such is regarded as “one of the three great illustrators of children’s books in the mid-Victorian period” (ODNB). The Kate Greenaway medal, established in her honor, is awarded annually for “distinguished illustrations in a book for children.” $1,500

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44] 45] “Map of the Harvard Yale Regatta. And What A Farewell to Arms Does It Prove?” Ernest HEMINGWAY John HELD Jr 8vo. New York: Scribners, 1929. First edition, frst issue. Black Pen and ink on paper, signed beneath the caption “By John cloth. Front fyleaf removed, else fne in dust-jacket with Held Jr Who Is Not Intrigued At Boating.” 15-½ x 11-¼ in. minor chipping and fading to spine. N.p. [New York?]: n.d. [ca. 1930]. Matted and framed. Set in the Italian campaign during World War One, and based in part on his own experiences, Hemingway’s novel is a love $4,500 story between American soldier, Frederic Henry, and the nurse Catherine Barkley. It was frst serialised in Scribner’s Magazine in 1929 and reviewed enthusiastically in the Times and by Gore Vidal. Censors took a dimmer view of some of the language employed, replacing certain words with dashes throughout the text. $2,500 ‘Life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose’

Catalogue 130 | 29 46] 47] The Torrents of Spring. A Romantic Novel in Typed Letter, signed (“Ernest Hemingway”), Honor of the Passing of a Great Race to Mr. Grover Whelan Ernest HEMINGWAY Ernest HEMINGWAY [iv], 143 pp. 8vo. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926. One page, on personal letterhead of Finca Vigia. 4to. Finca First edition, 1250 copies printed. Publisher’s cloth titled in Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba: September 28, 1958. orange. Slight discoloration and rubbing to front board, Slight toning at edges, otherwise fne. Handsomely framed small dampstain at fore edge of fyleaf and pastedown, in and matted with a copy of the telegram of invitation from bright frst-issue dust-jacket, spine completely unfaded (light Whelan (dated September 5, 1958) and with a copy of the edgewear, professionally conserved on verso, small, faint dust-jacket of the book. trace of stain on inside of front panel, tiny faw in blank Whelan introduces himself as the Chairman of the Charity space in back panel). Hanneman A4a; Grissom A.4.1.a. Performance for the world premier of The Old Man and A handsome copy in a bright example of the dust-jacket of the Sea, to take place on Tuesday, October 7, 8:00PM at the the frst edition of Hemingway’s frst novel. Written in just Criterion Theatre on Times Square. Hemingway responds: a few days, The Torrents of Spring, named for the Turgenev “Thank you very much for your invitation to the world novel of the same title, is a parody of Sherwood Anderson’s premiere of The Old Man and the Sea. Unfortunately it Dark Laughter. Anderson’s publisher, Boni & Liveright, were is impossible for Mrs. Hemingway and me to attend this contracted to publish Hemingway’s next work after having opening, but I am enclosing my cheque for $100 to the New issued the trade edition of In Our Time. Horace Liveright York March of Dimes. Would you be so kind as to deliver rejected the manuscript, efectively voiding their contract. the two tickets you have reserved for Mrs. Hemingway and The Torrents of Spring was published by Scribners, who myself to my friend, Mr. George Brown, who will call for went on to publish all of Hemingway’s major works. them …” $5,500 $11,000

30 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 48] Winner Take Nothing HEMINGWAY, Ernest 244 pp. 8vo. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. First edition, with Scribner’s “A” and Scribner’s seal on copyright page. Original black cloth with gold paper labels, top edge red. A bright, near fne copy in original black, white, and red dust-jacket. Fine with one closed tear on front cover. Hanneman A12a. Contains 14 short stories, including “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” Published after A Farewell to Arms (1929), this was Hemingway’s fnal collection of short stories. $2,700

Catalogue 130 | 31 49] Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill Thomas HOBBES 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). First edition of Hobbes’ Classic of Political Theory 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 notorious 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

32 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 50] Hockney’s Alphabet David HOCKNEY Drawings by David Hockney & written contributions (by 26 authors) edited by Stephen Spender. 4to, London: Faber and Faber for the Aids Crisis Trust, [1991]. One of 250 numbered copies signed by David Hockney and Stephen Spender. Grey paper over boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Fine in slipcase. The Hockney drawings illustrate each of the 27 contributions by various authors on a letter of the alphabet (a T.S Eliot piece is included for ‘Q’, along with that of Anthony Burgess), with a fnal piece by John Julius Norwich. 22 of these have also signed the book: Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, John Julius Norwich, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and Ian McEwan. (Not signing were Burgess and Eliot, of course, Ted Hughes, and Gore Vidal). Published by the Aids Crisis Trust to raise money for AIDS victims. $2,250

51] Illuminated border cutting from a service book of Pope Innocent VIII (ILLUMINATED MS) [Attributed to Giuliano AMADEI] Vertical strip of vellum, illuminated border comprised of a burnished gold bar decorated with leaves, fowers and scrolls, in various colors and gold. 14-½ x 1-½ in. [Rome: ca. 1484-1492]. Evidence on verso of prior mounting, repair to upper portion of right margin, some rubbing. Cf. British Library 21412, f. 4, 45-65. from the Sistene Chapel service book of Pope Innocent VIII An illuminated border cutting from a Sistine Chapel service book of Pope Innocent VIII (1432-1492). The cutting — which is related to pieces in the Fitwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the British Library, and the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm — was likely removed from a service book looted by French troops who deposed Pope Pius VI in 1798. The other known cuttings bear inscriptions “In[n]ocent” and “Papa VIII” as well as his emblem, the peacock. $4,000

Catalogue 130 | 33 52] Nativity with Beasts and Shepherds (Dum Medium Silentium Tenerent Omnia) David JONES Wood engraving. One leaf. 10-½ x 8 in., 1928. One small crease to upper corner, otherwise fne. Cleverdon E198. Considered by T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden to be one of the early twentieth century’s signifcant poets, Jones was also a painter and an engraver. This nativity scene, made around the time Jones joined the Society of Wood Engravers, is from a small edition of about 20 given to the artist’s friends. $2,500

53] Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert James JOYCE Illustrated with 6 original soft-ground etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by Henri Matisse. xvi, [ii], 735 pp. 4to. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First edition thus. Number 1452 of 1500 copies, signed by Matisse. Original brown cloth, spine and upper board blocked in gilt. Fine in slightly rubbed slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon A22; Quarto-Millenary 71; Garvey 197; Duthuit 235. With six soft ground etchings by Matisse created for this edition, with reproductions of his preliminary drawings. One of the fnest productions of the Limited Editions Club. It unites one of the greatest writers of the twentienth century with one of its greatest artists. Based loosely on Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce sought to create a testament to Dublin so complete that the city might be recreated from the novel. $6,000

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54] 55] Endymion: A Poetic Romance Profles in Courage. [Foreword by Allan Nevins] John KEATS John F. KENNEDY Half-title present; single line errata on a6r; bound without xix, [iii], 266 pp. 8vo. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1956]. advertisement leaves. ix, [3], 207, [1] pp. 8vo. London: Printed Later printing G-F (July, 1956), same year as the frst. Cloth. for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition, second issue Very good copy in slightly worn dust-jacket. (with the printer’s imprint T. Miller, Printer, Noble street, Cheapside); inserted fve-line errata. Nineteenth century robert McNamara’s Copy quarter tan polished calf and green marbled paper over Signed on the fyleaf in pencil: “Robert S. McNamara.” boards. Rebacked, fep detached, some light foxing, generally McNamara (1916-2009) was president of Ford Motor a clean copy, very good overall. Half morocco slipcase. Company, U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and MacGillivray 2. Johnson administrations, and later president of the World Bank. ‘… a joy forever’ : First edition of Keats’ Endymion Kennedy, who was the junior senator from Massachusetts at the time, won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for biography for this Attractive copy of Keats’ second book, his immortal work, which highlights the bravery of eight US senators. poem whose frst line is “A thing of beauty is a joy forever …” So savage and malevolent were the reviews of this $1,250 poem by Blackwoods and the Quarterly (“Lockhart found it exquisitely funny that an apothecary, a fellow who confessedly knew no Greek, who had to read Homer in a translation, should venture on a classic theme” — MacGillivray), that Keats’ supporters thereafter blamed the reviewers for the poet’s early death. $6,500

Catalogue 130 | 35 56] The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard KEYNES xii, 403 pp. 8vo, London: Macmillan and Co, 1936. First edition. Original blue-green publisher’s cloth, spine gilt, some light foxing spots to the frst few leaves. The printed jacket is unclipped and in very good condition with two small stains at the foot of the front cover of the jacket and another on the bottom corner of the lower panel of the jacket, close to the fore-edge, 2 millimeter closed tear at the bottom of the spine of the jacket and a little wrinkling close to the crown. PMM 423. From the moment of publication to the current day, it’s difcult to overstate the impact Keynes and his General Theory has had on the feld of macroeconomics. “The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade cycle … [h]e subjected the defnitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM). Controversial and divisive, it was received with enthusiasm by some and dismissed as a recipe for infation by others. Put briefy, his analysis demonstrated that “[e]conomic policy should [ultimately] provide for the management of demand as a means of controlling the level of output and seek to ensure the fullest possible use of available resources” (ODNB). Keynes’s General Theory provides an invaluable critique and thus is a sort of companion volume of the likes of Adam Smith. Indeed, this and The Wealth of Nations should be considered the two pillars of any serious collection of books on economics. $14,000

36 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 57] Carrie. Screenplay … adapted from the novel by Steven King. Revised First Draft (Stephen KING) D. Lawrence COHEN Mimeographed typescript. Ff. [1], [1]-5, 5A, 5B, 6-107. 4to. A Paul Monash Production, [1976]. Grey card wrappers bound with brads. Superfcial exterior soiling, else fne. In custom half morocco slipcase and inner chemise. The uncommon screenplay for the flm of Stephen King’s frst novel, published by Doubleday in 1974. Directed by Brian De Palma, the flm proved a box ofce success, established the reputations of King and De Palma, and made a star of Sissy Spacek. Carrie was also the screen debut of John Travolta, Nancy Allen, Amy Irving, and William Katt. Provenance: Colleen Dewhurst & George C. Scott Estate. $1,500

58] Sex MADONNA, with Glenn O’BRIEN Photography by Stephen Meisel, with the art direction by Fabien Baron. Edited by Glenn O’Brien. 4to. New York: Warner Books, October 1992. First edition. Spiral bound, aluminum stamped and die cut sheets. Fine condition, opened in original pictorial mylar envelope. “Sex is not love. Love is not sex” Sex was published at the beginning of the second phase of Madonna’s career. The frst fnished with the release of 1990’s Immaculate Collection and this book was published around the same time as the establishment of her Maverick production company and the culmination of the Blond Ambition tour. According to BookFinder.com’s annual survey, Sex remains the most highly sought-for out-of-print book. This copy includes the “Erotica” CD in its sealed mylar envelope. $500

Catalogue 130 | 37 59] Principles of Political Economy T[homas] R[obert] MALTHUS vi, 601 pp. 8vo. London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Bound in later half cloth and marbled boards, paper label. Very good. Goldsmith 22767; Lowndes, 1459; Kress C577. First edition of this important classic of economic theory. “There can be no doubt that [Malthus’] importance for economists today rests mainly on his Principles of Political Economy. It was because of this latter work that J. M. Keynes (1933) reinstated Malthus as a major fgure in modern economic thought” (New Palgrave). “One of the founders of modern economics,” Malthus was credited by Keynes with framing the theory “that a lack of efective demand can cause economic crises” (PMM 251). “In his Principles of Political Economy, Malthus was proposing investment in public works and private luxury as a means of increasing efective demand, and hence as a palliative to economic distress. The nation, he thought, must balance the power to produce and the will to consume” (DSB IX:70). $3,500

60] An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas MALTHUS 3 vols. 8vo (9 x 5-¾ inches). London: Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul’s Church Yard, by T. Bensley, 1807. Fourth edition, with half-title in each volume. Original blue boards, modern simple tan calf spines, completely uncut. Signed on each front pastedown “Josh. Martin, 23 Old Buildgs. Lincoln’s Inn, Decr. 16 1809.” PMM 251 (frst edition); Kress 5219. In Boards, Uncut [With:] Additions to the Fourth and Former editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population, &c. &c. Bound in full mottled calf. Very good. Kress B.6973; Goldsmith 21762. Issued in conformity with, but separately from, the ffth edition - the penultimate edition before the sixth and fnal one in his lifetime. Malthus is as controversial as he is infuential. “The central idea of the essay … was a simple one. The population of a community … increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufcient and the size of the population is checked by ‘misery’” (PMM). $2,500

38 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 61] [Quotations from Chairman Mao or the Little Red Book] MAO ZEDONG Portrait frontispiece. [iv], 250 pp. 12mo. General Political Department of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, [1964]. First edition. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled, but a very good copy. Schiller, Quotations of Chairman Mao, Grolier Club, 2014, p. 3. THE FIRST EDITION of mao’s little red book 720 million copies of Mao’s Little Red Book were printed over a four-year period beginning in 1964 — only the Bible has a larger print run. The frst edition was published in wrappers rather than the famous red vinyl covers and is distinguished by its size — fve inches tall which was later reduced to four — and has thirty rather than the thirty-three chapters of later editions. “Its idea was originally conceived by Lin Bao (1907-71) as a book of inspirational reading … For several years Lin promoted a campaign that everyone should study Chairman Mao’s thoughts, and the PLA [People’s Liberation Army] newspaper printed daily extracts from his selected texts that often formed topics for evening discussion groups” (Schiller). There were several proto-type versions issued in small numbers before this edition went to press with a preface dated May 1964. $3,000

62] Of Human Bondage Somerset MAUGHAM 8vo. New York: Doran, [1915]. First edition, frst issue with misprint on line 4 of page 257. Green cloth. Fine. Rothschild V, 83; Stott A21a. Maugham’s best-known, and loosely autobiographical novel, was initially poorly reviewed. The novel follows the tortuous relationship between Philip Carey, a failed artist studying medicine, and a waitress, Mildred. It was only through the praise of Theodore Dreiser that it has rightfully been recognised as a masterpiece and never been out of print. $1,000

Catalogue 130 | 39 63] Outer Dark Cormac McCARTHY 242, [1] pp. 8vo. New York: Random House, [1968]. First edition. Blue cloth and black paper over boards. Fine in almost fne clipped dust-jacket marked “9/68” with some rubbing at head and tail of spine. McCarthy’s second novel, set in the South at the turn of the twentieth century. Outer Dark is a chilling tale of incest and appalling violence; it follows a brother and sister who set out on separate journeys after the abandonment of the child they conceived together. It was with these early novels, The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark, that McCarthy honed his rich, apocalyptic language. $1,500

64] Complete set of frst editions of the Pooh books A.A. MILNE Comprising When We Were Very Young (1924); Winnie-the-Pooh (1926); Now We Are Six (1927); The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Illustrated by E.H. Shephard. 4 vols. 8vo. London: Methuen, 1924-1928. First editions. When We were Very Young is the second issue with page ix numbered. Publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. Light shelfwear to covers, some fraying to spine ends and tips of Winnie the Pooh, all but When We Were Very Young in original illustrated dust-jackets (spines darkened, some chipping and wear, closed tear to front panel of Winnie-the-Pooh, rear panel separated on The House at Pooh Corner), contemporary owner’s signature on fep of When We Were Very Young. In custom blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. Payne I.A-IV.A. Cutler & Stiles, 115-16. Winnie-the-Pooh and his pals - Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, Tigger and Owl - and their adventures in Hundred Acre Wood (100 Aker Wood) have amused adults and children alike since they were frst published. Milne attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an active contributor to, and editor of, the student magazine Granta. Upon graduation, he joined Punch Magazine and published plays, screenplays, poems and 18 novels. However, it is for the work written for his son Christopher Milne, and illustrated by E.H. Shepard, that his fames endures. $7,500

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65] Original printing plates for a double-page illustration in The Silver Princess in Oz John R. NEILL Two engraved zinc plates, each 9-¼ x 7 in. Reilly & Britton, 1913. Fine, housed in a custom half green morocco clam-shell box. A gorgeous image from The Silver Princess in Oz. Originally created by L. Frank Baum, the Oz series was continued after his death by Ruth Plumly Thompson (as here) and long-time illustrator John R. Neill. This was the thirty-second installment of the Oz series. Lyman Frank Baum’s tales of the land of Oz and the colorful characters inhabiting such a magical place have touched the lives of children and adults since its conception in 1900 with his frst Oz book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Following The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum and illustrator Wallace Denslow had a falling-out, which subsequently required a new illustrator for Baum’s 12 sequels. John R. Neill was hired in his place and illustrated the remaining books of the series, along the way earning the distinction as one of the greatest American illustrators of children’s literature. The illustrations were a charming complement to the series and gave a visual identity to the characters that led them to become widely recognizable staples of American literature. Since December 2013, it was believed that the entire set of original printing plates for the Oz books were destroyed either by the World War II scrap metal drives or thrown away when Henry Regnery purchased the publishing house The Reilly & Lee Co. (formerly Reilly & Britton). However, a signifcant number of John R. Neill’s designed zinc plates were discovered as part of Richard Manney’s collection of rare books, making this the only collection of Oz plates believed to be extant. On discovery of this collection, James Cummins Bookseller and Lou Weinstein purchased and professionally set each plate in an emerald green display box with a proof professionally pulled of of each plate. The majority of the zinc plates held in the collection are of Neill’s illustrations of Baum’s seventh book of the series, The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913). Forty-fve plates are available for purchase, thirty-seven individual page plates and eight double-page. Each is housed in a custom morocco clam-shell box, includes a same size proof of the plate itself, and a signed copy of Michael Patrick Hearn’s essay, John R. Neill: Imperial Illustrator of Oz. (Printed by the Ascensius Press in a limited edition) . $3,500

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Catalogue 130 | 41 66] 67] La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of The Knave of Hearts Dante Alighieri in Italian and English (Maxfeld PARRISH) Louise SAUNDERS (NONESUCH PRESS) DANTE Pictures by Maxfeld Parrish. Folio. New York: Charles The Italian text edited by Mario Casella … with the English Scribner’s Sons, 1925. First edition. Original black cloth, version of H.F. Cary. 42 illustrations after the drawings of pictorial paper onlay to upper board. Faint rubbing at head Sandro Botticelli. 324, [325-328] pp. Folio. [London]: Nonesuch of spine, two minor scufs to paper onlay, else a fne, brighter Press, 1928. No. 839 of 1,475 copies. Original full orange- than usual copy. In custom half morocco slipcase with stained vellum, double gilt rule borders on upper and lower chemise. Ludwig, Maxfeld Parrish, p. 48. cover. Central gilt ornament on both covers, spine with gilt A lavishly illustrated work, characteristic of Parrish’s style. rules, t.e.g. Some very minor soiling to spine, a fne copy in Parrish executed the twenty-six paintings for The Knave custom cloth slipcase. McKitterick 50; Dreyfus 50. of Hearts “within three years, and the book, a sumptuous Botticelli’s drawings for Dante had never been reproduced production, was published on October 2, 1925. The large with the text of the Divine Comedy. They were printed format … that Parrish had originally suggested was used, in collotype in sepia by Daniel Jacomet in Paris and the 34 and the illustrations, printed in rich colors on heavy, coated double-page plates were carefully mounted on stubs so there paper, were the highest-quality reproductions that could be could be no loss of the image in the gutter. had” (Ludwig). The Nonesuch Press was founded by Francis Meynell, his $3,850 wife, Vera, and David Garnett in 1922 where it operated out of the basement of Garnett’s bookshop in Soho. They published over 140 books through to the 1960s, although their most productive period - when this edition of Dante was printed — was during the 1920s and 30s. $1,750

42 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 68] A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by his Majesty’s Command 1773 Constantine John PHIPPS, later Baron Mulgrave 3 folding maps, 12 folding views and diagrams and 11 letterpress folding tables. viii, 253, [2] pp. 4to (284 x 223 mm). London: Printed by W. Boyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. First edition, special issue with the maps on thin paper and the plates proofs before letters. Contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco label, spine gilt, edges blue. Frontispiece map loose, small tear neatly repaired without loss. A beautiful copy. Hill, p. 207; Sabin 62572; NMM 805; Lande Supplement S 1788. Provenance: Mrs. Howe (presentation inscription); with Westport House (County, Mayo, Ireland) bookplate Case E Shelf 3; bookplate of Marvyn Carton. Inscribed to the Honorable Mrs. Richard Howe The Phipps-Lutwidge expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass was to try and determine how far navigation towards the North Pole was possible. They sailed as far north as 80°48°N and journeyed along the ice barrier from Spitsbergen to Novaya Zemlya without fnding further northern passage through the ice. While not attaining as much as they had hoped, Phipps did include important details of Spitsberg’s natural history and resources. It is an “important addition to early nautical science” (Hill). Horatio Nelson, at fourteen, was Captain Lutwidge’s coxswain on the Carcass during this voyage. Nelson and another slipped out one night to shoot a bear for the skin — Nelson wanted to give it to his father — they ran out of ammunition and were only rescued from their difculties when the Carcass fred its gun and scared the bear away. Richard Westall’s painting of Nelson attacking the bear is in the National Maritime Museum. A superb contemporary binding, with a signifcant presentation, inscribed on the half-title, “To the Honble Mrs. Howe, from her obedient servant, The Author.” Mrs. Howe was the wife of Richard Howe, British naval ofcer and politician. Westport, the Howe residence, is one of the great houses of western Ireland. Howe, whose ship the Dunkirk fred the frst shots of the Seven Years’ War, was MP for Dartmouth for 30 years, and in the late 1760s a member of the Board of Admiralty (hence the connection with Phipps, whose uncle Augustus Hervey was also a member). The early period of the “American War of Independence when Howe was commander- in-chief in North America, was then and is still the most controversial of his long career. For most of his command his younger brother Major-General Sir William Howe commanded the army in the colonies. Much has been written of their combined approach to hostilities, torn between conciliation and aggression, and the extent to which they exceeded or ignored instructions” (DNB). Phipps was later a member of the Admiralty board and a key adviser to Sandwich in the unsuccessful British strategy to retain the American colonies. A beautiful copy. $12,500

Catalogue 130 | 43 70] Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains (POKER) [James HILDRETH] 288 pp. 8vo. New York: Wiley & Long, No. 161 Broadway. D. Fanshaw, Printer, 1836. First edition. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gold. Faded, some spotting to text, very 69] good plus. Ownership signature of A.T. Edwards and 1840s label of “E.C.” Fraternity, Franklin, N.Y. on front pastedown. The Complete Poker-Player All In 56; The Doctrine of Chances: Probabilistic Aspects (POKER) John BLACKBRIDGE of Gambling Note 22.5; Howes H471; cf. Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, letter 37. x, [11]-142, [2, catalogue] pp. 12mo. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, (1880). Second edition, later printing. THE FIRST PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF A POKER GAME Publisher’s green cloth with gilt-stamped title and illustration The frst book ever to mention a poker game, in print, in of hand holding four aces. Some light surface scufng to English. front cover, else a fne copy with bright gilt. Jessel 122; Horr Hildreth’s regiment was sent from Jeferson Barracks to 167; All In 13. Fort Gibson in the Arkansas Territory, and among the party One of the Earliest Poker Manuals on the march from Fort Gibson to a Pawnee village was A fne copy of the second edition of this foundational work the “eminent artist” George Catlin, one of whose letters on poker. The rare frst edition of 1875 — with only one copy Hildreth prints as Letter XIV (corresponding to letter No. located on OCLC — is, along with Winterblossom’s The 37 in Catlin’s Letters and Notes, 1841). Letter XV, entitled Game of Draw Poker, the earliest published work dedicated Two stories and a half, recounts the poker game (at pp. 128- solely to poker. Blackbridge attempts to legitimize poker, 130). While sneaking out to buy an illicit quart of whiskey, and gambling and gaming in general, harmonizing it with Hildreth witnesses a poker game, whose players included Christian values and drawing comparisons to generally Major and the Captain of the regiment. respected professions that trade in risk, such as that of “The M[ajor] lost some cool hundreds last night at poker* banker and insurance provider. Beyond the moralizing tone, [footnote: ‘A favorite game of cards at the south and west’], Blackbridge’s work provides a technical and probabilistic in camp … at last he struck his fst upon the table and roared discussion of the game, and includes a section on at the top of his voice, ‘I’ll stake you another hundred.’ “Probabilities at Draw-Poker” by Dr. Pole. The rules printed ‘Done,’ said the Captain. The M[ajor] dared not risk more, in Chapter XIX are adapted from The American Hoyle. A and throwing down his cards exclaimed, ‘There’s four kings! third edition was published by Dick & Fitzgerald in 1884. What have you got?’ ‘Only four aces!’” (George Catlin must already have folded.) $1,850 $3,500

44 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 71] The Compleat Angler (Arthur RACKHAM) Izaac WALTON Illustrated title-page in green and black, 12 colored plates, numerous black and white illustrations in text, pictorial endpapers by Rackham. 4to. London: George G. Harrap, [1931]. First Rackham edition, one of 775 numbered and signed by Rackham. Full white parchment, lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g., fore- and lower edges uncut. Fine copy in custom cloth slipcase. Latimore and Haskell, p. 66; Coigney 312. A Superb Copy of Rackham’s ‘Angler’ Of all the Rackham books, one of the most delightful and sought after, and a gem for any Walton collector. Rackham was a key fgure in the Golden Age of Birish book illustration. This is a much nicer copy than ordinarily encountered. $2,500

72] The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations Arthur RACKHAM 8 color plates, and numerous illustrations in the text, some full page. 8vo. London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1933]. First edition. One of 460 copies signed. Original vellum. Spine slightly darkened. In original slipcase, worn and split. Latimore and Haskell, p. 69. Derek Hudon, Arthur Rackham, p. 134. Riall, p. 182. $2,500

Catalogue 130 | 45 73] Addresses of the President of the United States on the Occasion of His Visit to South America, November & December 1936 Franklin D. ROOSEVELT 97, [3] pp. 4to. [Washington, D.C.]: United States Printing Ofce, 1937. First edition, one of 75 (but probably one of only 7 in this binding). Bound in full light bown pigskin, with metallic plaque of the Seal of the United States inset into the upper cover, now with a fne patina, pigskin doublures and silk endpapers. Fine. In quarter leather and marbled boards pull-of slipcase. A sumptously produced White House Christmas book, commemorating FDR’s nearly month-long diplomatic mission to promote “hemispheric solidarity” with South America. The book was issued in an uncertain, though undoubtedly strictly limited, number, with two issues — in full pigskin, as seen here, and half pigskin and marbled boards. The colophon calls for 75 copies, with the more desirable full pigskin binding scheduled to run to 50 copies for distribution to South American dignitaries and the half-leather issue of a planned 25 copies reserved for FDR’s personal use and distribution at the holidays. Documents at the Library at Hyde Park suggest that the full edition of 75 copies was not achieved (cf. Horowitz, “Carmichael Collection”) and that as few as seven were ever bound in full pigskin. This copy, one of the “foreign” issues, was nonetheless INSCRIBED to FDR’s Sectretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau on a specially printed leaf: “To the Honorable Henry Morgenthau, Jr Secretary of the Treasury of the United States” (printed) and inscribed below in the President’s hand, “From his old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt.” $20,000

46 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 74] Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States. Delivered at the Capital, Washington, D.C. March 4, 1933 Franklin D. ROOSEVELT 9 pp. Small 4to (7 x 10 in.), Washington, D.C: Government Printing Ofce, 1933. Advance copy, printed on large paper. “Only a very few copies of the address were published in this format” (Halter). Bound in full blue cloth by the GPO. Signed on the fep by Eleanor [Hall] R[oosevelt] Roach (Mrs. George Roach, daughter of G. Hall Roosevelt). ONLY COPY SEEN IN CLOTH. In a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Halter T544. FIRST INAUGURAL: “The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself.” SIGNED. ONLY COPY IN CLOTH An advance copy of FDR’s frst inaugural address printed on large paper, likely issued just the day before his swearing-in, and intended as a reading copy. FDR’s 20-minute speech, delivered on March 4, 1933 and broadcast to the nation over radio, was eagerly awaited by an electorate in the grips of the Great Depression. FDR had intended to read his address from a printed advance copy — at the last minute he changed his mind and instead read from his typescript which he had corrected in his own hand (cf. Halter). All subsequent printed copies incorporate FDR’s changes, making this advance copy bibliographically signifcant, as well as rare — only one copy of the address has appeared at auction in the last 30 years. FDR opens the address with his immortal pep talk, “So, frst of all, let me assert my frm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustifed terror which paralyzes needed eforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.” Roosevelt goes on to place the blame for the economic crisis on the greed of bankers and businessmen who have placed proft over their social duties, “The money changers have fed from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary proft.” With unemployment at 25% at the time of his inauguration, FDR addresses the pressing need to get people back to work. He ends with a promise to use the full extent of his powers as President, a foreshadowing of the remarkable series of New Deal programs unveiled during his frst 100 days in ofce, “I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” An incredibly important piece of Presidential Americana, marking the start of one of the nation’s greatest presidencies and the country’s rise from the depths of the Great Depression. $22,500

Catalogue 130 | 47 75] Abraham Lincoln: The War Years Carl SANDBURG Illustrated with 414 half-tones from photographs and 249 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. 4 vols. Large, thick 8vo. Harcourt, Brace, [1939]. First edition, one of 525 copies on rag paper, numbered and signed by the author. Gilt buckram, leather spine labels, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Bookplate in each volume on front pastedown, pencil erasure from corner of each free endsheet, a few minor scufs to labels, but a very good or better set, without slipcases. The Pulitzer Prize-winning sequel to The Prarie Years In his long and distinguished career as a historian and poet, Sandburg won three Pulitzer Prizes, in 1919, 1940 and 1951. He also received the Robert Frost medal in 1952 and a Grammy for Best Performance in the Documentary or Spoken Word category in 1959. $1,750

76] Seabiscuit. The Story of a Great Champion (SEABISCUIT) B.K. BECKWITH Color frontispiece of Seabiscuit from a painting by F.B. Voss. Drawings by Howard Brodie. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Oblong 4to. Wilfred Crowell, Inc, 1940. First edition, no. 121 of 300 copies. Padded red morocco, some wear. With the gold-stamped name of owner James R. Fitzsimmons (undoubtedly James E. “Sunny Fitz” Fitzsimmons, famous horse trainer). Seabiscuit trainer SUNNY FITZ’S COPY Signed by Charles Stewart Howard at the bottom of his short introduction, for presentation to the friends, family and business associates of Charles Howard, the owner of Seabiscuit. From the library of “Sunny Fitz” (James E. Fitzsimmons), Seabiscuit’s frst trainer. Seabiscuit was a champion thoroughbred racehorse, whose success through the Great Depression years was an inspiration for America. $2,500

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[77] [78] ‘Good Deed’ ‘Mall Directory’ Jerry SEINFELD Jerry SEINFELD 1 pp. manuscript on yellow legal paper. [1991]. 1 pp. manuscript on yellow legal paper, [1991]. Manuscript Draft of Seinfeld Monologue Manuscript Draft of Seinfeld Monologue Jerry’s fnal monologue to The Cafe episode (season 3, Jerry’s opening monologue to The Parking Garage episode episode 7). A working copy with numerous corrections. (season 3, episode 6). A working copy with corrections. “Good Deed. It’s not a simple thing to do a good deed. “Have those Mall directory maps ever helped you fnd You look at your professional good-deed doers: Your Lone anything? Even if you can fgure out where you are and Rangers, your Supermen. Masks over their faces, costumes, where you want to go you still can’t fgure out which way to secret identities. They don’t want people to know who they walk. What you need are suction cup feet so you can stand are. Too much aggravation. ‘Yea, Superman I appreciate you right on the face of the thing. And then you could fgure out saving me and everything but did you have to break through which way you want to head. ‘The GAP is this way.’ my wall? I’m renting here. They’ve got a security deposit. “And they always have that little thing, ‘you are here.’ What am I supposed to do?’” “I always think when you walk away it switches to ‘you are $2,750 gone.’ “You go past again ‘you are back.’ “Two weeks later ‘where have you been?’” $2,750

Catalogue 130 | 49 [79] Manuscript in Jerry Seinfeld’s hand for the episode The Pez Dispenser Jerry SEINFELD [Season 3, Episode 14; series episode 30; air date January 15, 1992]. 42 pp. rectos only. On yellow ruled legal folio, corrections throughout, paginated in pen and again in black marker “1-42” at upper left with insertions on verso of three sheets, bound with paperclips into four groups, horizontal folding crease at center, some wrinkling. Full Draft for The Pez Dispenser Episode in Jerry Seinfeld’s Hand The hand-written script by Seinfeld is for the beloved Pez Dispenser episode, in which Elaine ruins the piano concert of George’s girlfriend by bursting into laughter when Jerry places a Pez dispenser in her lap. It is also the episode in which Kramer joins the polar bear club, creates a brand of cologne called “The Beach” and everyone participates in an intervention for a former softball team-mate who was traumatized by Kramer’s suggestion during their fnal game. Although the writing of the episode is credited to both Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, this is an early (frst?) draft attempt by Seinfeld. It includes substantial amounts of dialogue that were omitted in subsequent drafts. There are also many revisions, crossing outs, insertions and the like – all typical of a working draft and all in Seinfed’s hand. The episode aired on January 15, 1992. Seinfeld is routinely regarded as one of the best television series ever produced. During its frst run it was awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Comendy series in 1993, it received the Golden Globe Award for Best TV-series (comedy) in 1994 and in 1995, 1997 and 1998 it won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Since it fnished production, TV Guide awarded it the greatest TV show of all time in both 2002 and 2013. Original Seinfeld material is scarce on the open market. Furthermore, we have not been able to locate any manuscript drafts such as this. $25,000

50 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 [80] Autograph Draft, signed, of a letter to George Burns Jerry SEINFELD 2 pp. First page on small yellow legal paper. Second on Seinfeld’s personal stationary. n.d. “Dear George, You have always been an idol and role model for me. We met a few times at restaurants and shows. The frst time was at the Concord Hotel in the late seventies. I snuck backstage after your show and said hello. I had only been doing comedy a few years at the time. I’ve sent you a birthday card every year since then and have been looking forward to celebrating this birthday of yours even though we don’t actually know each other. I’m sorry you’re not feeling well today but just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and let you know how much I admire your work and how you’ve lived. You will always be one of my favorite people. With great afection. Jerry Seinfeld.” $4,000

Catalogue 130 | 51 81] Where the Wild Things Are Maurice SENDAK Oblong 4to. New York: Harpers, 1963. First edition, in second issue dust-jacket. Publisher’s cloth-backed boards. Light sunning and shelfwear to covers, in very good second issue dust-jacket (priced $3.50, with Caldecott gold medallion and reviews on front inner fap, dated 40-80 1163), browned, chips and wear to edges, small hole to front panel. Hanrahan A58, note 2. Signed by Sendak on the half-title Although it won the 1964 Caldecott medal, the book gained popularity slowly. This beloved children’s classic, featuring Max, a wolf-suit and an island full of monsters has sold nearly 20 million copies since and was recently flmed by Spike Jonz with a script by Dave Eggers. $2,500

‘Let the wild rumpus start!’

82] The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Dr. SEUSS (pseud. of Theodor Seuss Geisel) Illustrated by the author. 61, [2] pp. 8-⅞ x 6-⅜ in. New York: Beginner Books, 1958. First edition. Original pictorial boards. Fine copy in a very good plus frst issue dust-jacket (matching the upper cover of binding, Cat’s tie white, etc.) with light edgewear, creasing, and chipping to extremities. Younger & Hirsch 11. “He plays lots of bad tricks. Don’t you let him come near. You know what he did the last time he was here.” A lovely copy of this Dr. Seuss classic. Sally and her brother are left at home with a single task to complete — clearing the path of snow. But the cat in the hat has other ideas. $750

52 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 83] The Sneetches and Other Stories Dr. SEUSS (pseud. of Theodore Seuss Geisel) Illustrated by the author. 11-¼ x 8-¼ in. New York: Random House, [1961]. First edition, frst printing. Original pictorial glossy boards. A near fne copy (faintest trace of rubbing at extremities) in very good, bright frst issue dust-jacket (295/295 on front fap, correct ads on rear fap), with small chip from head and foot of spine, creasing mostly to rear panel, small nick at lower edge of upper panel. Younger & Hirsch 73. Star-Bellied vs Plain-Bellied In addition to the title story, this work contains “The Zax,” “Too Many Daves,” and “What Was I Scared Of ?” The Sneetches is Seuss’s ever-popular tale satirising discrimination and anti-semitism in particular. As the Sneetches go to inordinate lengths to establish whether they might be star-bellied or plain-bellied, it turns out you can teach a sneetch. $750

84] Through the Dark Continent Or The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean Henry M. STANLEY With 10 maps and 150 woodcuts. With map in pocket at back of each volume which together form a detailed map of Equatorial Africa (82 x 128 cm). 2 vols. Thick 8vo. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1878. First American edition (same year as frst). Original green decorated cloth, stamped in gilt and red. Extremities slightly rubbed. Vol. I slightly bowed, with hinges starting and a few gatherings loosened, lower inner hinge of vol. II starting. Map of Western Half of Equatorial Africa repaired with archival tape. Generally bright copies. Howgego IV, S59. Stanley’s marvellous retelling of his expedition which fnally solved the riddle of the Great African Lakes. It was on this expedition that he at last confrmed that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile. He also followed the course of the Congo River to the Atlantic coast. The journey was one of terrible hardship and when Stanley returned his face was deeply lined and his hair nearly white. A cornerstone of African exploration. $750

Catalogue 130 | 53 85] Autograph Note, signed Henry M. STANLEY Manuscript in ink. 4-¾ x 3 inches. Aden: 7 June 1879. Laid down on thick gray card. Signed in Aden This autograph patriotic sentiment reads: “God bless our country, Aden Arabia, June 7th 1879. Henry M Stanley.” Written while Stanley was en route to Africa for his third expedition, seven years after he gained international fame in locating Livingstone. Stanley’s objective was to establish a series of stations along the Congo to promote commerce, and, tacitly, the colonial agenda of King Leopold II of Belgium. Stanley recounted the fve-year-long trip in The Congo and the Founding of its Free State (1885). $500

86] Original drawing for a New Yorker magazine cartoon, pen and wash William STEIG Pen and ink and wash, signed “Wm. Steig” (lower left). 7 x 6 in. [New York]: Ca. 1940s. Matted and framed. Fine. A husband seated on his bed of nails imperiously summons his stubborn wife to join him on hers. “William Steig is the doyen of New Yorker artists, having contributed to the magazine since 1930. He is the author of more than forty books, including many beloved children’s books. His drawings and watercolors are in the permanent collections of numerous museums …” (The New Yorker, Dec. 15, 1997). This is a vintage example of the work of one of the magazine’s most beloved artists, whose popularity has never waned. $2,500

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87] 88] The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men John STEINBECK John STEINBECK 619 pp. 8vo, New York: The Viking Press, [1939]. First edition. 186 pp. 8vo. New York: Covici-Friede, [1937]. First edition, frst Original cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Fine copy in custom issue, with the nine words present on p. 9 and with “bullet” morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Goldstone & Payne on page 88. Publisher’s beige cloth. Near fne, with just a A12a. touch of toning at head of spine. In a near fne, unclipped Very attractive copy of this 20th-century American highspot. dust-jacket, with sunning to spine and light wear to head of spine. Goldstone and Payne A7a. The tale of the Joad family as they travel across the country from Oklahoma to California in the midst of the Great Loosely based on Steinbeck’s own experiences, the story of Depression is one of the most infuential novels of the George and Lenny, itinerant workers in California, ranks twentieth century. It is Steinbeck’s masterpiece. alongside The Grapes of Wrath as Steinbeck’s two landmark works of the Great Depression. The frst edition was a small The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the run of 2,500 copies. By the time the frst British edition Pulitzer and was central in the awarding of Steinbeck the appeared (in the same year) over 137,000 copies had been sold. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. $3,000 $10,000

Catalogue 130 | 55 89] The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis STEVENSON Design and layout by Didier Mutel. 10 engraved plates. 114 pp. Oblong folio. Paris: Ateliers Leblanc, December 4, 1994. Colophon on the spine, no. 47 of 61 copies, signed. Original paper wrappers and cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy of Stevenson’s classic tale. Didier Mutel has been producing artist’s books since 1991. This is an excellent example. $1,500

90] Raoul Dufy. A Note Wallace STEVENS [4] pp. Oblong 4to. [New York: Pierre Bères, 1953]. First edition, no. 6 of 200 copies on handmade Arnold paper printed by the Ram Press. Publisher’s blue printed wrappers. Some light edgewear and toning, small tape-repaired tear on verso of front wrapper. Edelstein A20. A short essay by Wallace Stevens on Dufy’s mural for the electricity pavillion at the 1937 International Exposition at Paris. The essay was commissioned to accompany the portfolio “La Fée Electricité,” a portfolio of Dufy’s lithographic reworking of the mural published by Pierre Bères in 1953. Stevens’s essay was not included in the portfolio and was only printed in the present form. $1,000

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91] Souvenir of the New York Stock Exchange (STOCK MARKET) Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with photographs. Unpaginated, [99] pp. 4to. New York: J.B. Gibson Company, 1893. Full brown morocco over bevelled boards in period style, silk doublures, a.e.g. Professional conservation to a few paper faws, mostly in margins (old dampstain to frst leaves; one leaf with old tear costing a small portion of text); half title and frontispiece inlaid. Fine. Not in OCLC or in any of the customary catalogues and references. UNRECORDED CENTENNIAL HISTORY: ‘A Bulwark against Panic’ Centennial publication comprising a list of ofcers and committee members, a 9-page list of members, an anonymous 30-page illustrated “History of the New York Stock Exchange” from its origins in 1792 (with list of past presidents), with the balance of the volume being illustrated advertisements. These include brokerage frms such as Drexel, Morgan, Spencer Trask, and August Belmont, as well as banks (Manhattan Company, Chemical National Bank, Bank of America) and other companies (such as Manning’s Yacht Agency). The anonymous author of the “History of the New York Stock Exchange” observes, “The New York Stock Exchange is indeed one of the greatest bulwarks against panics that the business community could have.” $6,000

Catalogue 130 | 57 92] The Art of Wave Riding (SURFING) Ron[ald Blake] DRUMMOND 12 photographic illustrations to text. 26 pp. 8vo. Hollywood: The Cloister Press, 1931. First edition. Staple bound, original printed pictorial wrappers. A fne copy. De La Vega, B55; Hayes, Early Surfng Books, pp. 5-6. THE FIRST BOOK ON SURFING “The landmark bodysurfng primer” (De La Vega). Described by Mark Hayes in his checklist of Early Surfng Books as “beyond rare,” this self-published work is widely considered to be the frst book on surfng. It preceded Tom Blake’s Hawaiian Surf board by some four years and its delicate format meant that very few have survived. The Art of Wave Riding is not only instructive but a love-letter to the sport: “[O]ne feels sorry for those who have not learned to enjoy surf swimming,” and “To spend a day in the sand … developing a ‘beautiful tan’ is pleasant; but the real pleasure of a trip to the beach is derived from playing in the breakers.” The bulk of the work is a step by step guide, as well as distinguishing between “glide waves” and “sand busters.” It’s beautifully illustrated with photographs of Venice beach that ably capture the spirit of surf culture in its infancy. Drummond (1907-96) was born in Los Angeles, raised in Hollywood, and spent his summers on Hermosa Beach. It was here that he frst learned to surf, and began to experiment with taking his canoe into the waves. He became a legend in surfng circles, appearing in the 1961 surfng classic Big Wednesday, and he was featured in a 1967 issue of Surfer magazine. He attended UCLA and ran on the track team, though surfng was his frst love and he continued this pursuit into his eighties. Surfng was frst reported by members of Cook’s third voyage when arriving in Hawaii in 1779. It has since become a vital part of beach culture in the Pacifc. $3,250

93] Thurber’s Dogs James THURBER Illustrated by James Thurber. 8vo. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Original cloth-backed boards, original illustrated dust-jacket. Fine. Inscribed “Happy Days James Thurber.” A wonderful example of Thurber’s work. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, Thurber was an American cartoonist, author and playwright. He is perhaps best known for his short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. $2,000

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94] La Sainte Bible (Ancien Testament) (James TISSOT) 40 plates, each in two states (sepia and color), captioned tissue guards, 360 illustrations to text, by James Tissot. 2 vols. Folio. Paris: M. de Brunof & Cie, 1904. No. 158 of 500 copies (of 560) on Marais grand vélin with plates in two states. Loose as issued, housed in a modern cloth portfolio. Tape-repaired tears to margins of vol. I title-page and following few leaves, small, discreet embossed library stamp to vol. II half-title, large tape-repaired tear across corner of vol. II pp. 247-8, afecting text, some tears along gathering folds throughout. The masterpiece of Tissot’s late career, following a revival of his Catholic faith in 1885. Tissot traveled extensively in the Middle East to study and prepare for his Biblical illustrations. He frst produced a series of watercolors on the life of Christ before turning to the stories of the Old Testament. Tissot died in 1902, and this work was completed by his six assistants. $2,250

Catalogue 130 | 59 95] “Updike the Writer” John UPDIKE Original self-portrait drawing in purple magic marker, initialed “j.u.” by Updike, 10 x 8 inches. Faint toning to one edge, else fne. After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard (1954), Updike studied art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford. This early self-portrait shows Updike’s competence as a visual artist and remind us of Updike’s early fascination with both the stories and the cartoons of the New Yorker magazine. A handsome portrait of an American literary giant. $950

96] Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest John UPDIKE 4 vols. 8vo. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960, 1971, 1981, 1990. First editions. Publisher’s cloth. Rabbit, Run has some rubbing to upper board, and some light shelf-wear and creasing to dust- jacket (frst state, with 16-line blurb on front fap). Others fne, in fne dust-jackets. A complete frst edition set of the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy. This is Updike’s most famous work and follows Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom from early adulthood to his death. While doing so Updike provides a fascinating commentary on America in the second half of the twentieth century. The fnal two novels in the series both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. $1,500

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97] 98] Jumanji The Polar Express Chris VAN ALLSBURG Chris VAN ALLSBURG Full-page color illustrations by the author. [31], [1, blank] Full page colour illustrations by the author. Oblong 4to. pp. Oblong 4to. Boston: Houghton Mifin Company, 1981. Boston: Houghton Mifin Company, [1985]. First edition. First edition. Green cloth blocked in gold. Fine in very good Crimson cloth blocked in silver. Fine in very good unclipped unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, with a closed tear and some dust-jacket, front panel and spine faded. edgewear to rear panel. A Caldecott award winner and New York Times bestseller. This Caldecott Award winner was later adapted to a flm The story of a young boy who takes the train to the North starring Robin Williams. Pole and meets Santa and his elves. This classic Christmas tale has enchanted children for the last 30 years. $450 $300

“Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe”

Catalogue 130 | 61 99] Cat’s Cradle Kurt VONNEGUT Jr [iv], 233, [1] pp. 8vo. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth and blue paper boards. Near fne in lightly rubbed and worn dust-jacket, lower third of front jacket panel with two closed tears and creases. One of Vonnegut’s most beloved novels, ranking alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions. This was Vonnegut’s fourth novel and concerns the development of ice-nine, a substance that turns water into a solid at room temperature. Although addressing concerns of technology, it’s perhaps better known as a satire of religion. Entirely in keeping with the novel’s spirit, The University of Chicago, which had rejected Vonnegut’s 1947 thesis for a Masters of Anthropology, accepted this work for the degree in 1971. It was also nominated for the 1964 Hugo award for best novel. $2,250

100] Base-Ball: How to Become a Player; With the Origin, History, and Expansion of the Game John Montgomery WARD Frontispiece portrait. viii, [9]-149 pp. 12mo. Philadelphia: The Athletic Publishing Company No. 1124 Arch Street, 1888. First edition. Original tan cloth, stamped in gold and black. Fine. With contemporary inscription “Beverley & Sherman Robinson Newport August-1888”; in brown morocco-backed drop box. Smith 7017 (dated 1889). Rare and Important Early Baseball Book “Booklet of history and technique by a noted player and force behind the formation of ‘The Brotherhood.’” (Smith) Ward rose to fame as a pitcher and later played shortstop after sufering an elbow injury. While playing professional baseball he earned a law degree at Columbia which served him well as frst President of the Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players which was the frst players’ Union. A truly remarkable fgure in the early days of baseball. $7,500

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101] Andy Warhol’s Index (Book) Andy WARHOL Profusely illustrated from “Factory Fotos,” and with the following inserted items, as issued 1) castle pop-up 2) red accordion (still squeaks) 3) bi-plane pop-up 4) Chelsea Girls disk on a spring 5) polyhedron, detached from the string 6) Lou Reed record, still attached 7) the triple-page fold-out nose 8) Hunt’s Tomato Paste can pop-up 9) Andy Warhol tabs 10) ballon, melted and partially sealing together facing pages, as usual. 4to. New York: Random House, 1967. First edition, wrappered issue. Original pictorial silver and black wrappers, lightly scratched; with Warhol’s original price sticker still attached; a near fne, complete copy. Roth 101, pp. 188-9; Parr/Badger II, pp. 144-5. “… one of the most important and exuberant Pop art objects ever published” (Parr/Badger). A great jumble-bag of sixties pop-art including much ephemera produced at Warhol’s Factory. Warhol is probably the most famous American artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his paintings of Campbell’s soup cans and images of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor; he also produced a number of books and founded Interview Magazine. Warhol’s infuence on popular culture and art today shows no sign of receding. $1,250

Catalogue 130 | 63 102] 105] Interview Magazine, vol. IX, no. 11. Lacey Interview Magazine, vol. XI, no. 2. Diane Lane Neuhaus by Richard Bernstein. by Richard Bernstein Andy WARHOL WARHOL, Andy Folio. New York: November 1979. Faintly toned, very good. Folio. New York: February 1981. Faintly toned. Very good. Signed by Andy Warhol on cover Inscribed by ANDY Warhol ON COVER Interview Magazine was founded in 1969 by Andy Warhol $1,500 and the British artist, John Wilcock. Featuring articles on art, music, fashion and celebrity, it continues to this day. 106] $1,500 Interview Magazine, vol. XI, no. 8. Mick Jager 103] by Richard Bernstein Interview Magazine, vol. IX, no. 9. Deborah Andy WARHOL Harry by Richard Bernstein Cover portrait of Mick Jagger by Richard Bernstein after photograph by Peter Strongwater. Folio. New York: August Andy WARHOL 1981. Faintly toned. Very good. Folio. New York: June 1979. Toned. About very good. Signed by Andy Warhol on cover Signed by Andy Warhol on cover $1,500 $1,500 107] 104] Interview Magazine, vol. XIV, no. 2. Mick Jager Interview Magazine, vol. X, no. 12. Diana by Richard Bernstein Vreeland by Richard Bernstein Andy WARHOL Andy WARHOL Cover portrait of Mick Jagger by Richard Bernstein after Folio. New York: December 1980. Toned, small loss at top of photograph by Albert Watson. Folio. New York: February cover, faint drink ring at bottom left. Very good. 1985. Faintly toned. Very good plus. Signed by Andy Warhol on cover Inscribed by Warhol & Jagger Inscribed by Andy Warhol on cover in pen “To Whitney, $1,500 Andy Warhol XOX” and signed by Mick Jagger, with a heart pierced by an arrow $2,500

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Catalogue 130 | 65 108] Exploring and Travelling Three Thousand Miles through Brazil from Rio de Janeiro to Maranhão James Williams WELLS 2 folding colored maps (both with some minor creasing, the frst with a repaired tear), 6 uncolored plates and maps, numerous uncolored illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. Philadelphia: [printed in London by Gilbert & Rivington Ltd. for] J.B. Lippincott, 1886. First edition. Original light green cloth, the upper covers elaborately blocked in gilt and brown, spines lettered in gilt, black glazed endpapers (spines somewhat faded and lightly soiled). Provenance: N. W. Lothrop (signatures, dated 23 Oct 1886). A lovely copy of this series of travels through Brazil, including Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Maranhão. Brimming with confdence, Wells states in the preface: “these many years … necessitated residence in all the chief coastal cities north of Rio de Janeiro, and brought me into intimate relations with all phases of life in Brazil.” $450

109] Leaves of Grass [Walt WHITMAN] Tinted frontispiece portrait after Hine by Schof (BAL state 1). iv, 456 pp. 8vo. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860 - 61. Third edition, frst printing. Publisher’s orange pebbled cloth, bevelled covers, covers stamped in blind with title and illustrations of earth and clouds and sunset, spine stamped in gilt with title and butterfy alighting on a hand (BAL binding B). Some light rubbing and soiling to covers, heavy ofsetting at gutter to pp. 404-5, a handsome copy. BAL 21397; Myerson A2.3.a1. the first regularly published edition of leaves of grass The frst printing of the third edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass — BAL records four distinct printings of this edition. This was the frst edition of Whitman’s book to be issued by a publisher. Thayer and Eldrige had approached the poet with a letter, that in part read, “We are young men. We ‘celebrate’ ourselves by acts. Try us. You can do us good. We can do you good — pecuniarily.” $1,500

66 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 110] A Woman of No Importance Oscar WILDE 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 50 large paper copies. Original buckram gilt. Spine and extremities darkened, endleaves with some paste darkening, else fne, in a custom purple half-morocco slipcase and chemise. Mason 365. Provenance: Arthur Chester Rhodes. Large Paper Copy, One of 50 An attractive large paper copy. Wilde’s witty and urbane satire of the English upper class. This was written and produced in 1893 near the height of Wilde’s career, between Salome (1891) and his masterpiece The Importance of Being Ernest (1895). $10,000

111] The Importance of Being Ernest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by the Author of Lady Windermere’s Fan Oscar WILDE Small 4vo. London: Leonard Smithers, 1899. First edition, trade issue. One of 1000 copies (this copy not numbered). Mauve cloth, decorated in gilt. Cloth somewhat soiled and smudged, spine a bit dulled, text block very slightly toned, and spine tips slightly rubbed, but a good, solid copy. Mason 381. Very good copy of Wilde’s most popular and enduring work, one of the crown jewels of the English theater. This comedy of switched identities was frst performed at St. James’s theatre on Valentine’s Day 1895. Just four days later the Marquess of Queensberry dropped of a note at Wilde’s club, the Albemarle, accusing him of somdomy. $3,000

Catalogue 130 | 67 112] Stoner John WILLIAMS [vi], 277, [1] pp. 8vo. New York: The Viking Press, (1965). First edition. Publisher’s brown boards and orange cloth spine. Foxing to textblock edges and endpapers, previous owner’s stamp to fep and bottom edge, in very good, unclipped dust- jacket (light foxing to rear panel, fading to spine, small closed tears) designed by Ellen Raskin. “One of the great forgotten novels of the past century” (Colm Toibin). Scarce frst edition of John Williams’s Stoner, a novel rediscovered by a new generation of readers after its reissue by the New York Review of Books in 2006 and now acknowledged as a masterpiece of twentieth-century fction. $2,250

113] Tennessee Williams Letters to Donald Windham 1940-1965 Tennessee WILLIAMS Edited and with Comments by Donald Windham. xiii, [i], 333, [3]pp. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at Stamperia Valdonega. 8vo. Verona: 1976. First edition, Copy “D” on 26 on blue Fabriano paper, signed by Williams and Windham. Pictorial wrappers, top edge blue, in slipcase. Fine. Crandell A43.1.a. ONE OF 26 signed by williams and windham Windham (1920-2010) collaborated with Williams in 1946 on the play You Touched Me! and the two enjoyed a close friendship for many years. Their relationship had soured by the time Williams published his memoirs in 1975. Windham, who was clearly ofended by Williams book, retaliated by publishing his correspondence with Williams the following year. It contains some of Williams’s most revealing letters. In 1989 Windham published a brutal look at Williams’s later years, Lost Friendships. This deluxe copy signed by both Williams and Windham. $1,650

68 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 114] Three Guineas Virginia WOOLF Illustrated with 5 half-tone plates. 329 pp. 8vo. London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. Original yellow cloth. Spine faintly toned, else fne in near fne dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell (slight toning to spine panel, small marginal chip at head). Kirkpatrick A23. Virginia Woolf’s “novel-essay” was written in response to three enquiries she received: 1. How should war be prevented? 2. Why does the government not support education for women? And 3. Why are women not allowed to engage in professional work? Woolf being Woolf, the book as a whole may be read as a sequel of sorts to A Room of One’s Own. $750

115] The Caine Mutiny. A Novel of World War II Herman WOUK 494 pp. 8vo. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition, frst issue dust-jacket with “The City Boy.” Blue cloth stamped in silver. Fine copy in original dust-jacket (about very good minus, some rubbing and chipping at extremities, repair to verso). Eighty-nine Good Novels of the Sea, p. [15]. Inscribed to the Chief of Naval Psychiatry The classic novel of life at sea during World War II and the stresses of command. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the source for the 1954 flm starring Humphrey Bogart; he was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for his role as Captain Queeg. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to a retired Navy medical ofcer, “For Dr. A.A. Marsteller, with many thanks for your help, Herman Wouk. March 1951.” Marsteller was a career naval ofcer, serving from 1917 to 1950. He was chief of Naval psychiatry in Washington before World War II. During the war he ran hospitals devoted to war neuroses in the Pacifc theater (in New Zealand, the New Hebrides, and California). An evocative association. $3,500

Catalogue 130 | 69 116] Poems W.B. YEATS xi, [i], 285, [3] pp. 8vo. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, trade issue. One of 750 copies printed, in addition to the deluxe issue on vellum, and an unknown number of copies for U.S. distribution. Tan cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt after a design by H.G. Fell, edges untrimmed. Light wear to head of spine, cloth lightly fnger-soiled. Wade 15. A very good copy of Yeat’s frst collected poems, which includes The Wanderings of Usheen, The Countess Cathleen and Land of the Heart’s Desire. He states that “This book includes all the writer cares to preserve out of his previous volumes of verse.” It’s hard to truly summarise Yeats’s signifcance: he ranks not only at the top tier of Irish writers but is regarded as one of the most signifcant twentieth century poets. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize for literature. $2,500

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