JAMES CUMMINS Bookseller Catalogue 130 Holiday 2015
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JAMES Catalogue 130 CUMMINS Holiday 2015 bookseller Give a Unique Gift e’ve curated a selection of books for the discerning, thoughtful gift-giver. WThe books and art chosen for this catalogue were selected to bring joy and delight to both the receiver and the bestower. Within these pages, you will discover the humor of Jerry Seinfeld’s hand- written monologues, the friendship between a playwright convict and Samuel Beckett, and the delicate palette of Warwick Goble’s illustrations lushly bound by Rivière and Son, using varied hues of morocco leather, green silk, and moth- er-of-pearl. If you don’t see what you’re looking for here, our staf would be happy to assist you to fnd the perfect gift. Free worldwide shipping on all catalogue orders All catalogue items are on view at our Madison Avenue gallery 699 Madison Ave, New York, 10065 JAMES tel: (212) 688-6441 CUMMINS fax: (212) 688-6192 jCbookseller.com bookseller [email protected] JAMES CUMMINS bookseller Catalogue 130 Holiday 2015 To place your order, call, write, e-mail or fax: james cummins bookseller 699 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10065 Telephone (212) 688-6441 Fax (212) 688-6192 [email protected] jaMescuMMinsbookseller.coM hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 5:00 Members A.B.A.A., I.L.A.B. front cover: item 10 inside rear cover: item 107 rear cover: item 52 photography by nicole neenan terMs of payMent: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. Holiday 2105 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 2 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 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 4 | James Cummins bookseller Holiday 2105 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.