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1. [Adventure] Billings, Commodore [Joseph]; Sauer, M. [Martin]; Castera, J. Voyage Fait par Ordre de l’Imperatrice de Russie Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russia Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer d’Anadyr, et sur les Cotes de l’Amerique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu’en 1794, in Two Volumes. Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1802. First French translation of the work published in English the same year. Lacks the large atlas volume. xxiv, 385, [1]; 418 pp. 8vo. French text. An account of Commodore Joseph Billings’s expedition in search of a northeast passage on behalf of Catherine the Great $1,250 (1785-1794), which resulted in significant advances in maps of Siberia, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Prince William Sound, etc. Very good. Rebound with new end sheets. Bottom corner torn from last text page in first volume (no loss of text), faintly foxed. 2. [African American History] Cheney, John Vance Memorable American Speeches III: Slavery (The Lakeside Classics Volume 7) The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1909. First thus. 309, [5] pp. Frontispiece of Wendell Phillips, from a photograph by J.W. Black. An early volume from the collectible Lakeside Classic series, collecting four important speeches regarding the discussion of slavery and abolition in 19th century America. Includes four speeches: On the Missouri Question by William Pinkney; On the Philosophy of the Abolition Movement by Wendell Phillips; On the Kansas-Nebraska Bill by Stephen A. $750 Douglas; The Crime against Kansas by Charles Sumner. Near fine.

3. [African American History] Dunbar, Alice Moore; Douglass, Frederick; Washington, Booker T.; Dubois, W.E.B. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the Days of Slavery to the Present Time The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. First edition. 512 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Frederick Douglass. A collection of speeches by African Americans featuring contributions by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, etc. (please visit our website for a full list of contents). Good. Hinges weakening, light $175 stain to top marginal corner of first few pages, boards a bit rubbed. 4. [African American History] Fitzhugh, George Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters A. Morris, Publisher, 1857. First edition. xxiii, [24]-379, [7] pp. 8vo. Howes F-164: “influenced profoundly southern belief in Negro inferiority.” Sabin 24617. “Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and $500 wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only “the new fashionable name for slavery,” though slavery was far more humane and responsible, “the best and most common form of socialism.” His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. “Why all this,” he asked, “except that free society is a failure?” The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, “a presumptuous charlatan,” and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker.” Good. Rebound with new end sheets. Moderately foxed throughout.

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5. [African American History] King, Martin Luther, Jr. Strength to Love Harper & Row, 1963. First edition (stated, with $3.50 price on jacket). x, [2], 146, [2] pp. 8vo. King’s second book, a collection of sermons preaching the value of love and nonviolence, and urging the sort of mutual understanding and respect King spoke about during his speeches as a civil right activist. “”If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.” So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: “I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.’ s philosophy $250 of nonviolence: His belief in a divine, loving presence that binds all life. By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping the transcendent moral ethic of love, we shall overcome these evils.” In these short meditative and sermonic pieces, some of them composed in jails and all of them crafted during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights struggle, Dr. King articulated and espoused in a deeply personal compelling way his commitment to justice and to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual conversion that makes his work as much a blueprint today for Christian discipleship as it was then. Individual readers, as well as church groups and students will find in this work a challenging yet energizing vision of God and redemptive love.” Near fine in very good jacket. Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper, reverse of jacket foxed, jacket a bit rubbed. 6. [Americana, Western] Lake, Stuart N. Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1931. First edition, later state (Howes L-27): p. 25: ‘senventy-five’; p. 54: ‘belly’. ix, [3], 392 pp. 8vo. The book credited with the elevation of Earp to his status as a hero of the American West, criticized by some for ignoring less glorious portions of Earp’s life and career. Very good. Spine faded, ink name on front endpaper. 7. [Americana, Western] Udell, John $150 Incidents of Travel to California, across the Great Plains; together with the Return Trips through Central America and Jamaica; to which are added Sketches of the Author’s Life. Printed for the Author at the Sentinel Office, 1856. First edition. viii, [9], 302, [6] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of author. Howes U-3. Sabin 97663. Early accounts of California and the gold rush, Salt Lake City and the Mormons, the Pacific (i.e. transcontinental) railroad, Nicaragua, Panama, and Jamaica. Also included is the Declaration of $1,250 Independence in its entirety. Udell was a farmer and Baptist preacher who made the journey to California four times, returning by sea the first three times, and remaining there the fourth. Many dealers seem to think their copies of this work bear Udell’s handwritten name beneath the frontispiece portrait (‘Your Friend, John Udell’), but this is clearly printed. This appears to spring from some confusion about the enumeration of editions in Howes’s US-iana: he states ‘rptd. L A 1946. O [4, 9-20] 88 8pls 775 copies [25signed]’, which clearly refers to the 1946 reissue, not this 1856 original. They are correct to note, however, that some copies did not include the frontispiece (Howes notes: ‘302 errata 1. port [not issued in all copies; probably added after some had been distributed]’). The copy we offer here does. Very good. Rebound with new end sheets. Foxed throughout with some transfer, ink ownership stamp of Amos Weiss on a couple pages. 8. [Americana] [United States Congress] Journals of Congress: Containing Their Proceedings from January 1, 1781, to November 2, 1782. Published by Authority. Volume VII. From Folwell’s Press. Folwell’s Press, 1800. 1800 Folwell’s Press printing, preceded only by Claypoole and Patterson editions (see Evans 17767). One of 400 copies. 396, [38] pp. 8vo. A very early collection of congressional proceedings, recounting events that preceded the United States Constitution. At this time, the thirteen states were just completing the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, after which point the specifics of the country’s political structure needed to be decided upon and codified. These $750 proceedings provide an interesting glimpse into this formative time in American

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history. Good. Includes colloquial jacket with titles handwritten in black ink. Some pages unopened. A few pages lightly foxed, 2 inch closed tear to p. 56. 9. [Americana] A Citizen of the West [Owen, Robert Dale]; [Mackay, Robert W. Stuart] Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; with an Introductory Essay and Notes George Dearborn, 1837. First edition. Sabin 58021. Sabin gives both Owen and Mackay as possible authors, without providing rationale in support of either. Mackay is listed as the copyright holder on this copy. A historical drama focused on the life of Pocahontas, the Native American daughter of chief Powhatan famous for saving the life of John Smith. She later converted to Christianity and wed John Rolfe. Good. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot, corners exposed, moderately foxed throughout, $500 ink name on front endpaper and flyleaf. 10. [Americana] American Antiquarian Society; Manning, William; Hennepin, Lewis; Atwater, Caleb Archaeologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. I. [Discovery of the River Mississippi and the Adjacent Country; Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States. Communicated to the President of the American Antiquarian Society. Printed for the American Antiquarian Society by William Manning, 1820. First edition. Sabin 1049. Includes large fold-out map of Ohio, 14 plates (7 folding). The first volume $450 in a series printed 1820-1911. Includes: a preface about the contents of the volume; a list of the society’s officers; an introduction regarding the origins of the society; Discovery of the River Mississippi and the Adjacent Country; Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States. The last is illustrated by engravings of ancient fortifications, mounds, &c. from the actual survey (some of which are fold-outs). Very good. Rebound with new end sheets. 11. [Americana] Arfwedson, C.D. The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833, and 1834. in Two Volumes. Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition. Howes A-304, Sabin 1943. vii, [1], 433, [1]; vii, [1], 418, [2] pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispieces of the source of the Hudson River and the first Dutch governor’s house in Albany, New York. Very good. Rebound in half leather with new end sheets. Spines a bit faded, front and end matter foxed (including frontispieces), a few other pages lightly foxed. $600 12. [Americana] Kohl, J.G. [Johann Georg] Reisen in Canada und durch die Staaten von New-York und Pennsylvanien J.G. Cottascher, 1856. First edition. iv, 576 pp. 8vo. Navy blue leather, green leather spine label, gilt titles. German text (Fraktur script). Howes K-248. Sabin 38217. A German-language travelogue describing journeys in Canada, New York, and Pennsylvania in the early 19th century. Includes mentions of Albany, Vermont, Lake Champlain, Montreal, Quebec, Native Americans, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Toronto, New Jersey, etc. Precedes English translation by five years. Very good. $450 Rebound with new end sheets. Some pages unopened, moderately foxed through. 13. [Bible Study] Scholz, J. Martin Augustin; Wycliffe, John; Tyndale, William; Whittingham, William; Cranmer, Thomas; Coverdale, Miles; Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux The English Hexapla, Exhibiting the Six Important English Translations of the New Testament Scriptures, Preceded by an Historical Account of the English Translations (Wiclif, Tyndale, Cranmer, Genevan, Anglo-Rhemish, Authorised), the Original Greek Text After Scholz, with the Various Readings of the Textus Receptus and the Principal Constantinopolitan and Alexandrine Manuscripts, and a Complete Collation of Scholz’s Text with Griesbach’s $750 Edition of M.DCCC.V.

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Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1841. First edition. 167, [1160] pp., translations unpaginated. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations, including gilt dentelles on turn-ins, all edges gilt. A study of the shifting translations and interpretations of the New Testament over a period of 500 years, featuring the Wiclif (1380), Tyndale (1534), Cranmer (1539), Genevan (1557), Anglo-Rhemish (1582), and Authorised (1611) translations presented alongside the original Greek of Scholz, with historical commentary. Good. Edges rubbed with 2 inch tear to spine head, minor loss from head and foot, owner bookplate and ink name on front endpapers. 14. [Bicycles] Allen, Thomas Gaskell, Jr.; Sachtleben, William Lewis Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking The Century Co., 1894. First edition. xii, 234 pp. Gilt titles on spine and on front board, top page ridge gilt. Deckled edges. Published during the Golden Age of Bicycles, with photographs showing cycle designs only recently invented. Describes a three year journey of over 15,000 miles. Very good. Ink mark on spine, bookplate remains on front and rear paste-down endpapers, ink note on rear paste-down endpaper. $175 15. [Cocktails] Thomas, Jerry; Asbury, Herbert The Bon Vivant’s Companion, or, How to Mix Drinks [Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States, Together with the Most Popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish Recipes, Embracing Punches, Juleps, Cobblers, etc., etc., etc., in Endless Variety.] Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. li, [3], 169, [3] pp. 8vo. 1928 reissue of the famous 1862 original, considered the first American cocktail book, edited with a new introduction by Herbert Asbury (author of Gangs of New York, etc.). Jerry Thomas was the principal bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York City, and at the Planters’ House in St. Paul. His work helped formalize and codify what until that point were recipes preserved by word of mouth and general reputation rather than a written $450 system and the use of measurements. This edition, also notable because it was released during Prohibition, includes the introduction to the first edition, and Asbury’s new introduction provides biographical information about Thomas as well as historical context for the original work. A wide range of drinks are covered, includes punches (which were the earliest examples of cocktails), juleps, fizzes, smashes, shrubs, cobblers, sours, etc., etc. Also included are chapters on: syrups, essences, tinctures, colorings, etc.; and temperance drinks. Illustrations, including a frontispiece of Thomas preparing his renowned Blue Blazer, are reproduced from the originals. An index follows the text, which makes locating individual drinks much easier. Very good. Boards a bit soiled, small ink number stamp on rear free endpaper. 16. [Culinary] Berolzheimer, Ruth The Victory Binding of the American Woman’s Cook Book: Wartime Edition, with Victory Substitutes and Economical Recipes for Delicious Wartime Meals The Culinary Arts Institute / Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., 1943. viii, 816, A-H, 1-64 pp. 8vo. Delightful American cookbook with a wartime theme, printed during World War II. Extensive index follows text. Appended to original text are the following sections: $275 Wartime Cookery; How to Feed a Family of Five on $15.00 Per Week (includes a menu with a full month of recipes). Many color photos and memorable recipes. Thumb-indexed. Frontispiece portrait of Douglas MacArthur.

Near fine book in very good jacket. Includes scarce publisher’s box, with original publisher’s list price of $3.75 (which is equivalent to over $50 today). This is the first example we have handled that includes both the box and the jacket. Box rubbed with a few light spots, jacket edges lightly rubbed with 1 inch closed tear on front corner.

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17. [Entomology] Stawell, Mrs.Rodolph; De Mattos, Alexander Teixeira; [Fabre, Jean-Henri] Fabre’s Book of Insects: Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s ‘Souvenirs Entomologiques’ Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921. First thus. viii, [ii], 271, [5] pp. 4to. Color frontispiece of the sacred beetle, tipped in color plates by E.J. Detmold throughout. Compiled from a series of writings Fabre released from 1891-1909. Fabre was an influence on Charles Darwin, $200 who called him an ‘inimitable observer’, and helped shape the science of modern entomology. Near fine. Light scuff on spine, otherwise an excellent copy.

18. [Fine Art] Rothschild, Philippine de Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown and Company, 1983. 3rd printing. 132 pp. “A study of the distinctive labels created for the wines of Chateau Mouton Rothschild by such artists as Dali, $150 Picasso, Braque, Miro, and Motherwell.” Near fine. Signed without inscription by author on title page. Includes publisher’s slipcase. A few faint smudges to slipcase and boards.

19. [Fraternal Organizations] Litchman, Charles H. Official History of the Improved Order of Red Men, Compiled Under Authority from the Great Council of the United States by Past Great Incohonees George W. Lindsay of Maryland, Charles C. Conley of Pennsylvania, Charles H. Litchman of $175 Massachusetts The Fraternity Publishing Company, 1893. First edition. 623, [3] pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, plates throughout, including an image of Niagara Falls and numerous portraits. A history of the oldest fraternal organization in America. Very good. Boards a bit discolored, otherwise an excellent copy. 20. [Fraternal Organizations] Stillson, Henry Leonard; Hughan, William James; et al History of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons and Concordant Orders [Freemasonry] The Fraternity Publishing Company, 1910. Revised edition. xxxiv, 910 pp. Tall 8vo. Green pebbled cloth, gilt titles, gold, silver, and black decorations, gilt and green decorated endpapers. Includes photographs (some tinted), engravings, fold-out map, reproductions of documents, etc. Near fine. Boards and corners lightly rubbed, small ink gift note on front endpaper. 21. [History] De Thou, Jacque-Auguste [Jacques]; [le Beau, Charles; Le Mascrier; Abbe Des Fontaines] $225 Histoire Universelle de Jacque-Auguste de Thou, Depuis 1543. jusqu’en 1607. Traduite sur l’Edition Latine de Londres [in Sixteen Volumes] S.N., 1734. Complete in sixteen volumes. Full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooled compartments. The life’s work of the French historian and book collector who lived from the mid-16th to early 17th century. Originally published in Latin under the title Historia sui temporis, in 138 books, three years after the author’s death. The work, despite controversy over some of its depictions of religious matters, quickly became regarded as a scholarly classic, characterized by exhaustive research and reference to the best available contemporary sources. It would not be translated satisfactorily into other languages for several decades. This

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was in part due to de Thou’s own demand that the work not be translated into French, fearing “great faults and errors against the intention of the author.” This edition was translated from a critical edition (also in Latin) produced by Samuel Buckley. Very good. Boards rubbed with some $1,750 loss/drying of leather, corners exposed.

22. [History] Douglas, David P.; Warren, W.L.; Norgate, Kate; Seward, Desmond; Kendall, Paul Murray; Scarisbrick, J.J.; Somerset, Anne; Gregg, Pauline; Fraser, Antonia; Brooke, John; H.R.H. The Prince of Wales; Longford, Elizabeth; Bradford, Sarah The Kings and Queens of England, in Twelve Volumes: $750 William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon England; Henry II; Richard the Lion Heart; Henry V; Richard III; Henry VIII; Elizabeth I; Charles I; Charles II; George III; Queen Victoria R.I.; The Reluctant King: The Life & Reign of George VI, 1895-1952 The Easton Press, 1996. Complete in twelve volumes. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon markers bound into each volume. A biographical tour of the history of England from 1066 through the mid-20th century, comprised of well-known works by various authors. Each volume features a color frontispiece, and there are maps and illustrations throughout as well. Near fine. Some gilt rubbed from front board of first volume, a few light spots on top edges, otherwise an excellent set. 23. [History] Pinnock, William Panorama of the Old World and the New. Comprising a View of the Present State of the Nations of the World, Their Manners, Customs, and Peculiarities, and Their Political, Moral, Social, and Industrial Condition. Interspersed with Historical Sketches and Anecdotes L.P. Crown / J.W. Bradley, 1853. vii, [1], 616, [2] pp. 8vo. Blind-stamped full leather, gilt titles and decorations, marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with numerous hand-colored plates and engravings (“Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several $125 hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists.”). Very good. Scattered light foxing throughout, ink name, year, and address on front flyleaf. 24. [History] von Grimm, A. Th. [August Theodor]; Lady Wallace Alexandra Feodorowna, Empress of Russia, in Two Volumes Edmonston and Douglas, 1870. First edition. Complete in two volumes. xv, [1], 325, [3]; viii, 424 pp. 8vo. A biography of Alexandra Feodorowna (Charlotte of Prussia), the wife of Tsar Nicholas II. The work was written by a teacher to the Romanovs, who worked first for Alexander II, then for Nicholas I. It was originally published in Leipzig just six years after $250 the empress’s death, and translated into English for this edition by Lady Wallace. Frontispiece in each volume. Good. Hinges repaired by previous owner, edges and front and end matter foxed, bottom corner of front free endpaper of each volume clipped. 25. [Horticulture] Beach, S.A.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M. The Apples of New York, Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1903, in Two Volumes J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1905. First edition. Complete in two volumes. 8vo. xx, 409; iv, 360 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, numerous color plates of various apple species throughout. Part of a $400 larger series commissioned by the New York Agricultural Department, still valued today for their detailed descriptions and images. Modern attempts to reproduce this set have not successfully captured the quality of illustration achieved in the original. Bindings a bit shaken, edges and front and end matter a bit foxed.

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26. [Horticulture] Beach, S.A.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M. The Apples of New York, Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1903, in Two Volumes J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1905. First edition. Just like item 25, but even better. Near fine. Front and end matter lightly foxed $500 (plates in text unscathed), pencil name and date on versos of front endpapers, related articles laid in. Bindings square and tight, 27. [Horticulture] Hedrick, U.P.; Booth, N.O.; Taylor, O.M.; boards in excellent condition. Wellington, R.; Dorsey, M.J. The Grapes of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1907, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Fifteen Annual Report, Vol. 3, Part II) J.B. Lyon Company, 1908. First edition. xv, [1], 564 pp. 12 1/8 x 9 3/4. An extensive survey of many varieties of grapes grown $400 in New York, which as the preface points out is representative of varieties of grapes grown throughout the entire country. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of grapes. Near fine. Boards lightly rubbed. 28. [Horticulture] Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Berger, Alwin; Slate, G.L.; Einset, Olav The Small Fruits of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year Ending June 30, 1925, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Farms and Markets Thirty-third Annual Report, Part II) J.B. Lyon Company, 1925. First edition. xii, 614 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. An extensive survey of many varieties of fruit grown in New York, with stunning full color plates. Very good. Hinges just beginning to weaken, ink name on front endpaper. 29. [Horticulture] Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Francis, E.H.; Tukey, $150 H.B.; Thatcher, R.W. The Pears of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1921, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Twenty-Ninth Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II) J.B. Lyon Company, 1921. First edition. xi, [1], 636 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2. Includes $350 stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of pears. An extensive survey of many varieties of pear grown in New York, the aim of which - according to the preface - is “to make... a complete record of the development of the pear wherever cultivated up to the present time... [and to give] “an account of the history and uses of the pear; to depict the botanical characters of cultivated pears; to describe pear growing in this country and more particularly in New York; and, lastly, to give in full detail the synonymy, bibliography, economic status, and full descriptions of the most important cultivated pears with brief notices of varieties of minor importance.” Near fine. An exceptional copy with a few minimal cosmetic flaws. 30. [Horticulture] Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen, C.B.; Wellington, R. The Cherries of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1914, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Twenty-Second Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II)

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J.B. Lyon Company, 1915. First edition. xii, 371, [5] pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. An extensive survey of many varieties of cherries grown in New York, including according to the preface “an historical account of cultivated cherries, the botany of this fruit, a statement of its present economic status in America, descriptions of all known varieties of cherries, the synonymy and bibliography of the species and varieties, and biographical sketches of the persons who $150 have contributed materially to cherry culture in America.” Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of cherries. Very good. Small ink stamp on rear endpaper, boards lightly scuffed. 31. [Horticulture] Hedrick, U.P.; Wellington, R.; Taylor, O.M.; Alderman, W.H.; Dorsey, M.J. The Plums of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1910, Volume II) (State of New York - Department of Agriculture Eighteenth Annual Report, Vol. 3, Part II) J.B. Lyon Company, 1910. xii, 616 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of plums. An extensive survey of many varieties of plums grown in New York, the aim of which - according to the preface - is “to make... a record of our present knowledge of cultivated plums... [It includes] “a historical account and a botanical classification of plums... a discussion of the present status of $125 plum-growing in America... [and two chapters] devoted to varieties of plums... Important varieties, so considered from various standpoints, with the bark and the flowers of several species, are illustrated in colors.” Good. Boards rubbed and smudged, front hinge weakening, owner bookplate on front endpaper. Text and plates clean and unmarked. 32. [Juvenile] Baby’s Own Primer. D. Lothrop & Co., 1877. [64 pp.] Engraved frontispiece, silhouette illustration on title page, full alphabet in both capital and lower case on copyright page, alphabet paired with illustrations featuring two letters per page, each paired with two lines of verse, with an additional page for ‘&’, followed by fifteen brief stories, in which all polysyl- labic words are hyphenated. Very good. Edges rubbed, ink gift note on front endpaper $125 (‘From “my dear little Josi” on my third birth-day, Feb 21st. 1878.’). 33. [Juvenile] Andersen, Hans [Christian]; Howitt, Mary Hans Andersen’s Story Book. with a Memoir [Fairy Tales] Allen Brothers, 1869. vi, 9-154, 7-187, [3] pp. Beautiful blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece, portrait of Andersen from a painting by Carl Hartmann, and several other illustrations in text. A collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, known for The Princess on the Pea, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, etc. Includes: Memoir of Hans Christian Andersen (by Mary Howitt), A Picture-Book without Pictures; My Boots; Scenes on the Danube; The Swineherd; The Real Princess; The Shoes of Fortune; The Fir-Tree; $225 The Snow Queen - in Seven Stories; The Leap-Frog. The Snow Queen was recently adapted to the popular Disney film Frozen. Near fine. Spine faded, ink name stamp crossed out on title page, ink name and date on front endpaper. 34. [Juvenile] Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1904. First thus (Lovett 204, WMGC 392). xiv, [1]-247, [5] pp. 8vo. Grey cloth, illustrated spines and front boards. Includes color plates by Maria Louise Kirk and 42 illustrations from the originals by John Tenniel. This edition is notable as the first work in color by Kirk, who went on to become a prominent figure in book illustration (though this remains her most celebrated work). It is also noteworthy that Kirk depicts Alice with dark hair (with one exception), and with a yellow dress rather than the

www.yesterdaysmuse.com 11 now-customary blue. Very good. Recto of frontispiece and flyleaf opposite lightly foxed, bookplate remnant on front endpaper. 35. [Juvenile] Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge] Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1905. First thus (Lovett 205, WMGC 557). xv, [1], 271, [1] pp. 8vo. Grey cloth, illustrated spines and front boards. Includes color plates by Maria Louise Kirk and 50 illustrations from the originals by John Tenniel. A follow-up volume to the Kirk edition of ‘Alice’. Near fine. Lightly rubbed, ink name and date on $500 front endpaper. $350 36. [Juvenile] Lenski, Lois A Little Girl of Nineteen Hundred [1900] Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1928. First edition. 218 pp. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. As Lenski progressed in her literary and artistic career, her family and home life served as important sources of inspiration for her work. Two of the first books she wrote and illustrated, Skipping Village (1927) and A Little Girl of 1900 (1928), drew upon her childhood in small-town Ohio, which she idealized; in her autobiography she would describe that time and place as “simple, sincere, and wholesome.” Very good. Title plate on spine and on front board rubbed partially obscuring text, spine slightly cocked and lightly toned. $120 37. [Literature] Bronte, Charlotte (Bell, Currer) Jane Eyre Hurst & Company. No date, circa 1890. ix, 464 pp. 16mo. Half-leather: green leather spine and corners, decorative paper over boards with matching endpapers, gilt titles and fleur de lis decorations on spine, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece by O. Grosch (Oscar Edward Grosch). The classic Gothic novel that inspired a number of prequels and sequels by other authors (most notably Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys) and several films. Very good. Spine faded, edges a bit rubbed, ink gift note on front endpaper dated 1907, rear hinge just beginning to weaken. $200 38. [Literature] Bulgakov, Mikhail; Glenny, Michael The Master and Margarita Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. vi, 394 pp. 8vo. Somewhat of a publishing oddity, in that two U.S. editions were released in the same year: the Harper & Row edition translated by Michael Glenny (offered here) and a Grove Press edition translated by Mirra Ginsburg. Both are still in print in paperback editions, which indicates that each has its own merits. In terms of dust jacket art, though, this Harper edition featuring a one-eyed cat wearing a bow-tie and holding a pistol is much more interesting than the Grove, which shows an image of a face in red and black. Kirkus Reviews discusses the tenor of each translation: “The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day $500 in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, now offers two rival American editions of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Mirra Ginsburg’s (Grove Press) version is pointedly grotesque: she delights in the sharp, spinning, impressionistic phrase. Her Bulgakov reminds one of the virtuoso effects encountered in Zamyatin and Babel, as yell as the early Pasternak’s bizarre tale of Heine in Italy. Translator Michael Glenny, on the other hand, almost suggests Tolstoy. His (Harper & Row) version is simpler, softer, and more humane. The Bulgakov fantasy is less striking here, but less strident, too. Glenny: ‘There was an oddness about that terrible day... It was the hour of the day when people feel too exhausted to breathe, when Moscow glows in a dry haze...’ Ginsburg: ‘Oh, yes, we must take note of the first strange thing... At that hour, when it no longer seemed possible to breathe, when the sun was tumbling in a dry haze...’ In any case, The Master and Margarita, a product of intense labor from 1928 till Bulgakov’s death in 1940, is a distinctive and fascinating work, undoubtedly a stylistic landmark in Soviet literature, both for

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its aesthetic subversion of ‘socialist realism’ (like Zamyatin, Bulgakov apparently believed that true literature is created by visionaries and skeptics and madmen), and for the purity of its imagination. Essentially the anti-scientific, vaguely anti-Stalinist tale presents a resurrected Christ figure, a demonic, tricksy foreign professor, and a Party poet, the bewildered Ivan Homeless, plus a bevy of odd or romantic types, all engaged in socio-political exposures, historical debates, and supernatural turnabouts. A humorous, astonishing parable on power, duplicity, freedom, and love.” “A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza.” Very good. Appears to be publisher Howard Kaminsky’s personal copy, with his name in pencil on the half-title page. Top and fore edge lightly foxed, jacket faintly soiled. 39. [Literature] Burton, R.F. [Richard Francis]; Smithers, Leonard C. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights] H.S. Nichols & Co., 1894. First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzer p. 117-123). Complete in twelve volumes, a reissue of $1,500 the 1885 Benares edition (which was printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only), following the same cover design, edited by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. According to the preface, “In Lady Burton’s edition, which was a reprint of the first ten volumes only of the original issue, it was thought advisable to omit no fewer than 215 pages; in this edition, which comprises the whole sixteen volumes (the entire work), more than four-fifths of these omitted passages have been restored. These few omissions are also rendered necessary by the pledge which Sir Richard gave to his Subscribers that no cheaper edition of the entire work should be issued; but in all other respects the original text has been reproduced with scrupulous fidelity. The reader has here, therefore, the most complete English edition of The Nights that can ever be published, the extreme grossness of the few words and passages omitted absolutely precluding their appearance.” Burton’s translation of The Arabian Nights remains the authoritative version of this extensive collection of stories, and also stands as a unique example of liberality in publishing during the Victorian era. Despite the salacious content of many of the narratives, the first printed English version remained true to Burton’s precise and inclusive translation. Burton was somewhat of a trailblazer in this regard, also publishing an authoritative version of the now-famous Kama Sutra. Near fine. Minor cosmetic wear, ink name on front endpaper of each volume, front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. 40. [Literature] Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Harper & Brothers, 1876. First American edition. Not to be confused with the reprints issued in a smaller format. 12, [78] pp. Elephant folio. Numerous full-page engravings by Gustave Dore following text, captioned with the associated couplets. A visually striking edition of the famous nautical poem known for $850 its (oft-misquoted) lines: “Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink.” First published in 1798, the Rime is Coleridge’s longest major poem, and it is credited as the beginning of British Romantic literature. The gloss included in this edition first appeared in the 1817 revised edition. Very good. Nicely rebacked with original backstrip laid down, boards a bit rubbed (rear board more so) with minor loss of gilt, scattered light foxing throughout (mostly to margins and tissue guards).

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41. [Literature] Crane, Stephen; Follett, Wilson; Hergesheimer, Joseph; Davis, Robert H.; Van Doren, Carl; Phelps, William Lyon; Lowell, Amy; Beer, Thomas; Cather, Willa; Mencken, H.L.; Anderson, Sherwood; Michelson, Charles The Work of Stephen Crane [in Twelve Volumes]: The Red Badge of $650 Courage and The Veteran; Tales of Two Wars; The Monster and The Third Violet; Active Service; Whilomville Stories; The Black Riders and Other Lines; The O’Ruddy Part One; The O’Ruddy Part Two; Wounds in the Rain and Other Impressions of War; Major Conflicts: George’s Mother, The Blue Hotel, Maggie; Midnight Sketches and Other Impressions; The Open Boat and Other Tales Alfred A. Knopf / The Plimpton Press, 1925. Limited edition, #158 of 750 copies. Twelve hardcover volumes in publisher’s slipcases, with limitation numbers handwritten on spine of each slipcase. Black cloth spines over cream cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations. Set, printed, and bound by The Plimpton Press of Norwood, Mass., on all rag water marked paper made by the Worthy Paper Co. Association. Best known for his American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Stephen Crane was a major figure in the fields of Realism, Naturalism, and Impressionism, most notably his first novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which many consider the first American Naturalist novel. This set includes introductions by various authors written expressly for this edition, some quite prominent (e.g., Willa Cather; H.L. Mencken, Sherwood Anderson). Near fine. All volumes include slipcases. All books are near fine, slipcases are good to very good. A piece of the Volume X slipcase spine has come loose but is included, and a couple other slipcases have minor splits along seams. For reasons that are unclear, the first two slipcases, though numbered the same as the rest, are of a different design (it is possible the labels were removed from the original slipcases and replacements were made, but there is no evidence of this that we can see). With a small bit of restoration, this could be a beautiful set. 42. [Literature] Dickens, Charles The Chimes Hodder & Stoughton / Hasell, Watson & Viney, Ld., 1913. v, [1], 137, [1] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles, gilt and blind-stamped decorations, grey endpapers with holiday bell (chime) motif. Tipped in color plates by Hugh Thomson. A short holiday novel, published a year after A Christmas Carol, which represents the second in Dickens’s five-volume Christmas Books series. Near fine. Spine faded, front and end matter a bit toned, small bookseller ticket on front endpaper. $125 43. [Literature] Dickens, Charles The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club The Westminster Press, Limited, 1912. Reissue of 1910 Hodder & Stoughton limited edition. viii, 534 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and decorations, illustrated endpapers. 20 color plates by Frank Reynolds tipped in throughout text. “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. The illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally his; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that ‘Mr Seymour $175 never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.’ At any event, Dickens was asked to contribute to the project as an up and coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836. Dickens, supremely confident as ever, increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after Seymour had committed suicide. With the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books and other merchandise.” Very good. Includes scarce jacket. A few pages lightly foxed, jacket edges reinforced on reverse. 44. [Literature] Dickens, Charles Charles Dickens Twenty-Two Volume Set - The Pickwick Papers; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge; Martin Chuzzlewit; Christmas Books (A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man); Dombey and Son; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations; Our

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Mutual Friend; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Sketches by Boz; Master Humphrey’s Clock and Pictures from Italy; Reprinted Pieces; American Notes; A Child’s History of England; The Uncommercial Traveller $200 Collins’ Clear-Type Press. Complete in twenty-two volumes. Flexible maroon leather boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, maroon endpapers, ribbon markers bound into each volume. Frontispiece, engraved title page, engraved plates by various artists, and illustrations from photographs. Near fine. Some ribbon markers a bit frayed, spines slightly faded, minor cosmetic wear to boards. 45. [Literature] Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Wilson, Edmund The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel, together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941. First edition (Scribner seal and ‘A’ on copyright page with no code). Not to be confused with the 1950s Scribner reprints, which use a code to indicate the year of printing. xi, [1], 476 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles. F. Scott Fitzgerald died before he could finish this novel. Its central character, the great film producer Monroe Stahr, is based on Irving Thalberg and, like Fitzgerald, is a desperately sick man, disenchanted with life, but striving still to work. Includes: Foreword by $350 Edmund Wilson; The Last Tycoon; Notes for the Last Tycoon; The Great Gatsby; May Day; The Diamond As Big as the Ritz; The Rich Boy; Absolution; Crazy Sunday. Very good. Boards faintly soiled, minimal wear to corners. 46. [Literature] Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The Lakeside Classics Book 1) The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1903. First thus. vii, [1], 264, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Franklin from the painting by Duplessis. The first volume in the collectible Lakeside Classics series. “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his $350 Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin’s death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. Franklin’s account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them.” Near fine. Ink gift note on front endpaper, minimal cosmetic wear to boards. 47. [Literature] Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. First edition, first printing, with ‘A’ and Scribner seal on copyright page, no book club indicators, $3.00 list price on jacket, no mention of Nobel or Pulitzer Prize on jacket flaps, olive tinted photograph of author by Lee Samuels on rear panel, brown text on flaps (Hanneman A24a). 140 pp. 8vo. “The Old Man and the Sea is $650 one of Hemingway’s most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.” Very good in good jacket. Jacket toned with minor loss from spine head and foot, jacket spine reinforced with clear tape on reverse, spine cloth lightly toned with a few minor discolored spots to boards. 48. [Literature] Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Found among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Craon, Gent., Number VI] West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company [Westvaco], 1958. Limited edition. xi, [1], 64, [4] pp. 8vo. A stand- alone volume of Irving’s famous fairy tale, now a Halloween classic, which originally appeared in his 1820 collection of stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. This is the first, and therefore most

www.yesterdaysmuse.com 15 likely the scarcest, of the volumes Westvaco (West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company) released in their Christmas series, which ran from 1958-2007. Its format (including the frontispiece) is taken from the 1820 original. It includes a foreword and colophon describing the edition. Near fine. Includes publisher’s slipcase. Slipcase edge very lightly toned. 49. [Literature] Irving, Washington Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow $225 Macmillan and Co., 1893. xi, [1], 218 pp. Engravings from illustrations by George H. Boughton throughout. Two of Irving’s most famous stories together in one volume. Very good. Corners a bit rubbed, front free endpaper and frontispiece removed, lightly foxed, pencil name on front flyleaf (Anna Seymour Blake, a graduate of Columbia University who taught at the Pratt Institute). 50. [Literature] London, Jack $125 White Fang The Macmillan Company, 1906. First edition. One of two states with no clear priority, this being the issue with a tipped-in title leaf (BAL 11896). vii, [3], 327, [5] pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and 7 color plates in text by Charles Livingston Bull. The famous story of the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Inspiration for the upcoming film starring Harrison Ford, and several earlier $350 adaptations. Very good. Light dime-sized stain on front corner, hinges loosening, ink name, address, and date on front endpaper. 51. [Literature] Orwell, George [Blair, Eric Arthur] Animal Farm: A Fairy Story The Easton Press, 2017. Limited edition, one of 1200 copies. 218 pp. Brown full leather, gilt and green titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. 10 tipped in color plates by Bill Mayer, produced specially for this edition. A satirical look at Soviet totalitarianism using animals on a farm as an allegorical device. The revision of history by those in power is a theme that returns in Orwell’s famous dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. While the $425 setting of Animal Farm does not quite fit the parameters of a dystopian society, Orwell’s work here seems to progress directly toward the speculations about future society in Nineteen Eighty-Four, common themes being the will to power, power’s corrupting influence, and the obliteration of history. Fine. Signed by Bill Mayer without inscription on limitation page. 52. [Literature] Shakespeare, William The National Shakespeare, A Fac-simile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623, in Three Volumes: Comedies; Histories; Tragedies William Mackenzie, 1888. Complete in three volumes. Folio. A facsimile of the 1623 first folio edition of Shakespeare’s complete plays, in three volumes, with illustrations by Sir J. Noel Paton, R.S.A. Green cloth, gilt titles, black and gold decorations with inset red, black, and gold emblem on front $750 board of each volume. Good. Hinges weakening, rear board and end matter of Histories volume stained, rear flyleaf of Histories volume removed, some loss from corners, front and end matter foxed. Overall a good set, but Histories is fair. A good candidate for restoration. 53. [Literature] Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath The Viking Press, 1939. First edition (‘First published in April 1939’ stated on copyright page). 619, [1] pp. 8vo. Battle Hymn of the Republic endpapers. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel that encapsulated the American experience during the Great Depression. It inspired the equally successful John Ford film starring Henry Fon-

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da, Jane Darwell and John Carradine, which won two Academy Awards. Good. Includes new facsimile of the Elmer Hader jacket. Spine toned, boards lightly soiled, edges a bit foxed, a bit musty, ink name and date on front endpaper. 54. [Literature] Thoreau, Henry D. [David] Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Ticknor and Fields, 1854. 357, [5], 8 pp. 8vo. First edition (Borst A2.1.a.4, with June ads), one of 2000 copies. Map of Walden Pond present opposite p. 307. Thoreau’s famous work on simple living $425 in a cabin on Walden Pond during the mid-19th century, which has become a symbol of the power of the individual. Thoreau offers interesting perspectives on the structure of society and the relationship of the individual to it, while also providing interesting details about the flora and fauna $9,250 of the area, and what he gained by removing himself from the hustle and bustle. A highly collectible work representative of 19th century intellectual life, transcendentalism, American literature, and natural history. Good. Split to front joint and split across spine cloth beneath ‘Thoreau’ previously repaired by adhering cloth down to text block, minor loss from spine head and foot, corners and some of board edges exposed, two gatherings sprung but holding, faint pencil gift note on front free endpaper, minimal marginalia on just a couple pages (mainly bracketing of 1-3 lines of text), a few pages faintly foxed. 55. [Literature] Thoreau, Henry David; Channing, W.E. Cape Cod, in Two Volumes Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1896. First illustrated edition. 173, [3]; 208 pp. 8vo. Thoreau’s transcendentalist travel meditation, focused on Cape Cod Massachusetts. This edition includes color illustrations from sketches by Amelia M. Watson: according to the prefatory note, “The present illustrated edition takes its hint from an actual copy of Cape Cod with marginal sketches in color $225 made by the artist as she read the successive chapters amid the scenes characterized by Thoreau... The original book, conceived and executed for the artist’s friend and compagnon de voyage, is reproduced for the pleasure of those whose own reading of Cape Cod is illuminated by the color and form which Thoreau’s writing suggests or their fortunate memory brings back.” Very good. Spines and edges faded, a few smudges to front board of first volume, front hinge of volume 1 just beginning to weaken, ink gift note on front endpaper of first volume, second volume endpapers lightly foxed. 56. [Literature] Twain, Mark Pudd’nhead Wilson American Publishing Company, 1897. Early printing of BAL 3442. 432 pp. 8vo. “First serialized in The Century Magazine between 1893 and 1894, Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson is a murder mystery set before the American Civil War in Missouri, more specifi- cally, on the Mississippi River. During infancy, a light-skinned black baby and a white- skinned baby were switched at birth by a slave mother. Because the black baby grows up thinking he is white, he is highly racist toward his slaves. The white baby, who thinks he is a slave, grows up with no guidance and makes a living stealing, drinking, and doing $125 other immoral things. During a murder trial, the town lawyer Puddn’head Wilson, who is seen as a peculiar fellow by the townsfolk, is able to expose the boys’ true identities. Puddn’head Wilson is a story carried by themes of racism, Southern customs, and questions of identity. On the surface it is a witty and satirical tale but as one digs deeper a biting social commentary of racial inequality

www.yesterdaysmuse.com 17 can be found.”Very good. Tear along binding edge of front free endpaper, bookplate of George A. Oliver on front endpaper, rear hinge just beginning to weaken. 57. [Literature] Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Charles L. Webster & Company, 1890. 1890 printing of BAL 3249: No fly-title, plate on p. 59 updated, the word ‘Connecticut’ omitted from title on front board and spine, broken text on last three lines of p. 72. xv, [1], 575, [3] pp. 4to. Illustrations by Dan Beard. “A Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician—and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a “magician” in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with $150 such feats as demolitions, fireworks and the shoring up of a holy well. He attempts to modernize the past, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power.” Very good. Small spot on front corner, hinges just starting. 58. [Literature] Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne] The £1,000,000 Bank-Note [One Million Pound Banknote] Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First edition. 260, [2], 9, [3] pp. 8vo. BAL 3436. A collection of short stories by American humorist and satirical novelist Mark Twain, best known for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The story from which the collection takes its name follows protagonist Henry Adams as he tries to figure out how to use a large bank note given to him by wealthy benefactors. Includes: The £1,000,000 Bank- $125 Note; Mental Telegraphy; A Cure for the Blues; The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Trium- phant; About All Kinds of Ships; Playing Courier; The German Chicago; A Petition o the Queen of England; A Majestic Literary Fossil. Very good. Spine toned, ink name and date on front endpaper. 59. [Literature] Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne] Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old. Now First Published in Complete Form. The American Publishing Company, 1875. First edition, second state (BAL 3364). 320 pp. Blue cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. A collection of short stories, with one nonfiction piece (The Case of George Fisher), by the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, known for his satirical works and his honest look at American society. Good. Edges rubbed, boards and a few pages a bit soiled, ink $150 name stamp on front endpaper. 60. [Literature] Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne] Roughing It American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition, first state (BAL 3337) with ad on p. 592. xviii, 591, [7] pp. 8vo. Two engraved frontispieces, six plates in text. Numerous engravings throughout. Twain’s semi-autobiographical novel, and the prequel to Innocents Abroad. Roughing It consists of travels through the Wild West during and immediately following the American Civil War, with sections on Salt Lake City, prospecting, real estate speculation, etc. Very good. Edges rubbed (fore edge exposed), $1,250 single gathering sprung, a few pages faintly foxed. 61. [Literature] Verne, Jules; Frewer, Ellen E. Hector Servadac. [Off on a Comet] Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1878. First American edition. x, [4], 370, [4] pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt & black titles, gilt decorations including images of planets and hot air balloon. Translated from Verne’s original French by Ellen E. Frewer, with 96 engraved illustrations. One of Verne’s lesser-known works, Hector Servadac (also titled Off on a Comet in some translations) tells the story of a group of people living on a piece of land that has broken away from Earth after the comet Gallia collides with it. They observe strange discrepancies between the natural laws of Earth $600 and those that apply to their surroundings, struggle among one another to establish

www.yesterdaysmuse.com 18 power, and ultimately decide to work together to escape the comet. Originally published in French in 1877 as Les Voyages Extraordinaires: Hector Servadac Voyages et Aventures a Travers Le Monde Solaire, this American edition was printed in New York the following year. Good. Tear along spine head, corners rubbed with some loss, hinges weak, one gathering sprung but holding. 62. [Literature] Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905. First edition (no ads following text). 532 pp. 8vo. The popular second novel by the author who later became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1921). Originally serialized in Scribner’s Magazine, its success was described by Charles Scribner as ‘the most rapid sale of any book ever published by Scribner’ (Benstock, A Critical History of The House of Mirth). This catapulted Wharton’s career as a writer, and her works influenced authors such as F. Scott $500 Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Near fine. Tabard Inn Library bookplate and pencil name on front endpapers. 63. [Literature] Wright, Richard; Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Native Son Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, first state (navy blue cloth, not grey). xi, [1], 359, [1] pp. 8vo. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. “Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright’s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner $500 cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.” Very good. Includes new facsimile dust jacket. Minor wear to corners, front free endpaper removed, rear endpaper beginning to split along hinge, but binding holding tightly. 64. [Medical; Hydropathy] Fitch, William Edward Mineral Waters of the United States and American Spas Lea & Febiger, 1927. First edition. xvi, 799, [1] pp. 8vo. A medical survey of mineral waters and spas in the United States of America, and a study of hydropathy, also known as ‘the water cure,’ which was a popular homeopathic method of the era. Near fine. Ink ‘University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project’ stamp on endpapers and fore edge, a few tiny blemishes to boards. $250 65. [Medical] Osler, William The Principles and Practice of Medicine, Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Second edition. xvi, [2], 1143, [1], 8, [2] pp. 8vo. Full leather, burgundy morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. An immensely important work of general medical knowledge, written by a co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler’s creation of the first residency program and emphasis on teaching students through clinical experience rather than lectures led many to call $500 him the father of modern medicine. Garrison-Morton 2231: “Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. He became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford in 1904. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, he was possessed of a fine literary style and an extensive knowledge of medical bibliography. Garrison has written of him: “When he came to die, Osler was, in a very real sense, the greatest physician of our time… Good looks, distinction, blithe, benignant manners, a sunbright personality, radiant with kind feeling and good will toward his fellow men, an Apol- lonian poise, swiftness and surety of thought and speech, every gift of the gods was his; and to these were added careful training, unsurpassed clinical ability, the widest knowledge of his subject, the deepest interest in everything human, and a serene hold upon his fellows that was as a seal set upon them”.” Bibliotheca Osleriana 3544. Very good. Boards a bit soiled, minor split to bottom of front joint, owner bookplate and ink name of Dr. Harry Stearns Platts on front endpapers, front and end matter faintly foxed.

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66. [Medical] Woodsworth, John M. Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States: The Introduction of Epidemic Cholera through the Agency of the Mercantile Marine: Suggestions of Measures of Prevention Government Printing Office, 1875. 28, vi, 1025 pp. A history of the cholera epi- demic with state-by-state accounts, as well as an account of its effect on the United States Army, and recommendations for prevention. Near fine. Rebacked in green boards. Minor tear and minor crease to first few pages. 67. [Military Biography] Buell, Augustus C. $175 Paul Jones: Founder of the American Navy - A History, in Two Volumes Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. xv, [1], 328, [6]; vii, [1], 379, [5] pp. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece of Paul Jones in first volume, etched portrait frontispiece in second volume. Also includes a map of the British Isles, an outboard profile of the $175 Bon Homme Richard, a plan of the battle of the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis, and a facsimile of an letter from Paul Jones to George Washington. Very good. Spine and edges a bit rubbed. 68. [Military Biography] Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, in Two Volumes Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First edition. 584; 647 pp. 8vo. Engravings and maps throughout text, as well as fold-out facsimiles of the original terms of Lee’s surrender (which Grant wrote himself) and of General Buckner’s dispatch regarding terms of capitulation, with Grant’s reply and Buckner’s response surrendering Fort Donelson. The famous memoirs of the leader of the Union army during the American Civil War, including accounts of his boyhood $750 and early career during the Mexican War. Mark Twain can be partially credited for the release of Grant’s memoirs; Grant’s health was ailing (he soon died of cancer), and Twain encouraged Grant to write them as a way to provide for his family after his death. The books were barely completed before Grant passed away, and were published posthumously. Near fine. Minimal cosmetic wear. Both volumes tight and square with sharp corners, interiors clean and unmarked. An exceptional copy. 69. [Military Biography] Hill, George Canning Benedict Arnold. A Biography. (American Biographical Series) E.O. Libby and Company, 1858. First edition (Sabin 31816). vi, [7]-295, [1]-16 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles. Publisher’s ads preceding and following text. Frontispiece of Major Andre from a pen sketch by himself the day before his execution, engraved title page precedes plain printed title, seven engraved plates in text. The only complete biography of Benedict Arnold at the time of its publication. Very good. First gathering slightly sprung but two of four sewings still holding firmly, owner bookplate, ink name, and date on front endpapers, corners lightly rubbed. $250 70. [Military Biography] Sheridan, P.H. Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan. General United States Army. in Two Volumes Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First edition. xiii, 500; xi, 486 pp. 8vo. Includes numerous illustrations and maps, of which eleven are fold-outs. Philip Henry Sheridan was a Union general during the American Civil War who, under the command of Ulysses S. Grant, won several significant victories against Confederate forces. He also fought in the Great Plains Indian Wars, and though they continued until after his $250 death, his efforts during this conflict helped protect Yellowstone National Park, and he was promoted to General of the Army in the year of his

www.yesterdaysmuse.com 20 death (1888). Near fine. Small owner sticker on reverse of volume 1 front flyleaf, tiny ink name and number on front endpaper of each, front hinge of volume 2 just beginning to weaken, tiny spot on rear board of volume 1. 71. [Military Biography] Sherman, W.T. Personal Memoirs of Gen. W.T. Sherman. in Two Volumes Charles L. Webster & Company, 1890. Third edition, revised and corrected. vi, 455; 570 pp. 8vo. Frontispiece in volume I, fold-out maps in both volumes. A scarce installment in the ‘shoulder strap’ series of Civil War generals released by Charles L. Webster during the late 19th century. William Tecumseh Sherman was famous for his scorched earth campaign through the South, now known as Sherman’s March to the Sea. $375 Very good. Two gatherings slightly sprung but holding firmly, slightly musty, frontispiece faintly foxed. 72. [Military Biography] Stuart, I.W. Life of Captain Nathan Hale: The Martyr-Spy of the American Revolution F.A. Brown, 1856. xii, [2], [13]-271, [1], 12 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Lithographic frontispiece and plates. A biography of the soldier in the Continental Army and member of Knowlton’s Rangers, the first organized intelligence service organization of the United States of America. Hale spied on the British, and was captured and executed during a mission in New York City. His service earned him the title of state hero of Connecticut. $150 Good. Boards rubbed and soiled, foxed throughout, bookplate remnant on front endpaper. 73. [Military History] Botts, John Minor The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure. Harper & Brothers, 1866. First edition (Sabin 6828). xxviii, [29]-402, 2, 2, [6] pp. 12mo. Green cloth, gilt titles and rules, brown endpapers. A contemporary account of the American Civil War, written by a Virginian politician who supported the Unionist cause, despite his ownership of slaves who worked on his plantation. He was imprisoned for his beliefs in 1862. Very good. Pencil name on front flyleaf, one gathering sprung but holding firmly, minor blemishes to corners. $175 74. [Military History] Cook, Frederick Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations, Prepared Pursuant to Chapter 361, Laws of the State of New York, of 1885 Knapp, Peck & Thomson Printers, 1887. First edition. xv, [1], 579, [3] pp. Tall 8vo. Includes several fold-out maps, plus a pocket inside the front cover containing maps and plans. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portraits in text of Brigadier General James Clinton, Colonel Peter Gansevoort (from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, famous for his portrait of George Washington), and Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. Original brown cloth, gilt titles & rules, blind-stamped double border. John Sullivan was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the $225 Continental Congress who served as a major general in the Continental Army and as Governor (or ‘President’) of New Hampshire. He is best known for leading the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois towns that had taken up arms against the American revolutionaries. This volume contains journals by 27 officers present during the campaign, and has become the authoritative primary source of the event. Very good. All maps included (5 in pockets, 6 in text, including 3 fold-outs). Front endpaper loose, boards rubbed. 75. [Military History] Duyckinck, E.A. [Evert Augustus] History of the War of the Union, Civil, Military & Naval, in Three Volumes Johnson, Fry & Company, 1862. Complete in three volumes, published individually from 1862-1865. ii, 620; 660; 642 pp. 4to. $225 Original dark brown leather, black stamped decorations, gilt

www.yesterdaysmuse.com 21 titles, all edges gilt Engraved plates from photographs and paintings by Alonzo Chappel throughout. A contemporary account of the American Civil War. Good. Some binding repair, boards and edges rubbed with some drying of leather, ink name and address on front flyleaf. 76. [Military History] Foote, Shelby; Editors of Time-Life Books The Civil War: A Narrative, in Fourteen Volumes: Secession to Fort Henry; Fort Donelson to Memphis; Yorktown to Cedar Mountain; Second Manassas to Pocotaligo; Fredericksburg to Steel Bayou; Charleston Harbor to Vicksburg; Gettysburg to Draft Riots; Tullahoma to Missionary Ridge; Mine Run to Meridian; Red River to Spotsylvania; Yellow Tavern to Cold Harbor; James Crossing to Johnsonville; Petersburg Siege to Bentonville; Fort Stedman to $275 Reconstruction Time-Life Books, 2006. Foote’s authoritative account of the American Civil War, reissued in a fourteen-volume anniversary edition, with period photographs, sketches, paintings, engravings, and maps included for the first time. Near fine. Minor sticker remnants on rear jacket panel of a few volumes. 77. [Military History] Hubbard, Robert Historical Sketches of Roswell Franklin, Drawn up at the Request of Stephen Franklin A. Stevens, 1839. 103, [1] pp. 12mo. Black leather spine, marbled paper over boards. Howes H-753. Eyewitness accounts of the Revolutionary War, and life in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. Good. Boards rubbed, hinges weakening, two closed tears to spine head, lightly stained throughout. 78. [Military History] Miller, Francis Trevelyan; Lanier, Robert S.; Taft, William H.; Lanier, Henry Wysham; Swift, Eben; Chadwick, French E.; Putnam, George Haven; Wright, $750 Marcus J.; Elson, Henry W.; Barnes, James; Commager, Henry Steele The Photographic History of the Civil War, in Ten Volumes: Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities -- The Opening Battles; Two Years of Grim War; The Decisive Battles; The Cavalry; Forts and Artillery; The Navies; Prisons and Hospitals; Soldier Life and the Secret Service; Poetry and Eloquence from the Blue and the Gray; The Armies and the Leaders Review of Reviews Company, 1911. First edition. Tall 8vo. Miller’s famous visual history of the American Civil war. Very good. Boards lightly rubbed with a few faint spots to spines of three volumes, hinges beginning to $750 weaken, endpapers lightly foxed. 79. [Military History] Ryder, Clayton M. The Stars and Stripes: A Complete File of The Stars and Stripes, the Official Newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces, Printed in France from February 8th, 1918 to June 13th, 1919 A.E.F. Publishing Association, 1920. “This volume contains an exact reproduction of the seventy-one issues of ‘The Stars and Stripes,’ the weekly newspaper published in France by and for the American Expeditionary Forces during the period from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919... a human and living contemporaneous history of the part played by the American Army in the Great War.” Good. Pages toned, tear to fore-edge margin, affect a small portion of text, corners rubbed, light stain to edge of front board. 80. [Military History] Stone, Ebenezer W. [Whitten] Compend of Instructions in Military Tactics, and the Manual of Percussion Arms, with Extracts from the U.S. Army Regulations. $225 William White, Printer to the State, 1857. First edition (Sabin 92037). 139, [3] pp. 12mo. A standard issue military reference issued to Massachusetts militia members, written by the Adjutant General of Massachusetts. Very

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good. Light stain on base of rear board, small spot on front corner. 81. [Military History] V Corps; Gerow, L.T.; Huebner, C.R.; Wilkerson, Edgar A.; Payne, Alfred C.; Grimson, Lynn G.; Kelly, Charles L. History of V Corps [V Corps Operations in the ETO, 6 Jan. 1942 - 9 May 1945] Navy Department, United States of America, 1945. 511, [1] pp. Folio. A restricted history of the V Corps in the $250 European Theater of Operations, including detailed ac- counts of their role in the D-Day invasion. Illustrated with numerous maps and photographs. The contents of this volume were classified as $400 ‘secret’ or ‘top secret’ until the end of the war. Good. Binding repaired, margin of lost two pages lightly stained, ink owner information on front endpaper. 82. [Modern First Editions] McMurtry, Larry Lonesome Dove: A Novel Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition in first issue jacket without Pulitzer notation. 843 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4. 8vo. “Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel written by Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series, but the third instalment in the series chronologically. The story focuses on the relationship of several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana.” Near fine in very good jacket. Tiny bookstore label on rear endpaper, jacket lightly toned. $125 83. [Modern First Editions] Rothfuss, Patrick Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) (Daw Book Collectors No. 1396) Daw Books, Inc., 2007. First edition, first printing, in ‘red haired man’ jacket (one of two original jacket states). 661, [1] pp. 8vo. Author’s first novel, for which Rothfuss won the Quill Award. The second book in The Kingkiller Chronicles, The Wise Man’s Fear, made it to the top of the bestsellers list, and inspired a tabletop game called Tak. Rothfuss is known in the tabletop gaming community for his appearances on Penny Arcade, Critical Role, and Tabletop. Fine. An exceptional $600 copy. 84. [Modern First Editions] Updike, John The Rabbit Tetralogy: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books, 1960. First editions. Rabbit, Run includes first state jacket with 16-line $950 blurb on front flap. Four hardcover volumes. 307, [3]; 406, [2]; 467, [5]; 512, [6] pp. 8vo. The saga of Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom. Books three and four in the series both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1982 and 1990). Because the publication of the four books spanned thirty years, it is difficult to locate complete sets. Very good. First volume: jacket lightly rubbed with minimal loss from corners, ink initials on front endpaper. Second volume: front free endpaper removed. Third volume: publisher stamp on page base, faint crease on front jacket flap. BUY WITH ITEM 101 AND SAVE $100. 85. [Mormonism] Young, Ann Eliza; Gough, John B.; Livermore, Mary A. Wife No. 19, or The Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Expose of Mormonism, and Revealing the Sorrows, Sacrifices and Sufferings of Women in Polygamy, by Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young’s Apostate Wife Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1876. Second edition. 605, [1] pp. 8vo. A memoir by the wife of $175 Mormon leader Brigham Young, condemning the religion in general, and the practice of polygamy in particular. Good. 1 inch tear to spine head, front joint beginning to split,

www.yesterdaysmuse.com 23 corners a bit rubbed, frontispiece a bit foxed, a few pages lightly soiled. 86. [Music] Wicks, Mark Organ Building for Amateurs. A Practical Guide for Home-Workers, Containing Specifications, Designs, and Full Instructions for Making Every Portion of the Instrument Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. No date, preface dated 1887. 287 pp. Color fold-out frontispiece, fold-outs and diagrams throughout. With over two hundred illustrations and explanatory diagrams. Excerpt: “The method of making pipes of paper, which is an invention of my own, will, I trust, prove a boon to amateurs, especially those of limited $150 means, as by making pipes of this material the most expensive item in the cost of the instrument is reduced to a comparatively nominal sum. I do not think I could adduce better testimony of their efficiency than the fact that a practical organ-builder, who is quite unknown to me, has thought it worth his while to take up the manufacture of these pipes, and to enlarge his workshops for the purpose. I would add that the care, patience, and perseverance devoted to building even a small organ at home must necessarily afford most valuable training to young men, and the moral value of the instrument itself in a home where children are growing up cannot, I think, be over-estimated.” Very good. Ink and pencil names on half-title page. 87. [Mystery] Ellin, Stanley The Key to Nicholas Street: An Inner Sanctum Mystery Simon and Schuster, 1952. First edition. 219, [5] pp. 8vo. A mystery novel by the three- time Edgar Allan Poe award winner, whose appearances in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and stories adapted to screen for Alfred Hitchcock Presents earned him a reputation as one of the masters of crime fiction. Near fine in very good jacket. Board corner faintly pushed, a few small tears and one tiny chip along jacket edges. $250 88. [Native American] [Eastman, Edwin] Seven and Nine Years among the Camanches and Apaches. Clark Johnson, M.D., 1873. First edition (Sabin 79352). 309, [5] pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece of author in native garb, three engraved plates (including one of a buffalo hunt). A firsthand account of time spent among the native Americans, including time spent on the Western frontier. Good. Boards lightly soiled, front and end matter and a few text pages lightly foxed, faint stains margins of a few pages, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 89. [Native American] Hathaway, Benjamin $125 The League of the Iroquois, and Other Legends. From the Indian Muse. S.C. Griggs and Company, 1882. xii, [2], 319, [5] pp. 8vo. An exploration of Native Americans mythology in verse form. The author asserts in the introduction that there are numerous similarities between native culture and religion, and that of European settlers. Good. First gathering loosening, ink gift note on front flyleaf (R. Van Dusen, Arcadia, Wayne Co., N.Y., 3-15-1884), owner plate on title page, frontispiece foxed. $250 90. [Natural History] Bigland, John A Natural History of Animals. John Grigg, 1828. First edition. Includes color leopard frontispiece, color fox vignette title page, and all ten color plates. 189, [5] pp. 12mo. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles and rules, paper over boards. An illustrated natural history of animals focusing solely on quadrupeds. Good. Boards a bit rubbed, closed tears to fore edge of some pages, lightly $250 foxed throughout, image of a wolf stamped on rear paste-down endpaper. 91. [Occult] [Personal Copy of Violet Tweedale]; Miss X (Goodrich-Freer, A.) Essays in Psychical Research George Redway, 1899. Second edition. xv, [1], 330, [2] pp. 8vo. Errata slip bound in preceding p. 1. The personal copy of Violet Tweedale, a Scottish spiritualist. Ada Goodrich-Freer, who published most of her works under the pseudonym ‘Miss X’, was a self-described mystic and psychic who wrote

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quite a few books and articles in this field. She was likely among those fraudulently capitalizing on the popularity of spiritualism at the time, though: she was expelled from the Society for Psychical Research based on such suspicions, and was later found to be faking a seance. Violet Tweedale, to whom this book belonged, also wrote numerous works in the field (as well as quite a few novels). Tweedale was an associated of Helena Blavatsky, the prominent Russian occultist and founder of the Theosophical Society. Tweedale belonged to the Order of the Golden Dawn. Her 1924 book Phantoms of the Dawn included a preface by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Doyle was a self-declared spiritualist, and attended numerous seances and other such $250 gatherings. He was also a member of the same society that rejected Goodrich- Freer. In this work, ‘Miss X’ discusses haunted houses, crystal-gazing, dowsing, hypnotism, psychic healing, and second sight. An interesting book with a fascinating association. Near fine. Tweedale’s name in pencil on the front endpa- per. Edges and endpapers a bit foxed. 92. [Piracy] Esquemeling, John; Powell, Henry The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Both English and French), Wherein are contained more especially the Unparalleled Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican Hero, who sacked Porto Bello, burnt Panama, etc., Now Faithfully Rendered into English, with Facsimiles of the Original Engravings. $400 Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. First thus. xxxv, [1], 508 pp. 8vo. A history of pirate and buccaneer activity in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Reprinted from the edition of 1684, to which is added a reprint of the very scarce fourth part, by Basil Ringrose (1685), containing the ‘Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp and Others’, edited, with an introduction, by Henry Powell. Engraved frontispiece of Henry Morgan, six engraved plates in text (including an excellent panoramic view of the destruction of the Spanish Armada), and a fold-out map. Very good. Spine faded, owner bookplate on front endpaper, hinges just starting, frontispiece and fold-out map loose but included. 93. [Poetry] Vaughan, Henry; Rhys, Ernest Poems The Gregynog Press, 1924. Limited edition, #340 of 500 copies, hand-numbered on colophon. xxxv, [1], 85, [5] pp. Navy blue cloth spine, decorated paper over boards, gilt titles. A fine press collection of verse by the Welsh metaphysical poet, featuring an introduction by Ernest Rhys, and woodcuts designed and engraved by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray. Very good. Boards lightly soiled, card laid in with ink gift note (‘With our very best wishes for your happiness, Tom + ??? Jones, 17 Sept. 1931’ $425 [??? is illegible]). Possibly given as a wedding gift?. 94. [Political Philosophy] Paine, Thomas Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. [with] Rights of Man: Part Second. Combining Principle and Practice. Published for D. Jordan, Piccadilly, 1792. Ninth edition, printed in the same year as part two’s original release, and just a year after the first appearance of part one. ESTC T5876 and N13105. Howes P31 and P32. viii, 110, [2], xiii, [14]-142, [2] pp. 4to. Both parts of Paine’s famous work in defense of political revolution. The first part was originally printed in 1791, and the second part followed the next year. “Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights $1,500 of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke’s attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).” Near fine. Rebound in grey paper-covered boards with paper spine label and new end sheets. Brief pencil marginalia on just a couple pages, a few pages very faintly foxed, otherwise an exceptional copy.

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95. [Political Philosophy] Paine, Thomas; Van der Weyde, William M.; Edison, Thomas A. The Life and Works of Thomas Paine, in Ten Volumes (Patriot’s Edition) Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925. Complete in ten hardcover volumes. 8vo. Brown cloth, paper spine labels. An interesting set, showcasing the scope of Paine’s abilities, which reached far further than the political thought for which he is most $275 well known. Includes Common Sense; The Rights of Man; The Age of Reason; and numerous other important shorter works, as well as correspondence (with several facsimiles of original documents). Visit our website to see a full list of contents. Very good. Boards lightly soiled, hinges of first and last volume repaired 96. [Presidential Writings] Lincoln, Abraham; Nicolay, John G.; Hay, John; Hill, John Wesley; et al The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, in Twelve Volumes (Sponsors Edition) Lincoln Memorial University, 1894. Limited edition, #212 of an unspecified limitation, this set ‘especially prepared for Ann $2,000 Emerson Strong, to whom it was presented by her father Pritchard H. Strong. Copyright page states 1894, but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red full leather, gilt titles & decorations, top edges gilt, decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln’s, including speeches, letters, biographical writings, etc., with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln’s private secretary and assistant secretary, and also served in various other governmental roles, Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln’s administration, originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States, and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents, most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents, reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings, etc. Near fine. Small chip from spine head of volume 7, 1/4 inch tear to spine head of first volume, otherwise an excellent set, small bookplate with initials A.E.S. on front endpaper of first volume. 97. [Psychology] Freud, Sigmund; Strachey, James; Freud, Anna; Strachey, Alix; Tyson, Alan; Richards, Angela; Breuer, Josef The Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, in Twenty-Four Volumes The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-analysis, 1975. Complete in twenty-four volumes. The majority of Freud’s works were not translated into English during his lifetime. This edition is a translation of his complete psychological writings, and unlike $950 the German Gesammelte Werke also includes critical footnotes by the editors. Edited by James Strachey, a member of the Bloomsbury Group who studied under Freud, in collaboration with Freud’s daughter Anna and several other contributors. Visit our website to view the full contents. Very good. Jacket spines toned, a few jackets lightly stained, W.W. Norton publisher sticker on rear panel of each jacket (they were the U.S. distributor of this set). Bindings tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. Overall a well-preserved, attractive set. 98. [Signed] [Max, Peter]; Riley, Charles A. The Art of Peter Max Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2002. First edition. 240 pp. “A comprehensive retrospective illustrates the artist’s life and prolific career as reflected in his works and includes 350 full-color images, many previously unpublished.” Fine. Inscribed and signed by Peter Max in blue and green marker (‘Debbie + John Laur + Katie

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Love MAX 2003’, with several drawings of their initials in hearts). An exceptional copy. 99. [Signed] Dunn, Katherine Geek Love: A Novel Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. 347 pp. A novel about a traveling carnival, which was a National Book Award finalist. Tim Burton purchased the film rights in the 1990s. Near fine. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine very faintly toned, jacket spine head very lightly $125 bumped. 100. [Signed] Erdrich, Louise $325 Love Medicine: A Novel Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First edition. viii, 272 pp. Author’s first novel. “Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine—the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich—is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life. Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a $125 stunning work of dramatic fiction.” Near fine. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps lightly toned, rear jacket flap lightly creased. 101. [Signed] Updike, John Rabbit at Rest (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society) The Franklin Library, 1990. First edition, preceding the Alfred A. Knopf trade edition. 512 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-page color image precedes title page. Updike’s fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. Franklin Library’s Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece $150 that appear only in the limited edition. “In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year of 1989, Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.” Fine. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. BUY WITH ITEM 84 AND SAVE $100.

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