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front cover: item 22 inside front cover: item 41 inside rear cover: item 38 rear cover: item 37 catalogue 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. inscribed by hoover to adolph lewisohn 2 1 (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) A List of the General and Field AGRICOLA, Georgius. De Re Metallica. Translated by Officers, As They Rank in the Army; Of the Officers in the Several Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. Profusely Regiments of Horse, Dragoons, and Foot, on the British and Irish illustrated with woodcuts from the first Latin edition of Establishments … The Whole Complete for 1768. [iv], 1-132 [inter- 1556. [iv], xxxi, [i], 640, [2] pp. Folio, London: The Mining leaved with 66 leaves], [133]-227, [1] pp, [pp. 167-8, 188-9 mis- Magazine, 1912. One of 3000 copies. Publisher’s vellum over numbered]. 8vo, London: Printed for by J. Millan, n.d. [1767]. boards, spine titled in black. Joints cracked, covers soiled, First edition, on thick paper. Contemporary red morocco, offsetting from morocco booklabel onto facing page, else covers tooled in gilt with wide dentelle border of floral and fine. In a custom vellum-backed slipcase and chemise. Prov- backwards-facing bird tools, spine gilt in six compartments enance: Adolph Lewisohn (presentation inscription, morocco with raised bands, black morocco spine label in the second, booklabel). date stamped in gilt in the third, the rest tooled in gilt with small floral and acorn tools, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Light The Herbert Hoover translation of the classic work on min- rubbing to binding, small splits at head of joints. Provenance: ing and metalurgy. This copy inscribed by Hoover to mining Simon Fraser (engraved armorial bookplate, “Lt. Coll. Fraser magnate Adolph Lewisohn, “To Adolph Lewishon [sic] Esq, / 24th Regt.”). With compliments of HC Hoover.” Lewisohn (1849-1938) was a German-born investment banker, copper mine owner, A beautifully bound interleaved copy on thick paper with book and art collector, and philanthropist. He made signifi- wide margins, likely presented by the War Office to Simon cant contributions to Columbia University and the Brooklyn Fraser on his appointment as Lt. Colonel of the 24th Regi- Museum of Art. He was friendly with Presidents Coolidge ment of Foot in 1768. Fraser went on to play a significant and Hoover and took an automobile trip through England role in the Revolutionary War in action in upstate New York, with the latter in 1908. A superb association. Vermont and Canada. He was fatally wounded in the battle of Bemis Heights, October 7, 1777. $3,000 sold in original boards 3 AUSTEN, Jane. Emma: A Novel … 214, [2, blanks]; 222, [2, blanks] pp. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833. Second American edition, one of 1,250 copies printed. Original muslin-backed boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spine faded, label to vol. II with loss, textblocks somewhat foxed, with occasional marginal flaws. Owner signature of Sarah Wright in ink on flyleaf, in pencil on title of vol. I, and as S.G. Wright at head of first page of text in vol. II. Gilson B7. The earliest obtainable American printing of Emma (the 1816 first American edition is known in 3 copies), in choice and unsophisticated condition. $15,000

2 | james cummins bookseller in original boards 4 AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. A Novel … [4, ads], 200; 204 pp. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadel- phia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition. One of 1,250 copies printed. Original muslin-backed boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spines faded, label to vol. I with losses, label to vol. II perished, textblocks somewhat foxed, with occasional marginal flaws. Small ink stamp of S. B. Wright at head of title of vol. II, and another leaf. Gilson B4. $10,000

catalogue 122 | 3 in original boards in original boards 5 6 AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion … 204; 204 pp. With [36] page AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility: A Novel … [2, ads], 199; catalogue of books “Just published by Carey and Lea” at end [2, ads], 199 pp. The advertisments bear the heading of Carey, of vol. I. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First Lea & Blanchard. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, American edition, one of 1,250 copies printed. Original mus- 1833. First American edition. Original muslin-backed boards, lin-backed boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spines printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spines faded, label to vol. II faded, small losses to labels, textblocks somewhat foxed, with perished, textblocks somewhat foxed, with occasional mar- occasional marginal flaws. Owner signatures of Sarah Wright ginal flaws. Notations in pencil on flyleaf of vol. I. Owner in pencil. Gilson B3. signatures of Sophia B Wright in ink or in pencil on several Attractive and entirely unsophisticated copy of the first leaves. Gilson B6. American printing. $10,000 $10,000

4 | james cummins bookseller carey’s catholic bible, 1790 7 (BIBLE, Catholic) The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate: Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions, in Divers Languages; And First Published by the English College at Doway, Anno 1609. Newly Revised, And Corrected, According to the Clementine Edition of the Scriptures. With Annotations for Elucidat- ing the Principal Difficulties of Holy Writ. viii, 487; 280, *281-*284, 281-490 pp. 2 volumes bound in one. Thick 4to, Philadelphia: Carey Stewart, and Co, 1790. First American Catholic Bible. Title page with loss to outer edge, text supplied in expert facsimile, affecting four letters of title and the end of the imprint line, and some words of the table of contents on verso. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Lacks pp. 13-16 (first volume); pp. 461-62, 467- 90 (second volume), supplied in expert facsimile. Original calf boards, expertly rebacked in ornately tooled calf, leather label. Despite the flaws, a quite acceptable copy of one of the rarest of American Bibles. Evans 22349; Parsons 87; Hills 23; Herbert 1343; Rumball-Petrie 168; O’Callaghan, pp. 34-35. A remarkable gathering of firsts in a single volume: the first Catholic Bible printed in the United States, the first Catholic Bible printed in any language in the New World, the first Bible printed in quarto format in the U.S., the first Bible printed by Mathew Carey, and the first minority-religion Bible printed in America. Catholics constituted only a small minority of the population of the United States in 1790. Even so, Mathew Carey, an exile from Ireland, believed that America could support the publication of an edition of the English Catholic Bible. He secured approximately 475 subscribers, and it is thought the print run did not exceed 500 copies. In 1954 a census of extant copies found thirty-five copies in public and private collections. While the number of copies today may perhaps be forty-five, the volume’s continuing rarity can be understood when one realizes that the Vatican Library did not possess a copy until 1979. With good reason, Margaret Hills describes this edition as “the rarest of the notable early American editions of the Bible.” A significant edition both in the history of Bible printing and the history of publishing in the United States. $12,500

catalogue 122 | 5 triple dos à dos binding 8 (BINDING, Dos à Dos) [Kempis, Thomas à]. De L’Imitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduction nouvelle, Par le Sieur De Beüil, Prieur de S. Val. Four engraved frontispieces. 420 pp. 4 volumes bound dos à dos in 3 volumes. 12mo, Paris: Chez la Veuve Charles Savreux, 1670. Sixteenth edition. Contemporary triple dos-à-dos binding, full dark brown morocco, ruled and stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Rub- bing to binding with some dulling to gilt, wear to corners and to head of spine of middle volume. De Backer 647; OCLC: 822621766 (1 copy). An unusual example of a French dos-à- dos binding, or “reliure trijumelle,” joing three volumes. “Très rares en France, elles [reliures dos à dos] sont mieux représen- tées dans les pays germaniques, au Dane- mark, et surtout en Angleterre, où elles sont fréquemment brodées“ (Bibliothèque Nationale de France). $7,500

6 | james cummins bookseller lorenz schwartz roycrofter binding with original binding order slip 9 (BINDING, Roycrofter) Franklin, Benjamin. Poor Richard’s Almanack and Other Papers … and A Little Journey to the Home of Benja- min Franklin by Elbert Hubbard. [ii], 110, [2] pp. 8vo, Roycroft-town. East Aurora, N.Y: Printed by The Roycrofters, 1924. One of 20 copies on Japan vellum, this copy out-of-series. Contemporary three quarter tan morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt and tooled in gilt and blind, t.e.g., by Lorenz Schwartz. Light dampstain to rear board, else fine. With the original Roycrofter binding order slip, indicating the binding in “3/4 Levant” was done by Lorenz Schwartz and cost $15. The slip is ingeniously designed to fit over the top outer corner of an endleaf. A rare piece of Roycrofter ephemera. Lorenz Schwartz was second only to Louis Kinder in his accomplishemnts as a Roycrofter binder — “without doubt [aside from Kinder] the best craftsman and finisher and the one who gained the most acclaim as a fine hand binder in America” (Wolfe, Louis Herman Kinder, p. 51). $1,000

10 BRYANT, William Cul- len, ed. Picturesque America. With illustrations on 49 steel engravings and wood, by eminent American artists including Harry Fenn, Thomas Moran. 568; 576 pp. 2 vols. 4to, New York: D. Appleton and Co, (1872-4). First edition, second state. Original publisher’s full brown pebbled morocco. Some rubbing to extremities, else fine. AB L 1732. $1,200

catalogue 122 | 7 early history of the wahhabis in arabia 11 BRYDGES, Harford Jones, Sir. An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia, in the Years 1807-11 … to Which is Appended, A Brief History of the Wahauby. Lithographed frontispiece to each volume, 8 lithographed plates of Persian costume, all on Chine appliqué, folding map of central Arabia and Egypt. 2 vols. 8vo, London: James Bohn, 1834. First edition. Contemporary tan calf, spines renewed in period style. Some foxing, occasionally affecting plates, else near fine. Ghani pp. 53-4. Sir Harford Jones Brydges (1764–1847), diplomat, linguist, and author, long-time employee of the East India Company in Basra and Baghdad, was appointed envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to the court of Persia, where he dwelt from 1807 to 1811. “His main achievement was the Preliminary treaty of 1809 which effectively barred France from the route to India. He began the involvement of British military instructors in the Persian army and he prevented peace between Persia and Russia” (ODNB). This account of his years in Persia is of considerable importance for its history of the rise of the Wahhabi teachings in the Ara- bian Peninsula. RARE. $12,500

8 | james cummins bookseller burke’s philosophy of beauty byron family autographs 12 13 [BURKE, Edmund]. A Philosphical Enquiry into the Origin of BYRON, Lord. Collection of autograph material relating our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. [16], 184 pp. 8vo, London: to Lord Byron and his family. V.p: ca. 1784-1814. Laid into an Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. First edition, with half- early 19th-century full black morocco gilt album, worn and title. Contemporary tan calf, leather spine label. Joints a bit split at hinges, original locking clasp. tender, but the binding is sound and the interior is immacu- A fine collection of Byron family autographs, including one late, beautifully clean and crisp, and complete with half-title. unpublished letter by the poet to publisher “Clio” Rick- Todd 5a. man; the poet’s aunt Sophia Byron announcing the death Burke’s very scarce fifth publication (if one includes the dis- of “Mad Jack” Byron; Richard Byron on the death of “Mad puted An Account of the European Settlements), and, according Jack” Byron’s first wife, Augusta Leigh’s mother; George to Todd (citing internal evidence) “This would appear to be Anson Byron on the debts of the poet’s mother, Catherine a rather small edition, possibly like the Vindication limited to Gordon. Many of the letters bear the notes and annotations 500 copies …” of publisher Thomas “Clio“ Rickman, who we assume to $4,000 have assembled much of this collection in the early part of the 19th century. Several of the letters are addressed to navy agent James Sykes, a friend of the family and a relation by marriage. A fascinating collection, diffucult to assemble today, which highlights the early deaths and financial troubles that plagued the Byron family. Comprising: BYRON, [Lord (Gordon Noel)]. Autograph letter, signed (“Byron”), to Thomas “Clio” Rickman. 1 p. pen and ink on folded sheet, integral address leaf. Albany: April 30, 1814. Loss from removal of seal, remnant of mounting on one edge, early paper repairs, docketed. Reading in part, “I have only this day received your letter. My name & subscription are

catalogue 122 | 9 very much at your friend’s service and I wish him all success in his undertaking …” Rickman’s friend is unnamed — it may be that Byron is agreeing to subscribe to a volume of poems or plays by Charles Verral, whose work Rickman published in 1815. Not in Byron’s Letters & Journals. BYRON, S[ophia] M[aria] (1756?-1821). Autograph Letter, signed (“S.M. Byron”), to James Sykes. 1 p. pen and ink on folded sheet, integral address leaf. Upton [Margate]: August 9, 1791. Light wear and creasing, two small holes, docketed. Letter from Byron’s aunt announcing the death of Byron’s father, John “Mad Jack” Byron, “I lose no time in acquainting you of the melancholy [event] which has lately happened and informing you of the death of my unfortunate eldest Brother. He died at Valenciennes the 2nd of August after a long suffering illness …” BYRON, Richard (1724-1811). Autograph Letter, signed (“Richd Byron”), to Mrs. Byron [Sophia Trevannion, wife of Admiral John “Foul Weather Jack” Byron], on the death of her daughter-in-law, Lady Conyers, the first wife of Captain John “Mad Jack” Byron. 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet, integral address leaf. Winston, February 1, 1784. Light wear and soiling, small piece torn from seal, docketed. From Byron’s great uncle, reading in part, “We are under very great & unfeigned concern for the loss of Lady Conyers which will likewise be severely felt in the neighborhood of the Castle; if any thing can alleviate Mr. Byron’s pain at this event it must be to see the child [Augusta, Byron’s half-sister] in a good state of health & too young to participate in a common distress … Cap. G[eorge] Anson Byron has been & still continues to be very good to my eldest Boy [Rear-Admiral Richard Byron], for wh. I am under very great obligations to him. I am ready to discharge all outstanding accts there … We cannot but feel very much for Lady Holderness [Lady Conyers mother] on this unhappy occasion …” BYRON, G[eorge] A[nson] (1758-1793). Autograph Letter, signed (“G.A. Byron”), to James Sykes. 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet, integral address leaf. Teingmouth [sic]: December 23, 1792. Light wear and creasing, tear from removal of seal, docketed by Rickman. George Anson Byron, the poet’s cousin once removed, writes to James Sykes to secure funds for the relief of Catherine Gordon, the poet’s mother. Reading in part, “As you were so good as to say you would send the remainder of the five hundred Pounds to Bath by the 23rd: I wrote to Mrs. Byron on that subject and I desired those to whom we are indebted to call on Monday the 24th for their Money … If you will be so good as to send a Bank Pound Bill to Mrs. Byron for that sun I shall be very much obliged to you … As I expected to hear from you this day I deferred writing to say I had another son [Admiral George Anson By- ron, succeeded the poet as the 7th Baron Byron].” BYRON, Isabella (1721-1795). Autograph Let- ter, signed (“Isabella Carlisle”), to Francis Sykes, concerning her “poor nephew” (Byron’s father, John “Mad Jack” Byron). 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet. Paris: January 16, 1785. Light creasing and soiling, tear from removal of seal, docketed. Isabella Byron’s son, Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, was appointed Lord Byron’s guardian. Manuscript document. 1 p. on folded sheet, integral address leaf. Ordering supplies from Thomas Stil- well and James Sykes. “Mrs. Byron will be thankful if Mr. Thomas will buy her a dozen papers of Dr James’s Powder — she wishes 100 doses …” Mrs Byron is possibly the wife of George Anson Byron (1789-1868), Byron’s cousin and inheritor of the Byron title, and whose banking agent was Thomas Stilwell. [With:] Manuscript copy of “Lines on the Gallic Nation, on their desertion of Napoleon. ”4 pp. pen and ink on folded folio sheet. With a note claiming the poem was “copied by Miss Harlet and sent to Thomas Hardy.” [And:] Manuscript note, signed (“Byron”), reading “This copy sent out in August 1809. I did not receive till April 4th, 1811 when it was forwarded from Malta to me at Athens.” [And:] An assortment of contemporary newspaper clippings, engravings, copied excerpts and letters. sold

10 | james cummins bookseller inscribed by willa cather to her companion edith lewis 14 (CATHER, Willa) Poe, Edgar Allan. Poems. With charcoal frontispiece portrait. Title-page and ornaments after designs by Samuel Warner, typography by Andrew Andrews. [xvi], 58 pp. 8vo, East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1901. Number 74 of 100 copies on Japan vellum, signed by Elbert Hubbard. Contem- porary Roycroft binding of three quarter brown hand-stained morocco and marbled boards, rounded spine tooled in gilt with long tendrils built up from smaller tools, t.e.g. Signed “Roycroft” in gilt on front turn-in. Fine, in original felt-lined cardboard box with printed label, box worn at joints. Inscribed by Willa Cather on the front free endpaper to her near- constant companion of 40 years, “Edith Lewis. Christmas 1907. W.S.C.” Lewis met Cather in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1903, shortly after graduating from Smith. Lewis was in awe of the older Cather, and a friendship soon developed (which included the exchanging of books at Christmas). When in 1908 Cather moved to New York to take a job with McClure’s she settled in to Lewis’s Washington Square apartment. The two women would live together for the remainder of the author’s life. Lewis, who worked as a proofreader at McClure’s, proofread Cather’s works, and Cather would come to depend on Lewis for the sense of comfort, security and privacy that she needed in order to write. As her literary executor, Lewis continued to protect Cather‘s reputation and privacy after her death, and all but one letter between the two were destroyed. Only two other books inscribed from Cather to Lewis have appeared at auction, and both were from a much later date. This example, dated 1907, is from the first few years of Cather and Lewis’s friendship and predates their cohabitation. A very rare memento from one of the most important relationships in Cather’s life. “[Lewis] gave Cather, to use Blanche Cook’s phrase, ‘a living environment in which to work creatively and independently,” and that is not an insignificant gift” (O’Brien, Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, p. 357). $6,000 cather’s set of galleys 15 CATHER, Willa. Not Under Forty. Unbound long galleys. 50 pp., printed rectos only. 25 x 7 in., [New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936]. Unbound and folded. The first and last sheet show minor soiling and some wear to the edges, otherwise fine. Crane A 21. A RARE SET OF GALLEYS, uncorrected and dated August 18, 1936, The Plimpton Press. Cather’s first collected work of nonfiction including the literary essays “A Chance Meeting,” “The Novel Démeublé,” “148 Charles Street,” Miss Jewett,” “Joseph and His Brothers” (on Thomas Mann) and “Katherine Mansfield.” Cather wrote to Alfred Knopf May 1, 1936, “I have the hope that these papers are less dull than most, because they are mostly accounts of personal adventures with very individual literary personali- ties … the best paper among them is certainly the one called The Novel Demeuble” (Selected Letters 515). Cather explained the book’s title in the preface: “it means that the book will have little interest for people under forty years of age. The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts …” This unmarked copy was possibly the proof retained by Cather, with her corrected copy going back to Knopf for final typesetting. $2,500

catalogue 122 | 11 16 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Opera omnia: cum Gruteri et selectis variorum notis & indicibus locupletissimis, accurante C. Schrev- elio. Engraved general title page, 4 sectional titles, woodcut headpieces and other ornaments. Text in two columns. [8], 51, [5], 1339, [53] pp. 4 volumes bound in 2. 4to, Amsterdam and Leiden: Daniel Elzeveir and Franciscus Hackius, 1661. Full red 18th-century morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spines richly gilt in 6 compartments, lettered in two, raised bands, leather doublures, marbled free endpapers. Small marginal repair to outer margin of engraved title. Beautiful set, with the morocco bookplates of Mortimer Schiff and that of Suzette Telenga, Enrique Ellinger. In full red morocco pull-off cases by Rivière. Willems 1268. Superb copy of this Elzevir with the works of Cicero edited by Schrevelius. One notable feature is the magnificent engraved title-page showing Cicero, surrounded by other Senators, making his plea. $4,500

10 lithographs by clavé 17 (CLAVÉ, Antoni) Pouchkine [Pushkin], Alexandre. La Dame de Pique. Traduction de Prosper Mérimée. 10 black- and-white lithographs by Antoni Clavé. [iv], 72, [4] pp. Folio, [Paris]: Editions du Pré aux Clercs, [1946]. Out-of-series copy on Rives paper, from an edition of 300. Loose as issued in publisher’s printed wrapper and glassine jacket. Fine. The Artist & the Book 58. With 10 original lithographs by the Catalan artist Antoni Clavé (1913-2005). “These decorative figures, reminiscent of the bright eyed images on early playing cards, seem laced to the page by the line of the scraper” (The Artist & the Book). $1,250

12 | james cummins bookseller “this is the original only copy of the short story & first chapter of christ in concrete — my very first writing” 18 DI DONATO, Pietro. Christ in Concrete. [Original Typescript]. 336 loose leaves typed rectos only, paginated with gaps to ff. 406, most leaves meas. 10-3/4 x 8-1/2 in., a few trimmed shorter, a few legal-length, with editor, proofreader and typesetter annotations and markings throughout. With some significant manuscript additions by di Donato, (ff. 339-342 & f. 406). 4to, N.p: 1939. First leaf with some marginal cellophane tape repairs to verso; bit of marginal dampstain to first several leaves, last leaf worn and fragile. Notation on pink sheet of Bobbs-Merrill letterhead laid in between ff. 349-350. In brown cloth box. Hanna 992 (for first edition). Provenance: from the family of a collector who bought the typescript at an auction for the benefit of Spanish Civil War refugees. Original typescript of this classic immigrant novel, described as “operatic, lyrical, ferocious and hilarious,” used by both Esquire for the publication of the short story in 1937 and by Bobbs-Merrill for the publication of the full novel in 1939. Inscribed and signed by di Donato on the first page: “This is the original only copy of the short story & first chapter of Christ in Concrete — my very first writing — Pietro di Donato, Dec 19/39.” Donato’s inscription refers to the 25-page first chapter; however, in addition to the first chapter, the typescript of the entire novel is present and closely matches the final published form. “‘Eloquent’ and ‘Italian to the core … by turns operatic, lyrical, ferocious and hilarious’ … Christ in Concrete was acclaimed as an American classic when it was published” (New York Times). The novel’s poignant tale of the immigrant experience “moved critics to hail Pietro di Donato as an extraordinary talent” (ibid). The novel, inspired by events in di Donato’s own life, tells the story of Geremio, an Italian bricklayer crushed to death in a construction accident, and the struggles of his family to provide for themselves after his death. The first chapter appeared as a short story in Esquire (March, 1937) and in the Best Short Stories of 1938, a collection dedicated to di Donato. When the novel appeared in 1939, it received great critical acclaim and appeared on best-seller lists for months. It even edged out John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, also published in 1939, for the Book of the Month Club’s main selection. The published novel was the basis for the blacklisted 1949 film Give Us This Day, directed by Edward Dmytryk. The typescript is heavily annotated with proofreader and typsetter notes. In addition, di Donato has inserted two significant passages, at ff. 339-342 & the final passage at f. 406. An early, partial typescript of the novel is in the Stony Brook University Pietro di Donato Collection; but we have traced no other complete copy of this important example of working-class immigrant literature. $15,000

catalogue 122 | 13 letter to ethel hatch 19 DODGSON, Charles L. Autograph Letter, signed, to “Ethel” [Hatch]. 4 pp. in Dodgson’s purple ink. 12mo, “Christ Church”, [Oxford]: Jan.30/’84 [1884]. Fine. In quarter purple 20 morocco and cloth drop case with descriptive lettering in gilt (DOVES PRESS) The English Bible. With calligraphic initials on upper cover. Cohen, p. 527. in red by Edward Johnston. 5 vols. 4to (13 x 9 in.; 329 x 226 mm.), London: Doves Press, 1903-1905. One of 500 copies on A touching letter. Ethel being almost certainly one of Dodg- paper. Original full limp vellum, gilt-lettered spines. Minor ir- son’s favorite “child-friends,” Ethel Hatch: regularities in the natural vellum; aside from the usual foxing “I think it will have to be YOU that settles the ‘which’ as to the to a few leaves in the first gathering in volume I (The Transla- new book: but the ‘when’ is quite another matter. It is quite a tors to the Readers), chiefly confined to lower margins, this High School sort of question – ‘If anticipation gives happi- is a fine copy of the most important book of The Doves ness, what will 40 years of anticipation give?” ANS: ‘40 years Press. In loose-fitting green cloth slipcases. Ransom, Private of happiness!’ My only fear is that is would be too much Presses, p. 251; Cave 123. happiness for you. Still, I know you are a VERY good girl (at Of the fifty or so publications of the Doves Press, the Bible is least, all the people who live in Canterbury Row, & in that by far and away the most impressive work. The great red ini- neighbourhood, have never told me anything to the con- tial and first line of the first chapter of Genesis demonstrate trary), so I say to myself ‘Yes! She DOES deserve it. She shall a perfect marriage of calligraphy and typography. The Doves have 40 years of happiness!’ Bible, alongside the Kelmscott Chaucer and the Oxford “Give B[eatrice Hatch] my love, & thanks for her letter: & Lectern Bible by Bruce Rogers, stands as one of the greatest as she now does a ‘different sort’ of work from the High typographical accomplishments of the past 100 years. School, I send her a question to work out; the like of which $15,000 was NEVER set there. ‘If it is odd to have an undergraduate brother, what is it to have two?’ ANSWER: ‘Even’ …” $6,250

14 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 122 | 15 the science fiction archive of gardner dozois 21 DOZOIS, Gardner. Archive of Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction editor and author Gardner Dozois. 35 linear feet (17 standard archive boxes and 11 letter files). Philadelphia: 1966-2013. Generally very good to fine (some early note books and letters with toning or crumpling). References: Encyclopedia of Science Fiction http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dozois_gardner. Papers and correspondence of science fiction author, editor, and anthologist Gardner Dozois, whose early stories established him as one of the most talented writers of the American New Wave (though at first perhaps better known to his fellow authors than to a wide readership) and whose subsequent work as editor and anthologist has shaped the field of science fiction more than any- one since John W. Campbell. His stories were collected in The Visible Man (1977), Strange Days: Fabulous Journeys with Gardner Dozois (2001) and When the Great Days Come (2011); many of his story collaborations (with Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, and others) were collected in Slow Dancing through Time (1990) and The Fiction Factory (2005). Dozois twice won a Nebula Award, for his stories “The Peacemaker” (1983) and “Morning Child” (1984). “Counterfactual” (2006) won the Sideways award for works of alternate history. His first novel, Nightmare Blue (1975) was an adventure tale co-written with George Alec Effinger; his novel Strangers (1978), a love story between human and alien, like his fiction and the anthologies he produced, challenges many of the earlier notions of science fiction. Another novel, Nottamun Town remains unpublished; it is present in the archive in many draft forms and in a finished typescript. In addition to commissioning original work and compiling reprints for thematic anthologies, Dozois has edited the long-running Year’s Best Science Fiction series (1984 to present). “The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction (2005) and The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels (2007) constitute perhaps the definitive showcasing of Dozois’s for- mative take on the sf field, primarily in his capacities as editor over the past 30 years. … It may be that Dozois’s main contribution 16 | james cummins bookseller (over and above a maturely realistic sense of the nature of the world) is technical: his remarkable capacity to select (and to edit) work that is both exciting to read and adult on reflection.” — John Clute, in the Encyclo- pedia of Science Fiction « http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dozois_gardner ». For nearly twenty years (from 1985 to 2004) Dozois was editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction, where he discovered and encouraged many new talents in the field. He won 15 Hugo Awards during this period. Dozois’ circle of personal and professional correspondence has been wide ranging and it documents the changes in the genre over more than four decades. He was an early and clear- headed reader of James Tiptree, Jr., and the introduction Dozois wrote for the Gregg Press edition of Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1976) presented an analysis that was psychologically acute and was in no way overturned by the revelation the next year that Tiptree was Alice Sheldon. Tiptree letters in the archive (12 Typed Letters, signed, 1974-1977, and 9 postcards) include Tiptree’s reponse to the introduction and the letter in which Alli Sheldon reveals her identity to Dozois in advance of the public acknowledgment. Substantial and candid letters from William Gibson make it plain that Gibson saw Dozois as a partisan, “you will be Thought Of and Frequently Invoked, … as Sterling & I & possibly Rudy Rucker plan the cultural demolition of Straight People’s SF” (16 Sept 1982, just before the Armadillo- con panel “Behind the Mirrorshades”). Dozois was a frequent collaborator with his friend Jack Dann, and there are dozens of letters on personal and editorial matters. George R.R. Martin and Dozois have known each other since their youth and have col- laborated on several anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth (2009), original stories written in homage to Jack Vance, Warriors! (2010), Songs of Love and Death (2010), Down These Strange Streets (2011), and the forthcoming Rogues; and the novel Hunter’s Run (2009) by Dozois and Martin and with Daniel Abraham. Dozois was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011, with a speech by Connie Willis, who published many stories with Asimov’s during Dozois’ tenure. The correspondence also documents long friendships with Pat Cadigan, Eileen Gunn, Howard Waldrop, Mary Rosenblum, Joe Haldeman, Jack Haldeman; the long connection with agent Virginia Kidd; and working relationships with Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, and almost every notable science fiction author and editor of the late twentieth century and into the new century. Since 2005, an increasing portion of Dozois’ correspondence has been electronic, and the archive includes a digital file of approximately 35,000 e-mails (sent & received) and 2,250 electronic documents. THE DOZOIS ARCHIVE CONSTITUTES AN UNPAR- ALLELED RESOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION. A summary inventory is available. The digital file is offered only as part of the archive and will not be duplicated. $150,000

catalogue 122 | 17 damming the nile: société d’etudes du nil, 1882 22 (EGYPT) Beato, Antonio, photographer. Société d’Etudes du Nil: Mission de 1882 [Manuscript title]. Title page in manuscript with title in gilt and black ink and printed medallion of the Société d’Etudes du Nil. 7 large format full-length studio portrait photographs and 1 photograph view of Philae by Antonio Beato, some captioned in pencil, each mounted on thick album leaves. Folio, photographs measure 10-1/2 x 8 in., [Egypt]: 1882. Contemporary full brown morocco, covers decorated in blind and gilt, with engraved metal plate in the shape of a pyramid with the date 1882 affixed to front cover. Some rubbing to binding, light soiling to mounts, images fine. Cf. Lepic, La dernière Egypte (1884). A curious album of full length portrait studio photographs of French archeologists, scientists, engineers, and artists who were part of the 1882 mission to Egypt by the Societe d’études du Nil, a French scientific organization founded in 1881 to explore and promote the creation of dams and reservoirs to control the annual flooding of the Nile. Three of the sitters, most of whom sport a combination of Western and Middle Eastern dress are identified on the mount — Comte Ludovic Lepic (1839-1889), in loose headscarf, cigar in hand, and a map of the Nile laid out behind him. Artist and Egyptologist, a close friend of Degas — to whom he introduced the technique of monotype — Lepic wrote a memoir of his time in Egypte (La dernière Egypte, 1884); M. Klein Georges, in pith helmet and robes, identified as the brother-in-law of Louis Le Normand, presumably the same M. Klein, a friend of Lepic, mentioned in his memoirs as an engineer of bridges and roads; “Interprète,” a young man in a Fez hat and Western suit. The remaining four portraits are not identified, though we can infer the identities of the sitters based on Lepic’s memoirs and the several scientific journals published by the Société immedi- ately following the 1882 mission. Likely candidates include Egyptologist Eugène Revillout (1843-1913), who published a note on the Mission (Le Nil, étude, 1882) — he bears a strong resemblance to the second portrait; Engineer Louis Jacquet published a report on his findings (Rapport de M. L. Jacquet, 1882) and is mentioned as a travelling companion of Lepic in his memoirs (“M. Jacquet, ingénieur en chef du Rhône, devait nous rejoindre au Caire, avec la mission scientifique”); Charles Cotard, published a work (Le Nil et l’Egypte, 1882) under the auspices of the Société d’études du Nil; Count de la Motte, founder of the Société d’études du Nil, who travelled with Lepic from Paris to Egypte, “J’avais quitté Paris depuis 3 jours et je commençais avec M. de La Motte un voy- age au Nil, ayant pour but de terminer une série d’études qui pourront avoir une immense influence sur l’avenir de l’Egypte.” De la Motte proposed dams and reservoirs at Gebel Silsila and Nubia. The final photograph is a view of the island of Philae by Antonio Beato, near the eventual site of the Aswan Low Dam. A fascinating collection — both visually and as a record of a period of European colonial involvement in the modernization of Egypt. The construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902 and the Aswan High Dam in 1970 are the fruits of these early efforts. $9,500

18 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 122 | 19 ed borein’s copy inscribed to guy hickok 23 24 HALEY, J. Evetts. The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. 355 pp. 8vo, New of the Llano Estacado. Illustrated with 2 maps & 30 plates. xvi, York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. First edition, first issue 261 pp. 8vo, Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1929. First edition with publisher’s seal on copyright page and no disclaimer on of the author’s first book. Original green cloth. Very good page [x]. Original black cloth, gilt paper printed labels. Wear copy. Howes H39; Reese 54; Graff 1718; Rader 1731; Adams, Six to bottom edge of covers, with boards showing through, Guns 894. dark burn stain and wear to lower corner of textblock. Picto- Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, “Inscribed for H[omer] rial dust-jacket designed by Cleonike (first issue with “Kath- E. Britzman, who is not only a good producer of new books, erine” spelling on flap); rubbed and faded with loss at spine but a first class rustler of old ones, even those by J. Evetts ends and top margin of rear panel. Hanneman 8A. Haley.” Homer E. Britzman was the author with Ramon Inscribed to his close friend Guy Hickok, “To Gros Hickok, Adams of the standard work Charles M. Russell: The Cowboy with much affection, trusting him to fill in the balnks — Artist (1948). Ernest Hemingway.” Hemingway met Guy Hickok in 1922, Signed at the top of the flyleaf by the artist Edward Borein in when they were foreign correspondents for North American pencil, “Property of Ed Borein/ Santa Barbara Cal. / 1930.” newspapers in Paris. Hemingway, working for the Toronto Star, began what would become an enduring friendship with $2,500 the good natured Hickok, who was on assignment for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Hickok even provided the inspiration for Hemingway’s short story “Che Ti Dice La Patria?” (collected in Men Without Women, 1927). Hemingway’s reference to fill- ing in the blanks refers to the book’s censorship. “Guy Hickok , who read the novel in manuscript, recognized something of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline, in the character of Catherine …” (Harold Bloom). $15,000

20 | james cummins bookseller 25 (HISTORY OF PRINTING) [Marchand, Prosper]. Histoire de l’Origine et des Premiers Progrès de l’Imprimerie. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by Schley. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to, La audrey hepburn in vertigo? Haye: La Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie, 1740. First edition. 26 Contemporary calf, rebacked, original spine laid down and HITCHCOCK, Alfred. Typed Letter, signed (“Hitch”), to preserving the original endpapers with notes in a contempo- Herbert Coleman. 4-1/4 pp. typed, rectos only, on Paramount rary hand on flyleaf. Some slight foxing and toning, other- British Productions letterhead, with an autograph postscript, wise a very handsome copy. Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 22. “Herman has a copy of this letter.” 4to (11-1/2 x 8 in.), Clar- Printed by Prosper Marchand, a Huguenot publisher and idge’s, Brook Street, London: 6 November 1955. Light rust journalist who fled France in 1709; the work appeared at stain from staple at upper left corner, light crease from prior the 300th anniversary of the invention of printing. March- folding. In custom half grey morocco and blue cloth folding and writes that he produced the book “a la sollicitation case. de quelques amis qui ont cru que le troisième jubile ou la A long, discursive letter from Hitchcock to “My dear Her- troisième année séculaire, de l’imprimerie, reveilleroit infail- bie,” assistant director Herbert Coleman. Hitchcock opens liblement la curiosité du publique touchant l’origine de ce with a description of the command performance of To Catch bel art [at the request of some friends who believed that the a Thief, “… Alma [Hitchcock] managed to curtsy without third jubilee, or the tercentenary of printing, would infallibly falling over, and the Queen merely asked me where the film wake the public curiosity concerning the origin of this beau- had been made … The film played well, as usual, the laughs tiful art].” The allegorical frontspiece by J.V. Schley shows all came at the right places and there was good applause at Minerva and Mercury, descending from Heaven, granting the the end — which the locals told me had not occured before gift of printing to Germany who in turn gives it to England, at a Command Performance.” Hitchcock then goes into Holland, France, and Italy. Ex libris of Docteur Laloy pasted detail about the ticket sales for the six-week run of the British to the verso of the front flyleaf and his signature to the title run of To Catch a Thief (“a house record”) and writes about page. A long manuscript note in an eighteenth century hand the mixed results of test runs of his new picture, The Trouble giving biographical details of Marchand’s life is penned to the with Harry. After touching on several other subjects (“I think recto of the front flyleaf. Pasted in at the botton of the final that about covers most of what I have in my mind at the text page of the second book is a second unidentified allego- moment”), Hitchock mentions that he may be considering rial engraving depicting the art of printing. Audrey Hepburn for Among the Dead (the working title of Very attractive copy of an important book. Vertigo). She was presumably to be considered for the part of $1,250 Judy Barton, played by Kim Novak. $5,500

catalogue 122 | 21 actor john barrymore’s copy of jonson’s works 27 JONSON, Ben. The Workes of … With engraved allegorical title by William Hole and woodcut initials and head-pieces throughout. [10], 1015 pp. Lacking blank leaf A1. With occasional mispagination; several leaves with blank verso (Fl, F6), blank recto (F2. F7), without loss of text. Folio, London: Printed by W[illiam] Stansby, 1616. First edition. Full green morocco by Riviere and Sons, gilt ruled, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, a.e.g. Mild toning and thumbing throughout, title-page remargined, last leaf with restoration at blank corners; spine uniformly toned to tan; expert, nearly imperceptible repair to joints. Provenance: John Barrymore’s copy, signed by him and additionally annotated with bibliographic information “Engraved title in compartments by Hole / Bound by Riviere….” and with his bookplate. STC 14751; Pforzheimer 559; Greg I:163(d), 176(b), 181(b), 186(b)*, 216(b), 256(b), 304(b)*, 303(b), 296(b). Grolier 100 English. First edition of The Workes of Ben Jonson, the publication of which was closely supervised by Jonson, a landmark of English literature. “The publication of the 1616 folio in the very year of Shakespeare’s death consolidated Jonson’s position as England’s foremost living author … Jonson was granted a royal pension of 100 marks … establishing him in fact if not in name as Britain’s poet laureate” (ODNB). Jonson was the most celebrated author for the stage and court in Jacobean England, and his work was widely performed through the early eighteenth century. Dryden wrote that if “Shakespeare was the Homer or father of dramatic poets, Jonson was the Virgil,” and if he now stands in the shadow of Shakespeare, his literary achievements have been consistently val- ued through the centuries, and he was praised by Oscar Wilde and James Joyce. The Workes comprises nine plays: Every Man in his Humor, Every Man out of his Humor, Cynthias Revells, Poetaster, Seianus, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Catiline; together with a collection of his Epigrammes, Poetry, and Masques. Personally supervising the preparation of the contents of the Folio, Jonson “used the quarto texts wherever available but scrupulously and systematically revised them, cutting out many marginal notes, altering the spelling, typography and punctuation in accordance with a consistent if somewhat pedantic plan and introducing considerable editorial matter. The result is that this folio edition may be regarded as authoritative. Moreover Jonson attended the press while it was being printed and introduced many corrections and alterations at that time” (Pforzheimer 559). The engraved title is rich in allegorical significance to “the scope and diversity of Jonson’s authorial ambitions” (Donaldson 2011, p. 327 ff.). It was the success of Jonson’s Workes that encouraged the consortium of London booksellers to produce the First Folio Shake- speare of 1623, to which Jonson contributed the celebrated verses “To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Master William Shakespeare …” Poems are invariably a mirror of the poet as well as of the nominal subject and it is plain that Jonson intended himself as well as Shakespeare when he wrote “He was not of an age, but for all time.” With a notable modern theatrical provenance: from the library of renowned stage and film actor John Barrymore, signed by him and bearing his distinctive bookplate. Barrymore (1882-1942), “the most conspicuous member of America’s ‘Royal Family’ of ac- tors” (ANB), achieved international stardom with his stage performances as Richard III and Hamlet in the 1920s on Broadway and in London. This is Pforzheimer’s preferred small-paper copy with the following points: “C” engraved title page; Every Man Out of His Humour title page: one of two states without border, with imprint: “London, Printed by William Stansby for John Smithwicke. [rule] M.DC.XVI.”; with first issue of dedication leaf (G2), signed, with “By your true Honorer, Ben Jonsoif ” and with other Pforzheim- er points “found only in small-paper copies”; Cynthias Revells engraved title page, first (of two) Pforzheimer issues, with “Printed by W. Stansby”; Poetaster title page, first (of three) Pforzheimer issues, with “Printed by W.S tansby, for M. Lownes. 1616” and with all Quire Yy6 (525-40) small-paper points; last two pages of the Golden Age with song headed “Astraea” preceding that headed “Pal- las.” $25,000

22 | james cummins bookseller unique e. mcknight kauffer binding design 28 (KAUFFER, E. McKnight) Milton, [John]. Milton’s Paradise Lost. Illustrated with 50 plates by Gustave Doré. lxii, 329, [1] pp. Folio, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, n.d. [ca. 1880s]. Ca. 1920s full blue-green morocco, front cover with trumpeting angel in onlaid calf and gilt, gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, a.e.g., by E. McKnight Kauffer. Covers dampstained with some discoloration, light foxing to text throughout. A striking Art Deco bookbinding design by the American graphic artist E. McKnight Kauffer, with his monogram signature (“E MC K K”) to the ffep, the front turn-in, and on a label affixed to the front pastedown. Kauffer, who spent most of his professional life in England, was a renowned poster, dust-jacket and stage designer. This is the only book binding design by him that we have been able to trace. $5,000

catalogue 122 | 23 laws & charter of mass., 1726 – with king george’s “explanatory charter” 29 (MASSACHUSETTS COLONY) The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England [and] Acts and laws of His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Two parts: [2], 14 [Charter]; [2], 347 [Acts], [1], 17 [Table] pp. Two parts with separate title-pages and pagination. Folio, Boston: B. Green … for Benjamin Eliot …, 1726. Contemporary calf tooled in blind. Some rubbing and wear, free endpapers missing, last few leaves frayed, piece torn from margin of final leaf, slightly affecting a few letters, some foxing, soiling, occasional minor tears or fraying. Contemporary ownership signature of Capt. John Rounsevell on first title-page. Evans 2762; Cushing, Mass. Laws 343. An attractive, unsophisticated copy of this early and important compilation of the Acts and Laws of the Province of Massachu- setts, as organized under the terms of the charter of William & Mary. That charter, which was enacted May 14, 1692, included Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, the Province of Maine, and parts of what is now Nova Scotia. More importantly, the independence of the old Colony was greatly reduced, the powers of the Provincial Governor were increased, and the newly chartered Province was more tightly controlled by British imperial rule. Even more important is the inclusion here for the first time of the newly adopted modification to the Charter, King George’s “Explanatory Charter” (pp. 13-14), whereby the position of the Governor was further strengthened: he was given sole power to ad- journ the House of Representatives, and the right to veto the House’s choice of their Speaker. The “Explanatory Charter,” which was adopted in January, 1726, is printed here for the first time; it was first printed separately later in the year (Evans 2659). Not until the “Intolerable Acts” of 1774 was there such a radical alteration to the Charter, and such a serious blow to colonial autonomy. An important and early document in the development of modern Massachusetts, and in the chain of events culminating in 1776. $10,000

24 | james cummins bookseller mather on the conduct of virtuous women 30 MATHER, Cotton. Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion, Characters and Happiness of a Virtuous Women. [12], 1-130 [i.e. 140, with other mispaginations], 143-144 pp. Pages 33-40 (C5- 8) misbound after p. 64 (D8), lacking first of two leaves of Thomas Parkhurst ads at the rear, pp. 141-2. 12mo, London: Printed by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns, 1694. First English edition. Bound in contemporary blind- ruled sheep. Binding worn, with loss to top third of spine, front hinge split. Text browned and edge-worn, with some small horizontal tears at outer margin. Holmes 266-B (locating 6 copies); ESTC R39691; Sabin 46442. Provenance: Sarah Pratt (inscription dated 1698); Sarah Upham (from her “Aunt Smith,” March 15, 1793); B[——] Kelly (gift inscription from Sarah Upham, August 30, 1871). The scarce first English edition of Mather’s manual of conduct for women wishing to lead a virtuous life. “Mather accepts a social order in which women are dis- creet, submissive, and silent and tries to shape their future behavior accordingly. But, unlike his Puritan ancestors and contemporaries, he speaks highly of women — past and present — who had already demonstrated great virtue and personal piety. Here he draws upon women in the Bible to dismiss any claim that women are evil and to elevate their status” (MacHaffie, ed., Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, p. 92). We find only two copies at auction, an imperfect copy in the 1879 Brinley sale, sold to the American Antiquarian Society, and a complete copy sold by Sotheby’s London in 1951. OCLC locates just 7 copies in the United States. The first edition was published in Cambridge, MA, 1691, and it is interesting to note that the following year Mather published his infamous defense of the Salem witch trials, Wonders of the Invisible World. $10,000

catalogue 122 | 25 31 MELVILLE, Herman. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile … 276 pp. 8vo, New York: G.P. Putnam, 1855. First edition, with the readings on pp. 141 & 237-9 as called for. Publisher’s green cloth tooled in blind, spine titled in gilt with pendants on capital letters (BAL first binding). Spine toned, front board tender, otherwise fine. AB L 13667. A very nice copy. Melville based this work on the Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (1824), which purports to be the true story of a soldier in the American Revolution who was captured by the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Melville has ably sketched such contemporary figures as George III, Dr. Franklin, John Paul Jones, and Ethan Allen. $2,000

32 MELVILLE, Herman. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. Frontispiece chart. xv, [i], [17]-389, [1]; [xv]-xxiii, [i] (ads); 16 (ads) pp. 8vo, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. First American edition. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine, upper cover with gilt vignette of ship, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends with closed tear to head of spine, corners worn, light foxing to text throughout. BAL 13656. The first American edition of Melville’s second novel, in the publisher’s cloth binding. $1,250

26 | james cummins bookseller mini-micro-manuscripts for the emperor 33 (MICROGRAPHIC ILLUMINATED MS) Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Red, gold and blue ink on vellum. The text is Ital- ian and Latin, and is written in a microscopic hand within one large central circle and 8 smaller surrounding it, as well as within concentric circles around both. Scalloped borders of gold surround ten of the circles. 124 mm (across), Italian ?: 1670. Mounted on paper. Small abrasion, and slight soiling, otherwise very good, the gilt quite bright; in custom red morocco-backed folder. Designed in the form of the Imperial diadem for presentation in 1670 to Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. An unusual, incredibly microscopic manuscript, beautifully designed, containing a variety of verse and prose matter in Latin and Italian, and includes a sonnet of Iacopone da Todi. The date appears in one of the small circles, but we cannot locate the scribe’s name. $7,500

catalogue 122 | 27 first edition, in jacket, with a letter 34 MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. 1037 pp. 8vo, New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition, with “Published May, 1936” on the copyright page; first issue dust-jacket. Original gray cloth lettered in blue. Minor shelf wear, else a fine, tight copy, in a very good first-issue dust-jacket, unclipped, with “$3.00” cost and with the “Spring Novels” advertisment on the lower panel showing this work as the second title in the right hand column. Short closed tear to top edge of front panel, some wear to ends of spine panel, small squared closed tear on back panel. Half green morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Willingham & Harwell 120; Harwell, In Tall Cotton 125. Laid in is a one-page Typed Letter, signed (“Margaret Mitch- ell Marsh”), from Mitchell to bookseller Robert Wilson, then a student at Johns Hopkins University, on a sheet of personal stationery headed “Margaret Mitchell,” dated Atlanta, Georgia May 21, 1941, and reading in full, “My dear Mr. Wilson, … I have read the letter which my secretary wrote to you and I find I have little to add to it. As she wrote to you, I am no speaker and have never made any lectures of any type, so I regret that I must refuse your invitation. I do feel so flattered that The Johns Hopkins University wanted me to make this talk, and I thank you so much for asking me. Cordially, [signed in ink] Margaret Mitchell Marsh. Mrs. John R. Marsh.” $10,000

28 | james cummins bookseller 35 36 [MITCHELL, S. Augustus]. A New Universal Atlas Containing MUIR, John [ed.]. Picturesque California and the Region West of Maps of the Various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico. Containing Over Six the World. With a Special Map of Each of the United States, Plans Hundred Beautiful Etchings, Photo-Gravures, Wood Engravings, of Cities, &c. Chromolithograph title, hand-colored frontis- Etc., By Eminent American Artists. 120 plates. xii, 478 pp. 2 vol- piece, 73 hand-colored lithographic maps. Folio, Philadelphia: umes bound in 3. Large folio, New York and San Francisco: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co, 1852. Half red morocco in The J. Dewing Publishing Company, 1888. Contemporary period style, original marbled boards, with printed label three-quarter brown morocco and cloth, spines gilt. Very on upper cover, very clean. Phillips, 809; Ristow, pp. 311-13; good externally, with some scuffing to the covers, fine inter- Rumsey, p. 240. nally. Kimes 175. BAL 14744; Cowan, p. 486; Currey & Kruska Mitchell & Sons first published their New Universal Atlas in 257; Zamorano Select 87. 1846 (having acquired Tanner’s New Universal Atlas in 1845), A great work of pictorial Western Americana. Among the and printed it several times subsequently until 1850 when the famed artists who contributed to the work are Frederick Coz- firm sold the rights to Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia, zens, Thomas Hill, Thomas Moran, Frederick Remington, who published it until 1856, continually adding to and editing and many others. Moran’s view of Half Dome is the first of a the hand-colored maps. Despite the attribute “Universal” total of 120 full-page plates (with printed tissue descriptions), in the title, the Atlas clearly concentrates on America, with which include photogravures, etchings, and photo-etchings. 43 maps of the continent, and features a large, double-page The text is written by a variety of authors, but John Muir is transcontinental map of the U.S; this 1852 Cowperthwait listed as the editor, and he contributed seven articles to this edition is the first to show counties in California and New work, three of them on the High Sierras and Yosemite Valley Mexico. (two of Muir’s works were written especially for this work, $10,000 the others came from earlier publications). Publication was issued by subscription, and no subscription was accepted “for less than the entire work.” The work was issued in a bewil- dering number of different formats and editions — see Kimes or Currey & Kruska for a complete description. $2,000 catalogue 122 | 29 embroidered “dust-jacket” by quaker sarah saunders, philadelphia 1753 37 (NEEDLEWORK) SAUNDERS, Sarah. American Canvaswork Bible Cover. Em- broidered Bible cover worked in green, blue, red, pink, yellow, white, etc. threads on a linen ground to a design of flowers, blossoms and leaves, spine divided into four compartments and inscribed “Sarah Saunders / 1753.” 22-1/2 x 15 in., [Philadelphia]: 1753. Wear to spine ends with some loss, a few small spots of candle wax on rear cover. Professionally mounted and preserved in an airtight frame. Provenance: by descent through the Saunders family. 18th century American embroidered Bible cover by a 12-year-old Sarah Saunders of Philadelphia, inscribed with her name and date, 1753, on the spine. Saunders (1741-1789) was the eldest of eleven children born to Joseph Saunders (1713- 1792) and Hannah, née Reeve (1717-1788). Joseph, a devout Quaker born in England, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1732. He established himself as a successful merchant and later director of the Philadelphia Contributionship, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 and the nation’s oldest successful property insurance company. Sarah was the second wife of Quaker William Redwood (1726-1815), the son of Abraham Redwood, founder of the Redwood Library and Athanaeum in Newport, RI. Sarah Saunders’ embroidery was designed to cover the family Bible, the King James translation printed in London in 1738 by John Baskett (the original Bible remains in the Saunders family). A highly unusal piece of Americana — we can trace only one other example of an embroidered American book cover from the period — a Book of Common Prayer cover embroidered by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (b. 1734-1807), a fellow Philadelphia Quaker, in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. $35,000

30 | james cummins bookseller catalogue 122 | 31 32 | james cummins bookseller 38 (NUNN FAMILY) O’Brien O’Brien. Original watercolour and manuscript poem, entitled “The Birth-Day Banner, or a Tribute to Virtue,” produced to celebrate the 21st birthday of Edward Westby Nunn (1821-1881), of Hill Castle and St. Margaret’s, county Wexford, Ireland. The combined Arms of Nunn and Westby center top, the ten verses in praise/ celebration each with their bubbler, surrounding decorative elements include a fox hunt; a pair of fiddle players; a pair of Celtic bagpipe players; a line of Irish Step-dancers; a pair of Celtic harp players; a formal procession with Edawrd Westby Nunn pictured in an open carriage pulled by 4 white horses driven by a harp-playing coachman. 24-5/8 x 15-1/4 inches, July, 1842. Backed on to contemporary linen and edged with green silk ribbon. Framed. Reading in part, (verses 7 & 8): “Round his estate, and grand domain You cannot trace, the tryant’s hand Stain’d by, the ill paid toil and pain Of those, who cultivate the land, The peasants tran’d, to sweat and toil Ere the day’s task, it has begun With one accord, will freely join To bless, the name of Nunn The dwellings of his tenantry Neath Forth’s high crags all green and blue O’er van’d scenes, to the wide sea, In beauteous grace, attract the view, No absentee here ever sends His minion vile, to cause despair No, there, true grace with virtue blend So great Hill Castle’s honored Heir.” $16,000

catalogue 122 | 33 “the unofficial photographer of the industry” — darrah 39 (OIL) Mather, J.A. Mather’s Stereoscopic Views of the Pennsyl- vania Oil Regions. 22 stereo cards, with printed paper labels on verso titled in manuscript. 3-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches, Titusville: J.A. Mather, [c. 1866]. Some wear to cards, images near fine. A fascinating and important record of the birth of the oil industry in northwestern Pennsylvania. British-born John Aked Mather (1829-1915) moved to the Unit- ed States in 1856 and soon after was introduced to photography by an itinerant daguerreian. Mather travelled through West Virginia and Ohio before settling in Titusville, Pa in 1860 with his wife. Edwin Drake of the Seneca Oil Company the diary of samuel pepys had begun drilling in August of 1859, and Mather was poised 40 to become the oil boom’s photographer of record, travelling PEPYS, Samuel. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S., compris- along Oil Creek River on his flatbed studio. Mather’s views ing his Diary from 1659 to 1669 … and a Selection from his Private of wells and rigs were so popular in their time that owners Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Engraved would request that Mather photograph their operations to frontispiece in each volume and 11 engraved plates (one fold- encourage more investment. The photographs that Mather ing). [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix; [4], 348, [2], vii, [1], [3]-311 pp. 2 vols. took make up the largest and most significant pictorial record 4to (11-3/4 x 9-1/4 inches), London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First of the western Pennsylvania oil boom, “a record of the first edition. Bound in contemporary half green morocco over ten years of the industry, a coverage without equal in any marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled nineteenth century technology” (Darrah, The World of Stereo- endpapers. In quarter green morocco slipcases. Handsome graphs, p. 80). set. Grolier 100. This group of 22 stereo views includes “Oil Seekers Pithole Pepys diary, originally written in code, was deciphered in Penn,” “Green Mountain Well ,” “Champion Wells Pioneer the 1820s by the Rev. John Smith, of St. John’s Cambridge. River,” “RR Bridge & Pioneer from Oil Creek,” “New York As a leading official in the admiralty for over a decade, Pepys Well Pioneer,” “Lady Stewart & Lady Brooks Pioneer River,” was in touch with some of the most influential men in “Petroleum Center Penn,” “Fishers Shipping Sheds,” “Old government. He also carried on a correspondence with Isaac Shipping Platform Miller Farms,” and the humorous “Sunken Newton, Christopher Wren, and John Evelyn. His observa- Fortune or Ruined Man.” tions, written in his secret cipher, is one of the best views of $7,500 government, intrigue, and social life in the mid 17th century. $6,000 34 | james cummins bookseller 41 (PHOTOGRAPHY, Occupational) [Rodd, Francis]. Album of 37 carte-de-visite photographs of people who lived and worked in Trebartha Hall, North Hill, Cornwall. 37 cartes-de-visite in window-mount album leaves, by various photographers, some images captioned on the mount. 12mo (photographs measure approx. 3-1/4 x 2 in.), [North Hill, Cornwall]: ca. 1860s, most undated but including four images dated 1860, 1860, 1862 and 1873. Contemporary brown morocco, front cover with onset varnished and painted wood panel, metal clasps, a.e.g., book ticket of Henri Jehin-Turin, painter, of Spa, Belgium. A remarkable collection of occupational carte-de-visite photographs of laborers, mostly associated with Trebartha Hall, North Hill, Cornwall. This album is highly unusual in that many of the people or indentified and pictured with the tools of their trade, including: Jenny Cock, “a faithful St Columb Minor servant,” Glendorgal, [Newquay]; John Dawe, Gardener, Trebartha; John Moyse, Carter; John Ralph, Carpenter (with tools); Tom Landry, Keeper (with shotgun, hounds and game bag); William Buck- ingham (with rake and shovel); Adam Landry, Woodman (with ax); John Bartlett, Trebartha Village; Joe Moyse, Carter; James Smeeth, John Lark, Saw Mills, Trebartha (posing in front of circular sawmill blade). In addition are members of the Rodd, Davy, Bartlett and Pascoe families. With a gift inscription on the front pastedown, “E.S. Rodd, from dear A.P. Maurice, April 1926.” The present album was likely assembled by or for Francis Rodd (b. 1806) or his son, Francis Rashleih Rodd (b. 1839), owners of Trebartha Hall. $4,500

catalogue 122 | 35 42 POE, Edgar Allen. Histoires grotesques et sérieuses traduites par Charles Baudelaire. [4], 571, [1] pp. 12mo, Paris: Michel Levy, 1865. First edition of the Baudelaire translation. Early twentieth-century half brown morocco, gilt spine by Amand. Handsome copy. Carteret II, p. 128. First appearance of Baudelaire’s translations of these famous Poe stories, incuding “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” Poe’s sequel to “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” featuring Poe’s famous amateur pipe-smoking detective, Auguste Dupin. It is generally agreed that Baudelaire’s translations of Poe, scorned and neglected by American and English critics, lifted the American’s reputation to an international level — and to subsequent French poets (e.g., Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and Valéry) Poe became the very image of the “poète maudit.” $1,000

the genesis of a genre: the william bell scott — fairfax murray copy 43 [POLIDORI, John W.] The Vampyre; A Tale. xxv, [26]-84 pp. 8vo, London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819. First edition, second issue. Gathering ‘A’ reset to 23 lines to remove the suggested impropriety of “two sisters as the partakers of his revels” and with “lmost” on p. 36. Early red pebbled cloth, spine relaid. Interestingly pasted to the first endpaper in this copy is the original sale catalog of the description of Byron’s original letter in which he settles “beyond doubt the extent of [his] connection with the Vampyre” and in which he decries as too much the “formality of a public advertisement of a book I never wrote – and a residence where I never resided.” Distinguished Provenance: From the library of Ch. Fairfax Murray with his bookplate, and the ex-libris of Harriman Lecomte du Nouy. Signature to front pastedown of William Bell Scott at Bellevue House, Chelsea, 1877, and his note,“The Vampire was not written by By- ron but by Polidori, M.D.” Scott was an eminent 19th century poet and artist, a great admirer of Shelley and an intimate friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Ashley 3:208; Wise Byron 2:72; Wolff 5577; Henry R. Viets, “The London Editions of Polidori’s The Vampyre” in Papers of the Bibliographi- cal Society, 1969, pp. 83 sqq. This classic tale of a vampire was written by Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori, from an idea of his patron’s; the character of Lord Ruthven the vampire was clearly derived from Polidori’s observation of Byron (and an allusion to the savage portrait of Byron in Glenarvon, the 1816 roman à clef by Lady Caroline Lamb). Polidori was present during the famed conversations of Byron and Percy and Mary Shelley in Swit- zerland in June 1816 that prompted Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein (1818). The tale was first published as by Lord Byron, who repudiated the assertion. This issue reset the half-title and title, but didn’t note Polidori as its author. Though its origins in folklore long pre-date Polidori’s tale, the flowering of a new literary genre which culminated in Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1897) had its genesis here; and the persistent power of the theme continues undiminished to this day. The “Extract of a letter to the editor” (p. [v]-xvi) — and “Extract of a letter, containing an account of Lord Byron’s residence in the island of Mitylene” (p. [73]-84) have been ascribed to John Mitford. Published also in the New Monthly Magazine, April, 1819, where it was attributed by the publisher to Byron; subsequently repudiated by him and claimed by Polidori.

36 | james cummins bookseller This is Viets’s issue IV, published by Sherwood, Neely and gatherings. Sabin 65618: ESTC W41560; Evans, 5154 & 5360. Jones, without the spurious attribution to Byron on the title Provenance: Aaron Hill (autograph note on vol. II title-page, and half-title, and with gathering A reset in 23 lines rather “Binding paid for, Aaron Hill, Wrentham”); Sally Hill (her than 24. signature and flourish on vol. II ffep); Reverend M. Balch $3,000 (signature in vol. I); the Dr. Frank H. Sommer III Trust. An early American weekly periodical collecting sermons and religious tracts concerning the Great Awakening. “One “one of the earliest of american magazines” (sabin) of the earliest of American magazines. It was undertaken at the suggestion of Rev. Thomas Prince, who was one of the 44 principal contributors. It was regularly published in weekly PRINCE, Thomas, Jr, editor. The Christian History, Contain- numbers of eight pages each, from March 5, 1743, to February ing Accounts of the Revival and Propagation of Religion in Great- 23, 1745, making 104 numbers in all” (Sabin). Britain & America. For the Year 1743 … 1744. [ii], vi (indexes), $3,500 416 (numbers 1-52, March 1743-February 1744); [ii], vi (indexes), 416 (numbers 53-104, March 1744-February 1745) pp. 2 vols. 8vo, Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, for T. Prince, junr, 1744; 1745. First edition, with general title-pages and indexes. Vol. I bound in later sheep. Binding rubbed, rebacked, preserving spine, faint dampstain to first and last few leaves, ink stain at header of final two leaves. Vol. II in contemporary Ameri- can calf binding, covers with triple rule border in blind and vertical floral roll in blind, spine with 5 raised bands. Joints cracked, ffep detached with closed tear sewn to repair, rfep lacking, foxing throughout, wear to fore-edge of first few

catalogue 122 | 37 45 / so glaubet ihr nicht etc. [Berlin: Michael Hentzkens Erben,] (PROTESTANTISM) [Predigten aus dem XVI Jahrhundert] 1580. Title printed in red and black. 18 leaves. EXTRA ILLUS- [Sammelband of Sixteenth-Century German Protestant TRATED with a manuscript dedication bound at the front Sermons]. 6 titles bound in 1. Small 4to, [V.p., Germany: 1547- addressed to Princess Elizabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst. OCLC 1593]. Early nineteenth-century pastepaper boards. Shelfworn 251812436 (1 copy). but sound. Manuscript title list, each work with ink stamp of VI. AGRICOLA, Johann. Auslegung des heiligen Sehligmachen- Bibliotheca Regia Berolinenis on verso of title leaf. Internally den Evangelii, am tag aller Heiligen. Matth: 5. Berlin: Nicolaus clean. Voltzen, 1586. Title printed in red and black within orna- Choice collection of German Protestant sermons on a vari- mental border; printer’s device within ornamental border on ety of seasonal and occasional themes. The last two works colophon. 32 leaves. Some offsetting in text. EXTRA ILLUSTRAT- include manuscript dedications to Princess Elizabeth of ED with a calligraphic manuscript dedication, bound at the Anhalt-Zerbst (1563 – 1607) and her husband Prince Elector- front, addressed to Johann Georg, Margrave of Brandenberg Johann Georg of Brandenberg (1525 – 1598), Prince Elector of (his name lettered in gilt). OCLC 250246280 (1 copy). the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and Duke of Prussia. $3,750 I. [WERNER, Johannes Sigmund, and Caspar SCHWENCKFELD]. Außlegung des Evangelii Luce ii. Auff den hailigen Christag. Von der geburt Christi zwey Sermon. [N.p. but 46 Ulm?:] 1547. 32 leaves. OCLC247518810 (2 copies); 633698053 (1 (QUEEN CAROLINE ) [Brougham, Henry]. Extracts from copy). the Newspapers relative to the Queen, 1820. [viii], 189 pp. Manu- II. AQUILA, Kaspar. Ein fröliche Trostpredig für die sehr script title and six pages of indices, followed by 189 pages of geengstigten gewissen sie mütig und erquickt zumachen … An die newspaper clippings adhered to the outer half of each page, Hochgeborne Fürstin … Katherina Hertzogin zu Sachssen etc. and manuscript summaries of the contents of the adjacent Magdeburg: Michael Lotther, 1550. 19 leaves [of 20, lacks final clipping; one larger clipping laid in dating to August 1821, ?blank]. OCLC 634292473 (1 copy). describing the Queen’s death (7 August 1821). 2 “parts” in 1 III. MAIOR, Georg. Ein Pfingstpredig … Wittemberg: Hans volume. Folio (12 1⁄2 x 7 1⁄2 inches), Contemporary marbled Lufft, 1550. 35 leaves [of 36, lacks final ?blank, paper flaw to calf, neatly rebacked to style with original spine labels laid title]. OCLC 220744886 (1 copy?); 165754317 (4 copies). down, modern endpapers. Provenance: bookplate of Michael IV. GERICKE, Jakob. Kirchweihe. Eine christliche Predigt Bey Paul Grace (1842-1920), of Belgrave Square and Battle Ab- der bestettigung der Newerbawten Kirchen zu grossen Brüchtern, in bey in the UK and in the US of Westbury, Long Island, the dem Ampt Keula, der Herrschafft Schwartzburgk gelegen … Mül- younger brother of W.R. Grace (1832-1904). Clippings and hausen: Andreas Hantzsch, 1593. 56 leaves. OCLC 257483972 (3 original manuscript notes on handmade paper with dated copies). 1820 watermarks (one leaf bears the date 1817), establishing the contemporary nature of the account. V. PERISTER, Wolffgang. Eine trewhertzige Bußpredigt ober den Straffspruch Christ … So ihr nicht Zeichen und Wunder sehet [Bound with:] Sir George HAYTER. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Great Historical Picture, painted by Mr. George Hayter… 38 | james cummins bookseller representing the trail of Her Late Majesty Queen Caroline of Eng- the dish for phillpott’s apples land, with a faithful interior view of the House of Lords. London: 47 printed by W. Hershee, 1823. Small 4to. 16 pp. and five folding RACKHAM, Arthur. Drawing for Eden Phillpott’s A Dish of plates by and after Hayter. (Some spotting, staining and Apples. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper, signed (lower offsetting). right). 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. (13.4 x 21.6 cm), [England: ca. 1921]. An album assembled during the trial of Queen Caroline Mounted on artist’s board and matted. Fine. [Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel] (1768–1821), The inviting Rackham drawing for the heading of the Con- as a document and possibly an aid in her defence before the tents page of Eden Phillpott’s A Dish of Apples (Hodder & House of Lords regarding her title as Queen and her mar- Stoughton, 1921) — the very image which defines the book. riage to George IV. Bound with the scrapbook is the rare pamphlet sold as a ‘key’ to identify Hayter’s monumental With a copy of the Deluxe edition of the book, London and painting of the proceedings (now in the National Protrait New York, 1921. Frontispiece and 2 mounted color plates, Gallery, London). The scrapbook volume begins with four numerous text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. no. 227 OF indices to its contents: a List of Addresses presented to the 500 COPIES, SIGNED BY RACKHAM AND PHILLPOTTS. Original gilt- Queen & Replies; Parlimentary Proceedings; Public Dou- decorated cream cloth (slight soiling and edge wear). ments; and Miscellaneous. The newspaper clippings that $6,500 follow are arranged chronologically from May through December 1820, compiled from the Times and other British newspapers of the day. The volume ends with a summary of the evidence against the Queen, who, although not acquited, was seen as a victim of royal and political persecution (DNB). The volume is a fascinating contemporary example of using the daily press as a means of building a defence stategy as well as cultivating public sentiment in a battle waged at the highest level of British Royal society. Defending Caroline in the case was Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), who later became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. The former owner of the album, Michael Paul Grace (1842- 1920), was Chairman of the Board of Directors of W.R. Grace and Company shipping company of New York, NY and of Grace Brothers & Co. Ltd. of London, England. $1,500 catalogue 122 | 39 presentation copy to conservative columnist ruth alexander 48 RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. [ii], 753, [1] pp. 8vo, Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Third printing. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered on cover and spine in gilt. Slight sunning to spine and trifling wear to spine ends and tips, else near fine. In a custom maroon cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. Perinn A3a; Vinson, 1139. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Ruth Alexander — cordially — Ayn Rand. May 9, 1945.” Alexander was a popular conservative columnist for Hearst and an early supporter of Rand’s writing and political organizing (cf. Burns, Goddess of the Market, pp. 70-1). Alexander “became Rand’s lifelong friend and once called her (undoubtedly to her delight) ‘America’s Joan of Arc’” (Heller, Ayn Rand, p. 133). A choice, early inscription on Rand’s breakthrough novel. $4,500 inscribed by mapplethorpe to his patron and partner, sam wagstaff 49 RIMBAUD, Arthur. A Season in Hell. Translated by Paul Schmidt. Illustrated with 8 photogravures from photographs by Rob- ert Mapplethorpe. 4to, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1986. One of 50 presentation copies, out-of-series with embossed stamp, signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt. Full red morocco by the Jovonis Bindery. Fine, with prospectus laid in. In slipcase. The American Livre de Peintre 30. Inscribed by Mapplethorpe to his patron and life partner, Sam Wagstaff, on their shared birthday, November 4, 1986: “For Sam — on our birthday …” To quote from the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition catalogue, where these images were displayed: “The eight images in this livre d’artiste do not so much illustrate Rimbaud’s poem as they evoke the mystical, nocturnal melancholy that characterizes the work. Mapplethorpe’s images provoke an emotionally layered response in harmony with the text.” $8,500

40 | james cummins bookseller 50 thackeray’s agreement with publishers re vanity fair SMILES, Samuel. Self-Help; with illustrations of character and 51 conduct. [xii], 344 pp., + 4 pp. publisher’s advertisement for Smiles’ popular biography The Life of George Stephenson. 8vo, THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Document, signed London: John Murray, 1859. First edition. Publisher’s plum (“WM Thackeray”). Memorandum of agreement between cloth binding, stamped in blind, by Edmonds and Remnants Thackeray and his publisher Bradbury & Evans, regarding of London (ticket on the final pastedown). Binding bright but the publication of Vanity Fair. 2 pp. written in dark brown ink slightly rubbed, lower corners bumped, spine caps worn, and in a legal hand on front and back of a single sheet. Small 4to, the cover shows some bubbling; hinges repaired and the text [London: 25 January, 1847]. Small marginal ink stain, small block loose at the R gathering. Occasional light foxing and fold crease, generally very good. some minor soiling to a few of the leaves. Housed in a cloth The first part of Thackeray’s masterpiece, which he had clamshell box. Contemporary ownership signatures and begun writing before May, 1845, appeared in the same month some pencil marks in the margins. PMM 346. as this document. The manuscript had been turned down by A trained physician and respected newspaper editor, Smiles Henry Colburn, but was accepted by Bradbury and Evans on found success as a biographer, and finally as a lecturer on the terms outlined in this document: “the virtues of industry and manly rectitude” (PMM 210). “The said William Makepeace Thackeray hereby agrees with Self-Help, the first book of the genre, was an immediate hit the said William Bradbury and Frederick Mullett Evans, to when it appeared in 1859, selling 20,000 copies during its first publish a work in Monthly Parts to be called Vanity Fair, Pen year of publication. The book was aimed at artisans, many & Pencil Sketches of English Society … undertakes to fur- of whom corresponded with Smiles, and the ownership in- nish by the 15th of every month sufficient matter for at least scriptions on the front endpaper link this copy to the Fowler Two printed Sheets, with two Etchings on steel, and as many family of Hall Farm, Exton. The Farmer’s Magazine, January drawings on Wood as may be thought necessary — The said 1871, lists T.W. Fowler, Hall Farm, Exton, as the recipient of William Bradbury and Frederick Mullett Evans agree to pay first prize in the category “Mares for agricultural purposes,” to the said William Makepeace Thackeray the sum of Sixty an achievement perhaps inspired by Smiles’ work. Pounds every month on the Publication of the Number…” $3,250 The rest of the contract deals with profits, with the publishers receiving the first £60 and further earnings to be divided between them and the author, and the copyright which was to be jointly owned. The agreement is witnessed by A Owen, the Word “Witnesss” being in Thackeray’s hand. The first edition in book form appeared in 1848 under the title Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, but the parts were issued under

catalogue 122 | 41 the title given above. Bradbury and Evans apparently had some misgivings about the work when it was first proposed to them in 1846, but the success of Thackeray’s “Snobs of England” in Punch seems to have reassured them. In fact, both Thackeray and the publishers expected more profit from Vanity Fair than they received. “In October 1847 he com- plained that ‘it does everything but sell … The publishers are at this minute several hundred pounds out of pocket by me,’ he admitted after the appearance of the seventeenth number, ‘that know for certain.’ Years later, in 1859, he estimated his total profits from the novel at £2000” — John D. Gordon, William Makepeace Thackeray: An Exhibition in Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Vanity Fair (NYPL, 1947), p. 18. $15,000

f.b. sanborn and the thoreau family home, 1873 52 (THOREAU, Henry David) Lease agreement, signed and dated 31 May 1873, between Sophia THOREAU and F.B. SANBORN, for the Family Home of Henry David Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts. [With associated archive of 11 Autograph letters to Francis Henry Underwood]. Lease: [1] p. partly printed document, signed, docketed on verso. Let- ters: [19] pp. Folio and smaller, Concord, Massachusetts: 31 May 1873. Lease: Brief marginal losses affecting a few words; expert tissue mends; very good. Custom morocco backed folder. Letters: very good. Erlich and Carruth, The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States (New York, 1982); “Francis Henry Underwood,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, accessed November 2013; New York Times, June 5, 1909. A literary relic of the Concord, Massachusetts, home of Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) and his circle of fellow Transcendentalists. In 1873, Sophia Thoreau (1819–1876), last surviving sibling of Henry David Thoreau, let the family home at 255 Main Street to Transcendentalist and Thoreau acolyte F.B. Sanborn. What an opportunity to be so intimately connected to this great man! The Thoreau family had lived there from 1850. In the addition at the back of the

42 | james cummins bookseller house, Thoreau helped his father conduct the family’s pencil business. Thoreau died in this house in 1862. Sanborn’s lease was for a term of three years. The docketing shows it was renewed for one more year beginning June 1, 1876. In 1877, the house was bought by Louisa May ALCOTT. Alcott lived in the Thoreau house in the 1880s and there wrote Jo’s Boys (1886). In this instrument, the Thoreau home is leased by Sophia E. Thoreau to Frank B. Sanborn for a term of three years with an option to buy. The New York Times called Sanborn (1831– 1917) the “Last of the Transcendentalists” and he is remembered, in part, for so assiduously trying to be the custodian of Thoreau’s papers and writings. Sophia is remembered for her iconic drawing of Thoreau’s Walden Pond cabin for the title page of Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Sophia removed to Vermont, possibly the last Thoreau family member to leave Concord. Like Thoreau, Sanborn was a graduate of Harvard and a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson. “[Sanborn] knew intimately all the men and women who made Concord famous, was their sympathetic, helpful friend while they lived and their loyal, intelligent editor and biographer after their death” (DAB). He was the biographer of Thoreau, abolitionist John Brown, Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Accompanying the Thoreau Home document is a group of 11 autograph letters, signed, dated 1853–1879 and addressed to Francis Henry Underwood (1825–1894), founding editor of The Atlantic Monthly, lawyer, author, and anti-slavery activ- ist. He studied law in Kentucky and became an antislavery thoreau on the autumn leaves advocate. As a literary editor, he championed writers Harriet Beecher Stowe, poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and 53 James Russell Lowell, and Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo THOREAU, Henry David. Autograph Manuscript on Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The letters are all from Autumn Leaves and the first frost, ca. 1857 [inserted in:] Massachusetts abolitionist, political, or literary figures. Cor- The Writings in Twenty Volumes. Manuscript: 58 lines in ink, respondents include historians Charles Francis Adams, Sr. approx. 375 words, recto and verso of a single leaf, inserted and Francis Parkman; Edward Everett; Irish-American poet before the frontispiece. With 3 portraits of Thoreau, map of John Boyle O’Reilly; U. S. Attorney General Ebenezer R. Concord and environs, 101 full-page photogravure plates after Hoar; and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson. photos by Herbert W. Gleason; as well as color frontispieces That the Thoreau Home lease was preserved among Under- and a colored carbon photograph of a flower in each volume, wood’s letters adds an intriguing layer of literary association after Gleason. 20 vols. 8vo, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. to this superb relic of Concord, Massachusetts. The MANUSCRIPT EDITION, no. 146 of 600 sets with an inserted leaf of autograph manuscript. Three quarter green morocco Summary list of accompanying correspondence: 1853 1 p. and and cloth, t.e.g. Handsome set, near fine overall (some Charles Francis Adams [Sr.] (1807–1886), historical editor, heads repaired). Borst B3; BAL 20145. politician, diplomat; 1858 3pp. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916), author; 1872 3 pp. [Ditto] 1861 1 p. Edward Everett Substantial leaf of manuscript written recto and verso (1794–1865), politician, diplomat, orator; 1864 1 p John Albion demonstrating the keen eye of Thoreau the naturalist, who Andrew (1818–1867), Governor of Massachusetts; 1872 2 writes of the change of season and the effects of the first pp. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), abolition- frost (about the first of October) on the leaves of trees, ist, author: with mention of E. A. Poe; 1875 1 p. John Boyle shrubs, fireweed, and the cinnamon fern. The text corre- O’Reilly (1844–1890), Irish-born poet, Boston journalist and sponds closely but is not identical to the text of the Journal editor; 1876 3 pp. George William Curtis (1824–1892) writer for early October 1857; there are also similarities to the late and orator; 1879 1 p. Francis Parkman (1823–1893), historian; essay “Autumnal Tints.” 1879 2 pp. William Henry Hurlbert (1827–1895), journalist; [no A choice Thoreau manuscript on a classic American topic in date] 1 p. Ebenezer R. Hoar, lawyer, Massachusetts justice, U. an attractive set of the standard edition of Thoreau. S. Attorney General. $15,000 $4,000

catalogue 122 | 43 thoreau’s first book, with an unrecorded contemporary review: “rare merits” 54 THOREAU, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. 413, [3] pp. With terminal advertisement leaf announcing “Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods …” 8vo, Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition of the author’s first book. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Spine perished, boards edgeworn and detached. Textblock clean and sound. Review of the book tipped in at end on verso of advertisement leaf and facing blank (clipping partly toned). Half morocco slipcase and chemise. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1.a; for Frothingham, see: Caruthers, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gentle Radical (Univ. of Alabama Pr., 1977). A notable copy of Thoreau’s first book, largely overlooked when initially published, and now a recognized classic. Emerson famously declined to review his friend’s book; but the present copy makes it clear that some did commit their opinions to print: tipped in at the verso of the announcement for Walden is a 500-word review of the ‘Week’, signed in type “F.” and with initials “O.B.F.” in ink below, in the hand of Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822–1895), Harvard class of 1843, Divinity School class of 1846, and in 1849 the minister of the North Church in Salem, Mass. It is likely from a Salem paper, possibly the Observer. Thoreau’s lectures were announced in the paper, and in the early 1850s, Frothingham had pamphlets printed at the Observer print shop and his discourses were reported in the paper. Frothingham’s biographer Caruthers (page 28): “One wonders what he thought of Henry Thoreau, who in Frothingham’s later History of Transcen- dentalism, received a mere parenthetical reference.” This can now be answered. The review opens as follows: “In looking over this book we have been agreeably disappointed. […] With all this, however, Mr. Thoreau’s book has rare merits. The author is an enthusiast and a scientific one upon the works and scenes of Nature […]” After he moved to Jersey City and New York, Frothingham became a champion of nonsectarian religious thought, and wrote frequent criticism, reviewing, for example, Renan’s Life of Jesus for the Christian Examiner in 1863. He was also the first historian of Transcendentalism, and his Transcendentalism in New England (1876) remains the most comprehensive in its historical scope (yet even when it first appeared, it was faulted for neglecting Thoreau). This review is not recorded in Borst’s Henry David Thoreau, A Reference Guide (1987), nor in Scharnhorst (1992) or Cameron’s two Supplements (1997). It is notable that no reference is made to Thoreau’s theology, which so incensed other contemporaries; and that the reviewer has identified Thoreau as an important writer on nature in the line of Gilbert White. A contemporary copy with AN UNREPORTED REVIEW OF THOREAU’S FIRST BOOK. $7,500

44 | james cummins bookseller 55 56 [WARNER, Richard]. Netley Abbey: A Gothic Story. 108; [4], WEBSTER, Noah. A Dictionary of the English Language. 104 pp. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, Philadelphia: Printed for T. Reprinted by E. H. Barker Esq. of Thetford, Norfolk, from a copy Dobson, W. Young, H. & P. Rice, and J. Ormrod, 1796. First communicated by the author and containing many manuscript American edition. Contemporary calf with red morocco corrections and additions. 2 vols. 4to, London: Black, Young, spine label. Front joint cracked, wear to spine ends with loss, and Young, 1831; 1832. First English edition. Contemporary title and half-title pages with name clipped at top margin, pp. quarter calf and brown cloth, spines gilt with red and black 51-2 with minor loss at fore-edge, text browned with some morocco labels. Light wear to binding, sporadic foxing to light staining. In full mottled calf drop box, gilt spine. This preliminaries, light dampstain at outer margins of a few edition not listed in ESTC; Evans 30836. preliminary leaves of vol. I. Skeel 589a; Cordell W-226; PMM This is Warner’s first book, published first in 1795 in South- 291 (for American edition). ampton for the author and then in the same year in London The first English edition of Webster’s American Dictionary at the Minerva Press. (1828) — the most important American dictionary, represent- $2,500 ing the culmination of Webster’s indefatigable dedication to providing his country with its first comprehensive modern dictionary The English edition was first issued in parts, beginning in 1830, and was issued in book form in 1832 — this copy is a variant dated 1831 in volume I. Skeel notes that this edition “was reworked by the English editor, E.H. Barker, and was not merely a reprinting [of the American Diction- ary].” Uncommon, with only one record at auction in the last 30 years. $4,500

catalogue 122 | 45 57 wyeth to his former teacher [WHITMAN, Walt]. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And 58 Other Poems. [At head of title:] Leaves of Grass. [i]-[xiv], 1-14, WYETH, Newell Convers. Autograph Letter, signed (“Wy- [15]-[16], 1-8 (Advertisement) pp. 8vo, Washington, D.C: 1872. eth”), to Eric Pape. 2 pp. pen and ink on rectos of two sheets First edition. Dark green cloth, grey endsheets. Extremities a of Chadds Ford stationery. 4to, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: bit rubbed, occasional marginal stains. Very good. BAL 21408. nd, ca. 1908. Creased from prior folding, light toning to Supplement to the 1872 Washington edition of Leaves of margins. Grass. Uncommon. Wyeth writes to his former teacher Eric Pape to decline $2,750 an invitation to move to Boston and teach at the Eric Pape School, where he had studied in 1901. “Extremely sorry at the turn of affairs. As sorry for disturbing any of your plans as for losing any opportunities. The fact that this fall promises to add another member to the Wyeth household and the fact that four large decorations for a western house I find will run into the winter makes it impossible to undertake that stupendous job of moving to Boston … [I] trust that I am not saying too much by adding , that I hope the future will see satisfactory arrangements carried out …” Wyeth did eventu- ally change his mind and taught at Pape’s school in 1909. The child referred to in the letter is likely artist Carolyn Wyeth (1909-1994). $2,750

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