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PETER L. STERN & COMPANY INC. 15 COURT SQUARE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc. 15 COURT SQUARE, BOSTON, MA 02108 TELEPHONE 617 542 2376 FAX 617 542 3263 EMAIL [email protected] Ordering information. Please confirm the availability of your choices before submitting payment. You may confirm by telephone, email, fax, or mail. When out of the office we have voice mail. We accept VISA, Mastercard, and American Express. Massachusetts residents must add 5% sales tax. All items are guaran- teed as described and may be returned for any reason. Please notify us within three days of receipt and note the reason for the return. All items should be shipped fully insured. Shipping charges: $9.00 for the first item, $2.00 for each additional item. Shipping of sets or unusual items (framed pieces, etc.) will be billed at cost, as will foreign orders. We generally ship domestic orders via U.P.S., so please supply a street address. Orders can be sent via the U.S. Postal Service if so requested. Item # 3 Item # 16 Item # 67 Item # 19 Edition” on the title page and corrected 1. ABAGNALE, FRANK W., JR. Repeal. Jackie Gleason played Ein- Run Smooth. New York: Rudd & Car- in ink the mistake on page 265 that WITH STAN REDDING. Catch stein in a 1985 TV movie (Art Carney leton, 1858. First Edition; first state. distinguishes the first two printings. Me If You Can. New York: Grosset & played his agent partner Moe Smith). Publisher’s red cloth; fine. Inscribed on The business card of the guide and Dunlap, 1980. First Edition. Owner’s It is doubtful that they performed on the front endpaper (but not signed) by interpreter from Tangier mentioned signature on the front free endpaper; a “dry” set. $450.00 the author, “For Mother.” The Ballad in the book is mounted on the front near fine in dust jacket. Basis for the of Babie Bell. New York: Rudd & Car- free-endpaper. XXXVI Lyrics and XII Spielberg film of the same title. The 4. ALCOTT, A. BRONSON. Ralph leton, 1859. First Edition. Publisher’s Sonnets. Boston: Houghton, Mif- “accomplishments” of this forger and Waldo Emerson: An Estimate of His brown cloth; very good or better. With flin, 1892. Later edition. Publisher’s con man seem so modest, perhaps Character and Genius in Prose and the author’s bookplate. Pampinea and wrappers; some soiling; very good; naive, in this era of Madoff and big Verse. Boston: A. Williams, 1882. First Other Poems. New York: Rudd & Car- gift inscription; signed and dated by financial bailouts. $350.00 Edition. A very good copy. This essay leton, 1861. First Edition. Publisher’s was privately printed in 1865 in honor brown cloth; fine. Inscribed on the the author in 1892. Judith and Ho- loferness. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 2. ABBOT, ANTHONY. The Shud- of Emerson’s birthday; two long verses front free endpaper by the author “For 1896. First Edition; large-paper issue; ders. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, follow. Illustrated with six mounted Mother” and signed by him on the first some pages unopened; very good. 1943. First Edition. Very good in a dust photographs and a frontispiece por- blank. The Little Violinist. Cambridge: The Sonnets of John Milton. London: jacket with two small pieces of tape trait. Scarce. $875.00 Massachusetts Society for the Preven- Kegan, Paul Trench, 1883. Very good. inside the top of the spine. $65.00 tion of Cruelty to Children, 1880. First A Bad Boy Makes Good Separate Edition; issued three years With Aldrich’s signature and a two line note in his hand in the text. De How Dry We Were 5. ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. earlier in another volume; publisher’s Quincey, Thomas: Confessions of an 3. [ALCOHOL] EINSTEIN, IZZY. Eleven Volumes Descended Through wrappers; a little soiled; very good or English Opium-Eater. Boston: Ticknor Prohibition Agent No 1. New York: the Aldrich Family; works by Thom- better. XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets. Frederick A. Stokes, 1932. First Edi- as Bailey Aldrich and books from Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881. First tion. Very good in dust jacket. The his library. Consisting of the follow- Edition (BAL State 2 - no priority is author claimed responsibility for ing: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey: Daisy’s mentioned); publisher’s wrappers; very 4932 arrests and in his Preface incor- Necklace: And What Became of It. good. At the top of the front wrapper, FALL rectly predicts that “The day when New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. Aldrich has written “First Edition.” Prohibition is repealed will not be First Edition. Publisher’s red cloth; From Ponkapoag to Pesth. Boston: in our lifetime...” Not much later, in very good. The author’s mother’s copy, Houghton, Mifflin, 1883. First Edition; December, 1933, the country finally signed twice and initialed once by her. first printing. Apparently the author’s 2009 came to its senses and fully ratified The Course of True Love Never Did own copy; Aldrich has written “First PETER L. STERN & COMPANY INC. 15 COURT SQUARE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 & Fields, 1856. Publisher’s cloth; railroad engineer, and a prominent 15. BELLOW, SAUL. The Actual. in very good condition, those with some splitting and chipping; good to Confederate general, famous for lead- New York: Viking, 1997. First Edition. damage (mostly with portions clipped very good. With Aldrich’s ownership ing Pender’s division in “Pickett’s Fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the out) are noted; most are folio-sized signature, dated 1851 (presumably Charge” at Gettysburg. $850.00 author. $125.00 and all are as issued in wrappers; as 1857). $3000.00 follow in no particular order: Charlie 9. BARLOW, JOEL. The Vision of Chan at Monte Carlo (U.S., Starring A True Small Press Work Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books. Oland); Charlie Chan at Treasure 6. ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. Hartford, Ct.: Hudson and Goodwin, Island (Toler, U.S.); another (U.K.); Pansy’s Wish: A Christmas Fantasy, 1787. First Edition. Contemporary calf Charlie Chan in Panama (Toler, U.S.); With a Moral. Boston: Published for with a morocco title label; rebacked a different one (U.S.); another (U.K.); the Mass. Homeopathic Hospital by and corners strengthened at an early Charlie Chan in Egypt (Oland, U.K., Marion & Co., n.d. [probably 1870]. date; hinges cracked; some page stain- damaged); another (U.S.) and another First Edition; presumed second print- ing; generally a very good copy. BAL (U.K.); Charlie Chan in Honolulu ing; original printed wrappers; an 865. The author was a member of the (Toler, U.S.); two others (U.K.); Char- excellent copy. The Bibliography of literary circle known as the “Hartford lie Chan in London (Oland. U.S.); American Literature (#270) devotes a Wits.” $400.00 another (U.K.); Charlie Chan in lengthy discussion to the printing his- Reno (two publications; Toler, U.K.); tory of this book. In brief, the book was The Father of Modern Promotion another (U.S.); Charlie Chan in Paris produced by the two young daughters 10. BARNUM, P.T. Struggles and (Oland, U.S. library stamp); Charlie of Aldrich’s Beacon Hill neighbor and Triumphs: or, Forty Years’ Recollec- Chan at the Wax Museum (Toler, intimate friend, Dr. Israel Talbot, for tions. Buffalo: The Courier Company, U.S.); another (U.K.); Charlie Chan’s sale at a fair held to benefit the hospital. 1882. “Author’s Edition,” revised and Chance (Toler, U.K.); Charlie Chan’s Apparently, the first printing was done enlarged; publisher’s half-leather and 16. BERKELEY, ANTHONY. Death Greatest Case (Oland, U.S.); Charlie on a cheap amateur press that Marion marbled paper boards; some rubbing In The House. London: Hodder & Chan at the Race Track (Oland, U.K.); Talbot owned, and she reprinted the and wear; nearly very good. Presen- Stoughton, 1939. First Edition. Spine another (U.S.); Charlie Chan’s Cour- pamphlet on a more expensive “Nov- tation copy, inscribed by the author, very slightly cocked; a fine copy in a dust age (Oland, U.S. - library duplicate, elty” press which she found for sale at “To Samuel Bowles Esq. With the jacket with only very light wear and tear; with a small stamp); another (U.K.) the local Mechanics’ Fair. $650.00 Author’s Compliments. P.T. Barnum, an exceptional copy. $4500.00 and another (U.K.); Charlie Chan Waldemere, Bridgeport, Conn. Feb at the Opera (Oland, U.K.); another 14th 1882.” $450.00 17. BIGGERS, EARL DERR. The (U.S., small library duplicate stamps); Black Camel. New York: Grosset & Charlie Chan on Broadway (Oland, 11. BARR, ROBERT. Jennie Baxter Dunlap, n.d.[c.1930]. Near fine in dust U.K.); another (U.S.); Charlie Chan - Journalist. New York: Stokes, 1899. jacket. $85.00 at the Olympics (Oland, U.K.); an- First Edition; limited issue; one of other (U.S.); Charlie Chan Carries On 1000 copies with a numbered label 18. BIGGERS, EARL DERR. Be- (Oland, U.K.); Charlie Chan’s Great- signed by the author, mounted inside hind That Curtain. New York: Grosset est Case (Oland, U.K.); Charlie Chan the front cover. Previous owner’s & Dunlap, n.d.[c.1930]. Near fine in at the Circus (Oland, U.K.); Charlie inscription; top of front hinge started; dust jacket. $85.00 Chan in Shanghai (Oland, U.S.); an- very good. $250.00 other (U.K., damaged) Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise (Toler, U.S.); Charlie 12. [BASEBALL] ANONYMOUS. Chan’s Secret (Oland, U.S., damaged); Original Poster for the House of Charlie Chan in Reno (Toler, U.S., David Baseball Club. c. 1929. Printed small library stamp); in addition, on card stock; approximately 11” wide there are a few odd pages from other x 22” long; black and white; picturing pressbooks.