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Aesop: SELECTIONS FROM AESOP’S FABLES ILLUSTRATED WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY WOODCUTS. [Mount Vernon]: A. Colish, Inc., 1988. Narrow quarto. Decorated paper over boards, gilt spine label. Woodcuts printed in red. Fine, without dust jacket. First printing in this format. Introduction by Kit Currie. One of 1500 copies printed in Centaur and Narrow Bembo italic types on Strathmore paper after a design by Jerry Kelly. $50. 2. Agee, James, and Charles O’Neal [screenwriters]: ‘NOA NOA” SCREENPLAY BY .... Los Angeles: Oceanic Productions, [ca. 1953]. [1],154 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed closely typed typescript, on green-tinted paper. Bradbound in production company wrapper. Upper wrapper worn and moderately soiled, and detached at upper brad, internally about fine. Copy #16 of an unidentified draft of this unproduced collaborative original screenplay based on the relationship between Gauguin and Van Gogh, with walk-ons by distinguished contemporaries, including Strindberg, Vollard, et al. This copy of the script was circulated by Reece Halsey Agency and bears their label on the title-leaf (the circulation coupon was clipped out). Although unproduced, a draft of this screenplay was included in the second volume of Agee on Film. $500. 3. [Aikin, John (comp)]: ESSAYS ON SONG-WRITING WITH A COLLECTION OF SUCH ENGLISH SONGS AS ARE MOST EMINENT FOR POETICAL MERIT .... Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, 1774. xix,[1],286pp. Octavo. Disbound, but sewing still sound. Light foxing early and late, residue of earlier binding on spine, otherwise very good. The second edition, with additions and corrections, of this popular compendium assembled by the physician and litterateur. First published in 1772, and reprinted again in 1777 in Dublin, and again after the turn of the new century. ESTC T85572. $150. 4. [Albee, Edward]: Joffry, Alix [photographer]: [Set of Twelve Stage Photographs of:] TINY ALICE. New York. [1964]. Twelve 8 x 10” glossy still photographs (one a duplicate). Crop marks for publication on some, photographer credit stamp on versos, several have typed squibs affixed (or formerly affixed) to versos, Theatre World file stamps on several versos, very good to near fine. A set of photographs for publication associated with the Broadway premiere production of Albee’s play, Tiny Alice, at the Billy Rose Theatre in December 1964. The production was directed by Alan Schneider, and starred John Gielgud, Irene Worth, William Hutt, Eric Berry and John Heffernan. The production received six Tony nominations. $250. 5. Albers, Josef: INTERACTION OF COLOR. New Haven & London: Yale University Press with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, [2009]. Two volumes. xiv,[2],118pp text plus second volume of color plates, with inserts and overlays. Small folio (34 x 28 cm). Cloth. An excellent set, enclosed in a lightly rubbed example of the cloth slipcase. “New Complete Edition,” after the classic of 1963. With an illuminating foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber about the context and history of the original edition, the interim small format reprints, and the genesis of this edition. $250. 6. Alberti, Rafael: SELECTED POEMS. [New York]: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [1944]. 32pp. Pictorial boards. First edition, boardbound issue, of these translations by Lloyd Mallan. Top edge slightly dusty, otherwise very good or better in lightly sunned and foxed dust jacket. Uncommon in this issue. HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p. 11. $60. 7. Alcott, Louisa May: LITTLE WOMEN OR, MEG, JO, BETH AND AMY [with:] LITTLE WOMEN OR, MEG, JO, BETH AND AMY PART SECOND. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. Two volumes. Uniform terra cotta cloth, spines and upper boards stamped in gilt. Frontispieces and plates. First title a bit shaken, with a couple of proud signatures; second title has a small chip from the fore-edge of the rear free endsheet, and the preliminaries show signs of having been tightened up; some rubbing and modest wear to tips, lower cover of first title exhibits a few spots of soiling; small adhesion flaw in gutter of free endsheet and first blank of second title; small, round sticker shadow in corner of each front free endsheet, generally a good, sound set. First edition, first printing, BAL’s state 4 of the second title, accompanied by a uniform 1869 reprint of the first. The first volume appeared in 1868, and this reprint, like several 1869 reprints noted by BAL, does not have the ‘Part One’ denotation on the binding. BAL 138-9. JOHNSON HIGHSPOTS, p.11-2. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 74. $850. 8. Alcott, Louisa May: MAY FLOWERS. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., [1899]. 56pp. plus plates and illustrated adverts. Gilt lettered pictorial cloth (unsigned). First separate edition of this tale reprinted from A Garland for Girls (1888). Spine darkened, 1899 gift inscription, some foxing; a good, sound copy. BAL 227. $65. 9. [Alcott Family Association]: Dana, Mrs. William Starr: HOW TO KNOW THE WILD FLOWERS A GUIDE TO THE NAMES, HAUNTS, AND HABITS OF OUR COMMON WILD FLOWERS. New York: Scribner, 1895. xvii,[1],373,[4]pp. Decorated pictorial olive-brown cloth, stamped in silver and grey (signed design by Margaret Armstrong). 156 illustrations. Top edge faintly dust-dimmed, but a very good copy. The revised edition of this classic, adding 52 illustrations and over sixty new descriptions. This is an interesting association copy, bearing the 1896 ownership inscription of Florence Whiting Brown, friend and chronicler of the Alcotts. $125. 10. Aldington, Richard: DEATH OF A HERO A NOVEL. London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. Very slight tanning at edges, but a very good copy in remnants of the jacket by Paul Nash. With the booklabel of Aldington’s occasional publisher, Crosby Gaige, on the front pastedown. First British edition of the author’s most widely read novel, based in large part on his service on the Western Front. Preceded by a few weeks by the US edition, which featured a slightly less expurgated text. KERSHAW 53. BLUNDEN, et al., p.8. $125. 11. [Alechinsky, Pierre]: Caillois, Roger: UN MANNEQUIN SUR LE TROTTOIR. [Paris]: Yves Rivière, [1974]. Small folio. Folded sheets, laid into chemise and decorated board slipcase. Illustrations in color by Alechinsky. Slipcase a bit smudged and edgeworn, contents fine. First edition. A facsimile of Caillois’s corrected typescript, accompanied by color full-page and in/over text illustrations by Alechinsky. One of a total edition of 450 numbered copies, signed by the author and by the artist. $750. A Book for Our Times -- Dedicated “To Truth” 12. [Alien Contactee Fiction – Derivative, if not Plagiarized]: Rember, Winthrop Allen (1896-1960) [“editor”]: EIGHTEEN VISITS TO MARS. New York: Vantage Press, [1956]. [14],439pp. Thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Portraits and plates. Slight dulling along top edges of boards, but a very good copy in shelfworn dust jacket. “First edition.” Inscribed and signed by the “editor.” A curious production, in large part indebted to (if not literally copied from) Sara Weiss’s 1903 work, Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento, but without either implicit or explicit acknowledgement of same in the text, the “Editor’s Note” (which observes only the passage of sixty years since the incidents were reported) or in the jacket copy. However, both the online revision of Sargent, and Eberhart’s Ufos And Extraterrestrial Contact Movement: A Bibliography (1986) treat Mr. Rember’s “first published work” as a literal reprint of Weiss’s well known turn of the century novel.