Between the Covers Rare Books, inc. 112 Nicholson Rd (856) 456-8008 Gloucester City, NJ 08030 [email protected] www.betweenthecovers.com Catalog 182: Re-Arrivals Literature and Non-Fiction...... Item 1 Mysteries & Detective Fiction...... 341 African-Americana...... 283 Photography ...... 413 Baseball...... 306 Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror...... 425 Children’s Books...... 319 Westerns...... 451 Film & Photoplays...... 332 Western-Americana...... 472

As anyone who has been paying any attention to BTC probably knows, our catalogs usually consist almost entirely of “New Arrivals”: that is, books that we’ve acquired within the past month or so. We are and continue to be omnivorous consumers of private libraries and of the inventories of other booksellers and collectors. We currently have about 250,000 books cataloged and offered for sale, with tens of thousands more waiting to be sorted, cataloged, scanned, and trotted out before our adoring (and adorable!) book buying public. As you might imagine, with so much new material to deal with we are generally not very introspective about older stock. We spend very little time fretting over unsold inventory or agonizing that our prices are either too high or too low. We are generally content to let the market take care of that: if they are priced too low they go away, if not they just lie there despondently. While we have occasionally and perfunctorily addressed older inventory by doing sale catalogs or blanket discounts on certain classes of books, we have never before gone back and actually individually re-priced books to market. Until now. I’ve recently revisited the prices of the books that have been in residence longest and tried my level best to price them competitively (obviously and as always, taking condition into account). From the results of that exercise we have chosen nearly 500 books, each one of which has had its price lowered by anywhere from 20% to, in a few cases, as much as 90% off its former price. You’re welcome! We may do more of this in the future, but as these are our oldest inventory, it’s unlikely we’ll ever have such a nice crop of reasonably high-value books that we will reduce the prices on anytime soon. Just saying... --Tom C Literature and Non-Fiction

1 AIKEN, Conrad. Bring! Bring! and Other Stories. New York: Boni & Liveright 1925. First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper that is a little spine faded, has a couple of small chips and an internal archival repair. A nice copy of Aiken’s first short story collection. [BTC#40268]

2 (Alcatraz). STROUD, Robert (“The Birdman of Alcatraz”). Two Page Autograph Letter Signed. Two page (four sides of two quarto leaves) Autograph Letter Signed (“Bob, Robert Stroud #594”) in pencil, dated September 16, 1954, to his younger brother Marcus. A fascinating, very tightly written letter of over 700 words, eloquently discussing the subjects of race and prejudice, intermarriage between races, and several anecdotes related to these matters. Stroud, the federal prisoner who in his day held the record for solitary confinement (over forty years), had ample opportunity for study. While at Leavenworth he began to keep birds and study them, eventually becoming a respected authority on the subject and authoring two books. He was not permitted to keep birds once he was transferred to Alcatraz in 1942, but he continued to write and produced two more books (an autobiography and a history of the U.S. penal system, both of which the authorities prevented from being published). Stroud’s intelligence and erudition are evident in this letter. Thomas Gaddis’s 1955 biography brought Stroud’s story to the attention of the general public and resulted in the 1962 film about his life starring Burt Lancaster. Stroud’s activities, as one might imagine, were very tightly restricted, and he was only allowed to correspond with a few people at any one time. His letters are very rare on the market. [BTC#13049] Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. Dimensions of all items, including artwork, are given width first. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. For private individuals, payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER, and PayPal. Gift certificates available. Domestic orders please include $7.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). N.J. residents please add 7% sales tax. All items are insured. All items subject to prior sale. Members ABAA, ILAB Cover by Tom Bloom. © 2013 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. Note: Color pictures of all available items in this catalog can be seen at www.betweenthecovers.com by searching under author, title, or BTC number. 3 AMIS, Martin. The Rachel Papers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1974. First American edition. “BTP” sticker on the front pastedown (as seems almost inevitable with this title) else fine in fine dustwrapper. An attractive and presentable copy of the author’s first book, and increasingly scarce thus. [BTC#17602]

4 ANDERSON, Maxwell. Valley Forge. Washington: Anderson House 1934. First trade edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight wear. One of the author’s historical dramas in verse. [BTC#40391]

5 —. The Wingless Victory. Washington DC: Anderson House 1936. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper, which features a likeness of leading lady Katherine Cornell. A superlative copy of this verse play. [BTC#40104]

6 — and Laurence STALLINGS. Three American Plays. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1926). First edition. One corner very slightly bumped else a fine, fresh copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Contains three collaborations by these authors including the first book appearance ofWhat Price Glory?, basis for the classic 1926 Raoul Walsh-directed film featuring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, and Delores Del Rio, remade in 1952 by John Ford with James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, and Dan Dailey. [BTC#43140]

7 (Anthology). ADAMS, Franklin P. as F.P.A., edited by. The Second Conning Tower Book. New York: Macy-Masius (1927). First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper slightly soiled on the spine and with a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Copy 68 of 100 numbered copies Signed by F.P.A. (Franklin Pierce Adams). A collection edited by the popular reviewer and radio host, with many important authors represented, most notably Dorothy Parker with ten contributions, but also selections from E.B. White, Witter Bynner, William Rose Benét, Vincent Starrett, John Reed, Genevieve Taggard, Christopher Morley, Elinor Wylie, and many others. [BTC#46656]

8 (Anthology). (BROOKS, Cleanth). Facets: An Anthology of Verse. Nashville TN: Calumet Club of Vanderbilt University (1928). First edition. Spine ends worn, about very good in fragments of the original dustwrapper. Copy 140 of 250 numbered copies. An anthology of poetry by Vanderbilt students and faculty, most notably Cleanth Brooks. This volume is Signed by Brooks, and Inscribed by contributor Margaret Moore. Scarce. [BTC#40543] 9 (Anthology). CLARK, Barrett H. and Kenyon NICHOLSON, edited by. The American Scene: An Anthology of American Plays. New York: Appleton 1930. First edition. Small, discreet owner’s name, one corner lightly bumped, else fine in attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some modest chipping at the crown. An anthology featuring work by Eugene O’Neill, Michael Gold, Paul Green, Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Edna Ferber, Susan Glaspell, Lynn Riggs, Colin Clements, and others. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#40349]

10 (Anthology). HARRIS, Alex, edited with an introduction by. A World Unsuspected: Portraits of a Southern Childhood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (1987). Uncorrected proof. Large spiral bound galleys for in- house use. Light wear at the extremities, just about fine. An important anthology of Southern experience with self-portraits of their youth by Sheila Bosworth, Robb Forman Dew, Barry Hannah, Josephine Humphreys, James Alan McPherson, Bobbie Ann Mason, T.R. Pearson, Padgett Powell, Ellease Southerland, and Al Young. Almost certainly the editor Harris’s copy with hundreds of pencil corrections in the text. The size and construction of this set of galleys leads us to believe that only a handful of them were printed for in-house use. Rare. [BTC#44846]

11 (Anthology). (SHELLEY, Mary, John CLARE, et al.) COATES, Reynell, edited by. Leaflets of Memory:An Annual for 1846. Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co. 1846. First edition. Publisher’s full gilt-stamped leather, all edges gilt. Illustrated with color lithographic plates and steel-engraved plates. Scattered foxing, particularly to the plates and tissue guards, a little light rubbing, a tight, very good plus copy. Includes a 20-page story, “The Dream,” by Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, and John Clare’s sonnet, “Fame.” [BTC#40530]

12 ARMSTRONG, Anthony as “A.A.” Britisher on Broadway. London: Methuen & Company (1932). First edition. Contemporary owner’s name, one small ink check mark on contents page, else fine in attractive, very good dustwrapper with a few small chips and tears. Autobiographical anecdotes by popular columnist “A.A” of the magazine Punch about the frustrations, delights, and confusions of an Englishman in New York City. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#38728] 13 ARMSTRONG, Martin. The Romantic Adventures of Mr. Darby and of Sarah His Wife. London: Gollancz 1931. First edition. Japanese vellum and cloth. Small stain on the edge of the spine, slight scuffing to the front board else near fine, almost certainly issued without dustwrapper. Copy 21 of 50 numbered copies printed on mould-made paper and Signed by the author. [BTC#45366]

14 ARNOW, Harriette as Harriette SIMPSON. Mountain Path. New York: Covici- Friede (1936). First edition. Bookplate of book critic Paul Jordan Smith, a slight bump on the top edge of the front board, else fine in a lightly soiled, very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. Author’s exceptionally uncommon first book, published under her maiden name. By the author of The Dollmaker. Only the second jacketed copy we have seen in the past decade. [BTC#24687]

15 AUSTIN, Mary. The Land of Journeys’ Ending. New York: Century Co. (1924). First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with some small nicks at the spinal extremities, some soiling (also on the spine), and some small tears. A look at the American Southwest by an Illinois-born feminist who migrated to California, where she was one of the founders of the writing community in Carmel that included Jack London and George Sterling. She finally settled in Sante Fe where she did much to preserve Native American legends and culture. A lovely copy and scarce in jacket. [BTC#45760]

16 (Aviation). JACKMAN, W.J. and Thos H. RUSSELL. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation. Chicago: Charles C. Thompson 1912. Reprint. Octavo. 256pp. Owner’s name else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper. With photographs and illustrations of imaginative [read: crazy] and conventional flying machines of the era throughout. [BTC#45596]

17 BARRY, Philip. In a Garden. New York: French 1929. First edition thus, heavily revised from the 1926 Doran edition. Light wear to the crown, slight rubbing to the spine lettering, very good in near fine dustwrapper supplied from a contemporary later printing. Inscribed by the author: “To Hope and Edgar with love from Phil, 18 March 1929.” Hope Montgomery Scott was the glamorous Philadelphia Mainline society woman who was the basis for the Tracy Lord character in The Philadelphia Story. The play was dedicated to Hope Montgomery Scott and her husband Edgar, who were lifelong friends of Philip and Ellen Barry. [BTC#35] 18 —. Liberty Jones: A Play with Music for City Children. New York: Coward-McCann 1941. First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some shallow loss along the top of the front panel and some tanning to the spine. A nice copy of this play about a young woman living in Washington DC. The play featured music composed by author Paul Bowles. [BTC#46679]

19 BELL, Madison Smartt. History of the Owen School from its Early Origins to 1984. (Nashville): Vanderbilt University (1985). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. A very nice copy of the author’s third and easily scarcest title, a history of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt. Distributed privately. [BTC#49743]

20 BELLAH, James Warner. This is the Town. New York: D. Appleton 1937. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a slight printing flaw to the silvered dustwrapper and some wear at the extremities. Happy Shannon, the daughter of an old-fashioned country doctor, comes to New York City and dazzles and is bedazzled by the glittering night life. Bellah, an aviator and war hero in both World Wars, is inextricably linked to John Ford, who filmed his stories and novels (as Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande) and for whom he wrote the screenplays The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Sergeant Rutledge. Very scarce. [BTC#44935]

21 BEMELMANS, Ludwig. The Donkey Inside. New York: Viking 1941. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. Bemelmans captures in text and drawings the spirit of the three trips he made to South America. [BTC#27678]

22 BENÉT, Stephen Vincent. Burning City. New York: Farrar, Rinehart (1936). First edition. Full leather stamped in gilt, slightly rubbed, else fine in lightly worn, near fine slipcase. Copy 177 of 275 numbered copiesSigned by the author. A volume of poetry by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner. [BTC#25816] 23 BENÉT, William Rose. The Dust Which Is God. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1942. Third printing, published a few months after the first printing. Fine in a lightly worn, very good or better dustwrapper with a few tiny chips at the extremities. A semi-autobiographical novel in verse that won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1942. This copy has an Autograph Note Signed laid in from the author’s brother, (and fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner) Stephen Vincent Benét, presenting the book with the following sentiment: “For my little One whom I love deeply. SVB.” and dated 27 March (in Roman numerals). On the front endpaper in Stephen Vincent Benét’s hand is quite a lovely and romantic six-line poem (unsigned) dated 11 January 1942 (again in Roman numerals). We have not been able to discern the source of the poem, and there is at least some reason, given the depth of feeling in the presentation, to surmise that it might be unpublished. [BTC#9686]

24 (BERRYMAN, John). LEWIS, Matthew G. The Monk. New York: Grove Press (1952). First edition. Introduction by John Berryman. Heavily bumped at the top of the front board affecting the tops of some pages, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. The original text of the controversial novel, first published in 1796, with variant readings and a note on the text by Louis F. Peck. Inscribed by John Berryman, commenting on the physical flaws of the volume: “Don & Betty with love (150 years old: hence the condition) John / Princeton 21 June 52.” [BTC#46750]

25 BEZZERIDES, A.I. Thieves’ Market. New York: Bantam (1950). First paperback edition. Very good in wrappers with light wear. Signed by the author, novelist, and screenwriter who co-created the television series, The Big Valley. A hardboiled novel about a WWII vet who avenges his trucker father’s treatment at the hands of a crooked San Francisco fruit dealer. Bezzerides also adapted it for the classic Jules Dassin film noir versionThieves’ Highway with Richard Conte, Millard Mitchell, and Lee J. Cobb. Blacklisted by Hollywood, this was the last film Dassin made in America for over a decade, though in the interim he continued to work on films in Europe. [BTC#43444] Basis for The Pajama Game 26 BISSELL, Richard. 7 1/2 Cents. Boston: Little, Brown (1953). Reprint edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a modest stain on the rear panel.Inscribed and Initialed by Broadway and Hollywood producer Frederick Brisson: “This was produced on Broadway as ‘The Pajama Game’ by Brisson, Griffith & Prince. F.B.” Brisson was the son of actor Carl Brisson, and husband of actress Rosalind Russell from 1941 until her death in 1976. When his father moved from Britain to Hollywood in the mid-1930s, Frederick Brisson followed and established a successful publicity agency. After the war he had great success as a producer both on Broadway and in Hollywood. The boisterous musical comedy about labor relations in a pajama factory, written by Bissell and George Abbott with great songs by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, also established the reputation of choreographer Bob Fosse. The film version with Doris Day, much of the original Broadway cast, and Fosse’s innovative screen choreography, is equally enjoyable and was also produced by Brisson. [BTC#43869]

27 (Boxing Fiction). COE, Charles Francis. Knockout. New York: Lippincott (1936). First edition. Tidemark on the top of the front board affecting parts of the last three letters in the title else a fine, tight copy in a fine, bright and attractive James C. McKell-illustrated dustwrapper. The story of Flash Phibin, who goes from circus strongman to become “The Yankee Yahoo,” heavyweight champion of the world, told in the hard-bitten language Coe employed in his gangster and mystery novels. [BTC#32556]

28 BROMFIELD, Louis. Tabloid News. New York: Random House 1930. First edition. A trifle dusty, still just about fine in stiff, unprinted wrappers as issued. One of 875 copies.Inscribed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author at Malabar Farm at a later date. Scarce. [BTC#36777]

29 BROWN, Rita Mae. A Plain Brown Rapper. Oakland: Diana Press (1976). First edition. Perfectbound wrappers as issued. Illustrated by Sue Sellars. Small sticker shadow on the front wrap, else very near fine. An early collection of feminist and lesbian essays. [BTC#21204]

30 BUCHANAN, Robert. The Land Lorne. New York: Francis B. Felt 1871. First American edition. Owner’s name, sunned spine else very good. [BTC#45433]

31 BURNS, Robert with illustrations by W. Russell FLINT and R. Purves FLINT. Songs and Lyrics of Robert Burns. London: Philip Lee Warner 1911. First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint and R. Purves Flint. Quarto. Small embossed “Specimen Copy” on several pages, including on a couple of the color plates, label (possibly from the publisher) mostly removed from the front pastedown, else a near fine copy of this attractively illustrated book of poetry. Presumably this “Specimen Copy” was either a preview copy or a publisher’s file copy.[BTC#38179] George H.W. Bush’s Yale-Freshman Yearbook 32 (BUSH, George H.W.). [College Yearbook]: The Yale Banner. New Haven: Yale University 1947. First edition. Quarto. Ownership signature of a Yale freshman, else fine. Yearbook from former President George Bush’s freshman year. Bush is pictured in three group shots including the baseball team and the University Budget Drive, a fundraising organization. [BTC#40452] 33 (Business). LOEB, Harold. Production for Use. New York: Basic Books (1936). First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with light edgewear. Loeb’s conclusions as the Chairman of the National Survey of Potential Product Capacity. An important figure in Paris’s expatriate community. Loeb is also remembered in the literary world as the model for Jake Barnes’s rival for the affection of Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises, wherein his early kindnesses to Hemingway (using his influence with Horace Liveright to get In Our Time published) was repaid by being portrayed as Robert Cohn, the cowardly and especially “Jewish” villain. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#40024]

34 (Business). —. Full Production Without War. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1946. First edition. Spotting on the boards and a small paper remnant adhered to the base of the spine from the jacket, as well as a pencil note from a bookseller dated in 1985 giving the provenance of the book, thus very good in very good dustwrapper with some small chips and tears at the extremities. Inscribed by the author: “To Susan Jenkins affectionately Harold Loeb.” Jenkins was the wife of William Slater Brown, designer for the Provincetown Theatre, and a close friend of Eugene O’Neill’s. Loeb’s inscriptions are scarce (see above). [BTC#40025]

35 BUTLER, Robert Olen. Sun Dogs. New York: Horizon (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s second novel. [BTC#36549]

36 CABELL, James Branch. Jurgen. New York: McBride 1919. First edition, first issue. Bottom corner of the front board bumped and the gilt spine lettering a little dulled, very good, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A nice copy of this classic satiric fantasy. Declared obscene by the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice, display and sale of the book was banned for two years, ensuring its immortality in publishing history (as well as serving to make copies of the first issue difficult to find).[BTC#36945]

37 —. Taboo. New York: McBride 1921. First edition. Fine in near fine example of the fragile and very uncommon dustwrapper with light wear at the top edge of the front wrapper and couple of tiny tears. Copy 151 of 920 numbered copies. [BTC#35353]

38 —. Something About Eve. New York: McBride 1927. First edition. Quarto. Half Japanese vellum and papercovered boards. Light soiling, very near fine in lightly worn, very good plus cardboard slipcase. Copy 618 of 850 numbered copies Signed by the author. An attractive volume. [BTC#36993] 39 CALDWELL, Erskine. Inscribed Photograph. [Circa 1960]. Black and white photograph matted, image size about 7” x 9”. Photograph is fine, mat is torn at one edge. Formal portrait of the author behind his desk, and nicely Inscribed by the author to New American Library publisher Victor Weybright. With back mark of photographer Harry Redl of Haight Street in San Francisco. A handsome portrait. [BTC#10425]

40 (Cartoons). DEAN, Abner. Come As You Are. New York: Simon & Schuster 1952. First edition. Quarto. Small name inked over on the front fly, edges of the boards a little faded, a very good plus copy in very good dustwrapper with modest chips at the extremities. Inscribed by the author: “To Anne – with good wishes – Abner Dean.” A book of cartoons about people at parties and the way they behave (or not) at them. [BTC#43470]

41 CARVER, Raymond. Two Poems. (Concord: Ewert 1986). First edition. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. One of 160 Signed copies, this copy hors commerce. [BTC#10760]

42 (—). CALLIS, Jo Ann. Jo Ann Callis: Objects of Reverie. Des Moines: Black Sparrow 1989. First edition, hardcover issue. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. A pristine copy of the hardcover issue of this exhibition catalogue. Copy 25 of 150 numbered copies Signed by the photographer. Poems by Raymond Carver and an essay by Buzz Spector. Shown without dustwrapper. [BTC#16144]

43 CATHER, Willa. Not Under Forty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First edition. Very slightly rubbed, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Copy 118 of 333 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC#6235] 44 CHARYN, Jerome. Once Upon a Droshky. New York: McGraw-Hill (1964). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear, a little very light rubbing, and a tiny stain on the rear panel. Author’s first book, a novel about a retired Yiddish actor evicted from his tenement in New York. Full-page pre-publication author’s Inscription, apparently to a journalist setting up an interview after the official publication date. A very nice copy. [BTC#33876]

45 CHAYEFSKY, Paddy. The Tenth Man. New York: Random House (1960). First edition. A little scattered foxing on the foredge and a couple of pages, else about fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper.Inscribed by the playwright: “May / 60 Dear Coby: May you be deeply identified with the next one – Paddy.” [BTC#15208]

46 CHEEVER, John. The Way Some People Live. New York: Random House (1943). First edition. Just a touch of tanning on the spine ends, still fine in a good plus dustwrapper with a chip at the crown (about 1” at its deepest point), and a long horizontal tear on the rear panel. Author’s very uncommon first book, a collection of short fiction that he never allowed to be reprinted. Only three of the stories have ever been subsequently printed, in an obscure paperback published in the 1960s. [BTC#36673] Inscribed to Cheever’s Son-in-Law 47 —. The Leaves, the Lion Fish, and the Bear. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos 1980. First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards with paper spine label. Bottom corners a little bumped and some slight soiling, a nice, just about fine copy. One of 330 numbered copiesSigned by the author, this copy marked “Presentation Copy” in type and Inscribed by Cheever to Tad Tomkins, his son-in-law (daughter Susan Cheever’s second husband). [BTC#26623]

48 (CHRISTY, Howard Chandler) RILEY, James Whitcomb. An Old Sweetheart of Mine. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1902. First edition thus, with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy and designed by Virginia Keep. Contemporary gift inscription on the half-title, still a lovely, fine copy in fine, Christy-illustrated dustwrapper with one short tear, in publisher issued, Christy-illustrated gift box (not shown), which is attractive and presentable, but which has been reinforced along the outer edges. Someone, presumably the original purchaser, has elaborately tied a ribbon around the front board, completely and easily removable, but which has done no harm, so we have left it as found. A beautiful copy. [BTC#40435] 49 CLAYTON, Geoffrey. What Price Gloria! New York: Kinsey 1936. First American edition. Negligible foxing on the spine else fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped to the front fly. Snappy Jazz Age novel in imitation of the Wodehouse manner: young English milord’s only interest is to write a whizz-bang popular song until his heart is captured by an elusive American floozy, the eponymous Gloria. Scarce and attractive. [BTC#35370]

50 COHAN, George M. and Edward MARSHALL. Broadway Jones. New York: Dillingham (1913). First edition. Rear fly seems to have been neatly sanded, perhaps to remove traces of a previously affixed clipping but is only noticeable with effort, else fine in a lightly soiled, about fine dustwrapper illustrated with photos from the play, and which is about 3/16” shorter than the book. Novelized by Marshall from Cohan’s hit play. The jacket is a lovely and remarkable survivor. [BTC#14870]

51 COLETTE. Mitsou. New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1930. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the corners and a closed tear on the rear panel. An attractive copy of this play about a Parisian dancing girl and the dashing young lieutenant she falls in love with, particularly scarce in jacket. Basis for the 1956 film directed by Jacqueline Audrey. A beautiful copy. [BTC#40265]

52 — and Willy. Claudine at School. New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1930. First American edition. A fine copy with topstain brilliant in a lovely, fine dustwrapper with just a touch of age-toning. An incomparable copy. Colette’s first book, originally published in Paris in 1900. Basis for the 1937 Serge de Poligny filmClaudine à l’école. [BTC#40264]

53 CONRAD, Jessie. (CONRAD, Joseph). A Handbook of Cookery. London: Heinemann (1923). First edition. Preface by Joseph Conrad. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with just a touch of darkening to the spine and a very slight bit of rubbing. A cookbook by the wife of the noted novelist, uncommon condition. [BTC#11435]

54 COWARD, Noël. Future Indefinite. New York: Doubleday 1954. First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. A photographic Christmas card Signed by Coward to Hope Scott taped in. [BTC#45901] 55 (DARLING, William Young). Hades! The Ladies! Being Extracts from the Diary of a Draper Charles Cavers, Esquire Late of Bond Street London, West. London: Gurney and Jackson (1933). First edition. Corners slightly bumped and offsetting to the endpapers from the flaps, near fine in attractive, near fine dustwrapper with some modest toning to the extremities and the spine. Witty little essays and digressions by the author of The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller, a volume we should have read before we got into the trade. [BTC#43395]

56 DEMPSEY, David. Flood. New York: Ballantine (1956). First edition. By very discreet evidence an ex-library copy with a small inventory number stamped on the dedication page, and some very faint signs of a pocket removed on the rear pastedown. Pages browned, a faint tide mark along the edge of the spine on the front board, very good in very good, spine-faded dustwrapper lightly chipped at the crown. True story of a flood on the East Coast, apparently rushed into print. An uncommon Ballantine hardcover. [BTC#40364]

57 DOOLITTLE, Hilda writing as H.D. Palimpsest. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1926). First American edition (one of 700 copies bound from the French sheets). Bottom edges of the boards rubbed, else very good in a near fine dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown, affecting the title, and a small chip on the rear panel. A very attractive copy of the author’s first novel.[BTC#23355]

58 DREISER, Theodore. Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories. New York: Boni & Liveright 1927. First edition. Just about fine in attractive, very good or a little better dustwrapper with some tanning on the spine, a number of very shallow nicks at the crown and one tiny nick at the top of the front panel. A nice copy of this collection of novellas and stories, including “The Prince Who Was a Thief,” an Arabian Nights-style story which became one of Tony Curtis’s first starring roles (as a Bronx-accented caliph). [BTC#43072] First book 59 DUNCAN, Robert. Heavenly City, Earthly City. (Berkeley: Bern Porter) 1947. First edition. Attractive, stamped name on the front pastedown and a touch of wear to the fragile papercovered boards else near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of small chips on the thin spine. The uncommon first book by one of the most important poets of his era. Of a total edition of 350 copies this is one of 250 copies in white boards (the additional 100 were in green boards and were signed). [BTC#1194]

60 —. another copy. (Berkeley: Bern Porter) 1947. First edition. Corners slightly worn, tanning to the extremities of the fragile papercovered boards, a nice, very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Very uncommon first book by one of the important poets of his era. Of a total edition of 350 copies this is one of 250 copies in white boards (the additional 100 were in green boards and were signed). [BTC#47465]

61 DUNSANY, Lord. Rory and Bran. New York: Putnam (1937). First American edition. Fine in fine, very slightly soiled dustwrapper. Novel of a half-witted boy driving his father’s cattle to market with his friend Bran, who [spoiler alert] is revealed to be a dog in the final chapter. A book-length joke by the author that is spoiled by this American edition’s dustwrapper. Nevertheless a lovely copy. [BTC#39215]

62 EDGERTON, Clyde. Raney. Chapel Hill: Algonquin 1985. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small rubbed spots at the extremities. Author’s scarce and desirable first book. [BTC#45798]

63 EDMONDS, Walter D. Chad Hanna. Boston: Little Brown 1940. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. A lovely copy of this novel set around the Erie Canal during its construction. Basis for the Henry King film featuring Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, and Linda Darnell. [BTC#33205]

64 ELIOT, T.S. The Use of Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard 1933. First American edition. Old, small bookstore label and a little offsetting from the jacket design on the endpapers, near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper that is tanned at the spine and extremities, but has no appreciable chips or tears. A nice copy of this series of lectures delivered by Eliot at Harvard. [BTC#29962]

65 ENGLANDER, Nathan. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1999. Uncorrected proof. Publicity material stapled to inside of front wrapper else near fine in wrappers.[BTC#48126]

66 FABIAN, Warner (pseudonym of Samuel Hopkins ADAMS). Sailors’ Wives. New York: Boni & Liveright (1924). First edition. Bottom corners a little bumped else near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tears and a small, light stain at the top of the rear panel. Jacket art by A.N. Simokin. A Jazz Age novel in which the heroine, with her doom impending, decides to live out her life in a frenzy of revelry and hectic pleasures. Basis for the 1928 silent film featuring Mary Astor and directed by D.W. Griffith-protégé Joseph Henabery.[BTC#37217] 67 FALSTEIN, Louis. Face of a Hero. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company (1950). First American edition. Boards a little soiled and very slight fraying at the crown, else near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with slight loss at the spinal extremities and some faint staining on the front panel, pretty much indistinguishable from the jacket design. A World War II novel by a Ukrainian-born American that received renewed attention when some scholars contended that the plot elements in this book were suspiciously similar to those that were later to appear in Catch-22. [BTC#31090]

68 FAULKNER, William. This Earth: A Poem. New York: Equinox 1932. First edition. Drawings by Albert Heckman. Fine in string-tied wrappers as issued, in the original envelope, which is very good with one flap detached but present. [BTC#8126]

69 —. The Marble Faun and A Green Bough. New York: Random House (1965). First collected edition, reprinting the text of Faulkner’s only two volumes of poetry in facsimile. Fine in a price-clipped, fine dustwrapper. This is the first reprinting ofThe Marble Faun, Faulkner’s rare first book. [BTC#39754]

70 FINEMAN, Irving. This Pure Young Man. New York: Longmans, Green & Company 1930. First edition. Fine in price-clipped, very good plus, Arthur Hawkins-designed dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown and a little rubbing and with the publisher’s sticker “$7500 Prize Novel” on the front panel. Novel set among New York City society and centered on an earnest young architect and his obsession with the New York City skyline. Author’s first novel.[BTC#38884]

71 FISHER, Steve. Take All You Can Get. New York: Random House (1955). First edition. Remainder mark on the bottom edge else fine in near fine dustwrapper with light wear to the spinal extremities, some barely noticeable scratches, and a crease on the rear panel. “A tough, racy story about a used-car salesman and his girl.” Hardboiled non-mystery. [BTC#17421]

72 FLANNER, Janet. The Cubical City. New York: Putnam’s 1926. First edition. Contemporary owner’s signature else fine in a nice but flawed example of the rare dustwrapper, with a large chip on the rear panel (affecting no art but parts of two letters on the edge of the spine). Flanner’s scarce and desirable first book, jacketed copies are scarce. [BTC#46569] Inscribed to James Thurber 73 —. Pétain: The Old Man of France. New York: Simon and Schuster 1944. First edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. Very faint dampstain to the tops of the front and rear wrapper and a very faint horizontal crease on the right side of the front wrap, still a nice, very good plus copy of an extremely scarce book. Flanner’s view of Marshall Pétain, WWI hero turned figurehead for the Nazi- controlled Vichy government in WWII. This copy Inscribed by the author to New Yorker colleague James Thurber and his wife: “To the Thurbers, and the South of France, and their Cook. Janet.” A superb association. [BTC#41058]

74 FLAUBERT, Gustave. Salambo [also known as Salammbo]. London: Vizetelly & Co. 1886. First English edition (another English translation was published by Saxon in the same year). Translated by J.S. Chartres. Bookplate on the front pastedown, foxing to the first few pages, some moderate rubbing and soiling to the boards, a solid, very good copy with the gilt lettering clear and readable. The first translation into English of this exotic novel of ancient Carthage that belongs in the second rank of the author’s work behind Madame Bovary. [BTC#28238]

75 —. Bouvard and Pécuchet. London: H.S. Nichols 1896. First English edition, and first edition in English. Moderate wear to the extremities, a handsome very good plus copy. Flaubert’s last work, about two men who are suddenly freed from their daily jobs and become amateur scientists, with several poorly planned experiments ensuing. Filmed in France in 1989. Connolly 100. [BTC#45386]

76 FLAVIN, Martin. Amaco. New York: Samuel French 1933. First edition. Owner’s name on the front fly, light foxing to the endpapers, else near fine in near fine, slightly tanned dustwrapper with a few small chips to the ends of the spine and corners of the panels. [BTC#44398]

77 FLOYD, Andress. My Monks of Vagabondia. Union, NJ: Self Master Press Union (1913). First edition. Considerable rubbing to the painted lettering on the spine and front board, as well as some scattered light foxing, else a near fine copy of this attractively printed book. Floyd was a self-styled utopian, who envisioned a world of simple clean homes for the homeless vagabonds who apparently made up the itinerant work force of his printing press. [BTC#37086]

78 FORD, Ford Madox. Great Trade Route. New York: Oxford 1937. First American edition. Fine in a fresh, near fine dustwrapper but for a modest chip at the corner of the rear panel where it meets the foot of the spine. A “book of mental travel” including an excursion into the American South. [BTC#33209] 79 —. Buckshee. Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press (1966). First edition, a collection of previously published poems with new introductions by Robert Lowell and Kenneth Rexroth. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a touch of wear along the top edge. One of 50 numbered copies Signed by Lowell, Rexroth, and the book’s designer, Janice Biala. This copy unnumbered, designated in ink: “Publisher’s Copy – Out of Series” and has publisher James Randall’s ownership Signature on the front fly. A selection of poems from late in Ford’s life, long out of print and considered among his best. [BTC#37687]

80 FORD, Richard. [Screenplay]: Bright Angel. No place: no publisher 1988. First edition thus. Photocopied sheets in unprinted, bradbound wrappers. Signed by Ford on the title page. The author’s only produced screenplay, basis for the 1991 film directed by Michael Fields and featuring Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Burt Young, Bill Pullman, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Bratt, and Delroy Lindo. [BTC#40471]

81 FORESTER, C.S. Josephine: Napoleon’s Empress. London: Methuen 1925. First edition. Heavy foxing throughout, spine and edges of boards faded, else very good without dustwrapper. [BTC#37492]

82 FOWLES, John. Introduction: Remembering Cruikshank. Princeton: Princeton University Library Chronicle [1974]. First separate edition, printed as an extract from The Princeton University Library Chronicle – Volume XXXV, Number 1 & 2. Stapled wrappers. One of approximately 50 copies of an offprint prepared for the author’s use from the Princeton University Library Chronicle consisting of four pages stapled into brick colored wrappers. Signed by the author. Very scarce. [BTC#17926]

83 FROST, Robert. Inscribed Photograph. Approximately 8” x 10” black and white photograph of Frost posed formally in front of an oil portrait of himself. Fine. Inscribed by Frost to his assistant while he was Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress: “Robert Frost to Phyllis Armstrong.” Phyllis Armstrong was the Assistant in Poetry at the Library of Congress where she bullied, cajoled, and served the various poets who served as Poetry Consultant (later changed to Poet Laureate) for 24 years. She was appointed by Karl Shapiro in 1946 who said in retrospect that she handled, “one difficult poet after another, for which she deserved the Congressional Medal of Honor.” A tall, chain-smoking, Canadian poet, she reminded Randall Jarrell of T.S. Eliot. She was inextricably bound-up with the history of that office. When questioned about his tenure, Howard Nemerov said: “I had no problems. I just did what Phyllis told me to do.”A nice, large inscribed photo of one of America’s most beloved poets. [BTC#47548]

84 FUENTES, Carlos. Terra Nostra. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976). First American edition. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and light wear to the spinal extremities and edges of the panels. Inscribed by Fuentes to African-American author Barry Beckham. [BTC#37722]

85 FUJITA, Jun. Tanka: Poems in Exile. Chicago: Covici-McGee Co. 1923. First edition. Tiny remnants of a removed bookplate else fine in spine-faded dustwrapper with modest loss at the spinal extremities and some fading on the edge of the front panel. Printed by Will Ransom. Nicely Inscribed by the author to one of the publishers of the book, William McGee. [BTC#48891]

86 GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba [No One Writes To The Colonel]. Medellin: Aguirre Editor (1961). First edition. Text in Spanish. A faint stain along the spine, page edges browned, still a very good copy of this fragile little rarity, the author’s second book, a novella which was the title story of his first book published in the U.S. A clean and fresh copy of the Columbian Nobel Prize-winner’s second book. Basis for a 1999 film starring Salma Hayek. [BTC#10481]

87 —. Operacion Carlota: Cuba Participa En La Victoria De Angola. (Madrid: Trifuno) [circa 1976]. First edition. Text in Spanish. Yellow stapled wrappers (blue and white variants exist, no priority). [28]pp. Fine. Cheaply produced offprint from a magazine article. Also prints a poem by Pablo Neruda on the Angolan struggle. [BTC#25045]

88 GARDNER, John. The Wreckage of Agathon. New York: Harper (1970). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author’s second novel.[BTC#24581]

89 — and Lennis Dunlap. The Forms of Fiction. New York: Random House (1962). First edition. Spine slightly faded else fine in fragile papercovered boards lacking the dustwrapper. Gardner’s first book, a co-authored English textbook, issued four years before his first novel,The Resurrection. [BTC#32558]

90 GASS, William. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry. Boston: Godine (1975). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and slipcase. Copy 115 of 225 numbered copies of the deluxe edition Signed by the author. An attractively printed book. [BTC#25704] 91 GENET, Jean. The Balcony. New York: Grove Press 1958. First American trade edition. Fine in very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with some short tears and slight soiling. A nice copy of this major expressionist play. Because of the simultaneous paperback issue, the hardcover is uncommon. [BTC#37603]

92 GERSHE, Leonard. Butterflies Are Free. New York: Random House 1969. First edition. Small smudge on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author, presumably to his brother: “Feb. 1971. For Harold – My ‘inspiration’ and for Kit – my ‘inspiration-in-law.’ With love, Leonard.” Basis for the 1972 Milton Katselas film featuring Edward Albert, Goldie Hawn, and Eileen Heckart, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role. A very nice association copy. [BTC#44614]

93 GIELGUD, Val. White Eagles. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1929. First American edition. A little flaking to the cloth, else fine in a beautiful, Harold Brett-designed dustwrapper with a very faint dampstain at the top of the spine. A lovely copy of this espionage thriller set during the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. One of this prolific author’s earliest books.[BTC#33563] The Dedication Copy 94 GLASGOW, Ellen. The Voice of the People. New York: Doubleday, Page 1902. First edition thus, illustrated with photographs by Henry Trosh (originally published without illustrations in 1900). Title page foxed, modest wear at the extremities, a very good plus copy. The author’s third book, and the first to be published under her own name. This is the DEDICATION COPY Inscribed to her younger sister and closest friend: “Rebe Gordon Glasgow from Ellen Glasgow.” The printed dedication is: “To Rebe Gordon Glasgow.” Ellen Glasgow was the ninth and Rebe the tenth and last of the Glasgow children. Along with their slightly older brother Frank, the three siblings formed an extraordinarily strong unit, bonding together against the general unhappiness in their household, especially their mother’s madness. Rebe read and critiqued Ellen’s earliest work, and was almost certainly the unmarried Ellen’s closest friend throughout her life. [BTC#46527]

95 GODWIN, Gail. The Perfectionists. New York: Harper (1970). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of this North Carolina author’s first book. [BTC#12055] 96 GOLDMAN, William. Tinsel. New York: Delacorte (1979). First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a tear along the top edge of the front flap. Signed by the author. Novel of Hollywood by one of the top screenwriters. Despite his relatively high public profile, books signed by Goldman are uncommon. [BTC#17397]

97 GORDON, Caroline. Aleck Maury Sportsman. New York: Scribners 1934. First edition, first issue. Contemporary gift inscription, usual fading to the green cloth, very good or a little better in very good dustwrapper with some modest chipping at the extremities, an archival, internal tape repair, and some internal shadows from older tape repairs. The author’s most celebrated book, about a Southerner who is both a scholar and a sportsman, based on the life of her father. [BTC#45245]

98 —. The Malefactors. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1956). First edition. Boards slightly soiled else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper.Inscribed by the author from her Princeton home: “For my dear Sally and Sam, from a faithful adherent, who recalls, on this day, many happy hours spent under the Prince’s aegis, With much love, Caroline. The Red House, April 18, 1961.” [BTC#22702]

99 GOYEN, William. The House of Breath. New York: Random House (1950). First edition. Boards a trifle worn and a slight bump to the foot, near fine in a very good or somewhat better dustwrapper with a ¼” chip at the foot of the spine and some light soiling to the rear panel. Texas author’s cheaply produced first book, one of A.C. Greene’s “Fifty Best Books on Texas.” Blurbs by Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, and Elizabeth Bowen. [BTC#30769]

100 —. Ghost and Flesh: Stories and Tales. New York: Random House 1952. First edition. Light offsetting to the front endpaper, boards lightly worn, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine and light rubbing and wear to the extremities. Inscribed by the author to his bibliographer. [BTC#38065]

101 GREENE, Graham. The Name of Action. London: Heinemann (1930). First edition. Bookplate else very good with one corner and the edges of several pages bumped, lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC#39896] 102 GREY, Romer. The Cruise of the “Fisherman”: Adventures in South Seas. New York: Harper & Brothers 1929. Reprint. Illustrated from photographs. Boards a bit scuffed from insect damage, and the first two leaves have a few small insect holes, a sound, good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Romer Grey: “To Cecil – an old friend with my best regards. Romer Grey. Glendale, Calif. May – 1930.” Grey has also made a small ink correction in the text. Grey was the sportsman son of novelist and fisherman Zane Grey. His books have always been eagerly sought after by collectors of sporting books, and for the most part are often more difficult to find than those of his father. [BTC#49775]

103 GRIFFIN, John H. The Devil Rides Outside. Ft. Worth TX: Smiths, Inc 1952. First edition. Bookplate front panel else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a horizontal wrinkle near the top edge and a little rubbing. Signed by the author. Author’s imaginative first novel, produced by an obscure press. [BTC#15173]

104 HAGGARD, H. Rider. A History of the Transvaal. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company 1900. First American edition. Very small, light stain on the spine else a fine copy. An updated and re-titled revision of Haggard’s first book,Cetywayo and His White Neighbors augmented to encompasses changes that were the result of the Boer War. Scarce. [BTC#25546]

105 HARDING, John W. The Time, The Place and The Girl. New York: G.W. Dillingham (1908). First edition. Cover and illustrations by Gordon Grant. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper that is 3/8” shorter than the book. A novel, from the play of the same name by Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. Basis for the 1929 Howard Bretherton-directed film featuring Grant Withers as a former football star duped into being the fall-guy on a bond scandal, and Betty Compson as the ignored love who saves him. The film was released with both silent and sound versions, the latter a pleasant musical employing Vitaphone’s sound-on-disc system. Very scarce, especially in jacket. OCLC lists only six copies. [BTC#54981]

106 HARDY, Thomas. Wessex Poems and Other Verses. New York: Harpers 1899. First edition. Faint stain at the bottom corner of the front board and a little darkening to the spine, an attractive, very good copy. Hardy’s first volume of poetry, a form he turned to after the unsatisfactory reception of his novels, and a pursuit which he always regarded as far more important than his fiction. Though today’s readers know him mostly for his great tragedies, Hardy was considered the equal of Yeats as the great poet of the turn of the century. [BTC#33874] Signed by Joel Chandler Harris – three times 107 (HARRIS, Joel Chandler). WEEDEN, Howard. Bandanna Ballads. New York: Doubleday & McClure Company 1899. First edition. Introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. Attractive, contemporary engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, another older name on the front fly, else just about fine. Dialect poems, purportedly by a black man but actually by a white Alabama woman. This copy Signed by Joel Chandler Harris on the second blank leaf: “Faithfully yours: Joel Chandler Harris, Atlanta, Ga. 6 September 1900.” Additionally Signed in full on the title page, where he has crossed out his printed name, and Signed once again at the end of his introduction. A very nice copy, signed thrice by the author of the granddaddy of all dialect tales, Uncle Remus. [BTC#49781]

108 HART, Moss. Christopher Blake. New York: Random House (1947). First edition. Damage to the boards from dampstaining, thus fair but internally fine, in a lovely, fine dustwrapper with a small, light ink mark on the front panel. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Wonderfully Inscribed by the author: “For Donald – A very integral part of this play – with my deep thanks and gratitude. Moss Hart. New Hope, 1947.” While it seems logical that this jacket was married to the book (as there is no evidence of dampstaining to the jacket), our instinct is otherwise as the book was in a private collection for a considerable period of time, probably before jacket polygamy became common, and it just feels like it belongs. Perhaps the (so far unidentified) Donald removed the jacket at some point, and replaced it after he had inadvertently damaged the book. Basis for the Peter Godfrey filmThe Decision of Christopher Blake featuring Alexis Smith and Robert Douglas as the divorcing parents of the title character. [BTC#40419]

109 HAUPTMANN, Gerhart. Phantom. London: Secker (1923). First English edition (preceded by the German and American editions, both published in 1922). A little foxing to the endpapers else fine in lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with a couple tiny nicks. The German Nobel laureate’s second novel for adults. It was made into a long- considered “lost,” but now found, film adapted by Theo Von Harbou (ofMetropolis fame) and directed by F.W. Murnau (in the same year he directed Nosferatu). A very nice copy. [BTC#36177] 110 HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1933. First edition. Fine, with the gold spine label bright, in a near fine dustwrapper with some light nicking at the extremities and a little rubbing. A considerably nicer than usual copy of this collection of stories, including “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” [BTC#49617]

111 HENRY, O. (pseudonym of William Sydney PORTER). Postscripts. New York: Harpers (1923). First edition. A bit of darkening in the joints else a fine, fresh copy in a very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a number of shallow chips and internally repaired tears at the extremities but which is nevertheless fresh and attractive. A posthumous collection of stories previously unpublished in book form. O. Henry was the acknowledged master of the short story form, especially in the decades after his death in 1910. [BTC#22303]

112 HICHENS, Robert. The Unearthly. New York: Cosmopolitan 1926. First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper with a few short tears. Attractive jacket illustration signed “T.N.” Published in England as The God Within Him, a novel of the wasters of Mayfair. A brilliant young woman flits from London society to the Riviera to the Alps encountering a mysterious young foreigner. [BTC#38880]

113 HILLGARTH, Alan. The Black Mountain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1934. First American edition. Contemporary gift inscription, top edge of the rear board slightly abraded and a little light soiling to the extremities of the binding, still near fine in price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper with some tears along the upper extremities, mostly on the rear panel. Young Indian boy is educated by a wise and mysterious native priest who sends him on the mission of reinstating the oppressed Indian races in Bolivia. Visionary elements in the plot, as well as some similarities to the “lost race” genre. Excellent jacket art by Nina Miller Davidson. [BTC#28211]

114 HILTON, James. Ill Wind. New York: Morrow 1932. First American edition, published in England as Contango. Very slight spotting and a couple of pinholes in the front joint else a near fine copy in attractive, about fine, Gene-illustrated dustwrapper. Hilton’s second novel published in the U.S.[BTC#173] 115 HORGAN, Paul. Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. New York: Rinehart & Company 1954. Reprint. Two volumes. Near fine lacking the original slipcase. Very nicely Inscribed in both volumes by Horgan to scholar and author Leon Edel. [BTC#48893]

116 HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey. The Third Hour. Boston: Little, Brown 1938. First American edition. Fine in an about very good dustwrapper. An attractive jacket but for a rather large chip on the rear panel. Author’s first book, a novel of adventure. [BTC#12395]

117 HURST, Fannie. Star-Dust: The Story of an American Girl. New York: Harper (1921). First edition. A little light wear to the extremities of the spine else fine in near fine dustwrapper lightly soiled on its white spine and with a small chip at the corner where the spine meets the top of the front panel. A lovely example of the pictorial jacket. The author’s first novel, preceded by a few volumes of stories and a play. Very scarce. [BTC#14880]

118 —. A President Is Born. New York: Harper & Brothers 1928. First edition. Neat owner’s name else fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of this novel, set in Ohio, about a young man’s political destiny. [BTC#37231]

119 —. Five and Ten. New York: Harper & Brothers 1929. First edition. Tiny tear at the crown, slight rubbing to the crown and corners, a very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to her then current lover: “To Stef, Best of friends and proofreaders. Fannie.” [BTC#46749]

120 —. Great Laughter. New York: Harper & Brothers 1936. First edition. Very slight wear, easily fine in an attractive, very good or a little better dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the crown. A novel set in the Chelsea section of New York City, about the 100-year-old matriarch of a large and fading family conspiring to regain the family fortune before she shuffles off this mortal coil. This copy Inscribed by the author on the dedication page to her lover at that time (inside her drawing of the Rock of Gibraltar): “To Stef, whose friendship is my Gibraltar. Fannie.” The printed dedication: “What large laughter among the immortals…” is perhaps intentionally cryptic and it is at least arguable that this could be a dedication copy. Hurst’s delicacy in preserving the proprieties of her marriage-in-name-only to pianist Jacques S. Danielson (they lived apart and were seldom in contact) might have prevented her from dedicating a major novel to her lover. [BTC#46530] —. Also see item 263 121 HUXLEY, Aldous. After Many a Summer. London: Chatto & Windus 1939. Uncorrected proof. Two modest chips on the rear panel, near fine in unprinted wrappers. With the author’s Signature tipped to the first blank. Scarce format for this Burgess 99 title. [BTC#23468]

122 IRWIN, Godfrey. American Tramp and Underground Slang: Words and Phrases Used by Hoboes, Tramps, Migratory Workers and Those on the Fringes… New York: Sears Publishing [circa 1930]. First American edition, from British sheets. 264pp. With an essay on American slang in its relation to English thieves’ slang by Eric Partridge. A little rubbed at the extremities, a tear to the edge of two pages in the text and the spine lettering a bit dull, still a very good copy lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Interesting etymological study of the common idiom which developed among tramps. [BTC#37106]

123 IRWIN, Wallace. The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum. San Francisco: Elder and Shepard 1902. First edition. Introduction by Gelett Burgess. Stiff fabric with paper label. A couple of small, faint splash marks to the label, still just about fine.Inscribed by the author to the publisher of the Grafton Press: “From a Grafter to the Grafton Press or to Mr. Hitchcock with the best regards of Wallace Irwin.” [BTC#54345]

124 JACKSON, Shirley. Hangsaman. London: Gollancz 1951. First English edition. Modest rubbed spot on the front board, some bumps to the edges of the boards, a very good plus copy in very good plus dustwrapper with some slight tanning to the spine, a small internal repair and a little offsetting at the edge of the front panel. Inscribed by the author: “For Polly, with warmest affection. Shirley.” Author’s third book, and second novel, and her first novel to deal with the darker regions of human nature and personality. Jackson only lived to age 49, and books inscribed by her are notably uncommon. [BTC#27396]

125 —. Raising Demons. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1957). First edition. A couple of tiny spots on the bottom edge, still fine in an especially fine and crisp dustwrapper. The second volume of the author’s domestic reminiscences, preceded by Life Among the Savages, virtually never found in this condition. [BTC#14778]

126 JAMES, Henry, edited by. The Letters of William James. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press (1920). First edition. Two volumes. Offsetting to first two blanks of volume one, else fine in attractive dustwrappers with some modest chipping at the extremities and a few internal repairs on the seams. James’s letters edited by his son. Scarce in jackets. [BTC#40400] 127 JARRELL, Randall. The Seven-League Crutches. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1951). First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with one short, internally repaired tear and a little soiling. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped-in. Important collection of poetry. [BTC#964]

128 JEFFERS, Robinson. Thurso’s Landing and Other Poems. New York: Liveright (1932). First edition. A couple of faint stains on the rear board else about fine in attractive and bright, very good plus dustwrapper with two faint, vertical creases, very slight tanning at the spine and one tiny chip. A nice copy despite a smattering of small flaws.[BTC#38263]

129 JONG, Erica. Fear of Flying. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1973). First edition. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Spine and edges of the boards faded, else near fine in near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper with a ¾” chip at the bottom of the rear panel. [BTC#41829]

130 —. Half-Lives. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1973). Uncorrected proof. Fine in tall wrappers. Author’s second book, a volume of poetry. Laid in is a brief Typed Note Signed from Jong to “Anatole” (Broyard) sending the proof and soliciting his opinion. A scarce proof, it is unlikely that many more than those necessary for in-house editing were produced, with a nice presentation. [BTC#6319]

131 —. How to Save Your Own Life. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1977). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. Very warmly Inscribed on the front wrap. Author’s second novel, a Burgess 99 title. [BTC#6326]

132 KAUFMAN, George S. and Marc CONNELLY. Beggar on Horseback. New York: Boni & Liveright (1924). Second printing. Two pages in the middle of the text are darkened where a parody newspaper was tipped-in and is now partially lacking, as usual with this title, some chipping to the bottom of the paper spine label, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. This copy is Inscribed by Connelly to a Broadway producer: “To Sidley Brown, Who gave me another automobile. Marc Connelly, Christmas, 1925.” A splendid association. Basis for the 1925 James Cruze film featuring Edward Everett Horton, famous for its fantastic, surrealistic dream sequence, reminiscent of German cinema of the time but unlike anything else produced in America in that era. [BTC#39712] 133 KEES, Weldon. Poems 1947-1954. San Francisco: Adrian Wilson 1954. First edition. Former owner’s inscription, slightly soiled, a small bookplate on the front pastedown, some ink underlining assumed to be from the reviewer, else near fine. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. [BTC#34303]

134 (KENT, Rockwell). SHEPHARD, Esther. Paul Bunyan. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1924). First edition. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing at the extremities. Shephard’s retelling of the Northwestern legend of Paul Bunyan, with Kent illustrations. Scarce in jacket [BTC#49318]

135 KOSINSKI, Jerzy. To Hold a Pen. [No place]: The American Scholar 1973. Stapled wrappers. Folded vertically down the middle, light offsetting on the rear wrap, thus very good or a little better. Inscribed by the author: “For Harold Brodkey, my pen-fellow, admiringly, Jerzy Kosinski. November 7, 1973.” An uncommon offprint, the text of an article about the PEN writers society, of which Kosinski served as President in 1973-4. [BTC#26104]

136 — writing as Joseph NOVAK. The Future Is Ours, Comrade. Garden City: Doubleday 1960. First edition. Introduction by Irving R. Levine. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Effusively Inscribed by the author at a later date as both “Jerzy” and “Joseph Novak.” The author’s first book, increasingly difficult to find in this condition. [BTC#10016]

137 (Landscape Gardening). COPELAND, R. Morris. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company 1859. First edition. Thick octavo. x, 813pp., double-page frontispiece plate (color-tinted lithograph), wood engraved vignettes, in-text illustrations, and plates. Publisher’s brown ribbon-embossed cloth, gilt spine title. Front hinge is loose, an about very good copy with some slight mottling to the boards. Neat ownership signature of journalist, author and polymath Charles Leland: “Charles Leland, Metropolitan Hotel. July 29/59.” [BTC#47403]

138 LENT, Jeffrey. In the Fall. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000. First edition. Fine in slipcase, issued without dustwrapper. Copy 18 of 200 numbered deluxe editions Signed by the author. Interesting and exceptional novel set during and just after the Civil War. [BTC#41799] 139 LEVIN, Meyer. Compulsion: A Play. New York: Simon & Schuster 1959. First edition. Pages darkened else fine in lightly worn near fine dustwrapper with some slight tanning on the spine. The uncommon play version based on Levin’s novel, itself based on the Leopold and Loeb trial and Clarence Darrow’s defense of the two young murderers. [BTC#13370]

140 (LEWIS, Wyndham) HANDLEY-READ, C. The Art of Wyndham Lewis. London: Faber and Faber Limited (1951). First edition. Quarto. Crown slightly sunned else fine in near fine dustwrapper except for a corresponding chip at the crown. Attractive copy of the first important monograph on Lewis’s art. [BTC#27696]

141 LEYNER, Mark. I Smell Esther Williams. New York: Fiction Collective (1983). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of the author’s first book. Scarce in the hardcover issue. [BTC#47397]

142 LOCKHART, R.H. British Agent. New York: Putnam 1933. First American edition. Introduction by Hugh Walpole. Fine in near fine, price- clipped dustwrapper with a couple of small chips and some small internal repairs. Something of a bestseller, the autobiography of a Scottish diplomat posted to the Soviet Union, where his knowledge of Russian affairs was so acute that he was condemned to death by the Bolsheviks. Basis for the Michael Curtiz film featuring Leslie Howard. A relatively common title, in much nicer than usual condition. [BTC#33224]

143 LONDON, Jack. The Game. Toronto: Morang & Co. 1905. First Canadian edition, first state. Old bookstore label on the front pastedown and a small ink number on the title page, else a fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. London’s boxing novel. [BTC#17511]

—. Also see item 438 144 LOOS, Anita. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”: The Illuminating Diary of A Professional Lady. London: Brentano’s 1926. First English edition. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Cloth on the front board a little puckered else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Basis for two films, the first a 1928 silent directed by Malcolm St. Clair and featuring Alice White and Ruth Taylor. White became an immediate star but retired from the screen shortly thereafter and gave birth to a son, writer-actor Buck Henry. Better known today is the 1953 Howard Hawks version with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. [BTC#40184]

145 (LOWELL, Robert). DOUGHTY, C.M. Travels in Arabia Deserta. New York: Random House [circa 1947]. Stated “New and Definitive edition in one volume” of the classic work, originally published in 1888. A little soiled, a very good plus copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Robert Lowell during his term as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress to his assistant there: “For Phyllis Armstrong From Robert Lowell, For Holding Together for a year, September 17, 1947 – Sep. 16, 1948.” (See item 83)[BTC#46731]

146 LYTLE, Andrew. At the Moon’s Inn. Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1941). First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with mild wear. An appealing copy of this novel of Hernando de Soto’s 16th Century expedition through what are now the Southern states in search of gold. [BTC#48821]

147 MacDONALD, George. Paul Faber. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1879. First American edition. Very light rubbing to extremities of the spine else very near fine. A nice copy of a scarce title. [BTC#12944]

148 MacGRATH, Harold. The Place of Honeymoons. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1912). First edition. Contemporary pencil owner’s name (“Custer - Heidelberg Cottage”), fine in very attractive, very good dustwrapper with embossed gold lettering, with a number of modest chips. Basis for the 1920 Keanen Buel filmThe Place of the Honeymoons with Emily Stevens and Frankie Mann. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#40091]

149 MALONE, Michael. Painting the Roses Red. New York: Random House (1974). First edition. Remainder mark top edge else fine in fine dustwrapper with some like staining on the rear panel. Author’s first book.[BTC#41465] 150 MANN, Thomas. Nocturnes. New York: Equinox Cooperative Press 1934. First edition. Lithographs by Lynd Ward. Faint residue from a bookplate removed from the corner of the front pastedown, else fine in fine slipcase. One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author (of which 990 copies were for sale). This is copy #5, and likely was one of the ten copies retained by the publisher. Three short stories that had not previously appeared in English. The slipcase is seldom found in reasonable condition. [BTC#24916]

151 —. Death in Venice. New York: Limited Editions Club 1972. Folio. Quarter red morocco and marbled papercovered boards in slipcase. Translated by Kenneth Burke. Introduction by Erich Heller and illustrated by Felix Hoffman. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown and the spine very slightly soiled, still fine. Copy 1499 of 1500 numbered copies Signed by Hoffman. [BTC#15518]

152 MASON, Bobbie Ann. Shiloh and Other Stories. New York: Harper 1982. Uncorrected proof. Near fine in lightly worn wrappers. Author’s first book of fiction, a very well-received book of stories. [BTC#36429]

153 MASTERS, Edgar Lee. Mitch Miller. New York: Macmillan 1920. First edition. Illustrated by John Sloan. Fine in very good, Sloan-illustrated dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel and lacking the bottom 1.5” of the spine. Signed by the author. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#12664]

154 —. Kit O’Brien. New York: Boni & Liveright 1927. First edition. A couple of spots of foxing on the front fly still fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight age-toning. A lovely copy of this novel similar in tone to his previous book Mitch Miller. [BTC#50663]

155 MAUGHAM, Robin. The Servant. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1949). First American edition. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. Superb copy of this novella about a corrupt butler who eventually dominates his dissipated master, made into an impressive Joseph Losey film featuring Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, and Sarah Miles. Scarce in this condition. [BTC#32543] 156 MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Christmas Holiday. New York: Doubleday 1939. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with some slight fading to the orange ink on the spine, a very short tear, and some rubbing at the spine. A crisp copy of this novel which was toned down considerably for the fine film with Deanna Durbin as a downtrodden nightclub singer and Gene Kelly, cast against type, as her murdering, convict husband. [BTC#49021]

157 McALMON, Robert. A Hasty Bunch. (Paris: The Author 1922). First edition. A fine copy in self- wrappers, and uncommon thus. McAlmon was the founder of Contact Editions, which published James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and several others, including Ernest Hemingway’s first book. He was at the center of expatriate life and helped to support various struggling artists and writers in that tumultuous time. The author’s second book, published at his own expense prior to the formation of Contact Editions. A particularly nice copy, containing a long Inscription by McAlmon dated in 1951. [BTC#6839]

158 —. Not Alone Lost. Norfolk: New Directions (1937). First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with one very shallow chip at the bottom of the front panel but which is otherwise quite bright. A collection of poems by the influential expatriate, and the first of his books to be published in the U.S. Uncommon. [BTC#14952]

159 McELROY, Joseph. A Smuggler’s Bible. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World (1966). First edition. Advance Reading Copy in yellow wrappers. Wraps slightly soiled, spine very slightly tanned and an ink stroke on rear wrap, a very good copy. Warmly Inscribed by the author, his first book.[BTC#10873]

160 —. Lookout Cartridge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1974. Uncorrected proof. Tall blue wrappers. Very good with slight staining to front and rear wraps. Extremely uncommon proof. This copy is warmly Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. [BTC#11879]

161 —. Plus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1977. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a little faint offsetting on the rear panel. Advance Review Copy with slip and photo laid in. As a consequence of publication of a simultaneous paperback, the hardcover is uncommon. This copy warmly Inscribed by the author as “Joe.” McElroy is a stranger to the book-signing circuit and his presentation copies are among the scarcest of modern writers. [BTC#11880] 162 McFEE, William. Pilgrims of Adversity. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1928. First edition. Endpapers and dustwrapper illustrated by Edward W. Wilson. Spine slightly sunned, still near fine in attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with a little shallow loss at the crown. Signed by the author, noting the artist’s misspelling of a word on the endpapers. A very nice copy of this novel of seafaring. [BTC#36821]

163 McMURTRY, Larry. The Last Picture Show. New York: Dial 1966. Uncorrected proof. Spiralbound advance sheets, laid into the finished dustwrapper. Small tape shadow on the front page perhaps from a review or complimentary slip, reviewer name on the jacket and half-title, else fine in very good dustwrapper, a bit soiled and with a mild ring stain on the front panel. Publisher’s letter laid in. McMurtry and director Peter Bogdanovich co-wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film with Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cybil Shepherd, and Academy Award-winners Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman. A rare advance state of this key work, one of the defining works of the Sixties.[BTC#11542]

164 MENCKEN, H.L. Prejudices: Sixth Series. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1927. First edition. Copy 27 of 50 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum, bound in vellum, and Signed by the author. Spine very slightly soiled, still easily fine in a modestly worn, very good slipcase.[BTC#49016]

165 MERCER, Charles. Rachel Cade. New York: Putnam (1956). First edition. Corners a bit bumped and worn else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some shallow loss at the crown and a tiny hole on the rear panel. Author’s second novel, about a female missionary in Africa and her odyssey towards love and adventure. Basis for the 1961 filmThe Sins of Rachel Cade featuring Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, and Roger Moore. [BTC#32570]

166 MICHENER, James A. Tales of the South Pacific.New York: Macmillan (1947). First edition. Rebound in quarter leather and cloth. Pages a bit browned as always, and some rubbing to the extremities of the leather, a very good or better copy. Michener’s first work of fiction (preceded by a textbook), basis for the hit musical and film, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. [BTC#17932] 167 —. Iberia. New York: Random House (1968). First edition. Foxing to the foredge else fine in a remarkably fine dustwrapper. A weighty tome, the author’s book about his travels and reflections on Spain.[BTC#30840]

168 MILBURN, George. The Hobo’s Hornbook: A Repertory for a Gutter Jongleur. New York: Ives Washburn 1930. First edition. 295pp., decorations by William Siegel. Fine in attractive dustwrapper that has a chip at the crown affecting most of the title. A collection of hobo songs meant to prove the author’s contention that hoboes were the last of the balladeers. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#37121]

169 MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. Two Slatterns and a King. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd 1921. First edition. Stapled wrappers. A trifle rubbed at the spine, still a lovely, fine copy, housed in a chemise and quarter leather and cloth slipcase titled in gilt, near fine with the cloth slightly soiled. A very nice copy of a fragile and very short play. [BTC#36721]

170 —. The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems. New York: Harper 1928. First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. An especially crisp copy of a relatively common title. [BTC#39504] For June from Henry 171 MILLER, Henry. To Paint Is To Love Again Including Semblance of a Devoted Past. New York: Grossman 1968. First edition. Folio. Small dampstain at the bottom of the front board else fine in near very good dustwrapper with scattered light stains and general wear. Inscribed by Miller to his second wife June Mansfield: “For June from Henry. Note: Unfortunately the reproductions are not good – weak and off color – sorry!” A collection of Miller’s painted art, along with the text of a previously published limited edition that comprises Miller’s correspondence with longtime friend Emil Schnellock about art and painting. A great association. [BTC#40345]

172 MILLER, Max. I Cover the Waterfront. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc. (1932). First edition. Fine in near fine, spine tanned dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Something of a pioneer book of reportage, Miller covered the San Diego waterfront for years. Basis for the James Cruze film featuring Claudette Colbert as the love interest of Ben Lyon, a reporter out to expose smuggling. [BTC#38906] 173 MILLHAUSER, Steven. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. First edition. A couple of very small spots to the top edge stain else fine in a slightly soiled, fine dustwrapper. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first book. [BTC#22727]

174 MILLIN, Sarah Gertrude. The Dark Gods. New York: Harpers (1941). First edition. Fine in fine, fresh dustwrapper with some modest rubbing at the spinal extremities and a couple tiny tears. A very nice copy of this scarce novel set in South Africa and concerning itself with Nazi spies and their interaction with the native population. [BTC#37653]

175 MILLS, Hugh. Prudence and the Pill. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1966. First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear, a little rubbing at the spinal extremities, a very faint dampstain at the foot, and an old internal repair. A nice, presentable copy despite this litany of small flaws. First novel by this playwright, made into a film featuring David Niven and Deborah Kerr. [BTC#23509]

176 MITCHELL, Joseph. My Ears Are Bent. New York: Sheridan House (1938). First edition. An about very good copy with a tear at the crown and slight loss to the foot of the spine, lacking the dustwrapper. The author’s first book, a collection of short pieces from his days as a reporter for the New York World-Telegram, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Anecdotally, it has been said that Mitchell would not allow this book to be reprinted in his lifetime because of some racial characterizations that are now considered inappropriate. This may be the case but Mitchell’s writing, while never precious, could hardly be considered insensitive. [BTC#49913]

177 —. Old Mr. Flood. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce (1948). First edition. Bookplate and small, old price inked over on the front pastedown, else fine in about very good dustwrapper with small chips, internal repairs and some staining visible only on the inside. Signed by the author. Three interconnected articles, about the Fulton Fish market and its denizens, which appeared originally in The New Yorker. [BTC#38734] 178 MITCHELL, Margaret. Typed Letter Signed. One page Typed Letter on the author’s stationery, dated December 18, 1946, Signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh.” Folded in thirds for mailing, with typed envelope included. A trace of darkening at the folds else fine. Four cordial paragraphs replying to a letter from her friend Myron J. Quimby, who had recently moved to Texas. The third paragraph concerns Quimby’s son, Myron J. Quimby, Jr., of whom she comments: “I hope Son finds not only a good job but one that is satisfying and has a future to it.” The younger Quimby became an author; two decades later he wrote The Devil’s Emissaries, an important true-crime account of “Machine Gun” Kelly, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, and other notorious criminals of the 1920s and ‘30s. Mitchell, the author of the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone with the Wind, died after being struck by an automobile in 1949. [BTC#46606]

—. Also see item 339

179 MOLNAR, Ferenc. The Good Fairy. New York: Long & Smith 1932. First American edition, and the first edition in English. Translated and adapted by Jane Hinton. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with some modest soiling and some shallow chipping at the crown, and featuring a Cecil Beaton drawing of Helen Hayes as Lu from the New York stage production. Splendidly adapted by Preston Sturges and filmed by William Wyler in 1935 with Margaret Sullivan, Herbert Marshall as the doctor she pretends is her husband, and Frank Morgan, who steals the show as the millionaire trying to separate them. It was also remade in 1947 as I’ll Be Yours with Deanna Durbin. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#37360]

180 MOLNAR, Franz. Prisoners. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1925). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A novel translated from the Hungarian, about a young lawyer and warden’s daughter set to marry when robbery intervenes. Basis for the 1929 William Seiter film, an early talkie with a pre- Dracula Bela Lugosi. A superb copy. [BTC#32575]

181 MONAHAN, Michael. The Papyrus: A Magazine of Individuality. Mt. Vernon, NY: Michael Monahan 1903-1909. Periodical. Four bound volumes of this literary magazine; an incomplete run comprising of Volumes 1, 3, 4, and 5 (lacking volume 2). Quarter red morocco and papercovered boards. Volume 5 fair only, others very good with light wear to extremities. Wrappers bound in. Inscribed in Volume 1 by the author and editor: “To the Hon. Thos. C. O’Sullivan with all good wishes from Michael Monahan. Mt. Vernon May 15 -1904.” Volume 5 is inscribed in 1910 by the noted book collector William F. Gable to H. Luther Frees. An attractive and uncommon bohemian-type little magazine. [BTC#48522]

182 MOORE, George. Memoirs of My Dead Life. London: Heinemann 1906. First edition. Very good with a small ink notation on the rear pastedown and a large but light tidemark on the rear board. Celebrated autobiography by the innovative Irish novelist and man of letters. Connolly 100. [BTC#36427]

183 MUNDY, Talbot. King of the Khyber Rifles.Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill (1916). First edition, with the author’s name misspelled on the title page. Owner’s name, crown a bit pulled and light wear to the extremities, a very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A classic adventure novel, basis for the 1953 Henry King-directed film with Tyrone Power.[BTC#40329]

184 NATHAN, George Jean. Bottoms Up: An Application of the Slapstick to Satire. New York: Philip Goodman 1917. First edition. Edges of the fragile papercovered boards a little rubbed, still about fine in an attractive, very good example of the white dustwrapper with a couple of modest chips that affect none of the printed text. Nathan, one of the most important American drama critics of the first half of this century, was the co-editor with H.L. Mencken of The Smart Set and co-founder with Mencken of The American Mercury. This is his fourth book, a satiric send up of the conventions of the Broadway theatre. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. [BTC#21226]

185 NATHAN, Robert. Youth Grows Old. New York: McBride 1922. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of small chips and internal, archival repair to the front spine fold. Author’s scarce first collection of poetry, seldom found in the fragile jacket. [BTC#26103]

186 NICHOLS, John. The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. [BTC#41647]

187 NICHOLSON, Geoff. Street Sleeper. London: Quartet (1987). First edition. Edges of the pages very slightly browned else fine in fine dustwrapper. Author’s first book. [BTC#25390] 188 NICHOLSON, Kenyon and Charles ROBINSON. Sailor, Beware! Variations on a Familiar Theme in Eight Acts. New York: Farrar & Rinehart (1933). First edition. Trifle foxed on the top edge, a fine copy in near fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing at the extremities and a short, slightly creased tear at the bottom of the front panel. Basis for several films including the 1936 Lady Be Careful directed by Theodore Reed, with a script by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and featuring Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, and Buster Crabbe; and the 1951 Hal Walker film with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin (and including James Dean in a bit part in his first, uncredited, film appearance). [BTC#46589]

189 O’BRIEN, Tim. Northern Lights. London: Boyars 1976. First English edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author’s second book, reportedly one of only 900 copies of this issue. [BTC#40425]

190 O’DONNELL, E.P. The Great Big Doorstep. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1941. First edition. A couple of pages roughly opened with some chipping along the edges, else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a shallow chip along an upper portion of the front panel. A comedy by a Louisiana-born author about a Creole family living outside New Orleans, later issued in the Lost American Classics series with an introduction by Eudora Welty. [BTC#12548]

191 O’HARA, John. A Rage to Live. New York: Random House (1949). First edition. Fine in original unprinted glassine with a couple of very small chips and tears. Presentation edition, meant for friends of the author and publisher. Basis for the film featuring Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Graves. [BTC#33672]

192 —. From the Terrace. New York: Random House (1958). First edition. Spine a bit faded, front hinge neatly repaired thus very good in a price-clipped, very good plus (and probably supplied) dustwrapper with a scrape on the front flap, but which does not obscure any text. Nicely Inscribed by the author to William and Frances Lord: “To the good Lord up above – 77th Street – and Lady Frances, from their contented customer, John O’Hara. 28 Dec ‘58.” [BTC#29944]

193 —. Ourselves to Know. New York: Random House (1960). First edition. Spine lettering rubbed, a not quite very good copy in very good plus, supplied dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “Best ever, Bill. J. O’Hara.” [BTC#6947] 194 —. The Instrument. New York: Random House (1967). First edition. Fine in tape reinforced, very good slipcase. Copy 195 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC#6948]

195 OATES, Joyce Carol. Marriage and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard (1972). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author. [BTC#11558]

196 —. New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature. New York: Vanguard (1974). Uncorrected proof. Review slip taped to first blank else fine in wrappers. Scarce proof of one of the author’s less common critical volumes. [BTC#10904]

197 — as Fernandes. The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese. New York: Vanguard 1975. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers as issued. Signed by the author. [BTC#6931]

198 OLSON, Charles. Proprioception. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation 1965. First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers as issued. BrieflyInscribed by Olson to beat generation figure John Montgomery on the front wrapper. A collection of poems, especially scarce signed. [BTC#18359]

199 ORCZY, Baroness. The Elusive Pimpernel. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1908. First American edition. Fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper. Basis for the 1950 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film starring David Niven in the title role. [BTC#48151]

—. Also see item 383

200 ORLOVITZ, Gil. Concerning Man. New York: Banyan Press 1947. First edition. Arthur Szyk bookplate, fine in fine dustwrapper. Copy 34 of 350 numbered copies. Inscribed by the author to Philadelphia artist Cornelia Tate: “To Cornelia, with gratefulness, since you had the affirmation to remove this volume from rarity to the circulations of your affections. Gil Orlovitz, May 1947, Philadelphia.” Orlovitz’s first book, as well as the first book of the press. Books signed by Orlovitz are uncommon. [BTC#22681] Maxfield Parrish’s Copy 201 (PARRISH, Maxfield). WHARTON, Edith.Italian Villas and Their Gardens. New York: Century 1904. First edition. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Nineteen of the original twenty-six Parrish illustrations have been neatly excised, a bit cocked and some wear to the spinal extremities, otherwise a sound, very good copy. Illustrator Parrish’s own copy, Signed by him in his beautiful and idiosyncratic hand on the front fly: “Maxfield Parrish: from The Century Company: 1904.” Beneath this is an unsigned note by the artist’s son, Maxfield Parrish, Jr.: “Unfortunately dad cut out many of the colored prints of the best villas from this book.” It was Parrish’s custom to remove most of the prints from his copies of his books to be pasted into a “master” scrapbook, and such was the fate of this volume. Included with this volume is a copy of the second edition of this title, with all of the plates intact. [BTC#17514]

202 PEATTIE, Donald Culross. Immortal Village. Chicago: University of Chicago (1945). First edition. Illustrated by Paul Landacre. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a few small tears and light chips, lacking the slipcase. Copy 3 of 500 numbered copies Signed by both Peattie and Landacre. [BTC#35130]

203 PERELMAN, S.J. The Rising Gorge. New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a fingertip puncture in the front joint. Inscribed by the author: “To Deborah and Saul with all best, Sid. SJP 1964 [word undecipherable].” A collection of short humorous pieces. [BTC#39932]

204 —. The Road to Miltown or Under the Spreading Atrophy. New York: Simon & Schuster 1957. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with the spine soiled and a little faded. Inscribed by the author: “To Deborah & Saul. Greetings, Sid. S.J. Perelman.” [BTC#38540]

205 PORTER, Katherine Anne. Flowering Judas. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1930). First edition. One of 600 copies. Boards lightly soiled, else fine lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC#42722]

206 —. French Song Book. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1933. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Copy 283 of 595 numbered copies Signed by Porter, who assembled and translated this collection, and comments on each entry. Prospectus for the book laid in. A superlative copy. [BTC#40437] 207 POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters. Paris: Black Sun Press 1930. First edition. Pages unopened, slight loss at the crown else near fine in stiff wraps and the original glassine dustwrapper, in a good cardboard slipcase lacking the bottom panel. Copy 297 of 300 numbered copies on Navarre Paper. [BTC#36421] Peter De Vries’s Advance Copy 208 POWELL, Anthony. At Lady Molly’s. Boston: Little, Brown (1957). First American edition. Fine in fine, unrubbed dustwrapper with a little foxing on the rear panel, as well as an alternate, good plus overjacket (not shown) indicating that this is an Advance Review Copy, which is a bit spine tanned. Author Peter De Vries’s copy with his pencil ownership Signature (“De Vries”) on the front fly. De Vries has provided a long blurb for the book that appears along with blurbs from Evelyn Waugh and Edwin O’Connor on the front panel of the advance jacket, and on the rear panel of the regular trade jacket. A nice association copy of the fourth volume of The Dance to the Music of Time. [BTC#45254]

209 POWERS, Richard. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. New York: Morrow (1985). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears and a touch of rubbing. First book by an author whose reputation grows with each offering. [BTC#14956]

210 (Prison Verse). GLYNN, John Francis. Songs from the Silence: A Book of Prison Verse. Minneapolis: Byron & Learned (1921). First edition. Thin green cloth boards. Handwritten monogram on front fly and light wear to the spine ends, else fine, presumably issued without dustwrapper. Surprisingly, this book was reissued in at least two other later editions. Scarce. [BTC#41152]

211 PRITCHETT, V.S. Dead Man Leading. New York: Macmillan 1937. First American edition. Light stain to a small portion of the foredge and to parts of one page, else about fine in price-clipped and slightly toned near fine dustwrapper (with Arthur Hawkins illustration) with a faint crease on the spine. Author’s second novel published in America. [BTC#11588]

212 PROULX, E. Annie. Heart Songs and Other Stories. New York: Scribners (1988). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Proulx’s first book of fiction, and the start of a distinguished literary career in which, in the course of just a few years, she has won several major awards. A lovely, as new copy. [BTC#36816] 213 PYNCHON, Thomas. V. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1963. First edition. Three fairly large ink initials on the front fly, some slight smudging on the front board, else a very good or better copy in a near very good dustwrapper with a long folded tear on the front panel and a modest triangular chip on the rear panel. [BTC#37950]

214 RAU, Santha Rama. Home to India. New York: Harper (1945). First edition. Brief, neat gift inscription, near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with slight loss at the spinal extremities. The author’s first book, a rediscovery of her home country. A “Harper Find” title, as well as an uncommon wartime book. [BTC#275]

215 ROBERT, Derek. ‘That’s the Life for Me’. London: Hamish Hamilton (1964). First edition. Foredge foxed, else fine in a very slightly spine-faded, else fine dustwrapper designed by Biro. A comic novel about the adventures of an aging cargo ship and her crew. Uncommon. [BTC#51828]

216 ROBERTS, Kenneth L. Europe’s Morning After. New York: Harpers (1921). First edition, first issue with the correct code on the copyright page. Bookplate on the front pastedown else a fine, clean copy lacking the dustwrapper. Author’s first book.[BTC#8270]

217 RUNYON, Damon. Take It Easy. New York: Stokes 1938. First edition. Some foxing to the boards and endpapers, as seems inevitable with this title, a very good copy in very good dustwrapper with some moderate chipping at the extremities and professionally repaired at the rear spine fold. A collection of stories, one of which was adapted into the filmJoe and Ethel Turp Visit the President. [BTC#46822]

218 SAROYAN, William. The Beautiful People. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1941). First edition. Fine in an attractive dustwrapper that is a bit spine-faded but which is otherwise fine. A collection of three plays. [BTC#25513]

219 SHAFFER, Peter. Amadeus. (London): Deutsch (1980). First edition. Author and critic Tom Prideaux’s copy with his ownership signature and a couple of light pencil notes, else fine in fine dustwrapper. The award-winning play. Shaffer adapted his own play for the Milos Forman film which won them both Academy Awards, as well as Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham (co-star Tom Hulce was also nominated in this category for the title role). [BTC#12454] 220 SHAW, Irwin. Mixed Company: Collected Stories. New York: Random House 1950. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a couple of very small chips. Scarce in collector’s condition. This is a lovely copy. [BTC#32618]

221 SHENKER, Israel. Words and Their Masters. Garden City: Doubleday 1974. First edition. Photographs by Jill Krementz. Quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some nominal rubbing. A collection of insightful and interesting interviews with writers accompanied by Krementz’s portraits of the subjects. This copy Signed or Inscribed by four of the subjects: Isaac B. Singer, Janet Flanner, Bernard Malamud, and Kurt Vonnegut, who has noted after his name, “Jill’s boyfriend” (he later married photographer Krementz). Other subjects include Rex Stout, Jorge Luis Borges, Gore Vidal, S.J. Perelman, E.B. White, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, and many others. A nice book, enhanced by the collection of signatures. [BTC#10591]

222 SHERWOOD, Robert Emmet. The Virtuous Knight. New York: Scribners 1931. First edition. Fine in fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper. A very nice copy of this important and prolific author’s only novel, about a knight during the Crusades, but which can be read as a modern morality tale. Sherwood won four Pulitzer Prizes (three for drama and one for history), an Academy Award (for his script for The Best Years of Our Lives), and wrote many of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s most memorable speeches. He donated much of the enormous wealth he earned through his plays to charitable causes, especially to refugee relief during the Second World War. [BTC#32599]

223 SMITH, Stevie. Novel on Yellow Paper. New York: William Morrow 1937. First edition. Blue cloth with dustwrapper priced $2.50 (no priority). Contemporary owner’s name, top corner a little bumped, near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with tears along the flap folds and some loss to the spinal extremities. Author and poet’s first and most desirable book.[BTC#36509]

224 SMITH, Thorne. The Glorious Pool. New York: Doubleday, Doran 1934. First edition. Some of the usual fading to the blue boards, else about fine in a bright, very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with several internal repairs and a small chip on the rear panel. Aging gentleman and his aging mistress find a fountain of youth.[BTC#38195] Inscribed by “The March King” 225 SOUSA, John Philip. Pipetown Sandy. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1905). First edition. Lettering rubbed away on the spine and partially rubbed away on the front board as well, a near very good copy. A novel by the noted composer, and Inscribed by him: “To Mrs. O.C. Varney from John Philip Sousa 1916.” Sousa often inscribed just using his initials, or as J.P. Sousa; it is particularly nice that he signed here using his full name. [BTC#46696]

226 STEGNER, Wallace. The City of the Living and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1956. First edition. Neat gift inscription on the verso of the front fly, small tape shadows on the front pastedown where a small clipping was formerly attached and covered by flaps, a very good copy in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with two small internal tape shadows, and some general light wear. Signed by the author. Despite a number of modest flaws, a presentable and pleasing copy. [BTC#14856]

227 STEIN, Gertrude. In Savoy or Yes Is for Yes for a Very Young Man: A Play of the Resistance in France. London: Pushkin Press (1946). First edition. Wrappers in dustwrapper. The word “Savoy” stamped on the front fly and a slight wrinkle on the front fly and on the dustwrapper in a corresponding area else very fine. A play about the France Resistance.[BTC#510] Talking Mule Literature 228 STERN, David. Francis Goes to Washington. New York: Farrar, Straus 1948. First edition. A little tanning to the pastedowns else fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. Sequel to Francis, in which the talking mule masterminds his owner’s run for Congress. Francis enjoyed a long career as the star of seven different films, six of them directed by Arthur Lubin, who later created the television series Mr. Ed. [BTC#33864]

229 STEWART, Donald Ogden. The Crazy Fool. New York: Albert and Charles Boni 1925. First edition. Illustrated by Herb Roth. Lightly rubbed, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. One of 600 copies of a limited Presentation Edition Signed by the author. Crazy young man inherits an insane asylum from his uncle. [BTC#44937]

230 STITT, Milan. The Runner Stumbles. Clifton, NJ: James T. White & Co (1976). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An excellent play based on a true incident about a priest accused of killing a nun, basis for the film featuring Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, and Maureen Stapleton.Inscribed by the author to his editor: “For the lady who gave me the library on East 40th where what was researched for this play could be researched. With gratitude and love – Milan Stitt 8 March 1977.” Issued simultaneously in paperback. [BTC#36938]

231 STONE, Robert. Helping. [No place]: Dim Gray Bar Press 1993. First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards in stiff card slipcase. As new. Copy 70 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. A handsome production of this story that originally appeared in The New Yorker. [BTC#5995]

232 STONG, Phil. Career. New York: Harcourt, Brace (1936). First edition. Bookstore label else near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a long chip along the crown and some rubbing. A novel about a father and son from Pittsville, Iowa. The son, a medical student, helps his father run their dry-goods and variety store while home from school. The basis for two films: the first, a 1939 film directed by Leigh Jason, starring Anne Shirley, John Archer, and Edward Ellis, and the second, a 1959 film directed by Joseph Anthony, starring Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, and Anthony Franciosa. [BTC#53607]

233 STRATTON-PORTER, Gene. The White Flag. Garden City: Doubleday Page 1923. First edition. Slight bend to the first several pages else fine in attractive, near fine dustwrapper a little spine faded and with some small nicks and tears. A lovely example of the uncommon jacket. [BTC#4414]

234 STYRON, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner. New York: Random House (1967). First edition. Fine in a very good plus slipcase. Copy 270 of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy of this controversial tour-de-force and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. [BTC#41247]

235 SWIGGETT, Howard. The Power and the Prize. New York: Ballantine Books (1954). First edition. Near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with some very small chips. Basis for the 1956 Henry Koster film featuring Robert Taylor as the hand-picked but too ethical successor to ruthless business magnate Burl Ives. Also with Elisabeth Müller, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, and Mary Astor. [BTC#41274] 236 SYMONDS, John Addington. Last and First: Being Two Essays: The New Spirit and Arthur Hugh Clough. New York: Nicholas L. Brown 1919. First American edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the corners. First book appearances of Symonds’s first and last essays, both published in magazines, the first before his first book, the last a month before he died. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#41717]

237 TARKINGTON, Booth. Beauty and the Jacobin. New York: Harpers 1912. First edition. Spine slightly faded, still near fine. NicelyInscribed by the author at a later date. [BTC#36851]

238 —. The Flirt. Garden City: Doubleday Page 1913. First edition. Illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood. Very near fine with a little light soiling to the boards, lacking the dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author at a later date. His eighth book and basis for the 1931 filmThe Bad Sister, directed by Hobart Henley and featuring Conrad Nagel, Zasu Pitts, Humphrey Bogart (in one of his earliest roles), and in their film debuts, Bette Davis and female lead Sydney Fox. A few years later Fox was dead at age 31, an apparent suicide, and Davis was one of Hollywood’s top stars. [BTC#36830]

239 —. Women. Garden City: Doubleday, Page 1925. First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers and the inside of the jacket else fine in a slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. A very attractive jacket illustrated by “E.R.” [BTC#49967]

240 —. Presenting Lily Mars. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1933. First edition. Spine lettering a bit worn, else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author at a later date. Bought by MGM as a dramatic vehicle for Lana Turner, the script turned out to be too light-hearted and the film version was instead a musical showcasing Judy Garland as the small-town girl who impresses Broadway producer Van Heflin. [BTC#36845]

241 THURBER, James. Thurber On Humor. Columbus, OH: The Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association 1953. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Slight age-toning to the white wrappers, about fine. Text of Thurber’s remarks upon accepting the Ohio Sesquicentennial Medal. Scarce. [BTC#40132]

242 TOLSTOÏ, Count Lyof N. Iván Ilyitch and Other Stories. New York: Crowell (1887). First American edition. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. Light wear at the spinal extremities, a very near fine copy. Tolstoy’s most famous and important short work, the realistic depiction of the gradual disintegration of the life of a provincial judge who develops cancer. The illumination of his life at its end is one of the great novelist’s most successful integrations of his religious and humanist beliefs into his writing. Tolstoy was nearly 60 when he wrote of Ilyitch’s fears of death – he lived more than twenty years beyond this before, during a spiritual crisis, wandering off one night and dying at a remote railway junction. [BTC#40138]

243 TOPKINS, Katharine. Kotch. New York: McGraw-Hill (1965). First edition. A touch of rubbing to the bottom edge else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and some negligible tanning on the spine. Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To Harry Sions who provided us with a splendid evening and – I hope – a new friend. With all good wishes, Kathie Topkins.” Basis for the only film directed by actor Jack Lemmon, featuring his friend and frequent screen-partner Walter Matthau in the Oscar-nominated title role. [BTC#2525]

244 TRAVEN, B. The Bridge in the Jungle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First American edition. A little darkening to the joints and a small stain on the rear board else near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a few small nicks. Enigmatic author’s third book published in the U.S. Basis for the 1971 film starring John Huston as Howard, the same character for which his father won an Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, written and directed by Pancho Kohner, son of Paul Kohner (Huston’s agent) and the Mexican actress Lupita Tovar (allegedly a friend of the reclusive Traven). Considered by some to be Traven’s best book. [BTC#22126]

245 TYLER, Anne. Celestial Navigation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1974. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a trace of wear. A heartbreaking novel, the author’s fifth. [BTC#33202]

246 —. Earthly Possessions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1977. First edition. Nearly invisible remainder mark bottom edge else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the rear panel. A very nice copy of a book that seems especially susceptible to wear. Author’s seventh novel, basis for a TV movie featuring Susan Sarandon. [BTC#33102]

247 UPDIKE, John. Bath after Sailing. (Monroe, Connecticut: Pendulum Press 1968). First edition. String-tied, stiff card wrappers. A faint vertical bend else fine. Copy 119 of 125 numbered copies Signed by the author. A single poem, one of Updike’s scarcest limited editions. [BTC#11952] 248 —. Love Factories: Three Stories, with a Foreword. Helsinki: Eurographica (1993). First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers and dustwrapper as issued. Copy 43 of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. An attractively printed volume. Uncommon. [BTC#15792]

249 —. Radiators. No place: William B. Ewert (1998). First edition. String-tied wrappers in dustwrapper. As new. Copy 13 of 40 numbered copies Signed by the author. A brief poem that appeared in The New Yorker. [BTC#37344]

250 VAN VECHTEN, Carl. Spider Boy: A Scenario for a Moving Picture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First edition. Fine in a modestly chipped, original glassine dustwrapper and very good cardboard slipcase with a few splits at the extremities. Copy 211 of 220 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC#43106]

251 VIDAL, Gore. The Judgment of Paris. New York: Dutton 1952. First edition. Top edge soiled and lightly foxed else fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with some soiling on the rear panel. [BTC#24838]

252 WAGONER, David. Rock. New York: Viking 1958. First edition. Extremities of the boards slightly sunned, else near fine in price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with some overall rubbing and light soiling. Author’s third novel, about a young man newly divorced who becomes a lifeguard and rejoins the wild hot rodding youth culture. [BTC#25366] One of Ten Presentation Copies 253 WAKOSKI, Diane. The Lament of the Lady Bank Dick. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press (1969). First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards in unprinted glassine dustwrapper. Fine but for some light chipping to the glassine. Of 99 numbered and Signed copies this is number 8 of 10 copies intended for presentation. Additionally Signed by William Young for the press. Wakowski has accompanied her signature with a little drawing of what might be a crescent moon spitting on a mouse, or it may be something else, we can’t really say exactly. At any rate a very small limitation, and consequently, rare. [BTC#26338]

254 WALTON, Todd. Inside Moves. Garden City: Doubleday 1978. First edition. Fine in very lightly worn, fine dustwrapper. First novel, about handicapped friends who support one of their own in his unlikely bid to start a professional basketball career. Made into a critically acclaimed 1980 film directed by Richard Donner, which featured the first performance by Harold Russell since his Oscar-winning performance in The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946. [BTC#24922]

255 WARD, Lynd. Mad Man’s Drum. New York: Cape & Smith 1930. First edition. Bookplate of S. Beatrice Sondheim. Boards a little edgeworn, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. A nice copy of this arresting novel in woodcuts. [BTC#45350]

256 WARREN, Robert Penn. The Circus In The Attic. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (1952). First English edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper with a couple of spots on the rear panel. The author’s fourth novel. [BTC#39664]

257 —. Selected Poems 1923-1975. New York: Random House [1976]. Uncorrected proof. Fine in tall red wrappers. Signed by the author on the front wrap. Very scarce. [BTC#6537] Inscribed 258 WELTY, Eudora. A Curtain of Green. Garden City: Doubleday 1941. Early reprint, in the same format as the first edition. Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter. Slight bump at the crown else near fine in a price- clipped and spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper. This copy Inscribed to Welty’s friend, the author Edna Frederikson: “To Edna with my love & my good wishes – Eudora. In New Orleans. September 2, 1942.” With Frederikson’s small owner label and an unobtrusive note in her hand. Frederikson was a Virginia teacher and close friend of Katherine Anne Porter, who introduced her to Welty. With Welty’s encouragement Frederikson wrote and published two novels (at least one of which had a Welty blurb). [BTC#48906]

259 —. Henry Green: A Novelist of the Imagination. [Austin]: Texas Quarterly, Autumn 1961. Offprint. Stapled wrappers. Fine. A rare offprint from this Texas literary magazine, Welty’s take on the unjustly neglected English novelist. Offprints of this sort are generally very limited. [BTC#11659]

—. Also see item 422

260 WERFEL, Franz. Verdi: Roman Der Oper. Berlin: Paul Zsolnay Verlag 1930. Unabridged, special edition approved by the author. Text in German. Apparently a later, complete edition. Bookplate on the front pastedown and slight offsetting to the title page from a small clipping else near fine lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Nicely and boldly Inscribed by Werfel to one of his translators, Edith Abercrombie Snow. [BTC#7263] 261 WESCOTT, Glenway. The Babe’s Bed. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. First edition. Slight wear to the spine gilt, still just about fine in red silk-covered boards and a very good slipcase with a little wear at the extremities and a modest stain on one panel, issued without dustwrapper. Copy 183 of 375 numbered copies (of a total edition of 393) Signed by the author. Author’s sixth book, one of his most desirable, and a watershed book that helped to indicate the future direction of his writing. [BTC#23069]

262 WHARTON, Edith. Artemis to Actæon. London: Macmillan 1909. First English edition from American sheets with the title page a cancel. Cloth at the top of the spine repaired, some random light foxing else a very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. According to Garrison one of only 250 copies of the English edition. The American edition itself is quite uncommon, this edition many times more so. Inscribed by Wharton in an uncharacteristically light tone to her lifelong friend Daisy Chanler: “Dear Daisy, In lieu of a dreary book here’s a silly one from yr. affte. Edith May 1909.” The inscription is perhaps some indication of Wharton’s self-consciousness about these poems as they were the direct expression of her passion for Morton Fullerton, with whom she was engaged in an ongoing affair. Chanler was one of Wharton’s closest friends. Yale’s Beinecke Library has over a hundred letters from Wharton to Chanler that span a 50-year period. [BTC#1073] Fannie Hurst’s Copy 263 —. Ethan Frome. New York: Scribners 1911. First edition, first issue. A very good copy with some foxing and slightly spine cocked, lacking the rare dustwrapper. Author Fannie Hurst’s copy, with her attractive bookplate on the front pastedown. Wharton’s greatest tragedy, which, along with The Age of Innocence, ranks as her masterpiece. [BTC#37925]

—. Also see item 340

264 WHITE, E.B. Quo Vadimus? or the Case for the Bicycle. New York: Harper 1939. First edition. Faintest hint of a tidemark else fine in a nice and bright, very good dustwrapper with a faint dampstain mostly visible on the underside. Despite some subtle flaws an attractive copy, considerably less rubbed than usual. [BTC#6028]

265 WHITE, Robb. Run Masked. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First edition. Dampstain to the bottom of the spine, thus a good only copy in a price-clipped, very attractive, very good Covarrubias-illustrated dustwrapper with a corresponding large but faint dampstain which is visible only at the bottom of the rear panel. American and British expatriates drawn to a lonely Caribbean island (that bears a resemblance to Haiti) are joined in a fight for survival when the natives go native on them. Exceptionally scarce first novel by the author of Up Periscope. White grew up in the Philippines and served in the Navy during WWII. He was also a screenwriter who partnered with schlockmeister impresario William Castle to create the fun, gimmick-laden thrillers Macabre, House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler, Homicidal, and 13 Ghosts. [BTC#49777]

266 WHITE, W.L. Journey for Margaret. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1941). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Novel about a journalist and his wife caught in the London Blitz. Basis for the 1942 film featuring Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, and Nigel Bruce. [BTC#39137]

267 WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey’s Chickens. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1911. First edition. Contemporary owner’s name else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a little tanning and some faint damp spots on the spine. A nice copy of this novel about a family combating poverty and tragedy in order to get ahead, basis for a 1938 film with Fay Bainter, Ann Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Walter Brennan, Frank Morgan, and Margaret Hamilton. Remade by Disney as Summer Magic with Hayley Mills and Burl Ives. [BTC#32600]

268 (WILDE, Oscar). JUENESSE, Ernest La, André GIDE, and Franz BLEI. Recollections of Oscar Wilde. Boston: John W. Luce 1906. First American edition. Fine with tape shadows on the front and rear pastedowns. [BTC#39349]

269 WILDER, Thornton. The Woman of Andros. New York: A&C Boni 1930. First edition. Spine quite darkened thus very good in a worn, about very good dustwrapper with a tanned spine and some modest chipping at the extremities. Inscribed: “For Miss Hazel Young with the regard of Thornton Wilder. Hamden, Conn. July 1930.” [BTC#25005] 270 WILLIAMS, Jonathan. Amen Huzza Selah. Black Mountain [North Carolina]: Jargon (1960). First edition. Preface by Louis Zukofsky. Near fine with some waviness to the self-wrappers, and with an acetate dustwrapper, as issued. Inscribed by the author in 1980. One of 700 copies, published as Jargon 13A. [BTC#54343]

271 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Suddenly Last Summer. (New York): New Directions (1958). First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper that is a little tanned on the spine and extremities, and split along the spine. An attractive copy of this important Williams one-act play. Basis for the film featuring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Mercedes McCambridge, and Montgomery Clift, and later re-made for television with Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe, and Natasha Richardson. [BTC#30819]

272 —. Three Players of a Summer Game and Other Stories. London: Secker & Warburg 1960. First edition. No equivalent American edition. Fine in a lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. Author’s first collection of short stories to be published in England. [BTC#48871]

273 —. Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham 1940-65 edited and with comments by Donald Windham. Verona: (Mardersteig) 1976. First edition. Fine in wrappers, unprinted dustwrapper and slipcase as issued. Of a total edition of 526 copies this is one of 26 lettered copies Signed by both Williams and Windham. Letter “E” of 26 lettered copies, the only signed issue of the book. Obviously, a scarce issue of this handsomely printed volume, and an important and revealing archive. [BTC#40076] Karl Shapiro’s Copies 274 WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson. (New York): New Directions (1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958). First editions. Five volumes. A somewhat worn set of the first editions, lacking the dustwrappers. Poet and critic Karl Shapiro’s copies with his ownership signature in each of the first four volumes and his notes in each volume. Shapiro has marked the number of each volume (in Roman numerals) on the front board and on the spine. Shapiro was an important if not easily classifiable poet. He rejected both the “new criticism” and the pragmatists, and instead settled on Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams as his models for great American poetry. His championship of Williams’s poetry, and particularly of Paterson, was influential in establishing the high regard in which the work is now held. A magnificent association copy of one of the great American poem cycles. Connolly 100. [BTC#17742] Leon Edel’s Copy 275 WILSON, Edmund. This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches. New York: The New Republic 1937. First trade edition, issued simultaneously with a limited and signed edition. Spine slightly tanned, still a very near fine and fresh copy in wrappers as issued. Leon Edel’s copy with his pencil ownership Signature dated in 1974. A splendid association copy: Edel, the noted literary critic and biographer of Henry James, edited Wilson’s letters and journals at the author’s request. [BTC#26100]

276 —. Three Reliques of Ancient Western Poetry. [Boston: Thomas Todd 1951]. First edition. Stapled wrappers. A trifle rubbed at the extremities else fine.Inscribed by Wilson at the top of the title page: “Happy New Year from EW.” An elusive pamphlet, apparently issued by Wilson as a holiday greeting. [BTC#23514]

277 WOLFE, Thomas. The Web and the Rock. New York: Harpers 1939. First edition. Fine in a bright, very good plus dustwrapper with a short, shallow chip at the top of the front panel. A nicer than usual copy of this poorly made, posthumous novel. [BTC#25712]

278 WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1927. First edition. Foxing to the foredge, else just about fine in a very good dustwrapper with some chipping at the spine and corners, a modest chip on the rear panel, and slight tanning to the spine. The original paper of the jacket has been archivally strengthened at the folds, else the jacket is entirely original and has NO supplemental restoration. One of the author’s most influential novels, a richly textured examination of gender and family, told through stream-of-consciousness narratives. A nice, unsophisticated copy of a masterwork of modern literature. Connolly 100. [BTC#49756] 279 WORTHINGTON, Richard. Women with Nets. New York: Brentano’s (1932). First edition. Fine in near very good dustwrapper with chipping, mostly at the top of the front panel and the crown. Handsome playboy ensnared by the wily women of post-WWI Berlin. Very scarce. [BTC#46876]

280 WYLIE, Elinor. The Venetian Glass Nephew. New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. First trade edition, issued simultaneously with a signed and limited edition. Neat, contemporary owner’s name else fine in fine dustwrapper.[BTC#38876]

281 —. Mr. Hodge & Mr. Hazard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First edition. Fine in cloth and original acetate dustwrapper in lightly soiled, near fine cardboard slipcase. Copy 42 of 145 numbered copies Signed by the author. A novel by a poet influential in the first quarter of this century. Attractive production. [BTC#14891]

282 YOUNG, Stark. Addio, Madretta and Other Plays. Chicago: Charles H. Sergel & Company 1912. First edition. Bookplate of Lella Street Trueheart on the front pastedown, pages a little darkened and faint offsetting to facing pages in the text, a very good copy, no dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “To Miss Trueheart with kind regards from Stark Young, 1912.” Early plays by this versatile writer who was loosely associated with the Southern Agrarian movement (contributing to the landmark volume I’ll Take My Stand) and who later gained renown as a novelist and critic. Scarce. [BTC#39696]

African-Americana

283 BRUTUS, Dennis. Sirens Knuckles Boots. Ibadan, Nigeria: Mbari Publications 1963. First edition. Square quarto. Saddle- stitched illustrated wrappers. [36]pp. Staples a bit rusted, light wear to the extremities, a very good copy of the internationally known poet’s first book, a collection of protest verse published while he was in prison. Born in Zimbabwe, Brutus taught in South Africa for many years until his outspoken opposition to apartheid resulted in an 18-month prison term and his being banned from teaching, writing, or participating in any social or political meetings or activities. Scarce. [BTC#28575] 284 CAMPBELL, Bebe Moore. Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. New York: Random House (1986). First edition. 236pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper.[BTC#47111]

285 CHASE-RIBOUD, Barbara. From Memphis & Peking. New York: Random House 1974. Uncorrected Proof. Fine. Wrappers. First book by an author also well-known for her novels, sculpture, and her book on of the Amistad mutiny. [BTC#48250]

286 CLEAVER, Eldridge. Toxic Waste and Acid Rain. (Stanford, CA: C.P. Times Press 1984). First edition. 12mo. [8pp]. Staples slightly rusty else fine. One of six small volumes in a series, this one a poem about environmental concerns. [BTC#26840]

287 COOPER, J. California. A Piece of Mine. Navarro, CA: Wild Trees Press (1984). First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Introduction by Alice Walker. A fine copy of the author’s scarce first book, a collection of short stories published by Walker’s small press. Inscribed by the author. Seldom found in this condition. [BTC#22748]

288 GUY, Rosa. Bird at My Window. Philadelphia / New York: J.B. Lippincott 1966. First edition. Tiny spot and a little sunning to the boards else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with some modest rubbing and a small tear on the front flap fold. A nice copy of this Trinidad-native’s scarce first novel, set in Harlem. [BTC#27874]

289 HIMES, Chester. The Heat’s On. New York: Putnam (1966). First edition. Fine in a very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with some rubbing. A Coffin Ed Johnson/Grave Digger Jones thriller. [BTC#46390]

290 LEE, George W. River George. New York: Macaulay 1937. First edition. Small, neat owner’s name else about fine in near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and modest chips at the spine ends. Author’s second novel, the story of a college-educated Tennessee sharecropper who is involved in a murder and flees to Beale Street in Memphis. Uncommon. [BTC#48252]

291 LINCOLN, C. Eric. My Face is Black. Boston: Beacon Press (1964). First edition. 137pp. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel and a little light rubbing. Signed by the author. An examination of the motivation of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. Scarce signed. [BTC#40186] 292 LITTLE, Arthur W. From Harlem to the Rhine: The Story of New York’s Colored Volunteers. New York: Covici-Friede (1936). First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some rubbing and wrinkling. Very nicely Inscribed by the author on the half- title employing most of the page: “This book is presented to Edward M. Latham at the suggestion of ‘Trainee’ Arthur W. Little, Jr. 5th Co. Plattesburg, 1940. With the Compliments of the Author – Arthur W. Little, September 18, 1940.” A history of the famous 15th Regiment during The Great War. [BTC#37977]

293 McPHERSON, James Alan. Hue and Cry. Boston: Little, Brown (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some very slight rubbing. The jacket bears a small “Winner of the Atlantic Grant” sticker from the publisher. A better than usual copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first book.[BTC#27899]

294 MOTON, Robert Russa. What The Negro Thinks. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1929. First edition. Owner’s name, a little pencil underlining else very good in a very good minus price-clipped dustwrapper with a few chips. Moton was the successor to Booker T. Washington as principal of Tuskegee. [BTC#46517]

295 REED, Ishmael. The Free-Lance Pallbearers. Garden City: Doubleday 1967. First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with the slightest of tanning to the white spine. Signed by the author. A lovely copy of the author’s desirable first book, a humorous and irreverent novel. [BTC#17892]

296 —. The Free-Lance Pallbearers. Garden City: Doubleday 1967. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of tanning to the white spine. [BTC#17891]

297 SEALE, Bobby. Seize the Time: The Story of The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. (Baltimore): Black Classics Press (1991). First edition by this press, with a new introduction by the author. Originally published by Random House in 1970. Perfectbound wrappers. Ink underlining on a few pages else fine.Inscribed by the author: “2- 10-92 To John & Phoebe cooperational humans. Bobby Seale.” [BTC#33644] 298 SHANGE, Ntozake (misspelled Ntosake). For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf. San Lorenzo, California: Shameless Hussy 1975. First edition, first issue. Slight offsetting to the first text leaf, else fine in illustrated and stapled red wrappers as issued. The true first issue of the author’s very scarce first book (with the author’s first name misspelled), issued two years before the Macmillan edition. A film version was released in late 2010 from director Tyler Perry and starring Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, and Whoopie Goldberg. [BTC#47446]

299 SULLIVAN, Leon H. Build Brother Build. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith 1969. First edition. 192pp. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with an unobtrusive snag on the edge of the spine. Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To — , One of the most amazing men I have ever known, with thanks for your participation in some of the work I have tried to accomplish! Leon H. Sullivan.” A very nice copy of this autobiography of the clergyman, businessman, and Civil Rights champion. [BTC#46015]

300 TATE, Claudia, edited by. Black Women Writers at Work. New York: Continuum (1984). First paperbound edition. Light wear to the edges of the wrappers. Conversations with Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and others. This copy Inscribed by Sonia Sanchez and Gwendolyn Brooks, and Signed by Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Walker, and Kristin Hunter. A nice assemblage of signatures. [BTC#48777]

301 TOOMER, Jean. Essentials. Chicago: Private Edition 1931. First edition. Fine in a lightly age- toned, near fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 numbered copies, this is copy 90 and is Signed by the author. Toomer’s second book, his novel, The Cane, was the first book of the Harlem Renaissance. Our observation based on copies of this title that we have seen is that relatively few copies were actually signed and distributed at the time of publication, and that the vast majority of copies languished in warehouses, unsigned, until after Toomer’s death. [BTC#36957]

302 WALKER, Alice. Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1973). First edition. Short tears to the edges of a few pages else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear to the crown of the thin spine. Author’s third book, and second collection of poetry. Scarce. [BTC#36497] 303 —. Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning. New York: Dial Press (1979). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s sixth book, a collection of poetry, considered by many to be her scarcest. A lovely copy. [BTC#36496]

304 —. Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1990). First edition. Fine in fine slipcase. Copy 105 of 111 numbered copies Signed by the author. A notably small limitation. Author’s collected poems. [BTC#36685]

305 WASHINGTON, Booker T. Frederick Douglass. Philadelphia: Jacobs (1907). First edition. 365pp., frontispiece portrait. Half leather and marbled papercovered boards. Bookplate of silent film star John Gilbert, corners a bit bumped and slight wear at the spinal extremities, a very good copy of this very uncommon biography of Douglass. This is the first copy we have seen in this publisher’s deluxe binding, all other copies we have seen were bound in publisher’s cloth. One of Washington’s scarcest books. [BTC#45767]

Baseball

306 ALLEN, Lee. The Cincinnati Reds: An Informal History. New York: Putnam (1948). First edition. Corners slightly bumped, still fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a few short tears. A nice copy of an uncommon team history in the Putnam Sports Series. [BTC#28569]

307 —. The Hot Stove League. New York: A.S. Barnes 1955. First edition. Pages browned, as always, small paper remnant on the front fly, else near fine in near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper with a very small chip on the rear panel. An informal and quirky history of baseball that has long been considered one of the scarcer modern baseball books. [BTC#46204]

308 ARCHIBALD, Joe. Fifth Base. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company (1973). First edition. Issued in library binding. Near fine in pictorial boards. [BTC#48702]

309 BARBOUR, Ralph Henry. Captain Chub. New York: Century Company 1910. First edition. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown and a couple of stains on the front endpaper, probably from a bookplate removal, spine lettering a bit rubbed but readable, a sound very good copy in pictorial boards. First chapter of this schoolboy novel begins with the crimson nine in mortal combat with their blue team rivals. McCue, despite citing most of Barbour’s baseball books, missed this one. [BTC#23167] 310 DAVIS, Clyde Brion. Northend Wildcats. New York: Farrar, Rinehart (1938). First edition. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of short tears and a little wrinkling on the rear panel. Novel for both children and adults, about the adventures of the Northend Wildcats and their attempts to raise money to buy uniforms and equipment for the team. Scarce in this condition. McCue p.34. [BTC#25245]

311 EARL, John Prescott (pseudonym of Beth Bradford GILCHRIST). Captain of the School Team. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing 1910. First edition. Contemporary pencil gift inscription, spine lettering a little rubbed, else near fine. Third book in the series, mostly football but listed by McCue (p.45). [BTC#23148]

312 JOHNSON, Owen. The Varmint. Boston: Baker and Taylor Co. 1910. First edition. Boards slightly mottled, small bookseller label on rear pastedown, still a very good or better copy with little of the usual rubbing to the spine. One of the Lawrenceville books, some baseball but more emphasis on football in this one. McCue p.58. [BTC#23176]

313 LANIGAN, Ernest J. The Baseball Cyclopedia. New York: The Baseball Magazine Company 1922. First edition. Wrappers. 206pp., 7pp. supplement. Top corner chipped, crease at the top of the front page, else fine. Excellent yearbook with up-to- date records. [BTC#38648]

314 MATHEWSON, Christy. First Base Faulkner. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1916). First edition. Illustrated by Charles Relyea. Illustrations and the facing pages quite foxed, some smudges on a few pages and the spine is slightly faded, else very good or a little better, lacking the rare dustwrapper. The third of the four alliterative “Matty” books (the others were Pitcher Pollack, Catcher Craig, and Second Base Sloan), baseball novels for boys by the Hall of Fame pitcher. In this one Joe (not Bill) Faulkner joins the team and wins the big game with an unassisted double play. Scarce. [BTC#46001] 315 NEEDHAM, Henry Beach. The Double Squeeze. Garden City: Doubleday, Page 1915. First edition. Introduction by Connie Mack. Illustrations by Arthur William Brown and George Wright. Contemporary gift inscription else fine, lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Uncommon baseball novel. Mack, a friend of the author’s, was his model for Tris Ford, the manager of the “Giant-Killers” and the character who unifies the book’s four stories. McCue p.74 [BTC#46734]

316 SCOTT, Morgan (pseudonym of Gilbert PATTEN). Rival Pitchers of Oakdale. New York: Hurst (1911). First edition. Slight rubbing to the spine decoration and lacking the front free endpaper, a bright near fine copy. Third book in the six book Oakdale series. Rival prep school pitchers compete. McCue p.78. Mattson and Davis 43100. [BTC#23169]

317 WERBER, Bill. Circling the Bases. [No place]: (The Author) [circa 1979]. First edition. Fine in pictorial boards and near fine dustwrapper with a short tear. Inscribed by the author: “To Jennifer: With all of our love, Nana & Gramps; plus an assist from Bill Werber.” Self-published memoir by a Duke University graduate and third baseman who excelled, particularly with the Reds, Yankees, and Red Sox. Includes some good Babe Ruth anecdotes. Scarce. [BTC#40467]

318 WOOD, H. Wellington. Base Ball Thrillers of the National Game. (Philadelphia): The Author 1914. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 8pp. Some oxidation to the staples and browning to the surrounding area, two parallel vertical creases, a very good copy. A humorous composition, part essay, part verse, about baseball that attempts to explain the national game by using the surnames of the various pro players out of context. Of some interest is an early mention of Babe Ruth in his rookie year. Rare. OCLC lists no copies in American libraries. [BTC#47625] Children’s Books

319 BRINE, Mary D. Little Lad Jamie. New York: Dutton 1895. First edition. Scattered foxing, a nice, very good copy. Story of a good little boy and his adventures when his mother must go away for a time. Beautifully illustrated with eight tipped-in photogravure prints on tissue. Very scarce. [BTC#40477]

320 BROWNE, Howard. Warrior of the Dawn. Chicago: Reilly & Lee (1943). First edition. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears at the extremities. Inscribed by the author at a later date. Tarzan-esque adventure aimed at adolescents. Browne is probably better known for his hardboiled novels. Books signed by him are uncommon. [BTC#37198] 321 BERRY, Rotha McClain. Swift Deer: The Navajo. San Antonio: Naylor Company 1953. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with one tiny tear. A children’s book by a Texas author, probably self-published. The story of a Navajo boy who struggles with his cultural beliefs after being exposed to life outside the reservation. A superb, bright and fresh copy. [BTC#49269]

322 CLARK, Ann. Little Herder In Spring. Washington DC: Education Division U.S. Office of Indian Affairs [circa 1941]. First edition. Illustrated by Hoke Denetsosie. Large bookplate from a distinguished collection of Western Americana (consisting of a lovely silver print photograph) else fine in wrappers.Signed by the illustrator. [BTC#50678]

323 COOK, Edmund Vance and Bessie Collins Pease [GUTMANN]. The Biography of Our Baby. New York: Dodge (1906). First edition. Quarto. A baby book with room to add comments, pictures, etc. This copy partially used with some ink comments, photo of a baby tipped to the appropriate page, some offsetting from cards or notes that were laid in. Lightly soiled, a very good copy of this attractive volume, illustrated throughout by Bessie Collins Pease [later Gutmann]. Scarce. [BTC#38640]

324 de la MARE, Walter. The Three Mulla- Mulgars. London: Duckworth 1910. First edition, first issue in green cloth with monkey device and gilt lettering on the front board. Bookplate of Oliver Brett, Third Viscount Esher, and very slight splash marks on the spine, a near fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A classic children’s work. [BTC#48899]

325 —. Ding Dong Bell. London: Selwyn & Blount 1924. First edition. A tiny bump at the bottom of the front board, still a fine copy in about fine dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown. Copy 97 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. An exceptional copy. [BTC#4583]

326 MAXWELL, William. The Heavenly Tenants. New York: Harper (1946). First edition. Pictures by Ilonka Karasz. Quarto. Slight rubbing to the boards else fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown. Author’s scarce, and only, children’s book, illustrated by a New Yorker colleague. [BTC#30567] 327 Staff of the Walt Disney Studios. The Adventures of Mickey Mouse: Book Number 2. Philadelphia: McKay (1932). Illustrated papercovered boards. Small dampstain on the bottom corner of the first page, some scattered smudging to the pages, and wear at the extremities, an about very good copy, lacking the rare dustwrapper. A presentable copy of an early Disney title. [BTC#29163]

328 VAN ALLSBURG, Chris. [Poster]: Jumanji. Boston: Houghton Mifflin [1981]. Approximately 40” x 44”. Fine, folded into quarters as issued. Poster for the release of Van Allsburg’s Caldecott Medal- winning book Jumanji, reproducing an illustration from the book. A splendid, striking image. Signed by Van Allsburg. [BTC#12273]

329 —. Ben’s Dream. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1982. First edition. Spine a little cocked, else fine in a price-clipped about fine dustwrapper with a tiny chip on the bottom of the rear panel and a little rubbing. Author’s third book. [BTC#22048]

330 —. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1984. First edition. Quarto. Fine in a price-clipped, very near fine dustwrapper with a single short tear and some negligible wear at the crown. A marvelous and haunting collection of pictures with one-line captions from which you are to invent the story (as Stephen King did for one of the pictures, “The House on Maple Street,” in his collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes). [BTC#12749]

331 WARREN, Robert Penn. The Gods of Mount Olympus. New York: Random House (1959). First edition. Illustrated by William Moyers. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and short tears. A very uncommon children’s book in the Legacy Series. One of the author’s two children’s books, this one much the scarcer of the pair. [BTC#2540] Film & Photoplays

332 DE HAAS, Arline. Say It With Songs. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1929). First edition, a photoplay edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. Novelized by De Haas from the Darryl Zanuck and Harvey Gates screenplay for the Al Jolson movie, his first all-talkie, in which he sings, among other songs, “Little Pal.” Jacket painting of Jolson and his film family, illustrated with stills from the film. A lovely copy. [BTC#23035]

333 FAIRBANKS, Douglas. Making Life Worth While. New York: Britton (1918). First edition, the Khaki edition. Light tidemark to the bottom of the pages, else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with chips at the spine ends. The simultaneously issued “Khaki Edition,” much smaller and more compact than the regular issue, intended for use by the boys at the front in WWI. Wisdom from the noted film star in a smaller package.[BTC#48176]

334 FOWLER, Guy. 4 Devils. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1928). First edition, a photoplay edition. Contemporary gift inscription, slight offsetting to the endpapers else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a bit of light wear. Novelized by Fowler from the story by Herman Bang and starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Morton. Produced and directed by F.W. Murnau of Nosferatu fame, one of three films he made for Fox when he first came to the U.S. from his native Germany. He made one other major film and was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 42. Illustrated with stills from the film, now lost, about a trapeze troupe overcome by tragedy. Jacket painting portrays the “Devils” and the love interest. Scarce. [BTC#23280]

335 GREENE, Sarah P. McLean. Cape Cod Folks. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1904-1925). Photoplay edition. Scattered foxing on the foredge else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little toning to the white portions. Jacket and text illustrated with stills from the film. The jacket states the 1924 Reginald Barker-directed film version for Louis B. Meyer was entitled Her Man, but a Western with that title was also made that year and the film was released asWomen Who Give. [BTC#40388]

336 HILL, Edwin C. The Iron Horse. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1924). Photoplay edition. Neat contemporary owner’s name else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine and short tears and slight nicks at the extremities. Illustrated with stills from John Ford’s epic silent film about the building of the transcontinental railroad which employed a cast of thousands including, in a bit part, Clark Gable in his first year in Hollywood. Novelized by Hill from the Charles Kenyon/John Russell screenplay. [BTC#18529] 337 JOHNSTON, Annie Fellows. The Little Colonel. New York: Burt [circa 1935]. Photoplay edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and some rubbing. A very nice copy with endpapers, photos, and jacket art from the 1935 film that featured Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore.[BTC#16083]

338 MAYORGA, Margaret, edited by. One Reel Scenarios for Amateur Movie- Makers. New York: Samuel French (1938). First edition. Slight paper remnant on the rear board, adhered from the inside of the jacket, else fine in an attractive very good dustwrapper with a faint dampstain on the edge of the spine and the top of the rear panel. Front panel illustration of Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid. A collection of short screenplays intended for amateur filmmakers, and illustrated with stills from amateur film groups (which apparently once operated much as local theatre groups do today), special effects, and some stills from professional films (Chaplin and Eisenstein). Unusual. [BTC#15174] “Greater Than Ever in Wide Screen” 339 (MITCHELL, Margaret). [Film Trailer]: Gone With the Wind. [Circa 1967]. 35mm film trailer for the 1967 Wide Screen re-release of the epic motion picture Gone With the Wind. A trifle dusty else fine with no discernable scratches or splices, this example perhaps never run theatrically. The film was shot in 1.33:1 ratio, but significantly for this re-release was “converted” to wide screen by eliminating portions of the top and bottom of the frame. With the gorgeous vista of Tara in the background, the beginning and end of the trailer proclaim the film to be “More Spectacular More Stirring with the Scope of our Wide Screen.” [BTC#43622]

340 WHARTON, Edith. The Marriage Playground. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1928). Photoplay edition of Wharton’s novel The Children. Small owner label front fly, foxing and soiling to the endpapers and foredge, an about very good copy in very good or better dustwrapper with a jacket painting depicting Fredric March and Mary Brian, and some negligible shallow chipping. Illustrated with stills from the film.[BTC#20463] Mysteries & Detective Fiction

341 ANDERSON, Frederick Irving. The Notorious Sophie Lang. London: Heinemann (1925). First edition. Some edgewear to the cloth, endpapers browned and several dampstains on the boards, a good only copy of a rare book. Anderson published only three volumes of fiction, most of which first appeared inThe Saturday Evening Post. In their Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, Steinbrunner and Penzler praise the somewhat forgotten writer: “… the stories have a subtle richness that requires a careful reading of every word, lest the inevitable story between the lines be missed.” Basis for a series of films released in the 1930s, all of which featured Gertrude Michael as the jewel thief Sophie Lang. [BTC#47817]

342 ARMSTRONG, Charlotte. The Albatross. New York: Coward-McCann (1957). First edition. Ownership signature of minor literary figure, still fine in modestly rubbed, else fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and photo laid in. An especially nice copy of a book notorious for usually being in poor condition. A classic collection that includes a novelette and nine stories. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#48059]

343 BLOCH, Robert. The Dead Beat. New York: Simon and Schuster 1960. First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some light soiling to the panels. Signed by the author. [BTC#43715]

344 BLOCK, Lawrence as Jill Emerson. A Week as Andrea Benstock. New York: Arbor House (1973). First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing and very short tear. Block’s second hardcover novel using this pseudonym, a non-mystery novel about a woman’s self-awareness which the publisher compares to Diary of a Mad Housewife and Up the Sandbox! An uncommon title. [BTC#45698] Basis for Diabolique 345 BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas NARCEJAC. The Woman Who Was No More. New York: Rinehart (1954). First American edition. Page edges browned else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a few minuscule flecks of white paint on the front panel. An uncommon title, the first book by this French team to be published in the U.S. Basis for the classic Henri- Georges Clouzot filmDiabolique with Simon Signoret and the director’s wife Vera Clouzot. A translation from the French, and published before the film was released, this had a very small print run, perhaps as few as a thousand copies. Considering the cheap leftover wartime materials employed, it is unlikely to have survived in any numbers. We have only seen a handful of copies in the last two decades. [BTC#28878] 346 BROWN, Fredric. The Wench is Dead. New York: Dutton 1955. First edition. A small tape shadow on each pastedown, else near fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a faint stain to the bottom of the front flap, and some subtle rubbing at the bottom of the front panel. L.A. bartender is murdered and an undercover scholar investigating social conditions is implicated. [BTC#46672]

347 BUTLER, Ellis Parker. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective. Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin 1918. First edition. Fine in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper with very shallow loss at the crown and with professional internal repairs at the folds. A hilarious parody of the detective genre – Gubb emulates Sherlock Holmes and maintains an office for his two occupations: correspondence- school detective and wallpaper hanger. One of the first and best detective parodies. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#47320]

348 CHANDLER, Raymond. Playback. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1958. First American edition, preceded by the U.K. edition. Fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a single short tear on the front panel and a little rubbing. A better than usual copy of a cheaply manufactured volume. [BTC#41321]

349 CHESTERTON, G.K. Four Faultless Felons. London: Cassell (1930). First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with slight chipping at the spinal extremities, particularly at the foot. A collection of four novellas. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#47323]

350 CHRISTIE, Agatha. Poirot Loses a Client. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1937. First American edition. A couple of faint dampstains on the rear panel else about fine in an about very good dustwrapper with some edgewear, small chips at the spinal extremities and a stain on the rear panel about the size of a quarter. Still a presentable copy of a book hard to find in jacket. [BTC#46709]

351 — as Mary Westmacott. Unfinished Portrait. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1934. First American edition. Neat, contemporary owner’s name, corners slightly bumped else fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. No fading to the delicate pink color on the jacket. A non-mystery in which a young woman tells the story of her tragic life to an interested young artist. A lovely copy of the second Agatha Christie novel written under the Westmacott pseudonym. [BTC#33090]

352 CLANCY, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. London: Collins 1985. First English edition. Usual browning to the pages, and some faint evidence of dampness to the bottom edge of the pages, a very good plus copy in about fine dustwrapper with one short tear at the top of the front flap fold. Uncommon edition of the author’s first book, the breakthrough title in the techno-thriller genre. [BTC#40324]

353 COE, Charles Francis. G MAN. Philadelphia: Lippincott (1935). First edition. Bookstore stamp on the front pastedown, a bit cocked, a well-read but still nice, very good copy in an attractive, very good plus pictorial dustwrapper with a discreet crease on the spine and slight spine fade. Several of Coe’s works were adapted into film, including Nancy Steele is Missing! with Peter Lorre, The Gay Bride with Carole Lombard, and Raoul Walsh’s Me, Gangster, also with Lombard and co-scripted by Coe. A classic hardboiled gangster novel. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC#13121]

354 CROOKER, Herbert. The Crime in Washington Mews. New York: Macaulay (1931). First edition. A couple of small stains on the boards, a very good plus copy in price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper with a small chip at the corner of the spine and another modest one at the bottom of the rear panel. Clay Brooke investigates the New York City kidnapping of a millionaire’s eccentric, sculptress daughter by a criminal mastermind named “The Weasel.” [BTC#46548]

355 ELLROY, James. Brown’s Requiem. (New York): Avon (1981). First edition. Paperback original. A little cocked and a couple of light stress creases on the spine else about fine in wrappers as issued. True first edition of the author’s first book. A murder mystery centered around golf. Basis for the 1998 film with Michael Rooker and Selma Blair. [BTC#27768]

356 ENGLAND, George Allan. Pod, Bender & Co. New York: McBride 1916. First edition. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the flaps, else about fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some old internal brown paper repairs and some negligible and very shallow chipping. Signed by the author in pencil. Chronicles of the highjinks of Pod and Bender, arch crooks in the mold of Raffles and Young Wallingford. England also was a prolific and popular author of early science-fiction (in his day he was the closest rival to Edgar Rice Burroughs) and some of his works used fantasy to expound socialist principles, a la Jack London. Exceptionally scarce in jacket, or signed. [BTC#46824]

357 FINNEY, Jack. 5 Against The House. Garden City: Doubleday 1954. First edition. Very near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with some slight nicks, tears, and rubbing at the extremities. The author’s uncommon first book, the basis for the 1955 Phil Karlson film featuring Guy Madison, Kim Novak, and Brian Keith as would-be thieves of a Reno casino. [BTC#49611] 358 FREEMAN, R. Austin. The Puzzle Lock. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1925. First edition. Pinhead-sized abrasion to the cloth on the spine, slightly soiled, a very good or better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A collection of Dr. Thorndyke stories. [BTC#47406]

359 —. The Magic Casket. London: Hodder & Stoughton [1927]. First edition. Faint stain to the bottom third of the spine, lightly soiled, a very good or a little better copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Mystery author P.M. Stone’s copy, with his ownership signature in pencil on the front pastedown. An uncommon collection of Dr. Thorndyke stories. [BTC#47440]

360 —. The Surprising Experiences of Mr. Shuttlebury Cobb. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1927. First edition. A fine copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A collection of short fiction in which Cobb travels through the underbelly of London, encountering mysterious and in some cases magical elements, by the physician-turned-author. [BTC#47382]

361 GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The World of Water: Exploring the Sacramento Delta. New York: Morrow 1965. First edition. Spine lettering a little worn and a little foxing, also on the spine, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Non- mystery travel book. Inscribed by the author: “To ‘Bimbo’ with best from yours, Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner.” [BTC#38622]

362 GRANT, James Edward. The Green Shadow. New York: Hartney Press 1935. First edition. Fine in a lightly worn, near fine and attractive dustwrapper designed by Charles B. Gilbert with a few short tears and some rubbing. The jacket has an unusual design with the tops and bottoms of the flaps extended, folded inward and glued (as issued) to make pockets that hold the jacket on. Very hardboiled private eye novel. The Chicago-born author was a newspaper journalist who wrote a column on rackets and racketeering, and later became a successful screenwriter. Among his produced scripts were The Great John L., The Angel and the Bad Man, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flying Leathernecks, Hondo, The Alamo, and Donovan’s Reef. This particular novel was the basis for the fast-paced and very entertaining 1936 Charles Vidor filmMuss ‘em Up, with Preston Foster as detective “Tip” O’Neil. [BTC#39295]

363 HARDY, Arthur Sherburne. Diane and Her Friends. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1914. First edition. Very near fine. A collection of stories that introduces Inspector Joly. Hardy, after graduating from Cornell, served as ambassador to numerous countries including Greece, Switzerland, Persia, and Spain. Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#47816] 364 HAWTHORNE, Julian. Six Cent Sam’s. St. Paul: Price-McGill (1893). First edition. Modest soiling to the boards, a faint horizontal crease to one side of the front board, a very good or a little better copy of this uncommon collection of mystery short stories, one of three written by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. [BTC#47815]

365 HIAASEN, Carl. Double Whammy. New York: Putnam (1987). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author. [BTC#10149]

366 HOPKINS, Nevil Monroe. The Strange Cases of Mason Brant. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1916. First edition. Four illustrations in color by Gayle Hoskins. Moderate tape shadows on the free endpapers, else a very near fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Three cases, one a novelette featuring Mason Brant and his “Watson,” Robert Dale. While one of the stories features a fanciful use of radium as a detecting device, the stories are generally adjudged excellent. The first of the author’s two mysteries, and very scarce. [BTC#47389]

367 HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey. The Salvation of Pisco Gabar and Other Stories. London: Chatto and Windus 1938. First edition. Corners slightly bumped, about fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a modest chip at the spine and a small, faint stain on the front panel that is not very noticeable because of the jacket design. The author’s first collection of short stories, several with criminal content.[BTC#48219]

368 HUME, Fergus. Hagar of the Pawn-Shop. London: Skeffington & Son 1898. First edition. Light foxing, some soiling, and a split in the cloth along the top edge of the spine where it meets the front panel. A collection of stories about Hagar Stanley, a beautiful gypsy who solves crimes. The author wrote the bestselling The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (the true first edition is perhaps the rarest book in the mystery genre) but most of his other 130 books were relatively unsuccessful. This collection is one of only a few of his books which are sought after, mostly for its unique protagonist. [BTC#47441]

369 HUNT, Howard. Maelstrom. New York: Farrar, Straus & Company 1948. First edition. Fine in very good or a little better dustwrapper with some modest chipping at the crown. The Watergate burglar’s third book, and first mystery. A little wear, but an attractive copy of an uncommon title. [BTC#45755]

370 HUXLEY, Elspeth. The African Poison Murders. New York: Harper and Brothers 1940. First American edition. Slightly cocked and a little soiling to the boards, very good or a little better in an attractive, very good dustwrapper that has been reinforced internally with brown paper. Author’s third mystery, a thriller set in Africa. [BTC#33618] 371 JAMES, P.D. and T.A. CRITCHLEY. The Maul and The Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811. London: Constable (1971). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the crown, and a sticker for the American distributor on the rear panel. Non-fiction account of a famous crime spree in Regency England. [BTC#49966]

372 KELLERMAN, Jonathan, Dr. Helping the Fearful Child. New York: Norton (1981). First edition. Scratch to both the front board of the book and the front panel of the jacket, a couple of small spots on the foredge else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. First book written by the successful mystery author (he had previously edited a medical textbook), creator of child psychologist/detective Alex Delaware. [BTC#39553]

373 LANGTON, Jane. The Transcendental Murder. New York: Harper & Row (1964). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with the white portions of the spine a little tanned and scuffed; considering the thin, uncoated paper of the jacket, a much better than usual example. Author’s first mystery for adults, featuring detective hero Homer Kelly, preceded by a couple of little-known books for adolescents. Concord librarian writing a book on the transcendentalists is immersed in a murder. Nice Eudora Welty blurb. [BTC#37364]

374 LATIMER, Jonathan. Solomon’s Vineyard. Santa Barbara: Neville 1982. First unexpurgated American edition, as well as the first to contain an interview with the author. This novel was originally published in England in 1941. Fine in purple cloth as issued. Copy 138 of 300 numbered copies (of a total edition of 326) Signed by the author. [BTC#24117]

375 LEBLANC, Maurice. The Confessions of Arsene Lupin. London: Mills & Boon Limited (1912). First edition in English. Small, contemporary owner’s name, a tiny tear at the crown, slight wear at the edges of the spine, the applied pictorial portrait of Lupin on the front board only slightly rubbed, a handsome, very good plus copy. A scarce collection of short stories featuring the greatest French criminal mastermind and occasional detective. Lupin’s adventures were portrayed in many films with the character being played by, among others, John Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas. A very nice copy. [BTC#46879]

376 LEROUX, Gaston. Nomads of the Night. New York: Macaulay (1925). First American edition. Owner’s name and a little soiling, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of modest tears and a small chip to one corner of the crown. A mystery featuring Nina Noha, the beautiful dancer of Paris, and the resourceful adventurer Cheri-Bibi, who appeared in several of Leroux’s mysteries. Leroux, of course, is best known for his Phantom of the Opera. [BTC#37014]

377 MacDONALD, John D. Typed Letter Signed “John.” One page Typed Letter Signed “John” to Robie Macauley, editor at Playboy, about a story he is submitting for consideration. [BTC#7406]

378 MACDONALD, Ross. A Collection of Reviews. Northridge, California: Lord John Press 1979. First edition, deluxe issue. Copy 37 of 50 numbered copies (of a total edition of 350) Signed by the author. Slight rubbing at the bottom of the cloth and papercovered boards else fine. A collection of essays on various authors and topics including detective fiction, James M. Cain, Joseph Conrad, Colin Wilson, and Thomas Mann. [BTC#24752]

379 McCULLEY, Johnston. Black Star’s Return. New York: Chelsea House (1925). First edition. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the crown and a couple of short tears. The third volume to feature “The Black Star,” by the creator of Zorro. [BTC#48909]

380 MOSLEY, Walter. A Red Death. New York: Norton (1991). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author. Second Easy Rawlins mystery. [BTC#12762]

381 NEBEL, Frederick. Fifty Roads to Town. Boston: Little, Brown 1936. First edition. Top edge and extremities of the boards a bit soiled thus very good or a little better, in good plus dustwrapper with a large triangular chip on the rear panel. The author’s uncommon third novel, a hardboiled book about strangers, stranded and snowbound in a Maine town, was made into a comedy film with Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, and Stepin Fetchit. [BTC#29950]

382 NEELY, Barbara. Blanche On the Lam. New York: St. Martins (1992). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. First novel by this African-American writer, a mystery about a 40- year-old domestic forced to solve a murder mystery or have herself be considered the prime suspect. Winner of the Agatha Award for best first novel.[BTC#25942] 383 ORCZY, Baroness. The Old Man in the Corner. London: Greening & Co. 1909. First edition. Slight soiling to the spine, and the corners slightly bumped, a lovely, about fine copy, with no rubbing to the usually well- worn pictorial front board, lacking the rare jacket. A collection of stories featuring the nameless detective who never leaves his room, the precursor to Nero Wolfe. A superb copy of a book generally found very worn. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, Queen’s Quorum. [BTC#47383]

384 PAYNE, Lamar Strickland. 20th Century Fables. New York: Broadway Publishing Company (1904). First edition. Illustrations by O’Malley. Title page and frontispiece guard a bit foxed, else fine. A very scarce collection of fables, reminiscent of George Ade, but several with criminous content. [BTC#47818]

385 PEARS, Iain. The Raphael Affair. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. The first book in the author’s series of art related mysteries. [BTC#36398]

386 POST, Melville Davisson. The Silent Witness. New York: Farrar & Rinehart (1929). First edition. Slight offsetting to the endpapers, else fine in an attractive dustwrapper with several internal repairs. Post’s work is considered by many, Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen among them, second only to Poe’s in the annuls of American detective fiction. He died the year after this was published in a fall from a horse. [BTC#47309]

387 PRESNELL, F.G. No Mourners Present. New York: Morrow 1940. First edition. Slight crease to the spine cloth else about fine in a lightly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper. Author’s second of three mysteries featuring John and Ann Webb, the poor man’s Nick and Nora Charles. The first book in the series was filmed as Slightly Honorable. [BTC#45353]

388 PROSPER, John. Gold-Killer: A Mystery of the New Underworld. New York: Doran 1922. First edition. Foxing to the foredge and endpapers, light wear to the boards, very good plus in very good or better dustwrapper with a number of small nicks and tears, and one slightly longer tear on the rear panel. A novel of the “new underworld” of organized crime. The author’s one and only mystery, set in New York City. [BTC#38741] 389 ROHMER, Sax. Yellow Shadows. London: Cassell (1925). First edition. Name and ink notation that this is a “1st edition” on the front fly, publisher’s small sticker on the front board, scattered light foxing, very good plus lacking the dustwrapper. The second novel to feature Daniel “Red” Kelly. Scarce. [BTC#43347]

390 SHAW, Joseph T. Danger Ahead. New York: Mohawk Press (1932). First edition. Slight soiling to foredge, else fine in a vibrant, near fine dustwrapper with one very small chip and an old label on the spine. A scarce novel by the editor of Black Mask who is better known today for his encouraging and publishing such authors as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. [BTC#4452]

391 SHEARING, Joseph (pseudonym of Marjorie BOWEN). The Spider in the Cup. New York: Smith and Haas 1934. First American edition. Delicate green dyes in the boards moderately faded, else fine in fine dustwrapper with very minor rubbing. Victorian-era mystery featuring a young woman, the paid companion of an older woman, who is involved in a poisoning. Shearing was the pseudonym of the novelist Marjorie Bowen. A lovely copy. [BTC#46574]

392 SPILLANE, Mickey. The Long Wait. New York: Dutton 1951. First edition. A trifle worn at the spinal extremities else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with modest rubbing, some creases and a couple of subtle, short tears. The second of Spillane’s books to be filmed (afterI, The Jury), this time by director Victor Saville in 1954 with Anthony Quinn and Charles Coburn. A serviceable copy of the author’s sixth book, and his first not to feature Mike Hammer.[BTC#49475]

393 STARRETT, Vincent. Murder in Peking. New York: Lantern Press 1946. First edition. Endpapers and top edge foxed, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little light edgewear. Thirteen Caucasian men and women, including a mystery writer and a Hollywood director, attend a party given by a beautiful Chinese woman in a rented Buddhist temple. [BTC#33274]

394 STEIN, Aaron Marc. Up To No Good. Garden City: Doubleday / Crime Club 1941. First edition. Some wear to the surface finish of the boards, a very good or a little better copy in very good, Paul Galdone-designed dustwrapper with some rubbing and small chips at the corners of the spine. Archaeologist murdered in Peru. [BTC#40326] 395 STERLING, Stewart. Where There’s Smoke. Philadelphia: Lippincott (1946). First edition. Small, contemporary gift inscription else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a small nick and a little rubbing, all at the crown. A firefighter mystery featuring Ben Pedley, New York City Fire Marshall, on the search for an arsonist who torched a radio personality’s dressing room. Author’s third book, and second of over twenty Ben Pedley mysteries. Sterling wrote extensively for radio, movies, and television. [BTC#28172]

396 THOMAS, Ross as Oliver Bleeck. The Highbinders. New York: Morrow 1973. Uncorrected proof. A small dampspot on the front wrap and an owner’s stamp on the verso of the front wrap, very good in wrappers. Signed by the author. A scarce format of this Philip St. Ives mystery. [BTC#2609]

397 THOMPSON, Jim. Bad Boy. New York: Lion (1953). First edition. Paperback original. A little scattered foxing on a few pages, small ink mark at the bottom of the front wrap and modest creasing on the spine, a very good plus copy in wrappers. Along with Roughneck, the most frankly autobiographical of his paperback originals. [BTC#39236]

398 —. A Hell of a Woman. New York: Lion (1954). First edition. Paperback original. A beautiful near fine plus copy in crisp wrappers with just a touch of rubbing at the extremities and small 1/2” initials in blue on the first page. Lion Original 218. [BTC#24228] Scarce Jim Thompson Item 399 (—). Furrow’s End: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories. New York: Greenberg (1946). First edition. Edited by David B. Greenberg. Introduction by Louis Bromfield. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little foxing on the edges of the rear flap fold. An uncommon anthology of farm stories including an early Jim Thompson story, “Mr. Simpson Makes a Sale,” as well as stories by Bromfield, E.B. White, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, George Sessions Perry, Jesse Stuart, and William Saroyan. A very nice copy and uncommon in jacket. [BTC#33562]

400 VALIN, Jonathan. The Lime Pit. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1980). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny pin hole on the front panel. Author’s first book, and the notable debut of the excellent Harry Stoner series of mysteries. [BTC#24115] 401 VAN RAALTE, Joseph. The Walls Are High and She Is Very Far. New York: Vanguard (1931). First edition. Foxing to the endpapers else fine in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the extremities. Romantic mystery about an imprisoned felon who continuously escapes from prison to be with the woman he loves. [BTC#29306]

402 VICKERS, Roy. The Department of Dead Ends. (New York): Spivak (1947). First edition. Paperback original. Perfectbound digest-sized wrappers. Pages browned, a bit of rubbing mostly to the extremities and a couple of small checkmarks on the contents page, a very good plus copy. A collection of stories about a department in Scotland Yard that solves cold crimes. One of the few paperback originals that is both a Queen’s Quorum and Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. [BTC#26157]

403 WALLING, R.A.J. In Time for Murder. New York: Morrow 1933. First American edition. Tiny ink number on the front pastedown and a few tiny scrapes on the front board, still easily fine in a very attractive, about fine dustwrapper with two short tears on the rear panel and a little rubbing. A bright, fresh copy of this Mr. Toleree novel, first published in the U.K. as Follow the Blue Car. [BTC#49959]

404 WHITFIELD, Raoul. Silver Wings. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First edition. Illustrated by Frank Dobias. Two blanks excised (but not the patterned art deco- design endpapers) else near fine lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “To Trudy – My perfectly swell ‘Lafayette’ neighbor – January – 1931. Raoul Whitfield.” A collection of aviation stories for adolescent boys, issued at about the same time as the author’s better known noir mysteries. The only book by this author we’ve seen either signed or inscribed. [BTC#46201]

405 WILLEFORD, Charles. Poontang and Other Poems. (Crescent City, FL: Privately Printed / New Atheneum Press 1967). First edition. Stapled wrappers. Very slight bump to the bottom corner, still easily fine.Signed by the author. Reportedly one of 500 copies, this is the seemingly scarcer variant in gray wrappers (also issued in green, no priority). A self-published volume of poetry, perhaps the scarcest book published under Willeford’s name, and rare signed. [BTC#45959]

406 —. Cockfighter.New York: Crown 1972. First hardcover edition, preceded by a paperback original. Small bookstore label else fine in a very good dustwrapper with a number of small rubbed spots, the most grievous about 3/8” long at the bottom left corner of the front panel. Author’s elusive second hardcover title, about the hard-as-nails world of the cockfighting circuit. Scarce.[BTC#47970] 407 —. The Way We Die Now. New York: Ultramarine 1988. First edition. Quarter leather and marbled boards. Fine. Copy number 76 of 99 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC#24875]

408 —. Cockfighter Journal.Santa Barbara: Neville Spearman 1989. First edition. Fine in cloth as issued. Foreword by James Lee Burke. Copy 172 of 300 numbered copies (of a total edition of 326) Signed by Burke. [BTC#48160]

409 WOODS, Stuart. Blue Water, Green Skipper. New York: Norton (1977). First edition. Owner’s name on the front pastedown else fine in a bit rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper with a few tiny tears. Author’s first book, a non-fiction account of transatlantic solo race sailing, which precedes his first mystery by four years. The book had a very small first printing.[BTC#14895]

410 WOOLRICH, Cornell. Cover Charge. New York: Boni & Liveright 1926. First edition. Owner’s name, endpapers somewhat foxed, boards lightly soiled, spine darkened and with a very tiny puncture, a good or somewhat better copy lacking the dustwrapper. First book by the much admired genre writer whose work is periodically rediscovered. [BTC#24218]

411 —. A Young Man’s Heart. New York: Mason Publishing Company 1930. First edition. A trifle sunned at the crown, still easily fine in a very attractive, very good dustwrapper with a chip at the crown which affects the “A” of the title. One of the author’s early novels, about an American who brings his bride to Mexico, where he used to live, to find things changed and sinister. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#33846]

412 —. Violence. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1958). First edition. Corners very slightly bumped else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the right hand corner of the crown. An attractive copy of this collection of stories. Includes “The Corpse in the Statue of Liberty,” one of his best early tales, and “Guillotine” and “The Moon of Montezuma,” which were both televised on the anthology program Thriller starring Boris Karloff. [BTC#46761] Photography

413 COWLEY, Malcolm. Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s. New York: Limited Editions Club 1981. First edition. Introduction by Leon Edel. Fine in a fine tissue dustwrapper with a fine papercovered slipcase. Copy 467 of 2000 numbered copies Signed by Cowley and photographer Berenice Abbott. [BTC#46301]

414 HOYNINGEN-HUENE, George. Baalbek Palmyra. New York: J.J. Augustin (1946). First edition. Text by David M. Robinson. Bookstore label else fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with a little rubbing on the rear panel. A book of archeological photographs taken in the Syrian desert. Inscribed by the photographer in Beverly Hills in 1963. [BTC#46291]

415 JURY, Mark. The Vietnam Photo Book. New York: Grossman 1971. First edition, hardcover issue. Large quarto. Small erasure at the corner of the halftitle, three lines in the text underlined, else about fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a little wear at the extremities, including slight loss at the foot of the spine. Because of a simultaneous paperback (which is itself uncommon) this hardcover is scarce. [BTC#15826]

416 KARSH, Yousuf. Faces of Our Time. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1971). First edition. Quarto. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with a tear to the crown and a crease on the rear panel. Inscribed by the author. [BTC#47473]

417 LYON, Danny. Pictures From the New World. New York: Aperture (1981). First edition. Fine in fine cloth slipcase. Copy 178 of 400 numbered copies Signed by the author, lacking the original silver print. [BTC#47550]

418 MAPPLETHORPE, Robert. Lady: Lisa Lyon. New York: Viking (1983). First edition. Foreword by Samuel Wagstaff. Essay by Bruce Chatwin. A small chip to the margin of a few pages, else fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC#47482] 419 MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard. Descriptive Zoopraxography or the Science of Animal Locomotion…. (Philadelphia): University of Pennsylvania 1893. First edition. Hinges professionally reinforced and the tips of the cloth spine ends restored, a nice, very good plus copy. Published to commemorate a course of two lectures delivered by Muybridge at the University of Pennsylvania and illustrated with engravings of athletes and animals running, jumping, etc. This volume reproduces on several preliminary pages the signatures of those who originally subscribed to the author’s landmark work Animal Locomotion. Muybridge’s history of his own photographic studies of animal movement, which he initiated at the behest of Governor Leland Stanford, who wanted to win a bet as to whether all four of a horse’s feet were off the ground while trotting. Muybridge, a Government photographer assigned to the Pacific Coast, ingeniously set up a track with a series of still cameras along the edge, with their shutters attached to strings. As the horse ran past, each string would break, releasing the shutter. Governor Stanford won the bet, but more importantly, Muybridge further refined his technique for capturing and displaying motion through photography, working from 1884 through 1887 at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to providing this crucial link between still photography and motion pictures, Muybridge actively promoted this new technology through lecture tours and commercial offerings. This copy is Inscribed by Muybridge to a noted publisher of photographic stereocards: “George Ennis with the compliments of The Author. University of Pennsylvania. 9 June 1894.” [BTC#45757]

420 REYNOLDS, Robert and Tony HILLERMAN. Rio Grande. Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing (1975). First edition. Text by Tony Hillerman. Folio. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. [BTC#47506]

421 VAN DERZEE, James. James Van DerZee, Photographer. New York: James Van DerZee Institute / Beefeater Foundation 1972. First edition. Small quarto. Stapled wrappers. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition of photographs by James Van DerZee, organized by the James Van DerZee Institute, Inc., and reproducing ten Van DerZee photos. Fine in original glassine sleeve. Although not called for, this copy is Signed by James Van DerZee. [BTC#46038] Eudora Welty’s First Book Appearance 422 (WELTY, Eudora). SCHUSTER, M. Lincoln, edited by. Eyes on the World. New York: Simon and Schuster 1935. First edition. Quarto. Very good. Inscribed by the editor, M. Lincoln Schuster. Eudora Welty’s first book appearance, a credited reproduction of her photograph “Pickup–Deep South” (also known as “Making a Date”). Also includes photos by Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Steichen, and other well- known photographers of the period. [BTC#47656]

423 WOLFF, Paul, Dr. Meine Erfahrungen mit der Leica. Frankfurt: H. Bechhold (1934). First edition. Text in German. Bookstore label else very good with moderate soiling, lacking the dustwrapper. [BTC#47626]

424 ZAIDENBERG, Arthur. Drawing the Human Figure. New York: Crown (1944). First edition. Quarto. With life-class model photographs by Berenice Abbott. Edges of the pages a little browned, still just about fine in good dustwrapper with spine faded, some modest chipping at the crown and other light wear. Oft- reprinted guide to drawing, mostly notable for the Abbott photos; the first edition in reasonably good dustwrapper is scarce. [BTC#44844] Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

425 BARKER, Clive. Weaveworld. New York: Poseidon Press (1987). First American edition. Cloth. Fine in unprinted acetate dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author, this copy is Signed but unnumbered, bearing instead the initials of a Simon & Schuster editor in the limitation space (Poseidon is a division of Simon & Schuster). [BTC#2619]

426 BENSON, E.F. Visible and Invisible. New York: Doran 1924. First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with some small chips internally repaired with brown paper. A collection of supernatural stories that is considered the author’s best, and one of the highspots of ghost storytelling. Includes two particularly memorable stories, “The Horror Horn,” and “Mrs. Amworth,” a classic of vampire fiction. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#42400] 427 COLLIER, John. His Monkey Wife or Married to a Chimp. New York: Appleton 1931. First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a nominal tear. Author’s first book, a fantasy classic. Lonely schoolmaster in the Upper Congo unwittingly teaches his pet chimp to read. She devours the English classics and begins to exhibit the softer virtues of Victorian womanhood but when the chimp gets a rival for the schoolmaster’s affections she starts reading “Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Collier is wonderfully pleasant and amusing late night reading, especially if you’re fond of vivid dreams. In Bleiler. [BTC#32615]

428 DU BOIS, Theodora. Solution T-25. Garden City: Doubleday 1951. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some negligible rubbing at the spinal extremities, a lovely copy. Post- apocalyptic drama about an American scientist forced to collaborate with the enemy in order to assist the resistance. [BTC#19131]

429 JANE, Fred. T. Blake of the “Rattlesnake” or The Man Who Saved England: A Story of Torpedo Warfare in 189-. London: W. Thacker & Co. 1898. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Corners a bit bumped and some rubbing to the spinal extremities, a handsome, very good or better copy in pictorial boards. Bleiler Checklist title about an imaginary war in the immediate future. In addition to illustrating works of Arthur Conan Doyle and others, author and illustrator Fred. T. Jane had a pre-Wright Brothers penchant for envisioning airships destroying cities. Whereas this fascination might have resulted in the ordinary crack-pot getting committed, Jane was able to parlay his enthusiasm into publications such as Jane’s Fighting Ships, All the World’s Airships, and ultimately the still-thriving Jane’s Defense publishing and consulting conglomerate. Scarce. [BTC#43090]

430 JORDAN, Robert. The Great Hunt. New York: Tom Doherty (1990). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. The second book in The Wheel of Time series. [BTC#43842]

431 KELLER, David H. The Homunculus. Philadelphia: Prime Press 1949. First edition. A couple of spots of foxing else fine in a lightly rubbed, very good slipcase as issued. Copy 88 of 112 numbered copies Signed by the author. Additionally, very nicely Inscribed by the author in 1951 to an important collector. [BTC#33945] 432 KINROSS, Albert. The Fearsome Island, Being a Modern Rendering of the Narrative of one Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, whose shipwreck and subsequent adventures are herein set forth…. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone 1896. First American edition. Slight rubbing to the boards, a fine copy. A 16th Century seaman is shipwrecked on a mysterious, uncharted island in the Atlantic. The hero encounters numerous perils, seemingly supernatural in origin, though several employ the use of electricity, mechanics, photography, and other technological advances. In Bleiler. [BTC#43096]

433 KLINE, Otis A. Call of the Savage. New York: Clode (1937). First edition. A small spot on the foredge else fine in very good plus dustwrapper, slightly sunned at the spine and with several short tears. Reissued as Jan of the Jungle. Kline was the most successful author of Tarzan imitations. Scarce in jacket. [BTC#10382]

434 —. The Port of Peril. Providence: The Grandon Company 1949. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC#44188] Koontz’s First Hardcover 435 KOONTZ, Dean as K.R. DWYER. Chase. New York: Random House (1972). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An exceptional copy of this Koontz suspense thriller about a war hero stalked by a psychopath. The prolific author’s first hardcover book. [BTC#27704]

436 —. Dragonfly.New York: Random House (1975). First edition. Owner’s name, negligible spine slant still very near fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the rear panel. [BTC#10673]

437 LE QUEUX, William. The Eye of Ishtar. New York: Stokes (1897). First American edition. Illustrated by Alfred Pearse. Endpapers a little foxed, spine slightly rubbed, an at least very good copy of this Lost Race novel. In Bleiler. [BTC#45396]

438 LONDON, Jack. Before Adam. New York: Macmillan 1907. First edition. Spine lettering rubbed but readable, otherwise a tight, fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. A tale of prehistoric life, the first science-fiction novel by London, and the first of several of his works to employ astral projection. In Bleiler. [BTC#42605] 439 MACHEN, Arthur. The Three Impostors; or, the Transmutations. Boston: Roberts Brothers 1895. First American edition. Contemporary, old style library bookplate (dated 1894) on the front pastedown and unused sign-out sheet on the rear pastedown else about fine. Title page design by Aubrey Beardsley. A collection of short stories, several of the supernatural variety. In Bleiler. [BTC#43081]

440 —. The Terror. London: Duckworth (1917). First edition. Pages browned as always, tiny chips from the bottom corner of several pages and a small spot on the front board, still an attractive, very good plus copy lacking the dustwrapper. Label laid in indicating that this volume is from the library of fantasy author and Arkham House cofounder Donald Wandrei. A tale about the revolt of the animals. In Bleiler. [BTC#43094]

441 MARRIOTT, Crittenden. The Isle of Dead Ships. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1909. First edition. Color frontispiece and additional illustrations by Frank McKernan. Slight wear to the spinal extremities else fine in pictorial boards. Classic fantasy with mystery elements by this Baltimore-born author. Filmed twice, once in 1923 by Maurice Tourneur and again in 1929 by Irvin Willat with Jason Robards, Sr., Virginia Valli, and Noah Beery. Very scarce. In Bleiler. [BTC#45423]

442 MATHESON, Richard. Hell House. New York: Viking 1971. First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. A classic horror novel, advancing the somewhat genteel “haunted house” tradition a step or two. Basis for the genuinely scary, Matheson-scripted filmThe Legend of Hell House with Roddy McDowell. A very nice copy. [BTC#38735]

443 MERRITT, Abraham. The Story Behind the Story. New York: Privately Published 1942. First edition. One corner lightly bumped else very near fine without dustwrapper as issued. Pieces fromThe American Weekly, of which Merritt was editor. Very nicely Inscribed by Merritt, with a postscript which is also Initialed by him. [BTC#6102]

444 RENARD, Maurice. New Bodies for Old, or, The Strange Experiments of Dr. Lerne. New York: Macaulay (1923). First American edition, and first edition in English of his 1908 novelLe Docteur Lerne, Sous-Dieu (translation unattributed). Very slight scuff to the foredge else fine in fine dustwrapper. A superb, almost as new copy of the classic science-fiction tale about a mad scientist and his inhuman experiments. The first novel by the author ofThe Hands of Orlac. In Bleiler. [BTC#15302]

445 SIODMAK, Curt. Hauser’s Memory. New York: Putnam’s (1968). First edition. Fine in a bright, near fine dustwrapper with two barely noticeable tears. Nicely Inscribed by the author. An attractive copy of this sequel to the author’s classic novel Donovan’s Brain, which was filmed several times.[BTC#36502]

446 SMITH, George O. Venus Equilateral. Philadelphia: The Prime Press 1947. First edition. Illustrations by Sol Levin. Some fading at the spine ends, else fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with some rubbing and a few small chips. Signed by the author. The story of a man determined to establish interplanetary communication. [BTC#53211]

447 STOKER, Bram. The Mystery of the Sea. New York: Doubleday Page 1902. First edition, preceding the English edition by three months. Front hinge neatly repaired, “V”-shaped tidemark from dampstaining at the top of the text block, outwardly attractive and near fine with slight sunning to the spine.Inscribed by the author: “Harry Sowers from Bram Stoker 22-3-02.” A very early inscription, likely in the first month of publication. A novel of witchcraft and Scottish history, it revealed something of Stoker’s youth as an invalid (he recovered so well through a personal exercise regimen that later in life he was famous for his robust health), as well as his interest in ciphers (those in the book greatly impressed his friend Arthur Conan Doyle). A nice copy. [BTC#40586]

448 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings [The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King]. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1954, 1955. Three volumes. Each volume is a first edition, first issue. All three volumes are fine and bright. All in original dustwrappers, the red lettering on the spines is slightly and uniformly faded. Slight and nearly invisible restoration to the extremities of the first volume, else fine with no chips, tears, owner names, or price-clipping. Each volume housed in a separate, uniform, custom, cloth chemise and gray quarter-morocco slipcase. Probably the most beloved fantasy, and easily one of the most important novels of the 20th Century. Recently discovered by a new generation, in part due to the award-winning film trilogy by Peter Jackson. Mixed issue sets, made-up sets employing wildly divergent-condition of the individual volumes, and rebound sets abound, but first issue sets in uniformly nice condition remain scarce and desirable. [BTC#80301] 449 VACHELL, Horace Annesley. Quinney’s Adventures. New York: Doran (1924). First American edition. A little darkening at the hinges else fine in very good plus dustwrapper rubbed on the front panel, with a very faint stain on the spine and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. A sequel to Quinney, featuring the eponymous art dealer and adventurer. Elements of both mystery and the supernatural. In Bleiler and Hubin. [BTC#43250]

450 VIVIAN, E. Charles. Fields of Sleep. West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher 1979. First edition thus, and the true first issue of this edition with illustrations by Thomas Canty. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A re-issue, with new illustrations, of a classic fantasy novel of an Englishman who discovers a hidden valley in Asia. This is the first issue (not one of the 1200 copies produced the following year), the pages shot directly from an early edition. Apparently Grant didn’t like the way the pages laid out and had the entire edition pulped. Grant re-issued a more acceptable version in a 1980 limited edition. Scarce. [BTC#48267] Westerns

451 ADAMS, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1927. First edition thus, in the Riverside Bookshelf series. Illustrations by R. Farrington Elwell. Attractive bookplate of Dolph Judd consisting of a gravure photo of a steer, plus two other small book plates, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple tiny nicks and tears. A very attractive copy. [BTC#49973]

452 BAXTER, George Owen (pseudonym of Frederick FAUST a.k.a. Max BRAND). Red Devil of the Range. New York: Macaulay (1934). First edition. Slight wear at the bottom of the boards, still about fine in an attractive, very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a creased tear along the edge of the spine and front panel and a couple of small chips. Everard Winton tames the impossible horse, the Red Pacer, and faces a gang of desperadoes. [BTC#40099]

453 BRAND, Max (pseudonym of Frederick FAUST). Pillar Mountain. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1928. First edition. Faint name stamp on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. A fresh copy with the yellow and oranges of the jacket vibrant and bright. [BTC#37030]

454 CARTER, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree. (New York): Delacorte (1976). First edition. A trifle foxed on the foredge and edges of the boards else fine in a fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Purported autobiography of a Cherokee orphan that became a much beloved book before it was revealed that the author was not of Indian ancestry. Basis for a 1997 film, co-scripted by Earl Hamner, Jr. and featuring James Cromwell and Graham Greene. [BTC#22106]

455 COOPER, Courtney Ryley. End of Steel. New York: Farrar, Rinehart (1931). First edition. Fine copy in a lovely, fine dustwrapper with two short tears. Adventures in the wilderness of Canada near the edge of the Arctic Circle. Cooper’s novels and stories were the basis for many film westerns including Cecil B. DeMille’sThe Plainsman with Gary Copper and Jean Arthur. [BTC#33275]

456 EVANS, Max. Long John Dunn of Taos. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press 1959. First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “To McElroy – From Fred and Max – Neither of us know what we are doing – we just do it – Best of luck in an important position – Max Evans.” Dunn’s story as related to Evans, author of The Rounders. [BTC#40137]

457 EVARTS, Hal G. The Shaggy Legion. Boston: Little, Brown 1930. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping along the lower extremities. Novel of buffalo hunters on the plains. [BTC#48177]

458 GRANGER, K.R.G. Ten Against Caesar. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1952. First edition. Slight soiling in the front gutter, still easily fine in a price- clipped, moderately spine-faded, very good plus dustwrapper with a shallow triangular chip that affects the top of the last two letters of the author’s name. Signed by the author with her full name: “Kathleen Robert George Granger” (her real name was Kathleen B. George, the “Robert” apparently was added from her husband’s name). Author’s first novel, a very scarce Houghton Mifflin hardcover western, and basis for the Raoul Walsh filmGun Fury, originally filmed in 3D, and featuring Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, and Lee Marvin. [BTC#39157]

459 HENRY, Will (pseudonym of Heck ALLEN a.k.a. Clay FISHER). Who Rides With Wyatt. New York: Random House (1955). First edition. A couple of light bumps to the bottom of the boards else fine in an attractive, about fine dustwrapper with two tiny tears and a little light scratching on the rear panel. A nice copy of this novelized account of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, basis for the movie Young Billy Young with Robert Mitchum. [BTC#16070]

460 —. The Seven Men at Mimbres Springs. New York: Random House (1958). First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. NicelyInscribed by the author: “Dear Bill – Maybe you will keep this around a little while and so remember briefly, the sender and Christmas, 1961. Your friend, Will Henry.”[BTC#22130] 461 JAMES, Will. The American Cowboy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1942. First edition. Small name or price whited-out on the front fly else fine in near fine dustwrapper with faint age-toning on the spine. A very nice copy. [BTC#49931]

462 L’AMOUR, Louis. Guns of the Timberlands. (New York): Jason Press (1955). First edition. A trifle rubbed at the base of the spine, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few tiny tears and a little rubbing at the extremities of the spine. A lovely copy of the author’s cheaply manufactured second hardcover, his first hardcover western and by all accounts his rarest book. [BTC#14787]

463 LANSDALE, Joe R. The Magic Wagon. Doubleday: Garden City 1986. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with one nearly invisible, minuscule tear. A western with fantasy elements, by the Texas author whose many award-winning horror and fantasy works have earned a considerable following. A lovely copy. [BTC#39209]

464 LOMAX, Bliss. Colt Comrades. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1939. First edition. Very fine in especially fine and fresh dustwrapper with some nominal rubbing. Rainbow Ripley and Grumpy Gibbs, stock detectives, encounter a beautiful girl and their horse thief nemesis. A lovely copy. [BTC#22314]

465 MANNING, David (pseudonym of Frederick FAUST a.k.a. Max BRAND). Bull Hunter. New York: Chelsea House (1924). First edition. Pages slightly yellowed, near fine in very good pictorial dustwrapper with some small nicks and tears, and some dampstaining to the white spine that is pervasive but very faint. An attractive copy of this western story about a strong but slow-witted man who is forced to use his wits to survive. Faust is best known for his books written under the pseudonym Max Brand. [BTC#33093]

466 MONTAGUE, Joseph (pseudonym of J. Allan DUNN). Strange Timber. New York: Chelsea House (1927). First edition. Hinges repaired, endpapers soiled, a very good copy in about very good dustwrapper with some chipping at the crown (affecting no lettering) and a number of other very small chips. Adventure novel set at a western lumbering company. [BTC#33096]

467 PHILLIPS, Henry Wallace. Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders. New York: Century Co 1905. First edition. Fine in pictorial cloth. A very attractive copy of this western novel. [BTC#14905] 468 RHODES, Eugene Manlove. Say Now Shibboleth. Chicago: The Bookfellows 1921. First edition. Fine in about fine, original unprinted glassine dustwrapper with mild age-toning and a single small spot. One of 400 copies prepared for The Bookfellows. Three tart essays by the Western- born Rhodes, who was for 25 years a working cowboy and scout in the Indian Wars. He went on to become the foremost literary author of western stories and novels and was respected and read by the likes of Robert Frost, Christopher Morley, and Bernard DeVoto as the author whose work most truly represented the West and its people and outlook. [BTC#35355]

469 SAVAGE, Les, Jr. Treasure of the Brasada. New York: Simon & Schuster 1947. First edition. Slight offsetting on the front pastedown else fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with some shallow chipping at the foot and on the rear panel. First book by this prolific, if short- lived western writer. Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed by Savage (“Les”) to fellow western author Samuel A. Peebles, dated April 23, 1958. Savage, as Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Western Writers of America, announces the winners of the election for officers, and thanks Peebles, who apparently wasn’t elected, for his participation in the election. Original envelope present. Savage died at age 35, and his autograph is exceptionally uncommon. [BTC#34536]

470 STRINGER, Arthur. The Prairie Child. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1922). First edition. Moderate stain on the front panel, thus very good in an attractive, very good W.H.D. Koerner-designed dustwrapper with a couple of very small chips and a crease on the spine. Western novel has an impoverished society girl returning from Europe and going West to develop some land with her new husband. Basis for the Hugo Balin-directed silent filmThe Prairie Wife with Dorothy Devore, Herbert Rawlinson, and Boris Karloff in a small role as “Diego.” [BTC#41318]

471 WARD, Don, edited by. Wild Streets: Tales of the Frontier Towns by Members of the Western Writers of America. New York: Doubleday 1958. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some very light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. Contributors include: S. Omar Barker, Tom W. Blackburn, W. Edmunds Claussen, Dan Cushman, Allen Vaughan Elston, Norman A. Fox, Ernest Haycox, Elmer Kelton, Elmore Leonard, Noel M. Lewis, John Myers Myers, Les Savage, Jr., Thomas Thompson, and William O. Turner. [BTC#46984] Western Americana

472 BAILEY, Paul. Jacob Hamblin: Buckskin Apostle. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press 1961. Reprint. Small spot on the edge of the title page else fine in a near fine dustwrapper.[BTC#50700]

473 BIRNEY, Hoffman. Grim Journey. New York: Minton, Balch 1934. First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a lightly tanned spine and light wear to the crown. [BTC#52671]

474 COOLIDGE, Dane. Fighting Men of the West. New York: Dutton (1932). Second edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a short tear at the top of the rear panel. [BTC#52172]

475 HOOKHAM, Ruth. Neena. New York: Exposition (1956). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. [BTC#52754]

476 KELEHER, William A. Violence In Lincoln County 1869-1881. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico (1957). First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light soiling.[BTC#52824]

477 MUMEY, Nolie. The Singing Arrow. Denver: Golden Bell 1958. First edition. Folio. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing. Copy 993 of a 1000 numbered Signed copies. [BTC#53194]

478 MURBARGER, Nell. Sovereigns of the Sage. Palm Desert, Califonia: Desert Magazine Press (1958). First edition. Fine in an almost fine dustwrapper.[BTC#50703]

479 SANTEE, Ross. Apache Land. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1947. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. [BTC#49271]

480 WOODWARD, Arthur. A Brief History of Navajo Silversmithing. Flagstaff, AZ: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art 1938. First edition. Field notes by Richard Van Valkenburgh. Bookplate of Dolph Judd consisting of an attractive gravure photograph of Navajos on horseback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. [BTC#50012]