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Demonic Furniture to Lincoln Kirstein by Father Flye First Edition. Wright 1767 (locating a spotting; especially clean copies. With 1. ADDAMS, CHARLES. Original (who is mentioned in the acknowl- single copy). A very good copy. Mostly numerous illustrations, plans and maps. Gag Cartoon. Undated (probably edgements) “with appreciation and set in St. Paul, Minnesota. $100.00 Each volume has a folding map in a 1960s); a finished drawing in black regard” in 1980. $350.00 sleeve inside the back cover. $275.00 and white wash on illustration board; A Newer Old Glory approximately 13 x 14”; signed “Chas 3. AKUTAGAWA, RYUNOSUKE. 7. [AMERICANA] Original United 9. [AMERICANA] ANONYMOUS. Addams.” At the bottom right hand Rashomon and Other Stories. Rutland, States Flag, issued after the admission Appleton’s General Guide to the margin is a pencil note “AD #11. Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, of the State of Colorado. The 38th state United States and Canada. New Interior Demons. Due Oct. 1, 60.2%” 1952. First Edition; American issue. joined the union on August 1, 1876 (there- York: Appleton, 1884. Volume II only; A man opens wardrobe doors and The title story was published in Eng- after often called the “Centennial State”). Western and Southern States. Publisher’s observes miniature men apparently lish in 1930, and it and the story “In A This flag measures approximately 17 x 23 cloth; decorated in black and in gilt; very residing on three floors, the middle Grove” (printed in this volume), were 1/2”, printed on what appears to be silk; minor cloth spotting; an especially clean one comfortably reading in a library the basis for the film Rashomon. Fine in some stains, minor fading and fraying; copy. With numerous illustrations, plans room. Excellent condition. a very good dust jacket and a stained very good. Probably an early example: and maps. There is a folding map in a Addams’ preliminary sketches were wraparound band. $175.00 34 of the stars are arranged on the blue sleeve inside the back cover. $125.00 often done in pencil; later versions background in a circle, an additional star were accomplished with a combination in each corner. The official flag adopted on 10. AMIS, KINGSLEY. New Maps of of pen and ink and wash. The finished 4. [ALASKA] RICKARD, T. A. July 4th, 1877 and in use for the next 13 Hell. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960. ones (aside from the pen and ink line Through the Yukon and Alaska. years arranged the representative stars in First American Edition. Fine in a Milton drawings of his earliest efforts) were San Francisco: Mining and Scientific Press, 1909. First Edition. Publisher’s horizontal rows of 8 stars/ 7 stars/ 8 stars/ Glaser designed dust jacket. $100.00 wash drawings, some of which were 7 stars/ 8 stars; with the standard red and eventually redrawn for publication, pictorial cloth; very good or a little better. $475.00 white stripes representing the 13 original usually for editorial or aesthetic rea- states. $3250.00 11. [ANTI-SLAVERY] HAWKINS, sons, such as changing the characters, REV. WILLIAM G. Lunsford Lane; perspective, view or location (i.e. in- 5. ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY. or, Another Helper from North Caro- 8. [AMERICANA] ANONYMOUS. doors v. outdoors). This cartoon might Out Of His Head. New York: Carleton, Appleton’s General Guide to the be unpublished. $5000.00 1862. First Edition. Queen’s Quorum. Cloth spotted and worn; only a good United States and Canada. New York: copy. $225.00 Appleton, 1879 & 1885. Two volumes: 2. AGEE, JAMES. The Collected part I; New England and Middle States SPRING Short Prose of James Agee. Dun- and Canada; part II; Western and South- wood, Georgia: Berg, 1978. First 6. [AMERICAN FICTION] EM- ern States. Publisher’s cloth; decorated Edition of this posthumous work. ERSIE, JOHN. Allisto: A Romance. in black and in gilt; very minor cloth 2009 Some stains; a good copy; presented New York: John D. Williams, 1884. PETER L. STERN & COMPANY INC. 15 COURT SQUARE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 lina. Boston: Crosby & Nichols, 1863. the City of New-York. New York: C.C. 21. [BINDINGS] DICKENS, ton, 1924. First Edition. Some minor First Edition. Some cloth wear and Van Alen, 1796. First Edition. Bound CHARLES. Vignettes of Country Life foxing; about fine in a dust jacket with dampstaining; good to very good. With in late 19th century green morocco and from Charles Dickens. London: Seeley two pieces of paper tape inside the spine. considerable material on the formation of marbled boards; minor occasional stains; & Co., n.d. [c. 1915]. 16mo. Bound by A collection of short stories, including black regiments, including the celebrated very good. Howes 506. A 1924 auction Riviere in full orange calf; gilt decorated; one with Max Carrados. $750.00 Massachusetts 54th, and the loss of Col. description is pasted onto a blank pre- raised bands; morocco spine label; all Shaw and many of his men in the assault liminary leaf. The first printed page is an edges gilt. Minor scratching and wear; 28. BYRON, LORD. The Works Of on Fort Wagner. $350.00 illustration of the balloon, its passengers very good. $100.00 Lord Byron: With His Letters and Jour- flying French and American flags. The nals and His Life, by Thomas Moore, first American book on the subject, 22. BODKIN, M. MCD., Q.C. Dora Esq. London: John Murray, 1833. Small preceded by Blanchard’s description Myrl: The Lady Detective. London: 8vo; 17 volumes; bound by Colley in of his 1793 flight in Philadelphia. The Chatto & Windus, 1900. First Edition full red morocco with gilt decoration. final portion of the book prints the text of a very uncommon short story collec- Minor wear and slight spine darkening; of Washington’s endorsement of that tion. Back hinge cracked; some foxing; an excellent, attractive set. $1850.00 ascension. $7500.00 cloth wear; a good to very good copy. Laid in is a four page holograph letter, 29. CADETT, HERBERT. The Ad- 16. [BASEBALL] KAESE, HAROLD signed, 1904, on the author’s Upper ventures of a Journalist. London: Sands AND R.G. LYNCH. The Milwaukee Mount Street, Dublin stationery, to a & Company, 1900. First Edition. One Braves: An Informal History of a magazine editor. Splitting at the folds; of the least common Queen’s Quorum Great Baseball Team in Boston and very good. $875.00 titles. Rear hinge starting; minor bump- Milwaukee. New York: Putnam’s, ing and wear; very good or better; in 1964. First Edition. Very good in dust 23. [BOTANY] SPRAGUE, ISAAC. a custom quarter-morocco clamshell jacket. Signed by Lynch and player Bob Wayside Flowers and Ferns. Descriptive box. $4000.00 Thorpe. $400.00 12. [ARCHITECTURE] ANONY- Text by The Rev. A.B. Harvey. Troy, MOUS (ED.). Original Folder and New York: Nims and Knight, 1892. 30. CAIN, JAMES M. Sinful Woman. Display for the American Architect 17. BEERBOHM, MAX. Seven Men. Publisher’s decorated cloth; some minor New York: Avon, 1947. First Edition; and Building News. Boston: Ticknor London: Heinemann, 1919. First Edi- scattered page stains; very good or better. original wrappers. Tiny name stamp on & Co., n.d. [c.1883]. A cloth folder, tion. Fine in a lightly chipped dust With ten color lithographed plates from front cover; near fine $300.00 approximately 10 x 14”, when open jacket. $200.00 Sprague’s watercolors. $185.00 displaying a sample cover poster for the 31. CAPOTE, TRUMAN. The Grass periodical (“For Sale Here”), including Harp. New York: Random House, a mounted “gelatine” photograph detail 1951. First Edition. Owner’s inscrip- of Richardson’s Austin Hall at Harvard tion on front free endpaper; fine in dust (“Specimen of Gelatine Plate, Issued jacket. $500.00 with the Gelatine Edition”). Opposite is a printed label instructing the news- dealer to display a new plate weekly. 32. CATHER, WILLA. Alexander’s Some staining; very good. $500.00 Bridge. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1912. First Edition; mixed issue. Blue cloth; the half-title is bound after the 13. [ARCHITECTURE] NOLEN, title page; in some copies it is bound in JOHN. New Towns for Old: Achieve- front of it; no priority known. Some cloth ments in Civic Improvement in Some fading and spotting; owner’s name inside American Small Towns and Neighbor- the front cover; very good. $175.00 hoods. Boston: Marshall Jones, 1927. First Edition. Very good. Presentation 18. BEHRMAN, S.N. No Time For 24. BOYLE, JACK. Boston Blackie. copy; inscribed by the author to Dr. 33. CATHER, WILLA. O Pioneers! Comedy. New York: Random House, New York: H.K. Fly, 1919. First Edi- Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1913. First Albert Shaw (editor of the Review of 1939. First Edition. Jacket reinforced tion. About a fine copy in dust jacket. Reviews), who wrote the introduction. Edition; third issue binding. A very with brown paper; tape stains to end- These stories were the basis for numer- good copy. $275.00 Noted in pencil on the front pastedown paper and cloth edges where it was ous films, a radio series and a television in an unknown hand: “First copy from tacked down, else very good. Signed by show, all minor in and of themselves, but the press.” $275.00 the author and the cast, which included cumulatively famous. $3750.00 34. CATHER, WILLA. The Song of Katharine Cornell and Laurence Ol- the Lark. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1915. First Edition; first issue. Owner’s 14. BAEDEKER, KARL. The United ivier. $1250.00 25. [BOYS’ BOOKS] ANONYMOUS. States with Excursions to Mexico, inscription inside the front cover; very The North Pole. New York: Dutton, n.d. good. $450.00 Cuba, Porto Rico, and Alaska. Hand- 19. BENCHLEY, ROBERT. The [c. 1885]. First American Edition (?). book for Travellers. Leipzig: Karl “Reel” Benchley. New York: A.A. Wyn, Publisher’s pictorial cloth; a little shaken; Baedeker, 1909. Fourth revised edition. 1950. First Edition. Wrappers; very gift inscription; very good. $40.00 35. CATHER, WILLA. The Professor’s Fine in a dust jacket with some chips and good. $65.00 House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, tears. $275.00 1925. First Edition. Faint offsetting 26. [BOYS’ BOOKS] CASTLEMON, on the front free endpaper; a few pages Charlie Chan HARRY. Rodney the Overseer. Phila- A Higher Calling roughly opened; very good to fine in a 20. BIGGERS, EARL DERR. The delphia: Porter & Coates, 1892. Publish- very good dust jacket with a slightly 15. [BALLOONING] BLANCHARD. Chinese Parrot. Indianapolis: Bobbs- er’s pictorial cloth; near fine. A Civil War JEAN-PIERRE. The Principles, His- faded spine and some minor tape mends Merrill, 1926. First Edition. A fine copy story. $45.00 removed from the verso. $1500.00 tory & Use of Air Balloons. Also, A in a dust jacket with some minor tears Prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & and a faded spine. $3500.00 Baker’s Intended Aerial Voyage from 27. BRAMAH, ERNEST. The Speci- men Case. London: Hodder & Stough- PETER L. STERN & COMPANY INC. 15 COURT SQUARE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 Signed by Cather 44. COWLEY, MALCOLM. Exile’s Hindhead stationery, April 20/05. The 36. CATHER, WILLA. Shadows on Return. New York: Norton, 1934. First bottom line of the first page has been the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Edition. Bookplate; near fine in a dust jacket trimmed, almost certainly by Doyle as 1931. First Edition; limited issue; one with minor soiling and wear. $950.00 the final line continues coherently onto of 619 numbered and signed copies. the following page. Of political content, Near fine in a dust jacket with some 45. CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS. in which Doyle passionately defends his browning and in a very good publisher’s Sudden Death. New York: Harper & statistics and position regarding imports; slipcase. $650.00 Brothers, 1932. First American Edition. “...They have joined the ranks of casual Ownership signature; very good in a labour, and they form that 12 million of 37. CATHER, WILLA. Shadows on dust jacket with a large chip at the top our population who were stated by that the Rock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, of the front panel. $650.00 politician of live always on the edge of 1931. First Edition; limited issue; one destitution. I hold that they are victims of of 619 numbered and signed copies. In our free-import system and the work that a modern binding of 3/4 morocco and should be theirs is being done abroad. To marbled boards; very good. $350.00 try and set this injustice right is the chief end of the tariff reform movement, which 50. [DOGS] LANE, CHARLES is as much, or more, in the interests of the 38. CATHER, WILLA. Sapphira and HENRY. All About Dogs. Illustrated workmen as of the employers...” In 1906, the Slave Girl. New York: Alfred A. by R.H. Moore. London and New York: Doyle lost his bid for a seat in Parliament. Knopf, 1940. First Trade Edition. Fine John Lane, 1900. First American Edi- Very good. $1500.00 in dust jacket. $400.00 tion. While London is listed first in the imprint, the book was printed in 55. DOYLE, A. CONAN. One Page 39. CHRISTIE, AGATHA. The Mur- 46. [CURRENCY] SUMNER, WIL- Albany, New York. Bookplate; very Holograph Letter, Signed. On plain der of Roger Ackroyd. London: Collins, LIAM G. A History of American good. $100.00 paper, from Southsea, Aug 31 (no year 1926. First Edition. A little foxed; Currency. New York: Henry Holt, given, c. 1920) to [Stephen] Spender minor cloth spotting and wear; very 1878. Later edition. Publisher’s cloth; 51. [DOVES PRESS] In Principio. regarding Gough’s retreat in W.W.I good. $1000.00 very good. With the ownership signa- London (Hammersmith): Doves Press, and noting that he is instructing his ture and bookplate of writer F. Marion 1911. Bound in full calf at the Doves publisher to send his fifth volume ofThe Crawford. $150.00 40. CHRISTIE, AGATHA. At Ber- Bindery. Endpapers foxed; some binding British Campaign in France and Flanders, tram’s Hotel. New York: Dodd, Mead, soiling and fading; very good. $600.00 noting “...I think Gough has been very 1965. First American Edition. Very 47. [DETECTIVE FICTION] RAN- hardly treated and am anxious for the good in dust jacket. $35.00 DALL, DAVID A. The First Hun- real view to get full publicity.” A long 52. DOYLE, A. CONAN. One Page dred Years of Detective Fiction...An tear in the center of the sheet has been Holograph Letter, Signed. On stationery Exhibition. Bloomington: The Lilly skillfully mended. $1000.00 41. CHRISTIE, AGATHA. Elephants of the Golden Cross Hotel, Charing Library, 1973. Publisher’s wrappers. Can Remember. London: Collins, 1972. Cross, dated in pencil in another hand, Near fine. $50.00 First Edition. Near fine in very good “sent 12 Dec 1901.” Doyle writes, “Mr 56. DOYLE, A. CONAN. Two Page faded dust jacket. $45.00 Dear Smith [Smith, Elder?], I am com- Holograph Letter, Signed. On his 48. [DICKENS] WILKIE, ROB- ing to the conclusion that Newnes can’t Crowborough stationery; July 12 [no 42. COWARD, NOEL. The Vortex. ERT D. Two Original Watercolors help us. If we can get Smith [presum- year, 1918-1925], to James Blyth at New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. Illustrating Scenes From Bleak ably Newnes editor Greenough Smith] the London School of Journalism; on First American Edition. Back hinge House. Each drawing measures ap- heartily upon our side, and can give spiritualism, a subject that occupied cracked; very good plus in only a good, proximately 13 x 8”, framed, mat- the venders all the profits we shall do his later years. “Good physical medi- somewhat worn and chipped dust ted, glazed, and captioned in ink on very well. Could you send a History to ums are rare & we have to weigh and jacket. $250.00 separate pieces of paper, overall 22 Adrian Hofmeyer, Carlton Hotel. Yours accept the evidence of others, as we do x 15”. One scene is captioned “The always, A. Conan Doyle.” The “History” in astronomy. How few have actually Smallweed Family/ Bleak House” was likely Doyle’s book on the Boer seen Saturn’s rings...Mrs. Wriedt is at 43. COWARD, NOEL. Post-Mortem: and the other “Lord Chancellor War, published by Smith, Elder.” Very 69 Clarence Gate Gardens. If you men- A Play in Eight Scenes. London: Heine- Krook and his cat/ Bleak House.” good. $1250.00 tion my name she will no doubt find a mann, 1931. First Edition. Very good in Each is signed by the artist in the place for you in a sitting...she is most a dust jacket with minor interior tape lower right corner. The artist was excellent. The other day she sat here. Logrolling mends. $275.00 born and began his artistic career Four of us sang a hymn. I could hear all 53. DOYLE, A. CONAN. One Page in Halifax, Nova Scotia, moving to the four voices distinctly...while a fifth Holograph Letter, Signed. On Doyle’s Boston in the 1850s, where he illus- voice from amidst us joined beautifully. South Norwood stationery, with the trated for magazines and worked for It was in my own nursery. Surely that is notation “sent 10/4/93.” Doyle writes an Prang. Towards the end of his career, final...There is a conscious period after editor, “Mr dear Rud, You won’t forget from 1896-1899, he did over a hun- death, succeeded in most cases by a rest, that you promised that I should review dred illustrations for Dickens’s work. which varies in length...” Some spots Hornung’s Tracy Luttrell. It seems a The watercolors are in excellent and creases; very good with the original little like logrolling now as he has an- condition and attractively framed. envelope. $1250.00 nexed my sister since that time. As my The pair: $1750.00 desire to review it was previous to that that however I think I am justified in A Mention of Holmes 49. DINESEN, ISAK. Last Tales. doing it. Hoping that you are all right. 57. DOYLE, A. CONAN. One Page London: Putnam, 1957. First English Yours very truly, A. Conan Doyle.” Very Holograph Letter, Signed. On his Crow- Edition. Some foxing; very good in good. $1250.00 borough [crossed out, with “Hindhead” dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, added in Doyle’s hand] stationery; dated “For Valerie with love from Isak. Xmas in pencil on the verso in an unknown 54. DOYLE, A. CONAN. Four Page 1957.” $1000.00 hand, July 8th, 1907, “My dear Sir, Your Holograph Letter, Signed. On Doyle’s PETER L. STERN & COMPANY INC. 15 COURT SQUARE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 letter was lucky in arriving. I enclose the Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher’s quarter Contains “221B (To Edgar W. Smith)”. and light chipping. There has been some envelope. I think the name ‘Sherlock leather; the top and bottom of the spines Near fine in a very good dust jacket. strengthening with archival tissue inside Holmes’ in any form on the Cover is im- are a little sunned and dry; some very mi- Inscribed by the author. $125.00 the spine folds. $4500.00 possible. As a subtitle on the inner leaf nor rubbing; about fine in the the original I would not object. Wishing the book clear dust jackets (a bit yellowed) and 69. [SHERLOCKIANA] WILLIAM- 75. FAIRLIE, GERARD. Captain good luck. Yours very [truly]. Arthur publisher’s slipcase (a little rubbing and SON, J.N. AND H.B. WILLIAMS Bulldog Drummond. London: Hod- Conan Doyle.” Doyle letters with any wear; very good). The publisher retained (EDITORS). Illustrious Client’s Case- der & Stoughton, 1945. First Edition. mention of Holmes are rare. $7500.00 signed sheets from the production of the Book. With a Foreword by Vincent Very good in a good dust jacket with Crowborough Edition, which was issued in Starrett. Indianapolis: The Illustrious a couple of small interior tape repairs. 1930. $4000.00 Clients, 1947. First Edition. Wrappers; Nicely inscribed by the author to Robert very good. Inscribed by the authors to Sherwood (“Thanks for so much encour- 62. DOYLE, A. CONAN. An “Un- Edgar W. Smith, “...Best Canonical agement...”) on the title page. $500.00 discerning Critic” Discerned. San Salutations! All luck to you and the great Francisco: Beaune Press, 1968. First Edi- BSI!” $150.00 tion thus; with an introduction by Dean Dickensheet and printing Guiterman’s 70. [SHERLOCKIANA] WILLIAM- poem. Wrappers; one of 222 copies; SON, J.N. AND H.B. WILLIAMS inscribed by publisher Dickensheet to (EDITORS). Illustrious Client’s Nathan Bengis. Near fine and with a Case-Book. With a Foreword by postcard and a letter to Bengis from the Vincent Starrett. Indianapolis: The publisher laid in. $100.00 Illustrious Clients, 1947. First Edi- tion. Wrappers; very good. Signed by 63. DOYLE, A.CONAN. “A Foreign- the editors. $85.00 Office Romance: A Story of the Napo- leonic Era” in McClures’s Magazine, 58. DOYLE, A. CONAN. The Adven- 71. DUNSANY. LORD. Plays of Gods December, 1894. Of modest Sherlockian and Men. Boston: John W. Luce, 1917. tures of Sherlock Holmes. With The interest, this issue also prints Cleveland Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: First American Edition. Very good in Moffett’s account of the Pinkertons and dust jacket. $200.00 George Newnes, 1892 & 1894. First the Molly Maguires. Some chipping and Editions. Two volumes; publisher’s deco- tears; good to very good. $75.00 76. FAULKNER, WILLIAM. The rated cloth. The Adventures is a very good 72. [DUST JACKETS] BOOK JACK- Unvanquished. New York: Random copy; some rubbing and with cracking ET DESIGNERS GUILD. The Fifth House, 1938. First Edition. A near fine hinges. The Memoirs has a gift inscription 64. [SHERLOCKIANA] BARING- Annual Exhibition of Book Jackets. GOULD, WILLIAM. The Chrono- copy in a very good dust jacket with on the first blank, and while the hinges New York: Aiga Gallery/ American some soiling and browning. $750.00 are vulnerable, they are intact. A better logical Holmes. No place of publication: Institute of Graphic Arts, 1952. First than usual set. $9500.00 privately printed, 1955. First Edition. Edition. Wrappers; very good. Most of One of 300 copies. Wrappers; bumped; the catalog is devoted to an appreciation very good. $150.00 59. DOYLE, A. CONAN. The Hound by Fritz Kredel of the typography and Of The Baskervilles, in Its Original designs of Rudolf Koch. $35.00 Appearance in The American Edition 65. [SHERLOCKIANA] HALL, of the Strand Magazine, September, TREVOR. Sherlock Holmes: Ten Lit- 73. EBERHART, MIGNON G. The 1901 - May, 1902. New York: George erary Studies. New York: St. Martin’s, Cases of Susan Dare. Garden City: Newnes, 1901-1902. A complete set 1969. First Edition; American issue. Crime Club, 1934. First Edition. of individual issues, all in the original Fine in a dust jacket with minor creasing Queen’s Quorum. Very good in a dust publisher’s wrappers. Numerous chips, and wear. A typed letter signed by the jacket with a number of very small tape tears and some mends; only a good set. author is laid in. $75.00 mends. $375.00 The American issues came out a month after the English publication and had 66. [SHERLOCKIANA] HONCE, different covers (many in color) and ad- CHARLES. Public Papers of a Bib- vertisements. Perhaps even less common liomaniac. Prelude by Ellery Queen. than their English counterparts, complete Mt. Vernon: Golden Eagle Press, 1942. sets are seldom seen. $3500.00 First Edition. Entertaining essays on 77. FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. The book collecting and literature; with two Vegetable. New York: Scribner’s, 1923. 60. DOYLE, A. CONAN. The Field essays on Holmes. Near fine; inscribed First Edition. Small, neat name stamp on Bazaar. Summit: Pamphlet House, by Honce. $300.00 the front free endpaper and the title page; 1947. First Separate American Edition. very good to fine in a good dust jacket with One of 250 numbered copies; this is copy 67. [SHERLOCKIANA] HONCE, numerous chips and tears. $1750.00 11. Very good. A Holmes parody first CHARLES. Books and Ghosts. Mt. printed in The Student in 1896. $75.00 Vernon: Golden Eagle Press, 1948. 78. [FLEMING, IAN] PEARSON, First Edition; one of 111 copies. Essays JOHN. The Life of Ian Fleming. Lon- Signed by Doyle on books, literature and music; some don: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First Edition. 61. DOYLE, A. CONAN. The Com- on Holmes. A little dampstained; very Very good in dust jacket. Inscribed by good. $125.00 74. EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Relativity: plete Sherlock Holmes. With a Preface The Special and the General Theory. Fleming’s lifelong friend Ivar Bryce, by Christopher Morley and an Introduc- New York: Henry Holt, 1920. First “Sarah, Memories are lovely things. tion by John Dickson Carr. New York: 68. [SHERLOCKIANA] STARRETT, American Edition. A little foxing; very Ivar.” $85.00 Doubleday, 1953. Special edition; one of VINCENT. Autolycus In Limbo. New good to fine in a very good dust jacket 147 numbered copies with a signature of York: E.P. Dutton, 1943. First Edition. with some rubbing, very minor stains, PETER L. STERN & COMPANY INC. 15 COURT SQUARE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 79. [FLORIDA] IRVING, THEO- A Rarity Inscribed to his Lawyer DORE. The Conquest of Florida by 84. GOGOL, NICOLAI VASELIV- 92. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Hernando De Soto. New York: George ICH. Home Life in Russia [Dead Original Photograph, Inscribed by P. Putnam, 1851. First One Volume Souls] by a Russian Noble. London: Hemingway. Approximately 10” wide Edition (originally published in 1835 Hurst & Blackett, 1854. First Edition in x 13” tall; matted, framed and glazed, in two volumes). Owner’s inscription; English. Sadleir 985. Publisher’s cloth; overall approximately 16” wide x 19 bookplate; some dampstaining and wear; two volumes; wear at the extremities; 1/2” tall. Inscribed by the author, “To good to very good. The frontispiece is hinges cracked; author’s name and title Alfred Rice from his friend, client and a Colton’s map of Florida in 1851 is- “Dead Souls” in ink on the title page admirer, Ernest Hemingway. 31/3/50.” sued for this edition, showing De Soto’s of the second volume; author’s name Hemingway is photographed outdoors route. $200.00 in pencil on the title page of the first (probably in Cuba) holding a kit- volume; a very good set in a custom ten. Framed with glass on the verso slipcase. The Russian censors imposed (cracked) to display the photographer’s the title The Adventures of Chichikov stamp. On the death of Maurice Speiser on this publication in 1842, but the in 1948, his assistant Rice became English publisher curiously chose an Hemingway’s attorney. $18,000.00 even more innocuous title having little Given that Priestley was Heinemann’s to do with the subject or theme of the best-selling author, his threat of libel 93. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Fare- novel. Shortly before his death in 1852, action caused the publisher to insist that well to Arms. New York: Scribner’s, Gogol destroyed the second part of his Greene revise the offending text. The 1929. First Edition. One of 510 num- manuscript. A rare book. $37,500.00 less-popular Greene was forced to share bered copies signed by Hemingway. the cost of the changes and to effect them Some soiling, fading and wear; about Not to be Read at Night immediately from a telephone booth. very good. $4500.00 85. GOLDING, LOUIS. Luigi of Cat- The character as written in this earlier anzaro. London: E. Archer, 1926. First text shared Priestley’s obsession with Dickens and the disgruntled author’s 94. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Fare- Edition. Queen’s Quorum. Publisher’s well to Arms. New York: Scribner’s, wrappers; one of 100 numbered copies pipe smoking habits. In the revised text of the published book, the name was 1929. First Edition. One of 510 num- signed by the author; very good in a bered copies signed by Hemingway. A 80. FRANK, ANNE. Anne Frank: custom cloth clamshell box. [With] changed to Quin Savory, the references to Dickens changed to Chaucer, and the little spine soiling; near fine in a repaired The Diary of a Young Girl. Garden The Pale Blue Nightgown. No place of publisher’s slipcase. $8500.00 City: Doubleday, 1952. First American publication: The Corvinus Press,1936. comments regarding pipe smoking were Edition. Very good or better in a very First Edition. One of 60 numbered and removed. $8500.00 good dust jacket. $750.00 signed copies. Very good; presentation copy inscribed by the author, “...this tale 88. GREENE, GRAHAM. The 81. GALSWORTHY, JOHN. A Com- not to be read at night...” In a custom Living Room. London: Heinemann, plete Collection of All Six John Gals- cloth clamshell box. $1750.00 1953. First Edition. Very good in dust worthy First Editions Issued by Earle jacket. $300.00 J. Bernheimer. Kansas City: Privately 86. GOREY, EDWARD. Six Fantod Published by Earle J. Bernheimer, 1937- Press Titles Presented by the Author 89. HAGGARD, H. RIDER. The An- 1943. Produced in editions of only 30 or to Lincoln Kirstein. New York: Fantod cient Allan. London: Cassell, 1920. First 60 copies issued and signed by the noted Press, 1990-1994. Comprising the Edition; apparently the colonial issue; American Galsworthy collector. Bound following: The Universal Solvent; The in variant cloth and lacking a printed uniformly in green paper covered boards Fraught Settee (one of 500, marked “o/s” price on the dust jacket. Contemporary with vellum spines; approximately 8 [out-of series]); La Balade Troublante; The owner’s inscription; near fine in a very wide x 10 3/4 tall”. All are in fine or near Doleful Domesticity (one of 500, marked good dust jacket with some archival fine condition, each featuring a facsimile “o/s” [out-of series]); The Grand Pas- mending and minor chipping. $250.00 of the original manuscript, as well as a sion (one of 500, marked “o/s” [out-of typeset version, and with an introduc- series]); The Retrieved Locket (one of 526, Presented to Anthony Boucher 95. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. Green tion or afterword by the author’s widow, marked “o/s” [out-of series]). All are in 90. HELU, ANTONIO. La Obligacion Hills of Africa. New York: Scribner’s, Ada Galsworthy. $1000.00 publisher’s wrappers; fine or nearly so, de Asesinar. Mexico City: Editorial Alba- 1935. Later printing of the original inscribed to “Lincoln” and signed by tros, n.d. [1946]. First Edition. Queen’s edition. Inscribed by the author, “To 82. GARNETT, DAVID. A Rabbit Gorey. $2500.00 Quorum. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers; James K. McGuinness with best regards, in the Air: Notes from a Diary Kept pages yellowed as usual; near fine. Pre- Ernest Hemingway.” The recipient, a While Learning to Handle an Aero- Editied From a Phone Booth sentation copy; with the author’s warm noted screenwriter, created the original plane. New York: Brewer, Warren & 87. GREENE, GRAHAM. Stamboul and lengthy inscription to author and story for A Night at the Opera, wrote the Putnam, 1932. First Edition; American Train. London: Heinemann, 1932. First editor Anthony Boucher. In a custom screenplay for Tarzan and His Mate, and issue (printed in England). A very good Edition; rare suppressed first issue, with cloth clamshell box. $1000.00 all, or part of six films directed by John copy; presented by the author to Lincoln a considerable number of textual differ- Ford, including the great Western Rio Kirstein, “Lincoln with love from David ences. Only a small number of copies of 91. HELU, ANTONIO. La Obligacion Grande. Nearly a fine copy, without the Garnett.” $250.00 this issue are known. Some cloth stain- de Asesinar. Mexico City: Editorial usual fading, in an unfaded example of ing; generally very good in a somewhat Albatros, n.d. [1946]. First Edition. the dust jacket with minor rubbing and 83. GLASGOW, ELLEN. The Bat- chipped and worn dust jacket; in a cloth Queen’s Quorum. Publisher’s pictorial wear. $7500.00 tle-Ground. New York: Doubleday, clamshell box. wrappers; pages yellowed as usual; very Page, 1902. First Edition. Cloth fray- J.B. Priestley, on reading an ad- good or a little better. Kaye bookplate; 96. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. The ing; author’s photo pasted inside the vance copy of the novel, claimed that signed by the author. $500.00 Sun Also Rises. New York: The Modern front cover; a good copy. Inscribed by the character of Mr. Q.C. Savory was Library, 1939. Later edition. Front hinge Glasgow. $225.00 a libelous, satiric portrait of himself. mended; very good in dust jacket; in a PETER L. STERN & COMPANY INC. 15 COURT SQUARE BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 02108 custom clamshell box. Presentation copy; in several colors of cloth); some cloth es, including “Sally Bowles,” published An Intimate Presentation inscribed on the half-title by the author, wear and staining; a very good set. Hay- earlier in a separate edition, was the basis 114. KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN. Dance: “To Lionel Wiggam with very best regards. craft-Queen cornerstone. The book was for “Cabaret.” Connally 100; “Berlin A Short History of Class Theatrical Always Ernest Hemingway, March 31, quickly translated from the French and under the emergent Nazis provided a Dancing. New York: Putnam’s, 1935. 1938.” The young recipient was a poet and published both in Britain and America stiffening of tragedy shown here in his First Edition. Some cloth spotting and screenwriter. This book was probably in- remarkably soon after it was issued in moving story ‘The Nowaks,’ in the two foxing; very good. Presentation copy; scribed on a train from Paris to Barcelona, Brussels and Paris. $1250.00 remarkable Berlin diaries, with ‘Sally inscribed by the author to his sister, where Hemingway was headed to report Bowles’ for comic relief.” A last glimpse using their pet names, “for Dear Goosie on the war. $4500.00 103. [ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] at a dying world that disappeared into from Clovis. Nov. 1935.” $300.00 MARTINEAU, HARRIET. Feats vandalism, chaos and ultimate destruc- 97. HILTON, JAMES. Contango. Lon- on the Fjord. London and New York: tion. Very scarce in this condition. 115. LEAF, MUNRO. Robert Fran- don: Ernest Benn, 1932. First Edition. A Dent/ Dutton, n.d. American issue. $7500.00 cis Weatherbee. New York: Frederick Fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with While the title page notes “Coloured Stokes, 1935. First Edition. Very good a faded spine and minor wear. $500.00 Illustrations by Arthur Rackham,” an 108. JAMES, HENRY. A Landscape in a torn dust jacket with a small hole erratum corrects this by attributing Painter. New York: Scott & Seltzer, in the front panel, partially affecting the the line drawings to Rackham and the 1919. First Edition; trade issue. Near “S” in the title. $50.00 color to W. Cubitt Cook. Very good in fine in a very good dust jacket with a good dust jacket with chips, tears and minor chips and tears. $200.00 116. LEONARD, ELMORE. Glitz. mends. The front panel reproduces the New York: Mysterious Press, 1985. color frontispiece illustration. $165.00 The Jewish Problem First Edition. One of 500 numbered 109. [JUDAICA] KLEIN, MOSES. copies, signed by the author. Fine in the 104. [ILLUSTRATED BOOKS] Migdal Zophim (The Watch Tower) publisher’s slipcase. $100.00 PHILLIPS, COLES. A Young Man’s - The Jewish Problem and Agriculture Fancy. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, as Its Solution. Philadelphia: Published 117. LEROUX, GASTON. Missing 1912. First Edition. Aside from a little by the Author, 1889. First Edition. Men. New York: Macaulay, 1923. spotting, a fine copy in a dust jacket Hinges cracked; a good copy. Illustrating First American Edition. Bookplate; with very minor wear. Uncommon in the Jewish farming communes in New very good in a heavily chipped dust this condition. $1450.00 Jersey. $125.00 jacket. $75.00

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