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Literary Miscellany Including Recent Acquisitions And Items In Only Tangentially Related Fields. Catalogue 368 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 TEMPLE STREET NEW HAVEN, CT. 06511 USA 203.789.8081 FAX: 203.865.7653 [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com TERMS Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described, but are considered to be sent subject to approval unless otherwise noted. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made prior to shipment. All returns must be made conscientiously and expediently. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance are billed to all non-prepaid domestic orders. Orders shipped outside of the United States are sent by air or courier, unless otherwise requested, with full charges billed at our discretion. The usual courtesy discount is extended only to recognized booksellers who offer reciprocal opportunities from their catalogues or stock. 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Images associated with many items from this catalogue are also posted on our web site, and significant new acquisitions are posted there long before they appear on any of the collective databases. Those wishing to receive e-mail notification of the posting of new catalogues and lists to our website may request same by forwarding expressions of interest to: [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________ William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven CT 06511 USA Phone: 203.789.8081 Fax: 203.865.7653 email: [email protected] Members ABAA and ILAB 1. Abercrombie, John: INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS AND THE INVESTIGATION OF TRUTH ... FROM THE SECOND EDINBURGH EDITION. New York: Printed and published by J. & J. Harper, 1834. 376pp. 12mo. Publisher’s printed muslin. Early ink gift inscription on pastedown, trace of inevitable minor foxing, and almost negligible soiling to muslin, but for the format, an unusually nice copy. An early impression of the Harper’s Family Library (No. XXXVII) Stereotype edition of the Scottish physician and natural philosopher’s popular work, with a publisher’s note dated Oct. 1834 and 25 pages of questions for teachers appended that did not appear in the earliest impressions. A standout copy in terms of condition. $95. 2. Abramson, Ben: [Lot of Twelve Catalogues from the Argus Book Shop]. Chicago, New York, and Mohegan Lake, NY: The Argus Book Shop, [ca. 1938 through ca. 1950]. Twelve volumes. Small octavo and narrow octavo. Printed wrapper and printed self-wrappers. Oc- casional hand-soiling, one item postally used and slightly split at spine fold, some nicks to a few spines, another spine pulled at staples, a few small chips; good to very good. A substantial sample of the catalogues of new and antiquarian books offered for sale by the legendary publisher and bookseller, starting with an unnumbered catalogue from South Dearborn St., Chicago (ca. 1938 based on internal evidence), an unnumbered catalogue of 383 items from North Michigan Avenue (postmarked 1944), then catalogue #1 from 3 West 46th Street, New York City (ca. 1944), followed by #s 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, and finally 34, the latter issued from Mohegan Lake, NY (no earlier than April 1949 and no later than early 1953). Catalogue 18 is particularly informative in that the offerings consist largely of Abramson’s own publications, remainders he had taken on, or recent publications of note. $185. 3. [African American Caricature in Advertising]: [Handbill for:] CABLE SCREW WIRE ... OUR POPULAR SHOE HOUSE SELLS CABLE WIRE GOODS ... [caption title]. Norwich, CT: George W. Kies, Dealer in all kinds of Boots and Shoes, and Rubbers [nd but later half of 1800s]. Printed illustrated handbill (142 x 217 mm), printed recto and verso on thin paper stock resulting in ghosting from recto to verso and reverse. Fine. An advertising handbill for the Kies shoe shop, highlighting their Cable Screw Wire Shoes. One side of the handbill includes an 11 x 6 cm. pictorial inset of a brutally caricatured African American field worker and an emaciated mule rigged to a setup that attempts to pull apart a shoe about the size of the mule, captioned “I’se bound to rip date Cable Screw Wire or bust a flue un dat thousand dollar muel.” The verso is taken up with an image of a cart and driver drawn by two horses hauling a vastly oversize boot. $45. 4. [Aldine Press]: UCLA Library: THE ALDINE PRESS CATALOGUE OF THE AHMANSON- MURPHY COLLECTION OF BOOKS BY OR RELATING TO THE PRESS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES INCORPORATING WORKS RE- CORDED ELSEWHERE. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, [2001]. 671,[2]pp. Large, thick quarto (31.2 x 23.5 cm). Full linen, paper labels. Text in double columns. Fine in matching linen-covered slipcase, the latter with a few minor smudges. First edition of this substantial descriptive catalogue cum bibliography of books in the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine collection at the University of California, Los Angeles. The col- lection was fostered by chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation. $350. 5. Aldiss, Brian: SCIENCE FICTION BLUES .... [London]: Avernus, [1988]. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Very slightly bowed, top edge faintly dust-marked, otherwise about fine. First edition of this paperback original, edited by Frank Hatherley, and with an Introduction by Robert Holdstock. Inscribed by the author: To ... Wot To Do Wen Authorship Fails. Much love & admiration Brian ‘88.” The Brian Aldiss road show, with related prose, poetry, and such. $50. 6. Aldiss, Brian, with Margaret Aldiss: WHEN THE FEAST IS FINISHED REFLECTIONS ON TERMINAL ILLNESS. [London]: Little, Brown and Co., [1999]. Gilt boards. Fine in very lightly rubbed dust jacket. First edition of this frank and moving account of Margaret Aldiss’s illness, final days and death. With the author’s presentation inscription to two old friends on the half-title: “Dear ... - Well, you knew the darling lady ... I’ll say no more. Love Brian July ‘99.” $55. 7. [Alechinsky, Pierre]: Sicard, Michel: ALECHINSKY SUR RHÔNE. [Arles]: Actes Sud / Galerie Lelong, 1990. Oblong small quarto. Plate and illustrations (some in color). First edi- tion. Warmly inscribed and signed by Sicard in Paris in the year of publication. One corner a trace rubbed, otherwise very good or better. $75. 8. Algren, Nelson: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM. Garden City: Doubleday, 1949. Cloth. Some darkening along top edge of upper board, but a very good copy, in near fine, slightly spine-sunned dust jacket. Cloth slipcase. First edition of Algren’s NBA winning fourth book, the source work for the 1955 Preminger film adaptation starring Frank Sinatra in his best role, with Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang, and Darren McGavin. This copy is inscribed by Algren to New York book maven: “For Roger Richards from Nelson Algren with best wishes [drawing of cat] Oct. ‘29 1971[?].” $350. 9. Algren, Nelson: A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]. Canary yellow cloth and blue-gray boards. Hint of darkening to the spine, otherwise very good or better in very good dust jacket with a few spots and light soiling to the lower panel, and a snag at the crown of the lower joint and light fraying at crown. First edition of the sourcework for the 1962 adaptation by John Fante (and others), directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Laurence Harvey, Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Capucine, Anne Baxter, et al. This copy bears Algren’s 21 May 1956 inscription: “For Lynn Fondly from Nelson and [drawing of a cat] Dillon [or perhaps ‘Willow’] May 21’56.” $375. 10. Allen, James Lane: A KENTUCKY CARDINAL [with:] AFTERMATH PART SECOND OF “A KENTUCKY CARDINAL.” New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895-6. Two volumes. 16mo. Gilt decorated cloth. Frontis and plates in first title. BAL’s second printing of the first volume, and first printing of the second. Gilt morocco bookplate in each volume, early ink name in first volume, cloth foxed and spines darkened; a good, sound set in cloth wrappers and morocco faced slipcase. BAL 459 & 460. WRIGHT III:80 & 76. JOHNSON HIGHSPOT. $75. 11. [Allen Press]: Allen, Lewis & Dorothy, et al: THE ALLEN PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. A FACSIMILE WITH ORIGINAL LEAVES AND ADDITIONS TO DATE INCLUDING A CHECK- LIST OF EPHEMERA. [San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985]. Small folio. Gilt cloth. Illustrations. Tipped-in specimen leaves. Fine. First enlarged edition, being a faithful reproduction of the original Allen Press bibliography, with additional descriptions of books published after the bibliography’s appearance, and checklists of ephemeral printings compiled by Steven Corey. Includes commentary by the Allens and Carey Bliss. One of 750 copies printed for sale to members of the Club. $250. 12. [Allen Press]: Allen, Lewis M.: PRINTING WITH THE HANDPRESS. New York: Van Nostrand..., [nd].