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2011 Pasadena and San Francisco ABAA Book Fairs California Book Fairs shows no rubbing or wear). Mustard/beige cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, decorative endpages, Lux Mentis specializes in fine first editions and rarities, books frontispiece, decorative boarders at each page, tipped in plates. that have been treasured and will continue to be treasured. Small 4to. 250pp. Illus. (color plates). Hardcover. Very Good+ Whatever your interests - Americana, fiction, film, juvenilia, in Fair DJ. (6032) $550.00 art, travel or history of ideas - Lux Mentis provides a diverse selection. If we do not have what you are seeking, please contact Widely considered one of Dulac's best works. Though obviously flawed, the presence of [most of] the very scarce DJ is quite unusual. Overall, a handsome us and we will strive to find it. All items are subject to prior copy of this significant work. sale. Shipping and handling is calculated on a per order basis. Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding terms and/or with 4. Anon. The Life and Character of the Late Lord any questions or concerns. Chancellor Jefferys [sic]. London: J Pottinger and J Books, Manuscripts, & Ephemera Seymour, 1764 [1725]. Second Edition. Light shelf/edge wear, tips through, minor scratch in paper front board, else tight, 1. Adee, A.A. Manuscript Diary of a Navy Surgeon: "Vol. bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, burgundy leather spine, II, On Board the US Vincennes" on a cruise to South marbled paper boards. Small 8vo. 54pp plus 2pp ad. Hardcover. America, The Pacific Islands, and Canton. South Pacific: Very Good+ [Textblock Fine]. (5740) $325.00 1835-6. Original Work. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of toning A wonderfully unflattering short biography of the notorious Judge Jeffreys. at the endpages, else tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, red Jeffreys infamously presided over the trial of Titus Oates and numerous other leather boards, marbled boards, gilt lettering and decorative significant cases...bringing his unusual blend of apathy, arrogance and elements. Small 8vo. np (170pp). Approx. 27,000 words. brutality to the bench. It is said that he was "reckless of everything save his own Several laid in bits of ephemera. Hardcover. Near Fine. (6629) advancement." This volume contains a list of some 240 names, organized by $7,500.00 towns, of those who suffered his convictions. A very handsome copy of this minor classic. The US Navy searches for lost Whalemen, with a complete account of the search for the "Mentor" whalers from New Bedford, left captives in the Peliew Islands 5. Araki, Nobuyoshi. Tokyo Comedy. Kyoto: Korinsha, 1997. by Capt. Barnard of Nantucket. Dr. Adee's Journal begins at Callao off the coast First Edition Thus. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very of Peru, exploring-in rich detail-his adventures and discoveries. In the minor shelf/edge wear, tiny closed tear near head, else bright Appendix, Dr. Adee quotes an 11 page letter from Capt. Barnard to Ed. Butler. "Loss of the Whale Ship Mentor of New Bedford on the Pelew Islands" Canton, and clean. Orange paper wraps, whine ink lettering. 4to. np. (b/ March 12th, 1833. Island topography, their products, houses, the native customs w plates). Original Wraps. Fine in Near Fine DJ. (5934) and physical characteristics of the people are all discussed in Dr. Adee's Journal. $125.00 A well-written (easily read) and extremely interesting account. Text in English and German. Published to accompany Araki's exhibition at Wiener Succession. A remarkable collection of images. Overall, a handsome copy 2. Allred, Charmay B. Amazing Mabel: Sketches by Mabel of this increasingly difficult to secure exhibition catalogue. Dodge Luhan. Santa Fe, NM: One Horse Land & Cattle Co., 1996. First Edition/Private Edition. Signed by author, else 6. "Army and Navy U.S." [Collage of 100 US Army and tight, bright and unmarred. Full black leather, in blind lettering Navy Officers]. New York: C.D. Fredericks, nd [circa 1865]. and decorative elements, pictorial endpages, frontispiece. First Printing [presumed]. Minor edge wear, very small surface 12mo. xxi. 33pp (plus approx. 98pp of sketches). Illus. (b/w chip (touches but does not violate boarder), very minor album plates). Bibliography. A "private edition" of 250 copies, this ruffle at top edge, soft crease at lower quarter, slightly being number 210. Signed by author on the limitation page. Laid lightened, else bright and clean. Sepia albumen print. 2.5"x4". in postcard of the "Mabel Dodge Luhan House" in Taos, NM. Original Photograph. Very Good. (6665) $145.00 Full Leather. Fine. No DJ, as Issued. (1810) $175.00 Rear of card lists all 100 officers (numbered and matching difficult to read Foreword by Frank Waters (possibly his last published work). A pristine copy of number in image). Noted minor wear notwithstanding, a handsome copy of this this wonderful volume. very scarce [and useful] reference CDV. 3. Andersen, Hans; Dulac, Edmund (illus). Stories from Hans 7. Baldwin, James; Baskin, Leonard. Gypsy: & Other Poems. Andersen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Second Leeds: The Gehenna Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Tight, bright Edition. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of glue toning at and unmarred. Traycase shows ownership plates at inside front preliminaries, minor foxing at textblock fore-edge (non- and outside front near heel, else tight and clean. Quarterbound, penetrating), else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows heavy black leather spine, black textured paste paper over boards, gilt shelf wear, rear panel and flap missing, large chip at head lettering, bound in/tipped in etchings, tissue guards. Traycase in (effecting title text, several small chips and closed tears, even red cloth, three black leather labels, gilt lettering and decorative toning, else clean and bright (color pictorial only by Dulac elements, concealed pocket for the copper plate; matching black Lux Mentis, Booksellers - LuxMentis.com - [email protected] 2011 Pasadena and San Francisco ABAA Book Fairs portfolio for drawing. 4to. np [approx. 24pp text plus etchings]. 10. Baskin, Leonard. Irises: A Book of Etchings. Leeds MA: Illus. (color and b/w engravings). Limited numbered edition, Eremite Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Ownership bookplate at this being "f" of six 'hors d'edition' of 325. Etchings and front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Archival colophon signed by Baskin. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ. traycase has small private library sticker at bottom front board (6743) $4,500.00 near heel, else bright and clean. Full mustard leather binding, "The edition is arranged as follows: copies numbered 1-50 have a portfolio of gilt lettering and decorative elements A numbered limited etched portraits, signed & numbered by the artist & are specially bound; copies edition, this being Number 1 of 35 Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine 51-325 have a signed & numbered etched portrait. Six special copies, 'hors Archival Case. (6742) $9,500.00 d'edition', lettered a-f, contain an original copper & a drawing. This is copy number /mss/ Special Copy f" and signed by the artist. Specially bound by Title etching with letterpress overprinting. Seventeen plates, each in two states Daniel Gehnrich with paste paper boards by Babette Gehnrich. Baskin had been (b/w and color(ed)). Bound by Gray Parrot. Gehenna 91 A very scarce, and working with Baldwin to produce a book of unpublished poems by Baldwin. It singularly beautiful, work. became, "alas, into a volume memorializing Baldwin" following his unexpected and untimely death. An important work in Baldwin's cannon, beautifully 11. Baskin, Leonard. Ten Woodcuts. Boston: The Gehenna illustrated by Baskin. Press, 1961. Limited Edition. Touch of sun at edges (as is typical of the issue), else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green printed 8. Barbier, Georges; Bakst, Leon, etc. Journal Des Dames et wraps, black ink lettering and decorative elements. Small fo. np. Des Modes: No. 1 June, 1912 - No. 79 August 1914. Paris: Illus. (b/w plates). Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Aux Bureaux du Journal Des Dames, 1912-14. First Edition(s). (7010) $45.00 Light shelf/edge wear, "Mr. Horn" in pencil on each wrapper, "Fifteen Hundred copies printed for R.M. Light & Co..." Catalogue of woodcuts one supp shows nibbling at a corner, outer wrappers show light illustrated in the collection. A very handsome copy. to moderate wear, one supp cover shows closed tear with matching interior (see below), else tight, bright and unmarred. 12. Baskin, Leonard. Twelve Sculptors: A Book of Original blue/grey wraps in Ingres like "sugar paper" with Monotypes with Short Notes on the Monotypes & the deckled edges; uneven sizes; text printed on heavily textured Sculptors. Leeds, MA: Eremite Press, 1988. Limited Edition. laid rag paper; plates printed on watermarked laid paper (mark Very minor shelf/edge wear, bookplate at front pastedown, else of "Journal Des Dames"). Small 8vo. Var. pag. Illust (b/w; hand- tight, bright, and unmarred. Box shows small burr at front board colored). Numbered limited edition, this being 1221. Original and small private library sticker at bottom front board near Wraps/Custom Archival Case. Very Good to Near Fine in Fine heel, etse bright and clean. Full vellum binding, gilt lettering, Archival Case. (6532) $25,000.00 pastepaper endpages. Half-bound archival case, vellum spine and 186 hand-colored fashion plates by artists such as Georges Barbier, Leon Bakst, fore-edge, gilt lettering, pastepaper boards. Small 4to. Illus. et al. Each supplement has 8 pages of black and white letterpress-printed text (color/ed plates). Limited numbered edition, this being 1 of 25 and typically 2-3 fashion plates loosely inserted. Each supplement in a paper copies. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good+ Archival Case. (6740) wrapper and an outer wrapper around each of 4 stacks (tomes). Custom made $15,000.00 archival box contains: Tome I: June 1912-Dec.