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1 George ABBOTT and Ann Preston BRIDGERS. 5 James AGEE and Walker EVANS. Coquette. New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1928. Let Us Now Praise First edition. Introduction by Percy Hammond. A Famous Men: Three faint dampstain on the front board, green spine a Tenant Families. Boston: bit mottled, some scattered foxing to the first and Houghton Mifflin Company last two leaves, very good plus in a very near fine 1941. dustwrapper with slight age-toning, a very attrac- First edition. Near fine in an tive copy. The about very good, somewhat play was written spine-faded dustwrapper specifically for with some internal tape Helen Hayes, removed, a couple of seam- who starred in less professional mends and the Broadway a couple of small chips. production and Issued in a small edition, is the dedicatee of the book. This copy Inscribed an extended essay on rural by Helen Hayes: “To my hero, Percy Hammond. poverty with arresting images by Evans. Aside from its place Helen Hayes 1928.” Hammond, the prominent and in literary history, the Walker Evans images have made it acerbic drama critic for the , New York Herald Tribune something of an iconic volume for students of photography. provided the introduction, which is quoted at length on Parr and Badger, The Photobook Volume 1, p.144; Roth. The the jacket’s front flap. Basis for the 1929 Sam Taylor-directed film. Mary Pickford Book of 101 Books, p. 108-109. bought the film rights to the play and took over Hayes’ part in her first talking role, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress, in the second year of the award’s existence. An exceptional association copy. 6 Isabel ALLENDE. The House of the Spirits. New York: Alfred A. 2 Sherwood ANDERSON. Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life. New York: B.W. Huebsch 1919. Knopf 1985.

First edition. Fine with a crisp spine label and mild toning to the First American boards (a natural reaction with the binder’s glue which is generally edition. seen) in a near fine, neatly restored dustwrapper. Housed in a cus- Translated tom cloth chemise and full morocco slipcase. On the front fly is the from the pencil signature of the publisher, B.W. Huebsch. A group of related Spanish by short stories which together form a portrait of small-town America. Magda Bogin. This Johnson Highspot of American Literature was Anderson’s first Fine in near major success and had a consider- fine dustwrap- able influence on American litera- per with two ture. Copies in jacket rarely surface. short tears, and a little 3 —. The Cornfields. age-toning. New York: The House of Russell Laid in is a note from a Knopf editor sending (1939). the book to author Nicholas Delbanco, not- First edition. Octavo. Green printed wrap- ing the typesetter’s error that determines the pers. 8pp. Covers very slightly soiled, but still near fine. first edition, and noting this as “A rare first Publisher’s prospectus laid in. First separate edition of the first poem edition, with a slight typesetter’s error… to in Mid-American Chants (1918), with a brief biographical notice at make it even more precious in years to come.” the back. Not in Sheehy & Lohf, nor in Ray Lewis White’s Sherwood The author’s first book, with definitive proof Anderson: Fugitive of a previously Pamphlets and Broadsides, unknown issue 1918-1940, nor in point. the later “Additions to the Bibliography” of Sherwood 7 — same Anderson by Charles E. Modlin et al. OCLC locates title. only three copies: at William and Mary, Columbia, and First American University of Texas, Ransom Center. Rare. edition. Uncor- Anderson Typescript – Possibly Unpublished rected Proof. A tiny tear at the 4 —. [Hand-Corrected Typescript]: A Bus- crown and a iness Venture – Gun Running. little light soil- Seven page typescript, both ribbon and carbon copies (14 ing. The text leaves total) with holograph corrections. Fine with small was substantially holes from removed staples. Apparently unpublished, as altered between neither the title nor the subtitle appears in Sheehy & Lohf. this proof version and the published version. From the estate of Anderson’s widow. Between the Covers ~2~ Catalogue 143

8 Michael ARLEN. The Green Hat: 12 John ASHBERY. Some Trees. New Haven: Yale University Press A Romance for a Few People. London: W. Collins 1956. Sons & Co., Ltd. (1924). First edition. Introduction by W.H. Auden. Fine in fine First edition. A slight dustwrapper with a single short tear, and some very slight crease at the edge of the age-toning. An especially crisp and fresh copy. The impor- front fly, still easily fine in tant poet’s first commercially published book, one of only a very attractive, near fine 817 copies. dustwrapper (illustrated by Nick) with a little rub- 13 —. The Tennis bing and a tiny hole on Court Oath. the edge of the spine. A Middletown, CT: major bestseller in its time, Wesleyan University Press and the basis for the 1928 1962. Clarence Brown film A First edition. Fine in fine Woman of Affairs featuring dustwrapper with one Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, closed tear. A beautiful copy of an uncommon title. Lewis Stone, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Also filmed in 1934 by Robert Z. Leonard as Outcast 14 Jane AUSTEN. Persuasion. Lady with Constance Bennett and Herbert Philadelphia: Carey & Lea 1832. Marshall. A very nice copy. First American edition. Two volumes. Octavo. Original boards with muslin spines and printed 9 W.H. AUDEN. Poems. London: Faber and paper labels, preserved Faber (1930). in a custom folding box. First edition. Wrappers. Contemporary penciled Foxing and a little name and gift inscription edgewear, a very good dated 1838 on the title copy of the author’s first pages, printed label of commercially published “Hosford’s Circulating book, preceded by a Library” on front past- handful of copies of a edowns, corners bumped, privately printed volume. some slight scuffing to the boards, a few tears 10 —. Marginalia. to leaves professionally (Cambridge: Ibex Press mended, and modest 1966). wear to labels. Despite First edition. Self-wrap- some minor flaws a very pers. Illustrated by attractive example of a book rarely found in the original binding. Laurence Scott. Fine. One of 150 copies Signed by the author and Amelia Earhart’s Senior artist. An as new copy. High School Year Book 15 (Aviation). (Amelia EARHART). 11 —. The Orators: An The Aitchpe 1915. Chicago: Hyde Park High English Study. New School 1915. York: Random House First edition. Quarto. Silk cord-tied blue wrappers with (1967). applied title label. 193pp. Illustrated. Tiny tears to the First American edition yapped edges, and a modest crease on the rear wrap, a (revised and with a new near fine copy. On page 33 is the 17-year old Earhart’s foreword from the much senior picture (with a small ink check beside it), with earlier English edition). mention that she would attend Bryn Mawr, and that she Fine in just about fine came to Hyde Park from St. Paul in 1914 (one of six dustwrapper with a little high schools she attended), and the accompanying cap- soiling. Nicely Inscribed tion: “Meek loveliness is ‘round thee spread.” Earhart is by the author: “To Charles mentioned in the class prophecy with love from Wystan.” A (as a waitress!), but she otherwise Connolly 100 title. doesn’t seem to have been particularly involved in extracurricular activities, presumably because she moved so much. Rare. Between the Covers ~3~ L i t e r a t u r e

16 (Aviation, Ballooning). Vincent LUNARDI, Esq., Secretary to the Neapolitan Ambassador. An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England in a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Campagni, Written under the Impressions of the various Events that affected the Undertaking. London: Printed for The Author: and sold at the Pantheon; also by the publisher, J. Bell… 1784.

Second edition, published the same year as the first. Contemporary full red morocco, ruled and titled in gilt, all edges gilt. 66 (ii) pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait of the author by Bartolozzi, two folding plates: “The English Balloon and appendages…” and “Apparatus for filling Mr. Lunardi’s balloon.” Two leaves (pp.51-54) supplied in a felicitously rendered facsimile (curiously, this is an appendix containing a letter to Lunardi from a W. Baker, possibly a relative or connection of the original owner). Light foxing in the text, contemporary bookplate of Robert George Baker, 1894 ownership signature of Sir Robert Baden-Powell. Additionally this copy is Signed by the author (“R. Lunardi”) on the half-title. Baden-Powell, in addition to founding the Boy Scouts, was a British Army general who used balloons for surveillance in Africa, particularly in Bechuanaland and the Sudan, and was later secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Rare signed. A beautiful copy with an interesting provenance.

17 Djuna BARNES. The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings. New York: Guido Bruno 1915. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. A beautiful copy of the author’s fragile first book.

18 —. Nightwood. London: Faber and Faber (1937). 19 Natalie Clifford BARNEY. Selected Writings. (London): Adam Books (1963). Uncorrected First edition. Edited with an introduction by Miron Grindea. Fine in proof. Yellow fine dustwrapper. One of 100 numbered printed wrap- copies Signed by Barney. The beautiful pers. A trifle soiled, a near fine copy. Ohio-born Barney conducted an important literary salon in Paris for well over a half-century, while keeping Paris fasci- nated by her occasionally scandalous lesbian relationships. Scarce.

20 Saul BELLOW. Mr. Sammler’s Planet. New

York: The Viking Press (1970). First edition. Fine, with the topstain bright, in fine dustwrapper (with a small ink price on the front flap). Signed by the author on the front fly. 21 Donald BARTHELME. A lovely copy. Winner of the National Snow White. New York: Atheneum Book Award. 1967. Uncorrected proof. Spiral bound in tall wrappers. A light crease to one corner of the front wrap and the first couple of pages, a little offsetting at the top of the front wrap, one spiral partially broken, else a near fine copy. The author’s first novel. Very scarce in this format, presumably issued in a handful of copies. Between the Covers ~4~ Catalogue 143

22 Samuel BECKETT. Molloy. (Paris): The Olympia Press (1955). First edition in English, first issue (without the English price on the rear flap). Translated from the French by Patrick Bowles in collaboration with the author. A bookstore label on the inside front wrap, else fine in wrappers in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper.

23 —. Fin de Partie suivi de Acte san paroles [Endgame]. (Paris): Les Editions de Minuit (1957). First edition, trade issue. Text in French. Pages browned as always, and a small, very faint stain on the wraps, else fine in wrappers as issued. Inscribed by the author in the month of publication (although misdated by him as having been signed the year before!): “For Barney and Linda in friendship. Sam. Paris, Feb. 1956.” Barney is Barney Rosset, the New York publishing icon and founder of Grove Press, who was responsible for introducing Beckett’s work to America, and was his American publisher. Along with James Laughlin of New Directions, Rosset revolutionized the American publishing industry. Starting in 1953, Rosset visited frequently with Beckett in Paris, and presumably the book was inscribed on one of those occassions. When Rosset was ousted from control of his own publishing company, Beckett made him a present of one of his plays (Eleuthria). An important association in the Nobel laureate’s most important play after Waiting for Godot.

24 —. Endgame: A Play in One Act followed by Act without Words: A Mime for One Player. New York: Grove Press (1958). First American edition, and first edition in English. Translated from the French by the author. Fine in near fine (probably original) unprinted acetate dustwrapper with a couple of tears. One of 100 numbered copies of the limited edition.

25 —. Proust. New York: Grove Press (1957). First American edition. Fine in near fine (and probably original) unprinted acetate dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and tears. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author.

27 Elizabeth BISHOP. North and South. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1946. 26 John BERENDT. Midnight First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper in the Garden of Good and with tiny nicks at the extremities. Author Arthur Mizener’s copy Evil. New York: Random House (1994). with his small bookplate on the front pastedown and his extensive pencil notations throughout. The author’s first book, winner of a Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award, and one of the 20th Century’s First edition. defining books of poetry. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 28 —. Selected Poems. Splendid non-fic- London: Chatto and Windus 1967. tion account of a celebrated crime First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. in Savannah, One of 1200 copies of this impor- Georgia in which tant collection. A beautiful, just the author man- about as new copy. ages to capture the feel and 29 —. Geography III. New character of the York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux city and its resi- (1976). dents. A surprise First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap- bestseller that went into scores of hardcover per. A beautiful copy. reprintings, some of which are mistakenly offered as first editions. Basis for the 1997 Clint Eastwood-directed film with John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law. Between the Covers ~5~ L i t e r a t u r e

30 John BERRYMAN. Stephen Crane. New York: Sloane (1950). First edition. Fine in a crisp and unfaded, just about fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to a close Princeton friend: “Jimmie – this son of Jimmie-like character. affectionately, John. 5 Dec 1950.” A scarce biography by the poet, issued in the American Men of Letters series. Seldom found signed.

31 —. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1956). Uncorrected proof. Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Unbound string-tied folded and gathered sheets, page edges uncut. A little soiling to the outer pages, else near fine. A very scarce early issue, presumably only a few copies were issued thus.

32 Vincent BLASCO IBANEZ. Blood and Sand. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton (1913). First edition in English. Slight soiling, an about fine copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. The ultimate bull fight novel, basis for the 1922 Fred Niblo film featuring Rudolph Valentino, remade in 1941 by Rouben Mamoulian with Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth.

33 (Book Collecting). Nicholas 35 Jane BOWLES. Two Serious BASBANES. A Gentle Madness: Ladies. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1943. Bibliophiles, Biblio- manes, and the First edition. Slightly Eternal Passion for cocked else fine in a price- Books. New York: clipped, near fine dust- Henry Holt (1995). wrapper with two small tears on the front panel. Uncorrected proof. A A fresh and bright copy of slight bend on the front Bowles’ very uncommon wrap, else very near fine first novel. in wrappers. Excellent book on book collectors 36 Paul and collecting including an historic overview, BOWLES. The with interviews and Sheltering Sky. profiles of modern col- (New York): New lectors. A fascinating read, and increasingly scarce, Directions (1949). especially in this format. First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple 34 William BOYD. A Good of modest chips and an old internal Man in Africa. London: Hamish repair. The author’s first and best known Hamilton (1981). book, in which a disaffected American First edition. Slight erasure to the front fly couple meet the harsh reality of the else fine in fine Moroccan desert, with less than happy dustwrapper. A results. Filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci beautiful copy with Debra Winger, John Malkovich, of the author’s and the author in a small role. very scarce first book, a comic 37 —. A Little Stone. London: novel of politi- John Lehman (1950). cal intrigue First edition, first issue binding. A little in West bit of the usual age-toning to the pages, Africa. Basis still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel. for the Bruce A beautiful copy of this collection of stories. Beresford film 38 —. The Spider’s House. New York: Random House featuring Colin Friels and Sean (1955). Connery. First American edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of internal repairs. Signed by the author. Between the Covers ~6~ Catalogue 143

39 Max BROD. Reubeni Prince of With a Note from the Author Tipped-in the Jews. London: 43 Louis BROMFIELD. Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady. New York: Knopf 1929. Frederick A. Stokes 1926. First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine advance issue First English edition. dustwrapper, with some irregular tanning to the spine. Translated from the Advance Review Copy with publisher’s slip tipped-in, not- German by Hannah ing the date of publication as October 14, and with an Waller. Small book- Autograph Note Signed by the author lightly tipped to the store label on the front front fly: “For William pastedown, fine in fine Langenfeld – In gratitude dustwrapper. Originally and good friendship published in Germany from the author who in 1925 as Reubeni, has not yet (strange as Furst der Juden. it may seem) forgotten the article he promised. Louis Bromfield.” On the verso, the author has writ- 40 Bob BROWN. Demonics. Cagnes- ten “Philadelphia Ledger.” Presumably sur-Mer: Eye Press 1931. Langenfeld was an editor to whom this review copy was First edition. Printed addressed. The advance issue of the dustwrapper, which green wrappers. A small we have never seen elsewhere, differs from the final dust- chip on the rear wrap wrapper only by the absence of a small blurb on the bottom of the front panel of the latter affecting the corners of which states “This Novel has never been published in any Periodical.” A very nice copy of the last few leaves, small an early and scarce Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. tears on the spine, else a 44 Pearl S. BUCK. The Good Earth. near fine London: Methuen and Company (1931). copy. First English edition. Gift inscription, foredge foxed, spine Signed slightly faded, a very good copy in a nice, very good or bet- by the ter dustwrapper with a triangular chip at the foot of the spine, author and a faint stain at the crown. The Nobel laureate’s best-known in New book, the first part of her House of Earth trilogy, and winner York in 1932. of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1938, based largely on the strength of The Good Earth, Buck became the second woman, and first American woman, to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The 41 William S. BURROUGHS. English edition of this elusive Pulitzer Prize winner has, like the The Ticket That Exploded. Paris: American edition, become exceptionally uncommon in jacket. Olympia Press (1962). 45 (Charles First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy, BUKOWSKI). with the red on the spine bright. Sanford Publisher’s File Copy DORBIN. A 42 —. Nova Express. New York: Grove Bibliography of Press (1964). Charles Bukowski. Los First American edi- Angeles: Black Sparrow Press tion. Fine in fine 1969. dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Publisher’s File Copy, stamped on the front and rear fly leaves, and the foredge: “Production Dept. Working Copy Do Not Remove – Grove First edition. Fine in fine origi- Press Inc. nal unprinted acetate dustwrap- Production per as issued. One of 350 num- Department.” bered hardcover copies Signed by both Dorbin and Charles Bukowski. Between the Covers ~7~ L i t e r a t u r e

46 Truman CAPOTE. Other Voices, Other Rooms. London: William Heinemann (1948).

Uncorrected proof of the first English edition. Printed tan wrappers. A bit cocked, slight spine erosion, a near very good copy of a fragile and uncommon issue. The author’s first book.

47 — same title. New York: Random House (1968). 20th Anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Uncommon, especially in this condition. Not shown. Blurbing The Sheltering Sky 48 —. Autograph Letter Signed to the Publicity Director at New Directions. One page Autograph Letter Signed to David McDowell of New Directions. Dated 15 November 1949 from Paris providing a blurb for the American edition of Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky (which was not used on the first American edition). Folded as mailed in a self-mailing envelope. Pencil note from “B” to “J” (presumably publisher James Laughlin): “J – we got this from Capote – please return. B.” and counter noted “good,” presumably by Laughlin. In full: “Dear Mr. McDowell – Thank you for your letter. I have not received the books you mention, but as it happens I have already read The Sheltering Sky in its English edition, and certainly it is an exceptional novel. In consequence I enclose the following remark, which New Directions may use if it chooses: Paul Bowles is a startling writer, and The Sheltering Sky possesses to a high degree the qualities most lacking in contemporary writing: the visual relativity of a truly poetic eye, and a sense of movement that hurls the reader forward. Most sincerely, Truman Capote.” Capote was a recently minted success, and his endorsement would have been important to the publishers of the American edition of Bowles’ first novel. McDowell had a long and distinguished career in American publishing, working at New Directions, Random House, and Crown. For a short period in the late 1950s he and Ivan Obolensky published under their own imprint, most famously issuing the Pulitzer Prize-winning posthumous novel by his good friend James Agee, A Death in the Family.

49 —. The Grass Harp. New York: Random House (1951). Uncorrected proof consisting of long galley sheets printed rectos only, ribbon-tied at the top into blue covers with applied title label. Affixed to the cover label is another label that reads: “An ‘A’ Book To Be Considered at the Next Meeting,” apparently indicating the book was being considered as a main selection for the Book-of- the-Month Club. Modest wear, very good or better. Author’s second novel. Rare in this format.

50 —. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York: Random House (1958). First edition. A faint stain on the front fly, else fine in a uniformly and lightly spine-faded, else fine dustwrapper.

51 —. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequence. New York: Random House (1965). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for one very small chip at the corner of the rear panel. Signed by the author. Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction. Capote’s neighbor and close friend Harper Lee acted as his secretary during his investigations into this tragic murder. Basis for the excellent film adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks, with Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Quincy Jones’ music, and Conrad Hall’s famous cinematography. A nice, fresh copy. Shown above right.

52 — same title. First edition. Advance Reading Copy in self wrappers. Fine. Shown at left.

53 — and Harold ARLEN. House of Flowers. New York: Random House (1968). First edition. Fine in fine, bright white dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A nice copy of Capote’s light-hearted musical about the goings-on at two competing brothels in the West Indies. Between the Covers ~8~ Catalogue 143

54 Rachel CARSON. Silent Spring. Boston: 57 Willa CATHER. April Twilights. Boston: Richard Badger Houghton Mifflin Company 1962. / The Gorham Press 1903. First edition. Fine in fine dust- First edition. Papercovered boards with paper labels wrapper with just a touch of on the front board rubbing, but unusually fresh and the spine, issued and bright. A classic of environ- without dustwrap- mental literature, a long essay per. Tiny nick at the that appeared in The New Yorker crown, spine label and eventually resulted in the a bit darkened, and banning of the use of DDT. a small split at the Not a particularly rare book, joint, still an at least but exceptionally uncommon in very good copy. this condition. Cather’s first book, a vanity press collection of poetry. Cather reportedly destroyed the remainder of the edition in 1908. This 55 Raymond copy Inscribed by Cather at a later date: “For Edwin CARVER. Where Winter, In return for a beautiful letter he once wrote me about ‘My Water Comes Antonia’. Willa Sibert Cather. Five Bank Street. March 15, 1920.” Also Together with laid in is a two-page Autograph Note Signed “Willa Cather,” written in pencil, that addresses her attempts to visit her doctor, her inability to Other Water. New York: make engagements at present, and says in part: “I came home with gout, Random House (1985). but I admit it only to old friends. Anyhow, I’m glad I had the Wine in First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Paris and the gout in New York!” The note is folded, and has a couple Nicely Inscribed by Carver to author of small Richard tears, but Marius: “For is overall Richard very good. Marius with my thanks 58 —. and my The good wishes. Song Well-met in of the Cambridge. Ray Carver Lark. Boston: April 11, 1985. And in Lanier, with my warm regards.” Laid into the Houghton book is Marius’ two page typed manuscript, with several hand correc- Mifflin tions, of his introductory remarks about Carver for a reading. Marius is best known for his novels of the South (The Coming of Rain, etc.) and Company 1915. his writings on Thomas More and Martin Luther. A nice association. First edition, first issue with a boxed ad on the copyright page and with “moment” on page 8. Attractive contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown, 56 W.J. CASH. The Mind of the South. New else a very near fine copy. An early, major York: Knopf 1941. novel, utilizing one of Cather’s major themes: First edition. Bookplate of Bessie the natural artist overcoming the limita- Steele Ledbetter. Endpapers foxed and tions of provincial life. A nice copy, seldom the binding is soiled and moderately encountered in the first issue. worn, an about very good copy in a price-clipped, very good plus dust- 59 —. The Professor’s House. wrapper with shallow chipping at New York: the crown. Inscribed by the author: Alfred A. “Inscribed to Mrs. J.M. Ledbetter, W.J. Knopf 1925. Cash.” One of the most important and influential studies ever written about First trade the philosophy, temperament and edition. Some social customs of the South. Cash com- faint stains on the foredge that affect the mar- mitted suicide soon after publication, gins of a few pages, spine gilt tarnished, and a at least in part because of the criticisms bit of offsetting to the endpapers, a very good he received for debunking some of the copy in a very good dustwrapper with shallow accepted myths and beliefs of the region. Although loss at the crown, some other very small nicks all signed copies are rare, a few and tears, and a detached chip at the foot were issued with a signed, tipped- which is present and barely visible when the in leaf. This is only the second jacket is in mylar. Considered by some to be inscribed copy we have seen. Cather’s most accomplished novel. Between the Covers ~9~ L i t e r a t u r e With a Three Page Remembrance by Joshua Chamberlain 60 (Joshua CHAMBERLAIN). Edward P. WESTON, editor. The Bowdoin Poets. Brunswick: Joseph Griffin 1849. Second edition. Original cloth gilt. Folding frontispiece engraving of the College. Cloth worn at the spine ends, still an attractive and presentable, very good copy. The first half of the book consists of selections of poetry by Bowdoin graduates, including Henry W. Longfellow. The second half of the book, with a separate titlepage (Bowdoin Souvenir), consists of blank pages for autographs. Ownership signature “James D. Fessenden, Bowd. Coll.” from the Class of 1852 on the front fly. Fessenden has divided the book into sections labeled for each Class from 1849 through 1852. James Deering Fessenden was the son of William P. Fessenden, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War; and the brother of Major-General Francis Fessenden. James D. Fessenden also served as a Brigadier-General in the war, both as the commander of Company D of the elite Second U.S. Sharpshooters, and later as commanding officer of the First South Carolina Regiment of the United States Colored Troops, and is mentioned as such in the landmark work on black troops in the Civil War, The Black Phalanx. This book contains nearly 100 pages of autograph sentiments and good wishes to Fessenden, including a warm and closely written three page “letter” by Fessenden’s classmate and fellow Civil War general Joshua L. Chamberlain (Signed “J.L. Chamberlain”) dated in 1852 to “Jimmie,” and mentioning details of their friendship. Additionally Inscribed by Fessenden’s uncle, Congressman James P. Fessenden; Paris Gibson, later to be a U.S. Senator and the founder of Great Falls, Montana; John N. Jewett, (possibly related to John W. Jewett, the Boston publisher of Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who lived at Bowdoin from 1850-53 as the wife of Bowdoin Professor Calvin E. Stowe, and where she wrote most of the novel); and several others who served with distinction as general officers in the War. We assume that during this period of history one couldn’t swing a cat at an American institution of higher learning without hitting future commanders in the Civil War, but this is a pleasing group, with an interesting association between two future Civil War Generals, including Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top, and the central protagonist in Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels.

61 Whitman CHAMBERS. Invasion! New York: E.P. Dutton 1943. First edition. A trifle soiled at the spine ends, near fine in a very attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with small nicks at the spine ends. A wartime propaganda novel about an imagined Japanese conquest of California centered around the invasion of Santa Monica and Los Angeles. The dustwrapper belongs in the jacket art Hall of Fame, with leering Japanese soldiers capturing besuited studio executives and brassiere-clad blonde starlets at the Los Angeles City limits. Very scarce, especially in nice condition.

62 Borden CHASE. East River. 63 Kate CHOPIN. A Night in Acadie. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (1935). Chicago: Way and Williams 1897. First edition. Scattered foxing to the boards, and First edition. Contemporary and attractive bookplate of the first and last few leaves, else about fine in fine, Robert Markham on the fresh dustwrapper. front pastedown, titles on The author’s first the spine a bit rubbed, novel, about tunnel extremities a little rubbed builders working and worn, a nice, very under New York’s good or a bit better copy. East River, and which includes some elements of the The author’s second book, labor novel. Chase wrote both fiction and screenplays like her first, Bayou Folk, a in a number of genres for several decades. Today he collection of short stories. is best remembered for the classic western Red River. Very scarce. Chase co-scripted the 1935 Raoul Walsh film version of this novel, Under Pressure, featuring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau, and Charles Bickford, and which also features Ward Bond in a lesser role. Very scarce. Between the Covers ~10~ Catalogue 143

64 Austin President Clinton’s High School Yearbooks CLARKE. The 65 (Bill CLINTON). Old Gold Book. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: Hot Springs High Vengeance of Fionn. School 1962-1964. Dublin and London: Maunsel Three volumes. Folios. Some modest & Company 1917. wear, student inscriptions, mostly fine in custom cloth clamshell box. All three of Bill Clinton’s High School yearbooks (he attended a junior high school which went up through 9th grade). As one might imagine, “Billy” Clinton (as he is called) is all over the books. In his first year there are about half a dozen photos. The next year about ten and by Senior year there are nearly 20 different photographs of him, including the famous photo of him shaking hands with J.F.K. at Boys’ Nation, as well as first chair saxophone in the All-State band, and in various other clubs and honor societies. Mercifully, these yearbooks have an index to students, but we have found some instances where they have failed to note his First edition. Quarter linen appearance in the index. Although a relatively large school – approximately 350 and papercovered boards with students in Clinton’s class, it would be difficult to assemble another set today. paper spine label. Attractive bookplate, some scattered foxing, a very good copy. 66 (Cocktails). Professor Jerry THOMAS. Edited by Herbert ASBURY. The Bon Vivant’s Companion or How to Mix Drinks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1928.

First edition thus. Edited, with an intro- 67 Robert M. COATES. duction by Herbert The Eater of Darkness. Asbury. Cloth with gilt (Paris: Contact Editions 1926). decorated pastepaper boards. Fine in a lightly worn, near fine slipcase First edition. Marbled paper self- with paper spine label. wrappers with applied paper label. One of 160 numbered Spine cocked, and with small chips to the edge of the yapped portion copies Signed by Asbury. Thomas’ original of the wrappers, a very good copy. The author’s first book, generally work, the first drink book to be published in the considered the first Dada novel. United States, appeared in 1862. A beautiful copy, and exceptionally uncommon. Early Analog Computer 68 (Computers). Aaron PALMER and John FULLER. [cover title]: Fuller’s Computing Telegraph. New York: John E. Fuller 1852. Square octavo. Blind stamped flexible cloth folder or case, lettered in gilt, with 22 pages of instructions for use, and a large folding chart “delineated and arranged by W(illiam) Nicholson.” Laid in is a thick, leather edged board, on either side is a moveable, engraved rondel: on one side is Fuller’s Time Telegraph, on the other is Palmer’s Computing Scale Improved by Fuller. The case has some fading to the bottom of the front board, a little wear at the spine, and foxing to the text; the board holding the rondel has a little edge wear, and the action of the rondel is stiff but workable, all-in-all a very good plus or perhaps near fine example. Palmer patented his Scale in 1843, Fuller made an agreement to offer Palmer’s Scale, along with his own Time Telegraph in combination, and patented the change in 1847, when it was first offered. Reportedly manufactured in two sizes, this is the larger of the two. According to some sources, this device was the first device used for high speed calculations that was referred to as a “computer.” The term was previously used to describe a mathematically adept person and the earliest OED citation for a non-human computer comes from 1897. Exceptionally scarce, especially in nice condition, as this example is. Between the Covers ~11~ L i t e r a t u r e Herman J. Mankiewicz’s Copy 69 Humphrey COBB. Paths of Glory. New York: Viking Press 1935. First edition. A sound, very good copy with the spine faded in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little overall edge wear, and a small spot on the spine. One of the great antiwar novels, based on real incidents during WWI. The film rights were purchased two decades later by Kirk Douglas, who hired the relatively unknown Stanley Kubrick to direct. Starring Douglas and Adolphe Menjou and scripted by Kubrick, Jim Thompson, and Calder Willingham, the film was a technical and critical triumph and ranks with All Quiet on the Western Front as perhaps the greatest antiwar film. Ownership Signature of “Herman J. Mankiewicz, London, 1936.” Mankiewicz wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Citizen Kane (for which he shared an Oscar with Orson Welles), The Pride of the Yankees, Dinner at Eight, and many other great films. He also contributed (although uncredited) to the screenplays of Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and The Wizard of Oz.

70 (Pat CONROY). The Sphinx 1967. Charleston, South Carolina: The Citadel 1967. Small folio. Leatherette embossed in blue and silver. Some wear to the rear board, else near fine. Citadel yearbook for author Pat Conroy’s Senior year. Conroy is pictured in at least eight, and we suspect more, photographs in the yearbook, including an individual Senior Class picture, with the basketball team, and as “Best Senior Private,” presumably acknowledging his reluctance or inability to be promoted. In that picture, Conroy is struggling to keep a straight face whilst receiving a thorough dressing down by former Commandant of Cadets Lt. Colonel T.N. Courvoisie, i.e. “The Boo,” who was the subject of his first, privately printed book, also called The Boo. A cropped version of this photo served as the jacket art for that title, and the full photo served as the jacket art for the re-issue published by the Old New York Book Shop Press in 1996.

71 —. The Boo. Verona, Virginia: McClure Press (1970). First edition. Very fine in a bright and very fine dustwrapper. This copy is Signed by Conroy and dated by him in the year of publication. Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by the subject of the book, Lt. Colonel T.N. Courvoisie, i.e. “The Boo.” Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Perhaps the nicest copy we’ve seen of the author’s very uncommon first book, a tribute to a beloved Commandant of Cadets at his alma mater, The Citadel, in Charleston. Because it was printed and distributed outside of normal publishing channels, The Boo has become one of the scarcest first books of the last several decades.

72 Noel COWARD. 73 Stephen CRANE. Three Plays: The Rat Trap, The Vortex, Fallen Angels. With the Author’s Reply to His Critics. London: Ernest Benn Limited 1925. First collected edition, and the first appearance of Coward’s introduction. Endpapers a little browned, else near fine lacking the dustwrap- A Souvenir, and a Medley: per. Six long stories along with two produced, Seven Poems and a Sketch by and one unproduced play. This copy Inscribed Stephen Crane with Divers and by Coward: “For Mr. Earl Wray Pettys with my Sundry Communications from best wishes. Certain Eminent Wits. East Aurora NY: Noel Coward The Roycroft Printing Shop 1896. 1928.” First edition. Illustrated wrappers. A touch of soiling, the yapped edges only lightly worn, a lovely near fine example of a fragile item, housed in a custom chemise, and quarter morocco slipcase. Between the Covers ~12~ Catalogue 143 Hart Crane’s Own Copy 74 Hart CRANE. White Buildings. New York: Boni and Liveright 1926. First edition, second issue with Allen Tate’s name corrected on the titlepage. Foreword by Allen Tate. Near fine in an internally repaired, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown. Hart Crane’s own copy with his later ownership Signature: “Hart Crane, Aug. ‘31” and his bookplate on the front pastedown. Apparently Hart Crane’s mother either gave away or sold some of his bookplates shortly after his death to the bookseller Samuel Loveman, thus resulting in occasional “association copies” surfacing. However, all of the books that we have seen signed by him were either inscribed to a specific individual, or, in the case of a simple signature (with the exception of the signed edition of The Bridge – only 50 copies), were from his personal library.

75 —. The Bridge. New York: Horace Liveright (1930). First American edition (preceded by the very limited French edition). Photograph by Walker Evans. Faint offsetting to the front fly, else fine in a good dustwrapper with some restoration and that has been slightly misprinted by the publisher. One of the highspots of 20th Century poetry. Connolly 100.

76 —. Two Letters: Hart Crane. Brooklyn Heights: For the Friends of Jack Birss 1934. First edition. One leaf folded to make four pages. Modest uniform age-toning, else near fine. One of 50 copies. Prints two letters to Samuel Loveman. Accompanied by a receipt for the pamphlet dated in 1960 for $15.00 from bookseller Henry Wenning. Of the original 50 copies, nearly half are held in institutions, and, considering the fragility, one might safely speculate that others have perished. Thus, this is rare.

77 —. The Collected Poems of Hart Crane. London: Boriswood (1938).

First English edition. Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. Bookplate of author, editor, and critic Alan Pryce Jones, modest offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine 80 Harry CROSBY. in a slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper with a Shadows of the Sun tiny tear, and a small, very faint stain. (Second Series). Paris: The Black Sun Press 1929.

78 Robert CREELEY. Inscribed to Max Beerbohm Mazatlan: Sea. (San 79 R.B. CUNNINGHAME Francisco): Poets Press 1969. GRAHAM. A Brazilian Mystic: Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. London: William Heinemann 1920.

First edition. Folding map. Some scattered foxing, and a couple of spots on the boards, a near fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Max Beerbohm: “To Max Beerbohm With kindest regards & best wishes from R.B. Cunninghame Graham. March 30/1922,” and with an ink correction, almost certainly First edition. French folded in Cunninghame Graham’s hand on the final printed wrappers and original page of text. Biography of a “cowboy-mystic” unprinted glassine. Glassine First edition. Quarto. Wrappers who formed a utopian community in Brazil. shows a little age-toning and with applied title label. A trifle A pleasant association – Beerbohm caricatured edgewear, else fine. Limitation bumped, still easily fine. One of Cunnighame Graham in both words and pic- statement states this is “one of 50 numbered copies Signed by tures. 44 nunbered [sic] copies.” This the poet. Scarce. copy is not nunbered, or numbered, for that matter. Between the Covers ~13~ L i t e r a t u r e

81 E.E. CUMMINGS. The Enormous Reefer Madness Room. New York: Boni and Liveright (1922). 84 Robert James DEVINE. The Moloch of Marihuana. Findley, Ohio: First edition, first state, Fundamental Truth Publishers (no date - circa 1935). without the expletive inked out on page 219. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Pencil owner’s name, Fine in fine looking modest edgewear and rubbing, a very good copy. Little dustwrapper with profes- known anti-marijuana tract that states that users are soon sional internal mends at “disrobing…until clothes are scattered all over the floor the folds, in a contempo- and naked youngsters give themselves over, with wild rary and possibly origi- abandon, to the ecstasies of every imaginable perversion nal acetate overjacket. prompted by drug-crazed minds.” I wish. OCLC locates Signed by the author. eight copies, mostly in theological libraries. But why The author’s first book, should they have all the fun? Very uncommon. and probably either a review copy or one of the author’s own copies 85 Charles DICKENS. The – virtually all Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, others are found with the The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, offending word obliterated. The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man The nicest copy we’ve seen. and the Ghost’s Bargain. London: Bradbury & Evans 1843-48. Original Artwork A fine, complete set of the Christmas books, 82 —. Portrait of the Artist’s Mother beautifully bound by Bayntun. A Christmas Carol Seated at Table. with first edition title page but corrected text; Original oil first edition, first issue of The Chimes; first edi- painting. Oil tion of The Cricket on the Hearth; first edition, on sheet of fourth issue of the vignette title page of The canvas, 9½" x Battle of Life; first edition of The Haunted 13¼". Portrait Man. All works with original illustrations, of Cummings’ including four full-color plates in A Christmas mother, Rebecca Carol. Each volume has been uniformly bound Haswell Clarke in three-quarter, gilt-ruled morocco with gilt- Cummings, decorated spines, raised bands, marbled boards seated at a table. and endpapers and LPC #690. Lopez all edges gilt. A lovely set, housed in a custom, half #642. Fine con- morocco gilt clamshell box. dition. 86 —. Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First edition. Thick octavo, 40 illustrations by H.K. Browne (aka, “Phiz”) including the title page vignette with the Bradbury and Evans imprint, rebound in three quarter dark blue calf and marbled boards with gilt-stamped decora- 83 —. Stripper with Snake tions on the spine. Some wear to the covers, else a near fine, on Stage. handsomely bound copy Original oil of what many consider sketch. Oil Dickens’ best novel, the on canvas- story of the epic lawsuit, board, 8" x Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which takes so 10". Scene of many years to settle that (spoiler warning) in a nude strip- the end nothing is left of the fortune in dispute. per with a snake wrapped around her 87 James DICKEY. Drowning with neck, on stage. Others. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press GBM #152. (1962). Lopez #136. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine condition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of tanning at the bottom of the spine. Signed by the author. A superior copy. Between the Covers ~14~ Catalogue 143

88 Robert DUNCAN. Heavenly City, Earthly City. (Berkeley: Bern Porter) 1947. First edition. Attractive, stamped “bookplate” 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 very uncommon first book by one of the most important poets of his era. One of 250 copies bound in white boards, of a total edition of 350. Charles Olson’s Copy 91 Emily 89 —. Medieval Scenes. San Francisco: DICKINSON. Centaur Press (1950). Poems Third First Edition. Saddle-stitched wrappers. Color block Series. Boston: Roberts print by Kermit Sheets. A bit Brothers 1896. of tanning at the edges, and a First edition. Edited by faint stain on the front wrap. Mabel Todd Loomis. One of 250 copies, Signed by the author. The poet Charles Olson’s copy, with his ownership Signature (“Olson”) on the front fly. Olson served as Duncan’s mentor beginning in 1947 (when Duncan wrote the poems in this book), and in 1956 invited him to teach at Black Mountain College.

90 —. The Years As Catches. Berkeley: Oyez 1966. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 30 numbered and Signed hors de commerce copies of the hardcover issue that have had the endpapers of the book extensively hand- illustrated by the author.

Gray cloth gilt, ribbon marker. 92 (Economics). Norman ANGELL. The Money Game: Explaining Fundamental Finance. A Bookplate of noted New Instrument of Economic Education. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1929. New England artist Ethel Randolph First American edition. Thayer on the Corners a little bumped, a front pastedown, a couple of insignificant spots lovely, fine copy and on the front board, else near uncommon thus. fine, lacking a dustwrapper. BAL 4661, binding Consists of text bound with 1 (with “Roberts a boxed game, within which Brothers” on the are play money, playing spine), no priority. cards, and scorecards. Game A superior copy. appears to be complete and unused. Creative education tool by a Nobel Prize-winning economist.

93 (Economics). T.R. MALTHUS. Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to their Practical Application. London: John Murray 1820. First edition. A chip to the first blank, corners a bit bumped, a slight crease on the spine, and slight soiling, still a remarkably fine copy in original papercovered boards with paper spine label, housed in a moderately worn, older slipcase. John Maynard Keynes hailed Malthus as one of the founders of modern economics, lamenting the fact that he did not achieve the pre-eminence of Ricardo. When Malthus published this book in 1820 the ideas propounded by Ricardo had become established orthodoxy. Because of his ongoing debate with Ricardo, Malthus issued this book to clearly delineate his position. It is in this book that the economic theory of rent is first clearly propounded. Malthus rebuts Ricardo on three main points: the value of a commodity is determined by the cost of labor; that demand affects values very little; and that profits are determined by the cultivation and fertility of the least arable land. Malthus questions each of these Ricardian principles offering strong arguments against them. He also offers cogent analysis of prices, income, and savings. One of the finest intellectual manifestos of the period by a leading theo- retician. An exceptional copy – most were rebound as a matter of course. Between the Covers ~15~ L i t e r a t u r e Signed by Eisenhower 94 (Dwight D. EISENHOWER). The Inauguration of Alvin Chandler Duke as Twenty-Second President of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Williamsburg, Virginia: The College of William and Mary 1953. First edition. A neat bookplate on the front pastedown, fine in gray cloth gilt in a lightly rubbed, fine original marbled papercovered slipcase, the whole housed in a newer quarter leather custom slipcase. Included is the address of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States. Eisenhower has Signed his address at page 58, and additionally affixed to the rear endpaper is an original photograph of Eisenhower at the ceremony. Ike had been President for only four months when the ceremony took place. Very nicely printed at the William Byrd Press.

95 (Anthology). Lawrence DURRELL, Ruthven TODD, Patrick EVANS, Rayner HEPPENSTALL, Edgar FOXALL, and Oswell BLAKESTON. Proems. London: The Fortune Press (1938). First edition. Fine in fine original unprinted watermarked white laid paper dustwrapper. A beautiful copy, seldom found in jacket.

96 T.S. ELIOT. Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1943). First American edition, first printing (and the first hardcover edition). Faint offsetting to the copyright page from a clipping, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with one rubbed tear on the front panel, and a very small chip at the crown. Eliot’s masterpiece, an elaborately constructed, lyric meditation on time and the nature of experience, memory and consciousness. One of the principal poetic works of the century. Only 788 copies of this printing survived the publisher’s recall for poor printing quality. An especially fresh copy. Connolly 100.

97 (—.). Order of Service in Memory of Thomas Stearns Eliot. Born 26th September 1888 Died 4th January 1965. (London): Westminster Abbey / (The Hove Shirley Press Ltd) 1965. Stapled self-wrappers. 12pp. Just about fine. Order of service for Eliot’s funeral service: prayers, hymns (some by Eliot), and a reading from Eliot’s work by Sir Alec Guinness. Scarce.

98 Ford Madox FORD. 99 E.M. FORSTER. A Passage to India. London: New York Essays. New York: Edward Arnold 1924. William Edwin Rudge 1927. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author. Paper spine label a bit darkened and with a faint First edi- splash mark, some rubbing to the spine, else a tion. Fine very good copy lacking the original publisher’s in fine slipcase. The author’s masterpiece, a scarce dustwrap- Connolly 100 title and basis for the final film per. One directed by David Lean. of 750 copies Signed by Ford. A very nice copy, and very uncommon in jacket. Between the Covers ~16~ Catalogue 143

100 (William FAULKNER). Ole Miss 1920. (Oxford): Published by the Seniors of the Various Departments of the University (of Mississippi 1920). Quarto. Original limp leatherette stamped in gilt. Very faint, nearly invisible tidemark at the bottom of the pages, and the text block is loose in the binding, else a nice, very good copy, housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with leather spine label. This volume of the University yearbook prints five of Faulkner’s stylized cartoons including an illustration for the A.E.F. Club (of which his brother is listed as a member), as well as a photograph of him in uniform as a member of the yearbook staff, and his full-page poem “To a Co-ed.” He is also listed under “Special Students” and, separately, as a member of the freshman literary class as “Count William Falkner.” Also listed are his brother Murry and his close friend and agent Ben Wasson. With a senior class of about 100 students not many copies of this yearbook were produced and it is consequently rare.

101 —. Sartoris. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1929). First edition. Bookplate (stamped for deaccession) of an institution and light discoloration to the rear board, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper that has undergone expert restoration at the extremities and appears sharp and fine. Faulkner’s third novel (after Soldier’s Pay and Mosquitoes) and the inaugural effort in his nearly career-long Yoknapatawpha cycle. Faulkner’s conception and subsequent execution of a densely interrelated oeuvre was the most ambitious and successfully realized life’s work of any American writer and inspired a host of later Nobel Prize winners including Albert Camus, Gabriel García Márquez, and Toni Morrison. Exceptionally scarce in the brittle Arthur Hawkins-designed dustwrapper.

102 —. Sanctuary. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith (1931).

First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the crown, and very slight age-toning to the white portions of the spine. Filmed in 1933 as The Story of Temple Drake with Miriam Hopkins in the title role. Both the book and film were controversial and the latter was banned for several years. A fresh and attractive, unrestored copy. Connolly 100.

103 —. These 13. New York: Cape & Smith (1931). First edition. Light soiling else fine. The first of Faulkner’s signed/limited editions, this being one of 10 copies for presentation, warmly Inscribed to his lifelong best friend, editor, agent and confidant Ben Wasson, who helped to sell many of the stories herein. Includes “A Rose for Emily,” “That Evening Sun,” “Dry September,” and other classics. A superlative association – almost all major association copies of Faulkner’s works are now in institutions.

104 —. Doctor Martino and Other Stories. New York: Smith & Haas 1934.

First edition. Contemporary owner name (“Polly Jordan 1938”), spine quite faded, a very good copy in a handsome, very good plus dustwrapper that is a little tanned on the spine and has a few tiny nicks and tears. A better than usual example of the fragile Arthur Hawkins-designed jacket. Housed in a chemise and quarter leather slipcase. Signed by Faulkner on the title page: “William Faulkner Oxford, Miss 30 Nov 1941.” The author’s second collection of stories, preceded by These 13. Faulkner was notoriously averse to signing trade editions (providing his biographers with several amusing anecdotes) and they are genuine rarities in the trade. Provenance of this copy available on request.

105 — same title. New York: Smith & Haas 1934. First edition. Corners a little bumped, and a slight amount of the seemingly inevitable fading to the spine, without dustwrapper as issued. One of 360 numbered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy. Between the Covers ~17~ L i t e r a t u r e

106 William FAULKNER. Pylon. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1935. First edition. Fine with the topstain bright, in a lightly spine-toned, else near fine first issue dustwrapper. Faulkner’s tale of barnstorm aviation, a pursuit which took his brother Dean’s life a few months after the book was published. The novel was the basis for the 1958 Douglas Sirk film The Tarnished Angels featuring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. A handsome copy.

107 —. The Unvanquished. New York: Random House 1938. First edition. Fine in a very nice, fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel. A lovely copy of this novel, a collection of interrelated stories of the Sartoris family during the Civil War.

108 —. The Hamlet. New York: Random House 1940. First edition. Very slight age-toning, fine, lacking the publisher’s original unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. The first book of the Snopes Trilogy, and one of the scarcest of the signed and limited Faulkners.

The Beer Broadside 112 Gustave 109 (—). [Broadside]: “To the Voters of FLAUBERT. Madame Oxford” [The Beer Broadside]. (Oxford Bovary. London: Vizetelly & MS): William Faulkner, Private Citizen Co. 1886. (1950). Broadside. One leaf. 8" x 11". Faint creases from once being folded, else fine. In 1944, Faulkner’s hometown of Oxford outlawed beer. A few years later a letter from most of the town’s clergymen appeared in the Oxford Eagle recommending an additional five-year ban. Faulkner wrote a letter in response, laconically enumerating errors of fact and chastising the clergymen for their position. As recounted in Blotner, when the editor of the Eagle refused to publish it, Faulkner had them print this broadside and he hand-distributed it with the help of his brothers and their children. The local Baptist minister was outraged by the employment of youth for this purpose (though they had observed proprieties by handing it out at the back door of the Baptist Church), while his Methodist counterpart received it in First edition in English. Modest better humor, allowing that “Bill Faulkner would know more about wear to the cloth at the extremi- both beer and whiskey than we do.” ties of the spine and corners, The ban was renewed by a vote of 480-313, and two months later the text of the still a nice and tight, very good broadside appeared in The New Yorker. This has long been considered one of the plus copy with the spine gilt rarest (and shortest) of Faulkner’s “A” items. bright. A classic of French litera- 110 —. The Town. New York: Random House (1957). ture, Flaubert’s masterpiece and First edition, first issue. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper, with two very best-known work. tiny tears. A bright and fresh copy of the second volume of the Snopes Trilogy. 113 —. Salammbo. Once a relatively common book, exceptionally fresh copies such as this are rap- London: Saxon and Company idly becoming a memory. 1886. 111 — same title. New York: Random House (1957). First edition. Fine, without box, as issued. One of 450 numbered copies Signed by the author. The second volume in the Snopes Trilogy. First English edition (a different English translation was published by Vizetelly in the same year). Translated (here described as “Englished”) by M. French Sheldon. Some scattered foxing to the text, a very near fine copy. An exotic novel of ancient Carthage that belongs in the second rank of the author’s work behind Madame Bovary. Between the Covers ~18~ Catalogue 143

114 F. Scott FITZGERALD. This Side of Paradise. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1920.

First edition. A fine and bright copy, lacking the rare dustwrapper. The author’s first book.

115 — same title. London: W. Collins & Sons (1923). Second English edition, possibly Colonial issue. Neat ink name, and a tiny pencil name on the front endpapers, fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with some modest soiling on the front panel, tiny nicks at the crown, and remnants of a sticker partially obscuring the original 2’6 price. The sticker is hard to read, but we think it may note that this copy had a New South Wales derivation, indicating this might have been issued as either an Australian, or more likely, an “all-purpose” Colonial edition. Fitzgerald’s first book, altered considerably from the American edition. This second English edition was published in February, 1923, not quite two years after the first. Any early jacketed editions of this title are rare. OCLC indexes but four copies of this edition in libraries, without specifying whether any copies have jackets.

116 —. Borrowed Time. (London): The Grey Walls Press (1951). First edition. Edited by Alan Ross. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A collection of short stories, collected for the first time under this title.

117 —. The Cruise of the Rolling Junk. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Bruccoli Clark 1976. First edition. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 copies. Travel article by FSF. Inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald to Ogden Nash’s father-in-law! 118 (—). Thomas WOLFE. From Death to Morning. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1935. First edition. Spine lettering quite rubbed, else a very good copy in a presumably supplied, very good or better dustwrapper with slight nicking at the crown. Presented with an Inscription on the front pastedown by F. Scott Fitzgerald to the father-in-law of Ogden Nash, the father of Nash’s wife Frances Rider Leonard of Baltimore: “Leonard. Rugby Road Baltimore June 1936 from Scott Fitzgerald.” Nash and Fitzgerald were mutual friends of the successful husband-and-wife screenwriting team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, and were known to dine and play cards together at the Hackett residence (which was something of a haven for literary writers who found little success as screenwriters). We have not been able to determine the exact circum- stances during which Fitzgerald presented the book to Leonard, nor whether the presentation was made directly or with Nash as an intermediary.

119 Ronald FIRBANK. Concerning the Eccentricities of 120 John FOWLES. The Cardinal Pirelli. London: Collector. London: Jonathan Cape Grant Richards 1926. (1963). First edition. Fine (in rust cloth, there also exists a trial binding in black cloth) in an about fine, first issue dustwrapper (without the reviews) with a couple of minute rub marks. The author’s first book, a masterful account of obsession which was the basis for the William Wyler film with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. Significantly nicer than usually encountered.

121 Philip FRENEAU. Poems on Various Subjects, But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence. London: John Russell Smith 1861. First English edition, as well as the first of any of Freneau’s books to appear in First edition. Frontispiece portrait by England. Spine ends a little rubbed, slight soiling, a near fine copy. Uncommon edi- Augustus John. Fine in a moderately tion by the New Jersey resident and “Poet of the American Revolution.” soiled, very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Scarce in jacket. Between the Covers ~19~ L i t e r a t u r e

122 Robert FROST. 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.” A nice, large inscribed photo of one of America’s most beloved poets.

123 R. Buckminster FULLER. Nine Chains to the Moon. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). First edition. Tiny owner name, three tiny ink marks on the contents page, corners a little bumped, still a very near fine copy in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of soiling. Signed by the author. The first book by the polymath and designer whose influence on a broad range of fields has increased with time.

127 William GADDIS. The Recognitions. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1955). 124 John GARDNER and Lennis DUNLAP. The Forms of Fiction. Advance Reading Copy. New York: Random Printed wrappers. A couple House (1962). of tape shadows at the bottom of the spine near the First edition. rear panel, the original repair Ownership signature of novelist Jerre Mangione, apparently to seal a short corners rubbed, a good plus copy in a good, price- and unobtrusive repair, else clipped dustwrapper with small nicks and tears, and a a sound, very good or a little bit of soiling. Author’s first book. The first copy we’ve better copy. The author’s seen in a printed jacket that doesn’t appear to have uncommon and bulky first been married to the book. book, invariably found well- worn. Poorly received upon 125 —. Grendel. New York: Knopf 1971. publication, Gaddis spent two decades writing copy for large corporations before publishing his First edition. Fine in next novel. By the end of his life he had won two National fine dustwrapper with Book Awards and was seen as a major American author a few minute paint flecks on the front panel, but whose experimental work bridged the writings of James with the spine completely unfaded and scarce thus. Joyce and Thomas Pynchon. Gardner’s best known novel, a retelling of the Beowulf story from the point of view of the monster. A beautiful copy. The Dedication Copy 128 Stella GIBBONS. White Sand and Grey Sand. London: 126 Jean GENET. The Balcony. Hodder and Stoughton New York: Grove Press 1958. (1958). First American edi- First edition. Slight off- tion, limited issue. setting to the endpapers Fine in very good from the jacket flaps, else original unprinted fine in very good plus acetate dust- dustwrapper with very wrapper as light wear at the spine issued, with ends. The Dedication some small chips Copy, Inscribed by the and tears (ace- author to Ena and Donal tate dustwrapper Lenihan: “To Ena and not shown in Donal with love, and many illustration). One of 26 let- thanks for much kindness, tered copies Signed by the from Stella Gibbons Webb. author. A nice copy of this Nov. 5, 1958.” The printed dedication reads: “To Ena major expressionist play. and Donal Lenihan, affectionately.” By the author of Cold This issue is rare. Comfort Farm. Between the Covers ~20~ Catalogue 143

129 Allen GINSBERG. Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: 134 Kahlil GIBRAN. City Lights Pocket Bookshop (1956). The Madman: His First edition (preceded by an exceptionally rare mimeographed version). Small Parables and Poems. New square octavo wrappers. First printing with the dedication to Lucian Carr, York: Alfred A. Knopf 1918. removed in later printings. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. One of only 1000 copies of this fragile pamphlet. A few spots of foxing, else very near fine. The quintessential Beat poem, a visionary denunciation of the weaknesses of American society.

130 —. Empty Mirror: Early Poems. New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books (1961). First edition. Wrappers. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. A couple of small stains on the rear panel, else fine. Inscribed by Ginsberg on Staten Island in 1964 to Ted Berrigan with drawings of a flower and Ginsberg’s three-fish-with- one-head symbol.

131 —. Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977. San Francisco: City Lights Books (1977).

First edition, First edition. Frontispiece and wrappered issue. illustrations by the author. Fine in wrap- Contemporary owner name pers. Beautifully stamp of Danforth Barney on Inscribed by the front pastedown, corners the poet to Ted and spine ends rubbed, foxing Berrigan and his to the title page, a very good wife, the poet copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Alice Notley This copy Signed by the author: before publica- “With regards from Kahlil tion date: “For Ted & Alice Berrigan & Family, Gibran.” First editions signed by Xmas Neighbors 1977 with gratitude for yr eyes Gibran, particularly trade edi- which actually have read thru the text, – Allen Ginsberg —AH— December 27, 1977.” A beautiful and fresh tions (a couple of limited, signed copy with an excellent association. editions do occasionally turn up) are exceptionally scarce. 132 — and Neal CASSADY. As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company 1977. First edition, wrappered issue. Edited with an Introduction by Barry Gifford. Foreword by Carolyn Cassady. Afterword by Allen Ginsberg. A trifle worn, a near fine copy. Inscribed by both Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky to the poets Ted Berrigan and Alice Notley. Orlovsky has inscribed the book: “Dec 28, 1977 For Ted Berrigan & Alice Notley: our hunney dew letters & excited chatterings. Farmer Peter Orlovsky [drawing of grapes].” Ginsberg’s inscription reads: “for Ted & Alice Berrigan a record of actuality guilded with conscious art-mindfulness – old love letters & ‘immortal long- ings’ – Cleopatra (Allen Ginsberg) Dec. 27, 77.”

133 Leon GORDON. White Cargo: A Play of the Primitive. Boston: The Four Seas Company (1925). First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers, still easily fine in a slightly soiled, very good plus dustwrapper with a couple of short tears on the rear panel. Basis for the 1942 Richard Thorpe film featuring Hedy Lamarr as native Congo beauty Tondelayo, practicing her wiles on rival British planters Walter Pidgeon and Richard Carlson. Also the basis for a lesser known film made in 1930. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. Between the Covers ~21~ L i t e r a t u r e

139 William GOLDING. Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber (1954).

First edition. A trifle sunned at the crown, near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a modest chip at the crown affecting the tops of the letters “or” in “Lord.” The Nobel Prize winner’s key book, his arresting first novel about the elemental savagery of human nature.

140 —. The Brass Butterfly. London: Faber and Faber (1958). 135 William GODWIN. Enquiry Concerning First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and copy of the author’s only play, one of 2000 copies. Happiness. Philadelphia: Printed by Bioren and Madan 1796.

First American edition. Two volumes. 12mo. Recent period-style 141 Caroline GORDON. full calf, red spine label, spine gilt. Early owner signature, some Penhally. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons modest age-toning to the pages, an attractive, very good set. In 1931. cloth chemises and marbled slipcase. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with 136 Henry GREEN. Loving. London: The Hogarth the slightest of Press 1944. uniform age ton- Uncorrected proof. A small chip to the corner of the front wrap, ing. A lovely copy else near fine with very light wear. Scarce in this format. of the author’s uncommon and 137 —. Doting. New York: Viking Press 1952. fragile first novel. First American edition. Corners Gordon’s reputa- a trifle bumped, near fine in a tion as the “den slightly soiled, very good dustwrap- mother” for the per with a short tear on the front Southern Literary panel. Inscribed by the author: Renaissance has “For Ivy Litvinov, with love from overshadowed Henry Green 28/2/60.” Litvinov the excellence and enduring qualities of her own was a Russian translator who wrote work, which are certain to be better appreciated a considerable amount of fiction for The New Yorker. by future generations of critics.

142 Graham GREENE. The Man Within. London: William Heinemann (1929).

First edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown, and a small label on the rear pastedown indicating this was at one time donated to a distinguished 138 Thom GUNN. Fighting Terms. rare book library, with that library’s tiny release stamp, and a small (Oxford): Fantasy expertly, and minimally repaired hole Press (1954). on the spine, about very good lacking First edition, first the dustwrapper. issue lacking the final Signed by the author “t” in “thought” on on the front fly. The page 38). A couple author’s first novel, of tiny spots on the seldom found signed. front board and a 143 —. The Complaisant little soiling, else near A Play. London: William fine, issued without Lover: dustwrapper. Author’s Heinemann (1959). first substantial book. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Very scarce. A beautiful copy. Between the Covers ~22~ Catalogue 143

144 Hilda DOOLITTLE as 149 Elizabeth HARDWICK and H.D. [Trilogy]: The Walls Barbara KARPT. [Unproduced and Do Not Fall, Tribute unpublished filmscript of Kate Chopin’s]: The to the Angels, The Awakening. (No Flowering of the place: No publisher No date - circa 1975). Rod. London: Oxford University Press 1944, 1945, Bradbound in plastic 1946. coated, printed wrappers. First editions. Three volumes. Lightly worn, fine. An Self-wrappers. Light bump to one unproduced and unpub- corner of Tribute to the Angels else just lished screen adaptation about fine. The Flowering of the Rod is an of Chopin’s novel, as Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A well as a summary of the nice uniform set. novel, and an introduction by Hardwick. Rare. 145 Sergeant Ed HALYBURTON. Ex-Carter Burden. Shoot and Be Damned! New York: Covici- Friede (1932). 150 (Anthology). Jim HARRISON, First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a Charles SIMIC, George QUASHA, couple of small nicks and tears. Account of the author’s Dan GERBER, term as a prisoner of war in WWI. Scarce. and J.D. REED. 5 Blind Men. Fremont: 146 Robert Sumac Press 1969. HASS. Time and Materials: First edition. Boards very Poems 1997- slightly splayed, still easily 2005. (New York): fine, without dustwrapper, as issued. Copy letter Y of Ecco (2007). 26 lettered copies Signed by First edition. Fine in all five of the poets. fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Hass to fellow author Nicholas 151 John Delbanco. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the HERSEY. National Book Award for Hiroshima. New York: The New Yorker Aug. 31, poetry. 1946. First edition. Quarto. Complete issue of The New Yorker that contains the first 148 Joseph HELLER. Catch-22. New York: Simon & appearance of Hersey’s report on the Schuster 1961. bombing of Hiroshima, the entire issue First edition. Bottom corners bumped, a very good devoted to the report. Slight split at the 147 Ben HECHT. Humpty plus copy in a near fine dustwrapper with very tiny bottom of the spine, tiny tears at the edges Dumpty. New York: Boni and nicks and tears. A handsome copy of the author’s first of the first few pages, else an unusually Liveright 1924. novel, whose satiric fresh, First anti-war attitude set at least edition. the tone for the 1960s, near Corners and whose title quickly fine slightly became part of the lan- exam- bumped guage. Mike Nichols ple, else fine directed the 1970 with in very screen version with Alan a fine good Arkin, Martin Balsam, exam- dustwrap- Richard Benjamin, ple of per with Art Garfunkel, Bob the small Newhart, Anthony rarely nicks and Perkins, Martin Sheen, seen tears, Jon Voight, Orson wrap- and some Welles, and Buck Henry, around soiling. who also wrote the screenplay. band. Between the Covers ~23~ L i t e r a t u r e

152 Ernest HEMINGWAY. Three Stories & Ten Poems. (No place - Paris: Contact 1923).

First edition. Light foxing to the wraps else an about fine, unopened copy, lacking the glassine dustwrapper. The Nobel laureate’s first book, published in a limited edition of 300 copies. Hemingway expected Bill Bird to publish in our time as his first book, with this to be his second, and the rear panel of this volume lists the other title as available. But in our time was scheduled to be the sixth volume in Ezra Pound’s “inquest” series, forcing a delay of publication until early 1924. Thus Robert McAlmon at Contact had the distinction of introducing in book form one of the greatest and most influential writers of modern literature. Though Hemingway earned essentially no money from this book, he was already associated with Pound and Gertrude Stein and soon found influential support in the critic Edmund Wilson and the anthologist Edward O’Brien. Within a few short years he was among America’s best-selling and most lauded writers, a status he cemented for posterity in the 1950s after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea, and later the Nobel Prize for Literature. An attractive copy of a keystone of modern book collecting. In older custom chemise and clamshell case.

153 —. in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press 1924. First edition. Binder’s glue stains on the endpapers, as usual, tiny chips at the spinal extremities, slight bowing of the covers, an excellent, very nearly fine copy. Hemingway’s second book, copy 42 of 170 numbered copies. In a custom quarter morocco clamshell case.

154 —. In Our Time. New York: Boni & Liveright 1925. First American edition, and first thus with the inclusion of additional stories, as well as the author’s first book published in the U.S. Spine gilt faded and readable with effort, else near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. One of only 1335 copies published. Connolly 100.

155 —. 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.”

156 —. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1952. First edition. A small owner’s label on the front 159 James HILTON. fly, else fine in a nice, very good or better, price- Goodbye, Mr. Chips! clipped dustwrapper with a small (but present) London: Hodder & Stoughton chip on the rear panel, and a couple of small 1934. nicks and tears at the front spine fold. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of Hemingway’s most beloved books, seen by many as a late-career return to form. The title which cinched the Nobel Prize for the author. Basis for the John Sturges film with Spencer Tracy. A nice copy. Burgess 99.

157 —. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway. Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1967). First edition. Edited First edition. Some staining by William White. to the boards, else very good Bottom corner a tri- in very near fine dustwrap- fle bumped, still fine per with a little rubbing at in fine dustwrapper. the extremities. Signed by Advance Review the author. Basis for two Copy with slip laid films: the 1939 Sam in. A beautiful copy, and scarce in this condition. Wood-directed version with Robert Donat (who 158 —. The Nick Adams Stories. New beat out Clark Gable, Henry Fonda and others for the Best York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1972). Actor Oscar in what was probably Hollywood’s best year ever), First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A collection Greer Garson and Paul Henreid and the 1969 remake directed of stories that is becoming increasingly less common. by Herbert Ross with Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark and Michael An exceptional, basically as new copy. Redgrave. A very nice copy. Between the Covers ~24~ Catalogue 143

160 Harry HOUDINI. Inscribed to A.B. Frost The Right Way to Do 161 E[merson]. HOUGH. The Singing Wrong: An Expose of Mouse Stories. New York: Forest and Stream Pub. Successful Criminals. Co. 1895. Boston: Harry Houdini 1906. First edition. Green cloth with gilt cover design by Will Bradley. Vignettes by W.S. Phillips. Corners a little rubbed, First edition. 96pp. Illustrated. else a fine copy. The author’s Illustrated wrappers as issued. first book, this copy Inscribed by Some soiling and foxing to the him to the noted illustrator A.B. page edges, a faint stain on the Frost: “To Mr. A.B. Frost with front wrap, a very good or better the compliments of the Author. copy in original wrappers, and E. Hough.” A nice association. with no restoration. Houdini’s self-published first book, seldom found in this condition.

162 Ted HUGHES. Animal Poems. (Bow, Crediton, Devon: Richard Gilbertson 1967). First edition. Small quarto. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. One of 63 numbered copies (of a total edition of 100) Signed by Hughes.

163 —. Wodwo. London: Faber and Faber (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

164 —. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. New York: Harper & Row (1971). First American edition, hardcover issue. A modest stain on the foredge and the edge of the rear flap, else near fine in an about near fine dustwrapper with a few modest stains and some overall age-toning. Signed by the poet.

165 —. Prometheus on his Crag. London: Rainbow Press 1973.

First Edition. Full purple morocco. Frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. Just a 166 Aldous touch of rubbing, easily fine HUXLEY. Point in fine slipcase. One of 160 Counter Point. numbered copies Signed by London: Chatto & Windus both Hughes at the limitation 1928. statement and Baskin at his First edition. Fine in a nice, illustration. very good white dustwrapper with some tanning and small nicks at the spine. A nice copy of this important novel, considered by many to be Huxley’s most ambitious and complex.

167 — same title. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1928. First American edition. Small, neat owner name on the front fly, bottom of the boards a little worn, near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a small smudge on the spine, and a couple of unnecessary internally repaired small chips.

168 —. Heaven and Hell. New York: Harper and Brothers (1956). First American edition. Corners a trifle bumped, else fine in a slightly age-toned, else fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Huxley’s continuation of his experiments with mind-altering substances, begun with The Doors of Perception. Between the Covers ~25~ L i t e r a t u r e

169 William INGE. 170 Saikaku IBARA. 171 Christopher 172 John IRVING. The A Loss of Roses. New Quaint Stories of ISHERWOOD. World According to Garp. York: Random House (1960). Samurais. Paris: Printed for Goodbye to Berlin. New York: E.P. Dutton (1978). Private Distribution / (Maurice London: Hogarth Press 1939. Darantiere) 1928. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper, with a tiny crease on the front flap, and none of the First edition. Very fine in very usual flaking to the fine dustwrapper. Illustrated First edition. Translated from First gold lettering. Briefly Inscribed by with stills from the play, an the Old Original by Ken Sato. edition. Very slight the author. The book that more than early work that featured a Printed self-wrappers. Modest foxing to the endpapers, still any other helped establish the author’s young Warren Beatty on age-toning, a wrinkle on the easily fine in a price-clipped, popularity, in some measure thanks to Broadway. front wrap, else near fine. One else fine dustwrapper with the successful George Roy Hill film of 500 copies. A very scarce title two tiny tears. Includes the featuring Robin Williams, Mary Beth and a Japanese classic. story “Sally Bowles,” published Hurt, John Lithgow, and Glenn Close 173 Wallace IRWIN. earlier by Hogarth, which was (in her memorable Oscar-nominated The Shame of the the basis for the film Caberet. film debut). A beautiful copy, and Colleges. New York: The 174 Randall JARRELL. Connolly 100. becoming uncommon thus. Outing Publishing Company Little Friend, Little (1907). Friend. New York: Dial Press 175 —. The Seven-League 1945. Crutches. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1951). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. On the front fly, Jarrell has neatly written out and 176 George KELLY. Philip Signed Goes Forth. New York: Samuel the text French of his 1931. most famous poem First “The edition. Fine in First edition. Fine in fine Death of near fine dustwrapper with a very faint the Ball First edition. Neat, contem- dust- stain (more pronounced in Turret porary owner name, a little wrapper the scan than it appears). Gunner,” rubbing to the boards, else with two College hijinks illustrated in which fine in an attractive, near fine small very attractive arts and crafts curiously, does dustwrapper with a couple of nicks style by M.L. Blumenthal not appear in this important tiny nicks at the front flap fold, at the with vignettes on every page. collection of poetry. and very subtle fading on the corners. Chapters concentrate on thin spine. Perhaps the best Kelly, individual schools: Harvard, volume of poetry to emerge author of The Show-off and the Pulitzer Vassar, Princeton, University of from the Second World Prize-winning Craig’s Wife, was one of Chicago, Yale, and West Point. War, including the brief his era’s most popular and acclaimed A lovely little book, and rare but haunting classic “The playwrights, as well as the uncle of in jacket. Death of the Ball-Turret screen legend Grace Kelly. Scarce, espe- Gunner.” cially in this condition. Between the Covers ~26~ Catalogue 143

177 Shirley JACKSON. The Road through the Wall. New York: Farrar Straus and Company 1948. First edition. Pages browned as always, else fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with one tiny tear. A particularly bright copy of the author’s first book.

178 —. The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris. London: Victor Gollancz 1950. First English edition. Slightly cocked, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips at the extremities. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Paul Radin: “For Doris and Paul Radin – with regards, Shirley Jackson 1951.” In some sense a significant association: Radin, an important anthropologist, authored many books including some on religion among the American Indians and witchcraft. Jackson was a significant collector of books on witchcraft and certainly must have been aware of Radin’s work. A collection of short fiction, well-crafted tales of psychological horror, including the justly-celebrated and much- anthologized title story which, when it was initially printed in The New Yorker, caused a furor and elicited more letters than any story up to that time. Seldom found inscribed. The author’s most sought after title.

179 —. Hangsaman. New York: Farrar Straus and Young (1951). First edition. Extremities of the boards a little worn, else near fine in near very good dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel, and lacking the top one inch of the spine (part of which is laid into the book). Author’s third book, and second novel, and her first novel to deal with the darker regions of human nature and personality. Inscribed by the author to her in-laws, the parents of her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman: “For Lulu and Dad with all my love – Shirley. April 1951.” The recipients were, along with her own parents, the dedicatees of her book Life Among the Savages. Jackson was a bit of a recluse and books inscribed by her are uncommon, especially with any kind of association.

180 Charles C. JONES, Jr. The Siege of Savannah in December, 181 (James JOYCE). 1864, and the An Exagmination of Confederate Operations in James Joyce: Analysis Georgia, and The of the “Work in Progress” Third Military by Samuel Beckett, Marcel District of Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart South Carolina Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor During General Llona, Robert McAlmon, Sherman’s March Thomas McGreevy, Elliot from Atlanta to Paul, John Rodker, Robert the Sea. Albany, Sage, William Carlos NY: Joel Munsell Williams. Norfolk, CT: New Printed for the Directions (no date -1929). Author 1874. First American edition of First edition. Early three-quarter green Our Exagmination Round the morocco and marbled paper-covered Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, from sheets of the boards. Neatly and professionally rebacked, true first, French edition. With Letters of Protest by G.V.L. Slingsby a nice, very good or better copy. Laid in and Vladimir Dixon. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some is an Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel modest age-toning, some modest tears at the edges of the spine-folds, Jno. P. Nicholson in Philadelphia, send- a tiny nick at the crown, and a little discoloration at the top of the ing an engraved portrait of himself (not front panel. Contains brief quotations from Work In Progress includ- present): “It forms one of a series of ing a passage concerning Swift and blindness, p. 109, which was not Confederate Officers engraved by Charles later incorporated in Finnegans Wake. The “Letters of Protest” are B. Hall of New York City” and asks further reputed to have been written by Joyce himself. The American edition when the copy of Jones’ History of Georgia is uncommon. in Nicholson’s hand will be bound and returned to him. Between the Covers ~27~ L i t e r a t u r e

182 Jack KEROUAC. On the Road. New York: Viking Press 1957. Presentation Copy First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing and 188 Soren KIERKEGAARD. a short tear on the rear panel. A brilliant, fresh copy of the key novel of Christelige Taler [Christian the beat generation, written in three weeks but with an effect that shows Discourses]. Copenhagen: C.A. no sign of diminishing. A superior copy. Reitzel 1848. 183 —. The Dharma Bums. New First edition, York: Viking Press 1958. Presentation First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper, state. Includes with modest rubbing and one very short “The Anxiety of tear, but with none of the usual fading to the Heathen,” the colored portions of the spine illustra- “Exultant Notes tion. Kerouac’s follow-up to On the Road, a in the Conflict thinly-veiled account of his spiritual growth of Suffering,” and friendship with poet Gary Snyder. “Thoughts Which 184 —. Doctor Sax: Faust Part Wound from Three. New York: Grove Press (1959). Behind – for Edification,” and First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in a mod- “Discourses at estly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper the Communion with a couple of tiny tears, and a rubbed crease on Fridays.” on the front panel.

185 —. Excerpts from Visions of Very Cody. New York: (New Directions 1960). good or First edition. better Fine in a fine copy in example of the glossy original acetate black dustwrapper presen- (not shown in tation illustration). One issue of 750 numbered copies Signed by Kerouac, this paper- copy out of series. Laid in is the publisher’s prospec- covered tus as issued, fine with a small and very faint boards dampstain. The only lifetime edition of this title, with expanded and republished in a trade edition after some Kerouac’s death. Scarce. surface loss to the outer joints and spine. A pre- 186 —, Robert FRANK, and Alfred sentation copy Inscribed by Kierkegaard Leslie. Pull My Daisy. New York: Grove to Johan Ludvig Heiberg, the philoso- Press (1961). pher and prominent Hegelian whom First edition. Paperback original. Text by Jack Walter Lowrie called “the acknowledged Kerouac for the Film by Robert Frank and literary arbiter of Copenhagen.” He Alfred Leslie. Advance Review Copy with slip was a close mentor to Kierkegaard who laid in. Fine. A lovely copy. served as one of the official readers of Kierkegaard’s dissertation and had an 187 —. Satori in Paris. New York: Grove (1966).

First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper.

important influence upon his work. Kierkegaard published two appreciations of Heiberg’s mother and his wife (both were actresses) and remained close to the older scholar throughout his life. Despite this Heiberg never ceased to represent for Kierkegaard the hypocrisy of contemporary culture and Christianity. An important early work by the great philosopher. According to Lowrie, the third section is the first example of the polemic against a self-satisfied Christianity which was to dominate Kierkegaard’s late writings. Among the controversial themes of this third section is Kierkegaard’s attack upon the widespread confusion among both laypeople and theolo- gians between the intellectually comforting Platonic notion of the soul’s immortality and the Christian doctrine of a resurrection inseparable from judgment, addressed to the will rather than the intellect, and thus rightly a source of fear and trembling. A presentation copy of the first importance. Himmelstrup 110. Between the Covers ~28~ Catalogue 143

189 Thomas 190 Ken KESEY. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York: KENEALLY. Viking Press (1962). Schindler’s Ark. First edition. Fine in a very attractive, very good plus, first issue dustwrapper with some Sydney: Hodder & subtle fading at the spine and the edge of the front panel, and a little rubbing, but considerably less than usual. Author’s uncommon first book, something of a generational Stoughton (1982). keystone and basis for the 1975 film which was the first to win all five major Oscars since It Happened One Night in 1934. A nice copy.

191 Galway KINNELL. The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World: Poems 1946-64. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with none of the seemingly inevitable fading to the spine. A superior copy.

192 Thomas KINSELLA, translated by. Longes Mac n-Usnig: Being the Exile and First Australian edition. Death of the Sons of Usnech. (Dublin): Dolmen Considerable rubbing to Press (1954). the cheaply manufactured First edition. Quarter vellum and decorated papercovered boards, thus a very good boards. A little soiling or a bit better copy in an to the spine, else near about fine dustwrapper fine. One of 200 numbered without the usual spine fad- copies (of a total edition of ing. Although the U.K. edi- 225). Although not called for, this copy is Signed. A rare title tion precedes, the Australian of this tale translated from the Gaelic. edition (of this book written by an Australian author) is much scarcer, and generally 193 Anne Thérèse de Marguenat considered more desirable. de Courcelles, marquise de This copy nicely Inscribed LAMBERT. New Reflexions on the by the author and dated in Fair Sex. Written originally in French, by the year of publication. A the celebrated Marchioness de Lambert, nice copy of this powerful, (and by her suppress’d)…Translated into Booker Prize-winning novel, English by J. Lockman. London: Printed and sold by N. Prevost… 1729. basis for the unforget- table Steven Spielberg film First edition in English, translated by John Lockman. Xxviii, 72pp. Bound in old, which won several Academy but later unprinted wrappers. A little soiling and very light foxing, a handsome, Awards including Best near fine copy. An important book by a woman about women, the Marchioness de Picture, Director, Adapted Lambert bridges the gap between the 17th and 18th Centuries, and the salon she Screenplay and Original presided over was at the center of Parisian literary and intellectual life. In this book Score, and which also fea- she reproaches men with “spoiling the dispositions nature has given to women, tured Oscar-worthy perfor- neglecting their education, filling their minds with nothing solid, and destining mances by Liam Neeson, them solely to please, and to please only by their Ben Kingsley, and Ralph graces or their vices.” It was doubtless these Fiennes. unpopular opinions, and her aversion to the publicity of authorship, that led her to buy the entire edition of her Reflexions sur les Femmes, which was published without her consent. The book has been almost continuously in print since originally published, and has gained new life in women’s studies programs. OCLC locates but three copies worldwide – two at the University of California, and one at Princeton.

194 Philip LARKIN. The North Ship. London: Faber and Faber (1974). Uncorrected proof. Revised edition (first published in 1945). Tiny staple holes on the front wrap, still fine in blue printed wrappers. Uncommon advance issue of this important poetry collection, the author’s fourth book. Between the Covers ~29~ L i t e r a t u r e

195 (Anthology). D.H. LAWRENCE, 197 Harper LEE. To Kill a Mockingbird. Amy LOWELL, Hilda DOOLITTLE, Philadelphia: J.B. et al. Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology. Lippincott 1960. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1915. First edition. Fine in First edition. Stiff printed card covers. Modest erosion to a bright and fresh, the spine, a tight, very good copy in a near fine example near fine, price- of the original glassine dustwrapper with chips at the clipped dustwrapper spine ends. Contributors include Amy Lowell, Hilda (the printed price is Doolittle, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Aldington, John not an issue point for Gould Fletcher, and F.S. Flint. One of 1000 copies. this jacket). A classic novel about adoles- 196 (Lesbian Fiction). Patricia cence and the battle against injustice, basis HIGHSMITH as Claire Morgan. The for the equally classic Price of Salt. New York: Coward- film with Gregory 199 (Lesbian Fiction). Ann McCann (1952). Peck and, in his piv- BANNON. Odd Girl Out. First edition. A faint ring on the front otal film debut, Robert Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal board Duvall as Boo Radley. The author’s first (1957). else near and only novel, winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for First edition. Paperback original. A hori- fine in fiction. Becoming exceptionally scarce in this condition zontal rubbed good and without any restoration. spot on the plus 198 — same title. front wrap, else dust- London: Heinemann a bright, very wrapper good plus copy. with sev- (1960). Signed by the eral mod- First English edition. author on the est chips Very slightly cocked else title page. The and tears, fine in fine dustwrapper. author’s first and some A very nice copy of the book, something profes- more visually appealing of a classic of sional English edition. lesbian fiction. internal Bannon wrote a reinforcing to the jacket folds. A pre- handful of nov- sentable copy of a rare book, Highsmith’s pseudonymous lesbian els on lesbian novel. Because its ending leaves the strong possibility of happiness themes, and then retired from the writing for the two lovers, defying the lesbian pulp formula of the time, scene to become a successful (and for a some consider this the first happy ending in homosexual fiction. time married) college administrator. Her books, all paperback originals, have recent- 201 Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW. The Song of ly been released by the Cleis Press in their series of lesbian pulp fiction classics. Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1855. First edition, first issue. “Dove” for “dive” on page 96; “one” complete on 200 —. Beebo Brinker. Greenwich, page 279, 12 pages of inserted ads dated November, 1855. Owner name dated CT: Fawcett Gold Medal (1962). 1856, slight cracking to the paper over the front hinge, a few very faint splash First edition. Paperback original. A small marks to the spine, a sound and attractive, very good copy. owner name on the first page, pages a little browned, slight creases on the spine and “Listen my children and you shall hear…” the front panel, 202 —. Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor & Fields 1863. a very good or better copy First edition, that is, and it first state ads. pains us to say Small tears so, very slightly to the cloth cocked (okay, so at the spine ends, but otherwise it doesn’t pain a nice, near fine copy. Contains us to say so – it’s Longfellow’s most enduring poem, just the kind “The Midnight Ride of Paul of sophomoric Revere.” humor that we thrive on here). Signed by the author on the title page. Probably the author’s scarcest book, featuring her eponymous heroine and lesbian heartthrob, Beebo Brinker. Between the Covers ~30~ Catalogue 143

203 John Uri 204 Robert LOWELL. The Mills of the Kavanaughs. New LLOYD. Stringtown York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1951). on the Pike: A Tale of First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped in. Northernmost Kentucky. Author Arthur Mizener’s copy with his small bookplate. A very nice copy of a scarce New York: Dodd, Mead & title, the author’s second commercially published book. Company 1900. 205 —. Life Studies. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1959). First American edition (English edition precedes). Fine in a presentable, good only dustwrapper with a good size chip on the rear panel. Signed by the author. One of Lowell’s more important collections of poetry. Winner of the National Book Award.

206 — and Nolan SIDNEY. The Voyage and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire. London: Faber and Faber 1968. First edition. Fine in very First edition. Large quarto. 16 monochrome, and 8 color plates. Fine near fine dustwrapper with in cloth and fine original unprinted glassine dustwrapper and near a little soiling and very short fine slipcase with a small bump and stain. One of 200 numbered edge tears. Nicely Inscribed copies Signed by both Lowell and Sidney. by the author to his niece on Christmas in the year of publication. Very scarce in the 207 Lord LYMINGTON. Git le Cœur. Paris: early photographic jacket. Black Sun Press 1928. First edition. Quarto. Printed wrappers. A little offsetting on the 208 Malcolm LOWRY. Ultramarine. London: Jonathan front wrap, and Cape (1933). light wear to the First edition. A fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. The author’s first spine ends, near book. Very scarce. fine. Love poems by Lymington Ralph Ellison’s Copy (later Earl of 209 —. Under the Volcano. Portsmouth) New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1947). and an intimate friend of pub- First edition, preced- lisher Caresse ing the English edi- Crosby. Copy tion. Some stains on number 194 of 200 numbered copies printed the front board and the on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen. This copy spine, an about very good copy, Signed by the author, and with corrections in lacking the dustwrapper his hand. Additionally laid in is an Autograph (jacket flaps laid Letter Signed into the book). from Lymington Lowry’s masterwork, an expres- to English Prime sionistic novel of the final, desperate day of a former British consul Minister Ramsey drinking himself to death in Mexico. Basis for the John Huston MacDonald, film featuring Albert Finney (who was nominated for an Oscar) and presenting the Jacqueline Bisset. Ralph Ellison’s copy with his own- volume. ership Signature, and with a few pencil notations by Ellison including: “Conrad. Lord Jim.”

210 — same title. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1947). Uncorrected proof of the first edition, preceding the English edition. A short, repaired tear on the front wrap, title and author’s name inked on the spine, else a near fine copy in wrappers as issued. Between the Covers ~31~ L i t e r a t u r e

211 Kenneth 213 Norman MAILER. MacPHERSON. Gaunt [Playscript]: The Deer Park: Island. Riant Chateau, A Play. New York: Supreme Pix (Leo Garen, Norman Mailer, and James Walsh Switzerland: Pool 1927. First edition. Wrappers with no date - circa 1954). printed French-folded dustwrapper. Playscript. Quarto. Some internal tissue repair to the Mimeographed wrappers, else near fine. Avant- sheets, screw bound garde novel by MacPherson, hus- into plasticized band of Winnifred Bryher. Scarce. wrappers with title in gilt. Marked “Draft,” and numbered in hand as “No. 45.” Pencil signature of actress Beverly Bentley, Mailer’s third wife, on the title leaf, another pencil name erased, a few light pencil 212 Bernard MALAMUD. notes in the text, binder worn at edges, a very good copy of the script for The Natural. New York: Mailer’s first play, later published by the Dial Press. Ex-Carter Burden. Rare. Harcourt Brace and Company (1952).

First edition. Fine in the gray binding 214 David MALOUF. Bicycle and (one of three, with no priority estab- Other Poems. (St. Lucia): University of lished) in fine, price-clipped dustwrap- Queensland 1970. per with a couple of tiny tears and First edition. A tiny owner name on the title page nominal rubbing. An especially nice else fine in wrappers as issued. Signed by the copy of the author’s first book, perhaps author. Australian author’s exceptionally uncom- the classic baseball novel, and basis mon first solely- for the sugar-coated but nevertheless authored book. effective Barry Levinson film featuring Seldom found Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, and Kim Basinger. signed.

215 David MAMET. American Buffalo. New York: Grove Press 218 —. House of (1976). Games. A Screenplay. First edition. Fine in fine Based on a Story by dustwrapper. Except for a David Mamet and touch of age-toning to the Jonathan Katz. New York: flaps, this is a spectacular, Grove Press (1987). as new copy. First edition, a paperback original. Octavo, illustrated with stills from 216 —. Sexual the movie, glossy wrappers. Covers Perversity in a little rubbed, else a fine copy. Chicago and The An uncommon title. The film Duck Variations. New was Mamet’s directorial debut. York: Grove Press (1978). Inscribed by Mamet to the actor and director Paul Bartel. With a compli- First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dust- mentary card from Orion Pictures laid in. wrapper. A beauti- 219 —. ful copy of one of the playwright’s Speed- scarcer titles. the-Plow. New York: Grove Press (1988). 217 —. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An Lakeboat. as new copy. New York: Grove Press (1981). 220 —. Oleanna. New York: Pantheon (1992). First edition. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine Corners a trifle dustwrapper. A beautiful, as new copy, bumped, else fine only 1500 copies bound in hardcovers. in fine dustwrapper. Between the Covers ~32~ Catalogue 143

221 Heinrich MANN. Small Town 226 Thomas MANN. The Transposed Tyrant. New York: Creative Age (1944). Heads: A Legend of India. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First American edition. Small ownership signature of 1941. publisher Alan Swallow on the front fly, and a small First American edition. stain on the front board and foredge, else near fine Translated by H.T. Lowe- in very good or better dustwrapper with a tear across Porter. Offsetting to blank pre- the top of the spine. Translated from the German, liminaries from clippings, else this is the first American appearance of the novel near fine in a price-clipped, that was the basis for the Josef von Sternberg film near fine dustwrapper. Signed The Blue Angel, an enduring classic featuring Emil by the author. Jannings and Marlene Dietrich in the role that made her internationally famous. A very scarce wartime title, issued by a small publisher, this is a nice copy of a cheaply made volume.

222 George V. MARTIN. For Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. (No place): Funk Inc. (1940). 227 Carson First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some very small nicks at the spine ends, wear at the cor- McCULLERS. ners, and a scratch on the spine. Margaret O’Brien and The Member of Edward G. Robinson starred in the excellent 1945 film, the Wedding. directed by Roy Rowland, and co-scripted by Dalton Boston: Houghton Mifflin Trumbo, about life in a Norwegian farm community in Company 1946. Wisconsin. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with just 223 Robert McALMON. The a little bit of the usual Portrait of a Generation. Paris: Contact spine fading. Inscribed by Editions / Three the author to her editor at Mountain Press 1923. Houghton Mifflin, Robert Linscott: “For my precious First edition. Fine Bob, very gratefully – and in French-folded wrappers, in a chipped, original with my most devoted unprinted glassine sleeve. McAlmon was the founder love, Carson.” A superb of Contact Editions which published James Joyce, association, Linscott was Ezra Pound, and several others, including Ernest one of the most distin- Hemingway’s first book. He was at the center of expa- guished American editors triate life and helped to support various struggling art- of the first half of the ists and writers in that tumultuous time. One of 200 20th Century, and formed copies, the sleeve is pretty nearly impossible to find. particularly close relationships with McCullers and Truman Capote. McCullers later adapted her own novel into a play that opened on 224 Larry McMURTRY. The Last Broadway with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters and won Picture numerous awards. Waters and Harris then recreated their Show. New Broadway roles in the 1952 Fred Zinneman film, with Harris nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. York: Dial 1966. First edition, advance issue. 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 Oscar winners Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman. A rare advance state of this key work, one of the defining works of the Sixties.

225 —. It’s Always We Rambled: An Essay on Rodeo. New York: Frank Hallman 1974. First edition. Fine in printed boards. Publisher’s promotional card laid in. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. Between the Covers ~33~ L i t e r a t u r e

228 Arthur MILLER. Henry Miller’s First Book Appearance Death of a Salesman. New 231 (Anthology). (Henry York: Viking Press 1949. MILLER). Peter NEAGOE, First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper editor. Americans Abroad: An with a touch of rubbing and a tiny, Anthology. The Hague: Servire Press 1932. nearly invisible stain on the rear flap fold. An exceptionally fresh and bright First edition, first binding linen boards. Fine copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning in fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the play, one of the classics of American front panel. Contains Henry Miller’s first drama and basis for a number of film book appearance, “Mademoiselle Claude,” in and television versions with Fredric addition to work by Ernest Hemingway, Ezra March, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pound, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Dustin Hoffman, and Brian Dennehy, Stein, Robert McAlmon, John Dos Passos, among others, assaying the role of Harry and Caresse Crosby, and many others. salesman Willy Loman. A beautiful copy. Two Inscribed to June 229 Margaret MITCHELL. Typed Letter Signed. 232 —. The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder. One page Typed Letter on the author’s stationery, dated December 18, (San Francisco): 1946, Signed “Margaret Mitchell Marsh.” Folded in thirds for mail- Greenwood Press ing, with typed envelope included. A trace of darkening at the folds 1955. else fine. Four cordial paragraphs replying to a letter from her friend First edition by this Myron J. Quimby, who had recently moved to Texas. The third para- publisher. Illustrated graph concerns Quimby’s son, Myron J. Quimby, Jr., of whom she by Gordon Cook. comments: “I hope Son finds not only a good job but one that is satis- Near fine in self- fying and has a future to wraps with a tiny it.” The younger Quimby nick and a little became an author; two light wear. One of decades later he wrote 500 copies. Inscribed by the author to his second wife, June Mansfield, The Devil’s Emissaries, who was by all accounts the inspiration for much of his most impor- an important true-crime tant fiction: “For June – the only ‘imaginative’ story I’ve written. Henry account of “Machine 10/15/56.” A superb association. Shifreen & Jackson A66d. Gun” Kelly, “Pretty Boy” Floyd and 233 (—). Robert SNYDER. This is Henry, Henry other notori- Miller from Brooklyn: Conversations ous criminals with the Author from The Henry Miller of the 1920s Odyssey. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing (1974). and ’30s. Mitchell, the author of First edition. the bestsell- Quarto. Fine in ing, Pulitzer very good plus Prize-win- dustwrapper ning novel, with one longish Gone with the tear. Inscribed Wind, died by Miller to his after being struck by second wife June an automobile in 1949. Mansfield: “For Autograph material by June, Merry her is scarce. Xmas! Henry 1974.” Mansfield was perhaps Miller’s most important influence, and his muse for most of his earliest and most famous work. In the text of this book Miller relates: “…I was married a few years when I finally ran into ‘Mona,’ in my books, you know, in the dance hall, and we were caught in bed one morning when I thought my 230 Howard wife had gone on a vacation… So I left her immediately MOSS. The and went to live with June – ‘Mona.’ And it was through Wound and the my new wife that I got the courage to make my final deci- sions and to live by them… she used to say to me, ‘Look, New York: Weather. give up that job; Start to write.’” A nice association. Reynal & Hitchcock (1946). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. An as new copy of the author’s uncommon first book. Between the Covers ~34~ Catalogue 143 First Printed Photo of Marilyn Monroe 234 (Marilyn MONROE). Chieftain 1942. West Los Angeles: University High School 1942. First edition. Folio. Scattered very light foxing, a very good plus copy. Marilyn Monroe, here as Norma Baker, is depicted with a small, individual picture in the soph- omore class. The picture is the first image of Monroe to be published in a book. In addition, the actress did not finish high school and this is the ONLY portrait photo of her to appear in a high school yearbook. American Book Prices Current lists no auction records for this book, and we have seen only one other copy offered in the book trade.

238 Mr. F. (Sometimes attrib- uted to either Jean-Antoine Romagnesi or M. Fuzelier or Fuselier). Le Retour de Tendresse ou La Feinte Veritable. 235 Vladimir NABOKOV Comedie. Paris: Chez Briasson 1728. as Nabokoff. Laughter in First edition. Text in French. 52pp. Bound in older, but later unprinted wrappers. An ink blot on the the Dark. Indianapolis: Bobbs- inside of the front wrap, slight foxing to the pages, a Merrill (1938). near fine copy. An Italian-style comedy play. OCLC First edition. Fine in a slightly cites two copies – at Yale and the University of rubbed, very near fine dustwrap- California, Berkeley, and attributes a date, per with very slight rubbing at the perhaps mistakenly, of 1753. extremities. A beautiful copy of the author’s first book published in the United States. Increasingly difficult 239 Anaïs NIN. Under a to find in acceptable condition, this Glass Bell. New York: Gemor Press is a superior copy. 1944. 236 (New York). W. Parker CHASE. New York First edition. The Wonder City: An Illustrated Illustrated Story of New York, papercovered with statistics and general boards without data concerning New York’s Vastness, dustwrapper as New York’s People, New York’s issued. Cover Activities and New York’s Intimate and seventeen engravings by Inside Life in the Year 1932. New York: Ian Hugo. A Wonder City Publishing Company (1931). little rubbing First edition. Papercovered boards. Slightly spine faded else fine in near to the edges fine dustwrapper (utilizing the famous Berenice Abbott photo of New York of the boards, at night from above as a wraparound illustration) with a small chip at the else a near fine copy. One of 300 unnum- crown. Fascinating guidebook to New York with the assessed values, costs, bered copies, the entire edition. This and histories of many prominent buildings, articles on the city, lists, photos copy Inscribed by the author in the year and biographies of prominent New Yorkers, etc. Rare in this condition. of publication: “To Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Maas. Sincerely, Anaïs Nin. New York 1944.” 237 Frank O’HARA. A City Winter and Other Poems. 240 Lorine New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy NIEDECKER. Gallery 1951. My Friend Folded and gathered sheets of the first edi- Tree. Edinburgh: The Wild tion, which was lim- Hawthorn Press 1961. ited to 150 numbered copies (this copy unnumbered). With First two drawings by Larry edition. Rivers. Minor soiling Oblong to outer wrap else fine 12mo. Linocuts by Walter Miller. in wrappers. A rare Introduction by Ed Dorn laid in on a advance format of the separate sheet as issued. Niedecker’s second poet’s scarce first book. book, published by the concrete poet Ian Hamilton Finlay. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. Between the Covers ~35~ L i t e r a t u r e

241 (Anthology). Flannery O’CONNOR, William STAFFORD, et al. New Signatures 1: A Selection of College Writing. Prairie City, Illinois: The Press of James A. Decker (1947).

First edition. Edited by Alan Swallow. A small bookstore label on the front pastedown, a few wrinkles on the spine, near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Very uncommon anthology of college writing with contributions by Herb Gold, John Hollander, William Stafford, and Flannery O’Connor. O’Connor contributes a 13 page story, “The Barber,” one of her earliest stories to be printed (her first was “Geranium” in 1946 in Accent magazine). After this appearance, “The Barber” went otherwise unpublished until her Complete Stories were published posthumously in 1971.

242 —. Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1952).

First edition. Very slight rubbing at the bottom of the boards, as usual, else fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a hint of pencil notation and two tears on the front panel, and a small chip at the corner of the crown. A nice copy, with the white jacket whiter than usual. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped to the front fly. The author’s first book. Burgess 99.

243 (Art). (—). Stanley MELTZOFF. Original Oil Painting for the first paperback edition of Wise Blood. Original oil painting by Meltzoff for the paperback edition. Image framed to approximately 17" x 21", probably soon after publication. At the base of the frame is an engraved plaque: “Original Painting of Stanley Meltzoff for Signet Book ‘WISE BLOOD’ Presented with the Compliments of The New American Library of World Literature, Inc.” The painting is fine, the plaque exhibits a little tarnishing, probably easily remedied if one were inclined to do so. The painting depicts Sabbath Lily Hawks flirting with a startled-looking Hazel Motes, who reclines under a tree in a straw hat. Meltzoff is one of the most highly regarded of the 1950s paperback artists. His paintings, especially for major titles, are avidly sought after. Accompanied by a near very good copy of the Signet first edition paperback, published in 1953.

244 —. A Good Man Is Hard to Find. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company (1955). First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little wrinkling on the rear panel, but no fading of the red on the spine. The author’s masterpiece, her second book and first of short stories. A breathtaking collection of horror tales that probe the darkest heart of the South through the use of traditional “Southern Gothic” writing mixed with a nightmare vision seemingly derivative of German expressionism. A stunning and disturbing accomplishment. A very nice copy. Contract for the French edition of A Good Man Is Hard to Find 245 —. Partially Printed Document Signed. One leaf. Folio. Partially printed both sides. Old folds, a small tape repair at one split fold, else a near fine example. A contract, dated 20 March 1956, between French publisher Librairie Gallimard and O’Connor for the French publication of A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Signed by O’Connor, and additionally signed by her mother Regina Cline O’Connor, as witness. Between the Covers ~36~ Catalogue 143

246 John O’HARA. Butterfield 8. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1935). First edition. Short tear at the foot and a small neat repair to the paper over the front hinge, a very good copy in a good only, but presentable dustwrapper with some chipping, and repairs. Inscribed by the author to fellow novelist Ben Ames Williams: “To Ben Williams Cordially John O’Hara.” The author’s third book and second novel, and by all accounts one of his best. O’Hara’s laconic journalistic style was particularly effective in illuminating the life of the middle-class American, a mantle he seems to have inherited from Sinclair Lewis. Filmed in 1960 with Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, and Dina Merrill. One of the author’s best known novels, and seldom found inscribed, especially with a nice association.

247 Charles OLSON. Letter for Melville 1951: written to be read AWAY FROM the Melville Society’s ‘One Hundredth Birthday Party’ for MOBY-DICK at Williams College, Labor Day Weekend, Sept 2-4, 1951. Black Mountain, North Carolina: Black Mountain College 1951. First edition. Two large quarto leaves, printed rectos only, folded and tipped into a printed folder. A large, but not too annoying stain on the rear wrap, and a small and interesting inscription on the front wrap: “‘go west young man go west.’ Winnie the Pooh. Hope your San Francisco days are glorious – Diana.” We haven’t identified Diana, but it could have been Black Mountain resident Diana Woelffer. The recipient could have been any number of Black Mountain students or faculty members who headed west and were instrumental in helping to found the San Francisco Renaissance, including Olson himself, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Better researchers than us might be able to find the association. Butterick A4: approximately 50 copies produced.

248 —. Anecdotes of the Late War. Highlands, North Carolina: Jonathan Williams 1955. First edition. Broadside, folded into stiff card covers as issued. A little age-toning to the covers else fine. Inscribed by Olson to his wife and son: “For B. and for Charles Peter fr. Charles.” Issued as Jargon Broadside I. A great association.

249 —. The Maximus Poems. New York: Jargon / Corinth Books 1960. First combined edition, limited issue. Cloth and printed paper wrappers applied to the cloth. A touch of age-toning, still easily fine. Copy letter Z of 26 lettered and Signed copies.

250 Michael ONDAATJE. The Dainty 252 George Monsters. (Toronto): Coach House (1967). ORWELL. First edition. Fine in Animal Farm. fine dustwrapper. Nicely New York: Harcourt, Inscribed by the author Brace and Company (1946). on the front fly: “For First American Edition. David and Joan and kids A trifle rubbed, thus near on Garside with love. fine in a very good plus Mike. Nov. 1968,” as well as Signed by him on the title dustwrapper with rubbing, page. One of 500 num- and a couple of very small bered copies of the true tears and tiny chips. A bril- first edition of his very liant, classic anti-utopian uncommon first book. short novel, in which a cast of barnyard animals re-enact the events of the Russian Revolution and the betrayal of its more 251 Albert Bigelow PAINE. The Tent humane elements by Stalin. Dwellers. New York: The Outing Publishing Well-adapted both as a 1955 cartoon and a 1999 Company 1908. cable movie using the latest animal-special effects, though First edition. Illustrations by Hy. Watson. Fine in near both versions added upbeat endings to Orwell’s harrowing fine, slightly oversize dustwrapper as issued. A collection vision. Not a rare book, but this is a nice presentable copy of episodic humorous fiction about hunting and fishing, – most are found well-worn. Connolly 100. featuring the redoubtable “Eddie.” Scarce in jacket. Between the Covers ~37~ L i t e r a t u r e Painted Patchen 253 Kenneth PATCHEN. The Dark Kingdom. New York: Harriss & Givens (1942). First edition. Stiff wrappers. Some offsetting to the wrappers from the now-lacking unprinted glassine dustwrapper, a fresh, very good copy in a lightly rubbed, near fine slipcase. One of 75 numbered copies Signed by the author, and with the front wrapper bearing a painting of an angel by Patchen. The Rarest Patchen? 254 —. An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air. Waldport, OR: Untide Press 1945. First edition, first impression. Wrappers with applied title piece. Modest wear, near fine. The first printing of 1800 copies was rendered unfit for release through a printer’s error. All were destroyed except for about 70 copies, which were distributed with the second impression, with no known differentiation. Eventually 23 of the 70 copies of the first impression came into Patchen’s hands, and he created a limited edition of 11 copies, with a hand-lettered limitation page (where Patchen sets this sequence out). This is copy number 4 of the 11, and is Signed by the author. A beautifully printed small collection of poems printed in a consci- entious objectors’ camp. Rare. One of 75 Painted Copies 255 —. Sleepers Awake. (New York: Padell / Kenneth Patchen 1946). First edition, black paper edition. Fine in white buckram, in fine blue buckram dustwrapper with applied paper label (custom made by Miriam Patchen, not shown here). Prospectus for the edition laid in. Numbered and Signed by Patchen on a black label at the rear, as one of 148 copies of the “black label edition,” this is one of 75 copies with a separate label tipped onto the front fly identifying it as one of 75 copies in white buckram, with an original painting by the author tipped on to the front board. The 73 undecorated copies of the edition were bound in red buckram. Both limitation statements list this as copy number 9. The painting is of an angel astride a horse or donkey. An attractive copy of a rare, if slightly bib- liographically confusing issue. Morgan A11a . An Unrecorded Variant? 256 — same title. (New York: Padell / Kenneth Patchen 1946). First edition, black paper edition. A few small tape shadows on the boards from an old glassine protector, else near fine in white buckram without dustwrapper. Numbered and Signed by Patchen on a black label at the rear, as one of 148 copies of the “black label edition.” 75 of the copies of this edition were bound in white buckram, with an original painting by the author tipped on to the front board. The additional 73 undecorated copies of the edition were bound in red buckram. This copy is a variant issue, although bound in white buckram, there is no evidence that it ever bore a painting. This is copy number 4. Morgan A11a (an apparently unrecorded variant). A Painted Patchen 257 —. Poem- Scapes. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams 1958. First edition. Octavo. Ruth Witt-Diamant’s copy, with her ownership signature on the front free endpaper. Fine. One of 75 numbered copies “prepared & painted” by Patchen, with his painted Signature and limitation on the rear endpapers. Patchen’s paintings depict a bearded man with a dog or a wolf on the front board, and a man dancing beneath the moon on the rear board. Nicer images than usual for a “Painted Patchen.” Jargon 11. Between the Covers ~38~ Catalogue 143

258 Alan PATON. Inscribed Photograph. Matted photograph, 11½" x 13", with the image area about 7" x 9½". Fine. An attractive formal studio portrait (signed “Blackstone NY” in the margin) from the chest up of the South African author and reformer. Inscribed by the author: “Whitney Darrow from Alan Paton 1950.” Darrow was the long-time head of marketing at Scribners, who published Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country in the year this portrait was inscribed. A lovely and unusually large image, and the only inscribed photograph of Paton we have handled, or for that matter, seen.

259 Eva PERON. La Razon De Mi Vida. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Peuser 1952. First edition. Dampstain to the front board and the bottom edge of the first few leaves, thus good only in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Inscribed by the author in Spanish “Por Senora Isabel F. de Gutierrez [word obscured] con y cariño. Eva Peron” (apparently something like “with fondness and sympathy”). Peron’s autobiography, which includes an intriguing chap- The Dedication Copy of the ter about the author’s two personas as Eva Peron and “Evita.” The book also bears a facsimile signature, as printed, on the half-title, Nobel Laureate’s First Book which is the first page of text. Scarce. 260 Harold PINTER. The Birthday Party. London: Encore Publishing Co. (1959). First edition. A trifle rubbed, still fine in wrappers. The very uncommon true first edition of Pinter’s first play, Inscribed by him to his first wife Vivien Merchant: “Dec. 59 To Vivien, Love D.” The “D.” is for David. Pinter, who is also an actor, used the stage name David Baron and almost all his early material inscribed to Merchant is signed thus. Neither this edition, nor the first trade edition in England, published by Methuen, contained a printed dedication. However, the first American edition, The Birthday Party & The Room: Two Plays, which was the first edition to contain a printed dedication, was dedicated to Merchant. Thus, to our lights, this could fairly be considered the dedication copy of the Nobel laureate’s first book – it is certainly as close to one as could exist. An exceptional association copy, in a very uncommon book.

261 —. Landscape. (Ipswich): Emmanual Wax for Pendragon Press 1968. First edition. Fine. One of 2000 numbered copies, this is copy number 11, and is Inscribed by the author, using his acting stage name, David Baron: “Aug 68 To My Darling from David.” The recipient was Pinter’s wife, the actress Vivien Merchant. A significant association copy of one of his celebrated “Memory Plays.”

262 —. Five Screenplays. London: H. Karnac (Books) Ltd. (1971).

First edition. Fine in a rubbed, else fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Printed limitation stating this is one of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author. This copy marked by Pinter as copy #VI, Signed by Pinter, and with his handwritten “hors de commerce” statement. From a cache of books which belonged to Pinter’s first wife, Vivien Merchant. Scarce.

263 Robert M. PIRSIG. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. New York: William Morrow 1974. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author’s desirable, but cheaply produced first book, with the glued text block unusually tight. Between the Covers ~39~ L i t e r a t u r e

264 Sylvia PLATH. The Colossus and Other Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1962. First American Edition. Fine in a very slightly spine-toned, near fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of the author’s first book.

265 — as Victoria Lucas. The Bell Jar. London: Heinemann (1963).

First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with one corner a trifle rubbed. Pseudonymously published in England just before her suicide, and not published in America for nearly a decade. A lovely copy of this thinly veiled autobiography of alienation which has become a contemporary classic of the literature of women’s oppression.

266 — same title. New York: Harper and Row (1971). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A beautiful copy.

267 —. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber (1965). First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Other than the price-clip, a brilliant, as new 271 A. POULIN, copy of this extremely influential Jr., poetry and collection of poetry, written in the etchings by last months of the poet’s life. Robert E.

268 — same title. New York: MARX. Angels. 269 Katherine Rochester, NY: The Harper & Row (1966). Anne PORTER. Black Bird Press 1994. A Christmas First American edition. Introduction by Robert Lowell. Story. New York: Fine in fine dustwrapper with a First edition. Loose Delacorte Press (1967). touch of age-toning. Advance sheets in cloth portfo- Review Copy with slip laid in. lio, and slipcase. Slight First edition with these A lovely copy. sunning to the edges of illustrations. Illustrated the slipcase, still easily by Ben Shahn. Fine in fine. One of 35 copies fine slipcase. One of Signed by both the poet 500 numbered copies and the artist. Each of Signed by Shahn and the ten etchings is also with an autopen signature of Porter. This copy how- numbered and Signed ever, also bears an authentic Porter Signature as well. in pencil by the artist. Letter of provenance to the original owner laid in. A lovely fine press production.

Peter De Vries’ Advance Copy 270 Anthony POWELL. At Lady Molly’s. Boston: Little, Brown (1957). First American edition. Fine in fine, unrubbed dustwrapper with a little foxing on the rear panel, and another very good plus dustwrapper indicating that this is an advance copy, which is a bit spine tanned. Author Peter De Vries’ 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. Between the Covers ~40~ Catalogue 143

272 Dawn POWELL. Sunday, 274 Princess Catherine Monday and Always. Boston: RADZIWILL (Catherine Houghton Mifflin Company 1952. Kolb-Danvin). Those I First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good Remember. Boston: Small, dustwrapper with an internally repaired tear, Maynard & Co. (no date - circa and several tiny nicks and short tears. Signed 1924). by the author. First edition. Two volumes. The author’s Rebound in half-morocco and scarce first marbled paper over boards. An collection of extensively extra-illustrated set short stories. with engravings and many photographs (most lovely gravures and albumen prints) of famous personages of the time including Emperor William III, Lady Randolph 273 Thomas PYNCHON. The Churchill, Emile Zola, Clemenceau, Alfonso XIII, and many oth- Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia: J.B. ers. Underneath the photograph of King George VI is a tipped-in Lippincott (1966). Signature. There is also a tipped- First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance in Signature underneath the Review Copy with slip laid in. A beautiful copy photo of Balfour. Memoirs of an of the author’s increasingly scarce second book, as outrageous Polish Countess who nice as we’ve seen. married a German Prince.

275 John REED and Mabel Dodge LUHAN. Letters Signed to Walter Lippman from Provincetown with apparently unpublished photographs. One-page Typed Letter Signed (“Reed”) with holograph postscript from John Reed to Walter Lippman, (the influential journalist and commentator who was, along with T.S. Eliot, John Reed’s Harvard classmate) dated 29 June 1914 from Provinceton, thanking Lippman for his “extravagance of praise on your postal to Mabel. I never imagined either of the articles were as good as that.” He goes on to mention “I had a marvelous interview with the President, however, he refused to let me print.” Reed sends the article (not present here), and notes “but he said I could make an interpretative article out of it, as if it were my own opinion.” Accompanied by a one-page Autograph Letter Signed (“Mabel”) from Luhan (undated) sending photographs and discussing details of her upcoming trip to Europe (where Lippman was at the time). The three photographs, each 3½" x 5", show: 1. Reed standing on the porch of a typical Provincetown cottage, accompanied by a well-fed literary-looking gentleman; 2. Reed in straw boater, leaning over a table, with cottages in the background, labeled by Luhan on the verso (“Reed making table!”); and 3. Luhan, the well-fed gentleman, and a small boy (presumably Luhan’s son, with whom they lived) on the porch of the cottage (presumably this photo was taken by Reed). Accompanied by the original envelope (which is a little roughly opened) postmarked from Provincetown. Luhan, a wealthy heiress, was something of a Zelig-like figure in the first half of 20th Century literary life. She and Reed car- ried on a relationship from 1913, when they sailed together for Paris, later returning to Provincetown and New York, with Reed finally leaving her in November of 1914 to report on the insurgency in Mexico. He returned afterwards to Provincetown, where along with Louise Bryant (whom he married in 1916) and Eugene O’Neill (with whom they both lived), he helped in the founding of the Provincetown Players, and where their triangular relationship inspired O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude.

276 —. Insurgent Mexico. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1914. First edition. A small owner’s name on the front fly, slight soiling to the spine-ends, near fine in good plus photographic dustwrapper with several modest chips, and splash marks on the spine. Reed’s first book by a major publisher, and his first hardcover, compiled from his dispatches while traveling with Pancho Villa’s army for four months. In much the same way that Reed’s later Ten Days That Shook the World provided one of the definitive eyewitness accounts of the Bolshevik Revolution, this work captures a firsthand perspective on the Mexican Revolution. Very scarce in jacket. Between the Covers ~41~ L i t e r a t u r e

277 John Crowe RANSOM. Grace After Meat. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1924. First edition. Introduction by Robert Graves. Decorated papercovered boards with paper title label. Slight erosion at the base of the spine, a very good copy of this very fragile volume. This copy Signed by Graves, the dedicatee, and who was responsible for convincing the Woolf’s to publish the book, thus: “Robert Graves, alias (John Boyle, etc.).” One of 400 copies of Ransom’s first book published in England.

278 Charles REZNIKOFF. The Complete Poems of Charles Reznikoff. Volume I: Poems 1918-1936 and Volume II: 1937-1975. 279 (Anthology). Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1976,1977. Adrienne Cecile RICH, First edition. Edited by Seamus Cooney. et al. Departure Two volumes. A tiny stain on the rear Pamphlets: I board of volume 2, still fine in fine Six Women Poets. original unprinted mylar dustwrappers (Oxford: Departure no (not shown). Each volume is one of 225 date - circa 1951). numbered hardcover copies Signed by the author.

First edition. Stapled Auden’s Copy wrappers. (8)pp. Fine. 280 Laura RIDING as Laura Gottschalk. Very uncommon little The Close Chaplet. London: The Hogarth Press pamphlet featuring six women poets, issued at 1926. Merton College. In addi- First edition. Gray papercovered boards with applied paper tion to Rich, the authors label. Some erosion to the spine ends, rubbing, and a few represented are Elizabeth Jennings, Lotte Zurndorfer, small paint marks on the front board. A good only copy of Jenny Joseph, Gillian Craig, and Marion Smith. the author’s very fragile first book, issued without dustwrapper. W.H. Auden’s copy with his small ownership Signature. Rare. In Robert A. Wilson’s chapbook describing his pur- chase of Auden’s New York library, he specifically refers to this copy, purchased by Auden as a student: “…and some astute purchases made at that time, such as Laura Riding’s first book A Close Chaplet… bearing his college signature.”

281 Philip An Emerging Voices Title ROTH. Goodbye, 282 Anne ROYALL. The Tennessean: A Novel, Founded on Columbus. (London): Facts. New Haven: Printed for the Author 1827. Andre Deutsch (1959). First edition. 12mo. Early or near contemporary three-quarter green straight- First English edition. Fine in grain morocco, with marbled paper- fine dustwrapper. The author’s covered boards, spine decorated and very scarce first book, almost titled in gilt. Very slight rubbing to always found quite worn. A the joints, a couple of faint spots Houghton Mifflin Literary on the foredge, bottom corner of Fellowship Award winner, as the title page has a little professional well as winner of the National restoration affecting no text, a nice, Book Award and basis for near fine copy. The author’s second the film directed by Larry book, and only novel, something Peerce and featuring Richard of a potboiler that contained tales Benjamin and Ali McGraw. of pirates and fierce Indian attacks The English edition, in addition to with long passages of life in rural being much more attractive than the American edition, Tennessee. Royall, disappointed by is many times more scarce. the reaction to this novel, returned to writing travel books, eventually completing ten such books of some importance. Grolier Club. Emerging Voices. American Women Writers 1650-1920, pp. 20-21; James. Anne Royall’s U.S.A.; Wright I, 2257; Sabin 73825. A rare book, OCLC locates only microform copies. Between the Covers ~42~ Catalogue 143

283 (J.D. SALINGER). [Story]: “The Hang of It” in The Kit Book for Harry and Caresse Crosby’s Copy Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers 1942. 288 Edgar SALTUS. Poppies and Mandragora. New York: Harold Vinal First edition, first issue. Page edges a little 1926. browned as usual, a bit of rubbing to the First edition. boards, else about fine in papercovered Spine lettering boards (without dustwrapper as issued) a little dull and and in the rare original illustrated ship- corners a little ping carton, which shows evidence of hav- rubbed, a very ing been mailed, but is otherwise in about good copy lacking fine condition. This book of cartoons and the dustwrap- short stories was intended to be shipped to per. One of 300 fighting men away from home. Salinger’s copies. A posthu- story represents his first appearance in a mously published commercial book. Both issues are very volume of poetry, uncommon in the original carton, the first with 23 addition- issue much more so than the second. al poems by the author’s widow, 284 —. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters Marie Saltus. Saltus and Seymour, an Introduction. Boston: Little, Brown was one of America’s (1959). chief proponents of First edition, third issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a small European decadence offset on the inside. A very nice copy. and the credo of art- for-art’s sake, famous 285 —. Franny and Zooey. and infamous in his Boston: Little, Brown (1961). day for the cynicism and eroticism of his First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap- work. This copy bears per. The author’s important third the small leather book- book, two novellas of the Glass fam- plate of Harry and Caresse Crosby on the front ily that first appeared in The New pastedown, the front fly has a small embossed Yorker. A beautiful, fresh copy – as “black sun,” and both boards have been stamped nice as we’ve ever seen. with their gilt impressed “coat of arms.” 286 — another copy. First edition. Fine in near fine dust- 289 Bernard wrapper with two short tears, and a bit of soiling. A nice copy. SHAW. Peace 287 (—). Ian HAMILTON. J.D. Salinger: A Conference Writing Life. New York: Random House (1986). Hints. London: Uncorrected proof. Printed yellow wrappers. A fine copy. This Constable & proof was suppressed because Hamilton used the text of some Company 1919. Salinger letters. Salinger sued Random House, which won the first round on “fair use” but lost the case when Salinger appealed. First edition. Hamilton rewrote the book, paraphrasing the letters, and Salinger Printed green took him to court again. Hamilton’s book, In Search of J.D. self-wrappers. Salinger, finally appeared two years later in a substantially altered Ownership sig- form (in part because at that point this attempted biography had nature of the actually become a part of Salinger’s life as well). Very uncommon great humanist and desirable, partly for its inclusion of otherwise unobtainable and reformer Henry S. Salinger text. Salt, pages a little browned, and a small tear on the titlepage, else near fine. Tipped to the titlepage is a card printed “With Bernard Shaw’s Compliments” and an Autograph Note to Salt: “This will not be published until Tuesday: no eye but yours must profane it until then. Ayot St Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts. 6th March 1919.” Laid into an envelope hand addressed by Shaw to Salt (albeit at a later date) and housed in a custom chemise (with the bookplate of A. Edward Newton), and moderately worn slipcase. Accompanied by a first edition of Salt and His Circle with a preface by Bernard Shaw, which details at length their friendship. This card is dated just two weeks after Salt’s wife and Shaw’s great friend, Kate Salt died. A notable association. Between the Covers ~43~ L i t e r a t u r e

290 Budd SCHULBERG. What Makes Sammy Run? New York: Random House (1941).

First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper. The author’s exceptionally scarce first book, the story of Sammy Glick, who leaves a trail of wrecked careers and lives as he struggles to reach the top in Hollywood. Curiously, one of the most influential novels ever written about the movie world, and one of the author’s only books that hasn’t (yet) been made into a film. Exceptionally scarce.

291 —. The Harder They Fall. New York: Random House (1947). First edition. A small, faint stain on the topedge, still fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing and a couple of small and unnecessary internal repairs. Signed by the author. A scathing indictment of the manipulation of professional boxers, no less relevant today than it was fifty years ago. Basis for the powerful Mark Robson film in which Humphrey Bogart, in his final role, plays a cynical press agent who comes to realize the extent to which prizefighters are pawns of their managers and racketeers. A very nice, signed copy.

294 Irwin SHAW. Sailor Off the Bremen and Other Stories. New York: 292 Michael SHAARA. The Random House (1939). Killer First edition. Small, attractive (and probably self-designed) book- Angels. New plate of Chicago artist Arthur Johan Anderson tipped-in, else fine York: McKay in fine dustwrapper with a small, unobtrusive tear at the top of the (1974). rear panel. A lovely copy of the author’s first work of prose, preceded only by a play. The title story First edition. Fine and several of the other stories first in fine dustwrap- appeared in The New Yorker. Very per with very scarce, especially in this condition. slight rubbing 295 —. Mixed Company: and two short Collected Stories. New York: tears. Because of the perfect Random House 1950. binding, an ill- First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap- fated attempt by per with a couple of very small the publisher to chips. The thick, textured jacket is nearly impos- lower production costs, this sible to find in collector’s condition. This is a lovely copy. book is virtually always cocked, a flaw this copy 296 —. Whispers in Bedlam: Three Novellas. does not exhibit. Basis for the movie Gettysburg and easily one of the very best and most London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1972). beloved novels of the Civil War. It is also one of First edition (with no equivalent American edition). Very slightly the scarcest American first editions of the 1970s cocked, else near fine in near fine dust- and was a surprise winner of the Pulitzer Prize. wrapper with a short, rubbed tear on the front panel. Three long stories that first appeared in Playboy magazine. Inscribed 293 Sam SHEPARD. Five by Shaw to fellow writer James Jones Plays: Chicago, Icarus’s Mother, and his wife: “To Jim & Gloria, with fond Red Cross, Fourteen Hundred memories of the cruddy green jock strap Thousand, Melodrama Play. in the Bahamas. With love, Irwin.” Shaw, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1967). William Styron, and First edition. their wives, were the Jones’ best Fine in a very friends in Paris according to the slightly age- Frank McShane biography of Jones. toned, else fine dustwrapper with a 297 Alan SILLITOE. The Loneliness of the nearly invisible tear on the Long-Distance Runner. London: W.H. Allen 1959. front panel. Author’s first First edition. Faint offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, book. A lovely else fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the excellent, Sillitoe-scripted copy, and very film with Tom Courtenay as the angry young runner in a juvenile scarce thus. reform school run by Michael Redgrave. A beautiful copy. Between the Covers ~44~ Catalogue 143

298 Robert E. SHERWOOD. Waterloo Bridge. New York: Scribners 1930. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Fourth play by the four time Pulitzer Prize-winner, about a London chorus girl reduced to prostitution during WWI. It was the basis for two excellent films, the first made by James Whale in 1931 with Mae Clarke (and with Bette Davis in one of her earliest performances), the second by Mervyn LeRoy in 1940 with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. A superb copy.

299 —. The Petrified Forest. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1935. First edition. Fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with light nicking to the spinal extremities. Inscribed by the author: “for my dearest Jane and Wilfred with much love – Bob, March 1935.” The jacket pictures Leslie Howard in the lead role on Broadway. Also in the Broadway production was character actor Humphrey Bogart. Both reprised their roles for the classic film version, and were joined by Bette Davis. The film became Bogart’s “breakthrough” role. A scarce title, and the only signed copy we’ve seen.

300 —. There Shall Be No Night. New York: Scribners 1940. First edition. Offsetting to the endpapers from the flaps, some light mottling to the boards, a very good copy in very good plus dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and slight wear. The third and last of the author’s Pulitzer Prize winning plays, about a Finnish scientist and his family and what befalls them in their embattled country. This copy Inscribed by the author: “for Lowell Thomas, Jr. with every good wish from Robert Sherwood. December 1940.” Whether this is inscribed to the famous journalist and travel writer, or to his son is not clear.

301 Carol SHIELDS. The Stone Diaries. Toronto: Random House of Canada (1993). First edition. Neat bookplate on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. The exceptionally uncommon, true first edition of 302 Upton SINCLAIR. The this Pulitzer Prize winner. Apparently Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page & issued in very small numbers. Not Company 1906. only did this book win the Pulitzer, First edition, second issue (with battered type to it was also shortlisted for the Booker the “1” on the copyright page). Doubleday edi- Prize. As the result of Shields dual tion (also issued in a Sustainer’s Edition). Modest U.S./Canadian citizenship, this is the rubbing to the white paint spine lettering but still first time a book was in contention for easily readable, a nice and tight, very good plus both awards. copy. One of the few books ever published to have a direct, immediate and significant impact on American society and thought. Although 304 Dodie SMITH. I Capture the Castle. Sinclair’s intent was to expose the abusive labor London: Heinemann (1949). conditions in the Chicago stockyards as a means First English edition. A little fox- of promoting socialism, the American public was ing to the endpapers else fine in an more interested attractive, very good dustwrapper in the novel’s with wraparound jacket art, with two shallow chips to the corners vivid depiction of the crown, and tiny nicks at the of unsanitary conditions in the slaughterhouses foot. Smith’s first novel, a bestseller and meat-processing plants, and as a result the by an Englishwoman living in the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. The U.S., and one of the most beloved most famous, influential, and enduring of all 20th Century romances, about an muckraking novels. An attractive copy. eccentric family living in the ruins of an old castle, and the trials and 303 —. Dragon’s Teeth. New York: tribulations of the two daughters of Viking Press 1942. the family. Basis for an enjoyable First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper that 2003 film directed by Tim Fywell, is lightly soiled and with tiny nicks and tears. A with interesting performances by nicer than usual copy of this entry in Sinclair’s Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, and Rose Byrne. An exceptionally uncommon title, this is the Lanny Budd series. A wartime Pulitzer Prize first jacketed copy we’ve seen in many years, despite being on a winner, now very uncommon in jacket. constant look out for the book. Between the Covers ~45~ L i t e r a t u r e

305 Muriel 309 (Sylvester STALLONE). SPARK. The Something for the Girls! Beverly Hills: Tiger Prime of Miss Calendar by Judi 1966. Jean Brodie. Folio. Spiral bound at top. Fine. A cheesecake type cal- London: Macmillan endar featuring a different nude man (genitalia discreetly hidden) for each month. Purportedly for “the girls,” many (1961). of the shots are more reminiscent of the style of photos First edition. Fine in made for softcore gay porn of the era. A young Stallone, fine dustwrapper. Basis here portrayed as “Tony,” has the cover shot (with the for the stage version same photo appearing in October). The picture, entitled with Vanessa Redgrave “Room for Two” shows Stallone lying on the edge of a and then the film star- large bed, giving his best come-hither look to the camera, ring Maggie Smith, ten years before Rocky established him as a permanent who won a Best film icon. Presumably quite scarce and enough to make Actress Oscar for the one all tingly inside. title role of the flamboyant but flawed Scottish schoolteacher. A 310 Gertrude STEIN. An Acquaintance lovely copy. with Description. London: Seizin Press 1929. 306 — same title. London: Macmillan First edition. White cloth boards. Moderate soiling to the (1961). boards, a very good plus copy. One of 225 num- Uncorrected proof. bered copies Signed by the author on a tipped-in Printed wrappers. limitation slip as issued. Scarce. Title written on spine in pencil, else fine. A 311 —. The Making of Americans. New very nice copy of this York: Harcourt, Brace scarce format. & Company (1934). First American edition. Neat initials else fine in a bright, very good plus dustwrapper 307 Wallace STEVENS. Ideas of with slight loss at the foot, and small nicks and tears at the crown. One of Stein’s major works, an experimental novel, Order. New York: completed in 1911 but not published until much later. Alfred A. Knopf 1936. First trade edition. Bookplate of a minor published poet on the front pastedown, fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel, slight tanning on the spine, and very shallow loss at the crown. Publisher’s response card laid in. A very nice copy of an uncommon title, one of only 500 copies. Edelstein A2b.

308 Michael STEWART, Lee 312 Gene ADAMS, STRATTON- and Charles PORTER. The Fire STROUSE. Bird. Garden City: Double [Program for]: day, Page 1922. Bye Bye First edition. Illustrated by Birdie. New Gordon Grant. Decorations York: Frank Hopkins by Lee Thayer. Cloth backed (1960). papercovered boards as issued. Near fine in stapled A bookplate on the front past- wrappers with a edown, lightly rubbed, a little touch of rubbing. scattered and very light foxing, Program of the first a handsome, very good or better rock and roll musical copy lacking the dustwrapper. play, Inscribed by Cryptically Inscribed by the stars Chita Rivera, author: “A tall brave, Dick Van Dyke and a sheltered campfire, Kay Medford, as well as by cast members Paul a blue shell. Gene Lynde, Dick Gautier, Michael J. Pollard, Marijane Stratton-Porter.” Very Maricle, and Johnny Borden. scarce thus. Between the Covers ~46~ Catalogue 143

313 John STEINBECK. Cup of Gold: A Life of Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. With Occasional Reference to History. New York: McBride 1929. First edition, first binding. Small gift inscription, a few pages roughly opened with small chips at the edges of the pages, light wear at the spine ends, a very good copy in an attractive, first issue dustwrapper that has been professionally restored, mostly at the spine and spinal extremities, and appears near fine. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Housed in a quarter morocco and marbled paper clamshell case. One of only 600 copies issued in the first issue binding and jacket, of a total first edition of only 1537 copies of all three issues printed. Steinbeck’s first book, a novelized version of the life of the pirate Henry Morgan.

314 —. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede 1937. First edition, second issue or second printing. A little foxing to the boards, a very good or a bit better copy in good only dustwrapper (with the price present) that is a bit stained and foxed. Nicely Inscribed by the author: “Dear Sam Thank you for reading and your kind words. Sincerely, John Steinbeck.” A poignant, classic novella of two Depression-era drifters whose dreams of a better life are not supported by fate. Adapted by Steinbeck for the stage and then filmed several times, first by Lewis Milestone in 1939 with Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney, Jr. in the lead roles.

315 —. The Long Valley. New York: Viking 1938. First edition. Spine very slightly tanned, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small tear where the crown meets the front panel, and some light rubbing. A very attractive copy, and seldom found thus.

316 —. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press (1939). First edition. Foxing to the foredge and endpapers, else near fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with very slight toning to the spine. Signed by the author: “Thank you, John Steinbeck. New York.” Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of an Oklahoma family’s migration to California during the Depression. Basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Ford and Supporting Actress Jane Darwell won Academy Awards; Fonda was nominated but lost to Robert Donat in Goodbye, Mr. Chips! Steinbeck’s masterpiece and literature’s lasting testament to the Great Depression, it was singled-out in his citation for the Nobel Prize decades later.

317 —. Cannery Row. New York: The Viking Press 1945. First edition, in buff-colored, first issue binding (as opposed to the later and much more common yellow binding). Very slightly soiled, still fine in a lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of a deceptively uncommon first edition, especially in this condition.

318 —. The Winter of Our Discontent. New York: Viking 1961. First edition. Limited edition. One of 500 copies. Fine, lacking the printed acetate overjacket. However, and although not called for, this copy is Inscribed: “For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck.” Very scarce thus.

319 —. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. New York: The Viking Press 1962. First edition. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper. One of 3200 copies. A lovely copy.

320 — and Zachary SCOTT. John Emery. New York: Privately Printed 1964. First edition. A couple of very faint tape shadows on the pastedowns, slight rubbing to boards still a very near fine copy in leather and papercovered boards as issued. One of only 200 copies. The text of two eulogies delivered at private services for the deceased actor. One of the very scarcest Steinbeck items. Between the Covers ~47~ L i t e r a t u r e

321 David 323 William STYRON. Lie Down in STOREY. Darkness. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1951). Saville. London: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of Jonathan Cape rubbing. A superb copy of the author’s first book. (1976). Uncorrected proof. A South African 324 (Television). A. Frederick bookstore label on the front wrap, slightly COLLINS. Experimental Television: A cocked and rubbed, Series of Simple very good or better. Experiments Winner of the Booker with Television Prize. A very scarce Apparatus. Also issue. How to Make a Complete Home Television 322 Jim TULLY. Beggars of Life: A Transmitter and Television Receiver. Boston: Lothrop, Hobo Autobiography. New York: A&C Boni Lee & Shepard Co. (1932). 1924. First edition. Fine in pictorial cloth and fine dustwrapper. First edition. An early book on television, in exceptional condition. Very Moderate wear to scarce in jacket. the extremities, thus very good plus in a soiled, very good 325 Dylan THOMAS. A Child’s plus example of the Christmas in Wales. Norfolk: New Directions rare dustwrapper (1954). with some short tears Long galleys of the first separately and tiny nicks, and printed edition (originally published some modest soiling. in Quite Early One Morning). Five Basis for the 1928 leaves, printed rectos only, and an William A. Wellman unprinted cover sheet, all folded. film featuring Wallace Slight offsetting to the unprinted Beery, Louise Brooks, cover sheet, else fine. Accompanied and Richard Arlen. The author’s most sought after by a first edition of the finished book, rarely found in jacket. book as issued by New Directions, which is fine in near fine, slightly age-toned dustwrapper. A beloved little gem, this story of Christmas in Wales was recorded by Thomas, and became a Christmas classic, necessitating this separate edition. Ex-Ned Erbe, director of publicity for New Directions. Possibly a unique copy. Inscribed by Harold Pinter to Vivien Merchant 326 —. (Harold PINTER). Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices. London: J.M. Dent (1956). Eighth impression. Slightly cocked, else near fine in very good dustwrapper. Originally commissioned as a BBC radio play. This copy Inscribed by Harold Pinter (using his stage name, David Baron) to his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, apparently on the two month anniversary of their marriage: “To Vivien, Nov. 56. Almost two months! David.” Merchant went on to play the part of Mrs. Pugh in the 1972 film version of the play directed by Andrew Sinclair, along with a cast that also featured Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, Glynis Johns, and Siân Phillips.

327 —. [Broadside]: Triumphant Return from Tour… Under Milk Wood. New York: Circle in the Square (no date - 1961). Poster or broadside. 8½" x 11". Fine. Illustrated poster for the 1961 production at Circle in the Square in Greenwich Village. Scarce. Between the Covers ~48~ Catalogue 143

328 Hunter S. THOMPSON. Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. New York: Random House (1967). First edition. A little light spotting on the topedge stain, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. An especially fresh copy of the author’s first book, perhaps the inaugural effort of the new participatory journalism. The black jacket is generally encountered rubbed and worn.

329 —. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Random House 1971. First edition. A touch of the usual fading to the boards, still a lovely, fine copy in fine dustwrapper with none of the spine fading or age-toning often seen on this title. A beautiful copy of the Gonzo manifesto and how-to travel book, basis for the Terry Gilliam film featuring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro.

330 Mark TWAIN. The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for People of All Ages. Boston: James R. Osgood 1882. First American edition, first issue with Franklin Imprint, first binding state with a single blank leaf at the rear, and the proper placement of the black rosettes. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. A bookplate on the front pastedown, a tiny name stamp on the title page, and a trifle rubbed at the bottom corners, else a fine and bright copy. On a lark a prince and a pauper change stations in life, allowing both to learn something about the other and allowing Twain to critique various legal and moral injustices. An unusually fine copy of a classic children’s tale. BAL 3402.

331 —. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto and Windus 1884. First edition, first issue with October ads inserted, preceding the American edition. A couple of small, light spots on the rear board, and a few tiny holes in the rear gutter, a bright and attractive, near fine copy of the true first edition of one of the cornerstones of American literature. BAL 3414.

332 — same title. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co. 1885. First American edition (the English edition preceded by a year). Green cloth gilt (also issued in blue). First issue (with all of Blanck’s points for cloth copies except p.155, which appears in what he referred to as a later state, but which has been conclusively proven false: all first edition copies of Huck had the signature with p.155 gathered at random from sheets which existed before publication). Tiny owner name dated in the year of publication, top corner of the front board a bit bumped, else a superlative, bright and fine copy, with the cloth unworn, the hinges tight and unbroken, and the gilt bright and unrubbed. As nice a copy as we’ve seen in several years. Johnson Highspot of American Literature, Peter Parley to Penrod.

333 John UPDIKE. The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. New York: Harper and Brothers (1958).

First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped, first issue dustwrapper with a single short tear. Author’s first book, a collection of poems. 335 Anne TYLER. The Clock Winder. New York: 334 —. Rabbit, Run. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1972. Alfred A. Knopf 1960. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to actor and director Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul, Cannonball!, First edition. A neat, Caddyshack II, Gremlins II, Deathrace 2000, etc.): “For Paul contemporary owner Bartel, with best wishes, Anne Tyler.” A very near immaculate name on the front fly copy of the author’s fourth, and what many consider her scarc- else fine in just about fine est book, with an interesting association. first issue dustwrapper with some very slight rubbing, mostly at the crown, and a tiny tear at the base of the spine. A considerably nicer than usual copy of a key title, the first book in the Rabbit tetralogy, and probably the author’s most sought after title. Between the Covers ~49~ L i t e r a t u r e A Classic of Misogyny 336 E.W. (Edward “Ned” WARD). Female policy detected or the Arts of Designing Woman Laid Open. By E.W. Author of the London spy, and Trip to Jamaica. Teaching: I. Of her allurements, inconstancy, love, revenge, pride and ingratitude. II. A pleasant and profitable dis- course in defence of married men, against peevish, fretful and scolding wives; with several notable examples of the mischiefs which have attended their lust and pride. III. A true character of a virtuous Woman, or Wife indeed. To which is added, a poeti- cal description of a Widow, Wife and Maid. London: Printed for the Booksellers throughout the World 1835. “From the 100th edition.” 24mo. Printed papercovered boards. Frontispiece woodcut (repeated on the rear board). Marginal edgewear, but a remarkable survivor in this fragile format, and at least very good. The woodcut is wonderful. Originally published in 1695, and often reprinted, although “the 100th edition” seems a little optimistic. No copies of this edition (or potentially about ninety other editions, if the printer can be believed) listed in OCLC.

337 Robert Penn WARREN. Blackberry Winter. 340 James D. WATSON. The Cummington MA: Cummington Press 1946. Double Helix: A Personal Account First edition. Illustrated by Wightman of the Discovery of the Structure of Williams. Fine in papercovered boards DNA. New York: Atheneum 1968. with paper spine label, in slightly soiled, else fine unprinted plain white paper (as First edition. Very slight sunning at the edge issued). One of 280 numbered copies of the boards still easily fine in a crisp and (there were also 50 lettered cop- fine dustwrapper. An exceptionally bright ies which were signed). One of copy. A NYPL Book of the Century. Warren’s scarcest titles, a short story, and especially rare in jacket. The First American 338 —. To a Little Girl, Legal Novel One Year Old, in a 341 (George WATTERSON). Ruined Fortress. (New Haven The Lawyer, or Man as He CT): School of Design Yale University Ought Not to Be. A Tale. Pittsburgh: (1956). Printed for and Published First edition. Square octavo. Printed by Zadok Cramer, and boards as issued. The slightest of rub- Sold at his Bookstore bing, a virtually new, unread copy. [Franklin’s Head] 1808. According to some sources one of about 175 copies designed, illustrated, First edition. Small octavo. and printed by Jane Doggett at the Contemporary quarter Department of Graphic Arts at the Yale sheep and marbled paper School of Design. A superlative copy. over boards, gilt rules and lettering, untrimmed. Inscribed to Anita Loos Frontispiece. Modest foxing to the text, edges a 339 H.G. WELLS. The little rubbed, and the spine Bulpington of Blup. New York: lettering worn, but mostly Macmillan 1933. readable, a handsome, very Early reprint. good or better copy of this very uncommon American A couple of novel. The first book by Watterson (1783-1854), a tale with strong gothic ink numbers elements about a crooked lawyer who has committed a series of reprehen- else about sible crimes. As near as we can determine this is the first American work of fine in a very fiction to feature a lawyer as the main character. No matter how one feels good supplied about the profession and its practitioners, it is perhaps not surprising to Grosset & find the protagonist so reviled. In addition to his career as a journalist and Dunlap dustwrapper with some light author, Watterson served as the first full-time Librarian of Congress, a post chips and tears. This copy Inscribed by which he held from 1815 to 1829. Wright I, 2684; American Bibliography Wells on the half title to author and screenwriter Anita Loos: “Anita 16672; Peters, The Early American Novel, pp. 324-325. Although held at with love from H.G.” Loos’ attractive bookplate affixed on the facing several institutions, all four of Watterson’s novels are rare in the trade, and page. An affectionate and pleasing association. lacking from many significant libraries and private collections. Between the Covers ~50~ Catalogue 143

342 Evelyn WAUGH. A Handful of Dust. 345 Eudora WELTY, illustrated by. Flo Field London: Chapman and Hall HAMPTON. [Sheet Music]: (1934). Mosquito. Crystal Springs, Mississippi: First edition. Cocked, and a Flo Field Hampton Publishing Co. 1926. little foxing on the foredge, else near fine in a moderately foxed First edition. Quarto. 6pp. One bifolium, and age-toned, very good dust- with laid-in leaf, as issued. Tiny tears to the wrapper with a couple of tiny wrappers, a little foxing and rubbing, else tears. One of ’s Time Magazine a near fine example. A novelty song, about 100 Best Novels of the 20th a mosquito who bites a young lothario, Century. Exceptionally uncom- distracting him from plighting his troth. mon in jacket. Probably of no redeeming social or cultural 343 —. Scott-King’s value, except for the fact that the cover illus- Modern Europe. tration was drawn by 17-year old Eudora Welty, who designed the cover for this Boston: Little, Brown 1949. musical piece written by Flo Field Hampton, her English teacher at Jackson Junior-Senior High School. This apparently precedes any other known appear- First American edition. Boards ance of any of her work. A rare and ephemeral piece, OCLC lists only one other slightly soiled, near fine in a recorded copy, at the University of Mississippi. slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Waugh: 346 — and Katherine Anne “To Mr. Henry Clifford, a belated PORTER. Eudora Welty: A Note Christmas present from Evelyn on the Author and Her Work. Together Waugh.” Copies of the American with The Key, one of seventeen trade editions are uncommon stories from Miss Welty’s forthcom- inscribed. ing A Curtain of Green. (Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1941). First edition. Stapled photographic wrappers (with a photo of Welty on the front wrap). Octavo. 22pp. Slight bend on the right-hand side of the wrappers, else easily a fine copy. Welty’s rare first separate publication, a promotional pamphlet issued before publication of her first book, printing a single story, along Tom Mix’s Copy with an appreciation by Porter. Polk A1.1. 344 (Western). Edgar Rice BURROUGHS. Apache Devil. Tarzana: 347 —. The Wide Net and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt Brace Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (1933). and Company (1943). First edition. Fine in a very near fine dustwrap- First edition. A faint spot on the per with the pink portion of the spine, which is front board, some rubbing, a usually faded out to near invisibility, only slight- very good or better copy in a fine ly faded and very easily readable. The only flaw (probably supplied, but not by us) is a vertical pink stain on the spine, possibly the dustwrapper. Cowhide bookplate result of a printer’s error. Only the third copy of cowboy film star Tom Mix we have seen that retains a substantial portion of on the front pastedown with the the pink spine lettering and rare thus. Author’s kindly sentiment: elusive third book, cheaply manufactured during wartime and virtually never found in this condition.

348 —. Ida M’Toy. Urbana: University of Illinois “The Good Book says, (1979). God helps those that help First edition. Quarto. Fine in cloth covered themselves, but I say God help the man that strays off the ranch boards as issued. One of 350 Signed copies of with this book,” and stamped with his signature and T.M. brand. this portrait of a Mississippi midwife and shop- Signed by the owner originally published in Accent in 1942. author: “With best wishes, Edgar Rice Burroughs.” Between the Covers ~51~ L i t e r a t u r e

349 Nathanael WEST. The Day of the 351 Walt WHITMAN. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, Locust. London: The Grey and Other Poems (Leaves of Grass). Washington DC: (The Author) Walls Press (1951). 1872. Uncorrected proof of the first First edition. A little rubbed, a sharp, near fine English edition. Unprinted copy. A collection of poetry described by Whitman wrappers. Pages a trifle browned, (who wrote most of his own publicity and, occa- author and title written on the sionally, reviews of his own books – leaving noth- front wrap, a nice, very good or ing to chance as it were) as “…the poems of the better copy. The timeless and author’s elder age – are the surplusage of Leaves quintessential Hollywood novel; of Grass – the wake following that volume, as the West explores the frustration, eddies behind a ship.” The violence, and savagery beneath title poem was delivered at the the glamour and glitz. A very Dartmouth College commence- uncommon issue. ment. This is a presentation copy, Inscribed by the author: “Lilla Gosling from Walt Maxfield Parrish’s Whitman.” Gosling was a nurse whom Whitman Copy met in Canada through his friend and eventual 350 Edith WHARTON. Italian Villas and literary executor (along with two others) R.M. Bucke. She was the daughter of Their Gardens. New York: Century 1904. Thomas and Anne Willson Miller of Niagara/Buffalo and latterly of Owen Sound First edition. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Nineteen of the Ontario. In 1875 Lilla married Frank Gosling, a Banker, in London, Middlesex, original twenty-six Parrish Ontario. Richard Bucke, the dear friend of Whitman, was a physician in London, illustrations have been neatly Middlesex. Copies of Whitman books with tipped-in signatures, envelopes excised, a bit cocked and some tipped-in with the author’s signature in the return address and signed photos wear to the spinal extremi- attached (often by Whitman’s own design), while no longer plentiful, are never- ties, otherwise a sound, very theless much more common than books actually inscribed by him in the book, as good copy. Illustrator Maxfield this is. Furthermore, it is of some added interest that he signed the book with his Parrish’s own copy, Signed full name rather than as “the Author” as was usually the case. A particularly nice by him in his beautiful and association copy. BAL 21408. idiosyncratic hand on the front fly: “Maxfield Parrish: from The Century Company: 1904.” 352 Thornton WILDER. The Bridge of San Luis Beneath this is an unsigned note by Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni the artist’s son, Maxfield Parrish, Jr.: 1927. “Unfortunately dad cut out many of First edition. A little worn and bumped at the spinal extremities, near fine in near fine the colored prints of the best vil- dustwrapper with light wear at the top and las from this book.” It was Parrish’s bottom edges and which is about 1/16" custom to remove most of the prints shorter than the from his copies of his books to be book. Inscribed pasted into a “master” scrapbook, by the author and such was the fate of this vol- in the year of ume. Included with this volume is publication. a copy of the second edition of this Wilder’s best title, which includes all of the plates known novel, removed by the artist. and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a carefully interwoven story of a priest’s attempt to find divine provi- dence in the collapse of an 18th Century Peruvian bridge. A very nice copy of Wilder’s breakthrough book, scarce in jacket.

353 Edmund WILSON. Travels in Two Democracies. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1936). First edition. Offsetting to the rear blanks, the front fly has been carefully removed, and the half-title has a small newspaper photo of Wilson affixed, else a nice, very good copy in a modestly spine faded, very good dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “To the Workers’ Defense League of New Jersey, With best wishes for their success, Edmund Wilson. April 11, 1939.” An attractive copy of a scarce book, about the United States and Russia, with an appropriately socialistic inscription. Between the Covers ~52~ Catalogue 143

354 Tennessee WILLIAMS. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House (1945). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very small chips at the spine ends. Author’s first regularly published play. Williams also wrote the screenplay for the 1950 Irving Rapper film featuring Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas.

355 —. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions 1947. First edition. Owner name on the front fly neatly marked over, bottom of the boards a little rubbed, still about fine in a bright, near fine dustwrapper with slight (but less than usual) fading to the spine, and a little offsetting and a small stain on the rear panel. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. Ironically, Brando, in his signature performance, was the only one of the quartet who didn’t win an Oscar. A lovely copy.

356 —. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York: New Directions 1955. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very light wear. Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a dying Southern patriarch and the machinations of his greedy, would-be heirs. The original theatrical performance, directed by Elia Kazan, featured Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pat Hingle, and blues greats Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. It was successfully translated into film featuring Ives, Elizabeth Taylor, and Paul Newman. The black, thin paper jacket tends to wear inordinately; this is a lovely copy. Inscribed to Gordon Lish 357 —. Eight Mortal Ladies Possessed: A Book of Stories. (New York): New Directions (1974). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to controversial editor Gordon Lish: “To Gordon Lish Sincerely, Tennessee Williams.” A collection of short stories, at least one of which Lish published in Esquire when he was fiction editor there.

358 William Carlos WILLIAMS. The Great American Novel. Paris: Three Mountains Press 1923. First edition, advance issue. String-tied folded and gathered sheets. A little foxing to the top leaf else near fine. Stamped “Review Copy” on the top leaf. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and apparently issued for review. A very uncommon state of a scarce title, the only review copy we’ve seen from this important press that also issued Ernest Hemingway’s second book, in our time.

359 —. A Voyage to Pagany. New York: The Macaulay Company 1928.

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed and soiled, a very good copy in near very good dustwrapper with internal tape repair. Signed by the author.

360 —. Paterson [Books 1 - 5 complete]. (New York): New Directions (1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1955). First editions. Five volumes. Each volume is fine in a modestly soiled, very good to near fine dustwrappers as follows: Book One has modest age-toning; Book Two has a tear on the spine, and is moderately soiled, it is also an Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s promotional material laid in; Book Three is modestly soiled, and is price clipped; Book Four is a trifle soiled and has a modest dampstain at the crown, and bears Malcolm Cowley’s ownership Signature; Book Five is an Advance Review Copy with slip and author’s photo laid in. A nice, just about uniform sets of one of the great American poetry cycles. Volume Two won the National Book Award. The textured paper of the dustwrappers lends itself to soiling. Virtually all sets that one sees are so afflicted, this set virtually free of soiling, has a trace of age-toning at the extremities, and is one of the nicer sets we have seen. Connolly 100. Between the Covers ~53~ L i t e r a t u r e

361 Virginia WOOLF. 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, and is rare thus. One of the author’s most influential novels, a richly textured examination of gender and family, told through mastered stream-of-consciousness narratives. A nice, unsophisticated copy of a masterwork of modern literature. Connolly 100. Signed and in the Rare Original Dustwrapper 362 —. Orlando: A Biography. NY: Crosby Gaige 1928. First edition, preceding the English trade edition. Fine with none of the usual spine fading, and the only example we have seen in the original unprinted deep purple glassine dustwrapper, that has some minor chipping, mostly on the rear panel. One of 861 numbered copies Signed by the author. A fantasy biography of transgendered Orlando, living alternately as male and female through four centuries. Made into a Sally Potter film in 1992 with Tilda Swinton in the title role and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. A rarity in jacket.

363 —. A Room of One’s Own. London: Hogarth Press 1929. First edition. A few spots of foxing on the foredge that encroach slightly on a few pages, slight offsetting to the front fly from the jacket flap, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few faint spots of foxing. An attractive copy of an important title, the delicate pink jacket is generally found well-worn.

364 —. The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press 1931. First edition. Fine in near fine, Vanessa Bell-illustrated dustwrapper that is a little aggressively price-clipped, removing a couple of letters on the flap, and with a small internal mend, but otherwise a very attractive, fresh copy. Connolly 100.

365 —. A Writer’s Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf. London: Hogarth Press 1953. Uncorrected proof. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Unprinted red wrappers. Spine a little sunned, and top corner a little bumped, still near fine. Scarce in this format.

The Earliest Work of Any Importance Written in English about Wines 366 (Wine). Sir Edward BARRY. Bart. Observations Historical, Critical and Medical, on the Wines of the Ancients. And the Analogy Between Them and Modern Wines. With General Observations on the Principles and Qualities of Water, and in particular those of Bath. London: Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand 1775. First edition. Quarto. 479, (1)pp. errata. Engraved title and frontispiece. Rebound with new endpapers in half-leather and cloth, with red morocco spine label gilt. Faint staining in the margins of the last dozen or so pages, very slight rubbing to the spine, near fine with nice, wide margins. Described by André Simon as “The earliest work of any importance written in English about wines.” An attractive copy. Between the Covers ~54~ Catalogue 143

367 (Women). Charlotte 370 (Women). Julia Ward Perkins GILMAN. His HOWE. From Sunset Ridge: Religion and Hers: A Study of Poems Old and New. Boston: the Faith of Our Fathers and the Houghton Mifflin Company 1899. Work of Our Mothers. New York: The Century Company (1923). Early reprint. Octavo. Original cloth and First edition. Fine in near fine printed papercovered boards lettered in gilt, top dustwrapper with a couple of small, narrow edge gilt. Corners a chips near the crown, and a touch of age- bit bumped, a very toning at the spine. Last book by Gilman, good copy. Signed and very uncommon in jacket. by the author: “Yours sincerely, Julia Ward Howe.” Includes the author’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

371 Alexander WOOLLCOTT and George S. 368 (Women). Jane ADDAMS. KAUFMAN. The Dark Tower: A Melodrama. New A New Conscience and An York: Random House 1934. Ancient Evil. New York: Macmillan First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with slight tanning to 1912. the white parts of the spine, a little loss First edition. Just about fine in a lovely, at the crown, and a rubbed tear on the near fine dustwrapper with very slight nick- front panel. A play that became the basis ing at the crown. A beautiful example of for two films: The Man With Two Faces the fragile and uncommon jacket. Addams in 1934 directed by Archie Mayo, and on the problems of “white slavery.” featuring Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, and Mae 369 Franz WRIGHT. Rorschach Test. Clarke; and an eponymous version in 1943 directed by John (No place): Minatoby (No date - 1991). Harlow and featuring Frederick First edition. String-tied wrappers. Pictures by Martha McCollough. A slight smudge on the front wrap, else fine. One of 100 numbered Burtwell, Anne Crawford, and copies Signed by both Wright and McCullough. David Farrar. Scarce. This is designated copy # 1, and in addition to being signed at the limitation 372 Lanford WILSON. page, is Signed again on the Hot L Baltimore. New York: titlepage, and is Hill & Wang (1973). yet again very First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap- warmly Inscribed per. Winner of both the New York by both, again on the titlepage to another poet Drama Critics Circle Award for and close friend of Wright’s. Very scarce, and Best American Play and an Obie not to be confused with the Carnegie-Mellon for Best Off-Broadway Play. Also University edition published several years later; the basis for a funny but short-lived OCLC locates a single copy of this edition. television series. A superior copy.

373 William Butler YEATS. The Wild Swans at Coole. New York: Macmillan 1919. First American edition, with new material added. Papercovered boards and jacket, both with a design by Sturge Moore. Neat, contemporary owner name on the front fly, corners very slightly bumped, else about fine in a lightly soiled, else near fine dustwrapper with a very short tear. Signed by the author on the title-page, and dated by him in 1920. A very attractive copy of this important volume of poetry.

374 —. Last Poems and Plays. New York: Macmillan 1940. First American edition. Fine in a very attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with modest toning to the spine, and tiny nicks and tears. A nice copy. Between the Covers ~55~ African-Americana

Author’s Copy 376 W.E.B. DU BOIS. 375 Countee CULLEN. The Ballad of the Black Folk Then and Brown Girl: An Old Ballad Retold. New York: Now: An Essay in the Harper 1927. History and Sociology First edition. Illustrations and decorations by Charles of the Negro Race. New Cullen. Spine label a little York: Henry Holt (1939). tanned else fine in remnants of the original cardboard First edition. Older bookplate slipcase. Countee Cullen’s on the front pastedown, light own copy with his owner- wear at the extremities, a near ship Inscription: “Author’s fine copy in a fresh and clean, Copy, Countee Cullen.” Laid near fine dustwrapper that is in is a typed letter Signed by lightly rubbed. Signed by Du Cullen, dated 25 April 1928 Bois. A very uncommon title, on Opportunity stationery (listing Cullen as Assistant Editor), to Carroll especially signed. A. Wilson, granting permission for Wilson to retain the three books that he sent to Wilson as a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, along with his application for a fellowship (not present). Wilson’s small, attractive bookplate is on the front pastedown. A unique copy of an important work.

377 Sterling A. BROWN. Southern Road. New York: Harcourt, 378 William Stanley Brace and Company (1932). BRAITHWAITE. Lyrics First edition. An owner name affixed on a piece of Life and Love. Boston: of paper to the front Herbert B. Turner 1904. pastedown, corners a First edition. Cloth and papercov- little bumped, a very ered boards. Handwritten verse good or better copy written on the half-title, a couple lacking the dustwrap- of small notes in the text, corners a per. Inscribed by the little worn, a very good plus copy author: “Remembering of a fragile volume, presumably issued without dustwrapper. a more than pleasant Poet, anthologist and historian’s first book, a collection of verse, Sunday – Sterling A. issued by a little-known publisher. Brown. April 22, 1934.” Blockson 101.

379 Paul Laurence DUNBAR. Majors and Minors. (Toledo: Hadley & Hadley 1895). First edition. Grey-blue cloth, with beveled boards (as called for by Blanck), titled in black on the front board. The fragile front endpaper, which has a couple of edge chips, has been professionally re- attached, some light staining at the bottom of the front board, a nice and presentable, very good copy of the author’s rare second book, one of only 1000 copies printed, and like his first, self- published by the author. An exceptionally scarce book. BAL 4917.

380 —. The Uncalled. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1898. First edition, binding “A” with the author’s name spelled incorrectly. The gilt on the front two books, Oak and Ivy and board a trifle rubbed, else a nice, very near fine copy. The author’s first novel and one of Majors and Minors, with the his scarcer titles. addition of eleven new poems. This copy Inscribed by the Inscribed by Dunbar author to his mother, Matilda to His Mother Dunbar: “To Ma With her son’s love.” Matilda Dunbar 381 —. Lyrics was the dedicatee of each of Love and of her son’s first two books, Laughter. New York: and while she is not here so Dodd, Mead & Company named, one is hard pressed 1903. to imagine a better associa- First edition. Very light tion than the one between the rubbing and a couple of tiny dents to author and the mother who taught him to the foredge still a nice, about fine copy. read, write and appreciate poetry. As nice a A collection that encompasses the poems copy as one could hope to own. that were originally published in his first Between the Covers ~56~ Catalogue 143

382 Chester B. HIMES. If He Hollers Let Him Go. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1945. First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of small internal repairs, and a bit of soiling and rubbing. A better than usual copy of the author’s increasingly scarce first book, cheaply produced during wartime, and seldom found in presentable condition.

383 —. La Croisade de Lee Gordon [Lonely Crusade]. (Paris): Correa (1952). First French edition. Translated by Yves Malartic. Pages with a little browning else fine in a lightly worn, near fine dustwrapper. The author’s second novel, Inscribed by Himes to Michel Fabre, a Sorbonne professor, biographer of Richard Wright, and the founding director of the Center for Afro- American Studies at the University of Paris: “For Michel Fabre with all best wishes Chester Himes.” Himes moved to France in the Spring of 1953. Books inscribed by Himes, while very scarce, do occasionally appear on the market, early books with early, and meaningful, inscriptions are very uncommon.

384 Pauline 386 (Early African-American Poet). Specimen of 1838 E. HOPKINS. Negro Poetry. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative One-page holograph manu- of Negro Life North and script of poetry by a black South. Boston: The Colored woman transcribed and signed Co-Operative Publishers 1900. by a missionary, Matthew Banks, in the West Indies and First edition. Illustration and dated 9 April 1838. Labeled cover designed by R. Emmett at the top: “A Specimen of Owen. Green cloth decorated Negro Poetry, extracted verba- in red and yellow. A couple of tim from an Epistle addressed small, faint stains on the front to me by a female convert, fly, but a lovely, fine copy of when leaving the West Indies.” this important novel, the eighth pub- Following the heading is a lished novel by an African American woman, and one of the twelve-line poem set in three most important, notable for its realistic portrayal of lynching stanzas, each of two rhyming and prejudice in the unreconstructed South. Additionally, this couplets of what is essentially a was only the third novel published by an African-American- farewell poem, wishing Banks owned publishing company. Hopkins was the literary editor success and a safe journey of Colored American Magazine, a short-lived but important from the island. Unfortunately periodical. A lovely copy of a rare and desirable book. Banks didn’t see fit to identify the author by name. Still, aside for the works of Phillis Wheatley and a single poem by Lucy Terry, we know 385 Charles JOHNSON. The Middle of no other earlier examples of poetry by an American black woman. Passage. New York: Atheneum 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by Johnson to a fellow author, and former colleague at Bennington: “For Nick 387 Jamaica KINCAID. Among Flowers: A Delbanco, with profound admiration & lifelong friendship. Charles Johnson. Walk in the Himalaya. Washington, DC: National Geographic 1/28/92.” Laid in is an Autograph Postcard (2005). Signed from Johnson to Delbanco, as well as First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap- Delbanco’s printed introductory notes to a per. Inscribed by Kincaid to fellow reading by Johnson. A novel about a freed slave author Nicholas Delbanco and his who, to his horror, stows away on a slave ship family: headed for Africa. National Book Award win- “To the ner. A D’s with wonder- love from ful asso- Jamaica.” ciation copy. Between the Covers ~57~ African-Americana With the Original Photogravure Print 388 (Photography). Julia PETERKIN and Doris ULMANN. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York: Robert O. Ballou (1933). First edition. Folio. Quarter white linen and brown papercovered beveled boards in slipcase. Very mild soiling and a few small spots to the spine, else fine in a very good example of the fragile, original papercovered cardboard slipcase, with moderate loss to the paper but all seams still intact. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by both Peterkin and Ulmann. Peterkin’s text, about poor black tenant farmers of the South, accompanied by Ulmann’s spectacular photogravures, including 18 not found in the trade edition. This copy with the original photographic print that is now rarely found in con- junction with the book, near fine with just a hint of wear at the extremities, not affecting the image, Signed beneath the image in pencil by Ulmann. Laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by Julia Peterkin, dated Oct 8th 1930 and briefly thanking her correspondent. Accompanied by a 1980 note of provenance relating that this copy was purchased from Peterkin’s grandson. An absolutely magnificent book, in our opinion one of the highpoints of American book production and rarely encountered. Roth 101.

389 — same title. New York: Robert O. Ballou (1933). First trade edition, first issue. Fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrap- 390 Walter per with small chips on the crown and rear panel. Adolphe ROBERTS. 391 Wallace THURMAN and A.L. FURMAN. The Pierrot Wounded Interne. New York: Macaulay (1932). and Other Poems. First edition. A bit of scuffing at the bottom of the boards else near fine in a New York: Britton bright, very good dustwrapper with some slight spine fading and some modest Publishing Company 1919. chipping to the spine ends. Additionally this copy is Signed by both authors – this is one of only two First edition. Printed and illustrated books we have seen signed by Thurman. A very nice copy of this seldom encountered novel, a some- perfectbound wrappers. Modest chips at what sensationalistic story of what happens behind the scenes at the corners of the front wrap and a small a big city hospital. Thurman was a central figure in the Harlem chip on the rear panel, else a very good Renaissance. His residence in Harlem was referred to as “Niggerati plus copy. One of 550 numbered copies, Manor” and was one of the central gathering places for the Harlem this copy unnumbered. The author’s rare intellectual elite. Born in Salt Lake City and educated there and in first book, a volume of poetry by Roberts, Los Angeles, his brilliance and varied background allowed him to accompanied by a few translations into participate in and simultaneously critique the Harlem Renaissance English of poems by European poets. with unique perspective. He was chosen by Langston Hughes, Blurb by W.S. Braithwaite on the rear Zora Neale Hurston, and others to be the editor of Fire!!, the short wrap. Very scarce. lived (one issue) magazine which was probably the high point of the young intellectuals during the Harlem Renaissance. The two novels he wrote during that time, The Blacker the Berry and The Infants of Spring, were defining works of Renaissance literature. The Interne, written with Furman, a white author Thurman met while working at Macaulay, is a scathing indictment of the bureaucracy and corruption of urban hospitals as seen by the novel’s hero, an idealistic young doctor. Thurman left Harlem for Hollywood and worked on screenplays, including Tomorrow’s Children starring Sterling Holloway, a story drawn from The Interne about court-ordered sterilization of the poor. Thurman’s weekly studio paycheck of $250 was, according to one source, the highest salary paid a Negro in America. He returned to Harlem for a visit in 1934. An alcoholic and long plagued with ill-health, he collapsed in the middle of his reunion party and was taken to the very hospital he condemned in The Interne. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, he languished there for six months before finally dying on Christmas, 1934, at the age of 32. Rare in jacket and exceptionally so signed. Between the Covers ~58~ Catalogue 143 First published work by an African-American 392 Phillis WHEATLEY. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant of Mr. John Wheatley of Boston, in New England. London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston 1773. First edition. Early, but not contemporary full polished calf, red morocco spine label gilt. The often missing frontispiece has been remargined, all blanks present, a small 1951 catalogue description (sale price - $10.00!) tipped to the front blank has offset a little on the facing blank, else a clean and lovely, fine copy. The first book to be published by an African-American. Wheatley was captured by slavers in Senegal and sold in Boston in 1761 to John and Susanna Wheatley, who named her for the ship that transported her, the Phillis. The Wheatleys educated her and encouraged her to write. Accompanied by the Wheatley’s son she travelled to London to look for a publisher. The Countess of Huntingdon, a family friend, took an interest in her work and financed this publication. The author was freed later that year, and in 1776, 394 Booker T. during the siege of Boston, appeared before General Washington. The death of WASHINGTON. the Wheatleys led to an unfortunate marriage with a free black man who went Stenographic bankrupt, and she died in childbirth in 1784. The famous frontispiece illustra- Report of the tion of Wheatley is the only surviving work by the African-American slave artist Scipio Moorehead. A very attractive copy. Blockson 101. Commencement Exercises of the John O’Hara’s Copy Washington 393 Richard WRIGHT. Native Son. Normal School New York: Harper & Brothers 1940. No. 2, M Street First edition. Top corner very slightly bumped, very High School, near fine, in a supplied, very good or better dust- Armstrong Manual wrapper, with faint evidence of tape removal at the Training School at spine ends. The true first edition (the book club Convention Hall, edition, which also states “first edition,” is often Washington, D.C., offered incorrectly as the first). John O’Hara’s copy Friday, June 16, with his small pencil ownership Signature at the 1905. Booker T. bottom of the front fly: “John O’Hara.” Along with Washington - the Ellison’s Invisible Man and Baldwin’s Go Tell It On principal speaker the Mountain, Native Son is one of the indisputable of the evening. Washington, DC: mid-century classics of African- William H. Davis, Stenographer and Principal of Lincoln Temple Business College (1905). American literature. Wright 23 folio sheets, typed rectos only and brad-bound into unprinted blue paper wraps. Three horizontal folds, tiny tears and O’Hara appeared together to the edges of the wrappers, a near fine set. A verbatim transcription of the commencement ceremony noting Rev. on the radio program “Author William V. Tunnell’s invocation, and brief addresses by Hon. H.B.F. Macfarland, and Hon. W.S. Montgomery, the Meets the Critics,” with Wright bulk of the transcript is dedicated to Washington’s address (complete with notes on taking the part of critic and the audience’s reaction with applause and laughter) and which appears from page 5 to commenting, “O’Hara’s short midway through page 22. OCLC lists a transcription of the speech in another volume stories are almost as good as published in 1905 (2 copies), but makes no mention of this stenographic record. A short stories can be written.” possibly unique artifact of a Washington address.

395 —. Tuskegee and its People: Their Ideals and Achievements. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1905. First edition. 354pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Light rubbing to the corners, else a bright and fine copy in a very good example of the rare printed dustwrapper with some chips and tears, particularly where the crown meets the rear panel, and some professional internal reinforcement to the folds. A collection of essays and articles about the school and the achievements of its graduates by Tuskegee graduates and faculty including Mrs. Washington, Robert Moton, William Holtzclaw, Emmett J. Scott, George W. Lovejoy, and many others. This copy has a tipped-in page before the half-title with the printed “Compliments of Booker T. Washington.” An attractive copy of a scarce title, most likely prepared for and distributed to potential philanthropists upon whom Tuskegee relied for financial support, particularly in its early years. In case we forgot to mention it, the jacket is rare. Between the Covers ~59~ Children's Books

396 Lloyd ALEXANDER. The Wizard in the Tree. New York: Dutton (1975). First edition. Illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. Fine in a slightly sunned, fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed: “For Carl and B., with fond and wizardly wishes from Lloyd.” The recipient, Carl Karsch, worked with Alexander in a bank in the 1950s and they remained life-long friends. A National Book Award Finalist in 1976.

397 —. The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha. New York: E.P. Dutton (1978). First edition. Fine in a slightly sunned, fine dustwrapper illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. Inscribed by Alexander to Carl Karsch (see above): “For Carl and B., these two new lives and many fond wishes from a not-so-new Lloyd, Christmas 1978.” Winner of the 1979 CRABbery Award, the 1981 Dutch “Silver Slate Pencil” Award and the 1984 Austrian Children’s Book Award. Also a National Book Award Finalist in 1979.

398 L. Frank BAUM. The Marvelous Land of Oz [with] Queen Zixi of Ix. Chicago / New York: Reilly & Britton / Century 1904, 1905 First editions. Rebound at a very early date in uniform bindings. Rebacked, labels removed from each spine, internally fine. The Mar velous Land of Oz is Signed by the author on the recto of the frontispiece illustration: “Very Sincerely Yrs, L. Frank Baum.” Queen Zixi of Ix has a 1905 Autograph Letter Signed “L. Frank Baum” tipped-in before the frontispiece illustration. The letter has been trimmed slightly to fit the book, affecting one letter, and just touching the top of his printed name in the letterhead.

400 Howard and Bette FAST. 399 Jean and Laurent The Picture-Book History DE BRUNHOFF, adapted of the Jews. (New York): Hebrew from the drawings of. The Publishing Company (1942). Colorful World of Babar First edition. Quarto. Illustrated paper- The Little Elephant / Le covered boards in dustwrapper. Fine in a Monde Pittoresque De price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning and a couple of short tears Babar Le Petit Elephant. San (curiously, we have never seen an unprice- Francisco: Determined Productions 1961. clipped First edition. Large folio (approximately 14" x 20"). Horizontal canvas tape bound with printed stiff copy). card covers. First (title) leaf detached, with tiny tears and a small stain at the extremities, a bit of Children’s foxing on the covers, else a near fine copy of this coloring book with captions in both English and history French. Exceptionally scarce. OCLC locates no copies. by the author of 401 Walter R. BROOKS. The Clockwork Twin. New York: Knopf 1937. Spartacus. First edition. Drawings by Kurt Wiese. Corners a little bumped else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper without significant chips or tears, but with a little unpro- fessional “collaboration” to the front panel drawing (i.e. a little coloring), as well as on the rear panel and rear flap. Freddy the Pig and friends.

402 —. Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans. New York: Knopf 1957. First edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. A faint dampstain on the bottom edge else near fine in a faintly (but pervasively) dampstained, very good dustwrapper with some other general light wear. Freddy the intrepid pig detective helps protect two sets of plans for a flying saucer. A pleasing copy. Between the Covers ~60~ Catalogue 143

403 Edward GOREY. The Fantod Pack. (No place - probably Southern California): The Owl Press (no date - circa 1969). The true first edition, unauthorized, and pirated from a 1966 issue of Esquire magazine. Twenty tarot-type cards, fluorescent green cardstock printed in purple, wrapped in a printed yellow sheet, with a printed blue sheet wrapped around. Cards are fine, yellow sheet is fine, blue sheet has an old handwritten price struck through, and two small tape shadows, else fine. Rare. Gorey’s take on the trumps major of tarot cards, the authorized edition of the pack wasn’t issued until 1995. Toledano A113c, speculating that these were produced in 1969.

404 —. The Green Beads. New York: Albondocani Press 1978. First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus for the edition laid in. Copy letter E of 26 lettered copies Signed by Gorey, and reserved for the use of the author and publisher.

405 — same title. New York: Albondocani Press 1978. First edition. Stapled wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Prospectus for the edition laid in. Copy number 4 of 400 numbered copies Signed by Gorey. Not shown.

406 — as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Alms for Oblivion. (New York: no publisher no date - 1978). First edition. Sixteen postcards in a printed envelope. Fine. Toledano A68.

407 —. Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses. New York: Workman Publishing (1980). First edition. 12mo. Fine in wrappers as issued. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by Gorey.

408 — as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Neglected Murderesses Series. (New York: no publisher no date - 1980). First edition. Twelve postcards (this set is complete plus has a duplicate of one of the cards) in a printed envelope, with a separate limitation card. Fine. One of 250 numbered sets Signed by Gorey. Toledano A79.

409 —. Melange Funeste. (New York): Gotham Book Mart 1981. First edition. 12mo. Fine in wrappers as issued. One of 500 numbered copies Signed by Gorey. A “slice” book.

410 — as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Tragédies Topiares. (New York: no publisher no date - 1989).

First edition. Twelve postcards in a printed envelope, with a separate limitation card. Fine. One of 250 numbered sets Signed by Gorey. Toledano A98a.

411 — as Dogear Wryde. Dogear Wryde Postcards: Menaced Objects. (New York: no publisher no date - 1989). First edition. Sixteen postcards in a printed envelope, with a separate limitation card. Fine. One of 250 numbered sets Signed by Gorey. Toledano A96a.

412 — as Garrod Weedy. The Pointless Book: Or, Nature & Art in Two Volumes Bound Together. (No place): The Fantod Press 1993. First edition. Small book (64mo). Fine in wrappers. Copy number 13 of 100 numbered copies Signed by Gorey as Garrod Weedy. Between the Covers ~61~ Children's Books The Dedication Copy Extra-illustrated by the Dedicatee, and with the Original Painting for the Frontispiece 413 Mary KENNEDY. Music by Deems TAYLOR. A Surprise to the Children. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1933.

First edition. Seven color illustrations, and thirteen monochrome and many small drawings in the text by J.H. Dowd. Four songs, with music by Deems Taylor. An extra copy of each dustwrapper flap tipped to the rear endpaper, corners a bit rubbed, and several of the black and white drawings have been colored in (more about this later), else a very good or better copy in a good dustwrapper with a large chip at the bottom of the front panel. The Dedication Copy. Inscribed by Mary Kennedy (who was married to Deems Taylor) to their daughter: “For Joan with love from Mary. November 3, 1933.” Additionally, on the dedication page, beneath the printed dedication which reads “For Joan” Kennedy has written: “written by her Mother and given to her with a heart full of devoted love.” We can only assume that Joan, who would have been six at the time of publication, is responsible for the extra coloring in the text. The jacket text reveals that “their six-year-old daughter, Joan Taylor, suggested the title.” [Accompanied by]: the original water color painting for the frontispiece illustration by J.H. Dowd, of two children floating far above land in a bubble. Matted to approximately 10" x 12½", framed and glazed. Unexamined out of the frame. While the frame and matte exhibit wear, the painting appears fine. Also with an 8" x 10" photograph of Kennedy laid in. 414 Ted HUGHES. Meet My Folks! London: Faber and Faber (1961). First edition. Illustrated by George Adamson. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing. Contemporary owner names on the front fly, under which is a Signed sentiment from the author: “with good wishes, Ted Hughes.” The author’s third book and first book of children’s verse. A very nice copy.

415 —. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber (1963). First edition. Illustrated by George Adamson. Thin octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a rubbed mark on the front panel, still a remarkably fresh copy. Stories for children.

416 —. The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People. London: Faber and Faber (1963). Uncorrected proof. Illustrations by R.A. Brandt. Wrappers. A touch of age-toning, near fine. Uncommon format.

417 —. Earth-Moon. (London): Rainbow Press (1976). First edition. Illustrated by the author. Full blue calf stamped in silver. Fine in fine slipcase (slipcase not shown). One of 200 numbered copies (of a total edition of 226) Signed by the author. A beauti- 418 Rev. Charles KINGSLEY. ful copy. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham 1864. First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Professionally rebacked, with endpapers replaced, else a fine copy of this children’s classic. Between the Covers ~62~ Catalogue 143

419 Norman LINDSAY. The Magic Pudding: The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff. Sydney: Angus and Robertson (1918). First edition, first issue, with green “A&R” endpapers and maroon cloth spine titled in gilt. Illustrated by the author. Slight offsetting on the front board (from the applied illustration on the jacket) else fine in a lovely, fine example of the rare dustwrapper with some tiny nicks at the corners. The author, best known for his naughty paintings and drawings of nudes (and whose frolicsome lifestyle inspired the splendid independent film Sirens) wrote and illustrated this children’s book, the most famous Australian book for children. It follows a koala bear’s adventures in the bush protecting a magic “cut-an’-come again puddin’” that replenishes itself after every bite, and in any flavor that the eater desires. He and his friends protect the pudding from the depredations and kid- napping attempts of two professional pudding thieves, a wombat and a possum. The book gained new life when it was reprinted in the United State during the Depression, at a time when a replenishing pudding probably sounded like a good idea. An absolutely superior copy, probably the nicest we will ever see, of a charming and amusing tale, and a classic which has never been out of print.

421 James Whitcomb RILEY. Riley Roses. New York: Grosset and 420 Mary O’HARA. My Dunlap (1909). Friend Flicka. Philadelphia: Reprint. Illustrated by Howard Chandler J.B. Lippincott (1941). Christy. Decorations by Franklin Booth. Fine First edition. A faint pencil name in a modestly spine-tanned, very good or better on the front fly, fine in an attrac- dustwrapper with a Christy illustration. Scarce tive, very good dustwrapper with in jacket. small nicks and tears at the extremities, and very slight loss at the 422 Chris VAN ALLSBURG. crown. The author’s first book. Jumanji. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. Basis for the eponymous 1943 film 1981. directed by Harold D. Schuster, and First edition. Oblong folio. A featuring Roddy McDowall and tiny owner name on the front Preston Foster. The first edition is 424 Robert Penn WARREN. pastedown, fine in near fine, exceptionally uncommon in jacket. price-clipped dustwrapper, The Gods of Mount Olympus. with a discreet 2" tear on the New York: Random House/Legacy Books rear panel. A very nice copy of the author’s (1959). very scarce second book, winner of the Caldecott First edition. Illustrated by William Moyers. Medal. Basis for the Joe Johnston film with Robin Boards a litle rubbed, near fine in near fine Williams, Bonnie Hunt, and Kirsten Dunst. dustwrapper with a few short tears. Signed by the author. One of the author’s two 423 —. [Poster for the book]: Jumanji. children’s Approximately 40" x 44". Fine, folded into quarters as books, this issued. Poster for one much the release of the the scarcer book, reproducing of the pair. one of its illustra- A nicer copy tions. Signed by than usual; Van Allsburg. this is the only signed copy we recall having seen.

425 E.B. WHITE. Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Brothers (1945). First edition. Pictures by Garth Williams. Fine in a near very good dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks and a modest stain on the spine, with the price on the front flap intact (which almost never seems to be the case). A cheaply produced children’s classic, the marvelous story of an adventurous mouse who acts human.

426 —. Charlotte’s Web. New York: Harper and Brothers (1952). First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a crease to the front spine fold and only a little bit of the spine toning that usually plagues this title. An especially nice copy of an enduring children’s classic about a spider who befriends a pig. Between the Covers ~63~ Mystery & Detective Fiction

427 Eric AMBLER. A They Live By Night Coffin for Dimitrios. New 430 Edward ANDERSON. York: Knopf 1939. Thieves Like Us. New York: Frederick A. First American edition. Fine in a Stokes 1937. very good plus dustwrapper with First edition. Fine in a very good plus example of some tiny, internally repaired tears, the dustwrapper with some modest chipping on two tiny nicks, and a little edge- the rear panel, tiny nicks at the spine ends, some wear. A much nicer than usual rubbing, and a closed tear on the front panel. copy of this book that seems always Basis for the 1948 film They Live By Night, the found beset by grievous flaws. A first film directed by Nicholas Ray (at the sug- classic thriller, Ambler’s best known gestion of influential producer and much later book and basis for the film The character actor John Houseman). The book was Mask of Dimitrios directed by Jean filmed under its original title in 1974 by Robert Negulesco, and featuring Peter Altman, starring Keith Carradine and Shelley Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Duvall and featuring background radio music Zachary Scott. and sounds provided by mystery author (and old-time radio expert) John Dunning. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. 428 (True Crime). Danny AHEARN. How to Spellbound Commit a Murder. New 431 Francis BEEDING. The York: Ives Washburn 1930. House of Dr. Edwardes. Boston: First edition. A small erasure on the Little, Brown 1928. front fly else fine in a price-clipped, First American edition. An ownership stamp very good dustwrapper with small on the front fly else fine in an attractive, near chips at the extremities, and the folds fine example of the rare dustwrapper with a internally mended with archival tape. couple of short tears and a little general over- A non-fiction how-to about commit- all age-toning. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s ting major crimes, by a gangster and 1945 psychological thriller Spellbound, script- ex-con. Also includes helpful hints ed by Ben Hecht, starring Ingrid Bergman on robbing jewelry and fur stores, and Gregory Peck and with Salvador Dali’s dope dealing, and much, much famous dream sequences. more. Some of Ahearn’s stories were used by Hollywood as the basis for the films Escape from Crime (1942) and Bulldog Edition (1936). 432 Robert BLOCH. Psycho. New York: Simon and Schuster 1959. 429 Libbie BLOCK. Wild Calendar. New York: First edition. Pages with the usual uniform Knopf 1946. browning, else fine First edition. Dark blue cloth with textured dustwrapper. A tiny in near fine dust- spot on the front board, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with wrapper with slight two tiny tears. A beautiful copy of the author’s first novel, pre- rubbing and wear. sumably autobiographical, about a Denver woman who marries Basis for Alfred young, and pining for her lost youth, tries to do something about Hitchcock’s master- it. Basis for the 1949 Max Ophuls-directed noir film Caught fea- piece, considered by turing Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan as her rich but neurotic many critics one of husband, and James Mason as the doctor she tries to escape with. the greatest films in any genre. A very nice copy.

433 James Lee BURKE. Lay Down My Sword and Shield. New York: Crowell (1971). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with three short tears, two of them trifling, the third along the edge of the spine is a little rubbed. Author’s third book, and the scarcest of his three early non-mystery titles.

434 —. The Convict. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University (1985). First edition. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Published simultaneously in both hard and soft covers, a collection of stories that received almost no distribution. This hardcover is easily his scarcest book. Between the Covers ~64~ Catalogue 143

Cain’s own copy of his first publication 435 James M. CAIN. The Final Issue of The Lorraine Cross. France: 79th Division May 8, 1919. James M. Cain’s own copy of the final issue of The Lorraine Cross, the newspaper of the 79th Division of the U.S. Army of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War I. The Lorraine Cross was founded, edited, and largely written by James M. Cain, in part as a means of avoiding combat. This is the final issue of the paper, issued as the Division was returning to the U.S. The paper is quite browned, but otherwise fine. When Cain returned, he had this issue and some associated material matted and framed in period arts-and-crafts style oak frames, and hung in his own house. The issue prints a letter of thanks from the Division’s commanding General Joseph E. Kuhn to Cain, thanking him and the paper’s staff for their efforts on the paper. Also with: the original typed letter Signed from Kuhn to Cain (also framed by Cain). The letter is slightly darkened at the extremities from “matte- burn” but is otherwise fine. Also accompanying the letter and the newspaper is an original broadside printed in red and blue: “Have You Subscribed to The Lorraine Cross?” printed in red and two shades of blue with a comic drawing of doughboys reading the paper. This too has been framed by Cain in a compatible frame, and is in fine condition. Issues of The Lorraine Cross are impossible to find. To find Cain’s own copy of the last and most important issue, along with the letter and broadside, is about as much as one could wish for of Cain’s “juvenilia.” For the three framed items. Cain’s favorite photograph – Inscribed to His Wife 436 —. Portrait Photograph Inscribed to His Wife. Black and white portrait photograph. Approximately 8" x 10". Photographer’s stamp (“Melbourne Spurr”) on the recto. Photographer’s signature in the lower right corner a bit smudged, upper right-hand margin slightly cropped, else an attractive, fine print. Inscribed by the author on the recto to his fourth (and final) wife, the opera singer Florence MacBeth: “To Florence: Her favorite ham. Jamie. March 13, 1946.” A studio portrait of Cain which he always referred to as his “gangster photo.” Cain, behat- ted, and with his overcoat collar turned up, gruffly peers out of the photo. Always sensitive about his homely looks, this was Cain’s favorite photo of himself, with the knowing tough-guy look a happy substitute for his lack of physical beauty. An example of this photograph (and indeed perhaps this same print) appears in the Roy Hoopes biography of Cain.

437 Agatha CHRISTIE. Ten Little Niggers. London: Collins for the Crime Club (1939). First edition. Some sunning to the spine ends, and a dampstain on the front board, an about very good copy in an attractive, very good plus example of the dustwrapper with some neatly effected professional restoration, particularly at the base of the spine. A highly politically incorrect title even when it was published, the jacket compounded the prob- lem by portraying little black figures with big white lips cavorting with spears and eating watermelon. One of Christie’s best-known and most ingenious mysteries, the book was published in America as And Then There Were None and was later reissued as Ten Little Indians, perhaps only an incremental improvement over the original. One of Christie’s rarest and most sought after titles.

438 G.K. CHESTERTON. The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. London: Cassell and Company (1922).

First edition. Fine in a very attractive, near fine dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the top of the spine. A collection of stories following the exploits of gentleman detective Horne Fisher (bearing no connection to the eponymous Hitchcock films, but classics in their own right). A lovely copy of a very scarce and desirable title.

439 —. 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. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. Between the Covers ~65~ Mystery & Detective Fiction

440 Irvin S. COBB. 443 Freeman Wills CROFTS. Down Yonder with The Pit-Prop Syndicate. New York: Judge Priest and Irvin S. Thomas Seltzer 1925. Cobb. New York: Ray Long and First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears. An abso- Richard R. Smith 1932. lutely beautiful copy. Author’s third mystery. First edition, first issue. A small, Amateurs trying to penetrate a crime syndicate neat owner name, and a tiny dark are forced to call upon the professionals. We spot in the front gutter else fine in can’t imagine a nicer copy exists. fine, very slightly soiled dustwrapper. A collection of stories, which provided the characters for the Publisher’s File Copy 1934 John Ford-directed film Judge 444 Carter DICKSON. The Priest with Will Rogers in the title Judas Window. New York: William role. A lovely copy. Morrow 1938. First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good dust- The Most Dangerous Game wrapper with some rubbing and small nicks. 441 Richard CONNELL. Publisher’s file copy, so stamped on the top edge, Variety. New York: Minton and with publication date and some specs for Balch & Co. 1925. the book noted in pencil on the front fly, and First edition. A contemporary additionally, with some pencil changes to the owner name, a very faint, slight text of the front flap of the jacket, apparently dampstain on the edge of the front for a later edition. A unique copy of a Haycraft- board, just about fine in a good Queen Cornerstone. only dustwrapper with a number of chips, including the bottom Quantum of Solace 2" of the spine. A rare collection 445 Ian FLEMING. For Your of short stories, mostly notable Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape for the first book appearance of one of the most famous and anthologized short stories, “The Most (1960). Dangerous Game.” The tale of a big game hunter who uses people First edition. Fine as prey on his private island, the story has been filmed at least in fine dustwrapper eight times (not counting numerous additional radio and televi- with a tiny crease on the front flap. sion adaptations), first and most memorably in 1932 by Merian The eighth Bond book, containing five separate C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, featuring Joel McCrea, Fay stories of 007: the title story, “From a View To a Wray and Robert Armstrong. Cooper and Schoedsack were simul- Kill,” “Quantum of Solace,” “Risico,” and “The taneously filming their masterpiece, King Kong (which took much Hildebrand Rarity.” The first three stories have lent longer to produce because of its special effects) and used the same their names to Bond films and, in the case of the elaborate jungle sets and much of the same cast (who would quick- book’s title, for a hit song as well. An exceptional ly change costumes mid-day and return to the set). RKO remade copy. the film in 1945 as A Game of Death, directed by Robert Wise. Another story in this book, “Isles of Romance” was made into the 446 David GOODIS. Retreat 1927 Mervyn Leroy-directed film No Place to Go with Mary Astor from Oblivion. New York: E.P. Dutton and Lloyd Hughes. The jacket of this book is of very thin and 1939. brittle paper stock, and is virtually never found. Rare. First edition. A tiny stain at the bottom of the front board Scandal Sheet else fine in near fine dust- 442 Samuel FULLER. The Dark Page. wrapper with some modest New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1944). rubbing at the spine ends. First edition. About fine in a moderately worn, near A much nicer than usual very good dustwrapper with two small nicks at the copy of the author’s first crown, and a couple of tears on the front panel. book. Goodis’ reputation The third novel and first mystery by the future cult has steadily developed as film director, written while he was a corporal in the one of the most impor- Army. Set partially in the Bowery in New York City, a tant of the noir novelists. newspaper editor murders a blackmailer, and his star Author of many paperback reporter is hot on the trail. Basis for the 1952 film originals, his hardcover noir Scandal Sheet directed by Phil Karlson, and fea- titles are extremely uncom- turing Broderick Crawford, John Derek, and Donna mon, and Retreat from Reed. Exceptionally scarce. Oblivion is by far the scarcest of these. Between the Covers ~66~ Catalogue 143

447 James Edward 449 Thomas HARRIS. The Silence GRANT. The Green of the Lambs. New York: St. Martin’s Press Shadow. New York: Hartney (1988). Press 1935. Advance Reading Copy. First edition. Fine in a lightly Well-rubbed wrappers, worn, near fine and very attractive an about very good copy. dustwrapper designed by Charles Inscribed by the author B. Gilbert with a few short tears to a close friend: “ For and some rubbing. The jacket has —, my neighbor and an unusual design with the tops Trivial Pursuit partner, and bottoms of the flaps extend- with every good wish. ed, folded inward and glued (as Thomas Harris, Sag issued) to make pockets that hold Harbor September / 88.” Basis for the acclaimed the jacket on. Very hardboiled Jonathan Demme film which was the first film private eye novel. The Chicago-born author since One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to win was a newspaper journalist who wrote a column on rackets all the major Academy Awards. Harris lived in and racketeering, and later became a very successful screenwriter. Europe for many years; his signature is among the scarcest of contemporary Among his produced scripts were The Great John L., The Angel authors, and is seldom found as part of a personal association. and the Bad Man, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flying Leathernecks, Hondo, The Alamo and Donovan’s Reef. This particular novel was the basis The First Inscribed Copy for the fast-paced and very entertaining 1936 Charles Vidor film 450 Harry HERVEY. School for Eternity. New York: G.P. Muss ‘em Up, with Preston Foster as detective “Tip” O’Neil. Putnam’s Sons (1941). First edition. Very near fine in an about very good dustwrapper 448 Dashiell HAMMETT. The with some modest chipping on the Glass Key. London: Alfred A. Knopf 1931. front panel. Murder and romance at a mysterious citadel in the West First edition, preceding the American edition, Indies. Frances Marion was the and first issue, with the Knopf imprint (later dedicatee of the book. Hervey issues have the Cassell imprint). Attractive placed most of his works in “exotic” engraved bookplate on the front pastedown, locales. The slightly cocked, and with a small, not too obtru- classic film sive stain on the front board, otherwise near fine, Shanghai lacking the rare dustwrapper. A very attractive Express was copy of the author’s fourth book. This true first, based on English edition is exceptionally uncommon, and another of flat out rare in the jacket (which this copy lacks). his stories. This copy with a warm, full-page Knopf published in the U.K. for only a few Inscription by the author, noting “this the years, and generally produced very small editions. first inscribed copy of ‘School for Eternity.’”

451 John LE CARRÉ. Call for the Dead. New York: Walker (1962). First American edition. A fine copy in very good dustwrapper with two short tears and some age-toning or soiling at the extremities. A nice copy of the author’s uncommon first book, and the introduction to the world of George Smiley.

452 —. A Murder of Quality. New York: Walker 1963. First American edition. Slight stain on the foredge and slightly warped, as usual (curiously this Cold War-era thriller was printed in then Communist Bloc Poland, with indifferent production results), near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a little of the usually-worse fading to the delicate pink spine. A nice copy of the author’s very uncommon second book, featuring George Smiley.

453 —. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. London: Gollancz 1963. First edition. Foredge a little soiled and barely perceptible discoloration to the spinal edges, else a fine copy in an exceptionally fine and bright dustwrapper, without any of the usual fading. A splendid copy of this Edgar Award-winning novel that revealed the duplicity and moral ambivalence in the spy trade that seems so obvious now. Basis for the Martin Ritt film featuring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. A very nice copy. Between the Covers ~67~ Mystery & Detective Fiction

458 (Western). Elmore LEONARD. Escape from Five Shadows. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1955. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing on the front panel, and two tiny tears barely worthy of mention. The third of the author’s three Houghton Mifflin hardcover west- erns, from early in Leonard’s career. He has gone on to become one of the most successful mystery novelists working today, and several of his works have been adapted to film. Only a small number of hardcover copies of this edition were printed, and most of them went to libraries (when copies surface on the market they almost invariably have replaced endpapers and remnants of library 454 John D. MacDONALD. Wine of the markings). Dreamers. New York: Greenberg (1951). A superior First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rub- copy of a bing on the front panel and very slight fading to the spine. notable rar- The author’s first hardcover book, an excellent science-fic- ity, avidly sought by both western and mystery tion novel that has been overshadowed by his detective fic- collectors. tion. A much nicer than usual copy.

455 —. The Deep Blue Good-By. New York: 459 Jerome ODLUM. Each Dawn J.B. Lippincott 1975. I Die. Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill First American hardcover edition. A trifle sunned at the (1938). extremities, thus near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a First edition. Modest wear to the boards, very good bit of rubbing and two tiny tears. A very nice copy of the in an about very good dustwrapper with modest first Travis McGee novel (although not the first to be pub- loss at the spine ends, and several internal mends. lished in hardcover in the U.S.). Basis for the 1939 William Keighley film featuring James Cagney as an unjustly imprisoned reporter, Dorothy Hughes’ Copy and George Raft as a hard-as-nails mobster he of a Queen’s Quorum Title turns to for help. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. 456 Philip MacDONALD. Something to Hide. Garden City: Doubleday / Crime Club 460 L.T. MEADE. The Brotherhood of the 1952. Seven Kings. London: Ward Locke & Co. 1899. First edition, preceding the English edition. Pages a little browned, else fine in a modestly spine-faded, First edition. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Early and neat gift very good plus dustwrapper with some light rub- inscription, modest wear to the extremities, and some bing and very short tears. Edgar-winning mystery foxing throughout, a bright, author Dorothy Hughes’ copy with her ownership near fine copy. Queen’s Quorum Signature on the says “the earliest appearance of a front fly. A collec- female felon in a series of short tion of short sto- stories.” Very scarce, particularly ries, and a Queen’s in this condition. Quorum title.

Rambo 457 David MORRELL. First Blood. New York: M. Evans (1972).

First edition. Fine in a presentable, very good dustwrapper with some staining visible on the 461 Sara PARETSKY. inside of the jacket, and some modest wear at the spine ends. Signed by the author, his first Indemnity Only. New York: book, the novel that introduced the iconic char- The Dial Press (1982). acter of John Rambo, in the 1970s the archetyp- First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. al misunderstood Vietnam vet, and in the 1980s Signed by the author, her first book. A the invincible American one-man army. superior, as new copy. Between the Covers ~68~ Catalogue 143

462 James ROSS. 464 (Jim THOMPSON). Compiled by the Workers They Don’t Dance of the Federal Writer’s Project of the Works Progress Much. Boston: Houghton Administration in the State of Oklahoma. Tulsa: A Guide to Mifflin Company 1940. the Oil Capital. American Guide Series. Tulsa: The Mid-West Printing Co. / (Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ First edition. Contemporary Project) 1938. owner name, cloth on the spine First Edition. Stapled orange wrappers. Slightly a bit foxed and soiled, a very sunned at the spine, still easily a fine and crisp copy. good copy in an edgeworn, An attractively printed pamphlet, and the second very good dustwrapper with a (of three) books worked on by Jim Thompson for modest chip at the foot, and the WPA, as Director. Presumably Thompson pro- some nicks and short tears at vided much of the text for this rare pamphlet. The the extremities. Signed by the Oklahoma WPA produced only four books of which author. Extremely uncommon Thompson worked on three (he was not involved in hardboiled first novel: Smut and his the production of the state guide). A rare Thompson assistant Jack McDonald scheme to item, perhaps the rarest, preceding both Now and gyp a small town political boss, fool the sheriff and, if neces- On Earth and his first short story appearance. sary, kill each other. Most of the book takes place in a Southern roadhouse. Reportedly one of only 2000 copies. Ross was a 465 Ellis PETERS. A Morbid North Carolina-native, and the brother of author Eleanor Ross Taste for Bones. New York: William Taylor (who was married to author Peter Taylor). Published in Morrow 1978. the Lost American Classics series, this novel enjoys something First American edition. The slightest smudge on of a cult following. The only signed copy we’ve seen. the front board, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper. The first Brother Cadfael mystery. 463 Ira WOLFERT. Tucker’s People. New York: 466 William L.B. Fischer 1943. Rawle First edition in first issue dustwrapper, priced $3.00 and with text WEEKS. instead of the illustration on the Knock front panel. Fine in a near fine dust- and Wait wrapper with the top corner clipped a While. (but a price printed on the bottom Boston: Hough of the flap), and a tiny tear on the ton Mifflin flap. Basis for the film Force of Evil 1957. featuring John Garfield as a crooked First edition. A short tear at the crown else fine in lawyer, a masterpiece considered the a moderately rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with darkest, seediest, and most claustro- three short tears. Edgar Award winner for Best phobic of all film noir. Very scarce. Novel. A nice copy of an uncommon title.

467 Cornell WOOLRICH. Cover Charge. New York: Boni & Liveright 1926. First edition. Corners bumped, modest tears at the spine ends, a near very good copy lacking the very uncommon dustwrapper. First book by the much admired genre writer whose work is periodically rediscovered. This copy is nicely Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, utilizing most of the front fly: “To Ken Daughrity in memory of many pleasant sympathies we share / from his devoted friend Cornell Woolrich. New York Aug. 10, 1926.” Daughrity’s pencil signature appears on the rear fly as “D’Aughrity,” and a penciled address is on the front pastedown. The novel, which is a Jazz Age imitation of Woolrich’s then-idol F. Scott Fitzgerald, features a female character named Vera Dougherty, and perhaps the recipient of this copy, likely a Columbia classmate of the undergraduate author, lent a variation of his name to her. Woolrich signed little, and but for this copy, we’ve never seen a copy of his first book signed.

468 —. Times Square. New York: Horace Liveright 1929. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few small tears, a couple of tiny nicks, and some slight age-toning at the spine. The third, and in our experience, the scarcest of the author’s six F. Scott Fitzgerald-influenced novels of the Jazz Age, published before he made his name writing noir thrill- ers. “A story of the gay and tawdry little boys and girls whose playground is Broadway.” Pretty, hard-boiled flapper intermittently supports her gad-about boyfriend as he trips the lights fantastic. Exceptionally uncommon in jacket. Between the Covers ~69~ Science-Fiction & Fantasy

469 Isaac 471 Ray BRADBURY. Fahrenheit 451. New York: ASIMOV. Ballantine (1953). Pebble in the First edition, binding state D (no established priority). Slight rubbing to Sky. Garden the spine ends, tiny tear to the edge City: Doubleday of one leaf in the text, else fine in a 1950. lightly soiled, very good plus dustwrap- First edition. Page per with a shallow chip at the crown, edges slightly and some of the usual fading to the tanned, still fine red “451” on the spine. Signed by the in near fine dust- author. A nice copy of a very scarce wrapper with Ballantine hardcover and a highspot of slight rubbing science-fiction literature. to the corners of the spine ends. 472 —. The Anthem The thin paper jacket is usu- Sprinters and Other Antics. ally found well-worn. A very nice copy of the New York: Dial (1963). author’s first book, a science fiction, time-travel First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine novel, seldom found in this condition. dustwrapper with a bit of modest spine-fading. Four plays 470 Clive BARKER. Weaveworld. inspired by Bradbury’s experi- New York: Poseidon Press (1987). ences in Ireland. First American edition. Fine in an unprinted acetate dustwrapper (not shown) and fine slipcase. One of 473 Edgar Rice 500 numbered copies Signed by the author, this copy is unnum- BURROUGHS. Carson bered, bearing of Venus. Tarzana: Edgar Rice instead the ini- Burroughs, Inc. (1939). tials of a Simon First edition. Fine in a slightly & Schuster editor spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. in the limitation Inscribed by the author to a noted space (Poseidon collector. is a division of Simon & Schuster).

474 Philip José FARMER. The Green Odyssey. New York: Ballantine Books (1957). First edition. Vertical creases on the cheap cardboard boards, else about fine in a fresh, near fine dustwrapper with some very modest wear. Farmer’s exceptionally uncommon first book. Most copies seem to have gone to libraries with the result that when found in the market they usually have replaced endpapers and have jackets that have either been marred with library markings, or married from other copies. This copy has never seen the inside of a public library and every indication is that the jacket has remained with it throughout its existence. As nice a copy as we’ve seen in the past three decades.

475 David EDDINGS. The Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician’s Gambit, Castle of Wizardry, Enchanters’ End Game. London: Century 1983-1985. Five volumes, each volume is a first edition. Very slight aging to the cheap paper pages, still easily fine in fine dustwrappers. A lovely and uniform set of five volumes of this epic and well- regarded fantasy series, with spines as nearly uniform as they are ever likely to be. Reportedly the first two volumes were issued in very small first printings, perhaps as few as 200 copies. Between the Covers ~70~ Catalogue 143

One of Two Known 478 Stephen KING. The Copies in Jacket Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. 476 Gaston LEROUX. (West Kingston RI): Donald M. Grant The Phantom of the (1982). Opera. New York: Bobbs- First edition, trade issue. Very slight wear, fine in fine dustwrapper with a Merrill (1911). touch of rubbing. The first volume in First American edition. Color the Dark frontispiece and four strik- Tower ing two-page color illustrations series. by Andre Castaigne as issued. Briefly Contemporary owner name on Inscribed the front fly, bottom corners a by King. trifle bumped, near fine in a very A nice good example of the exceptionally copy. rare dustwrapper. The jacket has some professional internal repair, and some modest chipping at the 479 John GUNTHER. spine ends that continues a bit onto Eden for One: An the rear panel near the crown. The jacket art Amusement. New York: Harper repeats the striking Castaigne image of the Phantom descending the staircase of the Paris Opera House, and wraps around onto the spine, and & Brothers 1927. is overprinted in embossed gold. From an older private collection, this was long First edition. A Jazz Age-style thought to be the only known jacketed copy (we remember when it last appeared bookplate on the front fly else fine in a catalogue about 20 years ago), but our research has identified one other in near very good dustwrapper jacketed copy, with identical text, type, and $1.25 price, but utilizing a different with offsetting on the rear panel, image from the book (thus there are two known variant jackets, each existing small chips, a split along the edge in only a single known copy). Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case. Filmed of the front flap, evidence of old several times, most indelibly with Lon Chaney as the vengeful composer, and in internal repairs, and a modest stain recent decades transformed into a successful musical play, and a less successful on the front panel. Bleiler-listed musical film. Some modest flaws, but try to find another. A true rarity, and per- satiric fantasy tale in the vein of haps the only jacketed copy that will ever appear on the market. James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen about a man bored with familiar things, sent on a series of fantastic adventures by a magician. Very scarce in the “P. M.” designed 477 Philip MacDONALD as W.J. jacket. An early work by the noted travel writer and author of STUART. Forbidden Planet. New the classic Death Be Not Proud. York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1956).

480 Jack FINNEY. Time First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper that has one small nick at the and Again. New York: Simon top of the front panel and some light rubbing at & Schuster (1970). the extremities. A novelization issued to coincide First edition. A slight tear on the with the release of the classic science-fiction edge of the cloth on the rear board film. Penned by the under-appreciated mystery else about fine in near fine dust- writer Philip MacDonald using a pseudonym, wrapper with a small crease on the the story was itself based on Shakespeare’s The rear flap and a little very light wear. Tempest. The film featured Walter Pidgeon, Anne A novel centered around time travel Francis, Leslie Nielsen, and Robby the Robot. A back to 19th Century New York, very nice copy, this book has achieved a certain and very scarce cult status in the genre. A nice copy thus. of an uncommon first edition.

481 Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT. The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Buffalo: Shroud Publishers 1955. First edition. Currey’s state D(2), in second state of the jacket. Black cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Fine in very good or better yellow dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tears, and a little age-toning. Stated one of 1500 copies, this is number 491.

482 —. The Dunwich Horror and Others. Sauk City: Arkham House 1963.

First edition, first printing. Tiny name stamp on the bottom edge, with a date stamped on titlepage, else near fine in near very good dustwrapper with edgewear and several small holes, mostly at the folds. Between the Covers ~71~ Science-Fiction & Fantasy

483 Noëlle ROGER. He Who Sees. London: George G. Harrap & Co. (1935).

First English edition. Translated by Robert Lancaster. Boards slightly bowed and some very light scattered foxing, else about fine in a very attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a rubbed tear at the crown. Jacket art by Nina Miller-Davidson. A French biblio- fantasy – “the study of Buddhist manuscripts enables the protagonist to learn to see the future.” Rare in jacket. 486 J.R.R. TOLKIEN. 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. 484 Max RITTENBERG. Three volumes. Each volume is a first edition, first issue. All three volumes are The Mind-Reader: Being fine and bright. All in original dustwrappers, the red lettering on the spines Some Pages from the is slightly and uniformly faded. Slight and nearly invisible restoration to the Strange Life of Dr. Xavier extremities of the first volume, else fine with no chips, tears, owner names, or Wycherley. New York: Appleton price-clipping. Each volume housed in a separate, uniform custom cloth che- 1913. mise and gray quarter-morocco slipcase. Probably the most beloved fantasy, and First edition. Boards a little edge- easily one of the most important novels of the 20th Century. Recently discov- worn and soiled, still very good ered by a new generation, in part due to the award-winning film trilogy by Peter or better without the presumed Jackson. Mixed issue sets, made-up sets employing wildly divergent-condition dustwrapper. of the individual volumes, and rebound sets abound, but first issue sets in uniformly nice condition remain exceptionally scarce and desirable.

487 —. The Silmarillion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (1977). Inscribed to Amelie Rives First American 485 Frank R. STOCKTON. Stockton’s Stories. Edition, first Second Series: The Christmas Wreck and binding, in the Other Stories. New York: Charles Scribner’s first state of the Sons 1886. text (with unbro- First edition. Green cloth. Small bookplate of ken type on lines novelist Amelie Rives on the front pastedown, a 28 & 29 on fine copy. Inscribed by the author shortly after page 229). Very publication: “Amelie Rives with sincere regards of slight smudge Frank R. Stockton Nov. 7/86.” Amelie Rives was on the foredge, a fantastic figure, a beautiful Southern girl, one of the most popular still easily fine in American authors of late 19th Century, specializing in scandalous fine dustwrapper romance novels, married first to an allegedly mad scion of the Astor family, and later to a Russian with two minus- prince. This collection of stories contains some of a supernatural nature. In Bleiler, BAL 18885. cule tears.

488 Charles WILLIAMS. All Hallows Eve. London: Faber & Faber 1945. First edition. Edges of the boards very slightly soiled, else fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with very shallow loss at the crown, and a small stain on the rear panel. A very nice copy of the author’s fragile and uncommon final novel, about a magical attempt to gain control of the souls of the dead in post-war London, and the two little girls that acciden- tally interfere.

489 (—). J.R.R. TOLKIEN, C.S. LEWIS, Dorothy SAYERS, et al. Essays Presented to Charles Williams. London: Oxford 1947.

First edition. With a Memoir by C.S. Lewis. Some foxing to the foredge and preliminary leaves, a small scuff on one page, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a triangular chip at the foot, and other light wear. Essays intended to be presented to Williams but instead published after his death. Among the six contributors are C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers. Very scarce, especially in jacket. Between the Covers ~72~ B a s e b a l l

The First Book Devoted Exclusively to Baseball 491 Edmund Vance COOKE. 490 The Base Ball Player’s Pocket Com Baseballogy. panion: Containing Rules and Regulations for Chicago: Forbes & Forming Clubs, Directions for the “Massachusetts Company 1912. Game,” and the “New York Game,” from Official Reports. Boston: Mayhew & Baker 1859. First edition. Pictorial First edition. 16mo. 35(1)pp. Original flexible cloth-covered paper over boards. boards with a gilt illustration of a ball player. Old library Fine in fine dustwrap- stickers removed from the endpapers, small nicks at the per. An attractive and extremities, a very good example in a custom quarter leather uncommon book of and cloth clamshell case. A rare book – the first book exclu- humorous verse about sively devoted to baseball. According to a recent baseball baseball, rare both auction (at which an 1861 third edition sold for $8500 plus in jacket and in this premium) fewer than ten examples of this first edition are condition. known. 494 Ty COBB. Busting ’Em and 492 Frank L. CHANCE (possibly ghostwritten by Hugh Fullerton). The Bride and Other Big League The Pennant. Chicago: Laird and Lee (1910). Stories. New York: Edward First edition. Paperback original. Preface by Charles A. Comisky. Small bookstore J. Clode (1914). label on the front wrap and the title page, cheap pulp paper quite browned, a couple First edition. Introduction of very small chips to the page edges and a couple of tiny chips to the wrappers, by John N. Wheeler. A still a clean, very good plus copy in pictorial wrappers. Very rare pulp novel by the Christmas greeting on the Cubs’ “Peerless Leader” and which includes a short biography of Chance. McCue in front fly, with name erased, Baseball by the Books speculates that it was ghostwritten abrading the paper a bit, by Hugh Fullerton, who dedicated his own first baseball some light soiling and rub- novel to Chance, and who ended his last novel with the bing, a very good or a little toast, “To the bride, the groom better copy lacking the rare and another pennant.” Fullerton dustwrapper. A cheaply made was a reporter for a Chicago book, this qualifies as a partic- newspaper whose reportage was ularly nice copy of an excep- instrumental in breaking the tionally uncommon book. 1919 Black Sox scandal, and he was the only local writer to pre- dict that the White Sox “Hitless Wonders” would beat the Cubs in the 1906 World Series. Rare.

493 Boston Typo-Athlete. Official Organ of the Union Printers. National Baseball League. Boston: (Boston Union Printers Baseball Association) 1912. A complete run consisting of Issues 1-7, dated August 19 - August 25, 1912. Quarto, bound into marbled endpapers, three-quarter morocco and cloth. Some pages with closed tears, some loose, covers worn, otherwise a very good copy. This free periodical was the official paper of the Boston Union Printers Baseball Association, published to promote the fifth annual Printers National Baseball Tournament. OCLC locates a single run, at the Boston Public Library.

495 John M. DOWD. [The Dowd Report]: In the Matter of Peter Edward Rose, Manager, Cincinnati Reds Baseball Club: Report to the Commissioner. New York: Office of the Commissioner Major League Baseball May 9, 1989. First edition. Quarto. Plastic comb-bound photo duplicated pages with a clear plastic front cover, and card rear cover. 225pp. Handwritten copyright notice on the title leaf. A small chip and tear on the plastic front cover, page edges a bit thumbed, a near fine copy. The damning report prepared by attorney John Dowd for the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, which resulted in the lifetime ban of Pete Rose from Major League Baseball. This copy Inscribed by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball to a young attorney in Dowd’s office: “To —, Thank you for all your help – Bart Giamatti.” Purchased by us directly from an attorney, then working in Dowd’s office, who reports that when Giamatti received the final report at Dowd’s office, he promised to sign autographs for the staff, most of whom proffered base- balls. Our friend offered the report instead, the evidence of which we offer here. Apparently later generation copies of this report occasionally appear in the sports world signed by either Dowd or Rose, but we have not heard of another signed by Giamatti, who died less than four months later at the age of 51, only eight days after his final decision to ban Rose, and is rare thus. Between the Covers ~73~ B a s e b a l l Three Inscribed to the Yankee Clipper 496 (Joe DiMAGGIO). Frank CAPRA. The Name Above the Title. New York: Macmillan Company (1971). Second printing. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears and a little light edgewear. Inscribed by Capra to Joe DiMaggio: “To Joe DiMaggio –The incom- parable One – with respect and admiration – Frank Capra.” Ex-Joe DiMaggio with a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio’s two granddaughters.

497 (—). Michael A. MUSMANNO. The Story of The Italians in America. Garden City: Doubleday and Company 1965. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Inscribed by the author to Joe DiMaggio: “Aug. 17 ’65 To Joe DiMaggio With ever augmenting admiration for the home runs you hit in the great game of life, touching all the bases of fair play, sportsmanship and true brotherliness. Most Sincerely, Michael A. Musmanno.” Ex-Joe DiMaggio with a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio’s two granddaughters.

498 (—). Vladimir POZNER. Parting with Illusions: The Extraordinary Life and Controversial Views of the Soviet Union’s Leading Commentator. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1990). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of creases on the front flap. Autobiography of the Russian Cold War commentator and talking head. Pozner, who spent much of his career deriding Yankee Imperialists for the Soviet propaganda machine, has Inscribed the book to a REAL Yankee Imperialist: “For My Hero Joe DiMaggio! From Vladimir Pozner. Feb. 25, 1990.” Laid in is a bookmark from a bookstore in San Francisco (DiMaggio’s hometown). Ex-Joe DiMaggio with a letter of provenance signed by DiMaggio’s two granddaughters.

499 Juvenile Pastimes; or Girls’ and Boys’ Book of Sports. New Haven: Published by S. Babcock 1849 (on the title page; 1850 on the front wrap). Edition undeter- mined. Stapled wrappers. 24mo. 16pp., illustrated with cuts. Scattered foxing, else a nice, near fine copy. A compilation of children’s games, including a relatively early mention of baseball, as well as two illustrations of the game, one of which is a full page. Any pre-Civil War baseball references are hard to find. This is a particularly attractive example of this chapbook. Rosenbach’s Early American Children’s Books lists several similarly titled volumes, but none that seem to conform to this in exact contents.

500 William EVERETT. Double Play; or How Joe Hardy Chose His Friends. Boston: Lee and Shepard 1871. First edition. 12mo. 244pp. Original red-brown cloth with gilt title and baseball decorations on the spine. Contemporary, neat gift inscription, bottom corners bumped, some wear to the spine ends, a very good copy. The fourth novel to incorporate baseball activity, the second was the author’s own Changing Base; or What Edward Rice Learnt at School (Boston, 1869). The author, son of the famous orator Edward Everett and cousin of the author Edward Everett Hale, also served in Congress. An attractive copy.

501 Mickey MANTLE and Phil PEPE. My Favorite Summer 1956. (New York): Doubleday (1991). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Mickey Mantle. Between the Covers ~74~ Catalogue 143

502 William The Earliest Advertisement PATTEN and for Baseball Cards? J. Walker 505 Odds and Ends. Vol. 1, McSPADDEN, Nos. 2 & 3. Mattoon, IL: F.L. Horn edited and com- April and May, 1878. piled by. The Book One quarto leaf folded to make four pages, apparently paginated with from of Baseball the previous issue: (1)6-8. A small the Earliest Day to the stain on the first page, else fine. An Present Season. New “amateur” newspaper, on page 7 (or York: P.F. Collier & Son the third page of the newspaper) is (1911). an advertisement that reads as fol- First edition. Folio. Buckram lows: “Base Ball Cards! 25 for 20 cts. and printed papercovered Special rates to clubs. State position boards. Frontispiece by and name of club when ordering. Charles Dana Gibson. Agents wanted! Send 3 ct. stamp for Corners of the papercovered samples. Franklin L. Horn, Mattoon, boards rubbed through, else Ills.” Within our own little circle of a remarkably nice, near fine copy, with the original binding strong baseball scholars and enthusiasts debate rages and unrepaired. A desirable, if not entirely rare book which is usually over the meaning of this little advertisement, found damaged, repaired, or both; this is an especially nice copy. with some convinced that this is an advertisement for business or trade cards, others that 503 Francis C. RICHTER. Richter’s History it indicates a previous unknown series of and Records of Base Ball: The American Nation’s amateur baseball cards, and still others believ- ing it was an advertisement for a stillborn Chief Sport. Philadelphia: Francis C. Richter 1914. project proposed by the printer, with no tak- First edition. 306 pp., copiously illustrated after photographs. Slight ers. The meaning of “baseball cards” is somewhat fluid. A few cabinet photo- soiling to the boards, and a little edgewear, still a near fine copy of graphs were issued in the 1850s, and the sporting goods company Peck and a very important baseball book. As a writer and associate of baseball Snyder issued a few cabinet photograph cards of teams in 1869-1870; but officials, Richter was an influential force in the early development the first use of the term to indicate what we now consider “baseball cards” of the game. Beginning with the Philadelphia Day in 1872, then usually refers to mass produced player cards issued with tobacco prod- the Sunday World and Public Ledger, he was the first to set up ucts in the mid-1880s. Odds and Ends is an example of an “amateur a Sports Department for any newspaper. newspaper,” part of a movement that started around 1805 and contin- Richter helped form the original American ued, with fits and starts, until the Great Depression, with the “golden Association in 1882 and to place the age” of the movement between 1870-1880, and beginning in 1867, Philadelphia Athletics in it. The next year he with the invention of an inexpensive “novelty press.” This item might helped organize the Phillies in the National provide a vital missing link to the study of early cards, or just be a League. In 1883, he started Sporting Life, dead-end in the evolutionary development of the hobby. At any rate, a a weekly newspaper, which became a great fascinating and thought provoking item. force in baseball. In 1907, he was offered the presidency of the National League, but 506 Al(fred H.) SPINK. One Thousand Sport turned it down. He edited the Reach Guide from its inception in 1901 to the 1926 vol- Stories. (Chicago: The Spink Sport Stories Co. 1921). ume, which he completed days before his First edition. Three volumes. Red cloth gilt. Binding error has left one death. A superior copy of a book usually page corner a bit oversized, light soiling to the boards, an otherwise found well fine, tight set. Stories about a number of sports by Spink, one of the worn. leading sportswriters of his day and after whom the sportswriters’ wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame is named. Complete sets are scarce, especially in this condition. 504 John Montgomery WARD. Base-Ball: How to Become a Player; With the Origin, History, and Expansion of the Game. Philadelphia: Athletic Publishing 1888. First edition, hardcover issue. 149pp. Early owner name, very slight rubbing to the extremities, a lovely, fine copy. Ward was one of the great pitchers; when he injured his arm, he became a star shortstop for the New York Giants. Unlike most players of his day, he was a college graduate, earning a law degree from Columbia while playing. He was the first President of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, the first players’ union, and in 1890 helped to form the Players’ League, which folded after one season. The Hall of Famer retired at 34 as player-manager of the world champion Giants. This is considered the first truly important book on baseball as a game. Further, most copies were issued in wrappers. We have heard informed speculation that the few extant hardbound copies were intended for presentation. Only one copy appears in the auction records for the past quarter century (a wrappered copy in 1993, $2100). Between the Covers ~75~ Photography & Illustration

507 Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de BUFFON. Oeuvres Completes de Buffon. Paris: Chez Baudouin Freres, Editeurs et Chez N. Delangle, Editeur 1826-1828. 34 volumes (complete). Octavos. Consists of 28 volumes of text, 4 supple- mentary volumes by Baron Cuvier, and 2 volumes containing 180 hand colored plates. Frontispiece portrait and two folding plates. Contemporary green morocco over marbled boards with gilt spine decoration. Text in French. Older bookplate, some scattered foxing, and light edgewear to the edges of some of the spines, a handsome, near fine set.

508 Berenice 510 Julian DE MISKEY. Original New ABBOTT. A Yorker Cover Painting for the April 1, 1933 Guide to Better issue. Photography. New Watercolor on paper. Framed to approximately 10¾" x York: Crown Publishers 16". Signed lower right with the intial “M,” as was his 1941. custom. Fine. An image of a supercilious hunter prepar- First edition. Quarto. Fine ing for a safari at an Abercrombie and Fitch-type store. in very near fine dustwrap- Accompanied by an original copy of that issue of The New per with a bit of rubbing. Yorker. Very attractively illustrated With all of the Original Art with, among others, many and Playing Cards of Abbott’s own photographs, as well as with 511 (Playing Cards). Henrik C. several Atget photographs from her DRESCHER III, with text by Sleeth collection. A bright and fresh copy. MITCHELL. Vox Corvi (The Voice of the Crow). (No place - Raleigh, NC): 509 Leo and Diane DILLON Mythworks (No date - 1976). (aka The Dillons). Original Dustjacket Cover Art by The First edition. Oblong small quarto. Quarter leather and Dillons for Mrs. Munck by printed paper over boards. Ella Leffland. Boston: Houghton Boards moderately worn, and Mifflin 1970. a small marginal stain First edition. Bookplate on the front fly, on the last leaf of text, else fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrap- internally fine. One of 52 per. With the original art for the dust- numbered copies of the wrapper: acrylic and watercolor. Image Thumb-print Edition matted to approximately 11½" x 17". with the author’s thumb- Unsigned. Fine. The Dillons are married print. Inscribed by artists the author on the front who free endpaper. A won- collabo- derful and unusual book rate on with each page devoted to a single much playing card, with the author’s of their poetry about the mythical mean- work. ings of each card, and with an original illustration of each card by award-winning illustrator Drescher [with] the mock-up for the book with all the original art and calligraphic renderings of the poems, as well as some illustrations and title cards that were not used. In a separate folder, mailed from Drescher to Mitchell is the original art for 56 playing cards: a stan- dard deck of 52 cards, a title card, two jokers (depicting Mitchell and Drescher), and a “crow” card that is used on the cover of the book. The art for the cards is in pen and ink and watercolor, the watercolor has feathered out a little on a few of the cards, but they are otherwise near fine. Drescher has published over thirty children’s books, and is a frequent illustrator for major magazines and newspapers, including regular publication in the New York Times. This book precedes his first book published by a mainstream publisher by six years. Provenance on request. Between the Covers ~76~ Catalogue 143

512 Lee FRIEDLANDER. Cherry Blossom Time in Japan. (No place): Haywire Press (1986). First edition. Large oblong folio. Gravure printing by Thomas Palmer. Embossed silk cloth in embossed cloth slipcase. Engraved titlepage. Slightest sunning to the delicate pink silk, still easily

fine. Copy number 28 of 50 copies (there were also six lettered artist’s copies). Twenty-five exquisitely printed gravure images each numbered and Signed by the photographer. A beautiful production.

513 Hans GISSINGER and Marc MENEAU. La Conversation. (no place - Phoenicia, NY): Woodstock Editions 2000. First edition. Quarto. Two volumes in slipcase. Text in French with English translation by Richard Pevear. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and fine, illustrated slipcase, an as new copy. Elaborate photographic study by Gissinger of French cuisine, with conversations between Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, selected and with additional text by Gilles Stassart. One of 2000 numbered copies, each volume numbered and Signed by Gissinger.

514 —. Text by Gérard OBERLÉ. Salami. (no place - Phoenicia, NY): Woodstock Editions 2001. First edition. Folio. Text in French with English translation by Richard Pevear. Fine in decorated cloth, an as new copy. Elaborate photographic study by Gissinger of Italian sau- sage, with accompanying essays by the noted French publisher 515 Ralph GIBSON. and book- Chiaroscuro. (New York): seller. One Hyperion Press 1982. of 500 numbered copies First edition. Oblong folio. Cloth Signed by clamshell portfolio containing a Gissinger. bifolium limitation leaf and fifteen (15) photographs, each numbered and Signed by the artist. One of 100 numbered copies (there were also five lettered copies). Slight rubbing to the cloth, still fine, and internally immaculate. Between the Covers ~77~ Photography & Illustration

516 Sam HASKINS. 518 Guy FRY. Original illustrations Cowboy Kate & Other for the book “Thirteen Ghostly Stories. New York: Crown Yarns,” edited by Elizabeth Hough (1965). Sechrist. First edition. Folio. Fine in fine Thirteen drawings by Guy Fry. Pen and ink on dustwrapper gessoed illustration board. with a small Very lightly soiled, with a few tear on the production notes and captions rear panel. A in the margins, just about fine. very nice copy. The drawings are in black and Hasselblad, white, and each is protected The Open by a paper sleeve. They are Book, p. 210- unsigned, but the title of the 211. book and artist’s name have been written in ink on one of the sleeves. The drawings depict various ghosts doing ghostly things. The complete suite of drawings for this book was originally published in Philadelphia by Roland Swain in 517 Kazumi 1932, and later reissued by Macrae Smith in 1942. KURIGAMI. Photographs bit tanned and some vertical scratches, some by Kazumi edgewear to the boards, an about very good Kurigami. (Tokyo): copy, extensively illustrated with plates. One Hara Museum of Con of 250 numbered copies (of a total edition temporary Art (1985). of 265) Signed by Lindsay and Ralph Straus. Exceptionally scarce. First edition. Oblong large octavo. 519 Norman LINDSAY. Petronius: A Fine Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the 520 —. The Pen Drawings of in fine earliest English Translation (1694) Now First Norman Lindsay. Sydney: Angus and dust- Reprinted with an Introduction Together Robertson 1918. wrapper. with One Hundred Illustrations by First edition. Special Number Excep Norman Lindsay. London: Privately Printed tionally of Art In Australia. Folio. by Ralph Straus 1910. Extensively illustrated with uncom- First edition. Large folio. Quarter Japanese vel- mon. tipped-in plates. Quarter lum and paper covered boards, spine titled in cloth and printed papercov- gilt, printed label on the front board. Spine a ered boards. An attractive, contempo- 521 (Edward HOPPER). Guy Pène DU BOIS. Edward rary and ris- Hopper. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art (1931). que book- First edition. Thin quarto. Bookplate of a noted journalist and historian on the front plate tipped pastedown, clippings affixed on the page facing the titlepage and on the rear fly, else to the front near fine in a tattered, good only dustwrapper. Inscribed by Edward Hopper: “To pastedown, J. Owen Grundy of The Villager who not only inspired but generously conducted a near fine copy, without the the campaign that (we hope) will save No. 3 presumed dustwrapper. for another century as an historic art center on One of 200 numbered Washington Square. Edward Hopper.” Below copies Signed by Lindsay. this Hopper’s wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, Exceptionally scarce. has also signed and dated the sentiment. Laid in is an invitation to a private viewing of the exhibit at the Whitney. Grundy was a journalist on The Villager, a Greenwich Village newspaper, who specialized in the preserva- tion of old buildings. He contin- ued his work as a preservationist in his home of Jersey City, where a park has been named after him. Between the Covers ~78~ Catalogue 143

522 Ben TALBERT. Three Notebooks of Sketches and Plans for Installations, with related material. Various dates, mostly circa 1961-1963. Three composition books. Small quartos. Modest wear, mostly near fine. Heavily illustrated by the artist Ben Talbert, one of the most important artists in the Los Angeles circle that revolved around Wallace Berman and his publication Semina. Berman and his circle were at the forefront of avant-garde cultural and artistic experimentation on the West Coast, in effect, the western equivalent of Andy Warhol and his Factory workers, with sensi- bilities representing the Beat and early counterculture movements. These notebooks are from Talbert’s most important period, and the most important period for his circle, when he was directly influenced by and collaborating with Berman, and most of the art works presage Talbert’s most cherished and representative themes – nudes, intense sexuality, S&M scenes, and handwritten and illustrated plans for installations, assemblages, collages, or sculpture. Several drawings and plans are initialed and dated, although most are not, as normal for sketchbooks. Related material laid in includes several nude and mildly sexual photographs of Talbert and a woman named Gayle, presumably his wife or girlfriend, used by them as Christmas Greetings, other clothed photographs of the couple, a handmade Valentine from Gayle to Talbert, several vintage color photographs of Talbert’s framed work, a couple of different invitations to memorial retrospectives of his works, after his untimely death in 1975 from a drug overdose at the age of 42, and several additional drawings by Talbert on a variety of different sizes of paper. The sketches, ranging from fully detailed drawings to impressionistic nudes, are executed in a variety of media: pencil, pen and ink, marker, gouache, colored pencil, watercolor, and a few in ball-point pen. There are 69 pages of reasonably fully executed drawings bound in, plus an additional 5 laid in, for a total of 74 pages of drawings. There are 21 pages of handwritten and illustrated plans for installations, plus another 2 laid in for a total of 23 pages. There are about 14 pages of drawing exercises bound in, where Talbert attempted to draw every conceivable object (often more than a dozen objects to a page). There is one additional drawing mounted and used as a greeting card that we are reasonably certain is by Talbert, as it is similar to his style and preferred subject matter (a spurt- ing penis), but whose inscription: “Sam – Luv, Tony” gives us pause. While the drawings are appealing and interesting, the plans for Pop installations, assemblages, and sculp- tures are fascinating, especially considering the time in which they were conceived. They include Chastity- belts shaped and illustrated as police badges, and many variations on altered televisions, mostly with sexual twists and innuendos. Talbert recently

underwent a retrospective exhibit at the Andrew Roth Gallery in New York in March of 2007. This is previously unrecorded material, representing vital and important work for an overlooked but important artist in the most interesting period of his career. Between the Covers ~79~ Photography & Illustration

523 Ed 526 Tony SARG. VAN DER Original Art: ELSKEN. Weeping Sweet Life. Dachshunds. 1920. New York: Harry N. Abrams (1966). Original art. Watercolor. Approximately 16" x 15½". First edition. Framed and glazed. Signed Oblong folio. Fine lower right: “Tony Sarg 20.” in fine dustwrapper. Very A beautiful copy of a splendid book, with deep, rich gravure images. Parr and Badger, The Photobook Volume 1, p. 254-255.

slightly faded, but still a near fine, interesting and 524 Carl VAN VECHTEN. Seven amusing watercolor of a pair of weeping wiener Photographs by Carl Van Vechten dogs. Sarg was born in Guatemala to German (five of Gertrude Stein and two self-por- and English parents, trained in Germany, mar- traits). ried an American, and moved to England. With Seven photographs by Carl Van Vechten. Each is the advent of World War One he moved to New postcard size (5½" x 3¼"), and each bears Van York where he did illustrations for The Saturday Vechten’s embossed stamp in the margin. Small tape Evening Post. He was probably best known as or stamp hinge shadow on the reverse side of each a children’s book illustrator who specialized in where they were placed in an album, else just about quirky animal figures, but he was also responsible fine. One image of Stein has some scratching, but the for reviving the popularity of the marionette the- scratches are from the plate, not the ater in America. For a period in the 1930s, until printed image. The five photographs his death in 1942, he and his famous protégé Bill of Stein, each from the chest up, with Baird designed the animated Christmas displays a mountain range in the distance, in the windows of Macy’s, and designed the first were all apparently taken at the same hot-air balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day time, each is printed on Dupont parade. A pleasing little painting. Defender photographic paper, and each is labeled on the reverse in Van Vechten’s hand: “Gertrude Stein Bilignin.” One of the Van Vechten self-portraits is of the author and photographer in formal dress looking pensive, the other informal, looking even more pensive. The latter is Inscribed on the reverse: “For Richard Corin [?] from Carl Van Vechten. April 1963, New York.” Both are printed on Kodak photo post card paper.

525 (Architecture). Frank Lloyd WRIGHT. Buildings, Plans and Designs. New York: Horizon Press (1963). First American edition of the Wasmuth portfolio, originally published in Germany in 1910. Introduction by Frank Lloyd Wright. Foreword by William Wesley Peters. Elephant folio, 100 loose sheets of architectural plans in printed paper folder, separate booklet, all in folding cloth and board portfolio with ribbon ties. Some smudging and wear to the portfolio, thus about very good, but internally a fine copy of this mas- sive work. Limited to 2500 numbered copies for sale in America. With a postcard with two Frank Lloyd Wright stamps on it laid in. As Wright explains in the introduction (written for this edition two years before his death at age 91), all copies of the original portfolio intended for American distribution were destroyed in a fire. The influence of the Wasmuth portfolio, the first publication of any of Wright’s work, on 20th Century architecture cannot be overstated (but call us, and we’ll try!). Between the Covers ~80~ M u s i c Irving Berlin’s Rhyming Dictionary! 527 (Irving BERLIN). J. WALKER. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language in Which the Whole Language is Arranged According to Its Terminations… Revised and Enlarged by J. Longmuir. London: George Routledge and Sons (no date - circa 1895). Revised and enlarged edition. Octavo. Red cloth. Gilt lettering dulled but readable, modest wear to the spine ends, a tight, very good copy. Irving Berlin’s copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Housed in a custom quarter leather and marbled papercovered board clamshell case. Laid into the book (and now removed) are twenty slips of paper with notes by Berlin, of these, seven contain working manuscript notes for a rhyming song. The transitory and fragmentary nature of the notes are obviously incon- clusive, but it appears this song is currently unpublished. Also in the book is a letter to Mrs. Berlin from a Las Vegas correspondent, and some other material. Further provenance on request. A chance to remake musical history: in an interview in his 90s (he lived to 101), Berlin claimed never to use a rhyming dictionary.

528 Benny GOODMAN and Irving KOLODIN. The Kingdom of Swing. New 530 (The Beatles). Brian York: Stackpole (1939). EPSTEIN. A Cellarful of Noise. First edition. Endpapers a bit foxed and light wear to the boards, near Garden City: Doubleday 1964. fine in a nice, very good or better First American edition. Fine in fine, price- dustwrapper that has some rubbing, clipped dustwrapper. A lovely copy. and very shallow nicks at the spine ends. Advance Review Copy with publisher’s complimentary slip laid in. A scarce title, issued by a relatively small press, usually found in much inferior condition. 531 John GREENWAY. American Folk Songs of Protest. Philadelphia: University of 529 Woody GUTHRIE. Bound for Glory. New York: E.P. Dutton 1943. Pennsylvania Press 1953. First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the spine ends, and slight fading to the red portion First edition. Spine gilt a trifle dull, else fine in of the spine. A very nice copy of an uncommon scholarly book near fine dustwrapper with a small nick, and a on the subject. modest tear on the rear panel. Uncommon autobiography by the 532 (New Jersey). Adolph JACKSON. legendary Pearls: a collection of sacred songs to be used singer/ at the opening of divine service. Camden, NJ: (The songwriter Author 1850). and folk First edition. Quarter red calf and marbled papercovered boards. icon. Basis 80pp. Modest wear to the spine ends and corners, a nice, very for the Hal good or better copy. No title page as issued. Titled on an engraved Ashby film bookplate of the front pastedown: “To the members of the First with David Presbyterian Church of Camden, N.J.: Pearls: a Carradine. collection of sacred songs to be used at the open- An excep- ing of divine service.” Pencil Inscription by the tionally author, who was the organist at the church, and scarce war- who composed some of the songs and wrote time book, arrangements for others. OCLC WorldCat locates this is the but two copies, neither in New Jersey (Trinity nicest copy College in Connecticut and the Pittsburgh we’ve seen. Theological Seminary). Exceptionally uncommon. Between the Covers ~81~ M u s i c

533 (Dance). Uday SHANKAR. Inscribed Photograph. 536 Gustav MAHLER. Signed Cabinet Photograph. Berlin Black and white photograph. Matted to and Hamburg: E. Bieber approximately 7" x 9½". Framed and 1901. glazed. Unexamined out of the frame. Cabinet photograph. Image a bit unevenly sunned, else a Approximately 6½" x 4¼". very good example of this handsome Fine condition. Elaborate image. Undated, circa 1940. Inscribed backmarks with a hand- on the bottom of the image to the numbered plate number on daughter of American artist Thornton recto. Tiny impressed date Oakley: “Miss Lansdale Oakley Very (“1901”) below the image. best wishes, Uday Shankar.” Shankar, Signed by Mahler above the the elder brother of sitar virtuoso Ravi image, his pen skipped a bit Shankar, was as influential to Indian on the last few letters of his name. A splendid image, photographs signed by the

dance as his brother was to classical Indian music. Born of a Bengali family, he studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He great composer are uncom- incorporated classical and Indian folk dance mon. to create ballets based on Hindu themes for Anna Pavlova, and during the 1930s toured 537 A with his own dance troupe. He popularized Manuel KOMROFF. The Magic Bow: Romance of Paganini. Indian dance in both the west and India New York: Harper & Brothers (1940). itself, and is pictured on a 1978 Indian postage stamp. First edition. Offsetting to two sets of facing pages, else fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper, with tiny nicks at the crown. Basis for the 1946 film The Magic Bow directed by Bernard 534 (KISS). Knowles, and featuring Stewart Granger as Paganini. Jess KITTS, as told to. Kisstory. Los Angeles: Kisstory Ltd. 538 John SINCLAIR and Robert LEVIN. 1994. Music and Politics. New York and Cleveland: World First edition. Folio. Black Publishing (1971). leatherette stamped in silver, First edition. A small remainder with applied limitation label mark on the bottom edge else on spine, in slipcase. Fully fine in near fine dustwrapper with illustrated in color. Fine soiling at the crown. Signed by with the slipcase displaying John Sinclair, the Detroit poet, a modicum of wear. The manager of the band MC5, and limitation is unspecified, this leader of the White Panther Party. is copy number 6809, and is Signed by four members of the band: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, and Eric Singer.

535 Michael WOJCZUK. Wojczuk’s Bay Area Bands Sketch Book #1 for Coloring. Berkeley: Cross Cut Saw and Mid Press Productions 1977. First edition. 539 Paul WHITEMAN Oblong quarto. and Leslie LIEBER. Stapled wrappers. How to Be a Band Staples ozidized, leader. New York: Robert small holes on the M. McBride (1948). rear wrap, else a very good copy. First edition. Copiously illus- Coloring book trated with photographs of with pictures of contemporary musicians in various Bay Area action. Fine in very near fine artists performing dustwrapper with a couple of including the Jerry shallow nicks at the crown. An Garcia Band, Merle Saunders and Jerry Garcia, Eddie Money, Energy Crisis, Sweet amusing, and very scarce book. Chariot, Legion of Mary, Rubisa Patrol, Earthquake, Ways of Meringue, and others.