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Catalogue 143 ~ Holiday 2008 Contents: ................................................................Page Literature (General Fiction & Non-Fiction) ...........................1 Baseball ................................................................................72 African-Americana ...............................................................55 Photography & Illustration ..................................................75 Children’s Books ..................................................................59 Music ...................................................................................80 Mystery & Detective Fiction ................................................63 Science-Fiction & Fantasy ....................................................69 Stocking Stuffers (aka Shameless Self-Promotion) Classic Book Cards. $20 / $50 Collectible book catalogs from Between the Covers and Biblioctopus. 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View images of over 35,000 first editions on our searchable web site www.betweenthecovers.com Between the Covers ~1~ L i t e r a t u r e 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 exis- tence. 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.